The Michael Knowles Show - September 30, 2022


Ep. 1099 - Russia Unleashes Its New Transgender Super Spy


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48 minutes

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178.24654

Word Count

8,726

Sentence Count

653

Misogynist Sentences

34

Hate Speech Sentences

42


Summary

A man who thinks that he is a lady got confused about which country he is supposed to be serving. It s a regular man bites dog kind of story. And today we re just trying to make sense of it. Subscribe now at GoodRanchers and get FREE meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE.


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00:00:37.660 The Department of Justice announced yesterday that the U.S. Army's first ever transgender officer
00:00:43.300 has been indicted for trying to provide confidential health records to someone he believed to be a Russian agent.
00:00:51.520 And today, we're just trying to make sense of the shocking news.
00:00:55.740 Who could have possibly foreseen that a severely mentally ill man might do something unusual and disordered?
00:01:04.700 It just doesn't add up.
00:01:06.900 A man who thinks that he is a lady got confused about which country he is supposed to be serving.
00:01:14.180 It's a regular man bites dog kind of story.
00:01:16.660 That word service keeps coming back to me because while now, ever since the Obama administration,
00:01:24.620 the U.S. military has become a place of entitlement for people with all sorts of circumstances
00:01:30.000 that make them less than fit for the battlefield, it was not always that way.
00:01:35.160 In the way back olden days of about a decade ago, the U.S. military was an institution dedicated to service.
00:01:44.680 Not to affirmative action.
00:01:46.800 Not to the affirmation of delusion.
00:01:50.480 Service.
00:01:51.760 Tough guys signing up to sacrifice to protect the rest of us.
00:01:56.840 Now that dynamic has flipped.
00:01:59.880 Not just in the military, but throughout virtually all of our institutions.
00:02:04.300 An inversion that has already led to far greater disorder than a man in a dress.
00:02:10.100 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:10.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:11.660 Welcome back to the show.
00:02:20.740 I just, I'm just trying to make sense of it.
00:02:22.780 It just doesn't make sense.
00:02:24.020 My favorite comment yesterday from Snooki G, who says,
00:02:27.320 Frankly, I am less surprised that Lizzo was given this priceless and irreplaceable item to desecrate
00:02:33.240 than I am that she didn't purposefully break it as a protest against slavery and oppression.
00:02:39.260 I suppose, you know, Lizzo, though, actually is a flautist.
00:02:43.620 So I suspect she actually really enjoyed playing the flute.
00:02:45.860 But for the libs who set this whole thing up, yeah, it's true.
00:02:48.960 They hate James Madison.
00:02:50.240 It's all a big political stunt.
00:02:52.020 Founding Fathers bad, racist, terrible, evil, America bad.
00:02:56.180 This is just making a mockery of all of that,
00:02:58.160 which is why you have this lady jiggling around with barely any clothes on,
00:03:02.080 making a mockery of James Madison's flute.
00:03:04.540 But they wouldn't destroy it, necessarily, at least not at first,
00:03:08.500 because in many ways these national symbols that they desecrate,
00:03:15.600 actually those symbols and institutions have more value to the libs
00:03:20.160 if they are kept around in some way.
00:03:23.780 So the institutions and the symbols have more value to the libs
00:03:27.080 if the libs can just destroy them, rip out their guts,
00:03:31.580 invade them like invasion of the body snatchers,
00:03:34.140 and then kind of prance around in them.
00:03:36.120 And this is true of virtually all of the institutions, the church.
00:03:39.720 The libs go into the churches.
00:03:41.140 They gut the churches.
00:03:42.340 They pull out all the stuff that make the churches the churches.
00:03:44.680 And then they go in and turn them into some kind of woke machine
00:03:49.120 with the facade of a church that's more useful to the libs.
00:03:52.540 It's true of our executive agencies.
00:03:54.740 It's true of the universities.
00:03:56.020 It's true of the media.
00:03:56.780 It's true of everything.
00:03:58.160 And so I don't think that the libs will destroy it yet.
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00:05:21.500 On the civilian side of things, putting the military aside for a second,
00:05:25.640 on the civilian side of things, Virgin Airlines has just made a big announcement.
00:05:31.240 They've got a big dress code change for their stewardesses, and now stewards, I guess,
00:05:36.240 also in the airline.
00:05:38.140 Because, well, it's a little confusing, I guess,
00:05:40.680 because now the stewards can dress like the stewardesses,
00:05:42.780 and the stewardesses can dress like the stewards.
00:05:45.080 Virgin announces, we've changed our uniform code to give our crew, pilot, and ground teams
00:05:51.060 the option to choose which of our iconic uniforms designed by Vivian Westwood best represents them.
00:06:00.300 That was a Freudian slip, because now the uniforms are going to be ironic rather than iconic,
00:06:04.400 because the men are going to dress like ladies and vice versa.
00:06:06.860 My first reaction when hearing this announcement,
00:06:11.460 do you remember when the service industry was about serving customers?
00:06:17.780 Do you remember that? That was a long time ago.
00:06:20.500 I've worked in the service industry before.
00:06:22.300 I've worked in restaurants. I've worked catering.
00:06:24.040 I've worked at fast food.
00:06:25.000 I've worked, and call me old-fashioned, when I was coming up in those jobs,
00:06:29.340 the point was to give the customer what the customer wanted.
00:06:33.680 The customer was always right.
00:06:34.780 Your job in the service industry is to make the customer feel more comfortable, feel better.
00:06:42.660 I do not want to see some husky, deluded man wearing a skirt on my flight.
00:06:49.700 I never fly Virgin anyway, but if I were to fly Virgin, I mean, it's a completely failing airline.
00:06:54.500 This is probably some last gasp, desperate effort to save their stock.
00:06:58.440 But if I did ever find myself on one of those airplanes,
00:07:01.720 I would not want to see some husky, confused dude prancing around pretending to be a chick.
00:07:06.460 I don't like that as the customer.
00:07:08.160 Now, you might say, well, what about the stewardess or steward?
00:07:12.400 I don't care.
00:07:13.820 My job is not to accommodate them.
00:07:17.480 Their job is to accommodate me as the customer.
00:07:20.580 And then when I'm working in the service industry,
00:07:22.620 my job is to accommodate my customers.
00:07:24.880 I remember I was working a catering job many years ago.
00:07:29.300 And the manager who was running the shop, he said, okay, I remember, guys, what is this all about?
00:07:36.180 What are we all doing here?
00:07:37.480 What's the purpose of this job?
00:07:38.780 And in my mind, I thought, I don't know, to make a little bit of money and then go home.
00:07:42.680 But no, that's the consequence of it.
00:07:45.160 Sure, I guess that's why we wake up and go to work to some degree.
00:07:49.180 We got to feed ourselves, put a roof over our head.
00:07:51.120 But what is the purpose of that industry?
00:07:53.260 The purpose of that industry is to serve the customer.
00:07:55.380 And we've totally inverted that now.
00:07:57.540 Now it's all about making the service people feel good about themselves.
00:08:03.600 And it's true in the military, too.
00:08:05.100 The military, which was all about sacrifice.
00:08:08.580 And you sign up and you put yourself in danger and you don't get paid very much
00:08:12.200 and you don't get good food and you don't get to sleep very well.
00:08:14.560 And it's just hard.
00:08:15.380 It's a really hard job.
00:08:16.700 But you do that because you are serving the public.
00:08:19.540 And now, what do we hear from the military?
00:08:21.820 Well, it's my right as a transsexual, gay, lesbian, this, that, the other thing.
00:08:29.000 It's my right to serve in combat.
00:08:30.740 No, it's not your right.
00:08:32.520 The military is not about your rights at all.
00:08:35.480 You sign your rights away when you join the military.
00:08:38.640 At least you're supposed to.
00:08:39.960 It's supposed to be about sacrificing other people.
00:08:42.580 But we can't think that way anymore.
00:08:43.900 Our cult of selfishness, which you saw led by the left, but it has not exactly been resisted
00:08:52.620 by the right either.
00:08:53.640 The right has embraced its own version of the cult of selfishness.
00:08:56.800 Greed is good.
00:08:58.160 Money at all costs.
00:08:59.720 Wolf of Wall Street kind of Ayn Rand style right-wingedness in America.
00:09:03.520 It's just the flip side of that kind of selfishness, the individualism, the incessant focus on my
00:09:10.900 rights and entitlements.
00:09:13.220 Everyone in America has kind of bought into this, but no one's benefiting from it.
00:09:18.180 It hasn't led to a flourishing country.
00:09:21.560 It's just led to a selfish country where no one's serving anybody else, and then everybody's
00:09:26.400 miserable.
00:09:26.780 Speaking of refusing to serve, an amazing story in the Washington Post about someone who works
00:09:34.640 for the Department of Child Services, and I guess it's a she, but she now identifies
00:09:42.840 as a he, and so the Washington Post calls her he, and the WAPO says, he came out as trans.
00:09:49.280 Then Texas had him investigate the parents of trans kids.
00:09:53.740 And this confused lady who dresses like a man was very upset by this because the Texas governor
00:10:01.640 came out and said, look, it is child abuse when parents try to convince their little sons that
00:10:07.400 they're daughters and daughters that they're sons, and especially when they take them to doctors to
00:10:12.400 pump them full of hormones and chop off their body parts.
00:10:14.480 It's a child abuse, and it might not even be an intentional child abuse, but it is.
00:10:18.940 Parents can abuse their kids without knowing it or without necessarily desiring to,
00:10:22.860 but it can happen, and so we're not going to let that happen in Texas anymore.
00:10:26.160 The voters of Texas support this initiative, but what about this lady?
00:10:30.000 This very confused lady, this mentally ill lady who thinks that she's a man, says, well,
00:10:35.280 I don't want to execute on that order.
00:10:39.560 So she goes on a couple of these calls, and she's crying, and she's saying, this is wrong.
00:10:43.640 This is terrible, but I have to do it, but I'm sorry.
00:10:46.100 You're a wonderful family that's trying to trans all your kids, but I know.
00:10:49.300 I'm so sorry, and then finally she quits.
00:10:52.140 Finally, she quits.
00:10:53.260 That's the happy ending to the story.
00:10:55.360 She should quit.
00:10:57.600 She shouldn't be in this job in the first place.
00:11:00.220 She has no right to this job.
00:11:02.320 She has no right to deny the orders of her boss, ultimately her boss, the governor.
00:11:07.940 She has no right to deny the desires of the people of Texas who still, to some degree at
00:11:14.160 least, have the right to self-government.
00:11:17.060 So she resigned, as well she should.
00:11:20.340 That is good.
00:11:21.200 This is political power.
00:11:23.500 We should pressure to resign or fire outright all of the bureaucrats in the public sector
00:11:32.300 and in the private sector who don't want to carry out, who don't want to abide by the laws
00:11:38.320 that we pass as the political community.
00:11:40.560 That's a great thing.
00:11:41.460 That is political power.
00:11:43.420 Now, you might say, you might be a little cautious about this and say, well, gosh, that
00:11:46.740 sounds an awful lot like cancel culture.
00:11:48.780 It does.
00:11:49.860 Yes.
00:11:51.040 All cultures cancel, as I've said for a long time.
00:11:53.760 All cultures have standards.
00:11:55.460 And so the question is, are we going to wield political power for bad ends, like transing
00:12:01.940 kids and abusing people and denying the will of voters in our sacred democracy?
00:12:06.360 Are we going to do that?
00:12:07.120 Or are we going to wield political power to good ends, like protecting kids and saving
00:12:12.160 little babies and having a good country and protecting our country and living in a flourishing
00:12:17.800 society?
00:12:18.420 What is it?
00:12:19.640 Are we going to, which are we going to do?
00:12:21.840 I'm for the latter.
00:12:22.980 Call me crazy.
00:12:23.800 Call me a far right radical extremist.
00:12:25.560 I think that we should wield just political power to improve things and protect good things
00:12:32.840 rather than to do the opposite.
00:12:36.640 Now, you might think we're winning here.
00:12:38.960 You might say, this is good stuff.
00:12:40.800 You get the strange people in the child services department in Texas to resign if they don't want
00:12:48.300 to stop transing the kids.
00:12:50.160 Okay, that's good.
00:12:51.660 But don't delude yourself.
00:12:53.500 We are losing on the issue of transgenderism.
00:12:56.420 Okay?
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00:13:29.480 Transgenderism is progressing apace.
00:13:32.700 We're getting lots of good clips out of it.
00:13:35.560 Who can forget?
00:13:36.420 There was that wonderful clip of Marsha Blackburn asking Ketanji, this is the problem with women
00:13:43.500 who use three names.
00:13:44.360 I don't know if it's Ketanji Jackson-Brown or Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:13:47.180 I think it's Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:13:49.540 Anyway, side point.
00:13:52.140 When Marsha Blackburn is grilling her and says, what is a woman?
00:13:56.020 And she says, what is a woman?
00:13:57.480 I don't know what a woman is.
00:13:58.600 I'm not a biologist.
00:14:00.520 That's preposterous.
00:14:02.380 Obviously, Matt's movie, a hilarious expose of this insanity.
00:14:06.480 And it shows, I think those clips and those movies and those arguments are really effective
00:14:11.800 at showing people how crazy the transgender argument is.
00:14:15.140 But if you just look at where the state of the country is on the protection of sexual
00:14:20.980 identity and gender expression, on the protection in the civil rights laws, by the way, on the
00:14:27.880 protection of transgender bathrooms, on the protection of transgender sports, we're still
00:14:32.880 losing on that issue.
00:14:33.920 Dr. Bhavik Kumar, who is a Planned Parenthood-affiliated doctor, shows up to the Capitol to be grilled
00:14:45.180 by members of Congress.
00:14:46.760 He is grilled by Representative Andrew Clyde, who is a Republican from Georgia.
00:14:52.160 Representative Clyde asks a really basic question.
00:14:55.800 Dr.
00:14:56.180 Kumar gives a preposterous answer.
00:14:58.040 Let's just keep it real simple.
00:15:00.580 Just two yes or no questions.
00:15:02.820 And this is for Dr.
00:15:05.500 Kumar.
00:15:06.880 Dr.
00:15:07.460 Kumar, can biological men become pregnant and give birth?
00:15:13.280 So men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.
00:15:16.740 I love how he says men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.
00:15:24.880 Even if you're willing to go with the libs on the whole, there is such a thing as trans men and
00:15:30.800 trans women, and that's a real ontological category.
00:15:34.540 What other group of men can get pregnant and give birth?
00:15:38.820 If you're, I get, it's silly to say it, but I get, I get that the libs at least would argue
00:15:46.820 women and trans men can get pregnant and give birth.
00:15:51.320 But what's with the especially?
00:15:52.820 What is this third group?
00:15:54.200 Is there a third one or a fourth one?
00:15:55.500 Who knows?
00:15:55.940 It's, it's yes, it's absurd.
00:15:57.660 That Planned Parenthood guy looks like a total weirdo and a dope, and we're all laughing at him,
00:16:03.500 and we're all mocking him.
00:16:04.940 But then you got to ask yourself, okay, if we're all having such fun on this issue,
00:16:08.400 and it's such a winner with the public, and everyone knows that men aren't really women
00:16:12.040 deep down, then why are we still losing legally and politically?
00:16:18.680 Why is, why is transgenderism exploding, especially among young people,
00:16:24.920 transgender and gender non-conforming identity?
00:16:28.580 Why is this ideology exploding throughout the universities, throughout the workplace?
00:16:34.800 Virtually every company in America has some DEI division that is protecting the rights of
00:16:40.780 transgender individuals.
00:16:41.720 We're, we're totally losing on the issue.
00:16:43.620 Why is that?
00:16:45.940 Well, I think in part, it's because the conservatives are not putting up a tough enough fight.
00:16:50.700 Yes, we get our clips, and we laugh, and we giggle, and they can't tell us that, that men
00:16:55.540 can't give birth.
00:16:56.460 But just ask yourself this, and you, if you're listening to this show, you, you probably look
00:17:02.560 pretty clear-eyed at this issue, okay?
00:17:05.280 You're, you are not a squish, you are probably not a lib, you're probably looking pretty,
00:17:10.900 do you ever call Bruce Jenner Caitlyn Jenner?
00:17:14.800 Do you ever refer to a man who identifies as a woman as she, publicly or privately?
00:17:21.600 Sally, do you ever, do you, do you say, hey, look, we shouldn't trans the kids, but adults,
00:17:28.920 you know, if an adult wants to cut off his body part, that's no business of mine.
00:17:33.020 And if an adult wants to put on a dress and call himself Sally, why?
00:17:36.880 That's his right.
00:17:37.580 That's no business of mine.
00:17:38.520 Because if you say that, I'm not attacking you, I'm not criticizing you, I'm just pointing out,
00:17:42.440 if you say that, then you are, you are accepting transgenderism.
00:17:49.600 If you say that, then you are implicitly agreeing with the Planned Parenthood doctor
00:17:55.500 that some men can get pregnant and have children.
00:18:00.480 Because you're saying, you're saying that Bruce Jenner really is a woman.
00:18:05.160 If you call him Caitlyn, Caitlyn's a girl's name, it's not a boy's name.
00:18:08.420 Well, you can, you can legally change your name to whatever you want.
00:18:12.760 Yeah, you can, but it doesn't change the fact that Caitlyn is a girl's name.
00:18:15.880 And so if you're calling the guy by a girl's name, and especially if you're calling him her,
00:18:21.120 you are, you are accepting the premise that some men can get pregnant and give birth.
00:18:26.300 And some women can really be men.
00:18:28.260 You're accepting it.
00:18:29.220 If you say that men can get the, or adults rather, can get the gender affirming surgery,
00:18:34.960 then you are accepting the premise that some men can get pregnant.
00:18:37.560 You're not saying it in exactly the same crazy kind of terms as that weirdo from Planned Parenthood,
00:18:43.740 but you're saying the same thing.
00:18:45.000 And I fear that in this effort to just have a conciliatory middle ground,
00:18:52.260 okay, well, just don't do it to the kids.
00:18:54.020 Okay, just don't do it to the eight-year-olds.
00:18:55.740 Okay, just don't do it to the five-year-olds.
00:18:57.300 Okay, just, we keep losing, losing more and more ground.
00:18:59.960 If we're not willing to be hardcore on this issue and just say, no, it's all insane.
00:19:05.020 Transgender surgery obviously should be banned for everybody.
00:19:08.060 No man has the right to call himself Caitlyn.
00:19:10.320 We will never refer to him as her.
00:19:13.260 And bathrooms are gonna remain single sex in virtually every case,
00:19:16.640 unless it's a small shop and there's only one bathroom to begin with.
00:19:19.520 Unless we're willing to go all the way on it, we're gonna lose the issue.
00:19:23.620 And we'll get fun clips along the way, and we'll giggle, and we'll say,
00:19:27.120 look at these crazy leftist snowflakes.
00:19:29.060 And then they're gonna keep winning politically.
00:19:31.000 Do you remember five or six years ago, we used to say,
00:19:33.420 all these crazy snowflakes on the campuses, just wait until they get to the real world.
00:19:37.660 Then those crazy, silly, triggered snowflakes, then they'll learn.
00:19:41.460 And then what happened?
00:19:42.220 The silly, crazy snowflakes got to the real world and just completely changed the world.
00:19:45.820 And now we're living in their world.
00:19:48.420 I don't even, I'm only laughing because I either laugh or cry.
00:19:51.840 Okay, so yeah, we should laugh at it.
00:19:54.580 We should make fun of it.
00:19:55.300 We should point out the absurdities.
00:19:56.520 But we gotta stand firm politically.
00:19:58.360 If we're not willing to exercise the political power,
00:20:00.780 we're gonna be laughing all the way to the gulags.
00:20:04.020 Speaking of Republicans losing, gosh, we could do a week of shows on that.
00:20:09.200 Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, former GOP presidential nominee, unbelievably.
00:20:15.440 Mitt Romney is refusing to support a Republican.
00:20:19.880 That's not a big story.
00:20:20.780 There have been plenty of times when Romney refuses to support Republicans.
00:20:24.860 But in this case, Romney is refusing to support his fellow Utah senator,
00:20:32.440 his fellow Republican Utah senator, Mike Lee.
00:20:36.620 Mike Lee, a conservative, as mainstream a guy as there is,
00:20:42.920 as good, upstanding a sort of guy as there is.
00:20:46.640 I don't know Mike Lee very well, but I've met him on a number of occasions and chatted with him,
00:20:50.460 and he's just, he's a great guy.
00:20:52.940 Nothing really to object to in Mike Lee.
00:20:56.140 Mitt Romney and Mike Lee both have the same religion even.
00:21:00.280 Same place, same religion.
00:21:01.900 He refuses to support him.
00:21:03.880 Why?
00:21:05.220 Because Mike Lee is getting a challenge from that silly, never Trump CIA operative
00:21:10.640 who tried to run against Donald Trump in 2016, Evan McMullin.
00:21:16.480 And Evan McMullin has no shot whatsoever, but he could be a sort of spoiler.
00:21:21.160 He could take away support from Mike Lee.
00:21:23.840 He could throw a clear Republican seat into question.
00:21:27.840 He could deny Republicans the Senate majority.
00:21:31.560 This is going to be a razor-thin election in the Senate, probably.
00:21:35.800 So Romney is willing to give up Republican control of the Senate.
00:21:41.440 For what?
00:21:42.660 I don't know, because he says that he's friends with both guys.
00:21:45.380 He says, I'm friends with Lee, I'm friends with McMullin, so I'm not going to endorse either,
00:21:48.740 according to people close to Mitt Romney, according to the Washington Post.
00:21:54.260 Why would he do this?
00:21:55.280 Because Mitt Romney doesn't care about who has control of the Senate,
00:22:00.980 because Mitt Romney probably wants to lose.
00:22:04.400 He probably sort of wants to lose.
00:22:07.180 I think a lot of these guys, a lot of these loser Republicans,
00:22:10.500 I think they often want to lose, because it's a lot easier to be in the loser position,
00:22:15.280 because then you don't have any accountability, you don't have any moral risk.
00:22:18.940 I remember this during the Trump fights of 2016.
00:22:21.940 A lot of the people, there were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Trump in 2016,
00:22:25.280 and I'm not downplaying that.
00:22:27.760 But when he became the nominee, a lot of people didn't want to vote for him,
00:22:31.860 because they didn't want to bear responsibility for him, because there was risk.
00:22:35.500 We don't know, we've never seen this guy hold office before,
00:22:37.800 and so I don't want to put my name on this, because if we win, and then he does stuff,
00:22:42.240 I might feel responsible for that.
00:22:44.100 But if I sit it out, and allow Hillary Clinton to win,
00:22:48.180 I will also be responsible for that.
00:22:49.540 But I can at least have some deniability that I'm responsible for Hillary,
00:22:53.100 and then she's going to do all sorts of terrible stuff,
00:22:54.820 and she's going to kill the babies, and trans the kids, and destroy the country,
00:22:57.860 and open the borders.
00:22:58.700 But at least I won't have any moral responsibility.
00:23:02.900 I think a lot of these guys kind of like losing.
00:23:07.080 They kind of like losing because it's just easier.
00:23:11.520 And they can keep raising money, and they can keep going on TV,
00:23:14.360 and they can keep pretending to fight,
00:23:16.320 and they can keep pretending that they're morally pristine,
00:23:18.540 but they're not.
00:23:19.240 They're not getting anything done.
00:23:21.260 They're just cowards with a lack of vision.
00:23:24.820 Speaking of Republicans, by the way, huge, really, really big news report out on Republicans.
00:23:29.940 This is from The Hill.
00:23:32.180 Republicans are pouncing again.
00:23:34.420 This happens every so often.
00:23:36.560 The Republicans, I don't know, they get,
00:23:38.240 it's like maybe they have restless leg syndrome or something,
00:23:40.440 but they just, their muscles stiffen up, and they just, they pounce.
00:23:43.140 They pounce all the time.
00:23:44.440 Well, now, the Republicans are pouncing on ailing markets to criticize Joe Biden.
00:23:50.520 That's the news story from The Hill.
00:23:52.780 You see, the news story is not that the markets are collapsing.
00:23:56.500 The story is not that the Biden economy is a disaster.
00:24:00.960 No, no, no.
00:24:01.220 The story is that seeing all of those things,
00:24:06.120 the Republicans, they sort of crouch down,
00:24:09.340 and they get really loaded, and then they just,
00:24:11.100 they just, they pounce.
00:24:13.440 Yes, that's the story.
00:24:15.320 Republicans pounce is, I don't need to tell you this,
00:24:19.140 you've seen it for years.
00:24:20.460 Republicans pounce is a leftist tactic
00:24:24.500 to turn attention away from the actual news story,
00:24:28.560 which is a liberal scandal or failure,
00:24:31.160 to Republicans pointing it out,
00:24:33.420 to the conservative coverage of that story.
00:24:36.500 Whenever Republicans are pouncing,
00:24:37.840 you can note, man, the Democrats are in trouble.
00:24:40.580 Later today, you've got to come hang out with me
00:24:42.780 at 11 a.m. Central.
00:24:44.140 For all access live, I will be answering all of your questions.
00:24:46.760 Tune in, dailywire.com slash discuss.
00:24:49.440 Bring your questions.
00:24:50.580 We'll see you there.
00:24:51.220 I'm going to be speaking to a segment of my audience
00:24:53.360 I've never directly addressed before.
00:24:55.620 That would be the frat guys.
00:24:57.160 Sup, bros?
00:24:57.900 What's going on?
00:24:59.340 What's going on, fellas?
00:25:00.380 We are both, unfortunately, poor and unfairly portrayed by the media.
00:25:07.320 We're both among the men most hated by woke razor companies
00:25:10.580 and leftist ideology, which is very, very sad.
00:25:13.400 When you consider that fraternities raise millions of dollars
00:25:16.200 every year for charity,
00:25:17.440 one Virginia Tech fraternity alone raised $255,000
00:25:20.540 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital last year.
00:25:22.680 So with that influence and moxie in mind,
00:25:24.840 I thought that I would share an idea.
00:25:26.740 You know Jeremy's Razor's contest to win the car,
00:25:30.460 the one where you can win Jeremy's McLaren.
00:25:32.120 Well, we get that you don't want to shuffle everyone around
00:25:35.000 in a two-seater sports car,
00:25:36.320 which is why if you win,
00:25:37.220 you can take the quarter million dollar cash prize instead.
00:25:40.620 I am sure that your imagination will suffice
00:25:42.580 to paint a picture of all the fun and goodwill
00:25:44.360 that a quarter million dollars will enable for you and your friends.
00:25:47.220 Listen, most of the top players in the contest
00:25:49.320 still have not hit the 210 referral mark.
00:25:52.200 So there is plenty of opportunity for you to jump into the race
00:25:56.660 and take it all.
00:25:57.940 Just go to jeremysrazors.com slash play
00:26:00.220 to get your referral link.
00:26:02.540 Come November 1st, 2022,
00:26:04.120 we will see which of you is the most woke,
00:26:06.340 free fraternity in America.
00:26:07.920 Peace out, fellas.
00:26:08.780 Terms and conditions apply.
00:26:11.500 Those Republicans are totally, totally pouncing.
00:26:15.740 That's what they do.
00:26:16.600 They pounce.
00:26:18.540 What are we pouncing on?
00:26:19.920 Well, we're pouncing on the fact
00:26:20.860 that the economy is even worse
00:26:22.700 than you thought it was.
00:26:25.240 The U.S. economy was weaker
00:26:27.200 in the first half of the year
00:26:28.100 than previously thought,
00:26:29.000 according to the Commerce Department.
00:26:30.960 Well, how's that?
00:26:31.760 We know that in the first half of the year,
00:26:33.580 the economy had two consecutive quarters
00:26:36.060 of negative GDP growth.
00:26:37.940 That is a recession.
00:26:39.360 But the Biden administration
00:26:40.460 didn't want to admit that that's a recession.
00:26:42.300 So what did they do?
00:26:43.400 The Biden administration said,
00:26:44.900 no, no, this is a unique case.
00:26:47.380 We're changing the definition of a recession
00:26:49.020 because actually, you see,
00:26:53.020 the other economic indicators were such
00:26:55.800 that they actually override
00:26:57.260 the two consecutive quarters
00:26:58.580 of negative GDP growth.
00:26:59.800 And what were those economic indicators?
00:27:02.840 Those economic indicators
00:27:03.960 were the gross domestic income,
00:27:06.140 which had been reported as growing
00:27:08.160 at 1.8% in the first quarter.
00:27:10.460 And it was the low unemployment rate.
00:27:12.680 And it was all these other things.
00:27:13.680 So it actually overrides
00:27:15.020 the negative economic indicators.
00:27:16.840 Well, yesterday,
00:27:18.920 the Commerce Department revised
00:27:20.740 those estimates of GDP and GDI.
00:27:25.120 Turns out gross domestic income
00:27:26.700 did not grow at 1.8%.
00:27:27.980 It grew at just 0.8% as an annual rate.
00:27:32.680 Second quarter GDI growth
00:27:34.260 was just 0.1%, okay?
00:27:37.420 So it was just,
00:27:38.280 it was a total collapse.
00:27:39.360 There's no way to argue at this point
00:27:42.240 that we are not in a recession.
00:27:45.140 There is no way to argue it.
00:27:49.780 Are you going to hear this
00:27:51.020 from the establishment media?
00:27:52.360 No, of course not.
00:27:53.500 All you are going to hear
00:27:54.340 from the establishment media
00:27:55.360 is that the Republicans are pouncing.
00:27:59.300 So it makes,
00:28:00.040 I guess it just keeps coming back
00:28:03.240 to this point that I hope
00:28:05.440 everyone has learned during COVID.
00:28:06.860 I certainly did.
00:28:08.520 Whatever you are seeing
00:28:10.100 from the libs,
00:28:11.180 you have to assume
00:28:14.420 that what they're promising you
00:28:15.660 about their successes
00:28:16.320 is not true.
00:28:17.780 I think you have to assume
00:28:18.780 not only is it
00:28:19.420 the worst possible option
00:28:20.740 that they're presenting,
00:28:21.520 but the things that actually
00:28:22.440 are much worse
00:28:23.340 even than they are presenting.
00:28:25.460 So I think about this with COVID
00:28:26.660 where they say,
00:28:28.520 oh, the COVID vaccine,
00:28:30.000 it's totally safe.
00:28:31.340 It's totally effective.
00:28:33.440 You can't question that at all.
00:28:35.120 And so in the olden days,
00:28:37.260 I'd say maybe they're exaggerating.
00:28:38.620 Okay, maybe it's not totally safe.
00:28:40.220 Maybe it's not totally effective.
00:28:41.420 Now though,
00:28:41.980 I just have to assume
00:28:42.920 the thing is not effective
00:28:44.820 at all at doing
00:28:46.420 what they say it will do,
00:28:47.320 which is in the case of COVID vaccines,
00:28:50.000 preventing infection and transmission.
00:28:51.780 And it's really not all that safe,
00:28:54.780 at least by the perfect standard
00:28:57.500 that they were suggesting.
00:28:58.620 Remember they said,
00:28:59.400 it doesn't cause heart problems.
00:29:00.600 It doesn't cause blood clots.
00:29:01.720 It doesn't cause menstrual changes in women.
00:29:03.580 That's completely insane.
00:29:04.340 And it causes all those things.
00:29:06.780 In more cases
00:29:07.880 than they would have let on.
00:29:08.760 Much, much worse
00:29:10.960 than is being admitted.
00:29:13.360 Speaking of damaging things.
00:29:17.160 Speaking of damaging things.
00:29:20.900 Did you hear this story
00:29:22.240 about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
00:29:23.660 and the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, actually?
00:29:26.280 So,
00:29:27.180 this is the secret story
00:29:30.260 of the Ukraine-Russia war.
00:29:32.360 Russia has a pipeline to Europe.
00:29:35.500 Two pipelines.
00:29:36.120 Nord Stream 1, Nord Stream 2.
00:29:38.240 Those pipelines allow Russia
00:29:39.780 to send gas directly to Europe,
00:29:42.200 bypassing all sorts of problems
00:29:43.980 that they have,
00:29:44.600 allowing them,
00:29:45.520 giving them the opportunity
00:29:46.240 to go into Ukraine.
00:29:47.840 And it's really a war
00:29:49.960 that's largely about energy leverage.
00:29:53.740 Okay.
00:29:54.860 So,
00:29:55.700 a couple of days ago,
00:29:56.400 we find out that
00:29:57.080 the Nord Stream pipelines
00:29:58.320 become damaged.
00:29:59.240 Who damaged the pipelines?
00:30:02.880 Was it Russia?
00:30:03.640 That seems unlikely.
00:30:05.080 Was it Ukraine?
00:30:06.480 That seems unlikely.
00:30:07.520 Why was it not Russia?
00:30:08.360 Because Russia has no reason
00:30:09.220 to do it, really.
00:30:10.960 Why would it not be Ukraine?
00:30:12.180 Ukraine does have reason to do it,
00:30:13.540 but they probably don't have
00:30:14.100 the means to do it.
00:30:15.800 Was it Germany?
00:30:17.120 Germany, definitely.
00:30:17.920 You know,
00:30:18.100 Europe doesn't want to damage
00:30:19.160 those pipelines.
00:30:19.880 Europe's going to freeze to death
00:30:20.720 over the winter
00:30:21.200 if they don't get
00:30:21.760 the energy back online.
00:30:23.940 So,
00:30:24.420 who was it?
00:30:26.320 The only actor in the world
00:30:28.420 that I can see
00:30:29.100 that has means
00:30:29.880 and motivation
00:30:30.680 would seem to be
00:30:33.420 the power
00:30:35.020 that is funding
00:30:36.100 the Ukrainian resistance
00:30:37.160 in the world
00:30:37.460 would seem to be
00:30:37.920 the United States.
00:30:38.900 Okay.
00:30:39.260 Now,
00:30:39.560 you might say,
00:30:40.060 well,
00:30:40.140 that's good.
00:30:41.100 That's good.
00:30:41.720 Blow up that pipeline
00:30:42.600 as the State Department
00:30:45.000 and the President
00:30:45.820 both said
00:30:46.520 they would do
00:30:47.580 for the months
00:30:48.520 leading up to this moment.
00:30:50.580 Okay.
00:30:50.740 You might say,
00:30:51.340 good.
00:30:51.580 Blow up that pipeline.
00:30:53.020 Whether the United States
00:30:55.360 did it directly
00:30:56.060 or indirectly
00:30:56.680 or didn't do it at all,
00:30:57.660 but it is hard
00:30:59.440 to deny right now
00:31:00.620 that the United States
00:31:02.100 is in a proxy war
00:31:04.280 with Russia.
00:31:05.320 A war that we never declared.
00:31:07.820 A war that we don't even
00:31:09.140 really want to admit to.
00:31:11.200 And a war that seems
00:31:12.460 to be escalating.
00:31:14.100 Now you've got
00:31:14.940 Vladimir Putin
00:31:15.600 annexing
00:31:16.400 whole parts
00:31:17.180 of Ukraine
00:31:19.180 with all these sorts
00:31:20.520 of referenda elections.
00:31:22.040 Okay.
00:31:23.020 It seemed
00:31:23.740 this war we were told
00:31:25.120 was going to be over
00:31:25.600 within two weeks.
00:31:26.400 Now it's escalating,
00:31:27.480 escalating,
00:31:28.120 escalating.
00:31:29.780 World wars
00:31:30.580 have started
00:31:31.600 for less.
00:31:34.180 World wars
00:31:34.940 have started
00:31:35.380 for a lot less.
00:31:36.220 And especially
00:31:36.980 when you think
00:31:37.580 of the Western view
00:31:38.920 of this war.
00:31:39.420 The Western view
00:31:40.000 of this war
00:31:40.320 has been really
00:31:40.980 straightforward.
00:31:41.840 Russia has no right
00:31:42.600 to invade a sovereign country.
00:31:44.260 Okay.
00:31:44.620 Easy enough.
00:31:45.600 Putin's a bad man.
00:31:46.520 Okay.
00:31:46.840 Sure.
00:31:47.120 Putin's a bad man.
00:31:47.740 But if you just
00:31:50.600 write off your opponent
00:31:51.620 as a madman,
00:31:52.520 as a crazy person,
00:31:53.320 it's not going to help
00:31:54.360 you fix any sort
00:31:55.240 of problems.
00:31:56.560 Putin's argument
00:31:57.160 was that the West
00:31:58.160 had been expanding
00:31:58.860 NATO too far east.
00:32:00.460 And the West
00:32:00.980 had been meddling
00:32:01.460 in Ukraine.
00:32:02.180 And the West
00:32:02.700 had supported
00:32:03.160 a coup d'etat
00:32:03.760 to get rid
00:32:04.260 of the formerly
00:32:04.840 pro-Russian
00:32:05.520 leader of Ukraine.
00:32:07.080 and they were
00:32:08.700 threatening
00:32:09.500 to have Ukraine
00:32:10.140 join NATO
00:32:10.640 and threatening
00:32:11.100 to have Ukraine
00:32:11.700 join the EU
00:32:12.240 and that this was
00:32:12.720 an unacceptable
00:32:13.280 security risk
00:32:14.400 for Russia.
00:32:15.960 Whether that's
00:32:16.740 true or not,
00:32:17.960 I'm not saying
00:32:18.740 you got to agree
00:32:19.420 with Putin's argument
00:32:20.160 or even think
00:32:20.620 it's a sincere argument.
00:32:21.920 Whether that's true,
00:32:22.500 that's what Russia
00:32:23.580 was saying
00:32:24.260 about the situation.
00:32:26.920 And America
00:32:27.840 then wielding
00:32:28.720 its power
00:32:29.360 to move
00:32:30.000 its sphere
00:32:30.440 of influence
00:32:30.920 further east.
00:32:32.200 What do we do
00:32:32.960 right now?
00:32:34.620 Both sides
00:32:35.440 seem to be
00:32:35.880 very,
00:32:36.320 very dug in.
00:32:37.340 Both sides
00:32:37.820 are now
00:32:38.100 openly talking
00:32:38.900 about a nuclear war.
00:32:43.360 There was a great
00:32:44.160 article
00:32:44.480 by Christopher Caldwell
00:32:46.320 in the Claremont
00:32:47.060 Review of Books.
00:32:48.460 It said,
00:32:49.040 why are we in Ukraine?
00:32:50.000 What do we want
00:32:50.800 to get out of Ukraine?
00:32:51.700 What are the stakes here?
00:32:52.980 What are we willing
00:32:53.760 to pay for it?
00:32:55.540 World wars have started
00:32:56.480 for a lot less
00:32:57.300 than this.
00:32:58.780 World wars have started
00:32:59.800 because Serbian
00:33:01.280 nationalists
00:33:02.180 shoot random
00:33:03.360 archdukes
00:33:04.240 on the streets.
00:33:05.440 Okay?
00:33:05.600 We are,
00:33:08.460 yes,
00:33:09.120 the U.S.
00:33:09.540 is wielding power.
00:33:10.400 We like it when
00:33:10.920 the U.S.
00:33:11.300 wields power.
00:33:11.880 But think about
00:33:12.300 the way that we've
00:33:12.860 wielded power here.
00:33:13.920 We've wielded
00:33:14.980 the financial
00:33:17.280 system of the world
00:33:18.400 against Russia
00:33:20.060 to try to destroy
00:33:21.060 Russia's economy,
00:33:21.860 to try to destroy
00:33:22.840 the ruble.
00:33:23.220 It hasn't had that
00:33:23.900 effect.
00:33:24.420 If anything,
00:33:25.160 all it's done
00:33:25.800 is push Russia
00:33:26.580 closer to China
00:33:27.600 and India.
00:33:28.080 because they
00:33:30.200 sort of have to
00:33:30.780 because they
00:33:31.260 can't really do
00:33:31.700 business in dollars
00:33:32.360 anymore.
00:33:34.020 Our policies,
00:33:34.960 which we might say,
00:33:35.440 yeah,
00:33:35.580 America's strong
00:33:36.260 and we're punishing
00:33:36.740 Putin.
00:33:37.120 Well,
00:33:37.520 what has the effect
00:33:38.420 of that policy been?
00:33:39.120 It's been to weaken
00:33:39.820 the United States'
00:33:40.720 credibility
00:33:41.180 as the holder
00:33:42.100 of the global
00:33:42.600 reserve currency,
00:33:43.340 which is what
00:33:44.060 gives us our
00:33:44.660 imperial power
00:33:45.280 around the world.
00:33:46.920 So I'm not even
00:33:47.860 saying the motivations
00:33:49.440 here could be
00:33:50.180 wrong with the war,
00:33:51.380 but the war
00:33:54.440 and America's role
00:33:55.720 in the war
00:33:55.980 has not had the
00:33:56.740 effect that we
00:33:57.480 thought that it
00:33:58.020 would in many
00:33:58.600 of the most
00:33:58.960 important cases.
00:33:59.900 The people carrying
00:34:00.560 this out are some
00:34:01.060 of the least
00:34:01.540 competent people
00:34:02.240 on planet Earth.
00:34:04.140 Okay,
00:34:05.340 do we really
00:34:06.500 trust these guys
00:34:07.320 to continue to
00:34:09.100 manage the situation
00:34:10.000 that they bungled
00:34:10.620 from the beginning
00:34:11.220 as we get
00:34:12.380 closer and
00:34:14.280 closer and
00:34:14.720 closer to a
00:34:16.000 seriously hot
00:34:17.000 escalated war
00:34:17.780 with a nuclear
00:34:18.560 former superpower?
00:34:19.580 I don't think I
00:34:20.200 trust these guys.
00:34:21.360 I don't think I
00:34:21.940 trust the guys
00:34:23.180 who think that men
00:34:23.960 are secretly women
00:34:25.000 and who bungled
00:34:27.060 our economy
00:34:27.620 and bungled
00:34:28.080 our immigration
00:34:28.500 and bungled
00:34:28.840 everything.
00:34:29.580 I don't know.
00:34:30.480 I would urge
00:34:31.520 a lot more
00:34:32.440 caution.
00:34:33.040 Okay,
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00:34:46.720 Hey,
00:34:47.260 Michael,
00:34:47.640 I've been a
00:34:47.980 long-time listener,
00:34:48.900 first time asking
00:34:49.620 a question.
00:34:50.820 Just like so many
00:34:51.820 other families and
00:34:52.640 friends after Trump
00:34:53.560 got elected,
00:34:54.120 I had a falling
00:34:55.620 out with my
00:34:56.120 sister-in-law.
00:34:57.340 She is on the
00:34:58.320 left and a
00:34:59.120 third-wave
00:34:59.560 feminist type.
00:35:00.880 After a few
00:35:01.480 years of barely
00:35:02.340 talking,
00:35:02.880 we had a big
00:35:03.340 fight on
00:35:03.900 Thanksgiving last
00:35:04.760 year.
00:35:05.740 We have since
00:35:06.500 had a long
00:35:06.920 conversation with
00:35:07.880 my brother and
00:35:08.440 her,
00:35:09.100 and we are at
00:35:09.840 least talking
00:35:10.340 again.
00:35:11.680 I know she is
00:35:12.340 against all my
00:35:12.960 politics,
00:35:14.020 but my eldest
00:35:14.900 nephew has
00:35:15.900 flat-out said he
00:35:17.380 doesn't agree with
00:35:18.100 her politically.
00:35:19.420 I understand
00:35:19.920 these are not my
00:35:20.580 kids,
00:35:20.920 but I feel
00:35:21.300 obligated to
00:35:23.000 lead them away
00:35:24.140 from her type
00:35:25.140 of politics.
00:35:27.040 I want to be
00:35:27.980 able to influence
00:35:28.660 him in a good
00:35:29.240 way while also
00:35:30.340 staying on
00:35:31.360 decent terms
00:35:31.920 with my
00:35:32.240 sister-in-law.
00:35:33.360 How can I
00:35:34.120 tread this
00:35:34.780 line?
00:35:35.680 Any help is
00:35:36.280 appreciated.
00:35:37.240 Thank you,
00:35:37.860 Nostradamus.
00:35:39.520 It's a tough
00:35:40.240 line to tread
00:35:41.020 because it's not
00:35:41.740 your kids that
00:35:42.320 we're talking
00:35:42.760 about over
00:35:43.220 here.
00:35:43.440 I am always
00:35:46.280 of the opinion
00:35:46.880 that we
00:35:49.540 should preserve
00:35:51.460 our families
00:35:52.220 at almost all
00:35:53.280 costs,
00:35:53.840 okay?
00:35:54.660 And yes,
00:35:55.560 it's very
00:35:55.940 frustrating when
00:35:56.580 you see your
00:35:57.120 siblings and
00:35:57.820 your cousins
00:35:58.300 and whoever
00:35:58.940 who are,
00:36:00.580 you know,
00:36:02.120 raising their
00:36:03.600 kids in all
00:36:04.000 these crazy
00:36:04.480 sorts of ways
00:36:05.020 and raising
00:36:05.380 them to be
00:36:05.720 big libs and
00:36:06.360 it'll probably
00:36:06.780 hurt their
00:36:07.220 lives in the
00:36:07.660 long run.
00:36:08.040 Yes,
00:36:08.380 that's very,
00:36:09.140 very frustrating.
00:36:10.880 But they're
00:36:12.460 not your kids.
00:36:13.160 I think you
00:36:13.760 just gotta say,
00:36:15.200 look,
00:36:15.680 different strokes
00:36:16.240 for different
00:36:16.720 folks.
00:36:17.940 Oh,
00:36:18.640 you,
00:36:18.880 and you can
00:36:19.220 even joke
00:36:19.560 about it.
00:36:19.820 Oh,
00:36:20.040 you crazy
00:36:20.520 libs.
00:36:21.080 Oh,
00:36:21.560 you,
00:36:21.880 ah,
00:36:22.120 there you
00:36:22.380 go.
00:36:22.700 Okay,
00:36:23.020 well,
00:36:23.380 whatever.
00:36:23.780 Pass the
00:36:24.060 turkey,
00:36:24.360 please.
00:36:25.500 Yes,
00:36:25.940 I know.
00:36:26.420 It's frustrating.
00:36:27.280 It's sad to
00:36:27.740 see,
00:36:28.320 but I think we
00:36:30.020 have to cultivate
00:36:30.520 a spirit of
00:36:31.180 resignation here.
00:36:32.520 Next question.
00:36:35.480 Hi,
00:36:35.960 Michael.
00:36:36.440 My name is
00:36:37.080 Isaac.
00:36:37.740 My question
00:36:38.280 to you is
00:36:39.260 another dating
00:36:40.000 life question.
00:36:41.540 I'm 21 in
00:36:42.700 college and I
00:36:43.640 met a young
00:36:44.400 woman at the
00:36:45.080 beginning of the
00:36:45.860 school year and
00:36:46.920 we slowly grew
00:36:47.740 into friends.
00:36:49.240 She's a Christian
00:36:50.060 too,
00:36:50.660 so I thought she
00:36:52.080 was a good fit if
00:36:53.280 I got to know
00:36:54.020 her.
00:36:54.680 Two weeks into
00:36:55.540 the school year,
00:36:56.740 I told her that I
00:36:57.720 liked her and
00:36:58.640 asked her out.
00:36:59.980 Unfortunately,
00:37:00.860 she told me she
00:37:01.880 wasn't ready for a
00:37:03.040 relationship at the
00:37:04.160 moment,
00:37:05.120 but would still
00:37:05.980 like to get to
00:37:06.840 know me as a
00:37:08.180 friend.
00:37:09.000 I was devastated
00:37:10.000 and it really
00:37:11.240 hurt a lot when
00:37:12.920 I heard that.
00:37:14.200 I'm still trying to
00:37:15.400 figure out what to
00:37:16.700 make of what she
00:37:17.440 said.
00:37:18.560 Is she done with
00:37:19.420 me in terms of my
00:37:20.360 chances of dating
00:37:21.280 her or is the
00:37:23.240 door still open?
00:37:25.100 If it is open,
00:37:26.720 what would you
00:37:27.300 suggest I do next?
00:37:28.760 Should I wait and
00:37:29.840 work to improve on
00:37:30.860 myself, either
00:37:31.960 physically or
00:37:33.040 spiritually, or
00:37:34.780 should I continue to
00:37:35.900 try to warm up to
00:37:37.040 her?
00:37:37.680 Love the show.
00:37:39.920 Thank you so much.
00:37:40.940 Great question.
00:37:41.640 I'll give you some
00:37:42.360 hard answers.
00:37:43.480 She does not want to
00:37:44.320 date you and she was
00:37:44.960 just being nice when
00:37:46.860 she said, oh, I don't
00:37:47.560 know if I'm ready for
00:37:48.160 a relationship, but
00:37:48.900 let's be friends.
00:37:50.280 She was just being
00:37:50.880 nice.
00:37:52.160 So that doesn't mean
00:37:54.480 that you will never
00:37:55.440 end up dating her.
00:37:56.780 You very well might
00:37:57.580 end up dating her,
00:37:58.860 but I don't think
00:37:59.980 you're going to
00:38:00.540 succeed in that by
00:38:01.440 continuing to push
00:38:02.720 and show interest
00:38:03.540 and say, hey, you
00:38:05.460 sure you don't want
00:38:05.920 to get a cup of
00:38:06.340 coffee now?
00:38:06.760 Hey, I don't think
00:38:07.600 that's going to
00:38:07.940 work.
00:38:08.140 I think you should
00:38:08.520 try dating other
00:38:09.340 people first and
00:38:11.320 then get her jealous
00:38:13.400 and then maybe you
00:38:15.220 can date her a little
00:38:15.920 bit later.
00:38:16.960 Or maybe the person
00:38:18.020 that you start
00:38:18.420 dating, you actually
00:38:19.040 find you really like
00:38:19.740 that person and you
00:38:20.620 end up dating her
00:38:21.260 because there's lots
00:38:21.840 of fish in the sea.
00:38:22.640 That's what I would
00:38:23.220 do.
00:38:24.480 Okay, I wouldn't.
00:38:26.740 There is something to
00:38:28.340 the social proof of if
00:38:30.700 you're going out on
00:38:31.560 dates.
00:38:32.320 I'm not saying use
00:38:33.720 other people just to
00:38:34.940 get this girl, but
00:38:35.600 I'm saying just
00:38:37.140 accept the reality
00:38:38.060 that she doesn't
00:38:38.600 want to date you
00:38:39.040 right now.
00:38:39.440 Okay, got to move
00:38:40.220 on.
00:38:40.440 Other fish in the
00:38:40.980 sea.
00:38:41.220 Oh, I start
00:38:41.500 dating this girl.
00:38:43.040 An effect of
00:38:44.780 that will be that
00:38:46.800 all of the other
00:38:47.940 girls will start
00:38:48.800 looking at you with
00:38:49.420 greater interest.
00:38:50.200 Why is that?
00:38:50.780 It's probably because
00:38:51.660 this is a fallen
00:38:52.300 world and the
00:38:53.180 imagination of man's
00:38:54.100 heart is evil from
00:38:54.660 the very beginning,
00:38:55.400 but that's just how
00:38:56.400 it happens.
00:38:57.220 When people are
00:38:58.420 dating other people,
00:39:00.500 it sends a sort of
00:39:01.560 social message that,
00:39:02.660 oh, this person
00:39:03.280 must be desirable.
00:39:04.440 Maybe I should
00:39:04.940 desire that person
00:39:05.800 more.
00:39:06.620 So that's what I
00:39:07.120 would do.
00:39:07.920 I would not hang
00:39:09.440 on in the vain hope
00:39:11.440 that just, you know,
00:39:12.980 asking her out in a
00:39:13.940 different way will
00:39:14.820 convince her.
00:39:16.040 I don't think it
00:39:16.700 will.
00:39:17.040 I think you got to
00:39:17.780 date somebody else.
00:39:18.820 Next question.
00:39:20.280 Hey, Michael.
00:39:21.200 Long time listener.
00:39:22.260 Been listening for years.
00:39:23.320 Love your show.
00:39:23.960 Uh, so my question
00:39:25.860 for you is regarding
00:39:26.800 the national divorce.
00:39:28.280 Um, I don't
00:39:29.960 understand how you
00:39:31.680 think that the
00:39:32.880 United States with
00:39:33.980 its myriad of
00:39:36.220 different culture
00:39:38.220 groups can coexist
00:39:40.040 under one state.
00:39:41.220 I just don't see it
00:39:42.660 with the differences
00:39:44.600 between the various,
00:39:46.540 uh, nations that
00:39:48.520 are in this state.
00:39:50.360 And I, I don't see,
00:39:51.660 uh, that it would be
00:39:53.480 at all beneficial to
00:39:54.620 try and continue to
00:39:55.920 force any of these
00:39:57.520 groups to live
00:39:59.080 together.
00:39:59.500 And it may be messy.
00:40:01.320 It may not the,
00:40:02.340 the resulting, uh,
00:40:03.780 separation, but I
00:40:05.320 think that's the only
00:40:06.020 way for long-term
00:40:07.080 peace and prosperity.
00:40:08.620 So how do you see
00:40:10.260 these groups coming
00:40:11.920 together and living
00:40:12.800 under a single
00:40:14.060 political entity?
00:40:16.440 Good question.
00:40:18.040 I guess I'd flip the
00:40:19.260 question back on you.
00:40:20.220 You're saying there
00:40:20.620 are different nations
00:40:21.580 within the putative
00:40:23.040 nation of the United
00:40:23.780 States.
00:40:24.840 And so it's crazy to
00:40:26.000 suggest we all live
00:40:26.660 under one roof, so we
00:40:27.500 got to split up.
00:40:29.500 What do you mean by
00:40:30.240 nations?
00:40:30.620 Do you mean all the
00:40:31.520 different races and
00:40:32.320 ethnicities?
00:40:32.880 That's true.
00:40:33.740 That's true.
00:40:34.180 It's pretty weird how
00:40:35.020 many we've got under
00:40:35.820 one roof in a nation
00:40:36.860 rather than, we don't
00:40:38.260 call ourselves an
00:40:39.060 empire.
00:40:39.700 There have been
00:40:40.040 empires in history
00:40:40.800 that have lots of
00:40:41.440 different ethnic
00:40:42.080 groups and racial
00:40:42.760 groups, but very few
00:40:44.080 nations, nation states
00:40:45.440 that would say that.
00:40:46.980 Okay, so how are we
00:40:48.020 all supposed to live
00:40:48.500 together?
00:40:50.300 How are we supposed to
00:40:51.360 split up?
00:40:53.200 How many races and
00:40:54.760 ethnicities do you have
00:40:55.480 in America?
00:40:56.040 All of them?
00:40:56.940 Like all of them on
00:40:58.060 earth?
00:40:59.200 All living in all
00:41:00.300 different cities and
00:41:01.220 states together?
00:41:01.980 So how are you, you're
00:41:02.940 not going to split
00:41:03.520 people up based on race
00:41:04.400 or ethnicity, even if
00:41:05.760 you wanted to.
00:41:07.200 Religion?
00:41:08.640 Okay, religion is a
00:41:10.140 little bit more of a
00:41:11.220 set enclave, but not
00:41:12.520 really.
00:41:13.480 Okay, sure, the Mormons
00:41:14.440 can break off in Utah.
00:41:16.520 How about the rest of
00:41:17.220 us?
00:41:17.400 That's not going to, how
00:41:17.940 are you going to divide the
00:41:18.520 country that way?
00:41:20.260 The libs and the
00:41:21.100 conservatives, again, we
00:41:22.000 got a ton of purple
00:41:22.760 states, got a ton of
00:41:24.120 conservatives in the
00:41:24.920 blue states, a lot of
00:41:25.860 libs in the red states.
00:41:27.620 How are you going to
00:41:28.280 divide that up?
00:41:29.820 I oppose the national
00:41:31.020 divorce because I oppose
00:41:32.200 divorce entirely.
00:41:34.260 Because I just think it's
00:41:35.180 bad and disordered.
00:41:36.740 And it's, it's, there's
00:41:38.920 no end to it.
00:41:40.560 There is no end when you
00:41:41.900 start talking to the
00:41:42.700 national divorce.
00:41:43.720 We're all going to end
00:41:44.640 up, we're going to have
00:41:45.060 330 million different
00:41:46.540 nations on one,
00:41:48.100 slab of a continent.
00:41:50.060 It's just not, it, I
00:41:51.120 just don't see, you're
00:41:52.620 asking me how I think we
00:41:53.560 can continue to live
00:41:54.360 together.
00:41:55.240 I don't, we'll just keep
00:41:55.940 on keeping on.
00:41:57.220 How, what, what we're
00:41:57.920 all so different, right?
00:41:58.680 I guess we should use the
00:41:59.420 force of culture and
00:42:00.220 politics to make us all a
00:42:01.880 little bit more united and
00:42:03.640 united in a good way with
00:42:05.320 our eyes toward good, true,
00:42:06.360 and beautiful things.
00:42:06.940 That's what I would do.
00:42:07.760 And I want to use culture
00:42:08.640 and politics to do that.
00:42:10.040 Simple, simple enough
00:42:10.860 answer.
00:42:11.180 Will it happen?
00:42:11.740 I don't know, but it's
00:42:12.440 simple enough.
00:42:13.760 What about, what's your
00:42:14.880 answer for the national
00:42:15.740 divorce?
00:42:16.060 How are we supposed to
00:42:16.740 do that?
00:42:18.960 I don't, I've never
00:42:19.760 heard in any way a
00:42:21.760 compelling argument for
00:42:22.620 how the United States is
00:42:23.540 supposed to break up at
00:42:25.100 all.
00:42:25.400 Forget about peacefully.
00:42:26.700 I've certainly never
00:42:27.760 heard any argument for
00:42:28.500 how we break up
00:42:29.020 peacefully.
00:42:30.180 But how do you break up
00:42:31.400 at all?
00:42:32.820 I just don't see it.
00:42:33.780 Next question.
00:42:34.240 Hello, love guru and
00:42:36.840 austere religious scholar
00:42:38.060 Michael Knowles.
00:42:38.820 My name is Vincent.
00:42:39.760 Love the show.
00:42:40.740 Anyways, I have a
00:42:41.700 hypothetical proposal that
00:42:43.020 I think should go into
00:42:43.780 law.
00:42:44.500 Abandoned adultery.
00:42:45.580 Now, there are some
00:42:46.160 biblical passages that
00:42:47.600 could be argued about for
00:42:49.440 what constitutes adultery.
00:42:51.240 But if we were at the
00:42:52.020 very least in law to define
00:42:53.640 adultery as a currently
00:42:54.680 married person having
00:42:55.580 sexual intercourse with
00:42:56.560 someone other than their
00:42:57.400 current spouse, how well
00:42:58.840 do you think something like
00:42:59.820 this could look in
00:43:00.480 Congress?
00:43:00.780 Congress, I think even
00:43:01.940 the perverted left is
00:43:02.860 depraved to the point of
00:43:03.920 supporting adultery as
00:43:05.260 well.
00:43:06.040 But how willing do you
00:43:07.300 think those in Congress
00:43:08.080 would be able to accept a
00:43:09.200 proposal like abandon
00:43:10.460 adultery?
00:43:11.660 Thanks.
00:43:13.440 Congress, I don't know.
00:43:14.420 But at the state and
00:43:15.120 local level, that seems
00:43:17.120 like a no-brainer to me.
00:43:18.620 I mean, adultery is
00:43:20.520 illegal.
00:43:21.020 At the very least, it's a
00:43:21.900 breach of contract.
00:43:22.860 And we've had plenty of
00:43:23.740 laws against adultery in
00:43:24.700 American history.
00:43:25.320 So yeah, for sure.
00:43:26.560 For sure we should ban
00:43:27.360 adultery, if not at the
00:43:28.280 federal level, at least at
00:43:29.720 the state level.
00:43:30.580 Yeah.
00:43:31.300 I think conservatives
00:43:32.360 might be open to that.
00:43:33.820 A lot of conservatives
00:43:34.780 had fallen into the kind
00:43:35.780 of libertarian squishy
00:43:37.060 traps for many years.
00:43:41.160 But I think we've come
00:43:42.820 out of that.
00:43:43.600 I mean, this is what I
00:43:44.320 write about in my book,
00:43:44.960 Speechless, which was
00:43:45.820 trying to push the
00:43:46.880 conservatives out of that.
00:43:47.740 And I think largely it
00:43:48.940 worked.
00:43:49.500 And other people are
00:43:50.500 advocating a more
00:43:52.060 robust, courageous,
00:43:55.540 morally clear form of
00:43:57.140 politics anyway.
00:43:57.860 So yeah, totally.
00:43:58.600 That one, that's like a
00:43:59.260 no-brainer.
00:43:59.820 Okay.
00:44:00.000 Okay, let's get to some
00:44:01.280 regular mailbag questions
00:44:02.520 from Elaine.
00:44:05.640 No, I'm sorry, not Elaine.
00:44:07.600 Ephraim.
00:44:08.100 Very different names.
00:44:09.120 Ephraim says, hey, Michael,
00:44:10.500 I want to get your take
00:44:11.780 about a certain aspect of
00:44:12.660 marriage.
00:44:13.040 Do you believe you should
00:44:14.040 wait to marry someone you
00:44:15.880 are absolutely infatuated
00:44:17.280 with, like in the movies?
00:44:18.200 Or do you think that
00:44:19.560 expectation is unrealistic
00:44:20.760 and will keep you single?
00:44:21.800 I'm an Orthodox Jew and my
00:44:23.620 parents are trying to set me
00:44:24.720 up via a shiduk, speed dating
00:44:27.360 with arranged matches so
00:44:28.960 that I can start a family
00:44:30.100 soon.
00:44:31.020 That's the way they met and
00:44:32.460 married in under two months
00:44:33.580 and they claim they grew to
00:44:35.040 love each other over time.
00:44:36.260 I want to meet a girl I truly
00:44:37.820 love before I marry though.
00:44:40.120 So I'm torn.
00:44:42.000 Thanks.
00:44:43.380 Good question.
00:44:46.180 I married the love of my life.
00:44:48.440 I married a girl that I just
00:44:51.140 fell head over heels in love
00:44:52.580 with when I was like 11 or 12.
00:44:54.660 Okay, so I, and that gives me
00:44:56.740 great comfort.
00:44:58.320 And we split for college and I
00:44:59.840 dated other girls and I wake up
00:45:01.820 some nights in a cold sweat
00:45:03.320 thinking about the horror of had
00:45:06.040 I married someone other than my
00:45:07.660 wife.
00:45:08.760 I mean that without a hint of
00:45:10.520 hyperbole.
00:45:10.980 It is one of the great
00:45:12.940 consolations of my life that I
00:45:14.160 know I married this gal that I
00:45:15.820 just absolutely adore.
00:45:19.620 And you, you won't have that
00:45:21.760 sort of certainty if you do the
00:45:24.720 kind of speed dating arranged
00:45:25.880 marriage type thing.
00:45:27.020 Now that said, there's a pitfall to
00:45:30.460 the, you know, just marry for your
00:45:32.560 own romantic desires and love and
00:45:35.120 journey kind of thing, which is
00:45:37.320 you could be 35 years old, 40 years
00:45:39.740 old or older and not get married
00:45:41.920 and let's say, oh, there's always
00:45:43.140 someone better around the corner.
00:45:44.300 Oh, I just haven't met the person
00:45:45.300 yet.
00:45:45.880 Oh, swipe right, swipe right.
00:45:47.260 And so your family and your
00:45:49.120 community, especially in your
00:45:50.760 religious community, they will
00:45:52.000 know, they will have a great deal
00:45:53.360 of wisdom on how to get married
00:45:56.080 and have a good family and what's
00:45:57.400 best for you.
00:45:58.220 So you don't want to disregard that
00:45:59.600 either.
00:46:00.020 I just think, as I often say, I
00:46:02.280 don't think it's a cop out.
00:46:03.100 I think it's actually the truest
00:46:04.860 answer here.
00:46:05.540 You need to use your prudence,
00:46:07.400 okay?
00:46:07.800 And so for me, I would actually try
00:46:09.900 to seek a sort of middle ground
00:46:11.020 here, which is instead of just walk
00:46:13.180 outside, throw a stick, pick the
00:46:15.080 closest person on the street and
00:46:16.180 say, okay, you're my wife now.
00:46:18.040 I would date yourself and kind of,
00:46:21.480 you know, take a little bit of time,
00:46:22.900 try to get to know people.
00:46:23.740 Maybe you meet some girl at
00:46:24.840 wherever, social situation you're
00:46:26.820 in, but also get the input of your
00:46:28.720 family.
00:46:29.260 Also take their advice seriously.
00:46:30.620 I would try to do both of those
00:46:31.580 things.
00:46:32.240 And I think that'll give you, that
00:46:33.700 could give you the best of both
00:46:34.580 worlds.
00:46:35.180 Next question.
00:46:36.480 Next question is from Pete.
00:46:38.440 Hey, Michael, I've been a DW Plus
00:46:39.900 member for almost a year now and
00:46:41.740 never miss your show, even if I
00:46:43.760 have to listen to two or three in
00:46:45.200 a day.
00:46:45.520 I always catch up, my man.
00:46:46.760 I have a question for you.
00:46:48.180 Other than cigars and libations,
00:46:49.580 great choices, by the way.
00:46:50.440 What do you do to relax and
00:46:51.840 re-center?
00:46:52.900 I'm guessing Play With The Kids is
00:46:54.060 at the top of that list, but
00:46:55.300 that's a given.
00:46:55.920 What?
00:46:56.200 I was just wondering.
00:46:57.080 Keep doing what you do.
00:46:58.680 Let's hold all the squishers
00:46:59.820 accountable.
00:47:00.480 Great point.
00:47:01.360 I don't play with my kids to
00:47:02.740 relax.
00:47:03.240 I don't find that relaxing.
00:47:04.420 I find it very fun and sublime and
00:47:06.320 wonderful, and I adore it.
00:47:07.580 But it's exhausting.
00:47:08.580 That doesn't relax me at all.
00:47:10.020 Yes, I smoke cigars.
00:47:12.400 I'll have a drink or two at night.
00:47:13.940 I'll read a book.
00:47:15.000 That does relax and re-center me,
00:47:16.920 and it's very, very important.
00:47:17.900 Even if it means I get less sleep,
00:47:19.120 I really try to do that.
00:47:20.020 But I play music.
00:47:22.140 I love that.
00:47:23.280 And I'm not, this is not false
00:47:24.460 modesty.
00:47:24.900 I'm not, like, particularly good at
00:47:26.700 musical instruments, but I play a lot
00:47:28.060 of them in a very mediocre to poor
00:47:29.740 way, and I just love it.
00:47:30.960 I love strumming my ukulele or my
00:47:32.380 guitar or my banjo or my sitar or my
00:47:34.160 piano, pluck it around, you know.
00:47:35.560 I just really love that.
00:47:37.020 I took up painting, and I'm a very bad
00:47:40.280 painter, but I really, that especially
00:47:42.680 can re-center you, because it just uses
00:47:44.520 different parts of your brain, and it
00:47:47.060 lets you see the world in a different
00:47:48.280 way.
00:47:48.880 Winston Churchill wrote a whole essay
00:47:50.040 about this, Painting His Pastime,
00:47:51.520 where he said, look, if you're reading
00:47:53.860 this essay to get into painting, you're
00:47:55.320 already too old, and you're never
00:47:57.020 going to be a good painter, so forget
00:47:58.320 about that.
00:47:58.980 Just paint for sort of the joy of
00:48:01.860 painting, not as your career or your
00:48:03.820 profession, but just as a pastime and a
00:48:05.380 hobby.
00:48:05.920 That I find to be really, really great,
00:48:08.600 is you want to be able to use a
00:48:10.960 different part of your brain to kind of
00:48:14.060 turn off the other part.
00:48:14.960 You're never going to just turn your
00:48:16.220 brain off entirely.
00:48:17.180 It's always moving.
00:48:17.840 So you've got to just use different
00:48:19.240 parts of it.
00:48:20.020 You know, the rest of the show is
00:48:20.860 continuing now.
00:48:21.960 You do not want to miss it, because I'm
00:48:23.600 about to be electrocuted by David
00:48:25.000 Cohn.
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00:48:28.500 We'll see you over there.
00:48:29.080 We'll see you all lohk.
00:48:31.060 We'll see there.
00:48:34.180 We'll see you later.
00:48:35.060 We'll see you later.
00:48:51.080 We'll see you later.