 Well, folks, I just got back from the theaters seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer. I'm about to review both of them. I'm gonna tell you which one of these is the best blockbuster of 2023 and which one is maybe the worst. I bet they loved our movie, right Ken? For those of you who can't wait that long, I'm gonna give my review of the Barbie movie in the most Oppenheimer fashion. Run. You just watched 39-year-old political commentator Ben Shapiro desecrate a Barbie doll in protest of the movie supposedly woke messaging. Now listen, if you all wanna make me really mad, go buy a bunch of my merch and then burn it. I will be seething if I see that you're doing this. Please do not give me money. Now listen, that clip was just a small portion from his 43-minute-long review of the film after his producers supposedly dragged him to see it against his will while he was ironically dressed like Ken. But regardless, he described it as one of the most woke movies he's ever seen and adds that they say the word patriarchy 10 times, which I'm going to assume is an accurate count considering the fact that he brought his handy-dandy notepad with him to the movie theater so he could take notes as he rages about this movie. And in that 43-minute-long video, he vocalizes his anger with this movie and he does say he was very angry because of this film because of how woke it was and not just that it was bad because it was woke, because he thinks it's a bad movie in general. We'll get to his actual review. But the reviews of his review are in and people seem to think that he's maybe being a little bit too melodramatic here with nearly 28,000 dislikes on his video and him reiterating again that he definitely didn't want to see the movie, guys, but his producers made him, he swears. Now, this tantrum actually made national headlines. For example, Newsweek reports Ben Shapiro mocked addressing like Ken to hate watch Barbie film. The Daily Mail reports conservative pundit Ben Shapiro sets Barbie on fire during excoriating 43-minute review. Even AOL published an article talking about his tantrum and if AOL is talking about something, then you know you've done something noteworthy. And there are so many more headlines, but the headlines, they kind of answer the question that you're probably thinking, why do this? Why embarrass yourself for views and clicks? And that's why, because attention is good, even if it is negative, even if you do something that is going to humiliate yourself, but I don't necessarily think that he is self-aware enough to realize that this was very embarrassing for him, not for the Barbie movie. Now, just last week, he railed against the live-action remake of the Snow White film for casting a non-white character as Snow White. And this week, it's Barbie. Next week, it'll probably be tele-tubbies or some shit. Conservatives do this, like they focus on children's cartoons and movies that are popular because they don't have anything serious to say about policy. And this is easy content, right? It gets them attention and that's why they do it. If you don't actually have any solutions, policy, solutions to problems that affect normal working-class Americans, then you do things like this. In fact, Ben Shapiro isn't alone. United States Senator Ted Cruz has also been on the war path against the supposedly communist and woke Barbie movie himself, but he hasn't been able to get nearly as much attention as Ben Shapiro. But that's because, Ted, you've gotta up the ante, right? So if Ben Shapiro burns a Barbie doll and that's getting him a lot of attention, then you've gotta take the outrage further. Film yourself shitting on a Barbie doll or shitting your pants in the movie theater while you watch the movie. And I promise you, if you do that, none of us are gonna remember Ben Shapiro's little stunt. But back to Ben Shapiro because he responded to the internet mocking him. But before I show you that, we'd be remiss to not at least hear him out. Here's some of his biggest gripes about the movie. And again, he wants you to know that he did not want to see this, but his producers forced him to see it. So without further ado, here's another portion of Ben Shapiro's review of the Barbie movie. So the things I do for my audience, my producers dragged me to go see Barbie movie, Barbie The Movie. This movie is a flaming piece of dog pile the top, an entire dumpster on fire, pile the top, a landfill filled with dog. It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I was sitting there with a bunch of my producers. I'm a little bit more political than my producers. My producers were watching this, putting the politics aside, it is a bad movie. So why is it getting 91% on Rotten Tomatoes? Because the way that it works for the reviewers is if you have the right politics and those politics are sufficiently slyly inserted, then it will get a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes even if the thing is just dreck. And I mean, boy is this dreck. This is a death star sized piece of dreck. Well, folks, wasting two hours of my precious time, two hours, I will never get back, two hours around my death bed, I will wish that I had not spent that time making viscerally angry. But I'm gonna talk to you about something that makes me much happier. And that is our trusted privacy partner and premier sponsor of the show, ExpressVPN. Great choice, ExpressVPN. Very good person to sponsor. 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So first and foremost, on the Monday episode of his show, he makes it clear that he is definitely not mad that everyone is making fun of him and he's actually a little bit shocked that so many news outlets covered his embarrassing behavior and he also denies that he was dressed like Ken which is very important. I put out this tweet and everybody loses their mind. I mean loses their mind. There are articles about my review of this movie in sources as diverse as Newsweek, NBC News, The Daily Beast, everyone's covering the fact that I did not like this movie and that I made a video in which I periodically Oppenheimer the Barbie materials. I take like a match and I like the Barbie stuff on fire. And this apparently is terrible. How? No, no, it can't be. The reaction to me burning a Barbie car with like a Barbie and Ken in it is like the reaction of the Islamic world when someone burns a Quran in Sweden. It's totally crazy. I don't even like, wow, guys, wow. I mean, there's an article in NBC, NBCNews.com. The internet is roasting Ben Shapiro for hate-watching Barbie while dressed like Ken. Apparently being dressed like Ken now amounts to you wear black jeans and a black shirt. And the question was whether I had purposefully worn that outfit to the Barbie movie. No, I hadn't seen it, guys. That's just what people tend to wear a lot is like a black t-shirt and I didn't realize this was like a rare and unique bird. It was like some sort of rare pheasant in the wild to wear a black pair of jeans and a black shirt when I go out, in any case. I mean, sure it might be a coincidence, but also despite your insistence that you definitely didn't want to watch the movie and your producers made you watch it, let's be very clear. I think that he was probably feeling a little bit of FOMO, right? He saw how everyone on social media was going to see Barb and Heimer and they were dressing up like Barbie or Ken and he just didn't want to admit that he wanted to participate in the fun. That's his plausible deniability and look, it's entirely possible that him dressing up exactly like Ken is a coincidence, but I think it's obvious that he just wanted to participate in this pop culture phenomenon but he needed some excuse in case anyone saw him seeing the Barbie movie after he previously said that the Barbie movie was what garbage and nobody should see it. But after his extremely contrived overreaction to the movie went viral, he's now essentially saying that everyone else is overreacting to his reaction. So he's pulling out one of the typical no use in response to everybody mocking him. For example, he tries to claim at a different point during that same discussion, something that I find very hard to believe. Let's watch. There's a really serious undertone to a lot of this stuff. I mean, I actually got some death threats over the Barbie movie. I'm not kidding you. There were people on Twitter who were literally tweeting out about like, can we do something about this ship here? Like over a Barbie movie. Oh, okay. So now everyone else is taking the Barbie movie too seriously. Not the guy who purchased Barbies to burn them. Everyone else is taking it too seriously. Now I've got to say this. I feel like this is pretty obvious but somebody vaguely asking if we can do something about your tweets is not tantamount to a death threat, Ben Shapiro. You fucking snowflake. But he probably made that up to kind of invert the conversation. So he doesn't look like the drama queen. Rather everyone else does because clearly if somebody is making a death threat towards somebody simply because they didn't watch or didn't like a movie that they watched. Yeah, they're pretty ridiculous, right? Now, I don't believe him but he added this via Twitter, which is also funny. I'm sorry, me not liking Barbie is happening to you. Ben, I need to make this abundantly clear. Nobody cares if you like the Barbie movie or not. Okay, we're amused by your tweet because it is humiliating. It is self-degrading and it demonstrates how out of touch you are. You know how we mocked you for buying a single piece of wood from Home Depot and that you put in a plastic bag or how you angrily read out the lyrics to WAP on your show and it inadvertently revealed that your wife has a dry pussy. This is one of those moments, Ben, where everyone is laughing at you because your thirst for attention has backfired once again and you are proving to everyone that you are not a serious person despite your desire to be viewed as serious by people in the political realm. But I wanna be clear here, it's not just about him and conservatives who are complaining about the Barbie movie or other woke movies wanting attention. It goes beyond attention, right? The goal ultimately is to hijack cultural phenomenons like this and kind of cash in on these types of pop culture moments in order to build up cultural relevance that the right has never had in America. So perhaps convincing filmmakers to not go woke allows them to assert their cultural dominance in a way that they've never really been able to before. I mean, Ben Shapiro has literally tweeted go woke, go broke himself, but I mean, that's just not true and the Barbie movie kind of proves that, right? Despite all of the conservatives screeching about the woke man-hating feminist Barbie movie, it was massively successful and Ben Shapiro was not alone here and the reason why the movie was so successful despite conservative warnings about it being woke is because normal people don't actually give a shit about whether or not a movie is woke or not. But conservatives have always been culturally irrelevant and what they say about pop culture is largely disregarded for obvious reasons because of things like this. So in order for them to be able to participate in trends and cultural phenomena like this that may seemingly run counter to their political and ideological predispositions, they have to shit on things that people like in order to engage with it so that way they come off as cool contrarian outsiders rather than puritanical losers that nobody wants to be around, right? They don't wanna miss out. Ben Shapiro wants to see the movie. He wants to do barbenheimer like everyone else is doing. So in order to do that and not look like a sellout or a poser, you've gotta do it in this stupid hyperbolic way. But I think that they bit off a little bit more than they can chew with the Barbie movie because I mean, you really don't wanna call something woke unless you know it's going to be unsuccessful. And that way if you say it's woke and then it's unsuccessful, then you can kind of prove go woke, go broke holds. But that didn't happen in this instance, right? They probably thought the movie wouldn't do well but it surpassed everyone's expectations and rather than just shutting the fuck up and watching the movie or not watching the movie for that matter like normal people, they instead try to spoil the fun for everyone else by acting like buffoons in order to find some way to jump on the bandwagon and leech off of the popularity of this film. But even if Ben Shapiro got the attention that he wanted, well, not all attention is good attention and this attention is only going to make him look more foolish to regular people and hopefully turn them off to his regular political content. So keep up the great work, Ben because you're doing fucking great and I'm sure that when people see how you reacted to the Barbie movie, they're also gonna take your political views seriously as well. So please keep doing shit like this, conservatives. It's definitely helping your cause.