Ep. 1779 - Dem Congressman Defends Aborting Christ on Joe Rogan
Summary
With Christianity rising once again to play a dominant role in popular American politics, Democrats are seeking to control the narrative by sending some heretic state representative onto Joe Rogan to argue that the Holy Mother of God had every right to abort the messiah.
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With Christianity rising once again to play a dominant role in popular American politics,
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Democrats are seeking to control the narrative by sending some heretic state representative
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onto Joe Rogan to argue, I kid you not, that the Holy Mother of God had every right to abort the
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messiah. I don't, in the craziest Hollywood version of a political party recognizing a
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vulnerability, trying to win over the voters that they're losing, I could not possibly imagine a
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stupider thing for Democrats to do. So we'll get into what he says. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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It is back in politics in a way that we have not seen in 25 years at least. Religion went away from
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politics for a while. I mean, you can never really take religion away from politics because all politics
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is ultimately religious. But overt appeals to Christianity, to God, even to virtue and morality,
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that went away for a while. In the 2000s, especially after 9-11, the secularists and the atheists used
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this as an opportunity to try to kick God out of the public square. And this was the rise of
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Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. And atheism was cool and
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religion wasn't cool. And politicians in both parties took note. So the right started speaking
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in much more secular terms, started speaking in much more libertarian kind of terms, ideological terms.
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The religious right from the 1990s kind of fell a little bit by the wayside. The left hates God and
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hates religion. And so that's been true since the French Revolution. So they were happy as clams.
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That is over now. All that secularism, cringe. Christopher Hitchens, at least he was clever.
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The rest of those guys, cringe. Lame. The idea that we have of atheists now is just Reddit tippers
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who don't shower on Reddit, you know, just with their fedoras on. It's just, it's out. So you're
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seeing much more direct discussions of religion. For goodness sakes, you have the vice president of the
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United States giving lectures on Augustinian and Thomistic theology, talking about the Ordo
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Amoris, the Ordo Caritatis on Twitter. We're back. We're back. Which makes a problem for Democrats
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because Democrats hate God and hate religion, and they don't know how to speak about religion. So
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they recognize the problem. They send some state rep. By they, by the way, I just mean the left broadly.
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I don't think this was cooked up in the halls of the DNC. I don't think the Democrats are really
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unified enough to cook up a unified plan. But they send this guy on, James Tallarico. I'm ashamed
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that he has what appears to be at least a vaguely Italian last name. James Tallarico goes on Joe
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Rogan, the biggest podcast in the world, to discuss his apparently devout Christianity and why his
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devotion to God and religion leads him to defend a ton of weird sex stuff and murdering babies.
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So it just, I get suspicious when anybody, whether it's a televangelist or a politician, tells me that
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something is central to my faith when Jesus never talks about it. To me, that should, I think,
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ring alarm bells as to what is the agenda here. Put a pause just right there.
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First problem that he's got, he says, I just, I have some real alarm bells that come up
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when people say something about the Christian faith that Christ did not directly say, like in the red
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letters of your Bible. But of course, our Lord, if you look at the entire text of scripture, our Lord
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Lord directly says relatively few things. Now, of course, all scripture is inspired by God and it is
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inerrant. But the actual red letter words of Christ on earth, relatively few. So is he saying that we
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can't come to any conclusions beyond that? Why do we have the rest of the Bible? Why do we have the
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entire Old Testament? Why do we have the epistles? Why do we have the book of the apocalypse? Why do we
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have most of the gospels? If what this, if this guy's contention is that if Christ does not directly
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say something during his sojourn on earth, you should ignore it. That should have nothing to do
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with your faith. Already, you're starting out on real shaky ground. He goes on.
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What is someone trying to, to get across? And I think if we're looking at the last 40, 50 years,
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the religious right has made a concerted effort to make homosexuality and abortion the two biggest
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issues for Christians. And, you know, the Southern Baptist Convention was pro-choice until the late
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1970s. So this, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion,
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there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that.
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Okay, put a pause here, put a pause here. So he starts out and look, you know, I love my Southern
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Baptist friends. Southern Baptists have been great recently on the IVF issue. You know, I have a
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Baptist grandpa, but to say, hey, hey, the Southern Baptists supported killing babies or at least
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tolerated killing babies. That's not, that's not a great argument. That's a criticism of Southern
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Baptists. But he says, there's no ancient support for a Christian proscription on killing babies.
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How ancient do you think the Southern Baptists are? That's your example. You know, that ancient
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sect, but way back in antiquity, there were all sorts of rival claimants to Christianity. The
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Marcionites, the Gnostics, the Donatists, the Docetists, the Southern Baptists, the Catholics.
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Well, I don't think so. But we, we do have sources from antiquity on this issue of abortion, even just
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that. The oldest catechism that we have coming from what, the second or third century, the Didache
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prohibits abortion. This is the, this is the oldest text of Christian teaching, how to be a Christian,
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how to live a Christian life that we have. We also see Christian sexual morality affirmed all the,
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all the way back, even before year zero, even before the incarnation. Scripture could, could not
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be more clear on this issue in Leviticus, in Exodus, in the Pauline epistles that, you know, the stuff
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that the fellows like doing on the Democrat side now, you're really not supposed to do that. But,
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but what would he have us say? Would he say, well, you have to ignore all of the books of the Old
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Testament. You have to ignore the letters of St. Paul because Christ didn't say them himself. Well,
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you know what he did say? He said that he comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.
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You know what he does say on the road to Emmaus? He opens up all of the scripture to the people who
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are walking with him. You know what he does say? He says he won't change a jot or a tittle,
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not until all is fulfilled. So even from within his own argument, which is sus and extremely
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circumscribed, even there, he's contradicting himself. Because when, when push comes to shove,
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he cares more about killing babies and doing weird stuff with dudes than he cares about the faith.
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Then he cares about God. So he's trying to talk himself out of this. He keeps going.
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Well, theological, biblical basis for that opinion.
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Well, there was certainly abortions in the ancient world. There, there is some,
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well, there's some, there's, and again, I haven't stated this enough to, to say this definitively,
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but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that
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there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world,
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certain things to drink, things like that. The point is that this idea that there is a set.
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So everything he says, it just gets you so tangled up because he says, notice how vague he's being.
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He says, well, I mean, abortion's been around forever, right? You know how we know that?
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Because Christianity immediately prohibits it. It's prohibited in scripture, thou shalt not kill,
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thou shalt not commit murder. But also we can just see in the practice of the church,
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the church immediately affirms you are not to have an abortion, full stop. So what he,
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what he is left with to defend his indefensible view is, well, there are, there are interpretations
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of certain parts of the Bible, which I, the parts of the Bible that I just told you to ignore five
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seconds ago, but now, now because it's convenient to me, I'll cite them. There are interpretations
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that some people think encourage abortion. Oh yeah, there are interpretations. Well, yeah,
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I mean, I couldn't, I can interpret just about anything. However I please, the question is,
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are those interpretations reliable? On what basis, on what authority are you making those
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interpretations? Previously, you were citing the Southern Baptist Convention as the ultimate
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religious authority, but you're not, you're not really doing that because you're contradicting
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the Southern Baptist Convention when it's, when it's convenient to you. Then you're citing what?
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You're just citing yourself and your own whims. And this is when it gets really, really heretical.
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There is a set Christian orthodoxy on the issue of abortion. It's just not rooted in scripture.
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So there's the, there's the problem. And I'll move on from this guy in a second. But what he's
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saying is, is showing you not just the problem Democrats have right now, which is as the politics
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becomes more religious and specifically more Christian and specifically more traditionally
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Christian again, the Democrats are, are on the back foot because they don't know how to talk that
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way. Just like conservatives have a hard time speaking in secular liberal terms,
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left-wingers have a hard time speaking in religious terms. So this guy is going to try to
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take his chance to be the, he's going to be the religious voice for the left. But he's not only
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wrong in substance, he's also missing the point. He says the notion that there's some Christian
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orthodoxy in, on abortion is just not there in scripture.
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So the, what, what God says about abortion and killing babies is I think clear enough from
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scripture, but orthodoxy is true teaching and true teaching cannot really ultimately be determined
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from within the Bible, from within the text. It's teaching. So you are relying on some kind of
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authority. Orthodoxy relates to when you have a text, when you have something to teach and there
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are right ways to interpret it and wrong ways to interpret it. So the only way to resolve orthodoxy
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is to have a way to interpret it, which in this case obviously has to come from outside of the Bible.
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Knowing what books are in the Bible has to come from outside of the Bible because the Bible doesn't
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tell you. The Bible is made by a church. When, when our Lord creates the church, he gives authority,
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interpretive authority and other authority to a man named St. Peter. And he breathes the Holy Spirit
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on the apostles and he gives them certain powers and authorities and he gives them a great commission.
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And this guy doesn't want to accept that, but, but it's not just about him. I mean, this, he's a
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complete joke, complete joke. He goes on in this interview. It's so horrifying. He goes on to say
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that the blessed mother, the Virgin Mary, what was so beautiful about the annunciation, I kid you,
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I don't, I'm not even going to play it on my show. What was so beautiful about the annunciation
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is that she could have aborted Christ. He goes on to, I'm not playing it on the show. I'll tell you
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what he said. I don't need to give him air time for that. Crazy stuff. Great, crazy. But where does
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he get it from? He gets it from Pope, Pope Tallarico. And, and I guess this is the broader
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issue, even beyond the religious questions that are coming up in politics. This is the bigger issue
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for our politics. Sometimes Catholics get criticized because we follow the Pope and there's, that's a
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whole separate conversation. But the, the alternative to having a Pope is not not having
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a Pope. The alternative to having a Pope is having every man be his own Pope. Either having some random
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church have the authority and claim the authority of the Pope, or just having every individual claim
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it. So it's not that this guy doesn't have a Pope. This guy has just made himself the Pope. It's
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actually worse because the Pope's power is, is limited. The Pope can't just go about and do
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whatever he wants and claim whatever he says is totally infallible. This guy is not just making
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himself the Pope. He's making himself the Pope and the church fathers and all the ecumenical councils
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for 2000 years, all in one. That's what he's claiming. You can't even really argue with him
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because if you were to debate him and say, no, no, here's what the Didache said. Here's what the
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council of Ephesus said. Here's what the council of Rome said. Here's what this council said. Here's what
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this. Here's what Tertullian said. Here's what Thomas Aquinas said. Here's what, here's how the,
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he would say, yeah, yeah, but no, they got it wrong. And I got it right. This guy, I don't even,
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I think he's a Presbyterian of some sort. Apologies to the Presbyterians who are listening that you have
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to associate with this man. I think he started out as a Baptist. You can't really argue with him
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because his problem is epistemological. And this is our, our problem is epistemological.
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And a lot of our confusion these days is epistemological. Can we trust the experts?
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Can we trust the government? Can we trust, can we trust anyone to tell us what a man or a woman is?
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Can we trust our neighbors? Can we trust this group or that group? Can we can't, we don't know
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what to trust. We don't have any, any sense of authority anymore. And this isn't just a problem
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of our time that the elites are all lying to us. There's some of that too, but this is a consequence
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and a cause of liberalism. Liberalism, which ultimately seeks the maximal autonomy for the
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individual. So you take down the Pope, you say, all right, great. What's the, you take down one Pope,
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8 billion Popes rise up in his place. Except you don't have unity. You don't have authority. You
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don't have real authority. You just have this wacko going on, speaking about hideously blasphemous
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things. And broadly, just really ridiculous things, making himself look ridiculous.
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Ultimately, this is an epistemological crisis. This is not going to work out well for Democrats,
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but they can, they can send this guy on. If I didn't, if I didn't so hate the sacrilege that
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he engages in, I would say, send this guy, make him the face of the Democrats. Democrats right now,
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they're, they got some bad faces right now. The faces of the Democrats, this guy, Zoran Mamdani,
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and their, their biggest one, who we'll get to in just a moment, Hunter Biden. Hold on one second.
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the Israeli embassy in the U.S. is warning of anti-Semitism. And it's not just a kind of broad,
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vague anti-Semitism. It's not just a sort of way to shut down debate or anything. They're pointing
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to real examples. And it would be hard for someone to watch this example at least and dispute what
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the Israelis are saying. This is from the Fresh and Fit podcast. What do you guys think about Hitler?
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What if the Jewish did something to the Germans that made them act a certain way, but nobody wants
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to talk about it. Like the Jews don't want to take accountability. Yes. I'm with you on that one.
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Okay. That's why, that's why, like, that was up to something. So the Germans wanted to take them
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out. Like payback. It had to be something, like Germans wanted to take them out, all of them out.
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The Holocaust was the only way he can take out a huge population, like a huge amount of Jews all in
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one setting. But I already know what's going on. Like, I'm not dumb. Like, I know, like, the Jews did
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something. That's why they sent up here. They're trying to take back, like, they're trying to take
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back and get repercussions, especially from America, like from Americans. So they're taking over the
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government and stuff like that. I'm telling you, how do we take them down? How do we take them down?
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I hate to say it. My bad, y'all. My bad. All right. Not exactly a televised
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Mensa meeting, but you get the picture. You get this guy who is, what do you think about Hitler? And
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then the girl says, I like Hitler. And he goes, yeah. And she's like, yeah, the Holocaust is fine or
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whatever. Yeah. And then we say, what are we going to do about those dastardly Jews? And the girl
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says, we got to kill them all. She said that and they say, yeah. And that's so, you know,
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I have plenty of disagreements with the Israeli government over a number of matters, but I get
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why they are a little concerned about this. It's a very popular podcast. However, one thing that people
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are arguing is that this is something new. And I don't think this is really new. This kind of talk,
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is straight out of Malcolm X. Malcolm X was saying the same kind of stuff, even more recently than
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Malcolm X. You had Jesse Jackson. You remember him in the nineties, Jesse Jackson, race hustler,
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black guy in New York. He would, he called New York Hymie town, I think. I shouldn't laugh,
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but he's, you know, it's, it seems so quaint these days. Al Sharpton, same thing. Al Sharpton started a
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race riot with the Jews. So I think, I think he also used the word Hymie. I think he said,
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come get me Hymie or something like that. So that's not new. There, there has been a hostility
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to Jews, especially pronounced among prominent black people in recent decades. That's been going
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on for a while. The thing that is new is this previously was almost entirely on the left.
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Malcolm X, kind of a, I guess you wouldn't, he's not like a hippie or anything, but he was a left-wing
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figure, certainly Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, left-wing figures. Now you're seeing it creep
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a little bit on the right. It's pretty minor. It's more pronounced on social media, obviously,
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but it's a little, it's relatively minor on the right, but it's there. And I, I think a lot of
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people are missing the point of how that happens though. And I really hate to say, I told you so on
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this. I did call this, I've called this for years where you're seeing it crop up mostly is on the
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irreligious right. Mostly guys who are not, I don't know the guys on that show. I don't think
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they're showing up to church on Sunday and they're in their Sunday best with their ties all done. I
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don't, I don't think they're doing a lot of corporal or spiritual works of mercy. Don't think
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they avail themselves of that. I don't think they're very religious. And I've said for years
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while the, this is for at least 10 years now, as religion was beginning to enter back into American
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politics, you heard these phrases, Christian nationalism, we're a Christian country. We need
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a great awakening or we need a reconquest of the Protestant churches, or you're especially seeing a
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mass conversion to Catholicism. And a lot of the libs were screaming about this, whining about this.
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They hated it. This is terrible. I, I hate Christian nationalism. And I said, if you think
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Christian nationalism's bad, just wait till you see unchristian nationalism. You think the religious
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right is bad? Wait till you see the irreligious right. You're really going to hate that. And I like
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the religious right. And I like the Christian nation. I like Christian empire for that matter.
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But if I were a lib, well, the left actually hates the Jews now too, much more clearly than the,
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than the right does. But if I wanted to protect multiculturalism and tolerance and getting along
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and all this, I would, I would not be going after the religious right. I'd be going after
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the irreligious right if I were on the left. And I would, I might even make common cause with those
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Christians. Turns out, turns out there, there were worse people in politics than Christians.
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Now, speaking of the podcast circuit, Hunter Biden, he's back, baby. He's back. He's not holding back.
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He did another podcast interview for some reason now. And this time he wasn't extolling the virtues
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of crack as he did on the last show we were talking about him. But he has an analysis of what happened
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in 2024. The Democrats, what are, what are we now? What are we going to be? Are we going to go,
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are we going to be more religious? Are we going to be less religious? Are we going to be more woke?
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Are we going to be more establishment? Are we, he's got an answer. Hold on one second. Wait a minute.
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an advisor free of charge. My favorite comment yesterday is from Razzy P. Razzy P says,
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it's not nice language, but I think this is about the First Lady of France. It says,
00:25:56.800
didn't that nasty bat groom a 14-year-old? I'd say that part is a bit more concerning. Okay,
00:26:01.840
is that bat? Does one call a woman a bat? I don't know that I've heard that before. Dingbat,
00:26:05.820
I've heard. Okay, anyway. Yeah, to me, that's also part of the reason that I think it would be hard
00:26:13.720
for the President and First Lady of France to prove actual malice here is there is a lot of weird sex
00:26:20.740
stuff around the case. A woman was 39 when she first got together with this 15-year-old kid,
00:26:30.380
right? Maybe a 14-year-old kid. I don't know. That's weird. Now, the French have always been
00:26:34.940
into very freaky sex stuff. So that's, I mean, the Marquis de Sade does come from somewhere. But
00:26:38.640
anyway, that's just another wrinkle in there. I agree, though. That to me is much more concerning
00:26:43.780
than any suggestion that she's a fellow. Okay, Hunter Biden is on the podcast. Speaking of a guy who
00:26:50.700
knows a lot about weird sex, Hunter Biden is on the podcast circuit. He's on some show called
00:26:56.220
At Our Table. And he has a theory as to why the Democrats lost in 2024.
00:27:03.380
I will tell you why we lost the last election. We lost the last election because we did not remain
00:27:10.660
loyal to the leader of the party. That's my position. We had the advantage of incumbency.
00:27:15.500
We had the advantage of an incredibly successful administration. And the Democratic Party
00:27:21.500
literally melted down. Yeah. I think he's about 75% right. People are going to disagree. They're
00:27:30.380
going to say it's great. No, there's no way. They had to try to switch him out. No, you almost,
00:27:36.200
if you're swapping out an incumbent, you're just giving up the game. Joe Biden drooling on his shirt
00:27:42.540
would have been a much better candidate than Kamala Harris. I think he's right about that. So
00:27:46.040
Hunter is giving good analysis, which is leading some libs to say that this man,
00:27:53.520
if they're not going to make that weird, heretical freak from Texas, the face of the Democrat party,
00:27:59.180
they're going to make Hunter Biden, the man who can shine on Rogan. That's the headline. That's
00:28:05.300
the headline from The Atlantic. Finally, a Democrat who could shine on Joe Rogan's show. Hunter Biden is
00:28:11.740
unrepentant. It was during last year's presidential campaign, Donald Trump's interviews with Rogan,
00:28:17.540
Theo Vaughn, and Logan Paul resonated with many young men. I can imagine that same audience watching
00:28:22.340
Hunter tell Callahan about his crack addiction and thinking, give this guy a break.
00:28:31.500
Great. Great. Either one, pick either one. You can, the guy in Texas or Hunter Biden,
00:28:36.420
either of them can be the, or David Hogg. Remember him? He was going to lead the Democrat party.
00:28:40.020
One of the five least likable Democrats in the entire country. He was going to lead.
00:28:45.000
They wised up and kicked him out of the party, kicked him out of the leadership.
00:28:48.080
But still, they are really scraping the bottom. I love that this is the criterion. They say,
00:28:53.220
well, who can hang on Rogan? Kamala couldn't hang on Rogan. Joe Biden couldn't understand what
00:28:56.980
Joe Rogan was saying. Who's our guy who can hang on Rogan? Hunter Biden. And I bet that's true.
00:29:02.480
I bet Hunter could hang on Rogan, no doubt about it. But think about why.
00:29:07.700
The reason that President Trump and J.D. Vance were able to hang on Rogan and their episodes
00:29:14.460
were very, very successful and they came off great is because the whole time they were sitting
00:29:18.700
there with Joe and they were saying, you know, this Democrat establishment, this liberal establishment
00:29:24.220
is freaking corrupt. It is corrupt. This whole thing, the uniparty, it's corrupt and we're fighting
00:29:30.240
against it. That's why they can hang on Rogan. The voice of the median voter, a man who comes at
00:29:36.560
politics from an outside perspective, this Democrat establishment is rough. And the funniest part is
00:29:42.860
the reason everyone's saying Hunter would be great on Rogan now is because he's saying the exact same
00:29:47.940
thing. The Trump and Vance go on, they say these Democrats, these elites, these, the uniparty guys,
00:29:54.780
they're frauds. And then Hunter goes on the crack podcast and goes on whatever this podcast was.
00:30:00.140
He sits down and he says, hey, we're frauds. Our party, we're frauds. We're stupid. We robbed my
00:30:05.880
dad of the nomination. We shot ourselves in the foot. We have no idea what we're doing. We're totally
00:30:11.000
incompetent. And we smoke and we're crackheads. And the best of us, the best of us, the most incisive
00:30:19.560
figures in the Democrat party are literal crackheads. Wow. Did not, did not see this implosion of what was
00:30:30.580
once the main American political party happening. Now we turn from the, the future leaders of the
00:30:36.880
left to the bright, the bright young figures on the right. J.D. Vance comes out swinging against not
00:30:43.000
just illegal immigration, not just face tattooed gangsters. He comes out swinging against legal
00:30:49.420
residents who are brought into America to work. He comes out against H-1Bs.
00:30:55.240
A massive shortage of these jobs. And by the way, you see some big tech companies where they'll lay off
00:31:00.720
9,000 workers and then they'll apply for a bunch of overseas visas. And I sort of wonder my,
00:31:07.080
that doesn't totally make sense to me. The math doesn't.
00:31:09.480
That, that displacement and that math worries me a bit. And what the president has said,
00:31:12.920
he said very clearly, we want the very best and the brightest to make America their home. We want
00:31:17.480
them to build great companies and so forth. But I don't want companies to fire 9,000 American workers
00:31:24.440
and then to go and say, we can't find workers here in America. That's a story.
00:31:29.240
What did Microsoft say when you brought that up with Microsoft?
00:31:35.500
I have, I have not. I just became aware of this a couple of weeks ago. Somebody sent me
00:31:38.900
an article about this and they said, well, you know, and it maybe was Microsoft.
00:31:43.200
That fired, I think, 9,000 people. And then I was like, wait a second.
00:31:49.880
And, but also saying they're, they're desperate for workers. So I have not yet had that conversation
00:31:53.600
with Microsoft. In my defense, I just found out.
00:31:55.700
It's great. It's great. He's, he's taken names. He's focused on this real issue.
00:32:01.880
This way of talking about migration is the future of the right.
00:32:05.020
10 years ago, the debate was, do we want to flood the country with legal immigrants or
00:32:09.080
do we want to flood the country with legal and illegal immigrants?
00:32:12.820
Now the conversation is no illegal immigrants, maybe no legal immigrants.
00:32:18.120
And we got to be real precise, even about high value foreign workers.
00:32:21.420
And it's for a number of reasons, social solidarity, maintaining a traditional culture,
00:32:28.320
but also workers' rights. So then Republicans become the party of workers' rights. Meanwhile,
00:32:33.100
Democrats are saying we're going to suppress wages. We're going to flood the country with
00:32:35.980
foreigners. Forget about the common guy. This is why the Teamsters didn't endorse the
00:32:41.260
Democrats. It's shocking that the Teamsters wouldn't endorse the Democrats, but maybe not so
00:32:44.760
shocking when you see this shift. That's the future of the right. If the right is to have a
00:32:48.100
future, that's where it lands. So the Republicans have a pretty good vision of where they want to
00:32:53.780
go, how they're going to navigate this moment. Democrats torn between an extreme heretic and a
00:33:01.240
crackhead. Speaking of, we're talking about technology here, really dubious technology.
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I have to get to it briefly at least. There's a new hellscape technology coming to a community near
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you, is glasses called Waves. Camera glasses for creators. Do we have a video of this?
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Hey, my buddy. He's wearing a funny costume. Content.
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Okay, I've had enough of this. I've had enough of the content. No more content.
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Record in stealth. We used to complain about a surveillance state, Big Brother. Now we say,
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oh, how great is this? We have a surveillance state with Big Brother. Record in stealth.
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Livestream all day. To me, that's actually worse than the recording in stealth. The live streaming
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all day. Pre-order now. I know I've been part of this. I know I've contributed to this issue
00:34:30.260
because I put out a lot of content on the internet and I stream or whatever.
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I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of all content until we figure out what's going on.
00:34:44.180
We have too much content. There's too much. Stop the content. We used to have television shows,
00:34:51.660
movies, books, symphonies, operas. Now we don't. We don't have any of that. No one goes to that.
00:34:57.540
No one sees it. We have content. Slop content. I'm reminded of a line from Chesterton. I'll adapt
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it to the modern age. The world will never starve for want of content, but for want of contentedness.
00:35:18.040
You think about that? Chesterton said, the world will never starve for want of wonders,
00:35:22.820
but for want of wonder. I think something's happening here too. Why do I want to watch some
00:35:28.820
20-year-old smoke a cigarette? I don't need more content. I know why people want it though,
00:35:39.360
because they're not actually doing any of that stuff. They don't have a social life.
00:35:43.960
They don't have a robust private life that gives them actual enjoyment.
00:35:49.220
So they have to consume other people's social lives as a parasocial relationship,
00:35:54.040
or at best, they get invited to the beer pong party or whatever, and rather than just enjoy that,
00:36:02.660
they have to monetize it. They have to commoditize it. They have to broadcast it. It's all content.
00:36:07.940
And you don't need, there's a role for content, about 44 minutes a day. That's good content.
00:36:14.880
The rest, you can live your life and you can be content.
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Now, before we turn off all the content, there is one movie you should see.
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00:36:43.180
you want to be, be Joe Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer left home at 16. He spent the next few years homeless,
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bouncing around. The pain that I know that kid went through and overcame, if you want to beat
00:36:53.880
him, you got to kill him. The second you lose, everybody forgets you. I wasn't ready to be forgotten.
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at dailywire.com. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear
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from you in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles. Get
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your free phone today. I spoke too long in the earlier segments. I've missed you all being out of
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studio. And so I'm going to fly through this mailbag so I get to all the questions.
00:37:27.260
Hey, Michael, I was just wondering what you think the acceptable age range is for a relationship.
00:37:32.560
As an example, I just asked a woman out who was 11 years older than me. Do you think that's too
00:37:39.380
much? Should I look for someone a little closer to me in age? Thanks for taking my question.
00:37:45.600
Good question. It depends on how old you are and what you want to do. If you are 30 and want to
00:37:52.260
have kids, you should not date the woman who's 11 years older than you. If you're 20, she's 31. That's
00:37:58.060
a bit of an odd age gap. I don't know. I mean, stranger things have happened, but the purpose
00:38:05.340
of marriage is to have kids. Not everyone gets to have kids. People suffer infertility. It's a
00:38:09.360
fallen world. But marriage is ordered toward having kids. So a guy can marry a girl 11 years
00:38:15.900
younger, no problem. Might make having kids easier. If a guy marries a girl who's 11 years
00:38:20.080
older, it's going to make it harder. I'm not saying it can't be done. I'm not saying there
00:38:22.800
aren't arguments for it, but that is something to take into account. I wouldn't go much older
00:38:28.260
than that, 11 years older. I definitely wouldn't marry someone who's 25 years older than you
00:38:32.700
and was your French teacher. Don't do that. Next one.
00:38:36.580
Hey, Michael. I have a question about men's style when taking a woman out, particularly on
00:38:43.140
a first date. How much in the modern world is too much? You know, probably dressing up in
00:38:50.840
a full three-piece suit on a first date would come across as overkill to most women.
00:38:56.760
But on the other hand, showing up in a t-shirt and shorts is definitely underkill. So where's
00:39:03.960
the nice balance for modern guys to look like they take care of themselves and have class,
00:39:09.380
but not look too self-obsessed or just sloppy and lazy? On a similar note, there seems to be
00:39:17.460
a debate among young guys and girls today as to whether or not it's okay for guys to wear
00:39:24.560
chains, just like a generic decorative chain. And I would love your take on the subject. Thanks.
00:39:33.940
Great, great questions. On the chain issue, if you are Italian, you are allowed to wear one chain. I
00:39:41.680
would encourage you to keep it tasteful and ideally underneath the shirt. I know some of my fellow
00:39:47.820
guides like to have the big fat chains over that don't. Otherwise, just avoid it. Just avoid it.
00:39:54.380
I used to wear a chain, sometimes with a crucifix, sometimes with a little cornicello as a little
00:39:57.600
boy, eight years old. But I would avoid it. In terms of what you wear on a date, I really don't
00:40:03.820
think a grown man should go in public without a collar on, at least a polo shirt, maybe a button
00:40:07.840
shirt. Some people disagree. Look, if you're going to work out, if you're going to go, I don't know,
00:40:12.240
cut down trees, you're going to go fishing. I'm not saying you have to wear a collar necessarily for
00:40:15.240
that, though I probably would, but I wouldn't do a lot of those things. In any case, you should have
00:40:20.360
that already. You don't need to wear a three-piece suit. You don't need to look like a total weirdo.
00:40:24.260
It depends how old you are, too. If you're 21, you're going out with a girl, you can wear a shirt,
00:40:30.240
like a shirt rolled up sleeves, maybe a button-down collar, a shirt that buttons, not a t-shirt or anything.
00:40:37.840
I don't know, maybe chinos, even jeans, probably okay. You should wear shoes that are not running
00:40:45.180
shoes, but that's fine. You don't need to. Now, if you're older, you're 30, 35, going out to dinner,
00:40:50.900
I would not go to dinner probably without a jacket on to most places. Maybe if it's really
00:40:55.800
like a lower-end place or maybe a sweater, but even that, I would, you know, just,
00:41:01.880
you've got to live within your society, but you've got to dress for the job you want. Dress for the
00:41:07.080
girl you want. Dress for the lifestyle you want. Don't, don't LARP about it. Don't, you know,
00:41:13.880
don't show up wearing like crusader chain mail and like you're going to, you say, I'm a real
00:41:18.460
hardcore traddy, you know, I'm going to go kill the Saracens or something. Don't do that.
00:41:22.580
Have it be within reason, but have it, it's got to look good. It'll look good, okay? It's about,
00:41:27.800
you're going on a date. You want to attract a girl. Okay, next one.
00:41:29.780
Hey, Michael, I know that you and your wife have boys, but I'm curious, are you ever going to have
00:41:37.200
any girls? Yeah, I'd like to. The problem is I'm not capable of producing one. I'm too virile. I'm
00:41:47.260
too teeming with testosterone and, and manliness. So I've not been able to, I would like one because
00:41:54.740
I don't want to be shoved in a home in my old age. And I want, so I might, do you think the boys are
00:41:58.640
going to take care of me? I need a daughter to help me. And I think it'd be nice. I need a daughter,
00:42:05.120
obviously, if I want to grant criminals favors on, on her wedding. And so I want one, but I guess it's
00:42:13.380
just the T levels are too high. I don't, we need a cure. We need a cure for me producing so many men.
00:42:24.040
Hi, Michael. I was thinking about the methods of our justice system. And I was wondering,
00:42:29.380
do you think corporal punishment is justifiable for some crimes? Singapore tends to cane their
00:42:34.900
criminals as a deterrent. What are your thoughts? Thank you.
00:42:38.660
Yeah, that's a good idea. I mean, I would stop short of, you know, chopping people's hands off
00:42:42.240
like they do in Afghanistan or whatever, Africa. But, but yeah, I think a little corporal punishment's
00:42:46.760
okay. Really the way we would do it in a, in a more civilized way is we would, we would do what we
00:42:52.860
used to do in this country, which is hard labor. So you make, you make the criminals turn big rocks
00:42:57.620
into small rocks. That's, that's what we would do rather than actually flogging them constantly.
00:43:01.980
You could do that too. I see no problem with it. And in many ways, it's much more humane to do that
00:43:06.440
and better for the person than to just let them languish in some dirty cell for 30 years.
00:43:12.240
Instead of that, how about we just go, you know, give them a bunch of floggings and, or have them,
00:43:18.440
you know, do hard labor for five years. If you, if you told me I could either languish in a cell for
00:43:23.540
30 years for some crime or, or do very strenuous hard labor for five years, that's not even a
00:43:28.900
question. Time, time is very important. Okay. That, look at that. I flew through the questions
00:43:35.420
because I know I was short on time. I'm going to even try to get through one of the written
00:43:37.800
mailbags. Let's see. There's so many. I have so many. Where are my, where's my mailbag?
00:43:45.520
I don't see it. They didn't print out my mail, but these jerks, why didn't they print out my
00:43:49.920
mailbag? Okay. From River. Hello, Michael. I'm 16 and a big fan of the show. I'll be starting my
00:43:55.460
junior year this fall. My parents are really pushing me to go to college. I, on the other hand,
00:43:59.980
want to get my real estate license and start making money right out of high school. Hopefully enough to
00:44:03.640
afford a delicious Mayflower cigar. I attend a small classical Christian school. It's given me an
00:44:07.380
incredible education. And I don't think it makes sense to spend four more years and a ton of money
00:44:10.840
on a degree that in today's world often doesn't hold much value. What do you think I should do?
00:44:15.300
Thank you. The pendulum had swung so much in the direction, especially around the time that I
00:44:21.780
graduated. I think that was almost the all-time high. 70% of high school graduates went to college.
00:44:26.940
That was way crazy. Most of those people should not have gone to college with a huge waste.
00:44:31.740
We don't want the pendulum to swing too far in the other correction and over,
00:44:35.220
over-correct though. You know, a habit or rather a virtue is this nice happy medium between two
00:44:41.060
bad extremes. So it depends what you want. You say, okay, I can get a real estate license and sell
00:44:46.260
houses right now and make a bunch of money. That's true. Now you have to ask yourself,
00:44:50.420
is that what you want to do in 10 years? Is that what you want to do in 20 years?
00:44:54.020
Maybe it is. In which case, all right, there you go. Is that, is there a way to go from that
00:45:00.000
to some other thing you want to do without going to college? Okay, well then maybe that's a good
00:45:05.000
route. But are you not so sure about that? Are you not even aware maybe of the possibilities?
00:45:13.300
Are you, do you do well in school? Do you get good grades? Do you enjoy learning? Do you like books?
00:45:18.080
If so, there are some educational institutions that are still pretty, pretty good. Somewhere you
00:45:24.300
can get a true proper education. I think I just gave the commencement at Ave Maria University.
00:45:29.360
I think of Hillsdale College. I think of Thomas Aquinas College. I think of Franciscan. I think
00:45:34.580
there are, there are, there are more where you can go get a proper education. Even at some of the
00:45:40.180
brand name, you know, prestigious schools, formerly prestigious schools, in some cases, it's still
00:45:45.080
possible to get an education there. Maybe you want that. Maybe that's going to open your mind to
00:45:49.460
possibilities that you as a 17-year-old don't, or 18-year-old don't really know even exist.
00:45:55.060
Don't discount it immediately. Go, go in with a plan and make sure the plan doesn't just get you
00:46:01.400
through, hey, I'm going to make a hundred thousand dollars by the time I'm 23. Yeah, well, look,
00:46:06.240
that sounds great. But also think to 33, 43, 53, which 18-year-olds are not always great at. Okay,
00:46:13.340
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