The Michael Knowles Show - April 16, 2020


Ep. 530 - Money Printer Go Brrr


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

178.48936

Word Count

8,493

Sentence Count

552

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

Trump's stimulus checks hit bank accounts yesterday, and the mainstream media are furious about it. Are they angry about the policy, or are they just upset that President Trump is getting all the credit? Then, liberal governors give us even more evidence that the Coronavirus pandemic is politically motivated. And, speaking of criminals, a new report alleges that Jussie Smollett had sex with his attacker.


Transcript

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00:00:30.520 The Trump bucks are here.
00:00:32.620 Coronavirus stimulus checks
00:00:34.180 hit people's bank accounts yesterday,
00:00:35.900 giving much-needed relief to millions of Americans,
00:00:38.420 and the mainstream media are furious about it.
00:00:41.440 But are left-wing journalists angry about the policy,
00:00:44.700 or are they just upset that President Trump
00:00:46.460 is getting all the credit?
00:00:47.640 Then, liberal governors give us even more evidence
00:00:50.240 that the coronavirus pandemic
00:00:51.920 is politically a thing of the past.
00:00:54.140 The government power grab
00:00:55.520 leaves victims dead in its wake,
00:00:57.140 and, speaking of criminals,
00:00:59.000 a new report alleges that Jussie Smollett
00:01:01.360 had sex with his attacker,
00:01:03.420 which is particularly awkward
00:01:04.800 because Jussie Smollett attacked himself.
00:01:07.680 We will take a broad look at love
00:01:09.260 in the time of self-isolation.
00:01:11.500 All that and more.
00:01:12.140 I'm Michael Knowles,
00:01:12.680 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:13.760 How are you going to spend your Trump bucks?
00:01:25.200 The money hit everybody's bank account yesterday.
00:01:28.780 The money printer goes,
00:01:30.320 brr, and we're hopefully all going to stimulate the economy.
00:01:34.220 The strategy here behind the Trump bucks
00:01:38.220 is driving the mainstream media and the left crazy,
00:01:41.640 and it's driving them crazy
00:01:42.680 because he's stealing their usual strategy
00:01:45.420 and using it against them.
00:01:46.660 So, we'll get to that in one second.
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00:03:03.240 The Trump bucks hit the bank account
00:03:07.960 and the left are really upset.
00:03:09.600 Now, why are they going to even be able to justify
00:03:12.540 how upset they are?
00:03:13.500 They can't actually come out and say,
00:03:15.060 we're upset that Americans are getting relief
00:03:16.820 after the government mandated
00:03:18.300 that they all stop working for two months.
00:03:20.420 So, the way they've got to express their frustration
00:03:24.380 is to hone in on this one fact of the stimulus,
00:03:28.100 which is that President Trump's name is on it.
00:03:32.760 Here's a reporter asking that very question.
00:03:35.280 Why did you have your name added
00:03:36.940 to these coronavirus relief checks?
00:03:39.580 Well, I don't know too much about it,
00:03:41.180 but I understand my name is there.
00:03:43.100 I don't know where they're going, how they're going.
00:03:45.540 I do understand it's not delaying anything.
00:03:48.200 And I'm satisfied with that.
00:03:49.900 I don't imagine it's a big deal.
00:03:51.580 I'm sure people will be very happy
00:03:53.000 to get a big, fat, beautiful check
00:03:55.040 and my name is on it.
00:03:56.120 Yeah, go ahead, please.
00:03:57.700 Go ahead, please.
00:03:58.860 Please.
00:03:59.580 Why are you...
00:04:00.080 Please.
00:04:00.860 Go ahead.
00:04:02.060 A big, fat, beautiful check
00:04:04.360 and my name is on it.
00:04:06.020 Trump here is stealing
00:04:07.380 a left-wing political tactic.
00:04:11.260 Right?
00:04:11.660 The left,
00:04:12.620 the left is really good at optics, usually.
00:04:15.800 They're very good at making it seem like
00:04:18.040 they are the ones giving you
00:04:20.040 all these things,
00:04:20.880 all this money,
00:04:21.460 all these rights,
00:04:22.140 all they just give, give, give
00:04:23.380 and they put their name on it.
00:04:24.580 Now, usually it's not the case
00:04:25.960 that they're giving you anything.
00:04:27.080 They're just taking your tax money
00:04:28.240 and then giving it right back to you
00:04:29.560 and saying it's theirs.
00:04:30.740 The left has long done this.
00:04:32.680 Now, President Trump
00:04:33.380 is using that same tactic
00:04:34.560 at a time when Americans
00:04:35.660 actually do need relief.
00:04:38.180 But he's flipping their tactic
00:04:39.680 even in this negotiation.
00:04:41.480 Don't forget,
00:04:42.040 originally,
00:04:42.520 this is a federal program.
00:04:45.420 The Congress
00:04:46.040 and the Senate
00:04:46.860 pass it.
00:04:47.800 So it happens
00:04:48.660 at the federal level.
00:04:49.820 President Trump
00:04:50.360 is running
00:04:51.040 the federal government.
00:04:52.580 The only way
00:04:53.560 that Democrats
00:04:54.080 would agree
00:04:54.760 to the relief package
00:04:56.040 for coronavirus
00:04:56.660 is if,
00:04:58.860 even though the money
00:04:59.340 came from the federal government,
00:05:00.640 if the states
00:05:01.600 administered it.
00:05:03.680 Now, at the time,
00:05:04.580 a lot of people wondered,
00:05:05.280 who cares?
00:05:05.760 Why would you want
00:05:06.240 to slow down the process
00:05:07.660 of getting money
00:05:08.740 to people
00:05:09.620 who need it
00:05:10.260 in this time
00:05:11.120 of unemployment?
00:05:13.520 It doesn't make any sense,
00:05:14.880 does it?
00:05:15.060 The federal government
00:05:15.640 can fund it to you
00:05:16.400 just as easily
00:05:17.020 as the states can.
00:05:17.960 But the reason for that
00:05:18.860 is that the Democrats
00:05:19.840 did not want Trump
00:05:20.880 to get the credit,
00:05:21.920 even though it was
00:05:22.480 a Trump program,
00:05:23.300 even though it was
00:05:23.740 federally funded.
00:05:24.600 So they went through
00:05:25.440 this whole strabats
00:05:26.520 just so that they could
00:05:27.420 avoid giving Trump
00:05:28.440 the credit.
00:05:29.060 And what did Trump do?
00:05:29.940 He flipped it back on them
00:05:30.980 and he signed the checks.
00:05:32.080 Really smart play.
00:05:34.540 He, once again,
00:05:35.800 stymied their tactics.
00:05:37.680 And, of course,
00:05:38.880 people are not going
00:05:40.460 to get the check
00:05:41.260 and say,
00:05:42.020 I really want
00:05:43.620 to cash this $1,200.
00:05:45.020 I really want
00:05:45.520 to pay off my bills.
00:05:46.580 I really want
00:05:47.100 to pay my rent this month.
00:05:48.420 It's got Trump's name on it.
00:05:49.640 I can't cash it.
00:05:50.560 No, it's just going
00:05:51.180 to remind them
00:05:51.920 that this came
00:05:52.900 from the federal level
00:05:54.180 and give Trump
00:05:55.680 the credit
00:05:56.080 that he deserves.
00:05:57.340 Stymies them on that
00:05:58.160 and then
00:05:58.860 Trump turns
00:06:00.420 his attention
00:06:00.960 to the Congress
00:06:01.880 because right now
00:06:02.640 there are a lot
00:06:03.840 of open positions
00:06:04.680 in the federal government
00:06:05.580 and
00:06:06.480 some of those
00:06:07.980 need confirmation.
00:06:08.760 some of those
00:06:09.740 need to bring
00:06:10.100 the legislature
00:06:10.540 in on this.
00:06:11.440 But the legislature
00:06:12.400 is not in Washington.
00:06:13.320 You remember
00:06:13.740 the legislature
00:06:14.420 after a week
00:06:16.100 or two ago
00:06:16.560 they just all
00:06:17.040 left Washington
00:06:17.840 and went back
00:06:18.640 to their
00:06:19.100 home districts.
00:06:21.520 But they didn't
00:06:22.420 technically adjourn.
00:06:23.600 So they're still
00:06:23.940 technically in session
00:06:25.180 even though nobody
00:06:26.120 is in Washington
00:06:27.380 and they don't intend
00:06:28.120 to come back
00:06:28.700 until May.
00:06:29.320 So
00:06:30.660 if the
00:06:33.260 Congress
00:06:34.080 and the Senate
00:06:34.660 do adjourn
00:06:35.540 then President Trump
00:06:36.560 can appoint people
00:06:37.260 through what's called
00:06:37.920 a recess appointment.
00:06:39.280 If they don't adjourn
00:06:40.500 then those people
00:06:41.240 need confirmation.
00:06:43.020 And right now
00:06:43.880 they're in this
00:06:44.980 middle ground
00:06:45.680 where they haven't
00:06:46.380 technically adjourned
00:06:47.200 but they're not there
00:06:47.940 so nothing can get done.
00:06:49.440 Those positions
00:06:49.960 can't be filled
00:06:50.700 and obviously
00:06:51.180 we're in the midst
00:06:51.840 of a crisis
00:06:52.740 so
00:06:53.780 it's more important
00:06:55.140 than ever to get
00:06:55.600 those positions filled.
00:06:56.860 President Trump
00:06:57.420 figured out
00:06:58.120 a way to
00:06:59.340 circumnavigate
00:07:00.960 this issue
00:07:01.620 that managed
00:07:02.760 to make
00:07:03.100 everybody's heads
00:07:04.080 explode.
00:07:05.180 He threatened
00:07:05.780 to adjourn
00:07:06.880 himself
00:07:07.560 both houses
00:07:09.540 of Congress.
00:07:10.480 Here's a live feed
00:07:11.740 of President Trump
00:07:12.720 threatening
00:07:13.620 to close down
00:07:15.560 both houses
00:07:16.020 of Congress.
00:07:17.420 Talk of the exclusion
00:07:19.440 of the Duke of York
00:07:20.980 from the rightful
00:07:21.980 succession
00:07:22.660 is treason.
00:07:25.720 Any who speak
00:07:27.120 of it
00:07:27.460 set themselves
00:07:29.620 against legitimate
00:07:30.920 authority
00:07:31.600 and are the heirs
00:07:33.580 in spirit
00:07:34.300 to those rebels
00:07:35.740 who so recently
00:07:36.660 plunged our country
00:07:37.920 into rebellion
00:07:38.640 and civil war.
00:07:41.940 Can anyone here
00:07:43.540 contemplate such evil
00:07:44.940 without horror?
00:07:47.220 Anyone who denies
00:07:48.860 this truth
00:07:49.620 makes themselves
00:07:50.720 an enemy
00:07:51.500 of God,
00:07:53.440 king,
00:07:53.800 nation and country.
00:07:55.960 Think on that
00:07:57.040 before you take
00:07:57.740 another step
00:07:58.440 towards chaos.
00:08:01.700 All the world
00:08:03.280 may see
00:08:04.020 what a point
00:08:04.740 we have come to.
00:08:06.640 Nothing that begins
00:08:07.880 in such division
00:08:08.960 is likely to end well.
00:08:10.360 I declare
00:08:14.240 Parliament
00:08:15.040 dissolved.
00:08:18.340 Gentlemen,
00:08:19.480 go home.
00:08:22.760 I will not
00:08:23.780 trouble you
00:08:24.360 any further.
00:08:27.200 Gentlemen,
00:08:28.200 go home.
00:08:29.660 Okay,
00:08:30.440 huge.
00:08:31.040 This is going to be
00:08:31.820 the hugest,
00:08:32.660 most wonderful monarchy
00:08:33.940 in the history
00:08:34.620 of the world.
00:08:35.140 I got those
00:08:35.940 confused.
00:08:37.200 That was actually
00:08:37.660 King Charles II
00:08:38.440 dissolving Parliament.
00:08:39.960 But it was
00:08:40.620 a very similar
00:08:41.460 clip to
00:08:42.400 President Trump
00:08:43.020 in the Rose Garden
00:08:43.800 yesterday threatening
00:08:44.640 to adjourn
00:08:45.440 both houses
00:08:46.780 of Congress.
00:08:48.460 And this is
00:08:48.900 making heads
00:08:49.360 explode not just
00:08:50.700 on the left
00:08:52.220 but some heads
00:08:53.320 explode on the right
00:08:54.500 as well.
00:08:55.180 Here is,
00:08:55.740 and again,
00:08:56.160 I'm sorry for my
00:08:56.840 confusion,
00:08:57.660 here is President Trump.
00:08:59.600 The Senate
00:09:00.120 has left
00:09:00.660 Washington
00:09:01.320 until at least
00:09:03.480 May 4th.
00:09:04.300 The Constitution
00:09:04.960 provides a mechanism
00:09:06.400 for the President
00:09:07.820 to fill positions
00:09:08.900 in such circumstances.
00:09:10.920 The recess
00:09:11.380 appointment,
00:09:12.720 it's called.
00:09:13.980 The Senate's
00:09:14.620 practice of
00:09:15.460 gaveling into
00:09:17.120 so-called
00:09:17.680 pro-forma sessions
00:09:19.000 where no one
00:09:19.800 is even there
00:09:21.320 has prevented me
00:09:23.140 from using
00:09:23.760 the constitutional
00:09:25.580 authority
00:09:26.220 that we're giving,
00:09:27.660 that we're given
00:09:28.600 under
00:09:29.020 the recess
00:09:30.540 provisions.
00:09:32.020 The Senate
00:09:32.540 should either
00:09:33.080 fulfill its duty
00:09:34.080 and vote on my
00:09:34.980 nominees
00:09:37.820 so that I can
00:09:38.640 make recess
00:09:39.500 appointments.
00:09:41.820 We have a
00:09:42.600 tremendous number
00:09:43.500 of people that
00:09:44.120 have to come
00:09:44.620 into government
00:09:45.240 and now more so
00:09:46.180 than ever before
00:09:46.960 because of the
00:09:47.820 virus and the
00:09:48.700 problem.
00:09:50.880 We have to do it
00:09:52.080 and we have to do
00:09:53.420 whatever we have to
00:09:54.200 do.
00:09:55.200 If the House
00:09:55.660 will not agree
00:09:56.400 to that adjournment,
00:09:57.460 I will exercise
00:09:58.340 my constitutional
00:09:59.660 authority
00:10:00.380 to adjourn
00:10:02.680 both chambers
00:10:03.720 of Congress.
00:10:04.480 Oh, man.
00:10:06.360 Okay, it's not
00:10:06.880 quite as good
00:10:07.440 as Charles II
00:10:08.160 but it's very,
00:10:09.700 very close.
00:10:10.820 If only
00:10:11.500 he had ended
00:10:14.380 that statement
00:10:14.900 by saying,
00:10:15.340 I will not
00:10:15.920 trouble you
00:10:16.540 any further.
00:10:17.580 Go home.
00:10:18.700 Then it would
00:10:19.140 have been
00:10:19.520 almost exactly
00:10:20.800 the same.
00:10:21.540 The left
00:10:22.180 and some people
00:10:22.920 on the right
00:10:23.320 are freaking
00:10:23.900 out over this
00:10:24.540 because they
00:10:24.880 say this is
00:10:25.380 an outrageous
00:10:26.100 unconstitutional
00:10:26.940 power grab.
00:10:28.260 Let me direct
00:10:29.180 your attention
00:10:29.780 to Article 2,
00:10:31.560 Section 3
00:10:32.200 of the Constitution.
00:10:33.780 The president
00:10:35.480 may,
00:10:36.280 on extraordinary
00:10:37.160 occasions,
00:10:38.360 convene both
00:10:39.060 houses or
00:10:40.160 either of them
00:10:40.940 and in case
00:10:41.960 of disagreement
00:10:42.600 between them
00:10:43.580 with respect
00:10:44.460 to the time
00:10:45.300 of adjournment,
00:10:47.080 he may adjourn
00:10:48.220 them to such
00:10:49.360 time as he
00:10:51.000 shall think
00:10:51.620 proper.
00:10:53.700 He has this
00:10:55.160 authority to
00:10:55.940 adjourn them.
00:10:56.380 He has this
00:10:57.220 power to
00:10:58.540 recess
00:10:59.800 appointments.
00:11:00.840 Some people
00:11:01.720 on the left
00:11:02.080 don't understand
00:11:02.580 this.
00:11:02.840 So Karen
00:11:03.120 Tumulty over
00:11:03.800 at the
00:11:04.220 Washington Post,
00:11:05.020 she tweets
00:11:05.420 out,
00:11:05.960 how do
00:11:06.260 people who
00:11:07.080 used to
00:11:07.760 claim they
00:11:08.200 respected the
00:11:08.920 Constitution
00:11:09.540 reconcile this?
00:11:11.060 Tea Party,
00:11:11.720 where are you?
00:11:12.980 Trump threatens
00:11:14.040 to adjourn
00:11:14.760 Congress to
00:11:15.360 get his
00:11:15.640 nominees through.
00:11:18.900 You're asking
00:11:19.920 how people
00:11:21.880 who respect
00:11:22.460 the Constitution
00:11:23.400 can go along
00:11:24.820 with President
00:11:25.320 Trump exercising
00:11:26.760 a power that
00:11:27.360 he has explicitly
00:11:28.000 granted in the
00:11:28.580 Constitution.
00:11:29.200 That's the
00:11:29.520 question?
00:11:31.700 Pretty easily,
00:11:32.760 I guess.
00:11:33.120 Without very
00:11:34.320 much difficulty
00:11:35.080 at all.
00:11:35.960 This is my
00:11:36.480 favorite version
00:11:38.260 of this.
00:11:38.820 So we're
00:11:39.820 looking up on
00:11:40.440 the internet,
00:11:41.020 okay, Trump
00:11:42.400 I guess has
00:11:42.900 this power,
00:11:43.520 maybe I'm
00:11:43.840 misreading the
00:11:44.320 Constitution.
00:11:45.140 What do people
00:11:45.780 think about this?
00:11:46.540 What do the
00:11:48.100 commentators and
00:11:49.020 the news people,
00:11:49.800 what do they say
00:11:50.220 about this?
00:11:51.020 September 23rd,
00:11:52.240 1964, this is a
00:11:54.500 headline in the
00:11:55.560 New York Times,
00:11:56.680 president has
00:11:59.500 authority to
00:12:00.600 send Congress
00:12:01.880 home.
00:12:04.700 Oh, I love it.
00:12:05.560 It's the same
00:12:06.380 principle as
00:12:07.040 there's a tweet
00:12:07.520 for everything.
00:12:08.220 You know, when
00:12:08.460 President Trump
00:12:08.880 says something,
00:12:09.740 people dig back
00:12:10.460 10 years in his
00:12:11.480 tweets and they
00:12:11.980 find a tweet that
00:12:12.680 contradicts what he's
00:12:13.380 just doing.
00:12:14.140 Well, we can play
00:12:14.880 that same game with
00:12:15.580 the New York Times.
00:12:16.460 Usually we can do
00:12:17.100 that, you know,
00:12:17.720 month by month
00:12:18.640 because when a
00:12:19.480 Democrat does
00:12:20.040 something, it's
00:12:20.460 fine and when a
00:12:21.200 Republican does
00:12:21.800 something, it's
00:12:22.260 terrible in the
00:12:22.820 New York Times.
00:12:23.300 We have to go
00:12:23.860 back a little
00:12:24.300 further here, but
00:12:24.980 you just go to
00:12:25.380 1964, New York
00:12:26.660 Times president has
00:12:27.680 the authority to
00:12:28.960 send Congress
00:12:29.800 home.
00:12:31.560 Very, very fun.
00:12:32.780 Trump obviously
00:12:33.420 knew this.
00:12:34.020 His advisors
00:12:34.440 obviously knew
00:12:35.040 this.
00:12:35.700 So, yet again,
00:12:37.140 they tee up the
00:12:38.460 left, the left
00:12:39.220 goes crazy, and
00:12:40.440 then he just
00:12:41.120 knocks it right
00:12:41.600 out of the park.
00:12:43.120 The rest of the
00:12:43.980 press conference was
00:12:45.280 good.
00:12:46.000 You know, obviously
00:12:46.420 all of these have
00:12:47.040 been pretty
00:12:47.400 interesting.
00:12:47.880 It's allowing
00:12:48.200 Trump to control
00:12:48.740 the narrative.
00:12:51.380 Increasingly,
00:12:51.780 they're getting
00:12:52.100 combative, and
00:12:52.720 this is because,
00:12:53.300 yesterday, we
00:12:53.680 talked about how
00:12:54.440 the tide has
00:12:55.620 turned, the
00:12:56.060 backlash has
00:12:56.700 begun.
00:12:57.480 This is across
00:12:58.160 party lines.
00:12:59.540 You've now got
00:13:00.060 liberal governors
00:13:00.620 who are moving
00:13:02.260 away from panic,
00:13:03.340 moving into
00:13:03.980 economic recovery.
00:13:05.460 Trump is going
00:13:06.300 on the offensive
00:13:06.980 more so than
00:13:07.700 usual, and he's
00:13:08.620 going after the
00:13:09.360 reporters, and he's
00:13:10.080 questioning their
00:13:10.720 premises.
00:13:11.200 So, one of the
00:13:11.820 premises that the
00:13:12.940 left has been
00:13:13.380 trying to build up
00:13:14.080 to is that the
00:13:15.200 United States
00:13:15.820 totally bungled
00:13:16.680 the pandemic, and
00:13:18.260 it was the United
00:13:18.760 States' fault, and
00:13:20.380 now we've got the
00:13:21.860 most coronavirus
00:13:22.600 deaths anywhere in
00:13:24.100 the world.
00:13:25.160 And part of the
00:13:25.680 way they can get
00:13:26.100 away with this is
00:13:26.740 because China has
00:13:27.480 been lying about
00:13:28.280 their numbers.
00:13:29.560 If you look at the
00:13:30.100 growth of coronavirus
00:13:30.800 in China, it goes
00:13:32.260 up, it goes up, it's
00:13:33.180 increasing steadily,
00:13:34.120 it's exponentially, and
00:13:34.980 then one day it just
00:13:35.560 stops.
00:13:36.800 Okay, and they say,
00:13:37.340 oh, no more cases,
00:13:38.200 we're all good.
00:13:38.660 And that's just not
00:13:39.280 how viruses work.
00:13:40.400 The Chinese government
00:13:41.140 obviously lies all the
00:13:43.060 time, and specifically
00:13:44.120 about this pandemic,
00:13:45.100 their lies are the
00:13:45.720 reason that it's spread
00:13:46.320 around the world.
00:13:46.800 So, no reason to
00:13:47.720 believe them unless
00:13:49.080 you're in the
00:13:49.440 mainstream media and
00:13:50.400 you want to attack
00:13:51.020 Trump.
00:13:51.400 So they use this
00:13:52.260 premise, and Trump
00:13:53.060 just shoots it
00:13:54.440 straight down.
00:13:55.580 Why do we have
00:13:56.580 20% of the world's
00:13:58.060 deaths from the
00:13:58.620 coronavirus when we're
00:13:59.540 only 4% of the
00:14:00.560 world's population?
00:14:01.760 Well, you don't know
00:14:02.520 what you have.
00:14:03.200 Do you think you're
00:14:03.720 getting honest numbers
00:14:04.580 from some of these
00:14:05.360 countries?
00:14:06.080 Do you really believe
00:14:06.940 those numbers in this
00:14:08.020 vast country called
00:14:09.140 China, and that they
00:14:10.880 have a certain number
00:14:11.720 of cases and a
00:14:12.640 certain number of
00:14:13.240 that?
00:14:13.440 Does anybody really
00:14:14.280 believe that?
00:14:14.740 Here's the story.
00:14:15.580 We report everything.
00:14:16.820 We're reporting the
00:14:18.020 cases, and our
00:14:19.460 reporting is good.
00:14:20.500 We're reporting every
00:14:21.340 death.
00:14:22.260 In fact, I see this
00:14:23.640 morning where New York
00:14:24.700 added 3,000 deaths
00:14:26.220 because they died, and
00:14:28.260 they're now saying,
00:14:29.140 rather than it was a
00:14:29.900 heart attack, they're
00:14:30.640 saying it was a heart
00:14:31.360 attack caused by this.
00:14:32.460 So they're adding.
00:14:33.860 If you look at it, that's
00:14:36.320 it.
00:14:36.880 And everything we have is
00:14:38.800 documented, reported.
00:14:40.200 And what they are doing
00:14:41.460 is, just in case, they're
00:14:43.400 calling it this.
00:14:44.100 And that's okay.
00:14:45.340 That's okay.
00:14:46.400 But we are, we have
00:14:48.660 more cases because we
00:14:50.100 do more reporting.
00:14:51.200 We have more cases
00:14:52.480 because everything is
00:14:53.680 down.
00:14:54.240 But does anybody really
00:14:55.420 believe the numbers of
00:14:56.800 some of these countries
00:14:57.840 that you've been
00:14:58.400 watching and you've been
00:14:59.400 reporting on?
00:15:00.420 Does anybody believe
00:15:01.760 it?
00:15:02.040 No, nobody believes it.
00:15:03.140 Even the mainstream
00:15:03.620 media doesn't really
00:15:04.640 believe it.
00:15:05.080 They're just saying this
00:15:05.920 to attack President
00:15:06.960 Trump.
00:15:07.380 And on that point,
00:15:08.480 actually, Fox News
00:15:10.200 now has multiple sources
00:15:11.760 confirming something that
00:15:12.740 we have been talking
00:15:13.520 about for weeks.
00:15:14.520 We've been talking
00:15:15.200 about it, not just on
00:15:15.900 this show.
00:15:16.480 I've also been talking
00:15:17.220 about it on Verdict,
00:15:18.720 my show with Senator
00:15:19.620 Ted Cruz.
00:15:20.500 And when we raised
00:15:21.720 this suggestion,
00:15:23.460 the mainstream media
00:15:24.960 referred to us as
00:15:25.760 conspiracy theorists
00:15:27.280 without basis.
00:15:28.980 And not just to us,
00:15:30.020 they did it to
00:15:30.680 Senator Tom Cotton,
00:15:32.300 they did it to
00:15:32.760 anybody who raised
00:15:33.580 the possibility
00:15:34.400 that this pandemic
00:15:36.460 was in any way
00:15:37.560 connected to the
00:15:39.180 Wuhan Institute of
00:15:40.600 Virology.
00:15:41.260 It's that very high
00:15:42.400 level virus lab
00:15:43.400 that happened to
00:15:44.180 be studying
00:15:44.680 coronavirus,
00:15:45.580 that happened to
00:15:46.220 be studying
00:15:46.620 coronavirus in
00:15:47.400 bats,
00:15:47.860 that happened to
00:15:48.700 be two miles
00:15:49.940 by car and
00:15:51.400 800 yards
00:15:52.580 by foot
00:15:53.320 away from
00:15:54.420 the Wuhan
00:15:54.960 wet market
00:15:55.940 where all this
00:15:56.540 allegedly started.
00:15:57.460 If you suggested
00:15:58.760 any connection
00:15:59.580 between the two,
00:16:00.720 oh, you were a
00:16:01.200 kook, you were
00:16:01.660 crazy, you had no
00:16:02.320 evidence.
00:16:02.740 Well, now Fox News
00:16:04.160 is reporting multiple
00:16:04.940 sources confirm
00:16:05.780 the virus
00:16:08.540 originated in
00:16:09.920 the Wuhan
00:16:10.800 laboratory.
00:16:12.440 It was being
00:16:12.940 studied in the
00:16:14.240 Wuhan laboratory,
00:16:15.160 whether it came
00:16:15.820 at its inception
00:16:17.420 from nature
00:16:18.060 or elsewhere.
00:16:19.020 It was at that
00:16:20.320 laboratory and it
00:16:21.660 got out.
00:16:22.520 Here's the question,
00:16:23.380 here's Trump's
00:16:23.820 answer.
00:16:24.480 Multiple sources
00:16:25.360 are telling Fox News
00:16:26.880 today that the
00:16:27.560 United States
00:16:28.340 government now has
00:16:29.580 high confidence
00:16:30.380 that while the
00:16:31.520 coronavirus is a
00:16:32.820 naturally occurring
00:16:33.880 virus, it emanated
00:16:35.640 from a virology
00:16:37.080 lab in Wuhan
00:16:38.120 that because of
00:16:39.160 lax safety protocols
00:16:40.440 an intern was
00:16:41.660 infected who later
00:16:43.060 infected her
00:16:43.720 boyfriend and then
00:16:44.940 went to the wet
00:16:45.600 market in Wuhan
00:16:46.400 where it began to
00:16:47.680 spread.
00:16:48.120 Does that correspond
00:16:49.060 with what you have
00:16:50.580 heard from officials?
00:16:51.320 Well, I don't want
00:16:51.740 to say that, John,
00:16:52.640 but I will tell you
00:16:53.440 more and more we're
00:16:54.280 hearing the story
00:16:55.040 and we'll see.
00:16:56.640 When you say
00:16:57.040 multiple sources,
00:16:58.060 now there's a case
00:16:58.700 where you can use
00:16:59.280 the word sources,
00:17:00.720 but we are doing
00:17:02.980 a very thorough
00:17:03.680 examination of this
00:17:04.960 horrible situation
00:17:06.460 that happened.
00:17:07.480 Obviously, President
00:17:08.300 Trump is giving a
00:17:09.100 diplomatic answer
00:17:10.080 here because part
00:17:11.780 of his job is to
00:17:12.540 manage international
00:17:13.340 relations.
00:17:14.000 It's actually why he
00:17:14.780 hasn't smacked China
00:17:15.880 nearly as hard as you
00:17:17.220 would expect him to
00:17:18.200 maybe if he were
00:17:18.900 merely on the
00:17:19.600 campaign trail.
00:17:20.400 Part of that is he's
00:17:21.100 got to work with
00:17:21.660 China right now on
00:17:22.620 this pandemic.
00:17:23.760 Part of that is
00:17:24.640 they've just negotiated
00:17:25.460 this very difficult
00:17:26.660 trade deal.
00:17:27.240 Part of that is
00:17:27.780 there are more
00:17:28.380 factors at play.
00:17:29.480 But you can hear
00:17:30.180 in his answer,
00:17:30.880 the subtext is
00:17:31.580 pretty clear.
00:17:32.080 Yes, there are
00:17:32.820 strong indications
00:17:33.560 that this came
00:17:34.660 from the lab,
00:17:35.560 which frankly is
00:17:36.660 just common sense.
00:17:38.000 Okay, anybody who
00:17:39.340 has any reasonable
00:17:40.820 grasp of probability
00:17:41.800 should have known
00:17:42.720 that this was a
00:17:43.620 very likely situation.
00:17:45.340 This is a
00:17:46.180 humiliation for
00:17:47.620 the mainstream media
00:17:48.660 who called the
00:17:50.400 suggestion a
00:17:50.940 conspiracy theory
00:17:51.720 because they're
00:17:52.120 carrying water
00:17:52.840 for the communist
00:17:53.700 regime in China.
00:17:54.580 And there's more
00:17:55.020 good news too.
00:17:56.420 We heard yesterday
00:17:58.320 from the liberal
00:17:59.200 governors, Andy Cuomo
00:18:00.300 in New York and
00:18:01.280 Gavin Newsom in
00:18:02.120 California, that
00:18:03.540 things are looking
00:18:04.520 good.
00:18:04.860 They've turned a
00:18:05.300 corner.
00:18:06.140 They want to
00:18:06.760 reopen, not just
00:18:07.520 the state, they
00:18:08.000 want to reopen
00:18:08.520 the region, that
00:18:09.540 the political
00:18:10.340 phenomenon of the
00:18:11.900 coronavirus pandemic
00:18:12.740 is over, even
00:18:14.900 though obviously,
00:18:15.780 you know, medically
00:18:16.220 this is going to
00:18:16.860 continue for some
00:18:18.260 long period of
00:18:18.980 time as a
00:18:19.940 political phenomenon
00:18:20.660 as a matter of
00:18:21.240 the shutdowns.
00:18:22.580 It's done.
00:18:24.600 There's more
00:18:25.300 evidence of this
00:18:26.120 today.
00:18:26.600 Andy Cuomo
00:18:27.020 announced in his
00:18:28.240 latest press
00:18:28.840 conference that
00:18:29.800 things are going
00:18:30.440 so well in
00:18:31.200 New York, even
00:18:31.860 though obviously
00:18:32.260 the death
00:18:32.760 numbers lag, the
00:18:34.100 hospitalization
00:18:34.820 numbers, so the
00:18:35.720 death numbers
00:18:36.160 still might be
00:18:36.640 pretty scary, the
00:18:38.020 hospitalization
00:18:38.720 numbers are
00:18:39.540 decreasing so
00:18:40.420 steadily that
00:18:41.440 New York is
00:18:41.860 actually going to
00:18:42.240 be giving away
00:18:43.080 ventilators to
00:18:44.060 other states.
00:18:44.840 On the
00:18:45.440 ventilators, we've
00:18:47.060 stabilized our
00:18:47.680 healthcare situation.
00:18:48.860 New York had
00:18:49.340 one of the
00:18:49.780 earlier curves.
00:18:52.440 There are other
00:18:53.220 places in this
00:18:54.000 country announcing
00:18:54.840 increases in the
00:18:56.120 death rate and
00:18:57.180 they're seeing
00:18:57.520 stress on their
00:18:58.220 healthcare system.
00:18:59.800 I will never
00:19:00.540 forget the
00:19:01.080 generosity that
00:19:02.500 people across
00:19:03.860 this country
00:19:04.360 showed to our
00:19:05.640 state and I
00:19:07.600 said at that
00:19:08.180 time, New
00:19:09.640 Yorkers are
00:19:11.100 generous and
00:19:12.420 they are
00:19:12.920 grateful and
00:19:14.000 gracious and
00:19:14.880 when you need
00:19:15.460 help, we will
00:19:16.280 be there for
00:19:17.140 you and we
00:19:18.300 will be.
00:19:19.520 State of
00:19:20.080 Michigan is
00:19:20.800 going through
00:19:21.200 an issue right
00:19:21.800 now.
00:19:22.100 State of
00:19:22.380 Maryland is
00:19:22.820 going through
00:19:23.180 an issue.
00:19:24.080 We're stabilized.
00:19:25.460 We're going to
00:19:25.840 send 100
00:19:26.440 ventilators to
00:19:27.220 Michigan and 50
00:19:28.060 to the state of
00:19:29.020 Maryland.
00:19:29.760 Now, obviously,
00:19:31.040 if New York
00:19:31.480 were still in
00:19:32.440 the peak of
00:19:33.720 this chaos, they
00:19:34.720 wouldn't be able
00:19:35.200 to give away
00:19:35.580 ventilators.
00:19:36.220 Don't forget
00:19:36.600 what we had
00:19:37.000 been hearing for
00:19:37.420 weeks and
00:19:37.720 weeks is New
00:19:38.120 York doesn't
00:19:38.480 have enough
00:19:38.820 ventilators,
00:19:39.620 doesn't have
00:19:40.000 enough hospitals,
00:19:40.880 doesn't, we
00:19:41.380 need to take
00:19:41.760 over the
00:19:42.020 Javits Center,
00:19:42.600 we need to
00:19:42.900 get a cruise
00:19:43.560 ship, a
00:19:43.920 hospital ship
00:19:44.620 down here to
00:19:45.480 take care of
00:19:45.920 everybody and
00:19:46.480 then that was
00:19:47.100 not needed.
00:19:48.520 So, there
00:19:49.640 are fewer
00:19:49.880 people went to
00:19:50.380 the hospital
00:19:50.800 than they
00:19:51.120 expected, fewer
00:19:52.740 people needed
00:19:53.220 the ventilators
00:19:53.880 than they
00:19:54.600 expected.
00:19:55.940 Now they have
00:19:56.480 so much
00:19:56.760 excess, they're
00:19:57.280 able to give
00:19:57.800 it away.
00:19:58.960 That's in
00:19:59.420 New York, the
00:19:59.980 epicenter of
00:20:00.660 the epidemic in
00:20:01.940 America.
00:20:03.800 Great news.
00:20:04.580 It's not just
00:20:05.140 in New York
00:20:05.680 though, it's
00:20:06.800 also in
00:20:07.660 California.
00:20:08.500 One point on
00:20:09.180 Andy Cuomo
00:20:09.600 though, I
00:20:10.340 again was
00:20:10.880 speaking to a
00:20:11.380 friend of mine
00:20:11.760 from New York
00:20:12.240 yesterday and
00:20:13.340 he said, I
00:20:13.740 was watching
00:20:14.880 Andy Cuomo say
00:20:16.020 that New Yorker
00:20:16.560 is always
00:20:16.940 gracious and
00:20:17.740 grateful and
00:20:18.320 nice to
00:20:18.620 everybody.
00:20:19.240 Has Andy
00:20:19.800 Cuomo ever
00:20:20.240 met a New
00:20:20.600 Yorker?
00:20:21.680 And I have
00:20:22.340 to say, myself
00:20:23.000 being a New
00:20:23.440 Yorker, I
00:20:23.900 was a little
00:20:24.340 puzzled at
00:20:25.120 that.
00:20:25.380 One thing too
00:20:26.180 that you
00:20:26.500 notice,
00:20:26.840 in these
00:20:28.020 press conferences
00:20:28.680 from Cuomo, he
00:20:30.100 turns up the
00:20:30.720 New York
00:20:31.020 accent.
00:20:32.740 So, if you
00:20:33.960 were to listen
00:20:34.680 to him here,
00:20:35.200 you'd hear like,
00:20:36.000 hey, but you
00:20:36.720 know, look, this
00:20:37.540 is New York, we're
00:20:38.480 really grateful,
00:20:39.440 really gracious
00:20:39.980 people.
00:20:40.640 That's not
00:20:41.260 really how Andy
00:20:42.120 Cuomo talks.
00:20:42.920 I've run into
00:20:43.600 Andy Cuomo twice
00:20:44.660 in person.
00:20:45.620 I was a
00:20:46.520 kitchen runner,
00:20:47.940 I was like a
00:20:48.540 waiter for him
00:20:49.240 one time when I
00:20:50.680 was in high
00:20:51.040 school and then
00:20:51.900 one time during
00:20:52.580 Hurricane Sandy
00:20:53.440 when I was
00:20:53.880 living in New
00:20:54.380 York, I was
00:20:56.020 hanging out in
00:20:56.960 my apartment
00:20:57.420 building.
00:20:57.980 Luckily, before
00:20:58.460 Hurricane Sandy
00:20:59.160 hit, one of
00:20:59.920 our neighbors
00:21:00.400 had catered an
00:21:01.260 event and
00:21:01.740 brought back, I
00:21:02.920 think, 15
00:21:03.500 cases of beer.
00:21:04.860 So, we, you
00:21:05.640 know, indulged a
00:21:06.440 little bit and
00:21:07.300 then like a
00:21:07.720 bunch of young
00:21:08.300 idiots in the
00:21:09.200 middle of the
00:21:09.600 storm went out
00:21:10.240 walking around
00:21:10.820 with a beer and
00:21:12.580 a cigar and kind
00:21:13.420 of surveyed the
00:21:13.940 damage.
00:21:14.640 And the only
00:21:15.200 other guy we
00:21:15.740 run into out
00:21:16.380 there is Andy
00:21:17.460 Cuomo, who was
00:21:18.180 there with two
00:21:18.620 cops surveying the
00:21:19.840 damage.
00:21:20.360 And anyway, I say
00:21:21.520 all of that to
00:21:22.540 point out, he
00:21:23.880 knows how to play
00:21:24.460 it up for the
00:21:24.900 cameras.
00:21:25.400 He's obviously
00:21:26.040 angling for some
00:21:26.900 kind of national
00:21:27.700 profile here.
00:21:29.460 He's playing up
00:21:30.180 this whole New
00:21:30.660 York character.
00:21:32.080 That's fine.
00:21:32.760 That's all well
00:21:33.240 and good.
00:21:34.060 If he could play
00:21:35.920 up the drama of
00:21:36.920 the situation in
00:21:37.660 New York even
00:21:38.340 more, he certainly
00:21:39.340 would do that.
00:21:40.560 The fact that he's
00:21:41.360 now moving into
00:21:41.940 this more positive,
00:21:43.140 more hopeful angle
00:21:45.300 means that politically
00:21:47.060 we've turned the
00:21:47.640 corner.
00:21:47.980 Gavin Newsom's
00:21:48.480 doing the same
00:21:48.920 thing.
00:21:49.540 Gavin Newsom is
00:21:50.680 being very, very
00:21:51.740 generous with
00:21:52.300 California's
00:21:52.880 resources, meaning
00:21:54.180 with all of your
00:21:55.000 taxpayer money.
00:21:56.440 Gavin Newsom is
00:21:56.980 now going to be
00:21:57.440 giving away taxpayer
00:21:58.240 money to illegal
00:21:59.160 aliens in the
00:22:00.180 state who are no
00:22:01.520 longer able to
00:22:02.300 work because of
00:22:03.580 the shutdown.
00:22:04.140 He's giving $500
00:22:04.920 per person to
00:22:06.820 150,000 illegal
00:22:09.000 aliens throughout
00:22:09.900 the state.
00:22:10.420 That's according to
00:22:11.240 the Associated Press.
00:22:12.780 So you're a
00:22:13.260 criminal.
00:22:13.620 You break our
00:22:14.140 laws.
00:22:14.680 You break very
00:22:15.420 important laws by
00:22:16.820 crossing our border
00:22:17.660 illegally.
00:22:18.480 You remain here.
00:22:19.620 You don't leave.
00:22:20.460 And what happens to
00:22:21.280 you?
00:22:22.000 You get more of our
00:22:22.880 taxpayer money.
00:22:24.000 Wow, how generous.
00:22:25.740 Typical lunacy from
00:22:27.160 leftist California, but
00:22:28.660 I pointed out to
00:22:31.000 show you if things
00:22:33.380 were really dire in
00:22:34.380 California, if all the
00:22:35.540 doomsday alarmists were
00:22:36.620 right and California was
00:22:37.920 just as bad as New York
00:22:39.080 and getting even worse,
00:22:40.860 they wouldn't have the
00:22:41.580 resources to do this
00:22:42.600 kind of thing.
00:22:43.120 But they do have a lot
00:22:43.780 of extra resources because
00:22:45.700 it didn't hit nearly as
00:22:47.180 badly as we were told it
00:22:48.060 was going to.
00:22:48.600 So now they're giving it
00:22:49.320 away to illegal aliens.
00:22:52.480 This is fine evidence
00:22:56.020 that we can start
00:22:57.480 moving forward, but the
00:22:58.600 only way that we're
00:22:59.240 going to move forward is
00:23:00.540 if you and I turn up the
00:23:01.900 heat on these
00:23:02.420 politicians.
00:23:03.700 The politicians, their
00:23:04.840 only superpower is they
00:23:05.780 can tell which way the
00:23:06.500 wind blows.
00:23:07.760 We got to make sure that
00:23:08.600 they feel a strong wind.
00:23:10.140 Speaking of criminals,
00:23:11.060 by the way, you know,
00:23:12.340 part of this whole
00:23:12.980 coronavirus response is
00:23:14.420 that some local
00:23:15.740 governments are
00:23:16.260 releasing criminals.
00:23:17.440 Many local governments
00:23:18.760 are releasing criminals
00:23:19.640 and the idea behind it
00:23:20.960 was we don't want the
00:23:21.880 jails to be overcrowded.
00:23:23.060 We don't want them to
00:23:23.620 spread coronavirus to
00:23:24.580 each other.
00:23:25.440 We want to, in the midst
00:23:26.400 of a crisis, release a
00:23:27.760 bunch of violent thugs
00:23:28.940 onto the street and that
00:23:30.180 way they can spread
00:23:30.760 coronavirus to you as
00:23:31.720 they're burgling your
00:23:32.320 apartment.
00:23:33.360 So typically, as you
00:23:36.320 might expect, this did
00:23:37.560 not end very well and we
00:23:39.460 predicted on this show,
00:23:41.180 I'll point out, that this
00:23:42.640 would not end very well
00:23:44.560 and now we've got our
00:23:45.500 evidence.
00:23:45.780 According to a Hillsborough
00:23:47.880 County Sheriff's Office,
00:23:51.020 deputies arrested a 26-year-old
00:23:53.160 Joseph Edward Williams
00:23:55.080 for homicide that happened
00:23:57.180 in Tampa, Florida
00:23:58.200 on March 20th.
00:24:00.740 Okay, but we hear these
00:24:03.060 stories all the time.
00:24:03.860 People commit murder.
00:24:05.980 He's facing a second-degree
00:24:07.420 murder charge along with
00:24:08.440 resisting an officer
00:24:09.280 with violence, felon in
00:24:11.900 possession of a firearm,
00:24:13.460 possession of heroin,
00:24:14.240 and possession of drug
00:24:15.940 paraphernalia.
00:24:17.000 Okay, so he was arrested,
00:24:18.040 what, March 20th.
00:24:20.200 The thing that makes this
00:24:21.380 story notable is that he
00:24:22.900 was also arrested a week
00:24:24.020 earlier.
00:24:24.620 He was arrested a week
00:24:25.640 earlier on drug charges,
00:24:27.180 but they let him go
00:24:28.660 because coronavirus or
00:24:30.560 something.
00:24:31.340 They let him go.
00:24:32.320 A week later, he murders
00:24:33.500 somebody.
00:24:33.920 Someone is dead because of
00:24:36.540 their stupid criminal
00:24:39.460 justice policies in the face
00:24:40.780 of coronavirus.
00:24:42.920 Is his victim going to be
00:24:44.400 added to the list of
00:24:45.880 coronavirus deaths?
00:24:47.740 Probably he should.
00:24:50.620 Right?
00:24:50.940 Because of the coronavirus
00:24:52.420 response, a person is dead
00:24:55.000 today who would not
00:24:56.060 otherwise have been dead
00:24:57.000 because this criminal would
00:24:58.820 not have been let out of
00:24:59.520 prison.
00:25:02.000 These are important data
00:25:03.260 points for people, not just
00:25:05.240 who are defending the
00:25:06.180 overreaction from the
00:25:07.160 governments here, but who
00:25:08.400 defend letting criminals
00:25:09.660 out of prison.
00:25:10.440 This has become popular
00:25:11.460 even on the right, not
00:25:13.100 just on the left, because
00:25:14.640 on the right, they think
00:25:15.820 it's a good way to pander
00:25:16.740 to voters.
00:25:17.540 They say, oh, look, we
00:25:18.080 want to let criminals out
00:25:18.940 of, at a prison.
00:25:19.800 It's, there are too many
00:25:20.560 criminals in prison.
00:25:21.440 Never mind what they did,
00:25:22.220 never mind the crimes they
00:25:22.920 committed or are going to
00:25:23.860 commit.
00:25:24.220 We just got to let them
00:25:25.080 out because it feels icky
00:25:26.020 to lock people up.
00:25:27.120 It's not icky.
00:25:27.840 It's a good thing.
00:25:28.540 Lock up criminals, lock up
00:25:29.680 more criminals.
00:25:31.320 You think we have an
00:25:31.860 over-incarceration problem?
00:25:33.080 As long as crimes are
00:25:33.840 being committed, I suppose
00:25:34.780 we have an under-
00:25:35.720 incarceration
00:25:36.120 problem.
00:25:37.400 Little bit of reality
00:25:38.660 coming up against all
00:25:39.660 the models and the
00:25:40.480 projections and the
00:25:41.420 dreams and the fantasies.
00:25:43.260 Speaking of crimes and
00:25:45.220 fantasies, Jussie Smollett
00:25:46.960 is back in the news.
00:25:47.900 How's that for a segue?
00:25:48.920 There's a new report out
00:25:50.060 that Jussie Smollett,
00:25:51.780 apparently, this is a
00:25:53.320 little not safe for work,
00:25:54.780 Jussie Smollett went to a
00:25:57.540 gay bathhouse in Chicago
00:25:58.920 with his alleged attacker
00:26:01.240 and had sex with him,
00:26:03.040 which is obviously a little
00:26:05.280 strange because Jussie
00:26:06.440 Smollett attacked himself
00:26:07.660 and it reminds me of
00:26:09.560 Woody Allen's famous line,
00:26:11.060 not to knock masturbation
00:26:12.700 because it is sex with
00:26:13.680 someone you love.
00:26:15.740 I guess what the article
00:26:17.320 is referring to and the
00:26:18.580 news report is referring to
00:26:20.580 is not that Smollett had
00:26:23.080 sex with his attacker
00:26:23.980 because he was his own
00:26:24.880 attacker, but that he
00:26:26.060 apparently had sex with
00:26:26.940 the guy who he paid to
00:26:28.620 pretend to be his attacker.
00:26:30.600 They had a long-standing
00:26:31.460 relationship.
00:26:32.640 They went to this gay
00:26:34.200 bathhouse and all of this
00:26:37.240 is very possibly going to
00:26:38.540 be subpoenaed in Jussie
00:26:40.400 Smollett's upcoming trial
00:26:41.540 on charges of
00:26:42.840 disorderly conduct.
00:26:46.660 People are getting a little
00:26:47.620 lonely in this epidemic.
00:26:49.400 Okay, speaking of self-love,
00:26:51.720 people are getting a little
00:26:52.660 bit lonely.
00:26:53.580 There's a study that just
00:26:54.440 came out.
00:26:54.820 Four in ten Americans right
00:26:55.840 now are lonelier than ever
00:26:57.880 before.
00:26:59.340 A survey of 1,055 Americans
00:27:02.040 asked respondents to answer
00:27:03.520 this question, how is the
00:27:04.700 coronavirus affecting you
00:27:06.300 personally?
00:27:07.700 And actually more than
00:27:08.560 four in ten, 44% of them
00:27:09.940 said that they are now
00:27:11.120 feeling lonelier than ever
00:27:12.320 before.
00:27:12.880 Another unintended or
00:27:14.520 unfortunate consequence of
00:27:17.060 this coronavirus shutdown.
00:27:19.880 Maybe it's not intended,
00:27:20.940 but anybody with two brain
00:27:21.900 cells to rub together
00:27:22.640 could tell.
00:27:23.400 Obviously, people are going
00:27:24.240 to be lonely if you
00:27:25.020 imprison them in their
00:27:26.220 apartments for months at a
00:27:27.200 time.
00:27:29.100 This has effects on society.
00:27:31.380 It will lead to more
00:27:32.440 suicides.
00:27:33.000 It will lead to more
00:27:34.120 depression.
00:27:34.760 It will lead to more
00:27:36.580 drug abuse.
00:27:38.700 It also is a symptom of an
00:27:42.660 atomized, lonely, isolated
00:27:44.500 culture.
00:27:45.860 A lot of people, especially
00:27:47.880 young people, who would
00:27:49.560 have been married in decades
00:27:50.680 past, are not married right
00:27:52.160 now.
00:27:52.400 They don't have, forget about
00:27:53.960 marriage, they don't even
00:27:54.700 have support systems of their
00:27:55.800 own family or their own
00:27:56.800 local community or strong
00:27:58.540 friendships that they might
00:27:59.540 have had in decades past.
00:28:00.540 People across demographics,
00:28:02.900 across ages, are isolated,
00:28:05.280 not just because the
00:28:06.120 government is forcing them
00:28:06.940 to stay in their homes, but
00:28:08.200 because of their own
00:28:08.960 behaviors.
00:28:10.740 There's a kind of paradox
00:28:12.520 that comes with this, or a
00:28:13.660 kind of contradiction that
00:28:14.640 comes with this, because we
00:28:17.780 have a culture now where
00:28:18.720 people are sleeping with a
00:28:20.380 lot of different people.
00:28:21.180 That's more socially
00:28:21.800 acceptable, and yet they're
00:28:24.060 even lonelier.
00:28:25.480 The key to this is an
00:28:27.080 article that was in New York
00:28:27.960 Magazine yesterday.
00:28:28.720 What it's like to isolate
00:28:30.900 with your girlfriend and her
00:28:32.920 other boyfriend.
00:28:36.560 Yikes.
00:28:37.080 I encourage you to read it.
00:28:38.220 It's like the saddest and
00:28:40.540 funniest article I've read in
00:28:42.180 weeks.
00:28:43.220 I don't know which it is.
00:28:44.100 I think it's both at the
00:28:44.760 same time.
00:28:45.740 But once you get past laughing
00:28:47.700 at this poor guy, and by the
00:28:48.880 way, I feel sorry for every
00:28:50.320 single person in this scenario,
00:28:52.340 but there's actually something
00:28:53.600 profound at the end of the
00:28:55.640 article.
00:28:55.940 So it's an interview with
00:28:57.560 this guy who hosts a podcast
00:28:59.380 called The Man Whore Podcast.
00:29:01.340 I guess everybody's got a
00:29:02.120 podcast these days.
00:29:03.420 And he's staying at his
00:29:05.780 girlfriend's apartment that
00:29:07.340 she has with her other
00:29:08.360 boyfriend, and they're like
00:29:09.320 sharing the girlfriend, and
00:29:10.780 it's very creepy and weird.
00:29:14.420 Then once you get past all the
00:29:16.140 effeminacy and sadness, he gets
00:29:19.940 to his line, which shows you a
00:29:21.520 kind of selfishness here.
00:29:22.520 He says, there's part of me
00:29:23.820 that's relieved that Megan has
00:29:25.000 another person here, because
00:29:26.040 then I don't have to be
00:29:27.840 everything to her.
00:29:28.900 I don't have to give her all
00:29:29.940 the attention that's needed.
00:29:31.000 I don't have to give her all
00:29:32.200 of the cuddles that are
00:29:33.140 needed, because she has
00:29:34.220 another partner in general.
00:29:35.580 That's the really cool thing
00:29:36.800 about polyamory.
00:29:38.300 I don't feel the pressure of
00:29:39.540 being everything for someone.
00:29:41.880 Wow, what an amazing line
00:29:42.880 that is.
00:29:43.560 I don't feel the pressure of
00:29:44.720 being everything for someone.
00:29:46.180 And in a more stressful time
00:29:47.320 like this, it's a relief to
00:29:48.280 know that if I need to have
00:29:49.400 some alone time, she's good
00:29:51.140 with that.
00:29:51.840 And if she does have a need,
00:29:53.420 she can tap somebody else,
00:29:55.840 so to speak.
00:29:57.300 Yuck, gross, sad, pathetic.
00:30:02.460 The flaw in this guy's
00:30:04.680 reasoning is this error that
00:30:09.360 we have in our society.
00:30:10.520 We believe, as the society has
00:30:12.500 become more materialistic, that
00:30:14.520 the way to have a good,
00:30:16.800 fulfilling, happy life is to
00:30:18.320 pursue our own desires and to
00:30:20.440 pursue our own appetites.
00:30:21.720 Forget about all that old
00:30:23.340 timey stuff that restrains your
00:30:25.280 desires and tells you that you
00:30:27.200 can't do everything you want to
00:30:28.400 do whenever you want to do it.
00:30:30.080 Get rid of that, man.
00:30:31.260 Break free.
00:30:32.020 Liberate yourself.
00:30:33.160 And then if you have a
00:30:34.680 girlfriend and she's got three
00:30:36.060 boyfriends and then you've got
00:30:37.440 six girlfriends, that'll be so
00:30:38.680 good because you don't have
00:30:40.400 responsibility.
00:30:41.220 This is the mistake they're
00:30:42.680 making.
00:30:43.240 They think that responsibility
00:30:44.320 makes you unhappy and a lack of
00:30:47.200 accountability makes you really
00:30:49.100 happy.
00:30:49.400 But actually, that's not true.
00:30:50.940 I know it seems true.
00:30:52.200 That's what every young person
00:30:53.140 has ever thought, who resists
00:30:54.620 marriage, who resists commitment,
00:30:55.960 who resists getting a job.
00:30:57.140 But actually, nobody is
00:30:58.620 gratified when they go home and
00:31:00.440 look at porn and stuff their
00:31:01.920 faces and drink too much and lie
00:31:03.880 on the couch and don't accomplish
00:31:05.120 anything.
00:31:05.620 That makes you depressed.
00:31:06.920 That makes you sad.
00:31:08.020 Makes you into a loser.
00:31:09.920 If, however, you give of
00:31:11.940 yourself, you sacrifice some of
00:31:13.280 yourself, you care about other
00:31:14.400 people, you do things that you
00:31:15.440 don't want to do because it's the
00:31:16.480 right thing to do, you take on a
00:31:18.760 job, you take on the
00:31:20.240 responsibilities of a family, it
00:31:22.760 seems like that would make you
00:31:23.760 less happy.
00:31:24.340 Actually, it makes you much more
00:31:25.360 gratified in life.
00:31:26.320 There is a phenomenon that I've
00:31:27.940 just learned about called
00:31:30.700 OnlyFans.
00:31:32.200 Have you heard about this?
00:31:33.780 OnlyFans is a level of
00:31:36.500 pornography, a level of
00:31:39.800 debauchery that I'm very
00:31:40.960 grateful that I've never been
00:31:42.600 exposed to.
00:31:43.400 Of all the debauchery I've been
00:31:44.360 exposed to, somehow I was able to
00:31:46.060 avoid that one.
00:31:48.620 OnlyFans is this website where
00:31:50.300 you log on and you, you have to
00:31:53.380 pay like 10 or 20 bucks a month to
00:31:56.060 subscribe to a person who is a
00:31:58.440 homemade porn store.
00:32:00.340 Someone, there's no, it's the total
00:32:02.020 democratization of porn.
00:32:03.440 No more gatekeepers.
00:32:04.840 The girls log on and they say, I'm
00:32:06.260 going to become an OnlyFan
00:32:07.300 performer.
00:32:08.560 And then the guys log on and they
00:32:09.900 pay her 10, 20, however much per
00:32:11.620 month.
00:32:12.480 And you get access to photos and
00:32:15.420 some, some are very banal, right?
00:32:16.760 Just updates about their day.
00:32:18.380 For some of these girls, they don't
00:32:20.340 even take their clothes off.
00:32:22.600 They, you, they kind of racy
00:32:24.060 pictures, but you don't, they don't
00:32:25.380 take their clothes off.
00:32:26.280 It's, it's actually that you're
00:32:29.340 paying not for the naked photos.
00:32:30.960 You're paying for the semblance of a
00:32:33.500 relationship.
00:32:33.980 How sad is that?
00:32:37.180 Because obviously there are a zillion
00:32:38.660 naked ladies on the internet.
00:32:39.900 You can look on the internet for free
00:32:42.180 without putting down a credit card
00:32:43.340 and see anything that you want to
00:32:46.240 see.
00:32:46.500 Any sick thing that you can imagine,
00:32:48.520 I promise you it's out there.
00:32:50.060 This is one of the laws of the
00:32:51.160 internet.
00:32:51.980 And yet people are paying money to
00:32:54.100 see oftentimes not naked women.
00:32:56.620 And what they're paying for is to
00:32:58.460 feel as though they've got some kind
00:33:00.520 of relationship with this person.
00:33:04.260 That is the height of decadence.
00:33:06.480 That is the height of debauchery.
00:33:08.920 It's, it's probably of all the dark,
00:33:11.080 weird kinds of porn on the internet.
00:33:12.140 This might be the darkest one
00:33:13.900 because it, it, it reflects a society
00:33:18.700 that's now so isolated, that's become
00:33:20.820 so alienated from itself that it can't
00:33:24.140 even have a normal platonic relationship
00:33:27.320 or a normal flirtatious relationship.
00:33:30.520 You actually have to pay for that.
00:33:32.120 Now you don't need to pay to see weird
00:33:34.300 sex.
00:33:34.780 You do have to pay to feel any human
00:33:37.680 connection.
00:33:38.680 That is not a problem of isolation
00:33:40.560 only in quarantine.
00:33:41.380 That is a much bigger problem.
00:33:42.620 It's going to last longer than the
00:33:45.180 coronavirus does.
00:33:46.140 That is for sure.
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00:34:48.420 From Matt, austere religious podcaster
00:34:50.960 and Lord of the Covfefe.
00:34:52.340 You seem to be a student of both Dante
00:34:54.500 and ancient Rome.
00:34:56.000 As such, my question involves both.
00:34:57.440 Namely, does Brutus deserve his place
00:34:59.580 in Dante's hell alongside Judas?
00:35:02.800 Thanks for the great show and keep up
00:35:04.380 the good work.
00:35:05.220 Came for Ben, stayed for Michael.
00:35:07.500 Yes, Brutus is the guy who was friends
00:35:09.940 with Caesar who murders Julius Caesar.
00:35:12.800 And in Dante, he's represented in the
00:35:14.560 absolute lowest pit of hell, which is a
00:35:17.100 lake of ice in which Satan is trapped.
00:35:19.480 Satan is a three-headed monster.
00:35:20.800 And in his teeth, in each of his jaws,
00:35:24.740 he's chewing Brutus and Cassius, who killed
00:35:26.880 Caesar, and Judas, who killed Christ.
00:35:30.800 Brutus does deserve his place in hell.
00:35:33.700 Brutus is sometimes considered a good person
00:35:38.000 because he tried to stop the tyranny of Caesar
00:35:40.680 and he tried to defend the Republic.
00:35:43.180 The reason that Brutus deserves his place
00:35:46.520 in the lowest level of hell is that he
00:35:48.040 betrayed his benefactor.
00:35:49.320 He betrayed his friend.
00:35:51.160 And that is the worst possible crime
00:35:53.660 you can commit.
00:35:54.820 You know, in Dante's hell, you got the early
00:35:56.840 kind of fleshly sins.
00:35:58.300 Those are in the upper layers of hell.
00:36:00.040 It's not quite as painful.
00:36:01.960 And then you get down lower and lower
00:36:03.060 to the worst sins.
00:36:04.060 And the worst sins you get to are the sins
00:36:06.360 of fraud, are the sins of betrayal.
00:36:09.020 They're the worst things that you can
00:36:10.560 possibly do.
00:36:11.480 And the people who engage in fraud
00:36:14.720 and betrayal, for instance, of their benefactors,
00:36:17.340 they deserve the absolute worst punishments
00:36:19.820 that there are.
00:36:20.540 From Joshua.
00:36:21.500 Michael, my state of Minnesota issued a lockdown
00:36:23.400 and extended it until May.
00:36:26.020 Although I do believe in public health
00:36:27.620 as an exception to normal government rules,
00:36:30.700 how long can a lockdown go on
00:36:32.700 before we reach 1984 levels of government intrusion?
00:36:35.960 I love the podcast.
00:36:37.400 This long.
00:36:38.260 That's how long.
00:36:38.800 Exactly this long.
00:36:40.300 And now it's gone too far.
00:36:42.480 Okay, when you're arresting pastors
00:36:43.860 but letting criminals out onto the street
00:36:46.040 so they can go murder people,
00:36:47.120 which is actually happening,
00:36:48.760 you have gone too far.
00:36:50.000 When the models that you were using
00:36:51.840 were all shown to be incorrect
00:36:53.640 and then you respond to that by doubling down
00:36:56.340 and adding more draconian measures
00:36:58.460 and threatening to fine or jail people
00:37:00.880 for not following those measures
00:37:02.620 like is happening here in Los Angeles,
00:37:04.280 you have gone too far.
00:37:06.880 These people have been overstepping their bounds.
00:37:08.380 When the police come out
00:37:09.280 and say you no longer have a First Amendment right
00:37:11.760 to protest because protesting
00:37:13.580 is a non-essential activity.
00:37:15.060 The government has gone too far
00:37:16.720 and now is the time to push back.
00:37:18.500 From Michelle,
00:37:19.180 can you speak to the report
00:37:20.780 that 3,700 deaths were just added
00:37:22.440 to the death count in New York
00:37:23.600 without testing for coronavirus?
00:37:25.240 How is this allowed to happen?
00:37:26.480 Can someone ask Dr. Birx or Fauci,
00:37:28.360 how can we stop this?
00:37:29.820 That did happen in New York just the other day.
00:37:32.760 Deaths that had obviously already happened,
00:37:35.180 which did not include a test for coronavirus,
00:37:37.320 were added to the death count in New York.
00:37:38.940 Now, the defense of this is
00:37:40.760 that perhaps there weren't tests available,
00:37:42.560 they weren't able to determine with certainty
00:37:44.240 whether or not these people had coronavirus,
00:37:46.200 but it seems likely that they did,
00:37:47.460 so they're going to add it to the death count.
00:37:49.240 The argument against this is,
00:37:50.580 this is BS to pad the death numbers
00:37:52.500 and to take a more liberal counting view,
00:37:54.940 to use Dr. Birx's own terms.
00:37:58.140 Coronavirus is very difficult
00:37:59.340 to take a look at the deaths
00:38:00.660 because the victims are so overwhelmingly old
00:38:03.860 and they so overwhelmingly have comorbidities.
00:38:06.860 And so let's say you die of a heart attack.
00:38:08.540 Did you die of a heart attack
00:38:09.380 or did you die of coronavirus?
00:38:11.120 Let's say you have stage four lung cancer
00:38:12.980 and you've got three weeks to live,
00:38:14.780 but you die one week into that
00:38:16.460 because you also have coronavirus.
00:38:18.040 Did you die from coronavirus
00:38:19.240 or from the lung cancer?
00:38:20.420 Most of us would say the lung cancer,
00:38:21.680 but it is complicated
00:38:22.820 because the coronavirus hastened your death.
00:38:26.500 Increasingly, all the politicians
00:38:27.640 are going to be taking the broader view
00:38:30.060 of what counts as a coronavirus death.
00:38:32.700 That, I think, has very little to do
00:38:34.260 with medical science,
00:38:35.080 has a lot to do with politics
00:38:36.340 because they've got to defend their decision
00:38:38.580 to shut down the global economy
00:38:39.840 and throw 20 million people out of work.
00:38:42.340 Nobody is going to want to turn that around
00:38:43.900 because all of the political incentives
00:38:45.780 for these politicians
00:38:46.900 are to have the larger defensible number
00:38:51.240 rather than the smaller,
00:38:53.460 more conservative number.
00:38:54.580 From Michael.
00:38:55.080 Hi, Michael.
00:38:55.840 What is your perspective on human nature?
00:38:57.580 Oh, just that small topic?
00:38:58.720 Does your view primarily stem
00:39:00.920 from religious beliefs, philosophy, or both?
00:39:04.220 How do these views shape your ideas
00:39:05.920 on the role of government?
00:39:07.160 Personally, I find myself agreeing
00:39:08.520 with John Calvin's idea of total depravity
00:39:10.660 and with Thomas Hobbes
00:39:12.240 that people will always act in self-interest.
00:39:14.440 Thanks.
00:39:16.420 Well, I don't think we can just narrowly say
00:39:20.140 my view of human nature comes from philosophy
00:39:21.800 or my view comes from religion.
00:39:23.140 My view of human nature comes from my eyes
00:39:24.960 and my brain, okay?
00:39:25.980 I see people, I interact with people,
00:39:28.340 I talk to people,
00:39:29.160 and I think about how that works
00:39:32.440 and I try to make sense of that.
00:39:33.560 That's what we all do.
00:39:36.280 I do not agree with John Calvin's view of human nature.
00:39:39.380 John Calvin's view of human nature
00:39:40.560 is called total depravity.
00:39:43.300 It's the idea that human beings
00:39:44.520 are totally, utterly, completely depraved.
00:39:49.080 So I don't agree with that.
00:39:50.680 I don't believe that is true.
00:39:53.340 If you do agree with that,
00:39:54.660 and as you say, you agree with Thomas Hobbes
00:39:56.680 and other political thinkers along that line,
00:39:58.680 then certainly you could not support
00:40:00.220 the American government or self-government
00:40:02.160 because people are totally depraved.
00:40:03.540 So they're absolutely unqualified
00:40:05.020 to govern themselves.
00:40:07.400 Now, on the other hand,
00:40:08.260 I also don't support the bright-eyed,
00:40:10.560 bushy-tailed, idealistic view of human nature
00:40:12.460 that human nature is mostly for 99% good.
00:40:17.580 You know, obviously there's some bad things now and again,
00:40:19.600 but really we're all just fine and dandy.
00:40:21.840 I don't believe that is true either.
00:40:24.100 I support the middle view of things,
00:40:26.620 which is that man is made in the image of God,
00:40:30.300 which is good,
00:40:31.540 and man is fallen through the abuse of his free will,
00:40:35.180 which is bad.
00:40:36.880 I believe in original sin.
00:40:39.100 I think that sin and death pervade the world,
00:40:41.680 and all of us commit sins,
00:40:44.220 and we can commit very, very bad sins,
00:40:46.220 and we can look really wrong and bad and perverted.
00:40:49.160 Also, we have a goodness that comes to us,
00:40:53.200 which is why human beings obviously don't only act in self-interest.
00:40:56.740 When an old lady is about to get hit by a bus,
00:40:58.820 and a young person runs out there
00:41:01.220 and goes to sacrifice himself for her,
00:41:03.840 which situations like this happen all of the time,
00:41:07.140 genuine selflessness,
00:41:08.560 that cannot be explained by men always acting in their own self-interest.
00:41:14.020 So that's just a sort of narrow, I think, cartoonish ideological view.
00:41:18.600 The real answer, as is often the case,
00:41:20.420 is in that middle way,
00:41:22.060 which takes into account both of those things.
00:41:24.500 You could see the same thing when it comes to questions of grace and free will.
00:41:29.600 Also, I guess you could bring John Calvin in for this as well.
00:41:32.660 Do we not have any free will at all?
00:41:34.960 Everything is totally predestined and predetermined,
00:41:37.020 and forget just John Calvin,
00:41:40.280 even these Silicon Valley nincompoops
00:41:42.100 who say that free will is merely an illusion
00:41:44.120 and we're just kidding ourselves.
00:41:45.580 Is that the case?
00:41:47.560 Well, on one hand, that seems false.
00:41:49.500 But on the other extreme,
00:41:50.680 is it the case that there's no such thing as grace,
00:41:52.660 no such thing as providence?
00:41:53.940 The only hope we have is to save ourselves
00:41:55.920 and to act according to our own will?
00:41:58.460 No, that's obviously not true either.
00:42:00.800 The real answer is this middle way,
00:42:02.420 which is that will and grace,
00:42:04.300 not the 90s TV show,
00:42:05.860 but the facts of existence,
00:42:09.100 will and grace exist together in a mystery
00:42:11.860 that is sort of like two people dancing a waltz.
00:42:15.140 From Jack,
00:42:15.880 Senor Covfefe,
00:42:17.200 my wife is pregnant with our first child
00:42:18.740 and I refuse to send him to public school,
00:42:20.540 so one of us will have to stay home.
00:42:21.980 Her work will pay off her student loans,
00:42:23.700 so she has to stay there.
00:42:25.360 My problem is that I don't want her
00:42:26.980 to have the responsibility of being the main income.
00:42:28.920 Is there a problem with me staying home?
00:42:30.460 I still want to work even if it's a night job.
00:42:33.460 Well, I don't think there's a problem necessarily.
00:42:35.880 It sounds like you think there's a problem
00:42:37.200 because you want to work
00:42:38.580 and if you want to work, you should work.
00:42:40.560 You're not going to have to worry about this problem
00:42:42.180 for what, five years until kindergarten?
00:42:44.540 I guess now people send their kids to school,
00:42:46.640 quote unquote,
00:42:47.180 when they're like six months old,
00:42:48.340 but that's ridiculous, right?
00:42:49.760 That's just a way to make you feel better
00:42:51.160 about sending a kid to daycare.
00:42:52.840 So, you know,
00:42:53.900 you've got a little bit of time here, right?
00:42:56.440 It's so funny.
00:42:57.060 I mean, when I was in school,
00:42:58.060 I went to kindergarten
00:42:59.680 and my father didn't even go to kindergarten.
00:43:01.720 He went to, he just started in first grade.
00:43:03.280 Then when I was a kid, we started in kindergarten.
00:43:05.000 I didn't go to preschool or anything.
00:43:06.640 Now kids, it seems like they start going to school
00:43:08.540 at one year old or, you know, sometime around there,
00:43:11.260 but you don't need to do that.
00:43:13.300 So maybe someone stays home for the first few years
00:43:15.680 and maybe you work a night job.
00:43:17.600 Maybe you work a job that can be done from home.
00:43:19.820 One thing we're learning from quarantine
00:43:21.020 is there are a lot of jobs that you can do from home,
00:43:22.920 not just e-commerce,
00:43:24.780 which is the most obvious one,
00:43:26.100 or not just, you know,
00:43:29.080 certain, just many other jobs
00:43:30.880 in many different sectors
00:43:31.680 and many different industries.
00:43:34.160 Now we're finding out you can do things
00:43:36.100 that we thought previously
00:43:36.880 were not possible to do from home,
00:43:38.880 from home.
00:43:39.440 Things like education.
00:43:40.900 There was online learning,
00:43:41.880 but the vast majority of education
00:43:43.180 happened in schools.
00:43:44.240 Now all education is being done online.
00:43:46.260 That's probably going to transform
00:43:47.140 that sector as well.
00:43:48.380 So I would try to get creative about it
00:43:49.800 because I agree with you.
00:43:50.940 Mankind is meant to work
00:43:53.000 and raising a kid is a lot of work,
00:43:55.080 but if you're a little bit more traditionally minded
00:43:57.800 and you think it's odd for a father
00:43:59.480 to stay home all the time
00:44:01.140 and not do anything else
00:44:02.120 other than raise kids,
00:44:03.500 then that's fine.
00:44:04.780 I would pursue that.
00:44:05.580 You don't want to get into a situation
00:44:06.720 where you resent your wife
00:44:07.720 or resent your kid
00:44:08.580 because you're doing something
00:44:10.300 that feels totally unnatural to you.
00:44:12.700 From Nick,
00:44:13.140 on all access,
00:44:13.880 you basically summed up yoga
00:44:15.000 as giving the devil a lap dance.
00:44:16.960 Did I?
00:44:17.760 That sounds more pithy
00:44:19.560 than what I said,
00:44:20.300 but I'll go with it.
00:44:21.220 Other than the annoying amount of time
00:44:22.640 that those who do yoga talk about it,
00:44:24.720 as Christians,
00:44:25.480 what is so wrong
00:44:26.160 in doing awkward stretches?
00:44:27.440 Thanks.
00:44:27.860 The problem isn't the awkward stretches.
00:44:29.440 The problem is that
00:44:30.460 yoga is a spiritual practice.
00:44:32.560 It's a Hindu liturgy.
00:44:34.320 And that's why
00:44:35.040 you always hear yoga teachers,
00:44:36.620 they're not just talking
00:44:37.340 about the weird stretches,
00:44:38.320 they're talking about energy
00:44:39.520 and mantras
00:44:41.000 and, you know,
00:44:42.560 the solar plexus
00:44:43.740 and when you get
00:44:46.140 to the really weird ones,
00:44:47.240 they talk about like crystals
00:44:48.380 and things like that.
00:44:49.260 And it's a new agey,
00:44:51.660 weird religion.
00:44:53.340 So if you want to do stretches,
00:44:54.640 go do Pilates
00:44:55.240 or just stretch.
00:44:56.460 I think that's a good idea.
00:44:57.180 I've done yoga in my life
00:44:58.780 and the stretching
00:44:59.940 feels pretty good.
00:45:00.980 But the weird religious symbolism
00:45:04.260 and chants
00:45:06.020 and mantras
00:45:06.560 that go along with it
00:45:07.340 don't feel very good
00:45:08.420 if you don't happen
00:45:09.240 to be a part of that religion.
00:45:10.660 So I would avoid
00:45:12.800 pairing up those two things
00:45:15.120 and just go for a stretch.
00:45:16.520 Stretches are a little less sexy
00:45:18.300 and a little less hip
00:45:19.100 and less cool
00:45:19.640 but it will do exactly
00:45:20.860 the same thing
00:45:21.600 for your body
00:45:22.980 and might have a better effect
00:45:24.740 on your soul.
00:45:26.620 Okay.
00:45:27.320 We know we have
00:45:27.960 so many more questions
00:45:28.820 but we're out of time
00:45:30.520 as always.
00:45:31.120 I'm going to be filling in
00:45:31.640 for the Ben Shapiro radio show though
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00:45:36.680 We're going to be taking
00:45:37.220 your calls there as well
00:45:38.120 so tune in for when
00:45:38.860 that's going to be.
00:45:39.920 And in the meantime,
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00:46:41.080 You know,
00:46:41.380 the Matt Walsh show,
00:46:42.240 it's not just another show
00:46:43.460 about politics.
00:46:44.740 I think there are enough
00:46:45.340 of those already out there.
00:46:46.660 We talk about culture
00:46:47.840 because culture drives politics
00:46:49.840 and it drives everything else.
00:46:51.420 So my main focuses are
00:46:52.980 life,
00:46:54.520 family,
00:46:55.280 faith.
00:46:56.040 Those are fundamental
00:46:57.020 and that's what this show is about.
00:46:58.760 I hope you'll give it a listen.
00:47:00.080 Keep going.
00:47:02.840 Take care.
00:47:04.200 Bye.
00:47:04.980 Thank you.