Sam Harris Discusses His Ben Affleck Debate on Real Time with Bill Maher

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    Sam Harris joins Dave Rubin to discuss his appearance on 'Real Time with Bill Maher' where he and Ben Affleck debated the difference between Muslim people and the doctrine of Islam. This is part 1 of a Sam Harris interview with Dave Rubin about religion, politics, free speech and more.
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  • @michaellangan4450
    @michaellangan4450 Před 4 lety +1809

    The fact that Islam is a theology and not a race never occured to Affleck.

    • @billycrockett3715
      @billycrockett3715 Před 4 lety +65

      I was hoping someone noticed... great point.. islam is not a race

    • @donaldbrady3850
      @donaldbrady3850 Před 4 lety +29

      He’s not smart enough to know.

    • @TheBsavage
      @TheBsavage Před 4 lety +12

      Tee hee. Because Affleck, just like virtually all of Hollywood, is THAT smart.

    • @boshirahmed
      @boshirahmed Před 4 lety +12

      @@billycrockett3715 you can't blame him. Judaism is legally seen as a race, so a precedent was set, it all comes down to legal protections, so a Liberal minded bloke can only make the same assumptions to other faiths.. Complexity is too difficult and painful for people..

    • @husseinalsharaa202
      @husseinalsharaa202 Před 4 lety +4

      The fact that Judaism is a religion and not an ethnicity was never expected by jews.

  • @WildChildFromHell
    @WildChildFromHell Před 7 lety +2491

    Ben Affleck may have had noble intentions on some level, but he was intellectually out of his depth. He didn't even try to understand the points Harris made.

    • @cato451
      @cato451 Před 6 lety +91

      MarkNUK nice point. Ben Affleck is more like a soccer mom who refuses to inoculate her child. Ya, well meaning but fatally stupid.

    • @milesmayhem5440
      @milesmayhem5440 Před 6 lety +18

      Yes but Affleck has portrayed educated people. Check him out in “Dazed and Confused “.

    • @android9973
      @android9973 Před 5 lety

      MarkNUK he has a iq of 150.

    • @cato451
      @cato451 Před 5 lety +18

      Tech 17 lol. Sure he does

    • @android9973
      @android9973 Před 5 lety

      cato look it up

  • @Christian_Prepper
    @Christian_Prepper Před 3 lety +530

    *SAM: "Every criticism of the doctrine of islam gets conflated with bigotry toward muslims as people."* 1:24
    *BEN demonstrates.*

    • @Christian_Prepper
      @Christian_Prepper Před 3 lety +2

      @Ian TB *although Affleck did protest forcefully, using the word remonstrate would not have achieved the joke I was forming.* 😂

    • @MrPelham32
      @MrPelham32 Před 3 lety +16

      The irony is unreal.. went right over Affleck's head

    • @BRORANDYMARTIN
      @BRORANDYMARTIN Před 3 lety +8

      Couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the opening point

    • @diannevaldez8670
      @diannevaldez8670 Před 3 lety +3

      I kinda figured he had prepared for this "debate" when he started using words to big for his normal self to try to be on Sam Harris' level.

    • @BRORANDYMARTIN
      @BRORANDYMARTIN Před 3 lety +2

      @@diannevaldez8670 haha tried but failed. The problem is his arrogance disallows Ben A from listening to any other point of view. Another irony is some of his movies like the space ring dwellers vs the rifraf left on earth is exactly the end result of liberal ideology. And he fights against in movies what he believes in real life

  • @Grk149
    @Grk149 Před 4 lety +1838

    A genuine intellectual vs a man suffering from substance addiction his whole life, living in the Hollywood bubble while trying to virtue signal on cable tv.

    • @wadopotato33
      @wadopotato33 Před 4 lety +14

      Exactly

    • @michaelvds3103
      @michaelvds3103 Před 4 lety +4

      True😂

    • @christopherrefusal4843
      @christopherrefusal4843 Před 4 lety +3

      Boom

    • @Grk149
      @Grk149 Před 4 lety +41

      brett warren dude, Ben Affleck, for better or worse, has been in and out of rehab practically his whole life. I was pretty clear on what I meant. He is not a man whose judgement I would consider on ANY serious matter. Doesn’t make him a bad person, we all have our vices, but he can get off his high horse right about now and stop lecturing people on anything, he barely has his own life in order.

    • @benjin3993
      @benjin3993 Před 4 lety +9

      He was probably still reeling from being outed as rapist from his 90s groping

  • @fubaralakbar6800
    @fubaralakbar6800 Před 7 lety +348

    Calling someone racist for criticizing Islam is like calling someone sexist for criticizing black people.

    • @fubaralakbar6800
      @fubaralakbar6800 Před 7 lety +10

      jkesmoker
      I think you kind of missed my point there...

    • @martinumber1
      @martinumber1 Před 7 lety +4

      took me two seconds, but great analogy.

    • @curtiswilson859
      @curtiswilson859 Před 7 lety +5

      Fubar AlAkbar although as Sam Harris points out, Islam is voluntary to many. Obviously being black isn't a choice

    • @SNORKYMEDIA
      @SNORKYMEDIA Před 7 lety +9

      only voluntary if you dont live in a muslim-run country

    • @markofcain2761
      @markofcain2761 Před 7 lety

      Fubar AlAkbar Yes...exactly!!!

  • @sophocles8761
    @sophocles8761 Před 8 lety +4339

    lol Ben was just pumped on steroids for his batman role - I can't believe he said that

    • @Tetroploid
      @Tetroploid Před 7 lety +115

      Scrolled down for this after hearing him say it, haha.

    • @themi90
      @themi90 Před 7 lety +107

      he probably was though

    • @natenich71
      @natenich71 Před 7 lety +60

      It was a perfect comment. I just saw this Rubin Report cover of the show in question. Affleck is such a tool.

    • @QuaidShun
      @QuaidShun Před 7 lety +79

      I would think so too. he looked like he wanted to intimidate more than debate

    • @Jake007123
      @Jake007123 Před 7 lety +38

      Why is that such a dramatic thing to say? Actors do it all the time, when they have to gain muscles, they take steroids, and when the movie is done, they stop. They do it all the time because there is no realistic way they would gain enough muscles to start recording on time. I know drugs are bad for your body but I think the real issue should be that Affleck had to take steroids based on "Batman has to have big muscles", to fill that stereotype. A stereotype that is stupid since Batman only shows muscles when he is in his costume, so they could do any trick to fake them...

  • @rdm4070
    @rdm4070 Před 3 lety +516

    when Sam Harris says to you, "I'm actually well educated on this thing...", that's your cue to shut-up and retreat!!!

    • @dailydissent6076
      @dailydissent6076 Před 3 lety +8

      Until he starts talking about foreign policy or international relations.. then it's your cue to start explaining American Exceptionalism and imperialism.

    • @madeleinewebb2543
      @madeleinewebb2543 Před 3 lety

      When You say anything else ever, that i can find;
      I dig your drift, big bro!
      Good Looking Out!

    • @adonio1
      @adonio1 Před 3 lety +3

      shut up RDM.. you are just as racist as this idiot Sam Harris

    • @mirelkraja6357
      @mirelkraja6357 Před 3 lety

      💯

    • @optimusprime5199
      @optimusprime5199 Před 3 lety

      @Enzo 1965
      Islam is not racist.

  • @praffulgupta7410
    @praffulgupta7410 Před 4 lety +78

    Imagine Hitchens being there instead of Sam. He'd have completely dismantled Affleck.

    • @garyroberts3859
      @garyroberts3859 Před 3 lety +6

      Ain’t that right

    • @Novastar6
      @Novastar6 Před 3 lety +11

      Hitchens was another animal. Sam is a great debater but much more tame.

    • @msm1876
      @msm1876 Před 3 lety +12

      Oh my word...Affleck would have been STRETCHERED out of there.

    • @jamesdettmann94
      @jamesdettmann94 Před 3 lety +20

      Hitchens would just have given a disdainful glare and declared "what an incredibly stupid man"

    • @brawnerbandwidthpartdeux643
      @brawnerbandwidthpartdeux643 Před 3 lety +15

      Sam is calm as butter. Chris would have had a drink and messed Ben up

  • @patrickmarcolla8359
    @patrickmarcolla8359 Před 4 lety +2603

    Watching Sam Harris try and speak with Ben Affleck is like watching a professor deal with a child who accidentally wandered into his lecture hall.

    • @cloudatlas349
      @cloudatlas349 Před 4 lety +45

      ...In a batman suit! 😂 throwing a tantrum! 😂😅😂

    • @clubredken13
      @clubredken13 Před 4 lety +11

      This is my fav comment ever. I even did something I never do. I liked it.

    • @lucifelmartell
      @lucifelmartell Před 4 lety +5

      Lolzz. That's how Professor Chomsky once treated Sam Harris...

    • @dublinbay2362
      @dublinbay2362 Před 4 lety +7

      Patrick, your right, Ben wiped the floor with this racist Sam Harris

    • @breakmanradio2530
      @breakmanradio2530 Před 4 lety +1

      @@lucifelmartell "Once professor Chomsky?" That would mean Chomsky was once a professor but is no longer a professor. I think you should rewrite your statement so that it makes sense.

  • @Venomousse
    @Venomousse Před 8 lety +1129

    It's great how Ben perfectly demonstrates the problem Sam was talking about. Yes, Ben, you are the problem!

    • @benlane1267
      @benlane1267 Před 7 lety +30

      But I'm really nawt.

    • @benromero6261
      @benromero6261 Před 7 lety +30

      Yeah, not all Bens are bad

    • @gravyhunchoz5684
      @gravyhunchoz5684 Před 7 lety +40

      Of course not all Bens are bad, but the IDEA of the Bens are bad

    • @benromero6261
      @benromero6261 Před 7 lety +15

      gravy hunchoz that's deep son. I've never been so delighted to be insulted hahaha

    • @bendyamin86
      @bendyamin86 Před 7 lety +14

      Generalizing all Bens to the moron Affleck creates a discrimination that will cause more harm than good for us Bens.. #socialjusticeforbens

  • @chewymoviereviews4970
    @chewymoviereviews4970 Před 4 lety +156

    Affleck was just confused to see his friend Ben Stiller being such an Islamophobe.

  • @nikkic83
    @nikkic83 Před 4 lety +313

    The word racist is so over used that it’s lost it’s original meaning.

    • @Jedi_Are_Scum
      @Jedi_Are_Scum Před 4 lety +3

      Just like every country saying anything about China at all. China uses the race card against the west. When it is about the CCP, or investigation.

    • @UkfilmingUk_BobCam
      @UkfilmingUk_BobCam Před 4 lety +2

      NikkiC83 No, it hasn't. How can a word lose its meaning? Maybe you are trying to imply that the word has lost its impact? A bit like the statement "make America great again", we've heard it so many times it's lost all credibility.

    • @rhythmstyx1945
      @rhythmstyx1945 Před 4 lety +4

      filmsec
      Do you know what the word originally meant?

    • @dwrigh18
      @dwrigh18 Před 4 lety +7

      @@UkfilmingUk_BobCam Semantics. It's lost it's meaning. Get over it.

    • @eganc1976
      @eganc1976 Před 4 lety

      @@UkfilmingUk_BobCam I'm offended

  • @truthwarrior122
    @truthwarrior122 Před 5 lety +1441

    Ben was so brilliant the way he called Sam racist. Bravo! Who needs school, books, or facts? Just call everyone racist who disagrees with you.

    • @apurvagautam3605
      @apurvagautam3605 Před 4 lety +5

      😅😆😆

    • @A-FrameWedge
      @A-FrameWedge Před 4 lety +22

      Elliot J That is the Left today who call people Nazis if they disagree with their political views.

    • @dn544
      @dn544 Před 4 lety +6

      I did that on my calculus final and aced the exam! It really works!

    • @user-qr2tf8vl4k
      @user-qr2tf8vl4k Před 4 lety +1

      He was racist in his comments, doesn't take an expensive education to recognize when someone is wrong

    • @oasiscrushinglife6878
      @oasiscrushinglife6878 Před 4 lety +23

      @@user-qr2tf8vl4k Sam Harris clearly isnt racist. Not to mention racism has nothing to do with the conversation, it's about religion, not race

  • @EDITHFIVE
    @EDITHFIVE Před 8 lety +1235

    The thing that bothers me the most about the aftermath of the Ben Afflack rant on the Bill Maher show is that there is such a large percentage of Americans who agree with anything a celebrity says. Afflack's qualifications are having the good luck to born with genes that made him handsome and his ability to memorize dialog he repeats while a camera is rolling. Not my 'go to' type when considering intellectual matters.

    • @RubinReport
      @RubinReport  Před 8 lety +66

      +EDITHFIVE Well said.

    • @justgivemethetruth
      @justgivemethetruth Před 8 lety

      +EDITHFIVE
      >> there is such a large percentage of Americans who agree with anything a celebrity says.
      Not so much. Before this interview I had no problems with Affleck, but no positive feeling about Affleck would have overridden the nutso stuff he was saying about Islam. I'm also thinking that Affleck has to be cool because if he is seen as too activist he is going to have problems with Islam after his movie about the Iranian hostages. This whole interview seemed to me to be a kind of propaganda engineered operation to accomplish something. Something that I mostly agree with and I think went well. Who knows what Affleck believes, but the right point got through in my opinion.

    • @EDITHFIVE
      @EDITHFIVE Před 8 lety +20

      *****
      How it going? My original comment did not state all actors have a sub-normal intelligence level nor did I make a statement about artists confining themselves to their field. To be precise, I do not personally believe either of those positions.
      Your response is similar to many remarks people have made on CZcams; assuming facts that are not present. There is nothing terribly wrong with the assumption, but it is slightly frustrating when people misread my comments, get it wrong and then accuse me of beliefs or meanings without even prima facie evidence.

    • @scootsmcgoots
      @scootsmcgoots Před 7 lety +3

      Very well said.

    • @guitarsANDcars39
      @guitarsANDcars39 Před 7 lety +7

      really? people actually agreed with Ben? he is a moron and made zero valid points, all of which were backed by................wait for it...................
      FEELINGS....

  • @phil5569
    @phil5569 Před 4 lety +66

    "We have to be able to criticize bad ideas"... BEAUTIFUL!!!! Too bad Affleck doesn't get it.

    • @proudleftist6899
      @proudleftist6899 Před 4 lety +3

      Except that Ben made clear after that , that we should criticize bad ideas but most attacks against Islam are only meant to make people hate muslims , despite that American imperialism killed more People than every terrorist group combined , get over that fact that Ben exposed them for the liars they are

    • @btsnake
      @btsnake Před 3 lety

      @PEACEFUL WARRIOR I would say fundamentalist islamic doctrine just to give the good Muslims an out, but otherwise, absolutely correct. Some things shouldn't be defended because they're bad ideas, and that was Sam's exact point. In the original interview, nicholas kristof was at least trying to say this same sort of thing (while falling into the same trap). Ben was just shouting loud trying to white knight his way in.

  • @EvanHarland
    @EvanHarland Před 3 lety +72

    1:15 when Ben says “thank god you’re here” you can tell he was already pissed and gearing up for a confrontation.

    •  Před 3 lety

      Wow good catch man. Ben is a clown.

    • @User-bl5cw
      @User-bl5cw Před 2 lety +10

      The fact that he’s visibly getting activated in preparation to say something he thinks is going to be epic is so cringe.

    • @EasylikeSunday
      @EasylikeSunday Před 2 lety +1

      How could you tell???? 😂😂 it was so passive aggressive.

  • @canibaloxide
    @canibaloxide Před 8 lety +2229

    I think Ben is just hyper sensitive about finding out his ancestors were slave owners and thinks he has to prove how not racist he is.

    • @canibaloxide
      @canibaloxide Před 8 lety +1

      Manx36 I'm sure the show was in well into production at the time.

    • @ninjamixer
      @ninjamixer Před 8 lety +6

      Said just used too many big words for benny

    • @ninjamixer
      @ninjamixer Před 8 lety +4

      +ninjamixer * Sam

    • @canibaloxide
      @canibaloxide Před 8 lety

      *****
      Your reading comprehension is piss poor.

    • @canibaloxide
      @canibaloxide Před 8 lety

      *****
      I questioned if that was joke after I replied.

  • @jholmes45
    @jholmes45 Před 7 lety +1855

    Sam Harris is one cool-headed dude. Really impressive composure. Affleck clearly lost his; he wasn't even making sense.

    • @mooremarriott2841
      @mooremarriott2841 Před 7 lety +34

      Bryan Mack you're right , it's only because he's a Hollywood big shot they didn't give him the utter destruction he deserved

    • @Chemicalkinetics
      @Chemicalkinetics Před 7 lety +14

      I don't think Ben "lost" his composure. I think he intended to get angry at Sam

    • @jlawrence6723
      @jlawrence6723 Před 7 lety +3

      "one cool-headed dude" = 'block of ice for brains', me thinks...

    • @GerblerM
      @GerblerM Před 7 lety +21

      You clearly haven't read the man's books.

    • @martinumber1
      @martinumber1 Před 7 lety +14

      Idk, Sam is almost too cool. I think he is meditating too hard.

  • @freecitizen2760
    @freecitizen2760 Před 4 lety +484

    We have our own “Ben Affleck” as the prime minister of Canada. 🇨🇦

    • @mohsinakhtar7876
      @mohsinakhtar7876 Před 4 lety

      Our prime minister has more decency then
      Your Harry ass(Harris)won’t have,even if he was born 💯 times.

    • @CameronE2023
      @CameronE2023 Před 4 lety +9

      You think Trudeau is a racist?

    • @freecitizen2760
      @freecitizen2760 Před 4 lety +8

      Mohsin Akhtar : Mohsin sounds like a Mohammedan’s name.
      Are you a worshipper of Mohammed?

    • @freecitizen2760
      @freecitizen2760 Před 4 lety +5

      Cam Balam : Who knows what Trudeau really thinks about other races?
      I know that he wore Blackface more than a few times.
      I would not do that because I think it’s inconsiderate of other people’s feelings.
      In Trudeau’s case, it could be just plain stupidity and thoughtlessness.
      It’s impossible for me to know for sure whether he’s truly racist or not.

    • @CameronE2023
      @CameronE2023 Před 4 lety +6

      @@freecitizen2760 well Dave Chappelle paints his body white and makes fun of white people. Howcome nobody is getting mad over that? People need to quit being so sensitive. Otherwise you'll never make it in this world.

  • @richardwelsh9577
    @richardwelsh9577 Před 4 lety +56

    I love how everybody including Bill Maher's audience were understanding what Sam was trying to say for the exception of Ben. It was so obvious that Ben had no clue what Sam was actually saying.

    • @bubbychamp
      @bubbychamp Před rokem

      He had no idea who Sam Harris was

  • @abronjacobs4757
    @abronjacobs4757 Před 7 lety +366

    Bill Maher was embarrassed of Ben Affleck.

  • @biancap3893
    @biancap3893 Před 8 lety +534

    I´ve been called a racist today ,by a treehugger, who thinks Bill Maher and Sam Harris are pushing "right wing agendas" to destroy the earth!!! Amazing mental gymnastics. Great interview!

    • @alexsitaras6508
      @alexsitaras6508 Před 8 lety +5

      +Bianca p i wish we lived in a world where i could confidently call you a lair, but.......

    • @Lasair517
      @Lasair517 Před 8 lety +3

      +Bianca p I were called anti-Semitic and racist at work a while ago because I criticized Islam, when I showed them research that proved that a disturbing percentage of Muslims out there agree with ISIS, they said that statistics are not reliable. They claimed I had to go out in the world and see for myself... because that would not give me a random and narrow understanding at all.

    • @biancap3893
      @biancap3893 Před 8 lety +2

      Sigenzi
      Strange that they pulled the anti-semitic card. I bet they hadn`t been to the places they advised you to travel.

    • @theamericanimperialist9362
      @theamericanimperialist9362 Před 8 lety +1

      Indeed.

    • @theamericanimperialist9362
      @theamericanimperialist9362 Před 8 lety

      ***** Wait, wait, wait, who's "anti-American?" Read my user name, you imbecile. And what exactly are "we" supporting?

  • @loveone8073
    @loveone8073 Před 3 lety +32

    "Probably on steroids because of his Batman's role"
    😂😂😂

    • @quagmire6714
      @quagmire6714 Před 2 lety +2

      Honestly lmao that probably had a lot to do with the way he was acting

  • @mv9787
    @mv9787 Před 4 lety +39

    People who can’t argue with valid point call other people racist. I mean this happens a lot.

  • @martingamer5591
    @martingamer5591 Před 7 lety +1359

    I love Harris' nonchalant digs at Affleck, especially the steroids remark.

    • @dsourcherry
      @dsourcherry Před 7 lety +15

      don't quit your job an try comedy any time soon

    • @arrow_of_longing
      @arrow_of_longing Před 7 lety +24

      Krispin Wah Your sarcasm was quite poor to be honest. I would suggest you use /s next time, in order to prevent confusion.

    • @darsom2717
      @darsom2717 Před 7 lety +2

      +Krispin Wah Well I thought it was quite witty, don't you listen to these guys, you'd be a brilliant comedian! It was "thought provoking" ;)

    • @Ryesagain
      @Ryesagain Před 7 lety +1

      Krispin Wah am i understanding you wrong? by I thought he addressed that people make up their minds just from that sound bite. so you can't prove or reason with those types of people that just use it to enforce their beliefs without using critical thinking.

    • @donjohnson3888
      @donjohnson3888 Před 7 lety +11

      +Rob Looji The steroids thing is actually a completely valid thing to say. Affleck got HUGE for that movie and was most definitely pumped full of all kinds of supplements. His outrageously irrational demeanor could easily be explained by it.

  • @elirien4264
    @elirien4264 Před 7 lety +290

    I agree with Harris and Maher. I'm a progressive but I am also getting tired of other liberals and progressive calling anyone who disagrees with them "racist", "homophombes", "Islamophobes", etc. Grow up and try LISTENING once in a while.

    • @VoodooV1
      @VoodooV1 Před 5 lety +3

      I'm not defending Affleck, but there is a reason why some liberals have a knee jerk reaction to defending Muslims. There were many incidents of right wing hate/violence against brown-skinned people after 9/11 There were cases of attacks against people who weren't even muslim, they were just brown-skinned. Because yeah, for some right wingers, there is no distinction between simply being brown-skinned and being a muslim. They don't care, so yeah, when it comes from the right wing, any criticism of Islam could very well be just a placeholder for bigotry. But that wasn't the case with Sam Harris.

    • @smokedsalmon3907
      @smokedsalmon3907 Před 5 lety +10

      @@VoodooV1 same story with the far left. That case of Antifa attacking a Jewish man because he was white and accusing him of being a nazi for walking nearby a Trump rally. The sides seemed to have switched. The far left is the only fascists we need to deal with these days.

    • @VoodooV1
      @VoodooV1 Před 5 lety +3

      @@smokedsalmon3907 sorry, that doesn't reflect reality. You're more likely to be attacked by a right wing white nationalist in America than any other group. There is only one side that keeps bragging and threatening 2nd amendment remedies whenever they don't get their way. But sure, keep ignoring evidence.

    • @jcece5270
      @jcece5270 Před 5 lety +8

      Liberals and conservatives have much more in common than liberals and leftists. Liberals and conservatives both have the common goal of protecting western civilization and making it a better place (with disagreements on how we get there) leftists are modern day fascists with the sole purpose of squashing debate, eliminating free speech, and destroying western culture entirely. Ben Affleck is a leftist

    • @notthefather3919
      @notthefather3919 Před 5 lety +8

      @@VoodooV1 you are defending Affleck. You're making excuses to why leftists have knee jerk reactions and don't bother listening. That's a problem.
      If a Muslim isn't currently being attacked by anyone, then why are liberals getting upset when someone is telling them they are failing their own ideology?
      And stats as an excuse for hypersensitivity and mischaracterization of someone's words? But why is it relevant that someone is more likely to be attacked by a white nationalist, if that's true?
      I think you're demonstrating what Harris is saying.

  • @gscd2881
    @gscd2881 Před 3 lety +53

    Ben said criticizing Islam is “bigamy”. That’s all you need to know.

    • @jeffs7915
      @jeffs7915 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Hey, it's Big of me too! Grouchy Marx.

  • @jayt8532
    @jayt8532 Před 4 lety +86

    As much as I think Sam handled that very well, I'd have loved to see Hitchens in the scenario instead

    • @LGJdirjdkfo
      @LGJdirjdkfo Před 4 lety +6

      Jay L Like Muhammad Ali vs ice cream.

    • @jhagestad
      @jhagestad Před 4 lety +20

      Oh man, Hitchens would have embarrassed Ben into C list actor territory.

    • @BigHoffa
      @BigHoffa Před 3 lety +2

      The Mos Def exchange was a pretty good approximation.

    • @jornvallis8051
      @jornvallis8051 Před 3 lety +7

      HItchen's would've tore him a new asshole. Would've been the most entertaining stuff we've ever seen. RIP HItch.

    • @Ward413
      @Ward413 Před 3 lety +4

      He would of been much less diplomatic. Lol. Sam was trying to give Ben an out. Sam was actually very charitable to Ben given his hostility.

  • @2HRTS1LOVE
    @2HRTS1LOVE Před 8 lety +513

    Ben Affleck=what happens when all your friends are on your payroll, no one ever tells you when you do/say moronic things, just a constant stream of ego fluffers. You start to think you're as smart as Sam Harris.

    • @therandomraving7490
      @therandomraving7490 Před 7 lety +7

      Bang on

    • @mykr0324
      @mykr0324 Před 7 lety +21

      Definitely. He's a fucking moron with closed ears.

    • @mrtambourineman6107
      @mrtambourineman6107 Před 6 lety +1

      No one is as clever as this muthafucka!

    • @mkkravist11
      @mkkravist11 Před 5 lety

      OGSpaceCadet well said!

    • @nfcapps
      @nfcapps Před 4 lety

      This is probably why Matt Damon broke up with him all those years ago. Matt is happily married to a non-celebrity and they have a lot of kids. Matt is still respected and works on good movies. He is grounded and not fluffed up. Then there is Ben. Amazing how two such good friends rise together and go in such different directions. Sad too. I'm sure Matt misses his friend. Nostalgia sucks sometimes.

  • @johnabuick
    @johnabuick Před 8 lety +245

    Problem with Ben Affleck is he probably doesn't understand 30% of the words that Sam uses while speaking.

    • @Grimmjeaux
      @Grimmjeaux Před 5 lety +10

      I'm convinced, Ben clearly didn't seem to be very sharp by any definition.

    • @milsub59
      @milsub59 Před 5 lety +11

      94%

    • @proudleftist6899
      @proudleftist6899 Před 3 lety +1

      He understood how much of a disgusting person Harris is

    • @horsefootrot8044
      @horsefootrot8044 Před 3 lety +1

      After seeing Jennifer Garner on Conan, I think they both had tutors for their lines in roles played. If brains were c4, together they couldn’t blow their noses.

  • @varying999
    @varying999 Před 4 lety +17

    First rule of a civil discourse-If u lose ur calm, u lost.

  • @johnrobie9694
    @johnrobie9694 Před 4 lety +10

    Gotta love the irony of Ben proving exactly what Sam was saying regarding our society's inability to have critical discussion without resorting to ad hominem.

  • @okmike87
    @okmike87 Před 6 lety +622

    Affleck wasn't even listening to them. He might has well have had his fingers in his ears saying "... lah lah lah lah lah ..."

    • @boiledelephant
      @boiledelephant Před 5 lety +7

      At one point he literally says "lah dee dah" when Harris is finishing a sentence, to hurry him along.

    • @swell_gal
      @swell_gal Před 5 lety

      😂😂😂

    • @chrisglendinning8899
      @chrisglendinning8899 Před 4 lety +2

      lol i just said that on another thread .😁 ben totally was acting like child

    • @samherb1
      @samherb1 Před 4 lety +6

      That's liberal debate tactic #1

    • @tellurye
      @tellurye Před 4 lety +4

      Oh definitely. Ben acted like a child - typical left, he was screaming interrupting, refusing to let them speak. Just disgusting!

  • @danspawn85
    @danspawn85 Před 8 lety +619

    Which "race" of Muslims is he racist against?
    the black African Muslims?
    Arabs?
    Persians?
    South East Asian Muslims?
    Indian Muslims?
    White Muslims
    See how dumb that comment is, An ideology isn't a race.

    • @aritakalo8011
      @aritakalo8011 Před 8 lety +5

      +Danny Jensen Clearly the blonde Viking Muslims. :)

    • @hardrockfreak1337
      @hardrockfreak1337 Před 8 lety +8

      +Ari Takalo Mohammed would approve of their conquering ways.

    • @RetiredInThailand
      @RetiredInThailand Před 8 lety +3

      +Danny Don't know, but he seems to have a concept of what Muslims 'look' like when he said
      "We should profile Muslims, or anyone who *looks* like he or she could conceivably be Muslim".
      Any ideas as to what features these Muslim looking people have that Sam would target as needing profiling?
      And any idea what extra security measures we need to put these 'Muslim looking' people through that we don't already put everyone through right now?
      After we have someone empty their pockets, put through the metal detector, xray their luggage and sniff it for explosives, what then? ... oh, you look Muslim-ish, we have an extra special process for you where we ???

    • @tubsent
      @tubsent Před 8 lety +5

      +David Landry and for the billionth time online someone felt the need to misrepresent his profiling argument. wow, did not see this coming. sam never said to put people fitting the profile (which he himself fits) through extra special, super invasive, terribly humiliating security measures as you, no doubt intentionally and dishonestly, imply, but merely that limited resources shouldn't be squandered on people who are clearly not posing a risk, just to keep up silly appearances of fairness. ah but that sounds too reasonable, no one would call him a monster with such ideas, better twist his argument beyond recognition... right.

    • @spatulasnout
      @spatulasnout Před 8 lety

      +David Landry Adding to the reply by Commodore Grayum, here's Sam's actual position on the matter:
      www.samharris.org/blog/item/response-to-controversy#profiling

  • @robbinsnest6163
    @robbinsnest6163 Před 4 lety +136

    "We are endowed by our forefathers"?....I didn't catch that the first time I saw the clip of Ben losing his mind over a conversation that was only happening in his mind... dude can't even quote what our forefathers wrote. "We are endowed by our Creator👈🏻 with certain unalienable rights, that all men are created equal."

    • @whythecows
      @whythecows Před 4 lety +3

      Came here to say this. You said it better.

    • @ristoraaska2591
      @ristoraaska2591 Před 4 lety +1

      My parents? Creatards..

    • @meadster308
      @meadster308 Před 4 lety +1

      Ben thinks only pornstars are endowed by our forefathers.

    • @politics443
      @politics443 Před 4 lety +12

      I think Ben Affleck as a good liberal changed it to "forefathers" because he does not want to refer to God and our creator. He would rather suggest the rights we have do not come from God but from the founding fathers so they have no intrinsic value. That way when the socialist liberals like him want to take the rights away there will be less protest since they are only made by men not God.

    • @Metolius9
      @Metolius9 Před 4 lety +1

      ‘Losing his mind over a conversation that was only happening in his mind’ oooooof 😿👍

  • @joecook5689
    @joecook5689 Před 3 lety +9

    Ben Affleck embarrassed himself.

  • @aliataie101
    @aliataie101 Před 7 lety +498

    I am a Muslim, and I agree with Sam here. It is unfair and lazy to conflate the criticism of an idea or belief with an act of racism. I hope that he offers the same defense to those who criticize aspects of Jewish culture and religion, rather than conflate Jewish ethnicity with those problematic aspects of its culture and religion, thus labeling the criticizer an "anti-Semite."

    • @StannisTheMannis305
      @StannisTheMannis305 Před 5 lety +31

      Ali Ataie: Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Islam teach you that anyone who doesn’t follow your religion is an infidel? Wouldn’t that make you anti Semitic?

    • @RandomChristianMusings
      @RandomChristianMusings Před 5 lety +1

      *Ali Ataie I couldn't agree with you more! =)*

    • @itsryan7475
      @itsryan7475 Před 5 lety +8

      Ali Ataie I’m an atheist and I respect your view. Nothing fundamental and nothing trying to influence those political views. Respect

    • @thatsomalidudemudug868
      @thatsomalidudemudug868 Před 5 lety +2

      How do you not see this guy hates Islam and btw what's ur background?

    • @4barhigh
      @4barhigh Před 5 lety +13

      @@thatsomalidudemudug868 how do you not see that years after this interview took place you're still proving his thesis correct in his favor?

  • @MadXlownz
    @MadXlownz Před 4 lety +515

    guys be honest when it comes to intellectual giants "Ben Affleck" isn't someone that comes to mind..

    • @STONESGAM
      @STONESGAM Před 4 lety +4

      I think Affleck in real life is kind of like the meathead friend he played in Good Will Hunting.

    • @singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614
      @singingfedexmanjoshcampbel1614 Před 4 lety +7

      He isn't even good at his own job (acting)

    • @user-qr2tf8vl4k
      @user-qr2tf8vl4k Před 4 lety +1

      Dude is a director, actor, and philanthropic person. When you teach yourself how to adapt a screenplay and translate it for millions of people (given a complicated subject matter) you can call out others intelligence

    • @tatiisasuglyasjeffreeshear2690
      @tatiisasuglyasjeffreeshear2690 Před 4 lety

      but he's good coz he exposes this racist man

    • @oasiscrushinglife6878
      @oasiscrushinglife6878 Před 4 lety +13

      @@user-qr2tf8vl4k Sam Harris actually studies this subject matter, Ben is way out of his element. He's obviously entitled to his opinion, but he was just reacting emotionally with no rational basis for his claims

  • @maxaltube
    @maxaltube Před 4 lety +61

    Thank you Ben...And just like that I don’t feel like watching his movies...

  • @leigh9807
    @leigh9807 Před 4 lety +35

    “BEN NO LIKE FACTS..FACTS BAD. BEN SLEEP NOW”

  • @GRehillMusic
    @GRehillMusic Před 7 lety +125

    I don't think Batfleck realized the irony when he said "Thank god you are here" to Sam

  • @threeDtwo
    @threeDtwo Před 7 lety +178

    when you can`t argue with logic, cal them a racist.

    • @Adam-bq2vw
      @Adam-bq2vw Před 5 lety

      Mattias Utterström That’s racist.🙂

  • @phukit5456
    @phukit5456 Před 4 lety +29

    The list of Hollywood movies I will be watching, is getting shorter.

  • @diabl2master
    @diabl2master Před 4 lety +13

    The part where Ben gets mad for Sam calling him "Ben" is mt favourite.

  • @danielrobertson8866
    @danielrobertson8866 Před 5 lety +580

    Sam Harris has got to be one of the coolest, laid back Dudes in America. He’s articulate and so likeable. A real gentle giant in his field. Respect my man.

    • @lukesterification
      @lukesterification Před 4 lety +9

      Daniel Robertson I agree! He is so calm and collected, well-spoken and thoughtful. Great man!

    • @joshjohnson2600
      @joshjohnson2600 Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah, civility. I wonder where he got that.

    • @kaungkyaw465
      @kaungkyaw465 Před 4 lety +3

      Why are gentle midgets not appreciated?

    • @erikforsgren2285
      @erikforsgren2285 Před 4 lety +6

      Daniel Robertson Keith said it well. Ben is basically the antithesis of Sam Harris. Brash, loud, ill-educated and definitively narcissistic. To say Ben is out of his depth barely begins to scratch the surface. I never really liked him, but never bothered to define exactly why. This interview reinforced and cleared up my personal dislike of him. He just needs to focus on his marginally subpar "acting" and leave the topical debates to those with the intellectual capacity for it. Putting him on a panel of truly heavy thinkers seems cruel & borderline comical....on top of his abject inability to listen. If he's not the center of attention, he basically just starts yelling over those around him.

    • @nabilblane5247
      @nabilblane5247 Před 4 lety +2

      Except for the fact that his view of Islam is totally flawed.

  •  Před 5 lety +769

    When you have done just the right amount of cocaine and think you're making some good points.

  • @unstablesun8179
    @unstablesun8179 Před 3 lety +16

    Ben Affleck is a fool, and what's worse he's a fools idea of a fool.

  • @joseantonio9042
    @joseantonio9042 Před 4 lety +8

    Ben is the reason why my parents told me to stay quiet when adults are talking

  • @Pranav-rp8wi
    @Pranav-rp8wi Před 4 lety +354

    This is one of the reasons why we should not listen to what actors think about some issue..

    • @scottbravo3
      @scottbravo3 Před 4 lety +5

      About any issue at all .. except what they’re professionals at ... ACTING.

    • @lukesterification
      @lukesterification Před 4 lety +3

      Exactly, Who cares what opinion actors or celebrities may have? Their occupation is to amuse us in one way or another. Period.

    • @JarierWannous
      @JarierWannous Před 4 lety

      Not only in America

    • @kippesolo8941
      @kippesolo8941 Před 4 lety +4

      I hav to disagree, ppl no matter what profession should still be seen as individuals. I bet most of you would listen to Morgan Freeman, he is brilliant. So lets not go to the same place stupid ppl like Ben Asslick go.

    • @kippesolo8941
      @kippesolo8941 Před 4 lety

      @Jim McCracken right but smart ppl still see the difference between fame and intelligence and dont fall for that.

  • @Gumberculesus
    @Gumberculesus Před 7 lety +103

    They argued for an hour in the greenroom after the interview?!?!?! Ben Affleck was on hormones.

  • @michaeleverest7631
    @michaeleverest7631 Před 4 lety +7

    Its interesting to note that Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, Krauss never raise their voice or lose their temper when confronted by a aggressive or hostile debater as they don't need to as they all have the power to dismantle people intellectually!!

  • @devanman7920
    @devanman7920 Před 4 lety +21

    The point they were making just shot straight over Ben's head

    • @proudleftist6899
      @proudleftist6899 Před 3 lety

      No , beacuse Ben is correct in saying Sam Harris is racist , Sam said we should racially profile people

    • @brennanbarber7469
      @brennanbarber7469 Před 3 lety +1

      Proud Leftist How so?

  • @DonCorleone87
    @DonCorleone87 Před 5 lety +233

    Ben Affleck literally just PROVED Harris’ point... Harris offered up an observation and an opinion, a topic that he’s apparently very educated on, and Affleck without hearing out any facts that Harris had to back up his claims immediately went to “RACIST, BIGOT, INTOLERANT”
    incredibly sad to see that from Affleck.

    • @decimalexercise7154
      @decimalexercise7154 Před 4 lety +1

      Zokersghost please provide an example.

    • @ponieloksmith119
      @ponieloksmith119 Před 4 lety +2

      Zokersghost when Trump does it he’s merely trolling and mocking the left’s rhetoric by giving them a taste of their own medicine. When the left does it, their intentions are to appear self-righteous to the public to further their political agenda.

    • @boddaboom77
      @boddaboom77 Před 4 lety +2

      Well, it's literally the only play in the liberal Hollywood playbook. He's just doing the only thing he knows. Well, that and whiskey.

    • @phoenixfire8226
      @phoenixfire8226 Před 2 lety

      so eager to virtue signal they become impervious to facts and reason. this is the way of the woke.

  • @danjones9007
    @danjones9007 Před 7 lety +345

    how do all these movie stars become experts on everything?

    • @jimmatrix7244
      @jimmatrix7244 Před 5 lety +13

      Most movie stars are dropouts.

    • @skypekai
      @skypekai Před 5 lety +45

      When everybody is sucking you off you start to believe in your own importance.

    • @edwardbyrne1353
      @edwardbyrne1353 Před 5 lety +9

      Its amazing what you can find out about individual movie actors, a lot of them got into acting because they were qualified for nothing more than toilet attendant, and some are borderline illiterate.

    • @pland3845
      @pland3845 Před 5 lety +1

      Your words have more meaning today than ever, sir!!!

    • @matthenderson5048
      @matthenderson5048 Před 5 lety +4

      They aren't. They live in this Hollywood bubble that they have no idea how to navigate. It is a shame that they perpetuate our political fields, like they do.

  • @mac243877
    @mac243877 Před 3 lety +6

    Ben affleck proving that he is a very important person within the confines of his head

  • @Zoomo2697
    @Zoomo2697 Před 3 lety +21

    "Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.”
    ― Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ

  • @liamoconnell5335
    @liamoconnell5335 Před 5 lety +14

    Sam Harris and Ben Afflecks debate is a great example of how it’s hard to beat someone in a debate who’s smart but a whole lot harder to beat someone’s who’s dumb.

  • @turoniner
    @turoniner Před 6 lety +52

    Ben affleck was a complete embarrassment to political discourse and intellectuals everywhere.

    • @alohatreeserviceinc.6811
      @alohatreeserviceinc.6811 Před 2 lety

      Ummm... that would mean Ben is an intellectual ? I would say He became a meme at best and a dismissive chuckle at worst. and i'm not an "intellectual" Lol

  • @mikeyboy8127
    @mikeyboy8127 Před 4 lety +9

    Haha I love how he knows Ben juiced up to play batman 😂

  • @rossini55
    @rossini55 Před 3 lety +4

    Sam Harris is just kick-starting a well-needed conversation about islam that we in the west had about Christianity centuries ago. The reason why people are not burnt at the stake or stoned to death in Europe for blasphemy is because people like Sam Harris centuries ago had the balls to call religion out, and at great cost to themselves.
    If Ben Affleck was in 16th Century Europe he would be saying "No, if you say burning witches is a bad idea you are a bigot and offending all the people who want to burn witches"
    Hopefully Arabs in 2400 will be watching this clip and going "Sam Harris was right and Ben Affleck ...wasn't".

  • @sudowoodo8919
    @sudowoodo8919 Před 6 lety +55

    "Well, apart from him being probably on steroids for his Batman role..." SAVAGE

  • @unicyclist97
    @unicyclist97 Před 7 lety +276

    Ben Stiller vs Ben Affleck

  • @overthinkingintrovert396
    @overthinkingintrovert396 Před 3 lety +11

    Don't worry Sam. The Batman doesn't know a thing about Islam

    • @najban2922
      @najban2922 Před 3 lety

      The Overthinker, That’s not true, it’s quite opposite. Sam needs to study Islam before he starts barking nonsense.

  • @frapeyou
    @frapeyou Před 4 lety +2

    the fact that your book "dont burn this book" first page is "for ben Affleck" XD I died laughing

  • @davidsosa538
    @davidsosa538 Před 5 lety +184

    An intellectual confrontation between Sam Harris and Ben Affleck is like a tiger fighting a tied up donkey

    • @barbaramazur8289
      @barbaramazur8289 Před 4 lety +5

      savage.... I love it..... stealing it. thanks

    • @meadster308
      @meadster308 Před 4 lety +2

      Or Mike Tyson beating up a child.

    • @syrianatheist7956
      @syrianatheist7956 Před 4 lety +1

      Dave Sosa all your smears against Ben mean nothing , he refuted the fools mahr and haris and there hatred and all you find is bigots crying in the comments

    • @Blixtaah
      @Blixtaah Před 4 lety +3

      @@syrianatheist7956 Intelectually, Ben has to go through 4-5 lifetimes to be on pair with Mahr and Harris....

    • @ThisMusicIsToogood
      @ThisMusicIsToogood Před 3 lety

      modern society: a tied up tiger cries as the donkey kicks his own shit and dirt everywhere.

  • @bdawggification
    @bdawggification Před 7 lety +83

    I didn't know Ben Affleck and Ben Stiller had beef.

    • @robbi4219
      @robbi4219 Před 7 lety +6

      bdawggification two Ben enter, only one Ben comes out

  • @FreeJulianAssange23
    @FreeJulianAssange23 Před 2 lety +2

    Sam: Not every criticism of Islam is bigotry
    Ben: So you’re saying islamophobia doesn’t exist.

  • @MillieMe05
    @MillieMe05 Před 4 lety +9

    I do think this interview with Ben woke a lot of us up to how illogical the left is

  • @davidwhiteman5512
    @davidwhiteman5512 Před 8 lety +234

    I'm so pumped that I might even respond to the interview with my not trolling account.
    Probably not, but still.

    • @RubinReport
      @RubinReport  Před 8 lety +77

      Holy shit, we're changing the world!

    • @TheSololobo
      @TheSololobo Před 8 lety +16

      +Rubin Report with Dave Rubin You guys forgot to mention Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks and his ridiculous response to that incident along with that prick Reza ASSlan.

    • @RubinReport
      @RubinReport  Před 8 lety +24

      +TheSololobo Watch the full interview tomorrow...

    • @jasonpalacios2705
      @jasonpalacios2705 Před 8 lety +5

      +TheSololobo -I know and when Cenk covered this on TYT,he attacked Bill Maher and Sam Harris and praised Ben Affleck. Also when Resa Aslan came to be interviewed by Cenk, Cenk was so polite to Resa Aslan and never rude.

    • @jasonpalacios2705
      @jasonpalacios2705 Před 8 lety +4

      +TheSololobo Cont. but when Sam Harris came to TYT interviews episode, Cenk was rude and never let him talk at all.

  • @jordangordon2350
    @jordangordon2350 Před 7 lety +25

    criticizing a religion itself is not racist..

  • @benx2230
    @benx2230 Před 4 lety +9

    Can't believe he called Affleck an A-lister.

  • @chrisbeau
    @chrisbeau Před 4 lety +7

    Sam Harris...my hero! Thank you for all you do :-)

  • @Roger-il8iw
    @Roger-il8iw Před 5 lety +26

    Ben made himself look like a childish fool. 99% of people interpreted it that way. Good job Sam.

    • @alohatreeserviceinc.6811
      @alohatreeserviceinc.6811 Před 2 lety

      99% ? Haha you're giving the majority who are progressives far too much credit !

    • @BringBackStoning
      @BringBackStoning Před 10 měsíci

      Unfortunately many still agree with Ben’s misunderstandings and ignorant virtue signaling

  • @JaredHardy001
    @JaredHardy001 Před 5 lety +46

    The 690 downvotes all came from Ben Affleck

    • @hollygolightly649
      @hollygolightly649 Před 4 lety +4

      Doodles McStroodles They came from the rest of the Hollywood liberals. They are all retarded

    • @donaldbrady3850
      @donaldbrady3850 Před 4 lety

      Doodles McStroodles or the babysitter he slept with.

  • @FatDougAndTheEasyListeners

    Sam Harris starts with an argument that Ben kindly illustrates...

  • @TheGreatAlan75
    @TheGreatAlan75 Před 4 lety +15

    "islamophobia" ???
    Nah, more like "dying at the hands of a terrorist phobia"

    • @nitish523
      @nitish523 Před 4 lety

      Islam has terrorized the world and they feel to be innocent.

  • @zachjohnson637
    @zachjohnson637 Před 7 lety +137

    You can tell that Ben Affleck really isn't a smart guy.

    • @fazbell
      @fazbell Před 4 lety +3

      He's smart in the acting profession. He is out of his league, sparring with Sam Harris.

    • @hughjazzole2037
      @hughjazzole2037 Před 4 lety

      hes HYP NO TISED!1

  • @colinsdrawings8523
    @colinsdrawings8523 Před 7 lety +35

    I didn't know Ben Stiller was a neuroscientist

  • @anthonybanks4568
    @anthonybanks4568 Před 4 lety +19

    Ben your an actor , not an intellectual. Next time stick to speaking words that have been written for u.

    • @elizabethk3238
      @elizabethk3238 Před 4 lety

      Well said!

    • @proudleftist6899
      @proudleftist6899 Před 4 lety +2

      To bad Ben refuted Harris and mahr...

    • @liqritrs8391
      @liqritrs8391 Před 3 lety +3

      Elizabeth K horribly said. Ben might be an intellectual and he could have great opinions. It’s ludicrous to think he doesn’t deserve to speak because he’s an actor. What a fatuous remark. As for Ben himself, and what he said, he’s a twat. Now that we’ve given him his shot, listened and vomited, we don’t need to hear his opinions again.

    • @elizabethk3238
      @elizabethk3238 Před 3 lety +1

      @@liqritrs8391 everyone has a right to speak. As long as they have at least an average level of intellect. He is obviously severely lacking in that department.

    • @anthonybanks4568
      @anthonybanks4568 Před 3 lety +1

      Liqrit Rs My remark was not fatuous at all. Ben has not done any university or post grad study in anything other than acting. So his opinions on anything else do not come from a learned place and therefor giving him a platform to speak about issues he has no formal qualifications in is unearned and undeserved.

  • @ershadtantry5774
    @ershadtantry5774 Před 3 lety +1

    This is the first time I'm watching this host! He just earned a new viewer❤️

  • @chrisgeorge5928
    @chrisgeorge5928 Před 7 lety +76

    "this is batman" dude Christian Bale is batman

    • @jorgensenmj
      @jorgensenmj Před 5 lety +6

      Adam West is Batman. Michael Keaton is Batman.
      George Clooney is Batman. Christian Bale is Batman.
      Ben Affleck is Daredevil

    • @carstenkollmann717
      @carstenkollmann717 Před 5 lety +4

      jorgensenmj Charlie Cox is Daredevil. Ben Affleck is a buddy of Matt Damon‘s.

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial Před 5 lety

      Chris George
      Afleck was a better Bruce Wayne than all of them

    • @r.g6170
      @r.g6170 Před 5 lety +2

      Ben Affleck is Bigotman

    • @joelrichardson5139
      @joelrichardson5139 Před 4 lety

      jorgensenmj idk about George Clooney

  • @CallPZMyersBowman
    @CallPZMyersBowman Před 8 lety +174

    thumbs up if you want Dave to bash the young turks on his new show

  • @snowrider4495
    @snowrider4495 Před 4 lety +11

    I dont know why anyone would listen to an actor or actress in the first place!

    • @Jopadi
      @Jopadi Před 4 lety

      Snow Rider As if someone’s profession automatically makes their opinions invalid. Great argument.

    • @snowrider4495
      @snowrider4495 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Jopadi your reading comprehension skills suck! I never implied that either!

    • @MassimoAngotzi
      @MassimoAngotzi Před 3 lety +1

      It’s a good argument indeed. Unless you’re used to discuss astrophysics with plumbers. Or enjoy getting engaged in cosmology with a dentist

    • @snowrider4495
      @snowrider4495 Před 3 lety

      @@MassimoAngotzi exactly!

  • @jayro2996
    @jayro2996 Před rokem +2

    Ben Affleck jumped into the Adult end of the pool and immediately flailing his words demonstrated every wrong counterpoint, I truly believed he was high on something, it was bizarre

  • @lungisatakane772
    @lungisatakane772 Před 4 lety +59

    Ben Affleck Vs Ben Stiller. BATTLE OF THE BENS.

    • @marcinjaskolski2824
      @marcinjaskolski2824 Před 4 lety +7

      I have no evidence to back this up, but Ben Stiller seems more intellectually capable. LOL

    • @jornvallis8051
      @jornvallis8051 Před 3 lety

      Only if Ben Stiller plays Zoolander, that way it'll be a fair fight lol.

    • @anonnymus1227
      @anonnymus1227 Před 3 lety

      Can we add Ben Shapiro? Just to add a bit of rationality to the forum LOL.

  • @benjaminodonnell258
    @benjaminodonnell258 Před 8 lety +163

    It seems to me that what is happening to Sam Harris is rather like what happened to Peter Singer in the 1990s.
    Singer had been the intellectual founder of the animal rights movement in the 1970s and 1980s and was (and still is) a major thinker in the philosophy of environmentalism and the ethics of global inequality. But he had also argued for the ethics of abortion and euthanasia and in examining the ethics of both of those issues he made the “mistake” of being intellectually honest. He faced up to the fact that it’s very hard to distinguish between an eight month old foetus and a one day old baby and he followed through the logic of that - if it's ethical in some circumstances to abort a foetus at eight month, he argued, there must also be circumstances in which it would be ethical to kill a newborn. He also argued that it might be ethical to kill a newborn, or even a young child, who is “severely disabled” - by which he primarily meant things like anencephaly, where a baby is born with no real cerebral cortex and has no hope of ever being a “person” as such, but he also examined the ethics of euthanising less catastrophically disabled newborns.
    Of course Singer readily acknowledged that, as a practical matter of policy, birth makes excellent sense as a place to draw the line; and that killing disabled children other than those with anencephaly really only made sense where a society lacks the resources to care for them humanely. But he was nevertheless vilified as a “Nazi” by both the Left and the Right. At one point he was vilified for saying humans have “only” the same rights as animals, ignoring that he was the *original* philosopher for giving animals approximately the same rights as children.
    It seems now that its Sam’s turn to be vilified for being intellectually honest...

    • @jessg9450
      @jessg9450 Před 8 lety +10

      +Benjamin O'Donnell Agreed. Great comment.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 8 lety +32

      +Benjamin O'Donnell Intellectual honesty is a dangerous thing. Cognitive Dissonance is all the rage these days.

    • @benjaminodonnell258
      @benjaminodonnell258 Před 8 lety +14

      I think a lot of far lefties feel threatened by the New Atheists' popularity with what they see as their natural constituency - young, smart, liberal college kids. Cenk even referred a number of times to Sam's "influence"...

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 8 lety

      ice19278 That's right, they are talking about the ideas which justify the hatreds that angry people use to ... oops, my brain just fell out of my head... "YOU'RE A RACIST!"
      Maybe Ben is taking too many steroids for the Batman role. Other than this incident Ben always seemed like he was one of the smarter guys.
      Well, other than and cheating on his beautiful wife with the nanny.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 8 lety

      ice19278 Thanks for your thoughtful reply.

  • @julioandresarriagarangel7183

    "for him possibly being on steroids for his Batman role" lol, well said.

  • @ViscountDI
    @ViscountDI Před 4 lety +1

    The only Rubin videos that are promoted to me are 3 years old. Thanks CZcams.

  • @MoCtheFirst
    @MoCtheFirst Před 8 lety +15

    Great Job! Sam Harris was the perfect pick for the first guest! :)

  • @angrytom1923
    @angrytom1923 Před 7 lety +28

    "Apart from his possibly being on steroids..."
    XD lol

  • @diabl2master
    @diabl2master Před 3 lety +2

    My favourite part is when Sam says "Ben" and Ben mouths it back to him, the clear subtext being "You dare call me Ben?!!"

  • @audioorbit7201
    @audioorbit7201 Před 4 lety +1

    Who is watching this in 2020? Iconic interview between Harvey Specter and Ben Stiller.

  • @kadourimdou43
    @kadourimdou43 Před 8 lety +17

    Batman Interrupts. The new movie title.

  • @patrickdaniels9733
    @patrickdaniels9733 Před 5 lety +25

    Ben did a great job playing the role of someone who didn't get his ass kicked in a debate. Excellent performance!

  • @peterbigblock
    @peterbigblock Před 2 lety +2

    Sam Harris and George Carlin agree on one thing: 50% of us are morons.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 Před 4 lety +2

    I am watching this on December 29th, 2019. Who is that little boy hosting the show?

  • @mediadrone01
    @mediadrone01 Před 8 lety +35

    Excellent interview! I am *SO GLAD* Dave left TYT. I'm hella stoked about this new setup. Larry King is the pinnacle of interview journalism, and Dave reminds me a lot of him, so I'm glad LK's involved too. Mark my words: The Rubin Report is going to be *MASSIVE*.

  • @theguitarczar
    @theguitarczar Před 8 lety +31

    Ben Affleck is a child social justice warrior. you know the type: the type that just sit and wait to be pissed off at something,

    • @unorthodoxpoet3729
      @unorthodoxpoet3729 Před 5 lety

      Dear god let's not let Ben Affleck become the face of people concerned about social issues 😂

    • @mongreen81
      @mongreen81 Před 5 lety

      yup, exactly.......wants so desperately to be a white knight for SOMETHING

  • @ElizabethKautzmann
    @ElizabethKautzmann Před 3 lety +1

    WOW!! Love it! God Bless Dave (& David) & I guess, Sam Bless Sam

  • @jezebulls
    @jezebulls Před 4 lety +3

    Imagine being so famous and entitled that you’re so unaware of yourself.