Ep. 1168 - No Life Or God At Roe V. Wade Rally
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In a pro-abortion rally yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris accidentally destroyed the left's entire argument for abortion. She said, "America is a promise. ... America is a promise of freedom and liberty, not for some, but for all." Did you catch the right she missed?
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Speaking at a pro-abortion rally yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris
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accidentally destroyed the left's entire argument for abortion.
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America is a promise. America is a promise. It is a promise of freedom and liberty.
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A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence.
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That we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Did you catch the right that she missed there? Kamala Harris seems to have caught the right
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that she missed, which is why I think she stumbled. She said, you know, listen, the Declaration of
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Independence says we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal
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and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are
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liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Excuse me, what did you just say, Kamala?
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Oh, I said liberty. Now, before that, I said the pursuit of happiness. No, it was a little
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bit before that one. Yeah, our creator endowed us with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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I heard something on the cough. What was the, I think it was, right, it was the right to life.
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Because you can't pursue happiness without liberty and you can't have liberty without life. In fact,
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you can't have or do anything at all without life, which is why life is not merely one right among
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many, but the fundamental right upon which all the others rest. A fact so obvious, a truth so clear
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that even Kamala Harris had to stumble upon it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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has just launched a heinous, incomprehensible attack on children's right to learn about weird
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queer theory sex stuff in a black studies course, an ideologically left-wing activist course in high
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school. Can you imagine? This course on black history, what are one of, what's one of the lessons
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about? Queer theory. Now, who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory?
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That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids. And so when you look to see they have stuff about
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intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that's a political agenda. And so we're on, that's the wrong
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side of the line for Florida standards. We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think,
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but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them. When you try to use black history
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to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.
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Ron DeSantis is doing exactly the right thing here. This is great that he is banning this black
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studies course. Frankly, even if it weren't teaching queer theory as part of it, he still should have
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banned the course. Because black studies, African American studies, it's not just a regular old
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history course. It's not a regular old cultural history or military history or any serious study of
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history. It is a derivation of critical theory. And it is essentially just leftist radical political
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activism. That's true of pretty much all of the studies departments. All of the gay studies,
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women's studies, black studies, all of the studies departments that cropped up in the second half of
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the 20th century. They're just radical leftism. And they're academically not rigorous at all. And
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they poison people's minds and turn their brains to soup. So it's good that this is being kicked out of
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the high schools. However, the argument that Ron DeSantis is making here is not totally right.
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It might be politically effective. So I don't begrudge him that. But it's not totally right.
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Now, one thing that's great, Ron DeSantis used to say, we don't want to teach students what to think,
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only how to think. And you'll notice in that speech there, because I have tried to correct that point a
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little bit before. And I think some other conservatives may have too. And you notice he
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changed it a little bit. He said, we want to teach students facts and how to think. That's an
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important correction. Because that's not the same as saying we want to teach them how to think, not
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what to think. When you say we want to teach students facts, you're saying we do want to teach
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students what to think. And by teaching students what to think about certain facts, about certain
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things, then we are thereby teaching the students how to think. But the point that DeSantis made is
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all of this is what education is about. Education is not about pushing a political agenda.
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And in fact, DeSantis, when he posted that clip, he tweeted that as well. He said, we do not think
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that education should be about pushing a political agenda. That might be an effective piece of political
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rhetoric, but it isn't true. And we should all at least be aware that education is in fact about
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pushing a political agenda. That is the point of public education. Public and political mean the
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exact same thing. Political is another word for public. It's the stuff that we all do together,
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not in our little private lives, not in the recesses of our own mind, but together.
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So when DeSantis says education is about pursuing truth, not about a political agenda,
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he is half right. It is about pursuing truth, but it is also about applying those truths to the
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political situation. Education is about creating citizens. Education is about inculcating a civic
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spirit in people. Education is about creating the next generation of Americans who are going to build
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up our country and live together. Education is how we are raised. And the question of how we are
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raised and how we behave and what we believe and how we view our fellow countrymen and how we view
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our country, that is a deeply political question. So it is perfectly right and just to ban black studies
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or whatever other critical theory derived courses that have somehow seeped their way like a gaseous
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poison into high school classrooms. It is perfectly good to ban them for political reasons. They teach
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things that are not true, and also they have poisonous political effects. And the only reason that the
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libs want to put those courses into the high school classrooms is because they know that education is
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political. The libs are right about so many things, at least in the abstract. They get a lot of things
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right in the abstract. They get pretty much all those things wrong in practice when you get into the
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specifics and into the substance. But in terms of the abstract and the procedure and the form,
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they tend to get these things right. They recognize that there's no such thing as total free speech.
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They recognize that all cultures have standards and norms. Conservatives pretended that that wasn't
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the case for the last 50 years. That's how we lost our American notion of free speech. The libs know
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that education is political. The conservatives pretended it's not political. That's how conservatives
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lost the entire educational apparatus in America. The libs, they're very crafty. They're very clever.
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They have terrible prescriptions for America and for other countries as well. But they are clever about
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how politics works. And so I think DeSantis is doing a great job. I don't even begrudge him his
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slightly imprecise political rhetoric here. But at the very least, we conservatives, we people who are
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applauding DeSantis in this phenomenal action, we should not be deceived. He's not trying to deceive
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us, but we should not deceive ourselves. Education is political. It is good that it is political.
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We should pursue political ends that are conducive to truth and justice. Not that they're antithetical
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to those things. They go perfectly along with truth and justice. But we should pursue those things
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in the classroom. Because if we don't do it, somebody else will. And if it's the libs who are pursuing
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their political agenda in the classroom, I promise you, it is not going to go along with truth and
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justice, and certainly not with the American way. The libs are furious about what DeSantis is doing.
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KJP, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House Press Secretary, says the move is incomprehensible.
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These types of actions aren't new. They are not new from what we're seeing, especially from Florida,
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sadly. Florida currently bans teachers from talking about who they are and who they love,
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as we've talked about many times here in this briefing room. They have banned more books in schools
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and libraries in almost every other state in the country. And let's not forget, they didn't ban,
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they didn't block, be more clear, I want to make sure I'm using the right word here,
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they didn't block AP European history. They didn't block our music history. They didn't block our
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art history. But the state chooses to block a course that is meant for high-achieving high school
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students to learn about their history of arts and culture. And it is, you know, it is incomprehensible,
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again. And I will just leave it there. Leave it there to make your own determination of why this
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occurred and why this happened. Again, it is not our place to direct or to be involved in any local
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school curriculum. But this is concerning. Oh, it's not your place. Okay, then quiet.
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How about we just close that old yap up there at the White House press briefing room? Listen,
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it's after that 10-minute monologue I just launched into, I just want to make clear it's not my place
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to weigh in on this. But I'm going to continue to weigh in on it as well. Incomprehensible. The only
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thing that's incomprehensible is the course. And the way that the Libs are portraying this,
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that this is about teaching the history of black people. It's not. That's just a complete lie.
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The course includes books such as Kimberlé Crenshaw's Mapping the Margins, Intersectionality,
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Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color. That's not, hey, what did Frederick
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Douglass do? That is pushing a radical Marxist, neo-Marxist, cultural Marxist, whatever term you want
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to use to describe the 20th century tradition of Western Marxism. That's what it's pushing, okay?
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Intersectionality. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a leftist
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pop writer. He is not a historian. He is not a scholar. He is not someone who deserves even one
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second's time in a high school classroom. He is a radical and glib magazine essayist.
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There's a section on black queer studies, as Ron DeSantis said. That is what is incomprehensible.
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And that is what is going to muddle up students' minds. There's this idea in our society that we
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need to have a totally open classroom. Don't ban anything. Just be open to all ideas. Well,
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that's crazy. You have to ban certain ideas. You have to leave them out of the curriculum.
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There are only so many weeks in a semester. Every second that you waste reading Ta-Nehisi
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Coates and Kimberlé Crenshaw is a second that you're not reading a real historian, that you're not
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reading, I don't know, Shakespeare, that you're not reading Tolstoy. You're not reading writers
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who are valuable, who will edify you, and who will make you more educated. Every second that
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you waste in a math classroom being taught that two plus two equals five is a second that you're
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not being taught the truth, which is that two plus two equals four. We have to ban two plus two
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equals five out of the classroom. And we need to limit our curricula to things that will actually
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educate students. And I promise you, Kimberlé Crenshaw will not.
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delivered. Speaking of banning things in the classroom, Stephen King, the pop novelist, he just
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tweeted out. He said, hey kids, it's your old buddy Steve King here telling you that if they ban a book
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in your school, haul your ASS to the nearest bookstore or library ASAP and find out what they don't want
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you to read. What they, who are they? I don't know. Is they Ron DeSantis? Who's they? He sounds like
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Kanye over here. Who's they though? Who's they? Well, it depends who they is, I guess. Because I know this
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is a very popular opinion. It's the opinion, don't ban any books. If there's a banned book,
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we need to go read it immediately. Well, it depends what the book is and it depends who does
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the banning. If the banning is being done by bad people who, who are not going to help you become
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educated, then I guess you should go read the book. If the book is being banned by just and wise and
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prudent authorities, then maybe don't read the book. Depends what the book is. If the book is Hamlet,
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then you should go read the book. If the book is gay porn, as is turning up in lots of schools,
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then don't read the book. If it's pornography of any kind, don't read the book. You will not
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be edified by that. You will not be educated by that. But what is Stephen King suggesting?
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All books, Gender Queer by Maya Kababi. We should read that. Maybe, I don't know. Mein Kampf.
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Listen, they don't want to teach you Mein Kampf in schools. You better go out there. You're in
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sixth grade. You better go read Mein Kampf. Is that what he's saying? No, I don't think. I mean,
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even if you're going to read Mein Kampf as a sort of historical study, maybe wait until you're,
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I don't know, like 16, 17. I don't think. Does anyone really think that's appropriate for a child?
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I don't think so. I think there are plenty of books that are not appropriate for a child.
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I think Ulysses by James Joyce. I don't know. Do we really, that's something we have to read? No,
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of course not. Of course not. It's a very shallow and glib and liberal and modern idea that you should
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never ban or suppress any book. It is an idea that is completely out of keeping with the entire
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Western tradition. Catholics, Protestants, ancients, even many secularists, everyone agrees that certain
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books should not be taught. You see book burning in the Old Testament. Plato argued for the burning
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of a rival's books. Martin Luther, I often point out on the show being Catholic, Martin Luther's not
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like my number one guy. Martin Luther argued to burn certain books. But plenty of Catholic writers
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have argued. The Vatican has a list of banned books. We unnaturally ban certain books. The liberals ban
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books. They ban the Bible in classrooms. Conservatives used to ban books like gay porn in the classrooms.
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Everybody recognizes you need, in order to be educated, you need certain limits. That's the whole
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point of education, just to tamp down your appetites and to cultivate your rational will and virtue.
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Speaking of schools, well, actually, you know what? Before we get to schools, this will tie in
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in a second. I'd like to get to an important cultural matter, speaking of limits and standards.
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M&M's. M&M's has just made a major announcement. It has retired its spokescandies and hired
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a new spokeslady. M&M's tweets out, America, let's talk. In the last year, we've made some changes to
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our beloved spokescandies. We weren't sure if anyone would even notice, and we definitely didn't
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think it would break the internet. But now we get it. Even a candy's shoes can be polarizing,
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which was the last thing M&M's wanted since we're all about bringing people together.
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Therefore, we've decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies. In their place,
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we are proud to introduce a spokesperson America can agree on, the beloved Maya Rudolph. We're
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confident Ms. Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they
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belong. I like Maya Rudolph. Very funny lady. I think she was friends with Norm Macdonald. That's
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really all you need from me to have respect for you. I want to be perfectly clear. M&M's marketing
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problems will not go away until they bring back the sexy green M&M. Until that green M&M is sexy
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again, it's not going to go away. I'm not saying this to be provocative. I'm not saying this as a
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threat. I am simply observing that fact. You may recall last year, M&M's decided to take all the fun
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little differentiating factors about all the little M&M's characters and do what our culture is doing to
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everybody and try to make them all kind of uniform and androgynous. And so they turned the green M&M,
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who had previously been a sexy little trollop of an M&M, and turned her into a kind of tomboyish,
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androgynous, gender-neutral candy. And there was a lot of backlash to this. And the libs made fun of
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us. I think Tucker had a real field day with the whole green M&M sexy thing. But the libs made fun of
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us. They said, well, you weirdos, why do you care about a sexy M&M? Because it's a symbol.
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I don't think that there are very many people out there who are lusting over the M&M. But it is
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perfectly rational to be concerned that M&M's is making the M&M less sexy. Because the M&M is a
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symbol. It's a symbol of the way that we are viewing women in our culture. And that's what people have
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problems with. We have problems that we're chopping off the breasts of teenage girls. And we're forcing
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men, forcing women, rather, to change with men in their locker rooms. And we're now posting billboards
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not of beautiful models to be surrounded by images of beauty, even if they're somewhat idealized through
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Photoshop and lighting and special effects. But now we're intentionally posting grotesque pictures
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and grotesqueries all over our culture. Not even just in terms of models, but in terms of all aesthetics.
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That's what people are concerned about. We're concerned that we now have a culture
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that is forcing us to live according to lies and forcing us to call good evil and truth falsehood
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and beauty ugliness. That's what we're concerned about. And M&M's is doing nothing to solve that
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problem. They're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, we didn't expect a backlash because we took the stilettos
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off the candy. Whoa, okay, well, to correct that, we're just going to get rid of it entirely.
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No, we don't want that either. It's such an annoying fact about our culture. It's such an
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annoying response these days, which is you have a traditional thing, and then you have the liberal
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agitation to get rid of the traditional thing. And then the culture caves to the liberal agitation.
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Then you have backlash from the conservatives, and then they just get rid of the thing altogether.
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I remember this. I was in college. I was on freshman student government in college.
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And in college, we were going to have a freshman dance. And so we decided it was going to be gone
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with the wind theme because our class president that year was a Southern guy. And it'd be nice.
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You wear fun costumes and whatever. And then, as always, it's like liberal white kids saying,
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this is very offensive to black people. Not to me, and no black people are complaining,
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but it's offensive. I'm offended on behalf of the black people. And so what happened was the
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school didn't, the student government, we didn't stick to our guns. We didn't come up with some
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new interesting idea. We just got rid of the theme. I think the theme ended up being the color blue or
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something. And that's what our culture does. It always just goes down to the absolute lowest
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common denominator so that we get rid of all these fun, little, ornate things that define our very
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culture. We say, okay, we're going to get rid of that. We'll just have a regular spokesman like all
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the other companies. Okay, that's fine. No, it's not fine. Come on, guys. I want things that are
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ornate. I want things that are specific and eccentric and traditional. I want the sexy green
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M&M. That's what I want. Speaking of schools and women who are known for being sexy,
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Kim Kardashian just spoke at Harvard Business School. And this has caused a major stir.
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Someone suggested, they said, Kim Kardashian speaking at Harvard Business School? Well,
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there goes all of Harvard's prestige. And I thought, well, Harvard's prestige? The most impressive
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Harvard students are the ones who drop out Harvard's prestige. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg.
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The list goes on and on. They're the ones that drop out Harvard's prestige. Harvard's prestige,
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one of the most famous Harvard students. I think a graduate to Harvard. I believe that he actually
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graduated. One of the most impressive Harvard students in recent years is the Unabomber.
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Harvard's prestige. Harvard's lucky to have Kim Kardashian. Harvard actually is lucky to have
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Kim Kardashian, especially at the business school, because she was there to talk about her shapewear
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company, Skims. Put a pause right there. What is a shapewear company? I don't know. I assume it's a
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clothing kind of company. Shapewear. That's very strange. They listened at this school to a two-hour
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lecture as part of a direct-to-consumer seminar. Kim Kardashian is a co-founder of this company,
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Skims. It's a multi-billion-dollar company. It launched a private equity firm called Sky Partners.
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Skims recently doubled its valuation from $1.6 billion to $3.2 billion over a period of just
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nine months as investors rushed to acquire equity in that company. Then Kim goes on,
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launches this private equity company. I don't know. She's pretty impressive to me,
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at least by the standard of business school. I don't know that Kim Kardashian has read a lot
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of old poetry or Greek philosophy or anything like that, but the woman knows a thing or two about
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business. And there's a big difference between a liberal arts education, which is what a lot of
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people seek for an undergraduate education, and a business school education, or a law school education,
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or a medical school education. Those are trades. That's vocational training to learn a job.
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So I agree, it would probably be inappropriate for Kim Kardashian, who is famous for showing off her
00:24:52.800
body on camera, and then having a reality TV show launched from that. It would be probably
00:24:58.640
inappropriate for her to go lecture on Dostoevsky or something, on Aristotle at Harvard undergraduate.
00:25:06.160
But in terms of business school, yeah, she's one of the most successful businessmen in the country.
00:25:11.600
And business school is largely a farce, including Harvard business school, including all the really
00:25:18.080
prominent business schools. The purpose of business school is not to really educate yourself all that
00:25:21.880
much. It's mostly for networking. It can be a credential if you want to move up the management
00:25:26.460
hierarchy. But if you want to be an entrepreneur and launch your own business, it's really, the whole
00:25:30.380
point of it is just networking. You don't need to actually do that much in terms of scholarly rigor
00:25:36.920
to be in business school. And I just, I find it, I hate to take Kim Kardashian's side
00:25:41.280
in almost any matter, but it's just so absurdly elitist. It's so baselessly elitist for anyone to
00:25:52.360
suggest, oh, Kim Kardashian, she has no right to lecture at this school. Kim Kardashian is more
00:25:57.600
successful than any of the people that she is lecturing will ever be in terms of business acumen
00:26:04.360
and business success. I would be willing to bet a significant amount of money that not one person in
00:26:09.840
that lecture hall will ever make more money or be more successful in business than Kim Kardashian.
00:26:14.940
Business school, like so much of our higher education structure these days, is pretty much
00:26:20.180
a joke. Actually, here's the proof. There's an amazing story just came out yesterday from Wharton
00:26:25.080
School of Business. Wharton is arguably the best business school in the country. Harvard is also up
00:26:29.520
there, but Wharton out of UPenn is one of the very top schools in the country. And chat GPT,
00:26:37.300
which is an AI program, just did very well on some Wharton Business School exams.
00:26:48.180
This is a mass market artificial intelligence chatbot. It was launched by OpenAI. I've played
00:26:53.720
around on it. I'm sure a lot of other people have played around on this software as well.
00:26:57.740
Well, a research paper from Wharton, from this professor Christian Turvich, said that chat GPT earned
00:27:05.180
a grade between a B and a B minus on a final exam that is usually presented to MBA students.
00:27:11.200
What does this mean? This, I mean, it's kind of funny, and maybe it shows you that business school
00:27:16.200
isn't all that hard, and maybe it shows you that artificial intelligence is really impressive.
00:27:20.280
The most important thing this tells you is that the current line about artificial intelligence is
00:27:27.820
backwards. The current line about artificial intelligence is that AI is going to replace all
00:27:32.200
those useless, low-skilled workers. This is what you hear from people like Yuval Harari or some of
00:27:39.320
the world economic foreign types that say, oh, you know, we're going to have all these useless people
00:27:43.100
in the future because of automation. And so we'll just ply them with drugs and video games. And
00:27:47.660
usually what they mean by useless people are the poor people, the uneducated people,
00:27:53.720
the service worker type people. They're going to be replaced by automation.
00:28:00.260
Chat GPT, Wharton Business School, is showing it's the opposite. The useless people are the
00:28:07.740
white-collar workers in most cases. Not all of them, but a lot of them. Chat GPT shows, quote,
00:28:14.920
a remarkable ability to automate some of the skills of highly compensated knowledge workers in general,
00:28:20.480
and specifically the knowledge workers in the jobs held by MBA graduates. It does an amazing job at
00:28:26.160
basic operations management and process analysis questions, including those that are based on case
00:28:31.280
studies. Not only are the answers correct, but the explanations are excellent. Right. It is true that
00:28:39.820
at McDonald's now, sometimes there will be fewer workers because you can place your orders on machines,
00:28:44.900
but you still have workers there. Okay. And McDonald's is one of the most automated of any
00:28:52.300
restaurant chain. When you go out to a restaurant where you actually want a dining experience,
00:28:56.900
that is always going to have people involved in it because people augment that experience. You want
00:29:02.680
the waiter to come over in the nice coat with the tie and say, Mr. So-and-so, can I get you a drink?
00:29:08.780
Oh, I recommend having the pasta with the steak. Or you want that human experience. That's part of
00:29:14.720
what makes going out to dinner special. You don't want Thelma to come over, Thelma the robot to say,
00:29:19.580
beep, boop, martini or Manhattan? Beep, beep, boop. You know, it just starts frying. That wouldn't be
00:29:25.220
fun and special. You want that human contact. You are going to want, even as robots become more common
00:29:31.680
in our homes, you're still going to want people with their judgment, with that human touch,
00:29:36.040
with their artistic ability to go in and operate certain aspects of the service economy.
00:29:43.640
I'm not sure that you need any human beings to operate most of business and management and
00:29:48.060
white-collar jobs. The people who should be really afraid here are all those white-collar laptop
00:29:54.820
workers, all the ones who tell the poor rust belt Americans whose politicians betrayed them and who
00:30:01.820
ship their jobs overseas, the ones who say, well, just learn to code, keep up. Yeah,
00:30:06.720
the ones who are going to need to learn to code are going to be largely white-collar workers. And
00:30:11.340
they're never going to learn to code better than chat GPT. So I don't know. Maybe it's time to learn
00:30:15.220
to plumb. Time to learn to install electrical wires. Time to learn a useful trade, I would suggest.
00:30:23.820
Speaking of white-collar jobs, yet another person has strongly intimated that she will throw her hat
00:30:34.300
in the ring for the most prestigious white-collar job of all, President of the United States. That
00:30:39.140
person would be Nikki Haley. Are you going to run for president? Well, I'm not going to make an
00:30:44.560
announcement here. But when you're looking at a run for president, you look at two things. You first look
00:30:49.180
at, does the current situation push for new leadership? The second question is, am I that
00:30:56.560
person that could be that new leader? Yes, we need to go in a new direction. And can I be that
00:31:01.360
leader? Yes, I think I can be that leader. I was, as governor, I took on a hurting state with double
00:31:07.020
digit unemployment, and we made it the beast of the Southeast. As ambassador, you know, I took on
00:31:13.140
the world when they tried to disrespect us. And I think I showed what I'm capable of at the United
00:31:18.680
Nation. So do I think I could be that leader? Yes, but we are still working through things, and we'll
00:31:24.240
figure it out. I've never lost a race. I said that then. I still say that now. I'm not going to lose
00:31:29.320
now, but stay tuned. It sounds like you're close. It sounds, are we getting to the exploratory
00:31:34.080
committee stage here? I think stay tuned. Okay, so yes is the answer. Barring some horrible polling
00:31:42.280
that Nikki receives showing that she's at the complete bottom of the deck, this is a woman who is
00:31:48.040
planning to run for president in 2024. And there's one thing holding it up, or one thing complicating
00:31:55.460
her announcement, which is that Nikki Haley has previously said that she would not run for
00:32:01.100
president in 2024 if Trump runs. She said she wouldn't run if Trump runs, that she's behind
00:32:07.220
Trump, she supports Trump. And this was complicated because she made those comments after she had
00:32:12.960
criticized Trump in the press and criticized Trump after January 6th and all the rest of it.
00:32:19.320
And that's complicated because Nikki Haley made those criticisms after she had been a loyal Trump
00:32:25.780
defender. She was one of the most prominent loyal Trump officials during the administration. She was
00:32:32.340
at the UN, which is a great job. She did a great job in the job, but it's a really great job if you want
00:32:37.560
to raise your public profile because your whole job is to stand up against the worst people in the world
00:32:41.480
every single day. And you hold your hand up and you say, I'm going to stick it to you, China or North
00:32:45.580
Korea or wherever. So that was complicated. And then it was complicated because she had been
00:32:51.180
somewhat critical of Trump before he became president. So there had been a kind of
00:32:59.700
ambiguity to exactly which lane Nikki Haley was going to run in. There was a world in which Nikki Haley
00:33:08.080
could have run in the Trump lane had Trump not run for president. Even though Nikki Haley is
00:33:14.160
probably more moderate than Donald Trump, don't forget Donald Trump had a fairly moderate political
00:33:19.940
record before he became president. So he moved a little bit, a lot more in the conservative direction
00:33:24.620
as well. Nikki Haley had a relatively moderate Republican record as governor of South Carolina.
00:33:31.340
Then she was more in the Trump direction. And now I think what this tells you,
00:33:35.000
the fact that she is going full speed ahead is that Nikki Haley is looking to run probably more
00:33:41.120
in the moderate lane in 2024. Trump's got the Trump lane. DeSantis is running in the,
00:33:50.060
really, I guess, to the right of Donald Trump, specifically to the right of Trump on COVID,
00:33:54.920
specifically to the right of Donald Trump on the vaccines. And then roughly in the same place as
00:34:01.100
Donald Trump on every other issue. And then you've got Nikki Haley, I think, staking out the
00:34:07.380
moderate ground. And we all knock the moderates and regularly call for people to go further to the
00:34:14.000
right of Attila the Hun. But this is the Republican Party. There's a huge moderate faction of the
00:34:19.320
Republican Party. And right now, Nikki Haley is the top candidate in that faction. I can't think of
00:34:24.740
another person. I know that John Kasich has suggested maybe he wants to run in that. Or
00:34:30.180
there have been Larry Hogan, who's a moderate governor of Maryland, thinks that he wants to
00:34:34.940
run in that lane. And there are some other people as well. But right now, I think Nikki Haley is
00:34:39.720
probably the top pick. What it also tells you is Nikki does not believe that Trump is going to clear
00:34:45.160
the field. The argument for Trump even announcing as early as he did was that Trump's announcement
00:34:50.940
would clear the field of candidates because Trump was so potent a force in the GOP. But his poll
00:34:57.220
numbers, if one believes polls, have remained where they were or declined actually a little bit.
00:35:03.020
And so the political effect of that is it hasn't cleared the field. Ron DeSantis is, for all intents
00:35:08.140
and purposes, running for president right now. There are other people waiting in the wings. Tim Scott
00:35:12.100
has suggested he might run. Mike Pompeo suggested he might run. Mike Pence looks like he's going to run.
00:35:17.300
Mike Pence also might try to run a little bit more in that moderate lane for president. But because of
00:35:24.120
the way that his relationship ended with Trump, his political numbers are just not that great right
00:35:28.540
now. So I think Nikki Haley thinks she could probably beat him in that lane. So all of which tells you
00:35:33.560
that unless something dramatically changes for Trump, he might still get the nomination. He might still
00:35:38.560
win the presidency. There is going to be a primary. Unless something radical changes today,
00:35:44.660
there will be a primary. There's another really important
00:35:48.540
caveat to all of this, or additional detail rather, which is that another woman wants to
00:35:54.800
run for president. That would be Governor Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
00:35:59.340
I think all of us can agree as Americans that China shouldn't be buying up land in the United States,
00:36:04.680
that they're an enemy, they're an evil government built on communism and taking away freedom,
00:36:09.860
and that that isn't something we should allow to have a presence here in our great country.
00:36:14.820
This is an issue that came up, you know, months ago when we saw a land purchase in North Dakota,
00:36:20.460
our neighbors to the north, that a Chinese entity bought up land next to their Air Force base,
00:36:27.080
saying they were going to build a corn plant, but there wasn't enough even corn grown in that area to
00:36:32.960
sustain a facility like that. And it became under question. I think we all agree that,
00:36:37.120
that we shouldn't allow our enemies to have a presence, especially close to our national
00:36:41.700
security infrastructure. We have Ellsworth Air Force Base, which is going to be the home of the
00:36:46.540
B-21s. We want to make sure that those who have the chance to purchase our land here in our state
00:36:51.920
love America, and that they want to do good, not do us harm.
00:36:56.340
So Kristi Noem is saying she wants to restrict land purchases by the Chinese. You might remember this
00:37:00.640
story because Ron DeSantis announced that a week or two ago. What does this tell you? Kristi Noem
00:37:04.960
wants to run for president. I think she's made that perfectly clear over the last two years.
00:37:10.020
And Kristi Noem is going to run in the Ron DeSantis lane. So Ron DeSantis here leading among
00:37:16.400
the governors. There's no question Ron DeSantis is the leader and everyone else is following suit.
00:37:23.140
Kristi Noem thinks she's going to take on that lane. Then you've got Nikki Haley and maybe Mike Pence
00:37:28.640
and maybe Tim Scott running in the somewhat more moderate lane. Then you've got Trump out here.
00:37:33.680
They all think that Trump is relatively weak and can be beaten. But Trump is also running because
00:37:38.040
Trump and Haley and DeSantis and Noem and Pence and everybody else, all these Republicans who want
00:37:44.780
to run in 2024, they're looking up at the White House. They're looking at Biden. They're saying,
00:37:48.380
this guy is weak. This guy can be beat. And I think we all agree with that.
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who do we have? Let's take it away with Alex from Taiwan. Alex, you're on the air.
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I can hear you. Alex, what time is it in Taiwan right now?
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It is 11 at 10 at night. I stayed up for you last night, but you didn't want to take my call.
00:40:19.340
Alex, thank you for staying up over in Taiwan. I appreciate it. Maybe you've had a couple of
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Coca-Colas. Maybe you're more relaxed. Maybe I should start doing my show at 11 o'clock
00:40:30.080
I won't. So it's more that I can help you. You mentioned last week that you are a huge Elvis
00:40:36.000
Presley fan. And I just wanted to let you know one of the secrets of Israel. You're both a staunch
00:40:40.320
Catholic and you want to probably go to the Holy Land at some point or return there if you've already
00:40:43.740
been. And so the last time I went, I found out that there is an Elvis Presley cafe just west of
00:40:50.180
Jerusalem. Outside of it, the builder decided that a lot of kings had come through the city, but
00:40:55.420
the King of Rock had never got his chance. And so he created a giant golden statue of Elvis Presley.
00:41:01.060
If you go inside of the cafe, you can pay about 35 shekels and they give you a mug with coffee in
00:41:05.880
it and you get to keep the mug. And on the mug is a picture of Elvis and a couple other things.
00:41:10.500
And so I just want to let you know that the next time you go there, you can kill two birds with
00:41:13.540
one stone. Alex, that is amazing. In a city that is really for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
00:41:20.520
in the Holy Land where many kings traveled from all over the world to see the King of Kings,
00:41:27.080
things. It certainly makes sense that the King of Rock and Roll would join the Magi and so many
00:41:32.620
other of the terrestrial royalty to come on over and visit the Holy Land. Thank you, Alex. Thank you
00:41:37.960
for that advice. I look forward to visiting the Elvis Cafe next time. I hope it's not a kind of golden
00:41:42.920
idol of Elvis. That would be unfortunate. But as long as it's merely an object of admiration or
00:41:50.220
veneration rather than worship, I think that's a wonderful thing. Okay, let's turn to Jake from South
00:41:56.500
Florida. Jake, you're on the air. Hey, Michael, I had a question about marriage. So you often talk
00:42:04.320
about how the left tries to redefine terms and specifically the word marriage. But I guess
00:42:10.100
to me, it seems at least that the left successfully has redefined that word. And at what point do you
00:42:16.040
accept the fact that it is no longer like, you know, a union between man and woman and the common
00:42:22.500
cultural understanding really is, you know, just what people do when they love each other and
00:42:27.920
realize that you might be holding on to an old definition of marriage, much like someone might
00:42:33.100
be saying, well, you know, in the 1940s, a computer was someone who did calculations and people might
00:42:38.160
just say, well, that doesn't make sense anymore. The answer is you never accept the new definition
00:42:44.340
of marriage. And you never accept it, not because, I don't know, not because you are an old fuddy
00:42:51.420
daddy or not because you're stuck in the past or not because you hate gay people or anything. That's
00:42:54.980
one of the most preposterous accusations that we get, especially that I get. You know, I'm from New
00:43:00.640
York. I went to the gayest university in the United States, if not the world. I lived in Los Angeles
00:43:05.660
surrounded by a bunch of show business weirdos. A disproportionate number of my friends
00:43:11.460
have had homosexual inclinations, okay? But no matter how much you love your gay cousin or whoever
00:43:18.660
else in your life, you can never accept the new definition of marriage because marriage is not up
00:43:25.660
for redefinition. Certain things can be up for redefinition. Things that are merely socially
00:43:31.200
constructed. Fashions. Fashion is a perfect example of this. Male fashion has changed dramatically over
00:43:39.160
times. Several centuries ago, men wore frilly sorts of coats and high heels. Now, men don't do that.
00:43:47.040
Fashion has been redefined for men and for women. But the reality of men and women, the fundamental
00:43:54.100
reality and the union between a man and a woman that we call marriage cannot be redefined because
00:44:00.020
marriage is not socially constructed, but rather is a natural institution. And the reason that marriage
00:44:06.360
is a natural institution is because, as Aristotle says, and as St. Thomas Aquinas kind of baptizing
00:44:13.980
Aristotle or explicating Aristotle points out, man is a social being. Man is not, as the liberals would
00:44:20.460
have us believe, man is not just floating as an individual atom in space completely undifferentiated
00:44:26.400
and we're all just the same and a woman is no different than a man and a man no different than
00:44:32.800
a woman. No, that's not really how it is. Man is a social being. We find our identity in society with
00:44:39.720
one another. And there is a distinction in human nature between men and women because men and women
00:44:44.060
are not indiscernible and indistinguishable, but are in fact complementary. And so because man is a
00:44:50.740
social being, because we have distinct sexual natures, and because man is a coupling being,
00:44:57.300
man is naturally drawn to couple with a woman physically and spiritually as well. And then the
00:45:03.980
product of that union is a new human being. So fundamental is that to human nature. Then you
00:45:11.680
simply cannot redefine marriage. We can pretend all we want all day, but that's not going to do
00:45:17.240
anything. Even if we remain confused for decades, even if we remain confused in certain countries for
00:45:24.020
a century or two, marriage will endure because it is part of natural law and it's part of man's very
00:45:34.020
nature in his own desire and self-understanding. Okay, before we go, let's take another question
00:45:40.100
from Anthony in Alabama. Anthony, you are on the air from the state that houses my absolute favorite
00:45:49.240
city in America. What city is that? Well, that would be Mobile, Alabama. I've just always loved
00:45:57.160
Mobile. I tell sweet little Elisa that we're going to retire there someday. She's never been,
00:46:01.380
but it's just a very charming city. So Anthony, what's on your mind? It'd be great to have you,
00:46:06.340
Michael. Okay. Um, I've been a fan for about two years. I want to first thank you for your Catholic
00:46:10.600
faith and conservative ideas that have shaped me. Um, I'm going to the university of Alabama next
00:46:15.480
year. I'm interested in politics and possibly going to get a degree in philosophy. Uh, thanks to you,
00:46:20.380
um, encouraging that. Um, and maybe a law degree depending on how things go other than starting my
00:46:26.000
club named cigars and politics. What should I involve myself in to, uh, kind of dabble in to see
00:46:32.100
what I should maybe, you know, do in life, I guess is what I'm saying. I love that club. I too started
00:46:38.360
a cigar club in college. It was called the society for intellectual growth and reinvigoration
00:46:43.280
or cigar. And it was just a front to get the school to pay for my cigar habit for me and my
00:46:49.720
buddies. So that's great. I think that will be very edifying for you. And I think it will be not
00:46:54.220
only because cigars are tasty and it's kind of a fun thing to do. And as far as vices go, I think it's,
00:46:57.920
you know, relatively quite innocent, but also because one of the best things you can do in
00:47:01.760
college is stay up late. Uh, hopefully not over too many drinks, you know, over an okay number
00:47:08.000
of drinks, but you don't want to be completely out of your mind because you stay up late over
00:47:11.680
cigars, which sharpen your mind because of the nicotine and because of the relaxation that comes
00:47:16.740
from that. And you just debate all sorts of matters with your friends. And that that's going to
00:47:20.300
provide you, at least in my experience, it did provide you as good an education, probably a much
00:47:25.960
better education than what you're going to get in the classrooms. What else can you involve yourself
00:47:29.940
in? I would recommend if you, if you want to maintain a tie to the school, whether for networking
00:47:36.920
or friendship or both, uh, you should involve yourself in one somewhat established institution.
00:47:42.300
I did that. I'm a member of a, one of the conservative debating societies from my college.
00:47:47.860
And, and it was just, it's just a wonderful group. And it's, it's really my main tie left to the,
00:47:53.280
the university. Um, so that, that's a great thing to do. And then in terms of setting yourself up for
00:47:59.180
a job, again, don't forget, you're not at the school, you're studying philosophy. So you could
00:48:03.020
go to law school later. That's a trade school. You go to business school later. That's a trade school.
00:48:06.880
Get on the job training. Okay, good. You're learning your trade, but you're, you're studying in college
00:48:12.280
to cultivate your soul and to, to, uh, to not study something that is going to directly get you a job.
00:48:20.980
So you got to take care of the job stuff separately. For me, if you want to go into politics,
00:48:26.100
for me, the best training I got was working on a political campaign between my sophomore and junior
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year, and then into my junior year. That was a very, very, uh, effective training ground for what
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I now work in, which is politics and political media even specifically. Uh, so I would do that.
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You, you do that through your internships. You do that even maybe off campus a little bit
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that can distinguish you to employers. That'll give you that training that will then compliment
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the intellectual and spiritual work that you've done in your liberal education.
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