How To Win The Culture Wars With Star Wars Memes (Benny Johnson Interview)

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Benny Johnson (Chief Creative Officer of Turning Point USA) about the importance of memes in today’s politics. He shares a recent TPUSA segment where he asks people protesting President Trump if he should be impeached for various events that occur in the Star Wars saga. Benny shares how Star Wars memes help get young people more interested in politics. He also gives an insider’s look at the Social Media Summit that was held at the White House. Benny discusses what it’s like to live in Washington DC during the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump. He notices that despite the corporate media pushing the case for impeachment it has not amounted to anymore of the public caring about the issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Rubin and according to the Wikipedia editors, this is the Rubin Report.
0:07.9	As always guys, make sure that you're subscribed to our channel by clicking subscribe over
0:11.8	there and clicking that notification bell.
0:14.8	And more importantly, joining me today is the Chief Creative Officer for Turning Point
0:19.3	USA and Meemaker Extraordinaire, Benny Johnson.
0:23.4	Fantastic.
0:24.4	This feels very over-drew, man.
0:26.4	How has this taken so long to happen?
0:29.0	You're a busy guy.
0:30.0	You're a busy guy.
0:31.0	You're a busy guy going around the world, Jordan Peterson.
0:34.5	It's like, you know, like a cut as IQ and half, you got me.
0:39.4	You're half of Peterson's brain.
0:40.9	That's a very room temperature IQ.
0:42.6	Room temperature IQ?
0:43.6	Room temperature IQ.
0:44.6	Room temperature IQ.
0:45.6	Well, I have wanted you on for a while, I'm glad we're finally doing this.
0:48.0	And before, you know, normally when I start an interview, I kind of ask people their background,
0:51.6	a little framing of the interview, but I thought first what we're going to do is we're just
0:55.2	going to throw to this video that you just put up on Instagram.
0:59.6	This is you going to, this is outside of the impeachment hearings?
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