Ep. 1828 - GROSS： The NFL And Harvard Hire Bad Bunny And LaWhore Vagistan
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Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl. Netflix is canceled. Elon has declared it so. My producers have prepared for me some horrifying, horrifying clips. Today's episode is all about why Bad Bunny was chosen to perform at Super Bowl LIV.
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Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl. Lahore Vajastan is teaching at Harvard.
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And I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Netflix is canceled. Elon has declared it so. I don't make the rules.
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Bad Bunny, coming to the Super Bowl. Who is Bad Bunny?
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I thought, I sincerely thought Bad Bunny was that girl from Maury, or Dr. Phil.
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And she was on, you remember the girl who was like, cash me outside, how about that?
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And she called herself Bad, I thought Bad Bunny, but it's not.
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She's Bad Baby. And Bad Baby will not be performing at the Super Bowl.
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I don't know what she does, other than that clip. She could reenact that clip.
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Bad Bunny is a Puerto Rican cross-dresser. So, Bad Bunny is this Puerto Rican rapper,
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singer, or whatever. And apparently, he's popular. I'd never heard of him.
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And he wears dresses. But he's not trans. And I don't even know if he's a drag queen.
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But he wears dresses. And this is the crucial part. He hates Donald Trump.
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He hates Trump. He's very anti-ice. He's very anti-immigration enforcement.
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And that's why he was picked for the Super Bowl.
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A lot of people don't quite know why the Super Bowl would make this pick.
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Is it because the NFL is just so super-duper woke? Yeah, the NFL is pretty woke.
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The NFL is the league of Colin Kaepernick and protesting the American flag and the separate
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black national anthem as if black people can't sing the regular national anthem.
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And so, the NFL is awful. I don't like the NFL. I don't watch professional football.
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It doesn't do anything for me. But that's not the only reason that they picked Mr. Bunny
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to play the Super Bowl. The reason is, this is the last best shot to turn something of the
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common culture against Trump. 124 million people watched the Super Bowl last year. That's a lot
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of people. Well, we say, you know, the ratings for the Oscars are down. And the ratings for network
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TV are down. The ratings for this, all the ratings are down except for the Super Bowl. 124 million
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people is still really, really impressive. And so, the libs, who still run the media, they need
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to turn some part of the common culture against Trump. I think for the younger people in the
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audience, the real takeaway here is, this is what TV just used to be. This is what all TV used to be.
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This is what the movies used to be. There used to be a common culture. Everyone used to watch the
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same shows. Everyone used to go see the same movies. That started to fragment in the 2000s,
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20 teens. Then you get independent media, podcast culture, social media, all this stuff.
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And all of a sudden, people aren't watching this stuff. And I don't even know who Bad Bunny is,
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but I know what the Super Bowl is. So, back in those days, when we could just trust the man on
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the news, everything was super lib. And so, if you could control, like, five people, you could control
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the political narrative in the country. That doesn't work anymore, with this one exception.
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The common culture. The Super Bowl might be the last common culture artifact, other than Trump.
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Though Trump is still polarizing. He won the popular vote, but he's still polarizing.
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So, that's really what this is about. They have to do this. And it doesn't matter if the people
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watching at home want to see a cross-dressing Puerto Rican who hates immigration, and immigration
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raids, and ICE, and deportations. It doesn't matter. They're going to try to ram it down their
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throats, because they think people love the Super Bowl enough to watch it. And maybe that's true.
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I don't love the Super Bowl enough. I don't care about professional football at all. So,
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I probably won't watch it. But who knows? You know what? I probably will have to,
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because it's part of the common culture. I'll have to talk about it on the show.
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So, they get away with it. Now, turning to cross-dressers closer to home. I am at Harvard
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right now. I gave a speech at Harvard Law School last night for YAF. Weirdly, Harvard does not let
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you live stream speeches. It's like the only school that doesn't let you live stream. So,
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it was a great time last night. We got the video. Hopefully, we can try to air that soon.
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But I'm still here. I'm still here in Cambridge. And it was an amazing day to go to Harvard,
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because hours earlier, Harvard announced that it had hired a new professor. And the professor's name
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is Lahore Vajistan. He's a guy. He dresses up like a lady. And his name is Lahore Vajistan.
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Harvard costs $90,000 a year to attend. And that's one of the professors they can expect.
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Professor Vajistan was not at my speech last night at Harvard Law School.
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Professor Vajistan probably was preparing his two classes that he will be teaching. The first one is
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queer ethnography in the fall. And the other one is rue politics. Rue politics. Get it? Drag race.
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Drag race. Get it? Drag race and desire in the spring. Here is Professor Vajistan describing his
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pedagogy. Education that happens through drag, I was seeing these other places. So, that's what I
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ended up writing about in the book, even though I wasn't writing about drag. I'm finishing another
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book called Decolonized Drag that is thinking about how colonialism has solidified the gender binaries
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in such a way that we only think of drag as one thing. We think drag is cis people of one gender
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dressing as the quote-unquote opposite gender, right? And once we start breaking that apart,
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we start seeing drag everywhere. And we start seeing that drag is limited by class and race,
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and caste and geography. So, really dismantling colonial binaries can help us see drag in more
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places, give more people credit for their artistry. And the last thing I'll mention is that Lahore Vajistan
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sometimes shows up to teach my classes instead of me.
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Okay, so Harvard kids, you can expect Lahore to show up. You don't know when Lahore is going to show
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up, but he or she will be there. What's most depressing about this class is not even that
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he's a sex freak and he talks about being a sex freak. It's more all the other stuff he talks about.
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Because this is basically every Harvard class. This is basically every university class now.
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You go in, you say, okay, this particular subject, this hyper-specialized subject that I've
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devoted my life to, because I can't be a generalist and I don't want to read a ton of books,
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so you can pick some really niche thing. This really specific thing is actually everything.
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That's the first part. So you say, people think drag is when one sex dresses as the other,
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but actually it's everything. Okay, that's the first part. Then the second part is you just say
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a bunch of buzzy liberal words. Colonialism, race, deconstruct, binaries, sex, gender,
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colonialism. Did I say colonialism yet? Colonialism. You just say that for anything. It doesn't have to
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be drag. Deconstructing the colonial sexual binary of drag mathematics. They could teach that in the
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math department. And it would be just like every other modern university class. That's what's most
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depressing to me about this. If it were actually about the aesthetics of drag shows, or I don't
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know, the history of drag shows, it might be, it's not worth teaching at Harvard, but it might be
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slightly interesting. But it's just the same as every other class in the sociology department,
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or increasingly in the history department, the American studies department.
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It's the deconstructing the binary of drag, which is everything. And it just reminds me of the paradox
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of tolerance. The paradox of tolerance, which I talk about in my speech whenever we put it up.
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The paradox of tolerance is that as a society comes to tolerate increasingly aberrant ideas and
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behaviors, it necessarily stops tolerating normal ideas and behaviors. And vice versa. As a society
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is more tolerant of normal ideas and behaviors, it stops tolerating the aberrant ones. So a really
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relevant example of this is, as the society tolerates men in the women's bathroom, it stops
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tolerating separate bathrooms for women, because you can't have both of those things simultaneously.
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And so this message is that Harvard is just going to keep going in this direction,
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which means Trump is going to keep pummeling them into the ground and making an example,
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because they're the first school in America. Okay. Now, speaking of lunatics with funny names,
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The future mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, a Muslim socialist in favor of queer liberation,
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now has come out on the trail to declare that violence is merely a social construct.
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Oftentimes we've even found as legislators, when we go into these courts, the term violent crime
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is even used when people are stealing packages. Violent crime is even used when people are accused
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of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same dwelling. So violence is an
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artificial construction. We have to be very clear that what is happening here with these district
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attorneys, that is violence. That is violence of the highest degree.
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Violence, you see, is an artificial construction. It's amazing that he could declare this amid this
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spike in violence around the country, crime in cities, and then particularly left-wing violence,
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left-wing political violence that has become so pronounced that even the Atlantic magazine,
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as liberal a magazine as ever there was, has to point to the left-wing terrorism being on the rise.
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One of the kids at Harvard last night asked me what I would do to restore order.
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This has been a theme that we've been talking about in recent weeks. It was a theme of my speech.
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How do you restore order to your society as we seem to be fraying, coming apart at the seams?
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And the first thing you would do is you would arrest the criminals. You would enforce the criminal law
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because that's the basic function of government. It's why it's so preposterous when the Democrats
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come out and say they want to abolish the police or abolish prisons. That is the basic function of
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government, is to be the authority that maintains the peace by punishing the bad guys to protect the
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good guys. That is what government does. If a government does not do that because it's incompetent or
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because it just doesn't want to, that government is simply not legitimate. And you need a legitimate
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government to step in. And Zoran here, he says, no, but violence, man. It's like, hey, Mr. Davis,
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can you pass that bong for just one? Violence, man. It's like, what does it even mean? You know,
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it's like, what is drag? You know, it's like when we think drag is just one sex dressing up like the
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other, you get locked in a colonial binary, man. But when you look out and you see everything is
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drag. And also, everything is violence, man, which means nothing's violence, you know? You dig? You
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dig, Slim? No, I don't know. I think most people realize there is such a thing as violence and it's
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on the rise in certain places and it's made our cities unlivable. And it got pretty bad in New York
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there for a while. And we want a mayor who can stop it. I think, maybe not, maybe I'm wrong because I
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think he's going to be mayor. What else is he going to do? Besides ignore violent crime, Zoran
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Mamdani wants to buy up housing and make New York City communist. I don't know how else to say it.
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Go further toward the Vienna model. We'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish community
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land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership.
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We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale.
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And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing
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development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high-quality social housing projects
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that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone. We won't decommodify housing overnight,
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but we know what we have to do and we have history to guide us.
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We have the science of history marching on to guide us. Yes, that's right. We will liquidate
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the kulaks. Yes, we're going to have to liquidate them. And we're going to have a cultural revolution
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that brings us into a new era of social housing. What is social housing? Can you tell me what
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social housing is? How is social housing different from any other kind of housing?
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Isn't housing a social thing in itself? It's the smallest society. It's the family.
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Be curious to hear Zoran Mamdani's thoughts on the family. It houses the smallest social unit
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and then it exists within a broader society. So what is the difference between housing and social
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housing? Social housing is socialist at least, or it just seems kind of communist.
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Yes, we need to go beyond the market. We need to go beyond the market. Yes. And we're going to
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buy up all the houses and we're going to pack all the people into the project. He even calls it a
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project. Crazy that people can vote for this guy. You know what New York needs more of? Projects.
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Yeah. Oh, just beautiful projects. Yes, that's right. I'm driving through the South Bronx. I just love
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looking at all those beautiful projects and it's going to be a new era of social housing.
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It's going to, and the new era is going to be called the 1970s. That's what it's going to be. Okay.
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All right. So he is what he is. You got to give him credit for being honest. He is super radical.
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He is a commie and New York might vote for him. Okay. All right. I can't stop him. I'm not,
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I'm not a New Yorker anymore. I'm not a New York citizen. New York resident. Okay.
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Now turning to slightly more normal Democrats, slightly more normal, equally threatening Dick
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Blumenthal, Senator from Connecticut, just goes on MSNBC to complain about the Republicans wielding
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political power in ways they don't like and to make a threat. The old saying, what comes around
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goes around, you know, today it's a Republican president, but degrading the democracy and
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ruining literally perverting the great ethos and tradition of the department of justice,
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where I was in awe when I walked through those halls as a federal prosecutor. I think it's time
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for Republican colleagues to say enough is enough and we are going to push them and do it hard.
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Okay. So do you hear the implicit threat here? He speaks like a normal, boring politician,
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but he's all upset that the DOJ indicted James Comey. He says, you know, these Republicans,
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they better think long and hard. They better think long and hard about what they're doing right now
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because just wait until we're back in power. Oh, we're going to indict all of them.
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And this, this is the fear that's raised by the libertarians and some of the more squishy
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Republicans. They say, well, Trump really had better not wield political power in a just way
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because in the future, if Democrats come back to office, they're going to do that against us.
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I just think not only does that argument fail because the Democrats have been doing that against
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us for a long time and they tried to prosecute Trump four times and throw him off the ballot and
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justify his assassination. Not only have they already been doing that, but they're promising to do it
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again in the future. So the squish response to that is, well, see, they're serious. They're super
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serious. They're going to do it again in the future if we don't surrender right now. So we should
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surrender, right? And then they'll be nice to us. And to me, I would, I would draw the opposite
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conclusion. I would say, hold on, they're already promising to wield political power in likely an
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unjust way in the future. So that's all the more reason for us to exercise just political power.
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Now they're telegraphing to you what they're going to do. They're going to come out and they're going
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to beat you up and they're going to use. So you don't let them do it. You got to try to weaken
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them now so that they don't do it in the future. I'm not saying to do that in an extra legal or
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unjust way. I'm just saying just enforce the law. Prosecute the people who should be prosecuted.
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They're promising you that they're going to hurt you the second they're able to get back up.
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Don't let them get back up. This is like schoolyard 101, isn't it?
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Now, speaking of Democrat senators, John Ossoff, remember John Ossoff? He's that senator from
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Georgia. John Ossoff just went on some podcast and he actually admitted the Democrat perfidy.
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Democrats are saying all the quiet parts out loud now. Yeah, we are going to wield the law against
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you. Or yeah, we are going to prosecute our enemies. Yeah, we are going to do this. Well,
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Ossoff is admitting now that he lied about Joe Biden's dementia to stop Trump.
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We just didn't listen to the mounds and mounds of data that was out there.
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I think that the most brutally honest answer to that question is when you're facing the specter of
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Donald Trump potentially being reelected to the presidency and you have in the sitting president,
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the presumptive nominee, it's understandable that you're not going to be inclined to do or say things
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that might weaken that presumptive nominee against Trump, given the threat that he posed and poses.
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So I totally lied to you. Yeah, we all did, actually. Let me explain to you why. Because the reality of our
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situation was very bad, but we wanted to trick you into voting for us, so we lied to you. And that's
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understandable, isn't it? That's all he's saying. That's all he's saying. Yeah, but I'm going to say it
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in like that kind of millennial, a Democrat way, you know, like where we're all just trying to be
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Barack Obama. Yeah, it's understandable that we would lie to the voters to trick them because of
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how bad we were. So we wanted to trick them into electing us and making them think we were good
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and competent and alive. So you understand that, right? That's why you should trust me now because
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there were no undercover feds on January 6th. There probably weren't any undercover feds on
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January 6th. Okay, there were 12 undercover feds on January 6th. Actually, there were over 270
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undercover feds on January 6th. The Democrats every time. Yes, yes. That's where we are. We've now
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He's very upset about Netflix. I am reliably informed just because Netflix is sneaking weird
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LGBT stuff into its programming, even its kids programming. But I don't watch a lot of TV. Okay,
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I don't watch a lot of Netflix. And so my intrepid producers, led by Mr. Davies, have pulled for me
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the clips that are getting Netflix canceled. And we will together bring to bear our powers of
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cultural analysis to see if this merits canceling Netflix. What is the first one? Do we have
00:24:28.080
Michaela May or someone in the control room to tell me what these are? Oh, no. Okay. They gave it to
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them. They gave me a whole sheet. Okay. So the first one is from some show called The Babysitter's
00:24:37.100
Club. Never heard of it. Never seen it. Take it away.
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It took a while, but we finally found a file for a Bailey Del Vecchio. Is 32 Burnhill Road
00:24:45.240
still the current address? Yeah. Have you been getting influence? If he's dehydrated,
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we'll need to place an IV. Have him change into this.
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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Um, well.
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I hear someone's not feeling well. Let's take a look at the little man.
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You guys are busy, but as you would see, if you looked at her and not her chart, Bailey
00:25:20.240
is not a boy. And by treating her like one, you are completely ignoring who she is. You're
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making her feel insignificant and humiliated. And that's not going to help her feel good
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or safe or calm. So I'm here on now. Please recognize her and who she is. And if at all
00:25:40.060
possible, could you find me a non-blue hospital gown?
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My favorite response is the doctors. Yes, of course, you crazy little brat. Of course,
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I'll go listen to what you said. Why did I even go to medical school? I could have just
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listened to a delusional child and I would have, I would have been able to behave in such
00:26:03.160
a more appropriate manner. Okay. I think I have seen that clip before, but it's a reminder.
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I mean, it gets to what we were talking about at the top of the show, that there's no common
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culture anymore. If you just showed me that without any context, without knowing it's on Netflix,
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I would have assumed that was an AI generated clip made by some right winger to make fun of
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the stuff the left creates. I didn't know they actually do that. Certainly that, that
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merits canceling Netflix, but it also, it merits some introspection because I, this is my, my
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job. My job is to like watch this stuff. My job is to follow the culture and it's hard
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for me to believe that exists. Oh man, that's bad. It's so funny. It's like funny and dark.
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All right. The next one is, this is a scene from a movie on Netflix called Strawberry Shortcake
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and the Beast of Barry Bogg. Sounds wholesome. How are they going to put weird gay stuff in that?
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It's time for Frightfall 101. Welcome to your crash course in holiday self-expression.
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You look amazing, but what does this have to do with Frightfall?
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Hello. Frightfall, costumes, dressing up, and your look doesn't need to be scary. See?
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Honey, be lightly stressed for my fave movie, Breakfast at Mulberry's. It's perfect. It's
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That's really, really insidious. Because at least with the Babysitter's Club, you could say maybe
00:27:48.180
this is a show for adults. I don't think it's for adults, but maybe, okay, it's live action.
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This is just a cartoon. This is a cartoon for kids that could not be more on the nose if it
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involved a bullhorn screaming at five-year-olds, hey, do weird sex stuff.
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Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast from Barry Bogg. Very, very beastly. Okay.
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The next one, I don't think we have the name of this show. They're telling this is just another
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new Netflix show. Take it away. It's not the park. It's me. I'm trans, Norma, and everyone at
00:28:27.300
school knows, and everyone at home knows, and being here, it's like a whole new place. I can
00:28:33.340
just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell people. I've never been happier. You don't
00:28:38.340
need my permission. I just wouldn't want Courtney as a roommate. We'll be the best of friends.
00:28:46.820
But there's a bad messaging here, which is you need to live your life without apology,
00:28:51.720
which is like the worst advice ever. You should ask forgiveness all the time. You try to live
00:28:56.700
your life without apology. That one, though, the messaging is more subtle there, which maybe
00:29:03.260
makes it worse. I certainly wouldn't let my kid watch it. Okay, final one. This is from
00:29:11.460
Okay, I've got eyes on the cake. Flowers are inbound. People, where's my glitter? This
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is Cherry Chip, reporting from the wedding of the year. Everyone's favorite karate instructor,
00:29:24.560
Sensei Dave, will be marrying mixed martial arts champion, Jiu-Jitsu Joe. I do. I definitely
00:29:31.480
do. I now pronounce you husband and husband. You may kiss the groom.
00:29:37.140
Oh, man. That's just so intentional. They had to include the kiss, too, because people
00:29:50.160
naturally have a revulsion to two fellas kissing. No knock on guys who are a little light in the
00:29:56.360
loafers out there, but it's just people have a natural revulsion to that. And so I think
00:30:02.980
the argument here is they have to show it because they want to lessen that stigma. They have to
00:30:10.840
get you over that hump because they're trying to say that the revulsion is not natural. It's,
00:30:16.700
you know, socially conditioned. And so they have to get you at a very young age to think that there's
00:30:21.600
such a thing as same-sex marriage and not to think twice if two fellas are kissing or whatever. And
00:30:27.400
I kind of get it. I get their argument. You know, this is the inevitable consequence of Obergefell.
00:30:34.620
Right? This is why it matters. They say, why does it matter? Why does it matter if two people want to
00:30:39.040
get married or how does it affect you? And it's like, because of this, because this show put on
00:30:44.200
the biggest platform for kids is the inevitable consequence of that. If we say from the highest
00:30:50.980
court in the land that marriage really can be a union of two men, then yeah, we need that throughout
00:30:57.780
our popular culture. And if we say that that's true and good, then we have to put that not just
00:31:04.940
in adult programming, but also in children's programming. Because it's true and good. There's
00:31:09.000
nothing obscene about it. There's nothing scandalous about it. It's just true and good. Yeah, we should
00:31:14.080
be playing clips from this in the womb. Right? Now we all know that isn't true. But if you conclude
00:31:21.300
that that isn't true, then you also have to conclude that there's something wrong with Obergefell.
00:31:27.260
You have to conclude that there's something wrong with the notion of gay marriage. Okay,
00:31:30.380
I'm being told by Mr. Davies, we have a bonus clip. This is from a new Jurassic Park cartoon. Take it away.
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Mr. Sammy, I've fallen for you. Like, hard. Real hard.
00:31:44.080
Oh my gosh. Look at this. Look at this. Jurassic World, guys. Protect the kids.
00:31:51.700
And we sent our kids to bed just before this happened. We didn't even know this was going to happen.
00:31:58.960
I mean, it's definitely less revolting than the two fellas and everything, but no lesbian kissing.
00:32:04.520
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00:33:14.320
Hi, Michael. This is Kyle C. My wife and I have been deeply mourning Charlie's murder, and one aspect of it
00:33:21.000
all that has been really hard for both of us, but especially for her, is that the shooter came from
00:33:26.320
a conservative family, but still was radicalized into a left-wing monster. Just like you, we are
00:33:34.040
Catholic and have three kids, five and under, and hopefully more, and we're homeschooling,
00:33:40.740
but we both have been wrestling with the fear and the lack of control and the possibility of something
00:33:47.380
like this happening to one of our kids. What do we do about these feelings? What should I be telling
00:33:53.680
my wife, and what else should I be doing as the head of my household? God bless you, Michael.
00:34:01.580
Okay, great question. First of all, you don't want servile fear. You don't want to just be anxious all
00:34:06.940
the time. Oh, no, what if this happened? You know, we all have all sorts of fears about our kids, and so
00:34:11.960
you got to try to tamp that down, and you want to be prudent. So it's scary when someone seems to come
00:34:17.940
from a good family, and they just go totally nuts. Part of that is people are hardwired differently.
00:34:24.660
There's a piece of that. You know, I got two boys. They're 18 months apart, and they are like night and
00:34:29.800
day, raised by the same people, but one looks like me, one looks like my wife, and they're different,
00:34:37.520
you know, and they behave that way. So there's a little bit of that, but we're not merely determined
00:34:42.520
by our genetics. Of all of the coverage I've seen of Charlie's assassin, the piece that seems to give
00:34:50.460
a lot of it away to me is there was some video or something that was going around of the shooter
00:34:57.020
as a young kid, or social media post or something, constantly online, just living constantly online,
00:35:04.420
and knowing what we now know about him, namely that he was obsessed in all these bizarre internet
00:35:09.540
subcultures, like weird sex subcultures, weird politics subcultures, trans furry weird stuff.
00:35:15.620
It makes sense. If you're that chronically online from the age of 10 or 11, that's going to happen.
00:35:24.080
So what I would do, just as a very practical matter, no smartphones, severely limit the internet time,
00:35:32.420
you know, really keep an eye on that, because this is a portal to hell, right? This thing in your pocket
00:35:37.940
that we have all day long, that's a portal to hell, and in the hands of kids, you're greatly increasing
00:35:44.100
your risks that a kid is going to go south. Okay, next question.
00:35:49.620
Good morning, Michael. This is Arun. So since political assassinations are becoming alarmingly common,
00:35:55.640
I have an important question for you. Let's say hypothetically, and God forbid, that some deranged
00:36:01.400
conservative assassinate a liberal Supreme Court justice, or reverse it, let's say under Joe Biden,
00:36:07.000
a liberal had murdered a conservative justice. Do you think that it is incumbent on the president
00:36:13.560
to appoint a replacement justice, who is of a similar ideological bent to the victim of the
00:36:21.400
assassination, in order to prevent assassinations for political purposes from becoming incentivized?
00:36:33.000
It's a nice thought. Well, it's a terrible thought that a Supreme Court justice would be
00:36:36.500
assassinated, but the left has tried. I mean, they got pretty close with Brett Gavanaugh. They
00:36:41.360
apparently were considering trying for other Supreme Court justices. Alito had to move out of his home,
00:36:46.400
I think. So it's a real possibility, and it's a nice thought. It's a nice thought that, you know,
00:36:53.900
if one of the conservative justices were killed, that a Democrat president would appoint a conservative,
00:36:58.620
vice versa. But it won't happen. You know, the problem is game theory, and the prisoner's dilemma,
00:37:05.960
and just knowing how these things work. It's a nice thought. Would that it were so simple?
00:37:12.020
Not going to happen. Not going to happen. Sorry. Next question.
00:37:14.920
Hey, Michael. Long time listener. Over the past year or so, I've heard you pronounce Italian as
00:37:20.520
I-Talian a handful of times. Lumonte says Italian in his song Lazy Mary, and my whole family used to
00:37:27.680
say Italian, but now only my parents say it that way. Where did the difference in pronunciation come
00:37:32.600
from? Also, as a side note, earlier this week, you said that you put tapatio on your eggs, so I
00:37:40.200
looked it up thinking it'd be a cool new sauce, just to realize you meant tapatio. Thanks.
00:37:45.940
Yeah. I meant tapatio. I put tapatio on. I'm an Italian. I put tapatio on. Also, just a slight
00:37:52.220
correction. You referred to the song Lazy Mary, but the song, properly understood, is called
00:37:58.360
C'è na l'una. C'è na l'una mezzo mare, mamma mia me mare dare. It's a great one. It's a great one by the
00:38:05.720
singer behind Dominic the donkey, which we'll be getting to in December. What do we call it? The
00:38:10.520
Italian language, because we're assimilated here. You see? Capisce? We're assimilated here. So we
00:38:17.780
pronounce it in the English way, the Italian language. Really draw it out all nice. Kind
00:38:23.700
of has a southern twang to it, doesn't it? You know, a lot of Italians went to the south,
00:38:27.620
the south of America. They went, I think my grandfather's family ended up in New Orleans
00:38:31.940
or in Baton Rouge. Then my grandmother's family, they were in West Virginia.
00:38:38.340
Italian, you understand? We got those Italians walking around. Okay, next question.
00:38:43.620
Dear ecclesiastical maestronos, I have come seeking advice. I wondered if you could suggest
00:38:49.180
any methods for improving public speaking. I've always been a vocal person, but it takes
00:38:54.160
sophisticated speech and ordered thinking to speak publicly. How would you suggest practicing
00:38:59.120
to work on that skill? And also, I'd like to try a hypothesis. Speechless, speechless, speechless,
00:39:11.420
No, when I'm on the road, what's going to happen? I'm not going to make my flight.
00:39:19.060
That was, wow. Have we ever done it on the road before? That's a lot. Wow. Yes, I'll tell you how
00:39:24.500
to improve at public speaking. Just speak a lot. Speak a lot. Practice yourself in the mirror.
00:39:28.560
Memorize things. Memorize poems. Memorize other speeches. When you practice them, use a very
00:39:33.820
exaggerated mouth movement so that you kick in some muscle memory. If you're trying to write
00:39:39.200
speeches, you should use the, what is it, like the five canons of rhetoric? Invencio, disposizio,
00:39:45.800
elocutio, memoria, and actio. I think I got those right. I get like, that's pretty good. Digging my old,
00:39:52.160
old, ancient rhetoric courses. These are just different aspects. You know, the idea and the
00:39:59.640
pronunciation of it. And you want to include a logical element, an element of appeal to emotion,
00:40:06.880
establishing your credibility. You want to do that also. But the way to get started is just
00:40:12.300
walking around your house, reciting poetry, feeling it out, hearing it. That's how you're going to get
00:40:19.080
better at it. Okay. No membrum segmentum today because I have to go catch my flight. I will see
00:40:22.720
you back in the studio on Monday. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.