38:24 "freedom meant nothing if you couldn't put bread in your children's mouths at night" I get what's being intended here, but the phrasing made me suddenly picture somebody sneaking into their child's bedroom at 2am to cram a baguette into their mouth
I love that BRETT HAWTHORN is described as being great at talking his way out of trouble. Then he never talks his way out of a single situation the whole book. It’s always violence that gets him out.
Stating you have qualities you don't because you have a conceptual understanding that they're "good" qualities you're supposed to have is a right wing hallmark.
@@tinfoilslacks3750Waa about to comment almost the exact same thing. Like claiming your politics are all about facts and logic, then accusing every scientific and educational institution of brainwashing and being biased towards the Left.
For those who would like to go through the Ben Shapiro book episodes in chronological order, this is the first episode. The episodes were released in the following order: What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel (Apr 2020) We Continued Reading Ben Shapiro's Terrible Racist Novel (May 2020) Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book: The Saga Continues (Jul 2020) Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book Is Still the Best Thing About 2020 (Sep 2020) A Very Special Election Reading of Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book (Nov 2020) Let's Take a Break with Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book (Jan 2021) Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, The Journey Refuses to End (Feb 2021) Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode (Jun 2021)
@@MajorHickE It _should_ be, but it's not. At the exact time that I'm posting, the only playlist that isn't just... everything, is the one for "the Dilbert Guy," Scott Raymond Adams, totaling 3 videos.
@@TheDarthbinky No,. it turns out people just grow gradually lmao. You can tell by the "Hawthorne family growth spurt" anecdote that Ben really held onto hope well into his late teens, however.
So Ben is unaware that while the President suggests a budget, it’s actually Congress that creates and passes the budget? I keep discovering that a common attribute of “conservatives“ is that they don’t know how the world actually works. 36:57
@@monsignorerasmus.6441 As far as I can tell, libertarians are mostly people too embarrassed to admit they are Republicans. Otherwise, they would care about LGBTQIA+ people's rights and oppose all the recent book bannings, drag show bannings, groomer rhetoric, gag laws preventing schools from teaching "controversial" topics, don't say gay policies, etc. But not a single peep from a so-called "libertarian." At best, Libertarians used to be Republicans that thought weed should be legal. Now they aren't even that. They are just pizza cutters. All edge, no point.
@@markevans8206 well said, they have a laissez-faire attitude to the lgbtqt community in so far as they dont have the capacity to speak on the issue. But in truth they never would be supporters As far as solutions i think the mostly lean towards a final one if you get my drift. They are basically incompetent Nazi's with a taste for weed and fondness for slavery and oppression.
@@markevans8206100% every Republican I knew switched to libertarian after Obama got elected, because they were embarrassed by how unpopular Bush became
I love how he introduces wildly offensive stereotypical depictions of marginalized groups and immediately juxtaposes them against a character from a similar background who is "one of the good ones"
But that means he's not racist, don't you see? It's only when other races don't adhere to white-centric cultural standards that he has a problem with them, which means it's totally not about race!
8:05 Such a 'never worked a day in your life' sentence right here. If you're at the point you can feel the sweat run down your back, it's not cold and you don't perceive it as cold
Cold sweat is from terror. Only time I ever felt that was when some guy tried to get me into his van, asked me if I wanted to get a ride and tried cutting me off and circling the block I was walking down. Freaky shit.
I want to write the equivalent of this from a leftist perspective, the hero is a queer doctor who gets evicted from his apartment on page 1 by his southern landlord who is also a cop
In addition to my comment about how stupid naming a player "Yard" is, I want to point out that Ben clearly thinks that he would have been a great football player if only he was taller. Because clearly the only thing needed to make 'The coaches' like you is bigness. 'The Coaches' didn't like Hawthorn when he was short, but they really liked him once he became big. And what position did Brett's bigness help him play? No idea. Because it's all the same, you see, as far as Ben is concerned, football requires no intelligence or strategy, and therefore all you need to know is how big someone is.
That's the kind of thing I believed as a bitter nerd in highschool, until I actually interacted with one of the guys from the football team who was in my classes, and realized he wasn't at all some "dumb jock". And again when I tried to follow a football match and realized I couldn't keep up with the tactics in the slightest
Thank you, Ben Shapiro. You've given me the courage to continue my book. If people are willing to buy your badly worded, predictably racist, asinine drivel, there may be hope for me yet.
That severe growth spurt over a small period of time happened to me too and it was a problem, I had to go see doctors, I was in pain constantly and my balance sucked. If Ben spent even one second researching growth spurts, he'd realize that not all of them turn ppl into linebackers and/or Micheal Jordan and/or imperialist generals for the US military lolz. Ben has no idea what it's like to be tall, so the world of tallness might as well be a bugs bunny cartoon to him.
I had something similar. All that happened to me is that at the exact same time everyday I would just pass out cause my body was trying to speed run becoming an awkward teen
Yeah, turns out that unless you're working out a lot (or otherwise staying active), a growth spurt just makes you tall. Didn't do much for my skinny nerd muscles.
I dunno what your sex is, but as a female I found myself getting rapidly taller and more busty with my body fat deposits moving around and my hormones raging. Plus, wretched periods that put me down for 5 days at a time. It sucked and I felt repulsive.
@@Daedalus117Also, it's actually harder for taller people to get "buff" aesthetically, because it requires more actual muscle mass to achieve the same look.
"Sponsored his citizenship" - that's not a real thing, Ben. I work in this field... there's absolutely no "sponsoring" involved in obtaining US citizenship. What he describes literally does not exist. There is a sort of sponsoring process involved in obtaining a "green card" (technically a "permanent resident card", which allows for "legal" immigration), but that's not citizenship and Ben makes a point of telling us that Emilio is an "illegal" and thus does not have one of those either. And the thing that gets me is that this is *very* basic legal stuff. I'm not an attorney and I understand it. Ben is a Harvard-trained attorney (or, was... before he realized he could make a lot more money as a right-wing grifter and let his bar license lapse). He should be able to easily comprehend this stuff. This is what it looks like when a person is blinded by their own extremist ideology.
I’ve never been accused of anything racist in my life, and I never had a black person claim that I had just used a racial slur. This plays to the conservative fear that someone will call them racist just because they are.
35:57 "Those bodies had been mutilated _obscenely."_ I do love the suggestion that there's a way to mutilate a corpse that wouldn't be considered obscene. Not mutilated _like one normally would,_ but mutilated _obscenely._ (Because genitalia, I guess?)
The "hand emerging" line isn't from the chest-burster. It's the alien from the opening scene of Men in Black. Yard is an alien. That snuck across the border from Mexico.
Why is it all written like “Big tallerson took out his Beretta M92 (known in military service as the M9) the hammer was down as he had pressed the decocker lever before he put it in his safariland holster there was a round of 9mm parabellum in the chamber” You can just write “The hunk took out his handgun”
I love that you opened a channel and now I can tell people who need subtitles, even English ones just for understanding better, to go watch my first favourite podcast! Robert, you are hilarious and I really love listening to you. Next obvious step- Filmed podcasts! I think I'm gonna get a lot of support on this idea😊
As a Chicagoan the second I heard "Chicago" I cringed in advance. I am white and I went to a majority Black school on the South Side of Chicago and I will tell you, if you try to talk to Black kids they will react like normal people. You can even actually be friends with Black people. Also they do have names.
not to go to bat too hard for shapeebo here, but the mag used in the M9 has witness holes, so you can see how many rounds you have left at a glance. ejecting the mag also lets you check its weight more easily (for the same purpose, but when you have fully opaque magazines).
Okay, so I'm not an expert on body types but my boyfriend is 6'2" and currently around 215lbs. He's definitely tall and broad-shouldered, but like...I definitely wouldn't describe him as "a bear of a man." He's got decent muscle definition, but being only 215lbs he has what people have called a stealth bod, I think? Like with his shirt off he's clearly in good shape, but depending on the clothes he wears you can't tell if he's a bit skinny, muscular, or even a little chubby. When I think of "a bear of a man" I imagine someone *HUGE!* Not just tall but broad and muscly as hell. Likely hairy, too. Big meaty fists and difficulty finding clothes that fit, you know? That dude who plays Jack Reacher on the Amazon show, for example, has gotta be like 230 at least, no? So I can't tell whether Benny used the term "bear of a man" just because he knows conservatives like that kind of description and he's lazy, or if being himself a foot shorter and like 160lbs with the little muscly arms he's so proud of means he has no idea how much weight/muscle it would take to make a bear-like dude who's 6'3". Either way, hilarious!
A further point about Mr. Yard. NOBODY knows his real name? I mean, I know that Ben doesn't see black people as human, but like, he shouldn't outright say it like that. I think Yard almost certainly knows his name. As does Yard's mother, and father, any family or friends... Honestly maybe the dude ~~Ben went to scho~~ WHO IS TOTALLY FICTIONAL just happens to have, like, the last name 'Yard' or something and Be-Er, BRETT-Just never bothered trying to find out.
"sophie, there is nothing woker than letting a woman take the blame for a man's _very_ clear and obvious mistake" edit: after listening, all I have to say is that was ~exceptionally~ homoerotic. Even the parts without any men at all. Don't really know how that's possible, but ol' Benji found a way
So I don't know how sportsy most of the people on the cast are but... ...What the fuck sort of nickname for a football player is "Yard"? That's like having a basketball player named "Hardwood" or "Scoretable." Like, there is either a very interesting story, or, more likely... Ben has no fucking clue what Football is.
27:45, there’s really no way to learn a language that’s not your mother tongue without learning the target language’s culture. Language and Culture are intrinsically linked.
I've been dealing with writer's block/insecurity about my writing lately, and decided that the smartest way to help me break through all of that would be to come back and binge all of this absolute brain rot again. While I may come out of this with significantly lowered brain function, at least the insecurity will be gone.
I love how we spend multiple pages establishing how he learned the secret Black People art of talking his way out of things, but he *never does that* in the book. Like he gets out if problems by stabbing teenagers and running away from secret service agents.
...the fact that the Vikings did rap battles (or, well, they did flyting, which was very similar to battle rap) makes me look at people who see rap battles as a "black thing" as uneducated. Like... no. Verbal witticism has been a thing that *lots* of cultures through the years have appreciated, and being able to come up with clever insults on the fly then make them *rhyme* is pretty much peak verbal witticism.
Pashtu is not that complicated. Knowing a language, but not the culture ... quite the accomplishment. re: DLI classifies Farsi (parent language of the Pashtu dialect) as Cat 3 out of 4, the most difficult languages are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. As an Arabic speaker, I would dispute Arabic being more difficult than Farsi ... which also weakens my point/citation.
"True Allegiance" sounds like Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen wrote "Mein Kampf" and translated it into too many languages on Google Translate before translating it back into English.
While I find Ben Shapiro to be a whiny and insufferable little man; I would be interested to see a film adaptation of "True Allegiance" but set it in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, with a few of the cast members being personalities of The Daily Wire. This way we can get a peek at Ben's views on Northern Ireland.
Sometimes i gave brain farts and forget the title "some more news" and when that happened I'll end up searching for Cody's showdy. I've had to do this literally dozens of times bc of my terrible aphasia.
I always love how Ben describes his hero, Brett Hawthron as a 'big bear of a man, standing 6'3, 215 lbs," which is just a kind of small college quarterback. Which, I get looks like a bear to Ben, but... is not.
Brett Hawthorne was 6'7 a Moose of a man A head cut from Hot Steele with a 7000 thread count Yamaka that never moves a millimeter even in the hell of open warfare 😂😂😂😂
16:15: After they mentioned that song suddenly I had the second verse of CSNY's Chicago stuck in my head. "Politicians sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you here, Won't you please come to Chicago for a ride, Don't as jack to help you cause he'll turn the other ear, Won't you please come to Chicago or else join the other side."
Ben doesn't give "Yard" a real name as a tribute to the inspiration for this book, The Turner Diaries. Pierce didn't give the black characters names in that book as a means of dehumanizing them, and since Ben doesn't see African-Americans as humans either, he goes out of his way to not give this star football player a name. Because Ben Shapiro hates black people.
In the interest of only criticizing him for things he's actually doing, I didn't know the names of half the football team because they had these sort of nicknames. There's a guy who graduated, moved towns, moved back, but if you yell out "hey pancake" he'll turn around
just the premise of brett hawthorn being a BRIGADIRE GENERAL and being left behind in *name desert middle east country here* is fucking wild and would never happen irl. like basic googling shows that first it takes min 5 years of going through officer training at one of two specific places which everything about brett sceams no he is not a officer and he never went to those places because they would absolutely throw him out. i am 8 mins in and the detail of he is a general(yes a low ranking one but still) is baffling that he got left behind, makes the entire premise of this book go up in flames
When I was 11-ish years old, we had a writing thing at school where everyone got to write a short story about the future and have it featured in a "book" - which was just pages clamped together but still, it was fun - and I remember the story that the boy I had a crush on wrote. It was about him and his friends in class breaking out of a prison and getting their hands on all sorts of weapons, blasting off aliens and whatnot... I thought it was a weird story but I was a weird kid tbf. Ben's writing reminds me quite a lot of that story.
Having heard more of this book via this podcast it took me a moment to realise that "When the towers hit the building" at 7:40 was not in the book but was just a flub
I feel like it's crazy that, even though this was written before his term, this president character is basically just "Donald Trump (Democratic Party)"
I've been a nerd my entire life and possible on the spectrum, and obviously bullying is a horrible thing to do, but with some of these nerds ... whatever.
The blurb thing is normal. Every publicist does it. I know about a ballet company that absolutely bombed in one city, and managed to pick-quote for newspaper adverts in the next so that they wound up with sold out-crowds.
Cody is right there. And better a fictional novel where he canget that out. It would be probably not good,or maketoomuch sense, but be entertaining. And igive jordan te creativity to really be entrtaining and wild and do dramatic situations, even if it maks little sense,He has talent as storyteller, i just wish he stayed with fictio tht might have his politicsrather than seling it as truth. And mybe make somethig akin to the room.
"215 pounds in his underwear" is a really weird way to phrase that, Ben. You'd normally just say "215 pounds" and leave it at that, Ben, and people wouldn't think you meant "fully clothed, with combat boots on. Big, tough combat boots and like... shredded fatigues, showing just hints of glistening musculature... caked in sweat and dripping with bronzer..." So that you chose to specify, Ben, means you were explicitly picturing the "bear of a man" mostly naked, Ben. That said i doubt Ben wrote much of this. It was probably a series of ghostwriters working off an outline provided by an editor who themself had very little input from Ben, and *maybe* one or both of them made some revisions (but more likely just sent it out again for punch up and coherence to another freelancer). And as a queer person who has ghostwritten some chapters of truly bad racist machismo books, i can say that there are multiple ghostwriters who will gleefully make things as gay as possible when taking such work.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell by the very nature of the work, if you got told "write from the perspective of a guy, who is describing a guy, and make him sound as manly and attractive as possible" there's no way it won't sound a little gay
I think it is funny that Shabibo is so lacking in self-awareness that Prescot's speech handily refutes Shabibo's entire world view in a couple of paragraphs. He's literally in control of what the guy says and even then he can't win a debate.
There are other progressive previwer tearing it apart out there :P ithink ames tullos is a good one, he hs other weird books too, steven seagals is,very em.
8:30 nothing screams 5’3 and 115 pounds more than saying 6’3 215 is a hulking perfect physique for a man lol that would put him at the high end of average for BMI
Something odd about GENERAL BRETT HAWTHORNE's proportions -- as someone who knows bears of men, men of bears, men of men, and bears of bears -- the proportions do not strike me as particularly ursine.
With the "looks at the magazine" thing, I can see a world where your slide locks, and you check your mag to verify that you are, indeed, out of ammunition while praying you have a few rounds left and something else has happened like a malfunction. It's one of those "I know the reality but I need to confirm it" situations. To be clear, I do not think Ben is intelligent enough to do this intentionally, however I don't think it makes no gun sense. Well it does make no gun sense but I can see a person doing it despite that.
I found this to be really cute actually. I look forward to listening to more. Just for the record: Ben did indeed lambast Trump for abandoning the Kurds in Syria.
Theory on the whole bear thing. It's Ben's kink. He deeply wants to be a bear cub and wants a large military vet to be his big strong grizzly. He's never actually been with a woman l, he just has to have a cishet marriage for his career
So, I’m just going to throw this out there. Humiliating someone for being late in the hope that they will “learn their lesson,” doesn’t actually work. The fact that he notes he has relied on the calendar invites makes me suspect he may have ADHD and is leaning on external structures to help compensate for what his brain refuses to do. Now, I could be way off here, but I’ve had to externalize a number of things to help me better fit in with this world. My ADHD, for example makes memorization all but impossible for me. So, I’ve had to find tools that can support me in my work. If someone is habitually late, there’s a good chance they aren’t choosing it. And at the very least, aren’t choosing it because of lack of respect for their colleagues. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met those types. But they usually show their disregard for colleagues in much more direct ways as well. So, if someone has issues like this, but otherwise seems like a nice person, they may have some ADHD like symptoms making it much harder for them to stay on schedule. Just something to consider.
38:24 "freedom meant nothing if you couldn't put bread in your children's mouths at night" I get what's being intended here, but the phrasing made me suddenly picture somebody sneaking into their child's bedroom at 2am to cram a baguette into their mouth
Like the tooth fairy but in reverse, with bread.
"Eat it you little shit," BRETT HAWTHORN squeaked manfully. "That's freedom bread."
That really sounds like a euphemism....
a baguette is either an appropriately pervy choice, or an inappropriately European choice.
@@thefez-cat "But dad, I'm sleeping," replied the child.
""Let's say," snapped Brett, "hypothetically, that you were sleeping -"
I love that BRETT HAWTHORN is described as being great at talking his way out of trouble. Then he never talks his way out of a single situation the whole book. It’s always violence that gets him out.
Some people only speak the language of UNFATHOMABLE VIOLENCE
I talk with my fists
Probably the kind of person who writes words on his bullet casings and thinks, "Yah, that's good stuff!"
Stating you have qualities you don't because you have a conceptual understanding that they're "good" qualities you're supposed to have is a right wing hallmark.
@@tinfoilslacks3750Waa about to comment almost the exact same thing.
Like claiming your politics are all about facts and logic, then accusing every scientific and educational institution of brainwashing and being biased towards the Left.
For those who would like to go through the Ben Shapiro book episodes in chronological order, this is the first episode. The episodes were released in the following order:
What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel (Apr 2020)
We Continued Reading Ben Shapiro's Terrible Racist Novel (May 2020)
Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book: The Saga Continues (Jul 2020)
Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book Is Still the Best Thing About 2020 (Sep 2020)
A Very Special Election Reading of Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book (Nov 2020)
Let's Take a Break with Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book (Jan 2021)
Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, The Journey Refuses to End (Feb 2021)
Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode (Jun 2021)
Thank you. You're doing good work.
Thank you! I love this channel but sometimes they make it to damn hard to watch their videos in order.
It should be possible to find this gem as a playlist right now
@@MajorHickE It _should_ be, but it's not. At the exact time that I'm posting, the only playlist that isn't just... everything, is the one for "the Dilbert Guy," Scott Raymond Adams, totaling 3 videos.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa he means you can find a Playlist of you search for this. it's someone else's Playlist not BTB
As a taller gym rat and avowed leftist, the fact that I have the exact dimensions of Ben Shapiro's ideal self is unspeakably delicious.
Tell me, oh please describe it to me! I wanna know!! ^^
But did you have a growth spurt like a horse so that you're big like a bear?
@@TheDarthbinky No,. it turns out people just grow gradually lmao. You can tell by the "Hawthorne family growth spurt" anecdote that Ben really held onto hope well into his late teens, however.
@@harmoniousrex well now i'm disappointed that Ben Shapiro could possibly be less than accurate.
So you look like that uber chad muscle guy meme?
Cool! XD
So Ben is unaware that while the President suggests a budget, it’s actually Congress that creates and passes the budget? I keep discovering that a common attribute of “conservatives“ is that they don’t know how the world actually works. 36:57
This is common with libertarians as well
@@monsignorerasmus.6441 As far as I can tell, libertarians are mostly people too embarrassed to admit they are Republicans. Otherwise, they would care about LGBTQIA+ people's rights and oppose all the recent book bannings, drag show bannings, groomer rhetoric, gag laws preventing schools from teaching "controversial" topics, don't say gay policies, etc. But not a single peep from a so-called "libertarian."
At best, Libertarians used to be Republicans that thought weed should be legal. Now they aren't even that. They are just pizza cutters. All edge, no point.
@@markevans8206 well said, they have a laissez-faire attitude to the lgbtqt community in so far as they dont have the capacity to speak on the issue. But in truth they never would be supporters
As far as solutions i think the mostly lean towards a final one if you get my drift.
They are basically incompetent Nazi's with a taste for weed and fondness for slavery and oppression.
@@markevans8206100% every Republican I knew switched to libertarian after Obama got elected, because they were embarrassed by how unpopular Bush became
@@markevans8206Libertarians were most popular during the Ron Paul revolution.
I love how he introduces wildly offensive stereotypical depictions of marginalized groups and immediately juxtaposes them against a character from a similar background who is "one of the good ones"
Yeah if he was smart enough he would have at least written a fantasy children's book to get away with doing that.
It's disturbing since he's made comments about "Good Jews and Bad Jews" before, implying he's one of the good ones because of his right wing politics.
It's clear the man has trapped himself in an echo chamber
@@damien5158 😂😂😂that's actually very accurate, they do that alot in cartoons too
But that means he's not racist, don't you see? It's only when other races don't adhere to white-centric cultural standards that he has a problem with them, which means it's totally not about race!
8:05 Such a 'never worked a day in your life' sentence right here. If you're at the point you can feel the sweat run down your back, it's not cold and you don't perceive it as cold
I don't know, "cold sweat" very specifically refers to sweating due to danger or anxiety. It actually feels cold then.
Cold sweat is from terror. Only time I ever felt that was when some guy tried to get me into his van, asked me if I wanted to get a ride and tried cutting me off and circling the block I was walking down. Freaky shit.
@@platedlizardOr impending heart attack. If you have a cold sweat on and there's nothing scary nearby, head for the ER.
I want to write the equivalent of this from a leftist perspective, the hero is a queer doctor who gets evicted from his apartment on page 1 by his southern landlord who is also a cop
Ah, but you see, THAT is actually feasible.
Ok, but how tall and burly are the characters? 😂
Antifa supersoldier protagonist who singlehandedly overthrows the US government and institutes world communism
In addition to my comment about how stupid naming a player "Yard" is, I want to point out that Ben clearly thinks that he would have been a great football player if only he was taller. Because clearly the only thing needed to make 'The coaches' like you is bigness. 'The Coaches' didn't like Hawthorn when he was short, but they really liked him once he became big.
And what position did Brett's bigness help him play? No idea. Because it's all the same, you see, as far as Ben is concerned, football requires no intelligence or strategy, and therefore all you need to know is how big someone is.
That's the kind of thing I believed as a bitter nerd in highschool, until I actually interacted with one of the guys from the football team who was in my classes, and realized he wasn't at all some "dumb jock". And again when I tried to follow a football match and realized I couldn't keep up with the tactics in the slightest
Thank you, Ben Shapiro. You've given me the courage to continue my book. If people are willing to buy your badly worded, predictably racist, asinine drivel, there may be hope for me yet.
That severe growth spurt over a small period of time happened to me too and it was a problem, I had to go see doctors, I was in pain constantly and my balance sucked. If Ben spent even one second researching growth spurts, he'd realize that not all of them turn ppl into linebackers and/or Micheal Jordan and/or imperialist generals for the US military lolz. Ben has no idea what it's like to be tall, so the world of tallness might as well be a bugs bunny cartoon to him.
He doesn't care to know the reality because it's mostly just a fetish for him.
I had something similar. All that happened to me is that at the exact same time everyday I would just pass out cause my body was trying to speed run becoming an awkward teen
Yeah, turns out that unless you're working out a lot (or otherwise staying active), a growth spurt just makes you tall. Didn't do much for my skinny nerd muscles.
I dunno what your sex is, but as a female I found myself getting rapidly taller and more busty with my body fat deposits moving around and my hormones raging. Plus, wretched periods that put me down for 5 days at a time. It sucked and I felt repulsive.
@@Daedalus117Also, it's actually harder for taller people to get "buff" aesthetically, because it requires more actual muscle mass to achieve the same look.
"Meet the new Ayn Rand" is actually something I would wright in a book review as an insult.
"Sponsored his citizenship" - that's not a real thing, Ben. I work in this field... there's absolutely no "sponsoring" involved in obtaining US citizenship. What he describes literally does not exist.
There is a sort of sponsoring process involved in obtaining a "green card" (technically a "permanent resident card", which allows for "legal" immigration), but that's not citizenship and Ben makes a point of telling us that Emilio is an "illegal" and thus does not have one of those either.
And the thing that gets me is that this is *very* basic legal stuff. I'm not an attorney and I understand it. Ben is a Harvard-trained attorney (or, was... before he realized he could make a lot more money as a right-wing grifter and let his bar license lapse). He should be able to easily comprehend this stuff. This is what it looks like when a person is blinded by their own extremist ideology.
H1B visas require an employer to sponsor an applicant. But as you say, that’s not citizenship
I’ve never been accused of anything racist in my life, and I never had a black person claim that I had just used a racial slur.
This plays to the conservative fear that someone will call them racist just because they are.
35:57 "Those bodies had been mutilated _obscenely."_
I do love the suggestion that there's a way to mutilate a corpse that wouldn't be considered obscene. Not mutilated _like one normally would,_ but mutilated _obscenely._ (Because genitalia, I guess?)
"The bodies had been mutilated very politely"
I mean.. I guess standard autopsy wouldn't be considered 'obscene'? But that's reaching lmao
"I really don't think I made these people evil enough. How will my readers know who the bad guy is?"
I suppose if you did just a bit of light mutilation it might not be obscene? Like gave the deceased a really bad haircut?
having Some More News folks for the Bench Appearo episode is a good choice
i enjoy that you make him sound like a D-list magician. It's.. oddly fitting for his whole vibe, somehow.
I feel like Ben's detroit knowledge started and stopped when he heard that the movie 8Mile existed.
The "hand emerging" line isn't from the chest-burster. It's the alien from the opening scene of Men in Black. Yard is an alien. That snuck across the border from Mexico.
Why is it all written like “Big tallerson took out his Beretta M92 (known in military service as the M9) the hammer was down as he had pressed the decocker lever before he put it in his safariland holster there was a round of 9mm parabellum in the chamber” You can just write “The hunk took out his handgun”
“Big Tallerson” is the greatest name this side of “Dog, just Dog”.
@@DerrickMims it really gets across the bigness of the man
@@DerrickMims long lost cousin of Big McLargehuge
The thing I can't get past is Ben not knowing the word 'molten'...
Or crumbled rather than crumpled.
I have a meltingly hot desire for Katy Stoll's cookies.
I learned a lot from these episodes...namely how NOT to write a novel
As someone whom wants to publish a novel someday I hope that if Benny can do it there's hope for me.
Robert's voice and Sophie's background laugh give me energy. Thank you both.
Thank you, Ryan, for making the playlist. You're a real one.
This is the first time i listen to you, i hated every second of it, it was great
I love that you opened a channel and now I can tell people who need subtitles, even English ones just for understanding better, to go watch my first favourite podcast! Robert, you are hilarious and I really love listening to you. Next obvious step- Filmed podcasts! I think I'm gonna get a lot of support on this idea😊
As a Chicagoan the second I heard "Chicago" I cringed in advance.
I am white and I went to a majority Black school on the South Side of Chicago and I will tell you, if you try to talk to Black kids they will react like normal people. You can even actually be friends with Black people. Also they do have names.
This is an old but classic Smug Shitlib comment.
not to go to bat too hard for shapeebo here, but the mag used in the M9 has witness holes, so you can see how many rounds you have left at a glance. ejecting the mag also lets you check its weight more easily (for the same purpose, but when you have fully opaque magazines).
Okay, so I'm not an expert on body types but my boyfriend is 6'2" and currently around 215lbs. He's definitely tall and broad-shouldered, but like...I definitely wouldn't describe him as "a bear of a man."
He's got decent muscle definition, but being only 215lbs he has what people have called a stealth bod, I think? Like with his shirt off he's clearly in good shape, but depending on the clothes he wears you can't tell if he's a bit skinny, muscular, or even a little chubby.
When I think of "a bear of a man" I imagine someone *HUGE!* Not just tall but broad and muscly as hell. Likely hairy, too. Big meaty fists and difficulty finding clothes that fit, you know? That dude who plays Jack Reacher on the Amazon show, for example, has gotta be like 230 at least, no?
So I can't tell whether Benny used the term "bear of a man" just because he knows conservatives like that kind of description and he's lazy, or if being himself a foot shorter and like 160lbs with the little muscly arms he's so proud of means he has no idea how much weight/muscle it would take to make a bear-like dude who's 6'3". Either way, hilarious!
A further point about Mr. Yard.
NOBODY knows his real name? I mean, I know that Ben doesn't see black people as human, but like, he shouldn't outright say it like that. I think Yard almost certainly knows his name. As does Yard's mother, and father, any family or friends...
Honestly maybe the dude ~~Ben went to scho~~ WHO IS TOTALLY FICTIONAL just happens to have, like, the last name 'Yard' or something and Be-Er, BRETT-Just never bothered trying to find out.
"sophie, there is nothing woker than letting a woman take the blame for a man's _very_ clear and obvious mistake"
edit: after listening, all I have to say is that was ~exceptionally~ homoerotic. Even the parts without any men at all.
Don't really know how that's possible, but ol' Benji found a way
So I don't know how sportsy most of the people on the cast are but...
...What the fuck sort of nickname for a football player is "Yard"?
That's like having a basketball player named "Hardwood" or "Scoretable." Like, there is either a very interesting story, or, more likely... Ben has no fucking clue what Football is.
Scoretable😂😂😂😂
27:45, there’s really no way to learn a language that’s not your mother tongue without learning the target language’s culture. Language and Culture are intrinsically linked.
I've been dealing with writer's block/insecurity about my writing lately, and decided that the smartest way to help me break through all of that would be to come back and binge all of this absolute brain rot again.
While I may come out of this with significantly lowered brain function, at least the insecurity will be gone.
Did this work?
@@nerag7459 Honestly, kinda. I hate-watched all of them, angrily vented to another writer friend about it, than actually got some writing done.
@@Velkhana22 Nice!
This channel is a fuckin diamond...I've been binging.
The Salon quote has lived in my mind nonstop
I almost spit out my tea too many times laughing so hard
I like how America has been fallling apart for 9 years but hasn’t fallen apart yet
I love how we spend multiple pages establishing how he learned the secret Black People art of talking his way out of things, but he *never does that* in the book. Like he gets out if problems by stabbing teenagers and running away from secret service agents.
42:10 everything else in this book might be trash, but this line was absolutely hilarious
...the fact that the Vikings did rap battles (or, well, they did flyting, which was very similar to battle rap) makes me look at people who see rap battles as a "black thing" as uneducated. Like... no. Verbal witticism has been a thing that *lots* of cultures through the years have appreciated, and being able to come up with clever insults on the fly then make them *rhyme* is pretty much peak verbal witticism.
"To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand -rick and morty- black people talking."
Pashtu is not that complicated.
Knowing a language, but not the culture ... quite the accomplishment.
re: DLI classifies Farsi (parent language of the Pashtu dialect) as Cat 3 out of 4, the most difficult languages are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. As an Arabic speaker, I would dispute Arabic being more difficult than Farsi ... which also weakens my point/citation.
If you want more, Adam Something did a good job talking about this book, too. I would say 30% of the stuff covered here, and 70% additional info.
"Novelist Ben Shapiro" nope sorry I think what you meant to say was, "failed screenwriter and magical jockey Ben Shapiro."
"haunted ventriloquist dummy"
@@inimitableminimalist "What, Mr. Marbles? He's harmless!"
"True Allegiance" sounds like Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen wrote "Mein Kampf" and translated it into too many languages on Google Translate before translating it back into English.
While I find Ben Shapiro to be a whiny and insufferable little man; I would be interested to see a film adaptation of "True Allegiance" but set it in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, with a few of the cast members being personalities of The Daily Wire. This way we can get a peek at Ben's views on Northern Ireland.
Sometimes i gave brain farts and forget the title "some more news" and when that happened I'll end up searching for Cody's showdy. I've had to do this literally dozens of times bc of my terrible aphasia.
His odd sentence structure is common in screenwriting, so it's not a surprise he creeped that style in.
When you don't think you're racist, but you absolutely are: the novel
I always love how Ben describes his hero, Brett Hawthron as a 'big bear of a man, standing 6'3, 215 lbs," which is just a kind of small college quarterback. Which, I get looks like a bear to Ben, but... is not.
Brett Hawthorne was 6'7 a Moose of a man A head cut from Hot Steele with a 7000 thread count Yamaka that never moves a millimeter even in the hell of open warfare 😂😂😂😂
Please continue. I need to know more!
The last chapter is Ben pretty much justifying killing of black kid, you do not want to know more
I laughed entirely too hard at Katie going "my dad didn't grow till he was 50". 😂
35:08 “FUCK-PANTHER”…I can’t even…🤣🤣🤣
I was seriously wondering if they were indeed joking about the animorph erotica.
48:21 “And he shall be Levon. And he shall be a good man.”
Oh to have Cody break out in to Elton John…
16:15: After they mentioned that song suddenly I had the second verse of CSNY's Chicago stuck in my head. "Politicians sit yourselves down, there's nothing for you here, Won't you please come to Chicago for a ride, Don't as jack to help you cause he'll turn the other ear, Won't you please come to Chicago or else join the other side."
Ben doesn't give "Yard" a real name as a tribute to the inspiration for this book, The Turner Diaries. Pierce didn't give the black characters names in that book as a means of dehumanizing them, and since Ben doesn't see African-Americans as humans either, he goes out of his way to not give this star football player a name. Because Ben Shapiro hates black people.
In the interest of only criticizing him for things he's actually doing, I didn't know the names of half the football team because they had these sort of nicknames. There's a guy who graduated, moved towns, moved back, but if you yell out "hey pancake" he'll turn around
I have listened to this 20 times on the website
Finally others will know what i mean by "a big, bear of a man".
IN HIS UNDERWEAR
41:00 to 41:05 I’ve replayed that several times, and I can’t tell if the sound at the end is Sophie cackling, or wailing in doomed horror
Ben Shapiro writing a character that learned Pashtun but knows little of Afghan culture is right wing politics in a nutshell
just the premise of brett hawthorn being a BRIGADIRE GENERAL and being left behind in *name desert middle east country here* is fucking wild and would never happen irl. like basic googling shows that first it takes min 5 years of going through officer training at one of two specific places which everything about brett sceams no he is not a officer and he never went to those places because they would absolutely throw him out. i am 8 mins in and the detail of he is a general(yes a low ranking one but still) is baffling that he got left behind, makes the entire premise of this book go up in flames
When listening to the Elon Musk episode and hearing about Ben Shapiros book i was expecting an autobiography lol. This is much better.
Ben. Benny. Big olllllll Benny B. I'm on my 4th fucking language. ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT ALSO LEARN THE CULTURE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???
34:06 How dare you!? Robert Evans's novel is rad and I think about it like once a month.
You have to read the Levon part where BLM starts a race riot
i think they get to it in one of the other episodes or in a worst year ever episode
When I was 11-ish years old, we had a writing thing at school where everyone got to write a short story about the future and have it featured in a "book" - which was just pages clamped together but still, it was fun - and I remember the story that the boy I had a crush on wrote. It was about him and his friends in class breaking out of a prison and getting their hands on all sorts of weapons, blasting off aliens and whatnot... I thought it was a weird story but I was a weird kid tbf.
Ben's writing reminds me quite a lot of that story.
Having heard more of this book via this podcast it took me a moment to realise that "When the towers hit the building" at 7:40 was not in the book but was just a flub
"What do they call you in Chicago, kid?"
"They call me Mr Yard."
I feel like it's crazy that, even though this was written before his term, this president character is basically just "Donald Trump (Democratic Party)"
I've been a nerd my entire life and possible on the spectrum, and obviously bullying is a horrible thing to do, but with some of these nerds ... whatever.
Anyone else kinda curious about Cody's Animorphs fanfics?
37:54 Only Ben Shapiro would be so flagrant and shameless to compare a government jobs program to Auschwitz
The blurb thing is normal. Every publicist does it. I know about a ballet company that absolutely bombed in one city, and managed to pick-quote for newspaper adverts in the next so that they wound up with sold out-crowds.
Cody is right there. And better a fictional novel where he canget that out. It would be probably not good,or maketoomuch sense, but be entertaining. And igive jordan te creativity to really be entrtaining and wild and do dramatic situations, even if it maks little sense,He has talent as storyteller, i just wish he stayed with fictio tht might have his politicsrather than seling it as truth. And mybe make somethig akin to the room.
That Rosetta stone never fails to get ya' on top of a language!
The way he describes men makes me thinkg he needs to either church or a gay pub
"Animorphs erotic literature" had me dying! 😂😂😂
"215 pounds in his underwear" is a really weird way to phrase that, Ben. You'd normally just say "215 pounds" and leave it at that, Ben, and people wouldn't think you meant "fully clothed, with combat boots on. Big, tough combat boots and like... shredded fatigues, showing just hints of glistening musculature... caked in sweat and dripping with bronzer..."
So that you chose to specify, Ben, means you were explicitly picturing the "bear of a man" mostly naked, Ben.
That said i doubt Ben wrote much of this. It was probably a series of ghostwriters working off an outline provided by an editor who themself had very little input from Ben, and *maybe* one or both of them made some revisions (but more likely just sent it out again for punch up and coherence to another freelancer). And as a queer person who has ghostwritten some chapters of truly bad racist machismo books, i can say that there are multiple ghostwriters who will gleefully make things as gay as possible when taking such work.
Why though?
i think all men, gay or straight, love to edit people's stuff to make it the other guy look gay. Classic move.
@@YoucancallmeishmaellRevenge.
@@Youcancallmeishmaell by the very nature of the work, if you got told "write from the perspective of a guy, who is describing a guy, and make him sound as manly and attractive as possible" there's no way it won't sound a little gay
Thanks for the video!
All hail the Algorithm
the leroy brown bit killed me cause i was just singing it before i clicked on this
This has become my favorite tinnitus blocker when i try to sleep.
I think it is funny that Shabibo is so lacking in self-awareness that Prescot's speech handily refutes Shabibo's entire world view in a couple of paragraphs.
He's literally in control of what the guy says and even then he can't win a debate.
Behind the bastards is my favorite podcast
I've not read the Turner Diaries, but I've heard outtakes. Benny Shaps should be sued for copyright, even though I don't believe in it.
It's difficult to understand how much of an echo chamber someone has to be in to equate National Socialists with Jewish Neoconservatives.
Man, when you mentioned "that damned smelt" I was just "oh shit, this is the stupid 'we own all the water even though we don't'" bullshit on the 5.
Can you make more videos on this book?
There are other progressive previwer tearing it apart out there :P
ithink ames tullos is a good one, he hs other weird books too, steven seagals is,very em.
Ben never met an adjective he didn't like.
8:30 nothing screams 5’3 and 115 pounds more than saying 6’3 215 is a hulking perfect physique for a man lol that would put him at the high end of average for BMI
Very slightly overweight (I looked it up). He is a sort of muscly twig.
Meanwhile the actual bears are straight-up obese
Something odd about GENERAL BRETT HAWTHORNE's proportions -- as someone who knows bears of men, men of bears, men of men, and bears of bears -- the proportions do not strike me as particularly ursine.
That's a twig in football. Not the kicker, but he is Not a linebacker
@@PrincessNinja007 Perhaps more of an otter than a bear.
I thought you reading from "The Religion Wars" was as bad as it would get. I was so very wrong.
With the "looks at the magazine" thing, I can see a world where your slide locks, and you check your mag to verify that you are, indeed, out of ammunition while praying you have a few rounds left and something else has happened like a malfunction. It's one of those "I know the reality but I need to confirm it" situations. To be clear, I do not think Ben is intelligent enough to do this intentionally, however I don't think it makes no gun sense. Well it does make no gun sense but I can see a person doing it despite that.
Hearing the hope in Robert's heart that the cop wouldn't kill the child...
There's also those pesky local libraries
Looks like Shaperio got his "Derrick" friend in Candice Owen.
His name was Yard because he played football in the yard and on the back of his jersey it said Yard!!! 😂😂😂
I found this to be really cute actually. I look forward to listening to more.
Just for the record: Ben did indeed lambast Trump for abandoning the Kurds in Syria.
or just buy a used copy of it as zero of the money just spent will go to Benny Chaps or his minion. Plus it shouldn't be more then $1-3
Theory on the whole bear thing. It's Ben's kink. He deeply wants to be a bear cub and wants a large military vet to be his big strong grizzly. He's never actually been with a woman l, he just has to have a cishet marriage for his career
"Never actually been with a woman."
Da fuq? He's married and has 4 kids!
@@MacMillan1603 you can do that without sex
@@cfish9891 His children are his and his wife's biological children, though.
@MacMillan1603 yes and?
@@cfish9891 So he has been with a woman.
Brett Hawthorne had an enzo growth spurt
Which one of Ben's racist novels?
So, I’m just going to throw this out there. Humiliating someone for being late in the hope that they will “learn their lesson,” doesn’t actually work. The fact that he notes he has relied on the calendar invites makes me suspect he may have ADHD and is leaning on external structures to help compensate for what his brain refuses to do. Now, I could be way off here, but I’ve had to externalize a number of things to help me better fit in with this world. My ADHD, for example makes memorization all but impossible for me. So, I’ve had to find tools that can support me in my work.
If someone is habitually late, there’s a good chance they aren’t choosing it. And at the very least, aren’t choosing it because of lack of respect for their colleagues. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met those types. But they usually show their disregard for colleagues in much more direct ways as well. So, if someone has issues like this, but otherwise seems like a nice person, they may have some ADHD like symptoms making it much harder for them to stay on schedule.
Just something to consider.
"You don't understand, I have ADHD. That's why I was late to the bread line, Comrade!" 🤓
"FACE THE FUCKING WALL"