The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 185 - Those Who Don’t Read Bad Philosophy Are Doomed To Repeat It

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00:00:37.820 Three quarters of Democrats want to nominate a fresh face for president in 2020,

00:00:42.680 as public opinion polls show the party veering sharply to the left. All of this is bad news,

00:00:47.920 of course, for the reanimated corpse of former future president Hillary Clinton. But it's great

00:00:52.540 news for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the wild-eyed, fresh-faced socialist fraud with wind between

00:01:00.020 her ears. Then, Lisa DePasquale will stop by to discuss these youths in her new book,

00:01:06.400 The Social Justice Warrior Handbook, a practical survival guide for snowflakes,

00:01:11.440 millennials, and Generation Z. Because all of nature is but art unknown to thee,

00:01:16.500 an underestimated, straight-shooting American president meets with a Russian dictator on this

00:01:21.020 day in history. Finally, a British baby sentenced to death in the United Kingdom is alive today

00:01:26.900 because this is America. This is America. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:40.020 In the spirit of communism and socialism and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I'm not going to do any ads

00:01:46.260 today because money's bad, man. You know, money is real. I don't want to make any money. Money is

00:01:50.460 terrible. I don't want to keep the lights on. Wouldn't it be cool if we could all just like

00:01:53.280 hang out and write poetry? So no ads today. That's my mark for socialism because there's a

00:01:58.480 really scary statistics going around about how millennials have embraced socialism and apparently

00:02:04.760 like eschewing all education whatsoever. And this is the wave of the future. This is the wave

00:02:10.400 of the Democratic Party future. A major difference between leftists and conservatives is that leftists

00:02:16.440 read Karl Marx and conservatives understand Karl Marx. Nowhere is this more evident than this girl, 0.89

00:02:22.340 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who she went on the public affairs show on PBS, Firing Line. It's the reboot of

00:02:28.500 the Bill Buckley show, and this one is hosted by Margaret Hoover. And she just spewed ignorance. 1.00

00:02:35.040 She kind of laughed about how ignorant she is. It's blithe ignorance. And she's an unrepentant, 1.00

00:02:41.620 radical socialist. The numbers of that are going way, way up. It's really scary. On this question,

00:02:47.980 you know, leftists read Marx, conservatives understand Marx. Here enters Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:02:54.080 talking about unemployment. I'm not the left versus the right. Right. Now the economy is going pretty

00:02:59.900 strong, right? There's roughly 4% unemployment, 3.9% unemployment. Do you think that capitalism has

00:03:07.760 failed to deliver for working class Americans or is no longer the best vehicle for working class 0.86

00:03:12.880 Americans? Well, I think the numbers that you just talked about is part of the problem, right? Because

00:03:18.760 we look at these figures and we say, oh, unemployment is low. Everything is fine, right? Well, unemployment is

00:03:24.560 low because everyone has two jobs. Unemployment is low because people are working 60, 70, 80 hours a week

00:03:31.660 and can barely feed their kids. And so I do think that right now when we have this no holds barred,

00:03:39.580 wild west hyper capitalism, what that means is profit at any cost. Capitalism has not always

00:03:48.080 existed in the world and it will not always exist in the world. Where do I begin with that? This is,

00:03:56.540 by the way, I got to tell you, this lady is probably the Democrats' best shot at messaging in 1.00

00:04:01.560 November because right now everything is going so, so well in every area of public policy, foreign

00:04:06.840 affairs, domestic affairs, but especially the economy. And that's the undeniable part. Right

00:04:11.020 now the economy is booming. We're basically the strongest economy we've ever had. The Federal

00:04:16.500 Reserve is seeing more growth. They're observing more growth, projecting more growth. The International

00:04:21.120 Monetary Fund is crediting Donald Trump's policies with global economic growth, not just American

00:04:26.160 economic growth. The tax cuts, people are seeing that in their paychecks. Unfortunately, about 80%

00:04:31.060 of Americans use direct deposit. So they're not necessarily seeing the benefits of tax reform

00:04:36.220 in every single paycheck, but they are seeing it when April rolls around. They're also seeing it

00:04:42.240 because the corporate tax rate was slashed. So we're seeing just the economy is just roaring right

00:04:46.680 now. It's doing pretty well. Also, for the first time in over a decade, wages are rising. Wages have

00:04:53.920 not been rising. And there are a number of reasons for that. A lot of economic reasons, some reasons

00:04:58.000 with regard to migration and immigration, but we're seeing wages rising pretty significantly

00:05:03.700 for the first time in a long time. So everything's going so well. And what is the Democrat answer? The

00:05:09.640 socialist answer is, don't believe your lion eyes. Good economies are bad. Up is down. War is peace. That's

00:05:16.080 what they're saying. How Orwellian. This is the new speak. And she's saying, oh yeah, low unemployment,

00:05:21.000 it's really, really bad because that means people are working. And working is terrible. I hate working.

00:05:27.740 Don't you? Look, I've done a lot in my life to avoid working. The only book I've ever written

00:05:32.500 doesn't have any words. But I got to tell you, working is a good thing. People feel better when

00:05:37.280 they're working. God in the Garden of Eden doesn't just say, hey, Adam, loaf around all day. He says,

00:05:42.460 you have to cultivate the garden before the fall. He says, you have to cultivate the garden. You have to

00:05:46.360 name the beasts. You have to, you know, tend to this world that I've given you. You have dominion

00:05:50.520 over it and you have to cultivate it. Working is good. When people retire, they just like wither

00:05:55.480 away and die. Not all the time. People can enjoy retirement, but they have to be doing something.

00:06:00.740 If you're, you know, you can, look, if you retire, you can, you know, join a non-profit. You can

00:06:04.920 volunteer at the church. You can see your family a lot and sort of spend a lot of time with them.

00:06:08.980 If you sit on a couch and watch TV, you're not going to last very long. People are meant to work.

00:06:13.760 And this happened during the Obamacare debates. The Democrats, Nancy Pelosi said, look, one of the

00:06:21.640 reasons that people stay in their jobs is to keep their health care. But we don't want that. We

00:06:25.940 don't want people to feel like they have to work. We want them to be able to quit their jobs and

00:06:29.500 they'll have more time to write poetry and walk through the woods and, you know, just do. No,

00:06:34.180 that's bad. People don't like that. Idle hands are the devil's playground. You do have to work.

00:06:38.800 And it's the only answer they have. By the way, the reason unemployment is low right now is not

00:06:43.520 because people have two jobs. That doesn't make any sense, right? She's pulling that out of thin 0.98

00:06:51.340 air because, you know, the people are really, really overworked. Right now, look, the evidence

00:06:56.120 is that wages are going up. There are more jobs than people to fill them. So this is good. This

00:06:59.900 is a great time to be an American worker. Best time in a very long time. But imagine how removed

00:07:06.220 she is from the real economic circumstances of people on the ground. You know, leftists,

00:07:11.160 socialists, communists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they're ideologues who say, who cares

00:07:17.340 if the economy is working in practice? Does it work in theory? Does it work in theory? You know,

00:07:23.260 how removed she's trying to portray herself as this, you know, downtrodden, hard worker from the Bronx,

00:07:30.240 you know, who grew up in dire poverty and had no opportunities. That's not true. She grew up a town 0.87

00:07:34.480 away from where I did in Westchester County. She grew up in a more affluent town in one of the

00:07:39.200 most affluent counties in the country. And she had all of those opportunities. Her candidacy is

00:07:43.880 premised on this idea. She says, people like me aren't supposed to run for office. What, affluent

00:07:48.880 people who went to expensive private colleges and got extraordinarily good public education?

00:07:53.160 They're not supposed to go to, they're not, who's supposed to be a politician then? People like me

00:07:59.360 aren't really rich, privileged people or not. Are you kidding me? That's absurd. Even

00:08:04.420 if you grew up without a lot of money in your family in, in Westchester County, going to those

00:08:08.700 schools, like, like I did too, we have basically parallel stories. You still are so far, I mean,

00:08:15.200 you were, you were at the, the crux of privilege in the United States, which means, and if you're

00:08:19.680 just born in the United States, you're at the height of privilege in the world. Uh, so it's this

00:08:23.860 totally disingenuous thing. And her answer is no, money's bad. That's basically her answer,

00:08:28.280 right? That's just saying, no, it's bad for people to, you know, you don't, they shouldn't work.

00:08:32.060 They should get everything for free. But then here comes the best part of her, uh, of her

00:08:37.660 interview on this program, the Margaret Hoover show, because it really, it really highlights what,

00:08:43.420 what these young lefty millennials are like. Here she is talking about Israel, Palestine.

00:08:48.620 I also think that what people are starting to see, at least in, in the occupation, uh, of,

00:08:55.060 of Palestine is, um, just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition. You use the term the

00:09:03.120 occupation of Palestine? Um, I think it, what I meant is like the, the settlements, places where,

00:09:11.580 um, where Palestinians are experiencing, uh, difficulty. Do you think you can expand on that?

00:09:17.980 I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue. This girl has a degree from an expensive private 0.97

00:09:24.920 university in international relations. She's because she says, I'm not an expert on a basic

00:09:32.800 question of foreign policy. She's running for Congress. She's almost certainly going to win 1.00

00:09:36.720 that seat for Congress, but that was her degree. She's got to call up BU and get a refund. Apparently 1.00

00:09:41.620 Yorktown high school isn't as good as we all thought it was. Unbelievable. And it really, by the way,

00:09:46.440 I don't mean to just pick on her. I actually kind of feel bad for this girl because she is so,

00:09:50.120 so profoundly ignorant and sort of blithely ignorant and proudly ignorant. But you know, 1.00

00:09:56.020 this is a real problem of education because she knows the slogans. Democrats know the slogans. They 0.99

00:10:01.180 know the talking points. She's, she's refers to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Can you,

00:10:07.360 can you tell us more about that? It's not like Margaret Hoover was trying to get her. Can you tell us

00:10:11.620 more is not a gotcha question. You know, she says, could you expand on that? And Ocasio-Cortez

00:10:16.420 goes, no, no, I can't. I don't know anything. Next question, pass. Excuse me. Yeah, I'll pass.

00:10:22.100 I think I'll pass on that question. Just moves right along. This is a trouble of millennial 1.00

00:10:27.140 education because first of all, there's no country called Palestine. There's never been a country

00:10:30.900 called Palestine. As I mentioned on Fox this morning, it's the country to the east of Narnia

00:10:35.220 and the west of Wakanda. It's not a country. It's just an ideological talking point. But the way that

00:10:41.260 millennials were educated, and I can really speak to this. I went to high school in the town over from

00:10:45.780 where she went to high school at the same time. We're the same age. I know a lady doesn't tell 1.00

00:10:49.420 her age, but she and I are the same age. And the way that we were educated, I don't blame the

00:10:55.160 teachers. I have had wonderful teachers. The curricula all across the country, and especially

00:10:59.420 in New York, focus on not having students learn names, dates, facts, details. What they focus on

00:11:07.280 is broad themes. You don't need to know the facts. Look, you have an iPhone. You can always look up

00:11:12.600 the facts. Just know the broad themes. Just know our ideological position. And don't look too closely

00:11:18.400 into those details because that might contradict the position. It's a real fear. It's a trouble in

00:11:22.520 education more broadly over the last few decades, which is that people don't read the original texts.

00:11:27.900 They read Howard Zinn talking about the framers and the founders of the United States. They read these

00:11:32.480 left-wing ideologues. And so they just get this sort of glib talking points. They don't know the

00:11:37.280 facts. And then the moment that someone says, oh, tell me more about that opinion. She goes,

00:11:40.560 oh, well, I'm not an expert. And by the way, she finishes that clip. She goes, oh, I'm not an expert

00:11:44.800 on this. But I firmly believe. And this is like one of the most bothersome things that millennials do.

00:11:52.000 They say, oh, I didn't read that book, but here's what I think about it. Oh, I didn't see the movie,

00:11:56.040 but here's what I think about it. You know, they're frequently wrong, but never in doubt. They have opinions

00:11:59.680 on things that they don't know anything about. And I say that Ocasio-Cortez is proudly ignorant 0.99

00:12:06.160 because she doesn't have humility. What a person who had any humility would say is, first of all, 0.99

00:12:12.180 someone running for office should know about Israel-Palestine. They should know about problems 0.63

00:12:17.140 in the Middle East. This is a sort of basic aspect of international relations. And as someone who has a

00:12:22.020 degree in international relations, certainly should know about that. But I don't really blame her for

00:12:26.500 being ignorant. People are ignorant all the time. It's the pride of it. She says, you know, 1.00

00:12:30.860 if you had humility, you would say, I don't know about this. And so I'm going to have to do some

00:12:35.320 research. And I'll get back to you when I've thought about this more. She says, well, I don't

00:12:38.500 know anything about this, but I'm pretty sure that I'm right. Let me tell you, you should believe what

00:12:42.660 I think that I think, even though I don't know anything. That is a real problem. And it's a crux of

00:12:47.880 millennials. And it is part of the reason, by the way, why socialism is creeping in in such huge

00:12:54.120 numbers. You know, she says these things. This woman is a communist. I mean, she's a member of

00:12:59.420 the Democrat Socialists of America. She says that capitalism won't be around forever. She doesn't

00:13:04.120 know what capitalism is. Capitalism is a word that was invented in the 1820s and really popularized

00:13:09.960 later in the 19th century by Marx and Engels. And it's to refer to economic freedom. I don't even

00:13:16.220 usually use the word capitalism because I think it's a contrivance of socialists. It was invented

00:13:20.920 by socialists to criticize them. So I don't, capitalism means economic freedom. I use economic

00:13:27.500 freedom. Do you think people should be able to use their money how they want to use their money,

00:13:30.740 buy what they want, have freedom, have choice? Well, then you're a capitalist. If you don't like

00:13:36.100 that, then you're anti-capitalist. She's anti-capitalist. People, you know, it's true. Capitalism hasn't

00:13:40.880 always existed. Freedom of enterprise hasn't always existed. That's a bad thing. It just

00:13:46.020 means that certain governments have abridged liberty and certain governments have allowed

00:13:49.540 liberty. And she says, we need less liberty. I hope we have less liberty. She uses these sort of

00:13:54.640 capitalist, or communist rather, talking points of late-stage capitalism, you know.

00:13:59.740 The Democrats have always done this. In the Bush years, they would say, we need no war for oil.

00:14:06.200 You say, when did we have a war for oil? Yo, Bush! Did we get any oil? How much oil did we get?

00:14:11.920 I don't know. Oh, none. We didn't get any oil. We probably should have gotten some oil,

00:14:18.200 and we didn't get any oil. They say, Bush lied. People died. You say, Bush lied, huh? Yeah. What

00:14:22.720 do you lie about? The weapons. And what was the lie? First of all, Saddam Hussein did have weapons

00:14:28.560 of mass destruction. Second of all, all of the intelligence communities around the world said

00:14:32.340 that the weapons existed. It's not a lie. Even if there weren't, which there were, by the way,

00:14:37.620 but even if there weren't weapons, it isn't a lie. To lie, you have to intentionally not tell the

00:14:42.220 truth. Oh, Trump colluded with Russia. What's your evidence that Trump colluded with Russia?

00:14:49.220 They just know the slogans, and it's really sad. But right now, among these millennials,

00:14:56.040 millennials broadly, not just Democrats, half of millennials identify as socialist,

00:15:00.780 according to some new polls. That is horrifying. The Democratic Socialists of America,

00:15:05.120 which had just 5,000 members less than two years ago. 2016, they had 5,000 members. 2018,

00:15:11.380 fast forward two years, that number has gone up eightfold to 40,000 members. That is a terrifying

00:15:17.980 statistic. It's gone up eight times in just two years. That momentum isn't going to stop.

00:15:23.060 Part of it is that millennials don't remember communism. They were born as Cortez and I were,

00:15:30.000 both, you know, in the, as the Berlin Wall was falling down, and because they're uneducated.

00:15:35.200 They think history begins when they were born. You know, they don't, they don't. Even the ones who

00:15:39.080 have studied history haven't really studied history broadly. They've studied people,

00:15:43.180 polemicists writing about history, like Howard Zinn. And the Democrats have moved very far to the left

00:15:47.380 here. We're going to get to Lisa DePasquale in a second, because she's the expert on these millennial 1.00

00:15:52.420 SJWs. But just some scary statistics. The Democrats have moved far to the left. According to Pew, 0.51

00:15:58.140 a study that came out of Pew Research last year, the parties have moved apart from one another,

00:16:03.260 but most of that movement, the vast majority of that movement is Democrats moving to the left.

00:16:07.620 The GOP hasn't moved that much further to the right. It's the Democrats moving to the left.

00:16:11.880 71% of Democrats right now believe that we should go into debt to increase welfare spending,

00:16:17.940 spend money that we don't have, borrow money from China to just dole it out to the poor and

00:16:21.620 redistribute wealth. That's up 17 percentage points in just six years. The GOP has moved just one

00:16:28.000 percentage point on this issue. It's dropped down just one percent. Democrats have moved 17

00:16:31.520 percentage points to the left. In 1994, the question was asked by Pew, do immigrants strengthen

00:16:37.860 the country overall, or are they a boon to the country? The parties basically were in agreement.

00:16:43.180 Democrats said 32 percent yes. GOP said 30 percent yes. Now, the GOP has actually moved in that direction

00:16:50.720 to 42 percent. Democrats have way more than doubled. It's up one and a half times on that question.

00:16:56.060 84 percent of Democrats say yes. Immigrants are a spoon to the country. That's a huge divergence.

00:17:02.280 On the question, is racial discrimination the main reason that blacks can't get ahead? The main reason, 1.00

00:17:08.600 not that it doesn't exist at all, not over their isolated instances, is racial discrimination the

00:17:12.800 main reason that some black people can't get ahead? That number, when Democrats were asked that

00:17:17.940 question in 2010, not that long ago, 28 percent said yes. Now, today, 64 percent say yes. The

00:17:25.440 question, basic questions of political philosophy, is religion required for morality? The Democrat no

00:17:31.600 answer is up 13 percentage points just since 2011. These numbers are moving way, way faster than

00:17:38.800 anyone would expect. This is a bad sign, and it's having some negative consequences because they're

00:17:44.280 appointing these sort of witless people who haven't ever studied the things that they're talking about. 0.72

00:17:49.940 They don't know anything that they're talking about. They're radical leftists. And some people 0.98

00:17:54.620 are trying to pump the brakes now. You know, leading Democrats are realizing this. Here's Barack Obama

00:17:58.340 just today or yesterday trying to pump the brakes on all of this. But democracy demands that we're able

00:18:05.500 also to get inside the reality of people who are different than us so we can understand their point of

00:18:11.140 view. Maybe we can change their minds, but maybe they'll change ours. And you can't do this if you just out of

00:18:19.980 hand disregard what your opponents have to say from the start. And you can't do it if you insist that those who

00:18:27.940 aren't like you, because they're white or because they're male, that somehow there's no way they can understand 0.99

00:18:35.640 what I'm feeling, that somehow they lack standing to speak on certain matters.

00:18:42.720 Who's that guy? Does anyone, can anyone recognize that guy? Because he looks like Barack Obama,

00:18:48.200 but he sounds like the opposite of Barack Obama. This is being reported. He just gave this speech,

00:18:53.560 this was a speech about Nelson Mandela, and it's being reported. Obama issues stern rebuke to Trump.

00:18:58.960 No, Obama issues a stern rebuke to Obama. He's criticizing his own, the tone that he set in

00:19:04.760 the White House for the past eight years, or for the eight years that he was president. You know,

00:19:08.160 he's talking about the politics of fear, resentment, retrenchment. This is the guy who said,

00:19:12.920 I'm going to fundamentally transform America. I'm going to get rid of all those bitter clingers, 1.00

00:19:16.620 those rubes who cling to their guns and religion. He painted the White House rainbow colors as a 0.99

00:19:22.100 rebuke to people who support the Constitution in a traditional view of marriage. He said that those in

00:19:28.540 power seek to undermine every institution. That gives democracy meaning. This is the guy

00:19:33.140 undermining institutions. He went up and gave the State of the Union, and he insulted the Supreme

00:19:38.540 Court right to their faces when they couldn't respond to it. He was utterly undermining the Supreme

00:19:45.360 Court. He was the one who said that, his surrogate said that Republican congressmen are terrorists. 0.97

00:19:50.940 He said he's going to roll over Congress because he has a pen and a phone. This is the guy

00:19:54.520 undermining institutions. It's outrageous. This is the guy politicizing the IRS to attack

00:19:58.500 his political opponents. Politicizing, it appears, the FBI to attack and investigate his political

00:20:03.240 opponents. And this, where was this Barack Obama? In 2012, this guy's vice president, not just

00:20:09.840 running mate, sitting vice president, said that the Republican nominee was trying to put black people

00:20:14.280 back in chains. That's what he said. He said that Trayvon Martin, a guy who was killed in a sort of 0.96

00:20:21.220 cloud of mystery, but whom we know was viciously beating the guy who killed him, beating his head

00:20:26.960 against the pavement. We saw photos of the injuries. He said, oh, he could have been my son.

00:20:32.880 What do you mean he could have been your son? Because he's black? Barack Obama's saying all 0.96

00:20:37.040 black people look alike, basically? It's outrageous. He wouldn't have been Barack Obama's son. He 1.00

00:20:42.160 doesn't look like him either. You know, who attacked the Cambridge police because of a local affair.

00:20:48.000 You know, this is the guy. It's too little, too late, man. You let this loose. You opened up

00:20:55.020 Pandora's box and now you're reaping the Alexandria Cortez, Ocasio-Cortez's because of it. You know,

00:21:01.560 the Democratic Party is now in the grip of these guys. And this is why we've got to get to the

00:21:07.800 expert. You know, they're in the grip of these aggrieved social justice warrior, entitled,

00:21:13.980 Lightly Educated Millennials. And the expert of this, the author to help us understand of the

00:21:19.140 social justice warrior handbook is Elisa De Pasquale, a practical survival guide for snowflakes

00:21:25.660 millennials and Generation Z. Elisa, thank you for being here.

00:21:29.500 Hi there. Thanks for having me. I'm so glad to now only be one degree away from Tom Arnold.

00:21:36.320 I'm really, I'm the far degraded Kevin Bacon pivot point here. You know, just bringing us all.

00:21:42.540 Well, Tom has been tweeting me a lot today because of the apparent evidence that President Trump is

00:21:49.560 now a Russian asset. Do you think it's an open and shut case, isn't it? That Trump is a Russian 0.64

00:21:53.380 asset? Yeah, I mean, I, you know, we knew that in October 2016, right? You know, it's, it's funny

00:22:01.480 because he, Tom tweeted me today. He said, see, are you finally going to apologize and admit that Trump's

00:22:06.100 a Russian asset? I said, you know, the fact that he took that soccer ball and threw it off the stage

00:22:10.760 like a hot potato. That's how I know that President Trump is a red blooded American. 0.62

00:22:15.180 And, but I'm, I am worried about the future of the country. It, in one, because I look at people like

00:22:19.720 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and also because I read your book. Before we begin, I have to say,

00:22:26.780 I'm seeing some, a little bit of plagiarism in here, Lisa, from another important book.

00:22:31.080 There's almost a whole chapter I took word for word from your book.

00:22:35.260 It's really, at least you abridged it though. It's only about 10 or 15 pages in there of absolute

00:22:40.820 blankness. But I think it's just as complete as your book, which I didn't read, but I am an expert

00:22:45.980 on. Well, that's, it's the one book where you can not read it and be an expert. You know, my first

00:22:51.340 question, because I really did enjoy the book and I encourage people to go out there and buy it and

00:22:55.980 read it. It's really funny. What is it with these guys? What is it with this generation?

00:23:00.660 We beat up on millennials all the time and I want to do it some more. What's their problem? 1.00

00:23:05.460 I think part of it is actually kind of a lack of culture. I mean, I'm, um,

00:23:10.920 Generation X. I know I look super young, but I'm 41. And, you know, a lady doesn't tell her age, 0.98

00:23:16.540 as I always pointed out that I'm Alexandria's age too. Yeah. I mean, I don't mind saying it because

00:23:23.100 I'd rather be called Gen X than a millennial. Fair point. Maybe I'm going to be trans ageist. I'm

00:23:27.920 going to be 41 too. Yeah. Identify as a Gen Xer. Um, but I think part of it is looking for some sort

00:23:34.200 of culture and of their own. And they do that, I think, by separating themselves and by creating

00:23:40.160 their own rules. Um, you know, for instance, um, appropriation, things like that. I mean,

00:23:45.300 I'm appropriating, um, Mexican culture, I guess. Um, and just sort of setting up their own, 1.00

00:23:52.500 their own rules. I mean, you can go into a hot topic and you don't see their own bands. You see,

00:23:58.480 uh, you know, seventies and eighties, sixties, seventies and eighties bands. Um, and there's

00:24:05.380 just sort of a generation lost because as far as their knowledge, like you said, history begins the

00:24:10.460 day they were born. Um, but as, as, as culture, I don't think they, they really have it. I mean,

00:24:15.620 they don't have the stuff that we identify so much. And part of that is because there are so many

00:24:19.840 niches. I mean, there's not, you know, the one TV show that they all sat down and watched as,

00:24:24.360 as kids like, like we did. Right. Which, which was Nick at night. And that's why I identify as a

00:24:30.880 75 year old at this point. The, I think you've, you've hit on it because it isn't just that they're,

00:24:36.820 uh, poorly educated because, and I think there is a real problem of education for the millennial 0.86

00:24:41.560 generation, but people can always read books. You can always try to ameliorate that. The, the issue is

00:24:46.260 the lack of culture. Uh, and those are different things. You know, they don't, a couple generations

00:24:51.320 ago, you could play people excerpts of classical music. You could reference certain great books or

00:24:57.880 novels. You could reference certain movies and people would get it. There was a, a sense of

00:25:01.900 cultural idioms that I think now just don't exist. Why is that? And is there any way to get that back?

00:25:09.140 Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I think that's why things like blazing saddles were,

00:25:13.840 were, were, were okay. Um, because people didn't separate themselves so badly that they didn't know

00:25:20.420 what their black friends or, um, Hispanic friends or, or other friends would think if they were caught

00:25:25.920 watching it. They, they, they were already part of, uh, a big group and they didn't have to feel like

00:25:30.820 they were being judged. Um, or that people didn't know who they were, you know, based on, you know,

00:25:36.560 telling jokes or telling lines from, from a movie. And now part of it is also just that they're so

00:25:42.960 willing to put so much of their lives out there, you know, on Twitter, on Instagram or whatever the

00:25:48.060 kids are using Snapchat. I use my space. Yeah. Yeah. Facebook, um, that it's the culture I think

00:25:59.500 pushing back, but you know, what's interesting is you had mentioned the poll before about socialism,

00:26:04.860 but when you ask them individual issues, like, well, do you think that you should be able to use apps

00:26:10.260 like Uber and, and Rover and things like that on, on individual issues, they're more,

00:26:16.080 you know, capitalists or economic, they support economic freedom, but in general, they say they

00:26:21.180 support socialism. And so I don't know what the, the, um, the, the overlap is, but on the individual

00:26:30.560 issues, they do support economic freedom, but that's where you go back to the education in that

00:26:35.520 they don't know that they don't support socialism. Yeah. And they just think it sounds good because,

00:26:41.820 you know, they have a younger voice telling them that it does. The issue is the, is the blithe in

00:26:47.180 the blithe ignorance, you know, this sort of carefreeness, this cavalier ignorance where, and I,

00:26:52.500 I blame, I guess in part the, not just the education and the lack of culture, but the self-esteem

00:26:57.340 movement too, because they've always been told they're so, so special and everything they do is

00:27:01.540 great and they're, they can do whatever they want to do and they're going to be wonderful. And that,

00:27:06.500 you know, on just on a very basic level, that isn't true. You know, that, that just isn't the

00:27:10.980 case. I played little league baseball for eight years and I leaned into pitches because I like Don

00:27:15.780 Baylor. I mean, I was a pretty good, you know, I was pretty good at getting on base, but I couldn't

00:27:19.100 hit that ball. And I have eight trophies from it. I have eight participation trophies. And that, that,

00:27:25.000 uh, the, the, what we were always told is that when the millennials get into the real world,

00:27:29.500 the real world is going to hit them like a freight train and they're going to grow up.

00:27:33.100 But, uh, when you look around, I, I don't see that happening. I see people like Alexandria court,

00:27:38.780 Ocasio-Cortez going on TV and saying, Oh yeah, I guess I don't know that very important issue.

00:27:43.540 Ha ha ha. Posh, posh, posh. I'm going to do to do. I'm just going to go right to Congress.

00:27:47.260 Are they just going to be able to be kids forever? I mean, so many of them are living with their

00:27:51.720 parents. So many of them are not paying bills. Every millennial is on their parents' cell phone plan. I mean,

00:27:56.680 they're going to, they're going to have like grandchildren before they get off their parents'

00:27:59.860 cell phone plan. A lot of them don't even pay. That's, I think the workaround that they found.

00:28:04.760 And that's like a big topic in the social justice warrior handbook is the workaround of living with

00:28:09.980 your parents. And then now they have like adult day camps or, or, um, summer camps. They have,

00:28:16.940 I mean, the term that I can't stand is adulting, you know, like I can't adult today.

00:28:22.420 They use it as a verb. Yeah. I have to adult today because I have to pay my bills. Like I don't even,

00:28:29.160 I don't even think about it as, you know, behavior that's optional. And there's, you know,

00:28:35.320 to me it was never optional whether or not to have cell phone plans. I mean, part of it might be

00:28:40.000 because when I was, I moved out of the house at 18, um, cell phones were barely a thing. So it

00:28:46.500 wasn't that big of a deal. I don't even think they had family plans. Um, but I think they found a way

00:28:52.840 and that's to prolong this adolescence as long as possible. Um, you know, it used to be, I mean,

00:28:58.620 kind of the cutoff was, uh, 26 when you started with the healthcare plan. Right. And then now it's

00:29:04.360 like 30 and then there's kind of no age on, on cell phones. Um, and then they're creating all this

00:29:09.300 adult type of behavior, like where you can go places and have nap time. You can go to a summer

00:29:14.660 camp, um, the coloring books, adult coloring books, which there's an activity and I actually call it

00:29:21.800 a dream book instead of a book because I think workbook is a little too demanding. That's right.

00:29:28.860 Here's the dream book right here at section four. Yep. It's very, yeah, it's a dream. You don't want

00:29:33.000 to, you can't work. You don't want to work. No, no, that that's right. I mean, that's absolutely

00:29:38.500 right. And I, I do worry that there's, you know, the, I guess it's just as with the ignorance,

00:29:44.580 just as with the uncultured, it's the blitheness of it all. They, they are cavalier about, uh,

00:29:51.280 their parents paying for their lifestyle. They're cavalier about not working. They're cavalier

00:29:55.660 about not having responsibility and I, and not knowing anything and not knowing any, you know,

00:30:01.220 I mean, they're even as a young man, you know, if, uh, right when I turned 18, you know, I, or 20 or

00:30:07.900 whatever, uh, because everyone's on their parents' cell phone plan. But I said like, I've got to pay,

00:30:12.560 I've got to pay for this. Or I feel weird. I like, it's nice to not have to pay, but you,

00:30:18.800 but there's this kind of anxiety that comes to it. You think I can't, I could never live in my

00:30:24.040 father's house as a 24 year old. I'd feel weird about that. I wouldn't want to do that. But there

00:30:30.160 are so many millennials who, who do want to do that. How, what is that psychology like? I mean,

00:30:35.420 where does that come from and is there any hope to fix it? Um, I think, you know, I, part of me

00:30:42.400 doesn't just blame millennials or, or, or younger, like I guess, Gen Z. Um, part of it I think is the

00:30:49.420 boomers and that's because they've been so, um, helpful. I mean, these are the, like the original

00:30:53.980 helicopter parents, um, that wanted, um, their kids to stay at home. I mean, it's like the smother on,

00:31:00.880 on the Goldbergs who doesn't want the babies to, to leave the nest. Uh, so I think they hold some of

00:31:06.940 the blame. Um, but now they're getting older, they're wanting to retire and they're looking and

00:31:12.720 they're like, well, wait, my kid's still here. You know, I'm ready to move to Costa Rica, but I can't

00:31:17.520 get the kid out of the house. Um, I mean, they're, they're even doing ads based on those things.

00:31:22.600 Um, there's an, um, a realtor ad that's, that's basically around that concept. And you have to

00:31:28.120 think if they're doing ads based on these concepts, they're not foreign to a lot of people. I mean,

00:31:33.640 these are real issues that, that people are dealing with. Um, so to me, they hold some blame in,

00:31:39.420 in prolonging this adolescence. Um, and I think that goes back to the culture and you have to make it

00:31:45.200 less accepting with the culture that, you know, if you're embarrassed to tell people, you know,

00:31:50.240 I live at home, if you're embarrassed to tell a date, um, do you want to come back to my parents

00:31:54.720 place? And then I think at that point is when you're going to start seeing the culture change.

00:31:59.240 Yeah. Yeah. That, that is back the shame. You've got it. Yeah. You need it because now millennials, 0.84

00:32:04.680 they're so afraid of shame. They say, stop body shaming, stop age shaming, stop. They do all this

00:32:11.060 shaming. Yeah. You need a little shame, man. The shame is a good thing. Shame. Well, uh, I really

00:32:17.200 enjoyed the book. I encourage people to go get it. The social justice warrior handbook,

00:32:20.420 a practical guide for, uh, snowflakes millennials and generation Z. I also do want to quote, I really

00:32:26.060 like Nick Searcy's blurb on it. Nick Searcy is a friend of the show. He comes and hangs out with us

00:32:31.360 sometimes. And he said, when it comes to political advice, you should only listen to Hollywood actors

00:32:35.500 like me, but if I'm unavailable, this book will do that really. And, and you've got, you've got some

00:32:40.700 great endorsements here. You've got, uh, Ann Coulter really recommends it. Uh, you know,

00:32:44.900 Searcy, a number of other people, and now, uh, a blank book author, right? Perhaps the most

00:32:50.240 entitled author ever there has been, uh, also really recommends it to go out there and get

00:32:54.600 it. Where can people find you, Lisa? Uh, they can find the book, um, on Amazon. They can find me

00:32:59.860 on Twitter at, at Lisa DEP. And, um, the website for the book is SJW handbook.com. Really good. Uh,

00:33:07.920 Lisa, thank you for being here. Lisa de Pasquale. We'll have to have you back and talk again.

00:33:12.020 Yes, for sure. Thanks. Okay. We've got a lot more to get to today. Uh, we've got to get to

00:33:17.700 two segments. This is America. And I'll probably do a little sink, do the dance and everything. Hey,

00:33:22.500 you know, and, uh, then we'll also have to get to this day in history because there is this weird

00:33:26.740 coincidence. There's real providence perhaps that the Trump Helsinki summit with a Russian dictator

00:33:32.060 coincides with the, uh, historical anniversary of the Potsdam conference when another straightforward

00:33:38.040 American president met with a Russian dictator. We'll get to that and we'll get to a great

00:33:41.700 story on this day in America, uh, or the, the state in America. This is America where we talk

00:33:46.600 about, uh, really the, the wonders of capitalism and free enterprise and freedom of movement that

00:33:52.420 saved a little British baby. Before that, I have to say goodbye to you. I have to, I have to get real 1.00

00:33:57.440 capitalist now. I was communist at the top of the show and I skipped the ad, but now we get real

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00:34:48.600 Clintons, right? They, they look and they say, no, no, no, no, don't say that stuff. No, don't let

00:34:52.180 them know what we really want to do now. Oh no, no, they're not going to vote for us. We're going to

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00:35:04.380 in history. We're back. So let's begin with this is America. We're running late as per usual,

00:35:20.560 as per usual, when I'm adult, I got to start adulting so I can keep my schedule properly.

00:35:24.900 But on, on this segment of this is America, I got to talk about baby Oliver. This is a great story.

00:35:32.160 Only in America would this be true. So you, you remember, you've heard these stories in the UK

00:35:35.760 of little Alfie Evans. He was the baby that the UK authorities, the national health service

00:35:41.480 said, he's got this disease. There's no way that he's going to live. The parents said, well, let,

00:35:46.300 let us take him to look for treatment elsewhere. They said, absolutely not. We own your baby.

00:35:50.340 You're not allowed to do it. I mean, even you've got the Pope trying to intervene. You've got the,

00:35:54.320 the Italian government offering babies like Alfie Evans or Charlie Gard

00:35:58.300 citizenship so that they can come there and get, get help they need. And they said, nope,

00:36:02.760 you're not going to do it with this baby has to die. We are going to make this baby die. And he's 0.99

00:36:07.180 going to die with dignity. That's the new euphemism they use when they refuse people the liberty to try 0.63

00:36:12.580 to care for their own children and try to save their own children. So this baby, baby Oliver was

00:36:19.000 diagnosed with cardiac fibroma, which is an exceedingly rare, uh, affliction of the heart where he had this

00:36:26.360 huge tumor in his heart. Little baby Oliver has a huge tumor. And the, the doctors there had never

00:36:31.340 seen anything like this. A lot of them didn't know what it was, didn't know what it could be. And all of

00:36:35.700 the doctors in the UK said, we can't treat it. The only way that we can try to save his life is with a

00:36:40.680 heart transplant. But the trouble is, is as in all socialistic systems, there are long waiting lines. And

00:36:46.480 for, uh, for a baby, it's virtually impossible. Most likely the baby would have just died waiting to get a

00:36:52.340 heart transplant and it would have been very, very risky. They said this tumor just cannot be removed.

00:36:56.740 Sorry, your kid is going to die. There's nothing you can do about it. So what happens? The parents

00:37:01.100 say, can we look elsewhere in the UK and national health service? And its typical way says, nope,

00:37:06.100 sorry, no way. No, no, we're not going to pay for anything. We're not going to let you look. Nope.

00:37:09.620 Your kid's probably going to die. And so the Boston children's hospital hears about this and they post

00:37:15.160 and they say, we can help. I know that you British socialist healthcare system, you can't help,

00:37:20.160 but we can help because we, because of our free enterprise, we have far better care,

00:37:24.800 more innovative care. And we're, and we're going to allow you to do it. We're going to give you the

00:37:28.740 freedom to try to pay for your, your kid to live. And so the national health service in the UK hears

00:37:33.720 about this and what do they do? They say, nope, we're not going to pay for that. We're not going

00:37:37.320 to pay to transport. We're not going to send any doctors. Nope. Sorry. The kid has to die. Die with

00:37:42.220 dignity. He's got to die. All that, you know, all that dignity of death and that's so dignified. 1.00

00:37:46.980 Uh-uh. So the parents started a fundraiser and they raised almost all of the money that was

00:37:52.000 needed to do it themselves. And I think because of all the bad press the NHS has recently received,

00:37:56.480 they finally caved on this. They said, oh yeah, sure. Oh, you wanted to save your kid. Oh yeah,

00:38:01.700 no, we're, we want, that's good. We do that. So what about for the last year you've been letting

00:38:06.960 those other kids die and refusing to let their parents, oh no, that would, that would, no,

00:38:10.220 we love saving kids. Okay. So they finally cave once there's enough publicity, enough money raised.

00:38:14.060 And they even sent a couple of doctors to go with the kid. And the, at the Boston hospital,

00:38:20.000 Boston Children's Hospital, they said, look, it's a huge tumor. It's really where we don't know if we

00:38:23.800 can remove the whole thing. We'll do our best. What do they do? Because this is America. They

00:38:27.720 removed the whole tumor. They removed the whole thing in this miraculous surgery. They were,

00:38:32.500 everybody was shocked that this could happen. And now the kid gets to live, which is a very good

00:38:37.180 thing. Only in America could that happen. Not in the United Kingdom, not elsewhere in the world.

00:38:40.880 And why though? Why? I wish Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would watch my show so that she could 0.99

00:38:47.240 learn these wonderful things about the capitalist system she so derides. It's because we have freedom

00:38:52.900 and freedom, you know, it is true that freedom allows people to risk things. You can, in a free

00:39:00.240 enterprise system, you have the right to lose your own money. You have the right to make trouble for

00:39:04.740 yourself, but you also have the right to be, to have ingenuity and to save yourself and to save your

00:39:09.960 kids. And the UK, they're focusing on death with dignity. These are the ghouls who want to

00:39:17.320 fundamentally change the medical profession from only caring for people and helping people and 0.99

00:39:22.480 helping to save people to killing them, to assisted suicide, to killing people because death is better 0.93

00:39:28.180 than life. It's an anti-life movement. And death with dignity means that you don't value life. In 0.99

00:39:33.360 America, we have a life with dignity. We say you can live with dignity. When you die, look, we're all

00:39:37.860 headed for the same place. We're all going to have our bodies turned to worm food at some point, 0.98

00:39:41.920 but not today. You can live with dignity. And there's another aspect of this, which is economic,

00:39:46.100 and it's the scarcity mindset and the abundance mindset. In socialistic countries and economies

00:39:51.980 and societies, they have a scarcity mindset. There's a pie and it's this big and everyone's

00:39:55.840 going to get some of that pie and that's all there is. The abundance mindset is bake more pie.

00:39:59.960 The pie can grow. Economies are not static. Societies are not static. You can have innovation.

00:40:04.520 You can have abundance. You can grow and grow and grow. And you don't have that. I mean,

00:40:09.460 Margaret Thatcher spelled it out very well. She said the socialists, they just want to reduce

00:40:13.680 economic inequality. Even if everybody is lower, they want the difference to be down here rather

00:40:18.540 than have some more inequality. But everybody is doing much, much better. You know, it's not,

00:40:23.400 the economy is not just a pie. You can have abundance and you can say, yes, we can do it.

00:40:27.860 That is the outlook because socialism, I think Winston Churchill, I'm going to paraphrase this

00:40:33.160 because I'm not going to get the quote right. But it's a philosophy of failure and the gospel

00:40:37.120 of envy. You know, it's this, it's just this very dour, down-looking, scarce, decrepit philosophy.

00:40:45.200 And it's a 200-year-old philosophy, 150-year-old philosophy. There's nothing new about it. There's

00:40:49.620 nothing innovative. But abundance and innovation, that's always the American spirit. And we see

00:40:55.960 evidence of this. We see wonderful example because it saved a British baby's life. Very good stuff.

00:41:00.460 Before I let you all go today, we've got to talk also in this day in history because all of nature

00:41:05.140 is but art unknown to thee and chance direction which thou canst not see. Everyone's talking

00:41:09.240 about Russia and, you know, I've got Tom Arnold tweeting at me and saying that Trump's a traitor

00:41:13.080 because he made some perhaps loose comments yesterday at a press conference that it changes

00:41:20.040 practically nothing about American foreign policy. And he did accomplish a few important things too.

00:41:24.960 But on this day in history, 1945, President Truman met at the Potsdam conference. It was the big

00:41:32.700 three. He met Winston Churchill was there and also Joseph Stalin, the, this, you know, the, the worst 0.81

00:41:38.900 dictator ever, one of the worst dictators and the Soviet dictator. So as strange coincidence, who knows 0.64

00:41:43.780 if it was planned that way. It's hard for me to imagine that it wasn't planned with some sense of the

00:41:48.140 calendar. But they met there and Truman and Trump have, uh, uh, some similarities. You know, they're

00:41:53.620 both, both underestimated, both considered kind of stupid. They came from industries that are not 1.00

00:41:59.120 traditionally political. A lot of people think that they were too, that they talk too straight in a,

00:42:04.240 too straightforward a manner. You know, they're too blunt. And what happens at that conference, by the

00:42:08.480 way, is that, uh, Truman mentioned to Stalin, he said, you know, we've got this new bomb that's much

00:42:16.580 more destructive than any bomb we've ever had. And it's reported differently by different people. But he

00:42:21.560 told Stalin about the bomb that they were about to use. They sort of agonized over this. They said, should 0.95

00:42:25.740 we surprise the Soviets and just use the bomb on the Japanese and end this war and they'll learn about 0.99

00:42:31.060 it when we blow it up? Or do we want to give them a heads up because they're our allies in this war? They

00:42:35.040 ultimately decided on the latter. But from everyone in attendance, Churchill said this, Anthony Eden said

00:42:40.400 this, uh, Truman said this. Everyone said that Stalin didn't really react. He said, oh, that's good. You got a 0.76

00:42:46.500 good bomb. Use it against the Japanese and the war. And it was only later on that some of the Russian 1.00

00:42:52.000 ministers said, oh yeah, Stalin played it very cool in the moment. But he immediately got down that night

00:42:57.200 and said, we've got to start building this, our bomb faster. We've got to catch up with them. Uh, what we,

00:43:02.600 what we do know though, is that the, the event, the historical ramifications of that event only became

00:43:09.360 clear much later. You know, uh, when you're dealing, it's not like these are straightforward

00:43:13.880 negotiations and summits. When you're dealing with these people, you know, the Soviet dictators are

00:43:19.800 killers, they're sharks. And what we think is the obvious way to deal with them is not always the 0.97

00:43:24.400 obvious way. And, and the ramifications will be clear later on. So everyone is freaking out over

00:43:29.940 this Trump press conference with Putin. What we really need to do is pump the brakes and see what

00:43:35.480 happens, you know, because it's, these things are not clear in the moment. They'll become clear over

00:43:39.760 time. Uh, Putin said, I don't trust Trump. Trump doesn't trust me. What will come of this will be

00:43:45.720 clear over time. Are we allowed to, are we going to work with, uh, the Russians? Are we going to 0.55

00:43:49.900 share some strategic interests or are we going to have just an acrimonious eight years and then another

00:43:55.440 eight years of the Pence administration and then who knows it'll go on and on and on. Are we, what are

00:43:59.380 we going to have? Everybody take a breather. It's okay. These, this has happened before the, the United

00:44:04.920 States didn't fall apart yesterday. It's all right. It's a, it's going just fine. There was a good

00:44:09.540 NATO summit. We got a lot of good, uh, progress there as the New York times admits, president

00:44:15.200 Trump accomplished much of what Barack Obama tried to accomplish and failed to accomplish. And as the,

00:44:20.920 you know, the Democrats were always pushing for that Russian reset, the Bush administration was

00:44:24.400 pushing to reset relations with Russia and get out on a good foot. You know, George W. Bush said,

00:44:29.660 I saw Vladimir Putin's soul in his eyes and pretty dark and black place and, and Vladimir Putin's soul

00:44:37.100 just like the fires of hell glowing behind them. And, you know, president Trump goes there and he

00:44:41.540 says, oh yeah, you know, look, we were a little bit to blame too for, uh, for the, the problems in

00:44:47.160 the, uh, relationship between the U S and Russia. These are just things that people say, we'll see how

00:44:51.520 that relationship goes moving forward, but take a breather. You know, on this point to another

00:44:56.720 coincidence on this day in history in 1776, Congress learned that the, the British general

00:45:02.380 Howe had, uh, offered a peace deal to general Washington. You know, the British had landed,

00:45:09.020 Washington had moved his troops from Boston down to New York. The British could, you know, 0.91

00:45:12.280 ready to wipe them out. But general Howe said, you know, we'll, we'll, uh, just try to negotiate

00:45:17.740 some peace and we'll let the colonies come back in and no harm, no foul. And he sent an emissary to

00:45:23.540 Washington and Washington read the letter and the letter did not begin with the word general.

00:45:29.200 Didn't say general Washington. He wouldn't address him as general. And Washington was so insulted by

00:45:34.220 this. He sent them packing. He ripped it up. He said, not a chance. And this is a little, uh,

00:45:39.160 just a little warning to add here. Words do matter. Words really do matter in, uh, international

00:45:44.720 affairs certainly. And in politics, you know, I did that Prager video on it. The words really,

00:45:49.340 really matter. Speech is the essential human act and the words that you use matter. So I, you know,

00:45:54.740 all in all, as I say, take a breather. It doesn't, everything is fine in American foreign relations

00:45:59.620 and, and with Russia. It is worth pointing out to, to defend some of the critics of that press

00:46:04.840 conference yesterday. The words do really matter. One has to be pretty careful with what they say

00:46:09.820 because, uh, speech is the political act. It's the human act. And so, you know, if I, I think that

00:46:16.500 press conference yesterday was just great. And it was like four words from being really good,

00:46:22.200 you know, and a few words just really left a bad taste in people's mouths. One does have to be

00:46:27.160 careful because, uh, words, when, when we're negotiating, when we're talking like loose people,

00:46:32.060 words can be used really, uh, in a cavalier way, but you've, you've got to be precise about what

00:46:37.400 you're saying so that there's not, not a lot of confusion on that point. I hope I haven't confused

00:46:41.380 you on that point. Uh, come back tomorrow, get your mailbag questions in. We're going to do that on

00:46:45.060 Thursday. We've got some great guests. We have like too many great guests right now.

00:46:48.680 So I've got to figure out, I, I, uh, we did a pre-tape, uh, interview with my priest,

00:46:53.660 father Rutler. So maybe, maybe we'll try to get that to you soon. Uh, because man, if you think

00:46:59.560 I'm right wing, you've got to listen to my, he's really talk about the opposite where we bemoan that

00:47:04.700 millennials are uncultured and uneducated. This guy has read every single book ever. And it's the most 0.60

00:47:09.560 cultured man I know. So we'll get that to you and some other great interviews coming up too. So tune in.

00:47:14.160 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 17, 2018

Ep. 185 - Those Who Don’t Read Bad Philosophy Are Doomed To Repeat It

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