What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

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What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston for a reading of Ben Shapiro's book.
Original Air Date: April 9, 2020
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
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[@harmoniousrex]

As a taller gym rat and avowed leftist, the fact that I have the exact dimensions of Ben Shapiro's ideal self is unspeakably delicious.

[@themaskedmysadaean8885]

Tell me, oh please describe it to me! I wanna know!! ^^

[@TheDarthbinky]

But did you have a growth spurt like a horse so that you're big like a bear?

[@harmoniousrex]

@@TheDarthbinky No,. it turns out people just grow gradually lmao. You can tell by the "Hawthorne family growth spurt" anecdote that Ben really held onto hope well into his late teens, however.

[@TheDarthbinky]

@@harmoniousrex well now i'm disappointed that Ben Shapiro could possibly be less than accurate.

[@Bustermachine]

So you look like that uber chad muscle guy meme? Cool! XD

[@jorymo4964]

I love how he introduces wildly offensive stereotypical depictions of marginalized groups and immediately juxtaposes them against a character from a similar background who is "one of the good ones"

[@damien5158]

Yeah if he was smart enough he would have at least written a fantasy children's book to get away with doing that.

[@dave326]

I love that BRETT HAWTHORN is described as being great at talking his way out of trouble. Then he never talks his way out of a single situation the whole book. It’s always violence that gets him out.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

Some people only speak the language of UNFATHOMABLE VIOLENCE

[@markevans8206]

So Ben is unaware that while the President suggests a budget, it’s actually Congress that creates and passes the budget? I keep discovering that a common attribute of “conservatives“ is that they don’t know how the world actually works. 36:57

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

This is common with libertarians as well

[@markevans8206]

@@monsignorerasmus.6441 As far as I can tell, libertarians are mostly people too embarrassed to admit they are Republicans. Otherwise, they would care about LGBTQIA+ people's rights and oppose all the recent book bannings, drag show bannings, groomer rhetoric, gag laws preventing schools from teaching "controversial" topics, don't say gay policies, etc. But not a single peep from a so-called "libertarian." At best, Libertarians used to be Republicans that thought weed should be legal. Now they aren't even that. They are just pizza cutters. All edge, no point.

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

@@markevans8206 well said, they have a laissez-faire attitude to the lgbtqt community in so far as they dont have the capacity to speak on the issue. But in truth they never would be supporters As far as solutions i think the mostly lean towards a final one if you get my drift. They are basically incompetent Nazi's with a taste for weed and fondness for slavery and oppression.

[@BeeHatGuy]

​@@markevans8206100% every Republican I knew switched to libertarian after Obama got elected, because they were embarrassed by how unpopular Bush became

[@Wildfan-sg3fh]

​@@markevans8206Libertarians were most popular during the Ron Paul revolution.

[@raven_g6667]

That severe growth spurt over a small period of time happened to me too and it was a problem, I had to go see doctors, I was in pain constantly and my balance sucked. If Ben spent even one second researching growth spurts, he'd realize that not all of them turn ppl into linebackers and/or Micheal Jordan and/or imperialist generals for the US military lolz. Ben has no idea what it's like to be tall, so the world of tallness might as well be a bugs bunny cartoon to him.

[@cryptbeast3222]

He doesn't care to know the reality because it's mostly just a fetish for him.

[@TurockX3]

I had something similar. All that happened to me is that at the exact same time everyday I would just pass out cause my body was trying to speed run becoming an awkward teen

[@Daedalus117]

Yeah, turns out that unless you're working out a lot (or otherwise staying active), a growth spurt just makes you tall. Didn't do much for my skinny nerd muscles.

[@sweetpotatofries99]

I dunno what your sex is, but as a female I found myself getting rapidly taller and more busty with my body fat deposits moving around and my hormones raging. Plus, wretched periods that put me down for 5 days at a time. It sucked and I felt repulsive.

[@troubleman3176]

For those who would like to go through the Ben Shapiro book episodes in chronological order, this is the first episode. The episodes were released in the following order: What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel (Apr 2020) We Continued Reading Ben Shapiro's Terrible Racist Novel (May 2020) Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book: The Saga Continues (Jul 2020) Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book Is Still the Best Thing About 2020 (Sep 2020) A Very Special Election Reading of Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book (Nov 2020) Let's Take a Break with Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book (Jan 2021) Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, The Journey Refuses to End (Feb 2021) Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode (Jun 2021)

[@elcidthehero7797]

Thank you. You're doing good work.

[@Chaosqueenngami]

Thank you! I love this channel but sometimes they make it to damn hard to watch their videos in order.

[@MajorHickE]

It should be possible to find this gem as a playlist right now

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

@@MajorHickE It _should_ be, but it's not. At the exact time that I'm posting, the only playlist that isn't just... everything, is the one for "the Dilbert Guy," Scott Raymond Adams, totaling 3 videos.

[@user-lc1te3rq2t]

@@Wendy_O._Koopa he means you can find a Playlist of you search for this. it's someone else's Playlist not BTB

[@IanOPadrick]

8:05 Such a 'never worked a day in your life' sentence right here. If you're at the point you can feel the sweat run down your back, it's not cold and you don't perceive it as cold

[@DrZaius3141]

I don't know, "cold sweat" very specifically refers to sweating due to danger or anxiety. It actually feels cold then.

[@platedlizard]

Cold sweat is from terror. Only time I ever felt that was when some guy tried to get me into his van, asked me if I wanted to get a ride and tried cutting me off and circling the block I was walking down. Freaky shit.

[@cliveadams7629]

​@@platedlizardOr impending heart attack. If you have a cold sweat on and there's nothing scary nearby, head for the ER.

[@Islandswamp]

I’ve never been accused of anything racist in my life, and I never had a black person claim that I had just used a racial slur. This plays to the conservative fear that someone will call them racist just because they are.

[@DStecks]

I want to write the equivalent of this from a leftist perspective, the hero is a queer doctor who gets evicted from his apartment on page 1 by his southern landlord who is also a cop

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Ah, but you see, THAT is actually feasible.

[@Chaosqueenngami]

Thank you, Ben Shapiro. You've given me the courage to continue my book. If people are willing to buy your badly worded, predictably racist, asinine drivel, there may be hope for me yet.

[@milescorporosus4058]

35:57 "Those bodies had been mutilated _obscenely."_ I do love the suggestion that there's a way to mutilate a corpse that wouldn't be considered obscene. Not mutilated _like one normally would,_ but mutilated _obscenely._ (Because genitalia, I guess?)

[@PorkpieJohnny]

"The bodies had been mutilated very politely"

[@kingalphawerewolf]

I mean.. I guess standard autopsy wouldn't be considered 'obscene'? But that's reaching lmao

[@idontwantahandlethough]

"sophie, there is nothing woker than letting a woman take the blame for a man's _very_ clear and obvious mistake" edit: after listening, all I have to say is that was ~exceptionally~ homoerotic. Even the parts without any men at all. Don't really know how that's possible, but ol' Benji found a way

[@HyenaDandy]

In addition to my comment about how stupid naming a player "Yard" is, I want to point out that Ben clearly thinks that he would have been a great football player if only he was taller. Because clearly the only thing needed to make 'The coaches' like you is bigness. 'The Coaches' didn't like Hawthorn when he was short, but they really liked him once he became big. And what position did Brett's bigness help him play? No idea. Because it's all the same, you see, as far as Ben is concerned, football requires no intelligence or strategy, and therefore all you need to know is how big someone is.

[@Lloyd_Meadhbh]

The thing I can't get past is Ben not knowing the word 'molten'...

[@Wildfan-sg3fh]

Or crumbled rather than crumpled.

[@cf453]

I have a meltingly hot desire for Katy Stoll's cookies.

[@bellalysewinchester]

38:24 "freedom meant nothing if you couldn't put bread in your children's mouths at night" I get what's being intended here, but the phrasing made me suddenly picture somebody sneaking into their child's bedroom at 2am to cram a baguette into their mouth

[@dwaynezilla]

having Some More News folks for the Bench Appearo episode is a good choice

[@idontwantahandlethough]

i enjoy that you make him sound like a D-list magician. It's.. oddly fitting for his whole vibe, somehow.

[@Wowkansas]

I almost spit out my tea too many times laughing so hard

[@done.6191]

I feel like Ben's detroit knowledge started and stopped when he heard that the movie 8Mile existed.

[@SgtKaneGunlock]

I learned a lot from these episodes...namely how NOT to write a novel

[@TheDarthbinky]

"Sponsored his citizenship" - that's not a real thing, Ben. I work in this field... there's absolutely no "sponsoring" involved in obtaining US citizenship. What he describes literally does not exist. There is a sort of sponsoring process involved in obtaining a "green card" (technically a "permanent resident card", which allows for "legal" immigration), but that's not citizenship and Ben makes a point of telling us that Emilio is an "illegal" and thus does not have one of those either. And the thing that gets me is that this is *very* basic legal stuff. I'm not an attorney and I understand it. Ben is a Harvard-trained attorney (or, was... before he realized he could make a lot more money as a right-wing grifter and let his bar license lapse). He should be able to easily comprehend this stuff. This is what it looks like when a person is blinded by their own extremist ideology.

[@tomtom2719]

This channel is a fuckin diamond...I've been binging.

[@shamefulbrainbot4742]

This is the first time i listen to you, i hated every second of it, it was great

[@VeronicaHSong]

I love that you opened a channel and now I can tell people who need subtitles, even English ones just for understanding better, to go watch my first favourite podcast! Robert, you are hilarious and I really love listening to you. Next obvious step- Filmed podcasts! I think I'm gonna get a lot of support on this idea😊

[@toslowlypoke]

not to go to bat too hard for shapeebo here, but the mag used in the M9 has witness holes, so you can see how many rounds you have left at a glance. ejecting the mag also lets you check its weight more easily (for the same purpose, but when you have fully opaque magazines).

[@Ubernerd3000]

35:08 “FUCK-PANTHER”…I can’t even…🤣🤣🤣

[@origami_dream]

"215 pounds in his underwear" is a really weird way to phrase that, Ben. You'd normally just say "215 pounds" and leave it at that, Ben, and people wouldn't think you meant "fully clothed, with combat boots on. Big, tough combat boots and like... shredded fatigues, showing just hints of glistening musculature... caked in sweat and dripping with bronzer..." So that you chose to specify, Ben, means you were explicitly picturing the "bear of a man" mostly naked, Ben. That said i doubt Ben wrote much of this. It was probably a series of ghostwriters working off an outline provided by an editor who themself had very little input from Ben, and *maybe* one or both of them made some revisions (but more likely just sent it out again for punch up and coherence to another freelancer). And as a queer person who has ghostwritten some chapters of truly bad racist machismo books, i can say that there are multiple ghostwriters who will gleefully make things as gay as possible when taking such work.

[@Metaphysicist]

Why though?

[@LeoFieTv]

Thank you, Ryan, for making the playlist. You're a real one.

[@HyenaDandy]

So I don't know how sportsy most of the people on the cast are but... ...What the fuck sort of nickname for a football player is "Yard"? That's like having a basketball player named "Hardwood" or "Scoretable." Like, there is either a very interesting story, or, more likely... Ben has no fucking clue what Football is.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

"Novelist Ben Shapiro" nope sorry I think what you meant to say was, "failed screenwriter and magical jockey Ben Shapiro."

[@inimitableminimalist]

"haunted ventriloquist dummy"

[@TerrenceNowicki]

@@inimitableminimalist "What, Mr. Marbles? He's harmless!"

[@SnackFoodCentral]

Robert's voice and Sophie's background laugh give me energy. Thank you both.

[@mattieohya]

Please continue. I need to know more!

[@sebastijanbozic9085]

The last chapter is Ben pretty much justifying killing of black kid, you do not want to know more

[@Spencerdoken]

I love how we spend multiple pages establishing how he learned the secret Black People art of talking his way out of things, but he *never does that* in the book. Like he gets out if problems by stabbing teenagers and running away from secret service agents.

[@Phrygid]

42:10 everything else in this book might be trash, but this line was absolutely hilarious

[@steelersguy74]

I NEED MORE!

[@teamghostwhale7746]

Yes!!! I need them all!

[@michaelbukowski7396]

48:21 “And he shall be Levon. And he shall be a good man.” Oh to have Cody break out in to Elton John…

[@AndrewMovie13]

I feel like it's crazy that, even though this was written before his term, this president character is basically just "Donald Trump (Democratic Party)"

[@decoygamer142]

Having heard more of this book via this podcast it took me a moment to realise that "When the towers hit the building" at 7:40 was not in the book but was just a flub

[@ricksimon9867]

If you want more, Adam Something did a good job talking about this book, too. I would say 30% of the stuff covered here, and 70% additional info.

[@jcspoon573]

Pashtu is not that complicated. Knowing a language, but not the culture ... quite the accomplishment. re: DLI classifies Farsi (parent language of the Pashtu dialect) as Cat 3 out of 4, the most difficult languages are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. As an Arabic speaker, I would dispute Arabic being more difficult than Farsi ... which also weakens my point/citation.

[@serenaegger7414]

I've been dealing with writer's block/insecurity about my writing lately, and decided that the smartest way to help me break through all of that would be to come back and binge all of this absolute brain rot again. While I may come out of this with significantly lowered brain function, at least the insecurity will be gone.

[@Dave-te5bs]

Can you make more videos on this book?

[@marocat4749]

There are other progressive previwer tearing it apart out there :P ithink ames tullos is a good one, he hs other weird books too, steven seagals is,very em.

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

I have listened to this 20 times on the website Finally others will know what i mean by "a big, bear of a man".

[@inimitableminimalist]

IN HIS UNDERWEAR

[@fkrkf]

Sometimes i gave brain farts and forget the title "some more news" and when that happened I'll end up searching for Cody's showdy. I've had to do this literally dozens of times bc of my terrible aphasia.

[@done.6191]

His odd sentence structure is common in screenwriting, so it's not a surprise he creeped that style in.

[@animarodies3755]

"True Allegiance" sounds like Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen wrote "Mein Kampf" and translated it into too many languages on Google Translate before translating it back into English.

[@Infamous-K]

Thanks for the video! All hail the Algorithm

[@cloudycolacorp]

Why is it all written like “Big tallerson took out his Beretta M92 (known in military service as the M9) the hammer was down as he had pressed the decocker lever before he put it in his safariland holster there was a round of 9mm parabellum in the chamber” You can just write “The hunk took out his handgun”

[@done.6191]

I thought you reading from "The Religion Wars" was as bad as it would get. I was so very wrong.

[@misterj9669]

Hearing the hope in Robert's heart that the cop wouldn't kill the child...

[@marocat4749]

Cody is right there. And better a fictional novel where he canget that out. It would be probably not good,or maketoomuch sense, but be entertaining. And igive jordan te creativity to really be entrtaining and wild and do dramatic situations, even if it maks little sense,He has talent as storyteller, i just wish he stayed with fictio tht might have his politicsrather than seling it as truth. And mybe make somethig akin to the room.

[@irieite9666]

When listening to the Elon Musk episode and hearing about Ben Shapiros book i was expecting an autobiography lol. This is much better.

[@801Hellfire]

You have to read the Levon part where BLM starts a race riot

[@SgtKaneGunlock]

i think they get to it in one of the other episodes or in a worst year ever episode

[@DissertatingMedieval]

Man, when you mentioned "that damned smelt" I was just "oh shit, this is the stupid 'we own all the water even though we don't'" bullshit on the 5.

[@merbst]

My Opa could see through time too!

[@GuerillaBunny]

What gets my goat is just how much Ben would want to swear, but can't due to contractual obligations. Damn liberals censoring his free speech! Also, I love that Ben thinks billionaires are refusing to pay their taxes, because all of their money goes to the burials of their favorite well-paid immigrant's children.

[@SRHtheHedgehog]

Brett Hawthorne had an enzo growth spurt

[@alangroskreutz235]

Looks like Shaperio got his "Derrick" friend in Candice Owen.

[@Anghellik9]

When you don't think you're racist, but you absolutely are: the novel

[@AmericanArchon]

This isn't your average, everyday cringe. This is...advanced cringe.

[@marocat4749]

regarding the work freedom. Its i think even more insidious in that ,"oh that poor lazy people can just work" enabling a "vreedom to work" version , .... making poor people being working like slaves as "freedom to work" , imean it worse as projection if,... doesnt ben and co say vreedom allth time to horrid loss of rights.

[@origami_dream]

It is mind-boggling to me that that is the *edited* version of your comment. Not that i disagree. I think? Hard to tell.

[@mattm12124]

the swat team is standing around outside with their rifles on burst while interacting with the public..

[@mikemalley1909]

Did I miss the ending of the book?

[@cybercop0083]

It’s an eight-parter, fam!

[@TheFunGun5]

Vapid GQP fan-fiction.

[@suikim9194]

18:51 what.

[@josephthemann1174]

Dry boys know

[@HyenaDandy]

A further point about Mr. Yard. NOBODY knows his real name? I mean, I know that Ben doesn't see black people as human, but like, he shouldn't outright say it like that. I think Yard almost certainly knows his name. As does Yard's mother, and father, any family or friends... Honestly maybe the dude ~~Ben went to scho~~ WHO IS TOTALLY FICTIONAL just happens to have, like, the last name 'Yard' or something and Be-Er, BRETT-Just never bothered trying to find out.

[@Emery_Pallas]

What is this Bubsy 3D level quoting here omfg.

[@dakinayantv3245]

So Hawthorn doesn't wear shoes and goes in his underwear?

[@bookerwills8649]

In his underwear and bare feet... like wtf hahahaha

[@CakesWarden]

I found this to be really cute actually. I look forward to listening to more. Just for the record: Ben did indeed lambast Trump for abandoning the Kurds in Syria.

[@rs7656]

Which one of Ben's racist novels?

[@TheUnKnowNKazadiel]

What's wrong with Oatmeal Raisin? Q_Q;

[@Awaken_To_0]

I have to say, to become President of the United States, don't you kinda need to be obsessed with your legacy? Like at least a little? Otherwise why would you even want the job besides being a full blown Cincinnatus. Even Washington who idolized Cinncinatus retired in part to set an example for every president who would come after him... You know, to create a _legacy?_

[@kingalphawerewolf]

Not at all. Besides those interest in just the power and wealth of said position, creating a legacy. The other main type striving for it are trying to make a difference, change something, or things. The fact that that *creates* a legacy doesn't enter into it, no self-serving in it. Just "I need to reach this position to change these things I feel are wrong."

[@Awaken_To_0]

@@kingalphawerewolf Okay but which President are you referring to who's like that? Even Washington, who stepped down rather than become king, did so in part because he wanted to leave a legacy. A legacy of civic duty and humility in the vein of Cincinnatus, yes, but that is still a legacy he deliberately sought.

[@cfish9891]

Theory on the whole bear thing. It's Ben's kink. He deeply wants to be a bear cub and wants a large military vet to be his big strong grizzly. He's never actually been with a woman l, he just has to have a cishet marriage for his career

[@MacMillan1603]

"Never actually been with a woman." Da fuq? He's married and has 4 kids!

[@cfish9891]

@@MacMillan1603 you can do that without sex

[@MacMillan1603]

@@cfish9891 His children are his and his wife's biological children, though.

[@cfish9891]

@MacMillan1603 yes and?

[@MacMillan1603]

@@cfish9891 So he has been with a woman.

[@Advent3546]

37:54 Only Ben Shapiro would be so flagrant and shameless to compare a government jobs program to Auschwitz

[@GBomb9704]

To think I use to believe Ben Shapiro was some kind of super genius makes me cringe but better for the grace of I Dog I presume.

[@Countraccoonula]

Who told Ben Shapiro he could write?

[@paulisfat8077]

Judging by his books, he cant.

[@erf3176]

27:00 Maybe smoking opium would have helped his writing.

[@thenippleextractor]

took me half an hour to realize this is a book of fiction

[@marocat4749]

Yeah, ben can create all that word to hisliking tojustify any scenatio, and he still cant make a believable case in that fantasy of his. poor writer indeed.

[@RaunienTheFirst]

I've been watching these out of order, but I don't think you *need* to watch them in order. You could go into this piece of shit book by a piece of shit person at any point and get the exact same experience.

[@cibelal6293]

It sounded ok. F religion.

[@ded_lej]

what sounded ok?

[@cibelal6293]

@@ded_lej the podcast.

[@klutterkicker]

It's funny because just yesterday a dude started yelling at me before I could even see him as I climbed a parking garage stairwell and within three seconds accused me of "giving funny looks" and threatened "you better stop it" before I could get through the door but I guess where Robert lives this just doesn't happen unless I was telepathically aggressing against him first.

[@_A.K_]

i try to listen to podcasts but fast forward when they are laughing at themselves and when i have to fast forward more than i can listen i just stop and leave bye

[@jeffandersen7397]

wait, did I just find Katy and Mr Cody from the highly informative, painfully entertaining #SomeMoreNews . . . . ? i think i did

[@mindgames11]

funny, you mention Ben Shapiros height- I saw someone call him out at a Q&A on youtube about his claimed height. The interrogator said he was 5'8" which Ben said he was too and called him up on stage and they were the same height.

[@TheBonkleFox]

Ego makes people look tiny.

[@awkwardukulele6077]

Bold of you to assume Ben didn’t hire a plant

[@adamplentl5588]

Ah yes. Bunjamin Shabeebo

[@mindgames11]

You guys are devoting an hour to this episode- you realize that this is a FICTIONAL BOOK right?

[@Bustermachine]

I'm sure they do. But it's funny cuz it's pretty clear this is how Shapiro thinks XD