Ep. 1631 - This Should Be Illegal： 1,000 Bodies In 24 Hours
Summary
With Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on the ropes, Democrats are already setting their sights on taking down Tulsi Gabbard, with dozens of intelligence officials coming out warning of her allegiance to foreign powers. Meanwhile, a woman has issued a casting call for fellas because she is endeavoring to bed 1,000 men within the span of 24 hours.
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slash cyberweek before it is too late. With Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on the ropes,
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Democrats are already setting their sights on taking down Tulsi Gabbard, with dozens of
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intelligence officials coming out warning of her allegiance to foreign powers. Seems to me I've
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The libs and the squishes are coming for Pete Hegseth. They want that man to go down. They do
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not want to see him at the Pentagon. This goes back to the moment that his candidacy was announced.
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There was a big Politico piece that said that defense industry lobbyists didn't like him,
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which is frankly one of the great recommendations of Pete Hegseth's nomination. Then, of course,
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the Democrats were all upset about him. Most Republicans really like the guy. He obviously has
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a great record of service in the military. He also has degrees from Princeton and Harvard,
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Kennedy School of Public Policy. So, he checks off all those boxes. Very good communicator on TV.
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However, there are a few holdouts right now, including one senator who reportedly wants the
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job for herself. In any case, Pete is fighting back as he demonstrated yesterday.
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I'm proud of what I fought for. I'm not going to back down from them one bit. I will answer all
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of these senators' questions. But this will not be a process tried in the media. I don't answer to
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anyone in this group. None of you. Not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump,
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who received 76 million votes on behalf and a mandate for change. I answer to the 50,
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the 100 senators who are a part of this process and those in the committee.
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I answer to my Lord and Savior and my wife and my family. I'm proud to be here. And as long as
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Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight, fighting
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to bring our Pentagon back to what it needs to be. Good answer. I think that that will be impressive
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down in Palm Beach. I think that's the kind of thing President Trump loves to see. That's the kind
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of thing Republican senators love to see, too. You know, I understand that not every nominee is going
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to get through in a contentious process, especially when there's fighting going on,
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not just between the Republicans and the Democrats, but even more importantly, within the Republican
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Party. Frankly, even within the MAGA movement, even down at Palm Beach, there are factions within
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the Trump campaign fighting and vying for influence and settling scores. So I get it.
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But there is a real risk here if Pete Hegseth goes down. Matt Gaetz already went down. He didn't have
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the votes. He didn't have anything close to the votes. So he went down. In a way, it benefited
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him because it got him out of Congress before a damaging ethics report was released. But in any
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case, that put a little blood in the water on these nominations. Now, the Democrats are trying
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to pounce on that like sharks. They're just starting to show up. They're circling the boat.
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Ooh, is Hegseth going to go down, too? Ooh, Hegseth's been married multiple times. Ooh, Hegseth used to be
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kind of a Casanova. Ooh, now they're making crazy accusations against him. They're saying because
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he had a whiskey during a film shoot in which whiskey was a prop and a set piece that he's
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somehow, you know, like a full-blown alcoholic or something. The guy did morning TV for how many
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years? No one ever saw him drunk on TV once. Just kind of throwing everything at him. They're going
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to throw the kitchen sink at him. And there are going to be some squishes who go soft, and they're
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going to be cynical Republicans who don't want him in that position because maybe they want that
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position for themselves. Maybe they want that position for one of their allies. Whatever the
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reason, though, if Hegseth goes down, you can say goodbye to Bobby Kennedy at HHS. If Hegseth goes
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down, say goodbye to Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. I was talking about this
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with Megyn Kelly yesterday. Megyn made the point that if they're going to take Pete Hegseth down because
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he was a little bit of a Casanova, well, Bobby Kennedy makes Pete Hegseth look like a priest.
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Okay, Bobby Kennedy has a far longer and far more checkered romantic history. So he's done. His
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nomination's done then, too. They're already going after Tulsi Gabbard. In fact, this was,
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Noel Stradamus strikes again. Yesterday on Megyn Kelly's show, I broke a personal record for the
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quickest that a prediction that I have made has ever come true. I was chatting with Megyn about
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this very topic, and I said, I said this. You know the letter is already being written.
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51 former and present intelligence officials know that Tulsi Gabbard is a secret KGB agent and the
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leader of ISIS. And we have proof because this whole charge came to us first from Hillary Clinton.
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Tulsi is a Russian asset nonsense. That was just a line from Hillary Clinton in 2020.
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It's totally, well, I suppose the Russia hoax against Trump was also a line from Hillary Clinton
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When she was, ironically enough, colluding with the Russians to get that Steele dossier.
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So it's just such bunk, Megyn, and it's not going to stop. By the way, it's not going to stop with
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Tulsi Gabbard. Whoever the next person they put up, that person's going to have a whole dossier
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of mostly nonsense thrown at them, too. Not one hour after I made that prediction on
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Megyn Kelly's show, we got this from dozens of intelligence officials past and present
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to Chuck Schumer, current leader of the Senate, and John Thude, the incoming leader of the Senate.
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As senior national security professionals who have served in both Republican and Democratic
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administrations, we welcome president-elect's intention to nominate Marco Rubio. They love Rubio.
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They love Elise Stefanik. They love the more moderate nominations from Trump.
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However, we are alarmed by the announcement that the president-elect intends to nominate
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Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence. Then they go on and on to talk about how much
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she loves the Russians and the Syrians and the dictators. I said, I can't, I am impressed
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with my own prescience. I said, you know, the letter is currently being written. And then
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about an hour later, the letter comes out. They may have been writing this letter while Megan and I
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were speaking. Maybe they watched the Megyn Kelly show. I don't know what it is. In any case,
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only proves the point. That's not just a point about Tulsi. It really goes all the way back to Pete.
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You want to get rid of Matt Gaetz? Okay, I get it. He had a lot of baggage that he wasn't going to
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come anywhere close to the threshold of votes needed in the Senate. Here though, it looks like
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Pete is pretty close. Right now, it looks like the holdouts are who? Lindsey Graham reportedly
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doesn't like him. Mitch McConnell reportedly doesn't like him. Murkowski and Collins, unsurprisingly,
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liberal Republicans. Joni Ernst, there is some reporting that Joni Ernst might be vying for the
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defense secretary position herself. Okay, so now we're talking about people who just have little
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quibbles with, I don't know, Pete's not my favorite choice. Or, oh, I don't know, maybe I want that job
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for me. I would just issue this little warning to any Republican senators who want to play games
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about Pete Hegseth. I don't think Republican primary voters are going to take very
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kindly to Republican senators who giddily vote for Joe Biden's defense secretary nominees,
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giddily vote for Lloyd Austin, who has not been a good defense secretary, who disappeared for three
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days, didn't even tell the president, who giddily vote for the Democrat nominees, but refuse to give
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President Trump, their own party's president, his nominees. I don't think they're going to take,
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Speaking of threats to our government, some transvestites decided to hold an insurrection
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at the Capitol yesterday. You didn't hear about this because like the vast majority of insurrections
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that have taken place at the U.S. Capitol over U.S. history, this was from the left, not from the
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right. And it was far more egregious, if you ask me, than anything the Hornhat people did on January 6th.
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Because in this case, a bunch of transvestites decided to barge into the women's bathroom
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All right. I think I've got, I've heard enough of this. These people, they don't have all that
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much to say. So they just repeat their slogans. One of the people who barged into the women's room
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is Bradley Manning, who is a criminal who was, had a sentence commuted by Barack Obama.
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And now he thinks that he's a woman and he calls himself Chelsea. This, I'm not speaking with
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hyperbole when I say this is more serious, more egregious than anything the Hornhap people did.
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Because, well, some of the Capitol Hill eccentrics from January 6th were a little untoward and a
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little uncivilized, you know, messing up papers on desks and moving lecterns and things like that.
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These people are committing what would have been considered a crime until five minutes ago,
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a pretty serious crime. They're fellas barging into women in various states of undress in their
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bathrooms. Those are rooms that men are in principle not permitted to go into. But the perverts who run
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our government have decided to force women to be in various states of undress, surrounded by men.
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This is classic stuff. Deeply unjust, so we should stop it. We should arrest these people.
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Obviously, we should enforce the law and protections for women. However, from a political perspective,
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I think this is pretty good. I think the transgender issue plays perfectly for Republicans.
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And the Democrats can't pull away from it. Some reasonable, semi-reasonable Democrats
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want to pull away from the trans issue because they realize it cost them Virginia in the Glenn
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Youngkin race. It hurt them in Florida. It hurt them in the presidential election. They realize
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it's a really bad look. But they can't pull away from it. That's the problem.
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In some ways, the far-left radical Dems who want to keep pushing transgenderism and transing the kids,
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in some ways, they're actually more reasonable than the moderate Dems who don't want to go all
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the way with transgenderism. And the reason is that transgenderism follows naturally from the
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premises that the Democrats have been talking about for half a century, going back to feminism at
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least, to say that if a man and a woman are practically the same, then what follows from that is
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the gay rights movement. What follows from that is so-called gay marriage, inevitably. And what
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follows from that is transgenderism. And what follows from that is transing the kids.
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If men and women are really the same, indiscernible, interchangeable, then that's true for everyone,
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including adults, including little kids. It's true when it comes to marriage. It's true when it comes to
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the law. It's true when it comes to biology. Now, most people find this very off-putting.
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There are some people, though, who, for whatever clouding of their intellect, they really buy into
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it. And I think another reason that people are really embracing not only transgenderism,
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but transing the kids, is because it makes them feel special, because it makes them feel
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interesting. And you don't have to take my word for it. There was a mother of a so-called trans child
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who had this to say in Washington, D.C., not far from the Supreme Court, as the oral arguments were
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being heard in the case of U.S. versus Scrimetti.
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I think the greatest gift of my life is to have kids. And to have a transgender child
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has made me so much more interesting. So much more wise.
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That sums it up. That woman accidentally revealed, I think, what's at the heart of a lot of the trans
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kids movement. Kids, by definition, can't consent to things. Decisions are made for kids by their
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parents. Kids are very impressionable. A little look on your face, a little raising of your eyebrow,
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your kids are going to notice that. They're going to absorb that. They're going to react to that.
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Anyone who's ever had kids knows this is true. Toddlers, they mimic everything that you do,
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every thought that enters into your head. And so now it is socially beneficial. There is a social
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cachet to having a trans kid. As that woman says, it just made me so much more interesting.
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This is why the Hollywood celebrities all have like 50 trans kids. That's weird. Statistically,
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that wouldn't make any sense. But this is a continuation. Back in the 90s and 2000s,
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it carried social cachet to have a gay kid. So you had a flurry of gay kids, especially in the coasts
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and in liberal and affluent areas. You saw this flourish in the 90s and 2000s. There was no such
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thing as a trans kid in the 90s. There was certainly no such thing as a trans kid in the 80s or the 70s.
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Now you see a lot of trans kids. You're seeing the, what is it, 30% of Gen Z identifying as LGBTQ
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up orders of magnitude in just a matter of a few decades. Why does that happen? Either it's because
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they're putting something in the water, turning the frogs gay, which in part is true. Or it's because
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parents, whether through ignorance or through their own perverse desires and envy of the interesting
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aspects of other people, they're leading their kids into this. They're affirming them in delusions.
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Maybe they're even planting the seeds of those delusions by raising children in a liberal environment
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and establishing for them the first principle that a man really can be a woman.
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But hey, it makes them so much more interesting. It makes them seem so much more wise.
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Speaking of children, David Hogg, you remember David Hogg? David Hogg is this kid who was present
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at the Parkland school when there was a school shooting and he really capitalized on it and he
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made himself a celebrity off of this tragedy that happened at his school. Now he's, I think, 52 or
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something. You know, he's not quite, but he's in his mid-20s. And David Hogg, I think he was accepted
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to Harvard just because he got on CNN a lot after this shooting. He has not demonstrated much academic
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or intellectual acumen or even the ability to spell words. But he got into Harvard and it's, once you're
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into these schools, it's very easy to graduate. So I guess he graduated and now he's still getting
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himself on CNN all the time. And he wants to run for the leadership of the Democrat party.
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David, good morning. I'm so grateful to have you.
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So tell us a little bit about this. Are you thinking about running for this leadership post
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Well, honestly, I'm considering it because I think that, one, obviously I think we need a
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new generation in the DNC if this election has taught us nothing else. I think we need an
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intergenerational coalition as a party. But I've spent the past two years or so traveling around
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the country working to elect young people and talking to everyday people, knocking on doors in
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every swing state that you can imagine. And some very red states as well, from starting
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out in Alabama to places like Texas and Virginia and everywhere in between. And the thing that
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I've realized more than anything is that we have a number of problems in the party. But
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I think the main one overall is that we would rather live in a comfortable delusion than an
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uncomfortable reality. And I think what the party needs to do is open its eyes and take
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What is, when you say delusion, what is the delusion?
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I think it's that we can just surround ourselves with people that agree with us a lot of the
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time in terms of the party leadership and also within the party itself and think that's just
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Yeah, yeah. So because David Hogg thinks that the Democrats need to be less elitist, less caught
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up in their own bubble, more in touch with the common man, that's why David Hogg should be
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leading the Democrat Party. One of the most radical, strident, condescending, insulting,
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apparently arrogant Democrats on the public scene. That guy should be leading the party.
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He has my endorsement. I would like to take this opportunity. I 100% support David Hogg for chairman
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of the Democrat National Committee. I would be happy to donate to his campaign. Please let me know
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events sometimes and I'll meet, you know, nice families. And there'll be kids 11 years old who
00:24:34.740
come up. They say, you know, hi, Mr. Knowles. I really like watching your show. I think, all right,
00:24:38.020
we're getting into the mind of the Utes. However, Georgia says, I also love the Christmas decorations.
00:24:42.800
They made my day. All right, well, I have to correct you, Georgia. Those are Advent decorations
00:24:47.600
because I would certainly never cotton to Christmas decorations before Christmas.
00:24:53.320
It's not Christmas yet. Christmas will occur. Then we'll have 12 days of Christmas. But for now,
00:24:59.320
it's not Christmas. It's Advent. So when I saw what the producers did to my studio, I said, oh,
00:25:04.440
those are lovely Advent decorations. That's great. And thank you for watching the show.
00:25:09.800
Okay, turning now to bad ideas. Perhaps the younger viewers right now can plug their ears up,
00:25:15.820
though I'll try to speak diplomatically about this. There is a lady who is involved in a certain
00:25:21.540
obscene and lascivious industry who has currently issued a casting call for 1,000 men whom she
00:25:29.280
intends to bed within the span of 24 hours. Apparently, in the bedding markets, people are
00:25:36.840
taking odds on how many she'll get to. This woman has apparently already, during one of her trial runs,
00:25:44.820
made it over 100 men in one day. She next says she is going to endeavor to work up to 300 men
00:25:51.460
and then eventually she'll go for 1,000 to break the world record. I believe the world record is 919 men.
00:25:59.720
Yeah. Well, palate cleanser after that, that series of facts. I did the math. It is possible.
00:26:08.560
Even if you have, you want to build in a little buffer, I don't know, to eat lunch or something,
00:26:14.720
maybe seven hours potentially to sleep or just because of, you know, people taking a moment or two
00:26:19.780
to reset themselves or whatever. It's about a fella per minute for an entire day. Then you get an extra
00:26:26.760
seven hours to work with as buffer. Pretty, pretty gross. Now, I was trying to think of all the ways
00:26:37.700
in which this obviously should be illegal or otherwise circumscribed by the culture and the
00:26:43.260
law. One, prostitution should be illegal. I'm not saying that it has to be completely banished
00:26:53.000
everywhere and totally enforced at all times. And the reason I'm not saying that is an insight of
00:26:58.960
St. Thomas Aquinas. Even St. Thomas Aquinas says that, following St. Augustine, that you don't
00:27:04.260
necessarily want to totally obliterate prostitution in a society. Prostitution exists in every society.
00:27:09.980
And one of the reasons you don't want to totally obliterate it is that not everyone is equally
00:27:14.060
advanced in virtue. And in some cases, if we don't meet people where they are, they'll just crack.
00:27:20.360
So you can't have unrealistically high ideals and standards and norms in a society, especially
00:27:26.960
as society is decadent as ours, lest the society become convulsed with lust and become even worse.
00:27:33.420
So there's a place for prudence here. However, pretty clearly to me, pornography and prostitution
00:27:40.740
need to be severely curtailed. The libs and the libertarians are arguing that it should be
00:27:46.380
liberalized. Both of those should be liberalized or decriminalized. Seems to me, if you got some
00:27:51.580
young girl, how old is that girl? She looks like she's 22 or something, trying to bet a thousand guys
00:27:56.860
in one day. That would be an example of, we need to curtail these things on the consumption side
00:28:02.720
and on the production side. We need to arrest pornographers. We need to arrest pimps. We were
00:28:08.460
doing this relatively recently. George W. Bush, at the end of his administration, arrested and
00:28:13.260
imprisoned a pornographer for obscenity. So it can happen. Then there obviously ought to be public
00:28:21.360
health ordinances against this. You should not be able to bet a thousand people in a day. That's so
00:28:26.220
profoundly disgusting and should be illegal. But that might infringe on people's rights to have
00:28:35.600
orgies and throuples and quadruples. That's true. But we would have had laws against all of these things
00:28:40.980
for most of American history before the sexual revolution. No one would have thought that anyone
00:28:45.040
has a right to that. So that should be illegal. You're not allowed to go to granny's funeral during
00:28:51.440
COVID. You have to stand six feet away and you have to cancel Christmas. But this lady's allowed to
00:28:56.320
bag a thousand fellas? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. Then something tells me that woman
00:29:03.700
doesn't have a great relationship with her father. We should probably discourage divorce. We should
00:29:09.560
probably encourage people getting married. We should probably discourage contraception, which
00:29:15.380
promotes a promiscuous culture of hookups and sterility and selfish relations between the sexes,
00:29:22.560
really just using the opposite sex for one's own immediate gratification. That seems like a good
00:29:26.820
idea. Sometimes you'll hear the libs and the libertarians say, you know, well, how does my personal
00:29:32.580
behavior affect you? As if to say, hey, how does the complete degradation of society and the upending of
00:29:38.840
mores and the changing of language and the way we even understand the world affect you? Oh, it affects
00:29:45.180
me because I'm a citizen and we live in society and I'm a human being. It affects me because this is how
00:29:53.480
human beings have always interacted. We're not just atoms, you know, we're floating in the ether. We're
00:29:59.060
not just coconuts that fell out of the coconut tree, to quote Kamala Harris. So even that, if you had a
00:30:05.940
culture which discouraged divorce, which discouraged promiscuity, which discouraged abortion, one of
00:30:11.720
the greatest evils in the world because it tells you not to have any care for your children, if a
00:30:15.940
mother can kill her own child, as Mother Teresa tells us, then there's no limit to what anyone can do
00:30:19.780
to anyone. If you just had that, would this woman really be doing this? You listen to any interview with
00:30:29.460
any person in pornography. They never have good relationships with their parents. Their parents
00:30:34.460
are almost always divorced. So that, the social pathology of divorce lies at the heart of this too.
00:30:40.180
You can't really disconnect these things. And sterility also. If we had a culture that recognized
00:30:46.300
the natural consequences of actions, if we had a culture that recognized telos and the purpose of
00:30:51.520
things, the leftist ears tumbler is for my leftist ears. The microphone is to communicate my
00:30:57.240
mellifluous voice to you. Sex is for the procreation of children. If we had this, then the
00:31:02.360
woman wouldn't get anywhere near a thousand fellas because she'd wind up pregnant, at least within the
00:31:10.140
first few. We just wouldn't view sex in the way that we view it today. It's not just that the porn
00:31:17.440
should be illegal. Part of it is, yes, we should severely circumscribe porn. But there were so many
00:31:22.580
deeper issues and they're inseparable one from another. And the problems have come about because
00:31:28.440
of the cultural and sexual revolution in particular. And then we look like the weirdos when we say, hey,
00:31:34.180
you know, maybe there are going to be negative consequences to living out of accord with reality.
00:31:41.560
Now, speaking of lascivious performers, the Call Her Daddy podcast is mocking Kamala Harris for,
00:31:48.240
according to election forms, spending $100,000 to be interviewed by the Call Her Daddy podcast.
00:31:56.680
There's a little bit of controversy about that podcast because you didn't. Do you know about
00:32:00.820
this? No, what? Because in D.C. This interview happened in D.C. Yeah. In a hotel. Yeah, not in a
00:32:07.740
hotel. It was like a random house. It was like random house. But apparently, you can tell me,
00:32:14.200
they spent, the Harris campaign spent like $100,000. I did. Do you know about this? It's
00:32:20.860
hilarious. To build the studio. Yeah, that's not true. Not true. To make it look like it was the
00:32:25.740
studio that you used in L.A. My studio that is gorgeous in Los Angeles doesn't even cost six
00:32:33.960
figures. So I don't know how cardboard walls could cost six figures. But do you think they did that?
00:32:40.860
I mean, you saw it. Absolutely not. With love to them. Oh, my God. It was gorgeous. But like,
00:32:45.680
it wasn't that nice. It wasn't like gorgeous marble. Like, no, that was not six figures.
00:32:52.400
Okay. Now, this woman is saying Kamala Harris's election forms say that she spent six figures on
00:32:59.080
this set. But how on earth could she have done that? My nice set. I mean, this may be the nicest set
00:33:04.980
in media. I'm not to brag. I didn't have very much to do with it. But I have a really,
00:33:08.800
really nice set with all sorts of layers and beautiful design and pretty high quality materials.
00:33:14.020
And it didn't cost $100,000. So she's saying, how on earth could this temporary cardboard set
00:33:20.180
that Kamala made cost $100,000? What a waste of money. There's no way. Right. That's the point.
00:33:27.720
A lot of these contributions that you're seeing come up in Kamala's forms that put her $20 million
00:33:33.060
in the hole that blew over $1 billion, whatever it cost. That was graft. That was payoffs. That was
00:33:39.580
corruption. I'm not accusing the Call Her Daddy podcast of taking a payoff. This woman is feigning
00:33:46.900
ignorance here. Or maybe she really is ignorant. I don't know. How on earth could she have racked up
00:33:50.400
that kind of a bill? That didn't cost that. But what about Oprah? Remember, Kamala Harris did the
00:33:55.800
same thing to Oprah. She did an interview with Oprah. And it was a big scandal for Oprah because
00:34:00.260
Oprah's production company took a million dollars from Kamala Harris.
00:34:05.260
What? Did she take a bribe? No, no, no. Oprah said no. It was to build the set. It was to
00:34:09.240
set the cameras. It was because the production people had to be paid. They had to be paid a
00:34:13.980
million dollars for a temporary set? No. That was a payoff. That was a way of laundering money in
00:34:20.920
and buying support. The clearest example of this in the media was when Kamala Harris paid half a
00:34:26.380
million dollars to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton, who's been openly, transparently on the take for decades.
00:34:32.580
Al Sharpton gets hundreds of thousand dollars from Kamala Harris. And then he plays a little
00:34:39.740
birthday message from her on his show. And then he says nice things about her. And then he gets some
00:34:44.900
more money. And then he conducts a fawning interview with Kamala Harris. Apparently, according to news
00:34:51.440
reports, even the other MSNBC hosts are a little miffed that Al Sharpton got half a mil from Kamala.
00:34:56.640
What was it? Was it for production costs? Was it because Kamala all of a sudden just really cares
00:35:02.120
out of the goodness of her heart to support the National Action Network, which is Al Sharpton's
00:35:06.880
slush fund? No, it was a payoff. It was corruption. And it just didn't work. That's it. That's how she
00:35:13.200
ended up 20 million dollars in the hole. She bribed a ton of people, but she didn't bribe the right
00:35:17.480
people. She didn't bribe them in the right way. It didn't work. And now she's caught holding this
00:35:21.940
bag. I guess she's holding an empty bag. And she has to explain 500,000 here, 100,000 here,
00:35:28.220
a million dollars here. And she can't quite explain it because the only answer is either
00:35:33.520
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Finally, finally, it's time for my favorite part of the week, the mailbag, which is sponsored by
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00:36:10.860
Hi, Michael. I'm a senior in high school, and I recently shared with my mother that I'm a
00:36:17.200
conservative and voted for Donald Trump. My mother, being a lesbian Democrat and an avid
00:36:23.500
listener of MSNBC, feels that my views contradict everything that she stands for. Additionally,
00:36:31.280
I've been exploring the idea of converting to Catholicism from Presbyterianism, but she has
00:36:37.500
strongly opposed this as well, simply because nobody in our family has been Catholic. Except,
00:36:44.680
of course, my biological father, of which I have no idea who he is, because I was conceived via
00:36:51.380
artificial insemination. How can I stay true to my political and religious beliefs while still
00:36:57.800
honoring and respecting my mother and her values? Thanks for answering, Philip.
00:37:03.240
Tough situation you're in, kid. I feel for you. And a good question that you're asking.
00:37:12.080
Say, how can I still honor my mother? You do have to honor your mother, even though she has
00:37:17.200
manifestly made poor choices that have hurt you. Now she made the choice to give you life, which at
00:37:25.600
least, which was aiming at a good, just as all actions are aiming at some good, real or imagined.
00:37:30.480
But the way in which she did it has harmed you. For instance, depriving you of knowing your natural
00:37:36.440
father, etc. So you're in a tough situation because what you're essentially saying, the reason your
00:37:43.240
mother is understandably reacting against you, voting for Trump, just like most Americans did,
00:37:49.300
while your mother is reacting against you, considering conversion to Catholicism, because you're
00:37:54.760
following your lights and your conscience and what you believe to be clear in scripture and the
00:37:58.880
2000-year history of the church, moving away from a Calvinist theology toward a more traditional and
00:38:04.980
some would say orthodox theology, is she's saying, you're rejecting everything I've tried to teach
00:38:12.400
you. Maybe you're rejecting me. That's why she's reacting so negatively against it, ultimately.
00:38:18.820
And so I think what you need to make clear to your mother is, I'm not rejecting you.
00:38:22.580
I don't agree with you on certain ethical matters, moral matters, theological matters. But it's not
00:38:30.460
because I don't, it's not that I don't like you, mom. You know, I recognize that the actions that you
00:38:36.880
have taken were aiming at some good. All action is aiming at some good. It's just sometimes our
00:38:44.480
intellects are clouded, our wills are distorted. And so the goods that you were aiming at sometimes are
00:38:51.660
a little bit off. They're a little off kilter, okay? And so I'm not, I'm not judging you or your
00:38:57.660
intentions. I'm grateful for everything you've given me. Love you to death, mom. But I just think
00:39:03.120
you're a little wrong about this. And we're all a little bit wrong sometimes. And maybe, you know,
00:39:07.400
maybe I can even get you to see things my way. And who knows, maybe your mother will cease to believe
00:39:14.800
certain things about her own identity. And who knows, maybe your mother will end up Catholic. But you've
00:39:19.040
got to make clear from the beginning, you're not rejecting your mother. You're having a disagreement
00:39:24.700
because sometimes people are led astray. But it doesn't mean they weren't aiming at some good. It
00:39:30.480
just means, like all of us sometimes, people go a little off the path. Next one.
00:39:38.000
Conservatives often argue about the relationship between politics and culture. And you have thankfully
00:39:42.340
been able to provide more detail to this discussion. However, I think there's even more detail that I'm not
00:39:47.320
hearing anyone acknowledge, namely the fact that not all cultural formats create the same impact.
00:39:51.920
For example, The Daily Wire is putting out great content in the realm of feature-length films.
00:39:55.980
But feature films are a commercial format. And as such, respond to culture more often than creating it.
00:40:01.700
If we want to create it, in my opinion, we should be involved in the high arts. Because the arts create
00:40:06.060
the culture that trickles down to entertainment. We should be funding institutions that promote
00:40:10.060
Shakespeare, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, and current artists that aim to reinvigorate traditional
00:40:14.480
aesthetic standards. This seems like an obvious tactic for conservatives, but I haven't heard of
00:40:19.160
many that have interest in it. I understand the fear presented by the apparent lack of demand,
00:40:23.180
but that doesn't stop liberals from doing it. And although conservatism has slowly started to find
00:40:27.400
its way into mainstream content, the left still control the high arts with absolutely no challenge.
00:40:33.320
Well, the one problem with your diagnosis is that you point to Shakespeare and Duke Ellington as examples of
00:40:39.680
high non-commercial art. But Shakespeare and Duke Ellington were commercially viable artists.
00:40:46.080
People bought tickets to Shakespeare's plays. He was a very popular artist. Duke Ellington,
00:40:50.980
one of the most popular musicians of the 20th century. So I think that your contrast between
00:40:57.140
commercial art and high art is, maybe there's a little bit of a blurrier middle ground there than
00:41:03.420
you're admitting. But broadly speaking, I do agree that we ought to focus on the high arts.
00:41:10.960
I think that's really important. We can do that through political power. One great example of this
00:41:17.980
from the 20th century is Jackson Pollock, who's a nonsense painter. You know, he just splatters
00:41:22.220
paint on a canvas and anyone can do it. Who was it? Norman. Who's the famous, I can't believe his name
00:41:31.320
escapes me right now. The great mid-century Americana painter, Norman. Oh, it's going to,
00:41:37.020
it'll drive me crazy and someone will correct me in the chat. But anyway, he has a great painting
00:41:41.180
called The Connoisseur, which is a painting of a man holding his fedora behind him, wearing a suit
00:41:45.520
and tie, staring up at a Jackson Pollock painting. And what he's proving is that anyone can do the
00:41:51.940
Jackson Pollock painting and he, on top of that, can do real painting as well. But so how did Jackson
00:41:57.000
Pollock become such a big deal? In part, it was because the CIA backed him.
00:42:00.880
Because the federal government during the Cold War used modern art, specifically the art of Jackson
00:42:06.820
Pollock, as a way to subvert the Soviet Union. The modern art is so deeply subversive that they
00:42:13.240
smuggled it in like a weapon of mass destruction into communist countries. So I use that example not
00:42:20.300
just to criticize the CIA or anything, but actually to point to a lesson for us, which is that we can use
00:42:27.200
the government, perhaps even things like the National Endowment for the Arts or whatever,
00:42:31.220
to fund not just disgusting, degraded works of pseudo art or anti-art, but to actually fund good
00:42:37.100
art. And this is something the Trump administration could do. It would be in line with his executive
00:42:40.840
order from the first term to make federal buildings beautiful again, to promote classical
00:42:46.360
architecture and federal buildings. We could do that with high art as well. The libertarians will
00:42:51.200
hate that because they will prefer commercial art. But of course, you think of some of the great
00:42:56.340
masters of the Renaissance or the late Middle Ages, they were not commercial artists. They just had
00:43:02.360
patrons. And their patrons, often the church, would fund really good art. So it actually did come from
00:43:07.720
a central authority or from a handful of rich people who were not seeking to make a profit. And I think
00:43:12.580
that's all a really good thing. And we can use the government for that end. And maybe we should,
00:43:16.360
as you suggest. Next question. Norman Rockwell. I can't believe I've heard Rockwell, one of the most
00:43:21.580
famous popular painters in American history. It's been a long week, folks. Next one.
00:43:27.820
Hey, Michael. I wanted to get your thoughts on the philosophy of musical liturgy. We have discussed
00:43:32.780
this in a previous mailbag a long time ago, but recently this came up in a discussion between me and
00:43:38.020
one of the music directors at my church. We started out with the agreement that we need
00:43:42.540
to get more young people to come back into the church. But my philosophy is that we should have
00:43:47.180
people be excited about coming to church. And my generation looks more into lively forms of media
00:43:53.120
as opposed to the traditional monotone forms of music that come from the church. My music director
00:43:59.120
argues that we should not stray from tradition and sing traditional hymns with just an organist and a
00:44:03.840
cantor. However, in my experience, I encourage the congregation to clap along to the music
00:44:09.140
and sing more modern tunes while also not drawing attention away from the ceremony,
00:44:14.140
similar to something you would see in Sister Act, which is the only thing I will say Whoopi Goldberg did
00:44:18.860
well in her dumpster fire of a career. And in the end, we have people coming up to us afterwards and
00:44:24.360
saying how they love the music and look forward to it every week. So my question to you is, if we are
00:44:30.060
certain that traditional styles of hymns will bring in more people to the church, then why are the
00:44:35.720
pews still empty? If you are ever in my neck of the woods, I would love to see you, Mr. Davies and
00:44:41.460
Professor Jacob at a Mass, followed by a cigar. Thanks. A really good question. I can't tell.
00:44:49.100
Since you say it's a Mass, I think you might be Catholic here, though you might be referring to an
00:44:54.380
Episcopalian Mass service or something else like that, especially if you're mentioning all the
00:44:59.740
happy-clappy stuff. The difference, though, when Protestant friends have brought this up to me,
00:45:06.080
is many people, especially Protestants, view the organ as being the traditional kind of hymn.
00:45:12.720
But I, being a Catholic, view the organ as actually relatively modern, because the Catholic church is
00:45:18.120
2,000 years old. And so I view the traditional form of singing in the liturgy as being Gregorian
00:45:23.940
chant. You know, all monophonic. And sometimes in a misa cantata it can be polyphonic, but still it's,
00:45:34.220
And there's wonderful variation in this throughout the liturgical year. But I find that your observation
00:45:45.980
to be false. You say that the pews are filling up in the really modern happy-clappy liturgies,
00:45:52.580
not in the old traditional ones. That's not my experience, at least as a Catholic. The ones with
00:45:57.620
the sappy 1970s, you know, pop songs, the ballads, those parishes have like three people in them,
00:46:05.700
and they're all over the age of 80. If you want to find young people, if you want to find the pews
00:46:10.060
filled, it's at the traditional Latin masses with the Gregorian chant, where everything's packed to the
00:46:14.900
ills. So I don't know that that's true. Perhaps in the Protestant traditions, I think you get a little
00:46:20.900
bit more of young people wanting to go to rock concert kinds of services. So I'm not really even
00:46:26.800
weighing in on that. Just in my experience, for people who want to go to the mass and who want a
00:46:31.120
liturgy, I don't know. I think that the real traditional stuff is more compelling. And it's for
00:46:37.580
one reason. When you're chanting, it's not about you. It's not about your emotion. Plato talks about
00:46:47.460
this, that music, more than any other art, just cuts right to the soul. It bypasses reason, and it
00:46:52.680
can lead you astray as a result of that. This is why I think the gospel readings ought to be chanted,
00:46:59.580
because it takes the personality out of it. I don't go to mass for the personality of individuals.
00:47:06.240
I don't go to mass to express my individuality. I don't go to mass to experience more of the world.
00:47:13.860
I go to mass for the contrast and the perfection of the world. I go to mass to focus on God,
00:47:19.220
not on myself. And so I don't need a tambourine to do that. In fact, a tambourine gets in my way.
00:47:24.060
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