The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 173 - Civility vs. Niceness： Act Like A Man!

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00:00:37.580 The left has declared it will no longer act with civility, as if it ever acted with civility in the first place,

00:00:45.500 or had even the slightest idea what civility means.

00:00:48.660 Meanwhile, the president is telling Jimmy Fallon to act like a man.

00:00:52.040 A dirty Virginia restaurant kicks out press secretary Sarah Sanders.

00:00:56.220 And a muscular national policy is paying dividends from our southern border all the way to Iran.

00:01:01.820 We will analyze the key to civility.

00:01:04.420 Acting like a man.

00:01:05.820 Speaking of manning up, a World Cup update from DAILYWIRE 2 sports correspondent Jeremy, the God King Boring.

00:01:13.140 Finally, feminism ruins the Incredibles and everything else. 1.00

00:01:16.740 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:42.160 So today, there's this big debate going on right now between civility.

00:04:46.600 Some people are saying we're not going to be civil anymore.

00:04:48.640 What is civility?

00:04:49.780 Republicans, you're not civil.

00:04:51.200 Democrats, you're not civil and you're not nice.

00:04:53.540 Civility and nice things are totally different.

00:04:56.460 And one aspect that they're missing about civility is manliness.

00:05:00.820 Manliness.

00:05:01.300 And what better way to start off a conversation about manliness than to get an update on the World Cup, you know, the manliest game of all.

00:05:09.640 So we turn now to our sister network, Daily Wire 2, and chief soccer sports correspondent, Jeremy, the God King Boring.

00:05:17.240 Jeremy.

00:05:17.640 Bada-boom. 0.99

00:05:27.720 Thank you, Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L.

00:05:30.340 It's good to be with you after what sports commentators all over the world are calling the most intense weekend of sweaty athletic men not scoring since Thermopylae.

00:05:38.240 Yes, I am talking about the FEMA World Cup.

00:05:41.720 For our American viewers, that's the once every four years global sporting event that doesn't involve curling or figure skating or bombing Iraq. 0.67

00:05:49.600 In the most shocking match of the weekend, Uruguay, with a GDP literally lower than Bill Gates, defeated recent global superpower Russia by a staggering three points.

00:05:59.900 Those being the only three points scored in the match.

00:06:02.420 Actor Tom Arnold responded to the match by promising to deliver never-before-seen video of U.S. President Donald Trump covered in urine praising Russia on its near win and reminding his constituents that America isn't much better at soccer, if you really think about it.

00:06:17.820 Uruguay's coach responded to the alleged video by dying mysteriously of polonium poisoning.

00:06:22.340 In the all-important Group F, this weekend saw Mexico GDP 1.04 trillion edge out South Korea GDP 1.4 trillion to one, while Germany GDP 3.4 trillion defeated Sweden $511 billion by the same score.

00:06:42.620 You know what that means for Group F, right, Michael?

00:06:45.020 What does that mean, Jeremy?

00:06:47.100 Why would anyone know the answer to that, Michael? I was hoping you knew.

00:06:49.800 Of course, the most anticipated match of the day today is between one of the most gay-friendly countries in Europe, Portugal, GDP 200 billion, and nuclear wannabes and throwers of gays off of cranes, Iran, GDP 393 billion, a quarter of which was a gift from John Kerry. 0.73

00:07:07.240 Iran has promised that their football program is only intended for peaceful purposes, and that the fact that it fits neatly on the head of one of their enormous intercontinental ballistic missiles is strictly coincidental, and also a lie told by the great Satan, who they hope dies, but whom they mean no personal harm, as they are a peaceful nation.

00:07:25.820 The beautiful sport.

00:07:27.460 The beautiful sport, indeed.

00:07:28.720 Indeed, but of course, soccer isn't really, Michael, about who wins and who loses.

00:07:33.180 It's really about women, thinking men with accents and zero body fat and stripy shorts are cute, and everyone else rebuking America, capitalism, Western hegemony, masculinity, adulthood, and Jesus.

00:07:43.840 You know, seriously, Jesus never watched a single World Cup.

00:07:47.880 You can look it up.

00:07:48.960 That's in the Bible.

00:07:49.720 In the Bible.

00:07:49.840 That's just the Bible.

00:07:50.980 Evidence of this can be seen in much of the reporting on the World Cup.

00:07:53.960 So, Medium.com put out a list of 10 reasons you should watch the World Cup.

00:07:58.860 Reason number one, Team USA isn't in it.

00:08:01.820 Take that, America.

00:08:02.920 Reason number three, it's a great medicine against American arrogance.

00:08:07.080 And AL.com, and their five reasons you should be watching the World Cup, said it's a true World Cup, you guys.

00:08:13.880 Four billion people cannot be wrong.

00:08:16.240 Fortunately for our audience at home, we here at Daily Wire 2 did an in-depth investigation into the question of whether or not four billion people can be wrong, and discovered this shocking information.

00:08:28.800 This is a map of all of the nations in the world that love soccer.

00:08:34.840 And this is a map of all of the nations in the world that have landed a man on the moon and returned him safely back to Earth. 0.97

00:08:41.780 That's right, losers. 0.67

00:08:43.600 It's America one, everybody else zero, a score soccer lovers the world over should be able to get their heads around. 0.99

00:08:49.820 Michael, bada boom, back to you.

00:08:52.300 Jeremy, that is some incredible in-depth research that you have done.

00:08:56.720 I did have a question about the Iranian soccer game.

00:09:00.020 So do we have any information on whether all of the sanctions against Iran, the international sanctions, have prohibited Ford and Chrysler minivans from pulling up to the stadium there and picking up the children from the game?

00:09:16.200 You know, interestingly enough, Michael, soccer moms in Iran actually are well-equipped.

00:09:21.220 And in other good international news, soccer moms in Saudi Arabia are now actually legally allowed to drive to the field to pick up those adorable six-year-olds as they learn basic motor skills.

00:09:34.140 That is really wonderful.

00:09:35.700 I'm so glad that those World Cup players will now be able to get their juice boxes in some of those countries where heretofore the soccer moms couldn't drive. 0.54

00:09:43.940 Jeremy, the God King Boring, what an incredible recap.

00:09:46.540 I look forward to hearing more.

00:09:48.060 When are you going to be watching more of the games?

00:09:50.020 Watching?

00:09:50.380 Bada-boom! 1.00

00:09:53.540 Jeremy, the God King Boring, everybody.

00:09:55.480 Really important update.

00:09:56.600 Really, really.

00:09:59.360 I thought I was going to be able to make it through that with a straight face.

00:10:03.560 Years and years of conservatory training.

00:10:06.060 Not a chance.

00:10:06.900 Absolutely not.

00:10:07.820 Really good stuff.

00:10:08.860 I got to tell you, the World Cup was kind of bothering me, you know, because I don't.

00:10:12.960 I went to my favorite bagel place in L.A. this weekend.

00:10:15.740 My one refuge, I thought, from the kind of L.A. PC hippie-dippie stuff.

00:10:20.060 I go to buy a bagel, and what do I see?

00:10:22.540 Two giant TVs with the World Cup on.

00:10:24.800 A big sign that says, the place to watch the World Cup, your bagel place.

00:10:29.220 And I think, okay.

00:10:30.120 But watching those updates, I think I'm really starting to change my opinion.

00:10:33.260 You know, I'm getting a real kick out of this World Cup.

00:10:35.640 Okay.

00:10:36.000 So, moving on from, you know, the manliest sport, the beautiful game of soccer.

00:10:42.500 Let's start talking about manliness here.

00:10:45.160 Because manliness is the question of this, you know, Donald Trump saying, act like a man, Jimmy Kimmel.

00:10:51.840 And then people saying, you're not being civil.

00:10:53.820 You're not, what is this?

00:10:54.580 Okay.

00:10:55.360 It's manliness and womanliness are misunderstood across the political spectrum. 0.59

00:11:01.720 And it's playing out in our politics.

00:11:03.940 You're seeing it in politics.

00:11:05.240 You're seeing it on TV.

00:11:06.280 You're seeing it in movies.

00:11:07.420 We're going to get to the Incredibles by the end.

00:11:10.820 But feminism totally destroyed Incredibles 2. 1.00

00:11:13.800 And it's really sad.

00:11:15.480 This misunderstanding of what manliness is.

00:11:18.540 Over the weekend, we'll begin with Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon.

00:11:22.940 And then we'll be able to move into, I think, Maxine Waters and Sarah Sanders getting kicked out of that restaurant and why that cartoon wasn't any good.

00:11:29.940 Over the weekend, here's where it began.

00:11:32.280 Donald Trump gave Jimmy Fallon important advice.

00:11:35.640 Here's the exchange.

00:11:36.980 I don't know what to do.

00:11:38.400 I don't know what to do.

00:11:40.500 You can act like a man.

00:11:42.980 What's the matter with you?

00:11:45.320 Is this how you turned out of Hollywood Pinocchio?

00:11:47.780 That cries like a woman? 1.00

00:11:51.180 What can I do?

00:11:52.620 What can I do?

00:11:54.160 What is that, Maxine?

00:11:55.720 Thank you.

00:11:57.280 Do we know if Donald Trump is part Italian?

00:11:59.900 He looked very Italian in that photo.

00:12:03.120 No, it was actually, apparently that was a recreation.

00:12:05.460 That was Marlon Brando and, was it Al Martino?

00:12:09.020 Who played Johnny Fontaine?

00:12:10.140 Somebody, yeah.

00:12:10.740 Really, I think they really captured the essence there, though, of President Trump and Jimmy Fallon.

00:12:15.920 Jimmy Fallon has been complaining for a little while over how mean the left was to him after he did that interview.

00:12:22.080 You'll remember he did an interview with Donald Trump on his show during the campaign, and he kind of rubbed his hair.

00:12:27.300 He said, I've got a question for you.

00:12:28.640 Is your hair real?

00:12:29.420 And he says, touch the hair.

00:12:30.260 And he goes, rubs it.

00:12:30.980 Oh, the hair is real.

00:12:32.040 Right?

00:12:32.160 Just classic Jimmy Fallon show.

00:12:35.120 You know, Jimmy Fallon is the nice guy.

00:12:37.240 Stephen Colbert, he's the left-wing political guy.

00:12:40.280 And Jimmy Kimmel, he's the every man, your average Joe, but he's a left-winger too, right?

00:12:46.480 And Jimmy Fallon's shtick is that he's the nice guy and everybody likes him, and he's not going to ask you about abortion.

00:12:52.040 He's just going to play games with you.

00:12:54.500 On his show, you know, he started playing board games with his guests and things like that.

00:12:58.280 Now, Don Rickles was asked if he'd ever been on the Jimmy Fallon show.

00:13:01.660 He said, no, he has to learn how to play Jenga first.

00:13:03.840 You know, I mean, that's the tenor of Jimmy Fallon's show.

00:13:06.540 So he has Trump on and plays with his hair. 1.00

00:13:08.380 And then, by the way, he had Hillary Clinton on the next week, and he played stupid games with her too. 0.99

00:13:12.540 And it's just, oh, nice, nice, nice. 0.99

00:13:13.780 And he got eviscerated for this by the left.

00:13:17.160 Not the right that was attacking him.

00:13:18.620 It was the left.

00:13:19.440 They said, you're normalizing Trump as though the nominee of the Republican Party hasn't been normalized.

00:13:26.780 As though the guy that we've all known for 40 years in the pop culture, he hasn't been normalized until Jimmy Fallon scratches him on the scalp.

00:13:33.320 Then, all of a sudden, he's a real threat.

00:13:35.040 So they were so mean to him, and it kind of broke the guy.

00:13:38.300 This is going to play an important role a little later in the discussion between the difference between civility and niceness.

00:13:45.420 Because Jimmy Fallon, man, he's just a nice guy.

00:13:47.960 Here is Jimmy Fallon just crying, basically, really upset and complaining about what the left did to him after he talked to Trump on the show.

00:13:56.780 I'm just doing five hours a week, man.

00:13:59.700 I'm like working.

00:14:00.520 I get in at 10 in the morning.

00:14:02.220 I work until 7 at night.

00:14:03.420 I'm just trying to make a funny show.

00:14:05.040 You know the grind.

00:14:06.240 So, you know, and you know me.

00:14:08.700 I should have been worried when we were number one and whatever.

00:14:12.580 So I never cared about that.

00:14:14.000 I never will.

00:14:14.500 I just want to make sure we have the best show possible.

00:14:16.780 But it was definitely a downtime, and it's tough for morale for, you know, people.

00:14:22.480 There's 300 people that work here.

00:14:23.780 And so people talking that bad about you and ganging up on you and really gang mentality.

00:14:28.200 Piling on.

00:14:28.900 Oh, it was insane.

00:14:30.480 It was people you wouldn't expect.

00:14:32.700 And you're a sensitive guy.

00:14:34.540 You go, all right, we get it.

00:14:37.200 I heard you.

00:14:37.700 Right.

00:14:38.060 You made me feel bad.

00:14:39.140 So now what?

00:14:40.160 You happy?

00:14:41.260 I'm depressed.

00:14:42.580 You want to push me more?

00:14:43.480 What do you want me to do?

00:14:44.040 I know. 0.98

00:14:44.300 I mean, you want me to kill myself?

00:14:46.160 What would make you happy? 0.93

00:14:47.920 Get over it.

00:14:48.600 You've said your only regret about it really is that you didn't speak to quell the issue

00:14:52.960 sooner.

00:14:53.400 Is that right?

00:14:54.240 Yeah.

00:14:54.460 I probably should have just talked and just done interviews immediately after.

00:14:57.200 And you're like, I don't, dude, I don't believe in.

00:14:58.960 Well, you don't do a lot of interviews.

00:14:59.960 Any politicians.

00:15:01.400 I don't.

00:15:01.940 But it's like, I host a talk show every night.

00:15:03.880 Right.

00:15:04.180 Why would I be on a show?

00:15:05.320 The fact that you're having me on.

00:15:07.600 Hopefully people tune in.

00:15:09.400 But I go, yeah, I'm sorry.

00:15:11.980 I don't want to make anyone angry.

00:15:13.020 And that's it.

00:15:14.740 They're all, he says pretty, I actually sort of feel bad for the guy because he didn't

00:15:18.300 sign up for this.

00:15:19.380 He's actually trying to keep his late night show nonpartisan.

00:15:23.580 But he said, they all ganged up on me.

00:15:25.760 And the left loves ganging up these days.

00:15:28.180 They gang, they, first of all, they're defending MS-13.

00:15:30.660 They're defending one of the worst gangs in the world, violent gangs.

00:15:34.580 Then they gang, you know, Maxine Waters is saying gang up on them.

00:15:37.180 When you see someone gang up that, that woman who owns the restaurant, the Red Hen in Lexington, 1.00

00:15:42.800 Virginia, say gang up on Sarah Sanders, go gang up on her. 1.00

00:15:46.980 We'll get to that in a minute.

00:15:49.040 He's seeing that, oh, they're all, they ganged up on me.

00:15:51.220 And that's what the left does.

00:15:52.320 They do gang up, but that's just the way it is.

00:15:54.200 So, of course, President Trump responds here in his very Trumpian way.

00:15:57.860 He says, Jimmy Fallon is now whimpering that all he had, that he did the famous hair show

00:16:05.100 with me where he seriously messed up my hair and that he would have now done it differently

00:16:09.980 because it is said to have humanized me.

00:16:11.900 He's taking heat.

00:16:13.100 He called and said, monster ratings.

00:16:15.220 Be a man, Jimmy.

00:16:16.940 Be a man, Jimmy.

00:16:17.820 So, of course, it is kind of funny, you know, as he says, he messed up my hair.

00:16:22.080 Be a man, right? 0.83

00:16:22.700 And that is a kind of funny juxtaposition.

00:16:25.780 But that last advice in there, be a man, Jimmy, is really important.

00:16:29.280 It's something totally lacking in the culture right now.

00:16:32.380 And the question is, what is a man?

00:16:34.780 What is a man?

00:16:35.680 Because the right gets this wrong sometimes, too.

00:16:38.340 It is true that the left is all these soy boys, as they are called. 1.00

00:16:42.340 But the right sometimes has this obsession in dark corners of the Internet

00:16:47.600 with alpha males and beta males and blah, blah.

00:16:51.480 And, oh, I'm a knuckle-drager, blah, blah, right?

00:16:54.020 But that isn't manliness either.

00:16:56.220 You find manliness in the virtues.

00:16:59.020 That's where the word virtue comes from.

00:17:00.660 It's from vir, V-I-R, which is man in Latin.

00:17:05.000 Virtue.

00:17:05.460 There is a virtue in acting like a man.

00:17:07.760 Harvey Mansfield wrote that good book on it, Manliness.

00:17:09.840 And he says that, you know, manliness has a sort of brutal force to it,

00:17:14.560 but it also has a refinement and a politeness.

00:17:17.400 So he gives the example, sometimes it's manly to hold the door for a woman 1.00

00:17:21.800 and allow her to enter before you go in. 0.94

00:17:24.160 And then sometimes it's manly to push her out of the way and say,

00:17:27.260 get out of my way.

00:17:28.160 I've got to stop the bad guy, right?

00:17:30.160 Both of those things are manly.

00:17:31.940 And they seem different, but they're part and parcel.

00:17:35.240 Manliness is not nice.

00:17:38.380 Jimmy Fallon is nice.

00:17:39.900 That's why Donald Trump tells him he's got to act like a man.

00:17:42.580 Manliness is not nice.

00:17:44.960 Niceness is pleasantness.

00:17:47.620 To be nice is like, oh, he's such a nice guy.

00:17:50.760 He's pleasant.

00:17:51.400 He's agreeable.

00:17:52.600 Being nice is being agreeable.

00:17:55.060 You know, Alan Bloom, who wrote The Closing of the American Mind,

00:17:58.220 in the 1980s, he indicted all of the American students that he knew

00:18:03.760 by saying that they were nice.

00:18:05.820 The nicest thing, the best thing you could say about these students

00:18:08.300 is that they were nice.

00:18:09.840 And what he meant is they're shallow.

00:18:11.240 They don't stand for anything.

00:18:12.840 They don't have any core beliefs.

00:18:14.520 They're uncultured.

00:18:15.380 They're uneducated.

00:18:16.320 They're not, they're just that, they're just nice.

00:18:19.180 And, you know, manliness is not nice.

00:18:23.180 It just isn't nice.

00:18:24.480 To be agreeable, go along to get along, be timid, be a pushover,

00:18:28.320 that is not the same as being manly.

00:18:30.520 And Donald Trump is not nice.

00:18:31.940 Our government right now is not nice.

00:18:33.980 It isn't doing nice things.

00:18:35.620 That doesn't mean it's uncivil.

00:18:37.340 You know, manliness right now is paying dividends for our government.

00:18:40.540 And we're seeing it every day, more and more each day we see this.

00:18:44.280 Manliness right now and unnice government is actually restoring civil government.

00:18:49.520 It's restoring civility to our government.

00:18:51.260 Just look on foreign policy.

00:18:53.320 It came out today that the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif,

00:18:57.000 is saying that ripping up the Iran nuclear deal could topple the Iranian regime.

00:19:02.700 Now, you've probably heard the name Javad Zarif before.

00:19:05.840 He is John Kerry's boyfriend.

00:19:08.080 He was the guy, you know, like late at night on Saturday nights,

00:19:10.300 John Kerry picks up the phone.

00:19:11.740 Once Teresa's gone to bed, he's,

00:19:13.220 Hello, Javi, Javi, are you there?

00:19:16.180 Javi, I'm just, oh, I miss you, Javi.

00:19:20.380 I miss you.

00:19:21.260 I'm thinking, I miss you too, yeah.

00:19:23.300 I just, I've been thinking about you a lot.

00:19:25.280 You don't call anymore, Javi.

00:19:27.260 Right?

00:19:28.140 I mean, I'm half exaggerating here, but he actually does still call this guy,

00:19:32.900 which is a whole separate issue that the former Secretary of State is undercutting U.S. foreign policy here

00:19:39.940 by dealing directly with the foreign minister of Iran.

00:19:43.400 When that foreign minister is saying the current U.S. policy that Donald Trump is pursuing,

00:19:47.640 the aggressive, muscular, masculine foreign policy is possibly going to topple our regime. 0.99

00:19:54.120 And there's a lot of evidence.

00:19:55.340 That isn't just bluff from the foreign minister.

00:19:57.280 The Iranian rial, the Iranian currency, has just plunged to a record low against the U.S. dollar.

00:20:03.960 There's a major Indian energy company.

00:20:06.220 It just cut its Iranian oil imports by half.

00:20:10.620 Russia's second biggest oil producer was going to start building projects in Iran.

00:20:15.640 It has halted all development there.

00:20:17.720 So there are actually real serious warning signs here.

00:20:21.260 And by the way, all of the people who are these big Trump critics,

00:20:24.320 I think of some of the neoconservative types at some of the magazines, you know,

00:20:29.220 they're the ones pushing for regime change in Iran, but they weren't able to affect it.

00:20:34.380 The Obama administration wasn't able to affect it.

00:20:36.160 Obviously, the Bush administration didn't pursue regime change in Iran.

00:20:39.240 It looks like Donald Trump is actually the one who's going to do it.

00:20:41.760 There are protests pouring out into the streets right now.

00:20:44.300 We were told, oh, no, if you rip up the Iranian nuclear deal,

00:20:47.520 you're going to embolden the regime in Iran.

00:20:49.840 They're going to be emboldened by this was keeping them at bay.

00:20:52.600 Well, no, that isn't what's happening.

00:20:54.440 A little muscle goes a long way.

00:20:55.940 Donald Trump took out that ad in the New York Times in 1988, I think it was,

00:21:01.440 at the end of the Reagan era.

00:21:03.080 And he said there's nothing about U.S. national policy that a little backbone can't cure.

00:21:07.900 We're actually seeing that play out.

00:21:09.780 And it isn't nice, but it is helpful.

00:21:11.560 That strong foreign policy has gotten North Korea to the table, right? 0.79

00:21:15.400 Gotten that crazy dictator with nuclear weapons to come to the table 0.87

00:21:18.460 and possibly we can come to some sort of nuclear arrangement.

00:21:22.000 Who knows?

00:21:22.820 We're in, again, we're in inning one or two of that, but it got them to the table.

00:21:27.440 Previous administrations were not able to do that.

00:21:30.020 How about on domestic policy?

00:21:31.620 That's the least nice, isn't it?

00:21:33.980 That's the area where Donald Trump, you know, is ripping babies from their mother's arms.

00:21:39.520 Never mind that all the pictures that we've been shown aren't actually separated children.

00:21:44.300 Never mind that they can't point to examples of that.

00:21:46.680 Never mind that Barack Obama did the same thing, actually, on a much larger and worse scale.

00:21:51.100 Never mind any of that.

00:21:52.180 They're saying it's so not nice.

00:21:53.500 It's mean.

00:21:53.980 It's inhuman.

00:21:54.880 Tom Arnold was in this room yelling at me and saying it's not human.

00:21:58.220 It's not nice.

00:21:59.540 It's mean.

00:22:00.080 It's blah, blah, blah.

00:22:00.640 So cut to a poll right now from CBS, mainstream media.

00:22:04.800 About half of Americans say that we need to send illegal families back.

00:22:08.660 48% of Americans.

00:22:10.040 We catch them at the border.

00:22:11.400 We have to send them back.

00:22:12.760 That is, this is a recent poll.

00:22:14.400 That's despite the mainstream media spending 176 minutes during six days covering the poor

00:22:19.860 little children in this very emotional coverage.

00:22:22.220 Mainstream media spent six and a half minutes covering Barack Obama when he did exactly the

00:22:26.360 same thing on a larger scale.

00:22:27.860 That means that I'm not, I'm no math expert.

00:22:29.840 That means that the mainstream media spent 27 times more coverage on Donald Trump.

00:22:36.040 All of these emotional segments.

00:22:37.920 Nevertheless, about half of Americans, they send them back because that's what we want. 1.00

00:22:42.480 It is, maybe that's not nice.

00:22:44.340 Maybe it would be more agreeable if we just rolled over and were pleasant.

00:22:47.940 It's all come into the country.

00:22:48.860 Anyone who wants to come in, come on in.

00:22:50.320 Oh, you want to bring drugs?

00:22:51.260 That's bring it.

00:22:51.780 That's okay.

00:22:52.380 I'm not going to stop you because I'm a nice guy.

00:22:54.460 I'm a nice guy.

00:22:55.260 So why would I stop?

00:22:55.860 Oh, that's, oh, you want to traffic in human little babies and you want to have 1.00

00:22:59.560 little kids come over and force them to work on farms? 0.99

00:23:02.080 Oh, that's okay.

00:23:02.780 I'm not going to stop you.

00:23:03.560 I'm really agreeable. 0.95

00:23:04.840 Oh, that's what you want to sexually assault women at the border at a rate of 60 to 80%. 0.99

00:23:09.160 Well, I'm not going to stop you because I'm such a nice guy.

00:23:11.700 No, this is not a nice policy.

00:23:14.240 This is a civil policy.

00:23:15.840 This is a manly policy.

00:23:17.380 This is a law and order policy.

00:23:19.700 But that's what we need.

00:23:22.300 That's what we need right now.

00:23:23.340 And then America agrees with that.

00:23:24.400 Do you know that right now, half of Americans say that we need to build the wall?

00:23:29.340 Half of Americans.

00:23:30.380 That number would have been unthinkable even two or three years ago.

00:23:34.240 But we are now seeing when the rubber meets the road and you get rid of all of the sort 0.74

00:23:37.560 of pleasantries and the shallow niceness, what the issue is, where the conflict really lies,

00:23:42.180 and Americans want to protect their border because we're a nation of laws.

00:23:45.400 We're not a nation of men.

00:23:46.660 That's not what we're supposed to be.

00:23:48.500 You know, that isn't nice, but President Trump has put the mainstream media in their place.

00:23:53.340 This is the distinction.

00:23:55.880 Manliness is not nice, but it is civil.

00:23:58.360 Civil, it means relating to citizens.

00:24:02.320 It comes from the Latin words, civilis or civilis, which is, you know, relating to the city,

00:24:08.260 relating to people who live within the city.

00:24:11.480 I noticed this distinction.

00:24:12.900 A left-wing reporter emailed me before this and asked me if it's not hypocritical that

00:24:18.260 Republicans now are saying people need to be civil, even though in the past Newt Gingrich

00:24:22.740 used to say, you know, they should be, Republicans are too nice, right? 0.91

00:24:27.540 So isn't that hypocritical? 0.96

00:24:28.720 No. 0.62

00:24:29.260 The right is not nice, but it is civil.

00:24:31.640 The left is not civil, but it is nice.

00:24:34.240 Look at the Sarah Sanders situation. 0.84

00:24:35.820 So Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, 0.89

00:24:39.560 called Red Hen.

00:24:40.860 I mentioned the restaurant so that you never, ever go there.

00:24:44.740 Obviously, right?

00:24:45.560 I mean, that's, she kicked her out. 0.97

00:24:47.500 The owner there is Stephanie Wilkinson.

00:24:49.220 And here's how the event went down, because I don't know if this part's totally been covered.

00:24:52.980 So Sarah Sanders goes in with some friends, sits down at a table.

00:24:56.060 They start eating.

00:24:57.060 The staff at this restaurant calls up the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, calls her up at

00:25:00.780 home and says, the Press Secretary is here.

00:25:04.260 What should we do?

00:25:05.600 And Stephanie Wilkinson said, I'm going to come down there and kick her out. 1.00

00:25:08.440 So she goes down and she marches up to Sarah Sanders and she says, you need to leave.

00:25:13.140 I don't want to serve you at my establishment.

00:25:14.960 So I want you to leave.

00:25:16.340 And what does Sarah Sanders do? 1.00

00:25:17.460 She leaves.

00:25:18.620 A full reaction we cut now.

00:25:20.220 Andrew Garfield, what do you think about that?

00:25:22.420 We are all sacred and we all belong.

00:25:25.820 So let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked.

00:25:30.960 Oh, that's, that's sort of surprising from the left.

00:25:33.820 There's, so she should have just served Sarah Sanders, I guess, right?

00:25:37.400 Did Sarah Sanders order cake?

00:25:38.600 I don't know if she ordered cake.

00:25:39.740 Maybe if she ordered cake or flours, then the left would demand that Sarah Sanders be served. 1.00

00:25:43.920 But maybe, I don't know, maybe it was roasted chicken or something.

00:25:46.280 So, but look at that.

00:25:48.240 That's the, I mean, it is really incredible that on the left right now, they say, we need

00:25:51.780 to serve everybody.

00:25:52.620 How dare you kick someone out just because you don't want to participate in his gay marriage 1.00

00:25:56.680 ceremony? 0.96

00:25:58.000 How dare, that's wrong.

00:25:59.120 That's terrible.

00:25:59.760 But if you don't, if I don't like somebody, I'm not going to serve them.

00:26:03.080 Is Andrew being civil here?

00:26:04.600 No.

00:26:04.880 When he says bake a cake for everybody?

00:26:06.620 No, that's just nice.

00:26:07.800 Oh, wouldn't it be nice if we just baked cakes for everybody?

00:26:09.720 But it's not civil because it actually undercuts how citizens relate to each other in a free

00:26:13.820 republic.

00:26:14.520 By the way, the Sarah Sanders story doesn't end there.

00:26:16.480 According to Mike Huckabee, the owner of the Red Hen, nobody has really talked about this

00:26:20.780 yet, followed the rest of the people across the street.

00:26:24.040 So Sarah Sanders and her husband go home.

00:26:25.840 The rest of their dinner party goes across the street.

00:26:28.460 She follows them across the street, calls up other people, organizes a protest to yell 0.99

00:26:33.440 and scream at them from outside the other restaurant and create this scene. 0.94

00:26:37.540 Definitely not civil.

00:26:39.360 Civility is not nice.

00:26:41.140 It's not glib.

00:26:42.000 It's not charming.

00:26:42.760 It's not weak.

00:26:43.380 It's not timid.

00:26:44.420 It's not all those things that we think it is.

00:26:46.480 Civility means you can say hard things.

00:26:49.100 Nice people can't say hard things.

00:26:51.940 Civil people can say hard things.

00:26:53.480 It's just a formal manner of behavior.

00:26:57.420 It's to say, be an adult.

00:26:59.560 Act like a man.

00:27:00.560 Don't be like a little boy.

00:27:01.960 Little children yell and scream and that's why we don't let little children govern us. 0.99

00:27:05.580 The left wants to lower the voting age at this point, I think, to like seven.

00:27:09.400 But why did I check my watch for that?

00:27:11.460 But you know, they want to lower.

00:27:12.600 But when you have to grow up and behave as though you're worthy of the freedom that we

00:27:18.020 have in a republic, as though you're worthy to be a citizen.

00:27:21.060 Unfortunately, we don't have that.

00:27:22.600 To just put a little button on it, let's turn to the emblem of the left these days,

00:27:28.800 crazy old Maxine Waters. 1.00

00:27:29.920 We want it done now, we're going to insist on it.

00:27:34.600 If you think we're rallying now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:27:42.820 Already, you have members of your cabinet that have been booed out of restaurants.

00:27:50.900 We have protesters taking up at their house.

00:27:53.860 Who sang, no peace, no sleep.

00:27:58.260 No peace, no sleep.

00:28:00.880 And guess what?

00:28:01.840 We're going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff Sessions and

00:28:07.260 others, you really don't know the Bible.

00:28:10.020 God is on our side.

00:28:14.380 On the side of the children.

00:28:17.020 On the side of what's right.

00:28:18.880 On the side of what's honorable.

00:28:21.840 On the side of understanding that if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.

00:28:28.300 And so, let's say the course.

00:28:31.520 Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.

00:28:35.280 And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline

00:28:43.120 station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them

00:28:50.540 they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.

00:28:55.240 We have to protect the children.

00:28:57.840 We have to, if you can't protect the children, you can't do anything unless you want to kill 0.94

00:29:02.280 them in the womb. 0.99

00:29:02.900 And then you, then do that.

00:29:04.080 But, and definitely do that.

00:29:05.080 Don't protect the children.

00:29:06.020 But, but, and, but that, and that's actually, that makes you a good person.

00:29:08.940 But otherwise you have to protect the children.

00:29:11.360 So, of course, of course, uh, she, I don't even know if she understands this.

00:29:16.900 I don't know if Maxine Waters understands very much, but this is not going to turn out

00:29:20.980 well.

00:29:21.380 What she is proposing is mob violence.

00:29:23.920 That's what she's asking for.

00:29:25.120 She says, when you see somebody that you disagree with and you don't like, you surround them,

00:29:29.100 you physically intimidate them, you scream at them, you go to their place of residence

00:29:33.360 and you keep them awake at night and you don't let them sleep and you drive them crazy.

00:29:38.500 So that bad things happen to them, to their body, to their lives, to their families.

00:29:42.880 Go and she's saying, go to their house.

00:29:44.800 She's saying, uh, terrorize their families.

00:29:47.300 That's what that means.

00:29:48.080 Go keep them.

00:29:48.840 Because by the way, if you, if you have a screaming mob outside someone's house, it doesn't just

00:29:52.260 mean that they stay awake and their kids sleep soundly at night.

00:29:54.720 That's not how that works.

00:29:55.680 The kid is just terrorize people that you disagree with.

00:29:58.460 This is, this is civility, uh, from Maxine Waters, right?

00:30:01.960 And, and of course, listen to how she says it.

00:30:03.860 She goes, they don't know the Bible, Reverend Maxine, Father Maxine, Bishop Maxine is telling

00:30:10.060 us about the Bible, right?

00:30:11.400 They don't know that, but we know God's on our side.

00:30:13.340 It's on our side, right?

00:30:15.400 The irony of this, of course, is a total misunderstanding of what civil society is, what government is.

00:30:24.120 Because guess what?

00:30:24.980 Maxine, Maxine can criticize her opponents of things. 0.85

00:30:27.240 She might not understand what she's criticizing for exactly, and we can criticize Maxine for

00:30:31.800 things.

00:30:32.660 And then if, if our solution to that is to terrorize one another, then we don't have a

00:30:38.020 government.

00:30:38.520 We don't have a country.

00:30:39.400 We don't have a society anymore.

00:30:41.400 You can't communicate.

00:30:42.860 If what she, what they are saying, what the left is saying, Maxine Waters is their mouthpiece,

00:30:47.180 saying, stop communicating, stop trying to get along and live together.

00:30:51.340 Stop trying to deal seriously with issues, but in a, in a formal manner of politeness that

00:30:56.220 allows us all to live in relative peace and harmony, she's saying, forget all that, burn

00:31:00.600 it all to the ground.

00:31:01.500 That's, that's what they want.

00:31:02.960 You know, uh, how, how does one respond to this?

00:31:05.600 Well, the right should still be civil.

00:31:08.640 The right should still be manly, you know, I mean, because that, those two things, civility

00:31:12.480 and manliness, it says everything about the person who's doing it.

00:31:15.040 It doesn't say anything about the opponent. 0.94

00:31:16.560 They're all kind of crazy, Maxine Waters running around, and that doesn't mean that we should 0.87

00:31:20.580 get in the muck and start terrorizing her, does it? 0.89

00:31:23.120 No.

00:31:24.120 We should, we should say hard things.

00:31:25.980 We should, we, we don't have to be nice about it, but you don't want to get just, you don't

00:31:29.720 want to start keeping Maxine Waters' family up at night, right?

00:31:32.340 Maxine, she's always been like this, by the way.

00:31:34.180 She loves violence. 0.98

00:31:35.020 During the LA riots in the early nineties, she loved it.

00:31:38.140 She said, oh, this is, what a wonderful thing.

00:31:40.200 How great.

00:31:41.040 Oh, this is such a pivotal moment.

00:31:43.080 We're burning down all of LA.

00:31:44.420 That's great.

00:31:44.900 Isn't that wonderful?

00:31:45.820 You know, the, the sort of stuff that she's advocating, we're seeing it all over the place

00:31:50.380 already in Florida, the attorney general Pam Bondi just came out. 0.85

00:31:55.040 She said three huge guys came up, were screaming at her, cursing at her one inch from her face. 0.97

00:32:00.300 Then one guy spit on her head. 1.00

00:32:02.280 That's the world that Maxine Waters wants.

00:32:04.000 That's what she wants.

00:32:04.600 But it's okay because Donald Trump said a naughty word 10 years ago.

00:32:07.600 That's okay because Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law.

00:32:11.560 Immigration law that Barack Obama also partially enforced.

00:32:14.720 Immigration law that was passed 10 years ago, more than that.

00:32:17.920 And, and, uh, parts of which were decided 20 years ago.

00:32:21.560 Keith Ellison, deputy chairman of the, of the Democrat party is now saying, he's posing in

00:32:26.500 photos with people who say the U.S. has stolen land.

00:32:29.800 That's, that's what they're saying.

00:32:30.780 They're undercutting the fabric of the United States itself.

00:32:33.640 And, uh, maybe the left is going to tune into my show.

00:32:37.320 If you know anybody on the left, tell them to tune in right now because they don't, because

00:32:40.840 I'm going to give them important advice.

00:32:42.380 They, they don't know what civil means.

00:32:44.680 They don't know what civility is.

00:32:46.200 You know, they don't understand these semantic distinctions.

00:32:48.160 I did that Prager video on why words matter, on how these semantic distinctions actually

00:32:52.700 matter a lot.

00:32:53.900 We don't teach civics in school.

00:32:56.460 And so it's no surprise that these people, uh, don't know what it means.

00:33:00.820 Civics requires good faith.

00:33:02.580 It requires you to be an adult.

00:33:04.580 It requires virtue.

00:33:06.900 It requires the virtues.

00:33:08.440 Uh, all of our founding fathers talked about this.

00:33:11.220 They said, you know, this, this free Republic is only fit for a moral and a religious people,

00:33:15.780 for an upright people, for a people who educates itself, for people who works hard,

00:33:19.320 for people who isn't vicious, who don't have, who don't have all the vices who are, you know,

00:33:23.360 who possess virtues.

00:33:24.400 And this isn't virtuous.

00:33:25.720 This isn't manly.

00:33:27.140 This isn't grown up.

00:33:28.240 This isn't adult.

00:33:28.860 They're acting like little children.

00:33:30.400 They're uneducated, uncultured. 1.00

00:33:32.080 They just scream naughty words and they spout moral idiocy. 1.00

00:33:35.960 They're behaving like little children. 1.00

00:33:38.000 But you gotta, people, you gotta, if you're gonna try to preserve the country, you gotta

00:33:41.660 act like a man.

00:33:42.520 You gotta do what, uh, real Donald Trump said to Jimmy Fallon.

00:33:46.440 Don't act like a little boy.

00:33:47.560 Don't act like a little kid.

00:33:48.400 You gotta grow up.

00:33:49.160 Now, speaking of children, we're gonna talk about, uh, this kid's movie, which, uh, which

00:33:54.040 gender politics and not being a man and all that sort of stuff has also destroyed.

00:33:58.200 Before we get to it, I gotta say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:34:00.340 I'm sorry.

00:34:01.120 And I got so much to talk about on The Incredibles.

00:34:03.240 I'm catching a little, a lot of heat and a lot of praise for my review.

00:34:06.020 It's a little polarizing, but I'll explain to you why I'm completely right.

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00:34:29.400 None of that matters.

00:34:30.840 This is what matters.

00:34:33.360 50% of Americans want to build the wall.

00:34:38.760 Mmm, that's good.

00:34:40.500 Uh, almost 50% of Americans want to turn even whole illegal families away when they get

00:34:46.620 to the border.

00:34:47.200 Just turn them all away.

00:34:48.580 Don't, and just because that's the law and we have to be a nation of laws and let people

00:34:52.540 who have been waiting in line come in first and we can't just give amnesty to criminals.

00:34:59.380 Mmm.

00:35:00.200 The majority of Americans approve of Donald Trump's handling of the economy, including 30%

00:35:06.040 of even Democrats.

00:35:07.660 Mmm.

00:35:08.640 I can't take anymore.

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00:35:19.620 We'll be right back to talk about the Incredibles.

00:35:33.460 Feminism ruins everything. 1.00

00:35:35.360 This is where we get, you know, I was talking before about manliness as a kind of the difference

00:35:39.240 between being a little child and being a grown man.

00:35:41.260 Now I'm going to talk about manliness as the opposite of feminism. 1.00

00:35:45.780 There's a subtle distinction here because feminism ruins everything. 1.00

00:35:50.060 It ruins everything.

00:35:51.620 It even managed to ruin the Incredibles.

00:35:54.260 I have kind of a fresh face on this.

00:35:56.320 You know, I don't like superhero movies.

00:35:58.280 I don't ever see little kids movies.

00:36:00.820 I just don't go to them.

00:36:01.720 I only want to see like foreign films in like Lichtensteinian with subtitles that I can wear

00:36:06.420 a beret to and smoke cigarettes during in the theater.

00:36:08.800 I will, you know, I really like those kind of more pretentious movies.

00:36:11.500 But this one, Sweet Little Elisa, Saint Little Elisa, Saint Little Michael, Mrs. Knowles,

00:36:18.660 she wanted to go see Incredibles 2.

00:36:21.920 And so I said, all right, I'll go see Incredibles 2.

00:36:23.960 But I've never seen Incredibles 1.

00:36:25.440 So I actually think I have a pretty good perspective on this because I watched the two movies back

00:36:29.700 to back.

00:36:30.120 I watched just, I went straight from Incredibles, the original, and headed to the movie theater and saw the sequel.

00:36:37.440 The first movie is one of the best movies of the last 20 years.

00:36:41.220 If you haven't seen it, go out and see it.

00:36:43.340 It is so good.

00:36:44.960 And the reason why it's so good, it's about superheroes, I guess, but it's really not about superheroes.

00:36:50.600 I mean, it is.

00:36:51.240 It is.

00:36:51.600 It's good in that genre, but it's so much more than that.

00:36:54.100 And when movies are so much more than those genres, I tend to like them.

00:36:58.900 Like Logan, the movie Logan is, I guess it's a superhero movie, but it's so much more than that.

00:37:04.160 So I really liked that movie.

00:37:05.400 Or The Dark Knight, even, is a superhero movie.

00:37:07.460 And it is more than just a superhero movie.

00:37:09.660 It does have some weight to it.

00:37:11.360 So I go into this with The Incredibles.

00:37:13.220 And The Incredibles is about this family, led by Mr. Incredible.

00:37:16.940 He's the husband.

00:37:18.040 And there's Elastigirl as the wife and three kids. 0.96

00:37:21.140 But it's a movie about something.

00:37:23.000 It's a movie about a midlife crisis.

00:37:24.960 All of the other superhero movies are just basically popcorn movies where they all follow the exact same formula.

00:37:30.040 There aren't even spoilers that you can give to them, because we all know exactly how those movies play out.

00:37:34.520 This movie isn't like that.

00:37:35.880 It's a movie about a midlife crisis.

00:37:37.560 It's a movie about a guy whose glory days were in the past when he was a superhero fighting bad guys on his own.

00:37:45.800 He makes a point all the time.

00:37:46.880 He says, I work alone.

00:37:48.760 I work alone.

00:37:49.780 They're telling you something.

00:37:50.660 It's because he's single, because he's a bachelor, because he doesn't have kids and a job and a car and this.

00:37:55.120 And he's just got all of his adventures there.

00:37:56.620 And then he trades all of that in for a wife, a stay-at-home wife, and three kids, and a car, and a desk job in the suburbs.

00:38:05.380 He trades all that in, and he's kind of miserable about it, you know, and there's some drudgery to it.

00:38:10.440 So what does he start doing?

00:38:11.720 He starts doing things that guys going through a midlife crisis do.

00:38:14.920 He starts lying to his wife.

00:38:16.420 He starts staying out a little late with his friend to try to relive the good old days.

00:38:21.560 And his friend is like, what are we doing, man?

00:38:23.120 Come on, right?

00:38:23.600 He buys a sports car, and he starts going on these clandestine rendezvous with a beautiful young woman, all without telling his wife.

00:38:32.820 And when his selfishness, when his recklessness finally gets him into trouble, what happens?

00:38:37.920 It's his wife who comes and tries to find him because she's jealous. 0.97

00:38:42.160 She's nervous.

00:38:43.500 She, you know, his selfishness is about to ruin his family.

00:38:46.920 And she catches him in the arms of another woman.

00:38:48.760 Now, of course, because it's a kid's movie, they work around this in certain ways.

00:38:52.680 But that's the basic structure of it.

00:38:54.600 This movie is so good.

00:38:56.340 Even the bad guy is, his name is Syndrome, and it's a pun.

00:39:01.300 It's a pun on sin because it's a movie about his own, Mr. Incredible's own original sin of pride, his own selfish pride.

00:39:10.580 The bad guy in that movie, if you haven't seen it, I don't care about spoilers because this came out 14 years ago.

00:39:15.200 Now, the bad guy was his biggest fan as a little kid.

00:39:18.860 He called himself Incrediboy, and, you know, he really liked him.

00:39:22.360 He's a manifestation of Mr. Incredible's own selfish ego.

00:39:26.080 It's that syndrome, right?

00:39:27.780 S-S-Y-N or maybe S-I-N. 0.92

00:39:30.820 And, you know, the syndrome character, he is just a mere mortal, but he wants to be like a superhero, which is to say, make himself like a god.

00:39:40.460 So he creates all this technology to try to do it, right?

00:39:42.880 And the only way that things come right in the end is when Mr. Incredible realizes that looking to the past and his old glory days as a bachelor, is looking to them as the good old days, that's totally backwards.

00:39:57.340 He says to his kids, he says, and he says to his wife, you're my greatest adventure.

00:40:01.680 My greatest adventure lies ahead of me because I'm moving forward in my life.

00:40:05.320 I'm not stuck in the past, you know, and needing to drive a sports car to try to pick up chicks.

00:40:09.940 You are, and so they come together as a family and then they defeat the bad guy.

00:40:13.800 And as if this weren't clear enough, these two old characters at the end, Frank and Ollie, one says, he goes, oh, that's old school.

00:40:21.220 They did it the old school way.

00:40:22.800 The other guy says, there's no school like the old school, right?

00:40:25.620 That's the, like, oh, yes, he did the traditional thing and that worked.

00:40:29.540 That saved the day.

00:40:30.680 Even, you know, the way they beat the bad guy is they do things that families do.

00:40:33.760 They argue over a remote, the father throws a pass, like a football pass to his son, right?

00:40:39.500 It's so beautiful.

00:40:41.120 It's a really good movie.

00:40:43.100 I mention that because this new movie is so much worse.

00:40:47.780 It's so, it's like the second movie is an apology for the first movie.

00:40:52.460 The second movie begins, there will be some spoilers later, not quite yet.

00:40:55.860 The second movie begins exactly where the first movie left off.

00:40:59.800 So it's not like there's a huge time delay here.

00:41:01.920 And then it basically just undoes the first movie.

00:41:04.840 Everything in the first movie, it just says, no, never mind.

00:41:07.520 I'm sorry, we shouldn't have said that.

00:41:09.140 So something you probably have already heard, probably from the trailer, is that this movie is much more focused on the wife, on Elastigirl.

00:41:18.680 So here comes some spoilers.

00:41:21.260 She's got all the action sequences. 0.98

00:41:23.160 She's going to, you know, she's going to go.

00:41:24.920 She's going to do the job.

00:41:26.340 She's going to fight the bad guys. 1.00

00:41:27.580 And her husband is going to be stuck at home with the kids, which he obviously screws up because what an idiot husbands are, right? 1.00

00:41:35.120 I mean, wives are just so much more competent than their husbands. 1.00

00:41:38.060 Like, can he even work a microwave?

00:41:40.300 Ha, ha, ha, right?

00:41:41.340 And look, this is the oldest joke in cheap humor, right?

00:41:45.760 This is every sitcom, every TV commercial for the past 30 years has been about how the wife does everything great.

00:41:51.580 She's perfect.

00:41:52.480 She's the genius.

00:41:53.360 She's brilliant.

00:41:54.080 She's totally competent.

00:41:55.000 And the husband, that guy can barely put his shoes on. 0.99

00:41:57.040 What a dummy. 0.84

00:41:58.460 How does that guy, how did he make it out of, like, his house as a kid? 0.99

00:42:02.160 I mean, without getting hit by a bus or something.

00:42:05.240 That's what they set up here.

00:42:06.900 The movie can never give the wife any character flaws. 1.00

00:42:12.140 She has to do everything perfectly.

00:42:13.960 And she does.

00:42:14.780 And Mr. Incredible, he's just sort of tangential.

00:42:16.800 But another reason, again, some more spoilers here, why this is under, it undercuts the first movie, is that in the first movie, it's Mr. Incredible who looks at his old days doing all the adventures with the bad guys and stuff.

00:42:29.400 And the wife says, no, you're a family man now.

00:42:33.640 Get a job.

00:42:34.720 Live in the suburbs.

00:42:35.920 Raise your family.

00:42:36.840 Be a good guy.

00:42:37.760 She doesn't want to go off and fight bad guys.

00:42:39.720 She doesn't want to go off on her own and have independent adventure.

00:42:43.100 And then in the second movie, which begins exactly where the first movie lets off, all of a sudden she says, never mind.

00:42:49.320 No, I want to go fight bad guys on my own again.

00:42:51.140 Oh, no, that'll be fun.

00:42:52.260 Oh, that was so fun when I fought that bad guy on my own.

00:42:55.000 It's just this feminist undercutting of the whole thing. 1.00

00:42:58.480 And now some people are saying, major spoiler here, so close your ears for 20 seconds if you don't want to hear it, that the villain in this movie is a feminist. 1.00

00:43:09.700 She's like a sort of, it's an embodiment of feminism. 1.00

00:43:13.880 Right.

00:43:14.480 Okay.

00:43:15.260 Villainous things are villainous.

00:43:16.680 So that's true.

00:43:17.360 I mean, that is how that plays out in movies.

00:43:20.120 But it doesn't make up for it.

00:43:22.860 It doesn't make up for what the whole movie is saying at the end.

00:43:25.680 It's just, it just becomes this popcorn movie.

00:43:28.860 I'm not saying that Incredibles 2 is a feminist screed, you know, and it's awful and it's ruining society. 0.69

00:43:35.060 It's just like, meh.

00:43:36.560 It's just, if I had just seen Incredibles 2 and not seen the original right beforehand, I would say, okay, well, I probably wouldn't even talk about it.

00:43:43.400 I'd say, well, that was whatever.

00:43:45.460 Compared to all the other stuff coming out of Hollywood, whatever.

00:43:48.800 But because it's an answer to the first, I just think it's a real missed opportunity.

00:43:57.320 It took them 14 years to turn a wonderful life into an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

00:44:02.260 I mean, it is so, so frustrating.

00:44:05.320 So let me know what you think.

00:44:06.520 I know people have been tweeting me about this for two days since I put my review out.

00:44:09.660 So let me know what you think.

00:44:10.580 I'm happy to hear more about it, but I have to tell you, I'm completely right.

00:44:14.200 So that's the show today.

00:44:16.640 Tune in again tomorrow.

00:44:17.520 We have some pretty crazy guests coming up.

00:44:19.720 I don't want to ruin it, though, and tell you all about it.

00:44:21.880 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:44:23.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:44:24.860 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:44:40.580 And our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

00:44:43.320 Edited by Jim Nickel.

00:44:44.820 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 25, 2018

Ep. 173 - Civility vs. Niceness： Act Like A Man!

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