WEBVTT - Reading The Beginning Of Ben's Absolutely Worst Short Story 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.120 Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:21.520 Radio Together Everything so down, Down Down, Welcome back to 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:27.440 the Worst You're Ever Nap. I was very professional going 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.400 for the big swings here on the worst Year Ever. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.800 We are back, Baby, I don't know how are how 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:39.959 are you guys doing? How's everybody doing? Okay, yeah, it's 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.479 as well as anyone is these days. I had an 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.440 exciting day. I got up at ten, which is Sophie 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.240 will tell you very very um, and I got right 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.200 to work composing a new version of the song but Baby, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:57.040 It's Cold Outside, starring Hitler and Nava Brown. Hitler takes 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.720 the ladies role in that um, which makes a lot 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.760 of s because instead of being worried about what his 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.280 family will say, he's worried about what the other members 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.039 of the Nazi High Command, who have turned him into 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.600 a sex sym and need him to be perpetually available 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.520 to the German woman, what they'll say if he goes 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.959 home and it's the one singing but Hitler, It's cold outside. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.959 I'm just so impressed. See all that you can accomplish 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.080 when you wake up just a little bit earlier. Need 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.959 tap into those morning creativity juices. I still haven't recorded 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:32.000 those ads, Sophie. So yeah, there were priorities. I mean, honestly, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.880 I accept that seems fair trade off. Yeah. Just let 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.640 the advertisers know what you were up to, Robert. Just 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.640 let the sponsors know. Hey, I'm trying to see if 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.000 anyone wants to buy my Hitler. It's cold outside, so 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.920 just and the When our adopts team messages me for 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.320 the I don't know if youth time asking for an ad, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:02:00.600 I'll just say listen. Robert was very busy, okay, but 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.920 Hitler and they'll be like and Brown right right, they'll 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:10.000 be like a fair h uh. Do I want the 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.040 ending spoiled for me? Is it is this song? Is 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.400 it like go Places? Oh? Yeah, I mean well no, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:21.360 actually Hitler Hitler leaves in order to plan further the 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.919 invasion of Poland. Um and Ava christ yourself to sleep. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.320 Um it's a good song, yeah, like all good songs. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.040 I think it's good to be the hit of next 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.120 winter when I when I get it properly produced, um collab. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.560 I think Cody is always talking about producing music, So 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.840 send it over. Maybe a new theme song for our 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:50.080 well postal services. That's exactly right, um, I've always wanted 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:56.000 to be the postal service of reimagined Christmas songs featuring Hitler. Hitler, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:04.760 Yeah great, specific right, um waving from such great Reichs. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:18.400 Come down boy nine. Stuff happening? Is there news? Oh god, no, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.280 why would you even ask that? No, we're on our 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.640 Ben Shapiro book Club trajectory. Still we are. Can we 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.480 talk about Josh Wedden for a second. I don't know. 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.239 I have a really narrow thing I want to talk about, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.520 which is that, like within the car, one of the 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.040 things I think is frustrating is this this need to 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.880 when when it comes out that somebody has done like 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.640 shitty stuff, um, pretend that like you never liked. There's 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.600 like there's this this thing going on when now people 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.200 are being like, oh well he wasn't that big a 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.840 part of Buffy um or oh well he like and 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.880 it's like like there it's this attempt because they're fans 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.200 of the show he made, and also they find his 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.120 behavior unacceptable, which it is they feel this need to 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.840 be like, um, well he wasn't like you know that 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.960 much of this or that, Like it's this idea that 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.000 like if he turned out to be bad, he can't 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.920 have actually been good at making content that I liked. Uh, 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.240 And I think that's a misdirected impulse. Interesting, Um, I 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.520 would uh added that I think part of it is 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:20.040 also that, um, the one could like described like we 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.440 we didn't speak, you know, like the well that happened 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.880 of it all. Yes, And I feel like that it 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.080 was fine for the time when he did it, and 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.120 it caught on and so everyone does it now in 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.440 all the things, and so that is stuff part of yes, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.400 And that's part of also the backlash of like he 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:45.440 created this awful thing that's everywhere now. Yeah, well not 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.839 be like you can watch Firefly and there's we didn't 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.159 speak in it, but it still fits the tone of 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.880 the show. Yeah. As opposed to other other works, I 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.279 would I would say, well, that's one of the things. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.680 I think there's this this because we've gotten so like 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.320 exhausted from it. This in this I like tendency to 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.800 be like, oh it was always like it's a horrible 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.640 trend that he introduced, as opposed to like, well, he 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.560 wrote some stuff that people liked and everybody copied him. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.600 It's like bullet time with the matrix, like it's he 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.360 really like weed and speak is like the verbal equivalent 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.560 of bullet time. And that's why it became exhausting, because 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.040 Hollywood is not very creative, and if they see something 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.920 that works, they run that motherfucker into the ground as 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.640 fast as they can. Yeah, there's a reason that caught on, 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.719 and there's a reason it got really bad. Yeah, because 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.560 it was. It was. It's the kind of thing that 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.920 if if Josh Weeden had always kind of stayed at 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.080 the level of fame he was when Buffy was on, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.560 and the same thing of his shows, like he had 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.680 a bunch of one in two season shows with little 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.640 cult followings, I don't think anyone would have gotten exhausted 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.680 by the way he wrote dialogue. But it became it 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.880 ate everything, um, and it led to this kind of 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.520 inability within the Hollywood to have any kind of moment, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.000 like this thing that's constant and Marvel, where like nothing 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.800 gets to have any weight because you have to have 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.440 like a crack every everyone say, yeah, it's very like 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.000 it created this thing that Marvel does specifically, but other 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:12.159 things do generally where you don't allow uh, you know, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.039 the emotion of a scene or literally again to sort 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.000 of land which is actually again, I'm not even I'm 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.760 not even really a wedding fan. I've never even watched Buffy. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.200 But it's not a thing that I think he actually 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.800 did in most of his I guess you could say 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.040 with like is more like like a Ventures, but like 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.000 you know, within Firefly at least, and even like stuff 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.479 like Dr Horrible, he had the ability to have like 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.279 a scene that was sad, not like he he didn't 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.039 do the thing that that people did when they started 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.240 ripping off, like the kind of the way he wrote Dialogue, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:46.000 which I find interesting the genre of itself people start 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.599 to emulate, it becomes its own thing, not unlike Wes 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:54.240 Anderson type stuff. Yeah exactly, um or or what's his name? 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.880 The Nightmare Before Christmas guy, Tim Burton, a bunch of 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.320 stuff that Burton defied. Anyway, I think that like obviously 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.800 his behaviors sucked up in Horrible, But I find it 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.080 interesting the way in which I think when it comes 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.720 to like the stuff that people are now criticizing about 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.280 his his work, it's more just like, yeah, that's what 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.320 happens when your ship is popular, it gets it gets 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.880 turned into something insufferable within about four years, especially when 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:26.200 Disney yes, yes, anyway, you guys wanna do something fun 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:33.000 before Disney buys our senses of humor. This is quickly 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.040 become a highlight of my week that I look forward 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:40.080 to talking about Ben Shapiro's Yeah, reading these books and 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.120 I'm going to be sad when it's over. I'll be 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.800 honest too. This is a little o ways is in 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.040 the Sea, and I think maybe what we could do 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.280 when we finished this book is we could go back 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.240 to True Allegiance but find the Spanish translation and we 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.360 could all learn Spanish together in an attempt to read 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.720 True Allegiance like I did with the in It in 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.880 Latin when I was next Cool. That's a good idea 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.160 for an app, anyone, If any developers are listening a 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:13.440 teacher Spanish foreign language learning, UM, get on it. At 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.240 least three people will download the app. The three of 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.840 us we will not, and then I will travel to 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.000 Chiapas and tell everyone I meet take a bullet for you, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:30.920 babe and Espanol. I see no flaws with this plan. Yeah. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.800 Download promo code uh utopia h which is the title 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:43.320 of that short story we're about to read. Yeah, Um, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.440 I I will say I will miss this. It is 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.080 really entertaining. I don't think he realized how entertaining his 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.960 writing is. Um in the in the way that it 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.280 is obviously who writes bad things on purpose and then 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:01.120 releases them. Um but um cult following Ben did it? 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:08.560 Um where we leave off, we haven't started. H that's right. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.160 I think you read the first sentence, but you can 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.120 do that again. Um. So this is the final Uh, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.720 this is the final short story, collection of three short stories. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.760 It is fifteen pages. Um uh similar you know, it's 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:31.840 same presentation, similar font uh, similar frequency of formatting, issues 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.200 with the indentation on paragraphs. I feel like there's going 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.600 to be a lot of similarities, as there have been 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:41.160 through all of his writing, despite the genre, despite the message. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.600 It's always kind of the same anyway. UM So yeah, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:51.320 this is called Utopia. And as we discovered early late 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.440 last week, the very first sentence is in all caps. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.880 It is a quote. Somebody is screaming all men are 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:03.160 created equal. Okay, that's the first. That's bad, even though 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.920 that's also a thing the founding Fathers wrote in Ben 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.880 Shapiro can't stop coming over the Adams right his favorite 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.679 musical seventy six, and that sounds right, Yeah, that sounds right. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.760 I mean it does have Mr Feenie, and look, I 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:22.480 actually have nothing against seventeen. Mr Feenie is um oh 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.959 geez one second, I forget which one of them, but 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:31.280 he's he's gonna major role um which despite range the 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:36.000 fundamental problematic aspects John Adams, he's John Adams. Yeah, like, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.920 obviously the deification of the Founding Fathers is problematic, but 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.959 just as a musical, pretty fun musical. Mr Feenie is 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:50.240 great in it. Yeah, also still alive. I just googled 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.920 that and found that out. That's right, William Daniels. Mr 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:59.679 Feenie still young on the Girl Meets World reboots. So again, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.160 good it is. It is nice to know that that 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.520 Mr Feenie still guiding their lives, helping helping children meet 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:12.000 the world. Yeah, yeah, okay, we should probably so. I 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.440 guess I'll check out sent at some point. I've never 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.000 listened to it. If you want to see Mr Feenie 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.480 sing some ship as John Adams, that's basically your only 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.120 option as far as I'm aware. Yeah, we needed a 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.080 John Adams HBO show, needed more more show tunes in it. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.920 You just had Mr There. We are, all right, never 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:38.600 going to get through these created equal first line new 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:44.320 paragraph formatting issue. Um. He had seen those words somewhere before. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.559 They were hazy in his memory. They were a dream, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.360 only partially remembered after waking up with bright morning light 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.160 hitting his eyes. Each day he thought he came closer 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.480 to remembering where he had seen them before, but then 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.120 he would shake his head and moving with the teeming 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:06.200 crowd past the enormous archway emblazoned with those words, past 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.360 the Ministry of Education. He knew what education was. This 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.040 is a parenthetical. He knew what education was, but I 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.880 had no idea what a ministry. This is going to 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:16.880 make me. Oh, he's trying to Yeah, he's trying to 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.280 do a nineteen eighty four. But again is bad everything 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.240 the liberals are bad. Bah, well just a also it's 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:28.160 it's just bad. It's not very good, very good writing. Uh. Yeah, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.800 Like I think if you compare, if you, if you 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.640 want to go listener, grab your copy of nineteen four 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.320 and just kind of read the first page or two 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.000 how Orwell introduces the way in which their thoughts have 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.800 been like limited, it's it's it's you know, it'll be 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.000 a fun compare it's better. Yes, yeah, you might call 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.160 it like a masterpiece, as opposed to this, which is 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:55.160 clunky and and derivative, like the written like someone's bad 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.440 script for a television show that they're trying to sell 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:02.040 to HPO, which I'm sure Ben did. Did you say HPO? 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.720 Because because I'm also a hack in a fraud. Yeah, 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.000 that's why. That's how what makes you qualified to you know? 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.560 That's HPO. Is is Home Pox Office, and it's a 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.000 company that infects you with smallpox at home, pending on 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.760 what show you watch. Yeah, exactly, it beams, it beams 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.720 it into your blood. Yeah. Shockingly, they've they've they've gotten 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.240 four billion dollars in venture capital funding, so I think 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.640 they're gonna make it. Yeah, coming soon to a home 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.120 near you, with your at home using the gig economy 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.240 to spread pox. Give me the next sentence. All right, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.800 we're in the second paragraph. Still, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.640 go back like because like almost out of outbreak. Then. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.560 The lovely thing about his writing is that he makes 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.480 you want to stop in the middle of a sentence 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.800 to talk about what a bad sentence? So many episodes 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.040 out of this exactly, and he he's done it again 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.400 because we stopped in the middle of that sentence. So 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.680 I'm going to start the sentence again. Uh, which the 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.240 sentence starts past the enormous archway emblazoned with those words, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.680 which is a great sentence. That's a that's a clause, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.720 we call it all right. Past the enormous archway emblazoned 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.960 with those words, Past the Ministry of Education. He knew 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.680 what education was, but had no idea what a ministry was. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.040 Past the Ministry of Price Control. That's actually I think 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.680 that's not you editorializing. Okay, no, yeah, sorry, this is 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.840 a parenthetic. That was a parenthetical. He knew what education was, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.640 had no idea what ministry was. This is all separated 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.520 from with semi colon's uh so, continuing past the Ministry 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.200 of Price Control parenthetical, he had no idea what price 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:47.120 control was, semi colon. Past the Ministry of the Chancellor parenthetical. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:53.040 Everyone knew who the Chancellor was period. Who is he? Well, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.000 I I hope, I hope we find out, because we 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.800 do not in this next sentence. Uh. Finally, he would 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.960 shuffle to his workstation at the Ministry of Energy, where 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.720 he would spend his day turning on an office pigot 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.280 sounds inefficient. Yeah, I mean I think the purpose of 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.680 the thing the point is making here is that like 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.120 it's some socialist state where everybody has to have a job, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.880 but they don't have as like a poor man's poor 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.520 man's poor man's sucking Brazil. It's just like yeah, And 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.680 Ben doesn't really want you to think too much about 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.560 that bit, because if the point he is making is that, well, 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.920 actually there's not enough work that needs to be done 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.040 for all of the people that there are doing jobs, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.360 then is the answer that people should have leisure time? 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.240 Like what is what it? Maybe there's another option there. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.280 He's just trying to paint some disgusting version, you know, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:47.440 the things that they want people to believe. That's it's 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.920 interesting to be because four again very chilling vision of 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.960 a society that's completely controlled. Um Or Well does that 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.200 by talking about the ways in which languages is changed, 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.240 fundamentally limit the ways people can think, the destruction of 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.000 like concepts of the family, all these different these different 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.880 things that make people feel inhuman when you get inside 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.600 their heads. Bins. One of the first things he focuses 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.120 on his price controls that's very funny to me, that like, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.000 instead of the ways in which authoritarianism fundamentally restricts the 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.800 concept of human thought, He's like, they're gonna put price 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:26.400 controls in. That is very funny. It's very funny. There's 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:32.040 so much so quick in this text. It's dense, it's dense. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.240 It requires a lot of close reading. So that's so 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.960 we're onto the third paragraph, which, in true Shapira style, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.000 is one sentence long and has a formatting issue with 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.200 the indication, of course, every time the light turned green, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.560 he turned on this pigot, new paragraph. Every time it 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:58.160 turned red, he turned it off, new paragraph, And with 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.200 each turn he was happy. Year all right, Okay, getting 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.080 into the mind of sounds better than a lot of 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.840 people's jobs, to be honest. Yeah, feeling feeling happy and 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.639 productive with the hard work you put in. Uh. He 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.400 was an older member of the city. City has capitalized, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.639 but he didn't remember that. In fact, he had no 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.639 idea how old he was. He just remembered coming into 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.520 his spigot station each day, putting his ID card in 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:28.119 the machine, removing it, going back to his living space 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.760 with its clean white walls, and it's fully stuck refrigeration system. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:38.720 And it's television reruns. Nice, no new content. Sorry, going 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.600 to sleep, waking up again another day older each morning. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.720 He knew this spigot would need to be turned on 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.240 and off. It was comforting. He had no family. There 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.080 was a woman who came to his living space once 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:57.440 a week for sexual relations on Tuesdays. She spent it's 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.840 try Sorry, what means there's a medical you, I'm told 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.119 from the author. Also, well, it's moist. One hour is 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:11.359 longer cumulatively than all of the sex been Shapiro He's like, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.560 I don't know why, right, And that's if you include cuddling. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:23.080 M check out Ben's sex book on the pastors where 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.080 you get your podcasts. Actually, that's a good place to 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.160 point out. We need to break for an ad. Oh, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.359 oh my god, we gotta go, we gotta find out. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:35.000 Oh spoiler, Cliffhanger sex coming up. More details on the sex, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.320 but probably not actually because I think he's not talking 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:52.240 about it. Oh, Dane together everything, So don't don't. You're back. Yes, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:59.479 you're back. We're back in free so hot, I can't 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:05.000 even so hot. What happens next? There was a woman 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.240 came to his living space is what happened? She did? 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.000 She did, Yeah, she did once a week for sexual 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:17.439 relations on Tuesdays, just waiting for like more parentheticals, like 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.920 he didn't know what Tuesday was. She spent exactly one hour. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.720 She was not beautiful and she was not ugly. She 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.600 wore the blue uniform of the Ministry of Personal Needs. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.919 He did not know her name. Today was Tuesday, and 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:40.399 he was happy. Yeah again, you know, just as a 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.200 little like if you wanted to make this a good 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.800 a good piece of fiction, maybe something to do would 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.119 be like, in the midst of this woman who has 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.040 been you know, made to look and feel as bland 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.520 as possible by this government, he gets some sort of hint, 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:54.720 catches a whiff of, you know, the scent of her 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.240 hair or something about the way her skin feels that 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.000 like leaves this brief yawning moment of horror at the 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.440 fact that, like something terrible is missing from his life, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.359 and then of course it's gone in another second, as 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.880 he returns his thoughts to the you know something that 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.520 makes it a story. Yeah, and like texture, you know 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.720 that helps you get into it kind of well because 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.080 stating this, well he said, I was happy that day 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.680 or whatever, that's the most insight we've got we get 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.880 into or his satisfaction at the work. Sure, but like 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:31.280 you're not actually giving context for this world. I don't 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.240 understand how this is affecting you anyway. Yeah, and we don't. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.600 You know the thing, he's going to wind up breaking 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.439 free of this system he has to, and there's going 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.840 to be some sort of hackney bullshit. Um, but it 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.880 has so like you you want to give some sort 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.760 of hint that like there's there's elements of humanity, the 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.439 irrepressible nature of the human soul that are trying to 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.359 like slowly break through. And he had maybe sex. Again, 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.880 if Ben Shapiro had ever had a positive sexual encounter, 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.399 I think a normal person would be like, oh, well, 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.320 that might be a moment of like intimacy that they 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:03.680 can't quite quash out every aspect of it. He gets 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.119 some ghost of something that's missing, and that sets up 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.160 that like he's going to break out of this system. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.720 I don't know. Again, if you were writing a story, 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.919 you might do that, especially a short story where you 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.760 don't have that much time. I was gonna say, like 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.560 you really want to move on that stuff? In my head, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.159 I'm like giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm like, 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.240 I'm sure that will happen later a little bit, right, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.640 but like there's no time, there's no time. You gotta 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:31.120 do it. No, not with his size, fourteen times new 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:41.240 roman print, three paragraphs on this page long. Um, alright, 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.840 let's find out what else makes this fucker happy? Um. 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.680 He had no friends. He worked with others and once 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.720 every week, for this is an awkward sentence, he worked 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.400 with others and once every week, four new people would 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.040 come to his living space on Wednesdays. The five would 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.359 play cards together. Then they would never see each other again. 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.480 It was all in good fun, and it allowed him 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.639 to always meet new people. Wednesdays were not as happy 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:15.640 as Tuesdays, but they were happy. This is so bad. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:20.400 This is this is this is bad. He's really hammering 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.119 on how happy is And I'm going to tell you, Ben, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.560 I get it all right. Tonight was a Thursday night. 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.320 On Thursday nights, the members of the various ministries would 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.760 come together for a nighttime stargazing. It happened on the 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:39.240 well manicured lawn of the Ministry of Culture. When he 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:42.200 got to the lawn, there were already thousands of people 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.920 milling about. He did not look for anyone he knew, 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.800 He knew nobody, nobody knew anybody. There were no clicks. 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.479 There were just thousands of people happy to see one another, 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:59.600 and he was happy too. Yes, what a nightmare. So 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.959 bad well comprehensively bleak vision been places of this god 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:11.919 people are. He's still doing his thing where he um 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:18.399 just horrendously over uses the same word. Yes, if you 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.280 were a good writer, there's a way you could use 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:25.040 kind of repetition of words and doing. Yeah, he's not 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.880 because he's bad, it's just how he writes. Well, the 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.800 the the intention is there. He's trying to like reuse 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:34.520 the like the happy phrase, talk about how they're happy. 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.199 But he's doing it every other fucking sentence, so it 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.360 seems laborious to absorb. I don't know if he's doing 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.040 it on purpose. I think as I start, you think 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:46.000 he is. Okay, I think he's doing this on purpose. Uh, 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:49.359 it's just his habit is to do it anyway within sentences, 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.760 and so that the thing that he does that's like 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.760 a regular thing that happens is I think infecting our 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:59.600 view of what he's doing now. But the problem with 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.080 what he's doing now is that it's like every three 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.320 sentences instead of within the same sentence. So it still 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:10.080 seems like it's both poorly executed and maybe not on purpose, 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:11.960 but I think it is. It's just he's not very 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.840 good at it. Yeah yeah, like again like okay, like 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.040 a couple of pages and then you know, but he's 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.720 very happy, Like you can get the rhythm going without 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.679 it being so obvious what's going on. Um, he's just 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:29.919 not a subtle There's other ways to play with repetition 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:34.560 than simply repeating yes, uh he can, he can. Like 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:38.400 it's it's actually very funny because like you're you're so 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.439 right that like he took the simple like it's this, 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:46.600 it's like a shot the baby's first sentence exactly like 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:50.199 that emotion is such a simple emotion, and there are 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:55.920 more complex ways to describe it. Um. Truly, I truly 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:59.240 have written better short stories than these as a child. 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:03.399 There's any example here of just how limited Ben's imagination is. 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:05.200 Because again, if we go back to nineteen eighty four, 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:07.159 by this point in nineteen eighty four, where you're like 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.800 a couple of pages in, you've been introduced to an 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:13.560 entirely new language functionally new speak, and you you you 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.880 all you feel. He doesn't tell you how it's limited, 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:21.560 uh Winston's ability to feel you you feel it because 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:25.320 you you you as like within the book he immediately 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.920 like narrows the walls of perception around you by using that. 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:32.920 Ben wants to do that, but all he can think 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:35.119 of is just repeating that the person is happy and 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:38.520 no other emotions because to him, that's the city. That's 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:40.399 the same thing. Because he doesn't actually get what Orwell 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:44.160 was was really doing there um and he's not He's 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:48.040 also not capable of imagining anything. But like being in 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:50.320 an authoritarian regime is like being drugged and you're just 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:53.639 like this happy, doped zombie as opposed to what it 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:55.639 really is, which is these kind and what or Well depicts, 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:59.320 which is these kind of walls of fear and like 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:03.080 flex that kind of reflexively stop you from thinking and 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:06.240 acting in certain ways because you you're you're fundamentally a 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.280 machine that exists to survive, and you've been trained by 0:26:09.320 --> 0:26:12.240 the regime that you just don't even even begin to 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:15.960 go down certain roads because of the danger. Um. Again, 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:20.119 Ben doesn't understand things like he doesn't get this. I 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:23.200 think over and over I come back to he's just 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:28.200 really lazy that you know, lazy probably with his education, 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:33.240 probably lazy with his reading and reading comprehension. Um, but 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:36.159 definitely lazy. And how he's approached all of this. I 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:39.600 get the sense from anything Ben does is that it 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:43.399 has taken the bare surface level of thought. Actually, you 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.600 can argue loud, he can argue and spin things around 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:48.720 and be confusing and the fuddle stuff, but he doesn't 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.080 actually dig deeper than the service. And that is reflected. 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:53.960 I mean I've probably I've already said this, but in 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:56.119 all of these short stories and in all of his 0:26:56.240 --> 0:27:00.119 articles in Drew Allegiance, all of it. Yeah, it's I 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:04.600 think it's most apparent in his fiction writing. Um, but 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.440 it is everywhere. You're right, Well, I mean it's it's 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:13.200 it's just seemed in his whole ideology. It's he screams 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:15.639 as someone who just sits down and writes for twenty 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.800 minutes and he's like, yeah, I did it, yeah today. 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:22.560 It's there's no depth to it. It's like he is 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:26.399 sort of replacing, like he thinks that like density equal 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:32.119 stepth Yeah, and that's not true. Um, and so he 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.760 just yeah, I mean this isn't particularly dense either. I 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:37.680 mean it's dense in ways that we can make fun 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:40.840 of it. But yeah, but it's like I just mean 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:43.720 like the volume, like the volume, even the quantity of it. 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:46.159 Like there's so many aspects that he's sort of like 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:54.159 replaced with replaced thinking or about something like carefully, um 0:27:54.160 --> 0:28:01.439 with anything else. Um. But the important thing is he 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:06.280 was happy too. The night was not too cold, nor 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:11.000 was it too warm. The climate control system made sure 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:15.439 of that. The people all sat in ordered rows with 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:20.960 enough distance between them to ensure personal space. Then hates 0:28:21.000 --> 0:28:26.280 air conditioning and social personal space. It's personal space. Uh, 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:31.359 weirdly hates like that. They're like seats in rows, like 0:28:31.400 --> 0:28:34.240 how seating is. Yeah, it's it's weird because it's this 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:38.000 mix of like things that like any person should hate, 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:43.120 like this this big stuff. They have personal space there, 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:48.960 star gazing. There aren't clicks like the people all sat 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.520 in ordered rose. I can't believe they're They lined the 0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:57.760 seats up so that you can see. Yeah, very funny society, 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:04.160 it's so funny. Um and the stars. Wait, all right, 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:06.280 that makes me wonder. All of this does make me 0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:09.440 wonder what been what brings ben joy in life? Is 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:13.640 it just owning the libs? Or actually ever like happy 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:20.560 and satisfied in a moment, a smug little bit. That's 0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:25.960 that's certainly his chief love and life. I think it is. Yeah, 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:30.840 it is um and getting those sweet sweet likes you know, uh, 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:34.560 instead of getting his I don't know, stories published or 0:29:35.280 --> 0:29:43.520 put on TV or whatever you know. Ah. But the 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:47.480 other important thing is the people all sad and ordered 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:51.080 rose with enough distance between them to ensure personal space, 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:55.280 and the stars too were in their orbits their distances 0:29:55.320 --> 0:30:04.120 the same as always. I I'm gonna okay, will you 0:30:04.160 --> 0:30:07.080 read that sentence again? Yeah, I'm going to read both 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:11.120 sentences again, because he's saying too as in also as 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.880 in just like I just said in the previous sentence. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:17.600 So the people all sat in ordered rows with enough 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:21.840 distance between them to ensure personal space, and the stars 0:30:22.000 --> 0:30:28.360 too were in their orbits their distances the same as always. Okay, 0:30:28.400 --> 0:30:34.320 But that that's meaningless because people don't people don't know that, like, 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:36.560 like it's it's one thing to say that, like the temperature, 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:38.959 which is the thing that changes all around naturally, Like 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:41.560 it's been like telling us that the world is climate control. 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:44.120 To add something pointing out that the stars are the 0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:45.960 same as they've ever been, Like number one, how do 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:47.280 you know you don't even know? Do you know what 0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:51.040 stars are? Like they tell you what stars are fundamentally, 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:52.680 Do they let you know about the vastness of the 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:55.880 universe outside of the rate You seem to have certain 0:30:55.880 --> 0:31:00.080 words and understanding of things. Yeah, consistent with like a 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:02.600 society is controlled as he's wanting, So you would have 0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:11.320 to to know enough about the sky, Like maybe there's 0:31:11.440 --> 0:31:14.000 like it's like a visual thing and like this like 0:31:14.040 --> 0:31:17.880 they're blocking out the sky with like their version of stars. Ye, 0:31:19.760 --> 0:31:27.560 stars move always constantly, they're whizzing through space. I mean, 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:30.960 I'm just taking it as like the stars every night 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:36.360 and you know, like the formations they keep their spacing 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:42.240 from each other. But also just on a grammatical level, 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:45.840 and the stars too were in their orbits. You didn't 0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:47.880 say people were in their orbits. You said they were 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:52.160 in ordered rows, which is very much not like a star. 0:31:54.120 --> 0:31:57.880 He's using the stars to refer to the distances being 0:31:57.920 --> 0:31:59.880 the same, but like that's not how he wrote. It's 0:31:59.880 --> 0:32:02.840 a great unimportant but whatever, because like you introduced the 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:04.520 fact that the world is climate controlled. I have no 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:06.120 other questions. I don't need to know how the climate 0:32:06.160 --> 0:32:07.920 control works. I don't need to know how they power it, 0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:11.040 Like this authority, you live in a bubble. Great, I 0:32:11.080 --> 0:32:14.040 get that. That's that's perfectly fine. No, no further explanation needed. 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:17.280 That's world building. You mentioned this about the stars, and 0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:19.800 now we have all these questions because again every time 0:32:19.840 --> 0:32:23.440 Ben mention is something that's factual in any way wrong, 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:25.760 The stars are the same distance all like, none of 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:30.640 this work. Ben Shapiro's writing, Yeah, if if there's if 0:32:30.640 --> 0:32:33.960 he attempts to make a factual statement, it will be wrong, 0:32:34.000 --> 0:32:38.760 and it will be wrong in so many ways over 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:43.440 I've thought of it several times lately, like, well, it's 0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:48.120 wrong in like five different ways are easily discoverable. Well, 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:50.240 and it's like it it brings up it does the 0:32:50.240 --> 0:32:53.160 thing you never want to do in science fiction, which 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:54.760 is it brings up questions that take you out of 0:32:54.760 --> 0:32:57.160 the story. Like for me, I'm wondering now, like, well, okay, 0:32:57.240 --> 0:33:00.760 if this is really an authoritarian regime, like why do 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:02.840 they why are they find with people knowing about like 0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:05.480 the wonder and majesty of outer space. Why is that 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:07.840 important to them? Because clearly if they're setting up stargazing, 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:10.520 then that opens up the possibility that they're going to 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:12.360 have some sense of like thought about the universe, thought 0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:15.360 potentially about like higher other forms of life, or about 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:17.440 like a deity, like all these things people think about 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:19.680 when they look at the stars, And it could be 0:33:19.760 --> 0:33:22.320 one thing you could do world building if you talked 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:24.400 about how he had been taught to view the stars, 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:26.360 or like you guys said, maybe they maybe they've put 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:29.120 their own false sheen over that isn't real. Stars are 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.280 like all this stuff that you could do that would 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:35.240 build the world around it. Like if you talk about 0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:37.680 the way they educated him to view stars, and that 0:33:37.920 --> 0:33:40.719 they taught him that stars all move in you know, 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:42.640 the like the same way that the people do in 0:33:42.680 --> 0:33:45.560 these perfectly ordered things and as above, so below or whatever. 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:47.960 Maybe that could work if again, you were a writer. 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:51.120 But then is instead done nothing and now we're fucking 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:55.760 talking about what this goddamn star thing means. Honestly, if 0:33:55.800 --> 0:33:59.760 any nothing else, this whole exercise has been a great 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:05.120 lesson in how not to write. Oh yeah, a lot 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.640 of people might listen to this and be like, hey, 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:09.760 I feel like I can handle writing my own work, 0:34:09.920 --> 0:34:13.400 because you should. If you think you can write a 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:17.400 piece of fiction, your friend, you can it be than 0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:21.759 have you gone into the world and experienced a thing 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:26.960 like joy or or or or even shame. Um, then 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:29.239 you two could write a piece of fiction better than 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:36.279 ben Japiros just beautiful. Um, they go right, just like, 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:39.160 take this premise and write something better, like go off 0:34:39.200 --> 0:34:42.360 into the world, Like think about a time that you 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:46.799 felt something and then try to try to bring that 0:34:46.840 --> 0:34:54.400 to other people feelings, you know, imagine emotions. Yeah, it 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.600 again like the thing like or Well and I four 0:34:57.680 --> 0:35:00.400 creates this very like soulless, horrific world, but you never 0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:04.120 cut off from feelings of the characters. Like that's such 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:06.720 an intense part. The way he writes this budding romance, 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:09.279 the way like you get into these people's heads and 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:13.560 like how they feel, is why the story has impact. 0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:15.960 It's not because Orwell lists out here are ways in 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:18.960 which this is a bad government. It's because Orwell makes 0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:21.840 you feel what it's like to live in this horrific 0:35:21.920 --> 0:35:26.440 and human regime. Well, unfortunately, facts don't care about your feelings. 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:30.040 And also the facts are wrong, So the facts will 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:36.800 inevitably be incorrect. Um, I tell you, if you're wondering 0:35:36.800 --> 0:35:40.640 about emotion though, A big surprise coming and it's corny 0:35:40.800 --> 0:35:46.000 and we're excited for it. Do we want it? Do 0:35:46.000 --> 0:35:50.480 we want it? Now? Yes? So, as we've discussed. And 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:54.160 the stars too, were in their orbits, their distances the 0:35:54.280 --> 0:36:00.000 same as always, like all stars. Uh except one star. Oh, 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:03.000 it's shot across the sky, a bright flare in the 0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:07.399 velvety purple black darkness, and he felt a disquietude move 0:36:07.520 --> 0:36:11.880 through him. His stomach rumbled, his mind turned over. The 0:36:12.000 --> 0:36:15.760 star blasted through the calm of the evening, leaving sparks 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:20.760 in its wake, and suddenly his hazy dream burst into consciousness. 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:25.680 He found himself standing, tears rolling down his face, gazing 0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:29.359 up at the sky. A terrible longing filled him, a 0:36:29.400 --> 0:36:33.239 feeling of dread and of hope, a new feeling, an 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:37.920 old feeling. The star tore the night upon leaving day 0:36:37.960 --> 0:36:43.480 trailing behind it. So this is just okay, I need it, 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:48.160 we need hold on, hold on wait wait no, no, okay, no, 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:50.680 I mean it's just this is so that's all it 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:54.120 took for him. Now, Okay, there's a lot going on there, 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:57.439 like for example, again, why are they letting them watch 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:00.839 the stars? Why is this? Like never been a shooting star? 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:04.160 It was that easy for him to be like what 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:07.399 they wouldn't let you look at the fucking sky? Okay, 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:10.040 Cody finished the quote, and and why is it the one? Yeah, 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:13.040 we're gonna, we'll, we'll get into this, um, but a big, 0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:16.120 a big break is coming. So the star tour of 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:20.360 the night apart, leaving day trailing behind it. When he 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:24.240 looked around him, he saw thousands of eyes in thousands 0:37:24.280 --> 0:37:29.560 of faces staring at him blankly. The star hit the horizon, 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:35.920 he turned and ran, and there's a break of texts 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:40.279 because time passes. Um. So, yeah, so it's utterly ridiculous 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:42.400 that this is the first shooting star that has apparently 0:37:42.400 --> 0:37:46.960 ever existed. And during they do everything, they do it 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:49.480 every fucking week. Every week, everybody gets together looks at 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:51.080 the sky, and it's the only time that has ever 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:55.399 happened to one guy. Um, and like, so there it's 0:37:55.400 --> 0:37:59.719 this special boy syndrome. Everyone's staring at him blankly. Why 0:37:59.840 --> 0:38:03.560 is he the one who is moved by this shooting star? 0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:06.879 He's the only one who feels anything, He's the only 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.480 one who noticed it. Is there something special about him 0:38:09.520 --> 0:38:17.120 that sees this shooting star? Uh old feelings? Right, shouldn't 0:38:17.120 --> 0:38:22.160 they be staring at should they be incapable of noticing difference? 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:27.000 And yeah? Um, But also like again to keep going 0:38:27.000 --> 0:38:29.560 back to night four, when we get a glimpse of 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:32.960 like what that society allows as a recreation, it's very fitting, 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:36.200 Like it's it's these like horrific, dank little bars where 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.840 people drink watered down beer and play the lottery. And 0:38:38.920 --> 0:38:42.640 it again builds you It never you're never taken out 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.680 wondering like, well, doesn't this provide you know, an opportunity 0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:47.359 for X or Y? And you see that like they've 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:49.640 got all these different like secret police agents in there 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.319 that are looking for sedition, and it builds. It's just 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:55.200 all very believable as opposed to immediately like why would 0:38:55.200 --> 0:38:58.799 you let people look at the stars? Like like it's 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:00.960 just like every step of the away you're like did 0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:03.560 you think of Because it's science fiction. If you're doing 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.279 science fiction or like a dystopian fiction or something like that, 0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:08.680 that is like a huge part of it is that 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:11.600 world building and trying to make it make sense these 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:15.800 questions and like there's a way you could have built 0:39:15.880 --> 0:39:17.920 a shooting star. Had that be key to this, You 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:20.719 could have it be not that there's like this dumb 0:39:20.760 --> 0:39:23.799 idea of community enforced like stargazing nights, but you have 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:26.080 this idea that the government wants everyone to believe this 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:28.160 is the way human society has always been. There was 0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:30.919 no before, there will be no after. And then one day, 0:39:30.960 --> 0:39:33.080 on his way home from the late shift, he notices 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:35.920 a shooting star in the sky and he quite naturally 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:37.839 believes that it's a star falling out of the guy, 0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:39.840 which suddenly sets off at him this chain of thoughts 0:39:39.840 --> 0:39:43.360 that like, well, if the stars aren't or beyond the 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:45.400 control of the government or whatever, then like maybe like 0:39:45.440 --> 0:39:48.120 and you could again and you can pay what that 0:39:48.239 --> 0:39:53.799 experience was like a huge experiences unraveling this thoughts. You 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:57.880 can play with the sensations you're not just yeah, I imagine, 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:00.920 And that way it would be a explaining why the 0:40:01.000 --> 0:40:04.120 star was meaningful. What is opposed to like it's pretty 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:09.680 and so now I'm I'm healed again, so lazy, so incurious, 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:12.480 and like a child wrote it. We do have to 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:16.080 take a quick break, right now, who else is a child? 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:22.120 The companies to paid money. We are entirely supported by children. 0:40:22.200 --> 0:40:26.840 That's right, Cody, super cute m random kids. Cody, Katie 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:29.600 and I show up outside of schools with with with 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:33.120 blackjacks and threatened children for their lunch money. That's what 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:35.600 keeps us on the air. And that's what these ads 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:39.080 will describe. But more entertaining that people like they hire 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:42.080 people to write the copy for We don't ever get 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:44.680 in trouble for this stuff, do we. No. No, We've 0:40:44.680 --> 0:40:58.799 paid off all the cops together and we're back. And 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:01.239 I think we can all agree that Ben Shapiro has 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:05.239 never looked up at the night sky and felt off. 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:09.799 We've never felt all all. Yeah, because again, you can't 0:41:09.800 --> 0:41:13.440 really feel awe if you're convinced that you have everything, 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:16.640 that every single answer that was ever meaningful you had 0:41:16.719 --> 0:41:19.000 handed to you when you were a small child. All 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:23.360 is fundamentally like uh an acceptance of the unknown and 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:27.080 wonderment at it, and feel like a regular thing that 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:33.239 goes Ben's head is unimpressed, Yeah, exactly, like because if 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:37.279 he's not, if he's if he's ever impressed. Whatever his 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:39.959 dad taught him about the world when he was nine 0:41:40.200 --> 0:41:42.760 was not a complete it was not everything he needed 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:47.719 to know about life. Yeah, well, I can't wait to 0:41:47.719 --> 0:41:57.000 find out what happens to this special man, special man boy. Sure. Ah, 0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:02.600 so time has passed and he ran. It wasn't until 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:04.800 he hit the third street that he heard the humming. 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:09.640 The sound of the Ministry of Protection did not ululate 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:14.759 or waiver. It was a steady, loud buzz, growing in 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:17.839 intensity as it grew closer, fading into white noise at 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:21.160 a distance. Now the buzz grew more intense as he ran. 0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:24.279 He could hear them approaching from his right and from 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:29.320 his left. He sprinted forward. Ah, some some Yang endorsement 0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:34.600 in this short story. Oh yes, all right, this is 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.120 not a big deal, but also another lazy thing. Just 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:41.120 the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education. Just be 0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:44.080 more creative, yeah, I mean yeah, just come up with 0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:49.280 something again, like orwell. Because he's a master for masterful 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:52.839 writer manages to create, managed to use words in such 0:42:52.880 --> 0:42:54.960 a way that that enforces kind of the bnality of 0:42:54.960 --> 0:42:57.840 this world. Will also being completely new to use the 0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:00.520 readers so that you're never board. You know, you speak, 0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.040 you feel the way. It limited limits his thoughts, but 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:05.200 it's also new to you as you're reading the book, 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:10.040 and thus you're engaged because again orwell was a writer. 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:14.319 Oh so you're not left incredibly bored because the lighter 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:18.520 did it? I see? Interesting. Yeah, the streets were not 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:22.360 numbered or lettered. The people knew their living spaces by 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:25.920 proximity from their workspaces, so there was no need for 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:29.360 any distinguishing features. Again, fine, like, there's a way to 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:31.840 make that entertaining. As he's walking to work the morning 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:34.800 before things break out, you can describe his walk to work, 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:36.800 not the way a normal person would is now I 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:38.239 took a left, Now I took a right. But like 0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:40.880 the distance it is from his home because those of 0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:42.279 you like, there's a way in which you But what 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:44.120 if he just explains it and once if he just 0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:48.000 explains it rather you know what happens. Of course, that's 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:52.000 how you do it. They all looked the same, even 0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:55.640 Beije buildings, covered over with evenly trimmed ivy and evenly 0:43:55.719 --> 0:44:02.360 spaced balconies one per living space. They get balconies. No less, 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:07.080 you better than how he wants a lot of people 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:11.359 to live. Very funny, they have balconies. Okay, yeah, they 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:14.239 had balconies, and therefore the people who lived inside those 0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:18.320 living spaces were happy with their standard issue artificial flowers, 0:44:18.719 --> 0:44:23.640 their standard measured televisions, and they're carefully stocked ice boxes. 0:44:25.040 --> 0:44:30.680 Okay again, been you have not yet made this sound 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:34.359 markedly worse than life for millions of people under capitalism. 0:44:36.320 --> 0:44:39.160 At least they all have food. Yeah, yeah, they all 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:43.520 have food. They have flowers, Um, they have balconies. Honestly, 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:45.920 artificial flowers are all the rage right now. I keep 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.960 getting targeted ads for them because they don't die. Do 0:44:49.040 --> 0:44:53.279 not give in? Well I don't, don't do it. Don't 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:57.960 do it, Okay, don't don't. Don't succumb to the dystopian left, 0:44:58.560 --> 0:45:02.279 and they're artificial flowers. Um, then go ahead. It's free country. Um. 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:05.680 It's it's just remarkable to me that Orwell a leftist 0:45:05.800 --> 0:45:10.120 so committed he got shot in the throat fighting fascists. Um. 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:14.960 Imagines a better clearly inspired by kind of left wing movements, 0:45:15.200 --> 0:45:20.560 a more realistic authoritarian regime, um than Ben Shapiro, who's 0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:22.960 professionally terrified of the left, who can only make it 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:26.800 seem slightly better than how a lot of people live today. 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:30.359 They get free stargazing nights every night. They can see 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:36.920 the stars from where they live. Balconies stars. Everyone in 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:39.160 Los Angeles, the people in this world can sit on 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.440 their balconies and watch the stars. Like the idea of 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:51.240 private space and whatnot. I don't know, it's carefully stocked 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:54.240 ice box again, And if he was, if he actually 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:57.080 wanted to make it unsettling in ways that we're consistent 0:45:57.120 --> 0:45:58.880 with his beliefs, it would make more sense for them 0:45:58.880 --> 0:46:01.160 to have like no senses of pub like space, like 0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:04.279 shouldn't shouldn't it be like because sex and physical like 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:06.440 none of that matters at all. There's no differences between 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:08.319 men and women and so like everybody is just one 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:14.480 physically entangled like indistinguishable mass, right instead of so atomized 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:21.319 like random thought the ice box? What does he? Yeah? 0:46:22.560 --> 0:46:28.239 What's weird? Specific? What a weird um choice again makes 0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:31.200 it like as if it's more orwelly and written of 0:46:31.239 --> 0:46:34.279 a different time, but just that just the word ice 0:46:34.320 --> 0:46:39.800 box yeah yeah yeah again and like British or something, 0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:42.120 I don't know if you're free that like just I 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:44.279 think they probably they probably do, I don't know, but 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:49.719 Ben's not British, uh, but also like describe him doing 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:53.640 this at home, like go to your like watch something 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:58.120 on your standard measured te It was like, wish the 0:46:58.120 --> 0:47:01.160 show is more interesting, go to your carefully stocked icebox 0:47:01.160 --> 0:47:03.160 and have like your taste is I don't know, like 0:47:03.280 --> 0:47:05.840 just yeah, tell us what's because right now I'm just 0:47:05.880 --> 0:47:08.200 imagining like, oh, so they've got like Netflix and as 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:11.120 much food as they need. It's like, right, imagine, I'm 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:16.360 sure horrible government, you know TV, and like the food 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:18.840 is all bland and not nutritious, but like we don't 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:23.440 get any of that. So because like nobody's starving and 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:26.160 everyone has a balcony and a television, well, right, because 0:47:26.160 --> 0:47:30.160 he's operating from this sort of like this his whole punditry, 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:34.880 like I'm this right leaning like conservative libertarian, I guess uh, 0:47:34.920 --> 0:47:39.319 And so his audience assumes these things because they know 0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:42.080 the author, like I know Ben wrote this. Therefore I 0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:44.320 bet it's like really bad food and like boring a 0:47:44.400 --> 0:47:46.600 bad health, Like it's all stuff that we have to 0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:48.919 assume because we know the writer instead of the writer 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:51.759 doing a good job. I think there's actually something more 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:54.120 insidious than that here, because I think the thing that 0:47:54.320 --> 0:47:57.200 is supposed to be horrifying about this more than anything, 0:47:57.719 --> 0:47:59.879 this is again a good example of like where he's 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:02.480 a friend than the guy he's trying to emulate with Orwell, 0:48:02.560 --> 0:48:05.480 the thing that was frightening was the limitations on the 0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:09.360 human ability to conceive of things, to even think about liberation, 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:12.440 to even think like independent, Like the the way in 0:48:12.480 --> 0:48:15.200 which shutters were placed upon the human mind and thus 0:48:15.239 --> 0:48:18.000 the confines of the human soul was the central horror 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:20.480 of nineteen eighty four. And or Well very ably depicts 0:48:20.520 --> 0:48:24.000 that the horror with beIN is that nobody gets to 0:48:24.040 --> 0:48:27.320 be rich. Like that's really what's going on here, is 0:48:27.320 --> 0:48:29.439 that there's no rich people. He's not horrified, Like he's 0:48:29.440 --> 0:48:31.560 not presenting the day to day life of these people. 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:34.560 Is it is particularly a nightmare. The thing that he 0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:37.640 keeps going back to is that nobody has more, nobody 0:48:37.640 --> 0:48:40.680 has bigger, a bigger apartment, everybody gets a balcony. There's 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:45.800 not like everybody. Yeah, Like that's the thing he's frightened. 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:49.319 That's that's scary to him, is that like nobody's rich 0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:52.160 in the society. And it's very telling that like the 0:48:52.200 --> 0:48:55.960 difference between nineteen eighty four a masterpiece and what's frightening 0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:59.160 about it and what been clearly thinks is frightening, which 0:48:59.160 --> 0:49:03.319 is there's no rich people. Yeah. Absolutely, you got hit 0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:07.920 the nail ned Robert. Yeah, that's interesting, I think again, 0:49:08.200 --> 0:49:10.520 just incredible writing when you have to stop and just 0:49:10.640 --> 0:49:14.760 like question every single sentence. But now they were opening 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:19.160 their regulation compliance double pain windows to watch him run. 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:30.040 Oh no, double pain emphasized because of like ep energy exactly. Again, 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:37.120 we go from like that good. Yeah, that that's the 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:41.839 thing like Ben has been finds. Ben finds like mandatory 0:49:41.920 --> 0:49:45.600 double pain windows for energy efficiency just as horrifying as 0:49:45.640 --> 0:49:50.080 a regime that annihilates the ability of human beings to 0:49:50.200 --> 0:49:55.200 engage in physical intimacy. Um uh, the the the elimination 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:58.400 of history is as frightening to Ben as requiring energy 0:49:58.400 --> 0:50:04.279 efficient windows. It's very funny with an incredible sentence story. 0:50:04.680 --> 0:50:08.560 But now they were opening their regulation compliant double pain 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:12.479 windows to watch him run. The horror of the double 0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:17.320 pain windows unbelievable. Uh. He could feel the cement pound 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:21.359 beneath his rubber souls and that's not correct. He could 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:25.120 feel his feet, could feel his feet pound against the cement. Yeah, 0:50:25.160 --> 0:50:30.320 cement stop pounding. Mm. He could feel the cement pound 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:34.239 beneath his rubber souls, all right. His breath started to 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:38.600 give out. It's an awkward sense, so like this is okay. 0:50:38.760 --> 0:50:41.520 He could feel the cement pound beneath his rubber souls 0:50:41.560 --> 0:50:46.440 semi colon. His breath started to give out. He breathed 0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:51.239 in and out in dash and dash out, which I'm 0:50:51.400 --> 0:50:55.319 I don't think that's bad. That's he breathed in and 0:50:55.320 --> 0:51:00.120 out burger, trying to find a regularity, anything regular to 0:51:00.160 --> 0:51:05.000 hold onto, trying not to panic. Too many regulars and 0:51:05.040 --> 0:51:11.840 regularity and regulation was earlier in this paragraph. Come on, uh, 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:14.200 and you think regular to hold onto? He's just running 0:51:14.200 --> 0:51:16.520 down the street, all right. He and the and the 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:20.560 sirens hummed closer. Then he saw them in the reflection 0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:23.880 of the large mirrored glass panes of the Ministry of 0:51:24.000 --> 0:51:30.880 Food Provision. The cube shaped and the cube shaped enforcement 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:35.080 pods were rolling down the street after him, gaining rapidly. 0:51:35.640 --> 0:51:39.640 This is unimportant. It's very silly that their enforcement pods. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.120 I would pose it that it's sillier that they're cube 0:51:42.200 --> 0:51:46.640 shaped pods. Well, I think I know what he's doing there. 0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:49.840 I'm trying to remember the name of the show. Um, 0:51:49.840 --> 0:51:54.879 it's the Prisoners, right, But were bubbles, which you could 0:51:55.239 --> 0:51:57.480 you could call those pods. I don't think you can 0:51:57.520 --> 0:52:01.040 call a Cuba pod. You can call it well, no, 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:03.520 I don't think that's right. But I think he's literally 0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:06.120 just doing He absolutely is just I don't even think 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:08.719 he watched The Prisoner. I think someone described it to 0:52:08.800 --> 0:52:12.560 him and he decided to do what he He absorbed that. Yeah, 0:52:12.640 --> 0:52:15.279 it's throughout like cultural losmosis. Right, we're like, oh, I 0:52:15.280 --> 0:52:17.239 know the image of the guy with a number on 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:22.120 his chest the bubble comes after him. Um. Yeah, so 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:25.480 they're yeah, they're I mean a lot of things silly 0:52:25.480 --> 0:52:28.560 about this. Um. I shouldn't harp on the cube shaped pod, 0:52:28.680 --> 0:52:32.759 but yeah, but it's just it's very funny. Um. And 0:52:32.800 --> 0:52:35.120 it's just like it's such a there's a there's a 0:52:35.200 --> 0:52:38.120 uc B sketch from the Upper Sketch show they did 0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:41.560 for like three seasons, and there's a sketch where it's 0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:45.239 it's clearly l Ron Hubbard like an analog reading his 0:52:45.280 --> 0:52:47.400 sci fi book that's like trying to get people to 0:52:47.440 --> 0:52:49.760 a cult, and it's like terrible sci fi and every 0:52:49.760 --> 0:52:52.520 word is like he put on his vision goggles to 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:56.759 eat his nutrition food, and I like it's such bad 0:52:56.800 --> 0:52:59.680 sci fi writing, and I can't think of anything but that. 0:53:00.040 --> 0:53:04.600 Every single time he'd like capitalizes something importment or something. Anyway, 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:07.560 the enforcement pods are after him. In the lead pod 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:10.759 Capital P he could see the slack jawed face of 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:14.880 a slightly bored enforcer Capital E, who leaned forward and 0:53:15.000 --> 0:53:19.680 pushed a button. Suddenly, the pod jumped, as though spurred 0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:24.000 with a cattle prod bucked and leapt toward him. The 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:29.120 distance shrink one block. His feet were giving way now 0:53:29.239 --> 0:53:36.360 half a block. M hm ah. The pod loudspeaker opened 0:53:36.440 --> 0:53:40.520 up with that pulsating rhythm. He'd heard the rhythm once before. 0:53:40.880 --> 0:53:43.960 I shouldn't say rhythm again. He'd heard the rhythm once before. 0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:49.720 You'd only seen God. He'd heard the rhythm once before. 0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:54.560 He'd only seen one enforcement action before. It had been 0:53:54.600 --> 0:54:00.480 a young girl ready for it. Okay, sorry keep going, Yeah, no, 0:54:00.600 --> 0:54:04.239 I'm and I'm sorry for letting his writing trip me 0:54:04.400 --> 0:54:08.160 up and trying to read this out loud. He had 0:54:08.239 --> 0:54:12.239 heard the rhythm once before, He'd only seen one enforcement 0:54:12.280 --> 0:54:16.120 action before. It had been a young girl ready for 0:54:16.200 --> 0:54:20.880 recruitment to the Ministry of Personal Needs. She had his 0:54:21.040 --> 0:54:26.560 word repetition and now has stopped being purposeful and oh, yeah, 0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:28.600 this is just this is just not very I feel 0:54:29.040 --> 0:54:31.279 I feel like I need to point that out here. 0:54:31.480 --> 0:54:33.920 It's also funny to me that like the thing that 0:54:33.960 --> 0:54:36.080 I'm sure one thing I'm sure that Ben finds horrifying 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:38.680 about nineteen eighty four, or at least the television version 0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:40.839 of nine that I'm sure is what he's watched rather 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:43.560 than reading the book, is that there's like there's no 0:54:43.920 --> 0:54:47.200 distinction between between men and women and their society right 0:54:47.239 --> 0:54:49.680 as a desire to to to kind of exercise from 0:54:49.719 --> 0:54:52.359 humanity the capacity to form families and fall in love 0:54:52.400 --> 0:54:56.440 because it's a threat to the state. Um been still 0:54:56.600 --> 0:54:59.560 has a very clear separation. Men do some sort of 0:54:59.640 --> 0:55:01.799 job in women are just there for sex. Uh. And 0:55:01.800 --> 0:55:05.400 that's that's yeah, just very revealing. That's consistent. No, it's 0:55:05.400 --> 0:55:10.320 consistently good. And it says nothing about Ben. Is this 0:55:12.040 --> 0:55:15.200 to wrap it up? Or yeah, So, like I was 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:18.399 gonna say, I'm actually like frustrated reading this now, and 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:20.120 I think we need to take a week break and 0:55:20.160 --> 0:55:22.920 compare to you too. I feel like that's the general 0:55:23.680 --> 0:55:28.040 we do talk about. Oh, I mean a week break 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:30.879 in like real time in that meaning in a week 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:34.200 we'll come back to Okay, we'll still come back then. Yeah, No, 0:55:34.360 --> 0:55:37.000 we have to find out what happens. I just like 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:40.840 I can't read today, you know what. We've got to 0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:44.720 digest what we've learned, and will finish now our trauma 0:55:45.680 --> 0:55:48.319 and my request for all of you in this next week, 0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:50.239 because we only have maybe one more week of going 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:55.640 over Ben's storybook. Maybe fight where he lives, break into 0:55:55.680 --> 0:55:58.080 his home, steal his hard drive. There's got to be 0:55:58.120 --> 0:56:00.239 a file on there that we need. More men, short 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:03.560 stories or scripts, you know, um, bring it, bring him 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:06.680 to us. There's other people we could read. There's other 0:56:06.680 --> 0:56:12.760 people's work we could celebrate anyway, not as good as 0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:15.680 there's something special and tasty about this. He is a 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:21.239 special boy. He sure is. Alright, guys, check us out online. Now, 0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:25.200 where's your pod? We'll be back next week, keeping the 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:30.840 classy worst your enforcement pod. Ye cube shaped because he 0:56:30.880 --> 0:56:33.680 didn't want to do fears because that's from the prisoner 0:56:33.719 --> 0:56:37.880 and he couldn't do it the same way. Yea extremely 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:42.399 And there's no way he's watched the Prisoner. He can't 0:56:42.480 --> 0:56:47.160 have like I can't imagine sitting down and watch is 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:50.319 this cute floating or is this cube on wheels? If so, 0:56:50.480 --> 0:56:56.000 it's got to be floating. That's very funny. Floating cubes 0:56:56.080 --> 0:56:58.879 is such a funny in the world. So here's the thing, 0:56:59.040 --> 0:57:01.960 and we'll okay, we're the episodes not over yet, all right, 0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:07.040 So uh in the sentence that introduces these enforcement pods. Uh, 0:57:07.080 --> 0:57:09.759 in addition to the other things we talked about, the 0:57:09.840 --> 0:57:12.880 cube shaped enforcement pods were rolling down the street after 0:57:12.960 --> 0:57:16.840 him gaining rapidly. They were rolling down the street. Uh. 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:20.680 And so they can't they can't roll unless they're on wheels. 0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:27.120 So I'm pretty sure the cube pods have wheels, just 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:33.960 like yeah, there's cyber trucks that we cleared this up 0:57:34.040 --> 0:57:37.000 because obviously a sphere can roll down in different ways 0:57:37.120 --> 0:57:39.640 or float or however you want to get it. Yeah, 0:57:39.680 --> 0:57:43.600 but a cube can't. It needs wheels to roll. That's 0:57:43.640 --> 0:57:46.680 what I was thinking. Okay, I'm so glad we cleared that. 0:57:46.840 --> 0:57:53.080 I hope they're roller blades. 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