The Michael Knowles Show - May 12, 2023


Ep. 1245 - Trans Academic Claims Sissy Porn Made Him Do It

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media lies and misinformation sissy porn
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Michael Knowles
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Jeremy David Richardson Pure Talk Pulitzer Tucker Carlson John Henry Newman Anderson Cooper Vladimir Putin Donald Trump Benedict XVI Andrew Show Elon Musk Marine Tom Nahasi Coates Caitlin Collins Thomas Aquinas Dylan Mulvaney Border Patrol Henry Bierman Noble Gamer and 8 more
Ep. 1244 - Trump Destroyed CNN's Town Hall With 4 Hilarious Answers Woke TikTok Pastor DEBUNKED ｜ Michael Knowles

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A heroic Marine who protected a subway train full of innocent people from a mentally ill, violent criminal has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. Meanwhile, a liberal journalist asks the question, were the border patrol agents actually whipping Haitian migrants?

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00:00:00.000 The 24-year-old Marine who protected a subway train full of innocent people from a mentally
00:00:05.060 ill, violent criminal, a criminal who was threatening the passengers and who had the
00:00:10.460 rap sheet to prove that he was willing to follow through on those threats, that heroic Marine
00:00:15.100 will now be charged with second-degree manslaughter by the New York District Attorney.
00:00:22.520 That Marine should be given a key to the city. That Marine should be given a ticker tape parade.
00:00:27.320 Instead, the liberal activists who run the city will attempt to throw him in prison.
00:00:33.740 And they will probably succeed. Lots of liberals and even some squish conservatives will say that,
00:00:40.840 you know, if the evidence proves this young Marine's innocence, well, then he's got nothing to fear.
00:00:47.320 But we already know that he won't get a fair trial because this is a political prosecution.
00:00:52.040 And the way that we know that is that the altercation on the subway occurred 11 days ago,
00:00:56.840 and no one previously arrested him because the killing was obviously justified.
00:01:01.960 Then liberal activists, AOC, all the usual suspects, they called the mob out against him.
00:01:07.740 So now he's being prosecuted and he will be convicted regardless of what the evidence shows.
00:01:13.440 Or if he's not convicted, there will be hell to pay because the mob demands its pound of flesh.
00:01:19.360 It is a hideous miscarriage of justice, what is going on.
00:01:24.840 But at least the most self-aware liberal activists know that.
00:01:28.760 For them, that is the point.
00:01:31.720 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:33.340 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:42.740 There's a professor at a community college who has been placed on leave for the egregious, unforgivable crime of handing out Jeremy's chocolate bars.
00:01:53.460 We will get to that.
00:01:54.300 I think we will be able to speak to that professor live a little later on in the show.
00:01:59.260 First, though, speaking of law enforcement, yesterday, a liberal journalist at a briefing at the White House asked the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas,
00:02:12.260 what has gone on with those border patrol agents who were whipping all of the migrants and how all of this relates to the new surge at the southern border.
00:02:21.160 And to his credit, the secretary corrected the record and said that the border patrol agents never whipped the migrants.
00:02:32.880 Sir, the southern border is not just Mexicans. 0.60
00:02:35.680 It is Haitians. 0.98
00:02:36.800 It's Africans, as we've seen, particularly with that issue with the Haitians being whipped with the reins or the horses. 1.00
00:02:45.580 But what is their... 0.92
00:02:46.160 Is there...
00:02:47.020 Well, let me just correct you right there, because actually the investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur.
00:02:54.560 I'm sorry.
00:02:55.380 I saw it differently.
00:02:56.780 They were whipped with something from the horse, reins from a horse.
00:03:00.420 Maybe the video or the picture was fixed, but what I saw was totally different.
00:03:04.720 I'm sorry.
00:03:05.920 Yeah, I'm going to leave you as corrected.
00:03:09.340 This is so good on him for admitting the truth.
00:03:14.680 Everyone's now giving a lot of plaudits to Mayorkas, and they're all making fun of this journalist woman.
00:03:19.880 I'm kind of on the journalist woman's side.
00:03:22.500 Not because the whipping happened.
00:03:24.100 The whipping obviously didn't happen.
00:03:25.780 I never really thought that it did.
00:03:27.700 I never went along with the liberal narrative that tried to demonize the border patrol agents.
00:03:33.540 But I can see how this woman would have thought so.
00:03:36.940 And you know why this woman might have thought that the border patrol agents whipped the migrants?
00:03:44.020 Because everybody in the liberal establishment, the media, the government, including Mayorkas, said that they did.
00:03:50.420 Look at all these headlines.
00:03:51.880 This isn't even close to all of them.
00:03:54.380 Reuters.
00:03:55.320 White House condemns border guard use of whip-like cord against Haitian migrants.
00:04:02.100 NBC.
00:04:03.300 Saki asked about image of border patrol agent with apparent whip.
00:04:06.280 Obviously horrific.
00:04:07.940 Oh, yes.
00:04:08.820 Politico.
00:04:09.540 White House.
00:04:10.080 Possible use of whips on Haitian migrants is horrific.
00:04:13.960 Biden says border patrol agents will pay after whipping at Haitian migrants while charging them on horseback.
00:04:21.100 Wow, that one's even more vivid.
00:04:22.780 That's from Business Insider.
00:04:24.620 How about this one?
00:04:25.620 Horrified by photos of border patrol agents allegedly whipping migrants.
00:04:30.400 Official demands investigation.
00:04:33.080 That's from the Houston Chronicle.
00:04:34.780 Vice News.
00:04:35.380 You remember that?
00:04:36.140 Vice News, which I think is going the way of the dodo, says U.S. border agents are removing Haitian migrants using horses and whips.
00:04:43.140 When's Vice going to correct that fake news headline?
00:04:45.440 And then here's my favorite.
00:04:46.380 This is from Axios.
00:04:47.240 Very respectable, middle-of-the-road, mainstream Axios says,
00:04:51.380 Harris Mayorkas voiced horror at footage of border patrol reportedly whipping at migrants.
00:04:57.480 Complete fake news.
00:04:58.980 Just a complete op from the activist level to the media to the White House.
00:05:05.520 And so I don't blame this journalist for asking about it.
00:05:09.140 She perpetrated a lie.
00:05:11.120 She perpetuated a lie.
00:05:12.280 But she was also lied to.
00:05:14.700 And people all got whipped up into this frenzy that was pushed, completely divorced from the facts.
00:05:19.700 And so I don't let Mayorkas off the hook. 1.00
00:05:21.280 I'm glad that he's not lying anymore now, years later.
00:05:24.740 But I don't let him off the hook.
00:05:25.900 He was one of the people who peddled this lie.
00:05:27.660 And it's not just about the migrants, and it's not just about Mayorkas and the White House.
00:05:32.240 This is the news.
00:05:35.420 This story right here, these 10 headlines about the whips and the migrants,
00:05:40.700 that's every contentious partisan news story.
00:05:45.880 Anything that could give a serious advantage to Democrats and a disadvantage to Republicans.
00:05:51.100 That is what is peddled by our media with no regard whatsoever for the truth.
00:05:59.500 I think people have caught on to that quite a lot at this point.
00:06:04.460 But it's like the air that you breathe.
00:06:07.280 It's like the water that the fish swim in.
00:06:09.300 It's hard to notice.
00:06:10.200 There are so many news stories that come at you every day that you just see the headline and you kind of move on.
00:06:14.520 I bet you there are even many conservatives who think that Border Patrol agents whipped Haitian migrants
00:06:20.860 while charging them on horseback.
00:06:23.520 Completely made up.
00:06:24.560 Made up by the people who now say, oh, what are you talking about?
00:06:27.740 No, we just lied about that at the time because we thought it would help us.
00:06:31.100 But now it won't help us, so now we're going to admit the truth.
00:06:36.660 This is how the system works.
00:06:37.880 Speaking of our very embarrassing news media, NBC is horrified.
00:06:44.140 The Fourth Estate, the intrepid journalists, they're horrified at the prospect
00:06:49.180 that Tucker Carlson will bring his show to Twitter.
00:06:52.280 Because if he's on Twitter, well, it's going to be hard for people to tell him what to say.
00:06:59.240 Well, listen, Twitter was already under fire from misinformation, disinformation, all-out lies,
00:07:04.280 anti-Semitism, racism before Elon Musk took over.
00:07:08.160 And now it's gotten kind of crazy, right?
00:07:10.380 Seemingly unmoored, if you will.
00:07:12.460 Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says, or is this the point?
00:07:17.960 It's just a free-for-all.
00:07:19.240 I think this is the point.
00:07:20.320 It is a free-for-all.
00:07:21.140 It's what Elon Musk wants to provide.
00:07:23.120 This move by Tucker may cement the idea of Twitter as a right-wing website.
00:07:28.940 It's going to cement the idea.
00:07:30.520 If this man is not given a list of talking points and told that he can't voice certain opinions,
00:07:35.440 that means that Twitter is a right-wing website.
00:07:38.240 Oh, no, the journalist might not be told what to say by the political establishment.
00:07:45.900 The horror, this is the end of our democracy in America.
00:07:49.800 Just so transparent.
00:07:52.020 I'm so happy about that journalist in the White House briefing room.
00:07:56.640 I'm so happy about NBC breaking down.
00:07:59.520 Just wait until you see Anderson Cooper's reaction to Trump's town hall on CNN.
00:08:04.680 Oh, that was beautiful, too.
00:08:05.600 They're just exposing themselves.
00:08:08.240 For the regime hacks that they are.
00:08:11.760 And look, being a regime hack, being a propagandist, it's a job.
00:08:16.140 Every state has them.
00:08:18.580 But at the very least now, I think we can do away with the,
00:08:22.300 where the journalists are under fire.
00:08:24.560 We're out there on the front lines speaking truth to power.
00:08:29.600 No, you're not.
00:08:30.980 You are court jesters and court propagandists for the ruling establishment.
00:08:36.660 That is all you do.
00:08:37.600 And then whenever a journalist with any streak of independence comes out there and questions that official narrative, you all pile on to him.
00:08:45.980 You do everything you can to enforce the power whose job it is, whose job yours is to defend.
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00:10:13.820 Forget NBC.
00:10:16.160 Forget that lady in the White House briefing room. 1.00
00:10:18.120 The greatest media moment of the last six months, two years, I don't know.
00:10:24.720 CNN's reaction to the CNN town hall featuring Donald Trump, his first big TV appearance since he was president.
00:10:38.720 I don't, this might be the funniest clip I've ever seen in my life.
00:10:45.120 Many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment.
00:10:50.080 Many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of Republican voters to answer questions
00:10:57.200 and predictably continued to spew lie after lie after lie.
00:11:01.700 And I get it.
00:11:02.880 It was disturbing.
00:11:03.920 And it was certainly disturbing to hear that audience, young and old, our fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church, laugh and applaud his lies
00:11:12.980 and his continued defamation of a woman who, according to a jury of his peers, he's sexually abused and defamed.
00:11:19.360 As good a job as Kaylin Collins did trying to fact check him, it is impossible to fact check fully because he lies so shamelessly.
00:11:26.280 You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again.
00:11:29.720 But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
00:11:36.480 We're sorry.
00:11:37.320 You can turn off CNN.
00:11:38.420 It was terrible.
00:11:39.260 We had the president.
00:11:42.580 We had the president, very popular president.
00:11:45.100 Come on.
00:11:46.220 He's going to run for president again.
00:11:48.560 Half the country likes him.
00:11:50.920 Anderson Cooper, I guess, is trying to make this point.
00:11:53.320 In a way, he's more reasonable than most other people in the establishment media in that he's saying, look, it's important to hear from the leader of the political opposition.
00:12:03.420 We're not such a totalitarian society yet that we can all agree to just throw the leader of the opposition completely in the gulag.
00:12:11.740 I know that we liberals are trying to prosecute him.
00:12:14.400 I know we're trying to throw him in prison.
00:12:16.200 I know all the while we decry Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for doing exactly the same thing, but we it's different when we do it.
00:12:23.760 And I know that we're but we're not there yet.
00:12:26.860 OK, we haven't reached the degree of political control that Putin and Xi have in their respective countries.
00:12:32.360 And so we've got to at least pretend like we should maybe hear from the political opposition.
00:12:37.560 What makes the clip so funny is just the seriousness.
00:12:41.220 Many of you are deeply troubled by what you saw last night.
00:12:45.060 Last night, it was the former president saying that we need a better economy.
00:12:52.360 Last night, we saw this man, this evil man, the former president.
00:12:57.060 And he said that we used to have more law and order and we should restore justice.
00:13:02.280 Can you imagine?
00:13:03.260 Oh, goodness.
00:13:05.100 Scares me.
00:13:05.760 It's going to keep me up at night.
00:13:06.740 Now, speaking of contradicting the liberal narrative and speaking of accidentally conveying some truth, actually, there's a guy who just won the Pulitzer Prize.
00:13:18.340 And he's a guy who thinks that he's a chick and he's won the Pulitzer Prize now for his writing.
00:13:25.200 He's a book critic in New York magazine.
00:13:27.240 He won the 2023 Pulitzer and he's known as a pro-trans writer.
00:13:34.600 So this is where it gets a little bit controversial.
00:13:38.160 In 2019, this guy, his name is Andrew Chu.
00:13:41.320 He now goes by Andrea.
00:13:43.000 He published a book called Females in which he said things that were deeply misogynistic.
00:13:48.660 I almost never used that word, but they truly expressed a contempt and a hatred for women.
00:13:56.440 And you sometimes see this line of thought and this inclination among the transgender movement.
00:14:02.500 Not all the time, but some of the time.
00:14:04.440 And so here's what he said in his book Females. 1.00
00:14:07.060 He said, getting F'd makes you female because F'd is what a female is. 1.00
00:14:12.920 He describes himself as once being, quote, a sad, pretentious boy, furious about rape, hopelessly addicted to pornography.
00:14:23.100 He says, almost every night for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait till my girlfriend had fallen asleep and slip out of bed for the bathroom with my phone. 0.97
00:14:31.600 I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn. 0.98
00:14:34.780 This is that kind of pornography. 0.97
00:14:35.720 I did an interview with the editor at Redux.
00:14:39.520 And actually, this story comes from Redux.
00:14:41.080 This is the hypnotism pornography that plays a large role in people transing themselves, but no one really wants to talk about it. 1.00
00:14:48.840 So this guy admits it.
00:14:49.740 This guy who just won the Pulitzer Prize.
00:14:50.860 He said, yeah, this kind of pornography transed me. 0.99
00:14:53.080 I looked at something called sissy porn. 0.99
00:14:54.440 I discovered it by accident one night, scrolling lazily down a pornographic rabbit hole. 0.98
00:14:59.640 And he goes on.
00:15:00.740 He says, pornography is what it feels like when you think you have an object.
00:15:04.540 But really, the object has you.
00:15:07.500 It is therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness. 0.99
00:15:11.960 Sissy porn did make me trans. 0.98
00:15:15.120 It's funny. 0.98
00:15:15.900 Media Matters does all these hit pieces on me because I've suggested that this kind of pornography transes people, makes people trans.
00:15:24.260 But this very prominent transgender figure who just won the Pulitzer Prize for the perspicacity of his prose, this guy is saying the exact same thing that I'm suggesting.
00:15:34.920 He's saying it more definitively than I am.
00:15:36.640 I just raised the question. 0.99
00:15:37.800 He's saying, yes, sissy porn did make me trans. 1.00
00:15:40.360 At the center of sissy porn. 1.00
00:15:42.160 Oh, this is kind of gross. 0.99
00:15:43.020 The rest of this sentence is legitimately too obscene to read on this show.
00:15:50.420 I don't recommend that you read it anyway. 0.59
00:15:52.060 But basically, he says at the center of this pornography is this body part.
00:15:58.640 And he reduces women down, once again, simply to the act of being violated.
00:16:06.860 Okay.
00:16:08.300 People are going to attack him.
00:16:09.500 A lot of people on the left are attacking him for letting the secret out.
00:16:11.660 I think he probably deserves the Pulitzer.
00:16:14.180 If he doesn't deserve the Pulitzer, he's at least more deserving of the Pulitzer than other people who have won it or who have been finalists in recent years.
00:16:21.840 I think of that guy, Tom Naheasy Coates, who he won the National Book Award and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer.
00:16:27.000 That guy has never said anything interesting in his entire life. 0.77
00:16:30.220 All he does is just parrot silly, normie, liberal platitudes and tells liberal white people what they want to hear. 0.93
00:16:38.300 And he certainly does not deserve any of these awards. 0.96
00:16:41.300 At least this guy is upsetting the norm. 0.72
00:16:44.420 At least this poor man suffering from transgenderism who got totally addicted to this weird kind of pornography and who's got all these extremely perverse ideas about what a woman is. 1.00
00:16:54.560 Deeply misogynistic ideas.
00:16:56.160 At least he's saying something that, one, upsets the status quo and makes people think.
00:17:02.060 But two, I think reveals really troubling aspects of modern leftism, of where liberalism leads in society, and of what transgenderism means, what it does, what it reduces you to.
00:17:18.220 I may even read the guy's book.
00:17:23.400 It's so wrong.
00:17:24.760 I mean, this is the silver lining in the storm cloud of transgenderism is with a lot of liberal policies, it's easy to keep it out of sight, out of mind. 1.00
00:17:33.780 It's easy to ignore and neglect the absurdity of it all.
00:17:38.500 So even with something as serious as abortion, with abortion, you just don't see it, right?
00:17:44.260 Abortion is what happens in that dark corner of town, in that scary-looking building.
00:17:48.860 But you don't have to see that.
00:17:50.020 You don't need to go over there.
00:17:51.960 Abortion, it's an act of murder, but it occurs inside a woman's womb most of the time. 1.00
00:17:55.700 And so you don't need to think, we can just ignore it.
00:17:57.880 It's okay.
00:17:58.500 But with the transgender issue, which people could ignore for a long time, because there were three or four people probably on earth who actually expressed themselves this way.
00:18:06.240 Now, it seems to be everywhere.
00:18:08.420 It's in your kid's school.
00:18:09.340 It's in your workplace.
00:18:10.860 It's on your daughter's sports team.
00:18:12.400 And so you can't ignore it anymore.
00:18:13.840 And it's so absurd. 0.71
00:18:15.260 This guy, Andrew Chu, is just so obviously not a woman. 0.88
00:18:18.240 And the way he describes women, being effed is what a woman is. 0.97
00:18:22.420 Being effed is what a female is, he says. 1.00
00:18:26.640 Getting effed makes you female. 1.00
00:18:28.160 That's so obviously not true. 0.97
00:18:30.080 It's so hideous.
00:18:31.160 It's so perverse.
00:18:32.200 It's so obviously the hysterical ranting of someone whose brain has been melted by pornography that you begin to wonder, okay, what else is wrong about this movement?
00:18:42.960 So I hand it to him.
00:18:45.520 Great stuff, man.
00:18:46.800 Now, speaking of the transgender mania, I got a story for you.
00:18:50.700 I got a story here.
00:18:51.860 It's from just the news about a professor who was placed on leave for giving out chocolate bars.
00:19:00.560 This professor is David Richardson.
00:19:03.780 David Richardson is a 33-year veteran of the State Center Community College District.
00:19:09.240 He has 27 years as a full-time tenure-track history instructor.
00:19:13.540 He's won Teacher of the Year, Madera Chamber of Commerce, President's Medal for Outstanding Faculty at Reedley College for the Madera campus.
00:19:22.040 He has never once in his entire career had a bad professional evaluation.
00:19:26.900 He's never had a complaint of any kind until 2021, right around all of this crazy pronoun transgender madness. 1.00
00:19:36.140 And now this man, who by all accounts, all evidence around, is an outstanding professor who everybody likes, because he handed out a politically incorrect chocolate bar.
00:19:48.240 I don't even want to go that far.
00:19:49.740 A chocolate bar that made a little bit of a joke about how men and women are different.
00:19:55.740 Because of that, this guy has been placed on leave.
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00:21:21.320 I am very pleased to be joined now by Professor David Richardson.
00:21:27.680 Put on leave for the hideous crime of passing out a fun chocolate bar in his class and making a little joke about the difference between men and women.
00:21:35.800 Professor, thank you for coming on the show.
00:21:38.160 Thank you for having me, Michael.
00:21:39.840 So, what on earth possessed the administrators to put you on leave?
00:21:46.860 I can't even speculate on that.
00:21:52.600 I don't have a clue.
00:21:55.340 I just know that the suspension came after I was actually at an open house event for the college a week ago last Saturday.
00:22:07.920 And we had tables showcasing our various programs.
00:22:14.420 And I brought some of my history memorabilia, some stuff from the Civil War, World War II.
00:22:21.340 And I always bring snacks.
00:22:26.240 I always bring chips, popcorn, drinks, things to hand out to people who come at my own expense, by the way.
00:22:37.400 Never asked for any money for this.
00:22:39.620 And I had some leftover Jeremy's chocolates that I didn't know what I was going to do with them.
00:22:49.600 I like chocolate, but I bought an entire case.
00:22:52.740 A man of excellent taste.
00:22:55.440 Yes.
00:22:55.840 I wasn't going to eat an entire case.
00:22:57.860 So, I ate some, but I brought the remainder to the open house.
00:23:04.360 And I didn't say anything about them.
00:23:07.640 I just had them on the table with all of the other snacks.
00:23:12.720 And they actually ended up being the most popular item on the table.
00:23:20.200 You know, most everyone seemed to get a real kick out of it.
00:23:25.600 And so, you know, we had one member of staff who had not even noticed them when that person first came by.
00:23:40.880 And I guess words started to circulate about what the rappers actually said.
00:23:47.800 And I even had some people asking for pairs.
00:23:52.240 They wanted a he, him, and a she, her. 0.99
00:23:56.240 Naturally.
00:23:57.140 And then all of a sudden, shows up at my table, demands to know what they mean.
00:24:06.640 I directed her to Jeremy.
00:24:10.840 I said, you'll have to contact them.
00:24:14.060 They wrote the rapper and took pictures of the chocolate bars.
00:24:25.780 That was that, pretty much.
00:24:28.480 Went home.
00:24:29.460 So, you've been teaching for a long time.
00:24:32.320 It's not like this is your first couple of years on the job here.
00:24:35.000 You've been teaching for a long time.
00:24:35.960 You've got a long track record.
00:24:38.180 Students seem to love you.
00:24:39.920 You've gotten all sorts of awards.
00:24:42.940 This one little gift to people, I won't even say it's just a joke.
00:24:48.360 You were just giving people a chocolate bar, right?
00:24:50.360 Can you imagine now being put on leave for giving someone a chocolate bar? 0.95
00:24:53.060 And it involves a little bit of a joke about this very novel, very silly, modern political fad called transgenderism. 0.85
00:25:02.120 All of that gets you put on leave.
00:25:05.840 On top of the fact, by the way, that as I read here in your bio, you are not only not anti-LGBT or whatever they're going to call you,
00:25:16.020 you are a self-identified member of the LGB community.
00:25:20.820 Yes.
00:25:23.060 I've been, yes, I'm in a long-term relationship, 23 years.
00:25:30.480 I don't like to lead with that because I would rather people focus on my skills, my abilities, my, you know, what I do.
00:25:44.760 And I've always said, last year, our schools decided to fly the pride flag for the first time.
00:25:54.880 And I even wrote a statement to the board of trustees at the time.
00:26:00.140 I said, don't celebrate me for what I am.
00:26:05.080 Celebrate me for what I've done.
00:26:07.780 And didn't make a bit of difference.
00:26:12.260 I think they flew the flags anyway.
00:26:14.840 But that's my philosophy.
00:26:20.200 It's such an injustice.
00:26:22.080 And I think, I mean, it's very admirable for you to say, look, I'm not defined by my sexual desires, okay?
00:26:29.900 How about my career?
00:26:31.260 How about my work?
00:26:32.420 How about my thoughts?
00:26:34.100 How about all of this?
00:26:35.000 But it just goes to show you the extreme lengths that this movement will go to to cancel anybody who in any way, it's not like you're leading a pogrom against the transgender community or whatever they're going to accuse you of.
00:26:50.500 So, you made a little joke about a popular chocolate bar and gave people a little bit of candy.
00:26:56.800 And with that, they can wipe it out.
00:26:58.140 So, David, before I let you go, where does everything stand now?
00:27:02.920 I know this really all began, your problems with the college began a couple of years ago, I think, regarding the same sort of an issue.
00:27:12.700 Same sort of thing.
00:27:13.660 I was accused of, quote, unquote, mockingly misgendering a colleague.
00:27:24.380 And by misgendering, of course, you mean properly gendering.
00:27:29.000 Yes, I used the correct pronouns, but evidently in a mocking manner and was given a letter of reprimand and forced to undergo training, retraining.
00:27:42.520 Of course.
00:27:43.640 Re-education.
00:27:44.180 Re-education.
00:27:45.200 That's what they used to call it.
00:27:46.680 Now there's a new politically correct euphemism for it.
00:27:49.300 They call it diversity training.
00:27:51.760 Well, yes.
00:27:52.860 It's the same old thing.
00:27:55.140 David, I really hope that you prevail here in your fight.
00:27:58.980 I know that the headwinds that you're up against are very, very strong.
00:28:02.160 It's a lesson to everybody out there.
00:28:05.120 If you think that this mob is not going to come for you, if you think, well, look, I'm kind of protected.
00:28:11.320 I'm teaching at this smaller school.
00:28:15.260 I'm all I ever do.
00:28:16.500 I make a little joke about chocolate bar.
00:28:18.000 I can.
00:28:18.740 No.
00:28:19.640 It's a totalizing totalitarian ideology.
00:28:23.600 If you in any way diverge from it, this totalitarian mob will come for you.
00:28:31.380 I think the solution is we've got to get Jeremy, in addition to the razors and the chocolates, to start Jeremy's University.
00:28:37.900 Professor Richardson can have a tenured spot there.
00:28:40.540 We will be praying for you in the meantime, though.
00:28:43.480 Keep up the fight.
00:28:44.640 Really, thank you so much, David, for coming on.
00:28:49.260 And for all the rest of you, very important for this story, you can go check out Jeremy's chocolates.
00:28:56.540 Because Jeremy believes that every free American should have the right to hand out chocolate.
00:29:00.700 That is why right now you can get the delicious Jeremy's, he, him, and she, her chocolate bars in a snack size.
00:29:07.180 So pre-order Jeremy's chocolate right now, conveniently available for Halloween.
00:29:11.300 Go to jeremyschocolate.com and pre-order today.
00:29:15.480 My favorite comment yesterday is from Henry Bierman, who says,
00:29:20.420 If I had a nickel for every time I heard the walls are closing in on Donald Trump, I would have more money than Trump.
00:29:27.120 That's true.
00:29:27.800 But this time they've got him.
00:29:29.320 This time, it's Mueller time.
00:29:33.700 It's, they've got him now.
00:29:35.660 Okay.
00:29:36.320 You know what we've got now?
00:29:37.320 My favorite time of the week.
00:29:38.240 The mailbag, sponsored by Pure Talk.
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00:29:49.500 Take it away with the voice mailbag.
00:29:50.740 Hey, what's up, Michael?
00:29:52.780 Tony here.
00:29:53.860 First thing I just want to say, I love your show.
00:29:56.920 It's my favorite podcast to listen to.
00:29:59.880 I've been listening to it every single day at work for the past two years.
00:30:03.880 I just want to say thank you for everything that you do, man.
00:30:07.900 My question is, how do I get over a breakup?
00:30:14.760 This weekend, my girlfriend abruptly left me.
00:30:18.420 It was completely unexpected.
00:30:19.720 I was anticipating to marry her and get a home and, you know, all that good stuff.
00:30:27.380 But she abruptly broke up with me.
00:30:30.720 We were at my house, and when I left the room, she went to my journal and found some stuff she didn't like.
00:30:37.360 So she left with no warning, told me she went through my journal, and that she was done with me.
00:30:44.660 But I'm having a very difficult time getting past it.
00:30:48.120 So what's your advice for forgetting her and accepting what happened and moving on?
00:30:55.020 Thank you.
00:30:55.500 Well, before you move on, I don't think you can move so quickly over this question of the journal.
00:31:04.720 There's two parts to it.
00:31:05.940 One, why was she looking in your journal?
00:31:11.040 That would be a serious violation of trust if I were looking at it and my girlfriend did that to me.
00:31:18.540 But I would also probably have the self-awareness to say, okay, did she suspect something?
00:31:25.620 And what is that thing that she suspected?
00:31:27.720 And then, obviously, this is information that I lack, but what was in the journal?
00:31:33.140 If you were doing something really heinous, you murdered somebody, or I don't know, you were cheating on her, or I don't know.
00:31:42.500 I don't know what was in the journal.
00:31:44.580 If it's the sort of thing for which you ought to be sorry, then you can apologize and see if she forgives you.
00:31:53.100 If it's a problem that you're working through that you think you can work out, then you might be able to work that out.
00:32:00.160 It might have just been a fit of shock or revulsion or something that she saw something in your journal and broke up with you.
00:32:05.840 And so then it's a little tiff between people dating rather than a full-on breakup.
00:32:10.820 Or if, again, you have the information here, I do not.
00:32:13.780 If this is a real, proper breakup, then I would direct you to some of the advice, though not all of the advice, from an ancient love treatise by Ovid, which is called Remedia Amoris, The Cure for Love.
00:32:30.460 And he gives lots of practical advice, some of which is somewhat immoral, so I wouldn't follow all of it.
00:32:34.880 But some of it is really basic stuff. 0.69
00:32:37.740 Burn her portraits. 0.95
00:32:39.640 Get rid of the pictures of her. 0.99
00:32:41.200 Get rid of the reminders of her.
00:32:42.500 Cut it off in your mind.
00:32:45.120 Move on.
00:32:45.720 Start dating other people.
00:32:47.380 Get out there very, very quickly.
00:32:48.900 Don't spend time sitting in your home thinking about this gal.
00:32:52.060 Just go out and throw yourself into that.
00:32:55.620 Because we're suggestible social creatures.
00:32:57.840 And so when you break that habit and that routine that would have ordered your mind and your heart toward loving this gal, when you break that up and start doing other stuff, because we're suggestible and social,
00:33:10.760 you will quickly get into another sort of routine.
00:33:13.820 But I wouldn't brush over the first part so quickly.
00:33:16.940 What was in the journal?
00:33:18.080 Why was she looking at it?
00:33:20.000 Is that a deal breaker on your relationship and potential future marriage?
00:33:24.760 Okay, next question.
00:33:26.480 Hey, Mr. Knowles.
00:33:28.040 Big fan of the show.
00:33:29.940 As somebody who was once a Christian, although I'm still fairly conservative politically, I now identify as an agnostic atheist.
00:33:39.200 But something interesting that I've noticed from a lot of young Catholics is how they were once atheists or agnostics who have turned to Catholicism.
00:33:49.700 Could you possibly explain this trend?
00:33:52.040 I'm just curious by it.
00:33:53.280 Thank you.
00:33:53.780 Love the show.
00:33:54.480 I can explain this trend because it happened to me.
00:33:57.360 Atheism, especially in our age, appeals to people who fancy themselves intellectual. 0.97
00:34:05.580 And it appeals to people who want to appear to be smart and not stupid, like all those Rube Hicks who believe all those crazy things like the existence of God, 0.93
00:34:16.240 you know, the thing that the most intelligent people for all of human history have believed in. 0.60
00:34:20.520 Catholicism appeals in particular to these sorts of people because Catholicism has such a rich intellectual tradition.
00:34:31.000 There are other shades of religion that are a little more emotivist or a little more hokey that young would-be intellectuals will recoil from.
00:34:47.460 But if you fancy yourself a smart person, and I remember when I was an atheist at about 13, which is the perfect age for thinking you're much smarter than you actually are. 0.60
00:35:01.500 If you fancy yourself an intellectual, then what happens when you encounter St. Thomas Aquinas?
00:35:07.300 If you fancy yourself an intellectual, what happens when you encounter St. John Henry Newman?
00:35:11.080 If you fancy yourself an intellectual, what happens when you encounter Pope Benedict XVI?
00:35:15.860 You know, these are people who, regardless of whether you think that you agree with them on these sorts of questions or not,
00:35:23.500 these are people who are all much more intelligent than you are.
00:35:27.160 And it's not even close.
00:35:28.720 We can get along in the world and pretend that we're smarter than a lot of people that we encounter.
00:35:33.200 But when you encounter genius, such as you would see in Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman or Benedict or the like,
00:35:40.680 you can't do that.
00:35:41.360 And so you've got to take these ideas seriously.
00:35:45.200 And so that's one way.
00:35:46.480 There are other ways and perhaps better ways to find yourself back in religion.
00:35:50.640 But in the modern age, for the modern atheist, I think the intellectual route is very effective.
00:35:57.500 And then I think one of the draws of Catholicism is the rich symbolism of traditional liturgy.
00:36:05.060 I'm not talking about the modern post-Vatican II guitar churches, kumbaya kind of stuff.
00:36:09.980 I'm talking about the traditional liturgy that predominated in the West for almost 2,800 years, say,
00:36:15.780 and certainly since the Council of Trent, but obviously much, much longer than that,
00:36:19.480 where everything is rich in symbolism.
00:36:21.500 Everything has meaning.
00:36:23.340 You just find a sort of depth there.
00:36:25.820 And so I remember a priest friend of mine made this great point.
00:36:34.700 He said, shallows are clear.
00:36:37.300 Atheism seems so clear to people.
00:36:39.800 Oh, yeah, there's no, I don't see.
00:36:41.220 God doesn't walk into the room every morning and say, knock, knock, I still exist, and walk out.
00:36:46.440 He doesn't do that exactly.
00:36:47.760 And so it seems so clear that atheism is true.
00:36:50.400 Shallows are clear.
00:36:51.200 Profound things, deep things, sometimes are a little bit murkier or opaque.
00:36:57.960 You think about math class.
00:37:01.040 Did you struggle with trigonometry?
00:37:03.020 Did you struggle with calculus in high school?
00:37:05.060 I did, a little bit, at least.
00:37:07.840 Well, if you struggle to understand basic mathematics,
00:37:12.780 don't you think that theology, metaphysics,
00:37:17.820 the fundamental reality of things might be,
00:37:22.040 I don't know, just a little bit mysterious to you?
00:37:25.560 Probably so.
00:37:26.820 That's why, I think that's why that rich tradition appeals to people.
00:37:30.820 Okay.
00:37:31.560 I think there are other reasons too, but that's my primary reason,
00:37:34.860 at least, to present to the atheist.
00:37:38.020 Okay, next question.
00:37:39.540 Good morning, Mr. Knowles.
00:37:40.720 This is Noble Gamer from the Membrum Segmentum with a question for you.
00:37:44.460 My wife and I have tried to be a good conservative couple.
00:37:49.000 We got married young.
00:37:49.980 We have five children.
00:37:51.700 But my wife recently has found lots and lots of health benefits 0.95
00:37:55.940 and a lot of clarity from all the lib things,
00:38:00.960 like the plant butters and the coconut milks
00:38:04.860 and the gluten-free bread, all of that stuff.
00:38:09.500 Where is it okay to draw the line on should people eat these things?
00:38:18.460 And if I don't stop it, will I become trans? 1.00
00:38:22.220 Thanks.
00:38:22.740 Love the show.
00:38:23.940 Well, it depends.
00:38:25.320 I mean, if you eat seed oils, yeah,
00:38:27.400 I think your statistical likelihood of becoming trans is about 120%.
00:38:31.320 Yeah, that's true.
00:38:32.700 But it's interesting to me.
00:38:33.980 You say your wife is into all the lib food things.
00:38:36.480 And you name a bunch of foods that are considered offbeat healthy foods.
00:38:41.060 But they're not quite the same as the foods that the crunchy conservatives
00:38:44.700 consider to be the offbeat healthy foods.
00:38:48.060 The conservatives now, they're not pushing for plant butter and coconut milk.
00:38:51.640 They're pushing for butter, ghee, avocado oil, no seed oils in particular,
00:38:59.400 no plastics anywhere around your food.
00:39:03.140 That's kind of more the conservative line.
00:39:05.380 So I'm all for it.
00:39:07.240 I'm all for the crunchy conservative stuff.
00:39:09.400 My wife introduced me to this.
00:39:10.780 It's going to bankrupt me.
00:39:12.120 If I'm buried in a pauper's grave,
00:39:13.980 it will be because we've ridden our house of seed oils and plastics.
00:39:17.200 But to me, that is much more persuasive than the previous conservative idea,
00:39:25.240 which is, oh, whatever, just stuff your face full of all this mass-produced stuff.
00:39:29.040 There's no problem at all.
00:39:30.260 That was persuasive when conservatives had some control over the political order.
00:39:35.000 But now all these corporations are super lib, they're super woke.
00:39:38.660 You're seeing kind of weird health conditions pop up in recent years.
00:39:43.600 And so I think it's perfectly reasonable to say, okay, well, what are we consuming?
00:39:48.980 Now, you don't want this to dominate your life.
00:39:52.340 You know, you don't want to put the cart before the horse.
00:39:54.160 You want all things in their proper place.
00:39:57.060 It's like that old Chesterton line where he says,
00:39:59.800 the problem with the modern world is not that it's too bad.
00:40:03.280 It's that it's too good.
00:40:04.740 It's got all these virtues, but the virtues are all out of whack.
00:40:08.700 They're all disconnected from one another and wandering wildly.
00:40:12.160 So you've got to put that in its proper place, and that's fine.
00:40:15.020 Just don't be eating plant butter or whatever that is.
00:40:18.760 You can eat regular butter and ghee.
00:40:20.400 If you're going to go down the crazy, crunchy diet rabbit hole,
00:40:23.340 do it on the right-wing side, not the left-wing side.
00:40:25.980 Next one.
00:40:27.480 Hey, Michael.
00:40:28.540 My question today is about one of your favorite things, words.
00:40:31.680 Why do you think that the term phobic or phobia has been adopted regarding trans or homosexuality?
00:40:42.420 It doesn't really make any sense to me to say that you're transphobe.
00:40:47.500 It's not like they're causing fear, irrational fear that makes you want to go activate fight or flight.
00:40:54.920 I just don't think that makes any sense.
00:40:56.280 So I just wanted your thoughts on that.
00:40:57.920 Love the show.
00:40:58.460 Thanks.
00:40:59.480 There's a very, very simple reason.
00:41:02.120 They do this in order to define opposition to their views as irrational.
00:41:08.820 This is what they did during the fight over redefining marriage.
00:41:11.240 They said the only reason to oppose redefining marriage radically from what it had always been
00:41:16.340 is an irrational animus against homosexuals.
00:41:21.040 What if it's just a rational understanding of what marriage is and what men and women are? 0.98
00:41:24.300 To say, if you don't call Dylan Mulvaney a beautiful woman, she, her, you're a phobe, you're irrational.
00:41:31.920 Well, I don't know. 0.60
00:41:33.160 What if I just am rationally perceiving and observing that that dude is not a chick?
00:41:40.460 They just do it to cut off debate.
00:41:42.200 It's very simple.
00:41:43.220 And it's often effective.
00:41:44.600 But it's just, it's, it's, it's the rhetorical equivalent of la, la, la, la, la, I can't
00:41:51.540 hear you.
00:41:52.000 La, la, la, la, la, la.
00:41:53.080 Okay.
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