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[shouting indistinctly] 10 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:02,627 [cheers and applause] 11 00:01:02,714 --> 00:01:09,199 ♪ ♪ 12 00:01:55,419 --> 00:01:58,030 - You know, this is all very personal to me 13 00:01:58,118 --> 00:02:02,296 'cause I experienced tyranny at a very young age. 14 00:02:02,383 --> 00:02:04,211 Israel sent me into the Soviet Union 15 00:02:04,298 --> 00:02:06,169 when I was 21 years old 16 00:02:06,256 --> 00:02:08,128 'cause I knew Russian and Hebrew, 17 00:02:08,215 --> 00:02:11,131 and I was sent in to smuggle out the names of Jews 18 00:02:11,218 --> 00:02:13,350 that I would find in the Soviet Union 19 00:02:13,437 --> 00:02:16,223 and to smuggle in religious items and so on. 20 00:02:16,310 --> 00:02:20,183 And I really experienced what most people in the West 21 00:02:20,270 --> 00:02:22,316 have never, ever experienced: 22 00:02:22,403 --> 00:02:24,753 life under a totalitarian regime. 23 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,712 [grand music] 24 00:02:27,799 --> 00:02:34,719 ♪ ♪ 25 00:02:50,996 --> 00:02:55,479 [somber music] 26 00:02:55,566 --> 00:02:59,483 In order to keep myself sane, I would make myself laugh. 27 00:02:59,570 --> 00:03:03,748 So, in my Moscow hotel, which I knew was bugged-- 28 00:03:03,835 --> 00:03:05,707 And how did I know? It's very simple. 29 00:03:05,794 --> 00:03:08,405 They didn't allow any Soviet citizen 30 00:03:08,492 --> 00:03:12,104 to stay in the same hotel as a Westerner. 31 00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:14,542 So I would sing from the Psalms. 32 00:03:14,629 --> 00:03:17,371 It says, "They have false gods. 33 00:03:17,458 --> 00:03:21,070 "They have ears that don't hear, eyes that don't see, 34 00:03:21,157 --> 00:03:23,420 but people still bow down to them." 35 00:03:23,507 --> 00:03:26,031 [singing in Hebrew] 36 00:03:26,118 --> 00:03:32,951 ♪ ♪ 37 00:03:36,868 --> 00:03:39,697 - I think somewhere a cantor just killed himself. 38 00:03:39,784 --> 00:03:43,527 - A few cantors. I think one is understating it. 39 00:03:43,614 --> 00:03:47,792 - Everyone says, "Why are you friends with Dennis Prager? 40 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:50,055 You have nothing in common." 41 00:03:50,142 --> 00:03:53,407 [laughter] As if, if our moms' first names 42 00:03:53,494 --> 00:03:55,104 were both Connie, 43 00:03:55,191 --> 00:03:59,587 we'd be simpatico on every topic. 44 00:03:59,674 --> 00:04:02,807 He comes from the East. I come from the West. 45 00:04:02,894 --> 00:04:07,551 He comes from religion. I come from atheist/pagan. 46 00:04:07,638 --> 00:04:11,120 He comes from college and knowledge. 47 00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:14,993 I come from tomfoolery and sports, 48 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,170 but yet we both share a little something 49 00:04:18,258 --> 00:04:21,696 called common sense and values, 50 00:04:21,783 --> 00:04:23,785 and the common sense and values-- 51 00:04:23,872 --> 00:04:27,179 I think this may be the chance for this country. 52 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:31,793 Common sense and values should trump everything. 53 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,100 It should trump LGBT. It should trump Chicano. 54 00:04:35,187 --> 00:04:37,277 It should trump black. It should trump Trump. 55 00:04:37,364 --> 00:04:39,322 That's all we should be focused on, 56 00:04:39,409 --> 00:04:41,803 is common sense and values. 57 00:04:41,890 --> 00:04:43,848 [applause] 58 00:04:43,935 --> 00:04:46,547 This is the place I'd always kind of dreamt of 59 00:04:46,634 --> 00:04:48,418 when I was a kid. 60 00:04:48,505 --> 00:04:51,943 The houses I grew up in did not have garages, 61 00:04:52,030 --> 00:04:56,557 and I always wanted cars and go-karts and mini bikes and-- 62 00:04:56,644 --> 00:04:58,559 Well, I wanted a basketball hoop. 63 00:04:58,646 --> 00:05:02,040 I wanted a dog. I wanted dinner. I wanted a whole bunch of stuff. 64 00:05:02,127 --> 00:05:04,956 [smooth music] 65 00:05:05,043 --> 00:05:07,132 ♪ ♪ 66 00:05:07,219 --> 00:05:11,441 I found out very early what could happen to somebody 67 00:05:11,528 --> 00:05:15,663 if you got a free house, a couple of food tickets, 68 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:18,013 and just a stipend from the government, 69 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,058 that it was debilitating. 70 00:05:22,452 --> 00:05:26,413 My mom was never forced to go out and take care of business, 71 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,155 and I said to her once, sort of from the mouth of babes, 72 00:05:30,242 --> 00:05:31,679 "Why don't you just get a job? 73 00:05:31,766 --> 00:05:33,594 "You get a job, we'll have a car. 74 00:05:33,681 --> 00:05:35,857 "We could have a nice car instead of a junker. 75 00:05:35,944 --> 00:05:38,033 We could get some furniture." 76 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,210 And she said, "If I get a job, I'll lose my welfare," 77 00:05:41,297 --> 00:05:43,691 meaning, "Use your head, boy." 78 00:05:43,778 --> 00:05:47,999 ♪ ♪ 79 00:05:48,086 --> 00:05:51,525 And I thought at that point-- I realized, not for me. 80 00:05:51,612 --> 00:05:58,096 ♪ ♪ 81 00:05:58,183 --> 00:06:01,056 - I'm a little embarrassed, because here's a guy 82 00:06:01,143 --> 00:06:03,058 listening to my show for years, 83 00:06:03,145 --> 00:06:05,756 and he's the most downloaded podcast in the world, 84 00:06:05,843 --> 00:06:08,280 and I didn't know who he was? 85 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:10,587 - Adam Carolla and his partner, Julianne Hough. 86 00:06:10,674 --> 00:06:13,590 [funky music] 87 00:06:13,677 --> 00:06:19,379 ♪ ♪ 88 00:06:19,466 --> 00:06:21,250 [cheers and applause] 89 00:06:21,337 --> 00:06:23,600 - My name's Jimmy, and his name's Adam. 90 00:06:23,687 --> 00:06:27,125 - The king is parched and grows weary. 91 00:06:27,212 --> 00:06:30,346 Jester, bring forth a chalice of ale. 92 00:06:30,433 --> 00:06:32,696 [cheers and applause] 93 00:06:35,656 --> 00:06:36,874 Scamper away. 94 00:06:36,961 --> 00:06:38,572 I don't want to live in a world 95 00:06:38,659 --> 00:06:40,443 where Dennis Prager knows who I am. 96 00:06:40,530 --> 00:06:44,621 The Dennis I enjoy is, he's just home. 97 00:06:44,708 --> 00:06:47,189 He's reading the Torah, and he's smoking a cigar. 98 00:06:47,276 --> 00:06:49,670 I don't want a Dennis Prager who goes, 99 00:06:49,757 --> 00:06:51,846 "Hey, Ace Man, 'Man Show,' 100 00:06:51,933 --> 00:06:53,413 'Crank Yankers,' love it." 101 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,328 - If somebody were able to pick 102 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:58,940 the two most opposite upbringings 103 00:06:59,027 --> 00:07:01,029 in the United States of America, 104 00:07:01,116 --> 00:07:03,727 they would take my upbringing and his upbringing. 105 00:07:03,814 --> 00:07:07,601 I remember playing stickball in Brooklyn, where I grew up. 106 00:07:07,688 --> 00:07:11,213 So some kid would say something, you know, unbelievably stupid, 107 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:12,954 and we'd all tell him, "Will you shut up?" 108 00:07:13,041 --> 00:07:15,435 And he'd go, "Hey, it's a free country, man. 109 00:07:15,522 --> 00:07:17,001 It's freedom of speech here." 110 00:07:17,088 --> 00:07:19,874 And it basically shut us up. He's right. 111 00:07:19,961 --> 00:07:22,703 What's happening now in the United States, 112 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:26,707 you are not to be heard on a college campus 113 00:07:26,794 --> 00:07:28,709 or at your place of work. 114 00:07:28,796 --> 00:07:31,407 This is brand-new. 115 00:07:31,494 --> 00:07:34,236 This is one of the few things one could say 116 00:07:34,323 --> 00:07:37,282 we have no precedent for in the United States. 117 00:07:37,369 --> 00:07:39,371 - The real question is how long 118 00:07:39,459 --> 00:07:41,722 before they come for your job and for my job-- 119 00:07:41,809 --> 00:07:43,593 I mean, for anyone who speaks for a living? 120 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,639 - They want to close us down. 121 00:07:45,726 --> 00:07:48,511 No, in all seriousness, they do want to close us down. 122 00:07:48,598 --> 00:07:52,254 - Don't you have a billion views on PragerU? 123 00:07:52,341 --> 00:07:54,604 - We do; we had a billion views last year, 124 00:07:54,691 --> 00:07:56,214 but the same thing's gonna happen to you. 125 00:07:56,301 --> 00:07:59,217 Look, you're the most downloaded podcast, 126 00:07:59,304 --> 00:08:00,697 to my knowledge, in the world, yeah. 127 00:08:00,784 --> 00:08:04,092 - Yeah, I got a family. I got employees. 128 00:08:04,179 --> 00:08:06,224 - We're not an enemy to goodness. 129 00:08:06,311 --> 00:08:08,226 We're not an enemy to good things. 130 00:08:08,313 --> 00:08:11,360 We're an enemy of the dogmatic. 131 00:08:25,113 --> 00:08:26,767 - Dennis and I were gonna get together 132 00:08:26,854 --> 00:08:28,725 and do an event at CSUN. 133 00:08:28,812 --> 00:08:31,075 That's Cal State Northridge out here. 134 00:08:31,162 --> 00:08:35,210 A little backstory-- my mother graduated CSUN 135 00:08:35,297 --> 00:08:38,909 with a degree in Chicano studies, 136 00:08:38,996 --> 00:08:43,044 so that's all you need to know about my mom and possibly CSUN. 137 00:08:43,131 --> 00:08:48,005 - Never has a thesis been so confirmed so rapidly. 138 00:08:48,092 --> 00:08:50,573 We were going to do an event, you and I. 139 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:51,835 - And we've done events there before. 140 00:08:51,922 --> 00:08:53,489 - And we've done before. 141 00:08:53,576 --> 00:08:56,187 And the subject was, essentially, 142 00:08:56,274 --> 00:08:58,276 what is happening at our universities 143 00:08:58,363 --> 00:09:01,628 in terms of intellectual openness, et cetera, et cetera? 144 00:09:01,715 --> 00:09:05,588 They had fully approved you and me being there. 145 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:08,417 They then canceled it because of the topic. 146 00:09:09,766 --> 00:09:12,290 It doesn't bother me for me. 147 00:09:12,377 --> 00:09:15,511 It bothers me for this beloved country of mine. 148 00:09:15,946 --> 00:09:18,993 It bothers me for the young people who are being deprived 149 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,343 of anything that could open their minds. 150 00:09:39,143 --> 00:09:43,278 - So I have a vision of us as people, as human beings 151 00:09:43,365 --> 00:09:46,020 that is interested not in what is different among us 152 00:09:46,107 --> 00:09:47,804 but what is the same, okay? 153 00:09:47,891 --> 00:09:50,198 So I believe, even though I'm not like you, 154 00:09:50,285 --> 00:09:52,504 in the sense of my superficial appearance, 155 00:09:52,592 --> 00:09:54,898 that I can sit down and talk to you and understand-- 156 00:09:54,985 --> 00:09:57,858 understand your predicament, that I can listen to you. 157 00:09:57,945 --> 00:10:00,208 If that's not true, if you deny that, 158 00:10:00,295 --> 00:10:02,645 then what is the reason that you ask to be heard? 159 00:10:02,732 --> 00:10:04,778 Yes, thank you. 160 00:10:04,865 --> 00:10:06,301 That I disagree with. 161 00:10:06,388 --> 00:10:08,782 That I disagree with. - No, no, no. 162 00:10:08,869 --> 00:10:11,480 - I disagree. I disagree. - It's not a debate. 163 00:10:11,567 --> 00:10:13,134 - I am sick looking at you. 164 00:10:13,221 --> 00:10:16,050 I am disgusted watching Alex argue with you. 165 00:10:16,137 --> 00:10:18,661 You are not listening! You are disgusting. 166 00:10:18,748 --> 00:10:22,099 And now I want your job to be taken from you. 167 00:10:22,186 --> 00:10:25,450 - People who have a great, sterling reputation at Yale, 168 00:10:25,537 --> 00:10:27,757 "You know, you're old enough to decide 169 00:10:27,844 --> 00:10:30,151 what Halloween costume you should use," 170 00:10:30,238 --> 00:10:33,981 and for that, it almost causes a riot at Yale, 171 00:10:34,068 --> 00:10:35,678 and that's Yale. 172 00:10:35,765 --> 00:10:38,681 - And I know last year on Halloween, 173 00:10:38,768 --> 00:10:40,204 you went as Kevin Hart, 174 00:10:40,291 --> 00:10:42,337 and that caused-- 175 00:10:42,424 --> 00:10:43,730 You don't know who Kevin Hart is. 176 00:10:43,817 --> 00:10:45,949 - Well, I do vaguely, 177 00:10:46,036 --> 00:10:49,518 but the point is, it's cultural appropriation no matter what. 178 00:10:49,605 --> 00:10:51,825 - That is correct. 179 00:10:53,914 --> 00:10:56,046 - We're on the way to the airport, 180 00:10:56,133 --> 00:11:00,921 which is where I do much of my life, the airport. 181 00:11:01,008 --> 00:11:03,401 You know, I go to all sorts of campuses, 182 00:11:03,488 --> 00:11:07,579 from Berkeley to Columbia and everything in between. 183 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:11,061 So, you know, my hope is, it's Wyoming. 184 00:11:11,148 --> 00:11:13,673 It's a pretty conservative state. 185 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,632 All will be peaceful and tranquil. 186 00:11:16,719 --> 00:11:19,156 - It all began when students invited a special guest 187 00:11:19,243 --> 00:11:20,767 to speak about socialism. 188 00:11:20,854 --> 00:11:22,507 - Yeah, that's right, Aaron. 189 00:11:22,594 --> 00:11:25,206 We were on campus tonight as hundreds lined up 190 00:11:25,293 --> 00:11:28,644 to see Dennis Prager speak about his views, 191 00:11:28,731 --> 00:11:30,254 but before he even arrived to campus, 192 00:11:30,341 --> 00:11:31,952 other students who did not agree 193 00:11:32,039 --> 00:11:33,823 tried to stop his appearance. 194 00:11:33,910 --> 00:11:35,782 - We're essentially here because we don't agree 195 00:11:35,869 --> 00:11:37,435 with Mr. Prager's views at all. 196 00:11:37,522 --> 00:11:39,699 He has said many hurtful things 197 00:11:39,786 --> 00:11:42,310 and hateful rhetoric towards underrepresented communities, 198 00:11:42,397 --> 00:11:46,531 of which Wyoming has many beautiful, diverse communities. 199 00:11:46,618 --> 00:11:49,621 - In the case of the University of Wyoming, it was precious. 200 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:53,060 "Dennis Prager, noted--" which was a compliment-- 201 00:11:53,147 --> 00:11:54,801 "Noted bigot, 202 00:11:54,888 --> 00:11:57,978 racist, homophobe, sexist, 203 00:11:58,065 --> 00:11:59,849 Islamophobe, and anti-Semite." 204 00:11:59,936 --> 00:12:01,764 [laughter] 205 00:12:01,851 --> 00:12:04,985 I swear to God. 206 00:12:05,072 --> 00:12:10,338 So word got out to the person who clearly knew me well, 207 00:12:10,425 --> 00:12:13,820 "It's probably worth dropping anti-Semite. 208 00:12:13,907 --> 00:12:16,605 "The guy is a well-known Jew, 209 00:12:16,692 --> 00:12:19,956 written books on Judaism, et cetera." 210 00:12:20,043 --> 00:12:23,003 So they dropped that without a word of apology, 211 00:12:23,090 --> 00:12:24,787 needless to say. 212 00:12:24,874 --> 00:12:27,268 They just dropped it, but everything else remained. 213 00:12:27,355 --> 00:12:30,662 - It's ironic that, you know, "The Los Angeles Times" 214 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:34,101 would call you bigoted, because what you do 215 00:12:34,188 --> 00:12:36,799 is the opposite of bigoted, which is, 216 00:12:36,886 --> 00:12:39,193 "I don't care who's listening. 217 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,153 I will simply speak the truth as I know it to you," 218 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,809 versus a version that is meant for this color 219 00:12:46,896 --> 00:12:49,812 and that group and the LGBT community. 220 00:12:49,899 --> 00:12:53,947 Dennis is the most decent, moral person I've ever met, 221 00:12:54,034 --> 00:12:57,167 and thus, he does not have this animus in his heart, 222 00:12:57,254 --> 00:13:01,824 so he's able to be free to piss everyone off. 223 00:13:01,911 --> 00:13:04,827 [laughter and applause] 224 00:13:04,914 --> 00:13:06,655 - The only reason for the attack 225 00:13:06,742 --> 00:13:08,483 is that I'm known as a conservative. 226 00:13:08,570 --> 00:13:11,181 This is a brainwash that they undergo. 227 00:13:11,268 --> 00:13:14,750 If you are conservative, then you are not wrong. 228 00:13:14,837 --> 00:13:16,404 You are evil. 229 00:13:16,491 --> 00:13:18,580 They have to think we're evil. 230 00:13:18,667 --> 00:13:21,539 Otherwise they have to debate us. 231 00:13:21,626 --> 00:13:25,892 all: Racist go home! Racist go home! 232 00:13:25,979 --> 00:13:27,676 - The chaos centered around controversial conservative 233 00:13:27,763 --> 00:13:29,721 Ben Shapiro. 234 00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:32,550 - Values matter significantly more than melanin level. 235 00:13:32,637 --> 00:13:34,161 Racial diversity doesn't mean anything. 236 00:13:34,248 --> 00:13:36,119 Decency means something. 237 00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:38,992 Diversity is not a bad thing, but it isn't a good thing 238 00:13:39,079 --> 00:13:40,254 unless the people who are racially diverse 239 00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:41,995 are also decent. 240 00:13:42,082 --> 00:13:43,779 - Concerns over safety and threats 241 00:13:43,866 --> 00:13:45,868 prompted University President William Covino 242 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:47,914 to cancel the preapproved speech, 243 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:50,655 but Shapiro continued with his scheduled appearance, 244 00:13:50,742 --> 00:13:52,353 drawing dozens of protesters 245 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:53,876 who were desperate to stop him. 246 00:13:53,963 --> 00:13:55,660 - Look at me. I mean, like, 247 00:13:55,747 --> 00:13:57,227 do I look like a physical threat to anybody? 248 00:13:57,314 --> 00:13:59,055 Last time I was in a fight, I was 14 years old. 249 00:13:59,142 --> 00:14:00,013 I was two years younger than everybody else 250 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:01,231 in my high-school class, 251 00:14:01,318 --> 00:14:02,189 and I was getting my ass kicked. 252 00:14:02,276 --> 00:14:03,755 - When I went to college, 253 00:14:03,843 --> 00:14:05,018 suddenly there were some folks 254 00:14:05,105 --> 00:14:06,628 who didn't think at all like me. 255 00:14:06,715 --> 00:14:08,412 I've heard some college campuses 256 00:14:08,499 --> 00:14:10,632 where they don't want to have a guest speaker 257 00:14:10,719 --> 00:14:12,764 who is too conservative. 258 00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:14,854 all: Charles Murray, go away! 259 00:14:14,941 --> 00:14:16,725 Racist, sexist, anti-gay! 260 00:14:16,812 --> 00:14:18,901 - That's the free speech of the left. 261 00:14:18,988 --> 00:14:22,687 - This is not an argument. This is a religion. 262 00:14:22,774 --> 00:14:25,647 - When Professor Stanger was escorting Murray out, 263 00:14:25,734 --> 00:14:29,433 she was left with a concussion and whiplash. 264 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,523 - Shouldn't we be able to agree on protecting free speech 265 00:14:32,610 --> 00:14:34,525 no matter who is speaking? 266 00:14:34,612 --> 00:14:37,354 - There will be resistance, and it will not be peaceful. 267 00:14:37,441 --> 00:14:39,182 Resistance to violent hate speech 268 00:14:39,269 --> 00:14:40,836 is not another act of hate. 269 00:14:40,923 --> 00:14:43,056 It is an act of love. 270 00:14:43,143 --> 00:14:46,363 - Whoever told you you only had to hear what didn't upset you? 271 00:14:49,845 --> 00:14:52,804 [suspenseful music] 272 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:58,419 ♪ ♪ 273 00:14:58,506 --> 00:15:00,769 [indistinct shouting] 274 00:15:00,856 --> 00:15:05,252 all: Shut it down! Shut it down! 275 00:15:05,339 --> 00:15:08,820 Shut it down! Shut it down! Shut it down! 276 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:11,345 Shut it down! 277 00:15:11,432 --> 00:15:14,391 [explosion, screaming] 278 00:15:14,478 --> 00:15:16,350 - A protest has turned violent 279 00:15:16,437 --> 00:15:18,482 at the University of California, Berkeley. 280 00:15:18,569 --> 00:15:20,876 - Campus locked down as more than 1,000 people rallied 281 00:15:20,963 --> 00:15:22,530 against the appearance of a controversial editor 282 00:15:22,617 --> 00:15:24,967 from Breitbart, Milo Yiannopoulos. 283 00:15:25,054 --> 00:15:26,882 - All I care about is free speech and free expression. 284 00:15:26,969 --> 00:15:31,321 I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything. 285 00:15:31,408 --> 00:15:33,149 - It's disgusting. 286 00:15:33,236 --> 00:15:34,324 It's one thing to protest someone's right 287 00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:35,978 to come here and speak, 288 00:15:36,065 --> 00:15:37,893 but it's another thing to create 289 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:40,287 this much amount of destruction and violence 290 00:15:40,374 --> 00:15:42,767 and hurt and harm other people. 291 00:15:44,987 --> 00:15:46,641 - We need our voices heard, and if this is the way 292 00:15:46,728 --> 00:15:48,164 that we think it must be done, 293 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:50,471 then I suppose that's what we got to do. 294 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:55,911 - It sends the message that under no means 295 00:15:55,998 --> 00:16:01,003 will we allow any of this to go on anywhere near Berkeley. 296 00:16:01,090 --> 00:16:02,874 - Has the birthplace of free speech 297 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:04,833 now become its graveyard? 298 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,271 ♪ ♪ 299 00:16:11,448 --> 00:16:14,756 [dramatic music] 300 00:16:14,843 --> 00:16:17,672 - If there's a fundamental American right, 301 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:19,543 it's to say what's on your mind. 302 00:16:19,630 --> 00:16:23,286 The idea that if you offend me, 303 00:16:23,373 --> 00:16:25,723 you should not speak... 304 00:16:25,810 --> 00:16:27,769 - To create a unsafe space here for all-- 305 00:16:27,856 --> 00:16:29,510 - I did not-- - Be quiet! 306 00:16:29,597 --> 00:16:31,381 - Is so bizarre. 307 00:16:31,468 --> 00:16:33,035 - What a lot of people don't get 308 00:16:33,122 --> 00:16:34,994 and Americans get to take for granted 309 00:16:35,081 --> 00:16:37,735 is that free speech is a very weird thing in human history. 310 00:16:37,822 --> 00:16:40,738 Mostly, our instincts are, we don't like dissenters. 311 00:16:40,825 --> 00:16:43,132 We prefer to behead them, set them on fire, 312 00:16:43,219 --> 00:16:45,091 send them out of our village. 313 00:16:45,178 --> 00:16:48,050 - Free speech is unique to the United States. 314 00:16:48,137 --> 00:16:50,226 Lots of countries pretend to have it, 315 00:16:50,313 --> 00:16:53,621 but they'll cut your head off for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia. 316 00:16:53,708 --> 00:16:55,579 In Thailand they'll throw you in a prison 317 00:16:55,666 --> 00:16:57,364 if you make fun of the king. 318 00:16:57,451 --> 00:16:59,235 In Russia and China, you go to jail 319 00:16:59,322 --> 00:17:01,933 if you say anything nice about gay people. 320 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:04,588 In Germany, you can't praise Nazis. 321 00:17:04,675 --> 00:17:06,938 Sounds good, right? But maybe not. 322 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:10,159 Doesn't stop people from promoting Nazism in secret. 323 00:17:10,246 --> 00:17:12,640 It just means you can't debate them in public. 324 00:17:12,727 --> 00:17:15,382 France convicted Brigitte Bardot five times 325 00:17:15,469 --> 00:17:17,340 for criticizing the practice 326 00:17:17,427 --> 00:17:20,126 of animal sacrifice at a Muslim festival. 327 00:17:20,213 --> 00:17:21,344 [sheep baas] 328 00:17:21,431 --> 00:17:22,911 The U.K. convicted a comic 329 00:17:22,998 --> 00:17:25,261 of a hate crime for teaching a pug 330 00:17:25,348 --> 00:17:27,394 to do a Nazi salute. 331 00:17:27,481 --> 00:17:29,526 Just over the border in Canada, 332 00:17:29,613 --> 00:17:32,660 a Christian preacher was arrested for, wait for it, 333 00:17:32,747 --> 00:17:35,010 preaching in public. 334 00:17:35,097 --> 00:17:37,491 Pretty much everywhere else, cops can come to your house 335 00:17:37,578 --> 00:17:40,233 and arrest you for a rant or a complaint 336 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,148 or even for making a joke. 337 00:17:42,235 --> 00:17:44,628 The only reason they can't do it here 338 00:17:44,715 --> 00:17:48,241 is because we have the First Amendment. 339 00:17:48,328 --> 00:17:50,330 - The only reason why you have a First Amendment 340 00:17:50,417 --> 00:17:53,333 is to protect the rights of minorities, 341 00:17:53,420 --> 00:17:56,336 the rights of the oddball, the rights of the underdog. 342 00:17:56,423 --> 00:17:58,686 Free speech battles on campus in the 1960s, 343 00:17:58,773 --> 00:18:00,340 starting in Berkeley 344 00:18:00,427 --> 00:18:02,211 and the Free Speech Movement in 1964, 345 00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:04,300 were primarily about whether or not 346 00:18:04,387 --> 00:18:06,215 you could have politics on campus, 347 00:18:06,302 --> 00:18:08,217 and that was the start of the Free Speech Movement. 348 00:18:08,304 --> 00:18:10,393 From 1964 on, it, you know, took over campuses 349 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,178 all over the country, 350 00:18:12,265 --> 00:18:14,005 and I think it was so successful 351 00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:17,139 that there was probably a perfect week in 1977 352 00:18:17,226 --> 00:18:19,881 when free speech was protected on campus 353 00:18:19,968 --> 00:18:22,579 at a level it never had been before and would be again, 354 00:18:22,666 --> 00:18:24,451 probably right around the time "Star Wars" came out. 355 00:18:24,538 --> 00:18:27,149 The phase that we're in right now 356 00:18:27,236 --> 00:18:29,630 is the most distressing one. 357 00:18:29,717 --> 00:18:31,980 Sometime around 2013, 2014, 358 00:18:32,067 --> 00:18:33,503 the students themselves 359 00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:35,549 started demanding new speech codes 360 00:18:35,636 --> 00:18:37,203 or that people not be invited to speak, 361 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:39,422 or if they were invited, that they be disinvited. 362 00:18:39,509 --> 00:18:42,164 - Both Condoleezza Rice and Christine Lagarde 363 00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:44,862 had to withdraw themselves from giving speeches 364 00:18:44,949 --> 00:18:47,648 at Rutgers and Smith Universities. 365 00:18:47,735 --> 00:18:48,692 - That was when you first started hearing 366 00:18:48,779 --> 00:18:50,433 about trigger warnings, 367 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,305 things like microaggression training. 368 00:18:52,392 --> 00:18:55,569 - We're not sure if we even believe in freedom anymore. 369 00:18:55,656 --> 00:18:59,007 Most universities today don't require classes in civics, 370 00:18:59,094 --> 00:19:00,617 courses to know the fundamentals 371 00:19:00,704 --> 00:19:02,793 of the Constitution. 372 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,580 Instead, we have classes on the things that divide us-- 373 00:19:06,667 --> 00:19:08,059 identity politics. 374 00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:10,758 If we don't rediscover, 375 00:19:10,845 --> 00:19:13,630 reclaim an understanding of the foundations 376 00:19:13,717 --> 00:19:16,590 of our society, we're in jeopardy of losing it. 377 00:19:16,677 --> 00:19:19,593 [light music] 378 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,248 - Whew, you sure got to be careful what you say nowadays 379 00:19:22,335 --> 00:19:24,250 so people don't get offended. 380 00:19:24,337 --> 00:19:26,687 Wow, I wonder who that little scrap of paper is. 381 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:32,606 - ♪ I'm the First Amendment, yes, the very First Amendment ♪ 382 00:19:32,693 --> 00:19:36,653 ♪ And I'm found in the Bill of Rights ♪ 383 00:19:36,740 --> 00:19:41,267 ♪ Well, it's a long, long time since my ink has dried ♪ 384 00:19:41,354 --> 00:19:45,358 ♪ And a long, long time since my authors died ♪ 385 00:19:45,445 --> 00:19:50,101 ♪ But I'm just as important today as I was back then ♪ 386 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:52,321 ♪ At least I hope I am ♪ 387 00:19:52,408 --> 00:19:55,063 ♪ 'Cause I defend all your rights ♪ 388 00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:58,109 - Gee, First Amendment, you certainly sound important. 389 00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:00,242 - Call me Firsty. I like to think I'm important, 390 00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:02,113 but I'm not so sure anymore. 391 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:04,942 - How come people don't know more about you, Firsty? 392 00:20:05,029 --> 00:20:06,205 - People tend to take me for granted, 393 00:20:06,292 --> 00:20:08,468 but if it wasn't for me, 394 00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:10,644 Americans wouldn't be able to say what they want to say. 395 00:20:10,731 --> 00:20:12,776 - Oh, no. - Oh, yeah. 396 00:20:12,863 --> 00:20:13,908 Sometimes when people speak their mind, 397 00:20:13,995 --> 00:20:15,823 other people get offended. 398 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:18,478 I hope people remember why I'm important, or I may die. 399 00:20:18,565 --> 00:20:20,697 - Die? - Yeah, die... 400 00:20:20,784 --> 00:20:23,613 along with the rest of your freedoms. 401 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:27,313 ♪ I'm the First Amendment, yes, the very First Amendment ♪ 402 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,317 ♪ Without me, you'd be living in China ♪ 403 00:20:31,404 --> 00:20:35,234 ♪ In the Bill of Rights, I'm the leadoff hit ♪ 404 00:20:35,321 --> 00:20:39,150 ♪ Read me in a museum or when you're sitting on the sh-- ♪ 405 00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:40,413 [tires screeching] 406 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,154 [gunfire] 407 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:44,895 both: Firsty! - [groans] 408 00:20:48,464 --> 00:20:51,075 - Why? - [groaning] 409 00:20:51,162 --> 00:20:52,773 both: No! 410 00:20:55,906 --> 00:21:01,172 - Liberty is a value, not a natural inclination. 411 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:05,699 - Yeah, I love when I listen to Dennis's show and somebody says, 412 00:21:05,786 --> 00:21:08,223 "Well, everyone yearns to be free." 413 00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:10,094 - No. - And he says, "No." 414 00:21:10,181 --> 00:21:13,184 - They yearn to be taken care of. 415 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:16,492 The greater yearning of the human species 416 00:21:16,579 --> 00:21:19,843 is to be taken care of, not to be free. 417 00:21:19,930 --> 00:21:23,064 The French Revolution and the American Revolution 418 00:21:23,151 --> 00:21:25,066 are at war with one another. 419 00:21:25,153 --> 00:21:29,375 Their motto was "Liberty, equality, fraternity." 420 00:21:29,462 --> 00:21:31,725 That was not in our motto. 421 00:21:31,812 --> 00:21:36,077 We have "Liberty, in God we trust, e pluribus unum... 422 00:21:36,164 --> 00:21:38,297 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 423 00:21:38,384 --> 00:21:40,821 They're different values, 424 00:21:40,908 --> 00:21:43,214 and we have raised a generation 425 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,216 to believe that being taken care of 426 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:46,740 is more important than liberty. 427 00:21:46,827 --> 00:21:50,483 49% of kids on campuses in America today, 428 00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:52,746 according to Pew Research, 429 00:21:52,833 --> 00:21:55,488 do not believe in free speech for hate speech. 430 00:21:55,575 --> 00:21:58,099 You know how moronic that is? 431 00:21:58,186 --> 00:22:01,145 The issue of free speech doesn't apply to love speech. 432 00:22:01,232 --> 00:22:04,584 Nobody ever threatened love speech. 433 00:22:04,671 --> 00:22:09,066 It's precisely the speech you hate or you find hateful 434 00:22:09,153 --> 00:22:12,026 that needs to be protected, but this is unknown. 435 00:22:12,113 --> 00:22:15,725 This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. 436 00:22:15,812 --> 00:22:18,380 [applause] 437 00:22:18,467 --> 00:22:22,950 [somber music] 438 00:22:23,037 --> 00:22:27,824 So how many of you think people should be free in America 439 00:22:27,911 --> 00:22:31,132 or on a university campus to say whatever they want? 440 00:22:31,219 --> 00:22:36,137 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. 441 00:22:36,224 --> 00:22:38,313 How many of you think there should be restrictions 442 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,664 on what you can say on a campus? 443 00:22:41,751 --> 00:22:44,101 One, two, three, four, five, six, so it's pretty much tied. 444 00:22:44,188 --> 00:22:47,409 So no country in the world has had free speech 445 00:22:47,496 --> 00:22:49,324 as much as this country. 446 00:22:49,411 --> 00:22:53,284 In Europe, you can be arrested if you say things 447 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:56,549 that the government thinks is hateful. 448 00:22:56,636 --> 00:22:58,072 Give me an example-- 449 00:22:58,159 --> 00:22:59,552 those of you who said that you think 450 00:22:59,639 --> 00:23:01,292 there should be restrictions, 451 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:03,251 give me an example of what 452 00:23:03,338 --> 00:23:04,992 should not be allowed to be said. 453 00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:08,387 - I would say, like, if you have Nazi beliefs or values 454 00:23:08,474 --> 00:23:09,910 and you raise those 455 00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:11,651 because that can make people uncomfortable. 456 00:23:11,738 --> 00:23:13,740 - Okay, that's very important. 457 00:23:13,827 --> 00:23:17,439 So I'm a Jew, and Nazis killed six million Jews. 458 00:23:17,526 --> 00:23:19,789 That's one out of every three Jews on Earth 459 00:23:19,876 --> 00:23:23,706 was annihilated in World War II by the Nazis. 460 00:23:23,793 --> 00:23:26,492 So I have a real hatred to Nazis, 461 00:23:26,579 --> 00:23:28,363 but I believe they should be allowed 462 00:23:28,450 --> 00:23:30,844 to march freely in America, 463 00:23:30,931 --> 00:23:34,674 because if we say to the Nazi today, "You can't speak," 464 00:23:34,761 --> 00:23:36,806 then we'll say to a non-Nazi tomorrow, 465 00:23:36,893 --> 00:23:38,982 "You can't speak either." 466 00:23:39,069 --> 00:23:42,029 And we hope that if everybody speaks, 467 00:23:42,116 --> 00:23:43,639 the good ideas will win. 468 00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:46,686 - Free speech is one of the greatest innovations 469 00:23:46,773 --> 00:23:48,339 in human history. 470 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:50,341 It's how we figured out how to have peaceful, 471 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:52,300 pluralistic societies 472 00:23:52,387 --> 00:23:54,824 that are endlessly creative and free. 473 00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:56,478 Free speech done correctly 474 00:23:56,565 --> 00:23:57,610 is one of the most exciting experiences 475 00:23:57,697 --> 00:23:59,394 you can have in your life. 476 00:23:59,481 --> 00:24:00,874 Throw anything out there. We'll question anything. 477 00:24:00,961 --> 00:24:03,137 Let's figure stuff out. It's absolutely thrilling. 478 00:24:03,224 --> 00:24:05,095 And I also think that it's incredibly fragile. 479 00:24:05,182 --> 00:24:07,054 If I thought that free speech would just be something 480 00:24:07,141 --> 00:24:09,230 that could defend itself, 481 00:24:09,317 --> 00:24:10,884 I wouldn't be as worried about it, 482 00:24:10,971 --> 00:24:14,365 but humans don't really like freedom of speech. 483 00:24:14,453 --> 00:24:16,063 They like to say they like it. 484 00:24:16,150 --> 00:24:17,934 They definitely like their own freedom of speech. 485 00:24:18,021 --> 00:24:19,370 They don't necessarily like 486 00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:21,677 your freedom of speech that much. 487 00:24:23,418 --> 00:24:26,726 - So we had an attorney write CSUN a letter. 488 00:24:26,813 --> 00:24:29,511 You folks, you have a charter which says 489 00:24:29,598 --> 00:24:31,687 that there's free speech on your campus. 490 00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:34,603 So they had no choice. 491 00:24:34,690 --> 00:24:38,346 - So we're coming back, and we're saying whatever we want. 492 00:24:38,433 --> 00:24:40,304 - Exactly. 493 00:24:42,611 --> 00:24:45,048 So here is exhibit A 494 00:24:45,135 --> 00:24:48,835 of a man who was raised with white privilege. 495 00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:51,054 - Oh, yes. 496 00:24:51,794 --> 00:24:57,365 I got into a semi-heated debate with a black fella 497 00:24:57,452 --> 00:25:00,542 who was on public radio, 498 00:25:00,629 --> 00:25:03,371 and he went on to explain to me, 499 00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:04,938 I didn't know what I was talking about 500 00:25:05,025 --> 00:25:07,244 because of my white privilege. 501 00:25:07,331 --> 00:25:09,508 And I said, "Well, let's examine my white privilege, 502 00:25:09,595 --> 00:25:10,944 may we?" 503 00:25:11,031 --> 00:25:15,296 I did not go to college. I worked cleaning carpets. 504 00:25:15,383 --> 00:25:19,605 Later on, I worked on construction sites, 505 00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:23,739 not as an apprentice or a carpenter, but as a laborer-- 506 00:25:23,826 --> 00:25:26,829 digging ditches, mostly cleaning up garbage. 507 00:25:26,916 --> 00:25:29,440 Whatever work donkeys were qualified to do, 508 00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:31,791 that's what I did. 509 00:25:31,878 --> 00:25:34,881 At a certain point, when I felt like my white privilege 510 00:25:34,968 --> 00:25:37,623 wasn't kicking in at all... [laughter] 511 00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:40,713 Mom was on food stamps and welfare, 512 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,932 Dad was eking out a living 513 00:25:43,019 --> 00:25:45,935 and had no extra money or time for anybody else, 514 00:25:46,022 --> 00:25:48,764 I said, "You know what would be a good job for me? 515 00:25:48,851 --> 00:25:52,463 Fireman. I'm strong. I'm eager for the fray. 516 00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:55,075 I have no qualms about my personal safety, 517 00:25:55,162 --> 00:25:58,034 and I think I would make a good fireman. 518 00:25:58,121 --> 00:26:01,168 Plus, I love chili. 519 00:26:01,255 --> 00:26:04,258 I love playing foosball, and as far as I could tell, 520 00:26:04,345 --> 00:26:06,173 when they're not putting out fires, 521 00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:09,480 they're eating chili and playing foosball," 522 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:11,047 So I just walked over there, and I said, 523 00:26:11,134 --> 00:26:13,920 "I'm gonna put in an application to be a fireman," 524 00:26:14,007 --> 00:26:15,704 and they said, "Fine." I filled it out. 525 00:26:15,791 --> 00:26:17,532 I handed it to the guy, and the guy said, 526 00:26:17,619 --> 00:26:19,099 "Don't hold your breath." 527 00:26:19,186 --> 00:26:20,840 And I said, "What does that mean?" 528 00:26:20,927 --> 00:26:22,624 And he said, "We're not gonna be getting to you 529 00:26:22,711 --> 00:26:24,278 for some years." 530 00:26:24,365 --> 00:26:27,281 And when you're 19 and you're destitute 531 00:26:27,368 --> 00:26:29,413 and your stepmom's trying to extricate you 532 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:31,459 from the garage you're living in 533 00:26:31,546 --> 00:26:34,593 and you have no job or no real income, 534 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,639 the notion of "We'll call you in six or seven years" 535 00:26:37,726 --> 00:26:41,469 is not a buoy you cling to. 536 00:26:41,556 --> 00:26:43,906 And sure enough, I moved out of the house. 537 00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:46,517 I was about 25, 26, five, six years 538 00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:48,694 into my carpentering career. 539 00:26:48,781 --> 00:26:50,565 My dad showed up to my apartment one day, 540 00:26:50,652 --> 00:26:52,306 and he had a letter, and he said, 541 00:26:52,393 --> 00:26:54,743 "It's from the L.A. Fire Department." 542 00:26:54,830 --> 00:26:57,528 And sure enough, there was a date to take the written test 543 00:26:57,616 --> 00:26:59,356 the following weekend. 544 00:26:59,443 --> 00:27:02,055 And I said, "I don't even want to be a fireman anymore, 545 00:27:02,142 --> 00:27:05,580 but because I've waited six years to be a fireman, 546 00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:07,364 I'm going down to Hollywood High 547 00:27:07,451 --> 00:27:09,192 on 10:00 a.m. on Saturday." 548 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:12,152 And I stood in line. 549 00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:14,763 There was a young lady, very diminutive lady, 550 00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:17,592 a small, slightly built lady behind me, 551 00:27:17,679 --> 00:27:19,463 could not tell her nationality. 552 00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:21,030 Could have been black, Latino, or mixed 553 00:27:21,117 --> 00:27:22,641 or something like that. 554 00:27:22,728 --> 00:27:24,338 Everyone around me-- I kept saying, 555 00:27:24,425 --> 00:27:25,513 "When did you put in your application? 556 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:26,775 When did you put it in?" 557 00:27:26,862 --> 00:27:27,994 I turned around to her, and I said, 558 00:27:28,081 --> 00:27:29,691 "When did you put in your application?" 559 00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:31,867 And she said, "Tuesday." 560 00:27:31,954 --> 00:27:34,174 [laughter] 561 00:27:46,012 --> 00:27:47,535 - A safe space is a place you can go to 562 00:27:47,622 --> 00:27:49,624 where it's safe to do whatever you want. 563 00:27:49,711 --> 00:27:51,931 You can just be yourself, and no one's gonna say 564 00:27:52,018 --> 00:27:53,976 or do anything that makes you uncomfortable. 565 00:27:54,063 --> 00:27:56,283 - There's this myth that when you're in a safe space, 566 00:27:56,370 --> 00:27:58,894 all you do is sing "Kumbaya" or something. 567 00:27:58,981 --> 00:28:01,897 The reality is, it's when you feel safe 568 00:28:01,984 --> 00:28:03,507 that you have some of the most important 569 00:28:03,594 --> 00:28:05,031 transformative discussions, 570 00:28:05,118 --> 00:28:07,598 at least I do when I'm in my safe spaces. 571 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:08,991 - Once you go beyond college, 572 00:28:09,078 --> 00:28:10,906 you're gonna have uncomfortable experiences, 573 00:28:10,993 --> 00:28:14,344 but to kind of force yourself through pain 574 00:28:14,431 --> 00:28:16,869 and difficult experiences is totally unnecessary. 575 00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:19,915 - See, I never went to college. 576 00:28:20,002 --> 00:28:22,222 I was a builder, 577 00:28:22,309 --> 00:28:25,747 but I always thought college was this place for ideas. 578 00:28:25,834 --> 00:28:27,357 And now it's turned into a place 579 00:28:27,444 --> 00:28:30,186 for some ideas but not other ideas, 580 00:28:30,273 --> 00:28:34,974 and that seems to fly in the face of ideas in general. 581 00:28:35,061 --> 00:28:37,933 - For a generation that demands safe spaces, 582 00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:41,371 that equates ideas they don't like to actual physical battery 583 00:28:41,458 --> 00:28:43,634 and requires trigger warnings for class assignments 584 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:47,203 that might be upsetting, there's a name--snowflakes. 585 00:28:47,290 --> 00:28:49,684 - We're creating this environment 586 00:28:49,771 --> 00:28:53,949 where liberals and leftists and progressives on campuses 587 00:28:54,036 --> 00:28:58,432 think that they need to get government authority 588 00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:03,219 or university authority to protect their ears 589 00:29:03,306 --> 00:29:04,699 from stuff that they don't like 590 00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:06,309 or stuff that's actually offensive 591 00:29:06,396 --> 00:29:09,704 or that is racist or that is sexist or that is horrible, 592 00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,794 and I just think that that's a very dangerous view. 593 00:29:12,881 --> 00:29:14,665 - I'm saying this not for conservatives. 594 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:17,407 I'm saying this for liberals. 595 00:29:17,494 --> 00:29:22,499 They have been bubble-wrapped in academia for 40 years. 596 00:29:22,586 --> 00:29:25,546 - When you try to create a safe space 597 00:29:25,633 --> 00:29:30,725 in which it's difficult to be unsettled, unnerved, 598 00:29:30,812 --> 00:29:32,553 you reinforce walls, 599 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,905 which makes it difficult for you to cultivate the capacity 600 00:29:36,992 --> 00:29:38,907 to learn from other people, 601 00:29:38,994 --> 00:29:40,953 especially people you disagree with. 602 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,693 - Can I just say, it feels really nice 603 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:44,783 to live in a bubble for a little while. 604 00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:46,872 You feel safe. You feel protected. 605 00:29:46,959 --> 00:29:49,222 You feel like everyone agrees with you and you're right. 606 00:29:49,309 --> 00:29:51,311 - ♪ If you do not like me ♪ 607 00:29:51,398 --> 00:29:54,880 you are not allowed in my safe space ♪ 608 00:29:54,967 --> 00:29:56,795 all: ♪ My safe space ♪ 609 00:29:56,882 --> 00:29:58,535 - ♪ Look and you will see ♪ 610 00:29:58,622 --> 00:30:02,670 ♪ There's a very select crowd in your safe space ♪ 611 00:30:02,757 --> 00:30:04,585 all: ♪ My safe space ♪ 612 00:30:04,672 --> 00:30:06,674 - ♪ People that support me ♪ 613 00:30:06,761 --> 00:30:10,286 ♪ Mixed in with more people that support me ♪ 614 00:30:10,373 --> 00:30:14,334 ♪ And say nice things, rainbows all around me ♪ 615 00:30:14,421 --> 00:30:17,903 ♪ There is no shame in my safe space ♪ 616 00:30:17,990 --> 00:30:19,643 - ♪ My safe space ♪ 617 00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:21,515 - No university should ever create 618 00:30:21,602 --> 00:30:23,647 a safe space for an idea. 619 00:30:23,734 --> 00:30:26,128 If you want to feel good, get a massage. 620 00:30:26,215 --> 00:30:28,957 - I want every student on campus to be physically safe. 621 00:30:29,044 --> 00:30:31,177 I don't want anybody getting beat up. 622 00:30:31,264 --> 00:30:33,744 I don't want anybody getting sexually assaulted or molested. 623 00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:37,400 I don't want anybody singled out for, you know, threats, 624 00:30:37,487 --> 00:30:43,319 but if you mean emotionally safe or intellectually safe, 625 00:30:43,406 --> 00:30:46,192 I don't know why you're in college, 626 00:30:46,279 --> 00:30:49,586 because the whole point is that you're going to leave soon, 627 00:30:49,673 --> 00:30:53,025 and I want you to be offended every single day. 628 00:30:58,465 --> 00:31:01,642 all: ♪ Social Justice Warriors1♪ 629 00:31:01,729 --> 00:31:03,165 ♪ Get triggered ♪ 630 00:31:08,823 --> 00:31:10,607 both: Bias Response Team, go! 631 00:31:40,724 --> 00:31:43,640 all: ♪ Social Justice Warriors ♪ 632 00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:51,735 - We've gotten to a point where, 633 00:31:51,822 --> 00:31:53,607 if you say you're tolerant all the time, 634 00:31:53,694 --> 00:31:55,696 if you talk about diversity all the time 635 00:31:55,783 --> 00:31:57,828 and tolerance all the time, 636 00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:00,353 people somehow think that means you are tolerant 637 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,659 and you care about diversity, 638 00:32:02,746 --> 00:32:06,011 and in almost every case almost without fail, 639 00:32:06,098 --> 00:32:09,057 today that's actually the reverse. 640 00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:12,495 So right now it's very in for everyone on the left 641 00:32:12,582 --> 00:32:14,802 to talk about tolerance and diversity and all these things, 642 00:32:14,889 --> 00:32:17,457 and what is the type of diversity that they hate? 643 00:32:17,544 --> 00:32:18,719 Well, the type of diversity that they hate 644 00:32:18,806 --> 00:32:20,286 is diversity of thought. 645 00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:22,375 - Dave Rubin has every credential 646 00:32:22,462 --> 00:32:24,899 of a bona fide liberal. 647 00:32:24,986 --> 00:32:29,251 I mean, Dave Rubin is gay. Dave Rubin is married to a man. 648 00:32:29,338 --> 00:32:33,386 Dave Rubin is a lifelong Democrat. 649 00:32:33,473 --> 00:32:35,301 - When I talk about liberalism, what is liberalism, 650 00:32:35,388 --> 00:32:36,824 and how is it different than leftism? 651 00:32:36,911 --> 00:32:39,087 Liberalism really is about the individual, 652 00:32:39,174 --> 00:32:41,002 and it's about live and let live. 653 00:32:41,089 --> 00:32:43,874 It's not just this amorphous idea of tolerance, 654 00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:45,746 which is what leftism is. 655 00:32:45,833 --> 00:32:47,878 That's a collectivist view of the world, 656 00:32:47,966 --> 00:32:49,880 where we should be grouping all of these people 657 00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:52,535 and we should be taking from some and giving to others, 658 00:32:52,622 --> 00:32:54,798 and it is a snake that will eat its own tail. 659 00:32:54,885 --> 00:32:56,539 - You are a liberal. - I am. 660 00:32:56,626 --> 00:32:58,237 - We obviously have different politics, 661 00:32:58,324 --> 00:33:00,065 but it doesn't matter. 662 00:33:00,152 --> 00:33:04,156 On freedom of speech we are completely united. 663 00:33:04,243 --> 00:33:06,723 Do you feel right now, ideologically, 664 00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:09,335 your biggest enemy are conservatives or the left? 665 00:33:09,422 --> 00:33:10,640 - Oh, there's no question. 666 00:33:10,727 --> 00:33:12,642 A, my biggest enemy is the hard left. 667 00:33:12,729 --> 00:33:15,341 B, the hard left poses a far greater danger 668 00:33:15,428 --> 00:33:17,778 to the American future than the hard right. 669 00:33:17,865 --> 00:33:22,652 I'm not worried about a few dozen people with swastikas... 670 00:33:22,739 --> 00:33:23,958 - Thank you. - Who want to replace 671 00:33:24,045 --> 00:33:25,960 the Jews 'cause they're our past. 672 00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:28,702 They have no resonance on university campuses today. 673 00:33:28,789 --> 00:33:31,183 - Right. - But the hard, hard left 674 00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:33,881 anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity, 675 00:33:33,968 --> 00:33:36,840 intolerance for speech, these are our leaders. 676 00:33:36,927 --> 00:33:38,799 When I used to teach 150 students 677 00:33:38,886 --> 00:33:40,105 in my first year of criminal law, 678 00:33:40,192 --> 00:33:42,281 I'd look around, and I'd say, "Future president, 679 00:33:42,368 --> 00:33:44,152 "future chief justice, 680 00:33:44,239 --> 00:33:46,372 "future editorial director of 'The New York Times,' 681 00:33:46,459 --> 00:33:48,243 future managing partner of Goldman Sachs." 682 00:33:48,330 --> 00:33:49,505 They're our future. 683 00:33:49,592 --> 00:33:51,203 - What's happened to this place? 684 00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:52,682 Ah! 685 00:33:52,769 --> 00:33:54,075 [suspenseful music] 686 00:33:54,162 --> 00:33:55,598 [gasps] 687 00:33:55,685 --> 00:33:56,643 ♪ ♪ 688 00:33:56,730 --> 00:33:58,079 Ah! 689 00:33:58,166 --> 00:34:00,081 ♪ ♪ 690 00:34:00,168 --> 00:34:01,691 This was the home of ruthless media disrupter 691 00:34:01,778 --> 00:34:03,345 Samuel F. B. Morse. 692 00:34:03,432 --> 00:34:05,826 Who's his successor, that fellow? 693 00:34:05,913 --> 00:34:08,959 - Fellow? That word is cisgender normative, okay? 694 00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:10,613 You're worse than Hitler! 695 00:34:10,700 --> 00:34:12,093 - Too late for flattery. 696 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:15,009 I'm not giving this school a dime. 697 00:34:15,836 --> 00:34:17,838 - I've seen, over the past 30 years, 698 00:34:17,925 --> 00:34:21,494 how the university has changed and not for the better. 699 00:34:21,581 --> 00:34:24,236 Now they don't tolerate the other side's viewpoint, 700 00:34:24,323 --> 00:34:26,586 and there are no conservatives that are speaking out. 701 00:34:26,673 --> 00:34:29,806 If you're conservative at this university, good luck. 702 00:34:29,893 --> 00:34:30,851 First of all, I don't know how-- 703 00:34:30,938 --> 00:34:32,418 you're not gonna get hired. 704 00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:33,984 I don't know what department's gonna hire you 705 00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:35,508 at what college it's gonna hire you at. 706 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:37,031 You're not gonna get promoted. 707 00:34:37,118 --> 00:34:38,337 There's no way that you're gonna be accepted 708 00:34:38,424 --> 00:34:39,860 by your fellow faculty, 709 00:34:39,947 --> 00:34:42,341 and I'm telling you right now, 710 00:34:42,428 --> 00:34:44,517 they're gonna figure out a way to get rid of you. 711 00:34:44,604 --> 00:34:46,040 I mean, they will figure out some means 712 00:34:46,127 --> 00:34:47,955 by whatever hook and crook. 713 00:34:48,042 --> 00:34:50,349 They'll never say it's because of your political orientation, 714 00:34:50,436 --> 00:34:52,220 but they're gonna get rid of you. 715 00:34:52,307 --> 00:34:55,789 This is also something of an irony, but it's also really-- 716 00:34:55,876 --> 00:34:57,095 I think it's kind of dangerous 717 00:34:57,182 --> 00:34:59,271 that there's only one worldview now 718 00:34:59,358 --> 00:35:01,534 that's allowable in the university, 719 00:35:01,621 --> 00:35:04,014 and if you don't have that, you better be quiet. 720 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:06,930 - You must think like we think and do what we do, 721 00:35:07,017 --> 00:35:08,454 and if you don't, you're verboten. 722 00:35:08,541 --> 00:35:10,282 You're unwelcome. You can't even speak here. 723 00:35:10,369 --> 00:35:12,806 You can't teach here. You can't attend here. 724 00:35:12,893 --> 00:35:14,982 How in the world can we possibly argue 725 00:35:15,069 --> 00:35:16,723 that this is academic freedom? 726 00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:18,594 It is ideological fascism. 727 00:35:18,681 --> 00:35:22,511 You must be one of us, or you're unwelcome. 728 00:35:22,598 --> 00:35:25,862 - Is it hard to be a conservative at Berkeley? 729 00:35:25,949 --> 00:35:27,777 Yeah, sometimes. 730 00:35:27,864 --> 00:35:29,083 - My name's Isabella Chow. 731 00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:30,606 I'm a third-year student at UC Berkeley 732 00:35:30,693 --> 00:35:32,521 studying business and music. 733 00:35:32,608 --> 00:35:36,656 In spring 2018, I was elected to student senate at Berkeley. 734 00:35:36,743 --> 00:35:39,311 There's a bill proposed to our student senate 735 00:35:39,398 --> 00:35:41,269 that I felt like I couldn't fully vote for 736 00:35:41,356 --> 00:35:42,836 because of my Christian beliefs 737 00:35:42,923 --> 00:35:44,054 and because I represented 738 00:35:44,142 --> 00:35:45,708 the Christian community on campus. 739 00:35:45,795 --> 00:35:49,277 And so I abstained from voting on that bill that night, 740 00:35:49,364 --> 00:35:53,020 and I gave a short statement of why I abstained, 741 00:35:53,107 --> 00:35:56,371 and the backlash was swifter and bigger 742 00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:58,330 than what I would have ever imagined. 743 00:35:58,417 --> 00:36:00,288 - Senator Chow! all: Resign now! 744 00:36:00,375 --> 00:36:02,247 - Senator Chow! all: Resign now! 745 00:36:02,334 --> 00:36:05,598 - There were hundreds of students that came in 746 00:36:05,685 --> 00:36:08,644 and protested the fact that I was still a senator 747 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,255 and demanded my resignation. 748 00:36:10,342 --> 00:36:12,822 - Tonight is not about dismissing Christianity 749 00:36:12,909 --> 00:36:14,868 as universally toxic, 750 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:17,175 but about validating the experience of those 751 00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:20,178 at the hands of bigots who have cowardly hid behind religion 752 00:36:20,265 --> 00:36:22,005 to justify their actions. 753 00:36:22,092 --> 00:36:23,964 - Sitting there was really hard. 754 00:36:24,051 --> 00:36:26,793 It was just difficult to hear the accusations 755 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,753 of people calling me a bigot, calling me a hater. 756 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,146 I hoped that there would be dialogue. 757 00:36:32,233 --> 00:36:33,887 I hoped that there would be 758 00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:35,584 mutual respect and understanding. 759 00:36:35,671 --> 00:36:38,457 - When trans people are under attack, what do we do? 760 00:36:38,544 --> 00:36:40,459 all: Stand up, fight back! 761 00:36:40,546 --> 00:36:42,112 - At this point, I've been disaffiliated 762 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,592 with every organization 763 00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:45,333 that I had a working relationship with 764 00:36:45,420 --> 00:36:46,595 and voted out of clubs that I've been in, 765 00:36:46,682 --> 00:36:48,293 like, even since freshman year, 766 00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:52,427 but I wasn't elected to not listen to my conscience, 767 00:36:52,514 --> 00:36:54,690 and I wasn't elected to not represent 768 00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:57,127 a religious voice on campus, 769 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:59,956 even if that voice is a minority here at Berkeley. 770 00:37:02,481 --> 00:37:04,526 - I've been assaulted on my campus. 771 00:37:04,613 --> 00:37:05,788 - You were assaulted? 772 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:07,399 - The night after the election, yes. 773 00:37:07,486 --> 00:37:09,618 - You were physically assaulted? - Physically assaulted. 774 00:37:09,705 --> 00:37:12,317 I was walking back from a meeting that I had, 775 00:37:12,404 --> 00:37:14,580 and the assumption was that someone followed me 776 00:37:14,667 --> 00:37:16,234 out of a building, knew where I was 777 00:37:16,321 --> 00:37:18,540 'cause I had that meeting every single week at that time, 778 00:37:18,627 --> 00:37:22,196 and someone came up to me and said, you know, 779 00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:25,547 "F you, racist B-word, you support a racist party," 780 00:37:25,634 --> 00:37:27,941 and just threw me down the hill. 781 00:37:28,028 --> 00:37:29,812 - Was anyone prosecuted for it? 782 00:37:29,899 --> 00:37:31,292 - No. - Mm-hmm. 783 00:37:31,379 --> 00:37:32,946 - This is what they've tricked everybody into thinking. 784 00:37:33,033 --> 00:37:34,948 You know, years ago it was you were a racist 785 00:37:35,035 --> 00:37:36,515 and you were a bigot. 786 00:37:36,602 --> 00:37:39,169 Then it became Nazis. 787 00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:41,868 Now it's white supremacists, or sometimes it's Nazis, 788 00:37:41,955 --> 00:37:43,957 and they'll always ramp this thing up. 789 00:37:44,044 --> 00:37:45,175 - I've been called a white supremacist. 790 00:37:45,263 --> 00:37:46,873 I've been called a Nazi. 791 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,484 You know, what's crazy about calling someone a Nazi-- 792 00:37:49,571 --> 00:37:51,704 that term is so malleable these days-- 793 00:37:51,791 --> 00:37:54,968 is you can reduce them to a, you know, inhuman form, 794 00:37:55,055 --> 00:37:57,710 and you can justify punching them or attacking them, even. 795 00:37:57,797 --> 00:37:58,798 - You're not videoing me. 796 00:37:58,885 --> 00:38:00,147 - All right, well, we're in public. 797 00:38:00,234 --> 00:38:02,062 So I'm just gonna video it for my own safety 798 00:38:02,149 --> 00:38:03,585 'cause you seem really erratic. 799 00:38:03,672 --> 00:38:06,022 - You are [bleep] encouraging violence. 800 00:38:06,109 --> 00:38:07,328 - No, I'm not. 801 00:38:07,415 --> 00:38:09,287 [objects clatter] 802 00:38:09,374 --> 00:38:11,637 - Get your [bleep] phone out of my face, mother[bleep]. 803 00:38:11,724 --> 00:38:14,379 Get your phone out of my [bleep] face. 804 00:38:14,466 --> 00:38:16,381 [bleep] you. [bleep] you. 805 00:38:18,383 --> 00:38:19,819 - Oh, [bleep]. 806 00:38:22,822 --> 00:38:27,174 - "The Dennis Prager Show" returns in five seconds. 807 00:38:27,261 --> 00:38:29,568 [dramatic music] 808 00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:31,700 - I want to ask you something 'cause you're so 809 00:38:31,787 --> 00:38:34,137 on top of the situation on campuses. 810 00:38:34,224 --> 00:38:38,881 Right now if you had to grade freedom of speech on campuses 811 00:38:38,968 --> 00:38:40,535 versus two years ago, 812 00:38:40,622 --> 00:38:42,363 would you say it's getting worse, 813 00:38:42,450 --> 00:38:44,757 it's the same, awful, or what? 814 00:38:44,844 --> 00:38:47,368 - So what's happening is that there's a student population 815 00:38:47,455 --> 00:38:49,109 that has been silenced, 816 00:38:49,196 --> 00:38:51,764 that has been ostracized for their beliefs and their views. 817 00:38:51,851 --> 00:38:54,288 Make no mistake, it's not just the free speech laws 818 00:38:54,375 --> 00:38:56,551 and the free speech zones, but it's the culture. 819 00:38:56,638 --> 00:38:58,161 This is what's so important. 820 00:38:58,248 --> 00:38:59,989 It's what is culturally allowed to be said 821 00:39:00,076 --> 00:39:01,426 and not allowed to be said. 822 00:39:01,513 --> 00:39:03,297 - I grew up during the McCarthy period 823 00:39:03,384 --> 00:39:06,082 when it was the extreme right at Brooklyn College 824 00:39:06,169 --> 00:39:09,956 which told me I had no right to express my views, 825 00:39:10,043 --> 00:39:14,613 and it was the liberals that were demanding free speech 826 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,919 and the conservatives that were trying to deny it. 827 00:39:17,006 --> 00:39:18,051 Today it's flipped. 828 00:39:18,138 --> 00:39:19,705 - My name is Chevy Swanson. 829 00:39:19,792 --> 00:39:21,968 I'm the president of the College Republicans 830 00:39:22,055 --> 00:39:23,752 here at the University of Washington. 831 00:39:23,839 --> 00:39:25,319 We wanted to invite Joey Gibson 832 00:39:25,406 --> 00:39:26,407 from Patriot Prayer 833 00:39:26,494 --> 00:39:28,061 to come do a freedom rally. 834 00:39:28,148 --> 00:39:30,542 We expected about, maybe 100 people at most 835 00:39:30,629 --> 00:39:32,631 in the middle of out central area on campus, 836 00:39:32,718 --> 00:39:35,155 Red Square--ironically named. 837 00:39:35,242 --> 00:39:37,418 Protesters started making posts on social media, 838 00:39:37,505 --> 00:39:38,767 saying they were gonna come protest, 839 00:39:38,854 --> 00:39:41,379 and the school ramped up security on us, 840 00:39:41,466 --> 00:39:44,207 telling us that because we invited a speaker 841 00:39:44,294 --> 00:39:46,601 that made the protesters mad 842 00:39:46,688 --> 00:39:48,603 that we had to pay every cent of security 843 00:39:48,690 --> 00:39:50,692 caused by the protesters. 844 00:39:50,779 --> 00:39:52,912 At first, that was $17,000, 845 00:39:52,999 --> 00:39:54,696 and that's a bill we got a week before the event- 846 00:39:54,783 --> 00:39:56,132 an impossible bill to pay. 847 00:39:56,219 --> 00:39:59,222 - We were forced to spend $10,000 in security. 848 00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:00,659 - The day after I submitted my application, 849 00:40:00,746 --> 00:40:02,835 they changed the rule 850 00:40:02,922 --> 00:40:05,359 to now where if your security costs more than $1,000, 851 00:40:05,446 --> 00:40:07,317 you must make up the difference. 852 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,233 - So they interrupt conservatives, 853 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,714 and then conservatives have to foot the bill? 854 00:40:12,801 --> 00:40:14,324 - The College Republicans are actually 855 00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,414 under investigation right now-- 856 00:40:16,501 --> 00:40:18,067 you know, causing all these riots 857 00:40:18,154 --> 00:40:20,287 because of the speakers we bring in. 858 00:40:20,374 --> 00:40:22,507 - You're causing the riots? - Yeah, so... 859 00:40:22,594 --> 00:40:23,943 - Not the rioters? 860 00:40:24,030 --> 00:40:25,988 - Ann Coulter's visit to UC Berkeley 861 00:40:26,075 --> 00:40:27,773 isn't for another month, 862 00:40:27,860 --> 00:40:29,862 but student organizers of the event 863 00:40:29,949 --> 00:40:31,690 say they are nervous. 864 00:40:31,777 --> 00:40:34,562 - Do I support what happened at the Milo Yiannopoulos event? 865 00:40:34,649 --> 00:40:36,695 Yes, I do, and what we're saying this time is 866 00:40:36,782 --> 00:40:38,087 we need to come out again, 867 00:40:38,174 --> 00:40:39,088 and we need to come out in bigger numbers. 868 00:40:39,175 --> 00:40:40,568 - Okay, let me ask you a question here. 869 00:40:40,655 --> 00:40:42,091 Let's just say that Rachel Maddow 870 00:40:42,178 --> 00:40:43,571 was scheduled to speak at Cal. 871 00:40:43,658 --> 00:40:46,052 And let's say that people on the far right 872 00:40:46,139 --> 00:40:48,271 were really angry about that. 873 00:40:48,358 --> 00:40:51,057 They did not want her to speak, and they came out, 874 00:40:51,144 --> 00:40:52,928 and they protested, and they were violent, 875 00:40:53,015 --> 00:40:55,278 and they kept Rachel Maddow from speaking. 876 00:40:55,365 --> 00:40:57,237 How would you feel then? 877 00:40:57,324 --> 00:40:58,978 - I'm trying to picture that actually happening. 878 00:41:00,501 --> 00:41:01,894 - Campus police Captain Alex Yow 879 00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:04,592 says police simply could not guarantee 880 00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:08,074 that Coulter's originally planned speech would be safe. 881 00:41:08,161 --> 00:41:10,859 - We're hiding in the airport in a baseball cap. 882 00:41:10,946 --> 00:41:13,079 [chuckles] That is exactly where we are. 883 00:41:13,166 --> 00:41:14,472 They are fascists. 884 00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:16,256 They don't want another point of view. 885 00:41:16,343 --> 00:41:17,562 I mean, I've been doing these college speeches 886 00:41:17,649 --> 00:41:18,737 for more than a decade. 887 00:41:18,824 --> 00:41:20,216 - On the Berkeley campus, 888 00:41:20,303 --> 00:41:22,088 College Republicans are fighting 889 00:41:22,175 --> 00:41:24,394 to give Coulter a platform this week. 890 00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:26,135 They filed a lawsuit Monday 891 00:41:26,222 --> 00:41:29,487 trying to force the university to ease restrictions 892 00:41:29,574 --> 00:41:32,577 they say are only placed on conservative speakers. 893 00:41:32,664 --> 00:41:34,100 - I think it's important to call that what it is, 894 00:41:34,187 --> 00:41:36,581 which is essentially just shredding the Constitution, 895 00:41:36,668 --> 00:41:37,930 or in a way that we see happen a lot 896 00:41:38,017 --> 00:41:39,497 at Young America's Foundation 897 00:41:39,584 --> 00:41:41,281 when we're working with students on their campuses, 898 00:41:41,368 --> 00:41:43,805 is this is the classic argument that leftists will use 899 00:41:43,892 --> 00:41:45,415 in order to shut down conservative speech. 900 00:41:45,503 --> 00:41:47,766 - Security is the new "Shut up," 901 00:41:47,853 --> 00:41:51,073 because by the time you factor in all the security costs, 902 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,470 you could stage "Hello Dolly Meets Godzilla on Ice" 903 00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:59,473 for the same cost as bringing Charles Murray in 904 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:02,432 to give a 20-minute speech to a few students. 905 00:42:04,043 --> 00:42:05,653 - I don't even-- I'm perplexed, even, 906 00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:07,133 that people could even say, 907 00:42:07,220 --> 00:42:08,830 "Oh, it's not an issue." 908 00:42:08,917 --> 00:42:12,138 It's, like, one of the biggest issues in America today, 909 00:42:12,225 --> 00:42:14,096 that the place that is supposed to be 910 00:42:14,183 --> 00:42:16,838 a place of ideas, the university, 911 00:42:16,925 --> 00:42:20,755 is the most closed place in the United States. 912 00:42:20,842 --> 00:42:24,890 It's very important for people to understand 913 00:42:24,977 --> 00:42:27,545 that this is not just affecting conservatives. 914 00:42:28,676 --> 00:42:30,635 Liberals are being shut down. 915 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,553 [dramatic music] 916 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,948 ♪ ♪ 917 00:42:40,035 --> 00:42:42,211 - I considered myself a leftist. 918 00:42:42,298 --> 00:42:44,736 ♪ ♪ 919 00:42:44,823 --> 00:42:49,262 I was a teaching assistant for Communication Studies 101. 920 00:42:49,349 --> 00:42:52,047 I wanted my students to comprehend 921 00:42:52,134 --> 00:42:56,574 how grammar could actually be a big issue in our society. 922 00:42:57,575 --> 00:43:00,969 To demonstrate this point, I brought in a clip 923 00:43:01,056 --> 00:43:02,884 from TV Ontario. 924 00:43:02,971 --> 00:43:06,453 So this is the province's public broadcaster. 925 00:43:06,540 --> 00:43:08,890 And in the particular clip I showed, 926 00:43:08,977 --> 00:43:12,459 it was Professor of Transgender Studies 927 00:43:12,546 --> 00:43:14,330 Nicholas Matte, 928 00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:17,812 and he was talking to Professor Jordan Peterson 929 00:43:17,899 --> 00:43:19,466 from the University of Toronto. 930 00:43:19,553 --> 00:43:21,773 - And your attempts to regulate my language use and-- 931 00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,383 - I don't care about your language use. 932 00:43:23,470 --> 00:43:27,300 I care about the safety of the people who are being harmed. 933 00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:29,694 - I know. People who make your kinds of arguments 934 00:43:29,781 --> 00:43:32,000 are always concerned with other people's safety. 935 00:43:32,087 --> 00:43:33,872 - I want to have really deep discussions 936 00:43:33,959 --> 00:43:35,569 about all sorts of issues, 937 00:43:35,656 --> 00:43:37,266 and I don't think anything should be off-limits. 938 00:43:39,051 --> 00:43:41,923 And that is today what makes you an evil person. 939 00:44:09,385 --> 00:44:12,475 When I showed the clip in my class, I did not take a stance. 940 00:44:12,562 --> 00:44:13,694 I was neutral. 941 00:44:13,781 --> 00:44:15,957 I treated Peterson's argument 942 00:44:16,044 --> 00:44:18,438 just as valid as Matte's argument, 943 00:44:18,525 --> 00:44:21,180 but that was the problem. 944 00:44:21,267 --> 00:44:23,269 It was a problem that I was neutral. 945 00:45:03,613 --> 00:45:06,399 I was just genuinely very confused, 946 00:45:06,486 --> 00:45:09,184 because to me, the university is a place 947 00:45:09,271 --> 00:45:11,056 where you can question anything. 948 00:45:58,059 --> 00:46:04,762 ♪ ♪ 949 00:46:04,849 --> 00:46:08,026 - Dr. Jordan Peterson refuses to be pigeonholed. 950 00:46:08,113 --> 00:46:10,289 His new self-help book, "12 Rules for Life," 951 00:46:10,376 --> 00:46:12,291 is already a best seller. 952 00:46:12,378 --> 00:46:13,509 Hundreds of thousands subscribe 953 00:46:13,596 --> 00:46:15,033 to his online lectures. 954 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,296 His speeches regularly attract protests. 955 00:46:17,383 --> 00:46:19,515 - I'm not arguing about your rights. 956 00:46:19,602 --> 00:46:21,735 - And his new speaking tour is selling out. 957 00:46:21,822 --> 00:46:23,563 - I think he's dangerous because of the sorts of people 958 00:46:23,650 --> 00:46:25,521 that he enables. 959 00:46:25,608 --> 00:46:27,219 - It's quite the place you've got here. 960 00:46:27,306 --> 00:46:29,221 So tell me about this one. 961 00:46:29,308 --> 00:46:31,440 - It's a really nicely built car. 962 00:46:31,527 --> 00:46:32,920 - Mm-hmm. 963 00:46:33,007 --> 00:46:35,314 Hardly looks like it's ever been driven. 964 00:46:35,401 --> 00:46:40,188 - It's been very well taken care of, unlike its owner. 965 00:46:40,275 --> 00:46:43,583 - Oh, yeah? - Yeah, I've been put away wet. 966 00:46:43,670 --> 00:46:47,587 So are they gonna pass a law in Canada outlawing pronouns? 967 00:46:47,674 --> 00:46:49,371 - Oh, it's already passed. 968 00:46:49,458 --> 00:46:51,547 If you're an advocate of free speech, 969 00:46:51,634 --> 00:46:54,420 which you are if you're an advocate of freedom, 970 00:46:54,507 --> 00:46:57,249 then you still might say, "Okay, well, there are limits. 971 00:46:57,336 --> 00:46:59,904 Some of them are illegal. I can't incite violence. 972 00:46:59,991 --> 00:47:01,862 I can't incite someone to a crime," 973 00:47:01,949 --> 00:47:03,472 you know, and that's already illegal, 974 00:47:03,559 --> 00:47:04,909 so there are limits of that sort. 975 00:47:04,996 --> 00:47:06,780 This is different. 976 00:47:06,867 --> 00:47:11,872 This is the law insisting that you say something. 977 00:47:11,959 --> 00:47:14,657 "You use my language," and my response was, 978 00:47:14,744 --> 00:47:16,572 "There isn't a hope in hell 979 00:47:16,659 --> 00:47:18,400 that I will ever use your language." 980 00:47:18,487 --> 00:47:21,403 - Once you control the language, you control the outcome. 981 00:47:21,490 --> 00:47:23,014 - Yeah, well, that's why I wouldn't say those words. 982 00:47:23,101 --> 00:47:24,450 It's because that's exactly right. 983 00:47:24,537 --> 00:47:27,105 As soon as I allow you to define the territory 984 00:47:27,192 --> 00:47:29,672 in which we're going to engage, then you get to win. 985 00:47:29,759 --> 00:47:31,631 - There's a reason that every time 986 00:47:31,718 --> 00:47:34,112 one of these professors or TAs, 987 00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:36,375 whether it's Lindsay Shepherd in Canada 988 00:47:36,462 --> 00:47:38,551 or Bret Weinstein in Washington, 989 00:47:38,638 --> 00:47:40,379 why are they all lefties 990 00:47:40,466 --> 00:47:44,078 who then say one thing that upsets the left, 991 00:47:44,165 --> 00:47:45,297 and then they're purged? 992 00:47:45,384 --> 00:47:46,907 It will come for you. 993 00:47:46,994 --> 00:47:49,214 I mean, if there is someone that's watching this right now 994 00:47:49,301 --> 00:47:51,129 that is a hard-core progressive that's going, 995 00:47:51,216 --> 00:47:52,565 "Man, I hate Prager and Rubin, 996 00:47:52,652 --> 00:47:54,610 and this is all nonsense," guess what. 997 00:47:54,697 --> 00:47:58,092 If you have any spark of individualism in you, 998 00:47:58,179 --> 00:48:01,879 if you have anything about you that's interesting or different, 999 00:48:01,966 --> 00:48:03,924 they will come to destroy that, too. 1000 00:48:04,011 --> 00:48:07,058 [dramatic music] 1001 00:48:07,145 --> 00:48:10,844 ♪ ♪ 1002 00:48:10,931 --> 00:48:12,715 - You know, most people don't get to see 1003 00:48:12,802 --> 00:48:14,935 the thing that they love, 1004 00:48:15,022 --> 00:48:18,808 a system that has the potential to do great good in the world, 1005 00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:20,245 be destroyed from within. 1006 00:48:20,332 --> 00:48:27,165 ♪ ♪ 1007 00:48:49,404 --> 00:48:51,841 [line trilling] 1008 00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:53,321 - Dean's office. - It's Stacy Brown. 1009 00:48:53,408 --> 00:48:54,670 Is Steve around? 1010 00:48:54,757 --> 00:48:55,671 - Oh, he just walked in the door. 1011 00:48:55,758 --> 00:48:56,672 Hang on. - Thanks. 1012 00:49:06,987 --> 00:49:07,945 - Yeah. 1013 00:49:10,643 --> 00:49:12,862 - Stop telling people of color they're [bleep] useless. 1014 00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:13,994 You're useless. Get the [bleep]-- 1015 00:49:14,081 --> 00:49:15,822 all: Hey, hey! Ho, ho! 1016 00:49:15,909 --> 00:49:17,737 Bret Weinstein has got to go! 1017 00:49:17,824 --> 00:49:19,652 Hey, hey! Ho, ho! 1018 00:49:19,739 --> 00:49:21,697 Bret Weinstein has got to go! 1019 00:49:21,784 --> 00:49:24,700 ♪ ♪ 1020 00:49:24,787 --> 00:49:28,008 - I think we did not see, effectively, 1021 00:49:28,095 --> 00:49:30,489 a coup in the institution coming, 1022 00:49:30,576 --> 00:49:33,057 and we didn't feel vulnerable to it 1023 00:49:33,144 --> 00:49:37,713 because we were both very popular among students 1024 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,804 and we had the equivalent of tenure. 1025 00:49:41,891 --> 00:49:45,286 - Weinstein, who identifies as politically left, 1026 00:49:45,373 --> 00:49:48,028 had announced he was boycotting a decades-old event 1027 00:49:48,115 --> 00:49:50,726 created by students of color at the school. 1028 00:49:50,813 --> 00:49:54,382 - Day of Absence was a tradition on Evergreen's campus 1029 00:49:54,469 --> 00:49:57,995 from very nearly the founding of the college. 1030 00:49:58,082 --> 00:50:02,042 Day of Absence is named after a play by Douglas Turner Ward, 1031 00:50:02,129 --> 00:50:03,870 a black playwright, 1032 00:50:03,957 --> 00:50:05,698 and the premise of the play 1033 00:50:05,785 --> 00:50:08,788 is that in a fictional Southern town 1034 00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:12,444 the black population decides not to show up one day 1035 00:50:12,531 --> 00:50:14,750 in order to make the point to the white population 1036 00:50:14,837 --> 00:50:17,275 about the important role that they are playing. 1037 00:50:17,362 --> 00:50:21,844 Last year the committee that organizes the Day of Absence 1038 00:50:21,931 --> 00:50:23,759 announced in a faculty meeting-- 1039 00:50:23,846 --> 00:50:25,718 a faculty meeting in which there was no opportunity 1040 00:50:25,805 --> 00:50:27,807 to ask any questions-- 1041 00:50:27,894 --> 00:50:31,115 they announced that white people were being asked 1042 00:50:31,202 --> 00:50:33,421 to leave the campus for the day. 1043 00:50:33,508 --> 00:50:36,381 And it was so strange to hear that announced, 1044 00:50:36,468 --> 00:50:38,513 that I assumed I had misunderstood 1045 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,385 what had been said, 1046 00:50:40,472 --> 00:50:43,301 and then the administration of the college made it clear 1047 00:50:43,388 --> 00:50:46,739 that they were strongly encouraging white people 1048 00:50:46,826 --> 00:50:49,568 not to come to school on that day 1049 00:50:49,655 --> 00:50:53,093 in an effort to "Center people of color." 1050 00:50:53,180 --> 00:50:55,400 I found this offensive. 1051 00:50:55,487 --> 00:50:57,663 This was not, as it was being portrayed, 1052 00:50:57,750 --> 00:50:59,317 a simple flip of the script 1053 00:50:59,404 --> 00:51:00,927 where instead of people of color, 1054 00:51:01,014 --> 00:51:02,276 it was white people this time. 1055 00:51:02,363 --> 00:51:05,192 This was people organizing this protest 1056 00:51:05,279 --> 00:51:07,673 telling others not to show up to a public college 1057 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,327 on a particular day 1058 00:51:09,414 --> 00:51:11,024 because of the color of their skin, 1059 00:51:11,111 --> 00:51:14,419 which is anathema to me as a liberal, 1060 00:51:14,506 --> 00:51:16,595 so I said so. 1061 00:51:16,682 --> 00:51:18,771 There was a backlash over email. 1062 00:51:18,858 --> 00:51:22,166 My email went to the staff and faculty email list. 1063 00:51:22,253 --> 00:51:24,168 There were students who worked on campus 1064 00:51:24,255 --> 00:51:25,821 who were on that list, which I was aware of, 1065 00:51:25,908 --> 00:51:27,562 and I just simply said, 1066 00:51:27,649 --> 00:51:29,782 "This is unacceptable, and you can expect me 1067 00:51:29,869 --> 00:51:32,001 to be on campus on that day." 1068 00:51:32,089 --> 00:51:35,831 Tuesday, May 23rd of 2017, 1069 00:51:35,918 --> 00:51:37,485 I went to work. 1070 00:51:37,572 --> 00:51:40,140 I biked in as I always did. 1071 00:51:40,227 --> 00:51:43,056 I began teaching my morning class, 1072 00:51:43,143 --> 00:51:48,148 and a student who I knew pretty well from a past program 1073 00:51:48,235 --> 00:51:50,455 called me over a bit concerned and said, 1074 00:51:50,542 --> 00:51:52,457 "Do you know that there are people outside the door 1075 00:51:52,544 --> 00:51:56,417 chanting for you to be fired?" 1076 00:51:56,504 --> 00:51:59,203 And I said, "No, that's pretty odd." 1077 00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:25,446 What shocked me was that 1078 00:52:25,533 --> 00:52:28,232 they were not at all interested in that discussion. 1079 00:52:28,319 --> 00:52:31,104 If somebody who was the object of a protest 1080 00:52:31,191 --> 00:52:32,975 that we were participating in 1081 00:52:33,062 --> 00:52:36,327 wanted to talk to us about the nature of that protest, 1082 00:52:36,414 --> 00:52:37,850 I would have been right there. 1083 00:52:37,937 --> 00:52:39,634 So how is it that I was being protested 1084 00:52:39,721 --> 00:52:41,636 by people who weren't interested 1085 00:52:41,723 --> 00:52:43,638 in even engaging me on the question 1086 00:52:43,725 --> 00:52:45,423 and showing me that I might be wrong? 1087 00:52:45,510 --> 00:52:49,340 It would be weeks before I would understand why that was. 1088 00:52:51,211 --> 00:52:53,126 all: These racist teachers got to go! 1089 00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:55,259 Hey, hey! Ho, ho! 1090 00:52:55,346 --> 00:52:57,217 These racist teachers got to go! 1091 00:52:57,304 --> 00:52:59,088 Hey, hey! Ho, ho! 1092 00:52:59,176 --> 00:53:01,178 These racist teachers got to go! 1093 00:53:01,265 --> 00:53:03,136 Hey, hey! Ho, ho! 1094 00:53:03,223 --> 00:53:05,486 These racist teachers got to go! 1095 00:53:10,317 --> 00:53:13,973 - Protesters then engaged the president of the college 1096 00:53:14,060 --> 00:53:17,281 and got him to agree to a meeting. 1097 00:53:21,676 --> 00:53:24,331 I decided that I should be at that meeting. 1098 00:53:24,418 --> 00:53:27,160 If they were calling for my firing, 1099 00:53:27,247 --> 00:53:29,336 I wanted to be there to answer the charges. 1100 00:53:29,423 --> 00:53:31,338 I found a seat and sat down. 1101 00:53:31,425 --> 00:53:32,992 Within a couple of minutes, 1102 00:53:33,079 --> 00:53:35,342 there was an announcement by protesters, 1103 00:53:35,429 --> 00:53:38,693 who were clearly in complete charge of this meeting, 1104 00:53:38,780 --> 00:53:42,915 saying that the food and water that was available, 1105 00:53:43,002 --> 00:53:45,613 publicly supplied, were for people of color, 1106 00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:47,267 and that white people should not avail themselves 1107 00:53:47,354 --> 00:53:49,095 of those things. 1108 00:53:49,182 --> 00:53:50,705 That was the tenor of the meeting. 1109 00:53:54,318 --> 00:53:55,623 [cheers and applause] 1110 00:53:55,710 --> 00:53:57,408 - So I was here, 1111 00:53:57,495 --> 00:54:00,846 and I get this text from Bret, two of them, actually. 1112 00:54:00,933 --> 00:54:02,674 The first one says, 1113 00:54:02,761 --> 00:54:05,633 "They say I may not be allowed to leave." 1114 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:08,897 The second one, "I'm not sure what to do." 1115 00:54:08,984 --> 00:54:11,030 And then silence. 1116 00:54:11,117 --> 00:54:12,466 I heard from one dean 1117 00:54:12,553 --> 00:54:14,512 before I knew anything about what had happened, 1118 00:54:14,599 --> 00:54:16,253 and that dean's concern 1119 00:54:16,340 --> 00:54:18,298 was that Bret not talk to the press. 1120 00:54:18,385 --> 00:54:19,952 That was the concern from the college, 1121 00:54:20,039 --> 00:54:22,433 that if any of the press came calling, 1122 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,392 he should send them to college PR. 1123 00:54:25,479 --> 00:54:28,569 - At the end of the meeting, I was allowed to leave, 1124 00:54:28,656 --> 00:54:33,705 and I left the building with a number of my students, 1125 00:54:33,792 --> 00:54:37,186 and I was flanked by a number of other people 1126 00:54:37,274 --> 00:54:40,146 who wanted to talk to me for various reasons, 1127 00:54:40,233 --> 00:54:43,062 including one young woman 1128 00:54:43,149 --> 00:54:46,457 who I think in some ways 1129 00:54:46,544 --> 00:54:50,199 had not gotten the message that talking to me was not allowed. 1130 00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:55,117 The next day the protesters made a point 1131 00:54:55,204 --> 00:54:59,818 of bringing her to a rally 1132 00:54:59,905 --> 00:55:01,646 that they had organized on campus 1133 00:55:01,733 --> 00:55:04,866 and having her read a statement 1134 00:55:04,953 --> 00:55:07,260 that they had prepared publicly, 1135 00:55:07,347 --> 00:55:10,176 and it's heart-wrenching for me. 1136 00:55:10,263 --> 00:55:13,135 She read this statement, and she butchered it. 1137 00:55:13,222 --> 00:55:14,876 Reading out loud maybe in front of a group 1138 00:55:14,963 --> 00:55:18,053 was not in her skill set. 1139 00:55:18,140 --> 00:55:23,363 - Based on false, racially charged alleged-- 1140 00:55:23,450 --> 00:55:25,191 allegations. 1141 00:55:25,278 --> 00:55:27,236 - They effectively humiliated her 1142 00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:29,804 in order to demonstrate that 1143 00:55:29,891 --> 00:55:33,155 they had recaptured her in some way. 1144 00:55:33,242 --> 00:55:37,551 - Whereas the college administration specific-- 1145 00:55:37,638 --> 00:55:39,510 [mumbling] Sorry. 1146 00:55:39,597 --> 00:55:42,121 - There are a lot of moments that are 1147 00:55:42,208 --> 00:55:44,297 particularly telling from the protest, 1148 00:55:44,384 --> 00:55:47,996 but I must say, that is among the most chilling to me. 1149 00:55:48,083 --> 00:55:51,957 ♪ ♪ 1150 00:55:52,044 --> 00:55:54,438 - It's our students that are stopping people. 1151 00:55:55,264 --> 00:55:57,832 - Oh, our students that are stopping people. 1152 00:55:57,919 --> 00:56:00,182 Why aren't we stopping them from stopping people? 1153 00:56:00,269 --> 00:56:05,449 - Because the president has told Stacy to stand down. 1154 00:56:05,536 --> 00:56:07,755 - I biked this direction, 1155 00:56:07,842 --> 00:56:11,150 which to this point is my normal commute. 1156 00:56:11,237 --> 00:56:12,978 I saw people that I recognized 1157 00:56:13,065 --> 00:56:15,459 from the protest the day before. 1158 00:56:15,546 --> 00:56:16,982 They saw me, 1159 00:56:17,069 --> 00:56:20,289 and they appeared to start 1160 00:56:20,377 --> 00:56:22,466 doing something with their phones, 1161 00:56:22,553 --> 00:56:25,643 and I kept biking, 1162 00:56:25,730 --> 00:56:28,297 and then I realized, "That just doesn't feel right," 1163 00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:31,083 and I took the next entrance into campus, 1164 00:56:31,170 --> 00:56:33,564 and I went to the police station, and I said, 1165 00:56:33,651 --> 00:56:35,348 "Here's what I think I experienced, 1166 00:56:35,435 --> 00:56:38,133 but I must be imagining it." 1167 00:56:38,220 --> 00:56:40,484 And she said, "I don't think you're imagining it. 1168 00:56:40,571 --> 00:56:44,226 "I think they're looking for you, and what's more... 1169 00:56:44,313 --> 00:56:46,054 "I can't protect you. 1170 00:56:46,141 --> 00:56:48,187 "You're not safe on campus, 1171 00:56:48,274 --> 00:56:50,755 and you're not safe anywhere in town on your bicycle." 1172 00:56:50,842 --> 00:56:57,675 ♪ ♪ 1173 00:57:00,591 --> 00:57:03,550 I think it's pretty clear what happened at Evergreen 1174 00:57:03,637 --> 00:57:06,379 is an extreme case, 1175 00:57:06,466 --> 00:57:09,338 and I've heard people dismiss it on that basis, 1176 00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:11,906 that it was just a very liberal campus 1177 00:57:11,993 --> 00:57:14,169 that went farther off the deep end than any other, 1178 00:57:14,256 --> 00:57:16,563 and I think that's really a mistake. 1179 00:57:16,650 --> 00:57:19,784 In some ways, Evergreen is a preview of what's coming. 1180 00:57:19,871 --> 00:57:21,699 The fact that this is happening 1181 00:57:21,786 --> 00:57:24,832 across so many campuses 1182 00:57:24,919 --> 00:57:28,488 means that it is going to spread 1183 00:57:28,575 --> 00:57:31,056 into every quadrant of society, 1184 00:57:31,143 --> 00:57:33,667 and things are going to get worse elsewhere. 1185 00:57:33,754 --> 00:57:37,671 So Evergreen is describing a future 1186 00:57:37,758 --> 00:57:39,891 that is rapidly approaching. 1187 00:57:39,978 --> 00:57:42,850 [explosion, siren wailing] 1188 00:57:42,937 --> 00:57:46,811 ♪ ♪ 1189 00:57:46,898 --> 00:57:51,511 - These ideas have sort of contaminated the campuses, 1190 00:57:51,598 --> 00:57:53,252 but how are they getting off the campus 1191 00:57:53,339 --> 00:57:54,645 and into the mainstream? 1192 00:57:54,732 --> 00:57:56,081 - Well, they're partly doing that 1193 00:57:56,168 --> 00:57:58,518 because the mainstream will be run 1194 00:57:58,605 --> 00:58:00,564 by the people who are on campuses, 1195 00:58:00,651 --> 00:58:03,044 but there's a more conspiratorial element 1196 00:58:03,131 --> 00:58:04,829 to it than that. 1197 00:58:04,916 --> 00:58:06,874 It's like, it's very important to remember 1198 00:58:06,961 --> 00:58:08,920 that the most politically correct disciplines 1199 00:58:09,007 --> 00:58:11,096 are producing activists. 1200 00:58:11,183 --> 00:58:13,011 That's their goal, 1201 00:58:13,098 --> 00:58:16,884 and so they have a stated goal of infiltrating organizations 1202 00:58:16,971 --> 00:58:19,234 and altering them in the politically correct direction. 1203 00:58:19,321 --> 00:58:21,149 - Once we've created an expectation, 1204 00:58:21,236 --> 00:58:23,630 that it's a nice thing to do to censor people 1205 00:58:23,717 --> 00:58:25,937 in an enlightened way, there's no reason to believe 1206 00:58:26,024 --> 00:58:27,155 that they're not gonna construct a world 1207 00:58:27,242 --> 00:58:28,548 that looks like that, 1208 00:58:28,635 --> 00:58:30,724 and that is not a good world for dissent. 1209 00:58:30,811 --> 00:58:32,726 That's not a good world for oddballs. 1210 00:58:32,813 --> 00:58:34,902 It certainly isn't a good world for comedians. 1211 00:58:34,989 --> 00:58:36,643 - Bill Belichick, the most confident coach 1212 00:58:36,730 --> 00:58:38,515 of all time, right? 1213 00:58:38,602 --> 00:58:41,518 Most coaches are like, "I want raw athletes, 1214 00:58:41,605 --> 00:58:46,174 raw talent, sheer athleticism." 1215 00:58:46,261 --> 00:58:49,090 And Belichick's like, "Yeah, that's cool. You got any Jews?" 1216 00:58:49,177 --> 00:58:52,703 [laughter] 1217 00:58:52,790 --> 00:58:56,315 Yeah, Jews, like, five, six Jews. 1218 00:58:56,402 --> 00:58:58,404 No, we got, like, 6'4" black dudes. No, no, too easy. 1219 00:58:58,491 --> 00:59:01,363 A Mexican, you got a Mexican?" 1220 00:59:01,450 --> 00:59:02,930 Give me a place with no free speech, 1221 00:59:03,017 --> 00:59:04,715 and I'll tell you, unfunny people. 1222 00:59:04,802 --> 00:59:09,371 Russian comedy is--there's a doll, and then you open it, 1223 00:59:09,458 --> 00:59:11,025 and then there's a little doll, 1224 00:59:11,112 --> 00:59:13,811 and then, wait for it, you open that little doll, 1225 00:59:13,898 --> 00:59:15,726 and there's an even smaller doll. 1226 00:59:15,813 --> 00:59:18,206 This is highbrow Russian comedy, 1227 00:59:18,293 --> 00:59:19,643 is little doll, little doll, 1228 00:59:19,730 --> 00:59:21,166 little doll, little doll, right? 1229 00:59:21,253 --> 00:59:23,385 And it's funny to them every single time it opens. 1230 00:59:23,472 --> 00:59:24,778 There's another little doll, 1231 00:59:24,865 --> 00:59:26,345 and they can't get enough, oh, my God. 1232 00:59:26,432 --> 00:59:28,216 That's no-free-speech comedy. 1233 00:59:28,303 --> 00:59:30,088 - I know what microaggressions are. 1234 00:59:30,175 --> 00:59:32,438 It's the latest liberal attack at free speech 1235 00:59:32,525 --> 00:59:35,267 and a lot of fun if you do them right. 1236 00:59:35,354 --> 00:59:36,747 - The university has a list of stuff 1237 00:59:36,834 --> 00:59:38,052 they don't allow speakers to say, 1238 00:59:38,139 --> 00:59:39,663 you know, to protect the students. 1239 00:59:39,750 --> 00:59:42,143 - From what, ideas? 1240 00:59:42,230 --> 00:59:43,841 - Allen is responding to the show's 1241 00:59:43,928 --> 00:59:45,843 unexpected cancellation. 1242 00:59:45,930 --> 00:59:47,714 Some say the show was axed 1243 00:59:47,801 --> 00:59:50,717 because of its portrayal of conservative Christian values. 1244 00:59:50,804 --> 00:59:52,023 - If it was a bomb, you could understand, 1245 00:59:52,110 --> 00:59:54,155 but the sitcom was ABC's 1246 00:59:54,242 --> 00:59:56,288 second-highest-rated comedy this season. 1247 00:59:59,508 --> 01:00:02,207 - Isn't it spooky that we're having this discussion? 1248 01:00:02,294 --> 01:00:03,208 - Yes. - Yes. 1249 01:00:03,295 --> 01:00:04,688 - But we have to have it. 1250 01:00:04,775 --> 01:00:06,341 - I understand, but it's just kind of spooky 1251 01:00:06,428 --> 01:00:09,431 that it's even a thing that you're even thinking about, 1252 01:00:09,518 --> 01:00:11,042 that we have to be modulated, 1253 01:00:11,129 --> 01:00:13,653 and I'm a little worried about it, 1254 01:00:13,740 --> 01:00:16,351 a little alarmed about things I cannot say. 1255 01:00:16,438 --> 01:00:18,702 I do it anyway because the thing I've always loved 1256 01:00:18,789 --> 01:00:21,313 about this is it's people, money, and me. 1257 01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:22,619 There's no middleman in this. 1258 01:00:22,706 --> 01:00:24,925 Essentially, I'm running the show at that moment. 1259 01:00:25,012 --> 01:00:27,362 But it is weird that I'm thinking a little bit. 1260 01:00:27,449 --> 01:00:29,713 - We as comedians, the whole point 1261 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,193 of what we're doing on stage with our words 1262 01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:34,718 is to make a point about the absurdities of life. 1263 01:00:34,805 --> 01:00:36,937 - Right. - Like, I have a joke about, 1264 01:00:37,024 --> 01:00:38,896 you know, being comfortable with my size, you know, 1265 01:00:38,983 --> 01:00:40,332 and I say, "It depends on where I'm geographically, 1266 01:00:40,419 --> 01:00:42,160 "and if I'm in New York, I'm pleasantly plump. 1267 01:00:42,247 --> 01:00:43,988 If I'm in L.A., I'm a beached whale." 1268 01:00:44,075 --> 01:00:46,947 I say if I'm in the Midwest, I'm anorexic, and it's awesome. 1269 01:00:47,034 --> 01:00:48,688 - Right. - And then I've had someone 1270 01:00:48,775 --> 01:00:50,081 come up to me after a show and be like, 1271 01:00:50,168 --> 01:00:52,431 "You know, I was bulimic in high school, and--" 1272 01:00:52,518 --> 01:00:53,867 - Right. - I'm like, "Okay, calm down. 1273 01:00:53,954 --> 01:00:56,435 "That wasn't about you, first of all. 1274 01:00:56,522 --> 01:00:59,307 It was a joke, and that's what I'm up here to do." 1275 01:00:59,394 --> 01:01:03,485 - How accountable can we be 1276 01:01:03,572 --> 01:01:07,446 when you are, in real time, trying to create humor? 1277 01:01:07,533 --> 01:01:10,579 And as I explain to people all the time... 1278 01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:14,366 the sort of foundation of humor is negative. 1279 01:01:14,453 --> 01:01:16,237 So, if you said, 1280 01:01:16,324 --> 01:01:18,675 "What do you think of your mother-in-law, Adam?" 1281 01:01:18,762 --> 01:01:21,373 And I was on stage and I went, "She's a delight. 1282 01:01:21,460 --> 01:01:24,158 Megan's a delight." [laughter] 1283 01:01:24,245 --> 01:01:25,638 We're not hearing any laugh. 1284 01:01:25,725 --> 01:01:28,075 We're hearing laughs now because we know how absurd. 1285 01:01:28,162 --> 01:01:29,773 You are free-forming it, 1286 01:01:29,860 --> 01:01:33,385 and you are responsible to the 300 people 1287 01:01:33,472 --> 01:01:35,779 who put down 30 bucks to come see you 1288 01:01:35,866 --> 01:01:37,432 and want to have a laugh. 1289 01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:39,521 - It's way easier to be against something, 1290 01:01:39,608 --> 01:01:41,219 but defining what you're for-- 1291 01:01:41,306 --> 01:01:43,090 - Defining what you're for. What do you want? 1292 01:01:43,177 --> 01:01:44,744 What's the point of this? 1293 01:01:44,831 --> 01:01:47,486 And I say that because I-- back to comedy-- 1294 01:01:47,573 --> 01:01:49,836 - To feel good. - I can't do college campuses 1295 01:01:49,923 --> 01:01:52,665 because the first couple sentences, 1296 01:01:52,752 --> 01:01:54,188 they're going, "Ooh." 1297 01:01:54,275 --> 01:01:57,496 Already I've got this image of me, that I said, 1298 01:01:57,583 --> 01:02:00,368 "Listen, I've been doing comedy for 32 years, 1299 01:02:00,455 --> 01:02:01,892 mostly about men and women." 1300 01:02:01,979 --> 01:02:03,110 That's essentially what I've been doing, 1301 01:02:03,197 --> 01:02:04,633 and I still have to explain, 1302 01:02:04,721 --> 01:02:06,200 "This is a man's perspective." 1303 01:02:06,287 --> 01:02:09,464 - I do this joke about... 1304 01:02:09,551 --> 01:02:12,511 the way people need to justify their cell phone. 1305 01:02:12,598 --> 01:02:15,209 I need to have it with me because people are so important. 1306 01:02:15,296 --> 01:02:16,820 - Right. - You know, I said, "Well, 1307 01:02:16,907 --> 01:02:18,778 they don't seem very important, the way you scroll through them 1308 01:02:18,865 --> 01:02:21,781 like a gay French king, you know, just--" 1309 01:02:21,868 --> 01:02:24,436 [laughter and applause] 1310 01:02:24,523 --> 01:02:26,655 Well... 1311 01:02:26,743 --> 01:02:28,440 - That's very offensive to the gay French kings. 1312 01:02:28,527 --> 01:02:30,007 - Well, yeah. 1313 01:02:30,094 --> 01:02:32,270 I did this line recently 1314 01:02:32,357 --> 01:02:34,272 in front of an audience, and you could-- 1315 01:02:34,359 --> 01:02:36,796 comedy's where you can kind of feel, like, an opinion, 1316 01:02:36,883 --> 01:02:38,493 and they thought, 1317 01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:40,452 "What do you mean, gay? What are you talking about, gay? 1318 01:02:40,539 --> 01:02:42,541 "What are you saying, gay? What are you doing? 1319 01:02:42,628 --> 01:02:44,761 What do you mean?" You know? 1320 01:02:44,848 --> 01:02:46,197 And I thought, "Are you kidding me? 1321 01:02:46,284 --> 01:02:47,764 I mean, we can't even--" 1322 01:02:47,851 --> 01:02:49,461 - [laughs] 1323 01:02:49,548 --> 01:02:51,942 - I can imagine a time-- and this is a serious thing. 1324 01:02:52,029 --> 01:02:53,421 I can imagine a time where people say, 1325 01:02:53,508 --> 01:02:55,902 "Well, that's offensive to suggest 1326 01:02:55,989 --> 01:03:00,211 "that a gay person moves their hands in a flourishing motion, 1327 01:03:00,298 --> 01:03:01,821 and you now need to apologi--" 1328 01:03:01,908 --> 01:03:05,564 I mean, there's a creepy PC thing out there 1329 01:03:05,651 --> 01:03:07,131 that really bothers me. 1330 01:03:07,218 --> 01:03:09,698 - Kevin Hart has stepped down 1331 01:03:09,786 --> 01:03:11,962 from hosting this year's Oscars. 1332 01:03:12,049 --> 01:03:17,663 - I swear, man, our world is becoming beyond crazy. 1333 01:03:17,750 --> 01:03:19,926 My team calls me, "Oh, my God, Kevin, 1334 01:03:20,013 --> 01:03:23,843 the world is upset about tweets you did years ago." 1335 01:03:24,409 --> 01:03:26,150 - You have the right to remain silent. 1336 01:03:26,237 --> 01:03:28,630 children: Anything you say will be used against you. 1337 01:03:28,717 --> 01:03:31,590 Your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and social media 1338 01:03:31,677 --> 01:03:33,461 will be saved to shame you. 1339 01:03:33,548 --> 01:03:35,942 You can't be funny. You cannot think differently. 1340 01:03:36,029 --> 01:03:38,162 You can't challenge us. 1341 01:03:38,249 --> 01:03:41,339 We reserve the right to be offended by everything. 1342 01:03:41,426 --> 01:03:43,297 You have the right to remain silent. 1343 01:03:43,384 --> 01:03:45,604 - It cannot help but be true that 1344 01:03:45,691 --> 01:03:47,475 if this is allowed to continue, 1345 01:03:47,562 --> 01:03:49,477 that it is going to work its way 1346 01:03:49,564 --> 01:03:53,003 into the entire apparatus of government, 1347 01:03:53,090 --> 01:03:55,309 journalism, maybe most seriously, 1348 01:03:55,396 --> 01:03:57,529 into the tech sector, 1349 01:03:57,616 --> 01:04:00,924 which has become the governance apparatus 1350 01:04:01,011 --> 01:04:02,751 for the new public square. 1351 01:04:02,839 --> 01:04:06,364 YouTube and Google, Facebook and Twitter 1352 01:04:06,451 --> 01:04:08,888 dictate whose voices can be heard, 1353 01:04:08,975 --> 01:04:11,978 and if those entities start trying 1354 01:04:12,065 --> 01:04:14,372 to engineer the conversation 1355 01:04:14,459 --> 01:04:16,940 to adhere to the rules laid out 1356 01:04:17,027 --> 01:04:21,161 with these phony Trojan horse terms, 1357 01:04:21,248 --> 01:04:23,381 disaster will be the result. 1358 01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:26,384 - Facebook is a place 1359 01:04:26,471 --> 01:04:28,473 where more than a billion people worldwide 1360 01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,215 come to share their thoughts and feelings. 1361 01:04:31,302 --> 01:04:32,999 Sometimes they post content 1362 01:04:33,086 --> 01:04:35,610 that's upsetting or insensitive, 1363 01:04:35,697 --> 01:04:38,613 and some of those things can make people feel unsafe, 1364 01:04:38,700 --> 01:04:42,095 like bullying, hate speech, or violence. 1365 01:04:42,182 --> 01:04:44,489 That's why we have global community standards 1366 01:04:44,576 --> 01:04:48,275 to decide what and who should be removed. 1367 01:04:48,362 --> 01:04:50,669 - ♪ I can't say nothing, nothing ♪ 1368 01:04:50,756 --> 01:04:52,584 ♪ Shut up, shut up, don't want to open my mouth ♪ 1369 01:04:52,671 --> 01:04:54,499 ♪ I can't say nothing, nothing ♪ 1370 01:04:54,586 --> 01:04:56,675 ♪ Shut up, shut up, don't want to open my mouth ♪ 1371 01:04:56,762 --> 01:05:00,505 - Can you define hate speech? 1372 01:05:00,592 --> 01:05:04,030 - Senator, I think that this is a really hard question, 1373 01:05:04,117 --> 01:05:05,292 and I think it's one of the reasons 1374 01:05:05,379 --> 01:05:06,641 why we struggle with it. 1375 01:05:06,728 --> 01:05:08,295 - I'm worried about the psychological categories 1376 01:05:08,382 --> 01:05:09,775 around speech. 1377 01:05:09,862 --> 01:05:12,517 You used language of safety and protection earlier. 1378 01:05:12,604 --> 01:05:14,040 We see this happening on college campuses 1379 01:05:14,127 --> 01:05:15,520 all across the country. 1380 01:05:15,607 --> 01:05:16,913 It's dangerous. 1381 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,394 40% of Americans under age 35 tell pollsters 1382 01:05:20,481 --> 01:05:22,353 they think the First Amendment is dangerous 1383 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:23,789 because you might use your freedom 1384 01:05:23,876 --> 01:05:25,878 to say something that hurts somebody else's feelings. 1385 01:05:25,965 --> 01:05:29,403 - We have a problem, in that our public dialogue 1386 01:05:29,490 --> 01:05:33,190 is passing through private servers 1387 01:05:33,277 --> 01:05:35,061 where no protections exist. 1388 01:05:35,148 --> 01:05:40,023 In other words, if you are not able to access the Internet 1389 01:05:40,110 --> 01:05:41,459 in the same way as someone else 1390 01:05:41,546 --> 01:05:43,200 because the content of what you are saying 1391 01:05:43,287 --> 01:05:45,985 has been deemed unacceptable, 1392 01:05:46,072 --> 01:05:50,337 then that shapes the conversation 1393 01:05:50,424 --> 01:05:52,513 that we are having with each other. 1394 01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:56,256 - PragerU had a billion views last year. 1395 01:05:56,343 --> 01:05:59,390 This impact has apparently disturbed 1396 01:05:59,477 --> 01:06:01,522 some of the folks at YouTube, 1397 01:06:01,609 --> 01:06:03,611 which is owned by Google. 1398 01:06:03,698 --> 01:06:08,355 Believe it or not, over 100 Prager University videos 1399 01:06:08,442 --> 01:06:10,227 are on the restricted list, 1400 01:06:10,314 --> 01:06:12,446 meaning that, in effect, 1401 01:06:12,533 --> 01:06:15,406 they are lumped with violence and pornography 1402 01:06:15,493 --> 01:06:19,149 as unwatchable by children, libraries, and schools. 1403 01:06:19,236 --> 01:06:21,325 So, for example, Churchill, 1404 01:06:21,412 --> 01:06:23,980 the man who saved the free world-- 1405 01:06:24,067 --> 01:06:25,938 Oh, my God, everybody understands 1406 01:06:26,025 --> 01:06:27,896 why that'll be on the restricted list. 1407 01:06:27,984 --> 01:06:30,943 The Iran nuclear deal. Are you kidding? 1408 01:06:31,030 --> 01:06:33,337 That's the modern "Debbie Does Dallas." 1409 01:06:33,424 --> 01:06:36,427 It shows you how convoluted their moral compass is 1410 01:06:36,514 --> 01:06:38,603 that this would disturb them. 1411 01:06:38,690 --> 01:06:40,779 - Among those that are censored include a video 1412 01:06:40,866 --> 01:06:42,302 on the Ten Commandments. 1413 01:06:42,389 --> 01:06:44,174 The restrictions are purportedly 1414 01:06:44,261 --> 01:06:46,741 for blocking things like pornography, 1415 01:06:46,828 --> 01:06:49,440 but apparently, in YouTube's world, 1416 01:06:49,527 --> 01:06:50,919 talking about the Ten Commandments 1417 01:06:51,007 --> 01:06:53,705 is comparable and should be blocked. 1418 01:06:53,792 --> 01:06:55,011 - I believe the Ten Commandments video, 1419 01:06:55,098 --> 01:06:57,404 for instance, contains references to murder 1420 01:06:57,491 --> 01:07:00,320 and, I believe, potentially, Nazism or World War II, 1421 01:07:00,407 --> 01:07:03,802 something along those lines, but they're not censored. 1422 01:07:03,889 --> 01:07:07,414 They're available to everybody who's using normal YouTube. 1423 01:07:07,501 --> 01:07:10,548 They are not available to the small subset 1424 01:07:10,635 --> 01:07:13,986 who have chosen to activate restricted mode. 1425 01:07:14,073 --> 01:07:16,989 - So I was thinking I have a solution that will, 1426 01:07:17,076 --> 01:07:18,643 I think, appeal to Google. 1427 01:07:18,730 --> 01:07:22,821 I will re-release it as the nine commandments. 1428 01:07:22,908 --> 01:07:25,954 That should solve the problem of including murder 1429 01:07:26,042 --> 01:07:27,608 in my discussion of the Ten Commandments. 1430 01:07:31,047 --> 01:07:33,484 - I always say when you see someone attacking a subject 1431 01:07:33,571 --> 01:07:36,965 by attacking a personality rather than debating the idea, 1432 01:07:37,053 --> 01:07:39,359 that's often a sign of a smear campaign. 1433 01:07:41,796 --> 01:07:43,798 - I'm very much into classical music. 1434 01:07:43,885 --> 01:07:46,453 I periodically conduct, and I've been-- 1435 01:07:46,540 --> 01:07:49,282 it's been a passion of mine since I was a teenager. 1436 01:07:55,506 --> 01:07:58,291 If I sell out the Disney Concert Hall, 1437 01:07:58,378 --> 01:08:00,598 it'll be the first time 1438 01:08:00,685 --> 01:08:02,252 that a regional orchestra 1439 01:08:02,339 --> 01:08:04,515 has ever sold out the Disney Concert Hall. 1440 01:08:04,602 --> 01:08:06,952 Every penny is going to the orchestra. 1441 01:08:07,039 --> 01:08:09,433 I am not getting a nickel for doing this. 1442 01:08:14,002 --> 01:08:17,484 There are players in the orchestra who won't come, 1443 01:08:17,571 --> 01:08:20,183 who urge their other players not to go. 1444 01:08:20,270 --> 01:08:22,141 "We're not gonna play for a conservative." 1445 01:08:22,228 --> 01:08:24,317 Welcome to "The Dennis Prager Show." 1446 01:08:24,404 --> 01:08:28,104 My guest is Professor Andrew Apter, 1447 01:08:28,191 --> 01:08:30,584 professor of history and anthropology at UCLA, 1448 01:08:30,671 --> 01:08:32,195 also a violinist and a member 1449 01:08:32,282 --> 01:08:34,719 of the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, 1450 01:08:34,806 --> 01:08:36,677 which I am conducting next Wednesday night 1451 01:08:36,764 --> 01:08:40,203 at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles. 1452 01:08:40,290 --> 01:08:43,380 He and a couple of other members of the orchestra 1453 01:08:43,467 --> 01:08:45,164 have asked people not to attend 1454 01:08:45,251 --> 01:08:48,515 and fellow members not to play for me 1455 01:08:48,602 --> 01:08:50,430 'cause I'm a hateful bigot. 1456 01:08:50,517 --> 01:08:53,955 When you write in your first open letter I have here, 1457 01:08:54,042 --> 01:08:57,045 "Please urge your friends not to attend the concert," 1458 01:08:57,133 --> 01:08:58,960 and then you're telling my audience 1459 01:08:59,047 --> 01:09:02,094 that you in no way have worked to stop the concert. 1460 01:09:02,181 --> 01:09:05,880 Protesting outside doesn't stop the concert. 1461 01:09:05,967 --> 01:09:08,666 Telling people not to go to the concert stops the concert. 1462 01:09:08,753 --> 01:09:10,189 - No, you could still play 1463 01:09:10,276 --> 01:09:11,756 with an empty hall if you want to. 1464 01:09:11,843 --> 01:09:13,801 - Okay, well, all right. 1465 01:09:13,888 --> 01:09:15,803 - And we know there's plenty of people who are gonna go, 1466 01:09:15,890 --> 01:09:17,065 so that's really not the issue. 1467 01:09:17,153 --> 01:09:18,763 - It is the issue. 1468 01:09:18,850 --> 01:09:20,634 It's really mind-blowing. 1469 01:09:20,721 --> 01:09:23,811 They're not going to attend the concert of their own orchestra 1470 01:09:23,898 --> 01:09:26,074 to raise funds for their orchestra. 1471 01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:28,381 It could be a beautiful story, 1472 01:09:28,468 --> 01:09:32,298 music transcends political and social differences, 1473 01:09:32,385 --> 01:09:35,519 but they call us haters. 1474 01:09:35,606 --> 01:09:37,912 That's the irony. That's really the irony. 1475 01:09:48,836 --> 01:09:50,229 - No, we're not. When I was growing up, 1476 01:09:50,316 --> 01:09:52,362 and I lived in a tiny little room with my sisters 1477 01:09:52,449 --> 01:09:54,451 and the exterminator would come and take care of the roaches, 1478 01:09:54,538 --> 01:09:56,931 when I was growing up, I didn't get handed a packet that said, 1479 01:09:57,018 --> 01:09:58,498 "Here's your excuse in life. You don't have to do anything. 1480 01:09:58,585 --> 01:09:59,847 It's 'cause you're a victim," okay? 1481 01:09:59,934 --> 01:10:01,414 I learned that I had to work hard. 1482 01:10:01,501 --> 01:10:03,286 I had to stay in school, and I had to study. 1483 01:10:03,373 --> 01:10:04,722 I don't need to learn about white privilege. 1484 01:10:04,809 --> 01:10:06,114 White privilege is not serving anybody. 1485 01:10:06,202 --> 01:10:07,725 This whole idea of the fact-- 1486 01:10:07,812 --> 01:10:09,640 teaching little kids that their skin color 1487 01:10:09,727 --> 01:10:10,902 makes them less fortunate 1488 01:10:10,989 --> 01:10:12,295 is not helping black kids get ahead. 1489 01:10:12,382 --> 01:10:15,907 There seems to be an ideological war happening, 1490 01:10:15,994 --> 01:10:18,518 and the left has built their brand 1491 01:10:18,605 --> 01:10:21,086 off of the idea that I am a victim. 1492 01:10:21,173 --> 01:10:23,175 - The same people who are covering everything 1493 01:10:23,262 --> 01:10:25,133 with bubble wrap 1494 01:10:25,221 --> 01:10:27,484 are also telling these people, 1495 01:10:27,571 --> 01:10:30,008 "You have a target on your back because you're female. 1496 01:10:30,095 --> 01:10:32,445 "You have a target on your back because you're black or Hispanic 1497 01:10:32,532 --> 01:10:33,707 or whatever you are," 1498 01:10:33,794 --> 01:10:36,232 and thus, making all the people 1499 01:10:36,319 --> 01:10:39,278 they're trying to protect miserable 1500 01:10:39,365 --> 01:10:41,802 because of the target they falsely placed 1501 01:10:41,889 --> 01:10:43,500 on everyone's back. 1502 01:10:43,587 --> 01:10:45,937 - If you're a victim surrounded by predators, 1503 01:10:46,024 --> 01:10:47,895 by evil predators, man, you're frozen. 1504 01:10:47,982 --> 01:10:49,201 I mean, if you think of an animal 1505 01:10:49,288 --> 01:10:50,637 in a situation like that, 1506 01:10:50,724 --> 01:10:52,204 the animal's frozen in terror. 1507 01:10:52,291 --> 01:10:54,119 One idea is that, well, 1508 01:10:54,206 --> 01:10:56,295 you protect people by protecting them. 1509 01:10:56,382 --> 01:10:59,777 The other is you embolden them by encouraging them, 1510 01:10:59,864 --> 01:11:01,344 and that's a whole different thing, 1511 01:11:01,431 --> 01:11:02,606 and it's the right thing, right? 1512 01:11:02,693 --> 01:11:04,825 Because you can't protect people. 1513 01:11:04,912 --> 01:11:07,741 Life's a fatal disease, right? That's the old joke. 1514 01:11:07,828 --> 01:11:12,616 It's a sexually transmissible disease that's 100% fatal. 1515 01:11:12,703 --> 01:11:14,705 You're not gonna protect people from that, 1516 01:11:14,792 --> 01:11:17,185 and so the best you can do is to make them strong. 1517 01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:18,883 - [on TV] Evel Knievel is not hesitating. 1518 01:11:18,970 --> 01:11:20,363 Here we go. 1519 01:11:20,450 --> 01:11:23,366 [dramatic music] 1520 01:11:23,453 --> 01:11:24,802 ♪ ♪ 1521 01:11:24,889 --> 01:11:29,763 - I rode a bike everywhere, never with a helmet. 1522 01:11:29,850 --> 01:11:33,506 The thing I found interesting about not wearing a helmet 1523 01:11:33,593 --> 01:11:35,116 and crashing all the time-- 1524 01:11:35,203 --> 01:11:36,640 Because I rode BMX bikes. 1525 01:11:36,727 --> 01:11:39,599 I was jumping and doing wheelies. 1526 01:11:39,686 --> 01:11:41,297 I never hit my head once, 1527 01:11:41,384 --> 01:11:42,863 but because I didn't have protection, 1528 01:11:42,950 --> 01:11:46,389 it was all elbows and knees and rolling, 1529 01:11:46,476 --> 01:11:49,392 and I actually learned how to fall. 1530 01:11:51,872 --> 01:11:54,788 - The goal is not to put yourself in danger, 1531 01:11:54,875 --> 01:11:59,576 but the goal is to get more of a sense both of who you are 1532 01:11:59,663 --> 01:12:01,882 and of what the world can look like. 1533 01:12:01,969 --> 01:12:04,494 - I say never deny the pain. 1534 01:12:04,581 --> 01:12:06,496 Just don't let the pain have the last word. 1535 01:12:06,583 --> 01:12:10,630 - I would rather my kids have spina bifida 1536 01:12:10,717 --> 01:12:13,154 than think of themselves as victims. 1537 01:12:13,241 --> 01:12:17,681 I can't think of anything more debilitating 1538 01:12:17,768 --> 01:12:20,466 than thinking yourself a victim. 1539 01:12:20,553 --> 01:12:24,905 - I do an hour on happiness every week on my radio show, 1540 01:12:24,992 --> 01:12:28,953 and I learned something from listeners that startled me, 1541 01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:30,998 and that is I am convinced 1542 01:12:31,085 --> 01:12:33,784 that a certain percentage of unhappy people 1543 01:12:33,871 --> 01:12:36,134 are addicted to being unhappy. 1544 01:12:36,221 --> 01:12:37,701 - Absolutely. - I never knew that. 1545 01:12:37,788 --> 01:12:39,920 I thought everyone wants to be happy. 1546 01:12:40,007 --> 01:12:42,053 - Well, think about how empowering it is 1547 01:12:42,140 --> 01:12:44,098 to say your problems 1548 01:12:44,185 --> 01:12:46,144 are not because of you, you know what I mean? 1549 01:12:46,231 --> 01:12:47,885 You can't get a date, but it has nothing to do with you. 1550 01:12:47,972 --> 01:12:49,452 The system's against you. 1551 01:12:49,539 --> 01:12:50,888 - The system is stacked against you, 1552 01:12:50,975 --> 01:12:52,455 and there isn't a bloody thing you can do about it, 1553 01:12:52,542 --> 01:12:54,457 so why bother trying? 1554 01:12:54,544 --> 01:12:57,198 Of all the things to tell anyone ever about anything, 1555 01:12:57,285 --> 01:12:58,548 that's got to be bottom of the list 1556 01:12:58,635 --> 01:13:00,201 unless you really don't like them. 1557 01:13:00,288 --> 01:13:04,423 - Here's what our job is as parents, as educators, 1558 01:13:04,510 --> 01:13:08,384 as politicians, as cops and lifeguards. 1559 01:13:08,471 --> 01:13:12,126 Our job is to convince younger people 1560 01:13:12,213 --> 01:13:14,651 they're not victims. 1561 01:13:14,738 --> 01:13:18,916 Our job is to say to a kid who is confined to a wheelchair, 1562 01:13:19,003 --> 01:13:20,308 "Don't worry. 1563 01:13:20,396 --> 01:13:22,920 You're just gonna outwork everybody else. 1564 01:13:23,007 --> 01:13:25,009 You're gonna out-hustle everybody else, 1565 01:13:25,096 --> 01:13:28,447 and you will see that this thing is not gonna hold you back 1566 01:13:28,534 --> 01:13:30,884 because you have the heart of a tiger." 1567 01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:38,152 What we're doing now is we're taking able-bodied kids 1568 01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:41,591 and convincing them they need to use the handicap ramp. 1569 01:13:47,858 --> 01:13:50,077 - I went to Clark Atlanta University, 1570 01:13:50,164 --> 01:13:52,515 which is a black college in Atlanta, 1571 01:13:52,602 --> 01:13:56,040 and I really wanted to have just open and free dialogue 1572 01:13:56,127 --> 01:13:58,303 with as many of the students as possible. 1573 01:13:58,390 --> 01:14:00,436 I got a great motto on my radio show-- 1574 01:14:00,523 --> 01:14:02,525 "I prefer clarity to agreement." 1575 01:14:02,612 --> 01:14:04,309 We may not agree, but at least it's important 1576 01:14:04,396 --> 01:14:06,180 that we be clear where we differ. 1577 01:14:06,267 --> 01:14:08,313 The general belief in American history 1578 01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,142 has been free speech includes all speech, 1579 01:14:11,229 --> 01:14:12,796 including hate speech. 1580 01:14:12,883 --> 01:14:15,407 Do you think that should be changed? 1581 01:14:15,494 --> 01:14:17,148 - That's hard. That's hard to say because you're really 1582 01:14:17,235 --> 01:14:18,541 telling a person that they can't say what they think. 1583 01:14:18,628 --> 01:14:19,977 - Right. - Right. 1584 01:14:20,064 --> 01:14:21,587 - It's hard to say, but words are powerful, 1585 01:14:21,674 --> 01:14:23,023 so people know what they're saying 1586 01:14:23,110 --> 01:14:24,068 will invoke some type of emotion. 1587 01:14:24,155 --> 01:14:25,461 some type of feeling. 1588 01:14:25,548 --> 01:14:26,766 - Right. Should they be allowed to say it? 1589 01:14:26,853 --> 01:14:28,376 That's all I'm asking. 1590 01:14:28,464 --> 01:14:29,987 I'm talking a legal question, not a moral question. 1591 01:14:30,074 --> 01:14:31,989 - I can't legally say that a person 1592 01:14:32,076 --> 01:14:34,078 shouldn't be allowed to speak their mind. 1593 01:14:34,165 --> 01:14:37,255 - According to polls, 50% of Americans your age 1594 01:14:37,342 --> 01:14:40,301 thinks that there shouldn't be free speech for hate speech. 1595 01:14:40,388 --> 01:14:42,739 You don't agree with that? - I do not agree with that. 1596 01:14:42,826 --> 01:14:45,089 I think if you take away hate speech, you're hiding it. 1597 01:14:45,176 --> 01:14:47,657 - Right. That's worse. - So it become worse. 1598 01:14:47,744 --> 01:14:49,746 - Mm-hmm. That's an interesting point. 1599 01:14:49,833 --> 01:14:54,838 Let me ask you this, 'cause it's generally said... 1600 01:14:54,925 --> 01:14:58,885 that a lot of African-Americans think 1601 01:14:58,972 --> 01:15:03,063 that this country is essentially racist. 1602 01:15:03,150 --> 01:15:05,065 Do you agree with-- do you think this country's 1603 01:15:05,152 --> 01:15:07,503 essentially racist? 1604 01:15:07,590 --> 01:15:10,157 - I wouldn't say the average white is naturally a racist. 1605 01:15:10,244 --> 01:15:12,246 I say it's been embedded with on-- 1606 01:15:12,333 --> 01:15:14,597 which this nation has been built on. 1607 01:15:14,684 --> 01:15:17,208 So, if you think of generation to generation, 1608 01:15:17,295 --> 01:15:19,427 think of your ancestors and my ancestors, 1609 01:15:19,515 --> 01:15:22,256 the different, you know, grounds which we come from, 1610 01:15:22,343 --> 01:15:23,997 you know, ever since my ancestors 1611 01:15:24,084 --> 01:15:25,999 were brought here to America, they were slaves. 1612 01:15:26,086 --> 01:15:28,349 Your ancestors were slave owners. 1613 01:15:28,436 --> 01:15:31,744 So fast-forward generations, 1614 01:15:31,831 --> 01:15:33,877 then that privilege, the white privilege 1615 01:15:33,964 --> 01:15:36,270 and that oppression that has been, 1616 01:15:36,357 --> 01:15:38,621 you know, given within my families, it's still there. 1617 01:15:38,708 --> 01:15:40,057 So I wouldn't say it's intentional racism, 1618 01:15:40,144 --> 01:15:42,015 but it's more so systematic racism, 1619 01:15:42,102 --> 01:15:44,583 a racism that has been developed through generations. 1620 01:15:44,670 --> 01:15:47,064 - Okay, just to correct the record, 1621 01:15:47,151 --> 01:15:48,935 a vast number of whites in America, 1622 01:15:49,022 --> 01:15:51,459 their ancestors were not slave owners. 1623 01:15:51,547 --> 01:15:54,158 A, they were either Northerners or they came here later. 1624 01:15:54,245 --> 01:15:59,163 I mean, you know, my ancestors in 1863 were in Poland, 1625 01:15:59,250 --> 01:16:01,905 and they were not doing very well. 1626 01:16:01,992 --> 01:16:03,950 They were Jewish, so... - Got ya, got ya. 1627 01:16:04,037 --> 01:16:05,822 - But anyway, just for the record. 1628 01:16:05,909 --> 01:16:09,390 Your interactions with non-blacks, 1629 01:16:09,477 --> 01:16:13,481 are they largely positive or negative on a day-to-day basis? 1630 01:16:13,569 --> 01:16:15,222 - The interactions you will have day-to-day, 1631 01:16:15,309 --> 01:16:17,747 they won't be racist, but, you know, 1632 01:16:17,834 --> 01:16:19,705 when there's opportunities, you know, 1633 01:16:19,792 --> 01:16:22,099 you may not be the first thought. 1634 01:16:22,186 --> 01:16:23,883 You may not be the first one to be called. 1635 01:16:23,970 --> 01:16:26,494 There's a lot of things that go into why... 1636 01:16:26,582 --> 01:16:28,584 things, you know, are the way they are. 1637 01:16:28,671 --> 01:16:31,935 - At some point down the road-- I don't know when-- 1638 01:16:32,022 --> 01:16:35,025 but at some point, we as blacks are going to realize 1639 01:16:35,112 --> 01:16:38,768 the degree to which we identify 1640 01:16:38,855 --> 01:16:43,642 our aspiration in victimization... 1641 01:16:43,729 --> 01:16:47,124 the degree to which we rely on it... 1642 01:16:47,211 --> 01:16:51,302 not just as an excuse but as a self-definition. 1643 01:16:51,389 --> 01:16:55,698 "Well, I don't know what I want to do with my life, 1644 01:16:55,785 --> 01:16:59,136 but I think there's some racism out there." 1645 01:16:59,223 --> 01:17:02,226 Well, there very likely is some racism out there. 1646 01:17:02,313 --> 01:17:04,358 So what? 1647 01:17:04,445 --> 01:17:07,884 Until black America gets to the "so what" place, 1648 01:17:07,971 --> 01:17:09,842 we're gonna fall farther and farther behind. 1649 01:17:09,929 --> 01:17:12,715 You don't sit still in life, I've discovered. 1650 01:17:12,802 --> 01:17:14,368 You go up, or you go down. 1651 01:17:14,455 --> 01:17:15,587 - But the thing is, it's another thing 1652 01:17:15,674 --> 01:17:17,328 to actually be in the shoes 1653 01:17:17,415 --> 01:17:18,721 of those who are being oppressed. 1654 01:17:18,808 --> 01:17:20,940 - I don't think anyone in America's oppressed. 1655 01:17:21,027 --> 01:17:23,856 You do, obviously, and that's a very big divide. 1656 01:17:23,943 --> 01:17:25,075 - After hundreds of years of slavery-- 1657 01:17:25,162 --> 01:17:26,337 - After hundreds of years of slavery. 1658 01:17:26,424 --> 01:17:27,730 - You don't think we've been oppressed? 1659 01:17:27,817 --> 01:17:28,687 - No, no, no, you didn't say "have been." 1660 01:17:28,774 --> 01:17:30,167 You said "are." 1661 01:17:30,254 --> 01:17:31,342 - You think blacks were once oppressed?. 1662 01:17:31,429 --> 01:17:32,865 - Oh, of course. It's a given. 1663 01:17:32,952 --> 01:17:34,998 - So how do you not think that it's generational? 1664 01:17:35,085 --> 01:17:38,001 How do you not think that we're still trying to consciously, 1665 01:17:38,088 --> 01:17:39,567 socially still recover from that? 1666 01:17:39,655 --> 01:17:41,004 - It takes a long time. 1667 01:17:41,091 --> 01:17:43,223 - After telling us that we're not humans-- 1668 01:17:43,310 --> 01:17:46,662 - Okay, so the oppression is not happening from outside. 1669 01:17:46,749 --> 01:17:48,272 It's a residue of the inside. 1670 01:17:48,359 --> 01:17:49,534 - Of course, of course, because of what's happened 1671 01:17:49,621 --> 01:17:51,275 on the outside. 1672 01:17:51,362 --> 01:17:52,624 But the thing is, it's still being placed outside. 1673 01:17:52,711 --> 01:17:54,104 - So no matter how whites act, 1674 01:17:54,191 --> 01:17:56,584 no matter how kind they might be, it's irrelevant 1675 01:17:56,672 --> 01:17:58,064 because you're still oppressed 1676 01:17:58,151 --> 01:18:01,024 because of slavery from the 19th century. 1677 01:18:01,111 --> 01:18:02,634 - You just answered your own question. 1678 01:18:02,721 --> 01:18:04,288 - You may not be physically getting beat, but mentally-- 1679 01:18:04,375 --> 01:18:05,245 - You answered your own question. 1680 01:18:05,332 --> 01:18:06,333 - All right. So, right, well-- 1681 01:18:06,420 --> 01:18:07,508 - You answered your own question. 1682 01:18:07,595 --> 01:18:09,902 - How many generations would it take 1683 01:18:09,989 --> 01:18:11,599 for that to end? 1684 01:18:11,687 --> 01:18:13,123 - That's a trick question. 1685 01:18:13,210 --> 01:18:14,864 - No, no, it's not a trick. Maybe there's no answer. 1686 01:18:14,951 --> 01:18:16,561 Maybe we don't know the answer. - Exactly. Exactly. 1687 01:18:16,648 --> 01:18:17,649 - Okay, fine. It certainly wasn't meant 1688 01:18:17,736 --> 01:18:19,390 as a trick question. 1689 01:18:19,477 --> 01:18:21,871 I can't argue with what any given individual feels inside. 1690 01:18:21,958 --> 01:18:23,611 - Naturally, 'cause you don't walk in our shoes. 1691 01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:25,918 - Right, but you're not walking in white shoes, 1692 01:18:26,005 --> 01:18:27,964 but you're ascribing to whites-- 1693 01:18:28,051 --> 01:18:31,315 - Exactly, 'cause we're the oppressed. 1694 01:18:31,402 --> 01:18:33,839 So I don't have to walk in your shoes to tell myself 1695 01:18:33,926 --> 01:18:35,362 that I've been oppressed by you. 1696 01:18:35,449 --> 01:18:37,234 - In America, you were brutalized. 1697 01:18:37,321 --> 01:18:39,976 From birth on, you were whipped, lashed. 1698 01:18:40,063 --> 01:18:42,630 Your children was taken from you and sold away. 1699 01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:48,027 Your wives were used at the will of the overseer. 1700 01:18:48,114 --> 01:18:50,334 I mean, it just was dehumanizing 1701 01:18:50,421 --> 01:18:51,988 in every conceivable way, 1702 01:18:52,075 --> 01:18:53,990 and for centuries. 1703 01:18:54,077 --> 01:18:56,949 So you got a beef. 1704 01:18:57,036 --> 01:19:00,823 How long are you gonna ride that beef? 1705 01:19:00,910 --> 01:19:03,913 How long do you think it's gonna take? 1706 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:08,874 'Cause the only person who can break that bond is you. 1707 01:19:08,961 --> 01:19:12,443 Inside yourself, say, "Well, just because white people 1708 01:19:12,530 --> 01:19:17,578 were once racist does not mean I'm gonna sell out my life... 1709 01:19:17,665 --> 01:19:20,407 I'm gonna ask less of myself 1710 01:19:20,494 --> 01:19:23,497 and claim that I'm being held back by victimization." 1711 01:19:24,934 --> 01:19:29,199 And that's what is so startling to me-- 1712 01:19:29,286 --> 01:19:33,377 the way that you see now of inventing, 1713 01:19:33,464 --> 01:19:39,339 reinventing, as I say, the oppression in your mind, 1714 01:19:39,426 --> 01:19:42,516 the same oppression that is fading out of the world. 1715 01:19:42,603 --> 01:19:47,565 As it fades, you cling and reinvent it, rebuild it, 1716 01:19:47,652 --> 01:19:52,265 and so you now become the racist overseer of yourself. 1717 01:19:53,614 --> 01:19:56,530 [dramatic music] 1718 01:19:56,617 --> 01:20:03,537 ♪ ♪ 1719 01:20:05,322 --> 01:20:07,106 - Whether it's victimization, 1720 01:20:07,193 --> 01:20:10,240 cultural appropriation, social justice, 1721 01:20:10,327 --> 01:20:12,938 or even trigger warnings and safe spaces, 1722 01:20:13,025 --> 01:20:15,680 it's all about identity politics, 1723 01:20:15,767 --> 01:20:18,683 which is the exact opposite of common sense. 1724 01:20:18,770 --> 01:20:20,250 - This country was founded on 1725 01:20:20,337 --> 01:20:22,034 we don't give a hoot where you're from. 1726 01:20:22,121 --> 01:20:23,862 I know that there were racists in the past. 1727 01:20:23,949 --> 01:20:27,039 I'm not talking about Americans as flawed individuals. 1728 01:20:27,126 --> 01:20:29,563 I'm talking about the values of the society 1729 01:20:29,650 --> 01:20:32,566 were e pluribus unum, from many, one, 1730 01:20:32,653 --> 01:20:35,743 and now the other identities are all that matter. 1731 01:20:35,831 --> 01:20:39,269 It's astonishing how dividing of people this is, 1732 01:20:39,356 --> 01:20:41,271 and that's called wonderful. 1733 01:20:41,358 --> 01:20:43,012 That's called progressive. 1734 01:20:43,099 --> 01:20:46,885 - Not belonging to a group, to me, is my privilege. 1735 01:20:46,972 --> 01:20:50,193 Not having to walk in lockstep with this group 1736 01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:52,935 or that group or conform to whatever 1737 01:20:53,022 --> 01:20:55,763 whoever the leaders of that group are espousing, 1738 01:20:55,851 --> 01:20:59,767 that is my real privilege, to just be an individual. 1739 01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:02,118 - The idea of the divine individual, that is the West. 1740 01:21:02,205 --> 01:21:04,294 If we subsume that under group identity, 1741 01:21:04,381 --> 01:21:07,340 then we will perish painfully, 1742 01:21:07,427 --> 01:21:09,125 and God only knows what'll go along with us, 1743 01:21:09,212 --> 01:21:10,735 maybe everything. 1744 01:21:10,822 --> 01:21:12,215 I mean, look what happened in the 20th century 1745 01:21:12,302 --> 01:21:14,086 when people put group identity first. 1746 01:21:14,173 --> 01:21:16,306 I mean, how much bloody evidence do you need? 1747 01:21:16,393 --> 01:21:17,655 The Communists did it for good reasons, 1748 01:21:17,742 --> 01:21:20,353 and the Nazis did it for bad reasons. 1749 01:21:20,440 --> 01:21:23,966 Tens of millions of people died horribly as a consequence. 1750 01:21:24,053 --> 01:21:28,144 - Is the individual sacrosanct, or is the group? 1751 01:21:28,231 --> 01:21:30,798 Do we have freedom to speak what we want to say? 1752 01:21:33,758 --> 01:21:38,110 - 58% of Americans hold opinions 1753 01:21:38,197 --> 01:21:41,287 that they don't feel comfortable sharing publicly. 1754 01:21:41,374 --> 01:21:42,985 - Oh. - Wow. 1755 01:21:43,072 --> 01:21:46,205 - Man, oh, man. So I don't believe that this new tyranny, 1756 01:21:46,292 --> 01:21:48,860 this new politically correct tyranny 1757 01:21:48,947 --> 01:21:50,993 is changing anybody's behavior. 1758 01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:52,342 - No. - And it sure as hell isn't 1759 01:21:52,429 --> 01:21:54,039 bringing anybody together, 1760 01:21:54,126 --> 01:21:57,390 but it's creating an atmosphere of fear and repression, 1761 01:21:57,477 --> 01:21:59,305 and you know what happens when that happens. 1762 01:21:59,392 --> 01:22:00,437 It's gonna bust. 1763 01:22:00,524 --> 01:22:03,483 ♪ ♪ 1764 01:22:03,570 --> 01:22:05,616 - The University of California at Berkeley 1765 01:22:05,703 --> 01:22:08,271 is said to be bracing-- that's the quote-- 1766 01:22:08,358 --> 01:22:10,012 bracing for conservative speaker 1767 01:22:10,099 --> 01:22:11,317 Ben Shapiro's upcoming appearance 1768 01:22:11,404 --> 01:22:12,971 at their campus. 1769 01:22:13,058 --> 01:22:16,105 - Many are comparing to hurricane preparations. 1770 01:22:16,192 --> 01:22:19,021 - The barriers are up. Officers are out in force. 1771 01:22:19,108 --> 01:22:21,719 - Taking extraordinary security measures 1772 01:22:21,806 --> 01:22:24,635 costing around $600,000. 1773 01:22:24,722 --> 01:22:30,858 ♪ ♪ 1774 01:22:30,946 --> 01:22:33,992 A large swathe of the campus will be closed off, 1775 01:22:34,079 --> 01:22:37,039 including the plaza where the Free Speech Movement began 1776 01:22:37,126 --> 01:22:38,475 in the 1960s. 1777 01:22:38,562 --> 01:22:41,217 - If Ben Shapiro is not allowed to speak, 1778 01:22:41,304 --> 01:22:45,134 the First Amendment will have lost a tremendous battle today, 1779 01:22:45,221 --> 01:22:48,964 a very important event in the history of our rights. 1780 01:22:49,051 --> 01:22:51,792 - The Constitution is absolutely clear that, 1781 01:22:51,879 --> 01:22:54,404 particularly as a public institution, 1782 01:22:54,491 --> 01:22:57,885 we cannot and will not discriminate against speakers 1783 01:22:57,973 --> 01:22:59,539 because of their perspectives 1784 01:22:59,626 --> 01:23:02,107 or because of the beliefs of those who wish to host it. 1785 01:23:02,194 --> 01:23:04,153 - There's no free speech for fascists. 1786 01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:06,329 Their words are violent, 1787 01:23:06,416 --> 01:23:09,810 and for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. 1788 01:23:09,897 --> 01:23:16,730 ♪ ♪ 1789 01:23:19,907 --> 01:23:23,607 - Administration rolls out the red carpet for fascists 1790 01:23:23,694 --> 01:23:26,175 to come and spout their white supremacy and xenophobia. 1791 01:23:26,262 --> 01:23:33,095 ♪ ♪ 1792 01:23:52,375 --> 01:23:55,639 - And to the dismay of the People's Republic of Berkeley, 1793 01:23:55,726 --> 01:23:56,944 you get to see him live. 1794 01:23:57,032 --> 01:23:59,817 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ben Shapiro! 1795 01:23:59,904 --> 01:24:02,776 [cheers and applause] 1796 01:24:11,524 --> 01:24:13,004 - He came. He gave his talk, very conservative. 1797 01:24:13,091 --> 01:24:14,701 I thought it was a great talk. 1798 01:24:14,788 --> 01:24:16,921 I didn't agree with a single thing he said, but who cares? 1799 01:24:17,008 --> 01:24:19,097 It was a great, interesting talk. 1800 01:24:19,184 --> 01:24:21,534 - The reason that I am here is because fascism 1801 01:24:21,621 --> 01:24:23,710 does not own this university 1802 01:24:23,797 --> 01:24:27,018 because there are students who do want to hear differing views, 1803 01:24:27,105 --> 01:24:30,543 who don't want to be told that they can only hear one view, 1804 01:24:30,630 --> 01:24:33,198 who don't believe that the First Amendment should die 1805 01:24:33,285 --> 01:24:35,331 under the jackboots and Birkenstocks 1806 01:24:35,418 --> 01:24:38,247 of a bunch of anarchist, communist pieces of garbage. 1807 01:24:38,334 --> 01:24:41,989 [cheers and applause] 1808 01:24:42,077 --> 01:24:44,514 - He gives his talk, and he says afterwards when he's done, 1809 01:24:44,601 --> 01:24:46,342 "Everybody who has questions, 1810 01:24:46,429 --> 01:24:48,996 line up at the microphones on either side of the auditorium." 1811 01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:50,520 - Well, we're gonna do a Q&A after this, 1812 01:24:50,607 --> 01:24:52,217 and I love taking questions, my favorite thing, 1813 01:24:52,304 --> 01:24:54,001 and I have a rule, which is if you disagree with me, 1814 01:24:54,089 --> 01:24:55,829 you raise your hand, and you go to the front of the line 1815 01:24:55,916 --> 01:24:58,919 because discussion makes the country better. 1816 01:24:59,006 --> 01:25:00,660 - Half the hands go. "Good, come to the front of the line." 1817 01:25:00,747 --> 01:25:03,620 I'm like, "Ah, my man." 1818 01:25:03,707 --> 01:25:05,143 Guy gets it. 1819 01:25:05,230 --> 01:25:07,232 That's what university's supposed to be all about. 1820 01:25:07,319 --> 01:25:09,626 - And finally, America is the greatest country 1821 01:25:09,713 --> 01:25:10,757 in human history. 1822 01:25:10,844 --> 01:25:12,585 You are not a victim. 1823 01:25:12,672 --> 01:25:13,891 If you are a victim of something, 1824 01:25:13,978 --> 01:25:15,066 you need to show me what you are a victim of, 1825 01:25:15,153 --> 01:25:16,546 and I will stand beside you, 1826 01:25:16,633 --> 01:25:18,809 but do not blame the freest, most civil society 1827 01:25:18,896 --> 01:25:20,332 in the history of Planet Earth 1828 01:25:20,419 --> 01:25:21,942 for your failures... 1829 01:25:22,029 --> 01:25:23,466 because that's on you. 1830 01:25:23,553 --> 01:25:27,513 [applause] 1831 01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,472 Now, was that so rough? 1832 01:25:29,559 --> 01:25:33,693 I mean, did we need $600,000 of security to hear all of that? 1833 01:25:33,780 --> 01:25:40,831 ♪ ♪ 1834 01:25:40,918 --> 01:25:42,659 - I think we underestimate the heroism 1835 01:25:42,746 --> 01:25:45,183 of our own cause as Americans. 1836 01:25:45,270 --> 01:25:46,880 We are trying to do something 1837 01:25:46,967 --> 01:25:49,361 that nobody told us is almost impossible. 1838 01:25:49,448 --> 01:25:51,624 ♪ ♪ 1839 01:25:51,711 --> 01:25:53,496 If you look at human history, 1840 01:25:53,583 --> 01:25:55,759 we've got every kind of human being 1841 01:25:55,846 --> 01:25:58,457 ever born in one country, 1842 01:25:58,544 --> 01:25:59,937 and we mostly get along. 1843 01:26:00,024 --> 01:26:01,156 Nobody points that out. 1844 01:26:03,027 --> 01:26:05,725 Where it gets hard... 1845 01:26:05,812 --> 01:26:07,510 takes real work. 1846 01:26:07,597 --> 01:26:09,076 - I still don't understand what's going on. 1847 01:26:09,164 --> 01:26:10,426 Hopefully you can explain it. 1848 01:26:10,513 --> 01:26:12,819 Are you testifying in front of Congress? 1849 01:26:12,906 --> 01:26:14,952 - I am. - Why are you testifying? 1850 01:26:15,039 --> 01:26:16,388 What have you done? 1851 01:26:16,475 --> 01:26:19,435 [dynamic music] 1852 01:26:19,522 --> 01:26:26,181 ♪ ♪ 1853 01:26:36,147 --> 01:26:37,801 - Thank you. It's an honor to be asked 1854 01:26:37,888 --> 01:26:40,020 to speak in front of you all. 1855 01:26:40,107 --> 01:26:41,457 First, just a quick piece of business. 1856 01:26:41,544 --> 01:26:43,154 Do we get to keep these pads? 1857 01:26:43,241 --> 01:26:44,677 [light laughter] 1858 01:26:44,764 --> 01:26:46,418 We're talking a lot about the kids, 1859 01:26:46,505 --> 01:26:48,986 and I think they're just that, kids. 1860 01:26:49,073 --> 01:26:51,641 They grew up dipped in Purell, 1861 01:26:51,728 --> 01:26:54,209 playing soccer games where they never kept score, 1862 01:26:54,296 --> 01:26:55,775 and watching "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!" 1863 01:26:55,862 --> 01:26:59,605 Studies have shown that if you take people 1864 01:26:59,692 --> 01:27:02,304 and you put them in a zero-gravity environment, 1865 01:27:02,391 --> 01:27:04,697 like astronauts, they lose muscle mass. 1866 01:27:04,784 --> 01:27:06,438 They lose bone density. 1867 01:27:06,525 --> 01:27:07,874 We're taking these kids-- 1868 01:27:07,961 --> 01:27:09,833 in the name of protection, we're putting them 1869 01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,531 in a zero-gravity environment, 1870 01:27:12,618 --> 01:27:16,361 and they're losing muscle mass and bone density. 1871 01:27:16,448 --> 01:27:18,885 They need to live in a world that has gravity. 1872 01:27:18,972 --> 01:27:20,409 - From helicopter parenting 1873 01:27:20,496 --> 01:27:22,411 through safe spaces in colleges, 1874 01:27:22,498 --> 01:27:24,021 if that's what you've been exposed to 1875 01:27:24,108 --> 01:27:26,241 and therefore you haven't experienced any physical risk, 1876 01:27:26,328 --> 01:27:28,678 any emotional risk, any intellectual risk, 1877 01:27:28,765 --> 01:27:30,288 of course you are fragile. 1878 01:27:30,375 --> 01:27:31,681 How could you be anything but? 1879 01:27:31,768 --> 01:27:34,292 - Children are the future, 1880 01:27:34,379 --> 01:27:37,208 but we are the present, 1881 01:27:37,295 --> 01:27:39,166 and we're the adults. 1882 01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:41,517 Could we just bring back order, 1883 01:27:41,604 --> 01:27:44,433 and could the faculty and administration 1884 01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:46,522 on these campuses 1885 01:27:46,609 --> 01:27:51,266 act like adults who are in charge of these kids 1886 01:27:51,353 --> 01:27:54,443 who need some gravity in their life? 1887 01:27:54,530 --> 01:27:55,835 Thank you. 1888 01:27:55,922 --> 01:27:57,010 - Thank you all for your eloquent testimony. 1889 01:27:57,097 --> 01:27:58,490 We appreciate that, and, frankly, 1890 01:27:58,577 --> 01:28:00,013 I think Congress broke some new ground today, 1891 01:28:00,100 --> 01:28:01,624 first reference ever to "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!" 1892 01:28:01,711 --> 01:28:04,235 in a congressional hearing. [laughter] 1893 01:28:04,322 --> 01:28:06,106 So there was talk earlier about a speech code. 1894 01:28:06,193 --> 01:28:07,325 Seems to me the speech code's 1895 01:28:07,412 --> 01:28:09,327 the one that's right behind me, right? 1896 01:28:09,414 --> 01:28:10,937 Isn't that the speech code in America, 1897 01:28:11,024 --> 01:28:12,809 the First Amendment itself? 1898 01:28:12,896 --> 01:28:15,377 Speech code and common sense, as Mr. Carolla's talked about. 1899 01:28:15,464 --> 01:28:17,204 - This is about individualism 1900 01:28:17,292 --> 01:28:19,685 and fighting for your own capacity 1901 01:28:19,772 --> 01:28:21,861 to think and create a society that you want to live in, 1902 01:28:21,948 --> 01:28:24,516 not one that's just thrust upon you. 1903 01:28:24,603 --> 01:28:26,649 The best thing you can do is sometimes realize 1904 01:28:26,736 --> 01:28:28,912 that you have to pick a moment to fight. 1905 01:28:31,697 --> 01:28:35,440 - According to the settlement, the $123,000 will go to pay 1906 01:28:35,527 --> 01:28:38,487 the legal fees for the U-Dub College Republicans. 1907 01:28:38,574 --> 01:28:40,358 - We have reached a settlement deal with them. 1908 01:28:40,445 --> 01:28:41,490 We've gotten everything we wanted, 1909 01:28:41,577 --> 01:28:43,448 plus our lawyer's fees paid for, 1910 01:28:43,535 --> 01:28:46,016 and the school can't charge us security fees anymore. 1911 01:28:46,103 --> 01:28:48,627 This is a massive victory for free speech on campus, 1912 01:28:48,714 --> 01:28:50,629 and I think it's going to prove to be that way 1913 01:28:50,716 --> 01:28:53,110 for not just this campus but other campuses. 1914 01:28:53,197 --> 01:28:54,503 - The University of California Berkeley 1915 01:28:54,590 --> 01:28:57,244 paid conservative groups $70,000 1916 01:28:57,332 --> 01:29:00,335 to settle a free-speech lawsuit. 1917 01:29:00,422 --> 01:29:01,945 - This is important not just for conservative students 1918 01:29:02,032 --> 01:29:03,773 but for all students, 1919 01:29:03,860 --> 01:29:05,601 and one of the things that our clients try to do 1920 01:29:05,688 --> 01:29:07,080 is bring important speakers to campus 1921 01:29:07,167 --> 01:29:09,039 that they don't usually get to hear from on campus, 1922 01:29:09,126 --> 01:29:11,258 and even liberal students benefit from that. 1923 01:29:13,522 --> 01:29:15,393 - I prefer clarity to agreement. 1924 01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:17,917 These are fellow students of yours, 1925 01:29:18,004 --> 01:29:19,963 if you're a student here at Berkeley, 1926 01:29:20,050 --> 01:29:22,922 and they are a left of center. 1927 01:29:23,009 --> 01:29:25,447 I am right of center, obviously, 1928 01:29:25,534 --> 01:29:28,711 and my hope is that we can clarify where we differ. 1929 01:29:28,798 --> 01:29:30,800 So, Dave and John, please come out. 1930 01:29:30,887 --> 01:29:33,542 [cheers and applause] 1931 01:30:24,244 --> 01:30:26,377 - This journey that we've been on-- 1932 01:30:26,464 --> 01:30:28,858 What has struck home with me 1933 01:30:28,945 --> 01:30:33,732 is the fact that there's so many people that are on our side, 1934 01:30:33,819 --> 01:30:37,344 that you should be able to share ideas with other human beings 1935 01:30:37,432 --> 01:30:40,696 without fear of being fired from your job 1936 01:30:40,783 --> 01:30:44,090 or kicked off a campus or shouted down. 1937 01:30:44,177 --> 01:30:48,965 - Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, 1938 01:30:49,052 --> 01:30:51,358 you should have an argument with them, 1939 01:30:51,446 --> 01:30:54,274 but you shouldn't silence them by saying, 1940 01:30:54,361 --> 01:30:57,800 "You can't come because, you know, 1941 01:30:57,887 --> 01:31:01,325 I'm too sensitive to hear what you have to say." 1942 01:31:01,412 --> 01:31:03,458 - I'm wondering, how do you propose 1943 01:31:03,545 --> 01:31:05,416 that we as the future of America 1944 01:31:05,503 --> 01:31:08,593 can begin to actually fight against these challenges? 1945 01:31:09,420 --> 01:31:11,988 - How do we turn the tide, Dennis? 1946 01:31:12,075 --> 01:31:13,990 - So the way out... 1947 01:31:14,077 --> 01:31:16,122 is start saying what you believe. 1948 01:31:16,209 --> 01:31:17,820 I know that sounds so simple. 1949 01:31:17,907 --> 01:31:20,126 - There are many, many people out there 1950 01:31:20,213 --> 01:31:22,433 who are similarly feeling silenced. 1951 01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:25,567 Find courage and speak. 1952 01:31:25,654 --> 01:31:28,221 - I really don't regret anything that I said 1953 01:31:28,308 --> 01:31:29,875 or anything that I did, 1954 01:31:29,962 --> 01:31:31,964 because I know that the names that I've been called 1955 01:31:32,051 --> 01:31:33,618 around campus really aren't true 1956 01:31:33,705 --> 01:31:35,141 and that they really don't define me 1957 01:31:35,228 --> 01:31:37,883 and that I can be and I should be who I am. 1958 01:31:37,970 --> 01:31:39,581 And I know that I did the right thing 1959 01:31:39,668 --> 01:31:42,366 in love and respect and in truth. 1960 01:31:42,453 --> 01:31:45,325 - If you truly are not racist, if you're not a bigot, 1961 01:31:45,412 --> 01:31:46,892 if you're not a homophobe 1962 01:31:46,979 --> 01:31:49,460 or any of these other nonsensical buzzwords, 1963 01:31:49,547 --> 01:31:52,028 if you're none of those things, 1964 01:31:52,115 --> 01:31:53,812 you'll realize the water isn't so cold 1965 01:31:53,899 --> 01:31:55,335 when you jump into the pool. 1966 01:31:55,422 --> 01:31:58,513 - All the good intentions in the world 1967 01:31:58,600 --> 01:32:01,994 amount to nothing without one thing. 1968 01:32:02,081 --> 01:32:04,736 It is the single most important thing 1969 01:32:04,823 --> 01:32:08,435 in doing good on Planet Earth-- courage. 1970 01:32:08,523 --> 01:32:13,484 You cannot do good if you are afraid of being attacked, 1971 01:32:13,571 --> 01:32:17,836 but the first thing is to decide, "I will be courageous." 1972 01:32:17,923 --> 01:32:20,970 [uplifting music] 1973 01:32:21,057 --> 01:32:26,105 ♪ ♪ 1974 01:32:26,192 --> 01:32:28,499 - Tonight's concert featuring Dennis Prager 1975 01:32:28,586 --> 01:32:29,935 kicked off a couple of hours ago, 1976 01:32:30,022 --> 01:32:31,807 but it looks like a planned boycott 1977 01:32:31,894 --> 01:32:33,896 of the event has backfired. 1978 01:32:33,983 --> 01:32:36,028 I'm told that inside the concert hall 1979 01:32:36,115 --> 01:32:38,161 there's not one empty seat. 1980 01:32:38,248 --> 01:32:40,119 It's a total sellout. 1981 01:32:41,643 --> 01:32:44,515 [cheers and applause] 1982 01:32:58,921 --> 01:33:00,400 - It's hard to deal with all that love. 1983 01:33:00,487 --> 01:33:01,619 [laughter] 1984 01:33:01,706 --> 01:33:04,535 It is, actually. I'm overwhelmed. 1985 01:33:04,622 --> 01:33:05,797 Thank you all for coming. 1986 01:33:08,974 --> 01:33:11,760 [orchestra playing classical music] 1987 01:33:11,847 --> 01:33:14,589 ♪ ♪ 1988 01:33:16,242 --> 01:33:17,809 I've seen the world; I've been abroad 1989 01:33:17,896 --> 01:33:20,682 every single year since I was 20. 1990 01:33:20,769 --> 01:33:24,599 This uniqueness of America, the "so what"... 1991 01:33:24,686 --> 01:33:26,165 So you're a Turk and you're a Jew, 1992 01:33:26,252 --> 01:33:28,733 and you're a this and you're a that, it doesn't matter. 1993 01:33:28,820 --> 01:33:30,300 Why? 1994 01:33:30,387 --> 01:33:33,956 Because we celebrate the human, not the group. 1995 01:33:34,043 --> 01:33:36,698 [uplifting music] 1996 01:33:36,785 --> 01:33:40,527 - America was built on ideas, 1997 01:33:40,615 --> 01:33:44,619 and I built a living for myself talking about ideas. 1998 01:33:45,881 --> 01:33:50,276 The only way we separate the good ideas from the bad ideas 1999 01:33:50,363 --> 01:33:53,149 is to be free to say whatever we want about them. 2000 01:33:55,194 --> 01:33:57,327 We're not all going to agree, 2001 01:33:57,414 --> 01:33:59,721 but that's what makes us individuals, 2002 01:33:59,808 --> 01:34:02,071 and we can't lose that, 2003 01:34:02,158 --> 01:34:05,161 because this car is too much fun to drive. 2004 01:34:07,511 --> 01:34:09,426 - America's not perfect. 2005 01:34:09,513 --> 01:34:11,167 Liberty's not easy. 2006 01:34:11,254 --> 01:34:13,212 It's not always comfortable, 2007 01:34:13,299 --> 01:34:15,084 but liberty is the flame 2008 01:34:15,171 --> 01:34:17,956 that lights the path of human progress, 2009 01:34:18,043 --> 01:34:20,916 and we find our way by raising our voices 2010 01:34:21,003 --> 01:34:23,222 in debate and dissent. 2011 01:34:24,746 --> 01:34:27,139 For ideas, for disagreement, 2012 01:34:27,226 --> 01:34:30,403 for being who you want to be, 2013 01:34:30,490 --> 01:34:34,277 America is the true safe space. 2014 01:34:35,626 --> 01:34:38,629 [orchestra playing] 2015 01:34:38,716 --> 01:34:45,636 ♪ ♪ 2016 01:36:39,489 --> 01:36:42,318 [Dennis Quaid and The Sharks' "Out of the Box"] 2017 01:36:42,405 --> 01:36:49,238 ♪ ♪ 2018 01:36:55,331 --> 01:36:58,551 - ♪ I don't care if I have to climb a mountain ♪ 2019 01:36:58,638 --> 01:37:00,640 ♪ Cross a desert or an ocean ♪ 2020 01:37:00,727 --> 01:37:03,556 ♪ I am open to a different point of view ♪ 2021 01:37:05,036 --> 01:37:07,169 ♪ Thinking out of the box ♪ 2022 01:37:07,256 --> 01:37:11,521 ♪ ♪ 2023 01:37:11,608 --> 01:37:14,829 ♪ It don't matter if you're suffering a broken heart ♪ 2024 01:37:14,916 --> 01:37:16,439 ♪ Don't just sit around ♪ 2025 01:37:16,526 --> 01:37:20,878 ♪ Watching your life fall apart ♪ 2026 01:37:20,965 --> 01:37:23,011 ♪ Think out of the box ♪ 2027 01:37:23,098 --> 01:37:26,318 ♪ ♪ 2028 01:37:26,405 --> 01:37:28,494 ♪ Your life is not your own ♪ 2029 01:37:28,581 --> 01:37:33,412 ♪ God owns your very bones, and we all turn to dust ♪ 2030 01:37:34,370 --> 01:37:36,372 ♪ Close your eyes and look inside ♪ 2031 01:37:36,459 --> 01:37:42,073 ♪ Wake up to the wonderful feeling of being alive ♪ 2032 01:37:43,292 --> 01:37:47,949 ♪ And with love in our hearts, joy in our souls ♪ 2033 01:37:48,036 --> 01:37:49,515 ♪ Life's way too short ♪ 2034 01:37:49,602 --> 01:37:51,517 ♪ So let's rock and roll ♪ 2035 01:37:51,604 --> 01:37:53,780 ♪ To the farthest star ♪ 2036 01:37:53,868 --> 01:37:58,220 ♪ Down the deepest, darkest hole ♪ 2037 01:37:58,307 --> 01:38:05,183 ♪ ♪ 2038 01:38:14,584 --> 01:38:18,109 - I feel the same way about this as I feel about... 2039 01:38:18,196 --> 01:38:21,808 terrorism, which is... 2040 01:38:21,896 --> 01:38:24,028 Huh, something just-- 2041 01:38:24,115 --> 01:38:26,335 Oh, there's a bee up there, 2042 01:38:26,422 --> 01:38:29,555 just pooped on me, or whatever that thing-- 2043 01:38:29,642 --> 01:38:32,123 - You have bee poop on you? - I swear to God, I just did. 2044 01:38:32,210 --> 01:38:34,604 - I've never been pooped on by a bee. 2045 01:38:34,691 --> 01:38:37,520 - Yeah, well, maybe it pollinated me. 2046 01:38:37,607 --> 01:38:39,130 - Oh, my goodness. 2047 01:38:42,307 --> 01:38:43,395 - You're good. - You got the bee? 2048 01:38:43,482 --> 01:38:47,051 - That was great. - That's nice. 2049 01:38:47,138 --> 01:38:49,488 - But you realize you cannot say, 2050 01:38:49,575 --> 01:38:53,014 "No animal was killed in the making of this film." 2051 01:38:53,101 --> 01:38:56,539 [upbeat music] 2052 01:38:56,626 --> 01:38:59,281 - ♪ I'll tell you what ♪ 2053 01:38:59,368 --> 01:39:02,937 ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2054 01:39:03,024 --> 01:39:06,592 ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2055 01:39:06,679 --> 01:39:11,641 ♪ I will tell you what, I will tell you what ♪ 2056 01:39:11,728 --> 01:39:13,948 ♪ I'll tell you what ♪ - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2057 01:39:14,035 --> 01:39:16,080 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2058 01:39:16,167 --> 01:39:17,777 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2059 01:39:17,864 --> 01:39:19,779 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2060 01:39:19,866 --> 01:39:21,651 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2061 01:39:21,738 --> 01:39:25,960 - ♪ I will tell you what, I will tell you what ♪ 2062 01:39:26,047 --> 01:39:28,005 ♪ I'll tell you what ♪ - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2063 01:39:28,092 --> 01:39:29,746 - ♪ Tell you what ♪ 2064 01:39:29,833 --> 01:39:31,269 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2065 01:39:31,356 --> 01:39:32,792 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ - ♪ I'll tell you what ♪ 2066 01:39:32,879 --> 01:39:34,620 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2067 01:39:34,707 --> 01:39:36,579 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2068 01:39:36,666 --> 01:39:40,626 - ♪ I will tell you what, I will tell you what ♪ 2069 01:39:40,713 --> 01:39:42,977 ♪ I'll tell you what ♪ - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2070 01:39:43,064 --> 01:39:45,109 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2071 01:39:45,196 --> 01:39:46,937 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2072 01:39:47,024 --> 01:39:48,808 - ♪ I will tell you what, I'll tell you what ♪ 2073 01:39:48,895 --> 01:39:50,462 - ♪ Tell us what ♪ 2074 01:39:50,549 --> 01:39:54,162 - ♪ I will tell you what, I will tell you ♪ 2075 01:39:54,249 --> 01:39:58,949 ♪ I will tell you, I will tell you what ♪ 2076 01:40:00,211 --> 01:40:01,386 all: ♪ Say what? ♪ 2077 01:40:01,473 --> 01:40:03,301 [glass clatters]