The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump officially ends the Department of Education.

00:00:04.120 The left turns to terrorism to stop Elon Musk.

00:00:07.520 And I watched Disney's live-action remake of Snow White, or as I call it, Sand Beige.

00:00:14.860 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:00:15.620 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.

00:00:37.240 Boy, oh boy, will we get to this Snow White review.

00:00:39.960 I was among the first people to see Snow White in theaters because the producers and the publicists made me do it.

00:00:48.420 I was one of the only people to see it in theaters, judging by the opening reviews.

00:00:54.580 I will give you my review because there were profound things in Snow White.

00:01:00.440 There's so much more to say.

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00:02:16.880 President Trump has, oh, you know what?

00:02:19.920 Before we get to this big story, I knew something smelled a little off in my room.

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00:02:29.940 Ah, much better.

00:02:31.000 President Trump has directed his Education Secretary, Linda McMahon, to take, quote,

00:02:37.840 all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education

00:02:43.260 authority to the states.

00:02:45.200 This is according to a White House summary of the executive order.

00:02:49.100 And it, of course, calls for, quote, uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits

00:02:52.700 on which Americans rely.

00:02:55.680 The Libs are going to try to scaremonger about this.

00:02:58.400 I don't think it's going to work.

00:03:01.000 In terms of money, most of what the Department of Education does is facilitate all sorts of

00:03:08.740 loans, Pell Grants, that sort of thing, to bolster our failing education system.

00:03:13.880 I don't think people are going to miss that all that much.

00:03:15.560 It's been one of the biggest drivers of rising tuition in recent decades.

00:03:19.220 Then, of the thousands of employees at the Department of Education, it's hard to point out exactly

00:03:23.620 what any of them do, other than, this is the third thing, harass ordinary Americans and try

00:03:31.780 to push leftism.

00:03:33.420 In practice, most of the consequential political action that the Department of Education takes

00:03:38.620 is enforcing radically leftist interpretations of civil rights law, transing your kids,

00:03:45.140 and forcing parents no longer to have any say in their kids' education.

00:03:49.420 That's it.

00:03:50.200 You know the one thing that we know for certain the Department of Education doesn't do?

00:03:54.400 Improve kids' education.

00:03:55.780 Because we measure kids' education, we have things called standardized tests.

00:04:01.120 Standardized, so they're not merely based on locales or for one demographic group or another,

00:04:06.080 but they're standardized.

00:04:07.080 We can measure and track results over time.

00:04:09.600 And since the Department of Education was founded in 1979, test scores have declined.

00:04:14.220 That's all you have to say.

00:04:15.840 That's all you have to say to campaign against this thing.

00:04:18.180 Republicans have been campaigning against the Department of Education since it was founded.

00:04:23.160 Carter starts it in 1979.

00:04:25.020 Reagan comes out strong against it, and yet the Republicans never had the chutzpah to actually

00:04:29.620 go in and abolish it.

00:04:31.160 Trump fulfills his campaign promise.

00:04:33.280 If you explain it this way, you say, yeah, it was supposed to improve education.

00:04:37.300 Education failed.

00:04:38.300 They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again

00:04:42.100 and expecting different results.

00:04:43.260 The results from the Department of Education have been a disaster.

00:04:46.300 Get rid of it.

00:04:46.920 If you want to improve Americans' education, as I do, I'm very pro-education.

00:04:51.660 I know there are some people on the right who do not support formal education, discourage

00:04:56.580 university education in principle, don't think we need teachers to do that.

00:05:00.260 That ain't me, man.

00:05:01.080 I'm very pro-education.

00:05:02.700 I'm pro-liberal arts education.

00:05:04.940 I'm all for people studying the humanities, becoming familiar with their culture.

00:05:09.480 That actually ties into another news story that we'll get to in a moment.

00:05:12.140 But clearly, our education system, K through 12, and then certainly in the universities and

00:05:17.520 graduate school, is not doing that.

00:05:19.800 So if you support education, as I do, then scrap the thing that has not been effective

00:05:25.460 and that, if anything, has made education worse and try something new.

00:05:29.220 That's all Trump's doing.

00:05:30.460 The American people are going to support him in that.

00:05:33.220 Most voters voted for him.

00:05:34.340 He was campaigning on this.

00:05:35.460 That's that.

00:05:38.080 Now, the one part of this story that will continue is this is a test of executive power.

00:05:44.420 So this will obviously be challenged in court.

00:05:46.840 There will be big questions over whether or not the president can abolish the Department

00:05:50.880 of Education.

00:05:51.820 Does he need the legislature to help him do so?

00:05:55.100 If he does need the legislature, as it seems that he does, he's not going to get the requisite

00:05:58.740 votes from Democrats in the Senate.

00:06:00.180 So it'll all be a big fight.

00:06:02.140 Good.

00:06:02.400 Have this fight out in the open.

00:06:03.420 One, make the liberals defend their record on education, on really any of the government

00:06:08.560 departments that they hold so dear.

00:06:10.040 Make them defend their record.

00:06:11.480 That's going to be a losing proposition in front of voters.

00:06:14.700 Now, speaking of the libs taking L's, because they just keep getting pummeled at the ballot

00:06:20.040 box in Congress with these executive orders, in terms of eyeballs and cultural attention,

00:06:27.400 you're seeing their news networks collapse.

00:06:28.800 Because they're losing everything, the libs are turning to terrorism.

00:06:34.160 And I mean that totally, sincerely, without any hyperbole.

00:06:37.440 There has been a growing campaign among radical leftists to commit terrorism, to torch people's

00:06:45.340 cars, specifically Tesla's, in protest of Elon Musk.

00:06:48.440 Because Elon Musk is sacrificing his private fortune and private interests, business interests,

00:06:54.100 in order to help America and help President Trump to clean up the federal government.

00:06:59.500 Well, now the leftist terrorists are taking it a step further.

00:07:02.820 There's a report out from the UK Independent about a website called DogeQuest.

00:07:10.660 DogeQuest doxes people who own Teslas nationwide.

00:07:15.280 I guess there's some database of Tesla owners.

00:07:19.360 DogeQuest reveals their names and their addresses.

00:07:25.020 The site reveals the names, addresses, phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map,

00:07:29.880 and the cursor on the map is a Molotov cocktail.

00:07:34.520 In case you thought they were being a little too subtle.

00:07:37.260 It's very clear.

00:07:37.880 They're revealing private information so that they can encourage people to commit violence

00:07:42.040 against the Tesla owners.

00:07:43.700 The only way you can remove your information from the website is if you prove that you've

00:07:48.500 sold your Tesla.

00:07:50.340 Otherwise, your information is going to be out there and wackos are going to be encouraged

00:07:54.960 to commit violence against you, maybe throw a Molotov cocktail at you.

00:07:58.120 This is not the first time we've seen the left do this.

00:08:00.440 The last time that the left did this was in the 1960s.

00:08:04.680 And they did it.

00:08:05.440 We had the Weather Underground, terrorists who killed all sorts of people, and then went on

00:08:10.280 to become mentors to Barack Obama like Bill Ayers did, and to be revered, and to be given

00:08:14.380 cushy positions at universities by the left.

00:08:16.840 But they committed terrorism.

00:08:18.260 And what is terrorism?

00:08:19.620 People throw that word around.

00:08:20.740 Terrorism has a specific meaning.

00:08:22.400 It's when you target civilians with violence to achieve political ends.

00:08:27.580 And that's what's happening here.

00:08:28.880 They're just ordinary people who buy nice cars.

00:08:32.240 There's an irony here, which is that a lot of Tesla owners are super liberal because Tesla,

00:08:37.480 being an electric car that's quite expensive, previously coded left.

00:08:42.180 So you had a bunch of libs in blue cities who were buying them for climate change or whatever.

00:08:46.460 So it is kind of ironic that the left is doxing their own right now.

00:08:50.060 But it's not good even if it is leftists who own it.

00:08:52.800 Now they're just demanding that people sell them.

00:08:54.940 Okay, this is what the left did in the 60s.

00:08:57.180 Conservatives shouldn't be complacent about this.

00:08:59.760 Because eventually Americans got sick of the political violence and the tumult.

00:09:04.420 And they elected Richard Nixon.

00:09:05.420 Then they reelected Richard Nixon in a landslide.

00:09:07.480 And then the deep state had to do a coup d'etat on Richard Nixon because the people loved him so much.

00:09:12.580 But the left did get a lot of what it wanted.

00:09:17.280 The left did get a lot.

00:09:18.660 I mean, that was a major cultural revolution in the 1960s.

00:09:22.660 It upended our government.

00:09:23.860 It upended American society.

00:09:25.180 It upended how we view ourselves and human identity.

00:09:29.100 We are experiencing another such cultural moment right now.

00:09:34.180 And that's why the peaceful transfer of power has not been all that peaceful.

00:09:38.020 And most of the violence, by the way, has come from the left.

00:09:40.080 Now, speaking of violent criminals, the Libs are continuing to defend Tren de Aragua.

00:09:47.040 They are continuing to defend not only the illegal aliens who haven't committed any crimes since they crossed the border.

00:09:54.460 And they're just sweet little abuelas who are cooking croquetas for their grandchildren.

00:09:59.780 And who would want to deport them?

00:10:01.040 The Libs are defending face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters.

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00:11:11.720 Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff and an all-around immigration deportation guru, very important advisor to President Trump,

00:11:24.320 has just gone on television to defend the White House's use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport these violent criminals.

00:11:34.300 Because many leftists are arguing that that's a very old law and the White House has no business invoking some law from the 18th century to actually deport criminals today.

00:11:45.000 Here's what Stephen Miller, on behalf of the White House, has to say.

00:11:48.180 This is settled law, to use that common phrase, Sean.

00:11:53.360 This is settled law.

00:11:55.080 Alien Enemies Act has been on the books and has been upheld for over 200 years.

00:12:00.280 And by the way, the fact that it's a 200-year-old law makes it stronger.

00:12:04.700 This was adopted by the founding generation of our country.

00:12:07.660 The people who wrote the Constitution wrote this law because they understood when America is being invaded by a hostile power,

00:12:15.660 the president is at the height of his authorities to turn back that invasion.

00:12:21.880 So he's totally right on the point, but I want to just zoom in on that phrase, settled law, which Stephen Miller calls attention to.

00:12:27.540 He chose that phrase specifically because the left always uses that phrase.

00:12:32.660 But they don't use that phrase to refer to truly enduring, long-standing aspects of our law.

00:12:40.040 They don't use that phrase to refer to our traditional constitutional protections.

00:12:46.320 What's more settled than the Constitution?

00:12:48.600 No, no, no.

00:12:48.900 They want to get rid of the Second Amendment.

00:12:50.700 They want to rewrite the First Amendment.

00:12:52.400 They want to rewrite the actual articles of the Constitution to change the way that the government works.

00:12:57.480 They don't respect the Constitution at all.

00:12:59.720 That's an outdated document.

00:13:00.860 But when it comes to something like the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, a completely frivolous decision, even understood as such by liberals at the time, then that's settled law.

00:13:11.560 And we can never question settled law.

00:13:13.040 So Stephen Miller comes out.

00:13:14.100 He says, well, what's more settled than the Alien Enemies Act of 1798?

00:13:18.280 It's been used by four different presidents.

00:13:19.920 It's been on the books for 125 years.

00:13:23.700 I don't know.

00:13:24.340 It seems pretty settled to me.

00:13:25.740 Sorry, not 125 years, 225 years.

00:13:30.980 Doesn't that seem pretty settled?

00:13:32.520 This is a theme of MAGA and the Trump White House.

00:13:35.960 The theme is hoisting the left with its own petard.

00:13:42.140 Non-Trump Republicans, pre-Trump Republicans didn't really do that so much.

00:13:47.280 We would hear in the pre-Trump Republican era, well, you know, we don't want to wield power when we're given power because then,

00:13:55.740 imagine what the left would do to us.

00:13:58.160 I sound like a broken record on that point.

00:14:00.060 But in other ways, too.

00:14:02.080 The Republicans would say, well, we don't want to wield power and reward our friends and punish our enemies.

00:14:08.520 That would make us no better than the left.

00:14:11.220 In other words, they say, look, the left encourages bad stuff and discourages good stuff.

00:14:16.900 But if we encourage good stuff and discourage bad stuff, that would make us no different from the left,

00:14:20.860 except it would make you very different from the left because good and bad are different.

00:14:23.500 Encouraging good is a lot different.

00:14:27.500 It's actually the opposite of encouraging bad.

00:14:31.460 And so here, Trump is not saying, no, I'm not going to refer to settled law.

00:14:37.920 I'm not going to wield the civil rights regime.

00:14:41.220 There's another good example.

00:14:42.740 President Trump, when he's moving to defund Columbia University,

00:14:45.340 because Columbia University is encouraging all kinds of radical leftist protests,

00:14:49.040 he is defunding Columbia on the basis of civil rights law.

00:14:56.600 Civil rights law, the civil rights regime was the left's wheelhouse.

00:15:00.540 That, hold on, the civil rights regime is only supposed to be used by leftists to harm conservatives.

00:15:05.100 What does Trump do?

00:15:06.160 Well, Trump is hoisting the left with its own petard.

00:15:09.260 That's what they're doing here.

00:15:11.900 You say, okay, the left comes out and rewrites the country,

00:15:15.580 creates a new constitution with its civil rights regime,

00:15:18.940 creates a new form of jurisprudence by referring to settled law in very specific and selective ways.

00:15:27.120 Okay.

00:15:27.920 And Trump says, well, I'm going to do that too.

00:15:29.440 And I'm going to reward my friends.

00:15:30.840 And I'm going to punish my enemies.

00:15:32.240 And I'm going to wield the state against bad corporations.

00:15:34.560 And I'm going to do the same kind of stuff you liberals do,

00:15:39.420 except you do it for bad ends and I'm going to do it for good ends.

00:15:42.600 You do it in an unjust way.

00:15:43.900 I'm going to do it in a just way.

00:15:45.580 And the libs don't know how to respond to it.

00:15:48.700 Now, speaking of the libs hoisting themselves with their own petard,

00:15:56.960 I saw Snow White.

00:15:58.980 Disney has remade Snow White.

00:16:00.440 Snow White is the first American feature-length animated movie, 1937.

00:16:07.880 It's one of the most beloved movies of all time.

00:16:10.340 Even if Disney had not fallen prey to wokeness and nonsense in recent years,

00:16:15.980 even if Disney still had the most talented people in the world working with the best writers,

00:16:20.380 with a good sense of narrative and the cultural moment,

00:16:22.600 even if everything worked perfectly,

00:16:24.320 it would have been almost impossible for this movie to succeed.

00:16:27.880 Because you're comparing it to one of the most beloved films of all time

00:16:31.740 and a truly groundbreaking movie.

00:16:34.780 And Disney was not sending its best.

00:16:37.520 I sat through the whole thing.

00:16:38.480 I don't want to say it was the worst movie I've ever seen.

00:16:41.020 It wasn't.

00:16:42.520 But every way that the movie changed the story from the original, the 1937 movie,

00:16:49.260 or even from the original Grimm Brothers fairy tale,

00:16:53.460 every way that Disney changed the story, it changed it for the worse.

00:16:57.300 Now, people were already prepared for this movie to be far-left, woke, terrible,

00:17:06.060 because Rachel Zegler, the woman who plays Snow White,

00:17:10.500 made these comments now, what, over a year ago?

00:17:14.160 You said you were bringing a modern edge to it on stage.

00:17:17.720 What do you mean by that?

00:17:18.400 I just mean that it's no longer 1937,

00:17:21.380 and we absolutely wrote a Snow White that is...

00:17:24.480 She's not going to be saved by the prince.

00:17:25.820 She's not going to be saved by the prince,

00:17:27.180 and she's not going to be dreaming about true love.

00:17:29.580 She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be,

00:17:32.440 and the leader that her late father told her that she could be

00:17:35.120 if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.

00:17:37.300 And so it's just a really incredible story

00:17:39.220 for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in.

00:17:41.680 Snow White is running for president.

00:17:44.040 I'm launching my campaign.

00:17:45.920 I am.

00:17:46.980 That's actually really profound, running for president.

00:17:49.740 She's supposed to be a princess,

00:17:50.840 but it sounds like she's running for president.

00:17:52.220 That's really profound.

00:17:54.040 But speaking of president,

00:17:55.400 Rachel Zegler also posted F-Trump kinds of posts on social media.

00:18:00.300 She also said that she hoped that Trump supporters,

00:18:02.160 quote, never know peace.

00:18:03.300 So people were already gearing up,

00:18:05.340 oh, man, this is going to be a rough movie.

00:18:07.620 Disney responded by scaling back the premiere.

00:18:11.060 I don't know that anyone really showed up to the premiere.

00:18:14.180 The Rotten Tomatoes reviews are looking pretty bad,

00:18:17.180 and they did, it seems like they tried to tweak a few things,

00:18:20.820 but this movie is bad.

00:18:23.740 And I'm not some curmudgeonly conservative

00:18:25.400 that thinks every new movie is bad, okay?

00:18:27.740 Don't forget, I liked Barbie.

00:18:30.260 I actually really liked Barbie.

00:18:32.280 I'm pro-Gredit Gerwig.

00:18:34.380 I liked even, what was the movie?

00:18:37.080 There was some movie about, was it Midsommar?

00:18:40.040 Some movie that was a kind of environmentalist Christian movie

00:18:44.140 that everyone hated that I, so I liked it.

00:18:46.460 I'm kind of fair on these things.

00:18:48.640 This was really bad.

00:18:51.020 It was extremely leftist on every political dimension.

00:18:56.340 Racial politics, sexual politics, class politics,

00:19:00.520 regime politics.

00:19:02.980 Its narrative was cowardly.

00:19:04.840 It was just awful.

00:19:05.740 So the obvious point, I don't even know, am I allowed to say it?

00:19:10.180 She's not white.

00:19:12.480 But she should be.

00:19:14.420 Snow White needs to be white.

00:19:18.820 I've been referring to this new movie as Sand Beige.

00:19:22.440 She is a vaguely brown lady.

00:19:25.400 I'm not white enough to be Snow White.

00:19:26.980 I'm also a fella.

00:19:28.020 But I'm not white enough to be Snow White either.

00:19:30.220 She is Snow White because of her skin color.

00:19:35.040 She's the fairest of them all.

00:19:37.080 So you could even say, all right, the new movie,

00:19:39.000 it's going to rewrite what Snow White means.

00:19:41.040 And it's going to say that she's like snow because, you know,

00:19:44.980 she's unique like a snowflake or because there was a snowstorm or whatever.

00:19:49.020 But they kept in the, there's spoiler alerts, by the way.

00:19:51.760 I should have said that earlier.

00:19:52.700 They kept in the movie, the line, mirror, mirror on the wall.

00:19:57.820 They changed it to magic mirror on the wall.

00:19:59.420 Who's the fairest of them all?

00:20:01.580 And so you can try to abstract that again and say, well, she's really fair in that she's not unfair.

00:20:06.980 You know, she's really fair minded.

00:20:08.340 But it, she's got to be white.

00:20:10.640 Okay.

00:20:11.220 It's not, it'd be like Disney presents the autobiography of Malcolm X starring Tom Hanks.

00:20:16.640 It'd be weird.

00:20:17.120 It'd be, Disney makes the live action remake of Moana and the big fat Polynesian guy is going

00:20:25.040 to be played by Seth Green.

00:20:27.200 You know, it doesn't work.

00:20:29.140 Acting is a visual medium.

00:20:30.840 Film is a visual medium.

00:20:31.940 You have to look a certain way.

00:20:34.080 Not for every role, by the way.

00:20:36.440 Denzel Washington, black guy, played Macbeth.

00:20:38.920 Macbeth where the, some people objected to that.

00:20:42.020 I actually felt colorblind casting in that kind of a Shakespeare play was okay.

00:20:45.200 It was totally fine.

00:20:45.920 Denzel Washington had a great performance, but in a movie called Snow White, in a movie

00:20:50.300 called like the whitest lady ever, Disney presents the whitest lady ever starring a Latina.

00:20:56.280 Not going to work.

00:20:57.340 Okay.

00:20:57.600 So right off the bat, doesn't work.

00:20:59.100 The sexual politics of it were, as she said, it's not, it's not some great love story.

00:21:05.140 She's not a fair princess.

00:21:07.260 You know, in the animated movie, she shows up to the dwarves house and then what does she

00:21:12.960 do?

00:21:13.080 She cleans the house, which is a mess, and she prepares a meal.

00:21:17.200 But in the new movie, you can't have the lady cooking and cleaning all by herself, certainly

00:21:21.560 not.

00:21:22.260 So what does she do in the new movie?

00:21:23.320 She just takes a nap.

00:21:24.580 That's the ideal of the modern woman.

00:21:26.600 She doesn't cook.

00:21:27.120 She doesn't clean.

00:21:27.620 She just sort of sits on the couch, veges out, takes a nap.

00:21:31.780 In the remake, in this new movie, she fights men physically, which is one of the most ridiculous

00:21:37.500 conceits of the last 20 years of filmmaking, the last 10 to 15 years of filmmaking.

00:21:43.260 Is you have women, like in Star Wars, you know, you have women physically fighting men, but

00:21:48.560 women can't physically fight men, ever.

00:21:52.220 Men are just physically stronger than women.

00:21:54.000 So it's, that part is totally absurd.

00:21:55.900 And who is she fighting with?

00:21:58.580 She's fighting with this criminal gang because the prince, Prince Charming, in the traditional

00:22:03.820 fairy tale and in the 1937 movie, has been replaced by a common criminal.

00:22:08.080 There's so much more to say.

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00:23:26.920 My favorite comment yesterday is from NBGN7QS, who said, and this was picked by the producers,

00:23:36.440 I think by Professor Jacob.

00:23:37.620 So I, if this was a bad comment, I want no responsibility.

00:23:40.560 He says, Michael, click this JFK video.

00:23:42.640 Click.

00:23:43.460 Can't believe you fell for it.

00:23:44.780 You're so naive.

00:23:45.880 Ball.

00:23:46.580 Yeah, that's true.

00:23:47.840 I did it again.

00:23:48.640 I did it twice.

00:23:49.200 But at least yesterday I talked about the JFK files, which will produce nothing, by the

00:23:53.460 way.

00:23:53.720 They will produce nothing.

00:23:54.640 I'm positive.

00:23:55.360 So I'm not reading one page of the 65,000 pages or whatever.

00:23:58.620 You're free to.

00:23:59.420 If you find anything juicy, please let me know.

00:24:01.320 I'm all ears.

00:24:01.980 I can't wait.

00:24:02.420 But kind of seems like the federal government is loosey with the football on this stuff.

00:24:08.180 Yeah.

00:24:08.480 No, no, no.

00:24:08.840 Our government's been lying to us for 60 years.

00:24:11.140 But now they'll tell us the truth.

00:24:12.240 Okay, you've got crazy racial politics in the new Snow White movie.

00:24:18.640 You've got crazy sexual politics in the new Snow White movie.

00:24:21.660 And when I say crazy, I don't just mean offensive or subjectively unpleasant.

00:24:26.820 I mean untethered from reality.

00:24:31.820 Snow White isn't white.

00:24:34.060 The lady, this beautiful, fair, beautiful princess, dainty, lovely princess, is physically

00:24:40.500 fighting big, strong men in armor.

00:24:43.000 Just preposterous.

00:24:44.500 And then the prince is replaced by a common criminal.

00:24:48.940 So there is a guy, at least.

00:24:53.040 Another spoiler alert.

00:24:54.700 There is a guy and he kisses her.

00:24:56.500 But he's not a prince.

00:24:57.820 Which I think plays into, and this is where the badness of Snow White gets deeper than maybe

00:25:04.400 even the writers understand.

00:25:05.860 It plays into the prejudices of our leveling democratic age, lowercase d.

00:25:11.380 Where at least, you know, even with the republican virtues that we've had in America for 250

00:25:15.660 years, at least we had an admiration for order.

00:25:23.580 Even for hierarchy.

00:25:25.500 At least hierarchy in a kind of natural dignity.

00:25:28.820 At least we supported normal, orderly things.

00:25:33.600 We aspire to be great.

00:25:35.620 We aspire to be noble.

00:25:37.520 At least noble of spirit, if not with a formal nobility.

00:25:40.840 Here, though, in this modern leveling democratic age, we can't acknowledge nobility.

00:25:45.300 Nobility is bad.

00:25:47.000 They grudgingly left the king and the queen and Princess Snow White in there, because they

00:25:52.940 have to, because that's the whole story.

00:25:54.460 But wherever they could, they diminished hierarchy, order, nobility, aristocracy.

00:26:03.180 At a really deep level, when you think of modern intellectual trends in politics, you've seen

00:26:08.300 a turn on the right toward aristopopulism.

00:26:13.800 That's a much joked about term.

00:26:16.000 But the notion that there is good that we should be seeking, a move toward the common

00:26:21.600 good, toward a more classical conception of politics.

00:26:25.500 And so the left has doubled down on this leveling kind of egalitarianism.

00:26:30.780 Now, the queen is motivated by envy.

00:26:34.900 That's the one part of the story that they seem to have gotten, they've left all right,

00:26:40.700 which is, you know, that your envious heart says the mirror to the queen.

00:26:44.180 And there's this notion that envy is the beginning of the trouble in the cities.

00:26:48.720 You see this in Dante.

00:26:49.600 Dante makes that point almost exactly, I think, in Canto VI of Inferno.

00:26:53.380 So the envy is there.

00:26:55.040 I mean, that gets to a political reality.

00:26:57.400 But the leveling of the political order is kind of silly, which reaches its climax in

00:27:05.920 the final scene of the movie, penultimate scene of the movie, when Snow White leads an

00:27:11.380 insurrection, basically.

00:27:12.420 For all the libs talking about how they hate insurrection, they have replaced the way that

00:27:18.400 the queen dies in the original movie with a kind of an insurrection.

00:27:23.700 So Snow White shows up.

00:27:27.700 She says, I'm back, and I'm here to take my rightful rule as the ruler of this kingdom.

00:27:32.640 And the evil queen says, okay, here's a dagger.

00:27:36.020 Stab me if you want to take my throne.

00:27:37.380 And Snow White says, well, I can't do it.

00:27:42.840 So then the queen says, all right, guards, kill her.

00:27:46.040 And just as the guard's about to kill her, Snow White knows the guard's name and tells

00:27:50.240 him his name and asks him how his wife and kids are doing.

00:27:53.700 And she remembers the other guard's name, and she knows everyone's name.

00:27:56.440 In other words, Snow White escapes certain death from the queen's guard because she's a good

00:28:03.480 retail politician.

00:28:04.580 In other words, even though it is a kingdom and she's a princess, the political resolution

00:28:11.620 of the movie is that democracy triumphs over monarchy.

00:28:14.620 That is not present in the original movie.

00:28:19.680 That is not present in the grim fairy tale.

00:28:21.740 That is a radical, liberal rewriting of the story.

00:28:26.920 As long as you're good at shaking hands and kissing babies, you'll be able to lead an insurrection

00:28:32.400 against the queen.

00:28:33.180 I'm not defending the queen.

00:28:34.260 She's an evil queen.

00:28:35.460 But there is a profound political shift in that choice.

00:28:40.180 And then you have narrative cowardice because the way that the queen dies is she's yelling

00:28:48.700 at her mirror and she shatters her mirror and then she just gets sucked into the mirror.

00:28:53.420 Somehow, whatever.

00:28:54.280 She like turns black and then gets sucked into the mirror.

00:28:56.640 And so there's no, it's very unsatisfying.

00:29:00.620 It's not that it's, they don't go all the way far leftist where the people just chop her

00:29:04.180 head off or something like it's the French revolution and she's Marie Antoinette.

00:29:07.500 The evil queen would deserve it.

00:29:08.880 Marie Antoinette didn't deserve a thing that happened to her.

00:29:11.860 It's not that Snow White does it as a kind of girl power, you know, will, tyranny of the

00:29:17.600 will, you know, triumph of the will kind of revolution.

00:29:20.780 It's not that the queen dies even from a deus ex machina, lightning strikes her.

00:29:25.340 It's just gets sucked into the mirror and it's supposed to be profound, but I don't know

00:29:29.840 what the profundity would be.

00:29:31.920 It was really bad.

00:29:34.700 It was really bad.

00:29:35.620 The moments that were good, there were some good moments like the dwarves were cute, but

00:29:41.600 and the dwarves were cute in no small part because they were computerized.

00:29:47.340 It wasn't, it'd be kind of funny if they made it all real live action and it were just a

00:29:51.240 bunch of little people, you know, because I don't think you really want to, so I don't

00:29:55.360 think that would work.

00:29:56.060 I think they have to be these cute little kind of cherubic, gnomic creatures.

00:30:01.260 And so that worked.

00:30:01.940 But the parts of the movie that worked are the parts that they just kept the same, you

00:30:07.540 know, whistle while we work.

00:30:08.820 Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

00:30:09.780 That was good.

00:30:10.380 But they're just, they're Disney in as much as it's producing anything that's good these

00:30:16.020 days is just living on the fumes of its past glories.

00:30:20.040 And so in that way, this is my conclusion, in that way, this movie is very reflective

00:30:26.980 of our cultural moment.

00:30:30.380 It's bad in all the ways our culture is bad.

00:30:34.120 It's not the worst movie ever.

00:30:35.740 We don't live in the worst culture ever.

00:30:37.240 But the ways in which the culture has changed in recent decades have been for the worse,

00:30:41.820 pretty much uniformly.

00:30:42.900 And the changes that were made from the original Disney movie to this one are bad, uniformly.

00:30:50.700 Quite reflective of our age.

00:30:53.620 Because we too feel, we feel in the popular culture, in our polities, that we're kind of

00:30:57.800 living on the fumes of prior glories.

00:31:01.960 Even intellectually, even spiritually, we're living on the fumes of Christendom.

00:31:06.880 And if we don't reestablish something sturdy to found the civilization on, to lean against,

00:31:17.380 then it's going to collapse.

00:31:19.060 And Disney's going to collapse too.

00:31:21.120 Okay, speaking of cultural changes, the Washington Post has noticed one, and it relates to our

00:31:26.960 conversation earlier about education.

00:31:28.900 Namely, people don't have any hobbies anymore.

00:31:32.480 Washington Post has a good piece by Jenny Singer.

00:31:34.320 We should be living in the golden age of hobbies.

00:31:36.880 What happened?

00:31:38.320 I'll just read a little bit from it.

00:31:39.440 It's worth reading the whole piece, though.

00:31:41.200 We're supposed to be living in the golden age of hobbies.

00:31:43.800 Great thinkers of the 20th century believed that innovations and technology would make work

00:31:47.740 so efficient that leisure would eclipse labor.

00:31:50.160 John Maynard Keynes in 1930 predicted 15-hour work weeks because of technology advancing.

00:31:54.880 What happened?

00:31:55.340 The opposite happened.

00:31:56.020 Now we work more, basically, than ever.

00:31:58.180 This would leave people the opportunity to, quote, cultivate into a fuller perfection the

00:32:01.380 art of life itself.

00:32:04.320 But what is a hobby, according to a professor that's quoted here?

00:32:06.940 It's pursuits that are their own reward, part of a joyful life.

00:32:11.560 But the golden age that Keynes predicted has not come to pass.

00:32:16.040 Though productivity has grown dramatically since Keynes' time, the most recent American

00:32:19.480 time-use survey found the full-time employees still work eight hours a day.

00:32:23.480 The same workday that the National Labor Union demanded in 1866 hasn't gone down one minute.

00:32:28.960 Workers enjoy just under four hours of leisure time.

00:32:31.240 And the bulk of that brief window is spent watching TV.

00:32:33.960 And they're, why is this?

00:32:35.080 Why can't they, why don't people have hobbies anymore?

00:32:39.340 And they're going to blame the technology.

00:32:40.980 The libs are going to blame the technology.

00:32:42.120 And even the more liberal Republicans and conservatives are going to blame technology.

00:32:46.240 They're going to say, oh, it's because our phones are just too addictive.

00:32:48.980 And we just love doom scrolling.

00:32:50.300 And that's not a hobby.

00:32:51.060 Because we can stream any TV show that we want.

00:32:53.540 There aren't any good TV shows being made anymore, practically.

00:32:55.840 But we'll stream whatever we want.

00:32:57.720 We're so easily distracted.

00:32:59.660 Or they'll say, well, we're just all, we're all so tired from work and we want to veg out.

00:33:04.660 And, you know, hobbies seem like kind of effort.

00:33:07.220 And they are an effort.

00:33:08.860 The real problem here is education.

00:33:11.560 All the more reason to abolish the Department of Education.

00:33:13.840 Because this, forget about even just the standardized test scores dropping.

00:33:16.520 People no longer cultivate a love of learning.

00:33:23.460 People no longer cultivate knowledge for its own sake, merely for the pursuit of truth.

00:33:29.680 Even as much as you have education reformers today.

00:33:32.640 They're all vocational education performers.

00:33:36.180 Reformers, rather.

00:33:37.340 They're all people saying, we need to focus more on STEM, you know, and engineering.

00:33:41.220 And practical job skills that kids can use in the economy.

00:33:44.120 And, you know, if you take out student loans, the school should have to repay you if you don't get a good job.

00:33:48.320 Because it's all about, you've got to pick your major for your job.

00:33:50.420 That's not what education is supposed to be.

00:33:53.280 Education is supposed to, liberal education, liberal arts education, is supposed to teach you how to make sense of your freedom.

00:34:00.200 Liberal.

00:34:00.660 That's why the word liberal is in there in the classical sense of the word, not the modern sense.

00:34:04.060 It's to make sense of your freedom for leisure.

00:34:07.640 The purpose of education is not your eight-hour workday.

00:34:10.700 It is leisure so that you know what to do in your freedom with time that is not spent scraping by a subsistence.

00:34:18.940 In that way, the real twin problems here are capitalism, not to sound like a big pinko, but it is capitalism.

00:34:25.340 It is the notion that we're just constantly trying to increase production and increase consumption and just tick up GDP at all costs.

00:34:36.320 And hedonism, so the left is promoting, or rather the right is promoting the capitalism, and the left is promoting hedonism, which is the other problem.

00:34:44.260 The notion that we just live to feel pleasure, and not even the higher pleasures, but ever-diminishing pleasures, lower pleasures.

00:34:53.480 Drugs, porn, more drugs, food, stuff in our big fat bellies.

00:35:00.780 So, but none of that is a hobby.

00:35:02.720 Some people say they're foodies.

00:35:04.000 Stuffing your face is not a hobby, okay?

00:35:06.360 I love the ukulele.

00:35:07.160 I don't even have that many hobbies.

00:35:08.120 You know what?

00:35:08.340 I love the ukulele, though.

00:35:09.980 I'm not that good at the ukulele.

00:35:11.800 I'm not terrible at the ukulele, but I'm not that good at it.

00:35:14.740 I don't care.

00:35:16.420 I just, it gives me joy to play it.

00:35:18.020 I play it for its own sake.

00:35:19.060 It activates parts of my mind.

00:35:21.080 Makes me, it uses certain faculties of reason, little mathematics, a little bit of music.

00:35:25.500 It's great.

00:35:26.200 I love it.

00:35:27.060 I took up painting during COVID.

00:35:28.420 I'm a really bad painter.

00:35:29.440 Didn't matter.

00:35:30.020 Love it.

00:35:30.360 You need to have those things to have a full life, but neither side of the political aisle

00:35:37.880 right now seems to understand that, which means that the dearth of hobbies, the dearth

00:35:44.340 of cultivation, the dearth of serious education, the dearth of joy, to use a popular word from

00:35:52.440 the Kamala Harris campaign, the declining happiness, all of that seems to be not a problem

00:35:58.320 of one political side or the other, but a problem that goes a little bit deeper into modernity,

00:36:03.520 into liberalism, the ideology that has taken over our entire political order.

00:36:08.760 Maybe we need to fix that.

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00:36:28.320 Take it away.

00:36:29.920 Hello, Michael.

00:36:31.160 I'm in a conundrum I hope you can help me with.

00:36:33.300 The comedian Louis C.K. is coming to my hometown in a few months, and I would very much like

00:36:38.120 to go.

00:36:38.980 I had a feeling my wife would have some opinions on this, given his conduct that resulted in

00:36:43.720 his cancellation, and so I asked her how she would feel if I went.

00:36:47.740 She proceeded to tell me I could not go, and was shocked and appalled that I would even

00:36:52.820 consider it.

00:36:53.860 This resulted in a pretty heated argument.

00:36:56.180 I respect her feelings, but at the same time, I don't believe my wife should be able to

00:37:00.980 ban me from going to a comedy show.

00:37:03.240 Did I make a mistake in asking her?

00:37:05.660 Should I honor her wishes and abstain?

00:37:08.380 Is she correct in her banning?

00:37:10.780 I appreciate your advice.

00:37:12.060 No, she's not correct at all.

00:37:15.340 And now, unfortunately, because you made a mistake in asking your wife's permission to

00:37:21.300 go to a comedy show, now, unfortunately, you have to go, even if you don't want to.

00:37:25.380 Absolute, completely unacceptable behavior from your wife.

00:37:28.140 You can't let that go.

00:37:28.940 In fact, it is your responsibility as a husband to husband your wife to lead your household

00:37:35.260 and demonstrate to her that that's not how things work.

00:37:40.140 Absolutely insane.

00:37:43.560 It's not that I don't ever do things that my wife doesn't like.

00:37:46.380 It's not that I don't ever get my wife's opinion on me.

00:37:50.100 I get my wife's opinion on most things.

00:37:52.740 But the notion that your wife is going to tell you what to do, that you as a husband,

00:37:58.720 ask your wife's permission.

00:38:00.720 I ain't asking my wife's permission for anything, for anything.

00:38:04.740 That is, you need to be a loving husband.

00:38:06.720 You need to be good.

00:38:07.360 You need to consider her feelings.

00:38:08.860 In this case, she's being quite irrational, telling you can't go to see one of the best

00:38:14.380 living comedians, maybe the best living comedian, now that Norm Macdonald's dead.

00:38:19.800 Insane.

00:38:20.640 Now, how could you have phrased it differently?

00:38:23.020 Because a lot of men have this, they have this line, what's the line?

00:38:25.560 Happy wife, happy life, which is completely absurd.

00:38:28.400 Because they think you're going to make your wife happy by making yourself into her wife.

00:38:33.000 You're going to emasculate yourself.

00:38:35.420 That's going to make your wife happy.

00:38:36.420 It's going to make your wife resent you.

00:38:38.080 It's going to make your wife disrespect you as she is doing.

00:38:41.360 No way, man.

00:38:42.320 Now, the way to make your wife happy is to live in a rational way in accordance with

00:38:46.720 virtue, recognizing your role in the marriage and her role in the marriage.

00:38:50.980 So the way you could have heard her opinion on this without asking permission, which is

00:38:55.780 disordered, is you could have said, hey, honey, look, Louis C.K.'s going to be in town.

00:39:00.400 I think I'm going to get tickets.

00:39:01.280 Do you want to come?

00:39:01.980 Or maybe just me and the guys.

00:39:04.500 And then you've phrased it totally differently.

00:39:07.920 If she wants to come, great.

00:39:09.040 If she says, yeah, I can't believe you're going to see him.

00:39:10.480 Oh, yeah, I know he got in trouble a few years ago for whatever, but, you know, whatever.

00:39:13.660 He's a funny comedian.

00:39:14.880 Are you really going to go?

00:39:15.780 I really am going to go.

00:39:16.660 Yeah, I certainly am.

00:39:19.140 Absolutely.

00:39:19.560 Now you have to go.

00:39:20.300 It's your duty.

00:39:21.520 I'm not even joking.

00:39:22.360 It's kind of funny, but I'm not even joking.

00:39:23.800 You have to go.

00:39:25.080 Next question.

00:39:26.760 Hey, Michael.

00:39:27.720 I'm a big fan.

00:39:29.100 I had a rough beginning of my week with some, just some bad personal dynamics with, like, the people around me, people close to me.

00:39:41.180 And I put on a pair of pants tonight.

00:39:45.220 I came home from an event pretty frazzled.

00:39:47.680 I reached into my pocket and found one of those stamped pennies, you know, that you get at, like, the carnival.

00:39:55.780 And it has the Lord's Prayer on it.

00:39:59.120 And I saw it, and it gave me comfort.

00:40:06.520 And I was raised Episcopalian and became atheist and then agnostic.

00:40:12.000 And I've been feeling a calling.

00:40:14.320 And I just want to ask, why Catholicism?

00:40:22.300 What about it will bring me closer to God?

00:40:26.480 Thanks so much.

00:40:28.220 Oh, really good question.

00:40:29.000 Kind of took a turn there at the end.

00:40:30.820 I wasn't quite sure where you were going as I was listening to you.

00:40:35.680 But that's great.

00:40:36.680 Those little coincidences.

00:40:38.100 Sometimes those big coincidences.

00:40:39.400 You find the coin.

00:40:40.120 Just when you're feeling really low, you find the coin with the Lord's Prayer, boy.

00:40:42.880 Isn't that great?

00:40:44.020 So that's wonderful.

00:40:45.720 A lot of people, myself included, were raised in religion, went away, became an agnostic, atheist, all the rest, whatever.

00:40:53.860 So, okay, you ask, why Catholicism?

00:40:56.060 You know I'm a mackerel-snapping papist myself.

00:40:59.740 Why Catholicism?

00:41:00.980 I think that the historical claims of the church are true.

00:41:05.540 And I think they are demonstrably true.

00:41:07.920 If you go back to the writings of the church fathers and so on through the ages,

00:41:11.120 I think the theological claims of the church are true also date back to the very, very early church.

00:41:16.940 And so I just think it's true.

00:41:18.400 And it's, you know, our Lord says the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.

00:41:22.040 And he'll always be with the church.

00:41:23.320 So I think that the church really is who she says she is.

00:41:26.220 But you asked a specific question.

00:41:27.620 You said, what about Catholicism will bring me closer to God?

00:41:32.400 And there is a simple answer.

00:41:33.640 Many answers, but one that most quickly comes to mind, which is the Holy Eucharist.

00:41:41.240 In the Catholic faith, we believe, correctly, that the host, the communion wafer, when consecrated,

00:41:51.180 becomes the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

00:41:54.140 This is a sacrament.

00:41:57.020 And there is a transubstantiation that occurs whereby we are in the presence and we indeed consume our Lord.

00:42:05.660 My flesh is true food.

00:42:08.060 My blood is true drink, he tells us.

00:42:10.680 Whoever does not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood has no life in him,

00:42:15.320 our Lord tells us in the Gospels.

00:42:16.720 So that's the basis of the transubstantiation.

00:42:19.140 Transubstantiation.

00:42:20.060 And we see this at the Lord's Supper when he says, this bread is my body.

00:42:29.320 Eat this in memory of me.

00:42:31.660 This wine is my blood.

00:42:33.000 Drink this in memory of me.

00:42:34.920 So anyway, how do you get closer to God than by actually being in his presence,

00:42:40.820 adoring him in the blessed sacrament, and indeed consuming him in a true holy communion,

00:42:46.700 a sacramental way?

00:42:47.520 Especially that all food, you know, we take in food, I eat a hamburger or something.

00:42:55.140 My body turns the hamburger into me in a really tangible way.

00:43:00.620 Like the food is broken down and then it is used to generate new cells for my body.

00:43:06.760 The food becomes like me.

00:43:09.380 The Eucharist, however, is the bread from heaven.

00:43:11.400 And the food, that when I eat it, I become more like it because it is our Lord.

00:43:17.180 And one becomes more like our Lord.

00:43:18.500 One receives wonderful graces.

00:43:19.720 And so anyway, that's why.

00:43:21.120 That's a long-winded answer, but that's why.

00:43:22.800 Next question.

00:43:23.640 Hello, Michael.

00:43:25.860 I would just like to know, as you are, of course, the master of anything that you can set on fire,

00:43:35.160 why there are not Mayflower incense?

00:43:39.560 I'm very curious.

00:43:41.400 And I would like to have one in my home.

00:43:44.340 A second question on the spiritual side, and forgive me if I don't know if this is an obvious answer,

00:43:54.020 because I have not been Christian long.

00:43:57.440 But did Adam and Eve, you think, go to hell for disobeying God before Christ came to save everyone?

00:44:10.540 I'd just like to hear your thoughts on this.

00:44:13.800 Thank you, and good day.

00:44:15.460 Oh, good question.

00:44:16.480 On the incense, we already have the Smells and Bells candle.

00:44:18.640 It's good enough.

00:44:19.220 More trad anyway, less, you know, Eastern hippy-dippy.

00:44:22.260 On Adam and Eve, I don't think Adam and Eve are in hell.

00:44:25.260 The church, I don't think, has spoken definitively on where Adam and Eve are.

00:44:31.760 But I think Adam and Eve are in heaven.

00:44:33.520 And this is based on the promise of salvation, you know, for humans in Genesis.

00:44:42.280 But also, just traditionally, Adam and Eve are depicted in heaven.

00:44:45.960 I'm thinking, I think, of Dante.

00:44:47.740 Dante presents, or depicts Adam in paradise.

00:44:52.940 I think most artistic depictions place them in paradise.

00:44:55.920 They're in the bosom of Abraham before Christ's crucifixion.

00:44:59.680 And then Christ harrows hell, and the just who die before the incarnation, before the crucifixion, are led up by our Lord into heaven.

00:45:10.140 So, yeah, I don't—they committed a terrible sin, but it would seem not very fitting for our first parents to be tortured forever in hell.

00:45:22.640 It just doesn't—again, the church hasn't spoken definitively, I don't think, on it.

00:45:26.100 But it doesn't—I think all the artists for all of Christian history, and some of the theologians, I think they were on to something when they put Adam and Eve in heaven.

00:45:36.240 Okay, let's get at least to one written mailbag.

00:45:38.500 I always overlook the written mailbag.

00:45:40.900 Question from Landon.

00:45:41.880 Michael, I have a relationship question.

00:45:43.320 So many of those.

00:45:44.300 My girlfriend of one year, who treats me phenomenally and I love, has a sexual past with a few guys, including one I knew back in the day.

00:45:51.180 While everything else in the relationship is great, I can't help but have intense, intrusive thoughts and retroactive jealousy.

00:45:59.120 Knowing someone else has been with my future wife intimately is crushing me.

00:46:02.700 This issue alone is what has prevented me from proposing to her because it gets to me so much.

00:46:08.160 Any advice on overcoming this?

00:46:09.480 Yeah, it's really annoying.

00:46:10.900 I get you.

00:46:11.580 And I'm not going to be one to say, you know, deny that natural reaction.

00:46:19.460 The thought of—for any man, the thought of a girl that he even has a crush on, even looking at another man, is enough to drive one crazy.

00:46:30.160 So I'm not going to deny.

00:46:31.140 And in your case, you're saying, I've been dating this girl, and she slept with a few guys.

00:46:35.260 And so, you know, that's more than just looking at someone.

00:46:39.380 That's more than kissing someone.

00:46:40.520 You know, that's much further, and it's driving you nuts, the thoughts of it.

00:46:44.120 However, I guess what I would say is, if I were in your shoes, I'd say, all right, have I ever done anything wrong, disreputable?

00:46:51.740 Have I ever done anything that would compromise me as husband material?

00:46:55.940 Especially these days where the hookup culture is very common.

00:47:00.440 Then, I would say, all right, you think about your girlfriend now.

00:47:04.620 Is there any reason to believe that your girlfriend now would continue to be promiscuous or cheat on you or, I don't know, do anything like that later on, if you were married?

00:47:15.240 If no, if you say, no, you know, she slept with a few guys, and it really bothers me, but she doesn't do that anymore.

00:47:21.660 And, you know, okay, maybe you can move on.

00:47:24.360 But I guess what I would ask you is, whether you're going to say, you know, in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation, and we've all done bad things, and everyone has a past, and, you know, I'm going to get over it.

00:47:35.640 Or, if you say, sorry, I can't get over it.

00:47:37.620 It's going to drive me crazy.

00:47:38.640 We've got to break up.

00:47:39.360 I need to marry a virgin.

00:47:41.200 Regardless of what you decide, do it fast.

00:47:45.300 Don't lead her on.

00:47:46.000 You've been dating this girl for a year, and that bothers you so much?

00:47:48.820 Maybe it's only bothering you because you're now really actively considering proposing.

00:47:52.080 But I would say just figure it out.

00:47:53.200 If you said, look, it just bothers me too much that you've slept with other men, I don't think anyone would really blame you for that.

00:48:02.540 But likewise, I think having a little bit of grace, recognizing that people have a past, and, you know, it's, she's not like cheating on you now.

00:48:11.620 She hasn't cheated on you since your relationship.

00:48:14.020 You know, I don't know, that to me seems more the norm.

00:48:17.660 But either way, just, you know, you've got to kind of man up, and either man up and dump her, or man up and quit whining about it, and propose, if you've been dating that long.

00:48:28.860 That's, either way, though, you know, make a decision.

00:48:32.580 Okay, I cannot stick around from the member room segmentum today.

00:48:36.460 It pains me more than it pains you, I promise you.

00:48:38.060 I have to catch a flight, because I don't know who scheduled my March and April, and February, I guess.

00:48:45.220 I appear to be on an airplane three times a day, every day, for these months.

00:48:50.300 So anyway, I'm very sorry.

00:48:51.340 We'll have to do extra robust member room segmentums next week.

00:48:56.240 But until then, I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:48:59.720 See you then.

Ep. 1698 - Michael Reviews ＂Snow White＂ (In 2 Minutes!)

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