The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 168 - Happy Birthday To Us!

00:00:00.000 It's flag day and it's the president's birthday, and we're the ones getting all the presents for

00:00:05.080 that birthday on the economy, foreign affairs, standing among the international community,

00:00:09.640 even sports. We will observe something that conservatives usually hate to acknowledge,

00:00:14.640 which is that things are getting better. Then the FBI's inspector general concludes

00:00:18.460 James Comey and the FBI tried to hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton.

00:00:24.000 In other news, the sky remains blue and water remains wet. We will analyze all of those

00:00:28.960 important news stories. And then the God King Jeremy Boring himself will stop by to explain

00:00:34.060 why soccer is a threat to Western civilization. Finally, the mailbag and a few of my favorite

00:00:39.500 American flags for flag day. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:49.400 So much to get to today. I want to recap a little bit on our talk with Tom Arnold yesterday, too.

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00:03:04.640 Hey, gang. On Tuesday, June 19th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern, it's time to tune in for another

00:03:09.660 episode of The Conversation, featuring me, Ben Shapiro. If you're a Daily Wire subscriber,

00:03:14.160 now's your chance to ask me all sorts of questions like these.

00:03:17.080 What's your favorite kind of movie to see in the movie theater?

00:03:19.700 Because the visuals usually require you to be in a theater.

00:03:21.980 Because you are a movie buff. Do you even like music at all?

00:03:24.660 I like some of the soft rock. I like Jim Croce. I like John Denver.

00:03:27.520 Have you ever tasted bacon?

00:03:29.000 No, I've never tasted bacon. I've heard it's fantastic. Is it as good as they say?

00:03:32.200 I mean, dear God, it's amazing. Are you a fan of any other Chicago team?

00:03:36.200 Yeah, I'm a Bears fan. I'm also a Blackhawks fan. The White Sox only win the World Series once

00:03:39.760 every hundred years. Is your wife a doctor? So the rumor is that she is.

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00:03:48.120 That's Tuesday, June 19th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern. See you then.

00:03:52.800 I hope that he can finally answer that question, is your wife a doctor?

00:03:56.700 I've been scratching my head for so long about that. So be sure to tune in for that.

00:04:00.940 Now, some of you might have seen yesterday, I had this interview with Tom Arnold.

00:04:04.720 And, well, if you missed it, you should go back and listen, because it actually

00:04:09.200 showed a lot of the differences between the left and the right. But if you just want a quick

00:04:13.380 summary, here is a quick recap of my interview with Tom Arnold yesterday.

00:04:16.640 Freddie, the cause of your situation, you do not wish you a challenge, you are not worried

00:04:19.180 the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of the pool table in your community,

00:04:20.860 you will get shot by my friends right here, say to over right here in River City, where

00:04:22.380 sure I'm a good place, I'm a mighty part of the same, was mighty part of the same, 0.96

00:04:24.180 because of the RSX, man, with the crew in my hand, gold, and helping cut up persons

00:04:25.580 at Kool-Aid and Kenai. Your butt is mine, going to tell you, right? You show your face 0.99

00:04:28.400 in the broad daylight, I'm telling you how I feel, going to hurt your mind, don't shoot to kill, 0.95

00:04:30.800 come on, come on, lay it on me, all right? I'm giving you one on the count of three

00:04:32.740 to show you stuff or let it be. I'm telling you, just watch your mouth, I know

00:04:34.560 your game, what about you? Well, I say the sky's the limit, and to me, that's really true,

00:04:36.700 but my friends, you see nothing, just wait till I get through, because I'm bad, bad,

00:04:38.580 come on, come on, bad, bad, really, really bad, you know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it,

00:04:41.040 you know it, bad, really, really bad, you know I'm bad, I'm bad, come on, come on,

00:04:43.220 you know it, bad, bad, really, really bad, and the whole world does the answer just right,

00:04:45.440 just tell you once again, who's bad?

00:04:49.200 That clip was a little bit slower than the way that Tom and I were talking yesterday, but you missed it.

00:04:56.220 You know, I got a lot of mailbag questions about this, I got a lot of tweets and everything

00:04:59.260 about what the interview was like with Tom, it was pretty wild, we were moving pretty fast,

00:05:05.140 I'll give my thoughts on that in the mailbag, because I reacted to it actually differently

00:05:11.180 than I think a lot of people think, so we'll get to that later. First, it's President Trump's

00:05:14.960 birthday to celebrate, we're so lucky on this show, we get the best guests, folks, we are going to

00:05:20.320 bring on Marilyn Monroe to sing Donald Trump a happy birthday before an audience of Hillary 1.00

00:05:25.900 Clinton supporters. Marilyn, take it away. 1.00

00:05:27.600 Happy birthday to you.

00:05:34.560 Happy birthday to you.

00:05:41.140 Happy birthday, Mr. President.

00:05:48.260 That's incredible footage. Really well done, beautiful Marilyn, and happy birthday, Mr. President.

00:06:09.400 It's Donald Trump's birthday, but we're getting all of the presents, aren't we? Here's a quick rundown before

00:06:13.840 we bring on the God King to explain, to pour a little cold water on all of our happiness and

00:06:18.560 covfefe and explain why soccer is a threat to Western civilization. To begin, on the economy,

00:06:23.760 new jobless claims fell again last week, meaning that the number of Americans on the jobless rolls

00:06:28.480 fell to a 44 and a half year low. Could you, just imagine this, so the labor market right now is

00:06:35.420 at or close to full employment. Unemployment right now is under 4%, it's like 3.8%. The Fed is predicting

00:06:41.840 it'll drop further by the end of the year. That's why the Fed is finally raising interest rates for a

00:06:46.700 second time this year after not being able to do that because of Barack Obama's stagnant economy.

00:06:51.280 They're saying the labor market is continuing to strengthen, that job gains are strong. The Fed says that

00:06:56.480 economic activity is rising at a solid rate. Layoffs right now are very low. There are signs of worker

00:07:03.740 shortages across all sectors of the economy. 6.7 million job openings in April. People are receiving

00:07:10.740 unemployment insurance at the lowest level since 1973. There are more job openings in the United

00:07:17.280 States than unemployed workers to fill them. Imagine this, in October 2016, if somebody told you,

00:07:24.340 they said, hey, what do you think the headlines are going to be under a Donald Trump presidency?

00:07:28.660 Say, I don't know, the Western Hemisphere exploding and the Eastern Hemisphere exploding. I don't know,

00:07:34.280 the core of the earth exploding, right? That is what you would predict. And you get these absurdly good

00:07:39.300 economic data points. On foreign affairs, the historic Kim Jong-un summit is a big win for the United

00:07:46.940 States. Michael Goodwin points this out in the New York Post today. There are plenty of good reasons to

00:07:52.160 be cynical about the Iran deal. Plenty of good reasons. The Kims are murderous and deceptive. 1.00

00:07:57.760 There's no reason to believe that this Kim is any better than his father, any less treacherous. 0.98

00:08:02.620 The Kims have backed out of plenty of deals that they said they were going to do before. 0.88

00:08:06.660 And they've run right out before the ink is dry. Also, China might not let North Korea 0.95

00:08:12.020 denuclearize. Fine. Yep. I get it. There are a lot of reasons to be cynical. Goodwin makes this great

00:08:17.840 point in the post. He writes, quote, today should be declared a holiday from nitpicking, a time to

00:08:23.500 celebrate what has been accomplished instead of fixating on the possible pitfalls. It's an occasion

00:08:28.520 to look forward with hope instead of backward with suspicion. And this is such an important point.

00:08:34.580 Conservatives sometimes forget this because we want to like frown all the time. Cynicism is very stupid. 1.00

00:08:39.820 It's very stupid. You know, Norm Macdonald, one of my favorite voices in the world, the great 1.00

00:08:46.060 voice of our age, yesterday he referred to something called the profanity of cynicism

00:08:51.260 in a tweet. And he's so right. This is such an astute observation. Cynicism is profane.

00:08:56.960 Cynicism is the crutch of anxious people who can't tolerate uncertainty and they're terrified that 0.94

00:09:03.280 they're going to look foolish if they end up being wrong. And so they don't want to have any hope or

00:09:06.860 smiling to begin with. They just want to frown and say everything's going to be terrible. But the

00:09:10.340 world is a hopeful place. There's nothing virtuous about cynicism. You know, you should be courageous.

00:09:17.360 You should be prudent, certainly. You shouldn't be reckless or stupid, but you should be courageous. 0.99

00:09:22.060 You should be prudent. You should be manly, not cynical. That's what the word courage comes from. 1.00

00:09:27.060 Courage comes from cur, from heart, right? And cynicism is discouraging, takes the heart out of

00:09:32.640 everything. You should take heart. Could it go wrong? Of course. Are we in the early

00:09:36.660 stages of whatever kind of nuclear deal we're trying to work out? Yes. What are the odds that

00:09:42.120 it works out? Who knows? But there's a good first step. Take heart. On foreign affairs also,

00:09:46.920 and this is right before we'll bring in the God King to pour cold water on everything,

00:09:51.160 we're getting the World Cup in North America. It's going to be this nice alliance between Canada,

00:09:55.620 the United States, Mexico. Donald Trump, by the way, has been lobbying since March to bring the World

00:10:00.700 Cup to North America. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting the 2028 Summer Olympics as well.

00:10:07.960 So we've got two major international sporting events that are coming to the United States because of

00:10:13.360 Donald Trump. Everybody predicted that Trump would hurt these bids because the whole world hates him,

00:10:18.040 right? He's, you know, he's humiliating and our allies hate us. And instead, he actually helped.

00:10:24.320 Now, look, I do not care very much for the Olympics. I don't watch the Olympics other than curling.

00:10:29.840 Curling is one of my favorite sports in the world. But other than curling, I don't like it.

00:10:33.440 I also think that soccer basically should be outlawed in the United States.

00:10:36.740 But it is a very good sign, nonetheless, of this global leadership. The United States has global

00:10:42.260 leadership. President Trump has picked up two major international sporting events. That's a good

00:10:47.500 thing. So say I. Now, I think the God King, the founder of my feasts and the man who signs my checks,

00:10:54.880 disagrees with me on this. Can we bring on the God King?

00:10:57.840 Hey, look, it's Donald Trump's birthday. It's flag day. I'm feeling so good.

00:11:02.100 Tell me, bring me down.

00:11:04.640 Well, what's interesting to me is how everyone who supports the president carries water for the

00:11:10.040 president. You can't just be a general fan of the guy. You have to be basically an evangelist for

00:11:15.920 Donald Trump.

00:11:16.560 Yeah, proselytizing.

00:11:17.220 And so when he says, for example, when he calls Kim Jong-un rocket man, all of his fans are like,

00:11:23.180 yes, we have always wanted war on the Korean Peninsula. And when he says things like, I really 1.00

00:11:27.820 trust him. And everybody's like, yes, we have always wanted peace on the Korean Peninsula. And no one

00:11:31.400 ever knows where they stand with you people. And this is the greatest example. This is a microcosm of

00:11:36.960 all things, Trump, that one of the great arguments on behalf of Donald Trump is he's going to be a

00:11:45.260 global leader. He's going to rebuild America's supremacy. He's going to salvage Western civilization.

00:11:52.320 Make America great again.

00:11:53.000 Make America great again. He's going to salvage Western civilization. And now you're crowing that

00:11:58.660 he is bringing this bastard sport of soccer to the United States. This is Obama level leading from 0.98

00:12:07.920 behind. You call that global leadership? Global leadership is called baseball.

00:12:12.560 Yes, that's true. Baseball.

00:12:14.100 Maybe football.

00:12:15.000 Maybe football. Global leading from behind is called soccer.

00:12:19.040 I have to say, when I was reading all the good news today, well, we'll get to the great explanation

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00:14:37.120 soccer? What's so bad about soccer? It's like saying, Jeremy, everything's going really well,

00:14:42.800 I noticed in world history until like the late 1930s. What went wrong? Soccer is, listen,

00:14:50.960 I actually don't hate soccer. You know, I think that soccer is a perfectly good sport for the

00:14:57.220 third world. And that's what it is. It's the sport of the third world. But it's all you 0.99

00:15:01.480 need is something roughly the size of a ball. Doesn't have to be a ball. A human head would

00:15:07.020 work. And I think that's probably how it all started. And you need a patch of relatively

00:15:11.420 flat earth. And then you need a bunch of people to chase after the rolling object and occasionally

00:15:17.080 fall down as though they had been hit. Yeah. Pretend it hurts. Pretend it hurts. That is

00:15:20.880 soccer. And that's fine because everyone needs sports. Yes. Sports teach children about competition.

00:15:26.240 They teach children about work ethic. They teach children a set of rules and how to succeed within

00:15:31.960 those rules. And sports help adults too because they give us an opportunity to play out competitive

00:15:37.760 aggression in a controlled way that doesn't result in violence. Although sometimes at soccer

00:15:42.220 games, the fans actually participate in a greater contact sport than the players. Those hooligans.

00:15:47.420 The hooligans, yeah. But, you know, they bring us together. They give us a sense of pride. It's a

00:15:53.180 nice distraction from the hardship of life. Everyone needs that. Yeah. And so I'm glad that Ghana has a

00:15:59.820 soccer team. That's good. Yeah. I'm glad that the Ivory Coast has a soccer team. I am offended,

00:16:05.960 however, that Great Britain also participates in this. And I am mortally offended that the United

00:16:12.980 States would condescend to have a soccer team. I tend to agree with you on this.

00:16:19.300 Except for six-year-old children and under. It's good. Yeah. Well, it's really good. I wonder at the 0.65

00:16:22.660 World Cup now, because it's going to be hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, who is going

00:16:27.320 to provide the minivans to pick up the players afterward and give them juice boxes and little

00:16:31.800 cracker snacks. Exactly. Tell them good boy. Listen, it matters. When Great Britain was in

00:16:38.000 her ascendancy, the height of the British Empire, she had the most complex sport in the world, 0.98

00:16:43.020 cricket. Cricket. It could take days to play. That's right. No one understands it. The smartest

00:16:47.000 guy on the block doesn't understand it. That is the sport of an ascendant power. America in her

00:16:52.220 ascendancy had baseball, a complex sport. The offense, the defense has possession of the ball.

00:16:57.400 Infield fly rule. Infield fly rule, yeah. Those are the sports of an ascendant nation. They're

00:17:03.300 complicated. They're intelligent. More importantly, they're expensive. Because our sports reflect

00:17:08.900 something about us. You can't play baseball with just a ball and a piece of flat earth. Right.

00:17:14.800 Right. The reason little children play soccer is because it's the simplest sport. You basically

00:17:20.900 chase the moving ball. That's all that's required. Doesn't require a ton of training and specialized

00:17:25.200 this and that. That's right. And doesn't require money. Now, America as a superpower,

00:17:31.840 our sport really, we don't have to like it, but the truth is it's football. Right. That is the

00:17:36.720 national pastime. That is the national pastime of our generation. It is the most complex and

00:17:41.620 expensive sport ever conceived. The pads alone would break the GDP of many nations that have perfectly

00:17:48.720 serviceable soccer teams. That's true. And that's not bad. Again, I'm not against third world nations

00:17:54.480 having soccer. I'm against us saying that that's as good as baseball or football. And I'm against

00:18:01.600 the idea that we need to reach down and play the sport of the world instead of showing actual global

00:18:07.200 leadership and saying, no, the entire world needs to be rich enough and powerful enough to play sports

00:18:12.940 that require you not only to chase something, but to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars

00:18:17.560 preventing brain damage. That's true. And you know, it's maybe we need like a new Marshall plan.

00:18:22.160 I would be perfectly willing. I'm a fiscal conservative. So are you. If we could invest

00:18:26.560 in the infrastructure required to create booming economies such that these third world countries

00:18:31.940 can buy very expensive and elaborate equipment to play real sports that are civilized. Absolutely.

00:18:40.360 I would do it in a second. I think that absolutely. I agree. If, if Trump were to scratch his infrastructure

00:18:46.160 plan and instead, you know, support the world becoming baseball and football players, I'd vote

00:18:52.120 for him for sure for reelection. What I don't like though, is this game of equality being a sort of

00:18:59.780 the Thatcher view of equality that, you know, the left, you can be here and poor people can be here.

00:19:04.760 And the left thinks it's, the world is a better place if everyone's down here. That's right.

00:19:08.100 That's not me. I think that we should set an example in the world and give some, give people

00:19:11.860 something to rise up to. And that thing is not chasing a rolling human head across a flat patch

00:19:17.740 of earth. That is exactly right. And it's so, it is this degrading going back and, oh, it's bad for

00:19:24.000 us that we, yeah, it's, and it's not as violent. You know, there's that, there's that other aspect.

00:19:30.120 If you're a rich, powerful ascendant company, you can take some hits. You can weather some,

00:19:35.160 you know, you can pay for expensive hospitals. That's right. They used to flood the Coliseum

00:19:38.860 and play out naval battles from antiquity at the height of the decadence of Rome. I feel like we

00:19:44.800 can do much the same. That's right. And we should, uh, not only that, but I think that, um, part of

00:19:49.820 the problem with the rise of soccer in America is that you can trace it one-to-one to the decline

00:19:56.340 of our culture, right? When America was putting a man on the moon, were grown adults in the freest

00:20:02.580 country on earth playing soccer? Michael, no, they were not. They were not because all that scrap metal

00:20:06.680 was going to the space shuttle and not to make more minivans to be pickle up people of the field.

00:20:11.160 That's, that's exactly right. And by the way, ever since women started to enter the workforce,

00:20:16.420 right? That's right. More women in the workforce, more soccer fields in the United States of America. 1.00

00:20:21.700 Look at that. It's just science. That's a correlation. All of these. Do you even, do you

00:20:25.540 even study science? Do you even study? It correlates with divorce rates. Yeah, I'm sure it does.

00:20:29.520 Someone do the math. Uh, you know, you've made a really compelling argument. It is the first, uh,

00:20:33.540 anti-Trump argument that has really started to convince me. And listen, I'm not anti-Trump. I'm

00:20:38.400 a Trump skeptic. Trump has done a lot of things that make me very, very happy. Uh, this is not

00:20:43.600 one of them. I feel like if, uh, if previous Jeremy, that's Jeremy from, uh, 2016, who was busy

00:20:50.180 expressing all of his concerns about the worst case, what will happen if Donald Trump becomes

00:20:54.240 president? You know, I was worried the Republican party would fracture. I was worried we would lose

00:20:59.140 credibility, uh, with millennials who are becoming the largest voting bloc. Uh, I was worried that

00:21:03.480 we would lose our principles in service only, uh, of our, uh, of our, uh, victories. Yeah.

00:21:11.100 I never thought that I would see the president of the United States cheering the ascendancy of

00:21:16.340 soccer. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. You, you make a great point. Mr. President, I hope you're watching.

00:21:20.440 It's been such a good, you know, it's been such a good, uh, year and a half, but please,

00:21:24.860 you've got to rethink this. You've got to rethink what you're doing. Mr. Godking,

00:21:28.240 thank you for being here. Thank you. We've got to get to the mailbag. Also, the chief,

00:21:30.240 the chief executive dog was here. I don't know if anybody got to see him. Oh, the CED. Is there

00:21:33.060 any way to lift him up? Get him on camera a little bit? Oh, yeah. He got himself stuck back here.

00:21:36.020 Because this is my real boss right here. This would be the chief executive. The guy who runs the show.

00:21:39.680 Yeah. He also sleeps on Bowling Branch. That's because we're very wealthy. He does too.

00:21:44.040 Because we're a wealthy, ascendant, decadent country. Thank you, sir. Always good to see the God King.

00:21:50.140 All right. Do we have time to, we got a little bit of time to wrap up on the FBI before we have to get to the

00:21:54.100 mailbag? Okay. The investigator general, Michael Horowitz, who's the FBI watchdog, he has concluded

00:22:00.680 that James Comey has deviated from a bureau and justice department procedures in handling the

00:22:07.900 Clinton probe, which damaged the agency's image. I know you're shocked. Aren't you? We didn't think,

00:22:12.900 we thought they did everything just right. We thought James Comey totally above board,

00:22:17.240 not political at all. Turns out that was all a lie. They wrote, quote, this is from the IG report.

00:22:24.100 By departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively

00:22:29.360 impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.

00:22:34.660 Now they say that there's no evidence this was politically motivated. What does that mean?

00:22:40.120 What we know is that James Comey treated Hillary Clinton differently than he would have treated other

00:22:44.100 people. And we know that they were trying to, this was during a presidential election.

00:22:49.360 They were, what is not political about that? Anything involving Hillary Clinton is political.

00:22:52.920 That's, that's absolutely absurd. The report also, by the way, uncovered previously hidden text

00:22:57.840 messages that the FBI was just not releasing. It was just totally covering up between disgraced FBI

00:23:03.140 agents and saucy lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Page writes, quote, Trump's not ever going to

00:23:08.940 become president, right? Right. To which Strzok responds, no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. It's like the worst,

00:23:17.180 saddest soy boy flirting I've ever heard. Also, also probably criminal and anti-American and 0.98

00:23:23.320 anti-constitutional. He said, Peter Strzok of the FBI, key investigator saying, we will stop

00:23:28.940 Donald Trump from becoming president. What more evidence do you need? What more evidence do you

00:23:33.680 people need? Now, right now at this moment, the left and the anti-Trump right are trying to lionize

00:23:39.460 the FBI and demonize the president. There are all of these distractions right there. You're looking at

00:23:43.980 this. You're seeing a text from Peter Strzok and a key investigator at the FBI that says, we're going

00:23:48.120 to stop Trump from being president. They say, look at Stormy Daniels. I said, what? What do I care about

00:23:52.700 some porn star? They say, look, he said naughty words on a videotape. The FBI is saying he's going to 0.87

00:23:59.420 stop interfering in a presidential election. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, who has the better track

00:24:05.000 record here? Who looks better? Who looks good? Who looks dirty between Donald Trump and the FBI?

00:24:09.920 It's no question. It's no question. And so it's a happy birthday. Soccer notwithstanding. I guess

00:24:14.860 it's good we nabbed these international sporting events and I use sporting loosely, but you know,

00:24:19.320 we got to be careful here, folks. We can't let our exuberance get away with us and do things like

00:24:23.440 try to elevate soccer as a sport. Okay. We've got a lot of mailbag to get to that I want to talk

00:24:29.200 about. My favorite flags for flag day. I've got them on my desk right here. So by now, this is a new

00:24:36.240 announcement. You have surely heard that the Michael Knowles show is available on Amazon Alexa

00:24:41.240 and the Google home. So I don't want you to be confused. There was a video going around YouTube

00:24:46.980 that was just an Alexa commercial, but somebody replaced the, all the sound with clips from my

00:24:53.040 show. So it was just me, Alexa answering as me, like I'd become Alexa. This is, this is sort of like

00:24:58.500 that. I am now on Alexa as well. If you use one of these virtual assistants, you can get my podcast

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00:25:15.500 and Twitter. Just start screaming incoherently. I think that's what, that's what starts to put my

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00:25:45.660 Mmm. Ooh, that's, did I forget to mention something? Did I forget to mention what you get

00:26:00.100 when you subscribe? Ooh, you know what that tastes like today? It, it's got this distinct flavor of

00:26:08.020 3.8% unemployment. It's got this distinct flavor of a 44 and a half year low in jobless claims. It's

00:26:15.040 just, that's really good. Haven't tasted that in a long, long time. Very delicious though.

00:26:20.880 Let's get to the mailbag before we have to go from Tyler. Dear Knowles, the smoking jacket in

00:26:27.320 combination with the bow tie was truly a sight to see. My question is how do you explain the irony

00:26:32.760 of the all powerful argument in relation to God? For example, can God create an object too heavy for

00:26:38.840 him to lift or can he lift anything? Meaning he's not a powerful enough to create that object from

00:26:46.240 Tyler? Yeah, this, this stupid question. I'm sorry. I don't mean to insult you, Tyler. This question is 1.00

00:26:53.820 so stupid. So the question is, can God create an object so heavy that he can't lift it? This was 1.00

00:27:00.160 asked in the father's day video. The God King said, uh, Jeremy Boring, lowercase G, lowercase K said

00:27:05.920 that yes, God can create an object, uh, so big that he can't lift it. And then he would create a

00:27:10.480 mechanism to lift it. That's a, that's an interesting explanation of Christianity. I would put it

00:27:15.400 differently though, basically the same point. And this is a big difference between Christianity and

00:27:20.180 Islam. Uh, in, in the Christian religion and the Christian God submits himself to logic. He is not a 0.81

00:27:28.520 God of infinite, pure, irrational wrath. He's a God of logic. In the beginning was the word,

00:27:34.520 the logos. And the logos was with God and the logos was God. The logos being the divine logic of the

00:27:40.600 universe. It is a perfectly logical God, a God who submits himself to the own logic that he creates.

00:27:48.140 And so the question, can God create a rock so heavy that he can't lift it? Is basically akin to saying

00:27:54.020 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? It's like saying parrot, yellow, elephant,

00:28:01.280 banana, banana, four times green. It, it is words. Like there are words together, but it doesn't have

00:28:09.600 any meaning. It doesn't have any, any internal logic. So, uh, in short answer to your, to your

00:28:15.900 question, this God is, is a God of logic. That's not true of other religions. Uh, the God of Islam 1.00

00:28:22.860 is not a God that is bound by logic. It is a God that can do what it, that can act very capriciously

00:28:29.540 and do whatever he likes. That's a, that's a different God. It's a different, uh, object of

00:28:34.860 worship and it's a different culture that comes out of those things. But ours is a God of logic

00:28:38.800 and there is a mechanism, uh, by which God lifts that, that rock that seems so heavy that he can't

00:28:45.260 lift it. And it's, and it's God giving his only begotten son to be incarnate and to die for the sins

00:28:49.520 of man. That's a, that's a pretty beautiful, logical way to solve that problem. From Lynn,

00:28:54.000 dear Michael, I'm listening to your interview with Tom Arnold right now. You deserve an Emmy

00:28:58.360 for keeping your composure. How do you do it? Thanks Lynn. If you didn't see the interview,

00:29:02.640 it was pretty wild, uh, as, as Tom Arnold famously is. He's a pretty wild guy. I got to say though,

00:29:08.860 uh, cause some, some people kind of got it, I think. And some people gave these, uh, were saying

00:29:14.560 pretty mean things about Tom. I genuinely like Tom Arnold. I do. I really liked the guy. I think he's a

00:29:20.100 nice guy. I think he's a genuine guy. Uh, he's not, he's really not rude, uh, regardless of what

00:29:27.880 you saw in that interview. I think he's a really nice guy who's a little out there on some of his

00:29:31.900 premises. So he, he said something very important yesterday about the difference between the left

00:29:37.300 and the right right now. He was so honest in his answer because I said, Tom, here are the facts.

00:29:42.640 And he said, I, yeah, I don't care about that. I don't care. And I said, but Tom, there's just one

00:29:47.120 reality because he said, well, this is how I feel. And this is what it seems to me. And if you're a

00:29:52.060 this and a that and do, and I said, but there's one reality. He said, no, there isn't. There are

00:29:56.740 multiple realities. Reality is subjective. There's no such thing as objective truth. And that is the

00:30:02.620 disagreement between the left and the right. That's the underlying premise. That is why the

00:30:07.840 left and the right just talk past each other is the right is saying there is an objective reality

00:30:11.920 within it without an objective reality. We couldn't communicate. There's no way to communicate

00:30:16.960 between people. There's no way to do anything. There's no way to understand any aspect of the

00:30:21.560 world. And the left says, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, right? There there's, it's this radical

00:30:26.620 subjectivism, this radical, uh, willfulness that that's born into this modern era that largely comes

00:30:32.100 from Nietzsche and this, this radical, but it goes back further than that. It goes back to the early

00:30:36.860 parts of the modern era all the way to the 16th century or, or prior could go back to the 14th

00:30:41.180 century. This rejection of reality. And, uh, Tom beautifully and honestly showed that, that the,

00:30:48.300 the right is living in reality and the left at its extremes and in its craziness is denying reality.

00:30:53.980 And when you deny reality, things don't turn out very well from Lori. Hi, Michael. I've been thinking

00:31:00.100 about it recently and I want to know your opinion on the death penalty and when it should be used and

00:31:03.800 when not, and what methods of executing a prisoner are humane and not humane. I think it should be used.

00:31:09.900 I support the death penalty. I think there are medical and health benefits to capital punishment.

00:31:15.940 People don't talk about this enough. Father Rutler, my friend and priest in New York wrote a

00:31:21.380 wonderful piece on this. Uh, I'm quoting Dr. Johnson who says, you can depend upon it, sir.

00:31:26.740 When a man knows to be hanged, that he's going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind

00:31:31.340 wonderfully. People should be hanged for crimes. There is justice. This is not an anti-Christian 0.88

00:31:36.640 suggestion. There's, it's not anti-Catholic. It's not, uh, the, it's quite clear from the

00:31:42.120 scriptures that capital punishment is a right of the civil authority. And, uh, we, so as a result,

00:31:50.020 uh, there is something that's cruel and unusual, I think about our criminal justice system,

00:31:54.960 which is that people can languish in prison for decades and decades and decades, losing their

00:31:59.460 mind. I think that's cruel and unusual. I think that's not humane. In the old days, you could sleep it

00:32:03.680 off at night, or you could be in jail for a short period of time, or you could be in jail, turning

00:32:08.560 small, big rocks into small rocks for five years, or you would be hanged. This to me is, uh, much more

00:32:14.980 humane probably than letting someone languish in isolation for decades upon decades, slowly depriving

00:32:20.400 them of their liberty and their humanity. Uh, and as for the methods, yeah, they should be clean and,

00:32:25.180 uh, easy. I think it was, uh, Henry VIII who ordered a special guillotine from France that would be

00:32:30.600 extra sharp for his wives. Never let it be said that he was a bad husband, huh? Uh, that's in

00:32:36.100 short, this is unpopular today among the touchy feely people and the people who want to pervert

00:32:40.860 religion to advance their sentimental points of view. But, uh, there are plenty of good arguments

00:32:47.060 for capital punishment. And, uh, and when you let, uh, uh, criminals run free, there are plenty of bad

00:32:52.800 things that happen to society from Jacob. Hey, Michael, uh, I guess this will probably have to end on this

00:32:58.520 one. If we have, uh, we've got a couple of minutes left. Hey, Jacob. Uh, hey, Michael,

00:33:03.280 as am I just having a conversation with my mailbag right now? Hey, Michael, as a conservative college

00:33:08.000 student studying neuroscience and political science, what advice do you have to make sure

00:33:12.680 I balance my time between schoolwork, fun, confronting leftist campus lies, and also looking

00:33:18.440 into the future for my career? I love the show and hope to see you at UMichigan soon. That's right.

00:33:23.700 I think I'm coming to UMichigan soon. We'll try to have to hash that out. Uh, so there are three

00:33:29.860 things you can do in college. I frequently said there's a time and a place for everything. And

00:33:33.240 that place is college. There are three things you can do work, play, sleep, and you can pick two.

00:33:41.720 I think basically you can pick two. Uh, this, this is what we were told when I was in college. This is

00:33:46.860 basically how I lived in college. I slept, I remember my sophomore year, I slept no more than four

00:33:52.080 hours a night every single night for at least a full semester. I was taking five classes, uh, some

00:33:58.300 of which met every day. I was doing, I think five plays. I was directing an opera. I was doing a lot

00:34:03.040 of political work, running a campaign, starting a new campaign. I was going out of my mind. I did not

00:34:08.540 sleep. I was going out frequently, you know, going to parties and things like that. And I don't regret

00:34:12.980 it at all. It's very important. The social aspect of college is very, very important. Don't let

00:34:18.260 anybody tell you otherwise. And the academic aspect is very important. And the academic aspect is

00:34:22.680 highlighted by the social aspect because you'll learn something or you'll read something. And

00:34:26.500 then you'll, uh, talk to your friends and you'll have to argue about that. Or if your classes are

00:34:30.860 total left-wing nonsense, then your friends might say, Hey, read this little book. This isn't being

00:34:36.320 taught in your political philosophy class, but read this one. This might change your thoughts. So don't

00:34:40.780 disregard the play at all. You might have to disregard some sleep. Uh, don't be unhealthy about it,

00:34:45.060 but you know, it, college is a tough time and it's very compact. You're trying to fit in your

00:34:49.280 education into four years. I'm not one of these guys who's anti-college really. I mean, colleges

00:34:55.340 have been so corrupted and hollowed out by the left that it's very frustrating, but I really believe

00:34:59.700 in liberal education. I, uh, uh, I don't think you should just do some trade, you know, and say,

00:35:05.620 okay, if you don't study engineering, it's not worth getting an education. I don't believe that for

00:35:09.200 one second. I think the humanities are basically the essence of, uh, they create the

00:35:15.040 stuff of our consciousness and will really help us to come closer to our politics and to know

00:35:20.580 ourselves and to know God better. So you gotta, you gotta really, uh, uh, dive into it and, uh,

00:35:26.600 you know, don't, uh, don't disregard the party part either. You know, this is, uh, there's a time

00:35:30.680 and a place for everything, pal. Okay. Can we get one more question then? Do we have time for one,

00:35:34.820 one more, one more, she says. Okay. From Dean. Hey Knowles, I was curious about your,

00:35:40.980 what your thoughts were on the Republican party's stance on things that are objectively bad

00:35:45.020 for the environment, like the Keystone Pipeline and expansion of offshore drilling. Just because

00:35:49.420 things are hard to conserve, does that mean we should not do it? Furthermore, if you do not

00:35:53.600 believe these things are harmful to the environment and surrounding ecosystems, can you provide

00:35:57.420 information as to why? Many thanks for what you do. My mom and I love your show. Thank you to both

00:36:02.940 of you for watching. Even that phrase is giving away the whole premise to the left, harm the environment.

00:36:12.620 Because what environmentalists do is they, they make the environment, the rocks and the trees and

00:36:19.120 the water seem like morally conscious actors. So they anthropomorphize things that are not men,

00:36:26.740 that don't have moral qualities to them. They say, oh, you're harming the environment. What am I

00:36:30.640 harming? The earth is a rock. I can't, I'm not going to harm a rock. The rock isn't going to start

00:36:34.940 crying because I harmed it. Mother nature isn't going to weep. That is crazy nonsense. We are here and we

00:36:41.540 have dominion over the earth and over the birds of the air and the fish of the sea and the animals

00:36:47.180 that prowl around the ground and everything else around there. We have dominion over that. We need

00:36:52.320 to take care of it. Why do we have to take care of it? So that we can enjoy it. Not because it has

00:36:56.640 some right. Not because, you know, it is deserving of some natural right or something. It's for us.

00:37:03.080 We should be good stewards because we love the earth and we, and we love our civilization and our

00:37:07.440 society. I don't see evidence that the advantages to all of humanity and to civilization and lifting

00:37:14.580 people out of poverty and allowing people to do new things and create more wealth and have

00:37:18.020 more opportunity to explore their interests and to explore culture and to explore their God and to

00:37:24.940 have a relationship with their God. I don't think that, which all comes out of the ground in a beautiful

00:37:28.940 little liquid called oil and natural gas, when, uh, I don't think that the harming a few delta smelt or

00:37:36.900 something is, is, uh, a reason not to have any of those things. You have to ask yourself, what is

00:37:43.940 the purpose of the environment? What is the purpose of these? Is it because it's a moral actor with just

00:37:50.100 as many rights as I have and just the same points of life as I have? No, of course not. Absolutely not.

00:37:56.080 Uh, so you have to ask yourself if the costs do, uh, do outweigh the benefits, then you don't do

00:38:01.900 something. But I, I see no evidence of that with an oil pipeline or pumping more oil out of the

00:38:06.580 ground. Drill baby drill because we're making America great again. And that's, and that's a

00:38:11.340 good thing. It's a good thing that we'll be more prosperous and we'll be able to give more to

00:38:15.860 charity and we'll be able to live fuller lives and to explore both our physical enjoyments and

00:38:22.940 our metaphysical enjoyments. Okay. That's it. We got a lot of good questions. I had a really good

00:38:26.940 one that someone was going to ask me about why Ben and I disagree on the values of partisanship.

00:38:31.740 We'll just have to get to that next time. We'll have to get to that now. I'll be a team player.

00:38:35.860 Uh, it's flag day very briefly. Some early American flags. Everybody remembers this one. This is the

00:38:41.820 Betsy Ross flag with the circle of stars. That's good. They say this is the first American flag.

00:38:45.800 That isn't true. The, uh, the first flag that we know was used by George Washington is this flag,

00:38:51.140 an appeal to heaven. It's the pine tree flag. And on top, it says an appeal to heaven.

00:38:55.080 This is referencing John Locke. It's, uh, it's a refutation of the divine right of kings and it's

00:39:00.800 saying we're not going to accept the divine right of kings if they're doing a bad job. We're going to

00:39:05.140 appeal to his king, which is an appeal to heaven. That's an interesting first flag that a lot of

00:39:10.180 people don't, uh, reference. And then one of my favorite flags, obviously there's the Gadsden flag,

00:39:14.880 which is that symbol of America, the rattlesnake, always a symbol of these colonies. Don't tread on me.

00:39:20.440 A wonderful, uh, symbol of that American can do. Get out of here, pal. Don't you F with me kind of

00:39:28.120 spirit. Uh, that's a good one. But my favorite one is the grand union flag. This was the first

00:39:33.300 national flag of the United States. It looks like an American flag with the stripes, but it's got the,

00:39:38.000 uh, union flag in there, the, the British flag, uh, in that top corner where the stars are. And I

00:39:43.880 really liked this one and I'm glad it was the first national flag of the United States because it

00:39:48.200 shows that we're not these radical revolutionaries who are cutting ourselves off from tradition.

00:39:52.480 We're inheriting a tradition from the old world and from the country that helped establish this

00:39:57.540 country. And there's a, there's a long institutional history that goes back and I think it really grounds

00:40:02.500 the American revolution in something that's different than the French revolution. We don't 0.57

00:40:05.820 start cutting off people's heads or, you know, cutting off our king's head and trying to undo 0.75

00:40:09.700 everything and burning down churches and creating new cults of reason. What we do instead is we, 0.99

00:40:15.760 we take from the tradition and we keep what is so valuable about it. We have, we have a continuity

00:40:20.440 with our, our forebears who were pretty good guys, uh, and, and great guys. Okay. That's our show

00:40:26.680 today. We're out of time. I'm sorry, folks. I got to go and get out of here. So I will see you on

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