Ep. 145 - Too Much Winning…Can’t Go On…
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Kanye West turns the MAGA up to 11, our conservative president has made even the socialist president of France love us, and a new study shows global warming alarmism is largely nonsense. Then, Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp, comes on the show to discuss trolling white liberals at Starbucks.
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Kanye West turns the MAGA up to 11. Our conservative Republican president has made
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even the socialist president of France love us, and a new study shows global warming alarmism
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is largely nonsense. Then, Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp, comes on the show to discuss trolling
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white liberals at Starbucks. The too-long-didn't-read is the conservatives are finally winning
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the culture. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I can't take it. I can't take it. Elizabeth, I'm coming. I'm coming, Elizabeth. There is too much
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winning. Mr. President, I wish I had believed you. I'm sorry I didn't believe you when you said that
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we would get sick and tired of winning. I don't know how much more my body can take. I'm going
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What did I tell you? I, you know, yesterday was all death and destruction and old people dying and
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that poor baby Alfie being murdered by the UK government and the socialist bureaucrats of the UK
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healthcare system. Then genocide. That's how we rounded out the show yesterday. A little depressing.
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But today, oh, today is the exact opposite of yesterday. Kanye West is sounding like a rock
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ribbed conservative. This guy is not just throwing out hints. I can't wait to tell you about it. I'm
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going to save that. I'm going to save that toward the middle of the show. That's going to be like the
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real delicious part of the show. But also let's not forget, Donald Trump has made French socialists
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love America. And also just a little extra bit here. Doctors are advising men to stare at boobs
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to improve their health. This is an actual news story going around today. Then science deals another
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crushing blow to lefties global warming alarmism. And if that last one weren't a sign against the
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apocalypse, I would think that this is the apocalypse, right? If it weren't, if that last great news item
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didn't say explicitly that the world is not ending right now, I would think the world is ending.
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The French like us for some reason. They love Trump. The biggest pop culture star in the entire
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world just loves Trump and wears MAGA hats and things like that. Too good. Let's start with
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global warming. This is the easiest way to dive into it. Let's just dip our toes into that not very
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warm water. So a new study in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate has
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concluded, quote, future warming is likely to be substantially lower than the central computer
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model simulated level projected by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
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and highly unlikely to exceed that level. For comment, we turn now to former Vice President Al Gore.
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ManBearPig is in there, and we have to kill him while we all have the chance. I'm serial!
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And I'm saying it, I'm totally serial, but everyone just keeps digging!
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Attack my ManBearPig, and ManBearPig leaves nobody alive! I'm super serial!
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And someday, when the world is rid of ManBearPig, everyone will say,
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Thank you, Al Gore! You're super awesome! The end.
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Interesting. I hadn't considered that perspective. I don't know that that day is going to be coming
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anytime soon. Because, you know, there are, of course, there are lots of studies,
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the alarmists' studies, and these studies show how the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
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proves that global warming is going to kill us all in the next five minutes. The trouble is,
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if you're going to predict the end of the world, you have to be right.
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If you keep predicting the end of the world, it doesn't happen. You're going to look foolish.
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Not coincidentally, or providentially, perhaps. Earth Day was just on Sunday, April 22nd.
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Earth Day has been around now for 48 years, almost half a century.
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So it's kind of fun to look back in 1970, the first Earth Day ever. Let's see some of the
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predictions they made. Let's see if they came true. 48 years ago, on the very first Earth Day,
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civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against the problems
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facing mankind. And by the way, when they say immediate action, they try to put it in this
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language that it's, this is, look, this is just science. This is just science. This isn't partisan.
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This isn't conservative or liberal or Republican or Democrat. It's just science. As though,
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as though there were scientific politics, right? There isn't a scientific politics.
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As though scientists have anything to do with politics. As though they have any expertise.
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They don't. Maybe they have some expertise in one field. Apparently, this guy didn't have much
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expertise in his own field. But that doesn't mean you have expertise in any field. We talked about
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that yesterday and about what G.K. Chesterton said about the problem of expertise. So 15 to 30
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years, unless immediate action is taken, which really means unless we do all the public policies
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that the left has wanted for a hundred years. But okay, so that, that action wasn't taken and
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it looks like we're okay. Looks like we made it. The New York Times though, in 1970, that first Earth
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Day, predicted the extinction of the human race. That's a modest, a modest prediction. Did it happen?
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No. The thing is, if you predict death, eventually you'll be right. You know, it's actually a safe bet
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in the long run. As John Maynard Cain said, in the long run, we're all dead, but they haven't been
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right so far. They're still holding out hope. The biologist, Paul Ehrlich, predicted in 1970 that
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100 to 200 million people per year would starve to death from overpopulation during the 1970s.
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100 to 200 million people per year did that. A lot of terrible things happened in the 70s,
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but I don't think that was one of them. He predicted that 4 billion people would die in what he called
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the great die-off of the 1980s. Didn't happen. Actually, everyone had a lot more food and had
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a much better life and the economy around the world soared. It was really nice. Dennis Hayes,
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a co-organizer of Earth Day, said in 1970, it was already too late to avoid mass starvation.
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Probably the greatest public health crisis in America right now is obesity.
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But he said in 1970, it's too late. We're all going to starve. The trouble around the world is that
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everybody is too fat. He could not have been more wrong. Peter Gunter said by the year 2000,
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the entire world outside the West would be in starvation. And I guess the entire world outside
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the West is now trying to enter the West for other reasons, not for starvation. So maybe that
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complicates things, but it is not the case. That's not true at all. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of
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people have been lifted out of poverty just in China alone over the last 30 years. Just did not
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happen. Life Magazine reported that scientists would now know in 1970 that by 1980, city dwellers
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would have to wear gas masks. They would have to, they couldn't, the pollution would be so awful,
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they'd have to wear gas masks everywhere. Not just those things that certain people wear on airplanes,
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you know, the little filter, but just actual gas masks. Don't remember that happening. They said by
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1985, all around the world, air pollution would have reduced the sunlight to the earth by 50%,
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by a full half. The ecologist, Kenneth Watt, predicted that we would run out of oil by 2000.
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Not only have we not run out of oil, we're going to start drilling for even more oil in all those
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places that Democrats won't let us drill. We're going to Anwar. We're going to drill, baby drill.
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We're going to get that delicious dinosaur juice out of the ground and we're going to keep driving our
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cars and it'll be just great. Uh, they also predicted, uh, this was Kenneth Watt, the ecologist
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in 1970 predicted an impending ice age, how quickly things change. Uh, and what it's all based on by
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the way is they say, if, if present trends continue, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. If trends continue, dah, dah,
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dah, dah, dah. But the trouble is none of these models are ever right. Very few of them predict
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anything at all. And in the long run, none of them have predicted much, much at all. If trends
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continue, but the trends don't continue. We're in, we're in a dynamic space. Politics is dynamic.
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The climate is a chaotic environment that, you know, you could say this with presidential elections.
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You see this all the time. Some party wins an election and they say, Oh my, the, the other
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party is over the other party. It's over. They should just, they should just forget about their
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party. They should dissolve because it's over. If the present trends continue, their party's over,
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but trends don't continue because we're people politics as the affairs of men and it changes all the
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time. And it's in the present and it can change on a dime in ways that we can't predict you. There
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are, as Donald Rumsfeld said, there are no knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, you know,
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things that you know, you know, and things that you know that you don't know and things that you just
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don't know. And that's, that's a much truer view of the world. You can't, we just can't predict
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these things. The egghead experts want to say that I can tell you what the velocity of the
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unladen swallow will be in 2078. They don't, they just don't know. We have to get to even
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way, this is a perfect segue. Speaking of the boudoir, in other scientific news, according
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to scientists published in the archives of internal medicine, the British medical journal
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and how men age, scientists have concluded there are about six proven ways to live longer,
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to have better health. And some of the top ways to do that are stare at boobs, have a lot
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of sex, and don't worry about working out too much. I, I, I, I have known this intuitively
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my whole life. I feel like maybe I'm some sort of savant, some like rain man of men's health,
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because I tell you from, I didn't have to read that in a scientific study, but it's a, this is
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true now because apparently, uh, staring at boobs, if you're a man makes you happier. And that's the
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power of positive thinking. People live longer. They report a lower levels of stress, all these
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sort of things. And, uh, having lots of sex, I guess is, uh, is, uh, I don't think I need to
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convince anybody that that's going to put you into better health. You know, have you feeling very
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good. And, uh, and what, what was the final one? Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking about boobs and I
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totally forgot. Oh yeah. And not working out too much. That's the other one. So you get to stare at
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boobs, have a lot of sex and don't work out because there's something so not conservative about
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working out a lot about going to the gym and really, and you're like a man and you're worrying
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about, you're checking out your abs in the mirror and you're like a little soy boy. I don't know how
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else to put it. Real men don't care about that that much. They want to sit around and not have
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to go preen and like go jogging. No man should ever jog. And like, they would just want to smoke
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cigars and eat pizza and like hang out and read and be a cool guy. So all excellent news. I've really,
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I was skeptical of science when they said that the world was going to end in the 1970s,
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but I think science is getting much, much better because they're telling us that Al Gore is a dummy
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and everything that we know about what makes us happy is true. A good day for science. Way, way,
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way too much winning. And the real winning here or the real hashtag winning is cultural. I like the
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science stuff too. It's all culture. Conservatives are finally winning the culture. This brings us to
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Yeezy, Kanye West. So Kanye West has been tweeting these great things that it sounds like he's a
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conservative Republican. He starts out and he just tweets, decentralized. Okay. All right. Yeah, I agree.
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We should decentralize. We should have more local government, more local control. Then he tweets,
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you don't have to agree with Trump, but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy.
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He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us
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individuals. And we have the right to independent thought. So at this point, I am, I'm actually just
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a Kanye West fan. I don't really like his music that much, but I'm, I've become a Kanye West fan.
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So at this point now, the media are saying he's insane. They say, oh, he's crazy. Oh, he's this,
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he's that. Then he tweets out a picture of him wearing the MAGA hat because he's just playing around,
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right? He's just like giving you a little hint. So yeah, I like Trump personally. Then he's wearing
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that MAGA hat and the media go crazy. And they say they're actually reporting that Kanye West is
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mentally ill. That is how they, because they're so in their own silo. They're so in their own little
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bubble. They don't realize that half the country voted for Donald Trump, but they don't know any
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of those people. They don't know anyone who voted for Donald Trump. So the only thing that this could
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mean is that Kanye West has lost his mind. Kim Kardashian, to her credit, tweeted out and said,
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you can't, mental health is a serious issue and you shouldn't be bandying around these smears and
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allegations so carelessly. My husband isn't crazy, you know, basically, or he's no crazier than he
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ever was. He's no crazier than he used to be. This has been building for a few days. Kanye West tweeted
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out a video of Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, who's, he's not a right winger or a left winger, but he's,
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he likes Trump and he kind of understands Trump. So Kanye West tweets out not just a video of Scott
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Adams, but a video of him watching Scott Adams. And this is really important because it's, it's
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involving you in his realization. It's involving you in his participation in something conservative.
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It's not just a random tweet and you'd say, oh, he didn't do that. It's bringing you right into his
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living room, right onto his computer. And this was really shocking. I mean, this is so good.
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He's, this all started when he said that he likes the way Candace Owens thinks, friend of the show,
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red pill, black Candace Owens. So how should conservatives react to this? I know Ben has
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been urging caution. He says, don't, we shouldn't embrace these celebrities. We don't let, we're not
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fans of Kanye West. We're not, yeah, you know, and he's, he says crazy things. We shouldn't embrace him.
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Um, I don't, I don't disagree with the premises here that we don't always agree with Kanye West
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and we don't really like his music that much. And we don't have to pretend that he's some great
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political savant or philosopher, but we should embrace what Kanye West is doing right now.
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We have to do it. We have to take the wins when we can get them. We should not be borrowing problems
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from tomorrow. Look, this is what the culture is. Politics happens now. It happens now in time and
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space. A lot of times conservatives won't take yes for an answer. Say, no, I don't think so.
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Do I, do I like Kanye West's music? No. Do I have to like Kanye West's music? No, but he's doing
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something good. Give him credit for it. Absolutely. This is the biggest pop culture figure in the world
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of maybe other than Donald Trump. And he's embracing Donald Trump. He's wearing the MAGA hat. That's a big
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win. Take it. Don't say, no, he didn't do it on my terms. We're not winning the culture on my terms.
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Who cares? Doesn't matter. We're winning. This is a wonderful thing because politics is downstream
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of culture, as Andrew Breitbart was fond of saying. And politics is about people. Aristotle said the
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thing that makes human beings human beings is politics. Man is the political animal. Politics
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is the affairs of men. And all the good politicians are people people. You got to be a people person.
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You got to like people. And you see this in all of our presidents, all of our successful presidents,
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certainly. They, they really like people. They like being around people. You see that with like
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Bill Clinton, like, Hey honey, I really likes people probably a little too much, but everyone
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is a people person. I got in trouble on Twitter when that little dog was killed on United Airlines.
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Someone said, you're not a people person or you're not a dog person. Are you, Michael? I said,
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no, I'm a people person. Donald Trump is a people person. Kanye West, same thing.
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This brings us to the president of France. Before I can get to that, we got to talk about ring
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because you know, I'm a people person. I like a lot of people, but I don't like people who try
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to rob my house or hurt my family. Those are people I don't like, which is why ring is a great
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product. Uh, ring is so helpful. Uh, ring has this video doorbell. I've talked to you about them
00:21:57.800
before. They connect right to your cell phone. These guys have totally changed the home security
00:22:01.500
game with a doorbell. Who would have thought? So I'm, I'm going to play a little clip that they sent
00:22:07.120
over, but you know, this is like the Jetsons kind of technology. You go, all your cool friends have
00:22:12.760
this now. It's, it installs very easily. You click and you can just see whoever is at the door right
00:22:19.340
from your phone, anywhere you are at work or on the beach or wherever. And you can talk to them back
00:22:24.580
and forth. Uh, it uploads everything to the cloud. Uh, all right, I'm going to play this clip. Then we'll
00:22:29.460
talk about it a little bit more. So a crazy looking guy walks up to a home. The first thing you hear
00:22:34.200
is him kicking in the door and then the homeowner catches him. Hello?
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Hey, stop. Are you okay? Leave my house or I'm calling the police. Okay. What you need to do.
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Hey, leave my house. Stop now or I'm calling the police. Why would you tell me that? Because
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you're trying to push my door in. Leave now. I'm about to smash what's in there. I'm calling the
00:23:07.720
police. Okay. I am the police. Something tells me that guy's not the police. I don't know what it is
00:23:15.480
about him. So ring in the old days, there was neighborhood watch, which isn't very effective.
00:23:21.040
And you know, you'd go, you could get into a very dangerous situation. Ring makes this very easy. It is
00:23:25.880
the 21st century. It is unbelievably inexpensive. And it, when you get that crazy guy, come up to
00:23:31.900
your door, you can upload that video. It goes straight to the cloud. You can share it with your
00:23:36.780
neighbors. So you say, watch out for this crazy person. I don't think he's with the police. Uh,
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it's really, really good. And, uh, even if, if they steal your ring, if they say, I'm going to steal
00:23:45.720
that doorbell, then, then I'll get away with it. Won't happen. It's already in the cloud. Save up to
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$150 on a ring of security kit at ring.com slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S. That is ring.com slash
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slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S. I use mine because, you know, sometimes Democrats who purchased copies of
00:24:15.440
reasons to vote for Democrats and were very upset that it was entirely blank. Sometimes they try to
00:24:19.140
knock down my door, you know, so I need, I really need a good home security so I can lock them out.
00:24:24.560
Okay. Back to people, people. Donald Trump is a people person. That's a, that's a great thing for
00:24:30.000
the conservative movement. It's a great thing for the culture. Sometimes conservatives are a little
00:24:33.560
detached from people. Trump doesn't have that. And look how it's paying off. Here he is with the
00:24:38.160
president of France. Mr. President, they're all saying what a great relationship we have.
00:24:43.580
And they're actually correct. It's not fake news. Finally, it's not fake news. So it's a great honor,
00:24:51.000
great honor that you're here. But we do have a very special relationship. In fact, I'll get that
00:24:55.900
little piece of paper. We have to make him perfect. He is perfect. So it is really, it is really great to
00:25:04.460
be with you and you are a special president. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
00:25:13.580
I like him a lot. I can tell you're a people person, Donald and people like him. Everyone's
00:25:21.260
trying to figure out, they say, why does Emmanuel macaroon, that delicious French cookie, why does he
00:25:26.280
like Donald Trump so much? And I think he just likes him basically. I think, I guess it's advantageous
00:25:31.880
in a way. I don't know that it's terribly politically advantageous for him to be nice to
00:25:36.280
Trump. I think they just like each other. They get along. That's a good thing. Americans hate the
00:25:40.300
French and the French hate the Americans, but we're getting along. That's a great thing. It's the,
00:25:44.900
it is the power of culture. And speaking of winning the culture, how important this is.
00:25:49.260
I sat down yesterday with Brian Sharp, who goes by Hotep Jesus, because Hotep trolled white liberals at
00:25:56.740
Starbucks. Talk about getting in there and subverting the culture. Um, I, you know, okay,
00:26:02.700
I really want to play this, but unfortunately I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:26:07.500
Oh, it's really good though. You go to dailywire.com right now and sign up just so you can see this
00:26:11.640
interview. So, uh, if you go to dailywire.com right now, what do you get? You get me, you get
00:26:15.780
the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show. You get to ask questions in the mailbag. That's
00:26:19.820
tomorrow. Get your questions in. Uh, only subscribers can ask questions though. Everybody can
00:26:24.540
listen to them. Many are called, but few are chosen. You can also ask questions in the
00:26:28.700
conversation. The next one up will be little old me. And so make sure you sign up before then.
00:26:34.000
Again, none of that matters. Kanye West is wearing a MAGA hat. Kanye West is tweeting Republican
00:26:43.480
propaganda for the last three days. Get the leftist here's Tumblr as soon as possible. I won't even keep
00:26:50.840
talking. Go do it right now or else you're going to drown. We'll be right back.
00:26:54.540
Okay. I sat down with Hotep yesterday. He offered excellent insight on this exact question on this
00:27:09.980
exact question of the culture. It's absolutely hilarious. Here's Hotep. Brian Sharp, Hotep Jesus.
00:27:16.620
Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Hotep. I got to tell you, I had to pay every single
00:27:23.080
penny for this delicious Starbucks. You have managed to find a way through that system and
00:27:30.560
collect your reparations for Starbucks. I should say before we talk about it, I don't think anyone
00:27:36.580
who's watching has not seen this video, but just in case some, someone missed it somehow, this is
00:27:42.640
the greatest troll of the year. At least here is Hotep Jesus getting Starbucks reparations justice.
00:27:51.120
We about to go inside, get my free coffee. Y'all ready? Y'all ready? How you doing?
00:27:59.980
Good. How are you? All right. I heard y'all was racist. So I came to get my own free coffee.
00:28:04.960
I saw that. Yeah. I heard you guys don't like black people. So I wanted to get my Starbucks
00:28:10.180
reparations voucher. What's that? It's not a real thing. It's a real thing. I mean, I'll give it to
00:28:16.460
you. I, yeah, I saw that on my Twitter last night. I was like, yeah, I need, I need a free coffee.
00:28:23.240
That's what I'm talking about. This is justice.
00:28:25.540
Where was Oklahoma? Where was it? Philly. Philly? What? Are you serious? Reparations, man.
00:28:31.360
Got to get my reparations for being black in America. Black lives matter.
00:28:35.780
Black lives matter. Do you have any flavors in it? We got caramel, hazelnut. I'll take caramel.
00:28:40.840
Caramel? Sure. What's your name? I appreciate you. Amanda? Amanda, you are a great.
00:28:45.500
This is my last day here until the fall. Is it? I wish you the best. Thank you.
00:28:49.720
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got to get your free coffee out here, man. You got to get
00:28:53.900
your Starbucks reparations, man. Huh? Yeah. This is how we do, man. Black lives matter,
00:29:01.020
baby. All right. All right. Hotep, to begin, what gave you this brilliant idea?
00:29:10.260
Man, I don't know. It was like a gift from God. As soon as the whole Starbucks thing happened,
00:29:16.420
you know, I had this idea. I was like, if I go anywhere near a Starbucks, I'm going to claim
00:29:21.000
a free coffee and I'm going to live stream it while I do it. And I just happened to be there
00:29:26.300
with the fam and I look up and it's a Starbucks and I'm like, should I do it? Should I not do it?
00:29:31.600
I'm like, you know how we get down. So I just went ahead and did it, man. Had to make it happen.
00:29:37.480
You know, if you identify as black, you can go in there and you should be able to get your drinks
00:29:44.340
for free. Well, that's kind of what I wonder because I am of Sicilian descent, which is fairly
00:29:49.240
swarthy. Like, I don't know if it quite qualifies, but I got to say, man, from one troll to another,
00:29:54.940
it was just brilliant. It was so good. And it gets to a very important point, which is I try not to
00:30:01.800
delve too much into identity politics or demographics or whatever. But if there is one demographic group
00:30:08.700
that really just drives me up a wall, it is the white liberal because they are the most moralizing,
00:30:15.120
preening, usually privileged group of people in the entire country. And you totally turn them on
00:30:22.500
their head. You totally mock them just perfectly. Did you expect that reaction when you went in there?
00:30:29.060
Absolutely. When I first had the idea, I knew I knew the reaction I was going to get and I knew I was
00:30:33.700
going to get people in the right upset too. So I was like, that was more reason to do it, you know?
00:30:39.580
But you're right. Like liberals, like they complain about everything. And I'm like, you guys literally
00:30:45.280
have the most power. Like you guys have all the media outlets. Like I can't get a job unless I'm a
00:30:53.160
liberal. You know what I mean? Like, like conservatives are blocked out of everything. And these people
00:30:58.000
are complaining. Like, what are you complaining about people silencing you when you guys own all the
00:31:02.160
media networks? You guys are literally the journalists typing the article about being
00:31:07.540
silenced on a mainstream outlet. And I'm like, I can't even get on there.
00:31:11.820
That's right. I mean, obviously in America, the, the privileged culture is the left-wing culture.
00:31:17.340
They run popular culture in Hollywood and New York. They run the corporate culture. They run the
00:31:22.060
campuses. They run education really from kindergarten all the way up through graduate school. And,
00:31:27.620
and yet they, they always pretend that they're fighting against the man, you know, as though the
00:31:33.120
man were conservative. And that obviously isn't the case. We know Barack Obama's IRS targeted
00:31:38.180
conservative groups. We know Hollywood regularly blackballs conservative groups. Now it's funny
00:31:44.260
because when I saw the video, I just saw clips of it. And we've now reached this period in politics,
00:31:50.400
which is described by Poe's law where you, you can no longer tell what is satire and what is reality.
00:31:57.260
Like the American left has become a parody of itself. Are you catching flack from conservatives who
00:32:04.660
don't get the joke? Oh yeah. Um, I, I tricked, uh, Alex Jones. Alex Jones was immediately upset.
00:32:12.960
Um, but he gets upset. Yeah. I mean, it's really easy to make that guy upset. Um, but yeah, I mean,
00:32:20.000
my mentions, my, uh, Instagram, Facebook had people cursing me out like, Oh, you, you N words need
00:32:28.760
free coffee. And what is this? You're, you couldn't get your welfare check and all this type of stuff.
00:32:36.700
And it's just funny to me, but you know, I kind of laugh it off, but I expected that.
00:32:40.820
Well, this is, this is one aspect where we have to criticize conservatives in the culture
00:32:46.320
is that, that, you know, it's true that we get shut out of Hollywood and New York and all that,
00:32:51.360
but it's also because conservatives sometimes are a little bit Philistine, like they don't, uh,
00:32:57.420
grasp performance art or aspects of the culture. And they just like, they don't get the joke
00:33:03.080
sometimes, you know, and that that's no good. I mean, the, I think Norm Macdonald described Twitter
00:33:07.960
as a great place to tell people that you don't like them very much. You know, there is a lot of
00:33:12.540
anger on Twitter there, but would you call this performance art? Is this, is this part of any
00:33:17.400
broader project that you're working on? You know, I never considered a performance art,
00:33:23.340
uh, Laura Ingham referred it, referred to it as that. I don't know, maybe it is, you know, I've,
00:33:29.400
I've got several clips where I've done, you know, short comedy sketches on my Instagram,
00:33:34.460
but I didn't look at this as performance art. I really looked at this, like, I just want to make
00:33:39.340
fun of people. I just want to make fun of cry baby liberals. And I want to troll people, um,
00:33:45.720
because it's ridiculous that it's come to this, that, that we're at a place where we're talking
00:33:52.040
about racism and Starbucks. And then when you go look at the guys, right, the guys who were actually
00:33:56.780
arrested and they spoke out, they go, this isn't even about race. So I'm like all these people made
00:34:02.840
all this fuss and the main people involved say, it's not about race. So we brought all this up
00:34:08.600
for nothing as racial bias training for nothing. So I'm glad I did it and made fun of the situation.
00:34:13.440
Well, that's the, that's the really funny part because I think everybody knows that does anybody
00:34:19.800
actually think that Starbucks is racist? Starbucks is one of the most like bleeding heart companies on
00:34:26.500
planet earth. They're always virtue signaling. They're always trying to do that, you know, and your
00:34:31.360
video totally mocks that you go in and you, uh, the words you use, you know, this is Starbucks
00:34:37.140
reparations. This is justice in 2018. It is mocking that culture where everybody can be so happy that
00:34:44.700
there is such little racial discrimination that we, you know, you can kind of worry about these
00:34:50.320
ridiculous things like, you know, uh, coffee cups or something like that. That that's a wonderful
00:34:55.260
thing. Now, do you, do you see, obviously in the video, this comes up, the left doesn't seem to have
00:35:02.100
much of a sense of humor anymore. And, uh, conservatives seem to have more of a sense of
00:35:06.780
humor. They still get angry on Twitter, but they seem to get the joke a little bit more. Why do you
00:35:10.460
think that is? I think that conservatives are more down to earth, you know, liberals are pretentious,
00:35:19.160
you know, they stay in their lofts in midtown Manhattan latte sipping and they're, yeah. And
00:35:27.120
they're completely detached from society. Um, all they know is, you know, like it's so easy to troll
00:35:35.180
them. Like they were getting trolled by, you know, memes during the entire election and, and 4chan
00:35:41.260
it's trolls them like monthly and they always fall for it. I'm like, you know, like, how are you guys
00:35:47.520
falling for this stuff? Like it just shows that they're not internet savvy. They're not political
00:35:52.100
savvy. They're, they're not people, people, you know what I mean? That's the key. I think they're
00:35:57.260
not people, people, because a lot of studies from the election, they showed it wasn't that
00:36:02.200
education level predicted who you were going to vote for. It was the education level of people.
00:36:08.140
You knew if you interacted with different kinds of people and you were around guys who work blue
00:36:13.060
collar jobs and people who were in management and educated people in this, if you knew a lot of
00:36:18.140
different people, you were a little more relaxed about the election. Maybe you like Trump a little
00:36:22.620
bit more. And if you were isolated and you were totally siloed and all you did is sip lattes on the
00:36:28.340
Upper East side or Upper West side, then you, you couldn't imagine somebody not voting for Hillary
00:36:34.160
Clinton. It's really detached from society. I have to ask one more question in response to the
00:36:41.320
flare up in Philadelphia, where the guys were arrested at Starbucks. Starbucks has now closed
00:36:48.100
thousands of stores for mandatory sensitivity training or, or unconscious bias training, which
00:36:55.480
I've never really understood. If it's an unconscious bias, I don't, how are you going to solve that?
00:37:00.280
That's unconscious, right? How are you going to actually constantly be conscious of that? That's a
00:37:04.640
separate point. Is it enough or should they close all of their stores worldwide and just go out of
00:37:10.380
business and leave it to Pete's coffee and Dunkin' Donuts to take over the rest?
00:37:15.120
If they're going to have racial bias training, they should just shut down the entire company
00:37:19.200
because that's just ridiculous and it's stupid. And then the people that they chose to be in charge of
00:37:25.360
racial bias training, you know, Eric Holder, NAACP and ADL, like these people know nothing about
00:37:31.900
black people. If we're going to have racial bias training, I would say that you'd have to have
00:37:37.740
the locals in every city of every Starbucks come in and just kick it with the staff,
00:37:46.040
you know, like throw a party, throw a block party and have just the locals be invited and just let
00:37:52.400
people interact and get to know each other. So when you show up at the Starbucks, you know,
00:37:56.680
Jessica behind the counter, you know, Amanda behind the counter and Amanda knows you,
00:38:00.560
you know what I mean? Like you can't train people to not be racially biased, but you can bring them
00:38:06.020
together in the same room and share coffee and share pizza and then people will work out those
00:38:11.740
things themselves. But you can't train people to not be, everybody is racially biased. I'm racially
00:38:18.340
biased towards black people and white people. I treat them completely different. I treat different
00:38:24.320
economic levels of black people different. I don't talk to my hood friends the same as I do my more
00:38:29.920
affluent black friends and they don't enjoy the same type of entertainment. You can't train that,
00:38:34.760
right? Like you, you have to just learn that from being around a diverse group of people and liberals
00:38:40.760
just aren't around a diverse group of people. Like I had an old boss, liberals help. I couldn't stand
00:38:45.940
her. She wouldn't take the subway. Of course, of course. Like I'm like, she's like, Oh my God,
00:38:52.080
you went down there. I'm like, yeah, it's just the subway. But these are the people that'll try and
00:38:57.820
dictate what's right and wrong in society and tell me I'm wrong for my views, but you don't want to come
00:39:02.600
down in the subway and hang out with the common folk. Well, it's because they love humanity,
00:39:06.040
but they hate humans. They don't really like people that much. And so it's such, it's such a
00:39:11.060
good point about the localism of it all. If you want to solve, if there, if there is some problem
00:39:16.420
between groups of people in a community, the way you solve that is you get the groups of people
00:39:21.240
talking together and spending time together and get to know each other. You don't get some corrupt
00:39:26.560
crony like Eric Holder to come in and lecture you on some academic talk about racial biases or
00:39:33.520
whatever. That isn't going to solve anything. It's so pointless. It's just virtue signaling.
00:39:38.840
Yeah, I'm with you. They have to shut the company down. They're moving money around.
00:39:42.620
That's right. They're moving money around. Let's be honest. They're taking Starbucks liberal dollars
00:39:47.380
and they're moving it into political pockets. Eric Holder is going to get a check for that. The NAACP is
00:39:53.420
going to get a check for that and say, oh, this was for black people because the NAACP got a check,
00:39:58.680
but NAACP doesn't do anything for black people. And then the ADL gets their check. So it's just
00:40:02.940
take liberals saying, hey, here's some money. We're going to come together and we're going to
00:40:06.600
brainwash these people with more liberal politics. They're probably going to give them LGBT pamphlets.
00:40:15.440
Yeah. And gender, binary, cis, whatever vocabulary and dictionary they're out of.
00:40:22.560
You're describing my identity. Thank you very much.
00:40:26.260
This is what they're going to do to these people. They're going to just brainwash them
00:40:29.520
with a whole bunch of nonsense. And they're actually going to create
00:40:32.660
more people that are more retarded than usual. I can't even use the word retarded.
00:40:36.720
That's very not allowed anymore. Yeah. Even though it just means slow,
00:40:39.880
but you're not allowed to say that it's very, you're going to probably get arrested by the thought
00:40:44.020
police for that, but it's true. It's going to sow more rancor and more division. That's all it does.
00:40:47.820
It literally just keeps dividing people by different categories. Speaking of giving money
00:40:53.340
to worthy causes, because though, you know, giving money to Eric Holder is a very unworthy cause,
00:40:58.120
but, uh, but your videos are extremely entertaining. So where can people find you?
00:41:03.520
Booksbybryan.com, B-R-Y-A-N is the best way. You can get my Twitter marketing book,
00:41:08.060
shows you how I got on TV, how I got here on this lovely show. Um,
00:41:13.000
and, uh, hotepnation.com to follow the movement. Hotepnation.com. Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp. Thank
00:41:20.100
you for being here. Very good to talk to you. Very funny. And some very good points you made.
00:41:24.600
Thank you. Appreciate it, man. Have a good one. A much needed day. A much, that was really good. I
00:41:30.160
was, uh, while we were watching that interview that I had done yesterday, I was just going through the
00:41:34.600
Twitter feed and it, you know, we just have the Republican president and the biggest, uh,
00:41:38.480
pop star in the entire world. They're just like tweeting love letters to each other right now.
00:41:42.160
Ah, that's pretty good. Pretty good stuff. Get your mailbag questions in. I'm just going to be
00:41:47.720
floating on a cloud for the rest of the day. I think I'm no more work. I'm just going to,
00:41:51.660
not that I was planning on doing it anyway, just going to spark up a stogie, have a nice drink,
00:41:55.940
this put on my MAGA hat. Ah, good stuff. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.
00:42:00.940
Get the mailbag questions in. I'll see you tomorrow.
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