The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1307 - RFK Finally Answers If He Would Run With Trump

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00:00:30.480 Some breaking political news this morning

00:00:32.100 that will likely distress tens,

00:00:33.760 perhaps even dozens of people.

00:00:36.260 Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:00:37.860 will not be Republican Donald Trump's running mate in 2024.

00:00:43.000 Can you definitively say you will never run

00:00:46.560 on a ticket for the White House with Donald Trump?

00:00:51.260 In my experience,

00:00:53.620 a lot of the stuff that you read

00:00:56.860 in the mainstream news

00:00:59.000 and the corporate news

00:00:59.920 is what I would call

00:01:00.860 conspiracy theories.

00:01:10.900 You're dealing with an entire industry

00:01:13.540 made up of conspiracy theories.

00:01:16.600 And a direct answer to your question,

00:01:19.200 no, I will not be

00:01:20.540 Donald Trump's vice president.

00:01:27.100 Drats.

00:01:28.260 Of course he won't be Trump's running mate.

00:01:31.200 Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:01:32.440 barely agrees with us on anything.

00:01:34.360 It is fun to see him

00:01:36.740 poke Biden and the Democrats.

00:01:38.640 It is satisfying

00:01:39.700 to see him attack his own party

00:01:41.880 over its COVID lies.

00:01:44.160 That's pretty much it.

00:01:46.040 Kennedy is with the conservatives

00:01:47.700 on COVID,

00:01:48.800 which is great.

00:01:49.920 But COVID is not even

00:01:51.460 a live issue anymore.

00:01:53.340 If COVID were the big issue

00:01:54.660 of this election,

00:01:55.460 Ron DeSantis would be leading the pack

00:01:57.140 by a country mile.

00:01:58.660 But it isn't.

00:01:59.880 COVID was awful.

00:02:01.840 The issues at play,

00:02:02.980 however,

00:02:03.340 in this campaign

00:02:04.300 go even deeper.

00:02:06.040 With an open border,

00:02:07.920 an all-out assault on parents,

00:02:09.760 and a Justice Department

00:02:10.880 attempting to imprison

00:02:12.180 the leader of the opposition,

00:02:13.800 The question in this election

00:02:16.100 is not an ordinary political issue,

00:02:19.040 but a meta-political issue.

00:02:20.520 It's a crisis of regime.

00:02:22.680 Do conservatives

00:02:23.500 have any political rights

00:02:25.640 left at all?

00:02:26.900 Do we have the right

00:02:27.860 to run our candidates?

00:02:29.680 Do we have the right

00:02:30.260 to pass our laws,

00:02:31.660 to trust our institutions,

00:02:33.480 even just to raise our own kids?

00:02:36.600 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:37.460 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:43.800 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:48.240 Really, really pleased to see

00:02:50.080 some proof, I think,

00:02:52.060 that I was right about Barbie,

00:02:53.160 which is that Bill Maher hated it.

00:02:54.820 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:02:55.800 First, though,

00:02:56.440 this is my favorite take

00:02:57.420 on the crisis of regime.

00:02:59.580 Just came out from

00:03:00.280 Roseanne Barr on Twitter.

00:03:02.160 She said,

00:03:02.760 The propaganda here

00:03:03.920 from the other side is sad.

00:03:05.560 It's just a collection

00:03:06.440 of unhinged emotional outbursts

00:03:08.420 from Trump derangement syndrome

00:03:09.840 psychopaths

00:03:10.800 who only hate him

00:03:11.860 because the war party pedos

00:03:13.520 told them to.

00:03:14.540 I've been mentally ill

00:03:15.780 my whole life,

00:03:16.780 and these people

00:03:17.560 are bat-SHIT crazy

00:03:19.600 in comparison.

00:03:21.280 Pretty much sums it up.

00:03:23.640 That's it, man.

00:03:25.420 So if you think

00:03:26.560 the issue in this campaign

00:03:29.260 is, well, you know,

00:03:30.480 those rates of illegal immigration

00:03:31.640 are a little bit high.

00:03:32.560 I think we need to

00:03:33.300 curtail those a little bit.

00:03:35.060 You know, I just think

00:03:36.500 that those corporations

00:03:39.420 are getting away

00:03:39.980 with a little bit too much.

00:03:40.900 We might need to regulate them

00:03:42.380 a little bit more.

00:03:42.900 Then you'll probably try

00:03:46.300 to pick from the ordinary

00:03:47.420 array of candidates

00:03:48.880 and policies.

00:03:50.160 If, however,

00:03:51.320 you think

00:03:51.940 that the issues

00:03:53.540 at play in this campaign

00:03:54.480 are a little bit deeper,

00:03:55.740 if you think

00:03:56.400 that the fact

00:03:58.100 that the current president

00:03:59.460 is trying to imprison

00:04:00.720 his chief political rival

00:04:02.120 is not just

00:04:03.940 an aberration,

00:04:05.640 but a harbinger

00:04:06.500 of even more ominous

00:04:07.600 things to come,

00:04:09.120 then you're probably

00:04:10.420 looking at the election

00:04:11.320 a little bit different,

00:04:12.640 and you're not going

00:04:13.160 to be a one-issue voter.

00:04:14.700 COVID or immigration

00:04:17.040 or, I don't know,

00:04:18.240 any issue.

00:04:18.840 You're going to be looking

00:04:19.900 at the whole political order.

00:04:22.220 Now, Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:04:23.180 did just get one endorsement.

00:04:25.260 That would be from

00:04:26.560 Woody Harrelson.

00:04:28.900 Lovable Woody Harrelson,

00:04:30.480 great actor.

00:04:31.660 He posed with

00:04:33.100 Bobby Kennedy's wife,

00:04:35.400 Cheryl Hines,

00:04:36.240 who plays the wife

00:04:37.440 on Curb Your Enthusiasm

00:04:38.720 with Larry David,

00:04:39.380 which is funny

00:04:39.740 because Larry David's

00:04:40.300 a huge lib

00:04:40.840 and screams at anyone

00:04:41.980 who's even vaguely conservative.

00:04:43.760 So,

00:04:44.400 this sums up

00:04:45.380 the Kennedy campaign

00:04:46.320 to me.

00:04:47.460 The Kennedy campaign

00:04:48.460 is for cool hippies.

00:04:50.420 Not

00:04:50.900 ordinary hippies

00:04:52.500 who are

00:04:53.320 generally insufferable,

00:04:54.620 but cool,

00:04:56.780 lovable hippies

00:04:57.600 like Woody Harrelson.

00:05:00.040 Bobby Kennedy's campaign

00:05:01.340 is for

00:05:02.460 anodyne populists.

00:05:03.940 People who recognize

00:05:05.200 that there is something

00:05:06.140 wrong,

00:05:06.840 not just with the

00:05:07.560 Democrat Party,

00:05:08.360 not just with the

00:05:08.920 Republican Party.

00:05:09.700 There's something wrong

00:05:10.380 with the whole system.

00:05:11.400 The corporate media,

00:05:12.880 the liberal establishment,

00:05:14.640 whatever term

00:05:15.400 you want to use for it.

00:05:16.880 But,

00:05:18.100 they're anodyne hippies

00:05:19.320 because

00:05:19.660 they're not going to

00:05:21.020 support a populist

00:05:22.060 candidate

00:05:22.440 who can actually

00:05:23.800 gum things up.

00:05:26.380 Kennedy is polling

00:05:27.200 at, what,

00:05:27.580 17% in the

00:05:28.640 Democrat Party.

00:05:29.540 Democrat Party

00:05:30.120 keeps a much tighter

00:05:30.920 lock on the

00:05:31.900 primary process

00:05:32.820 than the

00:05:33.660 Republican Party

00:05:34.240 does.

00:05:34.980 There is a 0%

00:05:35.980 chance that

00:05:36.640 Bobby Kennedy

00:05:37.120 becomes the

00:05:37.620 Democrat nominee

00:05:38.200 for president.

00:05:38.900 Not going to happen.

00:05:40.340 But,

00:05:40.740 you can feel

00:05:41.340 kind of good

00:05:41.860 because you say,

00:05:42.880 alright baby,

00:05:43.980 I'm voting

00:05:44.600 against the system.

00:05:45.440 It's like the people

00:05:45.980 who voted for

00:05:46.460 Ralph Nader in 2000.

00:05:48.480 It's like a

00:05:49.700 glorified version

00:05:50.500 of the Green Party.

00:05:52.360 Now,

00:05:52.620 the populists

00:05:53.420 who

00:05:54.240 want to get

00:05:55.340 something done,

00:05:56.820 they vote for

00:05:57.680 Trump.

00:05:58.020 Not that that's a

00:05:58.640 guarantee to get

00:05:59.180 anything done.

00:05:59.720 It might not.

00:06:00.120 They might not let

00:06:00.640 him win either.

00:06:01.420 But,

00:06:01.640 at least he has

00:06:02.520 won before.

00:06:03.820 At least he has

00:06:04.380 gummed up the

00:06:04.820 system before.

00:06:05.360 You see this a

00:06:05.820 little more clearly

00:06:06.360 overseas.

00:06:07.700 The populists who

00:06:08.500 want to get

00:06:08.760 something done

00:06:09.380 vote for the

00:06:10.560 Brexit.

00:06:11.140 They vote for

00:06:12.040 Georgia Maloney,

00:06:12.900 although she has

00:06:13.840 gone a little bit

00:06:14.580 squishy.

00:06:15.140 They vote for

00:06:15.820 Viktor Orban in

00:06:16.660 Hungary.

00:06:17.700 They vote for

00:06:18.620 the Vox Party

00:06:19.500 in Spain.

00:06:20.280 They vote for

00:06:21.760 AFD in

00:06:24.080 Germany.

00:06:24.660 They vote for

00:06:25.480 the Conservative

00:06:25.980 Party in

00:06:26.340 Sweden.

00:06:26.760 They vote for

00:06:27.620 these insurgent

00:06:29.720 groups that

00:06:31.040 actually have a

00:06:33.040 shot of winning.

00:06:34.300 But if you

00:06:34.860 don't want to

00:06:35.260 deal with that,

00:06:35.720 you don't want

00:06:35.980 to be called

00:06:36.300 an evil,

00:06:36.760 terrible,

00:06:37.280 monster,

00:06:38.040 racist,

00:06:38.640 this-ist,

00:06:39.020 that-ist,

00:06:39.580 then you endorse

00:06:40.700 Bobby Kennedy Jr.

00:06:41.480 and you get

00:06:42.480 to have your

00:06:43.580 cake and eat

00:06:44.020 it too.

00:06:44.440 You don't

00:06:44.920 actually get

00:06:45.540 any consequence

00:06:46.880 out of that,

00:06:47.940 but you get

00:06:48.460 some populist

00:06:49.720 cred without

00:06:50.320 having to deal

00:06:50.940 with the

00:06:51.580 downsides of

00:06:52.440 that.

00:06:53.040 It is a

00:06:53.480 crisis of

00:06:53.920 regime,

00:06:54.220 though,

00:06:54.300 and I don't

00:06:54.580 think I'm

00:06:54.900 being hyperbolic

00:06:55.540 about that.

00:06:55.940 You want to

00:06:56.160 know my

00:06:56.380 evidence for

00:06:56.860 it?

00:06:57.420 My evidence

00:06:57.860 for it is

00:06:58.300 that the

00:06:58.620 suicide rate

00:06:59.200 just hit

00:06:59.540 an all-time

00:06:59.980 high.

00:07:01.480 That's probably

00:07:02.080 the best

00:07:02.580 evidence I

00:07:03.100 could give

00:07:03.420 you that the

00:07:04.140 problem we

00:07:04.620 face right

00:07:05.080 now is not

00:07:05.680 just one

00:07:07.040 little area

00:07:07.600 of public

00:07:08.040 policies gone

00:07:08.820 off or one

00:07:10.380 little part

00:07:10.800 of the

00:07:11.480 has become

00:07:12.060 corrupt,

00:07:12.720 but that

00:07:13.220 the whole

00:07:13.840 system is

00:07:15.200 really rotten.

00:07:16.980 The suicide

00:07:17.540 rate in

00:07:18.900 recent years

00:07:19.420 has been

00:07:19.700 getting worse

00:07:20.340 and worse

00:07:20.920 and worse,

00:07:21.500 so much so

00:07:22.160 that the

00:07:22.500 life expectancy

00:07:23.200 in the United

00:07:23.920 States has

00:07:24.360 declined

00:07:24.960 because of

00:07:26.200 deaths of

00:07:26.580 despair,

00:07:27.140 overdoses,

00:07:27.680 and suicides,

00:07:28.380 and now

00:07:28.940 the suicide

00:07:30.240 rate hit

00:07:30.660 an all-time

00:07:31.060 high.

00:07:31.600 49,500

00:07:32.600 people killed

00:07:33.460 themselves last

00:07:34.100 year in the

00:07:34.480 U.S.,

00:07:34.800 highest number

00:07:35.340 ever.

00:07:36.640 CDC has

00:07:37.760 not yet

00:07:38.160 calculated the

00:07:38.880 official suicide

00:07:39.680 rate for the

00:07:40.160 year.

00:07:40.380 the available

00:07:41.500 data suggests

00:07:42.260 that suicide

00:07:42.780 rates are

00:07:43.460 more common

00:07:44.580 in the U.S.

00:07:45.080 than any time

00:07:45.860 since at least

00:07:46.460 the dawn of

00:07:46.920 World War II.

00:07:48.740 Largest increases

00:07:49.700 were in older

00:07:50.620 adults.

00:07:51.820 Deaths rose

00:07:52.260 nearly 7%

00:07:53.300 in people

00:07:54.000 ages 45 to

00:07:55.220 64,

00:07:56.480 rose more

00:07:56.980 than 8%,

00:07:57.740 65 or older,

00:07:58.720 and white men

00:07:59.620 in particular,

00:08:00.360 the most maligned

00:08:01.220 group in the

00:08:01.760 entire country,

00:08:02.680 probably in the

00:08:03.240 entire world,

00:08:04.380 have very,

00:08:05.420 very high rates.

00:08:07.400 This tells you

00:08:09.680 that the

00:08:11.160 argument of

00:08:12.320 the Uniparty,

00:08:13.900 everyone from

00:08:14.400 the Clinton

00:08:14.940 Democrats all

00:08:15.840 the way over

00:08:16.220 to the Romney

00:08:16.880 Republicans,

00:08:17.980 has fallen

00:08:19.020 flat.

00:08:19.540 And that

00:08:19.840 argument,

00:08:20.380 we've heard it

00:08:20.800 a lot,

00:08:21.440 especially over

00:08:21.900 the last

00:08:22.240 10,

00:08:22.600 20 years,

00:08:23.560 is that

00:08:24.300 liberalism is

00:08:25.880 great.

00:08:26.340 And on the

00:08:26.640 right you hear

00:08:27.060 classical

00:08:27.620 liberalism is

00:08:28.240 great.

00:08:28.440 We just need

00:08:28.800 to return to

00:08:29.240 the enlightenment

00:08:29.880 values.

00:08:31.040 And on the

00:08:31.380 left you hear

00:08:31.880 liberalism is

00:08:32.860 great and we

00:08:33.240 need to follow

00:08:33.760 liberalism to

00:08:34.380 its logical

00:08:34.920 conclusion and

00:08:35.880 be more

00:08:36.220 progressive and

00:08:37.300 kinder and

00:08:38.300 gentler.

00:08:39.000 But we're all

00:08:39.540 going to follow

00:08:40.120 the liberal

00:08:40.700 program of

00:08:41.760 what?

00:08:42.800 Of prioritizing

00:08:43.840 material benefit,

00:08:45.520 which is fine,

00:08:46.540 we all want to

00:08:47.560 be able to

00:08:47.860 eat, but

00:08:48.660 prioritizing

00:08:49.360 material growth

00:08:50.400 over any

00:08:51.140 other consideration.

00:08:51.980 Not at all

00:08:52.380 considering the

00:08:53.020 other things

00:08:53.580 that make a

00:08:54.260 nation a

00:08:54.720 nation.

00:08:55.420 People,

00:08:56.000 customs,

00:08:56.660 language,

00:08:57.340 borders,

00:08:58.120 traditions,

00:08:58.920 all of that

00:08:59.420 is going to

00:08:59.760 religion most

00:09:00.660 of all.

00:09:01.700 That's all

00:09:02.200 bunk,

00:09:02.520 forget about

00:09:02.960 that.

00:09:03.440 That's from

00:09:04.060 the Stone

00:09:04.480 Age.

00:09:05.360 That doesn't

00:09:06.180 matter anymore.

00:09:06.900 Now we have

00:09:07.340 iPhones and

00:09:08.020 iPhones are all

00:09:08.680 that matters.

00:09:09.100 See, and when

00:09:10.100 you ever suggest

00:09:11.140 that maybe there's

00:09:11.800 a problem in

00:09:12.360 the country,

00:09:12.980 a problem that

00:09:13.580 goes a little

00:09:13.940 bit deeper than

00:09:14.600 one party and

00:09:15.740 goes to the

00:09:16.500 systemic level,

00:09:17.440 what you will

00:09:17.960 hear from the

00:09:19.880 line towers on

00:09:23.040 both sides of

00:09:24.140 the partisan

00:09:24.620 divide is,

00:09:25.840 look, things are

00:09:26.460 better now than

00:09:27.080 they've ever

00:09:27.500 been.

00:09:29.880 Deaths in

00:09:30.700 infancy are way,

00:09:31.960 way down,

00:09:32.600 they'll tell you.

00:09:33.200 Look, people used

00:09:33.860 to die in

00:09:34.280 childbirth,

00:09:34.960 now those

00:09:35.580 deaths are

00:09:35.980 way, way

00:09:36.240 down.

00:09:36.700 You might

00:09:36.960 say, yes,

00:09:37.360 that's true

00:09:37.780 because of

00:09:38.100 modern medical

00:09:38.640 technology.

00:09:39.580 The problem

00:09:40.000 is no one's

00:09:40.360 having any

00:09:40.680 kids.

00:09:41.880 Well, okay,

00:09:42.680 sure, but

00:09:43.200 deaths from

00:09:44.060 war and

00:09:44.700 violence, they're

00:09:45.360 way, way

00:09:45.680 down.

00:09:46.040 Yeah, but

00:09:46.340 people are

00:09:46.700 killing themselves

00:09:47.200 more than

00:09:47.580 ever.

00:09:48.540 Oh, okay,

00:09:49.140 yeah, that's

00:09:49.520 true.

00:09:49.920 Well, now

00:09:51.480 people aren't

00:09:52.100 stuck in

00:09:52.540 abusive marriages

00:09:53.760 or marriages

00:09:55.120 for politics or

00:09:56.260 economic

00:09:56.600 consideration.

00:09:56.920 That's true,

00:09:57.380 just now no

00:09:57.860 one's getting

00:09:58.160 married.

00:09:59.260 Yeah, and

00:10:00.500 people are

00:10:02.040 literally killing

00:10:03.560 themselves.

00:10:05.080 So it reminds

00:10:06.240 me of the

00:10:06.640 socialists.

00:10:07.520 You know, the

00:10:07.780 socialists always

00:10:08.320 say, look,

00:10:09.580 socialism, it's

00:10:10.840 just never been

00:10:11.400 tried.

00:10:12.780 They'll say,

00:10:13.100 forget about all

00:10:13.720 the actual data

00:10:15.980 on what socialism

00:10:17.100 looks like in

00:10:17.700 practice.

00:10:18.280 Let me tell you

00:10:18.880 what it looks

00:10:19.220 like in theory.

00:10:20.420 And this is what

00:10:20.920 I'm hearing from

00:10:21.380 the liberals.

00:10:23.480 Modern progressive

00:10:24.320 liberals and so-called

00:10:25.500 classical liberals

00:10:26.280 all the same.

00:10:27.400 They're basically

00:10:27.860 saying, oh, no,

00:10:28.460 true liberalism's

00:10:29.240 never been tried.

00:10:30.300 Oh, don't look at

00:10:30.840 the actual data.

00:10:31.740 Don't look at the

00:10:32.140 people killing

00:10:32.600 themselves.

00:10:33.240 Don't look at the

00:10:33.700 families collapsing.

00:10:34.780 Don't look at the

00:10:35.280 drug overdoses.

00:10:36.440 Don't look at the

00:10:37.020 borders falling apart.

00:10:38.160 Don't look at the

00:10:38.640 political strife.

00:10:39.460 No, no, no, just

00:10:40.020 in theory, in theory

00:10:42.060 liberalism's great.

00:10:43.440 Who cares if it

00:10:44.200 works in practice?

00:10:45.020 Does it work in

00:10:45.600 theory?

00:10:45.900 I care if it works

00:10:46.680 in practice.

00:10:47.720 And the millions

00:10:49.420 and millions of

00:10:49.980 Americans, the many,

00:10:51.820 many millions of

00:10:52.400 people across the

00:10:53.200 West who are voting

00:10:54.180 for these more

00:10:54.680 populist parties,

00:10:56.280 who are questioning

00:10:57.120 the dogmas of

00:10:58.820 official regime

00:11:00.020 liberalism in the

00:11:01.000 last few years.

00:11:02.500 We all care if it

00:11:04.440 works in practice

00:11:05.160 much, much more

00:11:06.120 than what you can

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00:12:14.200 Speaking of the

00:12:15.200 uniparty liberal

00:12:16.600 establishment types,

00:12:17.720 Jonah Goldberg is

00:12:19.900 typifying this.

00:12:21.000 He's furious that

00:12:23.440 people aren't just

00:12:24.860 going along with the

00:12:25.800 program.

00:12:26.320 Jonah came out with

00:12:26.940 a book after he had

00:12:28.460 his big split with

00:12:30.560 the GOP and the

00:12:31.860 conservatives over

00:12:33.060 Trump.

00:12:33.560 He was one of the

00:12:34.180 true inveterate

00:12:34.860 never-Trumpers.

00:12:36.180 He, like a lot of

00:12:37.560 the self-styled

00:12:39.440 classical liberals,

00:12:40.980 wrote one of these

00:12:41.820 books about how

00:12:42.840 everything today is

00:12:43.480 really great and

00:12:44.440 all those dumb

00:12:45.040 stupid people in

00:12:45.780 the middle of the

00:12:46.220 country need to

00:12:46.780 shut up and stop

00:12:47.480 complaining because

00:12:48.160 the Enlightenment

00:12:49.980 and classical

00:12:50.780 liberalism is just

00:12:51.620 so wonderful and

00:12:52.740 we don't appreciate

00:12:54.020 it enough.

00:12:55.080 And so Jonah Goldberg

00:12:56.320 is following this

00:12:56.980 idea now to its

00:12:58.660 logical conclusion

00:12:59.540 by complaining about

00:13:01.640 the fact that

00:13:04.780 people, ordinary

00:13:06.720 people, have a say

00:13:09.400 in the nominating

00:13:11.000 contests for the

00:13:12.380 GOP.

00:13:12.900 He's complaining that

00:13:14.620 candidates are paying

00:13:15.840 attention not just to

00:13:17.320 the big mega donors on

00:13:18.480 Wall Street, but to

00:13:20.040 the small dollar

00:13:20.900 ordinary donors on

00:13:22.960 Main Street.

00:13:24.060 It's also the thing

00:13:24.740 that we were dealing

00:13:25.380 with a time where

00:13:26.040 there were a lot of

00:13:26.760 people, there was a

00:13:27.500 lot of cheering and

00:13:29.560 self-congratulation

00:13:30.720 about the rise of

00:13:31.440 small donors a

00:13:32.440 decade ago.

00:13:33.600 And now small donors

00:13:34.440 are actually one of

00:13:35.180 the biggest problems

00:13:35.920 for democracy, for the

00:13:37.880 GOP, because small

00:13:40.160 donors, large donors

00:13:41.400 actually have a

00:13:43.440 strategic view about

00:13:44.420 moderation, who can win,

00:13:46.080 who can't.

00:13:46.520 Small donors really

00:13:47.880 are just venting their

00:13:49.440 spleen with their

00:13:50.280 credit card, and they

00:13:52.620 lock candidates into

00:13:53.740 positions that can hurt

00:13:54.660 them in the general

00:13:55.120 election.

00:13:55.740 Venting their spleen.

00:13:58.480 The contempt just

00:13:59.700 dripping from his

00:14:01.700 voice.

00:14:02.740 They're just these

00:14:03.220 small, these small

00:14:04.820 dollar donors, which

00:14:06.080 is to say, ordinary

00:14:07.780 people, these ordinary

00:14:09.200 people, they're a real

00:14:10.400 threat to democracy.

00:14:12.820 This is the exact same

00:14:14.620 thing, Hillary Clinton

00:14:15.420 said.

00:14:16.300 These deplorable,

00:14:18.380 irredeemable, ordinary

00:14:20.240 people, they're a threat

00:14:22.000 to our democracy.

00:14:23.400 Because sometimes they

00:14:24.220 want something that I, an

00:14:25.660 elite liberal, do not

00:14:26.720 want.

00:14:27.620 And that's a big

00:14:28.400 threat.

00:14:30.180 Jonah's actually taking

00:14:31.640 the argument even

00:14:32.120 further.

00:14:32.380 You've got to give him

00:14:32.820 points for at least being

00:14:33.980 honest about his views

00:14:34.980 here, where he's saying,

00:14:36.400 you know, if these

00:14:37.700 campaigns were just

00:14:38.680 decided by a handful of

00:14:40.220 billionaires on Wall

00:14:41.100 Street, we'd be so much

00:14:42.080 better off.

00:14:42.580 Our democracy would be

00:14:44.060 so much healthier.

00:14:45.580 Of course, that's an

00:14:46.740 incoherent statement.

00:14:48.600 Democracy is government

00:14:49.460 of the people, by the

00:14:50.860 people, for the people.

00:14:52.580 But he's showing you that

00:14:54.880 when liberals on the left

00:14:56.420 and on the right, when

00:14:57.800 they use that term

00:14:58.660 democracy, when they

00:15:00.000 complain because the

00:15:01.600 Hungarian people elected

00:15:02.880 Viktor Orban, oh no,

00:15:03.860 this is a threat to

00:15:04.500 democracy.

00:15:05.040 You say, how could the

00:15:05.480 people voting for someone

00:15:06.340 be a threat to

00:15:07.060 democracy?

00:15:07.800 What they mean by

00:15:08.820 democracy is liberalism.

00:15:11.220 a very elite

00:15:14.560 theoretical ideology

00:15:17.660 that is having all

00:15:20.880 sorts of problems in

00:15:22.000 practice, but to which

00:15:24.720 these people cling with

00:15:27.880 the zeal of the most

00:15:30.260 ardent converts and

00:15:33.020 proselytizers?

00:15:34.600 Of course.

00:15:35.960 Of course.

00:15:36.620 But it's not convincing

00:15:37.660 people.

00:15:38.140 And so when that

00:15:39.580 argument doesn't

00:15:40.380 convince people, then

00:15:41.980 the liberals on the

00:15:42.820 left and the right turn

00:15:44.060 against the people

00:15:44.700 explicitly.

00:15:45.380 Asa Hutchinson's doing

00:15:46.180 exactly the same thing.

00:15:47.280 Asa Hutchinson, who

00:15:47.940 theoretically is running

00:15:48.960 for president, he's the

00:15:50.000 former governor of

00:15:50.600 Arkansas, who became

00:15:52.520 best known for insisting,

00:15:55.220 as a quote-unquote

00:15:55.920 Republican governor,

00:15:57.680 insisting that we trans

00:15:58.740 little kids in Arkansas.

00:16:01.060 Asa Hutchinson made the

00:16:02.280 same point.

00:16:03.140 The fact is, I'm not a

00:16:04.920 self-funded candidate.

00:16:06.020 And the RNC rules is

00:16:10.100 burdensome on the

00:16:11.220 candidates to, instead of

00:16:13.060 focusing on other ways of

00:16:15.400 raising money and focusing

00:16:17.020 on other styles of

00:16:19.760 campaigning, I've got to

00:16:21.240 spend all of my time at the

00:16:22.540 Iowa State Fair trying to

00:16:24.360 get on the debate stage with

00:16:25.660 one dollar contributions.

00:16:27.140 And so that's not helpful.

00:16:29.700 And it's not good for our

00:16:31.080 democratic process.

00:16:32.400 It's not helpful to me that

00:16:35.200 I can't just call a few

00:16:36.240 billionaires and then become

00:16:38.120 the president.

00:16:39.200 I have to go, I have to talk

00:16:40.920 to those disgusting, filthy

00:16:42.180 people in Iowa.

00:16:44.080 I got to go to the state fair

00:16:45.860 and eat a corn dog like a

00:16:47.800 plebeian.

00:16:48.860 Can you imagine like a

00:16:50.500 roughneck, disgusting

00:16:52.920 peasant?

00:16:54.740 And that's a big threat to,

00:16:56.180 I got to talk to people.

00:16:58.300 It's a big threat to our

00:16:59.940 democracy if I've got to talk

00:17:01.560 to people to become their

00:17:02.820 president.

00:17:04.480 Notice where Asa Hutchinson

00:17:05.800 made this comment.

00:17:07.460 Did he say it on the Daily

00:17:08.660 Wire?

00:17:09.560 Did he say it on Tucker

00:17:11.920 Carlson's show?

00:17:13.480 No.

00:17:14.220 Did he say it on The Blaze?

00:17:15.200 Did he say it on, no.

00:17:16.960 He didn't even say it on Fox

00:17:17.860 News.

00:17:18.660 He said it on MSNBC.

00:17:20.280 Where did Jonah make his

00:17:21.300 comments?

00:17:21.820 I believe it was CNN.

00:17:24.760 These guys were Republicans.

00:17:29.500 Even, it pains me to see

00:17:30.820 what's happened to Jonah

00:17:31.520 Goldberg because I used to

00:17:32.420 enjoy reading him sometimes.

00:17:35.080 But, the moment that Donald

00:17:38.780 Trump came in and injected a

00:17:40.600 little bit of nationalism, a

00:17:42.160 little bit of populism into the

00:17:43.560 national conservative

00:17:44.540 conversation, all those guys

00:17:46.420 split.

00:17:47.780 Said, nope, no thanks.

00:17:49.500 I was willing to play around

00:17:50.460 with the Republicans for a

00:17:51.380 little bit when I thought that

00:17:52.580 I could steer the party in a

00:17:53.600 liberal direction.

00:17:54.640 But now that I can, okay, I'm

00:17:56.460 effectively a Democrat.

00:17:57.560 I know Jonah, I think, still

00:17:59.960 says he's a Republican.

00:18:01.060 Ace Hutchinson's running as a

00:18:02.120 Republican for president, doesn't

00:18:03.300 have a snowball's chance in

00:18:04.360 hell.

00:18:04.900 But, in their practical lives,

00:18:06.960 where do they write?

00:18:08.080 Who funds them?

00:18:09.120 What TV channels do they go on?

00:18:10.560 It's all for the left.

00:18:13.560 Russell Kirk made this warning.

00:18:15.320 In the early days of the post-war

00:18:16.700 conservative movement, when there

00:18:18.500 was the prospect of a fusion between

00:18:21.120 the conservatives and the

00:18:22.040 libertarians, Russell Kirk, the

00:18:23.520 great conservative political

00:18:24.460 philosopher, Warren, he said, this

00:18:26.260 is not going to work out very

00:18:27.820 well because a lot of those

00:18:30.080 libertarians ultimately are

00:18:31.720 going to move to the left,

00:18:35.460 which we've seen.

00:18:36.700 Now, speaking of small-dollar

00:18:37.640 donors, Mike Pence has gotten a

00:18:39.220 fair number of them, and that's

00:18:40.240 why he is going to be on the

00:18:42.080 debate stage for that first

00:18:43.440 debate.

00:18:44.280 So far at that debate, you are

00:18:46.180 going to have, well, Donald

00:18:47.280 Trump is qualified, but we'll get

00:18:49.120 to whether or not he's going to

00:18:49.940 be there in a moment.

00:18:51.140 DeSantis has qualified.

00:18:52.480 He will be there.

00:18:53.000 Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek

00:18:55.340 Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, Chris

00:18:57.620 Assange still has hope.

00:18:59.000 Doug Burgum, I think, has

00:19:00.280 qualified, the North Dakota

00:19:01.420 governor who is running as a tax

00:19:04.160 cutting social liberal.

00:19:05.200 Don't think that's going to go

00:19:05.840 very far.

00:19:07.140 But Pence is qualified now, too.

00:19:09.940 And regardless of whether Trump

00:19:11.620 shows up or not, this is yet

00:19:14.020 another reminder that that's

00:19:17.060 something that a lot of

00:19:18.460 Republicans want to avoid is

00:19:20.520 unavoidable.

00:19:21.320 One of the one of the main

00:19:23.580 complaints I've heard from

00:19:24.520 Republicans regarding these

00:19:26.400 debates and campaign is we got

00:19:27.760 to move on from 2020.

00:19:29.080 We can't keep talking about

00:19:30.380 2020.

00:19:30.900 We got to move on.

00:19:31.680 We got to move on.

00:19:34.200 We can't.

00:19:35.700 It won't happen.

00:19:37.000 I'm not telling you it's a good

00:19:37.820 thing or a bad thing.

00:19:38.440 I'm just telling you this will be

00:19:41.120 a re-litigation of 2020.

00:19:43.380 The fact that Mike Pence is on

00:19:44.860 that debate stage means that a lot,

00:19:48.800 all of the questions to him are

00:19:50.880 going to be about his relationship

00:19:52.720 to Trump and January 6th and

00:19:58.140 whether that election was stolen.

00:19:59.560 He was the vice presidential

00:20:00.420 candidate during the contentious

00:20:02.460 2020 election.

00:20:04.180 If Trump is on that stage, can you

00:20:05.760 even imagine those two going at it?

00:20:08.940 Even if he's not on that stage,

00:20:10.820 people are going to be attacking

00:20:11.840 Trump or attacking Pence as a

00:20:14.860 lackey for Trump or for having

00:20:16.600 turned on Trump, but there's no way

00:20:18.560 to avoid that.

00:20:20.140 That is going to happen.

00:20:22.760 I'm sorry.

00:20:23.340 Don't shoot the messenger here.

00:20:24.580 I'm just telling you that the

00:20:27.720 contention that 2020 was stolen is

00:20:30.300 the reason Trump is running in the

00:20:31.600 race.

00:20:32.200 Trump is the leading candidate in

00:20:33.580 the race, so people are going to

00:20:34.660 have to focus their fire on him,

00:20:36.080 either directly if he's on stage

00:20:37.320 or indirectly if he's off the

00:20:38.780 stage.

00:20:39.200 And if they're going to focus their

00:20:40.260 fire on him, they're going to

00:20:41.300 focus the fire on 2020.

00:20:44.560 It's it.

00:20:45.220 We're stuck there, baby.

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00:21:53.700 My favorite comment yesterday is from

00:21:55.340 Kozjeur, who says,

00:21:57.900 Michael's team is always late on the

00:22:00.020 bell because Ben Shapiro's book,

00:22:01.300 The Authoritarian Moment, left them

00:22:02.900 speechless.

00:22:06.980 The Authoritarian Moment, not only Ben

00:22:09.400 Shapiro's book, but my future campaign

00:22:11.520 slogan.

00:22:12.300 It's going to be Knowles 2028, The

00:22:14.400 Authoritarian Moment.

00:22:15.380 That'll be a lot of fun.

00:22:15.980 So, on the debate, on the Trump

00:22:18.720 question, Trump has now said he will

00:22:20.760 not sign the pledge that he is

00:22:23.880 required to sign to support the

00:22:26.560 eventual nominee, which means that

00:22:29.200 most likely he won't be in the

00:22:31.160 debate.

00:22:32.040 When you're at 75, 78, 80% and other

00:22:36.040 guys are at 0, 1%, 2%, 3%, you do

00:22:40.960 say, what's the upside?

00:22:43.020 Am I going to go up one point?

00:22:44.220 But they could go up, you know,

00:22:46.140 they're not dumb people.

00:22:47.620 They're senators, they're governors,

00:22:50.800 they're intelligent people.

00:22:52.640 You have some very good people.

00:22:53.740 I think you have some very good

00:22:54.580 people and you have some people.

00:22:56.040 I mean, I have a problem with the

00:22:57.180 debate for another reason.

00:22:58.060 I wouldn't sign the pledge.

00:22:59.320 Why would I sign a pledge?

00:23:00.480 There are people on there that I

00:23:01.480 wouldn't have.

00:23:02.060 I wouldn't have certain people as,

00:23:04.220 you know, somebody that I'd

00:23:05.560 endorse.

00:23:06.240 So they want you to sign a pledge.

00:23:07.900 But I can name three or four people

00:23:09.840 that I wouldn't support for

00:23:12.200 president.

00:23:13.100 So right there, there's a problem.

00:23:16.420 Of course, of course, he's not going

00:23:18.020 to sign the pledge.

00:23:19.460 Before anyone out there who hates

00:23:22.200 Trump, who is supporting another

00:23:24.080 candidate, before you shoot the

00:23:26.800 messenger, I'm not saying it's a good

00:23:29.920 thing.

00:23:30.740 I'm not saying it's a bad thing.

00:23:32.260 I've told you I'm the last GOP

00:23:34.500 conservative commentator in America

00:23:36.740 who isn't actively working for one of

00:23:38.440 the campaigns.

00:23:40.060 I'm just describing to you what is

00:23:42.820 happening.

00:23:44.260 And I'd like to point out I'm doing

00:23:47.400 that not because I don't have thoughts

00:23:49.000 and even some preferences in the

00:23:50.440 campaign.

00:23:51.180 I'm doing that because I think it's

00:23:52.420 much more interesting to just tell

00:23:54.660 you what I what I see.

00:23:56.180 I'm doing that because it allows my

00:23:58.120 predictions to hate to say I told you

00:24:00.440 so tend to be a little bit more

00:24:02.460 correct, I think, than some other

00:24:03.880 people's predictions in the campaign.

00:24:05.500 And because politics is largely about

00:24:12.300 leverage and power.

00:24:15.140 And so you could be angry.

00:24:16.560 You could say, well, Trump, he's a

00:24:17.420 coward for not.

00:24:18.260 OK, maybe.

00:24:20.420 But why would he show why would he

00:24:22.400 sign the pledge to say that he'll

00:24:24.860 support the eventual nominee?

00:24:27.020 Well, what about party unity?

00:24:28.800 Trump doesn't care about party unity.

00:24:30.520 Trump launched a hostile takeover of

00:24:32.680 the Republican Party.

00:24:34.280 2016 was a hostile takeover.

00:24:36.140 He's not a lifelong Republican.

00:24:37.520 He doesn't have any loyalty to the

00:24:38.660 Republican Party.

00:24:39.440 He took it over and he was able to

00:24:40.940 take it over because a lot of

00:24:41.900 Republicans don't have that much

00:24:42.960 loyalty to the Republican Party

00:24:44.120 because they felt the Republican

00:24:45.320 Party was corrupt and not giving

00:24:46.860 them results.

00:24:47.740 So that's off the table.

00:24:49.020 Well, because he

00:24:51.320 he he should want to debate to

00:24:54.200 present his case to the voters.

00:24:55.660 It's disrespectful.

00:24:56.680 Yeah, maybe if his poll numbers were

00:24:58.220 lower than he would have to do that.

00:24:59.860 But his poll numbers are very high.

00:25:00.960 So he doesn't have to do that.

00:25:01.940 Well, I just think it's wrong of him.

00:25:04.660 OK, maybe you might think it's wrong.

00:25:06.240 Sure.

00:25:06.620 But unless

00:25:08.680 Trump has an incentive

00:25:10.900 to debate,

00:25:12.760 unless he has an incentive

00:25:13.740 to support the eventual nominee,

00:25:15.580 he's not going to do it.

00:25:18.220 So that's that.

00:25:19.120 And you can whine and complain and

00:25:20.320 pull your hair out over it.

00:25:21.120 But that's just a fact.

00:25:21.960 That's politics.

00:25:23.040 And if you if you don't like that,

00:25:25.060 then you should stop following

00:25:26.260 politics.

00:25:26.640 To me, that's some of the

00:25:28.120 most interesting stuff

00:25:29.020 are these power games

00:25:30.100 and who's got the leverage

00:25:31.100 and who's where people

00:25:32.440 are on the chessboard.

00:25:33.460 I I find that very engrossing.

00:25:35.460 I find it delightful

00:25:36.180 no matter who the candidate is.

00:25:38.340 That's quite interesting to me.

00:25:40.780 But if you're just viewing

00:25:42.040 the campaign through a lens of

00:25:43.540 why isn't why aren't things

00:25:44.820 turning out the way I want them to?

00:25:46.500 Why aren't things going

00:25:47.220 the way I predicted?

00:25:48.280 Well, then you should check

00:25:49.160 your priors.

00:25:49.780 You should check your premises.

00:25:51.560 Because if your predictions

00:25:52.440 are consistently wrong,

00:25:53.580 then it means that there's

00:25:55.480 something a little bit off

00:25:56.140 about the way you're viewing

00:25:57.080 viewing the game.

00:25:59.360 Now, outside of presidential

00:26:00.500 politics, the former

00:26:02.640 Arizona GOP gubernatorial

00:26:04.040 nominee Carrie Lake

00:26:05.080 is apparently staffing off

00:26:06.940 staffing up for a Senate

00:26:08.900 campaign.

00:26:10.180 This would be the campaign

00:26:11.240 to take Kyrsten Sinema's seat.

00:26:13.720 Kyrsten Sinema is a Democrat,

00:26:14.920 but she's kind of moderate

00:26:15.700 and she's now an independent.

00:26:17.580 So she's running as an independent.

00:26:19.220 You've got a Democrat now

00:26:21.360 who's running, Ruben Gallego.

00:26:23.580 And you've got a Pinal County

00:26:25.120 sheriff, Mark Lamb,

00:26:26.340 who's running as a Republican.

00:26:27.920 Carrie Lake might challenge him

00:26:29.800 to be the Republican nominee.

00:26:32.100 This also makes sense.

00:26:34.420 Carrie Lake has to run

00:26:35.680 for something because she needs

00:26:37.260 to set herself up to be

00:26:38.180 the vice president.

00:26:40.000 So Carrie Lake has been

00:26:41.180 not so subtly campaigning

00:26:42.320 to be the vice presidential

00:26:43.260 running mate with Donald Trump.

00:26:46.020 But right now, she's just a lady

00:26:47.220 who lost a gubernatorial election.

00:26:48.920 So she needs something

00:26:50.040 to give her the credibility

00:26:51.380 to take that position.

00:26:52.500 The Arizona Senate seat

00:26:53.820 would make a lot of sense.

00:26:55.240 Speaking of women,

00:26:56.820 I'm going to try to get through

00:26:57.580 a lot of stuff

00:26:58.180 before we get to the mailbag today.

00:26:59.720 Dr. Charlotte Proudman.

00:27:01.920 What a name.

00:27:02.900 Couldn't write it better

00:27:03.640 out of Hollywood.

00:27:04.840 Just went viral for a message

00:27:06.480 she had to pregnant women.

00:27:07.360 She said,

00:27:07.660 a message to pregnant women,

00:27:09.240 please give the baby

00:27:10.140 your surname.

00:27:11.100 You carried a baby

00:27:12.020 for nine months,

00:27:13.440 gave birth,

00:27:14.120 and will be responsible

00:27:14.920 for that child

00:27:15.500 for the rest of your life.

00:27:16.920 When you're registering

00:27:17.960 the baby,

00:27:18.460 ask yourself,

00:27:18.980 why is the father's surname

00:27:20.200 more important than yours?

00:27:22.280 Okay, I've heard this.

00:27:23.400 Some people have written in

00:27:24.080 with this question.

00:27:25.860 Should we,

00:27:28.760 you know,

00:27:30.640 have families

00:27:31.300 with one name?

00:27:32.420 Should women take

00:27:33.080 their husband's name?

00:27:33.900 Should the kid

00:27:34.280 have the father's name?

00:27:36.840 Three reasons

00:27:37.720 why they should.

00:27:40.760 The husband is the head

00:27:41.860 of the household.

00:27:42.380 As such,

00:27:45.540 everyone should have

00:27:46.120 his name.

00:27:46.560 It's a family unit.

00:27:47.820 Okay, maybe you think

00:27:48.620 that's a little too

00:27:49.380 old-timey

00:27:50.780 and traditional for you.

00:27:52.160 Second reason,

00:27:53.460 women carry the baby.

00:27:54.920 Women have a very close

00:27:55.800 connection to the baby.

00:27:57.240 The man's relationship

00:27:58.220 to the baby,

00:27:59.020 you know,

00:27:59.260 it's a relatively

00:28:00.340 quick contribution.

00:28:02.220 And so,

00:28:03.540 with the baby

00:28:03.980 taking the man's name,

00:28:05.200 it joins these

00:28:06.880 two things together.

00:28:08.300 The man will never

00:28:08.980 have the physical bond

00:28:09.720 with the baby

00:28:10.120 that a mother has,

00:28:10.820 but they will be

00:28:12.560 a family unit

00:28:13.380 and they will have

00:28:13.780 his name.

00:28:15.080 But the third reason

00:28:15.960 why Dr. Proud Man Lady

00:28:19.820 is so wrong here

00:28:21.960 is that that baby

00:28:24.440 will inevitably

00:28:25.400 have a man's surname.

00:28:28.100 The baby will either

00:28:29.500 have his father's

00:28:31.000 last name

00:28:31.620 or his maternal

00:28:33.080 grandfather's

00:28:33.740 last name.

00:28:34.380 She's saying,

00:28:35.100 a message to pregnant women,

00:28:36.180 please give the baby

00:28:37.140 your father's

00:28:38.800 surname

00:28:39.120 instead of

00:28:41.000 your husband's

00:28:41.880 surname.

00:28:42.800 Which doesn't make

00:28:43.580 a lot of sense

00:28:44.120 at all,

00:28:44.860 but if you're doing

00:28:45.720 this from a feminist

00:28:46.420 perspective,

00:28:48.060 you can't have,

00:28:48.700 it's going to be

00:28:49.240 a man's name.

00:28:49.720 Now,

00:28:49.860 you might say,

00:28:50.280 well,

00:28:50.500 I'm a millennial

00:28:51.160 and I actually,

00:28:52.100 I took my mother's,

00:28:53.080 I have my mother's

00:28:53.860 last name.

00:28:54.360 Okay.

00:28:56.000 And my mother actually,

00:28:57.660 she had her mother's

00:28:58.520 last name.

00:28:58.780 Okay.

00:28:59.280 Okay.

00:28:59.620 Go up two generations.

00:29:00.640 You're going to get

00:29:01.120 to a guy

00:29:01.600 pretty,

00:29:02.120 pretty quickly

00:29:03.580 before we get

00:29:05.340 to the mailbag.

00:29:06.700 Bill Maher.

00:29:07.120 Bill Maher says

00:29:09.580 that Barbie was

00:29:11.100 terrible.

00:29:11.580 He said,

00:29:12.160 okay,

00:29:12.560 Barbie,

00:29:13.180 I was hoping it

00:29:13.920 wouldn't be preachy,

00:29:14.660 man-hating,

00:29:15.120 and a zombie lie.

00:29:15.900 Alas,

00:29:16.180 it was all three.

00:29:16.780 What's a zombie lie?

00:29:17.560 Something that never

00:29:18.120 was true,

00:29:18.620 but certain people

00:29:19.080 refused to stop

00:29:19.740 saying it.

00:29:21.300 Tax cuts for the rich

00:29:22.260 increased revenues,

00:29:23.280 for example,

00:29:24.000 or something that

00:29:24.940 used to be true,

00:29:25.640 but no longer is,

00:29:26.760 but certain people

00:29:27.320 pretend it's still true.

00:29:28.120 Barbie is kind of

00:29:28.660 a zombie lie.

00:29:29.240 He goes on this

00:29:29.720 whole long essay.

00:29:30.480 He hated Barbie.

00:29:31.100 I rest my case.

00:29:36.540 You know,

00:29:36.800 I had a little bit

00:29:37.280 of a debate

00:29:37.720 with our pal,

00:29:39.280 Ben Shapiro,

00:29:40.200 and some other

00:29:40.720 conservatives.

00:29:41.560 Barbie really split

00:29:42.480 the conservative movement,

00:29:43.740 and now that Bill Maher

00:29:46.960 says that Barbie

00:29:47.600 was terrible,

00:29:48.200 I rest my case,

00:29:49.400 that it was terrific.

00:29:52.020 There were some people

00:29:53.020 pointing to Bill Maher's

00:29:53.940 commentary and saying,

00:29:54.720 see,

00:29:55.620 this proves that

00:29:56.800 Barbie was bad.

00:29:58.040 Bill Maher is wrong

00:30:00.780 about pretty much

00:30:01.680 everything,

00:30:03.880 but I'm so glad

00:30:06.780 Bill Maher disagrees

00:30:07.520 with me.

00:30:07.840 That's how I know

00:30:08.320 I'm right,

00:30:09.400 and this ties into

00:30:11.000 something we were

00:30:11.360 talking about a little

00:30:11.820 bit earlier,

00:30:13.080 which is a deeper

00:30:13.880 issue here,

00:30:15.020 and that is Bill Maher

00:30:16.220 is a liberal.

00:30:17.180 He's a progressive

00:30:18.060 liberal,

00:30:18.460 but he's styled

00:30:19.280 himself in recent years

00:30:20.200 as slightly more

00:30:21.120 classical,

00:30:22.200 I don't know,

00:30:22.760 classical meaning

00:30:23.440 he's a liberal

00:30:23.820 from the 90s,

00:30:24.940 and some conservatives,

00:30:27.240 some people on the

00:30:27.860 right have really

00:30:29.300 gone along with this.

00:30:30.740 Some of the squishier

00:30:31.400 people on the right

00:30:31.900 say, oh,

00:30:32.300 I agree with Bill Maher

00:30:33.160 on all sorts of things.

00:30:35.700 That's a problem.

00:30:37.640 Bill Maher is an

00:30:40.520 atheist libertine

00:30:42.180 who maybe will say

00:30:45.600 wokeness has gone

00:30:46.520 too far or something.

00:30:47.680 If that's the best

00:30:48.640 conservatives can do,

00:30:49.760 if the best conservatives

00:30:50.720 can do is conserve

00:30:51.860 90s liberalism,

00:30:53.420 then let's just hang

00:30:54.440 it up, folks.

00:30:55.360 If we cannot offer

00:30:56.580 an alternative

00:30:57.220 political vision,

00:30:59.420 if the moment

00:31:00.740 that someone does

00:31:01.360 offer an alternative

00:31:01.960 political vision,

00:31:02.620 we just cut and run

00:31:03.320 and go whine on MSNBC

00:31:04.460 and CNN,

00:31:05.180 then just hang it up.

00:31:06.180 Then there are no

00:31:06.720 conservatives in America.

00:31:08.760 If you can't recognize

00:31:09.880 that Bill Maher is wrong

00:31:11.000 about the most

00:31:11.600 important things,

00:31:13.380 he's funny.

00:31:13.860 I like Bill Maher.

00:31:14.720 He invited me on his show

00:31:15.480 one time.

00:31:15.860 I didn't make it.

00:31:16.980 Maybe I'd be happy

00:31:17.840 to go on again.

00:31:18.500 I like him in some ways.

00:31:19.440 He's kind of funny,

00:31:20.040 but he's wrong

00:31:20.560 about everything.

00:31:22.060 And if a conservative

00:31:22.680 can't acknowledge that,

00:31:23.780 you know,

00:31:25.100 come on.

00:31:25.500 then you probably

00:31:26.800 don't even realize

00:31:27.300 that Barbie's a good movie.

00:31:28.400 Okay.

00:31:29.460 Candace just wrapped

00:31:30.320 the 10-part series

00:31:31.280 Convicting a Murderer

00:31:32.140 that you will not

00:31:32.980 want to miss.

00:31:34.100 It's one of our

00:31:34.600 most ambitious projects yet.

00:31:36.740 You might think

00:31:37.480 that you're familiar

00:31:38.000 with the Stephen Avery case

00:31:39.020 and everything that

00:31:39.720 happened in Manitowoc County.

00:31:42.060 Did I pronounce that

00:31:42.620 correctly?

00:31:43.680 This is especially true

00:31:44.880 if you watched

00:31:45.480 Making a Murderer,

00:31:46.580 but it turns out

00:31:47.640 the filmmakers only told

00:31:48.820 you part of the story.

00:31:50.440 Coming soon,

00:31:51.060 Candace Owens will unveil

00:31:52.160 the shocking parts

00:31:53.020 of Avery's story

00:31:53.560 that were omitted

00:31:54.280 in the Netflix series.

00:31:55.820 Quite excited to present

00:31:56.800 the Convicting a Murderer

00:31:58.360 trailer.

00:31:58.780 Check it out.

00:32:00.620 This is a collect call

00:32:02.080 from an inmate

00:32:03.820 at the Calumet County Jail.

00:32:05.520 The man served

00:32:06.080 18 years in prison

00:32:07.100 until DNA evidence

00:32:08.360 cleared his name.

00:32:09.120 The Two Rivers man

00:32:09.960 was convicted

00:32:10.560 of sexual assault

00:32:11.500 in 1985,

00:32:12.680 but exonerated

00:32:13.500 with DNA evidence

00:32:14.680 in 2003.

00:32:16.660 So this is the

00:32:17.640 infamous Avery Lott?

00:32:20.020 Now,

00:32:20.600 two years later,

00:32:21.380 he again finds himself

00:32:23.000 tied to a police investigation.

00:32:25.380 Accused of murdering

00:32:26.580 Teresa Hallbuck

00:32:27.340 on the Avery property.

00:32:28.680 Stephen Avery's

00:32:29.400 16-year-old nephew

00:32:30.540 admitted his involvement

00:32:31.780 in the rape and murder

00:32:32.840 of Teresa Hallbuck.

00:32:34.520 The car is discovered

00:32:35.900 just around the bend.

00:32:38.560 It was just this

00:32:39.580 worldwide phenomenon.

00:32:40.820 I think they framed this guy.

00:32:41.900 I think he intended

00:32:42.940 to crush the vehicle,

00:32:44.400 but ran out of time.

00:32:45.300 Avery thinks

00:32:45.960 the $36 million lawsuit

00:32:47.760 he filed is why

00:32:48.640 he's being targeted

00:32:49.480 in this investigation.

00:32:53.480 1021 and 24

00:32:54.600 Main Street Cups.

00:32:56.360 Do we have

00:32:56.760 Stephen Avery custody?

00:32:57.900 Netflix made millions

00:32:59.240 of dollars

00:33:00.020 from making a murderer,

00:33:01.300 but the filmmakers

00:33:01.940 left out

00:33:02.600 very important details.

00:33:04.580 Mountains of evidence

00:33:05.800 that you have not yet seen.

00:33:07.140 The blood vial.

00:33:07.960 The most egregious

00:33:09.040 manipulation

00:33:09.540 from the movie.

00:33:11.060 Interrogations.

00:33:11.660 That's when he started

00:33:12.680 beating me

00:33:13.300 because I told him

00:33:14.140 that he's sick.

00:33:15.260 Cell phones.

00:33:15.980 And I saw melted

00:33:16.720 plastic parts

00:33:17.520 of a cell phone.

00:33:18.320 Interviews.

00:33:19.060 Her arms were pinned

00:33:19.820 behind her head.

00:33:20.660 They made Stephen Avery

00:33:21.640 look like a victim.

00:33:22.780 Do you believe

00:33:23.160 your brother's guilty?

00:33:24.960 I don't know

00:33:25.340 if I'm a suspect.

00:33:26.780 I got not to hide.

00:33:32.300 I'm getting sick

00:33:33.500 and tired

00:33:34.140 of media deception.

00:33:35.980 Evidence piling up.

00:33:37.200 Why would they omit

00:33:38.100 so many different things?

00:33:39.200 Why are you editing

00:33:40.220 my testimony?

00:33:43.120 I am not going

00:33:44.020 to make the same mistake

00:33:45.080 that the filmmakers did.

00:33:46.940 Rearranging the testimony.

00:33:50.640 They delete

00:33:51.420 a portion of it

00:33:52.200 at the end.

00:33:52.920 How could they claim

00:33:53.880 to care about the truth?

00:33:54.960 They all know

00:33:55.800 that Stephen Avery

00:33:56.760 committed this crime.

00:34:00.480 911,

00:34:01.460 what is your emergency?

00:34:03.400 The evidence

00:34:04.280 forces me to conclude

00:34:05.720 that you are

00:34:06.560 the most dangerous

00:34:07.480 individual ever

00:34:08.480 to set foot

00:34:09.080 in this courtroom.

00:34:13.160 That looks pretty good.

00:34:14.400 To get the rest

00:34:15.020 of the story,

00:34:15.760 you have got to watch

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00:34:32.400 And now,

00:34:32.760 finally,

00:34:33.180 finally,

00:34:33.800 we've arrived

00:34:34.580 at my favorite time

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00:34:35.980 from you in the mailbag.

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00:34:47.520 Howdy, howdy.

00:34:48.200 Once again,

00:34:48.660 Mr. Knowles

00:34:49.220 at Slot My Base

00:34:50.080 once again

00:34:50.680 coming at you

00:34:51.360 with another question.

00:34:52.700 So my church band

00:34:53.680 has been asked

00:34:54.380 to play

00:34:55.080 the Assumption of Mary

00:34:56.760 ceremony

00:34:57.260 at our local church

00:34:58.960 next Wednesday.

00:35:00.440 And what I wanted

00:35:01.640 to ask you is

00:35:03.260 can you explain

00:35:04.000 what the Assumption

00:35:04.740 of Mary is?

00:35:05.540 I'm not very well versed

00:35:06.820 in these holy holidays

00:35:08.120 as you know

00:35:08.820 and would like to know

00:35:10.280 a little bit more

00:35:10.900 about it.

00:35:11.620 I realize I could

00:35:12.680 probably save

00:35:13.700 a lot of time

00:35:14.320 by just researching

00:35:15.040 it myself on Google

00:35:15.940 but it's a lot more fun

00:35:17.280 when you explain it to me.

00:35:18.960 Plus, I like hearing

00:35:19.760 your dulcet tones

00:35:20.800 much like I'm pretty sure

00:35:22.060 you like hearing

00:35:22.660 my dulcet bass tones

00:35:23.740 in my music.

00:35:24.760 Anyway, love your input.

00:35:26.240 Love your show.

00:35:27.120 Thanks again.

00:35:28.460 Excellent question

00:35:29.380 and an excellent feast.

00:35:30.680 The short version

00:35:31.320 is that the Assumption

00:35:32.280 of Mary

00:35:32.800 refers to the

00:35:34.380 bodily assumption

00:35:35.700 of Mary,

00:35:36.880 the Mother of God,

00:35:37.980 into heaven.

00:35:39.480 If you want

00:35:40.400 to go find

00:35:41.260 Mary's body

00:35:42.380 on earth,

00:35:43.420 open up Mary's tomb,

00:35:45.520 discover her remains,

00:35:46.540 you will not do that

00:35:47.380 because Mary

00:35:48.480 is in heaven.

00:35:50.300 This

00:35:50.760 is a dogma.

00:35:53.460 This is a dogma

00:35:54.220 that was defined

00:35:55.060 relatively recently.

00:35:56.480 It was officially defined

00:35:57.360 in the Catholic Church

00:35:58.160 in 1950,

00:35:59.920 I think it was,

00:36:00.440 by Pope Pius XII

00:36:01.240 in Munificentissimus Deus,

00:36:05.880 I believe,

00:36:06.560 is the document

00:36:07.840 in which he defined it.

00:36:10.220 But the tradition

00:36:11.140 goes back

00:36:11.580 much, much further

00:36:12.540 to the very earliest

00:36:13.560 days of the Church.

00:36:15.520 This is a view

00:36:16.100 not only held

00:36:16.660 by Catholics,

00:36:17.380 it's held by

00:36:18.120 the Eastern Orthodox,

00:36:19.080 obviously,

00:36:20.060 by the Lutherans.

00:36:21.780 At least the Lutherans

00:36:22.440 for a long time

00:36:22.980 held it.

00:36:23.340 I don't know

00:36:23.600 if they still do

00:36:24.460 or how many of them

00:36:25.020 still do.

00:36:25.920 The Anglicans

00:36:26.840 believe in this.

00:36:30.120 It's not required

00:36:31.760 if you're an Anglican

00:36:32.800 to believe in this.

00:36:33.880 It's considered

00:36:34.480 something indifferent,

00:36:36.020 but many Anglicans

00:36:37.480 do believe in this.

00:36:38.160 The feast was preserved

00:36:38.920 for a long time.

00:36:40.800 Bollinger,

00:36:41.460 the successor

00:36:42.720 to Zwingli

00:36:43.460 in Zurich,

00:36:44.760 among the Protestants,

00:36:45.840 he believed

00:36:46.580 in the Assumption

00:36:47.100 of Mary.

00:36:47.720 So the idea

00:36:48.620 is that

00:36:49.380 our Lord

00:36:51.180 would not let

00:36:52.540 his mother's body

00:36:53.180 just simply decay

00:36:53.860 on earth,

00:36:54.420 but assumed her.

00:36:56.180 This belief

00:36:57.380 is attested to

00:36:58.340 at least as early

00:36:59.480 as the 5th century,

00:37:02.040 maybe the 4th century,

00:37:03.040 and then there's

00:37:03.500 an oral tradition

00:37:04.180 that goes back

00:37:04.780 basically to the time

00:37:05.800 of the apostles.

00:37:07.400 But we've got

00:37:08.080 very strong evidence

00:37:09.120 of it still

00:37:09.900 from way back

00:37:10.520 in antiquity.

00:37:11.200 So anyway,

00:37:11.640 that's the view,

00:37:12.360 and a lot of people

00:37:12.960 don't even know

00:37:14.860 about it today,

00:37:15.520 even though the vast

00:37:16.620 majority of Christians

00:37:17.400 for all of history

00:37:18.280 have believed in it.

00:37:19.820 Okay, next question.

00:37:21.380 Greetings,

00:37:22.100 dear Executive

00:37:23.020 Grassy Knowles.

00:37:24.040 For a long time now,

00:37:25.340 I've questioned

00:37:26.160 the titles used

00:37:27.760 to differentiate

00:37:28.560 American generations.

00:37:30.460 You have Generation X,

00:37:32.180 myself being

00:37:32.800 a Generation Y,

00:37:34.340 excluding the Millennials

00:37:35.460 proceeding

00:37:35.900 to Generation Z.

00:37:37.580 What were we

00:37:38.760 counting down toward?

00:37:41.420 Now,

00:37:41.860 I'm no conspiracy theorist,

00:37:43.700 but now that I know

00:37:44.980 that Generation Alpha

00:37:46.300 will be the first

00:37:47.580 majority non-white

00:37:49.100 generation,

00:37:50.640 was this planned

00:37:51.480 since the 70s?

00:37:54.200 No.

00:37:55.500 It was planned

00:37:56.080 since the 60s.

00:37:58.480 You're not allowed

00:37:59.220 to say that,

00:37:59.940 because if you say that,

00:38:00.960 they call you

00:38:01.460 a conspiracy theorist

00:38:02.480 and a racist

00:38:02.960 and everything.

00:38:03.720 But what's funny

00:38:04.220 is the liberals

00:38:04.720 frequently will say that.

00:38:06.680 There was a very famous,

00:38:07.840 I think 2004,

00:38:09.000 very famous

00:38:09.460 political science paper

00:38:10.580 that talked about

00:38:11.780 this new ascendant

00:38:13.120 coalition of non-white people

00:38:14.460 and how politically

00:38:15.180 advantageous

00:38:15.860 this was going to be

00:38:16.280 for Democrats.

00:38:17.400 And it goes back

00:38:18.260 to the 60s

00:38:18.840 because of the 1965

00:38:19.860 heart-seller immigration bill

00:38:21.260 which said,

00:38:22.980 basically,

00:38:23.340 we're going to open up

00:38:23.880 the borders

00:38:24.320 and dramatically

00:38:25.160 flood the country

00:38:25.900 with new immigrants

00:38:27.060 and that this will change

00:38:28.160 the demographic makeup

00:38:28.920 of the country

00:38:29.540 and this will,

00:38:31.680 since it was passed

00:38:32.380 by Democrats,

00:38:33.060 this will presumably

00:38:34.160 redound to the benefit

00:38:34.960 of Democrats.

00:38:35.920 So that was planned.

00:38:37.100 As for the naming

00:38:38.680 of the generations,

00:38:40.880 it might just be

00:38:41.560 one of those

00:38:41.920 happy coincidences,

00:38:42.780 all nature is but

00:38:43.440 art unknown to thee.

00:38:44.280 Although if you look

00:38:44.880 at the way that

00:38:46.260 masculinity is going

00:38:48.940 in the country,

00:38:50.180 perhaps Generation Beta

00:38:52.060 is a prophecy

00:38:54.880 rather than just

00:38:55.980 a coincidence.

00:38:56.600 Next one.

00:38:57.860 Hi, Michael.

00:38:58.680 My name is Evan.

00:38:59.300 I've been a long-time

00:39:00.080 fan of your show.

00:39:01.260 I'm sending this question

00:39:02.400 today about Ronald Reagan

00:39:03.680 who is a figure,

00:39:04.680 I think,

00:39:05.140 on which we disagree.

00:39:06.880 I want to know

00:39:07.440 why you and so many

00:39:08.660 other figures on the right

00:39:09.640 venerate Ronald Reagan

00:39:10.660 as some kind of icon

00:39:11.600 and hero of our movement

00:39:12.760 when, in reality,

00:39:14.320 he actually did a lot

00:39:15.060 of things wrong.

00:39:16.340 Like, when he was

00:39:17.220 governor of California,

00:39:18.220 he signed the nation's

00:39:19.060 first no-fault divorce law

00:39:20.940 and a law that required

00:39:22.300 permits to carry loaded

00:39:23.380 guns in public.

00:39:24.820 While he was president,

00:39:25.820 he signed the 1986

00:39:26.940 Immigration Reform

00:39:28.120 and Control Act,

00:39:29.160 which legalized

00:39:30.220 over 60,000 illegals

00:39:31.780 just while he was president,

00:39:33.520 as well as deferring

00:39:34.620 deportation for another

00:39:35.720 100,000 illegals.

00:39:37.280 Uh, he also appointed

00:39:39.160 Bush Sr. as his

00:39:40.140 vice president

00:39:40.720 and tried to play

00:39:41.600 nice with the libs,

00:39:43.080 saying that we have

00:39:43.660 no enemies,

00:39:44.780 despite the fact

00:39:45.500 that they were already

00:39:46.440 committing industrialized

00:39:47.820 baby murder.

00:39:49.340 Uh, he was also famous

00:39:50.480 for his intervention

00:39:51.380 overseas.

00:39:52.640 Um, after his presidency,

00:39:54.500 he signed a letter

00:39:55.240 supporting Clinton's

00:39:56.220 assault weapons ban.

00:39:57.860 Um, but in short,

00:39:58.960 I think that Reagan

00:39:59.780 was just another

00:40:00.500 squishy Republican

00:40:01.720 who gets too much

00:40:02.840 credit for being patriotic,

00:40:04.580 while he actually worked

00:40:05.800 to undermine the country.

00:40:06.780 Like, so many of our

00:40:08.420 Republican leaders now.

00:40:10.180 Uh, I just want to

00:40:10.820 know your thoughts.

00:40:12.240 Well, I don't,

00:40:12.940 I don't venerate Reagan.

00:40:14.760 I do admire Reagan.

00:40:15.920 And, and I don't deny

00:40:17.180 any of the things

00:40:17.740 you've said.

00:40:18.940 He was far from perfect.

00:40:20.020 He did a lot of things

00:40:20.820 that were wrong.

00:40:21.880 But I think you've got

00:40:22.820 to put the guy

00:40:23.420 in his historical context.

00:40:25.220 First of all,

00:40:25.700 you, you knock him

00:40:26.360 for picking Bush.

00:40:28.120 He picked Bush

00:40:28.760 to unite the party.

00:40:29.620 And I think you grant that.

00:40:30.660 He picked Bush

00:40:31.220 because Bush was

00:40:32.080 a liberal Republican.

00:40:33.480 And Reagan was the

00:40:34.700 representative of

00:40:35.400 the conservative Republicans.

00:40:36.780 And he was conservative

00:40:38.500 for his time.

00:40:39.460 I mean, don't forget,

00:40:40.260 he was, he, he ran

00:40:41.380 against Jerry Ford

00:40:42.300 in 76.

00:40:43.560 And he ran against

00:40:44.360 Jerry Ford, uh, who,

00:40:47.080 Ford had a lot of problems,

00:40:48.760 but he was quite left-wing.

00:40:50.200 I mean, the guy was promoting

00:40:51.120 the Equal Rights Amendment,

00:40:52.900 this feminist madness

00:40:53.960 that would have obliterated

00:40:55.800 sexual difference

00:40:56.480 much earlier in this country

00:40:57.560 than, than it happened.

00:40:59.000 So, you know,

00:41:00.540 I talked to Yoram Hazony

00:41:01.420 about this,

00:41:01.980 the Israeli political philosopher.

00:41:03.720 And he said,

00:41:04.260 I know Reagan gets

00:41:05.000 knocked a lot now,

00:41:05.980 but at the time,

00:41:07.620 it really felt like a revival.

00:41:10.040 At the time,

00:41:10.480 it really felt like

00:41:11.080 a religious revival.

00:41:12.100 And the madness

00:41:13.140 of the 60s

00:41:13.960 had been so,

00:41:15.120 so intense

00:41:16.100 that there was a lot

00:41:17.720 of climbing back

00:41:18.880 to do.

00:41:19.580 And I,

00:41:19.860 I just give the guy

00:41:20.620 a little bit of grace

00:41:21.460 for doing what he could do

00:41:22.660 in his time,

00:41:24.020 especially when he was

00:41:24.560 governor of California

00:41:25.260 and then when he was

00:41:26.580 president without

00:41:27.380 a Republican Congress.

00:41:29.020 I, I agree.

00:41:31.080 He did all sorts of things

00:41:32.260 and probably held views.

00:41:33.740 You know,

00:41:33.960 in fact,

00:41:34.320 I know he held some views

00:41:35.380 that I would disagree with.

00:41:36.880 But I think he played his part.

00:41:39.500 I can't think of

00:41:40.680 a viable conservative

00:41:42.420 who,

00:41:43.700 who would have done better

00:41:44.820 in his time.

00:41:46.480 So I,

00:41:47.120 I give him credit for it.

00:41:48.480 You know,

00:41:48.780 but I agree.

00:41:49.360 I don't think we should,

00:41:50.140 you know,

00:41:50.580 try to exhume his corpse,

00:41:53.000 reanimate his zombie body

00:41:54.260 and, and, you know,

00:41:55.320 have him run for president again.

00:41:56.800 He did his part

00:41:57.760 in his time.

00:41:59.020 Now we have to do our part

00:42:00.160 in our time.

00:42:00.620 Next question.

00:42:02.800 Hey, Knowles.

00:42:03.400 I have a question about reading.

00:42:05.420 What should I be reading

00:42:06.480 as a Catholic

00:42:07.240 to further understand

00:42:09.540 the faith better

00:42:10.260 other than the Bible,

00:42:12.460 the catechism?

00:42:13.500 What authors

00:42:14.440 would you recommend I read?

00:42:15.420 I know you talked a lot

00:42:16.240 about St. Thomas Aquinas,

00:42:18.460 C.S. Lewis,

00:42:20.060 Chesterton.

00:42:21.240 What books should I read?

00:42:22.840 And do you have

00:42:23.580 a full reading list?

00:42:24.780 If you do,

00:42:25.880 that would be amazing.

00:42:27.340 I don't have a full reading list,

00:42:28.700 but I probably should make one.

00:42:29.540 I was,

00:42:29.700 I was asked to make one

00:42:30.560 the other day for an outlet

00:42:31.500 that I should probably do.

00:42:33.600 You mentioned the catechism.

00:42:34.820 I would recommend reading

00:42:35.620 the catechism of St. Pius X.

00:42:37.640 It's a really short one.

00:42:38.740 It's very quick

00:42:39.680 that you can read

00:42:40.360 St. Pius X.

00:42:41.220 Great guy.

00:42:42.500 And you can get it on,

00:42:43.960 online for like $5.

00:42:45.880 And it's,

00:42:46.480 it's quite good.

00:42:48.140 And it would seem

00:42:49.600 to be a little more precise

00:42:50.680 than maybe catechisms

00:42:51.920 that have come later.

00:42:52.940 I would recommend

00:42:53.700 for Chesterton

00:42:54.600 reading Orthodoxy.

00:42:55.800 I would recommend

00:42:56.680 reading anything

00:42:59.140 by Hilaire Belloc.

00:42:59.960 It's just so delightful

00:43:00.800 because he's so acerbic

00:43:02.300 in his prose.

00:43:03.520 I would,

00:43:03.920 yeah,

00:43:04.180 I mean,

00:43:04.480 you could open up

00:43:05.360 the Summa Theologiae.

00:43:06.820 It might be a little,

00:43:07.440 little bit much

00:43:08.220 to take in at once,

00:43:09.240 but I don't know.

00:43:09.780 I'd just sort of dive in.

00:43:11.240 Summa Contra Gentiles

00:43:12.120 maybe is more approachable.

00:43:13.920 I would recommend

00:43:14.840 St. Athanasius

00:43:15.940 on the Incarnation.

00:43:17.020 I would recommend

00:43:17.420 the writings

00:43:17.740 of St. John Henry Newman.

00:43:19.600 Apologia Pro Vita Sua

00:43:20.820 is probably his master work.

00:43:23.380 The idea of a university

00:43:24.240 is really,

00:43:24.820 really good.

00:43:25.380 I recommend the writings.

00:43:26.440 This is a little more contemporary

00:43:27.400 of Father George Rutler.

00:43:28.800 I really like him.

00:43:30.660 He's a friend of mine

00:43:31.480 and he's an excellent writer.

00:43:33.700 I would recommend,

00:43:34.960 hmm,

00:43:35.380 oh goodness,

00:43:36.020 I don't know.

00:43:36.300 It's just so much to read.

00:43:37.860 It's a good place

00:43:38.300 to start though.

00:43:40.140 Let's see.

00:43:42.140 Some written mailbag.

00:43:43.040 Ciao,

00:43:43.440 Signor Reynos.

00:43:45.000 I would like some advice

00:43:45.760 on a matter.

00:43:46.300 I'm newly engaged

00:43:46.900 to a wonderful man.

00:43:47.640 I love the idea

00:43:48.080 of having a traditional

00:43:48.740 wedding ceremony.

00:43:49.960 My only problem

00:43:50.520 is that my father

00:43:51.240 hasn't been active

00:43:52.100 in my life.

00:43:52.680 I barely saw him

00:43:53.660 as a child

00:43:54.240 and even in my adult life

00:43:55.220 I rarely see him.

00:43:56.440 It's rare for him

00:43:57.320 to show up

00:43:57.880 even to family

00:43:58.620 holiday gatherings.

00:43:59.940 My stepdad

00:44:00.420 was the one

00:44:00.780 who raised us

00:44:01.380 and was there

00:44:01.720 to support us

00:44:02.220 through our lives.

00:44:03.160 He sadly passed away

00:44:03.960 two years ago.

00:44:04.580 My dilemma

00:44:05.040 is about who should

00:44:06.140 walk me down the aisle

00:44:07.160 on my big day.

00:44:08.460 Should an absent father

00:44:09.280 be given this honor

00:44:09.980 or would it be better

00:44:11.060 to somehow honor

00:44:11.860 the man

00:44:12.280 who would have been

00:44:13.420 given that duty

00:44:14.200 if we were given time?

00:44:16.820 It's a really tough one.

00:44:17.720 Sorry to hear

00:44:17.980 that you've got

00:44:19.400 that dilemma

00:44:20.620 and that your stepfather

00:44:22.220 died.

00:44:23.080 Had he lived

00:44:24.200 and he were

00:44:26.100 your adoptive father

00:44:27.200 he's the man

00:44:28.260 who raised you

00:44:29.000 then it would seem

00:44:30.080 clear enough

00:44:30.720 he should probably

00:44:31.480 be the one

00:44:31.920 to walk you

00:44:32.360 down the aisle.

00:44:33.440 Since he is gone though

00:44:34.600 and since it sounds

00:44:35.960 like you've got

00:44:36.400 a deadbeat

00:44:36.820 for a father

00:44:37.420 I would still

00:44:41.300 tend toward

00:44:42.580 the idea

00:44:43.240 that your father

00:44:45.300 walks you down

00:44:45.980 the aisle

00:44:46.360 even if you don't

00:44:47.100 like him

00:44:47.540 even if he's a bum

00:44:49.000 I think that

00:44:50.960 you know

00:44:52.000 the wedding ceremony

00:44:53.900 is a public act

00:44:54.820 it's liturgical

00:44:56.100 it's quite traditional

00:44:59.020 and I

00:44:59.980 and you'll have

00:45:01.540 a better life

00:45:02.180 if you forgive

00:45:02.660 your father

00:45:03.100 for being a bum

00:45:04.300 and one way

00:45:06.140 to do that

00:45:06.760 is to not turn

00:45:08.460 your wedding

00:45:08.820 into a protest

00:45:09.560 of him

00:45:09.900 if he's going

00:45:11.580 to show up

00:45:12.080 to the wedding

00:45:12.460 at all

00:45:12.820 and maybe that's

00:45:13.420 up in the air

00:45:13.780 but if he's going

00:45:14.260 to show up

00:45:14.480 to the wedding

00:45:14.760 at all

00:45:14.980 I would have him

00:45:15.960 do it.

00:45:16.420 It's not about

00:45:16.960 honoring him

00:45:17.720 personally

00:45:18.300 it's about

00:45:19.440 honoring the role

00:45:21.680 of the father

00:45:22.760 and it's

00:45:24.880 you know

00:45:25.320 a wedding

00:45:26.000 is the beginning

00:45:27.060 of your new family

00:45:28.140 and it's making

00:45:28.740 a statement

00:45:29.160 about the family

00:45:29.880 that the family

00:45:30.640 is stronger

00:45:31.320 even than

00:45:32.060 the individual

00:45:33.100 and flawed

00:45:33.760 personalities

00:45:34.420 within it

00:45:34.920 so for those

00:45:35.560 reasons

00:45:35.940 I would give

00:45:37.220 your father

00:45:37.740 that role

00:45:40.320 even if he

00:45:41.000 doesn't deserve it.

00:45:42.980 Okay

00:45:43.220 now

00:45:43.820 there's something

00:45:45.240 coming out

00:45:45.780 there's something

00:45:46.840 coming out

00:45:47.500 this weekend

00:45:49.300 that I am not

00:45:50.040 even allowed

00:45:50.540 to talk about

00:45:51.420 on YouTube

00:45:52.440 the thing

00:45:53.780 that is coming

00:45:54.380 out

00:45:54.720 will be

00:45:56.080 will air

00:45:56.760 it's a very

00:45:57.400 long interview

00:45:58.160 it's a Michael

00:45:58.760 and episode

00:45:59.440 it will air

00:46:00.960 on Daily Wire

00:46:02.020 Plus

00:46:02.360 and it will air

00:46:04.060 on Twitter

00:46:05.400 at M

00:46:06.360 Knowles

00:46:06.820 show

00:46:07.220 this interview

00:46:08.880 is apparently

00:46:10.120 so

00:46:10.880 radioactive

00:46:12.160 according to

00:46:13.440 the censors

00:46:13.980 at YouTube

00:46:14.440 that I can't

00:46:15.780 even show you

00:46:16.480 a trailer

00:46:16.940 I can't even

00:46:17.640 tell you

00:46:18.040 the title

00:46:18.700 of this

00:46:19.580 interview

00:46:19.960 we shot it

00:46:20.740 a little while

00:46:21.160 ago

00:46:21.300 we've been

00:46:21.520 trying to

00:46:21.820 figure out

00:46:22.060 how to

00:46:22.220 release it

00:46:22.600 it will be

00:46:23.140 released on

00:46:23.560 Daily Wire

00:46:23.880 Plus

00:46:24.160 so make sure

00:46:24.580 you go check

00:46:24.940 out Daily Wire

00:46:25.300 Plus

00:46:25.440 I think it'll

00:46:25.840 be up there

00:46:26.340 potentially for

00:46:27.320 free

00:46:27.780 so anyone

00:46:28.520 can see it

00:46:28.940 even if you're

00:46:29.260 not a Daily Wire

00:46:29.760 member

00:46:30.020 but you're

00:46:30.380 going to have

00:46:30.520 to deal with

00:46:30.800 a bunch

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00:46:31.320 and a bunch

00:46:31.600 of nonsense

00:46:31.940 it'll be

00:46:32.920 at Daily Wire

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00:46:33.540 it'll be on

00:46:34.740 Twitter

00:46:35.060 at M

00:46:35.980 Knowles

00:46:36.220 show

00:46:36.600 it involves

00:46:37.320 a certain

00:46:37.980 issue

00:46:38.980 that we're

00:46:40.240 not allowed

00:46:40.520 to talk

00:46:40.760 about on

00:46:41.020 YouTube

00:46:41.220 and it

00:46:42.000 involves

00:46:42.420 an angle

00:46:43.080 on that

00:46:43.480 issue

00:46:43.820 that very

00:46:45.260 very few

00:46:45.680 people are

00:46:46.020 talking about

00:46:46.660 it's

00:46:48.120 I'm not

00:46:49.440 surprised

00:46:50.120 that YouTube

00:46:51.560 has taken

00:46:51.980 such a strong

00:46:52.560 stance against

00:46:53.260 this

00:46:53.600 because I

00:46:54.480 think this

00:46:55.040 kind of

00:46:55.720 perspective

00:46:56.400 really

00:46:57.680 guts

00:47:00.000 the

00:47:01.260 political

00:47:03.100 ideological

00:47:03.780 movement

00:47:04.340 that we're

00:47:05.360 not allowed

00:47:05.700 to talk

00:47:06.040 about

00:47:06.260 do you

00:47:06.840 catch

00:47:07.140 my

00:47:07.340 drift

00:47:07.660 also

00:47:08.120 it's

00:47:08.300 fake

00:47:08.520 headline

00:47:08.760 Friday

00:47:09.000 need your

00:47:09.280 help

00:47:09.400 with that

00:47:09.600 the rest

00:47:09.820 of the show

00:47:10.080 continues

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 11, 2023

Ep. 1307 - RFK Finally Answers If He Would Run With Trump

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