The Michael Knowles Show - January 13, 2023


Ep. 1161 - The Liberal Conspiracy Theorists Have A Wild New Theory


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As the Joe Biden scandal deepens, a new theory has emerged that the documents were planted in Biden s office and home by conservative political philosopher Joy Behar. The idea is that a Republican mole planted the documents in order to embarrass the vice president.

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00:00:37.680 As President Biden's mishandling of classified documents scandal deepens,
00:00:42.400 a new theory has emerged out of the Blue Anon movement on the left.
00:00:47.240 The theory is that the documents were planted in Biden's office and home by conservatives.
00:00:53.360 Here is the prominent modern political philosopher of the left, Joy Behar, proposing the theory.
00:01:00.480 You know what I think?
00:01:01.360 Against Trump.
00:01:01.700 I've never seen a luckier person than Donald Trump.
00:01:05.140 Just as we're this close to getting him, somehow these documents appear.
00:01:09.360 But here's the thing.
00:01:10.120 Biden is wrong to have done this.
00:01:11.740 He is wrong.
00:01:13.500 Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson, who is most famous for suggesting that if more people move
00:01:19.000 to Guam, the island might capsize, Hank Johnson has expounded on this theory.
00:01:24.000 He said, quote,
00:01:25.100 My response to it all is that the alleged classified documents showing up allegedly in the possession
00:01:30.900 of Joe Biden.
00:01:31.800 You know, I mean, there's so much that needs to be investigated.
00:01:35.400 And that's that's what I called for is for everything to be investigated.
00:01:38.060 But I'm suspicious of the timing of it.
00:01:40.600 But I'm also aware of the fact that things can be planted on people, places, things can
00:01:46.640 be planted, things can be planted in places and then discovered conveniently.
00:01:51.820 That may be what has occurred.
00:01:53.440 I'm not ruling that out, but I don't.
00:01:55.400 I'm open in terms of the investigation needs to be investigated.
00:02:01.640 Pithy.
00:02:02.640 These libs might want to be careful what they wish for, because it now appears that the
00:02:07.300 Biden documents will be investigated.
00:02:10.300 And assuming that no secret Republican mole turns up in Joe Biden's garage, I don't think
00:02:16.200 the libs are going to like what the investigation turns up.
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00:03:57.300 These documents just keep popping up.
00:04:00.080 Poor Joe Biden.
00:04:01.720 A whole lot of accidents going on.
00:04:03.720 Joe Biden has finally responded to classified documents that were found from his time as vice president.
00:04:11.100 He said that they were locked in a garage by his Corvette.
00:04:14.620 Now, these are different documents than the ones that were locked in his office at the fake think tank.
00:04:19.660 These were at his home.
00:04:21.540 How did they get there?
00:04:22.400 That's kind of weird.
00:04:23.100 But don't worry.
00:04:24.260 It's right near the Corvette.
00:04:26.020 No one's going to go near those.
00:04:27.300 Richard Sauber, who is special counsel to the president, said in a statement that, quote,
00:04:31.960 all but one of these documents were found in storage space in the president's Wilmington residence garage.
00:04:40.060 Lots of accidents here.
00:04:42.940 Whoopsie-daisy.
00:04:44.280 How many more documents are going to turn up?
00:04:46.360 I don't know.
00:04:47.100 But what I do know is that Joe Biden's current defense in this scandal is pretty weak.
00:04:55.820 I think that Joe Biden could make this scandal go away right now by saying, oh, the documents are unclassified.
00:05:03.040 He could do that because, as I said when the libs were trying to blow up the Trump document scandal at Mar-a-Lago,
00:05:09.780 I pointed out that the president of the United States has the right, has the authority to declassify whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it.
00:05:21.540 He does not need to submit himself to a formal process to do that.
00:05:26.160 There is no middle manager bureaucrat guy to whom the president must write a letter requesting to declassify documents.
00:05:36.180 The president's the top of the food chain when it comes to the executive branch.
00:05:40.260 And so if the president did have to submit himself to some career bureaucrat in whatever agency you want,
00:05:49.400 that would be a strange perversion of the way that the government is supposed to work.
00:05:54.220 So I said it when they were going after Trump for this stuff.
00:05:57.520 I'll say it now that we're going after Biden for this stuff.
00:06:00.080 Joe Biden could end this now and say, okay, they're declassified.
00:06:02.440 But he won't do that.
00:06:03.620 He won't do that because that would completely undermine the argument that the libs have been making about Donald Trump for months now
00:06:11.520 as they try to justify the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago on Joe Biden's watch.
00:06:17.600 So now he's in this really tough position because the avenue that he has before him to make all of this go away,
00:06:24.640 he has closed off to himself because he still wants to keep attacking his political enemy and for now his chief rival, Donald Trump.
00:06:30.980 So the excuse that he has right now is this was inadvertent.
00:06:35.160 Joe Biden just didn't know.
00:06:37.240 I think it's a weak excuse because whether he knew or whether he didn't, he mishandled the documents.
00:06:41.160 Apparently a lot of documents, apparently in multiple places.
00:06:44.020 Now what Joe Biden has done is even if you're just trying to compare the acts themselves, much worse than what Donald Trump did.
00:06:52.660 Trump did it as president.
00:06:55.100 He took the documents as president.
00:06:56.260 Joe Biden only took the documents as vice president when he had no right to declassify the documents.
00:07:02.360 But also Trump just kept all those docs in some closet at Mar-a-Lago.
00:07:06.140 Biden now we're looking at multiple places.
00:07:08.140 He said it was inadvertent.
00:07:09.560 But Jonathan Turley, who is a very famous law professor and commentator on these matters,
00:07:14.460 he pointed out that this defense actually might work against him.
00:07:18.120 He said if Biden worked off any of these documents for his book, which dealt with some of the underlying subjects apparently in the documents,
00:07:26.840 the inadvertent defense is not only shattered, but could be viewed as an effort to deceive the public.
00:07:34.440 And this is the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
00:07:40.340 You know this, if you've ever told a lie, everybody's told a lie at some point.
00:07:44.960 You tell a lie, and then what's really annoying about the lie is not only that it damages your soul to do even that,
00:07:52.500 but then you've got to keep up with the lie.
00:07:54.140 And then you've got to remember who you told which lie to, and who knows what, and who thinks this.
00:07:58.540 And then you've got to keep the lie going.
00:08:00.560 And Joe Biden is the most prominent habitual liar in the United States.
00:08:06.520 George Santos, that Republican from Long Island, might unseat him from that crown
00:08:12.740 because George Santos lied about his education background, his professional background, and possibly his sexual desires.
00:08:18.660 But put a pause in that for right now.
00:08:21.360 Joe Biden has been doing it a lot longer.
00:08:23.340 He had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race for lying.
00:08:27.340 The guy's a liar, and now it's catching up with him.
00:08:29.600 And what liars think is, okay, I'm in this jam right now.
00:08:32.480 Well, I'll just tell a lie, and that will get me out of the jam.
00:08:35.300 But as Turley points out, Biden's lies on this subject could get him in more trouble.
00:08:41.780 So the options before him are keep up the lie, potentially get himself in actual legal trouble
00:08:50.220 because the president of the United States can't mishandle classified documents by definition.
00:08:55.900 But he can perjure himself.
00:08:58.000 He can obstruct an investigation.
00:09:00.000 He can do lots of other things that he may or may not be doing right now.
00:09:02.400 That's one avenue available to him.
00:09:04.080 Or the other is, admit that the Trump nonsense about the classified documents was precisely that.
00:09:10.000 It was all just an empty political attack and move on.
00:09:13.240 And right now, the Democrats can't let go.
00:09:16.100 They hate Trump so much, they are willing to put themselves in a very dicey political and legal position to do it.
00:09:23.280 So what's going to happen to Biden?
00:09:25.960 Well, Merrick Garland, the attorney general, is appointing a special counsel.
00:09:29.500 I'm here today to announce the appointment of Robert Herr as a special counsel pursuant to Department of Justice regulations governing such matters.
00:09:39.240 In keeping with those regulations, I have today notified the designated members of each House of Congress of the appointment.
00:09:45.840 On the evening of November 4th, 2022, the National Archives Office of Inspector General contacted a prosecutor at the Department of Justice.
00:09:54.680 It informed him that the White House had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the Penn-Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, located in Washington, D.C.
00:10:10.220 That office was not authorized for storage of classified documents.
00:10:14.960 The prosecutor was also advised that those documents had been secured in an archives facility.
00:10:19.640 On November 9th, the FBI commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand whether classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law.
00:10:32.400 Wait a second.
00:10:33.660 Is Merrick Garland principled now?
00:10:35.720 Is Merrick Garland a conservative now?
00:10:37.920 Is Merrick Garland willing to go after his own side and execute justice blindly?
00:10:46.040 I don't really believe that.
00:10:47.740 I'm encouraged to see what he's done right now.
00:10:50.220 Garland has appointed this U.S. attorney, former U.S. attorney, Robert Herr, who does not appear to be some big lib lawyer.
00:10:56.740 He actually appears to be a Republican.
00:10:58.940 And he actually appears to be a conservative, not just a squish Republican.
00:11:02.360 But this guy served in the Trump administration.
00:11:04.800 He served as special counsel in the investigation after the U.S. attorney for Northern District of Illinois, John Lausch, recommended to Garland that that happen.
00:11:15.180 He clerked for the former Supreme Court Chief Justice, William Rehnquist, who was extremely conservative.
00:11:21.980 So this is actually pretty good.
00:11:24.080 I'm always looking for what's the angle here.
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00:11:37.480 He's not a conservative Republican, can't imagine he liked Trump all that much.
00:11:41.600 Why is this happening?
00:11:43.500 The only angle I can see on it is this appointment reflects Joe Biden's relative weakness in the Democrat Party.
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00:13:21.100 A.G. Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden over the classified
00:13:26.540 documents represents, I think, Biden's weakness in the party.
00:13:30.920 I also think even if Biden were very strong in the Democrat Party right now, Garland probably
00:13:35.360 would have had to do this.
00:13:36.420 Not because the issue is all that big a deal, but because the Democrats were just making
00:13:41.300 such a huge hullabaloo about Trump doing a lesser version of the same alleged crime.
00:13:47.340 So they had to do it.
00:13:48.900 It would have looked so transparently corrupt had Garland not done this.
00:13:54.060 I think Garland recognizes the House GOP just took control of the lower house of Congress.
00:14:00.540 And so he doesn't want to get hauled before congressional committees and chewed out by
00:14:04.420 the Republicans who are now running those committees.
00:14:06.120 So there are a lot of political reasons why he had to do it.
00:14:08.360 But also, if Joe Biden were dominating the Democrat Party right now, this would not have happened.
00:14:15.060 You think about how Trump found himself in a similar situation with special counsel.
00:14:19.700 The reason for that is Trump did not have a total control over the Republican Party.
00:14:24.320 He obviously won the nomination in 2016.
00:14:27.140 He won the presidency in 2016, but he won the people over, I think, in 2016.
00:14:32.700 But the party apparatus still hated that guy's guts.
00:14:35.760 The never Trump part of the party, but also just the old kind of swamp creatures.
00:14:40.820 Trump came in like a bull in a china shop.
00:14:42.400 They did not like him.
00:14:43.380 And so that part of the GOP consistently tried to undermine Donald Trump.
00:14:49.300 What we're seeing right now is that Joe Biden is just not that popular with Democrats.
00:14:52.800 Democrats don't think that the guy can win in 2024.
00:14:57.240 And so if you're looking right now, and Joe Biden is just not making good excuses for these
00:15:00.500 classified documents that come at a terrible time for him to give Joy Behar her due.
00:15:06.160 She's right.
00:15:06.900 The timing just looks absolutely awful.
00:15:09.440 And so if you're a Democrat and you're making a bet, do I defend Biden here or do I throw him
00:15:14.620 to the wolves?
00:15:15.980 Probably you're going to be more inclined to throw him to the wolves.
00:15:18.880 OK, Biden's passed his expiration date.
00:15:21.160 Time to move on from this guy.
00:15:24.620 Speaking of moving on, speaking of becoming disillusioned, disenchanted with things we
00:15:31.280 once loved at the political level, only 16% of Gen Zers love America.
00:15:39.440 This, according to a new morning consult survey released this week, shows that when asked about
00:15:45.000 how they view living in their country, Gen Z adults had extremely low opinions of the
00:15:50.280 United States.
00:15:51.100 Well, 52% of all U.S.
00:15:52.860 adults said they were proud to live in America.
00:15:55.520 Only 16% of Gen Z agreed.
00:15:57.560 Compare this with the boomers. 0.99
00:15:59.100 Almost three out of every four boomers say that they love America, proud to live in America.
00:16:04.440 More than half of Gen Xers, 54% say they love America.
00:16:09.420 Even the millennials who basically hate America say that they're proud of their country, love
00:16:14.020 their country.
00:16:14.440 And then just one in six, less than one in six, Zoomers say that they love their country. 0.98
00:16:19.980 I am not surprised at all.
00:16:23.540 Not merely because the youths these days, those youths, they don't know how good they got it.
00:16:29.560 When I was a kid, you know, I trudged uphill both ways in the snow and the sleet and the
00:16:35.320 fire and the brimstone.
00:16:36.600 These kids, they're so soft.
00:16:38.100 They don't know.
00:16:38.300 It's not just that.
00:16:40.240 The reason that I'm not surprised at all that Gen Z doesn't love their country is that 0.99
00:16:45.840 nobody is really defending the country as a country.
00:16:49.060 We know that the libs hate America. 0.98
00:16:51.520 We know that the libs say that America is an evil, racist, sexist, this-ist, that-ist,
00:16:57.120 phobic place that's always been oppressive and terrible to all sorts of people.
00:17:01.060 And we've got to topple the statues of our forebears.
00:17:03.780 And we should shred the constitution.
00:17:05.580 And we should start over because of how terrible this place is.
00:17:07.700 So there you go.
00:17:08.600 Right off, basically half of Gen Z right there.
00:17:11.780 That's the way that the libs are educated today. 0.97
00:17:14.080 That wasn't exactly true for the boomers.
00:17:16.100 The boomers became disaffected with America and disillusioned.
00:17:21.940 But they weren't educated that way.
00:17:23.520 They were educated to love their country.
00:17:25.540 And then you're seeing declining national love and national pride after that.
00:17:29.780 But okay, right off at least half of the zoomers, all those libs. 1.00
00:17:32.420 Even the conservatives, I think, are educated today not to love their country.
00:17:40.380 I think that over the last 30, 40 years, the way that even the young conservatives have been raised
00:17:46.020 is to think not what can I do for my country, but what can my country do for me?
00:17:53.420 They've been raised to believe that at the heart of politics is the individual.
00:17:59.500 That's what politics is really about.
00:18:01.660 And the government, the nation such as it is, only exists so that I can get more stuff.
00:18:07.820 The whole point of the government, the reason those founding fathers and framers of the constitution
00:18:11.980 went through all that trouble was just to set up a system where the government doesn't mean anything
00:18:16.940 and the nation has no unified purpose and there's no such thing as the common good.
00:18:20.920 That's commie talk, if you ask me.
00:18:22.640 And the whole reason the thing exists is just to get people to leave me alone and get off my lawn
00:18:26.680 and let me keep my money.
00:18:27.580 That's what government's for.
00:18:28.580 That's what the polity representing the whole nation is for.
00:18:33.520 Just about me getting more stuff.
00:18:36.360 I'm barely exaggerating.
00:18:39.240 So okay, you got the libs naturally hate their country and they want to erase the borders
00:18:43.000 and erase any sense of natural inheritance or identity.
00:18:46.940 But you got the conservatives basically neglecting national identity
00:18:50.240 and being raised in a fanatically small government, borderline anarchistic kind of ideology
00:19:00.160 that even if it is not put in practice does go into the minds of the young people who have been raised in it.
00:19:06.240 And so ideas like the common good, ideas like a shared national purpose, ideas like the republic.
00:19:14.840 Republic comes from race publica, stuff we hold in common, things we have in common.
00:19:20.900 Ideas like the summum bonum.
00:19:23.260 This was an idea that before the Enlightenment, before the modern lib philosophers came around,
00:19:27.380 people understood that politics existed in part, at least, to pursue good and avoid evil.
00:19:33.980 That was what it was about.
00:19:35.180 And then after the Enlightenment, you have this big shift to a view of the polity as just a big social contract
00:19:42.100 where the main thing that the government is supposed to do is get everyone to leave everybody else alone. 0.84
00:19:47.680 And we have no shared pursuit of the common good.
00:19:50.480 We can't even really identify what the common good is.
00:19:52.740 All we can identify is the common bad.
00:19:55.120 This is what Thomas Hobbes writes about in Leviathan.
00:19:58.060 And you see shades of this throughout all of the liberal writers who come afterward.
00:20:02.440 Who knows what's good?
00:20:04.080 You know, what you say is good, maybe I don't think is good.
00:20:06.220 But we do know what's bad.
00:20:08.060 And what's bad is when you take my property.
00:20:10.660 And so as a result of that, we've got to just have a government that protects certain basically material rights.
00:20:17.900 And then all that virtue stuff that goes out the window.
00:20:20.800 Okay, well, if you're going to throw all that virtue stuff out the window, people aren't going to love their country.
00:20:25.420 If you're going to throw out the notion that there is anything lovable about the country as a country,
00:20:32.660 then people aren't going to love it.
00:20:34.440 That's not the Zoomers' fault.
00:20:36.060 I hate to defend the Zoomers, but it's not their fault. 1.00
00:20:39.000 But it is an embarrassment, and we've got to fix it.
00:20:41.640 Now, speaking of national embarrassments, George Santos.
00:20:45.480 George Santos, the Republican congressman who claimed to be Jewish,
00:20:52.340 though his defense was he never claimed to be Jewish.
00:20:55.440 He claimed to be Catholic, but he said he had Jewish ancestry, which meant he was Jew-ish,
00:20:59.100 which is a funny line.
00:21:00.520 People are pretending to be offended by it, but it's a very, very funny line.
00:21:03.000 And if it were just that, you might say, okay, he said he had a Jewish great-grandpa or something somewhere.
00:21:09.940 Maybe, maybe he did.
00:21:11.340 Maybe that's in the family tree.
00:21:13.100 Maybe there was a Jewish milkman walking around Brazil or wherever the Santoses are from. 1.00
00:21:17.160 I don't know.
00:21:17.520 Whatever.
00:21:17.820 Maybe it could be.
00:21:18.500 But then more lies kept coming up.
00:21:20.920 He lied about his education.
00:21:22.740 He said that he went to NYU.
00:21:25.300 He said he went to Baruch College.
00:21:27.060 He said he went to Horace Mann before college.
00:21:29.560 None of that seems to be true.
00:21:31.620 He said he worked for Goldman Sachs.
00:21:33.640 That doesn't seem to be true.
00:21:35.660 He said he's a gay guy, but until two weeks before his first congressional run in 2020,
00:21:40.840 he was married to a woman.
00:21:43.520 So now we don't believe this guy.
00:21:44.920 And there's pressure on Kevin McCarthy to boot him out of Congress.
00:21:49.900 Kevin McCarthy, now Speaker of the House, says he will continue to serve.
00:21:56.060 George Santos says, I'm not resigning.
00:21:59.560 And Kevin McCarthy says, I'm not going to make him resign.
00:22:02.540 And why?
00:22:03.880 How does Kevin McCarthy justify keeping George Santos in the House of Representatives?
00:22:08.640 He told reporters, yeah, okay, he's lied.
00:22:12.180 So have a lot of people here in the Senate and others.
00:22:15.940 Now, Kevin McCarthy, he's not the leader in the Senate.
00:22:18.120 George Santos is not in the Senate.
00:22:19.160 Why does he say that?
00:22:20.080 He is obviously referring to Elizabeth Warren.
00:22:23.080 Yeah, George Santos seems to have made up a ton of stuff about his biography.
00:22:28.760 Has he claimed to be a Native American?
00:22:31.120 Has he advanced his career by being the whitest woman to ever walk the earth and pretending to be 1.00
00:22:35.920 Pocahontas? 0.98
00:22:39.120 No, I don't think so.
00:22:41.260 Has he, did he lie about his academic record?
00:22:43.320 Yeah.
00:22:43.560 Oh, I guess he can be president now.
00:22:45.540 Okay.
00:22:46.540 Kevin McCarthy said, hold on, the bar, the bar now to be kicked out of Congress as you
00:22:50.620 embellish your back, you lie about your background, you embellish your resume.
00:22:53.400 Oh, okay.
00:22:53.700 I guess we got to kick out everybody in Congress then.
00:22:56.060 And specifically the Democrats who have done this brazenly in recent years.
00:22:59.820 And I got to say, I totally agree with Kevin McCarthy here.
00:23:03.360 I wouldn't trust George Santos for anything.
00:23:06.260 I wouldn't trust him to get me a cup of coffee, but I wouldn't tell him to resign.
00:23:09.620 We've got a razor thin House majority right now.
00:23:11.840 And the Democrats never resign when they get caught in these embarrassments.
00:23:15.180 Tell you what, we'll make a deal.
00:23:16.200 Once Elizabeth Warren resigns for pretending to be sitting bull, then George Santos can
00:23:22.300 resign for lying about all of his background.
00:23:25.640 Okay.
00:23:26.080 And if that doesn't happen, then Congressman Santos, I hope you do a great job voting for
00:23:30.820 good conservative principles and allowing the Republicans to keep their majority.
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00:26:02.600 Speaking of gay stuff, a Penn State sociology professor has encouraged his students to watch
00:26:10.400 gay porn. 0.81
00:26:11.980 He's not just encouraged his gay students, gay identifying, LGBT identifying students to watch
00:26:19.020 LGBT porn. 0.83
00:26:21.300 He's encouraging all of his students to do that.
00:26:24.400 What's the argument?
00:26:25.320 This is from Sociology 119.
00:26:30.100 Professor Sam Richards says that even straight people, and especially straight people, should
00:26:37.180 watch gay porn because they might be aroused by it. 0.85
00:26:40.280 He says, if you're straight, watch gay or lesbian porn.
00:26:42.600 See how quickly you feel aroused and how you can't control that.
00:26:46.280 You'll realize, oh, expletive, I could be sexualized by people who are like me.
00:26:51.800 He went on to say, we are all at some level non-binary.
00:26:56.080 We're all very much easily bisexual.
00:27:01.060 It's not clear what he's pointing to in terms of the research that would lead him to this
00:27:05.120 conclusion.
00:27:06.040 There was a study conducted by Cornell in 2015, or claimed at least, that both men and women
00:27:12.280 were aroused when they watched porn of the same sex.
00:27:15.900 And they said that this is evidence that everybody's gay or something.
00:27:18.980 Everybody's bisexual.
00:27:20.240 You know that thing that totally exists, bisexual. 0.94
00:27:23.140 Yeah, they said that everybody was that.
00:27:26.220 And the professor said, I might have hit a nerve there.
00:27:27.880 Did I hit a nerve?
00:27:29.620 Watch gay porn, he said.
00:27:32.160 See if you feel that feeling.
00:27:33.180 If you feel that feeling, look in a mirror.
00:27:34.680 Say, huh, maybe I'm just feeling some things that I'm just afraid to release.
00:27:38.680 And maybe you release that.
00:27:40.380 And maybe you'd be surprised that maybe you actually are fine being more bisexual. 0.74
00:27:45.780 And he says, I have friends who have spent a long time in prison.
00:27:50.440 I'm sure he has.
00:27:51.500 I think that's the only thing he's said so far that's true.
00:27:53.640 I have friends that spent a long time in prison, and they have homosexual sex. 1.00
00:27:57.280 They're straight until they're in prison, and then they do that.
00:27:59.400 So, especially on the prison point, I think what he's observing is true enough.
00:28:04.680 He's saying, yeah, you throw a bunch of guys in prison, and there's not a woman in sight.
00:28:09.220 And they're all a little bit deviant to begin with.
00:28:11.900 They're criminals.
00:28:13.040 And all they're doing all day long is working out.
00:28:15.760 They've got testosterone pumping through them. 1.00
00:28:17.720 And they've got all these kind of social hierarchies.
00:28:19.920 And the ordinary order of society goes completely insane.
00:28:23.620 And surprise, surprise, you get some eccentric sexual acts going on.
00:28:27.100 Yeah, that's true.
00:28:27.760 That does happen in porn.
00:28:28.680 That's a punchline.
00:28:29.780 Or that does happen in prison, rather.
00:28:31.340 It's a punchline when people go to prison.
00:28:34.040 You say, oh, don't drop the soap.
00:28:36.780 But how does this relate to porn?
00:28:39.420 He's saying, if you turn on a gay porno, you might feel aroused.
00:28:44.960 Regardless of whether or not a student does feel aroused watching that kind of pornography,
00:28:52.380 this is what grooming is.
00:28:55.260 When conservatives talk about grooming, this is what we're talking about.
00:28:58.120 We're not just talking about some drag queen weirdo leading a five-year-old off into the woods by the hands.
00:29:04.260 We're talking about this kind of stuff.
00:29:06.100 What is grooming?
00:29:06.900 Grooming is when you cultivate sexual desire in somebody else.
00:29:12.700 It's not just that you go in and violently take that person.
00:29:16.700 It's when you are cultivating that desire.
00:29:18.820 The professor is saying, hey, you're a straight guy.
00:29:21.520 You don't think about doing gay stuff.
00:29:24.180 Well, maybe you should.
00:29:25.660 Maybe you should actually engage in an activity that is designed not merely to satisfy sexual desires,
00:29:32.360 but to cultivate them.
00:29:34.180 Because that's what pornography does. 1.00
00:29:35.740 That's what the indulgence of all lust does. 0.65
00:29:38.340 This is why when you hear people talk about pornography addiction and the perils of the industry,
00:29:43.440 and even the way that the industry makes money,
00:29:45.760 the way it makes money is on the basis that pornography does not satiate lust.
00:29:51.000 It inflames lust.
00:29:52.720 It encourages lust.
00:29:53.980 And it leads people down really weird alleyways.
00:29:57.080 People who have become to identify as transgender and then they leave transgenderism.
00:30:02.900 Lots and lots of them.
00:30:04.600 I would be comfortable saying the vast majority of them that I have heard or read of say that porn was involved in some way.
00:30:12.580 I said, I started off watching kind of normal-ish porn, and then I started watching weirder and weirder porn,
00:30:19.320 and then eventually I started watching porn that told me that I'm a woman.
00:30:23.460 So it's cultivating that desire.
00:30:26.160 What does this professor even think that bisexual means?
00:30:29.820 If you're a guy, and you never think about doing weird stuff with guys,
00:30:35.600 and you never engage in weird stuff with guys,
00:30:38.320 and you're perfectly attracted to women,
00:30:40.560 and that's what's going on throughout your whole life,
00:30:43.540 and then this professor sits you down in a chair and plays a bunch of gay porn for you,
00:30:48.540 and then at the end of whatever time period,
00:30:51.080 let's say at the end of six months of this,
00:30:53.740 you start to have more disordered sexual visions and desires,
00:30:58.900 that means you're bisexual?
00:31:00.400 No, it means that guy made you bisexual.
00:31:02.320 It means that guy encouraged the desires in you,
00:31:05.520 because he's making a normative statement.
00:31:07.040 He's saying that is good.
00:31:07.940 It's good to be gay.
00:31:09.600 It's good to be bisexual.
00:31:11.080 And it's bad not to be.
00:31:13.840 It's not just it's okay to be gay.
00:31:16.300 It's not just not that there's anything wrong with that,
00:31:18.400 which was the kind of 1990s laissez-faire attitude to these sexual questions.
00:31:23.820 It's a claim that it is actively good to pursue disordered sexual desires.
00:31:30.880 And why are people claiming this?
00:31:33.600 It's not just because they're sexual deviants like this professor.
00:31:38.720 It follows naturally from the liberationist theology
00:31:42.760 that has told us in increasingly absurd ways for the last several centuries
00:31:47.020 that we need to free our true selves,
00:31:52.060 not merely from the oppressive shackles of tyrannical governments,
00:31:56.520 but from convention, from morality, from our families,
00:32:01.960 from our physical bodies, from our religions, certainly,
00:32:05.700 but even from our bodies, because my true self is not my body.
00:32:09.580 I've got it.
00:32:11.380 That's the argument that people are making.
00:32:15.420 And it's a false one.
00:32:16.420 I mean, it's whatever this professor has to say about the psychological effects of porn.
00:32:22.580 He probably knows a thing or two about it because I'm sure he's watched a lot of it.
00:32:25.880 He doesn't know anything about ethics, morality.
00:32:28.340 He doesn't seem to know very much about anthropology.
00:32:30.280 He doesn't seem to know very much about theology.
00:32:33.440 And he is smuggling in all of those theological, philosophical, anthropological premises
00:32:38.960 in this preposterous sort of class.
00:32:43.080 Now, back to Congress for a second.
00:32:45.000 The House GOP has just passed a great bill
00:32:50.600 where amid the moral confusion of our whole culture right now,
00:32:55.240 the House GOP has come in and said,
00:32:58.600 no, we are going to say that there's a difference between good and bad,
00:33:02.500 true and false, friend and enemy,
00:33:04.400 and we're going to operate on that basis.
00:33:07.280 It involves energy, really important energy issues.
00:33:11.380 We'll get to more of that.
00:33:13.880 Unfortunately, we can't get to it right now.
00:33:15.220 We'll have to wait to get to that next week.
00:33:16.840 And we'll have to get to the other important energy issue,
00:33:19.200 which is the libs are coming for your gas stoves. 1.00
00:33:21.300 We'll also have to wait to get to that.
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00:33:38.520 Hey, Michael.
00:33:39.280 Love the show.
00:33:40.160 Today, I'm coming to you with a grave moral quandary.
00:33:44.360 Back in the summer,
00:33:45.920 when the yes or no game first got put on the Daily Wire website,
00:33:50.860 I pre-ordered it.
00:33:52.160 Didn't deliver until a week or so before Christmas,
00:33:55.480 but that's okay.
00:33:56.960 But because of that,
00:33:58.740 my wife did not know I had got a copy
00:34:00.920 and ordered me one
00:34:02.380 and put it under our Christmas tree as a gift.
00:34:06.160 When we realized what had happened,
00:34:09.360 I realized I had committed a grave moral sin.
00:34:13.060 I have stolen a second copy of the yes or no game
00:34:17.120 and kept a creme de la creme member of the Michael Knowles show
00:34:20.940 without a yes or no game.
00:34:24.800 And how can I remedy this situation?
00:34:28.680 Should I send it back?
00:34:30.420 Should I give it to a family member?
00:34:34.220 Can I trade it in for a couple copies
00:34:36.140 of Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
00:34:38.240 to give to my family?
00:34:40.480 What thoughts do you have on this?
00:34:42.420 And am I banned from the show for this moral atrocity?
00:34:46.580 Thanks a bunch and keep up the good work.
00:34:48.840 Thank you for your honesty.
00:34:52.620 Thank you.
00:34:53.120 I appreciate that.
00:34:54.460 You're not banned from the show,
00:34:56.220 but this is a grave problem
00:34:57.820 because lots and lots of people want the yes or no game.
00:35:01.320 It's sold out in a flash.
00:35:03.600 The Daily Wire has ordered more copies
00:35:06.120 or is in the process of getting more copies
00:35:08.580 of the yes or no game,
00:35:10.120 the greatest new game to hit the market
00:35:12.800 in decades, if not centuries.
00:35:15.180 And they're already selling out very, very quickly.
00:35:18.200 So if you do want to pre-order,
00:35:19.320 head on over to the Daily Wire Plus merch shop
00:35:20.740 and pre-order it right now
00:35:22.000 because they will sell out.
00:35:24.780 But what can you do now?
00:35:27.060 You have accidentally ordered two copies.
00:35:29.540 You have deprived an inner circle,
00:35:31.800 creme de la creme,
00:35:32.960 all access member of the game of their heart's desire.
00:35:36.360 What I would recommend you do is buy a third copy
00:35:39.020 because if you, as you suggest,
00:35:41.700 give the second copy away to, say, your mother,
00:35:45.020 well, what's your father going to say?
00:35:48.020 Your father's going to say, where's my copy?
00:35:49.700 So you're going to want to give an additional one to him.
00:35:52.560 Maybe if you really want to remedy it,
00:35:54.900 I would order four or five copies of the game now.
00:35:59.380 I would just drop them off
00:36:01.420 at your friends and family's homes,
00:36:03.660 your conservative friends,
00:36:05.380 your liberal friends maybe, especially.
00:36:07.300 That would be a good way to get started.
00:36:09.540 Next question.
00:36:11.860 Hey, Michael.
00:36:13.000 It's me again, Nick.
00:36:14.660 First off, I just want to let you know
00:36:16.300 your advice regarding my friend
00:36:17.900 and letting her drive was very doubtful
00:36:21.240 and it's been dealt with.
00:36:23.140 I got a new question for you that,
00:36:26.100 gosh, it's a bit sensitive.
00:36:29.820 I'm going to level with you.
00:36:31.360 I have a younger sister
00:36:32.340 who I often try and keep on the DL
00:36:34.660 due to all the Chad-level kings 0.99
00:36:36.300 that I hang out with
00:36:37.980 and how many of them take a pass at her. 0.98
00:36:40.880 My sister and I,
00:36:42.140 we have a good brother-sister relationship
00:36:44.960 in the past
00:36:45.800 and I've managed to keep her under the radar
00:36:48.120 until recently.
00:36:49.720 Last year, she started posting more on Instagram
00:36:52.480 and went from posting workout photos
00:36:54.600 to swimsuit photos
00:36:56.000 and now those turned into thirst trap,
00:36:58.860 which have grown her profile to thought level.
00:37:01.360 So, oh gosh, my question is,
00:37:05.980 when does posting on Insta
00:37:08.080 turn to OnlyFans light?
00:37:10.620 I mean, when do I cut this off
00:37:13.420 before my Sigma dude starts simping on her 0.96
00:37:15.960 or worse, end up being some of her first subscribers
00:37:18.720 to a real OnlyFans,
00:37:21.640 which would force me to change my name
00:37:23.580 and move to Puerto Rico?
00:37:24.500 Thanks, Michael.
00:37:26.640 Love the show.
00:37:32.020 Whoever is behind this Nick character,
00:37:35.620 which I'm beginning to think, Nick,
00:37:37.540 I don't know if I buy your whole backstory,
00:37:40.360 but Nick has popped up every now and again.
00:37:43.320 Whoever is behind the character
00:37:44.740 might be the greatest actor
00:37:47.580 and thespian of our generation.
00:37:49.500 I said the other day that Dylan Mulvaney
00:37:51.360 is the greatest actor of our generation
00:37:53.140 because he's really taken on the character
00:37:54.620 of a girl.
00:37:56.700 Whoever is,
00:37:58.620 I have to say with Nick,
00:37:59.920 first I didn't know,
00:38:01.360 is this a real person?
00:38:02.580 I don't know, maybe it is a real,
00:38:03.460 but it's a good question.
00:38:06.340 You raise a good question.
00:38:07.880 At what point does Instagram
00:38:10.240 become OnlyFans light?
00:38:12.780 The moment you download the app.
00:38:15.460 That is when it becomes OnlyFans light, okay?
00:38:18.140 The whole point of Instagram
00:38:20.560 is just to put enticing pictures
00:38:24.220 in front of your eyes
00:38:25.260 and have you just doom scroll forever.
00:38:27.860 It's probably drooling. 0.52
00:38:29.260 It doesn't even have to be bikini shots.
00:38:31.100 It could be,
00:38:32.300 when it comes to my Instagram,
00:38:33.960 do you know what is mostly on my Instagram?
00:38:35.800 I've got my friends and things like that,
00:38:38.020 you know, catch up.
00:38:38.680 Oh, look at so-and-so's little baby. 0.99
00:38:40.220 But in terms of what the algorithm
00:38:41.980 is serving to me
00:38:43.220 so that I will continue to watch it
00:38:45.900 because I'm so attracted to these pictures,
00:38:48.140 is big bowls of Italian food.
00:38:50.980 My Instagram feed
00:38:52.460 is largely hoagies,
00:38:55.460 bowls of pasta,
00:38:57.180 things that really do entice me.
00:38:59.240 And then I sit there
00:38:59.820 and I doom scroll forever.
00:39:01.540 It is a kind of pornography
00:39:02.880 in that this is content.
00:39:05.140 It might not be
00:39:05.780 what the Penn State professor
00:39:06.940 wants to consider as pornography
00:39:08.940 and get everybody to watch.
00:39:10.000 But it's a kind of pornography
00:39:11.100 in that when I'm going through my feed
00:39:13.260 and I just see different bowls
00:39:14.360 of Italian food,
00:39:15.280 it's not edifying me.
00:39:17.840 I'm not growing in wisdom
00:39:19.500 by looking at this.
00:39:20.820 It's simply satisfying
00:39:22.860 my appetite
00:39:24.100 in a virtual way.
00:39:27.080 It's not even satisfying
00:39:28.380 my appetite in a real way.
00:39:29.580 It's not satisfying my body.
00:39:31.180 Just as porn doesn't satisfy
00:39:33.100 your appetite and your lusts
00:39:34.540 in a real way.
00:39:35.720 It does so
00:39:36.440 in a virtual way.
00:39:37.920 And so I would strongly recommend
00:39:40.700 if you can use Instagram
00:39:42.040 in a way that you feel
00:39:45.860 is virtuous and conducive
00:39:47.060 to flourishing, do it.
00:39:48.060 I have rarely seen that happen.
00:39:50.160 And so I would sit your sister down
00:39:51.620 and explain your concerns
00:39:54.120 about your Chad-level king bros
00:39:57.540 and how you fear
00:39:58.680 they will simp for her.
00:40:00.380 Next question.
00:40:02.000 Hey, Michael.
00:40:02.760 I have a question about your views
00:40:04.620 on the Broadway show Hamilton.
00:40:05.980 And long story short,
00:40:08.120 I just want to let you know
00:40:08.980 that I find it kind of
00:40:09.940 insulting to minorities.
00:40:12.100 Broadway, which is usually
00:40:13.240 a white-dominated culture,
00:40:15.320 granted, right?
00:40:16.020 A lot of white people
00:40:16.620 go to see Broadway shows.
00:40:18.040 We had to make sure that
00:40:18.940 minorities felt so good
00:40:20.140 about themselves
00:40:20.740 that we had to put a show
00:40:21.920 out there
00:40:22.420 that specifically only
00:40:24.220 will hire minorities
00:40:25.120 for specific lead roles,
00:40:27.060 even though that they represent
00:40:28.220 white people of the past. 0.81
00:40:30.340 And we did all of this
00:40:31.580 to say that we recognize
00:40:34.200 that if we had the same
00:40:35.980 kind of acceptance
00:40:36.660 of minorities back then
00:40:37.820 as we do now,
00:40:39.080 that yes,
00:40:39.720 we could have had a black guy
00:40:40.760 as George Washington,
00:40:41.840 Alexander Hamilton,
00:40:42.880 could have been Hispanic,
00:40:43.840 et cetera.
00:40:45.140 I mean, if I was a minority race
00:40:47.020 and I went to see Hamilton,
00:40:48.060 I just want to see
00:40:48.680 the honest story of Hamilton.
00:40:49.860 I don't want to be pandered to.
00:40:51.340 That would be my thought.
00:40:52.300 I'm just curious
00:40:52.780 if you feel the same way,
00:40:53.800 and I'm curious
00:40:54.340 any other additional thoughts
00:40:55.440 about that Broadway show
00:40:56.320 that you have.
00:40:57.020 Thanks.
00:40:57.280 You know,
00:40:59.460 I made a similar point,
00:41:00.880 actually,
00:41:01.400 on the show yesterday,
00:41:02.560 which was the actor
00:41:03.220 Kumail Nanjiani
00:41:04.440 was complaining about
00:41:06.700 how he doesn't get
00:41:08.340 to play a villain
00:41:09.100 because Hollywood
00:41:10.560 won't cast
00:41:11.460 non-white people
00:41:12.340 as villains.
00:41:14.280 So what Hollywood says,
00:41:16.940 what the liberal culture says,
00:41:18.120 is the bad guys
00:41:20.140 have to be white.
00:41:22.240 White people bad, 1.00
00:41:23.400 non-white people good.
00:41:24.500 And so you might say,
00:41:25.120 well, that's flattering
00:41:26.520 to non-white people.
00:41:29.100 But it's not
00:41:29.980 because it's denying
00:41:30.940 the full humanity
00:41:31.920 of non-white people
00:41:32.760 because we know
00:41:33.480 that mankind has fallen.
00:41:34.840 We know that people
00:41:35.380 are imperfect.
00:41:36.660 And so if you say
00:41:38.180 non-white people
00:41:39.380 can't be the villain,
00:41:40.380 then you're saying
00:41:41.140 that non-white people 0.99
00:41:42.200 are just the passive victims
00:41:44.600 of the real human beings
00:41:46.900 who are the white people.
00:41:47.900 The only people with agency
00:41:48.820 are the white people,
00:41:49.640 according to this view.
00:41:50.480 And the non-white people 1.00
00:41:51.380 don't have it.
00:41:51.780 And so that is offensive,
00:41:53.400 though that was not
00:41:53.880 the point of Hamilton.
00:41:55.120 The point of Hamilton
00:41:56.120 and its decision
00:41:57.500 to cast all non-white people 0.99
00:41:59.580 in these roles
00:42:01.160 was, one,
00:42:02.720 to give non-white people 0.96
00:42:03.780 more roles.
00:42:04.960 Two,
00:42:05.740 to sideline white people
00:42:08.340 and to sort of
00:42:09.300 subtly disparage white people,
00:42:10.720 I think,
00:42:11.160 which is throughout
00:42:12.060 the popular culture.
00:42:13.540 And three,
00:42:14.880 the charitable view
00:42:16.180 of why Hamilton did that
00:42:17.460 is that
00:42:18.300 it was partaking
00:42:20.160 of a liberal concept
00:42:21.000 called colorblind casting.
00:42:23.840 Hamilton wasn't really
00:42:24.740 colorblind casting
00:42:25.540 in that it wasn't,
00:42:26.400 hey, the best guy
00:42:26.920 gets the job.
00:42:27.860 Hamilton said,
00:42:28.900 hey,
00:42:29.740 all the actual
00:42:30.920 historical white people
00:42:32.040 are going to be played
00:42:33.080 by blacks and Hispanics,
00:42:35.320 except for the villain
00:42:36.700 of the story,
00:42:37.360 King George.
00:42:38.040 He's the only one
00:42:38.640 who gets to be white.
00:42:39.320 Actually proves
00:42:39.760 Kumal Nanjiani's point.
00:42:42.500 But the concept
00:42:44.600 of colorblind casting,
00:42:45.740 which is the kind of facade
00:42:46.840 in front of that show,
00:42:48.480 was a liberal concept
00:42:49.960 that says that
00:42:50.740 any person of any race
00:42:52.420 can play any part
00:42:53.180 because these plays
00:42:53.960 are talking to the human condition.
00:42:55.540 Except it only ever
00:42:56.360 seems to cut one way.
00:42:58.220 So yes,
00:42:58.920 a black actor
00:43:00.620 can play Macbeth
00:43:01.580 because they say,
00:43:02.520 well,
00:43:03.000 Macbeth is just about
00:43:03.980 the human condition.
00:43:05.360 But white people
00:43:06.260 are never allowed
00:43:06.820 to play black characters.
00:43:09.040 And not all people
00:43:10.080 on the left
00:43:10.500 support colorblind casting.
00:43:11.960 August Wilson,
00:43:12.640 who's probably
00:43:12.940 the most important
00:43:13.640 black playwright
00:43:14.500 of the last century,
00:43:15.820 he's the one
00:43:16.620 behind Fences,
00:43:17.280 which was turned
00:43:17.840 into a movie
00:43:18.300 with Denzel Washington
00:43:19.180 a few years ago.
00:43:20.740 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 0.99
00:43:22.340 Two Trains Run,
00:43:23.100 and lots of plays.
00:43:25.240 Century Cycle.
00:43:27.320 August Wilson said,
00:43:28.580 I hate colorblind casting.
00:43:30.100 Let the white people 0.89
00:43:30.760 play the white parts 0.60
00:43:31.460 and let the black people
00:43:32.140 play the black parts.
00:43:33.220 Which is a legitimate view.
00:43:34.820 He's saying that
00:43:35.440 in order for the theater
00:43:36.660 to convey the truth
00:43:37.920 of the play,
00:43:38.720 you can't have white people 1.00
00:43:39.820 playing blacks
00:43:40.700 and blacks playing whites.
00:43:43.080 That's a view.
00:43:44.340 But it's not the view
00:43:45.380 of the liberals.
00:43:45.840 It's a little bit
00:43:47.700 where you can kind of see
00:43:48.720 the horseshoe theory
00:43:50.360 coming around.
00:43:50.920 There are going to be
00:43:51.560 people on the right
00:43:52.360 and people on the left
00:43:53.120 who hold that view.
00:43:54.720 But the mainstream
00:43:55.260 liberal view for now
00:43:56.380 is at least some form
00:43:57.260 of colorblind casting.
00:43:58.260 Next question.
00:44:00.300 Hi, Michael.
00:44:01.300 This is Annie
00:44:02.160 in Pennsylvania.
00:44:03.660 I just wanted
00:44:04.520 to let you know
00:44:05.320 that your ukulele videos
00:44:08.280 inspired me
00:44:09.280 to buy a ukulele
00:44:10.860 and to learn to play.
00:44:12.840 I do not know
00:44:14.840 any instruments
00:44:15.860 and I have just
00:44:18.520 mastered my first
00:44:19.600 few chords
00:44:20.480 and playing
00:44:22.260 You Are My Sunshine.
00:44:23.740 Just wondering
00:44:24.540 if you have any tips
00:44:25.540 or tricks on learning
00:44:26.940 and what your favorite
00:44:28.160 beginner song is
00:44:29.340 for me to learn.
00:44:30.440 Thanks.
00:44:33.520 I'm so pleased
00:44:34.660 to hear that.
00:44:35.220 I'm glad
00:44:35.840 that I can evangelize
00:44:37.640 the ukulele.
00:44:38.580 It is my favorite
00:44:39.500 instrument that I play.
00:44:40.860 In part because
00:44:42.000 you can just pick it up
00:44:42.960 and play it anywhere.
00:44:44.120 You don't need to sit down.
00:44:45.440 You don't need to
00:44:46.200 open up the piano
00:44:47.160 or take out even
00:44:48.180 the big guitar
00:44:48.960 and sit on a spot.
00:44:49.780 You can have the ukulele
00:44:50.960 anywhere.
00:44:51.480 When I'm walking
00:44:52.200 around my house
00:44:52.800 chasing my son around
00:44:54.140 doing whatever
00:44:54.920 I just have the ukulele
00:44:55.740 and you can kind of
00:44:56.200 mindlessly play it.
00:44:57.180 Four strings
00:44:57.700 very simple
00:44:58.320 to learn how to play.
00:44:59.500 If you already play guitar
00:45:00.380 it's like the top four strings
00:45:01.580 on a guitar
00:45:02.060 except that the
00:45:02.840 G string
00:45:05.380 which is
00:45:05.920 fulfilling the role
00:45:07.560 of the D string
00:45:08.120 on the guitar
00:45:08.480 is an octave up.
00:45:09.560 It's tuned
00:45:10.740 to different notes
00:45:12.160 but the
00:45:13.080 chord patterns
00:45:15.060 will be the same
00:45:16.480 as on a guitar.
00:45:17.640 So you can do that
00:45:18.320 if you're familiar
00:45:19.080 with that.
00:45:21.360 But I don't know
00:45:21.900 just mess around with it.
00:45:22.760 That's all I would
00:45:23.280 recommend that you do.
00:45:24.020 I love You Are My Sunshine.
00:45:25.280 It's a great song.
00:45:26.240 And now when I play
00:45:27.240 songs on ukulele
00:45:28.200 when I was a kid
00:45:29.160 I would look it up
00:45:30.340 on
00:45:30.840 well we didn't really have
00:45:32.460 YouTube tutorials then
00:45:35.000 back in the old days 0.52
00:45:35.820 back when I was a kid.
00:45:36.500 So you'd look up
00:45:37.320 tabulature
00:45:37.960 or you'd look up
00:45:39.040 different kind of
00:45:40.180 notes to figure out
00:45:41.160 how to play it.
00:45:42.000 But now I just
00:45:42.720 pluck it out.
00:45:43.600 It's more
00:45:43.800 90% of the fun
00:45:45.360 of the ukulele
00:45:45.840 is just kind of
00:45:46.300 plucking out the song.
00:45:47.600 So You Are My Sunshine
00:45:48.240 great place to start.
00:45:50.000 A written mailbag
00:45:51.120 from Ann.
00:45:53.460 Hello Michael.
00:45:54.880 I'm a daily watcher
00:45:55.700 of your show
00:45:56.120 and I love it.
00:45:56.720 Thank you Ann.
00:45:57.260 Appreciate that.
00:45:58.720 My sister and I
00:45:59.280 are both nursing mothers
00:46:00.120 and are invited
00:46:00.840 to our friend's wedding.
00:46:02.440 We mentioned
00:46:03.100 that our friend
00:46:03.940 to our friend
00:46:04.740 that we will need
00:46:05.400 to bring our babies
00:46:06.060 due to nursing
00:46:06.660 and he acted like
00:46:07.400 it would not be a problem
00:46:08.340 but said he'd double check
00:46:09.620 with the bride.
00:46:10.280 Here we go.
00:46:11.680 Here we go.
00:46:12.540 Said he'd double check
00:46:13.160 with the bride.
00:46:13.560 We just found out
00:46:14.160 that she does not want
00:46:15.560 our babies there
00:46:16.320 because she doesn't want 0.99
00:46:17.360 them to be a distraction
00:46:18.120 and it's not the atmosphere
00:46:19.780 they're going for.
00:46:20.900 My sister said
00:46:21.480 we'd sit in the back
00:46:22.180 and step out
00:46:22.700 if the babies became too loud
00:46:23.800 but the bride is standing
00:46:24.680 by her answer.
00:46:25.620 This hurt my sister
00:46:26.300 and I pretty deeply.
00:46:27.480 Our friend is like a brother
00:46:28.420 and we hate to miss his wedding
00:46:29.640 but our babies come first.
00:46:30.680 Do you think it's okay
00:46:31.360 for a bride to say
00:46:32.160 a nursing mother
00:46:33.240 cannot bring her infant baby
00:46:34.920 to the wedding?
00:46:35.800 Thanks for your time.
00:46:37.400 Lesliak.
00:46:39.600 Oh no.
00:46:40.220 Lesliak is the next question
00:46:41.620 that in the teleprompter
00:46:42.740 was right up there
00:46:43.880 with the older.
00:46:44.420 Okay.
00:46:44.640 So this is from Anne.
00:46:46.180 Thanks for your time.
00:46:47.560 Okay.
00:46:48.620 I hate to sound
00:46:49.600 like a big lib here
00:46:50.660 but
00:46:52.200 I think the bride
00:46:54.520 has the right
00:46:55.000 to say no kids.
00:46:56.620 I know it's not traditional.
00:46:58.380 I know it's not conservative.
00:46:59.800 I know it's not
00:47:00.440 promoting family values
00:47:01.820 in a certain way
00:47:02.560 to say we don't want kids
00:47:03.760 at our wedding
00:47:04.280 but I understand it
00:47:06.020 depending on the venue
00:47:06.920 depending on the hour
00:47:07.900 of the night
00:47:08.420 depending on the dress
00:47:09.560 if it's black tie
00:47:11.340 and ball gowns
00:47:12.440 it's probably
00:47:13.180 a little weird
00:47:14.820 to have a baby there
00:47:15.660 even if the baby
00:47:16.360 has to nurse
00:47:17.080 and so I get it.
00:47:18.080 I'm not saying I defend it
00:47:19.280 and I'm not saying
00:47:20.240 I defend the husband
00:47:21.380 the fiancé here
00:47:22.820 just rolling over
00:47:23.840 to his soon-to-be bride.
00:47:27.100 That's a separate problem
00:47:28.420 probably
00:47:28.820 but if they make
00:47:31.380 that decision
00:47:31.840 I think that decision
00:47:32.600 is totally up to them
00:47:33.460 and so what can you do?
00:47:34.900 Well, you and your sister
00:47:36.920 could have a babysitter
00:47:39.660 either a family member
00:47:40.780 or maybe the family member
00:47:42.140 is going to the wedding
00:47:42.720 or a babysitter come
00:47:44.080 and watch both of the kids
00:47:45.640 and just give bottles
00:47:47.080 to the kids
00:47:47.700 get enough milk ready
00:47:49.460 that you can feed the kids
00:47:50.820 for a couple of hours
00:47:52.140 or sit out the wedding
00:47:54.220 in this very short period
00:47:56.120 of life
00:47:56.460 where the babies
00:47:57.020 are nursing a lot
00:47:57.800 and are really young.
00:47:59.500 That's what happens.
00:48:00.580 Kids inconvenience
00:48:01.760 our lives
00:48:02.520 all the time
00:48:03.500 that is part
00:48:04.960 of being a parent
00:48:05.720 and you might
00:48:08.220 have other problems
00:48:09.620 with this bride
00:48:10.440 if she's throwing
00:48:11.100 her weight around
00:48:11.660 and telling her
00:48:12.680 soon-to-be husband
00:48:14.020 that he can't have
00:48:15.160 his friends at the wedding
00:48:15.780 or whatever
00:48:16.260 I mean that's
00:48:16.800 a separate issue
00:48:17.360 but in terms of
00:48:18.580 can a couple say
00:48:20.360 no kids?
00:48:21.660 They can
00:48:22.100 and in some
00:48:23.700 but not all cases
00:48:24.560 they're perfectly
00:48:25.200 right to do so.
00:48:27.620 The rest of the show
00:48:28.420 continues now
00:48:28.940 I want to get to
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00:48:29.860 from the mailbag
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