The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1442 - My Experience At The State Of The Union

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00:00:30.480 Republicans and Democrats don't agree on much,

00:00:33.220 but one thing that seems to unite them

00:00:35.300 is the desire to reform our prisons.

00:00:39.040 The far left wants to close

00:00:40.800 or even abolish prisons as prisons altogether.

00:00:46.140 Even leading figures on the right

00:00:47.660 think that we are locking too many people up.

00:00:49.600 They want to give convicts a first step

00:00:51.960 back into the public.

00:00:54.700 One of the most prominent faces of prison reform

00:00:57.060 is a man named Sheldon Johnson.

00:00:59.300 Johnson was a gangster

00:01:00.440 who was released from prison last May

00:01:03.080 after spending 25 years in prison for murder.

00:01:05.760 A long time,

00:01:07.060 though perhaps not so long

00:01:08.420 given that he murdered someone.

00:01:10.720 Anyway, since he was released,

00:01:12.480 Johnson has become a major advocate

00:01:14.180 for prison reform,

00:01:16.020 appearing on all sorts of media outlets,

00:01:18.200 including Joe Rogan,

00:01:19.560 just last month.

00:01:20.300 You have a whole bunch of different

00:01:22.860 entities under this one large umbrella, right?

00:01:27.920 And I remember,

00:01:29.120 I was getting paid 17 cent an hour

00:01:31.200 at one point in time.

00:01:32.460 19 cent an hour.

00:01:34.340 And, you know,

00:01:36.820 for operating these big machines

00:01:38.600 and they were producing

00:01:39.740 just like a mass amount of...

00:01:42.320 Core Craft is actually

00:01:43.200 a Fortune 500 corporation.

00:01:46.240 And they function,

00:01:48.260 they regulate out of the

00:01:50.580 prison industrial complex.

00:01:53.000 The prison industrial complex.

00:01:55.160 He was being paid slave wages,

00:01:57.060 terribly unjust.

00:01:58.020 So anyway,

00:01:58.600 that guy was just arrested again,

00:02:01.540 again for murder.

00:02:03.460 And not just murder.

00:02:04.560 He was arrested

00:02:05.240 after having been caught

00:02:06.680 on surveillance video

00:02:07.740 disguised in a blonde wig

00:02:09.160 in an apartment

00:02:10.080 with a dismembered body.

00:02:12.620 When police entered the apartment

00:02:13.820 and arrested Johnson,

00:02:14.940 they found the dead man's torso,

00:02:17.380 initially,

00:02:18.080 no head or arms.

00:02:19.380 That's when they looked

00:02:20.000 in the freezer

00:02:20.560 where they found

00:02:21.560 the aforementioned body parts,

00:02:23.820 at which point

00:02:24.560 they arrested

00:02:25.240 this inspiring figure

00:02:27.040 of prison reform.

00:02:29.180 All of which is a reminder.

00:02:31.840 We are in great need

00:02:33.660 of prison reform

00:02:34.640 in this country.

00:02:36.100 We don't arrest

00:02:37.340 nearly enough people.

00:02:38.920 We don't punish

00:02:39.840 the criminals

00:02:40.360 that we do arrest

00:02:41.220 nearly enough.

00:02:42.060 And no amount

00:02:43.760 of confused moral preening

00:02:45.280 from the pseudo-social

00:02:46.940 justice prison reformers

00:02:48.420 can change the fact

00:02:49.700 that their activism

00:02:50.920 is the reason

00:02:51.660 there's a head

00:02:52.320 in a freezer

00:02:53.020 in the Bronx.

00:02:54.560 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:55.340 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:12.060 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:16.540 The pro-trans activists

00:03:18.220 who insist

00:03:18.960 that nothing they do

00:03:19.840 is in any way

00:03:20.380 a cult or demonic.

00:03:22.060 They are dressing up

00:03:22.780 like demons

00:03:23.300 to testify

00:03:24.080 before the Missouri legislature.

00:03:26.440 We'll get to that

00:03:26.880 in just a moment.

00:03:27.520 First, though,

00:03:28.000 you gotta subscribe.

00:03:28.660 You gotta ring that bell.

00:03:29.660 Smash the thing. 0.97

00:03:30.460 Do the doodad.

00:03:31.240 You gotta hit it.

00:03:32.680 You might be able to tell

00:03:33.860 that I'm not in studio right now.

00:03:35.600 I'm in Washington, D.C.

00:03:37.600 I was in town

00:03:39.000 in D.C. last night

00:03:40.420 for the State of the Union.

00:03:41.780 I was the guest

00:03:42.380 of Congressman Andy Ogles.

00:03:44.020 Very, very grateful

00:03:46.340 to have been there,

00:03:47.160 even though the speech was,

00:03:48.820 and I say this

00:03:49.420 without hyperbole

00:03:50.720 or exaggeration

00:03:51.640 or needless provocation,

00:03:52.920 it was the worst

00:03:53.420 State of the Union

00:03:54.060 in my lifetime

00:03:55.160 of any president.

00:03:56.360 I don't really remember

00:03:57.220 the George H.W. Bush

00:03:58.320 State of the Union

00:03:59.640 State of the Union

00:04:00.480 addresses

00:04:00.920 because I was

00:04:01.620 one and two years old,

00:04:03.420 but all the Clinton ones

00:04:05.000 which were pretty bad,

00:04:06.140 the Bush ones

00:04:06.660 which weren't great,

00:04:07.440 the Obama ones 0.64

00:04:08.160 which were pretty,

00:04:09.420 there was one in particular

00:04:10.100 that was terrible,

00:04:11.060 and we saw echoes

00:04:11.800 of that last night.

00:04:12.720 The Trump ones were fine,

00:04:13.880 and this one was just

00:04:14.800 by far the worst.

00:04:16.560 Now, the first thing I noticed

00:04:17.480 when I showed up

00:04:18.280 for the State of the Union

00:04:19.000 was that there was

00:04:20.560 a big beautiful wall

00:04:21.460 around the Capitol.

00:04:23.340 The Capitol is supposed

00:04:24.300 to be the people's house.

00:04:25.620 Sometimes we refer

00:04:26.620 to the White House

00:04:28.400 as the people's house,

00:04:29.460 but really,

00:04:30.380 more specifically,

00:04:31.760 it is the Capitol

00:04:33.300 because the Capitol

00:04:34.400 represents the legislature.

00:04:35.620 This is supposed

00:04:36.440 to be the most responsive,

00:04:37.720 the most repetitive

00:04:38.180 part of the government.

00:04:39.380 You elect your members

00:04:40.020 of Congress every two years.

00:04:41.360 You elect your senators

00:04:41.960 every six years.

00:04:43.480 Every district elects one.

00:04:44.840 There's hundreds

00:04:45.240 and hundreds of them.

00:04:46.860 So,

00:04:47.440 the fact that there is

00:04:49.340 a wall up around the Capitol

00:04:50.840 raises the question,

00:04:51.780 who are they trying

00:04:52.200 to keep out?

00:04:52.900 They're trying to keep you out.

00:04:54.340 They're trying to keep out 1.00

00:04:55.060 the American people,

00:04:56.420 specifically the Horn Hat guys,

00:04:58.080 and the guys taking

00:04:59.280 Nancy Pelosi's lectern

00:05:00.340 while smiling at the camera.

00:05:01.840 They're afraid

00:05:02.300 that you're going to break in.

00:05:03.180 They're not afraid

00:05:03.800 that North Korea 0.95

00:05:04.580 is going to break in.

00:05:05.240 They're not afraid

00:05:05.560 that Russia is going to break in. 0.54

00:05:06.720 And it's very strange

00:05:07.680 that they would erect

00:05:08.200 this big, beautiful wall

00:05:09.100 because as they're erecting it,

00:05:11.860 they're making the argument

00:05:12.860 that walls don't work.

00:05:14.620 We've heard this argument

00:05:15.460 for years.

00:05:16.300 That's why we shouldn't build

00:05:17.280 a wall on our southern border.

00:05:18.240 They don't work,

00:05:19.460 don't you know?

00:05:20.220 And they're very cruel.

00:05:22.060 That part never made any sense

00:05:23.280 because if they don't work,

00:05:25.120 they can't be cruel

00:05:25.800 because they don't have

00:05:26.360 any effect in the world.

00:05:27.760 And if they're cruel,

00:05:28.540 then that means

00:05:28.940 they probably work.

00:05:29.520 But what we're now being told

00:05:31.360 is walls on the southern border

00:05:33.680 do not work.

00:05:35.640 And that's why

00:05:36.040 the federal government

00:05:36.640 needs to go in

00:05:37.220 and take them down

00:05:37.820 when the state of Texas

00:05:38.540 erects them.

00:05:39.420 But walls in the capital

00:05:41.080 do work.

00:05:42.160 All of which is to say

00:05:43.500 the ruling class,

00:05:45.320 the federal government,

00:05:46.600 views the American people

00:05:48.380 as a far greater threat

00:05:50.660 than it views

00:05:52.740 foreign nationals

00:05:53.740 unvetted

00:05:54.280 who are pouring across

00:05:55.200 the border

00:05:55.540 by the millions

00:05:56.120 every year.

00:05:56.740 It's just the first thing

00:05:57.920 I noticed.

00:05:58.360 This issue of migration,

00:06:00.300 which is right toward

00:06:01.460 the top of people's minds,

00:06:02.640 did not come up

00:06:03.540 until way late

00:06:04.560 into President Biden's speech.

00:06:06.320 So I was there,

00:06:07.320 took a long time

00:06:07.840 to leave the capital

00:06:08.460 last night.

00:06:09.440 Then I might have

00:06:10.140 gone out,

00:06:10.940 had a cigar

00:06:11.620 with some legislator

00:06:13.620 friends of mine,

00:06:14.720 and I didn't get

00:06:17.020 the clips.

00:06:18.060 And I don't think

00:06:18.520 you need the clips.

00:06:19.500 You were watching

00:06:20.060 the Daily Wire backstage

00:06:20.860 last night.

00:06:21.880 If you just have ever

00:06:23.360 heard an old man

00:06:24.140 screaming for one hour

00:06:25.240 and eight minutes,

00:06:25.780 you heard the State

00:06:26.560 of the Union address.

00:06:27.300 There were a few moments

00:06:28.540 though worth

00:06:29.500 calling your attention to.

00:06:31.540 So he opens up

00:06:33.400 and clearly what Biden

00:06:34.500 is trying to do

00:06:35.120 is to prove

00:06:35.780 that he is vigorous,

00:06:37.300 that he's alive,

00:06:38.120 he's not just being

00:06:38.780 strung up by marionette

00:06:39.860 strings.

00:06:41.280 And so he decides

00:06:42.200 to yell.

00:06:42.700 But there was something

00:06:43.180 hollow about it.

00:06:45.080 Yes, he yelled.

00:06:46.560 Yes, he had energy.

00:06:47.880 He lasted

00:06:48.500 over an hour.

00:06:50.320 I was trying to figure

00:06:51.300 out the over-under

00:06:51.920 with some of the other

00:06:52.600 guests in the gallery

00:06:53.560 in the Capitol.

00:06:54.500 And we said,

00:06:55.360 look,

00:06:55.520 it can't be 30 minutes.

00:06:57.940 It'll be a national scandal

00:06:58.900 if it's 30 minutes.

00:06:59.540 It'll prove he can't speak

00:07:00.220 for too long.

00:07:01.400 I don't even think

00:07:01.960 it can be under 40.

00:07:02.920 I thought it would be

00:07:03.420 about 46 and a half minutes.

00:07:05.480 It was over an hour

00:07:06.600 and he kept up

00:07:07.680 the same tone

00:07:08.300 the whole time,

00:07:08.820 which was something

00:07:09.680 like this.

00:07:10.820 And he was speaking

00:07:20.420 very, very quickly.

00:07:21.560 I don't know if it's

00:07:22.120 because of whatever drug

00:07:22.880 they injected into him

00:07:23.740 or if it's because

00:07:24.460 he just wanted to get

00:07:25.240 through it or he thought

00:07:26.420 that speed would,

00:07:27.460 you know,

00:07:27.660 give him kind of

00:07:28.220 Ben Shapiro powers

00:07:29.240 to seem very energetic.

00:07:30.920 But in any case,

00:07:31.560 the tone didn't match

00:07:33.160 the substance.

00:07:33.980 It seemed hollow.

00:07:34.840 It seemed like a bad

00:07:36.380 theatrical performance.

00:07:38.300 So then he's talking

00:07:39.000 about all sorts of nonsense.

00:07:39.820 He's talking about

00:07:40.840 how there are fewer

00:07:41.320 potato chips in the bag

00:07:42.320 of potato chips,

00:07:42.980 which is true.

00:07:43.500 That's actually a consequence

00:07:44.280 of shrinkflation,

00:07:45.480 which is a consequence

00:07:46.060 of his terrible

00:07:46.900 spending policies.

00:07:48.180 It's not just because

00:07:48.720 the potato chip companies

00:07:49.800 decided all of a sudden

00:07:50.800 that they really want

00:07:51.860 to screw over

00:07:54.120 the customer or something.

00:07:55.420 The potato chip companies

00:07:56.260 always want to make money.

00:07:57.640 But at this moment

00:07:58.500 where inflation

00:07:59.260 is going through the roof

00:07:59.900 because of terrible

00:08:00.540 Democrat spending

00:08:01.540 in Washington, D.C.,

00:08:02.600 they decide,

00:08:03.260 OK, we're going to

00:08:03.700 raise the prices.

00:08:04.280 We're also going to

00:08:04.860 shrink the amount of goods

00:08:05.660 that you're going to get.

00:08:06.360 And that's how we're

00:08:06.780 going to squeeze

00:08:07.320 more money out of the customer.

00:08:08.860 So he's talking

00:08:09.700 about all this nonsense,

00:08:10.420 not even getting

00:08:11.000 to the bigger issues

00:08:14.720 like illegal immigration.

00:08:16.380 Finally, he gets

00:08:17.040 to illegal immigration.

00:08:18.680 And he has the audacity

00:08:21.280 to blame the Republicans

00:08:22.300 for not enforcing

00:08:24.280 the southern border.

00:08:25.520 He says,

00:08:26.160 I had a bill.

00:08:27.560 I put a bill out there

00:08:28.820 and the Democrats,

00:08:29.900 we're all going to do it.

00:08:30.580 The Republicans shut it down.

00:08:32.080 Donald Trump shut down

00:08:33.500 my immigration bill.

00:08:34.340 But it was the most

00:08:36.340 dishonest moment

00:08:37.200 of the speech

00:08:37.780 because Joe Biden

00:08:41.360 is currently not

00:08:42.440 enforcing immigration law.

00:08:43.780 So the issue

00:08:44.640 with the southern border

00:08:45.560 right now is not that

00:08:46.160 we don't have laws

00:08:46.780 on the books.

00:08:47.200 We do have laws

00:08:47.740 on the books.

00:08:48.440 Biden is choosing

00:08:49.320 not to enforce them.

00:08:50.380 And when Texas is going up

00:08:51.720 and actually erecting

00:08:52.880 parts of the wall,

00:08:54.120 the Biden administration

00:08:54.700 is trying to take down

00:08:55.480 parts of the wall,

00:08:56.320 is going to court

00:08:57.200 to try to sue

00:08:57.940 to tear down parts

00:08:58.960 of the wall

00:08:59.600 that the Republicans

00:09:00.120 in Texas are building.

00:09:00.900 So this is why

00:09:02.560 the Democrat immigration

00:09:03.660 bill was always ridiculous.

00:09:05.780 Okay, pass five more bills.

00:09:07.300 It doesn't matter.

00:09:07.760 The bills don't mean anything.

00:09:08.880 The laws don't mean anything

00:09:09.820 if the executive branch

00:09:11.020 isn't going to enforce

00:09:11.580 those laws.

00:09:12.180 Biden has proven

00:09:12.660 he doesn't want to enforce

00:09:13.320 the laws that are already

00:09:13.900 on the books.

00:09:15.100 That was very dishonest.

00:09:17.080 But then it got really sad

00:09:18.700 because there's this case

00:09:19.920 of Lakin Riley.

00:09:20.700 She's a Georgia student

00:09:21.600 who was murdered

00:09:22.680 ostensibly by an illegal immigrant.

00:09:24.280 An illegal immigrant 0.98

00:09:24.860 who was arrested in Texas,

00:09:25.900 arrested in New York,

00:09:26.560 and arrested in Georgia.

00:09:27.800 Three times law enforcement

00:09:28.840 let this guy off the hook.

00:09:29.700 Three strikes, you're out.

00:09:30.700 He goes and allegedly

00:09:31.840 murders this young Georgia girl.

00:09:34.280 And the Republicans

00:09:35.280 were heckling.

00:09:36.020 And they said,

00:09:36.520 say her name.

00:09:37.360 We were all wearing pins

00:09:38.860 that said Lakin Riley

00:09:39.740 or say her name.

00:09:40.760 And finally, Biden,

00:09:41.700 he couldn't quite tell.

00:09:42.280 He said, I'll say her name.

00:09:43.860 And he said, Lincoln Riley.

00:09:45.000 Lincoln Riley is the head coach

00:09:46.080 of USC.

00:09:47.980 Okay, and he clearly just didn't,

00:09:50.260 he didn't know

00:09:50.640 who he was talking about.

00:09:51.440 He didn't know

00:09:51.780 what the issue was.

00:09:52.880 He revealed himself

00:09:53.940 to be very, very confused

00:09:54.960 the moment that he went off

00:09:56.860 teleprompter.

00:09:58.620 The Democrats were up and down

00:09:59.840 jumping all night

00:10:00.560 and Republicans really

00:10:01.240 didn't get off their seats

00:10:02.060 much at all.

00:10:03.580 Then you get to the end

00:10:04.640 of the speech

00:10:05.180 and you're waiting

00:10:05.740 for any moment

00:10:06.620 of inspiration.

00:10:08.600 I mean, the whole thing

00:10:09.100 had been so nasty.

00:10:10.220 At one point,

00:10:10.780 he called out the Supreme Court

00:10:12.160 and you can actually hear

00:10:14.140 in the clip,

00:10:14.840 he says,

00:10:15.840 these judges,

00:10:17.340 they overruled Roe v. Wade.

00:10:20.140 And you can hear one person

00:10:21.460 in the entire joint session

00:10:23.040 with all of the members

00:10:24.460 of the House

00:10:24.980 and all of the members

00:10:26.100 of the Senate

00:10:26.540 and the Supreme Court

00:10:27.820 justices

00:10:28.280 and the Joint Chiefs

00:10:29.040 of Staff

00:10:29.320 and there's one person

00:10:30.640 who applauds

00:10:31.400 at that moment

00:10:32.160 and that would be

00:10:33.060 yours truly.

00:10:33.720 That was the nearest

00:10:34.240 that I had to an interruption

00:10:35.280 when he says,

00:10:36.360 they overturned Roe v. Wade

00:10:38.000 and there was one person

00:10:39.180 in the background

00:10:39.740 who's applauding.

00:10:40.560 That is me.

00:10:41.180 That was my contribution

00:10:41.900 to the 2024

00:10:43.620 State of the Union address.

00:10:45.560 But he hammered it

00:10:46.800 really, really hard

00:10:47.380 and he attacked

00:10:48.340 the Supreme Court.

00:10:48.920 He threatened them.

00:10:49.660 He came out and he said,

00:10:50.720 and you guys,

00:10:51.480 you Supreme Court,

00:10:52.400 all due respect,

00:10:53.480 you're going to find out

00:10:54.380 that women have power 1.00

00:10:55.400 and they've got electoral power

00:10:56.600 and they're going to make it hurt.

00:10:57.340 I mean,

00:10:57.480 he was actually threatening them.

00:10:58.800 The nearest I'd ever heard

00:10:59.700 anything like that

00:11:01.040 was during the Obama

00:11:02.760 State of the Union

00:11:03.520 right around

00:11:04.200 the Citizens United decision

00:11:05.600 where he criticized the court

00:11:07.300 in a much more tempered way

00:11:09.200 than Biden did last night

00:11:10.780 and Justice Alito

00:11:11.820 famously mouthed,

00:11:12.960 not true.

00:11:13.500 Now Alito doesn't show up

00:11:14.560 to the State of the Union anymore.

00:11:16.960 So really, really nasty,

00:11:18.400 really nasty.

00:11:18.900 He kept bringing up Trump.

00:11:20.380 You can tell the guy's

00:11:21.120 so defensive.

00:11:22.200 Then he gets to the end

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00:12:02.800 American meat delivered.

00:12:04.340 Finally, you say,

00:12:05.220 Biden, give me anything.

00:12:06.940 Give me something uplifting.

00:12:08.900 Every other president

00:12:09.520 manages to do it,

00:12:10.420 Democrat, Republican.

00:12:11.200 How about you?

00:12:11.900 Stop being so mean and nasty

00:12:13.120 and screaming all the time

00:12:14.080 and just give us something nice.

00:12:15.260 And he tried to.

00:12:16.120 He said,

00:12:17.520 I'm only slightly paraphrasing.

00:12:18.940 He said,

00:12:19.280 America has always been about

00:12:20.760 equality.

00:12:22.480 We're all equal.

00:12:23.600 That's where we are.

00:12:24.480 We're America.

00:12:25.340 We're equal.

00:12:26.180 That's our enduring idea

00:12:27.860 for all of American history.

00:12:30.400 And then,

00:12:30.860 not five seconds later,

00:12:32.480 he says,

00:12:33.360 and these Republicans

00:12:34.280 want to take us back

00:12:35.280 to our old ideas.

00:12:36.620 We need new ideas,

00:12:37.800 not old ideas.

00:12:38.520 And you say,

00:12:38.760 hold on, buddy.

00:12:39.220 Wait.

00:12:39.680 You just

00:12:40.120 trying to analyze

00:12:42.220 the argument here.

00:12:43.140 You're saying,

00:12:43.500 America has always been 0.57

00:12:45.000 about the old

00:12:45.940 enduring ideas

00:12:47.120 are equality

00:12:47.980 and all men

00:12:48.920 are created equal.

00:12:49.700 Okay, great.

00:12:50.560 And that's what we need

00:12:51.320 to get back to that.

00:12:52.100 And also,

00:12:52.500 we need to throw out

00:12:53.120 all our old ideas

00:12:53.880 and only have new ideas

00:12:54.840 because the old ideas

00:12:55.420 are terrible.

00:12:55.860 So,

00:12:56.100 the whole thing,

00:12:57.440 it was incoherent,

00:12:59.080 not just because

00:12:59.980 Biden's an old man 0.75

00:13:00.720 who doesn't know

00:13:01.060 what his name is,

00:13:01.660 but two,

00:13:02.720 because the speech writers

00:13:04.240 don't know what

00:13:04.720 they're talking about

00:13:05.240 because the Biden campaign

00:13:06.060 doesn't know what it's about.

00:13:07.000 What is Biden for?

00:13:09.180 What is,

00:13:09.660 what's the Biden movement about?

00:13:11.320 It's not about anything.

00:13:12.440 It's about Joe Biden

00:13:13.200 wanting to be president

00:13:13.940 since he was in the womb.

00:13:15.000 And now he's president

00:13:15.960 and he doesn't really

00:13:16.620 know what to do with it

00:13:17.280 and he licks his finger,

00:13:18.060 puts it up in the air.

00:13:18.860 The speech last night

00:13:19.580 was much more,

00:13:20.320 it was more for the squad

00:13:21.220 than it was for the centrists.

00:13:22.820 It was more for the squad

00:13:23.680 than it was for

00:13:24.360 the Nikki Haley voters,

00:13:25.680 the Bobby Kennedy voters.

00:13:26.800 He wasn't trying to win over

00:13:27.740 anyone in the middle.

00:13:28.980 Now,

00:13:29.220 maybe that was smart for Biden

00:13:30.560 because he feels

00:13:31.800 that he doesn't have

00:13:32.480 his base shored up yet.

00:13:33.600 He knows that

00:13:34.400 in the primaries,

00:13:35.880 the Democrat primaries,

00:13:37.080 he's losing 10% of his vote

00:13:38.780 to uncommitted.

00:13:39.780 He's losing hundreds

00:13:40.460 of thousands of votes

00:13:41.180 in a clip

00:13:41.640 to anybody but Joe Biden.

00:13:43.760 So the whole thing

00:13:46.300 was very weak.

00:13:47.360 It was very nasty.

00:13:49.600 And that was the main story.

00:13:51.780 Then,

00:13:53.140 the Republicans

00:13:53.760 had their official response.

00:13:55.100 The official response

00:13:55.720 came from the

00:13:56.540 Alabama Senator Katie Britt

00:13:58.720 and it just flopped

00:14:00.620 and it always does.

00:14:01.520 It's nothing against Katie Britt.

00:14:02.700 It's the worst job

00:14:03.360 in Washington, D.C.

00:14:04.360 If they ever,

00:14:05.180 this is just a bit of advice,

00:14:06.660 if you are listening

00:14:07.580 to the show right now

00:14:08.340 ever receive a call

00:14:09.400 from the RNC,

00:14:10.720 from the President

00:14:11.340 of the United States,

00:14:11.940 they say,

00:14:12.480 we would like you

00:14:13.340 to deliver the Republican

00:14:14.380 response to the State

00:14:15.740 of the Union.

00:14:16.400 Just don't do it.

00:14:17.140 Just hang up.

00:14:17.800 Don't even respond.

00:14:18.700 It's a thankless,

00:14:19.540 terrible job.

00:14:20.740 Katie Britt did her best

00:14:21.680 and it just,

00:14:22.320 it wasn't that great.

00:14:23.340 It,

00:14:23.860 they filmed it

00:14:24.960 in a kitchen

00:14:25.500 and it was

00:14:26.920 this woman

00:14:27.760 talking about,

00:14:28.760 you know,

00:14:28.980 common sense issues

00:14:30.000 for all of us moms

00:14:31.360 out there.

00:14:31.920 They're clearly trying

00:14:32.760 to appeal

00:14:33.300 to the mythical

00:14:35.160 suburban housewife

00:14:37.360 who Trump apparently

00:14:38.260 doesn't fare very well with.

00:14:39.380 But as always,

00:14:41.660 it just seemed forced

00:14:42.580 and contrived.

00:14:44.300 You know,

00:14:44.520 the President gives

00:14:45.180 the State of the Union

00:14:45.860 to a joint session

00:14:46.780 of Congress

00:14:47.200 with every powerful

00:14:48.040 politician in the country

00:14:48.940 in front of him.

00:14:49.920 The most grand,

00:14:51.940 majestic setting

00:14:54.120 in American politics.

00:14:55.780 Even if the person

00:14:56.740 giving the response

00:14:57.580 gives,

00:14:58.120 you know,

00:14:58.740 the Gettysburg Address

00:14:59.880 and the Pericles

00:15:00.500 funeral oration combined,

00:15:02.240 it's just not going

00:15:02.900 to be that good.

00:15:03.400 So it didn't,

00:15:04.260 didn't really matter.

00:15:05.080 No one's going

00:15:05.480 to remember it at all.

00:15:06.420 Now we're off

00:15:09.580 to the races.

00:15:10.540 Biden didn't help himself.

00:15:11.800 The only way

00:15:12.540 he helped himself

00:15:13.080 was he proved

00:15:14.060 that he can stay awake

00:15:14.860 for an hour

00:15:15.280 and eight minutes,

00:15:15.820 which was impressive

00:15:16.560 and a lot of people

00:15:17.060 didn't think he could.

00:15:18.060 Otherwise,

00:15:18.500 it was nasty.

00:15:19.060 I don't think

00:15:19.420 he really won

00:15:20.060 a single vote

00:15:21.440 that he didn't

00:15:22.440 already have.

00:15:23.260 Now,

00:15:23.600 speaking of Democrats

00:15:25.260 and votes,

00:15:27.100 there's a beautiful story.

00:15:28.220 There's a beautiful story here.

00:15:30.960 Harris County

00:15:31.860 District Attorney,

00:15:32.700 this is a woman

00:15:33.360 in Texas,

00:15:34.460 Kim Og.

00:15:35.240 She's a Democrat DA.

00:15:37.480 She went to vote

00:15:38.260 and she goes to vote

00:15:40.180 for herself,

00:15:41.260 for her office.

00:15:43.140 She finds out

00:15:43.980 somebody's already

00:15:45.600 voted in her name.

00:15:47.760 This is truly

00:15:48.860 a chef's kiss

00:15:50.380 at news story

00:15:51.400 because,

00:15:51.900 of course,

00:15:52.220 this never happens.

00:15:53.520 There are never

00:15:53.900 any mistakes

00:15:56.060 of identity

00:15:56.740 at the polling places.

00:15:58.520 No, no, no.

00:15:59.400 It's all locked down

00:16:00.360 and Republicans

00:16:00.880 are paranoid

00:16:01.440 and the only reason

00:16:02.460 they want people

00:16:02.940 to present their ID

00:16:03.740 is to stop minorities 1.00

00:16:05.220 or something

00:16:05.640 from voting.

00:16:06.380 No,

00:16:06.980 actually,

00:16:07.940 this happens

00:16:08.420 a fair bit

00:16:08.840 and it happened

00:16:09.200 to a Democrat

00:16:09.660 while she was

00:16:10.040 trying to vote

00:16:10.960 for herself.

00:16:11.700 From the Houston Chronicle,

00:16:13.500 Harris County DA,

00:16:14.460 Kim Og went

00:16:15.060 into Love Park

00:16:16.560 Community Center

00:16:17.380 Tuesday morning

00:16:17.940 to cast a ballot

00:16:18.720 for her own primary race

00:16:19.660 only to be told

00:16:20.160 someone already

00:16:20.540 voted in her name.

00:16:21.340 That's according

00:16:21.660 to this woman's spokesman.

00:16:24.060 So what's the explanation?

00:16:24.780 The explanation here,

00:16:28.160 I guess Katie,

00:16:28.900 Katie,

00:16:29.840 or Kim Og

00:16:30.840 could rest easy

00:16:32.360 because whenever

00:16:33.500 people vote

00:16:35.160 in your name

00:16:35.760 who aren't you,

00:16:36.480 they're always Democrats.

00:16:37.800 Maybe they're dead,

00:16:38.560 maybe they live

00:16:39.060 somewhere else,

00:16:39.680 but in any case,

00:16:41.000 it probably didn't change

00:16:41.880 the outcome of the vote.

00:16:43.240 The official explanation

00:16:44.280 is that

00:16:45.300 Kim Og was told

00:16:47.800 that her partner,

00:16:48.960 I don't know

00:16:49.260 if she's a lesbian 0.92

00:16:49.860 or if they're just

00:16:50.500 using liberal language

00:16:51.500 in this news article,

00:16:52.380 but her partner,

00:16:53.000 her partner,

00:16:53.520 I don't know

00:16:54.140 if it's her accounting

00:16:54.980 firm partner or something,

00:16:56.280 who lives at the same address,

00:16:58.060 went to vote

00:16:59.140 and an election worker

00:17:00.640 pulled up the address

00:17:01.420 and pulled up

00:17:01.980 Kim Og's voter number instead.

00:17:04.120 So they're saying,

00:17:04.460 no, no, no,

00:17:04.660 it's not a big deal.

00:17:05.280 It's not an illegal alien.

00:17:06.780 It's not someone

00:17:07.100 from a different county.

00:17:07.820 It's not even someone

00:17:08.340 down the street.

00:17:09.620 It's Kim Og's roommate.

00:17:11.860 Say, I don't know,

00:17:12.580 husband,

00:17:13.760 lesbian partner,

00:17:15.160 whatever it is,

00:17:15.700 I don't know,

00:17:16.240 partner.

00:17:18.100 That really shouldn't

00:17:19.140 make you feel much better,

00:17:20.380 actually,

00:17:21.680 because the point here is

00:17:23.240 not just that

00:17:25.120 we want the people

00:17:27.380 who are eligible to vote

00:17:28.740 or one of their

00:17:29.400 really good friends.

00:17:30.360 We want the people

00:17:31.300 to vote who are eligible

00:17:32.180 to vote or,

00:17:32.860 you know,

00:17:33.000 their brother or something.

00:17:34.660 I don't know if

00:17:35.640 the person in

00:17:36.760 Kim Og's home,

00:17:39.080 be it her partner

00:17:40.120 or her child

00:17:41.340 or her mother-in-law

00:17:42.960 or whoever,

00:17:44.220 I don't know that

00:17:45.400 that person's eligible

00:17:46.140 to vote.

00:17:47.700 I don't know anything

00:17:49.100 about that.

00:17:49.620 I don't know if that person's

00:17:50.280 a felon.

00:17:50.680 I don't know if that person's

00:17:51.300 underage.

00:17:52.060 Here's what I know.

00:17:54.700 If you request

00:17:56.140 that voters prove

00:17:57.860 that they are who they

00:17:58.640 say they are

00:17:59.420 and they do this

00:17:59.980 to go buy a pack of cigarettes

00:18:00.980 and they do this

00:18:01.480 to go buy a bottle of wine

00:18:02.520 and they do this

00:18:03.160 to travel

00:18:04.200 and they do this

00:18:04.780 for anything,

00:18:06.740 if you do that,

00:18:08.040 then we'll know for sure

00:18:08.720 and then this won't happen.

00:18:09.960 This thing that we're told

00:18:10.640 that never happens,

00:18:11.360 which is apparently

00:18:11.800 happening to

00:18:12.300 Democrat politicians.

00:18:13.560 Speaking of

00:18:14.320 Democrat politicians,

00:18:16.880 John Kerry,

00:18:18.200 who is still

00:18:19.140 in government somehow,

00:18:19.960 he's the climate czar

00:18:21.140 for Joe Biden,

00:18:22.340 he was previously

00:18:22.820 Secretary of State

00:18:23.580 for Barack Obama,

00:18:24.920 he was previously

00:18:25.620 U.S. Senator

00:18:27.020 for a bazillion years

00:18:28.020 and before that

00:18:28.560 he was an annoying

00:18:29.320 sort of hippie protester.

00:18:31.440 John Kerry

00:18:32.220 is now combining

00:18:33.240 all of those things.

00:18:34.780 He is demanding

00:18:36.360 that the Russian military

00:18:38.260 during its invasion

00:18:40.040 of Ukraine

00:18:40.660 focus on what

00:18:41.860 really, really matters

00:18:43.020 and that is,

00:18:43.840 of course,

00:18:44.500 reducing carbon emissions.

00:18:45.700 I believe that

00:18:47.620 Russia has the ability

00:18:49.900 to be able

00:18:50.480 to make enormous changes

00:18:51.860 if it really wanted to.

00:18:54.040 I mean,

00:18:54.560 if Russia has the ability

00:18:55.620 to wage a war illegally

00:18:57.160 and invade another country,

00:19:01.160 they ought to be able

00:19:02.180 to find the effort

00:19:03.060 to be responsible

00:19:03.980 on the climate issue.

00:19:06.360 And unfortunately,

00:19:09.640 because of the actions

00:19:11.060 that Russia took 0.78

00:19:12.240 in an unprovoked

00:19:14.060 illegal war

00:19:15.820 against another nation, 0.78

00:19:18.660 we have not been engaged

00:19:21.180 in discussions

00:19:22.180 with Russia,

00:19:23.140 sadly.

00:19:23.820 I say sadly

00:19:24.560 because it's a loss

00:19:25.520 for the world

00:19:26.360 not to be able

00:19:27.580 to have Russia 0.91

00:19:28.960 acting constructively

00:19:30.100 on this issue.

00:19:31.660 But we need

00:19:33.420 every country,

00:19:34.240 including Russia.

00:19:34.900 Russia is one 0.97

00:19:35.400 of the largest emitters

00:19:36.440 in the world.

00:19:38.860 If Russia wanted 0.88

00:19:39.660 to show good faith,

00:19:41.060 they could go out

00:19:42.880 and announce

00:19:43.600 what their reductions

00:19:44.980 are going to be

00:19:45.540 and make a greater effort

00:19:46.580 to reduce emissions now.

00:19:48.260 And maybe that would

00:19:49.100 open up the door

00:19:49.880 for people to feel better

00:19:51.060 about what Russia

00:19:53.380 is choosing to do

00:19:54.280 at this point in time.

00:19:56.200 Please, Vladdy,

00:19:57.480 while you're sending

00:19:58.760 in those tanks

00:20:00.060 and blowing up

00:20:01.620 all of the Ukrainians

00:20:02.980 with your missiles,

00:20:04.000 would you please consider

00:20:05.160 using a solar missile?

00:20:08.560 Would you,

00:20:08.860 perhaps would you consider

00:20:10.200 a hybrid missile?

00:20:12.780 Vladdy,

00:20:14.240 please be responsible

00:20:15.620 when you're blowing

00:20:16.320 up the Ukrainians. 0.98

00:20:18.000 Stop emitting

00:20:18.860 all that carbon, Vladdy.

00:20:21.180 A fanatic,

00:20:22.760 it has been said,

00:20:24.520 is a person

00:20:25.500 who cannot change

00:20:27.720 his mind

00:20:28.140 and will not change

00:20:29.380 the subject.

00:20:30.000 And that's where we are.

00:20:30.540 And it shows you

00:20:31.500 just how seriously

00:20:33.500 the Democrats

00:20:34.980 really take

00:20:35.880 the Ukraine war.

00:20:37.820 They pretend

00:20:38.200 it's the most important thing.

00:20:38.980 For goodness sakes,

00:20:39.480 Joe Biden opened up

00:20:40.440 the State of the Union

00:20:41.200 with the importance

00:20:41.960 of the Ukraine war.

00:20:43.080 And if you're not,

00:20:44.060 you know,

00:20:44.440 out there waving

00:20:45.100 the Ukraine banner,

00:20:46.280 you're somehow a traitor

00:20:47.260 to the United States

00:20:48.040 or something.

00:20:49.080 But they don't really

00:20:49.800 take it seriously.

00:20:50.720 They say,

00:20:52.440 listen, all right,

00:20:53.300 if you're going to keep

00:20:53.780 shelling those damned Ukrainians, 1.00

00:20:55.320 how about you at least

00:20:56.020 use a lighter

00:20:57.380 carbon footprint, buddy?

00:20:58.640 It even shows

00:20:59.440 that they don't take

00:21:00.060 the climate change issue

00:21:01.700 all that seriously

00:21:02.700 either.

00:21:03.820 It's just,

00:21:05.380 it's just a way

00:21:07.240 to pressure

00:21:08.340 their adversaries,

00:21:10.880 their opponents

00:21:11.360 into just going along

00:21:12.560 with the broader program

00:21:13.640 because obviously

00:21:14.860 climate change

00:21:15.940 is not just a regional issue

00:21:17.600 like the Ukraine war.

00:21:18.760 Climate change

00:21:19.440 is not just a class issue

00:21:21.200 like raising taxes

00:21:22.220 on a certain tax bracket

00:21:23.540 or something.

00:21:24.160 Climate change is

00:21:25.080 by its very nature

00:21:26.040 a global issue.

00:21:28.180 All right,

00:21:28.700 well,

00:21:29.080 well,

00:21:29.340 you're,

00:21:29.800 you know,

00:21:30.040 getting up to no good.

00:21:30.800 Just do whatever we want

00:21:32.520 or the ooga-booga-booga

00:21:35.100 sun monster

00:21:35.720 is going to get you.

00:21:36.620 Do what we want.

00:21:37.300 Why won't you

00:21:37.640 do what we want anymore?

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00:22:49.300 My favorite comment yesterday

00:22:51.080 is from,

00:22:51.820 of course,

00:22:52.340 you know,

00:22:52.520 I don't really see the names

00:22:53.600 of the commenters,

00:22:54.720 but this person

00:22:55.300 keeps getting picked.

00:22:56.100 This is from

00:22:56.840 the Drummer's Workshop.

00:22:57.600 Drummer's Music says,

00:22:58.940 you know,

00:22:59.200 it's one thing

00:22:59.680 to bring back

00:23:00.240 McDonald's crispy chicken sandwich.

00:23:02.160 It's a whole other

00:23:02.860 to bring back

00:23:03.760 a freaking woolly mammoth.

00:23:05.960 That's true.

00:23:07.300 And it shows you,

00:23:08.060 it's kind of like

00:23:08.640 the wall issue

00:23:09.340 I was talking about

00:23:10.160 at the top of the show

00:23:11.240 when I got to the

00:23:12.360 State of the Union

00:23:12.860 last night.

00:23:15.200 We can bring back

00:23:16.520 a woolly mammoth,

00:23:18.040 but we can't bring back

00:23:19.900 functional borders

00:23:20.680 on our southern side

00:23:23.600 of our country.

00:23:24.900 It's amazing,

00:23:25.500 isn't it?

00:23:26.400 We can seemingly

00:23:28.260 do amazing things.

00:23:29.420 We've never had

00:23:30.180 more technical power

00:23:31.300 at our very fingertips.

00:23:33.220 And yet,

00:23:33.560 the basic functioning

00:23:34.700 of government,

00:23:35.600 the basic things

00:23:36.220 that lead to a flourishing society,

00:23:37.500 we no longer seem capable.

00:23:38.960 Is it because we're not capable

00:23:39.800 or it's because we're not willing

00:23:40.740 to do those things?

00:23:41.920 I think it's obviously

00:23:42.760 the latter.

00:23:45.100 Now,

00:23:45.400 speaking of

00:23:46.220 turns of events

00:23:47.600 that are leading

00:23:48.300 our society astray,

00:23:50.200 the scientists

00:23:51.000 want you to be

00:23:52.320 a hippie.

00:23:53.920 They want you

00:23:54.360 to be a druggie.

00:23:55.500 They're telling you now,

00:23:56.620 according to a new study,

00:23:58.360 that a single dose

00:23:59.540 of LSD

00:24:00.800 provides immediate

00:24:02.660 and lasting relief

00:24:04.060 from anxiety.

00:24:06.120 So,

00:24:06.900 this is a clinical trial,

00:24:09.900 has won

00:24:11.220 a U.S.

00:24:13.100 FDA

00:24:13.700 breakthrough therapy

00:24:15.360 status

00:24:15.860 for an LSD

00:24:17.940 formulation

00:24:18.580 that is supposed

00:24:20.080 to treat anxiety.

00:24:21.080 and this is called

00:24:22.040 Mind Medicine

00:24:23.200 Incorporated.

00:24:24.440 They just announced

00:24:25.140 the finding yesterday.

00:24:27.200 This bio-pharmaceutical

00:24:28.080 company is developing

00:24:29.020 just a fancier,

00:24:31.580 more clinical version

00:24:32.440 of LSD,

00:24:33.740 you know,

00:24:33.880 acid,

00:24:34.380 this sort of thing

00:24:35.000 that is made

00:24:35.540 in a bathtub

00:24:36.080 that your hippie friends

00:24:37.680 wanted to take

00:24:38.620 in college

00:24:39.020 and probably

00:24:39.780 turned them down

00:24:40.340 the wrong path.

00:24:41.120 So,

00:24:42.000 people are going to say,

00:24:42.860 Michael,

00:24:43.180 you're such a fuddy-duddy.

00:24:44.240 What if this really works?

00:24:45.220 I've had ostensibly

00:24:46.080 right-wing people

00:24:46.620 come to me and say,

00:24:47.740 actually,

00:24:48.660 LSD and psychedelic drugs

00:24:50.500 show a lot of promise

00:24:51.600 for treating

00:24:52.400 all sorts of conditions.

00:24:54.160 Anxiety,

00:24:54.840 depression,

00:24:55.660 blah, blah, blah.

00:24:56.340 Okay,

00:24:56.740 yeah,

00:24:56.920 maybe.

00:24:58.260 But what does it mean

00:24:59.140 that a single dose

00:25:00.680 of this drug

00:25:01.440 just cures you

00:25:03.860 of this

00:25:05.020 psychological disorder

00:25:06.780 forever?

00:25:09.000 Seems to me

00:25:09.660 what that means is

00:25:10.500 it

00:25:10.880 permanently

00:25:12.440 changes your brain.

00:25:13.840 But what is anxiety?

00:25:16.040 Is anxiety

00:25:16.500 merely a physical condition?

00:25:18.480 That's what we're told.

00:25:19.680 The premise

00:25:20.180 of all of these stories

00:25:21.520 and these studies

00:25:22.160 and these therapies

00:25:23.040 is a materialist premise.

00:25:25.620 It's the idea

00:25:26.100 that everything

00:25:26.540 is just atoms.

00:25:28.920 So,

00:25:29.400 if you have anxiety,

00:25:31.040 the modern liberal

00:25:31.940 materialist

00:25:32.480 will say,

00:25:33.580 oh, yeah,

00:25:33.900 go do that drug. 1.00

00:25:34.740 And if you do

00:25:35.340 a strong enough drug,

00:25:36.400 maybe it'll so rejigger

00:25:37.540 your brain

00:25:38.100 that it'll change

00:25:38.860 your personality.

00:25:40.160 It'll just kind of

00:25:40.800 give you permanent

00:25:41.340 brain damage

00:25:41.940 and that way

00:25:42.720 you won't be anxious

00:25:43.260 anymore.

00:25:44.500 But if you don't

00:25:45.740 take a materialist view

00:25:46.860 of humanity

00:25:48.340 and reality,

00:25:50.340 if you think that

00:25:51.020 there's material things

00:25:52.800 and then there's

00:25:53.380 metaphysical things,

00:25:54.480 you know,

00:25:54.660 the material represents

00:25:55.920 something that's immaterial,

00:25:57.340 like our body,

00:25:58.120 for instance,

00:25:58.560 represents our soul

00:25:59.640 and the two are

00:26:00.280 joined together,

00:26:01.720 then you gotta ask yourself,

00:26:02.820 okay, well,

00:26:03.080 what's the deeper

00:26:04.480 cause of anxiety?

00:26:05.300 And for most people,

00:26:06.540 I would wager,

00:26:08.400 it's not some

00:26:09.500 malformation in the brain.

00:26:11.940 For most people,

00:26:12.620 I would wager,

00:26:13.400 it's a problem

00:26:15.140 with their spouse

00:26:16.380 or a problem

00:26:17.580 with their parents

00:26:18.460 or some aspect

00:26:20.860 of their psychological

00:26:21.600 development

00:26:22.100 that went awry

00:26:22.880 somewhere,

00:26:23.420 maybe because of

00:26:24.040 a trauma,

00:26:25.020 maybe because

00:26:25.900 of a poor education,

00:26:27.360 but whatever it is,

00:26:29.280 there's an issue

00:26:30.060 that,

00:26:32.240 according to the old

00:26:33.220 kind of psychology,

00:26:34.280 which would treat

00:26:34.800 human beings

00:26:35.340 as human beings,

00:26:36.580 you could talk through,

00:26:37.760 you could work through,

00:26:38.620 you could come to

00:26:39.040 some conclusions about,

00:26:39.800 you could develop

00:26:40.300 better habits,

00:26:41.080 you could suppress

00:26:41.560 certain vices,

00:26:42.520 and you could

00:26:43.140 be cured,

00:26:45.120 but according to

00:26:46.380 the new therapy,

00:26:47.280 they say,

00:26:47.500 oh no,

00:26:47.700 you don't have a soul,

00:26:48.360 forget about your habits,

00:26:49.140 whatever,

00:26:49.520 here,

00:26:49.780 take this poison,

00:26:50.960 give yourself brain damage,

00:26:52.040 and then you'll be cured

00:26:52.840 forever.

00:26:53.520 What does it mean

00:26:54.740 to be cured in that way?

00:26:55.840 You obviously

00:26:56.620 haven't fixed the problem,

00:26:58.260 maybe you've numbed

00:26:59.080 the problem,

00:26:59.740 maybe you've just

00:27:00.320 changed your personality,

00:27:02.100 but you haven't solved

00:27:02.960 the problem,

00:27:03.520 and I think that's

00:27:04.140 what we've got going on.

00:27:06.500 Our modern medical

00:27:07.680 treatments

00:27:08.200 are not actually

00:27:09.880 solving problems.

00:27:10.740 They're maybe treating

00:27:11.680 some symptoms,

00:27:12.920 in some cases,

00:27:13.740 though,

00:27:13.860 they're making

00:27:14.160 the problems worse.

00:27:14.920 You see this most clearly

00:27:15.860 with the transgender

00:27:17.200 affirmation.

00:27:19.220 With the transgender 1.00

00:27:19.940 affirmation,

00:27:20.620 you've got a guy

00:27:21.440 walks into a doctor's

00:27:22.500 office,

00:27:22.940 sounds like that's

00:27:23.420 a setup to a joke,

00:27:24.220 a guy walks into

00:27:24.660 a doctor's office,

00:27:25.220 says,

00:27:25.380 Doc,

00:27:25.620 I think I'm a woman.

00:27:27.960 And in the olden

00:27:29.700 days of the

00:27:30.200 Hippocratic Oath,

00:27:31.020 when medicine was

00:27:31.680 seeking to solve

00:27:32.680 problems and pathologies,

00:27:34.500 fix them,

00:27:35.940 remedy them,

00:27:37.060 the doctor would say,

00:27:38.340 oh, yeah, okay,

00:27:38.980 well, you're not a woman, 1.00

00:27:40.320 and so let's discuss

00:27:42.080 why you think you're a woman, 1.00

00:27:43.120 and let's maybe figure out

00:27:44.540 if there are some

00:27:45.140 habits that you have

00:27:46.660 and unresolved issues

00:27:47.840 that are leading you

00:27:48.420 to this conclusion.

00:27:49.340 Now, though,

00:27:50.000 the patient walks

00:27:51.060 into the doctor's office,

00:27:52.200 the doctor says,

00:27:52.660 oh, yeah,

00:27:52.880 of course you're a woman,

00:27:53.540 let's chop you up. 1.00

00:27:54.880 Hey, here's some poison

00:27:55.760 that will permanently

00:27:56.480 alter your biochemistry.

00:27:57.660 Yeah, let's go for it.

00:27:59.680 Actually,

00:28:00.240 a detransitioner 1.00

00:28:01.120 was at the State of the Union

00:28:01.920 last night.

00:28:02.400 I think it was

00:28:02.640 Chloe Cole was there.

00:28:04.940 And it's a big problem.

00:28:06.400 I mean, you're seeing

00:28:06.840 a lot of lawsuits now

00:28:08.040 being filed by people

00:28:09.900 who say,

00:28:10.180 hold on,

00:28:10.360 I trusted the doctors,

00:28:11.680 trusted my parents,

00:28:12.320 I trusted my teachers,

00:28:12.960 and I trusted certainly

00:28:13.660 the medical professionals.

00:28:15.220 And they not only

00:28:17.000 didn't help to fix

00:28:18.340 my problem,

00:28:18.980 they made the problem

00:28:19.820 much, much worse.

00:28:21.520 That is not only

00:28:22.480 a condition

00:28:23.000 of our medical industry

00:28:24.360 right now,

00:28:24.820 it's a condition

00:28:25.360 of our whole society.

00:28:26.400 But you're seeing this

00:28:27.120 in Missouri yesterday.

00:28:29.340 It's according to

00:28:31.180 Missouri Representative

00:28:32.340 Justin Sparks

00:28:33.520 tweeted out a picture

00:28:34.800 of this.

00:28:36.160 There was a hearing

00:28:37.220 for the House Bill 1650.

00:28:40.520 This is a bill

00:28:41.160 that's come up in Missouri

00:28:42.160 to prohibit

00:28:43.100 drag shows for kids.

00:28:44.900 It's amending the law

00:28:45.880 on public sexual performances.

00:28:47.940 Basically says

00:28:48.740 kids shouldn't be 0.85

00:28:49.740 the audience

00:28:51.640 for these lurid

00:28:52.800 sexual shows.

00:28:54.280 And so a bunch of weirdos

00:28:55.540 show up to protest this.

00:28:56.680 One of whom

00:28:57.900 dresses like a demon.

00:29:00.580 So the libs

00:29:01.400 tell us,

00:29:02.520 the pro-trans people,

00:29:03.380 they say,

00:29:04.160 how dare you

00:29:06.440 suggest that there's

00:29:08.020 something demonic

00:29:08.740 about denying

00:29:10.160 or even inverting

00:29:11.280 the basic distinction

00:29:12.640 in human nature?

00:29:13.700 How dare you

00:29:14.860 suggest there's

00:29:15.940 something occult

00:29:16.780 or demonic

00:29:18.020 about attacking

00:29:19.740 the basic building block

00:29:20.940 of society,

00:29:21.640 the family,

00:29:22.320 and totally

00:29:23.000 perverting that?

00:29:24.540 How dare you

00:29:25.560 not allow me

00:29:26.260 to dress up

00:29:27.080 like Baal 0.91

00:29:28.820 and show up

00:29:29.640 to protest

00:29:30.360 some bill?

00:29:31.380 You know,

00:29:31.600 this person sitting there

00:29:32.580 in this crazy getup

00:29:33.720 speaking,

00:29:35.800 and you're just

00:29:36.980 waiting for the

00:29:38.400 legislator to say,

00:29:39.740 you know,

00:29:39.900 okay,

00:29:40.360 all right,

00:29:40.880 now to discuss

00:29:43.540 how transgenderism

00:29:44.740 has no connection

00:29:45.840 whatsoever

00:29:46.360 to Gnosticism

00:29:47.440 or the occult

00:29:47.940 is Senator Baphomet.

00:29:49.300 Senator Baphomet,

00:29:50.180 you have two minutes,

00:29:50.760 you have the floor.

00:29:52.080 And I love,

00:29:55.360 actually,

00:29:55.840 that the Missouri

00:29:56.380 State House

00:29:56.820 is taking this up

00:29:57.460 because it just,

00:29:58.100 it just shows you

00:29:59.720 the reality

00:30:01.400 of the issue.

00:30:02.800 That's why I really

00:30:03.260 like all of these

00:30:03.820 speeches.

00:30:04.300 It just shows you

00:30:05.380 what's really going on.

00:30:07.220 There's another

00:30:07.640 Missouri bill right now

00:30:08.740 that is threatening

00:30:10.260 teachers who peddle

00:30:11.800 this kind of

00:30:12.300 trans nonsense. 1.00

00:30:13.120 I love,

00:30:13.520 this is a really good bill.

00:30:14.600 You think HB 1650

00:30:15.740 is good.

00:30:16.160 This one's amazing.

00:30:17.060 HB 2885.

00:30:19.480 This is a bill

00:30:20.140 that would make it

00:30:20.580 a felony offense

00:30:21.440 for school teachers

00:30:22.420 or counselors

00:30:22.860 to support or contribute

00:30:24.000 to the social transitioning

00:30:25.540 of a minor.

00:30:27.280 So if a teacher

00:30:28.200 or counselor

00:30:28.700 pushes this trans stuff, 0.96

00:30:30.720 which is a false ideology,

00:30:32.620 a false anthropology,

00:30:33.520 it's a thing that is not

00:30:34.520 and cannot possibly

00:30:35.360 be true for anyone,

00:30:36.760 the idea that a man

00:30:37.420 can be a woman 0.99

00:30:37.860 or vice versa.

00:30:38.700 If a teacher

00:30:39.500 forces that profound

00:30:41.820 confusion and perversion

00:30:43.000 on a child,

00:30:44.440 that's a crime.

00:30:46.080 Obviously.

00:30:46.900 The,

00:30:47.460 excuse me,

00:30:48.940 the proposed law

00:30:49.780 would also

00:30:51.280 put the offender

00:30:52.320 on the sexual offender

00:30:53.360 registry as it should.

00:30:55.980 Adults

00:30:56.420 who push weird

00:30:57.460 sexual ideologies

00:30:58.340 on kids

00:30:58.920 should not be permitted

00:31:00.280 to do that.

00:31:00.820 They should be strongly

00:31:01.380 discouraged from doing that.

00:31:03.340 Now we're talking, baby.

00:31:04.440 This is good stuff.

00:31:06.000 This is conservatives

00:31:07.500 and I love Missouri.

00:31:08.900 The Missouri Republicans,

00:31:09.860 they have their heads

00:31:10.640 screwed on straight.

00:31:12.340 They recognize

00:31:13.320 we're not going to do this.

00:31:14.100 In fact,

00:31:14.520 the first,

00:31:15.840 as far as I can tell,

00:31:16.620 the first big

00:31:17.440 college speeches

00:31:19.960 calling attention to this

00:31:20.820 were my speaking tour

00:31:22.060 years ago,

00:31:23.840 which it was the

00:31:24.620 Men Are Not Women 1.00

00:31:25.480 and Other Uncomfortable

00:31:26.340 Truths tour.

00:31:26.940 It was the first time

00:31:27.420 I was ever attacked

00:31:28.280 in public.

00:31:29.200 I was at University

00:31:29.900 of Missouri,

00:31:30.300 Kansas City

00:31:30.820 and some wacko

00:31:32.580 pro-trans type people

00:31:33.840 came in and attacked me

00:31:35.140 during my speech

00:31:35.820 because I said

00:31:36.180 men and women are different.

00:31:37.700 And the state senators,

00:31:40.200 the Republicans,

00:31:40.800 including Eric Burleson,

00:31:41.600 who's now a member

00:31:41.940 of Congress,

00:31:42.900 invited me back

00:31:43.900 to the state

00:31:44.620 capital in Missouri

00:31:45.240 to finish giving

00:31:46.120 that speech

00:31:46.520 because they said,

00:31:47.040 look,

00:31:47.180 maybe some squishes

00:31:47.920 around the country

00:31:48.480 are going to give up

00:31:49.320 on this issue.

00:31:50.180 We are not.

00:31:51.520 They took it very,

00:31:52.440 very seriously.

00:31:53.240 You're seeing this

00:31:53.780 right now actually

00:31:54.440 at the federal level.

00:31:57.100 The House just passed

00:31:58.420 a great bill.

00:32:00.040 It's so unusual

00:32:01.220 these days

00:32:01.760 for congressional Republicans

00:32:02.820 to do anything

00:32:03.400 that we're always shocked

00:32:04.300 when that sort of thing

00:32:04.860 happens.

00:32:05.540 This is the

00:32:06.080 Lakin-Riley Act.

00:32:08.120 This refers to

00:32:09.040 the pin,

00:32:09.760 obviously,

00:32:10.140 that a lot of us

00:32:10.760 were wearing last night

00:32:11.500 at the State of the Union.

00:32:12.280 The Lakin-Riley Act

00:32:13.400 refers ultimately

00:32:15.360 to this poor girl,

00:32:16.800 Lakin-Riley,

00:32:17.700 Georgia student,

00:32:18.380 who was murdered

00:32:18.940 ostensibly by an illegal alien.

00:32:21.000 And we talked about the bill

00:32:22.680 a few days ago

00:32:23.300 and we said,

00:32:23.660 can the Democrats

00:32:25.060 vote against this?

00:32:25.780 All it says is

00:32:26.480 that illegal aliens 1.00

00:32:28.720 who commit theft

00:32:30.500 as Lakin-Riley's

00:32:33.340 alleged murderer did

00:32:34.400 must be arrested.

00:32:36.560 It's so mild.

00:32:37.780 It's so moderate.

00:32:39.500 And even still,

00:32:40.500 a lot of Republicans

00:32:42.480 voted,

00:32:42.860 or a lot of Democrats

00:32:43.600 rather,

00:32:43.920 voted against it.

00:32:44.680 Thirty-seven Republicans

00:32:46.300 ultimately joined,

00:32:47.680 excuse me,

00:32:48.480 thirty-seven Democrats

00:32:50.060 ultimately joined

00:32:51.240 all of the Republicans

00:32:52.280 in supporting this bill

00:32:53.820 and condemning

00:32:56.000 the way that the administration

00:32:56.800 is handling

00:32:57.340 the southern border

00:32:57.900 right now.

00:32:58.400 It means a lot of Democrats

00:32:59.180 didn't,

00:32:59.500 but the bill

00:33:00.280 put enough of a face

00:33:01.580 on the situation.

00:33:02.240 It showed the present situation

00:33:04.340 to be sufficiently egregious

00:33:05.880 that thirty-seven Democrats

00:33:07.900 could not ignore it.

00:33:09.840 That is the way

00:33:10.660 to make laws.

00:33:11.360 You've got,

00:33:11.660 Democrats are very good

00:33:12.540 at personalizing

00:33:13.460 their terrible vision

00:33:14.780 for the country.

00:33:15.320 We need to,

00:33:15.680 we need to personalize

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00:34:02.100 Hey Michael,

00:34:02.860 Jackson here.

00:34:03.400 You often state on your show

00:34:04.840 that men and women

00:34:05.520 have the same souls,

00:34:06.900 claiming that if souls

00:34:07.860 were gendered,

00:34:08.960 then men and women

00:34:09.740 would be different species.

00:34:11.720 Now,

00:34:11.940 I greatly respect

00:34:12.680 St. Thomas Aquinas

00:34:13.480 and Aristotle,

00:34:14.240 but I fear

00:34:14.800 if we do not allow

00:34:15.820 for souls to be gendered, 1.00

00:34:17.020 we will eventually

00:34:17.600 lose the transgender debate.

00:34:19.480 If we say that sex 0.75

00:34:20.400 is only derived

00:34:21.020 from the body,

00:34:21.940 then in 300 years or less,

00:34:23.640 when the technology

00:34:24.360 is able to completely

00:34:25.600 alter a man's body

00:34:26.580 so that he is identical

00:34:27.580 genetically

00:34:28.120 to that of a woman,

00:34:29.360 we would have to cede

00:34:30.500 that the man

00:34:31.280 is really a woman.

00:34:32.000 However,

00:34:33.280 I still believe

00:34:34.060 that even when

00:34:34.720 that happens,

00:34:35.400 that man,

00:34:36.020 deep down,

00:34:36.580 will still be a man.

00:34:37.600 He is bound

00:34:38.600 metaphysically to his sex.

00:34:40.840 I think that men and women

00:34:42.200 can have different souls

00:34:43.460 without being different species.

00:34:44.860 I do not think it

00:34:45.720 to be too far-fetched

00:34:46.740 to claim that

00:34:47.380 within the category

00:34:48.120 of human soul,

00:34:49.140 there are two different types,

00:34:50.580 male and female.

00:34:51.960 St. Edith Stein

00:34:53.200 also makes a similar case.

00:34:55.020 So I'd love to hear

00:34:55.820 your thoughts.

00:34:56.380 Thanks.

00:34:56.620 I totally understand

00:35:00.180 your fear here.

00:35:03.340 You'll say,

00:35:03.720 well, Michael,

00:35:04.320 your view of the way

00:35:06.260 the soul relates to the body

00:35:07.340 is based on

00:35:08.120 St. Thomas Aquinas

00:35:08.860 and St. Thomas Aquinas

00:35:09.940 could not have foreseen

00:35:10.780 technological advances

00:35:11.800 so we don't want to

00:35:12.360 put ourselves in a corner here

00:35:13.500 and there have been

00:35:14.460 other people

00:35:14.940 who have made

00:35:16.060 other arguments.

00:35:17.040 I mean,

00:35:17.180 St. Thomas Aquinas

00:35:17.720 is basically the smartest person

00:35:19.000 ever to have lived

00:35:19.800 and he reconciles

00:35:21.120 the Platonic

00:35:21.760 and the Aristotelian

00:35:23.220 traditions

00:35:23.620 and baptizes all of it

00:35:25.720 through Christianity

00:35:26.260 and he's just,

00:35:27.080 you know,

00:35:27.800 it's not wise

00:35:28.560 to disagree with

00:35:30.040 St. Thomas Aquinas

00:35:30.560 but I see your fear.

00:35:32.660 I guess I don't share

00:35:34.460 that fear.

00:35:35.980 The first part

00:35:36.820 of your fear

00:35:37.220 which is someday

00:35:38.200 technology will advance

00:35:39.180 enough to replace

00:35:39.760 all the cells in our body

00:35:40.540 and make us physically

00:35:41.920 totally identical

00:35:44.580 with whichever sex 0.59

00:35:45.820 we prefer to

00:35:46.660 pretend to be.

00:35:48.040 I don't think

00:35:48.800 that can happen

00:35:49.400 and the reason

00:35:50.500 for that

00:35:50.940 is just logical.

00:35:52.600 It's not even technological

00:35:53.420 which is

00:35:54.460 that we are in

00:35:56.040 time and space.

00:35:58.580 So

00:35:58.780 the

00:36:00.480 Thomistic view

00:36:02.140 the St. Thomas Aquinas view

00:36:03.580 of the body

00:36:04.300 and the soul

00:36:04.760 is that

00:36:05.860 and of gender

00:36:07.900 is that gender

00:36:09.160 or sex

00:36:09.900 is an inseparable

00:36:11.680 accident

00:36:12.420 of the individual

00:36:13.440 owing primarily

00:36:14.740 to the body.

00:36:16.240 So we're body

00:36:17.360 we're matter

00:36:18.040 and we're soul

00:36:19.360 and the soul

00:36:19.920 is a substantial form

00:36:21.320 of the body

00:36:22.180 and we are

00:36:24.320 the soul

00:36:26.220 is human

00:36:26.940 you know

00:36:27.220 that's why

00:36:27.620 men and women

00:36:28.320 are the same species

00:36:29.160 but we have this

00:36:30.380 sexual distinction

00:36:31.100 which comes primarily

00:36:32.200 from the body

00:36:32.920 but it's an inseparable

00:36:34.140 accident that applies

00:36:35.200 to the individual.

00:36:36.580 You cannot

00:36:37.220 unlike what the Gnostic 1.00

00:36:38.900 modern and ancient Gnostics

00:36:41.100 believed

00:36:41.360 you can't actually

00:36:42.200 separate body and soul

00:36:43.040 on this earth.

00:36:44.460 So that inseparable

00:36:45.380 accident applies

00:36:46.060 to the whole individual

00:36:47.060 so long as that individual

00:36:48.740 is an individual

00:36:50.400 you know

00:36:50.740 for the entirety

00:36:51.340 of your life.

00:36:52.220 So you might say

00:36:52.960 well someday

00:36:53.420 we're going to be

00:36:54.000 really really good

00:36:54.740 at making the

00:36:56.480 trans identifying people

00:36:57.820 look like their

00:36:58.460 preferred sex

00:36:59.140 or we'll even

00:36:59.500 change their cells

00:37:00.240 but that person

00:37:01.460 will still have been

00:37:02.880 the real sex 0.58

00:37:05.440 that he is.

00:37:06.500 He will still have

00:37:07.120 developed that way

00:37:07.680 from the very moment

00:37:08.420 of conception

00:37:08.880 because the life begins

00:37:09.980 not just when his soul

00:37:11.640 you know

00:37:12.140 popped into existence

00:37:13.260 in the ether

00:37:13.860 or something

00:37:14.300 but when he

00:37:15.340 as body and soul

00:37:16.500 together develop

00:37:17.940 as an incarnate being.

00:37:19.740 So that

00:37:20.280 you'd have to

00:37:22.360 go back so far

00:37:23.240 you'd have to go

00:37:23.640 back to the very

00:37:24.240 very beginning

00:37:24.820 to change who

00:37:25.400 that person is

00:37:25.880 and then it would

00:37:26.200 be a meaningless

00:37:27.120 statement to say

00:37:27.780 that he's transgender

00:37:29.040 he just

00:37:29.440 from the moment

00:37:30.540 he has a body

00:37:31.340 you know

00:37:31.680 he is who he is

00:37:32.760 so I think

00:37:33.860 I see the fear

00:37:35.020 in theory

00:37:36.100 I just don't think

00:37:36.800 it's one

00:37:37.180 really ever

00:37:38.160 that we'll have

00:37:38.580 to worry about.

00:37:39.500 Next one.

00:37:41.120 Hello Michael

00:37:41.680 I hope you're doing well.

00:37:43.580 You've said before

00:37:44.540 that watching a

00:37:45.320 daily political show

00:37:46.520 makes you more

00:37:47.740 informed about

00:37:48.420 politics

00:37:48.980 than most

00:37:49.700 Americans.

00:37:50.520 I watch three

00:37:51.580 I watch yours

00:37:53.120 Ben's

00:37:53.920 or Matt's

00:37:54.580 every single day

00:37:55.340 as well as

00:37:55.940 a second show

00:37:56.940 that many would

00:37:57.580 claim to be

00:37:58.340 a far right

00:37:58.880 extremist

00:37:59.500 and a third show

00:38:00.740 that I would claim

00:38:01.520 is a fake

00:38:02.380 conservative show.

00:38:03.400 I do this

00:38:03.940 to avoid

00:38:04.380 biasy 0.90

00:38:05.000 in my information.

00:38:07.100 I know that you

00:38:07.600 work with many

00:38:08.360 conservative

00:38:09.740 college students

00:38:10.660 such as myself

00:38:11.420 so I knew that

00:38:12.700 you'd be perfect

00:38:13.400 to answer this

00:38:13.980 question.

00:38:14.400 How do I convince

00:38:15.620 people

00:38:16.000 and how do

00:38:17.180 any other

00:38:17.740 conservative

00:38:18.300 college students

00:38:18.980 convince people

00:38:20.160 that 19-20 year old

00:38:21.920 conservatives

00:38:22.360 do know what

00:38:23.100 they're talking

00:38:23.540 about

00:38:23.880 and they can

00:38:24.740 bring good

00:38:25.680 arguments to

00:38:26.540 the table

00:38:26.940 and not to

00:38:27.800 have people

00:38:28.200 just throw

00:38:29.320 us to the side

00:38:30.140 like we're

00:38:30.540 white supremacists

00:38:31.360 or something.

00:38:32.340 Thank you in advance.

00:38:34.860 The best way

00:38:36.220 is to have

00:38:37.440 some humility.

00:38:38.340 That's the way

00:38:38.740 to do it.

00:38:39.640 Young people

00:38:40.180 they want to

00:38:40.640 talk all the time

00:38:41.360 but there's

00:38:41.800 an old adage

00:38:42.540 which is

00:38:42.960 it is better

00:38:44.020 to keep

00:38:44.840 your mouth 0.72

00:38:45.200 shut

00:38:45.520 and be

00:38:46.000 thought

00:38:46.340 an idiot

00:38:46.980 than to

00:38:47.720 open your

00:38:48.080 mouth

00:38:48.320 and prove

00:38:48.800 it.

00:38:49.800 It's kind

00:38:50.180 of funny

00:38:50.400 because I'm

00:38:50.740 on a talk

00:38:51.140 show where

00:38:51.440 all I do

00:38:51.780 is just sit

00:38:52.160 in front of

00:38:52.380 a camera

00:38:52.600 and talk.

00:38:54.140 Sometimes

00:38:54.900 there's a great

00:38:55.880 fear actually

00:38:56.620 there where you

00:38:57.000 say if you're

00:38:57.300 just blabbing

00:38:57.740 all the time

00:38:58.260 you're going

00:38:58.660 to seem

00:38:58.960 very foolish

00:38:59.480 so you've

00:38:59.820 got to be

00:39:00.040 very careful

00:39:00.700 and circumspect

00:39:03.780 in some of

00:39:04.320 your claims.

00:39:05.020 This is especially

00:39:05.540 true for young

00:39:06.100 people who are

00:39:06.620 taken to

00:39:07.420 great gusts of

00:39:09.240 passion and who

00:39:10.080 just necessarily

00:39:11.220 don't know as

00:39:12.140 much as they 0.58

00:39:12.600 would if they

00:39:13.320 continue to

00:39:13.880 educate

00:39:14.160 themselves.

00:39:15.080 So this

00:39:15.480 doesn't mean

00:39:15.880 that young

00:39:16.200 people have

00:39:16.600 nothing to

00:39:17.020 offer.

00:39:17.300 In some

00:39:17.480 cases they

00:39:17.820 have more

00:39:18.000 to offer

00:39:18.340 than the

00:39:18.660 older people.

00:39:19.480 Some rare

00:39:20.400 limited cases.

00:39:21.760 But the way

00:39:22.420 that you can

00:39:22.920 convey that

00:39:23.780 is with some

00:39:24.420 humility.

00:39:26.020 And the

00:39:27.220 other way you

00:39:27.660 can convey

00:39:28.060 that and I

00:39:28.560 think it's

00:39:28.740 very wise

00:39:29.260 that you

00:39:29.580 listen to

00:39:30.140 all sorts

00:39:30.620 of different

00:39:30.960 perspectives

00:39:31.400 is if you

00:39:32.840 can articulate

00:39:34.100 all the

00:39:34.980 points of

00:39:35.420 view on a

00:39:36.720 particular

00:39:37.020 subject.

00:39:38.160 If you can

00:39:38.440 say okay

00:39:38.820 well here's

00:39:39.480 what a

00:39:40.100 mainstream

00:39:40.860 sensible

00:39:41.640 person.

00:39:43.200 I guess I

00:39:43.720 would be

00:39:43.940 called a

00:39:44.220 far-right

00:39:44.620 radical

00:39:45.080 extremist

00:39:45.680 fascist

00:39:46.080 or whatever

00:39:46.380 by NBC

00:39:47.340 News.

00:39:47.920 But you

00:39:48.500 say okay

00:39:48.800 someone like

00:39:49.240 Michael who's

00:39:49.800 really sensible

00:39:50.480 and quite

00:39:51.880 articulate and

00:39:52.460 devilishly handsome

00:39:53.380 and just really

00:39:54.440 sexy and someone

00:39:55.740 like him he would

00:39:56.420 say this.

00:39:57.700 And then someone

00:39:58.380 who's I don't

00:39:58.980 know some extreme

00:39:59.700 crazy Nietzschean

00:40:01.080 he would say

00:40:01.960 this.

00:40:02.480 And then some

00:40:03.000 communist would

00:40:03.620 say this.

00:40:04.140 And then some

00:40:04.560 center-left liberal

00:40:05.240 would say this.

00:40:05.960 And this is why

00:40:06.860 they all view this

00:40:08.000 situation differently and

00:40:09.420 here's why I'm

00:40:10.180 inclined to favor

00:40:10.900 probably let's

00:40:12.080 say my view just

00:40:12.780 hypothetically.

00:40:14.040 If you can show

00:40:15.000 that you've

00:40:15.480 considered all of

00:40:16.160 the perspectives you

00:40:16.800 can make the

00:40:17.180 strongest case for

00:40:17.960 all those

00:40:18.180 perspectives you'll

00:40:19.360 also be taken

00:40:19.880 more seriously

00:40:20.500 because you'll

00:40:22.040 be presenting

00:40:23.560 to the people

00:40:24.060 you're trying to

00:40:24.580 convince

00:40:25.020 probably many

00:40:28.960 more facets of

00:40:29.740 the issue than

00:40:30.220 even they have

00:40:30.880 considered.

00:40:31.340 They will have

00:40:31.660 to take you

00:40:32.000 seriously.

00:40:32.560 Next one.

00:40:33.940 Hi Michael I

00:40:34.820 hope you're well.

00:40:35.880 My Filipino

00:40:36.600 immigrant parents

00:40:37.580 hold pro-second

00:40:38.460 amendment,

00:40:38.900 pro-life,

00:40:40.320 pro-legal

00:40:40.860 immigration,

00:40:41.660 and law and

00:40:42.160 order values.

00:40:43.300 But even though

00:40:43.980 they do vote,

00:40:44.900 they don't follow

00:40:45.360 politics closely

00:40:46.280 and don't

00:40:46.980 associate these

00:40:47.740 principles as

00:40:48.460 strictly Republican

00:40:49.260 or conservative.

00:40:50.860 They see them

00:40:51.880 as common sense

00:40:52.800 and assume both

00:40:53.960 parties agree

00:40:54.660 and actually vote

00:40:55.700 Democrat due to

00:40:56.780 the media's

00:40:57.400 unfavorable

00:40:57.920 depictions of

00:40:58.620 conservatives.

00:40:59.980 How do you

00:41:00.500 suggest I

00:41:01.260 initiate a

00:41:02.240 conversation with

00:41:02.960 them to

00:41:03.280 encourage them

00:41:03.860 to consider

00:41:04.580 voting for

00:41:05.200 the Republican

00:41:05.720 candidate in

00:41:06.560 November without

00:41:07.540 hitting them over

00:41:08.320 the head with

00:41:08.840 it?

00:41:09.580 Thanks for

00:41:10.160 your insights.

00:41:11.600 Sincerely,

00:41:12.040 Nicole,

00:41:12.460 the girl who

00:41:12.960 gave you the

00:41:13.520 Trump Reputation

00:41:14.380 Era shirt at

00:41:15.380 CPAC.

00:41:15.780 Oh, hey, great.

00:41:18.720 Nice to hear from

00:41:19.460 you.

00:41:19.760 That's fabulous.

00:41:20.980 So the way to

00:41:21.700 do it is people

00:41:22.620 have some prejudice.

00:41:23.800 You know, I have

00:41:24.540 a friend who says

00:41:25.300 facts don't care

00:41:25.780 about your

00:41:26.020 feelings, but

00:41:26.580 politics cares

00:41:27.720 almost exclusively

00:41:28.540 about your

00:41:28.960 feelings.

00:41:29.640 That's true for

00:41:30.140 everyone, including

00:41:30.840 your parents.

00:41:31.880 What I would do

00:41:32.300 is say, okay,

00:41:34.920 mom and dad,

00:41:36.620 I'm trying to

00:41:37.260 think about who

00:41:37.660 to vote for this

00:41:38.260 year.

00:41:38.460 Do you think I

00:41:39.680 should vote for

00:41:40.420 the candidate who

00:41:42.200 says we need to

00:41:42.880 have functional

00:41:43.320 borders and we

00:41:44.740 need to have,

00:41:46.720 you know, we

00:41:47.000 need to engage

00:41:48.040 in X, Y, and

00:41:48.680 Z economic

00:41:49.320 policy and we

00:41:51.260 need to engage

00:41:52.880 in ABC foreign

00:41:54.480 policy and the

00:41:55.760 candidate who does

00:41:56.340 this, this, and

00:41:56.820 just describe the

00:41:58.880 campaign platform

00:42:00.120 of the various

00:42:01.640 candidates.

00:42:02.100 Not even

00:42:02.520 necessarily what

00:42:03.800 they actually did

00:42:04.640 or the likelihood

00:42:05.200 that they'll be

00:42:05.640 able to fulfill

00:42:06.280 the promises.

00:42:06.920 Just what the

00:42:08.220 candidates are

00:42:08.720 seeking in their

00:42:09.580 own words, on

00:42:10.900 their own terms.

00:42:12.360 And from what

00:42:13.180 you're telling me

00:42:13.620 about your

00:42:13.880 parents, they'll 0.96

00:42:14.560 say, oh, yeah,

00:42:15.560 the first guy.

00:42:16.240 Give me the

00:42:16.560 first guy.

00:42:17.260 Say, okay, so I'm

00:42:18.560 just reading from

00:42:19.520 the campaign

00:42:20.040 platform of

00:42:20.600 Donald Trump.

00:42:21.680 So you want

00:42:22.540 that and you

00:42:23.360 don't want the

00:42:23.800 guy who disagrees

00:42:26.120 with him on all

00:42:26.580 these issues.

00:42:27.200 So you want

00:42:28.760 Trump.

00:42:29.640 And just allow

00:42:30.220 them to, oh,

00:42:30.840 okay, and, you

00:42:31.280 know, it doesn't

00:42:31.580 need to be a big

00:42:32.100 gotcha or anything

00:42:32.860 like that.

00:42:33.300 You'll say, hey,

00:42:34.020 guys, yeah, you,

00:42:35.360 look, Biden's

00:42:36.020 slippery, he's got

00:42:37.980 an interesting PR

00:42:38.840 team, but, yeah,

00:42:39.820 you've just told

00:42:41.100 me you support

00:42:41.880 Trump, so it's

00:42:42.460 all good.

00:42:42.700 But let's get

00:42:43.980 to at least one

00:42:44.920 written mailbag

00:42:45.580 question before we

00:42:46.300 go.

00:42:47.240 This is from

00:42:47.960 Ava.

00:42:49.040 Dear

00:42:49.240 Nostradamus, I'm

00:42:50.160 wondering what your

00:42:50.640 thoughts are on

00:42:51.120 matchmaking.

00:42:52.160 I'm Jewish and my

00:42:53.140 aunt and uncle were

00:42:54.160 set up by a

00:42:54.740 matchmaker.

00:42:55.700 They've been

00:42:56.360 married 14 years and

00:42:57.540 currently have six

00:42:58.200 kids.

00:42:58.480 All right, nice.

00:43:00.160 That's very good.

00:43:01.100 I've been considering

00:43:02.420 matchmaking because I

00:43:03.360 desperately want to get

00:43:04.100 married, but I feel

00:43:04.880 like it takes away the

00:43:05.760 organic aspect of

00:43:06.700 meeting a potential

00:43:07.180 spouse.

00:43:08.040 I'm 21 and feel like I

00:43:09.900 still have time to meet

00:43:11.200 guys organically, but it

00:43:12.240 hasn't worked out for me

00:43:12.920 yet.

00:43:13.460 My aunt said there's no

00:43:14.140 harm in trying, but I'm

00:43:15.120 a little apprehensive.

00:43:16.420 What are your thoughts on

00:43:17.100 matchmaking and should

00:43:17.900 more young people try it

00:43:19.280 because my generation is

00:43:20.860 becoming less social by

00:43:21.820 the day?

00:43:22.420 Also, Professor Jacob is

00:43:23.340 really cute.

00:43:23.800 All right, calm down.

00:43:24.660 Hold on.

00:43:25.060 Who wrote this?

00:43:26.360 There's no way this is a

00:43:27.400 real girl.

00:43:28.200 Is it?

00:43:29.580 There's no way.

00:43:30.640 He wrote it.

00:43:31.220 Professor Jacob wrote

00:43:32.060 this, obviously.

00:43:33.180 Okay, so we can just

00:43:33.840 skip the question.

00:43:34.500 No, I'll answer as

00:43:35.160 though it's a real

00:43:35.540 person.

00:43:36.360 Sincerely, chicken soup

00:43:37.860 from the Chimdilachim

00:43:39.360 inner circle.

00:43:40.020 Okay, chicken soup.

00:43:41.580 Okay.

00:43:43.640 What I would recommend

00:43:45.700 here is recognizing that

00:43:48.860 any way you meet your

00:43:51.740 future spouse is going to 0.99

00:43:52.920 be a kind of a

00:43:53.500 matchmaking, right?

00:43:54.760 It's going to be a

00:43:55.260 matchmaking by your aunt

00:43:56.680 or it's going to be a

00:43:58.280 matchmaking by the

00:43:59.080 apps or it's going to

00:44:00.500 be a matchmaking by

00:44:01.520 your friends, wherever

00:44:02.720 your friends are, at

00:44:03.860 your work, at the

00:44:05.080 synagogue, at the

00:44:06.020 school, at whatever.

00:44:08.180 Or it's going to be a

00:44:09.320 matchmaking by your

00:44:10.320 social circumstances.

00:44:12.240 But there's, it's not,

00:44:13.640 you're never totally

00:44:14.780 open to totally, without

00:44:16.540 any limits or

00:44:17.340 constraints, just to

00:44:18.020 totally organically meet

00:44:19.340 someone.

00:44:20.320 There's no, it's not

00:44:20.860 like, you know, the man

00:44:22.240 of your dreams is just

00:44:22.960 going to materialize out

00:44:24.140 of thin air.

00:44:24.840 It's always going to

00:44:25.520 come from within some

00:44:26.480 kind of social

00:44:27.220 circumstances.

00:44:28.280 And so, I'm not

00:44:29.260 telling you go and

00:44:30.080 have your aunt set you

00:44:30.940 up and go get married.

00:44:31.780 If you really do want

00:44:32.960 to get married quickly

00:44:33.720 and start having

00:44:34.260 children, then, you

00:44:35.060 know, if you want to

00:44:35.540 speed things up, that's

00:44:36.240 one way to do it.

00:44:37.380 But you can go play the

00:44:38.460 field.

00:44:38.780 I think it's great.

00:44:39.380 I'm very pro-dating.

00:44:41.120 I think dating is fun.

00:44:42.620 The way that people on

00:44:43.680 the left and the right

00:44:44.300 and the men and the

00:44:44.720 women talk about 1.00

00:44:45.200 dating now, it's like,

00:44:46.020 it's so, you know,

00:44:47.580 heavy and clinical and

00:44:49.100 it's so depressing.

00:44:50.220 I don't know, I think

00:44:50.600 it's fun.

00:44:51.140 I think the opposite sex 1.00

00:44:51.860 is fun and it's kind

00:44:52.820 of delightful to go on

00:44:53.940 dates with them.

00:44:54.380 But if you're not

00:44:56.300 finding it delightful or

00:44:57.520 you're not, you know,

00:44:58.420 you're not finding the

00:44:59.160 right kind of guys, then

00:45:00.880 I don't see anything

00:45:02.060 wrong or artificial about

00:45:05.040 saying, hey, aunt, do you

00:45:06.740 know any nice guys?

00:45:07.480 I mean, that's just how

00:45:08.000 people date.

00:45:09.020 You're either asking your

00:45:09.960 app or you're asking your

00:45:10.720 friends or you're asking

00:45:11.320 your matchmaker aunt.

00:45:12.760 And so then the only

00:45:14.560 question is, who knows

00:45:15.700 you better?

00:45:16.640 And who knows marriage 0.74

00:45:17.480 better?

00:45:18.160 And who's more likely to

00:45:20.120 get you a stud, you know?

00:45:22.260 Some nice, nice hunk that 0.98

00:45:24.340 you can start having lots

00:45:25.460 of kids with.

00:45:26.520 From Celeste, Michael, I

00:45:29.180 have two questions.

00:45:29.880 One, do you consider

00:45:31.380 cigar smoking to be

00:45:32.240 primarily a male pastime?

00:45:33.700 I do, though there are

00:45:34.380 women who like cigars too. 1.00

00:45:36.120 Or does SLA join you in

00:45:37.360 burning Mayflowers?

00:45:38.180 She does not.

00:45:39.000 She likes that I go

00:45:40.100 outside and smoke the

00:45:41.260 Mayflowers.

00:45:41.760 I actually, I'm going to

00:45:43.000 confess something right

00:45:44.020 now.

00:45:44.220 I confess this to Mr.

00:45:45.160 Davies.

00:45:46.080 I, after the State of

00:45:48.140 the Union, you know, I'm

00:45:48.700 friends with some

00:45:49.540 legislators here and I

00:45:50.480 don't get to Washington

00:45:51.100 so much.

00:45:52.320 I was up having some

00:45:54.940 Mayflower cigars until the

00:45:57.860 wee small hours of the

00:45:58.760 morning.

00:45:59.840 Luckily, we didn't have

00:46:00.740 anything too strong to

00:46:01.620 drink, so I'm sprightly and

00:46:02.840 happy to.

00:46:03.460 But the Mayflower, we went

00:46:06.900 from Mayflower dusk to

00:46:07.960 Mayflower dawn.

00:46:08.660 Let's put it that way.

00:46:09.380 Okay, second question.

00:46:10.240 What is the significance

00:46:11.200 of the name Bent Key in

00:46:12.200 the Daily Wire's

00:46:12.680 children's show section?

00:46:14.420 I figure it must refer to

00:46:15.820 Jeremy Boring's key

00:46:16.560 necklace, but what is the

00:46:17.760 meaning behind it?

00:46:18.260 Thank you.

00:46:19.220 Speaking of going out and

00:46:20.520 having cigars and staying

00:46:21.540 up all night, many years

00:46:23.820 ago, before my wedding, I'd

00:46:25.440 been asking Jeremy, hey,

00:46:26.180 what's the deal with the

00:46:26.840 key thing?

00:46:27.420 And he never told me.

00:46:28.480 I said, this is a story

00:46:29.460 only a very select few get

00:46:31.960 this story.

00:46:33.240 And Jeremy and I, you

00:46:34.180 know, were and are and have

00:46:36.640 been very close friends for a

00:46:37.540 long time.

00:46:38.200 And he said, no, you're not.

00:46:39.200 And so one night, it was

00:46:40.200 right before my wedding, we

00:46:41.180 were out quite late in New

00:46:42.420 York, and he tells me the

00:46:43.600 story.

00:46:44.160 And it's an amazing, so

00:46:47.060 yes, the Bent Key refers to

00:46:48.140 the Bent Key on his neck, but

00:46:49.520 what does the Bent Key on his

00:46:50.560 neck refer to?

00:46:53.500 You've got to ask him.

00:46:54.340 That's not my story to tell.

00:46:55.340 Okay.

00:46:56.580 It is Fake Hitline Friday, and

00:46:58.360 I believe, do we have the

00:46:59.260 iPad?

00:46:59.760 We do.

00:47:00.260 Because Mr. Davies is on the

00:47:02.160 road with me, and not that

00:47:03.260 jerk, Professor Jacob, who

00:47:04.340 forgets my iPad.

00:47:05.380 So, the rest of the show

00:47:06.720 continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 08, 2024

Ep. 1442 - My Experience At The State Of The Union

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