The Nick DiPaolo Show - Ben Stein Part 1 | Nick Di Paolo Show #1486

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

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🎵 Good morning, my neighbors! Hey, fuck you! Why? How are you, folks? Welcome to the show. Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Hope you're all doing well. I like this week.

We put a few in the can because I got to travel next week and whatever. And nice and easy, light load. Anybody catch me on Jesse last night? It's a last minute thing, so, you know. Did we tease it on the show? We did, right? Yeah, we teased it on the show. And I thought it was pretty good. Very quick. Thing is, I'm talking and I've never usually, I've done a few

remotes, but maybe they were actually in the same building and I was in a different room. Anytime I've done a remote, there's been a monitor where I could see who I was talking to. Isn't that usually, right? Director? So there was nothing. I couldn't

see Jesse. I had an airpiece in. And I'm just talking into a camera. So when I go home and watch it, like, he was talking about the birthday candles. I didn't know there was a visual there. That's why I said, AOC said, no candles. You're going to hurt the environment. Huh? Yes, exactly.

Thank God I'm a fucking genius. But I didn't know he had a visual. And it's a little trickier, you know. But it was good because it's Fox. Everything's quality. I could hear him beautifully. The frigging earpiece even stayed in, which is the first time ever. And who would have guessed?

Eight ounces of wax would hold that baby in place. Huh? And yeah, so it was good. I like Jesse. We have the same sense of bill. I like all those guys. Gutfeld's funny as hell. Quirky in a different way. Smart as a whip. Jesse's way smarter. He's pretty because they don't get him credit for being as smart as he is because he's pretty. And I think me and Jesse, you know, Jesse's sort of a, I think he's an ex-jock. You know, he loves the Eagles and whatever. And Gutfeld loves guitar like I do. It's a good, those people are very nice over there.

I just hope the fucking Murdoch sons don't fuck it up. You know what I'm saying? They're still talking about Chris Christie and fucking Nikki Haley. Has the right learned anything in the last 20 years? Oh, my God. It makes me fucking. Anyways, it's Tuesday. My wife's out shopping right now, picking up all.

I made a list. I do the cook. No biggie. It's just me and her. It's the second or third year, just me and her. I cooked for eight people once But I didn't remember who was here It was great

I like good You know That's when I was like Yeah I can do this We're doing a low country boil For Thanksgiving Oh you're always showing off Just get a fucking frozen turkey

And fucking shit on it They're doing a low country boil They're gonna have Turkey stuff with crawfish Etouffee And low boil is so good, too. Potatoes, corn, friggin', you know what?

Crab legs. Actual vermin heads. And fresh shrimp straight from the ocean. Fresh shrimp straight from Publix. I don't care what anybody says, that fried chicken at Publix. I don't care what anybody says. Is that fried chicken at Publix?

Dude, so we were able to get our shrimp with the head still on. So we actually make it. You're going to make it a stock. Oh, yeah. I know. I know how to do that. I made a stock with some girls' heads I had cut off of it. I call it head stock.

Delicious. Delicious. Delicious. Thank you. All right. We've fucked around enough. Let's get to the story. By the way, second half of the show, my first part of the interview with Ben Stein.

Stick around because God damn is he funny and an inspiration to a guy that age. Honest to God, when you're my age, you're like, yeah, you still got it, man. The big story, Elon Musk versus Media Matters. Elon Musk's ex-Twitter slash artist known as Prince has filed a lawsuit against Media Matters over its efforts to link ad placements on the platform to neo-Nazi content. A strategy the far-left nonprofit has used in the past to trigger ad bull... Anything more dangerous to the right than a nonprofit on the left?

Again, this is Soros money. This is the most rotten fucking media matters. Their job, and this is no bullshit, is to monitor. They pay people to watch Fox around the clock. I'm not shitting you. That is their job. And probably American News 1, but mostly Fox because it's a behemoth.

And then they just fuck and you'll see what they do. A strategy far left nonprofit has used in the past to trigger ad boycotts against conservative media companies. Yeah, well, you picked on the wrong guy. So they try to pull this crap with Elon and he goes, yeah, well, we're going to court, bitch. Schautzler. Goddamn right.

Schautzler. In a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, we don't need to know all that shit. You people who write these fucking articles, I don't care what town or district. Just tell me it's in Texas. Twitter slash X accuses media Matters of distorting the likelihood of ads appearing next to alleged hate speech on the platform.

Media Matters knowingly and maliciously manufactured side-by-side images depicting advertisers' posts. And what they did, they had two channels. depicting advertisers' posts. And what they did, they had two channels. The advertisers' posts. Then they would take hate speech from right-wing things and, like, screenshot them and put them next to an IBM ad. And then IBM's like, what the fuck is this? We're getting off X.

That's what it is. Side-by-side images depicting advertisers' posts on X Corps. What am I, Obama? The Marine Corps social media platform besides neo-Nazi and white nationalist fringe content. And we know, you know, we know that's the real problem in this country. It's not Antifa and BLM burning down cities and shit. It's white guys, you fucking liars. Fringe content and then portray these manufactured images

as if they were what typical ex-users experience on the platform, says X in the complaint. X meaning Elon Musk. I'm going with the rocket scientist on this one, in this fight. Against a bunch of left-wing jerk-offs who hate this country media matters designed both these images and its resulting media strategy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy x core can't really argue just the facts in a post on uh ex-ceo linda yaccarinoino said that not a single authentic user saw ads from IBM,

these are huge advertisers, Comcast or Oracle next to the content identified by Media Matters, and only two users saw Apple's ads next to the content, at least one of which was Media Matters. On the same day that X filed its lawsuit against Media Matters, the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, there he is. I always confuse him with Bill Paxton and Governor Abbott. One of them has no legs. Abbott's got legs. They just don't feel good. He has sick legs. Remember how surprised we were when we found that he was in a wheelchair? Jesus Christ. Anyways, Attorney General Texas Kemp Axson launched an investigation into the far-left non-profit over potential fraudulent activity. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has also indicated interest

in the case. And my question is, where's the right-wing bird? Once again, the right-wing is playing catch-up, right? Once again, they're outsmart. I know it's dirty tactics, you know, Once again, they're outsmart. I know it's dirty tactics, you know. But in my, you know, isn't all fair in love and war? Can't we monitor MSNBC? I would be doing the same. Yeah, but Nick, you don't want to get down in the mud.

Says who? You ever fuck in the mud? It's great. Get down in the mud with them. They go low, as what's his name said, Obama's attorney general. We go lower. How about that? This is life or death.

This is the future of this country. And if I hear one more left-wing jerk-off in the media or a politician on the left say, if Trump gets elected, our democracy is finished, please, and I know I brought this up. Go ahead, Dallas. But nobody has yet to say how. They only just throw the buzzword, democracy is at stake, democracy is at stake,

but they never deliver how because they know it's all bullshit. They always say authoritarianism. Really? You mean like, oh, I don't know, like a president having his top political opponent arrested? You think, isn't that kind of fucking dictatorship? On top of mandates, mandates, mandates. On top of all that, tie him up in court,

hope he's not even trying to get him off. You can't get more authoritarian or left-wing, whatever you want to call it. It's not democracy. How do they do that? But I'm telling you, some of these people on TV are that retarded. They really believe what they're saying. And then there's others who I believe know what they're saying is bullshit. But most of them, I think, really drank the fucking Kool-Aid. Can you imagine being that afraid of him? Even now? He hasn't been in office in, what, three and a half years? And they yap in. He's in their head, man. He's a real estate guy. He's got a ton of space in everybody's head. And it makes my head,

because we're not doing democracy right now. You guys are censoring right-wing, you know, look at this story right here. You're censoring people on the right, arresting the former president on bogus charges, and you're saying you're democracy. How do you fucking look in the mirror at night?

Are you that retarded? May all your kids die. That's all I got to say. Hey, guys, in the second half of the show, this is a real treat, because I've been a fan of this guy's for a year. We'll be showing my first half of my interview with a very funny Ben Stein,

who, by the way, even when I watched him and I didn't know who he was, I would laugh and go, this guy's great. Went on Ben Stein's money in the movies, right? Bueller, Bueller. Even that he made funny. And he's a smart dude and he's obsessed with sex. That's how I know he's still healthy. sex. That's how I know he's still healthy. Anyways, all that's exclusively on Mug Club, so join now to get it at nickdip.com. You'll be glad you did. I'm not just saying that. You're going to love that. We have two parts, too, and he's just as funny. Did we have fun, Dallas? We were howling the whole time. Time for a little break. Hey, guys, let's be honest.

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on store. Again, that's nickdip.com. Click on store. Thank you guys so much. See you soon. My guest today, I'll tell you, I've been a big fan of this guy forever. He's a writer, actor, lawyer, comedian, economist. Got a great new book out. It's called the peacemaker nixon the man the president and my friend and if you're about my age you probably know him best from when ben stein's money please welcome to the show the great ben stein ben how are you couldn't be better if i were twins and if you know i'm just told you are really really really smart if you know from whom i heard that saying that expression you win the prize and i say the prize is a wonderful original timex watch made in the philippines which used to be part of america and just

should be still if we had any sense speaking of ben stein's money uh what happened to your friend and my friend jimmy kimmel how did they get to him jesus well they got him through me actually he he's a funny guy very very smart guy right i i think he's on the wrong side of the fence politically but we've discussed that many times i'm not going to change him he's certainly not going to change me he's a great guy basically i mean he's not uh he's not he's not me he's not uh he's not nixon but he's a great guy i don't understand and you're right because i know him i did a show a couple times and he is a nice guy smart guy but he was not the guy he is

today when i knew him i i just wonder i really well he became he became rich and he became hollywood famous rich and famous and uh and surrounded by sycophants who uh love him and will uh agree that anything he says is brilliant and uh and uh he's uh that's who he is although i have to say when he was doing when he was co-host on my show yeah uh he was just a effing genius i mean i i just uh felt sorry for anyone who tried to make fun of him or i wish i say uh harass him and like mock him he would come back at them very, very hard. Well, that's what I'm known for. So ask Jimmy himself.

I have a black belt in that stuff because I'm still doing stand-up. Wow. And my hate runs deep for everybody. It's a beautiful thing. So anyways, before we get... That's funny, stand-up. God, that's a hard effing job.

36 years. I see people doing it. My heart breaks for them. It really, really does. It's a really hard job. Well, if you think it's harder than writing for a president or being an economist or a lawyer, you're crazy. No, no, no, no. Being an economist is one of the best jobs in the world.

In fact, my son died prematurely, unfortunately, of a very bad illness. But had he lived, I urged him to become an economist. It's one of the very, very best jobs there is. In fact, it occurs to me that i have a friend and i'm not allowed to say girl she's a girlfriend because i've been married to the same woman since 1968. yeah you can do both okay you bet i can you bet i can you and uh and uh if i if he had lived i was advised him to become an economist in fact i now realize that sitting in a room with me and you, me in person, you by computer, by Internet, is a very, very smart young fellow who should be an economist. It's a great, great job.

I just, I'll tell you, it's not an accident I went into the arts because, as you know, people in the arts have no clue about business or money. I was a marketing major at the University of Maine with a real hefty 2.4 GPA. I don't get money. My brother's just the opposite. He retired. He's two years younger than young me retired about 10 years

ago i i just i i understand that a little bit but uh i got a d in finance that was my only d in college and i i just never got it but um let's you should yeah can i get can i save your viewers and listeners a great deal of trouble don't go into finance or anything having to do with promising you how to make money uh read my books instead and read invest invest uh and uh buy stock and buy stock in berkshire hathaway you've got warren buffett managing your money for free war Warren effing budget. That's actually a good name for Warren budget. This is this. I mean, why would

I choose to manage my pathetic amounts of money when I could have Warren Buffett do it for free? And I'm going to go a little further since I have you here as my prisoner. I also would say buy real estate. Because with real estate, A, you get a place to have sex with your girlfriends.

And B, you have incredible income tax advantage in the sense that you don't have to pay tax on the rent, the imputed rent you would have if you had rented the house you bought, a condo or the apartment. You're absolutely right about that. I bought a duplex on the Gaza Strip about eight months ago. And it's not – apparently it's still standing. You probably have catastrophic coverage. I do.

I have Hamas coverage. You're very lucky. Yeah, exactly. They say they're not making land anymore. No, apparently not in the Gaza Strip. Let me ask you about that. We'll segue right into that before we get to your book, because I want to get a way in

on this. Nixon, I think one of his strong points was foreign policy, and boy... It was incredible. Right? The guy was brilliant at it. Introduced us to China. Hey, for those of you on Mug Club, stick around for the second half of

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