Ep. 168 - Happy Birthday To Us!
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It's Father's Day, which means it's time to talk about what to get your dad for his birthday. Plus, a mailbag and a few of my favorite American flags for Flag Day. Plus, I recap a little bit about my talk with Tom Arnold and all the birthday presents for the president.
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It's flag day and it's the president's birthday, and we're the ones getting all the presents for
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that birthday on the economy, foreign affairs, standing among the international community,
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even sports. We will observe something that conservatives usually hate to acknowledge,
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which is that things are getting better. Then the FBI's inspector general concludes
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James Comey and the FBI tried to hurt Donald Trump and help Hillary Clinton.
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In other news, the sky remains blue and water remains wet. We will analyze all of those
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important news stories. And then the God King Jeremy Boring himself will stop by to explain
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why soccer is a threat to Western civilization. Finally, the mailbag and a few of my favorite
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American flags for flag day. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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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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don't give me anything. And then, you know, you get him a tie or something, and he's either
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the experience of receiving it, what it means, what it says about the relationship. This one comes in a
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K-N-O-W-L-E-S, mancrates.com slash Knowles. So a lot of chaos going on. Also, I'm sorry,
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before we get to my recap of Tom Arnold and all the birthday presents for the president,
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we got to talk about the conversation. The conversation is coming up. It's coming up soon.
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And the guest is going to be the big boss, Ben Shapiro. Take a look.
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Hey, gang. On Tuesday, June 19th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern, it's time to tune in for another
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episode of The Conversation, featuring me, Ben Shapiro. If you're a Daily Wire subscriber,
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now's your chance to ask me all sorts of questions like these.
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What's your favorite kind of movie to see in the movie theater?
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Because the visuals usually require you to be in a theater.
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Because you are a movie buff. Do you even like music at all?
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I like some of the soft rock. I like Jim Croce. I like John Denver.
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No, I've never tasted bacon. I've heard it's fantastic. Is it as good as they say?
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I mean, dear God, it's amazing. Are you a fan of any other Chicago team?
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Yeah, I'm a Bears fan. I'm also a Blackhawks fan. The White Sox only win the World Series once
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every hundred years. Is your wife a doctor? So the rumor is that she is.
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The conversation will be on Facebook and YouTube for everyone to watch,
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but only subscribers will get answers to their questions.
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That's Tuesday, June 19th at 5.30 p.m. Eastern. See you then.
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I hope that he can finally answer that question, is your wife a doctor?
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I've been scratching my head for so long about that. So be sure to tune in for that.
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Now, some of you might have seen yesterday, I had this interview with Tom Arnold.
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And, well, if you missed it, you should go back and listen, because it actually
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showed a lot of the differences between the left and the right. But if you just want a quick
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summary, here is a quick recap of my interview with Tom Arnold yesterday.
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Freddie, the cause of your situation, you do not wish you a challenge, you are not worried
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the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of the pool table in your community,
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you will get shot by my friends right here, say to over right here in River City, where
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sure I'm a good place, I'm a mighty part of the same, was mighty part of the same,
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because of the RSX, man, with the crew in my hand, gold, and helping cut up persons
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at Kool-Aid and Kenai. Your butt is mine, going to tell you, right? You show your face
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in the broad daylight, I'm telling you how I feel, going to hurt your mind, don't shoot to kill,
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come on, come on, lay it on me, all right? I'm giving you one on the count of three
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to show you stuff or let it be. I'm telling you, just watch your mouth, I know
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your game, what about you? Well, I say the sky's the limit, and to me, that's really true,
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but my friends, you see nothing, just wait till I get through, because I'm bad, bad,
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come on, come on, bad, bad, really, really bad, you know I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it,
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you know it, bad, really, really bad, you know I'm bad, I'm bad, come on, come on,
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you know it, bad, bad, really, really bad, and the whole world does the answer just right,
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That clip was a little bit slower than the way that Tom and I were talking yesterday, but you missed it.
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You know, I got a lot of mailbag questions about this, I got a lot of tweets and everything
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about what the interview was like with Tom, it was pretty wild, we were moving pretty fast,
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I'll give my thoughts on that in the mailbag, because I reacted to it actually differently
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than I think a lot of people think, so we'll get to that later. First, it's President Trump's
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birthday to celebrate, we're so lucky on this show, we get the best guests, folks, we are going to
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bring on Marilyn Monroe to sing Donald Trump a happy birthday before an audience of Hillary
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Clinton supporters. Marilyn, take it away.
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That's incredible footage. Really well done, beautiful Marilyn, and happy birthday, Mr. President.
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It's Donald Trump's birthday, but we're getting all of the presents, aren't we? Here's a quick rundown before
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we bring on the God King to explain, to pour a little cold water on all of our happiness and
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covfefe and explain why soccer is a threat to Western civilization. To begin, on the economy,
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new jobless claims fell again last week, meaning that the number of Americans on the jobless rolls
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fell to a 44 and a half year low. Could you, just imagine this, so the labor market right now is
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at or close to full employment. Unemployment right now is under 4%, it's like 3.8%. The Fed is predicting
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it'll drop further by the end of the year. That's why the Fed is finally raising interest rates for a
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second time this year after not being able to do that because of Barack Obama's stagnant economy.
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They're saying the labor market is continuing to strengthen, that job gains are strong. The Fed says that
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economic activity is rising at a solid rate. Layoffs right now are very low. There are signs of worker
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shortages across all sectors of the economy. 6.7 million job openings in April. People are receiving
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unemployment insurance at the lowest level since 1973. There are more job openings in the United
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States than unemployed workers to fill them. Imagine this, in October 2016, if somebody told you,
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they said, hey, what do you think the headlines are going to be under a Donald Trump presidency?
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Say, I don't know, the Western Hemisphere exploding and the Eastern Hemisphere exploding. I don't know,
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the core of the earth exploding, right? That is what you would predict. And you get these absurdly good
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economic data points. On foreign affairs, the historic Kim Jong-un summit is a big win for the United
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States. Michael Goodwin points this out in the New York Post today. There are plenty of good reasons to
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be cynical about the Iran deal. Plenty of good reasons. The Kims are murderous and deceptive.
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There's no reason to believe that this Kim is any better than his father, any less treacherous.
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The Kims have backed out of plenty of deals that they said they were going to do before.
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And they've run right out before the ink is dry. Also, China might not let North Korea
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denuclearize. Fine. Yep. I get it. There are a lot of reasons to be cynical. Goodwin makes this great
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point in the post. He writes, quote, today should be declared a holiday from nitpicking, a time to
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celebrate what has been accomplished instead of fixating on the possible pitfalls. It's an occasion
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to look forward with hope instead of backward with suspicion. And this is such an important point.
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Conservatives sometimes forget this because we want to like frown all the time. Cynicism is very stupid.
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It's very stupid. You know, Norm Macdonald, one of my favorite voices in the world, the great
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voice of our age, yesterday he referred to something called the profanity of cynicism
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in a tweet. And he's so right. This is such an astute observation. Cynicism is profane.
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Cynicism is the crutch of anxious people who can't tolerate uncertainty and they're terrified that
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they're going to look foolish if they end up being wrong. And so they don't want to have any hope or
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smiling to begin with. They just want to frown and say everything's going to be terrible. But the
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world is a hopeful place. There's nothing virtuous about cynicism. You know, you should be courageous.
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You should be prudent, certainly. You shouldn't be reckless or stupid, but you should be courageous.
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You should be prudent. You should be manly, not cynical. That's what the word courage comes from.
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Courage comes from cur, from heart, right? And cynicism is discouraging, takes the heart out of
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everything. You should take heart. Could it go wrong? Of course. Are we in the early
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stages of whatever kind of nuclear deal we're trying to work out? Yes. What are the odds that
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it works out? Who knows? But there's a good first step. Take heart. On foreign affairs also,
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and this is right before we'll bring in the God King to pour cold water on everything,
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we're getting the World Cup in North America. It's going to be this nice alliance between Canada,
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the United States, Mexico. Donald Trump, by the way, has been lobbying since March to bring the World
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Cup to North America. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting the 2028 Summer Olympics as well.
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So we've got two major international sporting events that are coming to the United States because of
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Donald Trump. Everybody predicted that Trump would hurt these bids because the whole world hates him,
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right? He's, you know, he's humiliating and our allies hate us. And instead, he actually helped.
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Now, look, I do not care very much for the Olympics. I don't watch the Olympics other than curling.
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Curling is one of my favorite sports in the world. But other than curling, I don't like it.
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I also think that soccer basically should be outlawed in the United States.
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But it is a very good sign, nonetheless, of this global leadership. The United States has global
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leadership. President Trump has picked up two major international sporting events. That's a good
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thing. So say I. Now, I think the God King, the founder of my feasts and the man who signs my checks,
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disagrees with me on this. Can we bring on the God King?
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Hey, look, it's Donald Trump's birthday. It's flag day. I'm feeling so good.
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Well, what's interesting to me is how everyone who supports the president carries water for the
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president. You can't just be a general fan of the guy. You have to be basically an evangelist for
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And so when he says, for example, when he calls Kim Jong-un rocket man, all of his fans are like,
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yes, we have always wanted war on the Korean Peninsula. And when he says things like, I really
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trust him. And everybody's like, yes, we have always wanted peace on the Korean Peninsula. And no one
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ever knows where they stand with you people. And this is the greatest example. This is a microcosm of
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all things, Trump, that one of the great arguments on behalf of Donald Trump is he's going to be a
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global leader. He's going to rebuild America's supremacy. He's going to salvage Western civilization.
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Make America great again. He's going to salvage Western civilization. And now you're crowing that
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he is bringing this bastard sport of soccer to the United States. This is Obama level leading from
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behind. You call that global leadership? Global leadership is called baseball.
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Maybe football. Global leading from behind is called soccer.
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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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because I have to say, this is the best never Trump argument that really sort of compels
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soccer? What's so bad about soccer? It's like saying, Jeremy, everything's going really well,
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I noticed in world history until like the late 1930s. What went wrong? Soccer is, listen,
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I actually don't hate soccer. You know, I think that soccer is a perfectly good sport for the
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third world. And that's what it is. It's the sport of the third world. But it's all you
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need is something roughly the size of a ball. Doesn't have to be a ball. A human head would
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work. And I think that's probably how it all started. And you need a patch of relatively
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flat earth. And then you need a bunch of people to chase after the rolling object and occasionally
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fall down as though they had been hit. Yeah. Pretend it hurts. Pretend it hurts. That is
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soccer. And that's fine because everyone needs sports. Yes. Sports teach children about competition.
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They teach children about work ethic. They teach children a set of rules and how to succeed within
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those rules. And sports help adults too because they give us an opportunity to play out competitive
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aggression in a controlled way that doesn't result in violence. Although sometimes at soccer
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games, the fans actually participate in a greater contact sport than the players. Those hooligans.
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The hooligans, yeah. But, you know, they bring us together. They give us a sense of pride. It's a
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nice distraction from the hardship of life. Everyone needs that. Yeah. And so I'm glad that Ghana has a
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soccer team. That's good. Yeah. I'm glad that the Ivory Coast has a soccer team. I am offended,
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however, that Great Britain also participates in this. And I am mortally offended that the United
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States would condescend to have a soccer team. I tend to agree with you on this.
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Except for six-year-old children and under. It's good. Yeah. Well, it's really good. I wonder at the
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World Cup now, because it's going to be hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, who is going
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to provide the minivans to pick up the players afterward and give them juice boxes and little
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cracker snacks. Exactly. Tell them good boy. Listen, it matters. When Great Britain was in
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her ascendancy, the height of the British Empire, she had the most complex sport in the world,
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cricket. Cricket. It could take days to play. That's right. No one understands it. The smartest
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guy on the block doesn't understand it. That is the sport of an ascendant power. America in her
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ascendancy had baseball, a complex sport. The offense, the defense has possession of the ball.
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Infield fly rule. Infield fly rule, yeah. Those are the sports of an ascendant nation. They're
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complicated. They're intelligent. More importantly, they're expensive. Because our sports reflect
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something about us. You can't play baseball with just a ball and a piece of flat earth. Right.
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Right. The reason little children play soccer is because it's the simplest sport. You basically
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chase the moving ball. That's all that's required. Doesn't require a ton of training and specialized
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this and that. That's right. And doesn't require money. Now, America as a superpower,
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our sport really, we don't have to like it, but the truth is it's football. Right. That is the
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national pastime. That is the national pastime of our generation. It is the most complex and
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expensive sport ever conceived. The pads alone would break the GDP of many nations that have perfectly
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serviceable soccer teams. That's true. And that's not bad. Again, I'm not against third world nations
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having soccer. I'm against us saying that that's as good as baseball or football. And I'm against
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the idea that we need to reach down and play the sport of the world instead of showing actual global
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leadership and saying, no, the entire world needs to be rich enough and powerful enough to play sports
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that require you not only to chase something, but to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars
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preventing brain damage. That's true. And you know, it's maybe we need like a new Marshall plan.
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I would be perfectly willing. I'm a fiscal conservative. So are you. If we could invest
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in the infrastructure required to create booming economies such that these third world countries
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can buy very expensive and elaborate equipment to play real sports that are civilized. Absolutely.
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I would do it in a second. I think that absolutely. I agree. If, if Trump were to scratch his infrastructure
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plan and instead, you know, support the world becoming baseball and football players, I'd vote
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for him for sure for reelection. What I don't like though, is this game of equality being a sort of
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the Thatcher view of equality that, you know, the left, you can be here and poor people can be here.
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And the left thinks it's, the world is a better place if everyone's down here. That's right.
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That's not me. I think that we should set an example in the world and give some, give people
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something to rise up to. And that thing is not chasing a rolling human head across a flat patch
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of earth. That is exactly right. And it's so, it is this degrading going back and, oh, it's bad for
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us that we, yeah, it's, and it's not as violent. You know, there's that, there's that other aspect.
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If you're a rich, powerful ascendant company, you can take some hits. You can weather some,
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you know, you can pay for expensive hospitals. That's right. They used to flood the Coliseum
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and play out naval battles from antiquity at the height of the decadence of Rome. I feel like we
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can do much the same. That's right. And we should, uh, not only that, but I think that, um, part of
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the problem with the rise of soccer in America is that you can trace it one-to-one to the decline
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of our culture, right? When America was putting a man on the moon, were grown adults in the freest
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country on earth playing soccer? Michael, no, they were not. They were not because all that scrap metal
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was going to the space shuttle and not to make more minivans to be pickle up people of the field.
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That's, that's exactly right. And by the way, ever since women started to enter the workforce,
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right? That's right. More women in the workforce, more soccer fields in the United States of America.
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Look at that. It's just science. That's a correlation. All of these. Do you even, do you
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even study science? Do you even study? It correlates with divorce rates. Yeah, I'm sure it does.
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Someone do the math. Uh, you know, you've made a really compelling argument. It is the first, uh,
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anti-Trump argument that has really started to convince me. And listen, I'm not anti-Trump. I'm
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a Trump skeptic. Trump has done a lot of things that make me very, very happy. Uh, this is not
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one of them. I feel like if, uh, if previous Jeremy, that's Jeremy from, uh, 2016, who was busy
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expressing all of his concerns about the worst case, what will happen if Donald Trump becomes
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president? You know, I was worried the Republican party would fracture. I was worried we would lose
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credibility, uh, with millennials who are becoming the largest voting bloc. Uh, I was worried that
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we would lose our principles in service only, uh, of our, uh, of our, uh, victories. Yeah.
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I never thought that I would see the president of the United States cheering the ascendancy of
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soccer. Yeah. No, I'm sorry. You, you make a great point. Mr. President, I hope you're watching.
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It's been such a good, you know, it's been such a good, uh, year and a half, but please,
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you've got to rethink this. You've got to rethink what you're doing. Mr. Godking,
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thank you for being here. Thank you. We've got to get to the mailbag. Also, the chief,
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the chief executive dog was here. I don't know if anybody got to see him. Oh, the CED. Is there
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any way to lift him up? Get him on camera a little bit? Oh, yeah. He got himself stuck back here.
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Because this is my real boss right here. This would be the chief executive. The guy who runs the show.
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Yeah. He also sleeps on Bowling Branch. That's because we're very wealthy. He does too.
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Because we're a wealthy, ascendant, decadent country. Thank you, sir. Always good to see the God King.
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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
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mailbag? Okay. The investigator general, Michael Horowitz, who's the FBI watchdog, he has concluded
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that James Comey has deviated from a bureau and justice department procedures in handling the
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Clinton probe, which damaged the agency's image. I know you're shocked. Aren't you? We didn't think,
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we thought they did everything just right. We thought James Comey totally above board,
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not political at all. Turns out that was all a lie. They wrote, quote, this is from the IG report.
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By departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively
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impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.
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Now they say that there's no evidence this was politically motivated. What does that mean?
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What we know is that James Comey treated Hillary Clinton differently than he would have treated other
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people. And we know that they were trying to, this was during a presidential election.
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They were, what is not political about that? Anything involving Hillary Clinton is political.
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That's, that's absolutely absurd. The report also, by the way, uncovered previously hidden text
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messages that the FBI was just not releasing. It was just totally covering up between disgraced FBI
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agents and saucy lovers, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Page writes, quote, Trump's not ever going to
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become president, right? Right. To which Strzok responds, no, no, he won't. We'll stop it. It's like the worst,
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saddest soy boy flirting I've ever heard. Also, also probably criminal and anti-American and
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anti-constitutional. He said, Peter Strzok of the FBI, key investigator saying, we will stop
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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
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this. You're seeing a text from Peter Strzok and a key investigator at the FBI that says, we're going
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to stop Trump from being president. They say, look at Stormy Daniels. I said, what? What do I care about
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some porn star? They say, look, he said naughty words on a videotape. The FBI is saying he's going to
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stop interfering in a presidential election. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, who has the better track
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record here? Who looks better? Who looks good? Who looks dirty between Donald Trump and the FBI?
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It's no question. It's no question. And so it's a happy birthday. Soccer notwithstanding. I guess
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it's good we nabbed these international sporting events and I use sporting loosely, but you know,
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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
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Let's get to the mailbag before we have to go from Tyler. Dear Knowles, the smoking jacket in
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combination with the bow tie was truly a sight to see. My question is how do you explain the irony
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of the all powerful argument in relation to God? For example, can God create an object too heavy for
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him to lift or can he lift anything? Meaning he's not a powerful enough to create that object from
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Tyler? Yeah, this, this stupid question. I'm sorry. I don't mean to insult you, Tyler. This question is
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so stupid. So the question is, can God create an object so heavy that he can't lift it? This was
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asked in the father's day video. The God King said, uh, Jeremy Boring, lowercase G, lowercase K said
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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
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God of infinite, pure, irrational wrath. He's a God of logic. In the beginning was the word,
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the logos. And the logos was with God and the logos was God. The logos being the divine logic of the
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universe. It is a perfectly logical God, a God who submits himself to the own logic that he creates.
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And so the question, can God create a rock so heavy that he can't lift it? Is basically akin to saying
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? It's like saying parrot, yellow, elephant,
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banana, banana, four times green. It, it is words. Like there are words together, but it doesn't have
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any meaning. It doesn't have any, any internal logic. So, uh, in short answer to your, to your
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question, this God is, is a God of logic. That's not true of other religions. Uh, the God of Islam
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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
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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
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lift it. And it's, and it's God giving his only begotten son to be incarnate and to die for the sins
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of man. That's a, that's a pretty beautiful, logical way to solve that problem. From Lynn,
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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,
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it was pretty wild, uh, as, as Tom Arnold famously is. He's a pretty wild guy. I got to say though,
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uh, cause some, some people kind of got it, I think. And some people gave these, uh, were saying
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pretty mean things about Tom. I genuinely like Tom Arnold. I do. I really liked the guy. I think he's a
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nice guy. I think he's a genuine guy. Uh, he's not, he's really not rude, uh, regardless of what
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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
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and the right right now. He was so honest in his answer because I said, Tom, here are the facts.
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And he said, I, yeah, I don't care about that. I don't care. And I said, but Tom, there's just one
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reality because he said, well, this is how I feel. And this is what it seems to me. And if you're a
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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
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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
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within it without an objective reality. We couldn't communicate. There's no way to communicate
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between people. There's no way to do anything. There's no way to understand any aspect of the
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world. And the left says, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, right? There there's, it's this radical
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subjectivism, this radical, uh, willfulness that that's born into this modern era that largely comes
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from Nietzsche and this, this radical, but it goes back further than that. It goes back to the early
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parts of the modern era all the way to the 16th century or, or prior could go back to the 14th
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century. This rejection of reality. And, uh, Tom beautifully and honestly showed that, that the,
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the right is living in reality and the left at its extremes and in its craziness is denying reality.
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And when you deny reality, things don't turn out very well from Lori. Hi, Michael. I've been thinking
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about it recently and I want to know your opinion on the death penalty and when it should be used and
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when not, and what methods of executing a prisoner are humane and not humane. I think it should be used.
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I support the death penalty. I think there are medical and health benefits to capital punishment.
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People don't talk about this enough. Father Rutler, my friend and priest in New York wrote a
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wonderful piece on this. Uh, I'm quoting Dr. Johnson who says, you can depend upon it, sir.
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When a man knows to be hanged, that he's going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind
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wonderfully. People should be hanged for crimes. There is justice. This is not an anti-Christian
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suggestion. There's, it's not anti-Catholic. It's not, uh, the, it's quite clear from the
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scriptures that capital punishment is a right of the civil authority. And, uh, we, so as a result,
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uh, there is something that's cruel and unusual, I think about our criminal justice system,
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which is that people can languish in prison for decades and decades and decades, losing their
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mind. I think that's cruel and unusual. I think that's not humane. In the old days, you could sleep it
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off at night, or you could be in jail for a short period of time, or you could be in jail, turning
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small, big rocks into small rocks for five years, or you would be hanged. This to me is, uh, much more
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humane probably than letting someone languish in isolation for decades upon decades, slowly depriving
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them of their liberty and their humanity. Uh, and as for the methods, yeah, they should be clean and,
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uh, easy. I think it was, uh, Henry VIII who ordered a special guillotine from France that would be
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extra sharp for his wives. Never let it be said that he was a bad husband, huh? Uh, that's in
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short, this is unpopular today among the touchy feely people and the people who want to pervert
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religion to advance their sentimental points of view. But, uh, there are plenty of good arguments
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for capital punishment. And, uh, and when you let, uh, uh, criminals run free, there are plenty of bad
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things that happen to society from Jacob. Hey, Michael, uh, I guess this will probably have to end on this
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one. If we have, uh, we've got a couple of minutes left. Hey, Jacob. Uh, hey, Michael,
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as am I just having a conversation with my mailbag right now? Hey, Michael, as a conservative college
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student studying neuroscience and political science, what advice do you have to make sure
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I balance my time between schoolwork, fun, confronting leftist campus lies, and also looking
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into the future for my career? I love the show and hope to see you at UMichigan soon. That's right.
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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
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that place is college. There are three things you can do work, play, sleep, and you can pick two.
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I think basically you can pick two. Uh, this, this is what we were told when I was in college. This is
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basically how I lived in college. I slept, I remember my sophomore year, I slept no more than four
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hours a night every single night for at least a full semester. I was taking five classes, uh, some
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of which met every day. I was doing, I think five plays. I was directing an opera. I was doing a lot
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of political work, running a campaign, starting a new campaign. I was going out of my mind. I did not
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sleep. I was going out frequently, you know, going to parties and things like that. And I don't regret
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it at all. It's very important. The social aspect of college is very, very important. Don't let
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anybody tell you otherwise. And the academic aspect is very important. And the academic aspect is
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highlighted by the social aspect because you'll learn something or you'll read something. And
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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
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disregard the play at all. You might have to disregard some sleep. Uh, don't be unhealthy about it,
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but you know, it, college is a tough time and it's very compact. You're trying to fit in your
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education into four years. I'm not one of these guys who's anti-college really. I mean, colleges
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have been so corrupted and hollowed out by the left that it's very frustrating, but I really believe
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in liberal education. I, uh, uh, I don't think you should just do some trade, you know, and say,
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okay, if you don't study engineering, it's not worth getting an education. I don't believe that for
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one second. I think the humanities are basically the essence of, uh, they create the
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stuff of our consciousness and will really help us to come closer to our politics and to know
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ourselves and to know God better. So you gotta, you gotta really, uh, uh, dive into it and, uh,
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you know, don't, uh, don't disregard the party part either. You know, this is, uh, there's a time
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and a place for everything, pal. Okay. Can we get one more question then? Do we have time for one,
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one more, one more, she says. Okay. From Dean. Hey Knowles, I was curious about your,
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what your thoughts were on the Republican party's stance on things that are objectively bad
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for the environment, like the Keystone Pipeline and expansion of offshore drilling. Just because
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things are hard to conserve, does that mean we should not do it? Furthermore, if you do not
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believe these things are harmful to the environment and surrounding ecosystems, can you provide
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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.
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Because what environmentalists do is they, they make the environment, the rocks and the trees and
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the water seem like morally conscious actors. So they anthropomorphize things that are not men,
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that don't have moral qualities to them. They say, oh, you're harming the environment. What am I
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harming? The earth is a rock. I can't, I'm not going to harm a rock. The rock isn't going to start
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crying because I harmed it. Mother nature isn't going to weep. That is crazy nonsense. We are here and we
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have dominion over the earth and over the birds of the air and the fish of the sea and the animals
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that prowl around the ground and everything else around there. We have dominion over that. We need
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to take care of it. Why do we have to take care of it? So that we can enjoy it. Not because it has
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some right. Not because, you know, it is deserving of some natural right or something. It's for us.
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We should be good stewards because we love the earth and we, and we love our civilization and our
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society. I don't see evidence that the advantages to all of humanity and to civilization and lifting
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people out of poverty and allowing people to do new things and create more wealth and have
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more opportunity to explore their interests and to explore culture and to explore their God and to
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have a relationship with their God. I don't think that, which all comes out of the ground in a beautiful
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little liquid called oil and natural gas, when, uh, I don't think that the harming a few delta smelt or
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something is, is, uh, a reason not to have any of those things. You have to ask yourself, what is
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the purpose of the environment? What is the purpose of these? Is it because it's a moral actor with just
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as many rights as I have and just the same points of life as I have? No, of course not. Absolutely not.
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Uh, so you have to ask yourself if the costs do, uh, do outweigh the benefits, then you don't do
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something. But I, I see no evidence of that with an oil pipeline or pumping more oil out of the
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ground. Drill baby drill because we're making America great again. And that's, and that's a
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good thing. It's a good thing that we'll be more prosperous and we'll be able to give more to
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charity and we'll be able to live fuller lives and to explore both our physical enjoyments and
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our metaphysical enjoyments. Okay. That's it. We got a lot of good questions. I had a really good
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one that someone was going to ask me about why Ben and I disagree on the values of partisanship.
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We'll just have to get to that next time. We'll have to get to that now. I'll be a team player.
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Uh, it's flag day very briefly. Some early American flags. Everybody remembers this one. This is the
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Betsy Ross flag with the circle of stars. That's good. They say this is the first American flag.
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That isn't true. The, uh, the first flag that we know was used by George Washington is this flag,
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an appeal to heaven. It's the pine tree flag. And on top, it says an appeal to heaven.
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This is referencing John Locke. It's, uh, it's a refutation of the divine right of kings and it's
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saying we're not going to accept the divine right of kings if they're doing a bad job. We're going to
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appeal to his king, which is an appeal to heaven. That's an interesting first flag that a lot of
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people don't, uh, reference. And then one of my favorite flags, obviously there's the Gadsden flag,
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which is that symbol of America, the rattlesnake, always a symbol of these colonies. Don't tread on me.
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A wonderful, uh, symbol of that American can do. Get out of here, pal. Don't you F with me kind of
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spirit. Uh, that's a good one. But my favorite one is the grand union flag. This was the first
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national flag of the United States. It looks like an American flag with the stripes, but it's got the,
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uh, union flag in there, the, the British flag, uh, in that top corner where the stars are. And I
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really liked this one and I'm glad it was the first national flag of the United States because it
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shows that we're not these radical revolutionaries who are cutting ourselves off from tradition.
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We're inheriting a tradition from the old world and from the country that helped establish this
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country. And there's a, there's a long institutional history that goes back and I think it really grounds
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the American revolution in something that's different than the French revolution. We don't
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start cutting off people's heads or, you know, cutting off our king's head and trying to undo
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everything and burning down churches and creating new cults of reason. What we do instead is we,
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we take from the tradition and we keep what is so valuable about it. We have, we have a continuity
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with our, our forebears who were pretty good guys, uh, and, and great guys. Okay. That's our show
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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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