00:00:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:03.000Tucker Carlson deserves a lot of credit for this.
00:02:06.000Tucker years ago, would do monologue after monologue trying to warn people that woke is one of the first things.
00:02:14.000Wokeism will infect and it will harm your day-to-day life is infrastructure, the ability to get from one place to another place, to get goods from one place to another place.
00:02:25.000This is one of the most painful clips I think you'll ever see, and one of the reasons this keeps on happening is because the Biden regime does not believe competency is the top priority or the reason to be in a leadership position in government.
00:02:46.000Here's Phil Washington, the nominee to run the FAA.
00:05:19.000It's like you go to downtown Denver, you got to go 40 to 50 miles to even get close to getting to the airport.
00:05:26.000Not to mention, it is way too big and always delayed.
00:05:33.000I've spent way too much time in the Denver airport, and whoever's in charge of that, I wouldn't put them in charge of anything.
00:05:39.000And there are some pretty, and this is a total side note, and I'm just kind of spitballing here, but there are some very, very strange conspiracy theories about the Denver airport that aren't, by the way, that unfounded.
00:05:52.000And if you want to get into like even weirder elements, when you drive into the Denver airport, there's this massive, massive, looks like one of the four horses of the Armageddon statue.
00:06:04.000And the guy who made the statue was killed by that statue when he put it up.
00:06:10.000Just a kind of a fun, not fun, actually, it's awful and cruel, tragic side note.
00:06:41.000Right now, air travel is declining in quality.
00:06:46.000I will argue that in the last 10 years, it has never been worse as far as delays, as far as trying to pack as many people into a single flight as possible.
00:06:55.000I fly a lot, and it is just declining.
00:07:01.000It's an interesting topic that we'd have to explore at a different time, which is airlines are an exception to a puritanical free market principle that deregulation always will lead to something better.
00:07:16.000Now, it's interesting because Ted Kennedy in the 70s or 80s was actually one of the big advocates for airline deregulation, and we were told that that would actually lower costs and improve the quality of flying.
00:07:35.000You ask anybody over the age of 50 in America, anybody over the age of 50 in America, ask them, was flying better in the 1980s or is it better today?
00:07:44.000And they will all say, oh, it was way better in the 1980s, way better.
00:08:51.000And thankfully, we still have some semblance of a Senate confirmation process where you can ask very basic questions like, hey, why does an aircraft stall?
00:09:13.000Ted Cruz said this: quote, the nominee before us, Phil Washington, had a long and honorable career in the military, but he does not have any experience in aviation safety.
00:09:22.000This, quite simply, is a position he is not qualified for.
00:09:25.000And this is really important because right now there is a push by airlines, United Airlines, and American Airlines, to Phil Washington their own pilot corps.
00:09:41.000There is a push to put race-based hiring for pilots.
00:09:48.000And to just give you an idea of how widespread that delusion is, I actually brought that up to some of the kids at University of California, Santa Barbara, and they said, Oh, there's no way that pilots are actually being selected based on race.
00:10:02.000And even one of the students said, Yeah, that goes too far.
00:10:04.000I mean, even the most radical campus activists have to admit, yeah, I probably don't want to fly on a plane with somebody selected solely based on the melanin content in their skin.
00:10:30.000By the way, you guys should all go to the post-millennial every day.
00:10:33.000They do a terrific job covering the news that matters.
00:10:36.000Teens' body image improves after just one month of slashing social media use.
00:10:43.000Quote, adolescence is a vulnerable period for the development of body image issues, eating disorders, and mental illness, said leading author Dr. Gary Goldfield of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.
00:10:56.000What if I told you that there is more than one drug cartel controlling America?
00:11:04.000Not only do we have the drug cartel of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson, and Johnson, Monsanto, and this poisonous, some of the poisonous food that we're feeding our children.
00:12:36.000And you don't always need to communicate with your kids, by the way.
00:12:39.000And that's kind of a new modern, you know, paranoid paranoia.
00:12:44.000Like, I must be able to talk to my kids all the time.
00:12:47.000But if you do have that, then go buy them a flip phone.
00:12:51.000Having spent time with young people and have having been someone who was once using social media eight to 10 hours a day, and thankfully, I'm completely detoxed.
00:13:01.000I don't have any of these apps on my phone.
00:13:02.000I can tell you it does unbelievable damage to your brain, to your ability to process information, to basic neuroscience.
00:13:11.000Throughout the four-week experiment, half of the study group were instructed to reduce their social media by 50%, while the other half were allowed unrestricted access.
00:13:19.000At both the beginning and the end of the experiment, participants completed a survey containing a series of statements about their overall appearance, rating statements such as, quote, I'm satisfied with my weight on a five-point scale.
00:13:30.000Participants who reduced their social media use had a significant improvement in how they regarded both their overall appearance and body weight after three weeks of reduced social media use, compared with the control group who saw no significant change.
00:13:44.000The sex of the participant did not appear to make any difference in the effects.
00:13:48.00076% of the participants were female, 23% were male, and 1% said other.
00:13:52.000Okay, that's not the most important part of it.
00:13:54.000The most important part of the study, though, is that if you want to actually improve young people's opinion of themselves, which tends to be, according to popular opinion, one of the main reasons why people go to suicide and drugs and they're depressed and they're anxious, or why they go into this transgender idea pathogen.
00:14:20.000But hey, here's all these TikTok channels about how the real secret out there is that if you're 13 years old, go start taking Lupron, get your breasts cut off, and go through quote-unquote gender-affirming care, which is really gender-slaughtering care.
00:14:37.000I miss the days, and this is why not all progress is good.
00:14:41.000We've said this for a while, and the left loses their mind when you say this.
00:14:46.000That sometimes, if you engage and indulge in the accelerated fruits of modernity without those pesky shackles and antiquity, you're going to be miserable and you're going to be controlled by the technology, not controlling the technology.
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00:18:51.000It's called Telos: Learning about Good Life and Good Government.
00:18:55.000It's amazing, and we have to read a lot.
00:18:57.000And we have these weekly, very intense Zoom calls for 90 minutes where we go back and forth to people that are far more credentialed than I am-PhDs, lawyers, people, all that.
00:19:09.000And, you know, they, I was the, they made an excuse for me to come in, just like, all right, yeah, the guy with no college degree who happens to host a show, sure, they can come in.
00:19:18.000I, I'm, I'm thrilled and blessed and honored to be part of it.
00:19:21.000And each week, there is an author or there is a thinker that we focus on.
00:19:27.000And last week was Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:19:33.000And some of you actually emailed us: well, Charlie is at Henry David Thoreau or Emerson.
00:19:37.000Far off, actually, because some of what Rousseau talked about later in his life actually impacted Thoreau and Emerson in the transcendental movement.
00:19:47.000But let me kind of remind you about Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:19:50.00090% in my, oh, that's just an arbitrary number.
00:19:53.000Overwhelming majority of what Rousseau talked about, I believe is complete and total rubbish.
00:19:59.000Rousseau is one of three social contract theorists.
00:20:04.000As we talk about frequently on this program, if there's just a couple things to remember about philosophy, it's to know about the three social contract theories.
00:20:14.000There is one by Rousseau, one by Locke, and one by Hobbes.
00:20:18.000The one by Hobbes could be best summarized, that man is nasty, brutish, and short to one another.
00:20:24.000He wrote a book called The Leviathan, and he said, since man is so broken and so terrible to one another, we need a big government, we need a king, we need a despot to control them.
00:21:35.000Now, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he lived from 1712 to 1778.
00:21:39.000We've mentioned him frequently on this program.
00:21:42.000And his idea of social contract theory was the exact polar opposite of Thomas Hobbes.
00:21:49.000He believed that man was good in the state of nature.
00:21:53.000He believed that if you live in the state of nature, that you are actually what he called a noble savage.
00:22:00.000He believed that man is born perfect and pure and is corrupted by the isms of society around him or her.
00:22:10.000For example, capitalism or racism or misogyny or a patriarchal colonialist system.
00:22:16.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he would romanticize, literally, he was the beginning of the romantic movement, romanticism.
00:22:26.000He would romanticize the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the adulterous lover over the loyal spouse.
00:22:38.000Rousseau believed that these rules that we give human beings are arbitrary and can be tyrannical.
00:22:46.000Sounds very similar to the American left, doesn't it?
00:22:48.000And when you read Rousseau, you can understand why the American left has such a soft spot, and I'm being very kind for quote-unquote indigenous people or people that are in the third world, as we would call it.
00:23:16.000And it was actually a really beautiful moment at the Turning Point USA event where I had a point of agreement with this Marxist, because if a Marxist truly understands the literature, they're wrong about so much.
00:23:28.000But there is something that the Marxists and the Rousseauians get right, which is this, which is modernity and the fruits or the outcomes of the Industrial Revolution can be incredibly alienating and soul-crushing to the human soul and spirit.
00:24:31.000It was an unfinished book, Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
00:24:34.000He's such an egotistical maniac narcissist.
00:24:36.000He compares himself to God and that he's never done anything wrong or anything evil.
00:24:38.000But he does get into some elements where it's like, hey, be careful.
00:24:42.000Industrial life can be very alienating.
00:24:46.000And I think we as conservatives must admit and acknowledge that.
00:24:50.000That yes, it's a beautiful thing that we're able to order medication on demand, find the closest hospital, be able to get information about what your child might be sick with, be able to get telehealth doctors.
00:26:32.000And because I feel like we're still in February.
00:26:34.000Anyways, it's been a long, long, it's been a very interesting and challenging start to the new year, but I'll be it fulfilling in many ways.
00:27:32.000Okay, so that is a man who has appropriated womanhood, literally wearing the equivalent of female blackface, trying to pretend to be something that he's not.
00:27:42.000And Hershey's chocolate is celebrating it.
00:27:45.000Hershey's is excited to do this, though.
00:27:48.000This is why McDonald's, this is why the pharmaceutical companies, this is why BlackRock, this is why the NFL, they are okay engaging in this woke stuff because it is playing offense.
00:27:59.000It makes them look good to the social justice warriors.
00:28:02.000But what is the attack vector that we should be going after Hershey with?
00:28:09.000Your products actually make people really fat and are generally not good for us.
00:28:15.000So instead, Hershey wants to be looked at positively by the activist class, by like, oh, yeah, we have a man who's a woman for the woman's month thing.
00:28:24.000No, instead, they do not ever want to have to experience legitimate cross-examination question of, hey, Hershey, how many people do you think right now have serious heart disease or kids have childhood obesity because of your products?
00:28:48.000But no one can say with a straight face that Hershey's chocolate over the last 20 years has been instrumental in making a better life for children's health.
00:28:59.000Yeah, maybe for short-term dopamine rushes or certain indulgences here or there.
00:29:10.000They should be shareholders in Hershey's chocolate.
00:29:13.000Look, there's a place for all sorts of indulgences and pleasures and vices, obviously, for chocolate.
00:29:20.000You shouldn't ban it or get rid of it.
00:29:21.000But the point is this: Hershey, MMs, McDonald's, these major companies that are pushing this crap on kids, especially, how do they prevent legitimate criticism against them?
00:29:35.000They just play offense with wokeism and they act as if we're never going to be attacked.
00:29:40.000And the NFL does this on the concussion issue.
00:29:44.000The NFL thinks that they can be immune to criticism by paying a tithe to the woke cult to never actually have to answer legitimate questions on the concussion issue, which I do believe in some sense can be overblown.
00:29:59.000In some sense, it's actually not being addressed seriously enough.
00:30:02.000But the NFL knows that it's a legitimate criticism of the sport.
00:30:16.000The activist class, and this is an analogy I've used many times, and it drives the left nuts, mostly because it's true and it involves a biblical analogy.
00:30:24.000The left goes around the same way the final night before, it's called Passover, and they look at what doors have the blood red marking and they say, ah, they're woke.
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00:33:00.000So I have concluded my study of Genesis for now, and now I'm moving on to Exodus.
00:33:05.000And so there is one verse that popped out to me, and I'm not obviously the first person to mention this, but it was, you know, really powerful, which is Exodus 1.8.
00:33:14.000And now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
00:33:19.000Oh, that's one of the most powerful phrases in the Bible, or verses in the Bible.
00:33:53.000And so I visited the college campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:33:57.000And these kids did not know anything about George Washington, James Madison, John Jay.
00:34:03.000They did not know anything about John Adams or John Quincy Adams, anything about Gubernam Norris, George Whitfield, Jonathan Mayhew, or Jonathan Edwards.
00:34:12.000And I thought to myself, ah, and then rose a generation in America who did not know the American founders.
00:34:20.000And obviously what comes afterwards in the book of Exodus, because that really is the turning point verse, get it?
00:35:29.000We're forgetting the contributions before us.
00:35:32.000And if you then forget and you're filled with ingratitude and/or a lack of understanding of the sacrifices that happened prior, you are then willing, able, and you probably will do some pretty awful things to the people that actually built the civilization that you're able to enjoy.
00:35:51.000That's just a little sidebar on a single verse.
00:35:54.000I'm not the first person to have that take.
00:35:57.000Prager has said very similar things, but it just popped when I was on campus there.
00:36:02.000They had no understanding, no appreciation of any brilliant sacrifice, wisdom of a group of people that came before them.
00:36:17.000It's why I recommend the sources I do to you.
00:36:20.000Dive into them, and all of a sudden, you'll see how they connect directly to what we're living through today, societally, individually, in your family, socioeconomically.
00:36:31.000I think it will bless your life significantly.