The Michael Knowles Show - March 08, 2025


＂Are You In A Cult？＂ YES or NO： Mary Morgan


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

159.32991

Word Count

4,318

Sentence Count

546

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

37


Summary

Mary Morgan, host of the show Pop Culture Crisis, joins me to debate whether or not anime is gay. We play a game called "Is Hentai Popular Because Anime Is Gay?" in which we try to figure out the answer.


Transcript

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00:00:37.880 Our men who refuse to physically work out their bodies, by definition, lazy, butter-soft lips.
00:00:45.180 I feel like a lot of the men who are really into working out are pretty gay.
00:00:58.120 Oh, my God. Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
00:01:10.540 My guest today is Mary Morgan, host of Pop Culture Crisis. We will see a clip of her show later.
00:01:16.220 How do we play? I will ask Mary a yes or no question. She will select her answer away from
00:01:21.800 my prying eyes. Then I will guess how she answered. If I guess correctly, I get a point. If I guess
00:01:29.440 incorrectly, I lose a point. No matter how I guess, I probably will drink. Then it's Mary's turn.
00:01:37.340 Neither of us have seen the questions beforehand. The questions cover various and sundry topics,
00:01:41.780 from the philosophical to the anatomical, and everything in between. Whoever has the most points
00:01:47.540 wins, the stakes could be higher. Mary Morgan, thank you for being here.
00:01:53.240 Thank you for having me. I'm really just here to day drink.
00:01:56.500 I understand. In fact, I matched your drink. I never matched the drink with my guest.
00:02:00.360 But we got this fancy botanical gin for your G&T.
00:02:04.420 It's delicious. I already pre-gamed.
00:02:06.280 You did. That's good. We haven't even picked a card yet.
00:02:09.480 I like it. I'm channeling my inner Anglo for a G&T today. Shall we have a wager?
00:02:14.180 I think we should.
00:02:15.280 Okay. Whoever loses has to send any tweet of the winner's choosing. Is that a high stake?
00:02:26.580 It's high enough. It's high enough. I would say it's a kind of a middle tier.
00:02:29.560 I want to hack your account. Okay, great. All right. You got it. Let me know if you find the
00:02:33.600 password. I have no idea. Mary Morgan, even though you're a lady, I have been demanded by the producers
00:02:40.140 that I go first. I find it very wrong and unchivalrous, but so be it.
00:02:46.740 Is hentai so popular? What is... Who writes this disgusting filth?
00:02:51.800 Is hentai so popular on adult websites because anime is inherently gay?
00:02:58.960 So the question is, is hentai popular because anime is gay?
00:03:06.880 Hentai is anime, I take it, from this question?
00:03:10.880 Yes. Okay.
00:03:11.940 Yes, Michael.
00:03:12.600 Is hentai so popular on adult websites because anime is inherently gay?
00:03:16.940 All right. You would say no.
00:03:31.500 I see.
00:03:31.780 Ah.
00:03:32.800 And you know, both parts of that question just made sense to me, right?
00:03:39.140 Could you please...
00:03:40.140 Hentai is popular, anime is gay, both of those things are true.
00:03:44.340 So now you have to think...
00:03:45.680 Is hentai popular?
00:03:48.180 Yeah, unfortunately.
00:03:50.080 Why would someone want to look at a cartoon? If you're going to do that anyway, why not
00:03:53.560 look at a real person?
00:03:55.840 It's just about as real as other...
00:03:58.560 Anything else on glittering images?
00:04:00.660 Yeah.
00:04:00.900 I guess it certainly is gay because it's just you in a room looking at an image and whatever
00:04:09.700 ensues, that would be a same-sex thing because it's only you.
00:04:12.940 Right. Right. And usually, I don't want to get graphic, but you're watching a woman with
00:04:19.880 another man, which is cuckoldry.
00:04:22.400 Right. But that's not gay.
00:04:23.660 But that's not inherently gay.
00:04:25.160 It's cuckoldry.
00:04:25.320 It's cuckoldry.
00:04:25.340 It's still humiliating.
00:04:27.200 Yes. But anime brought, like, Pokemon is gay?
00:04:31.940 I am very anti-anime. People don't know this about me, and when I bring it up, they get
00:04:37.740 very angry.
00:04:38.280 But are you anti-anime because of your homophobia or because of something else?
00:04:42.760 It's a Venn diagram that's almost a circle, okay? Yeah. I am emphatically anti-anime.
00:04:50.120 Why?
00:04:51.540 In the same way that Matt Walsh is anti-anime. Like, it's just satanic. And I don't need
00:04:57.760 to explain myself. Like, it just is.
00:05:00.320 Is there not, like, a wholesome kind of anime? Or are the Japanese just a totally-
00:05:06.720 There's something, there is a genre of anime that pretends to be wholesome, like these
00:05:12.380 slice-of-life shows.
00:05:14.600 With slice-of-life.
00:05:15.160 But when you think about it, these are shows about little schoolgirls, and there are grown
00:05:20.740 men watching it. And they're like, oh, how cute.
00:05:23.980 That's not wholesome.
00:05:24.800 You're not, but it's not gay. I want my point back, is what I'm saying. You're-
00:05:28.260 No, I don't mean it's homosexual. I mean it's gay.
00:05:31.000 Michael.
00:05:32.540 I think we've been talking past each other this entire time.
00:05:35.420 Yes, okay. No, no, no, okay.
00:05:35.800 There's a difference between something being homosexual and something being gay.
00:05:38.800 You're so gay, but it doesn't have-
00:05:40.580 Exactly. In the pejorative sense of the word.
00:05:42.280 Okay, fine. All right. I lose my point. You're up.
00:05:44.160 Are men who refuse to physically work out their bodies, by definition, lazy, butter-soft libs?
00:05:56.220 Lazy, butter-soft libs, huh?
00:06:04.820 You're so right, Mary, because you've got an example of virility right in front of you. Yeah,
00:06:09.620 that's so true.
00:06:10.440 I already knew that about you, though, so I'm just staying in your good grace.
00:06:13.660 But you might have thought that I would say, no, I'm a lazy, butter-soft lib.
00:06:16.980 But I feel like a lot of the men who are really into working out are pretty gay about it.
00:06:23.680 Yes, yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:06:24.680 Like, there's something pretty gay about it. We're talking a lot about gayness.
00:06:27.780 Mm-hmm.
00:06:28.380 But they're, like, flexing in the mirror with each other. Like, yeah, you look so good, bro.
00:06:35.020 Yeah, it's like the YMCA.
00:06:36.960 Weird, yeah.
00:06:37.320 Which is straight now. I've been reliably informed.
00:06:39.480 No, I mean, that guy can sue me. That's a gay anthem.
00:06:41.800 You think of a guy, like, old-school men. Think of Gary Cooper, John Wayne. Did these guys work
00:06:50.120 out? You think they were gym rats on an elliptical? Just like, oh, I've got to look good for...
00:06:54.060 No, they were men, you know, I didn't...
00:06:56.000 What were they doing instead?
00:06:57.860 They were riding horses and stuff.
00:06:59.020 Riding horses, farm work.
00:07:00.440 Slaughtering Indians in the movies.
00:07:01.980 Yeah.
00:07:02.380 Yeah, that's true.
00:07:03.480 I don't do much of that.
00:07:04.240 Where should I put this?
00:07:04.860 Put that card right here.
00:07:05.880 Oh, okay.
00:07:06.280 Okay.
00:07:07.880 We need to watch this video first.
00:07:09.600 Oh, okay.
00:07:10.480 Thank you so much for giving me a chance to win a VMA award.
00:07:17.040 Yo, Taylor.
00:07:19.660 I'm really happy for you. I'm gonna let you finish.
00:07:22.260 But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
00:07:28.060 One of the best videos of all time.
00:07:30.000 Did Kanye actually save Taylor from Beyoncé?
00:07:48.240 That was emphatic and quick.
00:07:50.160 I thought about this.
00:07:54.100 You were correct.
00:07:55.380 How did he save her?
00:07:56.540 Well, the rumor has it that all of these artists at the Grammys
00:08:02.540 are obligated to pay their fealty to Beyoncé
00:08:07.180 every time that they win an award over her.
00:08:10.800 They have to give her all the credit.
00:08:13.220 Queen B.
00:08:13.940 Yeah, she's the Queen B.
00:08:16.080 And if they don't, well...
00:08:20.140 I'm not gonna say out loud what happens next.
00:08:23.320 But that's, you know, that's the rumor
00:08:25.980 that her and Jay-Z pretty much pressure
00:08:29.140 the rest of the music industry to worship them.
00:08:32.760 Because they're involved in the Illuminati and the occult.
00:08:36.360 But for the record, Kanye actually was right.
00:08:40.440 Her music video was better than Taylor Swift's.
00:08:42.840 Was it? I don't remember either of them.
00:08:44.600 I think it was for single ladies.
00:08:47.320 Oh, that was a good...
00:08:48.380 Compared to Love Story?
00:08:49.680 Mm-hmm.
00:08:49.920 Um, yeah, that was a way better music video.
00:08:52.700 Not a better song, in my opinion,
00:08:54.340 but a better music video.
00:08:56.260 But overall, Beyoncé is quite...
00:08:57.640 Technically, he was correct.
00:08:59.160 Wow.
00:08:59.740 It's not like he needed to point it out.
00:09:01.000 What else do you think he was correct about?
00:09:03.380 It's a sensitive time.
00:09:07.220 Okay, you're up.
00:09:08.480 All right.
00:09:08.840 All right.
00:09:13.560 Michael, was this an appropriate answer?
00:09:16.720 We have another video.
00:09:17.520 Mr. Buckley, do you think miniskirts are in good taste?
00:09:23.360 Do I think what?
00:09:24.380 Miniskirts are in good taste.
00:09:26.480 On you, I think they are.
00:09:33.040 Good legs are in good taste.
00:09:34.520 Good legs.
00:09:35.020 I never would have figured you for that kind.
00:09:37.580 Good legs are in good taste.
00:09:40.140 Is that an appropriate answer?
00:09:44.660 He was a married man at that time.
00:09:46.800 Oh, was he?
00:09:47.520 Oh, give me my point.
00:09:56.100 Let's go.
00:09:56.500 You see how I got in her head?
00:09:57.960 You see that little...
00:09:59.160 It was so obvious, too.
00:10:00.820 Yeah.
00:10:01.100 I let you trick me.
00:10:01.480 That was nice.
00:10:02.260 Because now, you know, now in our modern culture,
00:10:06.360 the response to that is he would, like,
00:10:08.040 pounce on her or something,
00:10:09.420 or they'd go get...
00:10:10.420 They'd join, like, a polycule of, you know,
00:10:12.700 orgies and things.
00:10:13.560 But back in the day, that was really edgy
00:10:16.800 to just, like, kind of be a little flirtatious
00:10:20.320 in a joking way with a woman.
00:10:21.760 I think that's...
00:10:22.060 Oh, yeah.
00:10:22.140 Getting back to that is better than...
00:10:25.680 Now, everyone takes all of these things so seriously.
00:10:28.380 On the one hand, you know, if you look at...
00:10:32.320 If Justin Baldoni looks at Blake Lively,
00:10:34.300 that's this big sexual harassment case.
00:10:36.180 But then on the other hand,
00:10:37.160 everyone's encouraged to, like, cheat on their spouses
00:10:39.200 and do all sorts of weird stuff.
00:10:40.660 So getting back to that, that's appropriate.
00:10:42.480 I agree with your take,
00:10:44.740 but also, what do you think of her question?
00:10:47.700 Do you think miniskirts are in good taste?
00:10:52.020 There's a table here.
00:10:53.020 I can't tell if you're wearing a miniskirt.
00:10:54.320 You would never wear a miniskirt.
00:10:54.860 I actually am.
00:10:55.600 Are you really?
00:10:56.260 Yes, I actually am.
00:10:57.220 Wow, wow.
00:10:58.960 But you can be honest if you think they're in bad taste.
00:11:02.720 I'm not saying women need to go full burqa.
00:11:04.880 I don't encourage that.
00:11:06.600 A nice, tasteful niqab or an abaya, I think.
00:11:10.620 But the eyes are so seductive.
00:11:13.180 You're right.
00:11:13.780 All right, they have to go full burqa.
00:11:15.260 Okay, that's my answer.
00:11:17.180 Burqa with sunglasses?
00:11:18.960 Maybe.
00:11:19.540 Or with a full one, you don't even see it yet
00:11:21.640 because there's, like, the veil in between the eyes.
00:11:23.400 Yeah.
00:11:23.780 I think back in those days, look,
00:11:25.280 it was the swing in 60s,
00:11:26.520 and people were experimenting with the sexual revolution.
00:11:29.060 But we realize the sexual revolution's gone very wrong,
00:11:31.340 and so I think Wahhabha's cheek is back.
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00:12:45.960 Mary, since you're a Belieber,
00:12:47.820 are you technically in a cult?
00:12:51.840 Did you say Belieber?
00:12:53.420 A Belieber.
00:12:54.180 A Belieber.
00:12:54.940 A Belieber.
00:12:55.660 Oh, oh.
00:13:02.560 Incorrect.
00:13:12.100 No.
00:13:12.740 This is not a cult.
00:13:13.920 I didn't know that I was going to get exposed
00:13:16.040 for being a Belieber.
00:13:17.740 I had no idea.
00:13:18.780 He's good, though.
00:13:19.400 He's talented.
00:13:20.060 He is.
00:13:21.100 And there's been no one else to do it like him.
00:13:23.780 He seems kind of mainstream, though,
00:13:25.220 because you have, like, a cool, edgy aesthetic.
00:13:27.520 Like, you're, like, a cool girl.
00:13:28.460 But Bieber is so vanilla.
00:13:31.600 He's so mainstream.
00:13:32.920 Well, okay, full transparency.
00:13:35.280 Before I was emo, I was obsessed with Justin Bieber.
00:13:40.220 Like, crazy.
00:13:42.000 Like, I had multiple life-size cardboard cutouts
00:13:46.000 of Justin Bieber in my childhood bedroom.
00:13:49.120 Posters everywhere.
00:13:51.400 Why do you need multiple cardboard cutouts?
00:13:53.640 Wouldn't one suffice?
00:13:54.940 One is not enough.
00:13:55.940 He has to be staring at me from all angles.
00:13:58.920 Wow.
00:14:00.040 What was it about him?
00:14:01.600 It was his white boy swag.
00:14:04.100 Really.
00:14:04.760 And there's no one else who has that these days.
00:14:07.760 Like, name one other.
00:14:09.320 But it wasn't his white.
00:14:10.180 Other than you.
00:14:10.920 Like, who else has white boy swag?
00:14:12.620 Because when I think of white boy swag,
00:14:14.240 I think of, like, Vineyard Vines and a barber jacket.
00:14:17.180 It seems to me his white boy swag
00:14:18.940 was more of a black guy swag.
00:14:20.480 Like, he was a white guy doing kind of black guy stuff.
00:14:23.660 No, but it's not like he was,
00:14:25.800 he wasn't, like, LARPing as something he wasn't, you know?
00:14:29.220 He was a, you're saying he was a kind of a trans-urban,
00:14:33.240 on the inside, he was truly that person.
00:14:35.460 That was his authentic self.
00:14:37.340 I think you're getting white boy swag confused with wigger.
00:14:45.200 Two different things.
00:14:46.140 No, that's what I'm saying.
00:14:47.060 I'm saying, yes, you're right.
00:14:48.280 I guess the way that you're using it,
00:14:49.820 I assume you're complaining the two of those.
00:14:51.260 Well, what's the difference?
00:14:54.920 I think you can compare Justin Bieber back then
00:14:58.900 to Travis Kelsey now
00:15:03.460 and see the difference between white boy swag and wigger.
00:15:07.520 Okay, Travis Kelsey, definitely white boy swag.
00:15:11.420 No.
00:15:12.520 He does not have white boy swag.
00:15:13.620 No, Travis Kelsey is the wigger.
00:15:15.340 Really?
00:15:15.980 Yeah, Justin Bieber has the white boy swag.
00:15:18.680 Wow.
00:15:21.060 I need to.
00:15:22.340 But also, incredible vocalist.
00:15:24.940 Yeah.
00:15:25.160 He's naturally a star.
00:15:27.220 Do I have white boy swag?
00:15:28.460 I think you do.
00:15:29.400 I do.
00:15:29.800 Even though you're Italian.
00:15:30.840 Yeah, it's a little smarthly.
00:15:32.700 It's a little liminal case.
00:15:34.080 Yeah.
00:15:34.200 Okay, all right.
00:15:34.680 Yeah.
00:15:35.280 Okay, you're up.
00:15:36.480 All right.
00:15:36.780 Should women ever be firefighters or police?
00:15:46.300 Wow.
00:15:51.160 They should not be.
00:15:52.220 They should not be, right?
00:15:52.680 Yeah, that was easy.
00:15:53.320 Obviously not.
00:15:54.080 That was easy.
00:15:54.700 That'd be crazy.
00:15:55.680 Oh, but if they meet the standard, though.
00:15:57.580 What if they meet the standard?
00:15:58.820 Like, what if they meet the standard, then it's meritocratic.
00:16:03.900 Yeah, but if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
00:16:06.800 I know.
00:16:07.200 It's so crazy when they say, see, what if it's the standard?
00:16:09.460 It's like, well, what if they're like much smaller and physically weaker as a, just in
00:16:13.240 principle?
00:16:14.020 Okay.
00:16:14.360 They're not going to meet the standard.
00:16:15.300 Let's think about the edge case, like this woman who fits the physical strength and endurance
00:16:21.960 standards of the average male firefighter.
00:16:26.000 Yeah.
00:16:26.420 Maybe she's out there somewhere.
00:16:28.040 She's mentally insane for wanting to be a firefighter.
00:16:31.560 Yes.
00:16:32.280 So she shouldn't be one.
00:16:33.600 And also, you just don't want to compromise team fitness.
00:16:39.900 If you're with a bunch of dudes and you're going to go fight a fire or go chase bad guys
00:16:44.760 or whatever, you're going to operate in a certain way.
00:16:46.280 The minute you introduce a lady into that mix and you're sending a lady into a burning
00:16:49.080 building or to catch bullets from some gangster or something, men are going to just react
00:16:53.420 differently to protect women, which is good.
00:16:55.340 Like, you want that reaction.
00:16:56.900 But even if the woman really wants to, and even if in some world she, like, we pretend
00:17:01.540 that she met the standards or something, like, still, too bad.
00:17:05.280 This is about public service, and that doesn't serve the common good and the purpose of these
00:17:09.500 units.
00:17:10.060 It's funny.
00:17:10.460 This whole, like, DEI firefighter discourse is what revealed to me there are so many people
00:17:16.960 on the right who are also mad that men and women are different.
00:17:22.900 I know.
00:17:23.500 They can't get over it.
00:17:25.060 Everyone's a real tough guy when it comes to, like, we shouldn't trans the kids or whatever.
00:17:28.180 Right.
00:17:28.680 But there are many feminists, practical feminists on the right.
00:17:32.840 And there are many people who deny biological differences and think that men and women should
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00:19:14.880 Wow.
00:19:15.120 On Halloween, do you just dress normally?
00:19:18.940 Who wrote that?
00:19:20.000 That's outrageous.
00:19:23.300 Because you drew all the black and everything, you know.
00:19:27.200 No.
00:19:29.080 No.
00:19:29.440 You're right.
00:19:29.720 Okay.
00:19:30.080 All right.
00:19:31.440 Wow.
00:19:32.280 Try to sneak that one in there, huh?
00:19:33.440 So how many points did I get?
00:19:35.020 That was a drive-by right there.
00:19:36.360 All right.
00:19:37.960 So I'm somehow still losing.
00:19:39.120 It's actually zero, me, one, you.
00:19:41.480 Okay.
00:19:42.460 Now you go.
00:19:43.420 Same thing.
00:19:43.700 Does that just mean that we know each other too well?
00:19:45.540 We're so close we can almost finish each other's sandwiches.
00:19:48.400 No one ever picks up on it.
00:19:49.200 I'm not doing that.
00:19:49.960 Yeah.
00:19:51.120 All right.
00:19:54.260 Should women be permitted to speak at church?
00:19:58.200 Yes, they can sing along in the pew.
00:20:05.720 Misa cantata.
00:20:06.860 Singing.
00:20:07.580 It was cheating a little bit, but I'll take it.
00:20:09.280 Yeah, that's a typicality right there.
00:20:10.820 All right.
00:20:12.040 If an animal the size of a house cat got loose in your house,
00:20:15.960 would you call someone else to get rid of it?
00:20:19.240 Would I?
00:20:20.340 Yeah.
00:20:22.500 The size of a house cat.
00:20:28.200 You say yes because I'm not the handiest, but I'm also cheap.
00:20:31.940 So no, I would not call someone to take care of it.
00:20:34.780 All right.
00:20:36.060 If you had to give up either booze or cigars,
00:20:39.660 you would give up booze and keep the cigars?
00:20:47.780 Let's go.
00:20:48.760 Don't call it a comeback, baby.
00:20:50.220 No question.
00:20:51.200 I mean, I like a nice tipple every now and again,
00:20:53.400 but I'm way more into the stogies than I am into booze.
00:20:56.480 All right.
00:20:57.200 Sober, Mike.
00:20:57.780 All right.
00:20:58.060 Here we go.
00:20:58.940 So Michael zero, Mary Morgan negative two.
00:21:02.860 This is the final round.
00:21:04.280 Messed up.
00:21:05.720 These points are worth double.
00:21:13.520 We're going to answer at the same time, Mary.
00:21:15.480 Do you understand?
00:21:16.520 So I'm going to state the prompt.
00:21:18.840 You're going to put down your answer.
00:21:19.760 I'm going to put down my answer.
00:21:20.600 Then we're going to look at each other.
00:21:21.460 We're going to move our cups based on how we think the other would answer.
00:21:24.300 All right.
00:21:24.640 Most of America's problems can be solved with political action.
00:21:43.860 Let's go.
00:21:45.680 Oh, I got it.
00:21:46.440 Culture is downstream of politics, you know?
00:21:47.940 So when you have a political order that encourages certain good behaviors and discourages bad behaviors,
00:21:54.560 that's going to start to push people toward the right things because the law is a tutor.
00:21:58.420 However, most people think it's the opposite these days, which is why we have this order where, like, we encourage bad things and discourage good things.
00:22:08.140 I'm losing so badly right now.
00:22:09.840 You're getting destroyed with facts and logic.
00:22:11.640 I thought of everybody kvetching about the birth rate right now.
00:22:16.280 Yeah.
00:22:16.440 Like, they're thinking about, like, how much money can we throw at people to make them have babies?
00:22:20.860 And that's not a political solution.
00:22:24.000 No, but you know what is political?
00:22:25.940 You need a cultural solution to that.
00:22:29.200 But how do you change culture?
00:22:31.000 I'll tell you what.
00:22:31.580 Before November, all these companies were big into DEI and LGBT and all this anti-open borders and stuff.
00:22:39.680 Trump wins.
00:22:41.620 There go the DEI departments.
00:22:43.520 There goes the funding for all of the radical left-wing activism through USAID.
00:22:47.420 I think we can flex our muscles a little bit politically.
00:22:50.220 And on the birth rate thing, you could just say, all right, well, I've got this birth rate problem.
00:22:54.040 So you know what we're going to do?
00:22:54.860 We're going to cut it out with the fake definitions of marriage.
00:22:57.760 We're going to discourage contraception.
00:22:59.420 We're going to ban abortion.
00:23:00.400 We're going to reshore American manufacturing, rebuild the American family.
00:23:03.440 I bet that will go a long way.
00:23:04.840 Discourage contraception by doing what?
00:23:07.660 By, you know, maybe revisiting Eisenstadt v. Baird or Griswold v. Connecticut
00:23:11.460 or some of these kind of crazy 1960s, 70s Supreme Court decisions.
00:23:15.280 Just a thought.
00:23:15.900 I'm just suggesting it if any Republican politicians are listening.
00:23:18.700 I don't know.
00:23:18.860 It's not a bad thought.
00:23:20.120 Okay, we're on the last one.
00:23:21.800 Last one.
00:23:25.000 I've seen something supernatural.
00:23:30.400 I'm playing with the house's money.
00:23:42.700 Yeah.
00:23:45.300 You have.
00:23:46.520 Yes.
00:23:46.880 What have you seen, Mary?
00:23:50.200 I thought you were going to answer as well.
00:23:52.460 Oh, you got mine right.
00:23:53.460 And I said yes.
00:23:54.140 Oh, you said yes, too.
00:23:55.180 Okay.
00:23:56.360 The transfiguration.
00:23:58.360 Or sorry, transubstantiation.
00:24:00.820 Oh.
00:24:01.660 But, you know, if we're talking about-
00:24:03.100 Wow, that's good.
00:24:03.840 That's a good answer.
00:24:04.620 If you're talking about paranormal stuff, like ghosts, haven't seen that.
00:24:08.140 No.
00:24:08.540 Have not seen that.
00:24:09.360 Entertained angels unawares.
00:24:10.460 But anytime you're at mass, I think you're witnessing something supernatural, right?
00:24:16.720 That is such a good, basic answer that is obviously true.
00:24:23.180 Yes, when the bread and the wine are transfigured.
00:24:24.940 Yeah, but I'm just being a smart ass, aren't I?
00:24:26.820 Are transubstantiated.
00:24:27.820 No, you're not.
00:24:28.760 You're being smart is what you're being.
00:24:30.520 You're being smart as usual.
00:24:32.340 That was very good.
00:24:33.840 Mary Morgan's show, Pop Culture Crisis, is your source of sanity while navigating the
00:24:38.480 insane world of pop culture.
00:24:40.060 Hosted by Brett Dazovich and Mary Morgan.
00:24:44.260 Check out this clip from their show.
00:24:46.220 You went on a reality show where you have to marry someone after a week.
00:24:50.900 I'm picturing the CIA like, yes, yes, we could learn from this.
00:24:53.900 He got taken off the show because he didn't find someone to marry.
00:24:57.200 This doesn't make sense to me because I, after reading this article, would totally go on Love
00:25:05.580 is Blind.
00:25:06.000 It does not sound bad at all.
00:25:08.120 I get paid $1,000 a week to just sit around and chat with strangers through a screen and
00:25:13.700 drink wine.
00:25:14.560 That sounds fun.
00:25:15.740 How come Mary gets the plug, Brett gets the plug, but there's Ian there.
00:25:23.220 He doesn't get any plug.
00:25:24.540 I just, I only said two names.
00:25:26.120 Doesn't get the credit he deserves.
00:25:27.280 He does.
00:25:27.620 He never does.
00:25:28.260 But that was one of my many famous zingers.
00:25:31.540 You'd go on Love is Blind, huh?
00:25:32.880 I totally would.
00:25:33.880 For sure.
00:25:34.240 Who would?
00:25:34.380 And then they complain about having to drink.
00:25:36.340 Here I am with a free drink.
00:25:37.680 I know.
00:25:38.500 A delicious.
00:25:38.860 Love a free drink.
00:25:39.640 Although I've had a little bit more than you.
00:25:42.460 I don't know.
00:25:42.920 Maybe.
00:25:43.280 And I'm the one losing.
00:25:44.300 I know.
00:25:44.720 That's great.
00:25:45.220 I think I found my secret.
00:25:46.340 What's that about?
00:25:47.780 So, Mary, since we made a little wager at the top, I think the tweet you need to send
00:25:53.920 out needs to be a multimedia tweet.
00:25:57.020 And it needs to be you smoking a Mayflower cigar with your endorsement of it.
00:26:02.540 But it's got to be, I need the picture though.
00:26:04.140 I need you smoking the cigar.
00:26:05.840 Because the visual is what's really going to grab people.
00:26:08.160 You know, just a tweet like, oh, I like the cigar.
00:26:09.920 It doesn't do it.
00:26:11.200 Sales are going to skyrocket.
00:26:12.280 They're going to skyrocket.
00:26:14.140 I'll get you a cigar before the end of this show.
00:26:16.680 Totally.
00:26:17.200 Before you walk out of this building.
00:26:18.880 Before I stumble out of this building.
00:26:20.040 I had such a good idea for what to tweet on your account.
00:26:22.320 What were you going to tweet?
00:26:24.040 I was going to tweet, Mary Morgan ghost wrote speechless.
00:26:29.140 Send all royalties to Mary.
00:26:31.000 Wow, man.
00:26:31.620 That would have been more lucrative than selling cigars.
00:26:33.860 Mary Morgan, wonderful to see you as always.
00:26:36.420 Thank you for coming on the show.
00:26:37.320 Thank you for having me.
00:26:38.480 We'll be right
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00:26:47.760 Feel free to see you as always.
00:26:47.980 We'll be right back.
00:26:48.940 Thank you.
00:26:49.720 Let itfig.
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