The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1484 - Shots Fired At Trump, Tom Brady, And The Trad Wife

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00:00:37.680 President Trump moved one step closer to an orange jumpsuit on Monday

00:00:41.240 when New York County Judge Juan Mershon ruled for a second time that Trump violated his gag order.

00:00:49.400 Judge Mershon held Trump in criminal contempt for the 10th time so far.

00:00:53.740 He has fined Trump before, $1,000 for a single violation.

00:00:58.040 Now he says that he might send Trump to jail if the former president does it again.

00:01:04.700 In Mershon's words, quote,

00:01:06.860 This court will have to consider a jail sanction.

00:01:10.260 At the end of the day, the judge says,

00:01:13.120 I have a job to do.

00:01:14.300 Part of that job is to protect the dignity of the justice system.

00:01:18.260 Because, to Judge Mershon, Trump's refusal to shut up while his enemies try to imprison him

00:01:24.600 while he's running for president constitutes, quote,

00:01:28.620 a direct attack on the rule of law that Mershon cannot allow to continue.

00:01:34.920 I do not know for certain what President Trump is thinking about the latest development.

00:01:38.880 But if I were him, I would be thinking, go ahead, make my day.

00:01:44.840 A liberal Democrat judge jailing the most popular presidential candidate in the country

00:01:51.840 just months before an election is the best press President Trump could possibly hope for.

00:02:00.520 Because the real direct attack on the rule of law is not President Trump speaking out.

00:02:06.760 The real threat to the rule of law is the trial.

00:02:11.760 It's unprecedented.

00:02:13.500 It threatens our democratic order.

00:02:15.660 And according to polls, most people, even people who don't like Trump, know it.

00:02:21.860 Send Trump to jail and barring some massive fraud,

00:02:26.580 you might as well send him straight to the White House.

00:02:29.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:30.020 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:50.700 Speaking of Trump supporters, Tom Brady was roasted by a bunch of celebs on Netflix.

00:04:59.020 This was a live roast.

00:05:00.960 It was probably one of the biggest cultural events of the year.

00:05:05.180 It's really because we don't have any common culture anymore

00:05:08.080 that these one-off events bring people together.

00:05:11.160 And this was a huge one, really big get for Netflix.

00:05:14.940 I won't go through the whole thing.

00:05:16.800 There were some pretty brutal jokes at Tom Brady's expense.

00:05:20.960 Tony Hinchcliffe was one of the most prolific and on-the-money comedians of the night.

00:05:26.860 Tom is afraid of the giants, which is why Kevin Hart is hosting tonight.

00:05:31.920 All night, he's been using the stool that Aaron Hernandez kicked out from under himself.

00:05:37.080 Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton, they called it deadlifting. 0.99

00:05:42.360 Tom Brady is a patriot, which is surprising considering he looks like a confederate f***er. 0.99

00:05:47.800 Clearly your ex-wife takes after you. 1.00

00:05:49.820 I hear she's out there draining f***ers right now. 1.00

00:05:52.420 The appearance from the great Ron Burgundy, huh? 1.00

00:05:55.720 A whale's vagina, which reminds me, Kim Kardashian's here. 1.00

00:06:00.820 She's had a lot of black men celebrate in her end zone. 1.00

00:06:04.220 Kim, word of advice, close your legs. 1.00

00:06:06.620 You have more public beef than Kendrick and Drake.

00:06:11.340 Thank you, guys.

00:06:12.620 Thank you, Tom.

00:06:13.500 Thank you, Jeff.

00:06:14.320 Thank you, Netflix.

00:06:15.100 So I say that Tony Hinchcliffe was one of the most on-the-money and rapid-fire comedians of the night because it's true.

00:06:24.340 It's not exactly my flavor of comedy.

00:06:27.220 Some of his jokes were pretty funny.

00:06:28.600 A lot of it was just vulgar.

00:06:30.000 It was just really, really vulgar, which is what these roasts have become increasingly in recent years.

00:06:36.640 So relative to the other comedians, he was kind of on the money.

00:06:39.760 It was just a lot of that, basically, throughout the night.

00:06:42.640 Now, Jeff Ross, who's kind of the grand poobah of these roasts, he had slightly elevated material, but even he got in trouble with the honoree.

00:06:53.580 Tom Brady was the only time all night people had these vicious attacks, not mean-spirited attacks, but vicious jokes on Tom Brady all night.

00:07:03.300 He took it.

00:07:03.800 He laughed.

00:07:04.320 He was a perfect roast honoree.

00:07:07.960 But then Jeff Ross made a joke about Robert Kraft that sent Tom Brady up from his chair.

00:07:14.820 That scrawny rookie famously walked into the owner of Robert Kraft's office and said,

00:07:19.700 I'm the best decision your organization has ever made.

00:07:29.420 Would you like a massage?

00:07:31.100 I love Robert Kraft.

00:07:44.000 I love him. 0.93

00:07:44.480 Say that s*** again. 0.96

00:07:45.120 Okay, okay. 0.99

00:07:47.060 You can see.

00:07:48.420 Look, it was a good joke.

00:07:49.680 This is one of the better jokes of the night, actually.

00:07:51.260 And Jeff Ross is a very talented roaster.

00:07:54.740 But Tom Brady said, look, you make jokes about me, but don't you make any jokes about Robert Kraft.

00:07:59.160 And he didn't.

00:08:02.660 Jeff Ross sort of said, okay, all right, I'll move on.

00:08:05.080 No, no big deal.

00:08:05.720 Sorry, Tom.

00:08:07.160 But the night went off with a lot more vulgarity and all kinds of raunchy jokes.

00:08:13.800 I guess not at Kraft's expense so much, but at everyone else.

00:08:16.600 And it was perfectly fine.

00:08:17.820 It was a perfectly fine, it was as good as any modern roast.

00:08:21.400 But it made me think about the greatest moment at any of these Comedy Central, Friars Club, now Netflix roasts in the last 20, 30 years.

00:08:31.560 And the undisputed best moment.

00:08:35.100 There were some good ones.

00:08:36.020 There was the roast of Donald Trump.

00:08:37.260 That was hilarious.

00:08:38.840 There were a lot of good.

00:08:39.600 Greg Giraldo was pretty funny.

00:08:40.900 All these guys.

00:08:41.300 And the best one by far was when the late, great Norm MacDonald, of course, gets up there at the roast of Bob Saget.

00:08:49.300 And everyone else is doing material just like that kind of material. 0.98

00:08:52.680 You know, your genitals are so big that they're, you know, there's all this kind of disgusting bodily humor. 0.98

00:08:58.780 And then Norm gets up there and does this. 0.98

00:09:02.380 John Stamos, I want to start with John Stamos, our esteemed roast master.

00:09:08.240 John, well, John has a reputation for being a bit of a swinger.

00:09:12.540 Did you know instead of an umbilical cord, John was born with a bungee cord?

00:09:22.800 John likes the ladies.

00:09:23.940 It's true.

00:09:24.460 He has a one-track mind, and the traffic on it is pretty light.

00:09:30.420 Norm is totally straight-faced.

00:09:32.380 Does not crack for a second.

00:09:34.520 You know, John Stamos, it only takes one drink to get him drunk, but he's not sure if it's the 9th or 10th.

00:09:43.620 Or 11th.

00:09:48.620 And Cloris Leachman is here.

00:09:50.420 Cloris.

00:09:57.020 Cloris, if people say you're over the hill, don't believe them.

00:09:59.800 Why, you'll never be over the hill.

00:10:01.140 Not in the car you drive.

00:10:02.380 That's the one.

00:10:04.640 That's the one for me.

00:10:05.760 Whenever I think about this set, it was all jokes like this.

00:10:08.000 It was all jokes from the Dean Martin roasts, you know, jokes from the 70s.

00:10:12.260 So why did he do it?

00:10:13.880 In the room, if you listen to the tape in the crowd, you couldn't tell, did they think Norm was bombing?

00:10:19.740 You look at the comedians on stage, they're all dying.

00:10:22.680 I mean, I thought it was just hilarious.

00:10:24.540 But what was he doing?

00:10:27.480 Norm explained himself one time.

00:10:28.820 He was asked, what were you doing at the Bob Saget roast?

00:10:30.420 He said, oh, well, they told me to be shocking.

00:10:32.860 And so that's how I was shocking.

00:10:34.980 That's the only way I knew how to be shocking.

00:10:36.640 And it was legitimately shocking.

00:10:40.000 It was totally different from all the other performances at all the other roasts in recent years, up to and including this most recent one for Tom Brady.

00:10:50.800 And that, I'm not just mentioning all of this because I like stand-up comedy and the roast jokes are funny.

00:10:56.100 I'm mentioning all of this because it has real political implications.

00:11:02.340 If you want to stand out in comedy, in show business, and in politics, you need to subvert expectations.

00:11:10.240 If you just give the people exactly what they expect and you play within the perfectly well-defined rules that have been established for, I don't know, since the last time someone upended the rules, you're not going to do very much.

00:11:23.260 You're not going to get the biggest laughs of the night.

00:11:26.260 You're not going to leave any impression.

00:11:29.340 You're not going to advance whatever your object is, be it in show business or politics, as you might like to.

00:11:39.680 So how do we be shocking now in politics?

00:11:43.940 How do we subvert expectations in politics?

00:11:48.080 What does that mean politically today?

00:11:50.580 To me, I think I have an answer to it because I don't think left and right quite works anymore.

00:11:58.980 You're really seeing this with the protests, the campus intifada.

00:12:04.660 It's coded basically left and right.

00:12:06.900 The pro-Palestine people are on the left.

00:12:08.900 The pro-Israel people are on the right. 0.94

00:12:11.240 But it's a little confusing.

00:12:13.320 There are some pro-Israel left-wingers.

00:12:15.800 There are some radically anti-Israel right-wingers.

00:12:18.160 It's kind of a fringe statistically, but especially when you get to the younger conservatives and leftists, it gets a little bit more jumbled up.

00:12:25.880 And it's not just true.

00:12:26.760 I mean, that's one war and one political issue, but it's true across a lot of other things.

00:12:30.480 You're seeing a lot of young conservatives upend Republican Party orthodoxy for the last two or three decades when it comes to things like trade, when it comes to things like drugs and porn and government regulation even.

00:12:42.820 So what are we looking at now?

00:12:45.620 It wasn't always just the left and the right for American history.

00:12:49.640 In the early days of American history, it was the Federalists versus the Democratic Republicans.

00:12:55.700 It was John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson.

00:12:58.580 And those debates kind of map onto modern left and right, but they're actually a little bit different.

00:13:03.600 Then in the 19th century, it was North and South.

00:13:07.340 Then it became, I don't know, in the 20th century, it became capitalists versus communists in the height of the Cold War.

00:13:15.340 Capitalistic, and that informed how the right talked about money and talked about freedom and talked about social issues.

00:13:21.240 And the left was always kind of commie sympathetic, even if they didn't want to admit it.

00:13:25.520 That informed how they viewed Russia.

00:13:27.480 In the 20th century, the left loved Russia.

00:13:29.900 Now the left hates Russia because the circumstances have changed.

00:13:33.240 Now we talk about left versus right, but that's kind of breaking down too.

00:13:37.660 Some people are saying Tucker Carlson's economics are left-wing.

00:13:40.520 He's talking more like a leftist than a right-winger.

00:13:43.660 Or, you know, the, I don't know, the integralists, the common good conservatives, the populists.

00:13:49.460 I guess populism is a good term for this.

00:13:51.320 You saw this especially in 2016 when the breakdown seemed to be the people versus the establishment.

00:13:58.120 Or, I don't know, when you look at the campus intifada, I guess it's the Muslims versus the Jews. 0.83

00:14:03.200 Or some people, on the extreme fringes of the left or on the right, they'd probably like it to be the Christians versus the Jews. 0.83

00:14:09.420 Or something, I don't know, I don't think that one, that one's kind of been tried before.

00:14:12.460 I don't know if that's going to totally, you know, the people versus the Jews.

00:14:15.800 I don't know if that's totally going to work, but there are people calling for all sorts of a new split in a new political order.

00:14:27.860 Even the, of all the ones I just mentioned, the closest that probably would have some cachet that might sell is the people versus the elites.

00:14:37.600 You know, the establishment that's increasingly unresponsive to the people.

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00:14:49.460 You can't just be defined by your position outside of the political order because then it doesn't give you any room to gain power in the political order and do stuff.

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00:16:23.580 I think the answer to where the political alignment goes that is shocking, that has cachet, that wins people over, that is a broad movement, you know, it doesn't have the narrowness of, I don't know, the very online right or the campus intifada or, I don't know, these kind of tiny things is another major topic of political debate these days in the commentary.

00:16:52.240 And that is the trads, trad life, trad wives, that tradition, the trads versus the radicals.

00:17:02.640 I think that, that is getting closer to where the real political divide is right now.

00:17:09.640 Because what does it, what does it even mean to be trad?

00:17:12.720 I don't, does it mean, you know, you, you go around LARPing, you know, does it mean that you, I don't know, you adopt some anachronistic costume or political?

00:17:25.380 No, I think to be trad me, I mean, there are all sorts of implications.

00:17:29.420 There are implications that are anthropological.

00:17:32.180 You think that men and women are different rather than the same and rather than thinking men can become women.

00:17:38.580 That would be one, that would be an anthropological aspect of being a traditional person.

00:17:42.660 A, I guess, a generational aspect of it would be that you have children.

00:17:49.620 You're not, you're not closed off to the possibility of life.

00:17:53.300 A, I don't know, a financial aspect to it, it might be that you save your money.

00:17:58.180 You're not profligate.

00:17:59.060 You don't just spend your money on total nonsense.

00:18:01.600 A liturgical aspect of it might be that you go to church, first of all, and that you go to churches that are more traditional, that have more liturgy to it, that have a little more smells and bells.

00:18:14.120 I mean, and you're, the reason I think this plays is because all these things are happening.

00:18:20.700 You're seeing younger people having less sex outside of marriage.

00:18:24.600 You're seeing younger people returning to, not only to religion, but to more traditional forms of religion.

00:18:32.220 It's just a social fact right now.

00:18:35.500 A lot of people are converting to Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy to some degree.

00:18:39.400 And even among non-Christians, you're seeing Jews who had been largely secular for many, many decades.

00:18:45.080 They're becoming a little bit more orthodox, more conservative, and a little bit more orthodox.

00:18:50.460 Even people who were total atheists, they're at least beginning to accept that God exists.

00:18:56.440 You're kind of seeing those movements.

00:18:58.180 People recognize that family kinds of matters.

00:19:00.500 A new awareness that maybe we need to start having kids.

00:19:05.840 I mean, the fact that trad wives have become a kind of internet meme, that the trad life is even a topic of discussion now, really matters.

00:19:15.100 So we can go through all this highfalutin, you know, kind of abstract discussion about what it means to be trad.

00:19:23.560 But the reason I think this plays politically has nothing to do with any of that, which is maybe interesting for the commentators and academics and people who are nerds.

00:19:35.000 But the reason it plays politically is because what it pretty much all boils down to, this trad life, is just being normal.

00:19:42.600 Just being a normal person and not chopping yourself up and dyeing your hair all sorts of crazy colors and shrieking at your dad and living in a communist polycule and, you know, choosing not to have children and all the stuff that modern people do that's really weird and disordered. 0.65

00:19:59.300 It's kind of just being normal and being normal is really attractive and it's really great.

00:20:05.760 I'll just speak from personal experience here.

00:20:08.600 Not that, you know, we're all a little eccentric, a little quirky.

00:20:11.400 I certainly have my quirks.

00:20:12.460 But I endeavor to live in a way that is normal.

00:20:16.420 And normal has two meanings.

00:20:18.240 Normal means according to the norms of a society.

00:20:21.740 So that part is a little bit relative and kind of changes over time.

00:20:25.080 And also normal refers to objective standards like moral norms, ethical norms, things that are permanently true, eternal things.

00:20:35.760 And ideally, we like to bring the former into line with the latter.

00:20:39.100 We want our society's norms and standards and taboos to accord with eternal truths because then we're really going to flourish.

00:20:47.240 Because the primary purpose of statecraft is do good and avoid evil and allow human beings to flourish in community together.

00:20:54.920 And I endeavor to do that.

00:20:57.500 I'm from New York, very liberal place.

00:20:59.280 I went to a very radical left-wing school.

00:21:01.920 And then I lived in L.A.

00:21:03.820 And I worked in show business.

00:21:06.140 I've worked in politics and show business my whole life.

00:21:08.580 I've been a professional actor, done all sorts of crazy parts in TV and film and theater.

00:21:13.920 I've worked on all sorts of crazy political campaigns.

00:21:16.340 And I was single throughout most of my 20s.

00:21:20.040 But, you know, it kind of occurred to me.

00:21:22.380 Living a traditional life is kind of nice.

00:21:24.420 So I, you know, I get married, have kids as I've been blessed.

00:21:28.820 Well, I don't have the kids.

00:21:29.680 You know, I'm not, I guess some modern men think they can get birth.

00:21:32.460 I don't think I can get birth.

00:21:33.120 My wife has had the kids.

00:21:34.340 So we've been open to life.

00:21:36.480 Settle down, you know, try to live like a normal.

00:21:40.120 Go to work, you know, come home, eat dinner.

00:21:43.480 Occasionally even watch a baseball game.

00:21:46.120 Read books, smoke cigars, do normal things.

00:21:48.260 And it's really great, man.

00:21:50.100 And probably most important of this, have a great church, great community there.

00:21:54.900 See my friends, see my family, you know, when I can, even the ones that, you know, when they live kind of far away.

00:22:00.000 And so I know that I'm not giving you a statistical read here, okay?

00:22:05.120 I'm just giving you an anecdote.

00:22:07.240 But my friends who live the trad life are happier than the ones who don't.

00:22:13.280 I got a lot of friends who don't.

00:22:14.180 Told you I lived in New York and LA, went to crazy school.

00:22:18.260 My friends who are endeavoring to live that trad life, they are uniformly happier than the ones who reject it.

00:22:24.080 And what's even wilder is the tradder my friends are, the happier they are.

00:22:29.620 And I know it's just an anecdote, but guess what?

00:22:32.060 The plural of anecdote is data, okay?

00:22:34.600 There seems to be something to this.

00:22:37.480 It's my own recommendation to you.

00:22:40.360 Try to be normal.

00:22:41.880 Try to live according to tradition, which is not some old dusty thing, but it's really vibrant.

00:22:45.400 It's the sort of thing that endures throughout history and is really strong and vibrant.

00:22:50.660 It's survived the vicissitudes and craziness of time where impermanent things just go away.

00:22:58.620 I'm telling you that personally it's really good.

00:23:01.280 But I'm also making perhaps the more urgent observation, at least for our political order, which is that politically this stuff sells.

00:23:09.980 If you can be on the side of the American way of life, if that's what we're defending, we're defending the American way of life.

00:23:18.620 I like the good old American way of life.

00:23:20.780 That's what we're – the left wants to take that away from you.

00:23:23.500 And they want to trans your kids, and they want to make you now all wear like keffias or something. 0.99

00:23:31.380 Muslim headscarves is the latest iteration of this. 1.00

00:23:34.600 And they want to upend your economy and your family and abolish marriage and kill your babies. 0.99

00:23:39.580 And they just want – they want to take away your way of life, and we want to preserve your way of life.

00:23:44.400 That's the divide between the trads and the radicals.

00:23:46.660 And radicals can't succeed if they can't hold the common sense.

00:23:52.540 That was an observation of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.

00:23:56.940 If we just hold on to that common sense, that trad-radical divide, I think that is the bestseller.

00:24:03.780 I know people have their own pet ideologies, or they hate some particular group, or they – I don't know.

00:24:09.760 They're obsessed with some philosophical or ideological idea.

00:24:13.460 That stuff's not going to – you need to have currency.

00:24:16.760 Social currency.

00:24:17.900 You need to be able to play coast to coast and in the middle of the country.

00:24:21.120 You need to have a grasp of the common sense.

00:24:24.900 And you're already seeing a social movement toward, hey, let's – can we all try being normal again?

00:24:30.840 That is shocking.

00:24:33.380 A candidate getting on stage and saying, hey, I'm here so that we can all be normal again.

00:24:40.180 That, I strongly believe, plays.

00:24:43.640 Now, speaking of people who don't want to be normal at all, the leftists who protest me when I go to universities, sometimes I'm able to sit down with them after the speech, as occurred at the University of Utah, which is the subject of our latest episode of Crossing the Line.

00:25:01.980 Is it a safe place for your conservative students?

00:25:05.460 Of course.

00:25:05.760 How would they know that coming in here when there's a sign that literally says they are not welcome?

00:25:10.140 Now, why on earth would conservative students not feel welcome on a public university campus?

00:25:15.800 I made Michael Walls from public life.

00:25:19.780 Trump's power!

00:25:21.860 Trump's power!

00:25:23.060 What does your sign say?

00:25:24.260 So respect existence or expect resistance.

00:25:27.900 The protesters were nearly all students in the College of Social Work.

00:25:31.360 It seems very few of them had ever listened to a word that I've said.

00:25:34.060 From what I know about him, he has promoted the annihilation of trans people. 1.00

00:25:41.140 I don't want to say that for sure.

00:25:44.240 When my producer, Mr. Davies, gave them the chance to discuss their views with me, pretty much all of them declined.

00:25:50.160 Personally, I have a really hard time staying cool, calm, and collected when talking to someone like that.

00:25:55.880 So I think I'm going to take the high road, not even go there.

00:25:58.880 However, after the TikToks were posted and the mob felt that its objective was complete, one student decided to peek his head in.

00:26:08.240 Like most students, Daniel had never actually listened to my show or to any of my speeches.

00:26:13.640 He simply came to protest because his friends said he should.

00:26:17.520 Because, they said, the speaker was a bad guy.

00:26:21.300 Happily, Daniel decided to investigate the matter himself and cross the picket line to hear what I had to say.

00:26:28.880 That's right.

00:26:31.600 Our latest episode of Cross the Line is out right now.

00:26:34.860 You can check it out on my YouTube channel.

00:26:36.700 It's the Michael Knowles YouTube channel, which I think still shows up if you search for it.

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00:27:15.360 Some people are not content with the rise of trad life.

00:27:21.520 They don't like it.

00:27:22.300 One of whom is my friend Lauren Southern.

00:27:24.820 Lauren Southern just has this really interesting interview, this exchange in Unheard, written by Mary Harrington.

00:27:32.200 And it's about how she tried to trad life and it didn't really work for her.

00:27:36.060 It's worth reading.

00:27:37.560 Here's just a little snippet.

00:27:38.580 Lauren talks about how she got married within four months of knowing a guy at the age of 22.

00:27:43.420 She writes,

00:27:45.100 There were warning signs from early on.

00:27:47.040 If I ever disagreed with him in any capacity, he'd just disappear for days at a time. 0.97

00:27:51.260 I remember there were nights where he'd call me worthless and pathetic, then get in his car and leave. 0.98

00:27:55.820 Which is obviously awful, awful stuff. 0.99

00:27:58.120 What kind of man speaks to a woman that way?

00:28:00.640 But she didn't see them thanks to the simplified anti-feminist ideology she'd absorbed and promoted. 0.99

00:28:06.600 Lauren says,

00:28:07.180 I had this delusional view of relationships that only women could be the ones that make or break them and men can do no wrong. 0.97

00:28:13.900 So she didn't spot the red flags, even as they became more extreme.

00:28:17.100 He'd lock me out of the house.

00:28:18.460 I remember having to knock on the neighbor's door on rainy nights because he'd get upset and drive off without unlocking the house.

00:28:23.900 It was very strange to go from being this public figure on stage with people clapping to the girl crying, knocking on someone's door with no home to get into, being abandoned with a baby.

00:28:32.340 But as she tells it, the nightmare began in earnest when he was offered a work opportunity in his home country of Australia, a few weeks after the birth of their baby.

00:28:41.520 She did not want to leave her support networks behind, but he used the political and religious importance she placed on lifelong marriage as a lever to force her to agree.

00:28:50.060 Whenever I wouldn't do something, he would say, I'm going to divorce you.

00:28:52.320 So feeling she had no other option, she assented.

00:28:55.060 Okay, so that's not it, right?

00:28:56.520 That's not the kind of thing that we want.

00:28:58.080 One feels very bad for Lauren.

00:28:59.500 We haven't heard this guy's side of the story, but he's not around.

00:29:01.980 So I guess that kind of proves her side of the story.

00:29:05.160 This ain't it.

00:29:05.840 Nobody wants this.

00:29:06.740 And this is being presented as the dark side of trad life.

00:29:12.120 The title of the essay is, Lauren Southern, How My Trad Life Turned Toxic.

00:29:15.780 But it isn't trad, right?

00:29:17.020 I mean, even to say, whenever I would say, I don't want to do something, he would say, I'm going to divorce you.

00:29:23.220 And that was the religious aspect of marriage.

00:29:27.020 No, in our culture, at least, in the West, a culture that used to be called Christendom, divorce was not permitted.

00:29:37.300 It's certainly not a traditional aspect of our culture.

00:29:41.060 But we had, you know, the, Henry VIII basically rent his kingdom asunder because he wanted to get a divorce.

00:29:48.920 He ripped Christendom, you know, in half.

00:29:51.860 That's very radical to do.

00:29:54.580 He says, I'll divorce you.

00:29:55.840 Or, you know, he'd leave, go away for days at a time.

00:29:58.540 I mean, that's not, so what, so then you got to be a little bit more specific.

00:30:02.120 I mean, probably the weirdos at the university campuses wearing the keffias calling for, you know, a Palestinian state or something, they might appeal to tradition.

00:30:13.160 Hamas, in a way, appeals to a kind of tradition. 0.94

00:30:15.240 But it's not our tradition.

00:30:17.500 So, even that, maybe the most shocking part of the trad life is you can't distill it down into an essay on Substack.

00:30:32.260 You can't distill it down into a tweet thread.

00:30:36.720 You can't write a book about it.

00:30:39.860 I mean, you can write a book about it, but that won't encapsulate everything.

00:30:42.500 One of the great, more traditionalist political philosophers who did write a book on this subject, Michael Oakeshott, points this out in Rationalism and Politics.

00:30:51.080 That an exaltation of tradition is kind of an anti-ideology.

00:30:59.200 You don't write it in three bullet points on the back of a napkin.

00:31:01.620 There's some things you learn from book learning.

00:31:03.520 There's some things you learn just by doing them.

00:31:06.120 And so, you've got to put it into your whole body.

00:31:09.560 And it's particular to your place.

00:31:11.900 The tradition in Djibouti looks different than tradition in America.

00:31:14.940 So, what is our tradition?

00:31:16.500 And then even deeper, because America is a young country, what tradition is that based on?

00:31:22.160 And then, I guess, the Anglo tradition.

00:31:24.300 What tradition is that based on?

00:31:25.880 It goes back to the animating spirit of our culture, which is Christianity, which did not spring up 300 or 400 years ago.

00:31:32.580 It sprung up 2,000 years ago when our Lord walked the earth and instituted a visible church with, you know, secular history redeemed in it and visible successors.

00:31:43.060 And how does that express itself in different particular places?

00:31:46.660 You've got to, it's about real people.

00:31:49.420 I mean, even the fact, Lauren writes here that she married some foreigner.

00:31:52.580 Well, yeah, then it's hard to live the trad life when you're married to a foreign person who then takes you to a foreign country and largely a foreign tradition. 0.99

00:32:05.520 And no knock on Lauren.

00:32:06.480 I mean, I really feel for all the stuff she went through.

00:32:08.620 But it's just a reminder, I think this is why this view of politics in life is really catching on now, at least among young people, why it's attractive to a lot of people, because it's shocking.

00:32:22.020 It's like Norm Macdonald going up at the Bob Saget roast and doing old Dean Martin jokes.

00:32:25.400 It's just, it's totally different from the current left-right divide or Republican-Democrat or communist-capitalist or whatever people.

00:32:35.800 It's different and it's attractive and ultimately I think it's more durable.

00:32:39.860 Now, speaking of tradition, there's a great economic story out that shows that online shopping, which we were once told was going to destroy brick-and-mortar shops, all the mom and pops, and even the big corporate shops.

00:32:54.120 Online shopping is actually saving the brick-and-mortar store.

00:32:57.800 We're not yet all just going to live in our pods and plug our brainstems into a computer and live in the metaverse.

00:33:03.820 That actually people are going back into brick-and-mortar shops in real communities, on real streets, in real buildings.

00:33:10.500 Why is that?

00:33:12.320 According to this big piece, store owners once viewed e-commerce as a mounting threat to their survival.

00:33:19.460 Now, more brick-and-mortar stores are thriving after integrating their properties with the online shopping experience.

00:33:24.600 So, it's not that the brick-and-mortars are opposed to online shopping.

00:33:28.220 The brick-and-mortars are becoming a part of online shopping and online shopping is relying increasingly on brick-and-mortars.

00:33:33.220 Shoppers browse in person to see, touch, or try on items before ordering them online.

00:33:38.680 They're picking up or returning purchases in stores, and retailers are increasingly relying on their shops as fulfillment hubs, shipping items ordered online from store stock rooms in addition to warehouses.

00:33:50.280 So, for instance, I could go in, let's say I want some nice new, you know, super trad, sigma, giga, alpha male kind of sport coat or something.

00:34:01.000 And I go in, and I want to try the fit.

00:34:03.000 They don't have the exact sport coat I want, but I want to see how their suits are cut, right?

00:34:07.560 So, I try the jacket on.

00:34:08.900 So, okay, this guy's gone, all right, I guess I'm this size.

00:34:11.580 I'm a 40 in this, or a 38, or a 42, I don't know, whatever.

00:34:15.160 But I wanted to, so then I go online, and I order the jacket online, and then maybe it ships to the store.

00:34:19.040 And so, you get this interaction in the world.

00:34:21.180 This is not just hypothetical.

00:34:22.180 According to these data, nearly 42% of e-commerce orders last year involved physical stores, which is up from 27% in 2015.

00:34:31.040 So, brick and mortars are exploding, even after COVID, even after we were all locked in and had Amazon deliver everything we wanted to our doors.

00:34:38.680 Well, how is this?

00:34:39.300 Managing Director at Global Data, which is the research firm here, says there was a narrative that as online grew, stores would become less relevant.

00:34:47.200 But it hasn't worked out that way.

00:34:48.700 In many ways, the store is still the heart or hub of retail.

00:34:52.320 Now, I don't really care that much about stores.

00:34:54.020 I do in the sense that I care about the economy, and, you know, I want it to thrive.

00:34:57.080 And I don't want three megacorporations to have a total lock on our entire economy.

00:35:01.860 But the real reason I love this story is it backs up everything that we've just been talking about.

00:35:09.040 The incarnate world is vindicated yet again, undefeated, the incarnate world.

00:35:15.500 We try to destroy it.

00:35:18.020 We try to flee it.

00:35:19.180 We try to abstract ourselves into little floating spirits.

00:35:23.120 We fall prey to Gnostic heresies all the time. 1.00

00:35:25.680 We try to upload our brains into the cloud and live in the metaverse and order everything from Jeff Bezos online.

00:35:31.740 And still, the incarnate world wins.

00:35:34.700 We try to separate our identity from our sexuality and our bodies. 0.66

00:35:38.400 We try to do everything online, have relationships online, date online.

00:35:45.380 We try to become people that are totally divorced from our bodies.

00:35:50.020 Your body says you're a man, but you say I'm a woman or I'm a furry or I'm an octopus or whatever you say you are.

00:35:55.680 And still, the incarnate world is vindicated because it's part of who we are.

00:36:04.600 We are not just spirits imprisoned in bodies, as a lot of modern Gnostic libs would tell you.

00:36:10.520 We are not just a consciousness.

00:36:13.620 We're not just our souls.

00:36:15.020 We're soul and body just meshed together in this world moving through time and space.

00:36:20.360 And deep down, people know that.

00:36:23.220 They feel that at least.

00:36:25.000 And so we're attracted to that stuff.

00:36:27.500 We were told for years, everyone's moving to the city.

00:36:31.040 Everyone's going to move to the city.

00:36:32.180 The countryside is going to empty out.

00:36:34.440 We're all going to just live in some modern, liberal, dystopian, skyscraper-filled, totalitarian little metropolis.

00:36:42.460 And then what happens?

00:36:43.520 People start moving back out to the country.

00:36:45.460 That's what happens.

00:36:47.420 We were told that we'd all just live digitally.

00:36:51.480 We were forewarned in the matrix.

00:36:54.020 We'd all basically just live our lives through avatars in some virtual reality.

00:36:59.940 And what happens?

00:37:01.600 People increasingly are trying to unplug and touch some grass.

00:37:05.180 We were told that our bodies don't matter.

00:37:08.880 Increasingly, people, they want to get married.

00:37:13.640 They want to have more kids.

00:37:15.200 They want physical contact.

00:37:18.360 Even COVID was the big test of this.

00:37:20.900 Does a society need to touch in order to function?

00:37:24.940 Because in society, our elites said, yeah, you can't touch.

00:37:26.820 You can't hug your grandma.

00:37:27.860 You can't see anyone in person.

00:37:29.400 Every meeting is going to be online.

00:37:31.000 Your graduation is going to be online if you have it.

00:37:33.100 Classes are going to, it's all just going to be from your pod.

00:37:35.580 And people hated it.

00:37:37.240 They hated it because it's so inhuman. 0.98

00:37:40.540 It's so disgusting.

00:37:42.100 COVID radicalized a lot of people.

00:37:44.100 And it wasn't just because some doctor with a funny voice lied to us about a virus and about

00:37:50.060 the cures for a virus and the treatments for it.

00:37:51.980 It's not just because corrupt politicians shut down a lot of our society so that they could

00:37:58.200 rig an election.

00:37:59.060 It's because they made us deny an essential aspect to our humanity.

00:38:02.800 Which is our bodies and our social nature.

00:38:05.920 And the fact that we want to see people and we want to shake their hands and high-five

00:38:08.680 them and give them hugs and see people in real life.

00:38:11.720 Our bodies matter.

00:38:13.560 The grass matters.

00:38:14.800 The land matters.

00:38:16.100 Our real, thriving, vibrant communities matter to a political order.

00:38:21.660 That's the dread life.

00:38:23.660 That's it.

00:38:24.540 The radicals, radical means root, right?

00:38:26.980 They want to uproot you from the things that ground you in society.

00:38:31.300 That's the divide that we're in right now.

00:38:33.280 And so we can dance around it with also, you know, some of the really fringe radicals

00:38:39.060 can, I don't know, they can go have their, you know, keffia-clad protests about whatever,

00:38:44.140 like Palestine and Israel.

00:38:45.780 And that's, I think we can already see the protests aren't really about Palestine and

00:38:49.960 Israel.

00:38:50.340 It's about something that's why they got, that's why people show up wearing American flag

00:38:53.660 overalls.

00:38:54.580 And you've got gender studies majors yelling about straight white men in the patriarchy 1.00

00:38:58.580 or whatever on the side of Hamas.

00:39:00.940 So that it's, that's not it.

00:39:03.040 And even the, the more persuasive populism of the people versus the elite, even that's

00:39:10.120 not quite it.

00:39:12.240 Our problem isn't that there are people who run the government.

00:39:14.960 There are always going to be people who run the government.

00:39:16.440 The question is what, what are we after?

00:39:19.080 It's not just how it looks.

00:39:20.380 It's not just even the procedural norms.

00:39:23.740 It's the substantive goods.

00:39:25.000 What are we after?

00:39:27.060 We're after normal life.

00:39:28.540 That's what, that's what I'm after at least.

00:39:30.340 Now, speaking of COVID and speaking of our elites really turning us off, you got at probably

00:39:39.540 the lowest point for the Ivy League's reputation in recent memory.

00:39:44.740 You have Harvard medical students putting out a video that almost left the cringe permanently

00:39:53.540 on my face.

00:39:54.620 I was at real medical risk of a cringe being permanently stuck to my face when Mark Hamill

00:39:58.980 took over the White House press briefing the other day and called the president Joby Wan

00:40:02.580 Kenobi.

00:40:03.060 That almost, I had to really massage my face to get it.

00:40:07.460 But then these Harvard students, they had the one-two punch here, right?

00:40:14.100 They followed up with that.

00:40:15.520 And I think I've survived, but we'll see because I'm going to watch it again.

00:40:20.260 Now, we have a message before we get to that story from our friend, Meck and Kelly.

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00:42:58.000 My favorite comment yesterday is from climate change Biden Beach House, who says,

00:43:03.260 Jar Jar Binks must have been booked.

00:43:04.780 I think so.

00:43:06.000 I actually heard Jar Jar Binks is on the alt-right.

00:43:09.480 I don't know.

00:43:10.420 I know Han Solo, you know, Harrison Ford is a liberal, but he does, I think he's sort

00:43:17.480 of checked out.

00:43:18.140 He just wants to fly his planes and smoke his pot.

00:43:21.040 James Earl Jones is a Republican.

00:43:22.660 Darth Vader, probably the most beloved of the actors and the best actor from the Star Wars

00:43:27.840 movies.

00:43:28.940 I think he's a Republican.

00:43:30.140 I know he's a Catholic.

00:43:32.100 Who else do you have?

00:43:33.700 Peter Cushing, he's dead, so he could vote for Biden.

00:43:37.180 And then Jar Jar.

00:43:40.740 But I don't know.

00:43:41.260 I don't know what Jar Jar's sympathy is like, but I guess he was booked, so they had to

00:43:43.900 stick with Luke Skywalker.

00:43:47.900 Harvard Medical School.

00:43:49.720 Really?

00:43:50.280 They said, hey, the Ivy League still has one tiny modicum of respectability left.

00:43:56.960 We need to make sure we destroy that.

00:43:59.120 Take it away.

00:43:59.600 Looking at my notes, but my knowledge ain't fleeting.

00:44:02.300 Spaced repetition, give me something to believe in.

00:44:04.160 Passed all my tests, but I just skim the re-in.

00:44:05.880 In the food chain, we're the ones that eat you.

00:44:07.660 Harvard Med, ain't no bottom feeder.

00:44:09.580 MD stands for my demeanor.

00:44:11.320 Ask permission before I ever greet you.

00:44:12.940 Does it radiate?

00:44:13.780 Does it come with strain?

00:44:14.660 Scale one to ten, can you rate the pain?

00:44:16.480 When I knock the door, you ask who it is.

00:44:18.040 I can rate the pain of this video.

00:44:19.420 You can check my code, it'll spell my name.

00:44:21.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:44:24.220 It's a billion.

00:44:24.860 That's the pain.

00:44:25.280 I'm messing with some Harvard MDs.

00:44:27.520 Found my best friends for life from this Harvard MD.

00:44:31.020 Giving everything we got for this Harvard MD.

00:44:34.460 Now from the top, make it drop.

00:44:36.340 Come get your Harvard MD.

00:44:38.160 You got your offer.

00:44:39.260 Now say yes to this Harvard MD.

00:44:41.700 We're talking doc, doc, doc.

00:44:43.720 That's a Harvard MD.

00:44:45.240 You deserve the spot you got, future Harvard MD.

00:44:49.240 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:44:51.060 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:44:52.860 There's some docs in this house. 0.99

00:44:55.280 First question, does Harvard admit men anymore into its medical school, or is it just women?

00:45:02.720 Is it just perfectly politically acceptable, multicultural, rapping women? 1.00

00:45:11.200 Maybe it's that.

00:45:15.400 I'd like to spell this out now.

00:45:17.100 I don't know if I'll be able to put it in my will.

00:45:18.780 I don't have a living will.

00:45:20.140 But if I am ever, you know, God forbid, I get these threats sometimes when I go speak at schools.

00:45:26.240 And I was invited to Harvard, though, the administration under that plagiarist president, Claudian Gay. 0.72

00:45:30.440 They shut down my speech last year.

00:45:31.820 But, you know, I go to these schools.

00:45:34.200 I get these threats.

00:45:34.780 If I ever, God forbid, am shot, like bullets all through me, like I'm Swiss cheese, and I am taken semi-conscious, or maybe I'm totally out, to an operating room somewhere. 0.98

00:45:48.660 And one of those rapping women comes out to operate on me. 1.00

00:45:53.000 I'm asking Ben Davies here, or Professor Jacob, or any of my production team, please drive me to another hospital.

00:46:01.480 I know you're going to say, Michael, you're pouring blood.

00:46:03.920 You've got, I'd rather take the chance.

00:46:06.540 Drive me to a hospital.

00:46:07.760 Drive me to the bad hospital across town, where maybe the doctors didn't go to Harvard Medical School, but they also, they don't rap like this.

00:46:17.080 Because I don't, I wouldn't try, I don't know about you, I would not trust those people to operate on me.

00:46:23.420 Maybe they got good scores on their tests.

00:46:26.180 Maybe, maybe, I don't know.

00:46:27.600 I mean, at least for undergraduate, Yale and maybe Harvard stopped looking at the SAT for a few years.

00:46:34.580 I think they've recently reinstituted it because a bunch of, you know, let's say unqualified candidates made it in.

00:46:42.140 But I don't know, do they, even if these kids did well on their tests, the thing that's really cringe about this and off-putting,

00:46:51.480 not only politically, but even as a matter of patients looking at prospective doctors, is how self-satisfied these people are.

00:47:01.420 This is the biggest problem with these schools.

00:47:04.320 Biggest problem with the Ivy League schools, and especially the trade schools, the professional schools, like the medical schools and the law schools, but the undergraduates too.

00:47:12.660 They're so self-congratulatory.

00:47:14.500 They think that because you were the valedictorian at your high school, and you got a perfect score on your SAT, or a relatively high score on your SAT, or you were just an affirmative action case or something,

00:47:24.160 and because you, I don't know, you were the class president or something, that because of that, you're done.

00:47:29.860 You've won the lottery of life, and you're the greatest thing ever, and you never have to work again.

00:47:34.060 But that was part of the wrap, right?

00:47:35.540 I'm not studying from my tests, but I'm still doing well.

00:47:38.360 Yeah, right, because you can't, it's impossible to fail out of these schools.

00:47:41.600 It's still hard to get in, but it's pretty much impossible to fail out.

00:47:45.320 I remember when I was admitted into undergraduate, the alumnus who interviewed me, he said,

00:47:49.640 Michael, it's very hard to get in, but it pretty much requires an act of violence to be booted out of the school.

00:47:55.320 Very easy to graduate.

00:47:57.440 And now, these days, you see acts of violence committed by the students, and even that might not kick them out.

00:48:02.560 This is a big problem, and it's a big turnoff.

00:48:04.540 It's the self-congratulations, the self-satisfaction that really appears to be unearned.

00:48:12.560 I think this is what's leading to a lot of the anti-elitism, or the populism, or whatever, is it's not that there is an elite.

00:48:20.120 I like there being an elite.

00:48:21.400 I like that there are people who are smarter than me.

00:48:24.680 The world would not be very well off if I were the smartest person in the world.

00:48:30.240 I like if I were the most knowledgeable person in the world, if I were the most capable person in the world, you know, the society would crumble in two seconds, okay?

00:48:37.660 It's good.

00:48:38.940 And even the fact that there are hierarchies.

00:48:41.120 So hierarchies just emerge out of nature.

00:48:43.100 That's not a bad thing.

00:48:44.180 The left says we need to all be totally egalitarian and bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator, and we're all living as Harrison Bergeron, like we're in a Kurt Vonnegut story or something.

00:48:53.300 But I don't mind that.

00:48:55.360 I don't mind that there are people who are richer than me.

00:48:57.880 I don't mind that there are people who are more powerful than me.

00:48:59.660 I don't mind that certain people run the government.

00:49:01.420 That's how governments work.

00:49:02.720 The problem is these people are not good at it.

00:49:05.460 The problem is that our elites are not that smart, and they're not that educated, and they're not very competent, and they don't seem to have our best interests at heart a lot of the time.

00:49:14.160 They don't give a damn about the common good a lot of the time, even as a matter of their own ideologies, and they're just bad at it, and they're so self-satisfied.

00:49:21.740 I am quite confident that there were absolute divine right monarchs in Western history who were much less self-confident than these people are, because at least the absolute divine right monarchs knew they had to answer to God.

00:49:38.180 These people, half the time, more than half the time probably, they don't even believe in God. 0.78

00:49:42.540 They view themselves as gods, which is always an undeserved and foolish view of oneself.

00:49:48.760 But especially now, when our elites know much, much less and possess many fewer practical skills than their forebears, whom they regularly denigrate.

00:50:00.500 Now, speaking of bad education, there's a Girl Scout troop in St. Louis.

00:50:05.020 I think they've now broken away from the formal organization.

00:50:07.740 It might be an independent Girl Scout troop, but they're learning new chants.

00:50:13.980 So, they're out there, they're protesting.

00:50:17.360 Already, bad sign, red flag.

00:50:20.200 I want my Girl Scouts to be selling me cookies.

00:50:23.860 I want my Girl Scouts maybe to be winning little merit badges for knitting, socks, or I don't know what the Girl Scouts really do.

00:50:29.740 But I like the cookies.

00:50:31.280 I don't want them to be chanting with a bullhorn.

00:50:33.120 And then, this is what they're chanting.

00:50:35.160 My season's older than you.

00:50:37.840 Na-na-na-boo-boo. 0.99

00:50:40.080 Na-na-na-boo-boo. 0.99

00:50:42.520 My, look older than you.

00:50:45.400 My season's older than you.

00:50:48.040 Free, free Palestine.

00:50:50.480 Free, free Palestine.

00:50:53.040 Free, free Palestine.

00:50:55.520 Free, free Palestine.

00:50:57.580 Free, free Palestine.

00:51:00.080 Very weird.

00:51:07.260 That's my main takeaway from it.

00:51:09.860 It's not Palestine, Israel, whatever.

00:51:12.700 Very weird.

00:51:14.260 To have little girls, like six-year-old girls chanting this.

00:51:16.980 The full chant was, hey Israel, na-na-na-boo-boo.

00:51:20.760 My seedo, or seido, I guess that means grandfather in some language, is older than you.

00:51:27.020 Like, we're, you know, the Palestinians had the land before the Jews or whatever.

00:51:31.700 I don't.

00:51:32.860 Weird.

00:51:33.940 It's weird, man.

00:51:34.680 I don't.

00:51:36.760 I know that Israel-Palestine is a complex issue, but I don't. 0.88

00:51:40.780 Maybe you're the biggest Israel supporter ever, and you think we should wipe out all the Palestinians. 1.00

00:51:45.980 Maybe you're the biggest Palestine supporter ever. 1.00

00:51:48.000 You think we should wipe out all the Israelis. 1.00

00:51:49.980 Maybe you're a Muslim. 1.00

00:51:51.500 Maybe you're a Jew. 1.00

00:51:52.160 Maybe you hate the Muslims. 1.00

00:51:53.040 Maybe you hate the Jews. 0.98

00:51:53.980 And maybe you form your political thoughts, other people have in the past, over any of 0.83

00:52:01.360 those topics.

00:52:03.360 You have to agree, I think, if you're even in any way tethered to reality.

00:52:08.900 That is really weird.

00:52:10.640 That's really weird to have little Girl Scouts doing that.

00:52:14.060 That's off-putting.

00:52:15.760 I don't care how much you support Palestine or whatever.

00:52:18.440 That's off-putting to anyone.

00:52:21.220 No one wants that.

00:52:23.580 The vast majority of people don't want that.

00:52:27.480 I think running against that kind of thing, it's the same reason why running against, you

00:52:32.520 know, transing the kids is a very powerful political campaign. 0.98

00:52:38.460 It's just, we just all know it's really weird and totally out of keeping with our tradition

00:52:42.620 and with morality and with normality.

00:52:45.380 It's just weird.

00:52:46.240 And don't, if we could just not, if we just offer people a political option of, hey, all

00:52:52.580 the really weird stuff, everything that's really screwed up, we're against it.

00:52:57.100 And we're for like having a good life.

00:53:00.540 And we're for the good old American way of life that you had until five seconds ago.

00:53:04.500 You, that's a great realignment as far as I'm concerned.

00:53:09.380 Then we win, no matter how disconnected our political class is.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 07, 2024

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