AOC jumps on every rake in sight. Google uncovers some inconvenient data about the wage gap,

and British women panic about global warming. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

I have to admit, there are some days when I have to rejigger the entire show schedule

because of breaking news in the morning.

And this was one of those days. I didn't really want to talk about AOC, but now AOC has decided that she is just going to let all of the silly flow free. Just all of the silly and the malice and the animus flow free. We'll talk about it in just one second. First, let's talk about the national debt. In 2008, the national debt was $10 trillion. Today, the debt is $22 trillion, and it is rising like a hockey stick. If you don't think that we're sitting on a bit of a house of cards here, you're living with your head in the sand, but since you're listening to my podcast, that means you are clearly smarter than the average American. So what is your plan? Can you afford another hit to your retirement, like the last downturn when the S&P dropped 50%, hedge against inflation and hedge against uncertainty and instability

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the fact is that every evening I put together the schedule for this show, the sort of preliminary

schedule, and then it very often changes in the morning. Rarely does it get completely overhauled. This morning was one of those

mornings because AOC decides that she is going to be aggressively awful about everything in the

world at the same time. Now, listen, I understand that we now live in a political time when

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