Ep. 1133 - The Trump & Kanye Dinner Heard Round The World
Summary
It's the last day of the year, and Michael Knowles is here to remind you that you can still get a good night's rest and a great Thanksgiving by listening to the best of what he's got going on this week.
Transcript
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Pretty disturbing news to start the week with. We can now confirm that the former president
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had a meeting with anti-Semites, people who have made extremely offensive comments
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about the Holocaust and about the Jewish people as a whole.
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Now, that meeting did not happen over the weekend. It actually happened back in 2005,
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when then-senator, soon-to-be presidential candidate Barack Obama,
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and the Congressional Black Caucus met for smiles and giggles and photographs with Louis
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Farrakhan, who calls the Jews termites. And the media covered it up and told everybody that it
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wasn't a big deal. The former president's meeting with the prominent anti-Semites was not confined
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to one night. It actually took place over the course of two decades, when Barack Obama was a
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registered member of the church of his good friend Jeremiah Wright, until in Wright's words,
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quote, them Jews stopped letting him talk to me. And then, too, the media pretty much brushed the
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whole thing under the rug, and Obama never had to apologize, and everybody just moved on.
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Oh, also, Donald Trump had dinner with his troubled friend of many years, Kanye West,
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over the weekend, which, according to the media, is an unforgivable sin and makes Trump the second
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coming of Hitler, which the same media, of course, have already been claiming ceaselessly about Donald
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Trump for the past seven years. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on, what was it, Wednesday? Oh, my gosh, it's been so
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long. Hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving. My favorite comment on Wednesday was from Jim
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Lubke, who says, we need to fight this fight now, or we won't be able to put up much of a fight
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in the 2024 race. Yup, the folks who say Charlie Brown needs to stop calling out Lucy's shenanigans
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and just get better at football are missing a critical point. Of course, whatever you want to
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say about the 2022 midterm elections. I think we have to admit that Arizona was extremely sus.
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It was very, very suspect, and a lot of the voting machines did not work, and there were all these
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dodgy practices of putting the provisional ballots into this box at box number three, I think it was
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called, and the box was not checked to see how many ballots there were before they went in. And then
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there are poll workers now who are testifying, saying that there were hundreds more votes than
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registered voters who came in and were checked in that day. And the whole thing just stinks to high
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heaven. And then it took a week to count the ballots, and then what do you know? The Democrats just
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barely eke it out. So yes, the Republicans need to win Arizona in 2024 in order to win the presidency.
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And so if we don't fix the voting problems there, then you could run the greatest campaign in the
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world. But it doesn't really matter so much who votes and how many people votes. It matters much
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that is, quote, euphorically, unapologetically gay. Even this weekend, Disney used consumers' money
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Are you going to buy a subscription? You absolutely should. The latest tempest in a teapot, Donald Trump
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is a Nazi. Why is Donald Trump a Nazi? Well, because he had dinner with Kanye West, who's a Nazi.
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And Kanye West brought his friends who are Nazis, and therefore, Donald Trump's a Nazi. That's the headline,
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okay? That's what people are telling you. What happened? Well, here's how Trump describes it on Truth Social.
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He says, this past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly
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showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many
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members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.
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Okay? Sounds about right. But there were these problems because apparently Trump brought these
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guys who have said all sorts of terrible offensive things. And so therefore, Trump is a Nazi, right?
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That's what they said. So then Trump goes on. He says, so I help a seriously troubled man who just
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happens to be black, yay, Kanye West, who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything
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else, and who has always been good to me by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago alone so
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that I can give him some very much needed advice. He shows up with three people, two of whom I didn't
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know, the other a political person who I hadn't seen in years. I told him, don't run for office,
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a total waste of time, can't win. Fake news went crazy. Okay, but the libs aren't buying it.
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They're saying, no, Trump, he's a Nazi. Same thing they've been saying for seven years.
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What do you think is more likely? Two reads on this dinner. The first read is what Donald Trump
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said. His friend of many years, who's been very good to him, who clearly has troubles and who has
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just had his entire net worth basically wiped away, asked for a meeting. And Trump said, okay,
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come, we'll have dinner and I'll give you some advice. Or Trump is secretly plotting the Nazi
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takeover of the United States because he hates Jews. He hates Jews. That's why his daughter
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converted to Judaism. That's why his grandkids are Jewish. And that's why there's a town named
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after him in Israel. And that's why he pushed the Abraham Accords. And, and, and. Which of those two
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is more likely? Obviously, it's the former. It's just a complete tempest in a teapot. It's another,
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another ridiculous attempt to attack Donald Trump. And frankly, I think it probably helps Trump
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because Trump's biggest competitor right now on the right is not Kanye West. I don't think,
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I think it is probably Ron DeSantis. A lot of Trump's supporters and former supporters have
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gravitated toward Ron DeSantis. And one of the arguments for Trump over Ron DeSantis is that
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Trump is the one that they really hate. Trump is the one that the libs really want to get.
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He's the real threat. They're throwing all of their firepower at Trump. And this seems to back
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that up. They're just still trying to destroy Donald Trump. So I don't think you need to throw the man
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away and say, oh my gosh, he had this dinner. You're going to see 10 more of these episodes
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before the year is through. And don't forget, we get two years until the presidential election.
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Speaking of the Nazis, Alyssa Milano is taking a stand. She's taking a stand against fascism
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and hate and white supremacy. She's giving back her Tesla. Here's what Alyssa Milano said.
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She said, I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW electric vehicle. I love it. I'm not sure how
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advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded companies' products being pushed in
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alignment with hate and white supremacy does not seem to be a winning business model.
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I don't know if Alyssa Milano is a huge history buff, but VW has a little bit more of a sordid
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history than Tesla does. VW, of course, was founded by Adolf Hitler himself and the Nazi party.
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It means the people's wagon, Volkswagen. But of course, she doesn't know this. She doesn't know
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anything. This reminds me that people, very prominent people in public life, have absolutely
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no historical frame of reference or memory. Everything is just in this perpetual now,
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this perpetual sort of mania that we're in. And so people forget about ancient history or medieval
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history. Hitler founded Volkswagen less than 100 years ago. Doesn't matter. There's just this
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perpetual now. And you're seeing this accelerate. You're seeing this accelerate in Canada, actually.
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Justin Trudeau, I referenced this a little bit last week. Justin Trudeau is now the first world leader
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to go on a drag race show. Hi, Queens. Hi. I'm so sorry to interrupt. I know it's a big day. But
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seeing as we have the best Queens from around the world, we thought you deserved a proper welcome.
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Please help me welcome to the Canada's Drag Race workroom, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
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Do I have to kiss him? Do I have to kiss his ring? I heard you had a summit and I think I'm a little
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too late for it, unfortunately. We're actually just about to do a makeover episode. Oh, that's a big one.
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Queens, anybody want to take it on? I'm waiting. This is groundbreaking. The first ever world leader
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to visit a drag race set. I'm glad to be the first. I look forward to the time there's a third or a
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fourth. To have a world leader in the workroom talking to us, how amazing is that? You better
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work, Justin Trudeau. Yes. Totally historic. Isn't this so historic? But then when I saw the clip,
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I thought, wait a second. Didn't Nancy Pelosi already go on one of these shows? Wait a second,
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didn't AOC already go on one of these shows? Oh, but I guess neither of them are world leaders in
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the sense that neither of them are a head of state. So now Justin Trudeau, he's making history.
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It's all, it's how historical is this? Justin Trudeau is the third lib in the last six months
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to go on a weird drag queen show. But it's historic because he's the first world leader from Canada on
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this special version of the show. How many historic firsts do there have to be before
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people recognize that the alleged historical first groups have a ton of power and dominance in our
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society? How many? How many do we see with it? Because the way this is being framed is this is so
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brave of Justin Trudeau. No, not at all. It would be brave not to go on the drag queen show.
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The people who are in power are relentlessly pushing transgenderism.
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It would take some courage to stand up against that. But it's very effective. If you want to
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amass power, one very effective way to do it is to claim victimhood. You heard me allude to this
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when we were talking about the Daily Wire memberships for Cyber Monday. But you just saw this
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over the weekend with Disney. Disney just had the historic first. Hold on, let me see what the
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historic. It's the historic first gay teen romance animated film. It's called Strange World. It's the
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historic first though. I thought, wait, hold on. How many times have I read the headline? Historic
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first gay blank from Disney. I mean, you had Disney executives on leaked video saying that they were
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pushing a not so secret gay agenda. There have been gay kisses in this thing and gay relationships in
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this thing and gay this and gay that. But I guess because this one's an underage gay relationship,
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that's the big new historic first. And it totally flopped. The movie brought in $4.2 million in ticket
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sales. They're projecting that it could make as little as $21 million over the full holiday weekend.
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The movie was $180 million budget. So it's just a complete failure. So why is that? Because the
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people don't want to see it. Of course not. You can be totally open-minded and live and let live and
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you're not homophobic or anything at all. And you don't want to go take your kid to see like cartoon
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gay teenagers kissing, right? It's just not something that people want. But the conservatives don't,
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unfortunately, the conservatives don't recognize the game that is being played here. And they want
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to allow the cultural revolution to go halfway. They don't want to totally stand against the
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cultural revolution, but they don't want it to go all the way either. They want it to stop halfway.
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If you stand in the middle of the road, though, you will, in fact, be hit by a truck.
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The reason that the Disney teen gay movie failed is because people don't want to see it.
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But the reason it was made in the first place is that the entire culture has normalized homosexuality.
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But the problem is if you normalize homosexuality, then you have to normalize it for young people too.
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This is where I actually think that the left makes stronger arguments than the right.
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If homosexual behavior is totally normal, totally fine, no questions about it whatsoever,
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Christianity, Judaism, Islam, every, many pagans, everyone who is, though not those Greeks,
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they got a little frisky with each other. But if the vast majority of people who have ever thought
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about these questions were all totally wrong, and there's no moral question whatsoever about
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homosexual behavior, then why shouldn't it be normalized for teenagers too?
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People develop romantic feelings when they're teenagers. People go on little dates,
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and they have little crushes, and they flirt with each other when they're teenagers.
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So why would we now be saying, well, no, you're only allowed to have representations of crushes,
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and dates, and teen romances for straight couples, not gay couples? Why would we? That wouldn't make
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any sense. Unless you were to go all the way and say, no, homosexuality is abnormal, and
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maybe we'll be open-minded about it, and we're not going to be cruel, and we're not going to be mean,
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and we're not going to be vicious, and all these different things. But we have to acknowledge it's
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abnormal. It is not the norm, not what we're aiming at, okay? And therefore, we're not going to
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present it in our popular culture. We're not going to make every single movie and every single thing
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gay all the time, and we're certainly not going to present teenagers in these gay relationships
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in cartoons. But I don't think the conservatives are willing to go there. Do you? No, because it
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feels icky and that you'll be called phobic or this or that. And it also rubs up against,
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pun unintended, it rubs up against a liberal premise that many American conservatives have adopted,
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which is that politics is ultimately just about the individual. Individual choice, individual
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preference. Do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn't hurt me. Just do whatever you want to do.
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I have no right to come in and tell you not to do that. The state certainly has no right to come in
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and tell you not to do that. You just have a sort of radical individual autonomy. Now, that is not
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traditionally a conservative point of view. That is a liberal point of view, okay? That is the
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consequences of John Locke, okay? The conservatives traditionally tend to go a little more for the
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Aristotle idea. You know, they tend to go a little bit more for the idea that man is a political being
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or a social being. We obviously are influenced by one another. There obviously are norms and standards
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in society, and there always will be. And so we need to just agree on what those are, and hopefully we
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have better standards and not worse standards, right? I don't, the reason that I think the libs are going
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to win is not because the libs are omnipotent, or the libs are so smart, or the libs, what? I think
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the reason that the libs right now are more likely to win on these cultural issues is because the
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conservatives don't have any clarity on it. And they don't, they don't, they don't see,
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they don't see how far back on the slippery slope you got to go to stop this sort of stuff.
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Because it's a pretty far ways back. And so as a result, this movie is going to bomb, and you know
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what? You're going to get another gay teen cartoon. And that one's probably going to bomb too, and
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you're going to get another gay teen cartoon. And it's just going to keep going because the libs are
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determined to normalize this sort of thing, and the conservatives are not going to resist it.
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A very, very effective way, as I mentioned, to amass power is to claim victimhood. So a lot of this
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came out of AIDS when, during the AIDS epidemic, you saw lots of gay guys dying. And this created a
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lot of public sympathy, rightly so. And as a result of that, you saw a huge leap in the gay,
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gay rights movement. And then ultimately that leads to redefining marriage, and ultimately that
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leads to transgenderism. But sometimes, because this is an effective political tactic,
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sometimes people just fake it. A lot of times people just fake it, actually. So over the last
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month, there's a gay bar in Hell's Kitchen. It's called VERS, V-E-R-S, VERS. And they've had four
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separate incidents of an individual throwing bricks through the windows. Awful, terrible, homophobic
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attack, right? Well, according to Borough President in New York, the epidemic of LGBTQ plus violence is
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National, a well-known gay bar on Manhattan's west side, has been attacked repeatedly in recent weeks.
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We cannot stand for this. According to a city council member, this man, and they show a picture
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of the guy, this man has thrown bricks at the window of VERS Bar four times in recent weeks.
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These are hate crimes against the LGBTQ community, as opposed to love crimes. You know, they're the
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hate ones, not the loved ones. Please help us identify him. If you have any information,
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please contact NYPD Hate Crimes at this address or this number.
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Now, this was going a little too far with the city council member because he showed the picture.
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There's a little bit of a video. They found the guy. The guy is not being charged with a hate crime.
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Why is he not being charged with a hate crime? Because he is not a homophobe. How do we know
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he's not a homophobe? Because he is a gay guy. It was a gay guy doing it. And so now the story goes
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away. There was that shooting at the gay club in Colorado. The moment the shooting happened,
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obviously it's very sad whenever a shooting happens, but the moment it happened, you had
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this flood from the left-wing media. They said, this is a homophobic attack. This is the result
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of people like those over at the Daily Wire who oppose the LGBTQ agenda. This is, these would be
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blood on your hands, all you evil conservatives. Then what happened? Turns out the shooter is a
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member of the LGBTQ community and the shooter identifies as non-binary. And then what happened?
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The story completely disappeared. Completely disappeared. Okay. It was just Jussie Smollett.
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This is a homophobic anti-black attack in the south side of Chicago, which is MAGA country.
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And there were white supremacists with nooses. Okay. This isn't totally checking out,
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but they still pushed the story. And then when it became clear, he made the whole thing up.
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The story just went away. And it's important for people to recognize this. When you're reading the
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news, you have to recognize that, yes, the stories are probably not being reported accurately.
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So yes, they spread fake news in that way, but it goes even further. The only reason you are seeing
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certain stories is to push an agenda. Newspapers have editors. Okay. The reason that these stories
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end up there in the first place, the reason you've heard of these stories is because they're pushing
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an agenda. You see this in every news story. Forget about the gay stuff or the race stuff or whatever.
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You see this with the war in Ukraine. Why is it that the war in Ukraine is the only war that anyone's
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really heard about in recent years? It's not because it's the only war going on. There are
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plenty of wars going on in Arabia, in Africa, in Asia. There are wars going on all over the place.
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You're hearing about that war because it more directly involves the United States,
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even though the US doesn't want to admit it. And two, because the West feels an interest,
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the United States feels a national interest in that war. And so you're seeing a ton of it. That is
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why that is appearing to you. And it's why it's even in your own perception. Okay. So
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it helps to be able to see through these sorts of things. And when you see shifts in power,
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that's especially when it becomes clear because all of the things that the side that was in power
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have been whining on and prattling on about for months and months and years and years,
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all of a sudden, when they totally back away from them, you realize how hollow their claims were to
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begin with. I'll give you a concrete example of this. Adam Schiff and the Democrats. You've heard
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the Democrats talking about how there are terrible threats, existential threats to our sacred democracy.
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And the threats are when you question how they rig the elections. But also, if you refuse
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to go along with certain congressional subpoenas, if we mock the January 6th committee, that's a grave
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threat to our sacred democracy until the Republicans take charge. If you are subpoenaed by Republicans
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when they take over, will you comply? You know, we'll have to consider the validity of the subpoena.
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But I would certainly view my obligation, the administration's obligation to follow the law
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and the fact that they have disrespected the law is not a precedent I would hope that would be
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broadly followed. But we'll have to look at the legitimacy or lack of legitimacy of what they do.
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Well, it would depend on the legitimacy of the subpoena. Okay. It would depend on the,
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I was just told six months ago that if Steve Bannon or whoever, if some right winger does not go along
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with some completely ridiculous partisan committee, like the January 6th committee, which was all
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Democrats, and then two fake Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who effectively are
00:25:09.940
just Democrats. If Republicans don't go along with this Stalin show trial, that we're a terrible threat
00:25:16.620
to our sacred democracy. But now the Republicans get a bare majority in the House. You know that their
00:25:24.040
committees are going to have to be bipartisan committees. They say, hey, Adam Schiff, you've been pushing a lot of
00:25:28.300
this BS in the last six, seven years. Are you going to go along with a subpoena? You're a member of the
00:25:33.020
House yourself. He says, oh, well, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Okay. On Friday, we released the
00:25:39.000
first two episodes of the brand new biblical series by Jordan B. Peterson. This series is called Exodus.
00:25:43.840
In it, Jordan Peterson sits down with other scholars to read the book of Exodus and discuss what it means
00:25:49.380
and why it remains significant thousands of years after it was written. Scholars at the table include
00:25:53.600
Dennis Prager, Jonathan Pajot, and many more. There will be new episodes releasing weekly.
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Trust me, you do not want to miss it. Check out the trailer.
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Turns out that a book is more durable than stone. It's more durable than a castle. It's more durable than
00:26:15.660
You don't get away with anything. And so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and that
00:26:25.100
you can treat people instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your conscience
00:26:29.340
without cost. You will pay the piper. It's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom,
00:26:44.040
Well, do you want the Pharaoh on your side or do you want God on your side? That's kind of the question.
00:26:51.560
There's a profound sense here that what is going on with the Israelites is the contrast to Pharaoh,
00:26:57.860
right? Like under no terms will you go? And the Israelites have to say, we will go under any terms.
00:27:03.300
And we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and deeper
00:27:10.740
The highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented precisely as that spirit that allies
00:27:19.780
itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny.
00:27:26.220
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00:27:45.660
for freedom against tyranny, Elon Musk just had a great, he just gave people a great lesson
00:27:54.220
in practical politics. My friend Liz Wheeler was reporting on the threat that Apple and Google Play
00:28:02.280
will ban Twitter from their app stores. Because Elon Musk takes over Twitter, Elon is going to let
00:28:09.060
all those terrible evil Nazis like Donald Trump back on the platform, and therefore Apple and
00:28:15.700
Google might boot it from the app store. So Liz said, if that happens, then Elon Musk has to build
00:28:22.740
his own phone, doesn't he? The guy sends rockets to Mars. You know, he can certainly build a smartphone.
00:28:27.300
Elon responds and says, yep, that is what I will do. He says, I certainly hope it does not come to
00:28:34.360
that. But yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone. This is a really
00:28:39.460
important lesson in politics. Money talks and BS walks. A lot of times when I give speeches or do a
00:28:49.740
public appearance, people will ask me, these kind of young, ambitious, would-be politicos will come up
00:28:54.480
and say, Michael, how do I get involved in politics? And they never like the answer.
00:29:00.140
Because the answer is, if you can first, make some money. Make more money than you think you need.
00:29:06.320
Make a lot of money. They say, oh, that doesn't sound fun. I want to go, you know, I just want to
00:29:10.140
run for Congress or something. No, no, no. You got to go in with some money. The reason that Donald Trump
00:29:15.060
was able to be a bull in a china shop is because he was a self-funder. It is, again, one of the arguments
00:29:21.100
for Donald Trump over certain other candidates, his opponents this time. It's not that Trump
00:29:26.840
necessarily sees everything correctly or he doesn't make mistakes or he hires the best people.
00:29:31.000
It's not any of that. But it is that Donald Trump is much less susceptible to outside influences
00:29:36.680
because he's got a lot of money. That's what Elon Musk is saying, too. Okay. You think about all the
00:29:44.700
conservatives in politics, in Congress, in the nonprofits, and they say, we need to publish a
00:29:49.380
white paper, on a plan, on an essay, on a new book to talk about how we need to make a smartphone to
00:29:54.360
take on big tech. Or Elon Musk just comes in. He writes a check. Boom, boom, boom. Here you go.
00:29:58.040
Here's a new phone. We need, here's the new plan on how we're going to conceptualize of a new social
00:30:05.160
network to build or to maybe legislate around Twitter and Facebook and what Elon says. Okay,
00:30:11.940
44 billion. Here we go. I own Twitter now. Trump's back on. It's much simpler. Okay. Because the
00:30:17.460
problem, I'm not opposed to using the government to rein in some of these woke corporations. I'm all
00:30:23.540
for it. But the problem is the woke corporations have a ton of money and they've got a ton of
00:30:27.480
lobbyists. And half the time, they're the ones writing the bill. So it just doesn't, it doesn't
00:30:31.200
really work out. Okay. Money talks and BS walks. And this is very good news right now for Ron DeSantis
00:30:39.480
because Elon Musk announced over the weekend that he is effectively endorsing Ron DeSantis
00:30:46.080
in 2024. Elon Musk said that if DeSantis chooses to run, he will support him. Good friend to have
00:30:55.520
in your corner. I think you want one of the richest men in the world in your corner if you are running.
00:31:01.180
And Ron DeSantis, I'm sure, will welcome that money. You've seen a lot of other big money donors
00:31:06.220
who've moved over to Ron DeSantis. But this is not without danger for Ron DeSantis. And it gets back
00:31:14.980
to my central thesis on the challenge of the Ron DeSantis candidacy, which is that Ron DeSantis'
00:31:22.700
sales pitch is that he's the newer, better, younger, faster, smarter, more disciplined Donald Trump.
00:31:29.000
Trump 2.0. Trump with all the upsides, none of the downsides.
00:31:32.680
But Ron DeSantis' role in the race in which Donald Trump himself is running is necessarily
00:31:39.940
as the anti-Trump candidate. And so Ron DeSantis is just necessarily going to attract more centrists,
00:31:48.240
going to attract more anti-Trumpers, going to attack more soft liberals. Okay. And it's not
00:31:53.360
DeSantis' fault. He's governed in a conservative way, but that's just a fact of his role in the race.
00:31:59.000
So Elon Musk, when he's talking about endorsing DeSantis, he says,
00:32:04.720
as a reminder, I was a significant supporter of the Obama-Biden presidency and reluctantly voted
00:32:09.380
for Biden over Trump. But freedom of speech is the bedrock of a strong democracy and must take
00:32:14.520
precedence. My preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist. I had hoped that
00:32:19.800
would be the case for the Biden administration, might have been disappointed so far.
00:32:22.940
But would you endorse DeSantis? Yes. So if you're Ron DeSantis and you're running in a primary,
00:32:29.160
that's not necessarily the endorsement you want. You don't necessarily want the endorsement of a guy
00:32:33.140
who says, oh, I loved Obama. Oh, yeah, I voted for Biden over Trump. Yeah, I want someone centrist.
00:32:39.300
I don't want a conservative. That's going to be the needle that Ron DeSantis has to thread.
00:32:45.000
So right now, you're seeing a huge swing of support. I mean, virtually every conservative
00:32:50.280
pundit in the country is endorsing Ron DeSantis at this point. I think I'm the last pundit in America,
00:32:56.260
the last conservative media figure who has said, hey, guys, the election's two years out. I'm not
00:33:01.660
endorsing someone two years out in a primary before we have any of the actual primary fights. But
00:33:07.580
in terms of the media, they've gone hard for DeSantis. Then you're seeing this reflected in
00:33:14.540
some of the polls. In Iowa right now, looks like DeSantis is up. In New Hampshire, rather,
00:33:19.980
looks like DeSantis is up. Florida, obviously, DeSantis is up. So you could see the party
00:33:26.240
unite around Ron DeSantis. But that's a long ways out. Okay, the campaign has not really begun yet.
00:33:33.900
So DeSantis is going to have to constantly play this balancing game. I'm more conservative than
00:33:41.040
Trump. I'm to the right of Trump on the vaccines. I'm to the right of Trump on the lockdowns. But I'm
00:33:45.640
more centrist and sensible than Donald Trump. So please, Elon, give me your money. Please,
00:33:49.880
anti-Trumpers, come over and support me. That's going to be a tough act. If Ron DeSantis can do it,
00:33:55.780
he will be one of the most agile politicians of his generation. It's a very, very difficult dance
00:34:03.260
to dance. That's just the way that it goes. Those will be the challenges for the republic in two
00:34:12.040
years. We are facing lots of challenges right now. One of the biggest challenges, and no one is
00:34:19.360
talking about it, is that people in America have become loners. Okay, the Washington Post,
00:34:25.660
stopped clock is right twice a day. The Washington Post ran a decent column with data from the
00:34:34.780
American Time Use Survey, just looking at how many hours per week Americans are spending alone.
00:34:43.000
Americans 15 and older are spending way more time alone than they were in 2013. In 2013,
00:34:50.180
you see the numbers jump about 10 hours per week up until 2021 alone. The time with friends is way
00:35:02.680
down four hours per week. And the time with companions, as differentiated from friends,
00:35:08.320
is down about five hours per week. Now, part of this is obviously COVID because the government told us
00:35:14.720
that we couldn't go out and see our family or see our friends or go to holidays or do anything
00:35:17.820
for two years. But COVID is over. And for sensible people, COVID was over within six months.
00:35:27.360
So it doesn't quite explain how in 2021, this was still a problem and what's going on right now.
00:35:32.400
The other issue here is that because of technology, people feel like they are with
00:35:39.040
other people when in fact they are not. So they'll say, well, I'm on this social network,
00:35:43.920
so I sort of feel like I'm with people, but I'm not. I'm actually alone in my room.
00:35:46.940
Or maybe I go on to some chat or stream or even a Zoom call, but you're not really with other
00:35:55.400
people. And this gets to that same issue we were talking about earlier in the show as to why the
00:36:01.300
conservatives are probably going to lose on so many of these cultural issues. It's because there
00:36:05.480
are two distinct visions here, okay? There's the John Locke vision, the liberal vision, classical
00:36:12.780
liberal, new liberal, all the liberal visions, which is that man is essentially an individual.
00:36:18.820
Then there is the traditional vision, the conservative vision, that man is not really
00:36:23.240
ultimately an individual. Man is ultimately social, parent, political. And the problem with that difference
00:36:32.980
in visions is that both the conservatives and the liberals very often agree with the liberal vision,
00:36:37.940
that we're just ultimately individuals bored out of nothing, floating as atoms in the air,
00:36:44.160
no obligations to anybody, just do whatever you want, define your own identity, make yourself your
00:36:49.780
own God, define your own moral order, just you do you. And it's so corrosive. It's like acid. It just
00:36:56.900
destroys every institution. Because then marriage, family, ceases to be a network of obligations
00:37:06.280
and duties that bind people together. But it becomes just a sort of nice companionship to augment your
00:37:13.920
life. And then the moment that the marriage turns a little sour, you know, you start to get the seven
00:37:19.640
year itch or something. And you say, oh, this marriage is sort of bothering me now. These kids,
00:37:23.920
they're sort of a hassle. Well, what do you do? You just dissolve the marriage. That's where you get
00:37:29.460
skyrocketing divorce. It's where you get no-fault divorce. When marriage and family cease to be
00:37:38.040
a series of obligations and duties and normative behaviors, and it just becomes, if it feels good,
00:37:43.420
do it, that's when you get the complete redefinition of marriage. To say, no, it's no longer the union of
00:37:49.060
one man and one woman for the good of the spouses and the sake of the generation and education of
00:37:54.000
children. No, it's just two people who like spending time together, you know, love is love or whatever,
00:37:57.840
until it's not. And then you can break up and find somebody else. It's so corrosive. When society
00:38:04.500
ceases to be that bond of duties and obligations, then we lose the sense, as even John Kennedy pointed
00:38:10.680
out, of ask not what your country will do for you, but what you should do for your country.
00:38:16.660
Then the country just becomes the place where I live, where I could make some money and feel good.
00:38:22.700
And as long as I'm making money and feeling good, okay, great. The moment I'm not, whatever,
00:38:27.520
I'll go someplace else. The nation's borders dissolve. The nation's people dissolve. The
00:38:31.700
nation's tradition, the nation's vision, the nation's animating principle. It all just dissolves,
00:38:36.040
okay? And you don't need to go very far to see that. I actually prefer spending time by myself a lot
00:38:46.100
because I just get tired. I work, I travel. I kind of like to stay home a lot, read some books,
00:38:50.520
have a cigar. Often I will force myself to go out. Not because I necessarily want to, but I know that
00:38:57.640
it's good for me, okay? It is good for you to go out, see people. You should go to church for lots
00:39:03.880
of reasons, but it's good to go to church also for community. It's good to go out to a bar every now
00:39:08.440
and again to see people. It's good to go out into the public square. It's good to go out and see a
00:39:14.320
movie. It's good to go do stuff. It's good to go to the parties, okay? We've got Christmas coming up.
00:39:19.740
Everyone's going to start throwing Christmas parties already because we have total Advent
00:39:23.060
erasure and everyone just likes to jump ahead and Mariah Carey is going to be everywhere pretty
00:39:27.800
soon. Well, you should go to those things, okay? Because as Americans spend more time alone,
00:39:33.980
they become more miserable. They go crazier and you get lost in your own delusions. And that's why
00:39:38.280
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00:40:50.740
individual, we're all isolated. It's much easier to control us. It's much easier to transform society.
00:40:56.920
We are seeing it happen in real time. I hand you a viral TikTok video.
00:41:01.720
Do you think it's good for kids to see all of these sexualized things like people kissing each other,
00:41:06.220
girls kissing each other, guys in thongs, girls with bitches out, yourself?
00:41:10.920
Yes, because if you don't show them this now, then they harbor who they are as they get older.
00:41:16.140
They feel like they're not included in society. So you think sexualized activity should begin
00:41:20.520
with them at a young age? Yes, I mean, I was watching like eight years old.
00:41:26.020
Should the LGBT be inclusive of bestiality? I don't even know what that is.
00:41:30.080
With animals. I mean, if that's what you want, then that's what you want.
00:41:35.960
Now, I know that this is just an anecdote. I know this is just one lady on TikTok.
00:41:40.680
But the plural of anecdote is data. And you see people making these sorts of arguments all the
00:41:46.000
time. And frankly, she's got a point. She goes, yeah, if we're going to tell people that it's cool
00:41:53.840
to do all this eccentric sexual stuff when they're adults, then we got to normalize it when they're
00:41:58.820
kids. They got to see that. They got to see that represented. And yeah, maybe it seems kind of
00:42:05.260
creepy like we're sexualizing kids. And yeah, maybe I'm going to advocate for bestiality and
00:42:09.240
things. But okay, whatever. Love is love, right? This is happening. Conservatives are warning that
00:42:19.400
by the time we get down the slippery slope, pretty soon they're going to normalize weird child sex
00:42:23.600
stuff. They are doing that. That is already happening. Conservatives are so good at predicting
00:42:29.200
terrible things that have already happened. It's like, pretty soon we're going to start seeing the
00:42:34.920
things that already we started seeing two years ago. And I don't want to hear that this is some
00:42:39.900
crazy conspiracy theory, okay? In the post-Jeffrey Epstein world, I never want to hear about crazy
00:42:47.060
conspiracy theories. Creepy Petto Island is real. We know about Creepy Petto Island. And we know that
00:42:53.880
Creepy Petto Island involved some of the most prominent, wealthy, powerful people on planet Earth. So I don't
00:42:58.980
want to hear about it. You saw that Balenciaga ad, that bizarre Balenciaga ad we covered last week,
00:43:04.320
where it was little kids kind of frowning, holding up like a dominatrix, like a S&M kind of clad
00:43:12.040
teddy bear. And conservatives pointed out, this is really weird. And actually, one of the Balenciaga
00:43:18.560
products was on top of a Supreme Court case about child pornography. And then what happened? There was
00:43:27.160
an outcry. And Balenciaga pulled it down and said, we're looking into legal recourse against the people
00:43:34.260
who put this set together. So even now, the liberals want to brush us under the rug. But
00:43:38.740
Balenciaga itself acknowledged, this is sick. This is bad. We got caught, but this is weird.
00:43:43.900
What's going on with this child sex stuff? Kim Kardashian, who does a lot of work with Balenciaga,
00:43:48.760
she came out, she said, this is really disturbing, but it's happening, okay? Someone gave the okay on
00:43:53.580
the set. Someone gave the okay on the photos. Someone gave the okay putting it on the website.
00:43:57.820
Right. We know, apparently American intelligence knew about Creepy Peto Island because when Jim
00:44:04.300
Acosta, not Jim Acosta, Alex Acosta, not the terrible CNN talking head, but Alex Acosta,
00:44:09.740
who was up for labor secretary under Trump and he was US attorney before that, he was US attorney
00:44:13.380
prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein. When he went after Jeffrey Epstein, in his own words, apparently he was
00:44:18.580
told, no, no, no, forget about Epstein, he belongs to intelligence. So we know that this is happening with
00:44:23.320
the ascent of lots and lots of people. Okay. Now, what can we do about that? This is, again,
00:44:33.240
one of the arguments for Trump. I don't want it to seem like I'm just shilling for Trump or something
00:44:38.480
like that. I'm not. I recognize the man has lots of flaws. I recognize it's not 2016. He's a little
00:44:43.200
bit older. He's going to have stronger challenges this time. I really am just keeping an open mind
00:44:47.980
here. And the fact that I think I'm probably the last conservative public figure who hasn't totally
00:44:54.320
tossed this guy under the bus makes it seem relatively like I'm more pro-Trump. And I do
00:44:59.040
love the guy. I mean, he's the greatest president of my lifetime. And one of the arguments though for
00:45:04.300
him is he is perceived, rightly, I think, to be outside of the system. That there is this weird
00:45:13.740
system. There's this weird political system where no matter who gets elected, we get more immigration.
00:45:20.580
We get more offshoring. We get more of the weird sex stuff. We get more of our sovereignty given
00:45:26.600
away to international institutions. We get more of the same foreign policy. It doesn't matter.
00:45:32.640
Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, it doesn't matter. Except for Trump. Trump actually
00:45:37.800
did different things. He changed US trade policy. He changed, at least in the early years of his
00:45:44.560
administration, before he got shut down, he changed immigration policy. He changed foreign policy. He
00:45:51.460
gave you an actual different foreign policy than you saw from Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush. He gave you
00:45:56.660
something different, okay? And so you still get the sense that he is not part of the system. Now,
00:46:04.300
the same could be said for Kanye West, actually. This is why I think Trump was probably smart
00:46:08.820
to take Kanye's presidential announcement somewhat seriously. Because the Kanye West campaign
00:46:15.940
has certain aesthetic similarities to the Trump 2016 campaign. People thought it was a joke.
00:46:23.380
People didn't take it seriously. He had all sorts of eccentric, some might say unsavory characters
00:46:28.180
around him. There are some similarities there, okay? You're always waiting for the next tweet.
00:46:35.400
People are looking up the next Kanye West tweet, just as they were looking up the next Donald Trump
00:46:39.600
tweet. Now, I don't think that Kanye can assemble the Trump coalition. I just don't see how he does
00:46:46.000
that. There was a path for Trump to do that in 2016, and it was basically just to be Pat Buchanan.
00:46:52.580
The way to do it in 2016 for Trump was to be the old right, kind of Pat Buchanan, anti-bushy,
00:47:03.880
added on with this huge celebrity, with this huge amount of wealth. I don't know that you see that
00:47:11.040
from Kanye. I think Kanye is a little trippy in some of the things he talks about. When you hear Kanye
00:47:15.600
talk about his political program, it's not as basic as Trump. Build the wall, fix trade,
00:47:22.900
stop the stupid wars. Kanye is much more out there and kind of esoteric. And so I just don't,
00:47:28.280
I don't really see that happening. But that is the appeal to a Trump or even a Kanye. The appeal is,
00:47:35.800
wow, this system is really sick and broken, and I don't like it. I want to vote for an alternative
00:47:42.920
because I feel like I'm being played. And no matter which suit I vote for with the red tie or the blue
00:47:47.680
tie, we're getting effectively the same sorts of things, okay? The argument for Trump was that
00:47:54.860
Trump wasn't really a Republican, that Trump had this hostile takeover with the Republican Party,
00:48:00.440
and that the relationship of Trump to the Republican Party was sort of a quid pro quo.
00:48:04.460
Oh, he helps us win an election. Okay, the party gives me something of an organization,
00:48:07.880
but they're not the same thing. They don't really like each other, okay?
00:48:10.640
Now, speaking of quid pro quo, this is a story I wanted to get to last week.
00:48:17.140
The Biden administration is being accused of engaging in a quid pro quo with the Saudis,
00:48:25.380
that the Saudi government assassinated this guy, Jamal Khashoggi, who was portrayed in the West by our
00:48:32.920
propaganda media as this intrepid journalist standing up, speaking truth to power.
00:48:37.180
That wasn't really true. He was just a Saudi spy and a political operative. But that was the way
00:48:41.080
he was presented in the West. And so there's a lot of pressure on Biden to punish Mohammed bin
00:48:44.440
Salman, who's the leader of Saudi Arabia. But Biden can punish Mohammed bin Salman because we rely on
00:48:49.560
Saudi Arabia right now to help fix the oil prices. And me and Saudi Arabia has been a longtime ally.
00:48:54.660
So what happened? The Biden administration said we are not going to hold MBS and Saudi Arabia
00:48:59.720
accountable for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Now he's being accused of a quid pro quo.
00:49:03.880
Is there any quid pro quo behind that, that that were being nicer to them and they might cooperate?
00:49:12.460
There's no quid pro quo. I think the decision on on the immunity was a strict legal decision
00:49:19.540
by the lawyers about him becoming a prime minister and determination that was made by the lawyers.
00:49:25.980
That was not done by policymakers, but really just a legal one. As far as their decision to cut,
00:49:32.640
you know, we you know, you and I may disagree on that. I think that a two million cut announcement
00:49:37.500
at the time was we did not believe was warranted. I think that prices were at about 88 or 87 when
00:49:45.140
they announced that it went up to almost $100 and settled back down, mostly because, you know,
00:49:51.040
when you announce a cut at two million, what we all know is that two million is not going to be cut.
00:49:55.760
And most countries are not in a position to cut production and definitely not cut exports.
00:50:01.300
So I think that where their deliberations are not connected to the policymaking.
00:50:06.120
So it's not absolutely not a quid pro quo. OK, this was just we we were following the law and just
00:50:12.860
that's why we can't hold this guy accountable in any sort of way for killing this spy in Turkey.
00:50:17.760
And it has nothing to do with the oil and nothing to do with our longstanding.
00:50:21.660
What are you talking about, bro? This is so stupid and nobody believes it for a second.
00:50:26.540
Of course, it's a quid pro quo. All of politics is a quid pro quo,
00:50:31.460
certainly when we're talking about international politics. That's what it is. OK, we need something
00:50:37.900
from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia needs something from us. And then you negotiate and that's it.
00:50:43.120
And by the way, this was another of the arguments for Trump was the art of the deal. Now, some people
00:50:47.880
will say, well, he didn't get the art of the deal done quite as well as I wanted him to. And so
00:50:51.300
regardless of the reality of it, I'm just saying that was the argument is that Trump looked at
00:50:57.100
politics not as this pie in the sky, grandiose sort of liberal vision. But he said, no, you know,
00:51:04.060
look, I'm going to fix that. I'm going to fix that. Look, we can negotiate here. Get off your high
00:51:08.700
horse. We're just going to talk. OK, we're going to get things done. All right. And I think that
00:51:12.860
is how the conservatives, as we look ahead at what's going to be the longest presidential
00:51:17.620
primary ever, as we look at these candidates, I think we all need to get off our high horse a
00:51:23.400
little bit. I think we need to back away from the Donald Trump is a he's a Nazi, evil, terrible,
00:51:30.660
worst president and back away from the Ron DeSantis is just an establishment shell. He's basically just
00:51:35.580
Jeb Bush or whatever. And back away from all the other candidates who could run and just say,
00:51:40.320
look, we've got some we've got some good options here. OK, it's it's a good it's a good problem to
00:51:47.260
have. We've got some good options here who are running for president. We're going to let this
00:51:50.260
thing play out. These are all big boys and we do not put our faith in princes. OK, we are not here
00:51:56.220
looking for some suit to save our country, you know, in the sense of. In a religious sense,
00:52:06.640
I mean, we're not that's not we're looking for a guy to fix stuff and put the country back on track
00:52:12.340
and it's going to be an imperfect guy. But that's what we need. And so they're tough guys. They can
00:52:17.440
duke it out. And then we will pick our nominee. We won't we won't pick our nominee based on which
00:52:24.620
which person the media are least likely to call a Nazi or something. We're going to pick our nominee
00:52:30.460
on a quid pro quo. Who is going to give us the best policy, the lead the country in the best
00:52:36.540
possible way until the next guy we do it all over again. Now, today's Music Monday. Speaking of
00:52:42.720
cultural matters, you know, I'm a hip hop total music maven. And so usually we go straight to the
00:52:49.240
member block here. This is where I leave all of you hoi polloi on YouTube who are too cheap to shell
00:52:53.460
out a dollar for the Daily Wire membership. But not today. It's Cyber Monday. All right. So we're going to
00:52:58.240
leave this open right now. You should never miss another member block. OK, click the link in the
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description for 50 percent off new memberships and gift memberships for your loved ones until
00:53:11.500
Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Get Ben Davies in here. I said it.
00:53:19.820
Get your heart. I can't. I'm so filled with rage. For those of you who have
00:53:27.800
I'm taking my earpiece out. For those of you who have not tuned into the member block before.
00:53:36.120
As we transition into the member block, my producer Ben Davies plays a song and this that
00:53:41.280
or the other thing. But one thing he's been doing recently, he's been playing Christmas music. And I
00:53:45.640
said, you don't play Christmas music until Christmas. Because to do so, to do so before Thanksgiving
00:53:55.020
is obviously ridiculous. To do so before Christmas is Advent erasure. It is not Christmas. Jesus Christ
00:54:01.940
is not yet born. Well, he is born, but we're not recognizing that as part of the liturgical year
00:54:05.380
yet. You wait until Christmas. And until Christmas, you play O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, or Come Thou Long
00:54:13.220
Expected Jesus. And I said, when they did it again, they did it to me last week. And I said, Ben Davies,
00:54:18.960
the next time you play Christmas music in that transition, you are fired from this company.
00:54:26.100
Oh, I know it's the, I know it's the Advent season and I'm supposed to cultivate a spirit of
00:54:32.060
resignation. I'm supposed to cultivate a spirit of charity.
00:54:36.580
Maybe, maybe I'll leave it up to the members. Not to all of you hoi polloi out there who are
00:54:47.900
contemplating, do I get a membership? Do I join the creme de la creme, the inner circle of the
00:54:51.480
Michael Dole Show? But the members, if you think that I should grant a reprieve and a pardon to Ben
00:54:57.460
Davies, this time, maybe I will. Maybe. If not, off with his head. Put my earpiece back in.
00:55:08.360
So furious. Oh, I'm shaking. I'm literally shaking. What was everybody saying today?
00:55:14.900
Let's see. O Come, All Ye Faithful, Itachi of Konoha says. O Come, All Ye Faithful,
00:55:20.540
another Advent song. That's true. Okay, that's the third option. Let's see. Unquiet Centra says,
00:55:25.680
Davies knows that we like angry gnolls. I know I lose my temper like three times a year,
00:55:30.140
but I'm losing it. Advent erasure is what does it to me.
00:55:36.540
Okay, Zuby, Michael drew a Christmas music line and Ben Davies not only crossed that line,
00:55:41.260
but demolished. I know this is the problem is I'm going to look like Obama now if I don't fire him.
00:55:45.220
Because remember Obama said, well, if Bashar Assad uses certain weapons in Syria,
00:55:50.320
that would be a red line. And then what happened? Bashar Assad used the weapons,
00:55:54.540
So now I'm going to look like Obama if I don't fire him.
00:55:57.900
You let me know. You let me know, members, if I should fire Davies over this. I'm furious.
00:56:05.420
Advent, you don't mess with sick Michael. I know. Well, this is the problem.
00:56:09.260
You can probably hear that I'm a little bit stuffy. I went up to visit my in-laws. We went up with my
00:56:15.300
wife and my two children. And we saw my sister-in-law and her two children and the whole family.
00:56:20.340
But little kids are just petri dishes. They're petri dishes filled with every sickness,
00:56:28.340
variants of COVID that do not yet exist or that have not been classified. And then what the kids
00:56:33.240
do is they just climb all over you and spit on you and just they're drooly. And it's, yeah.
00:56:39.300
Anyway, I'll try to get better soon. Let's see. Ben deserves a pardon, says Barrel of Monkeys.
00:56:46.580
Guys, we'll see. We'll see about that. Elizabeth, good night from South Korea. Merry Christmas,
00:56:52.500
everybody. Not going to wait, Michael. Are you really in South Korea? That's very impressive.
00:56:57.880
Let's see. All right. A lot of people are saying, pardon Ben Davies. I don't know.
00:57:03.500
No, so remember where the gun says Michael don't squish. You taught me that last week.
00:57:07.260
Fire your producer. I might, maybe I should. I don't know. I'm really torn on all of this, guys.
00:57:14.060
Guys, keep, pardon Davies. Okay, it's starting to trend. All right. You're being too nice to Ben
00:57:20.580
Davies, so I'm going to turn away from that. I don't want to see that. There were also a couple
00:57:25.140
updates from the elections that I meant to get to last week and we haven't had time,
00:57:30.280
but I'll give it to you. The creme de la creme, the inner circle here. So there's still two house
00:57:34.260
races that have not yet been decided. How many days are we after the election day right now?
00:57:38.040
Like three weeks after the election. But there have been some wins. My friend Lauren Boebert has
00:57:44.420
won her race in Colorado. So I really like Lauren Boebert. She's now going to be a two-term
00:57:52.600
congressman. Hopefully she'll be there a lot longer after that. But she faced this really tough battle
00:57:57.920
in this last election. And the media made a huge deal of it. We're going to get Lauren Boebert.
00:58:03.680
They hate her guts because she's a rock-ribbed conservative. And so they were just really
00:58:07.520
gunning after her. And you heard, this is going to be a huge upset. And then her opponent conceded
00:58:11.460
and the story went away. But we should spike the football. The libs, they thought they had her.
00:58:17.440
They were so excited. Then the whole thing went away when she won. But I think we should give her
00:58:22.200
a round of applause because that was good. They really went after this woman with everything they
00:58:25.960
had. And she beat them, which I love. Okay, let's get to the song. So the song is
00:58:30.960
Let You Down. The artist is N.F., who I've never heard of, has 8.6 million subscribers. Oh my gosh.
00:58:40.020
The video has 225 million views. This was released five years ago. Okay. So N.F. is an American.
00:58:48.160
Is that, am I pronouncing that right or is it pronounced oomph? It's N.F. Okay, it's not oomph, oomph, oomph.
00:58:54.520
Is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer. He achieved mainstream popularity in 2017
00:58:58.840
with his album Perception, which charted at number one in the U.S. and was certified platinum. Wow.
00:59:04.260
Man, I'm so out of the culture. I am so. The other day, a Sugar Ray song came on in the airport.
00:59:12.260
Remember Sugar Ray? Like, I just want to fly. And I thought in my head, I was like, wow, this is,
00:59:16.280
you know, I kind of like modern music. This song's 30 years old. It's just like, oh, wow. Yeah,
00:59:20.680
man, I'm hip. I'm cool. How do you do, fellow kids? All right, let's play the song.
00:59:23.440
I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need.
00:59:45.680
I, paradoxically, that actually sort of mitigates my fury at Ben Davies because you really got me.
00:59:52.000
Is that the new Rickroll? I think the new Rickroll is just going to be that stupid Mariah Carey song
00:59:59.940
that people start playing in August and then that goes through. Wow, really good. Listen, I know this
01:00:08.860
is a controversial opinion. This is probably going to be much more controversial than anything I've
01:00:12.460
said today about Donald Trump or Kanye West or anything like that. I kind of like the Mariah
01:00:18.500
Carey song. I kind of like it. It's happy. It's bubbly. It's pop. What's wrong? Let's see.
01:00:28.440
Off with it. Well-played, Ben, says Abby. Yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty funny. Well-played.
01:00:33.440
That's good. That's good. Look. Ben Davies says we still have a real song. Do we, we actually do
01:00:38.620
have the other song? Alright, let's continue the other song. Have I heard the song?
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I'm sorry that I let you down. Let you down. All these voices in my head get loud. I wish
01:01:01.400
I could shut them out. I'm sorry that I let you down. Let you down. Yeah.
01:01:11.500
I guess I'm a disappointment. Doing everything I can. I don't want to make you disappointed.
01:01:15.880
It's annoying. I just want to make you feel like everything I ever do is never trying to
01:01:18.860
make an issue for you. But I guess the more you thought about everything was never even
01:01:22.260
wrong in the first place, right? Yeah, I'ma just ignore you, walking towards you.
01:01:25.760
With my head down, looking at the ground, I'm embarrassed for you. Paranoia. What did I do wrong
01:01:29.840
and this time there's parents for you? Very loyal. Should've had my back, would you
01:01:33.240
put a knife in my hand before? What else should I carry for you? I cares for you, buddy.
01:01:37.540
I'm on the edge right now. I wish that I could say I'm proud. I'm sorry that I let you
01:01:45.160
down. Let you down. All these voices in my head get loud. I wish that I could shut them
01:01:59.840
Let that dance you down. Take a pause right there. It's actually a sort of fitting song
01:02:04.220
for the holidays because, you know, when you're a kid, the holidays are so great, especially
01:02:08.360
Christmas. You wake up, you're on the presents. It's all just perfect. But then as you get
01:02:12.720
older, people start to get sad around the holidays because people are dead and, you know, you're
01:02:18.820
no longer a child anymore. And so it just becomes much, much harder. And, you know, I don't
01:02:22.720
know, your cousin, your sibling got divorced and, you know, this person went away and whatever.
01:02:28.100
It just becomes more haunting, you know, and people are looking back and saying, oh,
01:02:35.240
if only I'd said this, if only we had done this. Look how much smaller the table is this
01:02:38.600
year. Look at, oh, it's so sad. And so for a lot of people, you know, this probably does
01:02:44.160
resonate. So far, the song seems a little bit indulgent to me about daddy issues and all
01:02:51.180
Yeah. You don't want to make this work. You just want to make this worse. Want me to listen
01:02:54.820
to you, but you don't ever hear my words. You don't want to know my hurt yet. Let me
01:02:58.260
guess. You want an apology, probably. How can we keep going at a rate like this? We can't
01:03:02.860
so I guess I'm going to have to leave. Please don't come after me. I just want to be alone
01:03:06.120
right now. I don't really want to think at all. Go ahead, just drink it all. Vote now,
01:03:09.340
you're going to call tomorrow. Like nothing's wrong. Ain't that what you always do? I feel
01:03:12.340
like every time I talk to you, you're in an awful mood. What else can I offer you? There's nothing left
01:03:15.860
right now. I'll give it all to you on the edge right now. I wish that I could say I'm proud.
01:03:22.700
I'm sorry that I let you down. Let you down. But all these voices in my head get loud.
01:03:32.320
I wish that I could shut them out. I'm sorry that I let you down. Let you down.
01:03:41.640
Yeah, don't talk down to me. That's not going to work now. Packed all my clothes and I moved
01:03:47.100
out. I don't even want to go to your house. Every time I sit on that couch, I feel like
01:03:51.280
you lecture me eventually. I bet that we could have made this work and probably would have
01:03:54.620
figured things out. But I guess I'm a letdown. But it's cool. I checked out. Oh, you want
01:03:58.360
to be friends now? Okay, let's put my fake face on and pretend now. Sit around and talk
01:04:02.420
about the good times. That didn't even happen. I mean, why are you laughing? Must have missed that
01:04:06.300
joke. Let me see if I can find a reaction. No, but at least you're happy. It's like we're
01:04:10.460
on the edge right now. You said I could say I'm proud. That's a really cutting line where
01:04:17.280
you say, okay, yeah, we had this terrible history together. But now you want to sit and laugh
01:04:22.580
about the good times that didn't even happen. And that's so true. People forget this. And
01:04:26.200
I think it is sort of a cure to Christmastime melancholy, which is that nostalgia is history after
01:04:33.480
a few drinks, okay? The good old days were not as good as you remember them, okay? And the present
01:04:39.880
is not as bad as you might perceive it to be. And who knows about the future? The future does not
01:04:44.940
exist yet. So another reminder, it actually ties in with what we were talking about on the show today,
01:04:53.180
is that we have obligations to our family. And we don't really perceive this anymore. This is why
01:05:00.060
you see the decline in people visiting their family for Thanksgiving. You see an
01:05:03.400
increase in Friendsgiving. You ever hear that phrase? Oh, we're just having Friendsgiving this
01:05:07.860
year. And you don't see your family, but you just see the people that you already like. And as though
01:05:12.280
this were some novel sort of innovation. Wow, we've progressed so much. We've discovered that we
01:05:18.380
enjoy spending time with our chosen companions more than with our families with whom we have some
01:05:22.820
problems. Yeah, no way. You don't say, buddy. Of course, that's been true for all of history for
01:05:27.520
everybody. But nevertheless, nevertheless, you have an obligation in virtually all circumstances. I guess
01:05:36.420
there are some exceptions, obviously. But you have an obligation to see your family. You will regret it
01:05:41.900
if you don't. Even though you don't like your sister, and even though you've got some beef with
01:05:49.200
your dad or whatever, go. Do it. You are not an island unto yourself. And you will derive far greater
01:05:59.080
meaning and joy, even, I suspect, from the fulfillment of your natural obligations to honor
01:06:04.860
your father and your mother than you will from indulging some individual pleasure, you know, to sit
01:06:12.080
at home and watch a movie instead of going to grandma's house for Christmas Eve. Keep going.
01:06:15.280
I'm sorry that I let you down. Oh, I let you down. All these voices in my head get loud. And I wish
01:06:26.780
that I could shut them apart. I'm sorry that I let you down. Oh, I let you down.
01:06:35.740
Yeah, I like that well enough, you know? A little sappy, a little indulgent, as is most modern music,
01:07:05.740
Tra-la-la-la. Oh, it looks like the comments froze up. They froze. There are probably too many people
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here checking it out, heading on over to the member block. Let's see. Did we? Oh, Arun says,
01:07:19.540
hey, my meeting was canceled. Hey, Arun, what's up? Arun, one of the, you know, real stars of the
01:07:23.700
Michael Knowles show, member group. Did we find out how to pronounce NF? Yeah, I'm going to continue
01:07:28.580
to say oomph. That's kind of cool. Oomph, oomph. Flying Mind says, I like the Mariah Carey song too. I do not
01:07:35.720
apologize for saying it, nor do I. Nor do I. I'd listen to Mariah Carey all day over, The Little Drummer Boy.
01:07:40.920
I cannot agree with that, Becca. There's a great version of The Little Drummer Boy, where Bing Crosby
01:07:46.560
was already kind of old, and David Bowie, for some reason, is singing it, and it's the two of them there,
01:07:52.220
and it's just really weird and bizarre and fabulous. Recommend that. Love the song, Michael. Did you get a cold?
01:07:58.560
Yeah, I think I have the Alpha, Sigma, Omega, Lambda, Kappa, Epsilon variant of COVID.
01:08:03.680
That's the one where you just permanently have COVID, and it's especially true if you have two
01:08:09.000
children under the age of two. You just permanently have it, and so I think I need to smoke some more
01:08:13.920
cigars. Just blast that smoke through my congestion. Let's see. Dernhelm of Rohan says, Michael, no,
01:08:24.840
it's an overplayed, cheesy, not well-written, sappy, stupid romance song that bills itself as Christmas.
01:08:29.060
That is true of most modern Christmas celebrations, okay? So if you're going to get rid of that,
01:08:34.620
you're going to get rid of most of what goes on in the public square.
01:08:37.280
Okay, I'm Michael Laws. This is The Michael Law Show. We'll see you tomorrow.