Ep. 764 - Animal Farm
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Bill Niedhardt explains why he thinks you should get the controversial COVID vaccine and why you should only get it if you order a burger with it. Plus, why it s not too early in the day to eat a burger.
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Some people in low-risk demographics do not want to get the hastily developed COVID vaccine
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because they know that statistically speaking, the virus does not pose a great danger to them.
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But they have now come across what they believe will be a surefire way
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to convince all of these people to get the vaccine.
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But if this is appealing to you, just think of this when you think of vaccination.
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I'm getting a very good feeling about vaccination right this moment.
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If that is what I think of when I think of vaccination, I'm never getting any vaccinations again.
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I regret getting the polio vaccination if that is what I have to think of.
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The argument is, hey, you animals, hey, let us stick you with this needle and we'll give you more slop.
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That made me at least 99.7% less likely to get the vaccine.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Paula Christofferson, who says, I've listened to Knowles for a couple of months now and I'm radicalized.
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You know, Paula, what you don't realize is that comment is going to come up in court someday when I've been fully charged with crimes against wokeness and I'm on trial to figure out which gulag I'm going to get sent to.
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I mean, if you now, if you believe that we need to trans the kids and men can be women, you are mainstream, you're normal, you're a humanitarian.
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And if you think, like, maybe we shouldn't do that, you're a radical.
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What the Libs are trying to create is an elaborate system of carrots and sticks to get us to do what they want us to do.
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Bill de Blasio, that disgusting glutton, just letting juice drip down his face on television because he thinks that's going to entice us.
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And then the stick is Joe Biden, who tweeted out yesterday, quote, the rule is now simple.
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I don't have any plans to get vaccinated anytime soon.
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The only place they make me wear a mask and I have no way around it is on airplanes because you're in that little tin can and they'll arrest you if you don't.
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I ain't wearing a mask, hugging people, shaking hands.
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I'm like two seconds away from just French kissing people on the street because that is how unafraid I am of this thing.
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And so Joe Biden knows that this is sort of an empty threat.
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He knows there's really no way to enforce this, especially because the governors are the ones that are really going to be doing this.
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And you've got governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida who are, who are, who are pushing the NOLS option on licking doorknobs and kissing strangers.
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Frankly, DeSantis has been open now for a year, but other states are following suit.
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And the, the dominant liberal regime is going to have to loosen up on some of the rules, which is what they're doing right now.
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The CDC has come out and said, this is so wonderful.
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They've said, if you're vaccinated, there is no need in most circumstances to wear a mask indoors.
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Today, CDC is updating our guidance for fully vaccinated people.
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Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing.
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If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.
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We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.
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Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.
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Two, three weeks ago, we were being told by the public health professionals that even once you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
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It doesn't matter that your friends are vaccinated.
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Well, just, just like they do, it seems like every few days here, they completely change the guidance.
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Because there was no scientific discovery that, that helped, that led them to this conclusion.
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The reason people aren't getting the shot is because nothing changes if they get the shot.
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Fauci was telling them, no, you still have to wear the mask, sheep.
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You still have to physically distance, you sheep.
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And so they said, okay, well, if I've got to do all this nonsense, regardless of whether
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or not I get the shot, then I'm just not going to get the shot.
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So now Fauci, the head of the CDC, Joe Biden realized, oh, okay.
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If we want, if we want to incentivize people to get the shot, we actually have to give them
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So now what they're saying is you can not wear a mask and you can hang out indoors with
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I've been doing that since at the very least last Easter, if I guess even earlier than
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that, you know, it's Easter was like two weeks after it was two weeks to slow the spread.
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But even before that, I've just been ignoring these people the whole time.
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And I, I really do wish that other people had tuned these guys out early on because they've
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squandered so much time, people canceling weddings, people canceling social events, people
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Some, some of those elderly loved ones who have died in the meantime, and they didn't
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do it because they were listening to these idiots at the egghead agencies instead of just
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Now they're saying, okay, Michael, you can ignore us.
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But not everyone's gotten the message from the CDC, namely Joe Biden, who is supposed
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Joe Biden is not following the updated CDC guidance.
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He is still wearing a mask indoors, even though he's been vaccinated and everyone around him
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Well, a, a Biden advisor here has come out, Andy Slavitt and said, no, no, no.
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The reason that Joe is going to wear a mask when all you people are not is because a
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different set of rules applies to very important people.
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Well, look, I think people who've been vaccinated are starting to get a little bit impatient with
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And I think the CDC is getting there step by step.
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So right now you can do pretty much everything outdoors without a mask.
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You can do everything indoors if you're around vaccinated people with, without a mask.
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So why were they all wearing masks in there yesterday?
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Well, I don't think that, I'm not sure that the president is the average person.
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I personally think there's a lot of protections around the president.
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Why does he need lots of secret service agents?
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Why does he, why do they, you know, belt and suspender everything with the president?
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And I think you shouldn't take your mark just by what you see in the Oval Office.
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I think most people, if you're indoors around other people that are vaccinated, the CDC says
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And I think you should listen to the CDC on that.
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But the president has secret service around him because people are trying to kill him
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And most of us do not have people coming after us with bullets and guns.
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And by the way, when they do, we, we will either conceal carry or some people have security,
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The virus does not discriminate against very important people.
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It just infects anybody who's, who's vulnerable to it.
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So if the CDC is now saying, if you're vaccinated, you are not at risk of the virus, everybody,
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you can look just like Joe Biden, you'd be exactly the same age, you share all of the
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Then why is the virus going to be particularly dangerous to Biden?
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But then Joe Biden has not made any sense for a very long time.
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If the guy weren't sort of hobbling along, half trying to pretend to be president,
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and, and run our lives for us, I would feel pretty bad for the guy.
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He was just asked about what's going on in Israel and the Palestinian territories right
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And if you can make sense of his answer, please leave, leave the translation in the comment
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section because I can't quite make heads or tails of it.
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I had a brief conversation with him yesterday and I have my, my intelligence community, the
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defense department, as well as the state department have been in contact with all of their counterparts
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And one of the things that I have seen thus far is that there has not been a significant overreaction.
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The question is how, how we get to a point where they get to a point where there is a significant
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reduction in the attacks, particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired
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I've been looking at the, in Israel, they had people there firing there and I looked and
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And you see it reflected in his foreign policy, by the way.
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I'm under no misapprehension that Joe Biden is actually running things over there, but the
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people that he's empowered are just as exhausted as he is.
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Maybe not physically, but ideologically, they're just returning to the same exact Middle Eastern
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strategy that failed for decades and decades and decades to bring about any semblance of
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Then Trump comes in, completely upends that, that policy and doubles the number of Arab
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countries that, that have recognized Israel and gets two historic peace deals.
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And then what happened, Biden comes in and it's the same zombie president and the same
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zombie government with the same zombie policies giving us, it feels like a night of the walking
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However, there are, believe it or not, people who are even more confused than Joe Biden.
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I'm speaking of the first transgender bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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So, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is apparently a mainline Protestant denomination.
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And over the weekend, it became the first one to elect a transgender bishop, meaning that
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a lady pretending to be a man is now considered a bishop in an organization pretending to be
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We are underneath many, many layers of pretense at this point.
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But she said, and I actually, I have to couch this here because I say she, because she's
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a lady who's pretending to not be a lady, but it's not even so simple as she's pretending
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She's still going by the name Megan, Megan Rohrer, and her pronouns are, are they and him.
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So, when she is the subject of a sentence, she pretends to be multiple people.
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But when she is the object of the sentence, she pretends to be a single person who is
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This, I, I would say the nearest analog I've heard to this is in the Bible.
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When, when you, you hear various spirits crying out from bodies, we are legion, we, you know,
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You cannot be multiple people at one moment or in one grammatical structure and then a
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single person in another grammatical structure and you can't be a man if you're a woman.
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And you, and you can't be a bishop if you are a woman or even if you're a woman pretending
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The first Council of Nicaea's first action was to try to limit the leadership roles of
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You know, the Council of Nicaea did a lot of stuff, but I don't, okay, I'm going to
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I'm grateful that the Lutherans of the SPS ELCA are beginning to dismantle this and some
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Does anyone know what BIPOC, I know it's a, like a race thing or a sex thing or something.
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It's bi, is it a bisexual thing or is it a bi, is it like a black?
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Bi, because a POC I assume is person of color, but anyway, I don't know.
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Other hurdles that BIPOC and LGBTQ pastors, misspelled, encounter.
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So with regard to the claims about the first Council of Nicaea, that didn't happen because
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That's not, it isn't, I'm not just saying that transgender bishops, I'm saying that it's
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BIPOC means black and indigenous people of color.
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And I can tell, I'm looking at a picture of this woman.
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She is most certainly none of those things, but I don't know.
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We did a whole show yesterday on the slogans and you just spout them unthinkingly.
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You can't, you just simply cannot be a woman who has all the physical characteristics of
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a woman, but then because she is confused in some way is on some deeper metaphysical level
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And, and the irony of course, that she's making this claim about the first Council of
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Nicaea is that the Christian understanding of human nature is directly contrary to her
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The Christian understanding of human nature is that we're body and soul joined inextricably
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The transgender claim about human nature is, is a Gnostic claim.
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It's the idea that we really were secretly something other than the way we look.
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So that did not happen at the first Council of Nicaea.
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Something that did happen at the first Council of Nicaea, St. Nicholas punched the Heresiarch
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Arius in the face because he just couldn't stand his heresy anymore.
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Santa Claus himself got pretty rough with the very charismatic and popular Arius because
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You know, not, not very open-minded man, not just going to debate everything in the free
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marketplace of ideas, you know, and the best ideas are going to win out.
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No, this, actually the whole purpose of the Council, right, is not just to include everything
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and everybody, but ultimately to exclude things, to exclude heretical ideas and organizations,
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because that's the only way that you can have a church.
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It's the only way you can define, and forget a church.
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It's the only way you can have any discrete thing.
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A nation is a nation because the things outside of it are not the nation.
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An idea is an idea because things that contradict it are not that idea.
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But many conservatives have just gone along with that.
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You know, this is, this is the fundamental flaw with our strategy the last several decades
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that I take up in my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
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I also have to make an apology for those on this show.
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I, I plugged the book too many times yesterday.
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And by, you know, after the dings and everything, by the fifth one,
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the screen started to shake and ultimately cracked.
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It was very scary for me here in the studio as well,
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but I'm sure it was very scary for the audience.
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And I'll, I'll try, I'm going to try to pull it,
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but I'm going to try to restrain myself just a little bit, a little bit more today.
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It is not just this weird Lutheran church that has mistaken ideas about identity and,
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and its mission and the idea that things can be totally open forever and ever and ever.
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We played a couple of weeks ago, a CIA recruitment ad about some woman talking about,
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And I'm a Latina woman, feminist, intersectional, and just this woke insanity.
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It made me want to just abolish the CIA the first chance I possibly can.
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But unfortunately now the army is following suit.
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This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot Missile Defense Systems.
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It begins in California, with a little girl raised by two moms.
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Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.
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I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.
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I finished high school at the top of my class, and then attended UC Davis, where I joined a sorority full of other strong women.
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But as graduation approached, I began feeling like I'd been handed so much in life.
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And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it.
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And maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.
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I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone Lord, and I answered my calling.
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So when I was a kid, I'm going to, this is going to date me, go way back.
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The army recruitment ads were a bunch of tough guys jumping out of airplanes and shooting guns and stuff like that.
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And now, now the army recruitment ads are about how lesbians on Santa Monica Pier raised a ballerina who then joined the army later.
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What's the, it doesn't, it's just the identity is the mission.
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You see here, the, it's, I'm not surprised that the, that the army and the CIA are doing this.
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I mean, these are defenders of the establishment.
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If, if anything is a defender of the establishment, surely it would be the military and the intelligence communities, right?
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And the establishment at this point has totally gone woke.
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This is actually, I'm going to totally hit the, the plug counter again today.
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Because this is, this is a shift that I detail in my upcoming book, Speechless, which is that under political, in, under the old moral order, what matters most is what you do.
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Under the new political correctness code, what matters most is what you say.
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Under the old moral order, we found our identity in God, right?
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Under the new woke leftist moral order, all we ever think about is who we are.
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And my priest, Father George Rutler famously said that when you lose your identity in the I am, when you, when you divorce your identity from the I am, you're left with a pitiful question, which is who am I?
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I'm a BIPOC, transgender, they, him, bishop, Lutheran, whatever.
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And, but you see it in some identitarians on the right.
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I'm white or I'm Nordic or I'm this or I'm that or I'm this or I'm that.
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All of that though is such a shift from the old idea.
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And you see it so clearly in the army because the point of the, you know what the point of the army is?
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Kill and deter by killing, deter the other ones, people who want to harm us.
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But now that shift of doing is totally, that sense of doing is totally gone.
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All of the recruitment for the CIA as well is who I am.
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What I can, who I, who I'm going to be in my identity, in my mind, not what I'm actually doing, but in my mind.
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Speaking of bad art, we, you know, we see this awful, ridiculous recruitment ad from the United States Army, but it's not just the United States, which is producing really bad art.
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In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan has spent 7 million pounds.
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I don't know the exchange rate right now, but you're talking certainly north of 10 million dollars, 14 million dollars maybe.
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And one of the things that he wanted to have redesigned is the sign at Piccadilly Circus, one of the subway steps.
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So if you go into this tube station in London now, you will see some pictures made by David Hockney.
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Actually, just one picture, which could have been made on Microsoft Paint in 1995.
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Just an O, just a yellow O, and then a purple drawing.
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It says Piccadilly Circus, and the S is kind of below the rest of it.
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I could have made this in 90 seconds, probably.
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And this, who knows how much money this guy got.
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And the mayor of London tweets out, quote, brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly.
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The first of a series of major art projects we've commissioned as part of our brand new Let's Do London campaign.
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And I have a little bit of authority on this topic because I am one of the most successful modern artists alive today.
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I've sold hundreds of thousands of copies of a blank book.
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The book is just a little picture on the front, some blank stuff on the back, and then a bunch of blank stuff in the middle with a bibliography.
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I hate modern art, but that certainly is a modern art piece.
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And it's just about as popular a modern art piece as anyone else.
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And I can tell you, I speak with credibility here.
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That urinal is one of the most famous modern art pieces, one of the earliest too.
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Yeah, but it's still, that's still a problem that it requires no actual skill.
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Like so much modern art, it seems to be part of a cult of ugliness.
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You see this especially with modern architecture, postmodern architecture.
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Because the thought process here is that all of our standards of beauty are just totally
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And so if I, you know, if I paint the Mona Lisa or I have a urinal on a wall, they're both
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It's just because the beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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But it's just, it's all just, if we lived in a society where we were socialized and conditioned
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to think that the urinal is more beautiful than the Mona Lisa, then we would think that.
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There's nothing just intrinsic to the art that makes us attracted to it.
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This piece in particular, the Piccadilly Circus thing, it is designed to, to look like
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But there's a difference between childlike and childish.
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We were told that you can't get into heaven unless you have child, unless you were like
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In the sense of childlike wonder, childlike innocence.
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I can say this as a new parent, you know, children can be little brats quite a lot.
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Everyone who's ever been around a child knows that.
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And we can have that ugly Piccadilly Circus thing up everywhere, all over the country.
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Even if a bunch of people pretend it's beautiful, it still won't be.
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Because those transcendentals, beauty, goodness, truth are eternally true.
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Speaking of childish British creations, Prince Harry is whining about being in the spotlight.
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Prince Harry, you know, for a guy who doesn't like attention, this guy sure, sure attracts
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a lot of attention and seeks a lot of attention.
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He was whining about being in the spotlight on a podcast.
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And that's when you think to yourself, shit, like, I got the privilege.
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It's between the Truman Show and being in a zoo.
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I think the biggest issue for me was that being born into it, you inherit the risk.
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You inherit every element of it without choice.
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And because of the way that the UK media are, they feel an ownership over you.
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And then they give the impression to some of their, well, most of their readers that
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But I think it's a really dangerous place to be if you don't have a choice.
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But then, of course, then people quite rightly will turn around and go, so what if you didn't
00:32:09.260
So if Prince Harry really wants privacy, he just needs to stop going on shows.
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He just needs to sort of back away and live his private life with a lot of money and have
00:32:22.100
He only wants glowing, fawning media coverage and to placate his insane wife.
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But he doesn't, he's not actually seeking the thing that he says he's seeking.
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He just wants everyone to be really nice to him and no one ever to be mean to him.
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He wants to have all the benefits of being in the public, but none of the downside of being
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Before we get into the mailbag, I have to give a shout out.
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Ron DeSantis doing a great job as governor of Florida.
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Ron DeSantis just pardoned a couple that had been arrested for keeping their gym open.
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He said, nope, sorry, this crazy public health state.
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You're not going to face consequences for that.
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We're going to bring some justice here through the pardon system.
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He's also pardoning anyone who was arrested for not masking or social distancing.
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One of the most Orwellian and ridiculous phrases of my lifetime.
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All the other governors should be following suit.
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Obviously, DeSantis would appear to have his eyes on the highest political prize in 2024,
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and he's doing a very good job setting himself up for that.
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It's early on, but he's doing really good stuff.
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Also, speaking of real leaders, they booted Liz Cheney out of Republican leadership.
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The person they wanted to replace her is this woman, Elise Stefanik, but Elise Stefanik is much
00:33:51.420
Elise Stefanik, it was, she voted for the Equality Act, that crazy transgender bill.
00:33:59.280
She voted, I mean, she's just, she posed a lot of Trump priorities, but then at the very
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end of the Trump administration, she sort of came around to him.
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So President Trump likes her a lot and endorsed her for this position.
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There is an actual conservative right now who is challenging her, Chip Roy.
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People are going to say, well, there's this issue with Chip Roy.
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Sure, but some people are squishier than others.
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A, a GOP that respects its conservative base will put Chip Roy in leadership, and a squished
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GOP will elevate Elise Stefanik, and it's just that simple.
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You know I love Trump, you know, big, big supporter of the guy and voted for him twice.
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Very glad there is a choice, not just an echo, and they're not just going to cram Stefanik
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down our throats once they booted Liz Cheney out.
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Michael, my girlfriend and I are moving across the country for her job and we're going to
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However, we can't really afford to have a wedding with our friends and family there who
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And I feel that the legitimacy of a courthouse wedding is questionable as we're not swearing
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I was hoping you might have some thoughts and advice.
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Came for Ben, stayed for Knowles, subscribed for Klavan.
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Okay, well, I guess that's, I guess that's fine.
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You wrote into the show to get the answer that you knew I was going to give you.
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In the culture that I come from, getting married at, you know, 28 or 27, it's like you've got
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a child bride, you know, in secular New York culture, people are saying, no, you can wait
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But if you come from a good culture and you and your girlfriend have your priorities in
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You don't need to do it in front of a courthouse.
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If, let's say you don't have, you don't have $50,000 lying around to throw some grand,
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And for that, you can have a very nice wedding in a church.
00:37:45.200
More beautiful than most of the nonsense people do today when they try to make it all up themselves
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on some, you know, some fancy location or in some dining hall or something like that.
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If you're in a church, you already got a lot of beautiful architecture for you.
00:37:59.180
And then have, have the reception either in the parish hall or I don't know, I don't know
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if you may be Protestant in, you know, I'm sure there's some church hall somewhere.
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I, I've been to a number of weddings in the last four or five years and some, some of
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them have been, you know, $70,000 crazy blowouts and some of them have been like $3,000, very
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And sometimes the more modest ones are much more beautiful than the crazy elaborate ones.
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Do not, do not put the cart before the horse here.
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This is an observation that actually speaking of staying for Clavin, he made early on, which
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is that as weddings have gotten crazier and crazier and crazier, marriage has become more
00:38:47.840
So the, the appearance of the thing has gotten really elaborate, but the thing itself has
00:38:54.240
What is important, what you're going to want is to be married.
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I'm not saying you can do it for free, but you can do it before God and before at least
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some people in your community for not a lot of money.
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And by the way, you're gonna have to start making a bunch of money anyway, once you get
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So, you know, if you, if you can scrounge up a little bit of cash to cater, you know,
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cater, cater, I don't know, cater at the local deli, cater Chick-fil-A and have a night
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The one thing I wouldn't skimp on is the photographer.
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You actually do want to have a good photographer and then you'll be married and your life is starting
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and you don't need to worry about planning a party for three years because you are,
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now you get to plan your life together and your family.
00:39:35.400
My question is, I have started a new job and they are wanting us to be tolerant and accept
00:39:44.080
The person teaching the class said they were a Christian, but decided they would just accept
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I just don't see how they can say they're Christian, but are okay with transing the children.
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I feel like I should speak out, but I also don't want to be ridiculed for my beliefs.
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Thank you so much for everything that the Daily Wire does.
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I will continue to listen and be an all-access member.
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Well, since you're a Christian, you'll remember that they turned Jesus into a clown.
00:40:10.900
Do you remember when the Roman centurions, when they put Jesus in a silly costume with
00:40:17.280
the robe and the staff and the crown of thorns and they mocked him and beat him and made fun
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of him and ridiculed him, that it is not a fear that you might have that you'll experience
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Yeah, transing the kids is just, that's not permitted.
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Courage is the prerequisite for all of the other virtues.
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Without courage, you can't have any of the other virtues.
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They say, hey, should I have integrity or should I just go along to get along?
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But then someday I'll have integrity down the line.
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You won't have integrity down the line if you keep your head down now because you'll
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just keep your head down forever and then you'll die.
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So I'm sorry that I have to be the one to tell you that you've got to be willing to
00:41:06.200
lose your job to stand against transing the kids, but you do.
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This does not mean that you have to be flamboyant about every single one of your views all the
00:41:17.300
time, but if it comes down to, hey, you need to go along with transing the kids, you just
00:41:25.840
Hey, Michael, I'm a junior in high school and I go to a Catholic school.
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And I, I asked one of my teachers to be my sponsor.
00:41:38.580
In class, someone had told her that I'm a conservative.
00:41:40.860
I never hide the fact that I am, but I guess my teacher didn't realize it.
00:41:44.500
After class, she told me to rethink my decision on picking her as my sponsor for confirmation
00:41:51.160
She's a raging liberal and I never held it against her until now because she started making
00:41:55.380
rude remarks about the fact that I'm a conservative.
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Should I rethink who my confirmation sponsor should be?
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I never would have made the decision to become Catholic without listening to you, Selena.
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But when people tell you who they are, you should believe them.
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So what I would say here, I don't know, obviously, the specifics of your situation.
00:42:18.580
I had plenty of extremely liberal teachers and I'm still in touch with many of them, actually,
00:42:29.080
And they'll tease me about my politics and I'll tease them about their politics.
00:42:32.460
And we would even do it when I was in school and it really wasn't a big deal.
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But here, as in, as in all things, you can, you can utter the same sentence.
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And if you utter it with love and humility, it's going to have a very different meaning
00:42:48.380
than if you utter it with resentment and pride.
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So if your teacher is saying, oh, here comes, here's that knuckle dragon, Attila the Hun,
00:42:59.760
You know, hey, are you sure you want me to be your confirmation sponsor?
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If, if it's sort of joking and loving, that's one thing.
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If it is, as you say, rude, passive aggressive.
00:43:13.100
If she was serious when she said, you should rethink this, then of course, you should, under
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no circumstances, should you have her be your spiritual advisor here.
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I mean, your, your spiritual mentor coming into the faith, your sponsor into the church.
00:43:30.860
Also, because depending on how much of a lib she is, she's very likely a heretic, right?
00:43:36.400
I mean, she, not to put it bluntly, we started out talking about heresy earlier on.
00:43:40.120
If she is a huge lib, if for instance, she supports legal abortion, that's a big, big problem.
00:43:47.640
If she supports redefining marriage, if she, she supports transing the kids or something
00:43:51.560
I mean, that is, you, you really should run in the opposite direction when you're talking
00:43:56.400
So I think it does depend on the, on the meaning of, of what this, this teacher is saying, you
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know, and the, and the sense in which her comments have been made.
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But yeah, if she's telling you who she is, then, then believe her.
00:44:15.980
I'm from a small farming community in Northern Utah.
00:44:18.420
I've been a listener for a couple of years, just subscribed last week.
00:44:22.660
Why do politicians and people always, quote, that, quote, our democracy is at stake when
00:44:31.300
What is the correct term to describe, describe our political system?
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I hear strong conservatives often describe it as a constitutional republic.
00:44:40.660
Yes, there is a distinction between republics and democracies, but it's not so cut and dry
00:44:50.180
Uh, there, there's a considerable overlap in the way these terms are used, especially
00:44:54.900
in regard to our own country, because the real complicating factor here is that the,
00:45:01.340
the, the framers describe this distinction in the Federalist papers, but the examples they
00:45:06.760
give of republics very often are direct democracies and the, the examples they give of democracies
00:45:14.940
I would, uh, focus less on those abstract terms and more on the nature of the, the government
00:45:33.500
It has its own unique, uh, pillars of government.
00:45:36.180
And it's evolved in different ways and it's been transformed in, in different ways too.
00:45:40.840
Um, the phrase our democracy is at stake is just silly nonsense.
00:45:46.180
I did a whole show yesterday on dead, dumb rhetoric, mostly from the left, but there's
00:45:55.220
I mean, this is one that is used almost exclusively by libs who despise democracy, right?
00:46:00.440
They're, they're people who from the progressive project starting a hundred years ago, took
00:46:04.840
political power away from the people and gave it to egghead technocrats to run our lives
00:46:10.460
Very anti-democratic and, and, uh, in a lot of ways.
00:46:14.460
So, and it's, this phrase is also used by the squishy Republicans who want to suck up to
00:46:18.380
the libs because they're just court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism and their whole
00:46:22.460
job is to lose with dignity, even though they don't have dignity at all.
00:46:25.400
So, all of that to say, get into the specifics here.
00:46:34.600
You, you hear this phrase a lot with January 6th.
00:46:37.160
They almost, they came into our democracy, our sacred temple of democracy.
00:46:42.960
First of all, in our sacred temple of democracy, very little legislation is done in the Capitol.
00:46:47.880
Most of it's done at the agency, the executive agencies.
00:46:50.540
But furthermore, I think the real threat to our democracy, the more serious threat came
00:46:55.020
when BLM burned the country down for a year previously, when Maxine Waters told people
00:47:07.340
Uh, that, that's a real, that's a greater threat.
00:47:09.040
But when we're only talking in these abstract sort of slogans, then a lot of that is lost.
00:47:13.880
From Killian, dear Mr. Knowles, in July of last year, I started dating this girl that
00:47:18.820
After four months, she broke up with me because things got to be too busy in her personal life
00:47:22.880
and starting her first teaching job and pursuing an athletic career.
00:47:27.120
She said, with the amount of time this would take from her, it would put too much stress
00:47:31.760
I should also include that my job has me on the road a lot, resulting in me being gone
00:47:38.900
It's been six months since we broke up and I think about her every day and I can't seem
00:47:42.860
It was a great relationship and we had the same common interests.
00:47:46.020
I can honestly say I truly loved her and still do, just the timing was not in our favor.
00:47:50.340
I feel waiting around for someone is never a good idea, but I've been on some other dates
00:47:55.620
What do you think of this situation and what would you do?
00:47:58.240
I'm going to give you what seems like contradictory advice, but it's really not.
00:48:10.200
If you want this girl, you should pursue this girl.
00:48:13.120
Now, you got a man up to do it, so you can't just be like, well, if it's not, we'll be good
00:48:16.220
on your schedule and, and you, and by the way, I'm going to, I've got my personal freedom
00:48:19.560
and I'm going to be on the road 20 days a week, but I, no, you got to man up and just
00:48:23.120
be like, nope, you're going to spend more time with me and I'm going to make an effort
00:48:26.840
and I'm going to reduce the amount I'm on the road or something to pursue the girl.
00:48:31.740
Also, if she, if she really just doesn't want to be with you, if she just used the timing
00:48:38.260
thing as an excuse, which she may well have done, I don't know, women try to be nice
00:48:41.760
sometimes when they dump you. If that is the case, then you should not debase yourself
00:48:46.160
by pursuing a girl who is in no way interested in you. I'm not saying you can't persuade a
00:48:51.820
girl to become interested in you, but you're not going to do it by groveling and begging
00:48:55.060
and looking like a chump. Okay. I know those things seem like contradictory pieces of advice.
00:49:00.240
What they ultimately come down to is be confident. You always hear this. Hey man, how do I pick
00:49:06.140
up a girl? Be confident, but I'm not confident. Right. So just be confident. Well, I can't,
00:49:11.340
how can I be confident if I'm not going to just do it? You got to act to quote the Godfather
00:49:15.640
talking to Johnny Fontaine. You can act like a man. What's the matter with you? That's what you,
00:49:20.240
you've got to do. And this means that sometimes you pursue the girl quite directly. And sometimes
00:49:25.980
this means a tactical retreat. Okay. That the way you win a war is, is not just by rushing into battle
00:49:32.000
when you're going to lose. And it's not just by retreating. Wars are not won by evacuations,
00:49:35.880
to quote Winston Churchill, but you need to, uh, using prudence, which is a very important
00:49:40.320
conservative virtue. Strike that balance. And above all, be confident because courage is the
00:49:44.620
prerequisite of all the other virtues. One more question from Roland. Michael, first got to say,
00:49:49.100
I love the show. Your use of classical conditioning is impressive. Using a bell sound to control people's
00:49:53.820
minds. Like the name of your book, uh, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. I noticed
00:49:57.840
today when I heard the bell, when I heard a bell, like on your show, I thought of your book.
00:50:02.060
Well played, sir. Well played. Pretty sure I said that name while I was reading the question. Did I?
00:50:08.280
Oh, there it is. There it is. Everybody have a good weekend. I'll see you on Monday. I'm Michael
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