Ep. 1319 - Why I'm Actually Siding With Radical Environmentalists
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Summary
A truckload of eco-activists tried to block a highway to protest the Burning Man festival in Nevada, and the police responded in kind of a big way. In this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about why he s on the side of the protesters, and why he thinks they should shut down Burning Man.
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Environmentalists have dialed up their publicity stunts in recent years,
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throwing soup on priceless art, gluing themselves to buildings, and shutting down traffic,
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even sometimes as people are attempting to drive their children to the hospital.
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All extremely stupid and lawless stuff, which is presumably why Nevada tribal rangers decided
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to ram through a group of climate activists with a truck.
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The truck then rams through it and then turns around and comes back at the activists.
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The rangers then pull their guns, and those guns are not loaded with flowers and pixie dust.
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This is not how the cops who have their hands tied in New York or Chicago or wherever behave now.
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But the tribal rangers, like the honey badger, do not appear to give one little wit about their feelings.
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So a lot of people are cheering this on, and I understand the temptation to cheer.
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But context is key here, as it is in all of politics.
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In this case, what were the environmentalists doing?
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They were attempting to shut down the Burning Man Festival.
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They were trying to shut down the Burning Man Festival,
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which is a week-long bacchanal of drugged-out hippies having orgies and worshipping a fire idol in the middle of the desert.
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So in this case, much as I hate to side with the radical environmentalists,
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Burning Man is bad, and people should shut it down.
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How did I end up on the side of these weirdo hippies who are getting their clocks knocked in on the highway by the tribal police?
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So forget about Burning Man, forget about Nevada, forget about the environmentalists.
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This is why, for instance, many conservatives right now are embracing Bobby Kennedy Jr.
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This is why never-Trump-lifelong Republicans right now are embracing Joe Biden.
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And it is why conservatives are going to have to rethink our tactics and our alliances
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if we want to break out of a pattern of perpetually losing.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Oliver Anthony, the guy who went from a nobody to a big star with that dobro guitar,
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He just came out to explain how angry he is that conservatives like his music.
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First, though, I don't want to move past the environment too quickly.
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And when we say things, we're called idiots and rubes and ignoramuses and uneducated.
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And then six months to two years later, we're proven right about every single thing.
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We're right about human life and borders and the economy and all of those issues.
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Do you remember when a nine-year-old in Canada had a school project where he called up some straw companies
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and then extrapolated the data, quote-unquote, he got from a handful of straw companies out to a whole nation
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and then made this claim that we're wasting a bazillion, gazillion tons of plastic every minute.
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And then the liberal activists decided to run with this little kid as the face of environmentalism
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and then got all of the restaurants to take away our straws
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and force us to drink our iced coffees out of those paper things that turn to just pulp and mush within three sips.
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Remember when that happened over the last five years?
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Well, it turns out the paper straws are not safe for the environment.
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The whole reason we did that, they are not better at bringing your drink into your mouth.
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The entire reason that we did it was because a nine-year-old told us that the plastic straws were bad for the environment
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and that the paper straws were good for the environment.
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Well, the paper straws are bad for the environment.
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New study shows that there are toxic chemicals in there.
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According to this study, the straws contain poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS,
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which are long-lasting, potentially destructive to human health.
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And we've got to prioritize the delta smelt over human beings these days.
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According to Dr. Timo Groffen from the University of Antwerp,
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straws made from plant-based materials such as paper and bamboo
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are often advertised as being more sustainable and eco-friendly.
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But the PFAS in there means that is not necessarily the case.
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They looked at 39 different straw bands, and it turns out that they're all pretty bad for the environment.
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I've made this recommendation on the show before with regard to totally different kinds of issues.
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You should endeavor at all times in your life to be normal.
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How anybody could conclude that grinding up a bunch of industrial-made pulp
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and upending the entire beverage industry in five seconds is going to be good,
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and there was going to be no consequence to that is just crazy.
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This is the consequence of rationalism in politics and people thinking that their own very small stock
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of reason unfettered from tradition or eternal principles or anything else
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is sufficient to remake society into a wonderful utopia.
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And when it comes to the straws, nobody really cares.
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It's a minor inconvenience, and maybe it's slightly bad for the environment.
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But again, we were using plastic before, so who really cares?
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Initially, we were told that the masks, just the stupid little hankies, were going to stop you from
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getting COVID. Then the experts admitted that wasn't true. Then we were told, no, no, no, it's not
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supposed to stop you from getting COVID. Those stupid masks are supposed to stop you from spreading
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COVID. Then we found out that wasn't true. Then we were told, well, no, the hanky masks that you were
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forced to wear for a while, they don't actually do anything. But the N95 masks, those are the good
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ones. Even conservatives got duped by this. Said, well, look, we all know the hankies don't do much,
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but the N95, those are great because some other expert told me that. Turns out, no, the N95 masks
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are not particularly effective at stopping you from catching COVID or spreading COVID. And it turns out
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has been proven to be toxic by researchers from Jeonbuk National University in South Korea.
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Apparently, the hanky masks are no good either.
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You know, I hate to say I told you so. I know a lot of you told people so with regard to the masks,
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too, though. So the question I have is, how did we know that? How did we? I don't have a
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particularly advanced degree. I barely got out of 12th grade science class. I don't know anything
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about masks. I don't know anything about viruses. I'm not an epidemiologist. I don't have lots of
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fancy degrees like Mr. Detective Ogie, who's probably going to come back to public life. How is it that I
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and you and your hick ignoramus hillbilly uncle Billy Bob were all much more correct about the
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scientific questions than all the geniuses with the advanced degrees at the NIH? How is that the case?
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Because we know that human beings were not made to breathe into a big hunk of plastic
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or cotton or any other kind of mask all the time. I think that's why I think that's how we knew it.
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Because we knew no matter what the advertising said, no matter what the Fauci said,
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that human beings are not supposed to do that. That's not what we're for. That's not what our
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lungs are for. Our lungs are not for exhaling into a mask or inhaling through some stupid mask.
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We know that's not what our faces are for. We know our ears are not for holding the mask
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bans on. We just know that's not normal. And because it's not normal, there's a good shot
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it's going to have some negative consequences for us. I think that was my thinking, at least.
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I didn't look at studies. I think studies are bogus. I cite them when they back up my point,
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but I think most social science and most surveys generally are claptrap. And you have your statistics
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and I have my statistics and 152% of statistics are made up. But we, at the very least, know
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ordinary normal people with even a modicum of common sense know that human beings are not
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supposed to act like weirdos all the time. And the libs just incessantly try to get us to act like
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weirdos as a matter of public health, in our schools, in our jobs, certainly in our sex lives,
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they're always pushing that. And it's just, if you have any common sense, you know, it's just,
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it's probably not good. This was a point that Santana just made, the rock star. Santana got in
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big trouble. I'm so late to this story. I'm glad I'm late to this story because there was the first
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headline and then, because we didn't report on the first headline, then we already got the inevitable
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backtracking. So now we just get the full story all at once. Santana made headlines for his shocking,
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unhinged rant. Someone reported this as crazy rant that women are women and men are men.
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Or you're lying your ass up. There is no virtual reality. When God made you and me, before we came out of the
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womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow up and you see things, and you start
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believing that you could be something that, it sounds good, but you know it ain't right.
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Whatever you want to do in the closet, that's your business. So I'm okay with that. I am like this with
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Okay. So this is a very clear articulation of Santana's rejection of transgenderism and maybe
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all of LGBTism, maybe the whole sexual revolution. As he says, what you want to do in your closet,
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that's one thing. But just don't do it in public. And then even at the end, he says, I'm with my
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brother Dave Chappelle, totally lined up on this. Dave Chappelle famously got in trouble for making
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fun of transgenderism. So clear as day what he's saying. I even love, he talks like a normal guy.
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So he's not giving some erudite lecture on anthropology or something. He's just saying,
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look, man, you know what you are. And like, maybe you hear something else and like,
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maybe it sounds good or whatever, but like, he's not true, man. Cause a woman's a woman,
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the man's a man. So after this, because Santana is a big rock star and because he has all sorts of
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fancy agents and publicists and people plugged into the liberal ruling class, they of course had
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the obligatory apology. No doubt. They say it was written by him. It was obviously written by some
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PR flack. I am sorry for my insensitive comments. They don't reflect that I want to honor and respect
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all persons, ideals, and beliefs. I realized that what I said hurt people. And that was not my
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intent. I sincerely apologize to the transgender community and everyone I offended. Sorry, I woke
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up. I want to honor and respect all persons, ideals, LGBTQ or not. This is the planet of free
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will. And we have all been given this gift. It takes great courage to grow and glow in the light
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that you are and to be true and genuine and authentic. I don't know what transvestite 21 year old
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intern at CAA or William Morris Endeavor wrote this claptrap, but it certainly wasn't Santana.
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But anyway, he told you what he thought in, in the monologue on stage. And what he said
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was more perspicacious than just saying men are men and women are women. That's obviously true.
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We shouldn't trans kids. That's obviously true. We shouldn't trans adults. That's also true though,
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less obviously so to some people in our culture. But he went even further. He defended the idea
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of a totally taboo place and notion. And that is the closet. The closet. He says, you can do whatever
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you want in your closet. And this is what the LGBTQ people say. They say, you can't chase us back into
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the closet. I'm coming out of the closet. You think I'm a man, but now I'm saying I'm a woman. So I'm
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out of the closet. And Santana says, go back in the closet. Do what you want in the closet,
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but don't make me deal with it. And don't come into my bathroom and don't be weird. Just be normal.
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Okay. And the closet is not ideal. And I recognize that some people either are born with or at the
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very least have early ingrained desires that are particularly disordered. And I recognize it's easy
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that if you don't have those desires, we can just sort of say, be normal. And it's probably harder
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for these people. So I want to be as charitable and gracious as I possibly can. But also everybody's
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got certain disordered desires. Okay. And it's not all like a man thinks he's a woman or a man is
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attracted to someone of the same sex, but it could be, I don't mean to trivialize sexual desire,
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but like for me, I really like fatty Italian meats. Okay. I like mortadelle. I like prosciutto.
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I like even gabagool. Okay. And it left to my own devices. If I had fatty Italian meats and nice,
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delicious provolone and Parmesan cheese in the fridge, I would eat all of it all the time. I
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would never stop myself. That's a disordered desire of mine that tends toward the vice of gluttony.
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And so I've got to stop myself. And even after the three slices of mortadelle and the one slice of
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gabagool and a little hunk of provolone, even if I still want to eat more, I just don't fulfill that
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desire. Okay. And yeah, I get, I don't know if you've got some weird sexual thing, maybe that's
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even harder, but what's the alternative? This is what Santana's raising. He's saying, what's the
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alternative to doing weird stuff in the closet? The alternative to doing weird stuff in the closet
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is doing weird stuff in the streets, which is what's happening now. And it's bad because it's
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extremely scandalous for everybody, but especially for young children. When young kids are being brought
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to these pride parades where weirdos in leather jackets are smacking each other half naked on
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parade floats, that's obvious. It is obviously preferable that if those guys are going to do
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that at all, they should do it in a closet away from the public where we don't have to look at it.
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Now the ideal is to not do anything like that in the closet either. And this gets back to something
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we've, I've been bringing up on the show a little bit more recently because it's, it used to be the
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basic understanding of virtue that now people are not only ignorant of, I think they don't even think
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it's possible. And it's this notion, Aristotle talks about it in the Nicomachean Ethics famously,
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which is that there are four kinds of people when it comes to virtue. They're the self-indulgent who do
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bad things and they love doing bad things. They're the incontinent who do bad things,
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but they know they should do good things. There are the continent who do good things and they know
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they should do good things, but it's a real struggle. And they really, they want to eat more
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of the mortadelle than they should. Maybe I'm somewhere around there, hopefully. But then there's
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actually another category. And these are the people who are truly happy, who have achieved what
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Aristotle would call eudaimonia. And those are the people who enjoy doing virtuous things.
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And so that's what you really want. You can't have a society as liberalism, classical and modern
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tells us we can, of just pragmatic solutions all the time to constantly competing ideas and, and of
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the good and the true and the beautiful and of personal interest where we just have these pragmatic
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solutions and we leave everybody alone and we remain totally skeptical about ultimate truths.
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You can't really do that. Okay. You've got, you have to have a society in which the people are
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cultivating the right kind of desires and, and, and uniting their actions with their desires and
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uniting their, their actions and their desires with the use of right reason. This sounds all so
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mamby pamby pie in the sky. I know this is how societies operated for like all of human history
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to some degree or another reached its flourishing in the West in what we used to call Christendom.
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And it's totally cracked up in liberalism and it's taking a political philosopher like Santana
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can stay. Nothing even with gold-hued red-headed beards like Oliver Anthony can stay. Conservatives
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loved Oliver Anthony. He's the guy with the Dobro guitar in the woods with the very slick, high-production
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quality music video that was presented as a creed de coeur from a guy with a handy cam in the middle
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of the woods. And he sang about the rich men north of Richmond, close to near rhyme. And the
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conservatives rallied around him and made him the biggest star in the country. And then now Oliver
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Anthony is irritated by that. And he doesn't want conservatives claiming his music.
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It's aggravating seeing people on conservative news try to identify with me like I'm one of them.
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It's aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act like we're buddies and and act
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like we're fighting the same struggle here, like that we're trying to present the same message.
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You know, I've had a lot of people reach out to me and I've tried to be polite to everybody and
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I've talked to hundreds of people the last two weeks. It seems like certain people want to just
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ride the attention of this song to maybe make them their own selves relevant and that's aggravating as
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hell. The other thing that I find aggravating is, uh, well, you know, like it was funny seeing my
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song in the, it was fun. It was funny seeing it, the presidential debate because it's like, I wrote
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that song about those people, you know? So for them to have to sit there and listen to that, uh, that
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cracks me up. Uh, but it was funny kind of seeing the response to it. Like that song has nothing to do
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with Joe Biden, you know? It's a lot bigger than Joe Biden. Um, that song is written about the people
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on the, on that stage and a lot more too, not just them, but, but definitely them.
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All right. Little, little incoherent here. This is what I pointed out about Oliver Anthony's song,
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which I thought showed clear talent. He's obviously a pretty talented folksy artist,
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but the lyrics didn't make a ton of sense because they melded new populist impulses
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with kind of generic establishment chamber of commerce, GOP complaints about welfare queens and
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things like that. So I said, the lyrics aren't totally coherent, but as far as a first shot goes
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musically, he said he at least has a good voice. The whole character and persona works pretty well.
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No wonder that the video went viral. Uh, now he's saying, look, this song is, has nothing to do
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with Joe Biden. It's, it's about much more than Joe Biden. Well, hold on, which is, again, this is
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contradictory. Does it have nothing to do with Joe Biden or is it about Joe Biden and the whole
00:26:47.180
political system? Well, he seems to be saying both things at once, but, but he's really focused on
00:26:53.400
Republicans. He's saying, no, it's the guys on the Republican debate stage that I was singing about.
00:26:57.440
They're the ones that I'm complaining about, not Joe Biden. It's the Republicans.
00:27:00.720
And there's some evidence that the guy is a Democrat. He, there was some Facebook post I
00:27:07.080
saw going around. I think it was authentic in which he was complimenting Joe Biden.
00:27:10.740
There's a video of him just mumbling through the classic liberal platitudes about, you know,
00:27:16.700
the truth, the true strength of America is our diversity.
00:27:20.280
I mean, we are the melting pot of the world and that that's what makes us strong as our diversity.
00:27:24.580
And we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it and not use it as a political tool to keep
00:27:31.580
So that, that kind of a statement, I mean, we all like people of different cultures and things like
00:27:35.860
that, but the statement diversity is our strength. That is a very modern, extremely liberal slogan that
00:27:42.560
is used to justify mass migration and to displace and to injure the very working class that this guy
00:27:49.820
is supposedly singing about. He then tweets out, he says, I don't support either side politically,
00:27:54.140
not the left, not the right. I'm about supporting people and restoring local communities. Now go
00:27:59.420
breathe some fresh air and relax, please. I'm not worth obsessing over. I promise. Go spend times
00:28:03.180
with your loved ones. Okay. I'm not going to be too harsh on Oliver Anthony because I think what
00:28:07.220
he's doing here is probably smart. Oliver Anthony doesn't want to be ghettoized into the conservative
00:28:13.580
media sphere where he becomes, you know, the favorite folksy singer of a handful of shows
00:28:19.840
like this show, this show, maybe a few other podcasts, maybe a couple of shows on Fox news and
00:28:26.900
that's it. That's going to be his career. No, he wants to be mainstream. He's gotten a taste of fame
00:28:31.060
and money and he wants to be a real player who can sell out Stadia and go on all sorts of other
00:28:39.040
shows. So, okay, fine. What's my suspicion here? I don't think that Oliver Anthony has any particular
00:28:46.980
political philosophy or ideology. I don't think that Oliver Anthony just one day accidentally
00:28:54.820
stumbled on fame. I don't think he walked out into the woods with his dogs and his dobro and
00:28:59.180
just set up a little camcorder and then just accidentally went viral. I think this is a guy
00:29:04.020
who's been a struggling songwriter for a long time, who saw his opportunity and made a bet on a very
00:29:12.380
slickly produced music video and made the right kind of connection so that the video could go viral
00:29:17.720
and he prepared to meet the opportunity that came along and that opportunity came along because of
00:29:23.980
a specific moment in our culture. That's the key. I don't think this guy has changed popular music
00:29:32.480
or popular art. I think this guy saw which way the wind was blowing and he took his opportunity.
00:29:39.020
This happens all the time in movies. This happens all the time in music. You have one hit. You get
00:29:46.780
one little hint. Oh, our war movies are in now. Okay, then you're going to get a glut of war movies.
00:29:52.080
This particular brand of pop music is in. Okay, this one band does really well. You're going to get a
00:29:56.540
whole bunch of other pretenders who try to copy that act. And I think here, especially since the
00:30:05.860
election of Donald Trump, especially since the rise of populism, nationalism here in Britain,
00:30:14.420
in Europe, this has been building for some years now, this guy saw, okay, this is the moment for a
00:30:21.240
creed occur about the forgotten men and women of America. You saw the success of J.D. Vance's book,
00:30:26.300
Hillbilly Elegy, turned into a big movie, won J.D. a Senate seat. It's not as though the signs
00:30:31.460
weren't there. And this guy met his moments. This is why I really like the Oliver Anthony phenomenon.
00:30:36.460
I don't have any particular interest in Oliver Anthony or even in his song.
00:30:40.800
But I do like that a guy who was prepared to meet opportunity, that a pretty sharp observer of
00:30:46.960
culture saw that the culture is moving in a direction that is very favorable to us. Now,
00:30:53.580
maybe the ruling class will just clamp down on that and continue to rig the elections and continue
00:30:58.280
to censor conservatives and continue to incentivize even the people who become famous as conservatives
00:31:03.340
to disavow all of us and everything we believe. Maybe that'll happen. Maybe the liberals just have
00:31:07.960
too much power. But the wind is blowing in our direction. No question about it. Now, speaking of the
00:31:14.320
culture, that Russian paramilitary leader, Krogosian, who led the aborted coup on Vladimir Putin and then was
00:31:26.500
given safe passage to Belarus and then accidentally his plane was shot out of the sky, it was unclear
00:31:30.540
if he was dead or not. Did he fake his own death? Did he sneak out on another plane? Well, Russian
00:31:35.220
authorities have confirmed through DNA analysis he was on the plane. They got him. They got him. And so
00:31:42.440
the Saturday essay in the Wall Street Journal was on the godfather in the Kremlin. It was a picture of
00:31:49.620
Putin dressed like Don Corleone. It says, the very public death of Putin henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin
00:31:58.060
highlights the evolution of Russia into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of
00:32:06.220
global leadership. It's a long essay. I'm not going to read any of it. The headline and the subheadlines
00:32:11.960
suffice. Does that sound familiar to you? Does that sound familiar? A country being transformed
00:32:23.580
into a mafia state held together by violence and incapable of global leadership. I know it's been
00:32:29.460
a little while since our political elites encouraged street thugs to burn the country down coast to coast
00:32:34.380
for eight months. That was what? That was about three years ago? Wasn't that long ago. And our ruling
00:32:41.780
class is currently jailing political dissidents for nothing other than simply opposing the regime.
00:32:50.220
I'm not even talking. Forget about the January 6th people. Let's pretend for a moment that cracking
00:32:55.100
a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda were a capital offense. Forget about them for a second.
00:32:59.800
What about Douglas Mackey? Douglas Mackey is a guy who didn't even have that many followers on
00:33:04.280
Twitter who posted some funny memes about the 2016 election. He faces 10 years in prison
00:33:08.900
because the memes were pro-Trump and anti-Hillary. What about Donald Trump himself who faces 750 years
00:33:18.140
in prison for questioning the rigged election? That's it. That's all he did. He just said,
00:33:23.440
hey, I think this election that you all rigged, I think it might've been a little rigged.
00:33:26.820
How about Trump's lawyers and supporters who did nothing but provide the man legal counsel,
00:33:32.700
who did nothing but fulfill their most basic duty as lawyers, being thrown in prison?
00:33:39.880
Does that sound like a little bit, I hate, look, I hate to say it about my own country.
00:33:44.560
Does that sound a little bit like a mafia state? Like a little bit like a banana republic where we're
00:33:50.100
now jailing the political opposite, leader of the opposition and the former president,
00:33:53.240
incapable of global leadership? A country that under Joe Biden, will he, will they, won't they pull out
00:34:00.420
of Afghanistan? Complete collapse. Will they, won't they invite Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine?
00:34:05.860
Happened. Now we're on the precipice of this drawn out introduction, potentially to World War
00:34:10.000
Three. Will they, won't they allow Xi Jinping to invade Taiwan? Will they, won't they incapable of
00:34:16.680
global leadership? Is that Drew makes this point all the time. And it's important. I mean, this is
00:34:22.600
the big debate between, on that stage, between the primary candidates, you had Mike Pence, who was
00:34:28.860
giving his morning in America routine. Everything's great. We just need to feel good about ourselves
00:34:33.300
again. And Vivek Ramaswamy saying, no, everything's not great. This is a dark moment in the country.
00:34:37.660
And if we want to fix it, I think we can fix it, but we got to acknowledge it.
00:34:40.460
At least on that question, I think Vivek has got it right.
00:34:45.440
I hate to say it about my own country, but, but Drew Klavan points this out a lot. He says,
00:34:50.460
the problem with bigots is not that they're wrong about the other guy. Bigots, you know,
00:34:56.820
people are really, you hate people on the basis of their race or their this or their that. It's not
00:35:00.480
that they're wrong about the other guy because there are flaws with all sorts of people.
00:35:04.420
The issue with bigots is that they're wrong about themselves. It's not that their opinion is too low
00:35:09.240
of the other guy. It's that their opinion is too high of themselves. And I think that's our issue
00:35:12.700
here. I'm not saying that Putin's not a mob boss. Sure, Putin's a mob boss, but we don't have a lot
00:35:18.540
of credibility to call him out for that or any of our other geopolitical adversaries if we ourselves
00:35:25.080
are behaving like the mob, which is what's happening. My favorite comment yesterday is from
00:35:31.220
John Apple, 3471, who says, the real question is, how would people react if Trump does formally
00:35:39.220
prove that the 2020 election was stolen? They would react exactly as they're reacting now,
00:35:47.080
which is that his supporters would be irate and upset and offended, and the liberals would shrug
00:35:55.900
their shoulders. You know how I know this? Forget about the election fraud claims.
00:36:00.400
We have pretty much as much evidence as we could have that Joe Biden peddled American influence
00:36:10.660
for multi-million dollar bribes from every crooked leader on planet Earth. Okay? We have text messages.
00:36:18.860
We have emails. We have handwritten notes. We have investigations. We have—we can track the money.
00:36:26.080
We got it all. We've got the prosecutors in the countries that bribe Joe Biden saying, yes,
00:36:35.140
they were bribing the Bidens. We've got it all, and people don't care. It doesn't matter. The Biden
00:36:40.280
people support Biden. The libs support Joe Biden, and many of the conservatives support Trump. Some of
00:36:46.740
the conservatives hate Trump, and they're either going to try to find another guy, or they're going
00:36:50.420
to be the never-Trump people and go over to Biden. They're going to say, well, I endorse the liberal
00:36:54.720
establishment, even against Donald Trump, because I hate him so much or something. That's what's
00:37:00.280
going to happen. That is happening right now. Doesn't matter. You could put—you could have
00:37:06.860
the smoking guns smoking right up their nostrils would not change a thing. Speaking of foreigners,
00:37:16.080
Karen Bass is the mayor of Los Angeles now. Karen Bass is a former member of Congress.
00:37:22.580
She is a communist. She actually worked for many years with communist organizations. I don't call
00:37:29.260
liberals communists a lot. I know some people on the right do that. This woman actually is a
00:37:33.180
communist. She is about as bad a mayor as you could possibly imagine in City of Angels, and she is now
00:37:39.220
complaining, because Texas has sent some buses of illegal aliens up to California, up to Los Angeles,
00:37:47.620
and Karen Bass has said, LA has not extended an invitation asking for people to come. This is a
00:37:56.320
political act. LA, which for many years now has billed itself as a sanctuary state, has, according to
00:38:04.160
the mayor of LA, not invited the immigrants to come? Of course it has. I don't want to ascribe to
00:38:13.220
malice that which is explained by ignorance. Maybe Karen Bass doesn't understand the basic meaning of
00:38:17.340
words, but when you say we're a state that offers sanctuary to you people, that is an invitation to
00:38:24.560
the people to come. Los Angeles just didn't expect that to happen. It's very easy for these blue states
00:38:31.340
to, and blue cities to say that they're totally open to illegal aliens when it's the red states and
00:38:39.620
the red places that have to deal with the brunt of the illegal immigration. So, okay, total hypocrisy.
00:38:47.540
Fine. Here too, though, forget about the immigration issue. The fact that our political leaders will look
00:38:56.080
us in the face and say, hey, that word, that word doesn't mean what that word means. That's much
00:39:01.840
more distressing. That's more distressing than 10 million illegal aliens coming into the country.
00:39:06.460
The fact that they will look us in the face, and they do it with a whole lot of words.
00:39:12.120
You know, I'm not allowed to say how they do this with regard to bathrooms and things like that on
00:39:17.180
YouTube, but they'll do that. I'll just say it. They'll look us in the face and say that men are
00:39:21.980
women and women are men. They'll look us in the face and say that foreigners are American citizens.
00:39:26.300
They'll look us in the face and say, sanctuary doesn't mean sanctuary. It means stay away, you airy.
00:39:32.280
What do you, well, at that point, the political order breaks down. If you can't, if you can't even
00:39:40.700
agree on the basic meaning of words, then the political order breaks down and politics ceases to
00:39:44.640
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00:39:50.860
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delivered. That no one invited. There's this group called No Labels. They've, they started about 10 years
00:40:44.280
ago. And it's a group of fashionable centrist liberals who say, we need, we don't need these
00:40:53.520
crazies on the right. And we don't need these crazies on the left. We just need sensible tax
00:41:00.480
cutting socially liberal establishment types. And then if we only run candidates who are exactly
00:41:08.140
like Bill Clinton, then we'll have a flourishing country and we'll, we'll all of the rancor and
00:41:15.280
division will go away. So Joe Lieberman, who is one of these figures, he was considered a potential
00:41:20.760
running mate to John McCain, even though he was a Democrat Senator, he was considered a potentially
00:41:25.140
the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008. He is the chairman of No Labels. And he says
00:41:30.580
No Labels is going to hold a nominating convention for 2024. No Labels is, is challenging the political
00:41:37.560
status quo and, and in a way, the control that the two parties have over our political system. We think
00:41:45.900
there's a real opportunity for a third choice and that it's, the American people are telling us on
00:41:53.100
polling we're doing and discussions we're having that they just, they've lost confidence in the two
00:41:59.440
major parties and by large numbers, they don't want to have to choose again between President Trump
00:42:06.840
and President Biden. We already have scheduled a bipartisan convention. Think about it. We haven't
00:42:14.840
seen that ever in recent history. A bipartisan nominating convention for Dallas, Texas in April
00:42:23.760
of next year. This is not going to work. This is not going to work. I mean, it could be funny. I'm all
00:42:31.340
for more madness and chaos in this presidential race. I'm more, I'm all for throwing wrenches into the
00:42:38.640
system. So it could be fun if they nominated Joe Manchin or something. That guy's not going to become
00:42:42.460
president. The reason it's not going to work is because Joe Lieberman is right that the two
00:42:47.660
candidates who are the presumptive nominees of their parties are historically unpopular. And it
00:42:53.340
is true that many people indicate that they don't want to vote for those nominees. The reason for that
00:42:59.960
though is not so much the particular candidates. Yes, Joe Biden looks kind of sleepy. Yes, Donald Trump is
00:43:05.980
off putting to certain people. But the reason for that is because of polarization. You're seeing that
00:43:12.260
unpopularity among the candidates because of people in the opposite parties. That's really what's
00:43:17.280
driving it. Because the libs are becoming more lib and the conservatives are becoming more conservative.
00:43:24.260
And so as they become, as the conservatives become more conservative, the liberals are going to hate
00:43:27.360
them even more and vice versa. So you're not going to solve that problem by nominating a supposed
00:43:34.240
centrist. Because that's the constituency that is most getting squeezed. As the groups are becoming
00:43:42.060
more coherently and clearly what they are, they're following their ideas to their logical conclusions,
00:43:47.060
then the group that's disappearing are these centrist liberals. To say no labels is a misnomer. It's a
00:43:52.500
false label too. It's the central lie of liberalism, which is that you can have political neutrality.
00:43:59.800
There's no such thing as neutrality in politics. You're going to think something is good. You're
00:44:04.580
going to think something is bad. You're going to say some things are true and some things are false.
00:44:07.480
So there is no neutrality. What no labels is proposing is just going back to the 1990s.
00:44:13.300
What no labels is proposing is that we all vote for candidates like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
00:44:20.020
Because they say that those candidates, they're above politics. They're reasonable.
00:44:26.380
They're in the middle. No, they're not. They're just another kind of label.
00:44:28.800
They're Clintonites. Call them Clintonites. Call them new Democrats, new labor, whatever.
00:44:33.720
That's what it is. 1990s. Call it a time machine. There's no way to escape a label.
00:44:38.960
This is even, I think about it even with our side. You know, a lot of conservatives,
00:44:42.540
a lot of my friends, a lot of my Protestant friends will say that they're non-denominational
00:44:46.340
Protestants. And I find this to be a funny label because as so many of them repeat this,
00:44:55.260
they say, I am a non-denominational Protestant. I think that the word starts with a capital N,
00:45:01.240
probably as a capital D. I think there's a trademark sign over the end of that phrase because
00:45:06.240
if you identify as non-denominational and if you group yourself with other people who call
00:45:13.740
themselves non-denominational, then you have become a denomination. Not knocking it one way or the other.
00:45:19.460
I'm just saying it obviously is. Some people are Methodist. Some people are Episcopalian.
00:45:23.640
Some people are non-denominational. But those are all denominations. Some people are Republican.
00:45:29.220
Some people are Democrats. Some people say there are no labels. Well, you can call yourself,
00:45:33.640
it's capital N, capital L. It's no labels. And it means a 90s style, fiscally somewhat responsible,
00:45:41.560
socially decadent or permissive kind of Clinton type. That's what it is. And the one thing I can
00:45:51.520
promise you politically, who knows what's going to happen in this election? We don't know. You can't
00:45:55.920
predict the future. But it ain't the 90s anymore, man. And people have a sort of nostalgia, just like
00:46:03.220
people in the 1970s. Conservatives in the 70s had a nostalgia for the 50s. Well, similarly,
00:46:10.100
that's why you had happy days and sitcoms like that. Similarly, now, people have a nostalgia for
00:46:14.980
the 90s. We say things were so good in the 90s. Now, the seeds of the madness that we've got going
00:46:20.080
on today, economic, political, sexual, artistic, all of it, it was there in the 90s. And those ideas
00:46:28.400
followed to their logical conclusion. And if we rewound the clock, we would almost certainly end up in the
00:46:32.680
same place we are again today. People are realizing through history that there are some problems
00:46:39.920
with the things that we thought then. And so, whoever wins in 2024, whatever the political
00:46:45.720
landscape looks like moving forward, it's not going to be a carbon copy of how things were 25 years ago.
00:46:53.100
We are in uncharted waters. They have arrested the leader of the political opposition.
00:46:58.400
Whatever prediction you think that you've got about 2024, I would take a step back and a little
00:47:05.140
dose of humility and encourage yourself for the unexpected things that could come.
00:47:10.960
Now, today is a very special day. And I've promised producer Danny that I'm going to try to make his
00:47:18.840
life easier by not requiring him to deal with the crazy edit where they've got to accommodate the
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Tuesday. It's something I can't talk about on YouTube, because I can talk about in the member
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