The Michael Knowles Show - October 26, 2022


Daily Wire Backstage: The Red Wave


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1 hour and 32 minutes

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223.25981

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20,553

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478

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Summary

Daily Wire Backstage features Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, and Michael Knowles. They discuss the latest polling on the midterms, why the Democratic Party has been misprioritized, and why a red wave is coming.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Michael Knowles.
00:00:01.540 You're about to listen to Daily Wire Backstage
00:00:03.660 featuring me, Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro,
00:00:06.140 Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan.
00:00:07.800 We're going to be talking about the trans recession.
00:00:10.720 We're going to be talking about
00:00:11.780 why I love my heart arrhythmia medication
00:00:13.900 and so many other things.
00:00:15.240 You're not gonna wanna miss this one.
00:00:16.900 Thanks for listening.
00:00:30.000 Welcome to the Daily Wire Backstage.
00:00:48.180 Joining me tonight, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan,
00:00:50.720 Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and I,
00:00:53.240 your lowly god king, lowercase g, lowercase k,
00:00:57.380 Jeremy Boring.
00:00:57.960 We're very happy you're here.
00:00:59.100 And I wanna tell you that right after this show,
00:01:02.480 as per usual, we will be doing Member Block.
00:01:04.900 And that's a time that we go behind the paywall
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00:01:12.340 what we're gonna do tonight,
00:01:13.260 what we do here at the Daily Wire every day.
00:01:15.360 They're a big part of the team,
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00:01:17.280 We're very grateful for them.
00:01:18.480 So head over to dailywireplus.com.
00:01:21.140 Click that subscribe button if you wanna join us
00:01:22.800 at the end of the show for a Member Block.
00:01:24.200 In the meantime, we're gonna talk about
00:01:25.820 a lot of great stuff, a lot of good stuff.
00:01:28.820 Some might say great and good stuff.
00:01:31.140 Only one of us would actually say that.
00:01:32.740 That's Andrew Klavan because he likes to name things
00:01:35.720 in such fashion.
00:01:37.600 I wanna talk a little bit, though, about the election.
00:01:40.920 Obviously, this is what is on everyone's mind.
00:01:42.600 We're only two weeks out from what I think.
00:01:45.300 I know you guys may not think this.
00:01:48.000 It's probably, this is an original contribution.
00:01:49.960 It may be the most consequential election of our lifetime.
00:01:53.800 I tried to trademark that today.
00:01:55.220 It was consequential.
00:01:56.240 Anyway, a very important midterm election,
00:01:58.200 if ever there was one.
00:02:00.360 And because we're gonna be covering live here
00:02:03.900 at dailywireplus.com on election night,
00:02:06.080 as we are wont to do, we'll get together.
00:02:08.360 We'll have Candace here with us.
00:02:09.340 We'll have also the Daily Wire news crew with us,
00:02:12.700 John Bickley and team from the Morning Wire
00:02:15.800 and Election Wire will be joining us.
00:02:17.440 I asked them if they would stop by tonight,
00:02:19.200 maybe give us a chance to ask them a few questions
00:02:20.820 about what's happening during the election
00:02:22.940 and what their predictions are, what it's looking like.
00:02:25.660 And so, wanna welcome them to the show.
00:02:27.760 Here we have Cabot Phillips and John Bickley.
00:02:29.920 It's John Bickley and team.
00:02:32.560 John Bickley and all.
00:02:34.480 Small team.
00:02:35.700 Yeah.
00:02:36.460 Hey, yeah, we're excited about election night
00:02:38.820 and the polling is fascinating.
00:02:41.180 The debates this week were kind of incredible.
00:02:44.200 We saw something last night we've never seen before
00:02:46.320 with this Fetterman debate.
00:02:47.940 It was stunning.
00:02:48.860 It was alarming in many ways.
00:02:50.620 But what we're seeing here is there's a red wave coming,
00:02:56.020 a red wave coming, might be a tsunami,
00:02:58.800 certainly in the House.
00:03:00.780 The question is the Senate.
00:03:02.680 And we've been tracking this in terms of the polling.
00:03:05.080 We've got some original polls,
00:03:06.820 some exclusive polls with Trafalgar Group
00:03:09.540 that have been very fascinating, very enlightening.
00:03:12.860 But we've also looked at some other polling.
00:03:14.600 The Harvard poll that came out a couple of weeks ago,
00:03:17.820 I think defines this election.
00:03:20.060 It summarizes it for people.
00:03:21.780 What is this election about?
00:03:24.020 It is an election about the misprioritization
00:03:27.960 of the Democratic Party with what the voters prioritize.
00:03:32.660 And if you look at this Harvard poll,
00:03:35.220 it asked voters, hey, what do you prioritize?
00:03:37.760 What are most important to you?
00:03:40.040 The top three, inflation, jobs, immigration.
00:03:44.880 Then it asked, what do the parties prioritize?
00:03:48.400 What do you think the parties prioritize?
00:03:51.120 And you have a perfect alignment of the Republican Party
00:03:53.780 with those priorities.
00:03:55.880 Immigration, inflation, jobs.
00:03:57.560 Democrats, the Democrats, there's not a single issue
00:04:00.520 within the top four of the prioritized issues.
00:04:06.740 January 6th is number one for Democrats.
00:04:09.320 January 6th, maybe dead last in the poll.
00:04:13.540 Abortion, that was number five,
00:04:15.820 still not in double digits for people in terms of priority.
00:04:18.960 And climate change, those were the top three for Democrats.
00:04:22.220 Democrats, the Democrats looking back on this election cycle
00:04:26.520 are going to say, we misprioritized.
00:04:30.280 And it's not even about, hey, do people like your answers?
00:04:34.040 Do you even care about the issues that voters care about
00:04:37.940 is the question here.
00:04:39.180 So that's something very fascinating.
00:04:40.600 We saw that last night in one of,
00:04:41.480 we were just talking before the shows,
00:04:42.720 in one of the debates, the question of crime came up
00:04:45.240 and the Democrat just blew off
00:04:47.160 even the importance of the question, Michael.
00:04:48.920 You had Lee Zeldin, this Republican who shockingly
00:04:52.600 is leading, at least according to some polls, in New York.
00:04:56.080 And I know, I mean, I've worked Republican campaigns
00:04:58.000 in New York.
00:04:58.660 There are a lot of Republicans and conservatives in New York
00:05:00.900 and they almost never really make it over the finish line,
00:05:04.680 especially at statewide races.
00:05:06.080 Zeldin's doing very well right now over Hochul
00:05:07.920 and he kept hammering crime.
00:05:10.120 And Zeldin has been almost the victim
00:05:12.180 of some pretty serious crimes recently.
00:05:13.920 And Hochul's response, of course, was,
00:05:16.240 Lee, why do you keep bringing this up?
00:05:18.700 Why is this so important to you?
00:05:19.940 Why do you care about putting people in jail?
00:05:22.300 And I just think if you're a New Yorker,
00:05:24.200 I don't care how blue you are,
00:05:26.420 you've got to listen to that and say,
00:05:27.660 man, this plane is no clue.
00:05:28.400 They're literally pushing people
00:05:28.580 in front of subway trains in New York City.
00:05:30.500 I mean, crime is a massive issue in New York.
00:05:33.340 And Hochul blew it off like it was nothing.
00:05:35.720 You saw this, by the way, across the board.
00:05:37.180 There's another debate that people
00:05:37.920 aren't paying attention to,
00:05:38.760 which was the Tudor Dixon-Gretchen Whitmer debate
00:05:40.620 over in Michigan.
00:05:41.980 And Whitmer was getting hammered
00:05:43.560 over and over and over again
00:05:44.420 by Tudor Dixon on her handling of COVID.
00:05:46.760 And this, to me,
00:05:47.440 has always been the elephant in the room.
00:05:49.060 People are still really ticked,
00:05:51.320 and they should be ticked,
00:05:52.100 about how they were handled
00:05:52.840 by their local government during COVID.
00:05:54.740 And the economy and inflation and jobs
00:05:56.960 and immigration,
00:05:57.800 a lot of this actually is still proxy
00:05:59.620 for the COVID policies
00:06:01.180 that locked everybody in their house
00:06:02.300 and the rage that people feel.
00:06:03.620 Yeah, and all the money that they printed
00:06:04.980 to try to cover it up.
00:06:05.760 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:06.360 The inflation is a result of that, exactly.
00:06:08.020 And so when Whitmer had no answers for that,
00:06:10.660 Tudor Dixon is now running
00:06:11.820 within spitting distance of Whitmer.
00:06:13.980 A month ago, Tudor Dixon was running
00:06:15.780 10 points behind, 12 points behind.
00:06:17.700 And now that's looking like
00:06:18.660 a two, three, four-point race.
00:06:20.080 And you have Cenk Uygur out in Los Angeles,
00:06:23.700 our old stomping grounds,
00:06:24.920 saying that he's going to vote
00:06:25.800 for the former Republican for governor.
00:06:28.060 For mayor.
00:06:29.120 I'm sorry, for mayor.
00:06:30.100 Over Karen Bass, who was theoretically
00:06:32.120 going to be the VP pick for Joe Biden.
00:06:33.820 She's one of the finalists for that VP slot.
00:06:35.820 This is an incredible hit on the press, too.
00:06:37.660 Now, the latest Gallup poll,
00:06:38.900 7% of people trust the press.
00:06:41.720 They invited, after that shooting
00:06:43.400 outside of Zeldin's house,
00:06:44.600 they invited him outside to talk.
00:06:46.600 The press said,
00:06:47.100 would you come outside and talk to us?
00:06:48.360 So he came outside and talked.
00:06:49.240 And the first question was,
00:06:50.100 why are you politicizing this incident?
00:06:53.320 You invited me out here, you know?
00:06:54.920 And the press just looks so clownish
00:06:57.860 trying to cover for these guys,
00:06:59.500 trying to cover for Fetterman,
00:07:00.540 who was falling apart.
00:07:01.840 It's a real blow to them.
00:07:03.820 And I think, like,
00:07:04.780 nobody's paying attention to John Durham
00:07:06.260 because he keeps losing
00:07:07.020 these stupid little cases he's bringing.
00:07:08.980 But he's destroyed the press in court
00:07:11.940 and just shown how dishonest they are.
00:07:13.980 And at this moment,
00:07:14.600 they look just awful.
00:07:15.360 There's a real worry, though,
00:07:16.540 especially watching the Fetterman debate,
00:07:18.040 obviously.
00:07:18.720 I actually didn't make jokes about it
00:07:20.780 on my show today
00:07:21.360 because the guy has brain damage.
00:07:22.400 It's almost impossible to make jokes.
00:07:24.620 When I'm on my show,
00:07:25.640 I went in wanting to make jokes.
00:07:26.880 Wait for my show.
00:07:27.760 I'll wait for your show.
00:07:28.800 I did make jokes.
00:07:30.060 I don't know.
00:07:30.400 I'm the worst.
00:07:31.100 Okay.
00:07:31.540 These talus monsters at the end of the...
00:07:33.680 I went in thinking I was going to make jokes.
00:07:35.540 And I watched two clips of him.
00:07:37.080 And then I watched three clips of him.
00:07:38.180 And then I watched four clips of him.
00:07:39.680 And suddenly it turned from
00:07:40.800 this is comic into
00:07:41.620 this is actually quite tragic.
00:07:42.960 But he's also...
00:07:43.660 My defense of making jokes
00:07:45.420 is that he has put himself...
00:07:46.920 Oh, 100%.
00:07:47.360 Just like with Biden,
00:07:47.900 he's put himself in this position
00:07:49.080 because of his thirst for power.
00:07:50.780 And as I also brought up,
00:07:52.640 that, you know,
00:07:52.860 he is responsible for that.
00:07:55.920 But it's also the Democrat Party
00:07:56.820 putting him there.
00:07:57.360 And his wife.
00:07:58.000 And his wife.
00:07:58.600 Exactly.
00:07:58.880 His wife.
00:07:59.480 I think Jill Biden and Fetterman's wife
00:08:02.140 are just failing in their responsibility to...
00:08:04.920 This is a unique aspect
00:08:06.220 of the American Democrat Party
00:08:08.060 that they genuinely...
00:08:09.920 And not just of recent vintage,
00:08:11.660 but for most of my life,
00:08:13.540 they've taken the position
00:08:14.520 that if you run someone
00:08:16.180 and they are actually
00:08:17.120 incapable of serving,
00:08:18.660 it is perfectly acceptable
00:08:19.920 just to give the job
00:08:21.120 to their spouse.
00:08:22.240 Right.
00:08:22.780 I genuinely don't understand that.
00:08:24.000 Do you know the guy
00:08:24.680 who won, I guess,
00:08:25.720 an Oscar or an Emmy
00:08:26.600 for that Don't Look Up,
00:08:27.940 the one about...
00:08:28.420 David Zerota.
00:08:28.980 Yes.
00:08:29.260 He actually sent out a tweet
00:08:30.540 saying, you know,
00:08:31.380 being a senator is not hard.
00:08:32.720 Right.
00:08:33.180 But, you know,
00:08:33.580 he can say yay or nay
00:08:35.440 just as well as
00:08:36.060 any of the other senators.
00:08:37.480 And he said,
00:08:38.200 he actually said,
00:08:39.040 it has nothing to do
00:08:39.900 with character.
00:08:40.560 It has to do with
00:08:41.240 just what they vote for.
00:08:42.600 I thought,
00:08:42.960 so voting for Donald Trump
00:08:44.220 is fine, right?
00:08:45.940 So on one hand,
00:08:46.980 on one hand,
00:08:47.420 we're told that
00:08:48.020 if we give the election
00:08:49.140 to Republicans,
00:08:49.820 it's the end of democracy
00:08:50.940 and the end of civilization.
00:08:52.360 But on the other hand,
00:08:53.300 police jobs don't even matter,
00:08:54.220 so give it to a brain damage.
00:08:55.000 I will say, though,
00:08:55.680 in his defense,
00:08:56.860 foreign policy is made
00:08:57.960 by the bureaucracy.
00:08:59.340 Most domestic policy
00:09:00.340 is made by the bureaucracy.
00:09:01.820 Frankly, I don't know,
00:09:02.600 even a man with brain damage
00:09:03.720 might be able to be a senator.
00:09:05.500 A lot of these guys
00:09:06.080 are making the case,
00:09:06.760 frankly, for direct democracy.
00:09:07.840 I mean,
00:09:07.960 if the basic idea
00:09:08.740 is that we don't even bother
00:09:09.620 electing people
00:09:10.220 to exercise independent judgment,
00:09:11.620 it's just a straight up vote,
00:09:12.660 then why don't we just
00:09:13.600 online poll everybody
00:09:14.820 and we can decide
00:09:15.520 what to do as a country?
00:09:16.740 I do want to ask
00:09:18.100 the election wire guys,
00:09:19.140 you know,
00:09:19.640 looking at the polls right now.
00:09:22.020 I've seen some ballpark figures
00:09:23.540 on the chances
00:09:24.100 that the Republicans
00:09:24.640 take the Senate.
00:09:25.280 You've seen Nate Silver,
00:09:25.960 for example,
00:09:26.480 say that he thinks
00:09:26.980 it's like a 50-50 toss-up,
00:09:28.560 but it seems like the momentum
00:09:29.360 is moving pretty strongly
00:09:30.360 in the direction
00:09:31.240 of the Republicans.
00:09:31.900 Can you give us
00:09:32.180 a quick rundown
00:09:33.220 on the closest Senate races
00:09:34.780 and what those look like right now?
00:09:36.060 Yeah, so Republicans
00:09:36.720 are coming in right now
00:09:37.860 knowing they're going to get
00:09:39.260 at least 48.
00:09:40.040 That's assuming you throw in
00:09:41.080 North Carolina and Ohio,
00:09:42.620 which got very close
00:09:43.820 over the summer.
00:09:44.440 They were clarified
00:09:44.920 as classified as toss-ups.
00:09:46.680 Republicans have pulled ahead there.
00:09:47.820 So they're coming in at 48.
00:09:49.920 Essentially,
00:09:50.480 of the last five
00:09:51.300 toss-up states,
00:09:52.660 Nevada, Arizona,
00:09:54.000 Wisconsin,
00:09:54.640 Pennsylvania, Georgia,
00:09:55.660 Republicans need to win
00:09:56.520 three of those five states
00:09:58.120 if they're going to get to 51.
00:09:59.760 And as you guys
00:10:00.320 have talked about,
00:10:00.920 as crime and the economy
00:10:02.140 are increasingly
00:10:03.260 on the minds of voters,
00:10:04.640 you see them coming up
00:10:05.380 the most in the debate,
00:10:06.620 as we've seen Dobbs
00:10:07.820 and that ruling
00:10:08.480 really fade over the summer,
00:10:09.940 more and more people
00:10:10.620 prioritizing crime
00:10:11.700 in the economy,
00:10:12.660 that's what's driving
00:10:13.520 this Republican,
00:10:14.660 you know,
00:10:14.880 optimism that we've seen
00:10:15.840 lately,
00:10:16.460 and now you're starting
00:10:17.060 to see the polls reflect that.
00:10:18.300 And all five of those states
00:10:19.460 now,
00:10:20.120 Republicans are either tied
00:10:21.240 in the lead
00:10:21.820 or within one or two points.
00:10:23.020 But Cabot,
00:10:23.480 is it too late?
00:10:24.800 I mean,
00:10:24.960 one of the tricks
00:10:25.500 that the Democrats
00:10:26.020 have pulled
00:10:26.640 over the last couple
00:10:27.800 of election cycles
00:10:28.560 is pushing off
00:10:30.900 things like debates
00:10:31.860 where the voters
00:10:32.400 get to actually hear
00:10:33.020 from candidates
00:10:33.600 until well after
00:10:35.000 voting actually begins.
00:10:36.600 I mean,
00:10:36.740 we've essentially destroyed
00:10:37.880 even the concept
00:10:38.520 of an election day.
00:10:39.980 Have too many people
00:10:41.000 voted for the tightening
00:10:41.920 polls to play?
00:10:42.580 You've had voting
00:10:43.960 in Pennsylvania
00:10:44.440 since September.
00:10:45.720 500,000 people at least
00:10:47.420 in Pennsylvania
00:10:48.080 have already voted.
00:10:49.340 The good news is,
00:10:50.080 though,
00:10:50.160 if you look at some
00:10:51.620 of the early voting totals,
00:10:53.040 Republicans are well ahead
00:10:54.520 where they were in 2020.
00:10:56.300 Even in Georgia,
00:10:57.100 well ahead where they were
00:10:57.920 in 2021.
00:10:59.160 So there's been
00:10:59.980 a huge uptick
00:11:01.020 in the number of people
00:11:01.680 voting early.
00:11:02.360 A lot of that's because
00:11:02.940 of after COVID,
00:11:03.940 a lot of people voted
00:11:05.000 for the first time remote.
00:11:05.880 They said,
00:11:06.180 oh, I kind of like this.
00:11:06.860 Let's keep doing that.
00:11:07.760 But you've got to think
00:11:08.320 a lot of that has to do
00:11:09.420 with people being fired up
00:11:10.740 to vote.
00:11:11.420 And Republicans in Georgia
00:11:12.380 for example,
00:11:13.300 they're making up
00:11:13.880 a much higher portion
00:11:15.100 of the early vote
00:11:16.200 than they were in 2021.
00:11:17.700 So it might be too late.
00:11:20.040 You know,
00:11:20.280 it remains to be seen.
00:11:21.160 But Republicans
00:11:22.020 shouldn't be too discouraged
00:11:23.240 if they see a lot of these
00:11:24.240 early voting numbers
00:11:25.240 coming in.
00:11:25.800 Will Stacey Abrams
00:11:26.820 be able to hang on
00:11:27.680 to her?
00:11:28.360 Interesting point
00:11:31.240 brought up by
00:11:31.740 Robert Cahaly
00:11:32.500 from Trafalgar.
00:11:33.980 He said he thinks
00:11:34.780 a lot of Republicans
00:11:35.700 are voting early
00:11:36.600 because of suspicions
00:11:38.220 about how votes
00:11:39.940 are cast and counted.
00:11:41.320 Yeah,
00:11:41.480 I'm more worried
00:11:41.940 about the votes
00:11:42.580 that come in at 2 a.m.
00:11:43.440 after they shut down the...
00:11:44.780 That could backfire.
00:11:46.160 That entire strategy
00:11:46.960 could backfire
00:11:47.580 on Democrats
00:11:48.120 in this election cycle.
00:11:49.960 I think a lot of Republicans
00:11:50.900 are also thinking
00:11:51.540 like I'm thinking,
00:11:52.260 well,
00:11:52.520 I don't know what election day
00:11:53.300 is going to bring.
00:11:53.760 Am I going to be busy
00:11:54.300 or whatever?
00:11:54.620 I went and voted
00:11:55.440 two days ago
00:11:56.320 because it's like,
00:11:56.900 I want to make sure
00:11:57.300 that I'm not busy.
00:11:57.960 I mean,
00:11:58.060 I'm going to be here,
00:11:58.720 right?
00:11:58.860 We're going to be covering
00:11:59.440 this stuff.
00:11:59.920 So I actually went
00:12:00.400 and voted with my wife.
00:12:01.180 We got our votes in
00:12:01.880 as fast as we possibly could.
00:12:03.640 One of the things
00:12:04.080 that's really fascinating
00:12:05.040 is the kind of clarification.
00:12:07.220 This is pretty typical.
00:12:08.720 As you get closer
00:12:09.460 to the election,
00:12:10.320 the mind really begins
00:12:10.980 to clarify
00:12:11.380 about two,
00:12:11.860 three weeks out
00:12:12.260 from the election.
00:12:12.780 You start to see
00:12:13.120 the polls really start
00:12:14.180 to tighten.
00:12:14.540 This happens nearly
00:12:15.160 every election cycle.
00:12:16.780 And in this one,
00:12:17.720 you've really seen
00:12:18.440 that happen in a major way
00:12:19.360 and all of the trends
00:12:20.200 are moving in one direction.
00:12:21.340 This is why people
00:12:21.780 are talking about a wave.
00:12:22.500 A wave only moves
00:12:23.000 in one direction.
00:12:23.980 So if you look
00:12:24.440 at these races,
00:12:25.120 there are a bunch of races
00:12:25.720 that seem like
00:12:26.260 they were out of reach
00:12:26.960 and they're no longer
00:12:27.980 out of reach.
00:12:29.300 And some of these races,
00:12:30.280 which frankly,
00:12:31.200 Republicans should probably
00:12:32.100 lose given the candidate quality.
00:12:33.200 And here I'm mentioning
00:12:34.420 Herschel Walker,
00:12:35.560 whose large segments
00:12:36.800 of whose voter base
00:12:37.500 might be his children.
00:12:40.520 Herschel Walker
00:12:41.200 could easily be dragged
00:12:42.720 across the finish line
00:12:43.520 by not only the fact
00:12:44.240 that Raphael Warnock is a nut,
00:12:45.560 but also by the fact
00:12:46.260 that Brian Kemp
00:12:46.700 is dramatically outrunning
00:12:47.940 Herschel Walker
00:12:48.440 and Stacey Abrams.
00:12:49.360 Remember,
00:12:49.660 Stacey Abrams was supposed
00:12:50.580 to be the president
00:12:51.480 of the universe,
00:12:52.400 according to Star Trek.
00:12:54.240 And Stacey Abrams
00:12:55.040 is getting crushed
00:12:55.680 by Brian Kemp.
00:12:56.400 Brian Kemp is up
00:12:56.980 somewhere between
00:12:57.300 six and ten points.
00:12:58.440 You want to see
00:12:59.080 the red movement
00:12:59.700 in this country.
00:13:01.000 Florida is an amazing example.
00:13:02.640 Ron DeSantis,
00:13:03.100 won his seat in 2018,
00:13:04.580 the gubernatorial seat.
00:13:05.420 He won that by 30,000 votes
00:13:06.700 over a meth addict
00:13:07.960 who was caught
00:13:08.760 with a gay prostitute
00:13:09.860 in his hotel
00:13:10.580 about six months later
00:13:11.420 and now is under indictment
00:13:12.400 by the DOJ.
00:13:13.300 He won that race
00:13:13.820 by 30,000 votes.
00:13:14.660 He's currently up
00:13:15.200 in the polls,
00:13:15.820 11 points in the average.
00:13:17.360 It's not in one poll,
00:13:17.960 it's in the average.
00:13:18.580 There's a poll
00:13:18.860 that had him up 14 today.
00:13:20.420 So Ron DeSantis
00:13:21.140 is running away with that.
00:13:21.940 Marco Rubio
00:13:22.460 is supposed to run
00:13:22.940 in a competitive race
00:13:23.620 with Val Demings.
00:13:24.280 He's up six points
00:13:25.140 in that particular race.
00:13:26.620 When you look
00:13:27.160 across the board,
00:13:28.600 a lot of these races,
00:13:29.400 Warnock was in the summer,
00:13:30.800 he had somewhere between
00:13:31.820 a four and a six point lead
00:13:32.980 over Walker.
00:13:34.520 That is now a dead heat.
00:13:35.780 You look at Oz and Fetterman.
00:13:37.260 Fetterman, six months ago,
00:13:38.760 had like a 10 point lead
00:13:40.100 on Oz and now
00:13:41.240 the polls are showing Oz
00:13:42.360 either dead even or ahead.
00:13:44.520 Blake Masters
00:13:45.100 is an amazing example
00:13:46.000 of this, right?
00:13:46.440 Blake Masters
00:13:46.880 is running six points
00:13:47.640 behind Mark Kelly.
00:13:48.640 Suddenly Blake Masters
00:13:49.520 is running absolutely
00:13:50.520 within margin of error
00:13:51.420 in Arizona
00:13:51.880 and Carrie Lake,
00:13:52.900 who Democrats made
00:13:53.680 an enormous mistake
00:13:54.520 because they backed
00:13:55.100 Carrie Lake thinking
00:13:55.840 that if they backed
00:13:56.440 an election denier,
00:13:57.360 then suddenly she was going
00:13:58.580 to lose the main election.
00:13:59.500 The problem is that
00:14:00.060 she's amazing on TV.
00:14:01.320 She's done a great job.
00:14:02.240 She's terrifically charismatic.
00:14:03.620 And she could easily drag
00:14:05.140 Blake Masters
00:14:05.540 over the finish line
00:14:06.020 and then they're
00:14:06.640 the unsung heroes, right?
00:14:07.640 Adam Laxalt,
00:14:08.360 people are now taking
00:14:08.960 his seat for granted.
00:14:09.680 That's in Nevada.
00:14:10.360 By the way,
00:14:10.840 Nevada's going to go Republican.
00:14:11.900 It's going to have
00:14:12.220 a Republican governor.
00:14:12.820 It's going to have
00:14:13.080 a Republican senator.
00:14:13.960 Ron Johnson,
00:14:14.520 he was expected
00:14:15.000 to lose that seat.
00:14:15.800 He's going to win that seat
00:14:16.660 walking away in Wisconsin.
00:14:18.980 So now they're talking
00:14:19.940 maybe Don Balduck
00:14:20.840 is competitive
00:14:21.500 against Maggie Hassan
00:14:23.580 in New Hampshire.
00:14:24.320 That race was supposed
00:14:24.980 to be over.
00:14:25.560 So when you see
00:14:26.320 all the trends
00:14:27.300 moving in one direction,
00:14:28.640 it means you're going
00:14:29.200 to start to see
00:14:29.700 some weird people winning.
00:14:31.480 And so what I'd be
00:14:32.780 interested in actually
00:14:33.440 from both the
00:14:34.260 Election Wire guys
00:14:34.820 and you guys,
00:14:35.520 do you have any sleeper picks?
00:14:36.380 So my sleeper pick
00:14:36.980 is Zeldin over Hochul.
00:14:38.060 I think Zeldin...
00:14:38.960 Really?
00:14:39.300 I think Zeldin's
00:14:39.760 going to win that race.
00:14:40.540 The reason I think
00:14:41.480 that Zeldin's going
00:14:41.980 to win that race
00:14:42.440 is because you look
00:14:43.840 at New Jersey
00:14:45.160 in the last election cycle
00:14:46.960 where Phil Murphy
00:14:47.660 won his last race
00:14:48.380 by 13 points
00:14:49.180 and suddenly
00:14:50.500 she had a rally.
00:14:51.520 Nobody even knows
00:14:52.100 how to pronounce his name.
00:14:53.160 He comes within a whisker
00:14:54.320 of almost beating
00:14:55.240 Phil Murphy in that race.
00:14:56.520 Who in New York
00:14:57.060 is enthused
00:14:57.640 to go vote
00:14:58.080 for Kathy Hochul?
00:14:59.080 Who?
00:14:59.360 I mean,
00:14:59.540 nobody even knows
00:15:00.000 who she is.
00:15:00.480 No one ever has voted for her.
00:15:01.600 That's exactly right.
00:15:03.700 She's run out of spots
00:15:04.680 where she can inherit them
00:15:05.480 because somebody
00:15:05.840 can't keep their pants zipped.
00:15:06.900 Like, there's literally
00:15:07.400 no one...
00:15:08.120 Until now,
00:15:09.000 it was like,
00:15:09.440 she was in Congress
00:15:10.560 and now she needs
00:15:11.340 to elevate.
00:15:11.840 So whoever is above her
00:15:12.780 has to...
00:15:13.180 She has to gain that seat
00:15:13.880 because the guy
00:15:14.340 can't keep his pants zipped
00:15:15.180 or he gets involved
00:15:15.700 in a corruption scandal.
00:15:16.560 Same thing with the governorship.
00:15:17.780 Well, now there's no place
00:15:18.720 to fail upward to.
00:15:20.140 So, you know,
00:15:20.980 I think Zeldin
00:15:21.960 is going to outperform
00:15:23.160 in that race.
00:15:24.080 She just has nothing
00:15:24.980 at all to offer
00:15:25.940 the voters.
00:15:26.920 This is, I think,
00:15:27.580 the problem for Democrats
00:15:28.340 in general
00:15:28.760 is that they only have
00:15:30.000 ideology to run on.
00:15:31.740 They run entirely
00:15:32.440 on ideology,
00:15:33.000 but most Americans
00:15:34.460 are not ideological.
00:15:36.300 It's...
00:15:36.860 People always talk about
00:15:37.880 what's the kitchen table issue,
00:15:39.340 but really it's
00:15:39.900 what are the things
00:15:40.780 people think about
00:15:41.320 when they first wake up
00:15:42.020 in the morning?
00:15:42.820 And you see there
00:15:43.460 in that poll there,
00:15:44.160 it's like people think about,
00:15:45.120 you know,
00:15:45.760 how they're going to feed
00:15:46.320 their kids.
00:15:46.820 They think about,
00:15:47.320 am I safe
00:15:47.800 or is my family safe?
00:15:49.460 Whereas for Democrats,
00:15:50.500 you know,
00:15:50.880 it is abortion.
00:15:51.680 It's January 6th.
00:15:52.620 And this is the big argument
00:15:53.520 that they're selling
00:15:54.200 in the New York Times
00:15:55.180 is what's wrong
00:15:55.960 with you people?
00:15:56.460 You should be voting
00:15:57.000 on principle
00:15:57.500 instead of filthy lucre.
00:15:59.880 Yeah, oh, it's hilarious.
00:16:00.700 Matthew Downs,
00:16:00.840 who was the greatest,
00:16:01.500 he said,
00:16:03.280 he said,
00:16:04.080 you know,
00:16:05.120 people worried
00:16:05.720 about inflation
00:16:06.200 is how Hitler
00:16:06.680 came to power.
00:16:09.560 If you don't want
00:16:10.280 to be poor,
00:16:11.000 you're basically a Nazi.
00:16:12.060 Hitler coming in
00:16:12.820 off the top rope
00:16:13.520 in that particular tweet,
00:16:14.580 I mean, my goodness,
00:16:15.200 you didn't see that one coming.
00:16:16.160 I came into your office
00:16:17.120 looking for a job
00:16:18.060 and he said,
00:16:18.480 yeah, I'm going to bankrupt
00:16:19.160 your company
00:16:19.700 and destroy all your people,
00:16:20.840 but I believe in abortion.
00:16:23.380 You know,
00:16:23.920 I've got to sleep a race.
00:16:25.680 And it's also New York.
00:16:27.000 I think New York 17,
00:16:28.580 there is a very good chance
00:16:29.860 that Sean Patrick Maloney
00:16:31.340 loses to Mike Lawler.
00:16:32.560 I agree.
00:16:33.020 That happens to be
00:16:33.980 my old district.
00:16:35.120 It's redistricting,
00:16:35.820 change the numbers.
00:16:36.820 I was on the race
00:16:38.040 where Maloney won
00:16:39.480 for the first time.
00:16:40.580 He's a very good candidate.
00:16:42.060 That's why,
00:16:42.460 he was a Clinton guy.
00:16:43.360 That's why he became
00:16:43.900 the head of DCCC.
00:16:45.120 I think he's weak there
00:16:46.140 right now.
00:16:46.840 I think Lawler's run
00:16:47.560 a good campaign.
00:16:48.540 The Republicans are obviously
00:16:49.460 doing very well
00:16:50.100 in New York right now.
00:16:51.220 If Maloney loses,
00:16:52.760 I believe he would be
00:16:53.820 the first head
00:16:55.200 of the DCCC,
00:16:56.400 which is the Democrat
00:16:57.080 Congressional Campaign Committee,
00:16:58.400 to lose his seat
00:16:59.700 while he is running
00:17:00.720 the organization.
00:17:01.000 Cabot, is it possible?
00:17:02.380 It's absolutely possible.
00:17:03.560 And it's interesting also
00:17:04.620 when you look at
00:17:05.240 the DCCC, Michael,
00:17:06.300 as you bring up,
00:17:07.180 one of the best,
00:17:08.260 you know,
00:17:08.800 kind of full circle moments
00:17:09.760 that we've seen this cycle
00:17:10.660 came from them.
00:17:11.460 They sent an internal memo
00:17:12.580 to all of their House candidates
00:17:14.140 around the country.
00:17:15.180 And they said,
00:17:16.000 in 2020,
00:17:16.760 defund the police
00:17:17.440 absolutely killed us.
00:17:18.840 We have to run away from that.
00:17:20.540 Find a former sheriff,
00:17:22.120 find a current police officer,
00:17:23.560 get someone in law enforcement
00:17:24.840 to cut an ad for you
00:17:26.260 saying that you support
00:17:27.360 law enforcement.
00:17:27.880 That's an internal memo
00:17:28.960 they sent.
00:17:29.800 As far as other sleeper races
00:17:31.120 go, though,
00:17:31.640 I'm looking out at Oregon.
00:17:33.240 They have not had
00:17:33.920 a Republican governor
00:17:34.840 in 40 years.
00:17:35.760 That's the longest drought
00:17:36.620 of any state
00:17:37.300 in the entire country.
00:17:38.560 Two things right now
00:17:39.440 seem to show
00:17:40.120 that a Republican's
00:17:40.680 going to win.
00:17:41.020 First off,
00:17:41.780 the current Democrat
00:17:42.580 outgoing governor,
00:17:43.500 Kate Brown,
00:17:44.240 is the least popular
00:17:45.160 governor in the entire
00:17:46.200 country in polling.
00:17:47.460 Her protege
00:17:48.200 is the Democrat nominee,
00:17:49.900 Tina Kotek.
00:17:50.580 She's hugely unpopular
00:17:51.720 in the state right now,
00:17:52.400 but she's the nominee.
00:17:53.560 Also, there are three
00:17:54.360 major candidates
00:17:55.240 on the ballot.
00:17:56.060 Betsy Johnson
00:17:56.700 is running as an independent.
00:17:58.260 She's a lifelong Democrat
00:17:59.420 with a huge name recognition
00:18:01.120 in the state.
00:18:01.600 She's pulling 10 to 20%
00:18:02.920 of the vote
00:18:03.360 away from the Democrats.
00:18:04.640 And then you've got
00:18:05.040 the Republican,
00:18:05.740 Christine Drazen.
00:18:06.880 She's in the low 40s,
00:18:07.860 high 30s,
00:18:08.820 but that's enough
00:18:09.420 to win this race
00:18:10.140 because there are
00:18:10.640 three serious candidates.
00:18:11.640 Oregon could have
00:18:12.620 a Republican governor
00:18:13.340 one other interesting
00:18:14.120 note there.
00:18:14.720 Phil Knight,
00:18:15.200 the founder of Nike,
00:18:16.300 famously hates Kate Brown,
00:18:17.620 the current governor.
00:18:18.600 He has donated now
00:18:19.360 $3 million
00:18:20.080 to the Republican
00:18:21.020 Christine Drazen
00:18:21.840 because he wants
00:18:22.800 the Democrats
00:18:23.260 out of power
00:18:23.960 in Oregon
00:18:24.860 where he has
00:18:25.440 the Nike headquarters.
00:18:25.940 And then there's Michigan.
00:18:28.220 Michigan was not in play.
00:18:29.700 It is now in play.
00:18:31.180 Tudor Dixon within three.
00:18:32.500 I think Ben
00:18:32.920 maybe mentioned this.
00:18:34.480 Gretchen Whitmer
00:18:35.120 was ahead by 17,
00:18:36.840 18 points
00:18:37.620 just two months ago.
00:18:39.360 That race is within
00:18:40.200 three and a lot of polls.
00:18:41.900 That's a shock.
00:18:42.320 No one deserves
00:18:42.600 to lose more
00:18:43.300 than Gretchen Whitmer.
00:18:43.880 No.
00:18:44.800 And this is interesting.
00:18:46.140 You've been talking
00:18:46.960 to voters on the street.
00:18:48.660 Right.
00:18:48.960 Tell us what they're thinking.
00:18:51.500 This has been
00:18:52.160 really enlightening.
00:18:53.100 And again,
00:18:53.560 we talk about,
00:18:54.560 you know,
00:18:54.820 the polls.
00:18:55.620 We listen to other pundits.
00:18:58.400 The people on the street
00:18:59.280 is all that matters.
00:19:01.460 They consistently,
00:19:02.720 again,
00:19:03.200 the pattern is amazing.
00:19:04.960 What are your priorities?
00:19:06.100 That's what we ask them.
00:19:06.960 What do you care about most?
00:19:08.120 What do you think's going
00:19:09.120 wrong in this country?
00:19:10.740 And it's crime.
00:19:12.360 And it's the economy.
00:19:13.620 The economy of the economy.
00:19:14.820 The economy.
00:19:15.820 Inflation.
00:19:16.340 All the different iterations
00:19:17.240 of the economy.
00:19:18.100 Answer you can imagine.
00:19:20.640 Almost none of them
00:19:21.640 responded with abortion.
00:19:23.460 That's the number one issue.
00:19:25.120 And you've looked
00:19:25.620 into those numbers.
00:19:26.420 Democrats are sinking in
00:19:27.900 tens of millions
00:19:29.580 into the abortion messaging.
00:19:32.180 Almost none of them
00:19:32.880 have responded that way.
00:19:34.120 It is the economy.
00:19:35.440 It is crime.
00:19:36.320 It is immigration.
00:19:37.760 We consistently hear that.
00:19:39.320 We actually have
00:19:39.980 a little reel for you guys
00:19:41.020 if you want to listen
00:19:41.980 to some people
00:19:42.660 from the street
00:19:43.500 that we talk to
00:19:44.240 from all over the country.
00:19:46.080 Let's tee it up.
00:19:46.880 I think fentanyl is number one
00:19:50.540 for me, obviously.
00:19:51.640 It's the economy
00:19:52.300 and then crime.
00:19:53.700 So I live in Philadelphia.
00:19:55.020 Crime is very important.
00:19:56.120 So I'll rank crime number one.
00:19:58.040 Women's issues number two.
00:19:59.440 Inflation number three.
00:20:00.700 No doubt.
00:20:01.400 The border.
00:20:02.400 The electrical cars.
00:20:04.160 They're pissing me off.
00:20:05.440 And also inflation as well.
00:20:07.220 I mean, I'm not made out of money.
00:20:08.440 I don't think anybody is.
00:20:09.900 Securing the border.
00:20:10.880 So drugs and anything else
00:20:14.460 that's coming across
00:20:15.340 that's not legal
00:20:16.200 doesn't come across.
00:20:17.900 There's not enough
00:20:18.860 battery technology
00:20:20.160 to cover that many
00:20:22.280 electrical cars.
00:20:24.040 You can't do away
00:20:25.080 with gas cars.
00:20:26.040 You can't.
00:20:26.700 Everything is through the roof.
00:20:28.180 The economy,
00:20:29.160 the border,
00:20:30.220 and getting
00:20:31.080 the Bidens locked up.
00:20:33.840 Okay.
00:20:35.500 Forgot to mention
00:20:36.260 the Bidens getting locked up.
00:20:37.500 But those are people,
00:20:38.500 again,
00:20:38.720 those are people
00:20:39.120 from all over the country.
00:20:40.520 That's not just people
00:20:41.220 from Nashville.
00:20:42.400 It's people from
00:20:42.940 all over the place.
00:20:44.660 You hear really
00:20:45.720 consistent themes there.
00:20:47.380 John and Cabot,
00:20:47.940 thank you guys
00:20:48.500 for the work you're doing
00:20:49.220 over at Election Wire.
00:20:50.020 And we look forward
00:20:50.580 to seeing you here
00:20:51.660 with us again
00:20:52.360 on election night.
00:20:54.160 We do too.
00:20:54.700 Thanks.
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00:22:28.540 Matt, that was...
00:22:29.580 Wow.
00:22:30.040 Yeah.
00:22:30.340 So enthusiastic.
00:22:30.860 Like butter.
00:22:31.880 I did tell them
00:22:33.100 that I don't think
00:22:33.640 I should be doing
00:22:34.020 any of the ads,
00:22:34.540 but they forced me
00:22:35.120 to do it, so...
00:22:36.360 I'm going to give you
00:22:37.140 the opportunity
00:22:37.600 to redeem yourself
00:22:38.460 since we obviously
00:22:39.040 just lost an ad sponsor.
00:22:42.380 And that's by talking
00:22:43.560 about the unbelievable
00:22:44.940 event that you hosted
00:22:46.420 here in Nashville
00:22:47.200 last week
00:22:48.500 to end child mutilation.
00:22:51.020 I think everybody
00:22:51.840 out there knows
00:22:52.500 that you've been
00:22:53.040 the leader in this battle
00:22:54.900 over the last several months.
00:22:56.720 The work that you've done
00:22:57.620 in exposing Vanderbilt Hospital
00:22:59.400 here locally
00:23:00.280 the work that you've done
00:23:01.600 in trying to organize
00:23:02.520 legal opposition to that
00:23:04.200 in the state legislature
00:23:06.180 and governor's office,
00:23:07.220 I think that it's
00:23:08.140 really heroic work.
00:23:09.540 But this event
00:23:10.880 is something unique.
00:23:11.920 We've never,
00:23:12.700 as a company,
00:23:13.640 been a part of anything
00:23:14.500 quite like it.
00:23:15.820 And, you know,
00:23:16.400 I happened to be
00:23:17.160 out of the state
00:23:17.660 at the time
00:23:18.080 and wasn't able to be there.
00:23:19.020 I just, I really wanted
00:23:19.800 to hear from you
00:23:20.200 what was the experience
00:23:21.700 like of assembling,
00:23:23.100 you know,
00:23:23.720 three, maybe 3,000 people
00:23:25.300 and speaking to them
00:23:28.540 about what I think
00:23:29.120 is one of the most
00:23:29.560 important issues
00:23:30.060 of our time.
00:23:31.300 Yeah, I haven't been
00:23:31.900 a part of anything
00:23:32.360 like that either.
00:23:33.080 I don't think anyone has
00:23:33.840 because there's,
00:23:34.460 you know,
00:23:34.640 there have been
00:23:35.460 sort of disjointed efforts
00:23:38.020 across the country
00:23:38.600 by people to organize rallies,
00:23:39.800 but there hasn't been
00:23:40.300 anything quite to this
00:23:40.980 size or scale.
00:23:42.520 And so going into it,
00:23:44.200 I know I was certainly
00:23:45.260 nervous
00:23:46.000 because it's a gamble.
00:23:49.460 There's a risk
00:23:49.960 that if you're,
00:23:51.180 you know,
00:23:51.720 if you're kind of,
00:23:52.360 if you're planting your flag
00:23:53.500 and saying and calling
00:23:54.300 your shot and saying
00:23:55.200 we're going to have
00:23:55.860 a big rally
00:23:56.420 and we're going to speak out
00:23:57.200 and then only 300 people
00:23:58.180 show up,
00:23:58.760 then it tells,
00:24:00.520 you know,
00:24:00.680 it sends exactly
00:24:01.380 the opposite message
00:24:02.160 of what you want to send.
00:24:03.120 And we are working
00:24:04.000 at a disadvantage
00:24:04.700 as conservatives
00:24:05.980 because first of all,
00:24:07.760 we don't have any
00:24:08.300 of the institutions
00:24:08.780 on our side.
00:24:09.480 The media is not
00:24:10.020 going to advertise for us.
00:24:11.380 But then also
00:24:12.400 conservatives in general
00:24:14.760 just aren't as eager
00:24:17.460 to get involved
00:24:18.220 in activism.
00:24:18.840 They don't know
00:24:19.140 how to do it
00:24:19.980 quite as much.
00:24:20.720 It's not,
00:24:21.060 it's just not,
00:24:21.580 they don't have
00:24:21.920 the systems in place
00:24:23.600 and they don't want
00:24:24.380 to risk their reputations
00:24:26.020 and their jobs.
00:24:26.940 I mean,
00:24:27.040 there are consequences.
00:24:27.840 And they have jobs
00:24:28.580 to begin with.
00:24:30.180 So there's,
00:24:30.880 there's all of those things
00:24:32.360 you're worried about.
00:24:33.220 And so that was my concern
00:24:34.420 going in.
00:24:34.920 I thought we would get
00:24:35.540 a good turnout.
00:24:36.020 I was hoping for a thousand
00:24:36.880 and show up there
00:24:38.780 on the day of
00:24:39.500 and we had police estimate.
00:24:41.920 Well,
00:24:42.080 if you listen to the media,
00:24:42.920 we had hundreds
00:24:43.500 that showed up,
00:24:44.560 but the police estimate
00:24:45.600 that we had about 3,000
00:24:47.140 that showed up.
00:24:48.260 So it exceeded
00:24:49.020 my expectations
00:24:49.840 and it was just,
00:24:51.620 the crowd out there
00:24:52.700 was,
00:24:54.100 they were,
00:24:54.860 they were very passionate.
00:24:58.680 It was a,
00:24:59.420 we hear about diversity
00:25:00.500 from the left.
00:25:01.080 It was a very diverse crowd
00:25:02.280 of, you know,
00:25:02.880 it's hard to peg well.
00:25:04.220 It was,
00:25:04.800 was it a younger crowd
00:25:06.220 or an older crowd?
00:25:06.780 I think it was just
00:25:07.420 a wide variety of people.
00:25:09.580 Most of them were local,
00:25:10.740 just people in Nashville
00:25:11.540 or in Tennessee
00:25:12.140 that came out.
00:25:14.340 And,
00:25:14.760 and of course,
00:25:15.580 the,
00:25:15.840 the left showed up too
00:25:17.120 and it was,
00:25:18.440 it was kind of interesting
00:25:19.120 because I've,
00:25:19.440 I've been to other rallies
00:25:20.380 before I've done,
00:25:21.120 I've been to plenty of them
00:25:22.100 and in my experience
00:25:23.320 at rallies and marches
00:25:24.580 and that sort of thing,
00:25:25.860 there is a,
00:25:26.600 there's a section
00:25:27.580 that they say,
00:25:29.500 well,
00:25:29.580 if you're a counter protester,
00:25:30.460 you go here.
00:25:31.280 And then if the,
00:25:32.040 if you're a part of the,
00:25:32.680 the actual event,
00:25:33.600 this is where you go.
00:25:34.600 But at this event,
00:25:35.520 they,
00:25:36.260 for whatever reason,
00:25:36.860 they were allowed to just,
00:25:38.020 you know,
00:25:38.160 it's on government property.
00:25:39.180 So first amendment.
00:25:40.080 So they were allowed
00:25:40.680 to come into the crowd
00:25:41.560 and,
00:25:41.840 and,
00:25:42.080 and,
00:25:42.340 you know,
00:25:42.600 the counter protesters,
00:25:43.180 they came right up
00:25:43.720 to the front.
00:25:44.240 They had bullhorns
00:25:45.260 and sirens and everything.
00:25:47.080 But it didn't matter.
00:25:49.860 It didn't,
00:25:50.320 it didn't derail
00:25:51.160 any of the speeches.
00:25:51.920 And I think in the end
00:25:52.540 it actually helped us
00:25:53.420 because,
00:25:54.080 I mean,
00:25:54.160 they were outnumbered
00:25:54.800 20 to one,
00:25:55.500 but,
00:25:55.840 but also it,
00:25:57.140 it just showed
00:25:58.160 this incredible contrast
00:25:59.400 between these kind of
00:26:01.480 normal everyday Americans
00:26:03.460 who are concerned
00:26:04.100 about protecting children
00:26:05.060 versus these crazies
00:26:07.160 with these vulgar,
00:26:08.460 disgusting signs
00:26:09.320 screaming into,
00:26:10.760 you know,
00:26:11.340 screaming incoherently
00:26:12.520 into a megaphone.
00:26:13.380 I think it was
00:26:13.720 a really helpful.
00:26:14.780 Oh,
00:26:14.920 I saw the video clip
00:26:16.340 of the counter protester
00:26:18.580 with the bullhorn
00:26:19.920 literally screaming
00:26:21.340 in a woman's face.
00:26:22.440 Like,
00:26:23.200 yeah,
00:26:23.600 it's not,
00:26:24.400 I don't think
00:26:24.640 it's an exaggeration
00:26:25.300 to say it could have
00:26:25.760 done damage
00:26:26.280 to this woman's hearing.
00:26:27.580 What are you trying
00:26:28.260 to prove at that point?
00:26:29.840 Right.
00:26:30.060 And she,
00:26:30.460 and,
00:26:30.640 and the woman,
00:26:31.420 you know,
00:26:31.800 she,
00:26:32.000 she just stood there.
00:26:33.280 She wasn't rattled by it.
00:26:34.480 That was the theme of it.
00:26:35.640 The other thing
00:26:35.920 that I was worried about
00:26:36.620 when I showed up
00:26:37.320 and I was happy
00:26:38.400 about the crowd,
00:26:39.020 but the other thing
00:26:39.360 I'm worried about
00:26:39.820 is that,
00:26:40.120 you know,
00:26:40.260 a lot of our speakers,
00:26:41.440 you know,
00:26:41.980 Chloe Cole is a detransitioner.
00:26:43.820 She's 18 years old.
00:26:46.220 Not a professional
00:26:47.600 public speaker.
00:26:48.680 Right.
00:26:49.140 And so my concern is,
00:26:50.700 well,
00:26:50.760 going up in front
00:26:51.380 of this crowd
00:26:52.260 with people screaming
00:26:53.240 in your face,
00:26:54.500 are you going to be able
00:26:55.540 to handle that?
00:26:56.780 But she did,
00:26:57.240 all of our speakers
00:26:57.820 did a phenomenal job.
00:26:59.580 You also didn't only have
00:27:00.940 conservatives
00:27:01.500 and Republicans.
00:27:02.520 As I saw,
00:27:03.540 I was also overseas,
00:27:04.700 but I saw the pictures
00:27:05.680 and video.
00:27:06.540 You had a Democratic
00:27:08.200 presidential candidate
00:27:09.280 who showed up.
00:27:10.880 Did we?
00:27:11.500 I think you did.
00:27:13.240 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:27:14.140 Oh,
00:27:14.500 Tulsi Gabbard.
00:27:15.100 Yeah,
00:27:15.240 former Democrat.
00:27:16.400 Former Democrat.
00:27:16.900 Former president.
00:27:18.260 Well,
00:27:18.440 former Democrat,
00:27:19.140 but at the time she ran.
00:27:20.360 Now she's independent,
00:27:21.580 but she,
00:27:22.020 yeah,
00:27:22.160 Tulsi Gabbard
00:27:22.760 came and gave a great speech.
00:27:25.600 Of course,
00:27:26.160 Senator Marsha Blackburn,
00:27:27.260 we had our state legislators.
00:27:29.660 And the other thing
00:27:30.420 we wanted to accomplish,
00:27:31.200 of course,
00:27:31.400 with the rally
00:27:31.900 was we want to send
00:27:32.900 a message to the country
00:27:34.740 that this is a movement
00:27:35.660 and that people care about this.
00:27:36.880 But the other practical concern
00:27:38.480 is to send a message
00:27:39.280 to our state lawmakers
00:27:40.560 that you have to follow through
00:27:42.380 on getting this law passed
00:27:43.320 because the people in the state
00:27:44.340 care about this.
00:27:45.160 Yeah.
00:27:45.400 And the message,
00:27:46.440 I talked to the lawmakers
00:27:47.720 after the fact
00:27:48.400 and before,
00:27:49.300 and they were just blown away
00:27:51.280 by the crowd.
00:27:51.740 They hadn't seen anything
00:27:52.220 like it before.
00:27:52.820 So I think it achieved
00:27:54.260 exactly what we,
00:27:55.080 well,
00:27:55.220 I haven't spoken to you
00:27:56.000 about this,
00:27:56.460 but I spoke to a lobbyist
00:27:58.340 here in the state
00:27:59.460 who said that not only
00:28:00.980 are they highly confident
00:28:02.100 that the state
00:28:02.600 will take legal action
00:28:03.580 and that Tennessee
00:28:04.660 will be a leader
00:28:05.320 in the nation
00:28:05.860 of stopping this
00:28:06.520 because of the work
00:28:07.120 that you've done,
00:28:07.760 but that in the wake
00:28:08.800 of your coverage
00:28:10.660 and in the wake
00:28:11.240 of this rally,
00:28:12.260 they've also heard
00:28:12.960 that Alabama
00:28:13.460 is taking steps
00:28:14.420 to go ahead
00:28:15.620 and get ahead of it
00:28:16.260 and outlaw
00:28:16.900 this horrible practice
00:28:18.260 of castration
00:28:20.640 and mutilation
00:28:21.140 of children
00:28:21.620 in the name
00:28:22.120 of radical trans ideology too.
00:28:24.080 So I think it's
00:28:25.720 unbelievable work
00:28:26.440 that you're doing
00:28:26.920 and I want to point out
00:28:30.440 that when you see
00:28:31.520 the Daily Wire
00:28:32.060 doing these things,
00:28:32.880 when you see us suing
00:28:33.620 the Biden administration
00:28:35.040 to stop the vaccine mandate,
00:28:36.420 when you see us,
00:28:37.240 you know,
00:28:37.720 putting out
00:28:38.640 this unbelievable content
00:28:39.700 like Candace's
00:28:41.200 greatest lie ever sold,
00:28:42.500 George Floyd
00:28:42.960 and the rise of BLM
00:28:43.860 or what is a woman,
00:28:44.820 when you see us
00:28:45.460 being able to put
00:28:46.380 these events
00:28:47.220 like your,
00:28:48.260 in child mutilation
00:28:49.380 event on,
00:28:50.300 it really is
00:28:51.000 in no small part
00:28:52.300 because of our members
00:28:53.820 at Daily Wire Plus
00:28:54.720 who in a very real way
00:28:58.620 have made an investment
00:28:59.480 in the Daily Wire's
00:29:00.920 ability to do
00:29:02.240 the things that we do
00:29:02.900 that I think
00:29:03.280 it's fair to say
00:29:04.480 no one in my lifetime
00:29:06.820 in the conservative movement
00:29:07.800 has had an operation
00:29:09.400 akin to ours,
00:29:10.580 which is a for-profit,
00:29:13.100 growing,
00:29:14.320 thriving organization
00:29:15.480 that is also
00:29:17.460 highly,
00:29:18.480 highly effective
00:29:19.000 and in some ways
00:29:20.720 that's like saying,
00:29:21.480 you know,
00:29:21.640 there's always that
00:29:22.140 New York Times headline
00:29:22.940 that's like
00:29:23.380 crime decreases
00:29:26.300 despite increasing
00:29:27.160 gun ownership
00:29:27.700 or whatever,
00:29:28.200 like crime falls
00:29:28.980 despite increasing
00:29:29.580 gun ownership.
00:29:30.820 Right.
00:29:31.960 It is because
00:29:32.940 the Daily Wire
00:29:33.440 is a for-profit company
00:29:34.320 that we are so effective.
00:29:35.420 The reason we're doing
00:29:36.280 more than any organization
00:29:37.600 in the conservative movement
00:29:38.520 has done in the last 40 years
00:29:39.800 is because we're driven
00:29:41.160 by business principles
00:29:42.280 because our economic lives
00:29:45.900 depend on us
00:29:46.860 continuing to be successful,
00:29:48.420 continuing to deliver
00:29:49.220 for our audience
00:29:50.280 and in particular
00:29:51.320 the part of our audience
00:29:52.540 that subscribes
00:29:53.160 or the part of our audience
00:29:54.320 that becomes members
00:29:54.960 and that means giving them
00:29:56.240 unbelievable content
00:29:57.180 but it also means
00:29:58.360 giving them
00:29:59.360 unbelievable accomplishments
00:30:01.840 missionally.
00:30:03.320 I think that
00:30:03.760 that is part of
00:30:05.040 the actual value proposition
00:30:06.560 for the people
00:30:07.140 who become members
00:30:08.200 at Daily Wire Plus.
00:30:09.100 they're saying
00:30:09.880 yeah we want
00:30:10.880 new content
00:30:11.900 from Jordan Peterson
00:30:12.600 yeah we want
00:30:13.560 Member Block
00:30:14.060 yeah we love
00:30:14.660 What is a Woman
00:30:15.180 it's an awesome documentary
00:30:16.060 yeah we also love
00:30:17.900 that you fight
00:30:18.920 we also love that
00:30:19.880 not only do you fight
00:30:20.800 but you win
00:30:21.320 we also love that
00:30:22.240 you guys
00:30:22.640 instead of
00:30:23.700 being in that sort of
00:30:24.780 non-profit cycle
00:30:25.620 of lose, bitch, repeat
00:30:26.940 lose, bitch, fundraise, repeat
00:30:28.820 you seem to be
00:30:30.180 more in the cycle
00:30:31.160 of win
00:30:32.060 tell us about it
00:30:33.780 ask us to trade
00:30:34.740 value for value
00:30:35.540 and then go win again
00:30:36.480 and so I think
00:30:38.200 this is just
00:30:38.780 it's amazing
00:30:39.680 I think it's also
00:30:40.940 important to juxtapose
00:30:42.920 what you were doing
00:30:43.860 and you know
00:30:45.060 what we as a company
00:30:46.220 have been doing
00:30:46.640 with what the White House
00:30:47.820 is doing
00:30:48.180 because I think people
00:30:49.180 there's a whole group
00:30:50.780 of people out there
00:30:51.360 many people on the right
00:30:52.320 who do not understand
00:30:53.160 the nature of the battle
00:30:53.860 and this has been
00:30:54.560 a historic problem
00:30:55.220 with the Republican Party
00:30:56.000 it's been a historic
00:30:56.500 problem with conservatives
00:30:57.220 that conservatives
00:30:58.400 shy away from what they
00:30:59.820 think are the hottest battles
00:31:00.820 they think that it's
00:31:01.420 too scary
00:31:02.180 if we invest in these battles
00:31:03.800 it's going to make us
00:31:04.280 look mean
00:31:04.800 or it's going to make us
00:31:05.400 look cruel
00:31:05.740 and the natural outcome
00:31:06.880 of that is that
00:31:07.540 the left keeps pushing
00:31:08.280 and pushing
00:31:08.620 and pushing
00:31:08.960 and transgressing
00:31:09.620 and transgressing
00:31:10.260 until there's nothing
00:31:10.820 left to transgress
00:31:11.460 and one of the things
00:31:12.840 that happened this week
00:31:13.800 at the White House
00:31:14.520 is what I think
00:31:15.660 is the most morally
00:31:17.700 perverse thing
00:31:18.300 I have ever seen
00:31:18.820 at the White House
00:31:19.280 which is a hell of a statement
00:31:20.160 because I've seen a lot of
00:31:20.820 I mean I wasn't there
00:31:21.900 for Bill Clinton and Monica
00:31:22.700 but this was in many ways
00:31:24.740 worse honestly
00:31:25.460 the White House
00:31:26.460 the White House swimming pool
00:31:26.840 during JFK
00:31:27.640 gave Clinton a run
00:31:29.520 there's some pretty bad stuff
00:31:31.220 but in terms of the ideological
00:31:33.560 immorality of what we saw
00:31:35.100 at the White House this week
00:31:35.860 I'm not sure it's ever been surpassed
00:31:37.020 so there's a person
00:31:38.220 for those who missed it
00:31:39.060 named Dylan Mulvaney
00:31:39.880 Dylan Mulvaney was a former
00:31:40.960 Broadway star
00:31:41.660 was in Book of Mormon
00:31:42.520 and Dylan Mulvaney
00:31:44.200 started a TikTok series
00:31:46.080 after becoming lonely
00:31:47.600 during COVID
00:31:48.420 and starting an Instagram
00:31:49.720 or a TikTok rather
00:31:50.980 in March of this year
00:31:52.940 started a process
00:31:55.220 of transition
00:31:56.020 declared that he
00:31:56.800 in fact was a she
00:31:57.600 and started doing a series
00:31:58.960 called Day Blank of Girlhood
00:32:00.440 and so it was
00:32:01.160 Day 1 of Girlhood
00:32:02.060 Day 2 of Girlhood
00:32:03.000 and these videos
00:32:04.100 are absurd
00:32:05.300 I mean they're absurd
00:32:05.940 they're stereotypical
00:32:06.780 they are
00:32:07.360 somebody called it
00:32:08.260 woman face
00:32:08.680 it is woman face
00:32:09.380 it is mockery of women
00:32:10.920 in the name of women
00:32:12.260 Day 1 is this man
00:32:14.680 dressed up in a woman's outfit
00:32:16.180 and speaking in a
00:32:17.640 high pitched voice
00:32:18.680 talking about
00:32:19.380 I cried 3 times today
00:32:20.720 and this is what
00:32:21.440 makes me a woman
00:32:22.160 on day 1 of being a woman
00:32:23.000 I've only been a woman
00:32:23.560 for one day
00:32:23.940 and I cried 3 times
00:32:24.740 and then we have
00:32:26.360 this person
00:32:26.880 doing cutting videos
00:32:29.200 about how
00:32:29.960 he walks around
00:32:31.060 in very short shorts
00:32:33.380 that demonstrate
00:32:34.960 his manhood
00:32:35.840 and how people
00:32:36.740 are staring at him
00:32:37.480 because of this
00:32:37.920 but he's going to
00:32:38.600 normalize that
00:32:39.300 on behalf of
00:32:39.800 the trans community
00:32:40.220 okay so
00:32:40.660 this person
00:32:41.640 has a series
00:32:43.140 of ad contracts
00:32:44.220 with a bunch
00:32:45.220 of different
00:32:46.340 makeup companies
00:32:47.500 ranging from
00:32:48.260 Cerave
00:32:48.860 to Mac
00:32:49.840 to Ulta
00:32:51.020 and this person
00:32:52.020 did an interview
00:32:52.580 with another
00:32:53.900 non-gender binary person
00:32:56.320 gender non-binary person
00:32:57.600 for Ulta
00:32:58.880 that went viral
00:33:00.120 because Dylan Mulvaney
00:33:00.820 and this says
00:33:01.260 I know now
00:33:02.480 that I can be a mother
00:33:03.200 spoiler alert
00:33:04.320 you can
00:33:04.880 you're a dude
00:33:05.720 ain't no way
00:33:06.480 ain't gonna work
00:33:07.000 the White House
00:33:08.220 invited Dylan Mulvaney
00:33:09.360 to the White House
00:33:10.400 to interview
00:33:11.240 the President of the United States
00:33:12.380 the President of the United States
00:33:13.420 who will not grant
00:33:14.060 an interview to reporters
00:33:14.960 like to actual people
00:33:16.040 who do this for a living
00:33:16.780 because the President of the United States
00:33:18.340 can no longer speak words
00:33:19.100 out of his face hole
00:33:19.700 but this person
00:33:20.740 did invite Dylan Mulvaney
00:33:21.760 so Dylan Mulvaney
00:33:22.780 is sitting there
00:33:23.480 and asks the President
00:33:24.520 of the United States
00:33:25.340 this is a man
00:33:25.920 dressed as a woman
00:33:26.540 pretending to be a woman
00:33:27.180 asks him
00:33:28.220 about exactly the issues
00:33:29.340 that Matt is talking about
00:33:30.240 asks the President
00:33:31.160 what do you say
00:33:32.560 about all these states
00:33:33.360 that are attempting
00:33:33.880 to ban
00:33:34.520 what they call
00:33:34.900 gender-affirming health care
00:33:35.860 which is one of the great
00:33:36.480 euphemisms of all time
00:33:37.620 gender-affirming health care
00:33:38.680 for those who have not
00:33:39.300 watched Matt's documentary
00:33:40.160 the short version
00:33:41.000 is socially transition a kid
00:33:42.300 sterilize a kid
00:33:43.200 mutilate a kid
00:33:43.820 that's the
00:33:44.160 gender-denying
00:33:45.600 sex-denying health care
00:33:47.380 it's sex-denying health care
00:33:48.260 and the President
00:33:49.260 of the United States
00:33:49.820 says it is immoral
00:33:50.920 not just illegal
00:33:52.740 immoral
00:33:53.560 to deny any kid
00:33:55.620 this sort of care
00:33:57.240 immoral
00:33:58.120 he said this
00:33:58.500 from the position
00:33:59.060 of the White House
00:33:59.540 to a man
00:34:00.160 dressed as a woman
00:34:01.580 and this was seen
00:34:03.460 as the height of bravery
00:34:04.900 by the media
00:34:06.100 is the President
00:34:06.860 of the United States
00:34:07.500 standing up for the principle
00:34:08.660 that boys can be girls
00:34:09.960 girls can be boys
00:34:10.780 and that we should
00:34:11.320 mutilate children
00:34:12.040 and mandate
00:34:13.360 that states allow
00:34:14.000 the mutilation of children
00:34:14.900 to that effect
00:34:16.060 so when we say
00:34:16.600 that Matt is standing up
00:34:17.420 to something
00:34:17.700 that's very powerful
00:34:18.360 he is standing up
00:34:19.120 to something
00:34:19.460 that's very powerful
00:34:20.200 and there are people
00:34:20.960 who have been
00:34:21.160 poo-pooing these sorts
00:34:21.860 of issues for you
00:34:22.300 ah what drag queen
00:34:23.140 story are
00:34:23.560 who cares
00:34:23.840 ah you know
00:34:24.600 when it comes to
00:34:25.100 transing the kids
00:34:25.660 who cares
00:34:25.900 ah you know
00:34:26.680 what a bunch of
00:34:27.380 bad school books
00:34:28.740 at the libraries
00:34:29.200 who cares
00:34:29.720 the answer is
00:34:30.340 everybody cares
00:34:31.100 everybody should care
00:34:31.800 and Matt is proving
00:34:32.360 that everybody should care
00:34:33.120 you know I have to say
00:34:34.220 I made a discovery
00:34:35.020 first of all Matt
00:34:35.840 good on you
00:34:36.980 you know this is God's work
00:34:38.080 it really is
00:34:38.660 I think gender
00:34:39.880 is a fascinating
00:34:40.600 and complex topic
00:34:41.740 butchering children
00:34:42.700 is demonic
00:34:43.480 and I think
00:34:44.080 you know
00:34:44.460 if nobody stops it
00:34:45.680 it just goes on
00:34:46.680 but I actually sat down
00:34:48.680 so that you guys
00:34:49.660 don't have to
00:34:50.160 and read the book
00:34:50.980 Gender Trouble
00:34:51.720 by Judith Butler
00:34:52.420 which is really
00:34:53.800 the book that started
00:34:54.680 this all
00:34:55.120 it is the underlying
00:34:56.120 philosophy
00:34:57.040 and it's famously
00:34:58.240 written in this
00:34:59.100 very very
00:35:00.120 obscurantist prose
00:35:02.000 so you can't understand
00:35:02.780 what she's saying
00:35:03.400 and so I actually
00:35:04.340 went through it
00:35:04.840 what fascinated me
00:35:05.940 about it
00:35:06.360 is that her premise
00:35:07.580 and Matt's premise
00:35:08.340 are exactly the same
00:35:09.440 she starts out
00:35:10.580 by saying
00:35:11.120 that the problem
00:35:12.340 with feminism
00:35:12.880 is they keep
00:35:13.560 talking about we
00:35:14.400 but there is no we
00:35:15.700 because there's no
00:35:16.500 such thing as women
00:35:17.720 that's essentially
00:35:18.420 what she's saying
00:35:19.040 so I thought
00:35:19.700 gee here's the woman
00:35:20.480 who started this
00:35:21.280 and she agrees with you
00:35:22.280 you know
00:35:22.560 they are eliminating
00:35:23.820 the category
00:35:24.600 of female
00:35:25.420 from the human population
00:35:26.800 because she says
00:35:27.940 she makes the argument
00:35:29.220 basically that only men
00:35:30.280 exist in our
00:35:31.900 horrible chauvinistic mind
00:35:33.780 and I don't want to
00:35:34.640 go into it too deeply
00:35:35.560 because it's so stupid
00:35:36.600 and so empty
00:35:37.340 and so based on nothing
00:35:38.900 no factual material
00:35:40.200 but you caught them
00:35:42.340 you caught them
00:35:42.900 that is exactly
00:35:43.800 what they're saying
00:35:44.360 they're saying
00:35:44.920 ladies you do not exist
00:35:46.560 your lives don't exist
00:35:48.240 the experience of being
00:35:49.480 in a female body
00:35:50.660 and having children
00:35:52.540 be a possibility
00:35:53.340 of having periods
00:35:54.260 of having all the things
00:35:55.420 that women have
00:35:56.000 in their lives
00:35:56.620 that most of us here
00:35:57.740 respect deeply
00:35:58.720 and think is one of
00:35:59.840 the great parts
00:36:00.420 of human nature
00:36:01.880 it has no reality
00:36:04.260 this is such an important point
00:36:05.300 because a lot of people
00:36:06.080 think the transgender issue
00:36:07.200 the ones who poo poo
00:36:07.940 like Ben is saying
00:36:08.740 they say oh this cropped up
00:36:10.160 in the last five years
00:36:10.980 is nothing
00:36:11.520 but it's the same premise
00:36:13.680 that you had in feminism
00:36:14.620 which is men and women
00:36:15.440 are basically the same
00:36:16.340 it flows naturally
00:36:17.920 into the gay marriage movement
00:36:19.880 which is men and women
00:36:20.620 are exactly the same
00:36:21.500 flows naturally
00:36:22.400 into the transgender movement
00:36:23.400 which is men and women
00:36:24.040 are exactly the same
00:36:24.880 so when you're fighting
00:36:26.100 against that
00:36:26.760 you're not fighting
00:36:27.800 against some weird fad
00:36:29.080 on a college campus
00:36:29.980 five minutes ago
00:36:30.740 you're fighting against
00:36:32.140 an issue that has been
00:36:33.360 building for at least
00:36:34.880 60 years
00:36:35.700 maybe longer
00:36:36.600 I mean
00:36:37.240 listen to Carl Truman
00:36:38.640 who also appears
00:36:39.200 in our film
00:36:39.640 but this goes back
00:36:40.540 to the romantics
00:36:41.500 yeah it goes back
00:36:42.400 centuries
00:36:43.280 it goes back
00:36:44.160 to the whole idea
00:36:45.460 that what matters most
00:36:47.440 is our
00:36:47.680 I told Carl
00:36:49.740 to stop picking on words
00:36:50.660 he mixes all
00:36:52.700 the romantics together
00:36:53.700 conservative romantics
00:36:55.140 are great
00:36:55.500 I think
00:36:55.860 to your point
00:36:57.260 about what Joe Biden
00:36:58.320 is doing
00:36:58.600 I actually appreciate it
00:36:59.940 because he
00:37:00.860 it's like we're a team now
00:37:02.380 we're working together
00:37:02.960 because he is
00:37:05.840 he is showing
00:37:06.500 the fact that this guy
00:37:07.700 first of all
00:37:08.080 you got this
00:37:08.560 this guy
00:37:09.200 who decides
00:37:10.240 he's going to become
00:37:10.820 a woman
00:37:11.240 and a few months later
00:37:13.800 he's got corporate
00:37:14.640 sponsorships
00:37:15.120 he's invited to the
00:37:15.860 White House
00:37:16.180 to speak on behalf
00:37:16.900 of women
00:37:17.260 this is the
00:37:18.080 you know
00:37:18.240 I've never believed
00:37:19.060 in the idea of
00:37:19.820 male privilege
00:37:20.340 but now I have to
00:37:20.940 amend that
00:37:21.360 because there is
00:37:22.140 male privilege
00:37:22.660 as long as it's a male
00:37:23.680 who pretends to be a woman
00:37:24.760 has the most privilege
00:37:25.860 of all
00:37:26.320 in the future
00:37:27.000 all the best
00:37:27.640 women will be men
00:37:28.560 exactly
00:37:28.960 and so he ends up
00:37:29.680 he ends up in the White House
00:37:30.500 and we're doing this rally
00:37:32.220 it's kind of the same
00:37:33.560 sort of having the same effect
00:37:35.340 which is to show people
00:37:36.680 that this is happening
00:37:38.580 and that it really does matter
00:37:40.460 because this is the
00:37:41.180 this is the
00:37:41.760 the number one hurdle
00:37:42.880 we've had to get over
00:37:43.700 in the fight against
00:37:44.700 this gender ideology madness
00:37:45.800 and is
00:37:46.900 is that
00:37:47.280 for a lot of conservatives
00:37:48.720 they don't even
00:37:49.980 understand
00:37:51.020 not even just conservatives
00:37:52.480 just normal people
00:37:53.320 they don't
00:37:54.060 they don't realize
00:37:54.760 that this is happening
00:37:55.440 how pervasive it is
00:37:56.560 that's the
00:37:57.680 probably the
00:37:58.180 the most common
00:37:58.900 feedback
00:38:00.220 or reaction
00:38:00.780 I get to
00:38:01.120 what is a woman
00:38:01.620 I hear from people
00:38:02.500 including people
00:38:03.080 that you think
00:38:03.580 are clued in
00:38:04.340 like politicians
00:38:05.000 would tell me
00:38:05.840 well I saw that
00:38:06.440 I had
00:38:06.660 I had no idea
00:38:07.400 that all that stuff
00:38:08.020 was happening
00:38:08.480 and
00:38:09.260 and
00:38:09.920 when you've got
00:38:11.140 Joe Biden
00:38:11.800 speaking about
00:38:13.440 mutilating kids
00:38:14.340 from the White House
00:38:14.840 I think it shows
00:38:15.420 that this is going on
00:38:16.200 it's happening
00:38:16.580 and we have to
00:38:17.400 the other thing is
00:38:18.160 you have to show up
00:38:20.120 physically
00:38:20.640 okay
00:38:21.520 yeah
00:38:21.920 as I talked about
00:38:22.860 how on the left
00:38:24.240 they're much better
00:38:24.820 at activism
00:38:26.080 but that's a crutch
00:38:27.760 that we have to
00:38:28.280 we can't
00:38:28.740 we can't rely on anymore
00:38:29.940 because it does matter
00:38:31.440 to actually show up
00:38:32.220 it's one thing to tweet about it
00:38:33.160 talk about it
00:38:33.740 as we do in conservative media
00:38:34.940 but you have to
00:38:35.880 the image of actual human beings
00:38:38.660 out there holding signs against it
00:38:40.660 well the whole issue hinges on the physical body
00:38:43.200 so it's no surprise
00:38:44.580 and they're right about that
00:38:45.920 actually
00:38:46.260 you do have to physically show up
00:38:47.860 I didn't believe in gender transitioning previously
00:38:51.520 I did not believe that
00:38:52.640 a man could become a woman
00:38:54.320 but when you say
00:38:55.200 that this Dillon fella
00:38:56.120 cried three times in one day
00:38:57.780 I'm going to reevaluate
00:39:00.800 you've never seen Brian Stelter
00:39:01.880 well if that joke
00:39:04.300 and hang out with these gentlemen
00:39:05.080 makes you want to die
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00:40:13.280 there is one additional point
00:40:15.000 that I wanted to make
00:40:15.860 when it comes to
00:40:16.520 I think why so many people
00:40:17.840 don't know what's going on
00:40:19.980 with the trends issue
00:40:20.960 they look at it
00:40:21.760 and it's so weird
00:40:22.320 and it's so bizarre
00:40:22.940 and it's so strange
00:40:24.400 and people look at this
00:40:25.240 and they say
00:40:25.600 because it's weird and bizarre
00:40:26.480 and strange
00:40:26.840 it must not be happening
00:40:27.580 they literally cannot believe
00:40:28.560 that it's happening
00:40:29.420 and that is because
00:40:30.860 it is an outgrowth
00:40:31.680 of an ideology
00:40:32.300 that nearly everyone
00:40:33.840 has bought into
00:40:34.540 but they didn't realize
00:40:35.560 the consequences
00:40:36.200 of that ideology
00:40:36.880 were going to be
00:40:37.340 and that ideology
00:40:38.740 is essentially
00:40:39.740 this is Truman's point
00:40:41.400 that identity
00:40:42.460 is to be found
00:40:43.100 in the sexual pleasure instinct
00:40:44.760 and anything that inhibits
00:40:45.680 it needs to be destroyed
00:40:46.360 and because we as a society
00:40:48.200 have bought into that
00:40:49.100 so much
00:40:49.620 that what we are
00:40:50.440 is just the sexual instinct
00:40:51.520 what we are
00:40:51.900 is our feeling inside
00:40:53.100 and literally
00:40:54.360 all of our modern literature
00:40:55.360 is written on this basis
00:40:56.260 all of our movies
00:40:57.340 are made on this basis
00:40:58.120 and my favorite example
00:40:59.100 is all the Disney movies
00:41:00.200 where it used to be
00:41:01.100 that when it was Pinocchio
00:41:02.360 it was about
00:41:02.680 how do you learn
00:41:03.340 to do your duty
00:41:03.940 so you can become a real boy
00:41:04.980 and now every movie
00:41:06.140 is how do you find
00:41:06.980 your inner bliss
00:41:07.660 so that you can
00:41:08.480 truly be free
00:41:09.380 how do you buck
00:41:09.880 society's conventions
00:41:10.700 in order to truly be yourself
00:41:11.800 and because we've all
00:41:12.800 bought into that model
00:41:13.800 we never saw this coming
00:41:15.200 and so when people
00:41:15.820 actually take that
00:41:16.440 to its logical extreme
00:41:17.420 which is
00:41:17.820 you ought to celebrate
00:41:18.980 however I feel
00:41:20.100 and if I feel like
00:41:20.840 something that's
00:41:21.280 absolutely counterfactual
00:41:22.380 you should still celebrate it
00:41:23.440 and it's a denial
00:41:24.040 of what makes me me
00:41:25.100 then people are shocked by it
00:41:27.400 it's like the lights
00:41:28.540 suddenly go on
00:41:29.300 and what makes it even harder
00:41:31.060 is that in order
00:41:32.020 to root that out
00:41:33.060 you can't just root out
00:41:34.080 this particular issue
00:41:34.800 you have to root out
00:41:35.280 the entire ideology
00:41:36.060 you have to actually
00:41:36.980 start to see identity
00:41:38.580 in a way that we have not
00:41:39.440 seen identity in the west
00:41:40.580 for solidly a hundred years
00:41:41.680 you have to go back
00:41:42.400 to fundamental principles
00:41:43.420 about what makes
00:41:44.560 human beings human beings
00:41:45.580 and what makes
00:41:46.020 human beings fulfilled
00:41:46.780 and that's something
00:41:47.500 that many people
00:41:48.140 in the west
00:41:48.460 are just incapable
00:41:49.180 of facing up to
00:41:49.980 because again
00:41:50.420 when you spend all day
00:41:51.680 every day thinking about
00:41:52.640 how do I feel
00:41:53.240 and what will make me
00:41:53.880 feel better
00:41:54.300 which is what we are
00:41:55.340 trained to do
00:41:55.680 from the time
00:41:56.040 that we are small kids
00:41:56.740 I mean it's Brave New World
00:41:57.480 we are trained to do
00:41:58.280 this stuff from the time
00:41:59.020 that we are tiny kids
00:41:59.820 this is what C.S. Lewis
00:42:00.820 called the great movement
00:42:02.160 of internalization
00:42:03.220 because once you lose
00:42:04.160 contact with the idea
00:42:05.320 that there is a spirit
00:42:06.280 in whose image
00:42:07.000 you're made
00:42:07.860 there's nothing but
00:42:09.220 what's inside you
00:42:10.640 and so it becomes
00:42:11.480 Eros becomes
00:42:12.300 the most powerful
00:42:13.180 I mean this is Freud's point
00:42:15.040 right I mean this is
00:42:15.580 no he's part of it
00:42:17.060 he's a big part of it
00:42:17.840 exactly
00:42:18.220 and so you know
00:42:19.240 there's something
00:42:19.940 that I've started to do
00:42:20.760 and I want to do it more
00:42:21.580 and that is re-term
00:42:22.700 what I think the left is now
00:42:23.940 they've been calling themselves
00:42:24.680 progressive falsely
00:42:25.920 for generations
00:42:27.240 and what they really are
00:42:28.100 is transgressive
00:42:29.120 all they are is transgressive
00:42:31.080 all they want to do
00:42:31.700 is tear down
00:42:32.260 all of the standards
00:42:33.040 all of the institutions
00:42:33.880 they want to transgress
00:42:34.920 the transgression
00:42:35.480 is the point
00:42:36.220 everything has to be
00:42:37.380 torn down
00:42:37.860 and it has to be
00:42:39.120 torn down
00:42:39.440 so that you can be
00:42:39.960 liberated on the inside
00:42:41.220 and the destruction
00:42:42.020 is not the bug
00:42:43.460 it's the feature
00:42:44.020 what's another simpler word
00:42:45.280 for transgression
00:42:46.060 well sin would be
00:42:47.980 you know I have to tell you
00:42:50.160 Ben that
00:42:50.540 they're the transgressives
00:42:52.420 I hate to give you
00:42:53.280 this great compliment
00:42:54.200 on the air
00:42:54.600 that's so good
00:42:56.200 and it's so much better
00:42:57.440 than
00:42:58.040 we used to say
00:42:59.400 they're not the progressive left
00:43:00.780 they're the regressive left
00:43:01.660 they're not regressive
00:43:02.140 and it's like by the way
00:43:03.080 when you use regressive
00:43:04.300 you're granting the progressive point
00:43:05.900 which is there's a back
00:43:06.620 but transgressive
00:43:07.780 that's it
00:43:08.260 because you're saying
00:43:09.140 there is an objective
00:43:10.220 moral reality here
00:43:11.860 and these guys
00:43:13.220 just transgress it
00:43:14.740 every step of the way
00:43:16.100 and that's the goal
00:43:16.580 the goal is
00:43:17.220 they must destroy
00:43:18.500 and you see it by the way
00:43:19.140 in literally everything
00:43:20.160 I mean I know later on
00:43:21.480 we're going to talk about
00:43:22.080 what happened
00:43:22.460 at this art installation
00:43:23.340 but I mean
00:43:24.460 the destruction
00:43:26.320 is the point
00:43:27.260 the destruction
00:43:27.780 and by the way
00:43:28.860 they have to train the kids
00:43:29.860 it's important to train the kids
00:43:31.100 in transgressive mentality
00:43:32.340 because you can't
00:43:33.720 take a normal human being
00:43:34.760 and tell the normal human being
00:43:35.780 who hasn't been brought up
00:43:36.620 in that transgressive mentality
00:43:37.620 that it's good to destroy
00:43:38.480 all the things
00:43:39.040 that person relies upon
00:43:40.040 you have to take kids
00:43:41.000 who are tabula rasa
00:43:41.820 and don't understand
00:43:42.780 any of the institutions
00:43:43.540 and you have to tell them
00:43:44.300 that their greatest happiness
00:43:45.060 is to be found
00:43:45.680 in joining the mob
00:43:46.520 and tearing things down
00:43:47.540 it's not
00:43:47.980 like you wonder
00:43:49.320 why they're doing
00:43:49.900 drag queen story hour
00:43:50.680 why are they targeting the kids
00:43:51.680 why can't they just do it for adults
00:43:52.700 because they can't do it for adults
00:43:54.060 the whole point is
00:43:54.800 that they are building
00:43:55.320 an entire generation of people
00:43:56.520 who are going to engage in this
00:43:58.140 when we talk about grooming
00:43:59.100 it's not grooming for sex
00:44:00.080 it's grooming for ideology
00:44:01.060 the idea is you're going to
00:44:01.820 ideologically groom kids
00:44:03.160 so that they are part
00:44:03.960 of a group of people
00:44:04.620 who celebrate you
00:44:05.160 and by the way
00:44:05.560 they openly say this
00:44:06.660 remember there's a video
00:44:07.460 that came out
00:44:08.000 not all that long ago
00:44:08.920 a couple years ago actually
00:44:09.820 I think it was the
00:44:10.560 San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
00:44:12.040 you remember this one
00:44:12.620 yes yes
00:44:13.100 they put out a video
00:44:14.140 they said we're going to
00:44:14.820 we are going to make your kids
00:44:15.860 we are going to make your kids gay
00:44:16.840 right
00:44:17.080 and they do a whole song
00:44:18.440 talking about how we are
00:44:19.740 we're coming for your kids
00:44:20.660 yes we're coming for your kids
00:44:21.620 and then they took it down
00:44:22.260 because it was too close to home
00:44:23.220 and people noticed
00:44:23.800 what they were doing
00:44:24.380 because they said
00:44:24.740 the quiet part out loud
00:44:25.560 and they said yes
00:44:26.300 we're going to make your kids fair
00:44:27.220 and we're going to make
00:44:27.940 your kids tolerant
00:44:28.620 and we're going to build
00:44:29.460 a better world
00:44:30.100 on the bodies of your kids
00:44:31.240 and that's what's going on here
00:44:32.520 we are
00:44:33.300 when you talk about
00:44:35.220 how we're conditioned
00:44:36.080 to accept a lot of the premises here
00:44:37.820 I think also conservatives
00:44:40.340 have a condition
00:44:40.940 to accept this trump card
00:44:42.400 of well
00:44:43.860 it makes me happy
00:44:45.320 and if someone says
00:44:46.600 well it makes me happy
00:44:47.460 then the conditioning is
00:44:49.280 well then okay
00:44:49.940 if it makes you happy
00:44:50.540 it makes you happy
00:44:50.940 this is one thing
00:44:51.660 filming what is a woman
00:44:52.540 and going around
00:44:53.300 to cities all across the country
00:44:54.900 and talking to people
00:44:55.440 about these issues
00:44:56.360 that's one of the most
00:44:57.600 common responses
00:44:58.560 that we heard
00:44:59.920 is just that
00:45:00.700 well
00:45:01.620 this is what I believe
00:45:02.980 but if it makes somebody happy
00:45:04.300 then they should be able
00:45:05.080 to do what makes them happy
00:45:05.960 and you know
00:45:06.960 I had a moment
00:45:08.060 at our
00:45:10.440 what is a woman screening
00:45:11.340 our most recent one
00:45:12.920 which was a
00:45:13.600 Wisconsin Madison
00:45:14.680 where I was talking
00:45:15.980 to a young man
00:45:17.360 who's transitioning
00:45:18.460 to you know
00:45:19.280 try to become a woman
00:45:20.340 and he said that
00:45:21.880 well I take this medicine
00:45:23.200 and it makes me
00:45:23.780 makes me happy
00:45:24.600 and that's supposed to be
00:45:26.680 the trump card
00:45:27.920 that we're supposed
00:45:28.600 to back away from
00:45:29.300 of course I tried to explain
00:45:30.320 that you know
00:45:31.280 that's not actually
00:45:32.380 happiness
00:45:33.180 it's not happiness
00:45:34.420 it's not the goal of life
00:45:35.400 it's not the goal of life
00:45:36.000 but it's also not
00:45:36.900 the goal of medicine
00:45:37.880 medicine
00:45:38.440 the point of medicine
00:45:39.340 is not to make you happy
00:45:40.460 in the moment
00:45:40.900 it's your overall wellness
00:45:42.620 your overall well-being
00:45:44.080 it's to treat
00:45:45.700 what is actually
00:45:47.260 wrong with you
00:45:48.420 and there's nothing wrong
00:45:49.700 with your male essence
00:45:51.580 that's who you are
00:45:52.320 but what the left
00:45:52.760 has also done
00:45:53.280 is they've played
00:45:53.700 a wonderful trick here
00:45:54.860 which is they said
00:45:55.480 in the 60s
00:45:55.980 the personal is the political
00:45:56.960 right
00:45:57.240 this is one of their big slogans
00:45:58.300 how you act personally
00:45:59.260 is an action against the man
00:46:00.800 right
00:46:01.020 if you decide to buck
00:46:01.960 the patriarchy
00:46:02.660 by engaging in premarital sex
00:46:04.600 or extraneous sex
00:46:05.740 or alternative forms
00:46:06.880 of sexual arrangement
00:46:07.560 this is bucking the patriarchy
00:46:08.820 right
00:46:08.980 the personal is political
00:46:09.820 and then you say
00:46:11.020 okay well if the personal
00:46:11.780 is political
00:46:12.260 then I don't like your politics
00:46:13.980 and I don't like that
00:46:14.700 and I think that that's wrong
00:46:15.520 and they say
00:46:15.740 well how dare you attack me personally
00:46:16.940 why would you do that
00:46:18.180 you're attacking my happiness
00:46:19.420 and the answer is
00:46:19.940 I don't care about
00:46:20.760 what you do personally
00:46:21.540 nearly as much
00:46:22.260 as I care about
00:46:22.740 what society says
00:46:23.600 about what you do personally
00:46:24.440 right
00:46:24.900 you change the rules of society
00:46:26.200 and that's what makes the difference
00:46:27.600 right
00:46:27.860 this was always the argument
00:46:28.640 about gay marriage
00:46:29.200 the argument about gay marriage
00:46:30.120 was always you know
00:46:31.060 what do you care
00:46:31.980 if two men get married
00:46:32.700 how does it affect your marriage
00:46:33.720 how does it affect your life
00:46:34.640 and the answer is
00:46:35.400 that marriage doesn't affect my life
00:46:36.640 how society decides
00:46:37.900 what is a relationship
00:46:39.340 that is worth upholding
00:46:40.440 and cherishing
00:46:40.940 and what a society decides
00:46:42.380 is not worth upholding
00:46:43.160 that does change my marriage
00:46:44.180 is a fundamental
00:46:44.960 political institution
00:46:46.060 correct
00:46:46.380 fundamental political
00:46:47.780 that's right
00:46:48.500 and when it comes to
00:46:49.860 the rules of the road
00:46:50.780 who makes the rules of the road
00:46:51.960 matters an awful lot
00:46:53.520 and conservatives
00:46:54.340 have run away from this
00:46:55.360 I think in the name
00:46:56.220 of sort of a value
00:46:56.980 neutral libertarianism
00:46:58.060 right
00:46:58.480 the easy
00:46:59.220 when the left
00:47:00.300 wasn't quite so crazy
00:47:01.260 you can make the argument
00:47:02.420 that a neutral space
00:47:03.560 was going to be enough
00:47:04.240 right okay
00:47:04.880 you do you
00:47:05.480 and I'll do me
00:47:06.180 and we'll all get together
00:47:07.080 at the end of the day
00:47:07.660 and we'll have a beer
00:47:08.180 and it'll be totally fine
00:47:09.060 but when the left
00:47:09.640 started to take over
00:47:10.540 all of the neutral spaces
00:47:11.600 and bar everybody else
00:47:12.900 and then demand
00:47:13.560 that you lose your job
00:47:14.620 for saying that men are men
00:47:15.840 and women are women
00:47:16.560 and started to demand
00:47:17.660 that we be able
00:47:18.300 to take your kids away from you
00:47:19.380 I mean the craziest
00:47:20.200 the craziest piece of legislation
00:47:21.660 that won't be crazy
00:47:22.460 in five years
00:47:22.940 I guarantee it
00:47:23.560 because I've been saying
00:47:24.040 for at least five years
00:47:25.140 that it was going to be a thing
00:47:26.080 is this piece of proposed legislation
00:47:27.560 in Virginia
00:47:28.100 by that Virginia Democrat
00:47:29.000 who suggests that CPS
00:47:30.460 should be able to come
00:47:31.100 and remove your child from you
00:47:32.500 if your child goes to school
00:47:33.580 and expresses gender confusion
00:47:34.760 and then comes home
00:47:35.660 and you say
00:47:35.920 no Billy you're a boy
00:47:37.100 that CPS should be able
00:47:38.240 they're doing that in Canada
00:47:38.860 right
00:47:39.080 100%
00:47:39.800 and by the way
00:47:40.420 this will be common practice
00:47:41.740 in the United States
00:47:42.580 within the next five years
00:47:43.600 in California
00:47:44.380 in New York
00:47:45.220 in New Jersey
00:47:45.960 I'm just
00:47:46.440 I'm calling my shot
00:47:47.620 right now
00:47:48.000 that's conversion therapy
00:47:48.820 I mean the thing
00:47:49.720 about this is though
00:47:50.500 you know
00:47:50.860 so much of this
00:47:52.060 has to do with the press
00:47:52.860 because it's hard
00:47:54.040 it's hard for me
00:47:54.640 to even pick on Republicans
00:47:56.620 who are after all
00:47:58.560 politicians
00:47:59.320 this is what they do
00:48:00.420 that's their profession
00:48:01.240 they're politicians
00:48:01.900 their basic goal
00:48:03.140 is to be loved
00:48:03.700 and reelected
00:48:04.340 they're surrounded
00:48:05.280 by this press
00:48:06.420 and if you're in DC
00:48:07.720 you are literally
00:48:08.840 surrounded by this press
00:48:10.220 that is telling them
00:48:11.260 that they are bad people
00:48:12.880 if they disagree
00:48:13.920 and so if they say
00:48:15.080 well the economy
00:48:16.040 is not working
00:48:16.720 if they say
00:48:17.420 well this is more practical
00:48:18.420 you've got to put
00:48:19.160 criminals in jail
00:48:20.120 they can get away with that
00:48:21.580 but if you say
00:48:22.280 you know what
00:48:22.940 you can't change
00:48:24.240 from a man to a woman
00:48:25.080 the press
00:48:25.900 as one
00:48:26.840 sits on their heads
00:48:28.020 and say you are evil
00:48:29.120 and they break
00:48:30.040 but this is where
00:48:30.500 the crowd matters
00:48:31.060 so the perfect example
00:48:32.620 of what Matt's doing
00:48:33.520 right now
00:48:33.980 you're basically
00:48:34.980 what you're doing
00:48:35.820 is on a new issue
00:48:36.640 what you're basically doing
00:48:37.400 is what the pro-life movement
00:48:38.080 did in the aftermath of Roe
00:48:39.060 right
00:48:39.480 because in the aftermath of Roe
00:48:40.700 if you actually look
00:48:41.160 at the constituency of the party
00:48:42.160 there's pretty broad
00:48:43.400 spectrum overlap
00:48:44.340 in terms of abortion
00:48:45.160 there are a lot of
00:48:45.820 pro-abortion Republicans
00:48:46.580 there are a lot of
00:48:47.140 pro-life Republicans
00:48:48.220 there were some
00:48:48.940 pro-life Democrats
00:48:50.240 at the time
00:48:50.780 and pretty quickly
00:48:52.200 the political incentives
00:48:53.380 started to change
00:48:54.640 and they started to realign
00:48:55.760 and suddenly
00:48:56.440 you could not be
00:48:57.320 a pro-choice Republican
00:48:58.220 this was not something
00:48:58.940 that was considered
00:48:59.440 widely acceptable
00:49:00.240 and for the Democrats
00:49:01.160 it was the opposite
00:49:01.780 you could not be
00:49:02.400 a pro-life Democrat
00:49:03.160 you can't name
00:49:04.020 a pro-life Democrat
00:49:04.620 today
00:49:04.960 in the Democratic Party
00:49:06.060 and what you're doing
00:49:07.640 out there
00:49:08.060 is performing
00:49:09.360 the political function
00:49:10.560 of what you should be doing
00:49:12.220 which is
00:49:12.900 politics is not
00:49:14.120 about electing the right people
00:49:15.200 politics is about
00:49:15.960 making the wrong people
00:49:16.600 do the right things
00:49:17.240 and that starts
00:49:18.220 with changing
00:49:18.920 the incentive structure
00:49:19.760 and that starts
00:49:20.260 with the public
00:49:20.820 pressure campaign
00:49:21.400 you think any of these
00:49:21.880 politicians
00:49:22.340 five seconds ago
00:49:23.600 cared about school boards
00:49:24.620 you think any of these
00:49:25.200 politicians five seconds ago
00:49:26.160 cared about Vandy
00:49:26.740 you think any of these
00:49:27.640 politicians five seconds ago
00:49:28.640 cared about the transing
00:49:29.460 of the children
00:49:29.840 they didn't even know
00:49:30.580 about it
00:49:31.000 it's because people
00:49:32.020 wake up
00:49:32.600 and that's the job
00:49:33.340 of what Matt's doing
00:49:34.400 and we're proud to sponsor
00:49:35.340 a lot of that work
00:49:36.280 here at Daily Wire
00:49:37.340 but Matt being out
00:49:38.540 on the front lines
00:49:39.060 and all of us talking
00:49:39.780 about this stuff daily
00:49:40.440 raising the awareness
00:49:41.120 of people who then
00:49:41.660 go to their politicians
00:49:42.300 and say you best
00:49:43.140 do something about this
00:49:43.960 or we will turn
00:49:44.500 your ass out of office
00:49:45.320 that's what's going
00:49:46.700 to change
00:49:47.020 and it is
00:49:47.740 about the family too
00:49:49.060 because what is
00:49:49.840 the basic thing
00:49:50.720 that people will
00:49:51.400 show up for
00:49:51.980 they will show up
00:49:52.920 for their kids
00:49:53.540 and mothers especially
00:49:54.980 I think will show up
00:49:55.700 for their kids
00:49:56.080 and that's why
00:49:56.540 they want mothers
00:49:57.060 and people are
00:49:57.860 parents are terrified
00:49:59.280 of what's happening
00:50:01.560 to kids
00:50:02.060 especially parents
00:50:03.080 that send their kids
00:50:03.620 there's no way
00:50:04.800 to overstate this
00:50:05.720 this is
00:50:05.980 I mean
00:50:06.660 parents are
00:50:08.440 I talk about
00:50:09.100 people wake up
00:50:09.760 in the morning
00:50:10.120 worried about
00:50:10.680 for a lot of parents
00:50:12.080 I think millions
00:50:12.580 of parents
00:50:12.960 this is probably
00:50:14.040 number one
00:50:15.040 even before the economy
00:50:15.800 I agree with you
00:50:16.240 they might say
00:50:17.180 in a poll or something
00:50:18.840 that people name
00:50:19.520 the economy
00:50:19.920 it is something
00:50:20.300 people care about
00:50:20.960 because they still
00:50:22.260 don't actually think
00:50:22.980 about their kids
00:50:23.540 as a political topic
00:50:24.920 so when you go to
00:50:25.680 someone and say
00:50:26.040 what's the most important
00:50:26.740 political issue
00:50:27.420 they don't associate
00:50:29.980 the feelings
00:50:30.660 that they have
00:50:31.060 about their kids
00:50:31.360 but I will tell you
00:50:31.760 I moved
00:50:32.060 it was a massive factor
00:50:33.280 in me personally
00:50:33.980 moving my family
00:50:34.540 out of California
00:50:35.060 I said to my wife
00:50:36.440 in 10 years
00:50:37.560 it will not be possible
00:50:38.340 to raise my kids
00:50:38.980 religious and traditional
00:50:39.880 in the state
00:50:40.360 it is not going to be possible
00:50:41.380 plus you'd be a target
00:50:42.160 you personally
00:50:42.760 oh 100%
00:50:43.580 I mean
00:50:44.000 but even if I weren't
00:50:45.680 I just don't think
00:50:46.460 that the left
00:50:46.820 is going to make it livable
00:50:47.640 I don't think
00:50:47.980 the transgressives
00:50:48.680 will allow tradition
00:50:49.380 to exist
00:50:49.860 again the entire basis
00:50:50.940 of transgressive philosophy
00:50:52.140 is that tradition
00:50:53.000 is bad
00:50:53.540 and must be torn down
00:50:54.580 there's another area
00:50:55.500 where you know
00:50:56.520 the right has sort of
00:50:58.180 lost its way
00:50:58.880 and that is
00:50:59.260 we lost even the language
00:51:00.800 to defend tradition
00:51:01.800 the language to defend tradition
00:51:03.180 used to be really simple
00:51:04.180 you see it by the way
00:51:04.940 like I was just in Israel
00:51:05.680 one of the things
00:51:06.420 that you see
00:51:06.860 from people
00:51:07.380 who have not spent
00:51:08.160 a lot of time
00:51:08.760 with sort of the west
00:51:10.140 and here I'm talking about
00:51:10.960 Sephardic Jews
00:51:11.460 from places like Morocco
00:51:12.200 right
00:51:12.460 Israel is broken down
00:51:13.560 to Ashkenazic
00:51:14.160 and Sephardic
00:51:14.660 you have the people
00:51:15.960 from Eastern Europe
00:51:16.600 who tend to be
00:51:17.700 a little bit more
00:51:18.180 high income
00:51:18.600 than you have the people
00:51:19.260 who are from
00:51:19.900 the Arab areas
00:51:20.680 so the people
00:51:21.080 from the Arab areas
00:51:21.700 are fairly new immigrants
00:51:22.840 like in the last 50-60 years
00:51:24.100 they moved to the state of Israel
00:51:25.760 because the state of Israel
00:51:26.240 is only 73 years old
00:51:27.220 and so a lot of them
00:51:28.720 if you even ask them
00:51:29.500 this stuff
00:51:29.940 they would look at you cross-eyed
00:51:31.320 in the same way
00:51:31.860 that the Kenyan tribesmen
00:51:33.160 were looking at you
00:51:33.960 when you asked them
00:51:34.540 about this stuff
00:51:35.000 like what in the world
00:51:35.820 are you even
00:51:36.060 and if you ask them
00:51:36.800 can you justify to me
00:51:37.920 why what you're saying is true
00:51:39.620 they would look at you
00:51:40.440 and they would laugh
00:51:41.000 they wouldn't try to give you
00:51:42.340 some sort of
00:51:42.840 secular humanist explanation
00:51:44.380 for why what they're saying is true
00:51:45.620 they would look at you
00:51:46.400 and they would laugh
00:51:47.240 and by the way
00:51:47.760 that is the proper response
00:51:48.920 of a human being
00:51:49.560 to absurdity
00:51:50.220 is to laugh at the argument
00:51:51.580 but we have lost the capacity
00:51:52.840 in this country
00:51:53.500 to laugh at the argument
00:51:54.680 specifically because we have said
00:51:56.000 that it is no longer good enough
00:51:57.180 to just say
00:51:57.740 listen my tradition says
00:51:59.380 and it's a tradition
00:52:00.260 that's worked for several thousand years
00:52:01.320 that what you're saying is stupid
00:52:02.280 right you're not allowed
00:52:03.280 to say that anymore
00:52:03.920 and so what you end up with
00:52:05.060 is this bizarre situation
00:52:06.200 where huge swaths of the West
00:52:08.280 have no language
00:52:09.360 to even discuss these issues
00:52:10.740 so Jonathan Haidt
00:52:11.900 gives a really good example
00:52:12.820 of this in the righteous mind
00:52:13.660 right he says
00:52:14.140 go to a college campus today
00:52:15.420 and ask college students
00:52:17.320 is there anything immoral
00:52:19.140 about a man
00:52:19.760 going down to the grocery store
00:52:21.200 buying a for this is his example
00:52:22.280 not mine
00:52:22.660 going down to the grocery store
00:52:24.060 buying a frozen chicken
00:52:25.020 bringing it home
00:52:26.060 and copulating
00:52:26.920 with the frozen chicken
00:52:27.600 and if you ask
00:52:29.480 most college students
00:52:30.520 they will say no
00:52:31.360 it's a victimless crime
00:52:32.320 there's nothing immoral
00:52:33.340 about a man copulating
00:52:34.340 with frozen chicken
00:52:35.020 if you ask most people
00:52:36.220 of every other culture
00:52:37.040 on planet earth
00:52:37.600 they'll say of course
00:52:38.320 there's something wrong
00:52:38.820 with it
00:52:39.020 there's something wrong
00:52:39.340 with him
00:52:39.720 what in the actual world
00:52:41.120 but we've lost the language
00:52:42.660 in the West
00:52:43.060 to be able to just say that
00:52:44.140 and we've lost the bravery
00:52:45.400 in the West
00:52:45.860 but this is the thing
00:52:46.580 that they're doing
00:52:47.740 it's an actually
00:52:48.420 an act of idolatry
00:52:50.280 as Barfield would point out
00:52:51.720 what they think
00:52:52.800 is by changing the map
00:52:54.000 they can change the territory
00:52:55.020 there are structures
00:52:56.560 of language
00:52:57.340 that we use
00:52:58.120 language is a rude tool
00:52:59.340 it's not an exact tool
00:53:00.960 language is a rude tool
00:53:01.980 with which we try to describe
00:53:03.580 what our experience
00:53:04.800 of life is
00:53:05.360 symbols to describe it
00:53:06.520 oh we can destroy the language
00:53:07.880 and therefore
00:53:08.260 we've destroyed the reality
00:53:09.420 which of course
00:53:10.140 is exactly the definition
00:53:11.740 of idolatry
00:53:12.500 the fact is
00:53:13.420 there are certain words
00:53:14.480 that are primary words
00:53:15.700 man and woman
00:53:16.440 are two of them
00:53:16.980 good evil
00:53:17.540 God is one of them
00:53:18.340 there's nothing
00:53:19.260 to compare it to
00:53:20.040 you know
00:53:21.100 Republicans
00:53:21.860 conservatives
00:53:22.440 tend to find
00:53:23.120 well a woman is this
00:53:24.660 a woman is that
00:53:25.280 we all know
00:53:26.040 what a woman is
00:53:26.660 it's beyond language
00:53:27.780 every single
00:53:28.820 you know
00:53:29.320 my little grandson
00:53:30.660 knows who mommy is
00:53:31.920 and who daddy is
00:53:32.840 and that mommy's a girl
00:53:33.680 and that
00:53:33.900 they don't have to be taught
00:53:35.080 that they know it
00:53:35.920 they absolutely know it
00:53:37.000 there's no way
00:53:38.260 to basically argue this
00:53:40.060 you just have to say
00:53:41.120 you're an idiot
00:53:42.140 and laughter
00:53:42.760 is exactly the right
00:53:44.200 you know
00:53:44.560 there's a great concept
00:53:45.500 I mean that's such
00:53:46.240 a great point
00:53:46.940 I remember when I was
00:53:48.380 a little kid
00:53:48.840 and I asked my dad
00:53:49.960 I said
00:53:50.160 you know
00:53:50.600 I was probably
00:53:51.280 three years old
00:53:51.760 dad I remember it
00:53:52.740 clearly
00:53:53.000 the difference
00:53:53.600 between a boy
00:53:54.200 and a girl
00:53:54.520 right
00:53:54.720 the boys have short hair
00:53:56.400 the girls have long hair
00:53:57.320 right
00:53:57.520 he said there's a little
00:53:58.100 more to it than that
00:53:58.920 but it didn't matter
00:53:59.780 my definition
00:54:00.780 was just as good
00:54:01.660 as any other
00:54:02.120 and there's this great
00:54:04.580 concept that
00:54:05.480 Leon Cass
00:54:06.320 the great bioethicist
00:54:07.600 at UChicago
00:54:08.260 makes
00:54:08.940 which is he describes
00:54:10.140 the wisdom of repugnance
00:54:11.860 to use John Haidt's example
00:54:13.200 of going home with the chicken
00:54:14.500 or many other examples
00:54:16.520 there were certain
00:54:17.540 there was just one
00:54:18.300 that cropped up in the press
00:54:19.240 the other day
00:54:19.780 and they said
00:54:20.420 why would it be wrong
00:54:21.820 for two siblings
00:54:23.040 let's say the two siblings
00:54:23.940 are the same sex
00:54:24.640 twins
00:54:25.020 to have an incestuous relationship
00:54:27.240 because they're twins
00:54:28.240 there's no risk of procreation
00:54:29.720 no worry about
00:54:30.560 two hundred babies
00:54:31.380 or anything
00:54:31.680 yeah
00:54:31.980 so why
00:54:33.100 what's wrong with that
00:54:34.320 and for most people
00:54:36.700 spur of the moment
00:54:37.280 they probably wouldn't give you
00:54:38.700 the rational explanation
00:54:39.960 for why that's wrong
00:54:40.740 not saying it can't be done
00:54:41.760 but they wouldn't give it to you
00:54:42.560 but we have something
00:54:43.960 which is a wisdom
00:54:44.900 of repugnance
00:54:45.920 and that carries
00:54:47.980 a hell of a lot more weight
00:54:49.380 than some cockamamie answer
00:54:50.880 from a man in a dress
00:54:51.800 talking to the president
00:54:52.660 on air
00:54:53.080 but it's interesting
00:54:53.740 if you read Jonathan Haidt
00:54:54.800 because there is this movement
00:54:55.800 this evolutionary biology
00:54:57.280 where they say
00:54:57.960 all this evolved
00:54:59.320 and created
00:55:00.020 the fact that
00:55:01.000 when you smell
00:55:01.540 something disgusting
00:55:02.460 you know
00:55:03.420 you suddenly think
00:55:04.700 it may be immoral
00:55:05.800 they think
00:55:06.580 well this just evolved
00:55:07.640 it would be the only
00:55:08.460 the moral sense
00:55:09.400 in that case
00:55:09.840 would be the only sense
00:55:10.940 that we've evolved
00:55:11.800 that refers to nothing
00:55:12.940 you know
00:55:13.420 our eyes refer to things
00:55:14.540 that you can see
00:55:15.140 our ears refer
00:55:16.100 you know
00:55:16.460 the moral sense
00:55:17.200 refers to morality
00:55:18.480 an actual thing
00:55:19.420 that is actually there
00:55:20.340 and Jonathan Haidt
00:55:21.240 is interesting
00:55:21.760 because he makes
00:55:22.640 the argument
00:55:23.160 basically that
00:55:24.160 it's all evolved
00:55:25.240 but something in him
00:55:26.660 stops
00:55:27.260 which is not true
00:55:28.480 of Paul Bloom
00:55:29.800 I think his name
00:55:30.360 is
00:55:30.540 it's not true
00:55:31.540 of him
00:55:31.720 he calls evolution
00:55:33.200 the origin of good and evil
00:55:34.660 in his book
00:55:35.580 which is nonsense
00:55:36.380 but Jonathan Haidt stops
00:55:37.940 and says
00:55:38.220 you know
00:55:38.480 there may be something
00:55:39.400 to this
00:55:39.960 there may be something
00:55:40.680 to this repugnance
00:55:41.780 and I think that's the only
00:55:42.760 logical sensible way
00:55:44.180 to behave
00:55:44.620 yeah that's absolutely true
00:55:46.260 and you know
00:55:46.720 something I
00:55:47.600 always consider
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00:55:50.220 is you know
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00:55:55.640 in our marital bed
00:55:56.760 now I'm not inviting
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00:57:21.020 that was the best
00:57:22.660 one of the night
00:57:23.120 I got
00:57:23.340 I thought mine
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00:57:25.740 you would
00:57:26.980 you know
00:57:28.060 two of our
00:57:28.760 compatriots aren't
00:57:29.980 with us tonight
00:57:30.440 Candace is off
00:57:31.400 baptizing her
00:57:32.220 her child in the UK
00:57:33.360 I think you were
00:57:34.060 with her briefly
00:57:34.720 in fact I would
00:57:35.640 you know why I got
00:57:36.640 picked for godfather
00:57:37.400 tell me why
00:57:37.900 it's not
00:57:38.380 you're the godfather
00:57:39.220 I'm the godfather
00:57:39.940 actually
00:57:40.300 you know what
00:57:40.920 so some people
00:57:41.620 think you know
00:57:42.340 you're Sicilian
00:57:42.980 that's what
00:57:43.600 it's not the
00:57:44.600 catholic thing
00:57:45.160 has nothing to do
00:57:45.880 with it
00:57:46.120 it's so that I
00:57:46.760 can grant favors
00:57:47.680 on the day
00:57:48.820 of my goddaughter's
00:57:50.180 wedding
00:57:50.380 yeah
00:57:50.700 that's fantastic
00:57:51.760 and of course
00:57:52.780 Jordan Peterson
00:57:53.340 not with us
00:57:53.960 although
00:57:54.620 he was with
00:57:56.140 young Spencer
00:57:57.080 Clavin in Athens
00:57:57.980 two weeks ago
00:57:58.980 and he was with
00:57:59.480 the two of us
00:58:00.000 in Israel
00:58:00.460 the week before
00:58:01.440 that
00:58:01.740 and
00:58:02.240 an unbelievable
00:58:04.560 experience
00:58:05.200 he jetsets more
00:58:06.000 than any human
00:58:06.760 he
00:58:07.240 he is a force
00:58:09.040 of nature
00:58:09.460 and right after
00:58:10.880 this show
00:58:11.240 tonight
00:58:11.640 we will be
00:58:12.380 releasing
00:58:12.800 our new special
00:58:14.280 with Jordan
00:58:14.640 the first episode
00:58:15.240 of our new special
00:58:15.960 on marriage
00:58:16.940 I'm really excited
00:58:18.720 about our project
00:58:19.520 with Jordan
00:58:19.940 you know
00:58:20.200 we announced
00:58:20.900 in June
00:58:21.820 that he was
00:58:22.280 joining
00:58:22.740 Daily Wire Plus
00:58:23.640 but we didn't
00:58:24.840 have a lot
00:58:25.120 to show for it
00:58:25.880 we had that
00:58:26.360 first special
00:58:26.940 which is a
00:58:27.760 tremendous piece
00:58:28.280 of work
00:58:28.600 dragons
00:58:28.920 monsters
00:58:29.320 and men
00:58:29.740 and we had
00:58:31.000 his podcast
00:58:31.640 in members block
00:58:32.420 okay that's great
00:58:34.080 he was doing
00:58:34.480 the podcast
00:58:35.000 pre-existed us
00:58:35.840 so you know
00:58:36.720 we're very happy
00:58:37.460 to have it
00:58:37.820 but it's not like
00:58:38.360 something that
00:58:39.240 Daily Wire
00:58:39.640 brought to the table
00:58:40.380 between now
00:58:42.780 and the end
00:58:43.640 of this year
00:58:44.700 which is only
00:58:45.120 two months
00:58:45.620 hence
00:58:45.920 we're going
00:58:47.140 to be releasing
00:58:47.760 so much
00:58:48.900 incredible
00:58:49.760 premium
00:58:51.280 exclusive
00:58:52.100 Jordan Peterson
00:58:52.740 content
00:58:53.220 that has never
00:58:54.140 been seen before
00:58:54.740 or can't be seen
00:58:55.420 anywhere else
00:58:56.000 people aren't
00:58:56.820 going to believe
00:58:57.540 the body of work
00:58:59.140 that we're putting
00:58:59.660 in
00:58:59.880 that we're going
00:59:00.920 to be putting
00:59:01.220 into the world
00:59:01.740 starting tonight
00:59:02.560 with the first
00:59:03.180 episode of marriage
00:59:03.820 we have an
00:59:05.300 incredible special
00:59:06.960 coming out
00:59:07.920 with Jordan
00:59:08.280 on vision
00:59:08.800 an incredible
00:59:10.160 special that he
00:59:11.340 shot in Athens
00:59:12.180 on depression
00:59:13.340 and anxiety
00:59:14.100 and how to
00:59:14.960 face those
00:59:15.720 demons
00:59:16.760 we have
00:59:17.940 I can't even
00:59:19.720 talk about all
00:59:20.300 of it
00:59:20.440 because it's
00:59:20.760 not my place
00:59:21.200 some of it
00:59:21.580 is his
00:59:22.020 to announce
00:59:22.760 but I think
00:59:23.900 it's fair to say
00:59:24.480 that by
00:59:25.020 you know
00:59:25.760 eight weeks
00:59:26.620 from today
00:59:27.220 there will be
00:59:27.940 I don't know
00:59:29.560 20 hours
00:59:30.900 or 30 hours
00:59:31.740 of premium
00:59:32.420 exclusive
00:59:32.940 Peterson content
00:59:34.060 that we've been
00:59:34.560 working on
00:59:35.080 since June
00:59:35.540 and we're really
00:59:35.920 excited to bring
00:59:36.460 to bear
00:59:36.700 I'm thrilled
00:59:38.060 about this one
00:59:38.620 because on the
00:59:39.240 night that we
00:59:39.640 announced that
00:59:40.100 Jordan was joining
00:59:40.700 us at the
00:59:41.820 Ryman
00:59:42.060 we had an
00:59:42.600 unbelievable
00:59:43.020 conversation about
00:59:43.840 marriage
00:59:44.100 I think it's
00:59:44.800 something that
00:59:45.260 our audience
00:59:45.740 really responded
00:59:46.520 to
00:59:46.760 we've gotten
00:59:47.100 so much
00:59:47.420 great feedback
00:59:48.360 about it
00:59:48.980 so we asked
00:59:50.180 Jordan just to
00:59:50.740 expand on the
00:59:51.340 issue
00:59:51.620 and he did so
00:59:52.900 in this three
00:59:53.420 part special
00:59:54.040 on marriage
00:59:55.020 you can get it
00:59:55.680 tonight right
00:59:56.300 after the show
00:59:56.840 if you're a
00:59:57.560 member at
00:59:58.140 Daily Wire Plus
00:59:58.840 again
00:59:59.160 you know
01:00:00.220 our members
01:00:00.860 are what make
01:00:01.180 it possible
01:00:01.520 for us to
01:00:01.960 make really
01:00:02.720 premium content
01:00:03.520 like this
01:00:04.660 marriage special
01:00:05.320 and so
01:00:06.580 they'll be able
01:00:07.380 to watch this
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01:00:11.940 and I brought
01:00:12.900 here for sort
01:00:13.920 of a world
01:00:14.580 premiere
01:00:14.820 I hate that
01:00:15.180 Jordan isn't
01:00:15.660 with us for
01:00:16.160 it
01:00:16.340 but we're
01:00:17.580 going to get
01:00:17.800 to see the
01:00:18.180 first minute
01:00:18.740 of the special
01:00:19.900 that's ever
01:00:20.240 been released
01:00:20.740 right now
01:00:21.220 what grows
01:00:23.180 you up
01:00:23.580 responsibility
01:00:24.400 sacrifice
01:00:25.680 a vision
01:00:26.400 of the future
01:00:27.120 and so people
01:00:28.280 grow up
01:00:28.740 when they get
01:00:29.160 married
01:00:29.440 it's probably
01:00:29.980 better to get
01:00:30.740 married when
01:00:31.220 you're young
01:00:31.720 because then
01:00:32.300 you grow up
01:00:33.160 if you're still
01:00:34.140 an adolescent
01:00:34.660 by the time
01:00:35.200 you're 40
01:00:35.700 you're a creep
01:00:36.900 you're the
01:00:38.080 sort of
01:00:38.400 person that
01:00:38.840 you don't
01:00:39.220 even want
01:00:39.580 to be around
01:00:40.160 so you
01:00:42.300 don't want
01:00:42.600 to be the
01:00:42.920 oldest person
01:00:43.600 at the frat
01:00:44.140 party
01:00:44.480 that is not
01:00:45.360 pretty
01:00:45.760 it's
01:00:46.620 there's something
01:00:47.280 rotten about
01:00:48.200 that
01:00:48.540 and I mean
01:00:49.220 in that
01:00:49.600 in that
01:00:50.280 contemptible
01:00:51.000 sense
01:00:51.440 it's
01:00:52.240 it's something
01:00:53.620 that's overstayed
01:00:54.660 it's welcome
01:00:55.360 man
01:00:55.800 and you know
01:00:57.020 people are
01:00:57.520 willing to
01:00:57.980 forgive you
01:00:58.440 your immaturity
01:00:59.000 when you're
01:00:59.400 22 or 23
01:01:00.360 or 28
01:01:01.040 maybe
01:01:01.400 or even
01:01:01.840 30
01:01:02.340 but man
01:01:03.900 if you're
01:01:04.260 still playing
01:01:04.720 that game
01:01:05.120 when you're
01:01:05.420 40
01:01:05.780 you are
01:01:07.860 not a
01:01:08.400 happy person
01:01:09.060 and you're
01:01:09.660 going to be
01:01:10.140 motivated to
01:01:10.840 go out there
01:01:11.280 and make
01:01:11.740 everyone
01:01:12.160 miserable
01:01:12.680 and so
01:01:13.660 grow the
01:01:14.260 hell up
01:01:14.960 but what does
01:01:18.500 he really
01:01:18.800 think
01:01:19.220 don't beat
01:01:20.720 around the
01:01:20.960 book
01:01:21.100 it's such
01:01:21.460 an important
01:01:21.800 topic
01:01:22.160 you know
01:01:22.480 people get
01:01:23.560 married on
01:01:24.140 average like
01:01:24.620 10 years
01:01:25.060 later now
01:01:25.540 than they
01:01:25.840 did
01:01:26.120 it's
01:01:26.320 destroying
01:01:26.580 the country
01:01:27.220 that's
01:01:27.460 right
01:01:27.560 and all
01:01:27.860 of western
01:01:28.180 civilization
01:01:28.700 it really
01:01:29.380 is
01:01:29.580 I mean
01:01:29.760 people aren't
01:01:30.140 having babies
01:01:30.660 he's exactly
01:01:31.360 right
01:01:31.660 people aren't
01:01:32.160 people aren't
01:01:32.500 getting married
01:01:33.020 at an age
01:01:34.060 where they
01:01:34.320 actually are
01:01:34.800 able to
01:01:35.120 grow up
01:01:35.340 with one
01:01:35.720 another
01:01:35.920 because your
01:01:36.300 wife shapes
01:01:36.780 you and you
01:01:37.220 shape her
01:01:37.660 and that makes
01:01:38.200 you both
01:01:38.500 better people
01:01:39.000 you know
01:01:39.800 when I married
01:01:40.580 my wife
01:01:40.960 I was
01:01:41.220 I just
01:01:41.740 turned 24
01:01:42.280 and she
01:01:42.900 was 20
01:01:43.360 and we've
01:01:44.680 spent our
01:01:45.160 lives growing
01:01:45.860 up together
01:01:46.360 right I mean
01:01:46.980 now I'm 38
01:01:47.560 and she's
01:01:49.140 you know
01:01:49.440 35 and
01:01:50.120 that's
01:01:50.780 that's a long
01:01:51.420 time to spend
01:01:51.880 half her life
01:01:53.120 you know
01:01:53.500 basically
01:01:53.880 we've spent
01:01:54.760 together
01:01:55.060 and that means
01:01:56.140 that you grow
01:01:56.680 and you change
01:01:57.260 and you have
01:01:57.560 experiences
01:01:58.000 and then you bring
01:02:00.140 to even more
01:02:00.640 than just the
01:02:01.080 marriage
01:02:01.380 and when
01:02:02.480 Jordan says
01:02:03.540 that if you're
01:02:04.240 40 and single
01:02:04.960 you're blowing it
01:02:05.560 he is cutting
01:02:06.040 directly against
01:02:06.720 the grain
01:02:07.080 of all current
01:02:07.920 conventional wisdom
01:02:08.680 which is the
01:02:09.100 best thing
01:02:09.400 that you can do
01:02:09.940 is delay marriage
01:02:10.720 and delay marriage
01:02:11.460 until you make
01:02:12.240 associate at the
01:02:12.880 law firm
01:02:13.220 working 2200 hours
01:02:14.540 well now they say
01:02:16.000 grow up and then
01:02:16.840 get married
01:02:17.360 and in the past
01:02:18.340 they said get
01:02:18.860 married and grow up
01:02:19.940 so that you can
01:02:20.800 grow up
01:02:21.200 my dad used to
01:02:21.980 make a point about
01:02:22.500 this he used to
01:02:22.960 say people would
01:02:23.900 ask him about
01:02:24.500 when to get
01:02:25.040 married and he
01:02:25.960 said well or
01:02:26.820 how to find the
01:02:27.260 right person
01:02:27.680 and what he always
01:02:28.320 said is you have
01:02:28.680 to make the
01:02:28.940 decision to get
01:02:29.600 married before
01:02:30.100 you find the
01:02:30.600 right person
01:02:31.000 because if you
01:02:32.080 didn't make the
01:02:32.520 decision that you
01:02:33.020 wanted to get
01:02:33.440 married then the
01:02:34.220 right person could
01:02:34.700 come along and
01:02:35.180 you could just
01:02:35.540 come out of the
01:02:37.120 water you actually
01:02:37.560 have to make the
01:02:38.100 cut like we live
01:02:38.800 in a society where
01:02:39.400 we sort of decide
01:02:40.160 the opposite
01:02:40.540 I'll fall in love
01:02:41.420 with the person
01:02:41.900 and then we'll
01:02:42.520 have sex and
01:02:43.320 then maybe like
01:02:43.800 four years down
01:02:44.400 the road we'll
01:02:44.760 get married we
01:02:45.440 completely reverse
01:02:46.060 the polarity and
01:02:47.320 the order of
01:02:48.060 events look at the
01:02:48.780 sitcoms from the
01:02:49.380 90s versus the
01:02:50.060 sitcoms from the
01:02:50.680 60s right in the
01:02:51.340 60s it was you
01:02:52.460 fall in love you get
01:02:53.400 married you have sex
01:02:54.380 now it's you have
01:02:55.780 sex and then it's
01:02:58.940 a big move in a
01:02:59.540 sitcom now is did
01:03:00.820 you fall in love
01:03:01.220 and then you never
01:03:01.600 get married I mean
01:03:02.160 marriage is so
01:03:03.140 past marriage is the
01:03:04.480 series finale you
01:03:05.680 know there's a
01:03:06.040 there's another
01:03:06.440 aspect of this which
01:03:07.380 is that as we
01:03:08.700 delay the onset of
01:03:10.580 adulthood the left
01:03:12.520 also wants to
01:03:13.400 reduce the age of
01:03:14.420 things like voting
01:03:15.140 you know I don't
01:03:16.780 think 18 year olds
01:03:17.640 today should be able
01:03:18.420 to vote is the
01:03:19.440 honest truth and
01:03:20.340 you could say well
01:03:20.880 you're saying that
01:03:21.480 people should be
01:03:21.900 able to serve in
01:03:22.440 the military and
01:03:23.040 they shouldn't be
01:03:23.500 able to vote well
01:03:24.120 I'll let those ones
01:03:24.860 vote because they're
01:03:25.660 doing something that
01:03:26.400 grows you up called
01:03:27.060 joining the military
01:03:27.640 but no I'm
01:03:28.940 the whole point of
01:03:29.940 having a voting age
01:03:30.760 is that we don't
01:03:31.200 want children voting
01:03:32.060 children aren't
01:03:33.100 mature they don't
01:03:33.780 have stakes they
01:03:34.400 don't understand the
01:03:35.040 stakes that they do
01:03:35.640 have so we don't
01:03:36.620 want it you know
01:03:37.160 Matt Matt got in a
01:03:38.200 little bit of trouble
01:03:38.720 for some comments
01:03:39.820 that he made back
01:03:40.320 when he was a shock
01:03:40.920 jock about at what
01:03:42.840 age people should
01:03:43.440 have sex and I
01:03:46.040 don't want to I
01:03:47.120 don't want to rehash
01:03:47.860 all the terrain except
01:03:48.780 to say that it is
01:03:50.360 at what age they
01:03:51.640 should get married
01:03:52.120 it is thank you it
01:03:53.300 is absolutely the case
01:03:54.580 that for the vast
01:03:55.600 majority of human
01:03:56.740 history people who
01:03:58.160 were of the age of
01:03:59.560 sexual maturity were
01:04:00.580 considered candidates
01:04:01.300 for marriage we all
01:04:02.800 agree now that that
01:04:04.060 cannot possibly be the
01:04:05.160 standard because you're
01:04:06.740 still a kid for so long
01:04:07.740 the reason it's it's
01:04:09.380 creepy for people to get
01:04:11.240 married super young now
01:04:12.280 because we know because
01:04:13.920 it cuts against everything
01:04:14.920 that we think about the
01:04:16.280 maturing process and the
01:04:17.300 age at which people
01:04:17.920 should be mature and in
01:04:20.680 some ways that's a
01:04:21.520 byproduct of our success
01:04:22.520 right we've been very
01:04:23.200 successful as a species
01:04:24.160 we we can protect
01:04:26.160 people younger we
01:04:26.900 don't have to shove
01:04:27.360 you out in the field
01:04:28.000 to work to work in the
01:04:29.880 sun when you're nine
01:04:30.620 years old we don't
01:04:31.940 have to put those
01:04:32.580 responsibilities your
01:04:33.060 life expectancy isn't
01:04:33.800 35 life expectancy
01:04:35.000 isn't 35 and so I
01:04:36.300 don't want to make it
01:04:36.840 sound as though every
01:04:37.760 aspect of that of that
01:04:39.140 progress that we've had
01:04:40.280 is bad but the the
01:04:44.220 fact that we say that
01:04:45.200 one should not grow up
01:04:46.660 or that they or that
01:04:47.460 marriage isn't an
01:04:48.080 instrumental part of the
01:04:49.260 process of growing up I
01:04:50.120 do think it's it used
01:04:51.000 to be that we said okay
01:04:52.180 we'll delay adulthood
01:04:52.940 right adulthood isn't
01:04:53.960 when you're 14 my my
01:04:55.240 wife's grandmother got
01:04:56.820 married to 14 in
01:04:57.440 Morocco right almost all
01:04:59.020 of our great-grandparents
01:04:59.860 probably the Virgin Mary
01:05:00.980 was probably 15 I mean
01:05:02.720 like the but we don't do
01:05:04.560 that anymore and but
01:05:05.280 real adulthood sets in
01:05:06.400 when you're 18 right and
01:05:07.680 now real adulthood sets in
01:05:09.040 after death that's the
01:05:10.600 idea in our society is
01:05:12.660 not to push back the
01:05:13.580 line a little bit so
01:05:14.620 that you actually have a
01:05:15.360 little bit more brain
01:05:15.880 development and can make
01:05:16.740 better decisions about
01:05:17.700 your values the idea is
01:05:19.020 obliterate the line so it
01:05:20.360 doesn't exist well the
01:05:21.120 problem with that goes
01:05:22.160 both ways one is
01:05:22.920 that you are
01:05:23.500 obliterating adulthood
01:05:24.700 so that you have fully
01:05:25.980 grown adults who are
01:05:26.480 acting like children the
01:05:27.420 other is if there's no
01:05:28.020 distinction between
01:05:28.880 adults and children then
01:05:30.100 you can start treating
01:05:30.720 children like adults
01:05:31.580 right and this is this is
01:05:32.980 what you're currently
01:05:33.500 seeing with the trans
01:05:34.680 movement the next thing
01:05:36.180 that's going to happen
01:05:36.700 again I think we are
01:05:38.120 living in that meme you
01:05:39.220 know that the slippery
01:05:39.780 slope meme we did a
01:05:40.860 whole podcast on this
01:05:41.680 last week the slippery
01:05:42.800 slope meme that shows
01:05:43.480 the slippery slope and
01:05:44.500 it shows no it's not
01:05:46.580 going to happen it's not
01:05:47.220 going to happen it's not
01:05:47.820 going to happen and
01:05:48.580 then the bottom there's
01:05:49.220 an arrow says you are
01:05:49.880 here yeah right and
01:05:50.840 that's exactly what it is
01:05:51.920 right I mean they keep
01:05:52.760 saying it's not going to
01:05:53.420 happen it's just it's a
01:05:54.300 it's never going to happen
01:05:55.220 we're never going to do
01:05:55.820 that well you guys are
01:05:57.820 currently making the
01:05:58.460 argument that a five-year-old
01:05:59.700 is capable of choosing
01:06:00.600 his gender so I'm going to
01:06:02.600 need you to explain how
01:06:03.540 it's okay for a five-year-old
01:06:04.440 to choose his his gender
01:06:05.780 for the rest of his life
01:06:06.960 but that child is not capable
01:06:09.420 of sexual choice somebody
01:06:11.000 somebody like I do by the
01:06:12.300 way I don't think a child
01:06:12.940 is capable of either so
01:06:13.880 I'm consistent so I'm
01:06:14.780 asking you why don't you
01:06:15.860 be consistent explain to
01:06:16.940 me how what you're saying
01:06:17.940 is that we're chopping off
01:06:18.940 their dicks at the age of
01:06:19.920 16 yeah but they're not
01:06:21.140 able what you're saying
01:06:21.860 is that we're on the
01:06:22.580 verge of the moment when
01:06:23.840 the left tries to say
01:06:24.860 that children can engage
01:06:26.820 in sex with adults
01:06:27.720 essentially yes I mean
01:06:28.860 and what they're going to
01:06:30.200 do is it's happening
01:06:30.940 also that very movement
01:06:32.660 oh 100% and what it'll
01:06:34.080 start with it'll start
01:06:34.800 with what they've
01:06:35.480 already started to do
01:06:36.140 this is sort of these
01:06:36.700 Romeo and Juliet laws
01:06:37.700 right it'll start with
01:06:38.460 it's okay for a 15-year-old
01:06:39.960 to have sex with a 13-year-old
01:06:40.880 what's really the problem
01:06:41.620 and then it'll be what
01:06:42.140 was 16 so bad and then
01:06:43.460 I was like what is 18 so
01:06:44.520 bad I mean there's so
01:06:45.200 I mean just just why I
01:06:46.040 disagree with you about
01:06:46.840 grooming I think they are
01:06:47.820 grooming children for
01:06:48.760 sexuality that that is
01:06:50.260 their that is their
01:06:51.860 definition of identity
01:06:52.860 well but is it that
01:06:54.000 you're disagreeing or
01:06:54.840 you're just you're
01:06:55.720 discussing the two sides
01:06:56.880 of the very same thing
01:06:57.820 which is you're
01:06:58.480 describing the physical
01:06:59.280 enactment of it you're
01:07:00.540 describing the metaphysical
01:07:01.400 version of it but but
01:07:02.380 the whole point is
01:07:03.000 they're kind of the same
01:07:04.560 you know they're kind of
01:07:05.500 intertwined by the way
01:07:06.440 by the way what you
01:07:07.640 talked about about
01:07:08.260 growing up in a marriage
01:07:10.300 is doubly important
01:07:12.760 because you're growing
01:07:13.500 up with a woman yes you
01:07:14.880 know I mean I I married
01:07:17.420 my wife like most people
01:07:18.600 marry their wife because
01:07:19.200 she was hot she was
01:07:19.900 beautiful she was fun she
01:07:20.920 was smart she was all
01:07:21.840 those things that really
01:07:23.300 attracted but it wasn't
01:07:24.320 till about 10 years after
01:07:26.220 we had been together when
01:07:27.600 I started to think like oh
01:07:29.340 you know like for the
01:07:30.520 first 10 years I was
01:07:31.220 thinking well of course
01:07:31.880 she has no capacity for
01:07:32.860 reason you know she's I
01:07:34.020 don't understand a word
01:07:34.960 she said but then I
01:07:35.720 kept noticing that she
01:07:36.480 was right a lot of the
01:07:37.520 time when she I couldn't
01:07:39.380 understand it I started to
01:07:40.600 think oh she's actually
01:07:41.520 seeing the world from a
01:07:43.120 different point of view and
01:07:44.160 that is like putting on
01:07:45.320 those red and blue
01:07:45.940 glasses that suddenly turn
01:07:47.540 the world into three
01:07:48.360 dimensions you're
01:07:49.240 suddenly become one
01:07:50.340 flesh one person and you
01:07:52.400 see things in a new and
01:07:53.780 deeper and richer way and
01:07:55.680 that to me transforms
01:07:56.960 everything yeah because you
01:07:58.560 know I'm never going to
01:07:59.400 stop being a guy she's
01:08:00.440 never going to stop being a
01:08:01.320 girl she's the girliest
01:08:02.260 girl I know I'm a very
01:08:03.540 guy like guy but but now
01:08:05.880 I live in a in a unity of
01:08:08.320 male female that actually
01:08:10.380 transforms everything into
01:08:12.060 reality into a reality you
01:08:13.880 don't see before and the
01:08:15.000 other the other advantage
01:08:15.960 getting you know it's kind
01:08:17.220 of like the is marriage the
01:08:18.760 cornerstone of adulthood or
01:08:20.360 the capstone and the
01:08:22.140 advantage to it being the
01:08:23.220 cornerstone of young
01:08:24.020 adulthood is that as you
01:08:25.420 said you're you're you're
01:08:26.720 building a life together and
01:08:28.260 existence together as
01:08:29.340 opposed to let's get
01:08:30.700 married when we're 35 or
01:08:31.620 40 and now I have I have
01:08:33.560 all of my own stuff yes
01:08:35.600 I have every everything is
01:08:37.000 mine I have my own my own
01:08:38.120 life my own money this is
01:08:39.300 all mine and now you are
01:08:40.940 coming into this thing that
01:08:42.060 I have built without you
01:08:43.160 and by the way all these
01:08:43.760 and all your own
01:08:44.220 experiences and all the
01:08:45.060 crap from your past right
01:08:46.160 which which you see really
01:08:46.980 break up marriages people
01:08:47.880 come in with all these
01:08:48.660 terrible experiences they've
01:08:49.540 already had with members of
01:08:50.260 the opposite sex and then
01:08:51.120 they get married and
01:08:52.120 they're already heavily
01:08:52.640 shaped and that's why we
01:08:53.560 hear so much about well
01:08:54.540 you know at the root of a
01:08:56.520 lot of divorces is money
01:08:57.540 and I guess that's the case
01:08:58.920 but for someone like
01:08:59.600 myself I got married young
01:09:00.680 I I can't even imagine
01:09:02.500 why that would be the
01:09:03.120 case we don't have any
01:09:03.760 money issues in my
01:09:04.580 marriage because all the
01:09:05.980 money I make the money
01:09:07.780 but it's it's our money
01:09:08.900 it's in a joint bank
01:09:09.460 account like it was in a
01:09:10.400 joint bank account
01:09:10.880 literally the day we got
01:09:11.660 married and I'm all and
01:09:12.900 I'm also aware because I
01:09:14.460 have as I've been growing
01:09:16.960 and building my career and
01:09:18.200 all that I've had my my
01:09:19.460 wife with me and none of
01:09:20.420 this would have happened
01:09:20.960 without her so it's very
01:09:21.960 clear to me one of the
01:09:23.160 things that this is
01:09:23.660 something we did together
01:09:24.220 for I think all of us so
01:09:25.720 I think none of us were
01:09:26.820 either rich or famous
01:09:28.040 some of us are still not
01:09:28.740 rich or famous but but
01:09:30.100 for for those of us who
01:09:30.900 are both wealthy and
01:09:32.100 famous for I think all of
01:09:33.700 us were married to our
01:09:34.620 spouses long before we had
01:09:35.860 any of those things and
01:09:37.020 that is a wonderful thing
01:09:38.180 it's a wonderful thing
01:09:39.060 it allows you married a
01:09:40.540 writer you know like that
01:09:41.540 I mean but the fact that
01:09:43.700 your spouse can still look
01:09:44.680 at you and this is what
01:09:45.820 you're saying you know if
01:09:46.580 you if the marriage
01:09:47.900 happens late this can't
01:09:48.840 happen the fact that my
01:09:49.720 wife can still look at me
01:09:50.460 as the person who you know
01:09:52.060 was 23 and just out of
01:09:53.460 law school and she can
01:09:54.600 say I see through all this
01:09:55.540 crap right like none of
01:09:56.300 this makes a bit of
01:09:57.260 difference to me right
01:09:58.400 the person who you are is
01:09:59.540 not the person who the
01:10:00.620 rest of the world sees it's
01:10:01.540 the person who I've known
01:10:02.900 since long before you were
01:10:03.900 that to the rest of the
01:10:04.960 world that's an amazing
01:10:05.920 thing it also gives you the
01:10:06.840 ability to have somebody
01:10:07.880 who calls you on your
01:10:08.400 bullshit which is like an
01:10:09.180 actual real thing once you
01:10:10.700 get you know to a certain
01:10:11.620 level of power people just
01:10:12.720 are really really afraid to
01:10:14.360 call you on your bullshit
01:10:15.060 and and having a group of
01:10:16.500 people whether it's
01:10:17.340 friends or particularly your
01:10:18.500 wife who's able to do
01:10:19.420 that is vital because if
01:10:20.980 you don't have that you
01:10:21.700 spin off the rails
01:10:22.400 incredibly fast yeah it
01:10:24.740 actually didn't occur to
01:10:25.780 me until you said that
01:10:26.560 that I think every single
01:10:27.780 one of us got married
01:10:28.740 relatively broke
01:10:30.400 yeah at least you're
01:10:31.980 right I think every
01:10:32.540 single one of us did
01:10:33.180 totally totally and it
01:10:34.140 did I have noticed too
01:10:35.700 that the harshest critic
01:10:37.400 and kind of best shaper of
01:10:39.280 my show is sweet little
01:10:41.080 Elisa where I'll have
01:10:42.200 something that I'm going
01:10:43.020 to do on the show or in
01:10:43.700 a speech or something
01:10:44.140 where I think it's
01:10:44.880 absolute dynamite and
01:10:46.520 you know Mike that it
01:10:48.340 just it just doesn't work
01:10:49.940 I'm sorry no I think no
01:10:52.680 but it actually now you're
01:10:53.700 right you're right she's
01:10:54.400 always right that's kind
01:10:55.140 of what we're talking
01:10:55.480 about with with Fetterman
01:10:56.740 is is that I think a
01:10:58.920 good wife is is your
01:11:01.080 number one fan she's
01:11:02.220 rooting for you she
01:11:02.980 really believes in you
01:11:03.980 and believes in your
01:11:04.760 your dreams and your
01:11:05.880 aspirations because you're
01:11:06.660 her number one fan also
01:11:07.460 right exactly but but
01:11:08.540 she also you know I
01:11:10.360 think as men we need a
01:11:11.340 woman to let us know
01:11:12.860 we're biting off more
01:11:13.680 than we can chew when
01:11:14.460 we when we've hatched
01:11:15.240 because as men we're
01:11:16.160 going to hatch all kinds
01:11:16.960 of crazy schemes and
01:11:17.840 plans I know that I do
01:11:18.640 anyway and and you need
01:11:20.340 a woman there to because
01:11:21.280 she could see that
01:11:21.900 blind spot and she's
01:11:22.820 gonna tell you well
01:11:23.280 that's that's not gonna
01:11:24.000 work whereas I think
01:11:24.820 for men on the other
01:11:25.660 hand this is my gender
01:11:27.820 stereotypical way of
01:11:28.640 looking at it is that you
01:11:29.700 know I rely on my wife
01:11:31.080 to let me know when I've
01:11:32.340 got some idea some plan
01:11:33.680 that's just like utterly
01:11:34.580 self-destructive it's
01:11:35.400 gonna destroy the whole
01:11:35.940 family
01:11:36.260 but by the way that
01:11:38.180 last sentence is the
01:11:39.060 key right with that last
01:11:39.980 part of the sentence
01:11:40.380 that it's gonna destroy
01:11:40.940 the whole family because
01:11:42.020 my wife tends to think
01:11:43.580 in terms of the effect
01:11:45.060 on the family right as a
01:11:46.780 man my my main thing is
01:11:48.360 like how what is my
01:11:49.220 effect on the world
01:11:49.780 I mean I literally do
01:11:50.480 that for a living what
01:11:51.120 is my effect on the
01:11:51.760 world what's my effect
01:11:52.520 on society what's my
01:11:53.420 effect on the people
01:11:53.940 who listen to the show
01:11:54.620 and so I'll try to
01:11:55.700 overcommit okay I want
01:11:56.740 to get all these things
01:11:57.480 done right I mean there's
01:11:58.040 so much to do before you
01:11:58.800 die right you got to get
01:11:59.940 out there you got to
01:12:00.420 travel you got to change
01:12:01.180 people you got to do
01:12:01.740 all this and my wife will
01:12:02.440 say yes but what about
01:12:03.420 the kids you know like do
01:12:04.560 you want to be away for
01:12:05.520 that night do you want to
01:12:06.160 be do you want to be able
01:12:06.800 to put the kids in bed
01:12:07.580 well I want you to finish
01:12:09.440 that thought yeah well
01:12:10.520 so I think on the other
01:12:11.580 side so that's that's
01:12:12.260 what we rely on on women
01:12:13.660 for I think on the other
01:12:15.300 hand as men you know
01:12:17.000 we women will tend to
01:12:19.620 get involved in you
01:12:20.920 know they might get
01:12:21.520 involved in personal
01:12:22.400 feuds and take things
01:12:23.460 very personally and and
01:12:25.060 have a have a tendency
01:12:26.160 to overreact in those
01:12:27.400 sorts of situations and
01:12:29.020 that's where men can be
01:12:30.480 the voice of reason and
01:12:31.300 say well I don't think
01:12:32.400 they really meant it
01:12:32.980 like that I don't think
01:12:33.740 that's exactly what now
01:12:34.780 it doesn't mean that
01:12:35.180 women are going to
01:12:35.540 listen all the time but
01:12:36.380 I do think that's the
01:12:37.300 kind of we're both that
01:12:38.360 we can both be the voice
01:12:39.360 of reason and calm for
01:12:40.520 each other in these
01:12:41.800 different situations and
01:12:42.780 see each other's blind
01:12:43.520 spots well we actually
01:12:44.760 have an explicit deal
01:12:45.760 with my wife which is
01:12:46.520 neither of us is allowed
01:12:47.280 to be we can we're not
01:12:48.020 allowed to be grumpy at
01:12:48.540 the same time we have
01:12:49.480 to take turns we'll
01:12:50.640 balance it out I'll
01:12:51.320 literally be like it's
01:12:52.060 my turn to be grumpy I
01:12:52.960 get to be grumpy right
01:12:53.680 now and she'll go okay
01:12:54.580 all right and then when
01:12:56.080 it's time for her to be
01:12:56.680 grumpy then I'll say okay
01:12:57.540 you know what you're
01:12:58.340 right it's your turn to
01:12:58.940 be grumpy and you do
01:13:00.380 need that balance and
01:13:01.220 again the differences
01:13:01.900 between men and women
01:13:02.560 are not only beautiful
01:13:04.180 they are vital and
01:13:05.460 pretending that those
01:13:06.080 differences are of no
01:13:07.360 consequence whatsoever and
01:13:09.180 that other alternative
01:13:09.880 forms of family
01:13:10.660 structure are therefore
01:13:11.480 equivalent in any way at
01:13:12.820 all they're
01:13:13.540 different they're
01:13:14.440 they're different I
01:13:15.320 mean there's no other
01:13:15.900 way to put this is why
01:13:17.080 I mean to both of these
01:13:18.220 points this is why the
01:13:19.900 the personal is the
01:13:20.900 political is so powerful
01:13:21.940 one it obviously came
01:13:23.640 from the feminists
01:13:24.380 because women tend to
01:13:25.900 be more personally
01:13:26.620 focused and
01:13:27.720 traditionally women took
01:13:28.860 care of the private
01:13:29.500 part of life and men
01:13:30.860 were more public
01:13:32.040 facing and more more
01:13:33.080 interested in the
01:13:33.540 political side and so
01:13:34.780 it's no surprise that
01:13:35.640 the feminists would then
01:13:36.560 seek to meld those two
01:13:37.880 but then it's it's
01:13:38.840 obviously the case that
01:13:40.480 the personal is the
01:13:41.780 political you know the
01:13:42.520 country is just made up
01:13:43.620 of people and of our
01:13:44.820 personal lives and so
01:13:45.920 we think of marriage as
01:13:46.840 being private well if
01:13:48.140 if if marriage becomes
01:13:49.820 completely distorted
01:13:51.140 that's obviously going to
01:13:52.580 have political effects and
01:13:53.620 you've seen that play out
01:13:54.420 now for 60 years it's
01:13:55.680 also amazing to me that
01:13:57.360 the left has managed to
01:13:58.320 take what is for most of
01:13:59.760 us the central
01:14:00.920 consolation of tragic life
01:14:02.700 yes and make it as they
01:14:04.380 say problematical I mean I
01:14:05.880 was just read you know I
01:14:06.820 was looking you know how
01:14:07.740 you have those things that
01:14:08.560 come up pop up on your
01:14:09.520 thing you might want to
01:14:10.360 look at this and it's just
01:14:11.080 clickbait and I fell for
01:14:13.160 it and I was reading some
01:14:14.120 buzzfeed thing about you
01:14:15.440 know tweets in marriage or
01:14:16.980 tweets about marriage and
01:14:18.360 it was all this kind of
01:14:19.280 low you know bathroom
01:14:21.800 humor is all about oh you
01:14:23.320 know now we're so intimate
01:14:24.320 we're in the bathroom
01:14:25.000 together all this stuff I
01:14:26.260 thought I don't do that I
01:14:28.020 live with a lady man I
01:14:29.400 don't treat her I don't
01:14:30.980 treat her like my sister you
01:14:32.160 know I treat her like my
01:14:33.340 wife you know went to the
01:14:34.120 bathroom with your sister
01:14:34.960 what's that I said you went
01:14:38.060 to the bathroom with your
01:14:38.920 sister I didn't have a
01:14:42.380 sister I probably would
01:14:43.180 have spied on her but no
01:14:45.700 I mean you know this is
01:14:46.700 this is actually the joy of
01:14:48.660 every day of every day that
01:14:50.240 you are living with a woman
01:14:51.600 which is one of the fun
01:14:52.740 happy things of life it's a
01:14:54.600 celebratory thing to your
01:14:55.960 point too because this came
01:14:57.460 up in my in our members
01:14:59.080 block I've got an email from
01:15:03.080 a from a guy I don't think
01:15:04.460 he's a leftist at all in fact
01:15:05.320 I know he's not and and but
01:15:07.420 he was of this you know
01:15:08.680 certain certain frame of
01:15:10.480 mind that well we're just
01:15:11.660 going to give up on you
01:15:12.620 know men should just give
01:15:13.260 up on marriage it's a
01:15:13.940 losing game it doesn't it
01:15:15.640 doesn't work it's it's the
01:15:17.080 system's rigged against us
01:15:18.040 go your own way family
01:15:19.160 courts are rigged against
01:15:19.980 us and all that and and
01:15:21.240 then he reveals at the end
01:15:22.060 that you know he apparently
01:15:23.420 he was married and it didn't
01:15:24.400 work out and you know you
01:15:25.840 don't have sex anymore when
01:15:26.860 you get married all this
01:15:27.500 kind of stuff and so he had
01:15:28.820 a negative experience with
01:15:29.500 he's projecting it on to
01:15:30.540 everybody else saying this is
01:15:31.660 how it's going to be for
01:15:32.220 everybody younger men hear
01:15:33.800 this and they take it to
01:15:34.860 heart when of course our
01:15:36.640 message has to be well
01:15:37.340 that was his experience
01:15:37.980 doesn't have to be
01:15:38.420 everyone's but also it's
01:15:40.740 important to have the
01:15:41.400 message that what you're
01:15:42.780 articulating there are
01:15:43.940 there are risks in
01:15:44.780 marriage and some of that
01:15:46.480 is just the nature of the
01:15:48.240 beast it's human nature
01:15:49.160 some of it is built into
01:15:50.460 our system I mean I think
01:15:51.400 the family courts are
01:15:52.080 rigged against against men
01:15:53.880 it is a risk but it's it's
01:15:56.540 a it's a risk worth taking
01:15:58.140 because of what you get
01:15:59.020 out you know I have a
01:15:59.480 solution to this this is
01:16:00.780 the Knowles prenup because
01:16:02.580 I've I know people's
01:16:04.000 marriages who have broken
01:16:04.720 down and the main reason
01:16:05.720 they break down is
01:16:06.780 because they two people
01:16:08.260 go in with a completely
01:16:09.200 different understanding of
01:16:10.300 marriage and so naturally
01:16:11.620 it's going to break down
01:16:12.520 so sometimes people write
01:16:13.820 in I don't want to get a
01:16:14.940 prenup because I have
01:16:16.060 this you know sacred
01:16:17.340 traditional view of
01:16:18.000 marriage but I don't know
01:16:18.980 these days the courts are
01:16:20.000 rigged against men and we
01:16:20.940 got our own stuff and
01:16:21.860 blah blah blah whatever so
01:16:23.020 the Knowles prenup is this
01:16:24.340 when you both have the
01:16:25.960 same idea of marriage and
01:16:27.180 you're both committed to
01:16:28.020 it you sign a prenup saying
01:16:29.740 okay whoever breaks up the
01:16:32.280 marriage whoever wants out
01:16:33.220 of the marriage forfeits
01:16:34.560 everything forfeits the
01:16:35.900 money forfeits the house
01:16:36.980 forfeits the kids forfeits
01:16:38.480 everything maybe you have
01:16:39.220 a few exceptions and some
01:16:40.400 kind of crazy but that's
01:16:41.800 domestic abuse or what you
01:16:43.800 know but you know you have
01:16:44.900 these little carve outs but
01:16:45.860 you say okay that's my I
01:16:47.480 think that would be a way
01:16:48.360 to use the legal system
01:16:49.460 that's rigged against
01:16:50.120 marriage to help save
01:16:51.220 marriage was always a
01:16:51.880 contract right right I
01:16:53.100 mean like it's literally in
01:16:54.140 in Judaism what got me
01:16:55.520 married is called the
01:16:56.260 ketubah it's literally a
01:16:57.400 contract it is framed it is
01:16:58.680 in my house okay the
01:16:59.640 ketubah is written in
01:17:00.580 Aramaic and it specifies
01:17:01.660 things like my duties to
01:17:03.640 her and her duties to me
01:17:04.740 and these things include
01:17:05.680 like providing for the
01:17:06.600 family a sex life like
01:17:07.800 these like the basic
01:17:09.000 things of marriage but
01:17:09.840 we've been we become so
01:17:10.800 individualized that even
01:17:11.980 the things that everybody
01:17:12.660 understood are part of
01:17:13.340 marriage are no longer
01:17:14.000 considered part of
01:17:14.660 marriage right like
01:17:15.580 Dennis Prager got himself
01:17:16.380 in all sorts of hot water
01:17:17.300 I remember a few years ago
01:17:18.260 for suggesting that in a
01:17:19.540 marriage a woman has
01:17:20.480 responsibility to have
01:17:21.260 sex with her husband oh
01:17:22.160 my god they did this to
01:17:23.000 my sister-in-law Caitlin
01:17:24.260 they right how dare you
01:17:27.040 say no there is never an
01:17:29.040 obligation to have sex well
01:17:30.260 I mean okay then there's
01:17:30.880 not an obligation for the
01:17:32.040 marriage to continue I
01:17:32.820 mean like that's that's
01:17:33.720 obviously conjugal duties are
01:17:35.500 part of of marriage they
01:17:36.840 always have been in fact one
01:17:38.300 of the chief draws of
01:17:39.540 marriage was the conjugal
01:17:40.620 duties yeah from the very
01:17:41.740 beginning and the bible
01:17:42.480 actually explicitly says not
01:17:44.500 to withhold yourselves from
01:17:45.480 one of them I mean again
01:17:46.500 like this this notion that
01:17:48.220 you only have sex when you
01:17:49.940 are in just the greatest
01:17:51.120 possible mood then no one
01:17:52.480 would ever have sex pretty
01:17:53.140 much ever except for dudes
01:17:54.140 right I mean like that's
01:17:54.800 that's just the way that it
01:17:55.880 would work but it's but
01:17:56.900 it's it's an absurdity that's
01:17:58.300 been pressed forward by the
01:17:59.220 radical individualism that
01:18:00.540 we've been talking about so
01:18:01.960 far all along the way
01:18:03.120 there's something else when
01:18:03.740 it comes to marriage also and
01:18:04.760 that of course is is the the
01:18:06.820 the fact that you said that
01:18:07.680 it's one of the great
01:18:08.220 consolations in the face of
01:18:09.480 tragic life well the greatest
01:18:10.720 consolation in the face of
01:18:11.700 tragic life is marriage
01:18:12.820 because it produces children
01:18:13.860 which is the challenge to
01:18:14.720 death right the way that you
01:18:15.820 overcome death as human
01:18:17.040 beings is you have future
01:18:18.160 generations and this is
01:18:19.060 clearly laid out in
01:18:20.100 Genesis this is perfectly
01:18:21.280 obvious okay when you look
01:18:22.700 at the story of Genesis it's
01:18:23.680 so beautiful right when you
01:18:24.460 look at the very beginning of
01:18:25.180 the book of Genesis and it
01:18:26.600 talks about a man shall leave
01:18:28.460 his family and he shall
01:18:29.280 leave to his wife and
01:18:29.880 they'll become one flesh at
01:18:31.060 the very beginning it talks
01:18:31.640 about Adam and Eve Eve
01:18:33.080 doesn't have a name at the
01:18:35.140 beginning she's just woman
01:18:36.220 for the first several
01:18:37.060 chapters of the Bible she's
01:18:38.140 just woman right he's Adam
01:18:39.880 his name doesn't change
01:18:40.720 she's Adam which just means
01:18:42.120 man and she's and she's
01:18:44.000 Isha right she's woman the
01:18:45.760 only time that she gets a
01:18:46.640 name is when she has a kid
01:18:47.360 once she has a kid he
01:18:48.780 renames her and he why
01:18:49.580 because she's the mother of
01:18:50.280 all living right Eve is the
01:18:51.840 mother of all that's when
01:18:52.600 she loses his sense of her up
01:18:54.480 until that point she's just
01:18:55.420 my other half right she's just
01:18:56.480 my complimentary half she's
01:18:57.820 not an actual individual
01:18:58.740 who's worth respecting as a
01:19:00.700 different person then she
01:19:02.660 has kids and suddenly I see
01:19:03.720 her as as something else
01:19:05.220 this is one of the most
01:19:05.780 amazing things about this
01:19:06.940 book by Judith Butler this
01:19:08.080 gender trouble I don't think
01:19:09.540 there's a single mention of
01:19:10.820 motherhood in the entire
01:19:11.940 book and I kept thinking I
01:19:13.420 kept thinking you know this
01:19:14.540 is this idea that there's no
01:19:15.800 such thing as a telos there's
01:19:16.980 no such thing as a purpose to
01:19:18.140 anything it's all this kind
01:19:19.300 of random thing that just
01:19:20.740 unfolds but if sex has any
01:19:23.060 purpose and of course it does
01:19:24.480 why would we have it it's to
01:19:25.800 create it's also like if you
01:19:27.000 wrote a book about Superman
01:19:28.000 you don't mention that he
01:19:28.760 can fly ever like it never
01:19:30.560 it's exactly right I think
01:19:32.460 like well that that is kind
01:19:34.160 of a defining factor of why
01:19:36.380 we're here together and what
01:19:37.700 happened that's it they've
01:19:38.500 obliterated but they've
01:19:39.200 obliterated the meaning of
01:19:39.920 that Dylan Mulvaney did an
01:19:41.060 entire video for Ulta talking
01:19:42.940 about how he can be a mother
01:19:44.180 no no you effing can no you
01:19:47.880 cannot I want to talk about
01:19:49.020 this point that you made
01:19:49.860 though that we all were broke
01:19:50.900 when we got married because
01:19:52.740 that actually is I think there
01:19:55.180 are so many lies put forward in
01:19:56.980 the culture about marriage and
01:19:58.220 most of the lies target men but
01:20:00.500 not all of the lies there are a
01:20:02.180 bunch of terrible lies on social
01:20:03.600 media that target women and
01:20:04.680 women perpetuate them and I
01:20:06.220 hate them all this like it's
01:20:07.660 wine 30 kind of bullshit that you
01:20:09.380 see everywhere in in in woman
01:20:11.880 culture I hate it because it
01:20:13.540 essentially says that being being
01:20:15.940 a wife and a mother is something
01:20:17.220 that you need to basically drown
01:20:18.820 out that it's just miserable and
01:20:20.420 misery and terrible it's awful but
01:20:22.720 but a lot of the cultural lies
01:20:24.220 are aimed at men you will have
01:20:26.900 less sex when you get married
01:20:28.140 people married never have sex
01:20:29.340 that's a lot the only people who
01:20:30.740 have sex are married what are you
01:20:32.880 talking it is true that you will
01:20:34.520 have sex with fewer distinct
01:20:36.680 humans hopefully yeah hopefully
01:20:38.380 once you're married unless you
01:20:40.040 although by the way today that
01:20:41.560 ain't even true given the rise of
01:20:43.100 pornography to go back to our
01:20:44.180 conversation from last time that
01:20:45.260 probably ain't true but it is
01:20:47.560 certainly the case that on average
01:20:49.580 married people have far far far
01:20:51.920 more sex but because they have a
01:20:55.360 partner to whom they have
01:20:56.220 obligations you'll have less
01:20:58.640 money you get so much richer once
01:21:00.880 you're married and have
01:21:01.480 obligation the thing about men is
01:21:04.760 that men only only want as much as
01:21:06.880 they need basically when they're
01:21:08.120 single that's that's the that's
01:21:10.240 true it's true it's why you walk
01:21:12.380 into a man's apartment and it's
01:21:13.460 like a box with a TV on it and a
01:21:15.020 toaster that's right totally it's
01:21:16.680 when you have responsibilities that
01:21:18.120 you begin to earn yes I was dead
01:21:19.580 broke when I got married and I've
01:21:22.440 only I've been married since 2009
01:21:24.180 and I am not dead broke but if you
01:21:26.680 if you look at the it is a hockey
01:21:28.680 stick graph yeah if you look at
01:21:30.500 here's here's Jeremy's life before
01:21:31.920 he gets married oh my gosh he
01:21:33.320 figured it out now part of how I
01:21:35.100 figured it out is that men helped
01:21:36.480 me understand as I've discussed
01:21:38.100 before that my values about money
01:21:40.180 needed to actually be practiced and
01:21:41.520 and and my friend Frank Brunner also
01:21:43.620 helped me with that problem but
01:21:45.340 marriage is the fundamental thing
01:21:47.240 that changed responsibility is fun
01:21:49.080 and then you get a kid and you're
01:21:51.220 like oh I really I've really got a
01:21:52.900 oh yeah and it's and by the way it's
01:21:54.640 not because you're like well crap now
01:21:56.400 I've got to take care of this kid
01:21:58.100 crap now I have to give up what I
01:21:59.480 want I had I had so many dreams in
01:22:02.060 life they picked me my dreams picked
01:22:04.740 me up out of my small town they moved
01:22:07.080 me west to a place that I'd never been
01:22:08.780 they dropped me in a city that didn't
01:22:10.520 want me they they motivated me to
01:22:13.440 grind it out to work so hard I
01:22:15.840 couldn't figure out how to make
01:22:16.480 money but I worked so hard I was so
01:22:18.740 devoted to pursuing those things all
01:22:22.540 my dreams came true once I had
01:22:24.300 responsibilities it's not as though I
01:22:26.180 had to give up all my dreams and then
01:22:27.780 go grind it out at the salt mine I
01:22:29.780 provide for my kids it's the exact
01:22:31.240 opposite yep I gotta tell you I was
01:22:33.060 just talking to a young man a very
01:22:35.520 good-looking young man with a lot of
01:22:37.260 money single thank you
01:22:38.580 it was a different another very good
01:22:41.780 looking no and he was telling me how
01:22:44.500 you date today and he has 10 apps on
01:22:46.940 his phone and he says if I don't have
01:22:49.960 sex with a girl by the second date you
01:22:51.900 know it's it's it's not and he was but
01:22:53.640 he was complaining about the fact that
01:22:55.080 he couldn't find a wife and I said to
01:22:56.800 him you know there was a point in my
01:22:59.380 married life when I saw that the default
01:23:02.200 for sex had become yes instead of no
01:23:04.060 which it was when I was young the
01:23:05.160 default was no you convinced a woman
01:23:06.920 and that that changed now women have
01:23:09.040 to work to say no I said there was a
01:23:11.460 point where I kind of envied young men
01:23:13.380 for growing up in this sex positive
01:23:15.540 world where they could just have it
01:23:17.280 anytime they essentially wanted I said
01:23:19.020 but when I listen to you I actually
01:23:21.260 don't envy you at all because this is
01:23:23.340 reduced you to an animal and he was he
01:23:26.160 said you're right yeah you know I he
01:23:28.320 said I can't I can't fall in love
01:23:30.020 because I think oh you know there
01:23:31.580 might be somebody else who will sleep
01:23:32.900 with me down the road and I just
01:23:34.520 thought this is like an actual
01:23:35.700 tragic situation it's the situation
01:23:37.820 that we watch movies and you watch
01:23:39.520 pornography and this is what they're
01:23:40.800 offering you and everybody thinks they
01:23:42.460 want it but to actually live it is
01:23:45.040 very very depressing yeah I think one of
01:23:47.860 the one of the the purest joys available
01:23:50.020 to men that you can't understand until
01:23:52.240 you actually have kids is the joy of
01:23:54.700 providing there's just there's a certain
01:23:57.540 joy in being able to provide for your
01:23:59.320 family and you know I'm gonna have six
01:24:01.400 kids now and the fact that I can
01:24:04.860 actually provide for for seven human
01:24:08.540 beings is it's just an is an enormous
01:24:11.200 profound joy that I think you're welcome
01:24:13.460 are you not gonna eat or is your wife
01:24:17.280 not where's the seven but I also think
01:24:20.840 you know Jordan brought up to start the
01:24:24.820 conversation was that you're not really
01:24:26.260 like a man until you until you have kids
01:24:28.060 and have a family I think that's part of
01:24:29.860 that is because being an adult is is is
01:24:33.320 learning how to serve learning how to
01:24:34.480 find joy and service that's part of
01:24:35.900 adulthood yes which which means that you
01:24:37.560 know you can there are other paths not
01:24:39.480 not everybody is called to to be a parent
01:24:42.360 or there are other forms of fatherhood
01:24:44.100 anyway like in the religious life for
01:24:45.220 example yeah but that is just another
01:24:47.000 form of fatherhood for a man and it also
01:24:49.120 is centered around service and if you're if
01:24:51.320 you're not if you're not living a life of
01:24:53.220 service then you're not you're not an adult
01:24:54.800 and you know there was a psychologist
01:24:56.960 whose name I forget so I'm just gonna
01:24:59.060 take his point and claim it as my own
01:25:00.940 which was he he defined addiction as the
01:25:04.440 constant narrowing of things that give
01:25:06.520 you pleasure and recovery as the
01:25:09.160 expansion of things that give you
01:25:10.240 pleasure and this is so true because you
01:25:12.600 know when we're just living for our own
01:25:14.020 base appetites and we reduce ourselves
01:25:15.500 to animals it's always just some kind of
01:25:17.660 form of idolatry and addiction so it
01:25:19.920 could be drugs or booze or sex or porn or
01:25:22.560 whatever but ultimately if you've ever
01:25:24.880 fallen into any of these temptations you
01:25:27.920 have experienced that the things that it
01:25:30.160 just that becomes the thing that gives
01:25:31.820 you pleasure and it crowds out everything
01:25:33.880 else and so necessarily when you get
01:25:36.360 married when you have children hopefully
01:25:38.440 when you I don't know you know go to
01:25:40.100 church or something when you serve others
01:25:41.720 in your community when there are many
01:25:43.220 other things as well it but especially
01:25:45.420 with a family it just so inevitably expands
01:25:50.280 your capacity for joy and the categories
01:25:53.020 of things that give you joy it just
01:25:54.840 breaks those idolatries and addiction
01:25:56.720 the thing about service though to me is
01:25:58.560 everything because there there are
01:26:00.340 there's a bad way of doing everything
01:26:03.780 and a good way of doing everything and
01:26:05.300 ambition is one of those things and if
01:26:07.000 what you're ambitious ambitious about is
01:26:09.120 to serve your family and also to serve
01:26:11.040 to find out what you can do that is
01:26:12.980 actually worthwhile to somebody else you
01:26:15.520 you have a very pure ambition that
01:26:17.560 actually doesn't depend on money though
01:26:19.380 hopefully it will bring money in and it
01:26:21.780 just makes you so much happier so much
01:26:24.040 it's so much richer way to live there's
01:26:26.340 something to be said here about you know
01:26:27.560 when you talk about serving your family
01:26:29.880 one of the things that you see very
01:26:31.200 often these days is the idea that I'm
01:26:32.440 going to serve humanity and men always
01:26:33.860 have this kind of appetite to serve
01:26:35.300 humanity and it's an immature appetite
01:26:36.860 because you can't serve all of humanity
01:26:38.260 and politicians are right now and
01:26:40.520 politicians are constantly talking in
01:26:41.980 these terms right I care about all the
01:26:43.540 children I care about Nancy Pelosi does
01:26:45.620 this all the time I'm doing this all for
01:26:47.340 the children chomping away on her on her
01:26:49.120 chompers and you know and all the rest
01:26:51.200 of this and and the reality is that the
01:26:53.280 best politicians are people who I think
01:26:56.040 I'm be stereotypical now they do have
01:26:58.400 families because they know what it's
01:26:59.840 like to take care of a family and then
01:27:01.040 they say the values that I have in my
01:27:02.460 family are values that I think might be
01:27:04.540 promulgated for other families so they
01:27:06.180 can have a happy life like that like the
01:27:07.600 life that I have and and when you don't
01:27:09.180 have that when there's nothing to go
01:27:10.380 home to when you've never lived in the
01:27:11.620 context of that and seen all the
01:27:12.940 competing interests and and when
01:27:14.340 you've never really had that locally I
01:27:16.120 think it's very difficult to not become
01:27:17.880 a utopian world creator right because
01:27:19.940 family life presses in on you right it
01:27:22.020 sets it sets rules for you yeah those
01:27:23.780 you can't break those rules you think
01:27:25.660 you're in control because you ain't in
01:27:26.600 control of your kids your kids are in
01:27:27.620 control you right you're in control to a
01:27:29.400 certain extent but in the end you're not
01:27:31.600 I mean like the fact is that there's
01:27:33.160 just gonna be realities that you run up
01:27:34.460 against because that's the way life is
01:27:36.200 it gives you a certain level of
01:27:37.500 humility going into the political world
01:27:39.220 and maybe you try to achieve the really
01:27:41.120 what family to me is about you try to
01:27:42.660 achieve the really key things the most
01:27:44.220 important things right it's liberty
01:27:45.540 within the important things as a parent
01:27:47.340 you're only gonna get a few chances to
01:27:48.940 inculcate the really important things
01:27:50.600 in your kids that really really matter
01:27:52.220 so you build entire structures entire
01:27:53.620 worlds around them to inculcate these
01:27:55.760 really important things but the rest of
01:27:56.800 the time you're not in control well the
01:27:58.120 same thing is true in politics but when
01:27:59.760 you never have that experience then the
01:28:01.900 tendency is to say well I care about
01:28:03.460 all of humanity equally all of
01:28:05.160 humanity can be molded in my utopian
01:28:06.880 vision I can change all the rules for
01:28:08.200 everybody I can control every aspect of
01:28:09.760 their life and sex all the things it's
01:28:10.840 fascinating how many of the leaders of
01:28:12.520 Europe over the past 15 years have been
01:28:14.760 childless yes so many of them and and I
01:28:16.740 think it it also you know there is this
01:28:18.600 idea that at some point you start to
01:28:21.620 think well this is going to happen in 30
01:28:23.060 years I'm not going to be here I don't
01:28:24.460 care but if you have kids you start to
01:28:26.120 care you know you have grandkids you
01:28:27.280 really you really and you do it does
01:28:28.860 really worry you when you see so many of
01:28:31.620 these crazy activists with all the crazy
01:28:33.540 hair that protested your rally met that
01:28:35.820 they don't have kids yeah almost without
01:28:38.740 exception they don't have kids and
01:28:40.420 they're really really interested in your
01:28:42.580 kids yeah and that's a horrible
01:28:44.120 combination because they have no frame
01:28:45.580 of context their view is totally wrong
01:28:47.680 and and and but they have that desire to
01:28:50.940 shape the next generation they just want
01:28:52.760 to shape your next generation yeah on
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01:29:16.480 one of them is election night November
01:29:19.720 8th it's coming up we're gonna be here
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01:29:35.560 one other really big thing that that
01:29:37.520 just happened today and that's that
01:29:39.480 Andrew Klavan released his 1,000th book
01:29:42.260 he's been back when he first started
01:29:45.500 writing you had to hand write on papyrus
01:29:47.980 every individual chisel
01:29:49.340 but Andrew released today the sequel to
01:29:54.640 his Christmas thriller from last year and
01:29:57.100 Ben said that I would forget the name of
01:29:58.580 it he was absolutely right Andrew tell us
01:30:00.840 tell us about the book strange habit of
01:30:02.840 mind it is the sequel to when Christmas
01:30:04.560 comes I am I have finally created a
01:30:07.260 character in Cameron winter that I want
01:30:08.800 to make a series build a series around
01:30:11.100 which I've never done before go and buy
01:30:13.640 this book first of all it's already
01:30:14.860 gotten all these beautiful reviews
01:30:16.540 incredible reviews on Amazon and I think
01:30:19.460 people are gonna love it how long did
01:30:20.580 those take you yeah I'm still writing
01:30:22.900 what's the first one sold out super
01:30:24.500 quick I mean it was gone I know it's
01:30:26.820 we went through like three four
01:30:28.060 printings right away but this this one
01:30:29.940 they printed more copies so that's good
01:30:32.020 but if you go out and buy it a you'll
01:30:34.400 love it and be you will show the
01:30:36.220 publisher that this is a series and I've
01:30:38.040 got I've got at least 10 great stories
01:30:39.780 for this guy you want to write 10 books
01:30:41.380 around this character I do that's
01:30:43.000 unbelievable that's great yeah and it's
01:30:45.160 available right now available today it's
01:30:47.200 called a strange habit of mind a
01:30:48.340 strange habit of mind I actually did
01:30:49.900 remember what it's called so go get
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