When I left on Wednesday, I told you not to make everything more stupid or no one would be going to Disneyland.

No Disneyland for anyone. No Disneyland. You understand me? I'm turning this car right around.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Damn it, people. Every time I sign off the internet, every time I finish the podcast, I think to myself, the world can't get any dumber.

And then the next time I come on, I think, things were so much smarter the last time I was doing a podcast.

And that's what happened over the weekend.

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Okay, so as I say, everyone's a moron.

That is the quick summary of today's episode, so we can skip the rest of the show.

Okay, so the stupidity begins with the NFL.

Everybody's trying to blame Trump for the advent of the stupidity. Now, Trump has his own brand of silliness that he has injected in here,

and I actually don't think it's politically silly. I think it's bad for the country, but I think

it's politically smart. But we need to start off with a simple fact. The NFL politicized itself

years ago. This idea that Trump politicized the NFL is sheer nonsense.

It's just not true.

The NFL made a conscious decision to allow politics on the field.

They've done this for years.

In 2014, you recall, after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri,

the St. Louis Rams came out on the field

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