America's New Values: Lie, Cheat, and Steal | Joe Rogan and Billy Corben

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Billy Corben

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Billy Corben is a documentarian and producer. His new series, "Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami," is now available on Netflix.

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I think that there's a conversation to be had about what I call the new American values, which are lie, cheat and steal and get rich or get ahead. And these are values that we're teaching our children now, not honesty, integrity, tell the truth, do unto others as you'd have done to unto you, the golden rule. We're now showing them be a bully, lie, cheat and steal, and you could be the biggest, highest paid baseball player of all time lie, cheat and steal. And you could be the commissioner of major league baseball, lie, cheat and steal. And you too kids can be president of the United States. And I think this toxic toxicity of the new American values is going to do damage for generations. And we're not going to be able to fully comprehend or understand or analyze the damage it's done for some for some time. And it was like after Clinton, Clinton redefined what sex meant. And we were adults who could laugh at it. But the truth is, is that he said oral sex wasn't sex. Right. Okay. And we saw the spike in sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers and young people mostly through oral sex because they said, Oh, well, the president said really? Absolutely. Yeah. And that talk about a health. Yeah. It was a, it was a legitimate public health crisis. You saw following the Clinton-Lawinski scandal, you saw an increase in sexually transmitted diseases through oral sex amongst younger people because the president, it's hard for us because we see the president right now as sort of a comic, you know, as he sort of, it's, it's, you know, he's a reality show president. We know it's bullshit. But what do you tell kids? This is the president of the United States. Is that what it was? Or was it because there was so much discussion about him getting his dick sucked that more people wanted to suck dicks and get their dick sucked? I think without question, obviously the, uh, the size and scale of the coverage. Yeah. Unquestionably got people horny. Legitimately. But people, people for a while, people thought when I say people, I'm talking about younger people, um, developing minds, impressionable youths were under the impression that you could not get a sexually transmitted disease through something that wasn't sex. And the president reset those values. Just like this president, I feel is recalibrating our values. And, and I think that that's, that's what's most, I mean, other than the potential of nuclear war, I think, I think that is what is most dangerous and what could, could cause the most long-term damage from this is these new American values lie, cheat and steal.