The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 186 - Would He, Or Wouldn’t He？


Summary

Would he or wouldn't he? Whether you're nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous executive agency overreach, or to take arms against a sea of crooked bureaucrats and a foreign dictator? On this day in history, we will analyze the question Democrat vultures and frivolous Republicans are so eager to keep in the headlines, and we will then check out how solar power threatens the lives of a billion poor people around the globe, why conservatives find more meaning in life, and what FDR's unprecedented third term power grab means for us today.


Transcript

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00:00:30.560 Would he or wouldn't he?
00:00:32.680 That is the question.
00:00:34.120 Whether tis nobler in the mind
00:00:35.520 to suffer the slings and arrows
00:00:36.780 of outrageous executive agency overreach
00:00:38.980 or to take arms against a sea of crooked bureaucrats
00:00:42.260 and by opposing them before a foreign dictator
00:00:44.540 and longtime geopolitical foe, end them.
00:00:47.240 We will analyze the question
00:00:48.620 Democrat vultures and frivolous Republicans
00:00:50.800 are so eager to keep in the headlines.
00:00:53.340 And we will then check out how solar power
00:00:56.480 threatens the lives of a billion poor people
00:00:58.420 around the globe,
00:00:59.320 why conservatives find more meaning in life,
00:01:01.860 duh,
00:01:02.340 and what FDR's unprecedented third-term power grab
00:01:05.500 means for us today on this day in history.
00:01:08.060 I'm Michael Knowles,
00:01:08.920 and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:17.000 I have to talk about it, don't I?
00:01:18.940 I tried so hard not to talk about this stupid,
00:01:22.260 mostly media-contrived circus
00:01:24.040 of would he, wouldn't he, would he?
00:01:26.180 What did he say?
00:01:27.240 What did Trump say?
00:01:27.980 It's the end of the republic.
00:01:29.360 Oh no, the president that's given us
00:01:31.260 a booming economy, geopolitical stability,
00:01:34.080 deregulation, more religious liberty,
00:01:36.400 more original, no.
00:01:37.560 Now he said something a little bit wrong,
00:01:39.700 and now it's all over.
00:01:42.000 But I do have to cover it,
00:01:43.260 because even frivolous Republicans
00:01:45.340 are really glimbing on
00:01:46.480 and taking on the president
00:01:48.120 with much stronger language
00:01:49.580 than they seem to attack their opponents on the left
00:01:52.620 to want to abridge our liberty.
00:01:54.420 So let's take it on.
00:01:55.160 That's fine.
00:01:55.780 Here is, you know what I'm referring to.
00:01:57.820 I'm talking about President Trump
00:01:59.100 in Helsinki
00:02:00.260 at the press conference with President Putin.
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00:04:19.160 Okay, let's talk about it.
00:04:21.080 Let's just play this clip right now.
00:04:22.760 President Trump,
00:04:23.480 he's in Helsinki.
00:04:24.680 He makes a remark
00:04:25.680 that maybe it wasn't
00:04:26.960 the best said.
00:04:28.100 Here he is.
00:04:29.440 Dan Coats came to me
00:04:31.200 and some others.
00:04:32.120 They said they think it's Russia.
00:04:34.000 I have President Putin.
00:04:37.020 He just said it's not Russia.
00:04:38.960 I will say this.
00:04:40.240 I don't see any reason
00:04:41.180 why it would be,
00:04:42.320 but I really do want to see
00:04:43.740 the server,
00:04:45.240 but I have confidence
00:04:48.320 in both parties.
00:04:50.160 Okay.
00:04:51.460 Okay, so he says,
00:04:52.940 look, some people are telling me
00:04:54.560 that Russia hacked everything
00:04:56.740 and I'm here,
00:04:58.740 I'm talking to Vladimir Putin.
00:04:59.820 I don't want to call the guy a liar.
00:05:01.060 He's saying that he didn't do it.
00:05:02.720 Obviously, he's denying it.
00:05:04.140 And by the way,
00:05:05.060 Vladimir Putin in that press conference
00:05:07.020 sort of admits
00:05:07.780 that he's probably lying, right?
00:05:08.820 He says,
00:05:09.320 I don't trust the U.S.
00:05:10.220 The U.S. doesn't trust me.
00:05:11.520 I've got my own interests at heart.
00:05:12.880 He's actually pretty blunt about it.
00:05:14.540 So President Trump makes a statement
00:05:15.880 and people attack it.
00:05:17.940 They pillory it.
00:05:19.120 Do I think it was the best statement?
00:05:20.460 No.
00:05:20.900 Could he have said it
00:05:21.580 in a better way?
00:05:22.600 Sure.
00:05:23.340 But, you know,
00:05:23.860 he's the guy in the ring.
00:05:25.200 Is it the end of the world?
00:05:26.700 Absolutely not.
00:05:27.340 But you had these conservative critics,
00:05:28.620 Newt Gingrich,
00:05:29.340 saying it was the worst
00:05:30.300 disaster of his presidency,
00:05:32.640 worst mistake
00:05:33.200 of his presidency.
00:05:34.400 And Newt Gingrich
00:05:34.980 is typically a Trump supporter.
00:05:36.460 So this sounded alarm bells.
00:05:38.340 Other Trump surrogates,
00:05:39.600 Paul Ryan,
00:05:40.080 came out there
00:05:40.620 and criticized it pretty harshly.
00:05:42.760 So President Trump
00:05:44.720 issued the most
00:05:46.380 Trumpian apology for this.
00:05:48.800 Here he is clarifying,
00:05:50.900 clarifying his statements.
00:05:51.880 I thought that I made myself
00:05:54.280 very clear
00:05:54.960 by having just
00:05:56.040 reviewed the transcript.
00:05:58.300 Now, I have to say,
00:05:59.200 I came back
00:05:59.920 and I said,
00:06:00.940 what is going on?
00:06:01.760 What's the big deal?
00:06:03.060 So I got a transcript
00:06:04.320 I reviewed it.
00:06:05.140 I actually went out
00:06:06.040 and reviewed a clip
00:06:08.000 of an answer
00:06:10.120 that I gave.
00:06:11.620 And I realized
00:06:13.380 that there is a need
00:06:14.760 for some clarification.
00:06:17.000 It should have been obvious.
00:06:18.520 I thought it would be obvious.
00:06:19.660 But I would like to clarify
00:06:21.380 just in case it wasn't.
00:06:23.480 In a key sentence
00:06:24.320 in my remarks,
00:06:25.860 I said the word would
00:06:27.500 instead of wouldn't.
00:06:29.640 The sentence should have been,
00:06:31.440 I don't see any reason
00:06:33.000 why I wouldn't
00:06:34.180 or why it wouldn't be Russia.
00:06:36.720 So just to repeat it,
00:06:39.440 I said the word would
00:06:40.720 instead of wouldn't.
00:06:42.340 And the sentence
00:06:43.520 should have been,
00:06:44.920 and I thought it would be
00:06:46.100 maybe a little bit unclear
00:06:47.920 on the transcript
00:06:49.520 or unclear
00:06:50.220 on the actual video.
00:06:52.380 The sentence should have been,
00:06:53.860 I don't see any reason
00:06:54.940 why it wouldn't be Russia.
00:06:57.980 Sort of a double negative.
00:07:00.860 So you can put that in
00:07:02.920 and I think that probably
00:07:04.040 clarifies things
00:07:05.040 pretty good by itself.
00:07:06.580 I have on numerous occasions
00:07:08.320 noted our intelligence findings
00:07:10.000 that Russians attempted
00:07:11.780 to interfere in our elections.
00:07:14.360 Unlike previous administrations,
00:07:16.380 my administration has
00:07:17.860 and will continue
00:07:18.740 to move aggressively
00:07:20.480 to repeal any efforts
00:07:22.840 and repel.
00:07:24.220 We will stop it.
00:07:25.480 We will repel it.
00:07:27.360 Any efforts to interfere
00:07:29.120 in our elections.
00:07:30.980 We're doing everything
00:07:32.020 in our power
00:07:32.820 to prevent Russian interference
00:07:34.480 in 2018.
00:07:37.480 Okay.
00:07:38.660 So, fine.
00:07:40.400 I mean, that's my take.
00:07:41.480 I saw his,
00:07:42.260 I saw the original statement.
00:07:43.360 I thought,
00:07:43.680 oh, okay, well, not great,
00:07:44.820 but everything else has been good.
00:07:46.280 And then I saw that
00:07:47.240 and I thought,
00:07:47.660 well, okay, whatever, fine.
00:07:48.960 That's fine.
00:07:49.720 Because I do like
00:07:50.860 that the walk back
00:07:51.740 and the clarification
00:07:52.380 was basically
00:07:53.420 President Trump saying,
00:07:54.720 oh, well,
00:07:55.460 I see why you misunderstood.
00:07:57.040 Yesterday was opposite day.
00:07:58.860 You see, yes,
00:07:59.580 you must not have understood this.
00:08:01.040 In Helsinki,
00:08:01.760 when I was talking
00:08:02.280 to President Putin,
00:08:03.000 it was opposite day yesterday.
00:08:04.660 So that's it.
00:08:05.240 That clarifies it.
00:08:06.040 And then he makes
00:08:06.520 a bunch of good points,
00:08:07.340 which is that
00:08:07.720 his administration
00:08:08.460 has been much harsher
00:08:09.400 on Russia
00:08:09.840 than his predecessor.
00:08:11.200 And he's been harder
00:08:12.860 on President Putin.
00:08:13.760 He's been harder
00:08:14.260 and he's been much better
00:08:17.060 about having,
00:08:18.660 allowing the intelligence agencies
00:08:19.740 to do their job
00:08:20.640 and not politicizing
00:08:21.500 his executive agencies.
00:08:23.620 What's really pernicious
00:08:24.700 about this,
00:08:25.240 because I actually
00:08:25.660 was sort of cheering
00:08:26.620 President Trump on
00:08:27.860 when he was refusing
00:08:29.720 to be backed into a corner.
00:08:31.060 And I still cheer him on.
00:08:32.080 I really wish,
00:08:33.080 if not for a few words,
00:08:34.340 he really would have had
00:08:35.080 an excellent performance
00:08:36.460 in Helsinki.
00:08:37.380 That's kind of what caused
00:08:38.100 some of this issue.
00:08:40.740 And there are some reports now
00:08:42.100 that some people
00:08:42.700 in the White House
00:08:43.260 were saying
00:08:43.740 it wasn't a great statement,
00:08:45.100 but he shouldn't apologize.
00:08:46.920 Some people were saying,
00:08:48.060 you know,
00:08:48.520 he should get in front
00:08:49.560 of this right away.
00:08:51.240 Whatever.
00:08:52.000 This is really a creation
00:08:53.500 of Democrats
00:08:54.340 and the media
00:08:55.000 and the bureaucrats
00:08:56.440 led by now
00:08:57.360 Mr. Bob Mueller.
00:08:58.520 I mean,
00:08:58.840 this is a total contrivance
00:09:00.380 and Mueller bears
00:09:01.400 responsibility here
00:09:02.420 for a few reasons.
00:09:03.680 There's this really
00:09:04.480 pernicious aspect
00:09:05.220 of the Mueller investigation,
00:09:06.660 which is that
00:09:07.100 it's twofold.
00:09:08.100 On the one hand,
00:09:09.000 it's whether Russians
00:09:09.900 hacked the election,
00:09:11.320 whether,
00:09:12.000 hacked the election,
00:09:12.580 it's a ridiculous euphemism,
00:09:14.000 a ridiculous phrase,
00:09:15.380 whether Russians
00:09:16.180 tried to interfere
00:09:16.980 in the presidential election
00:09:17.940 as they have
00:09:18.780 since 1917.
00:09:20.360 Yeah,
00:09:20.820 probably they did,
00:09:21.620 right?
00:09:21.820 The other one
00:09:22.560 is whether President Trump
00:09:23.600 colluded with Russia.
00:09:24.860 And what Mueller has done
00:09:25.860 and what the media have done
00:09:26.820 is they've conflated
00:09:27.980 these two things
00:09:28.900 so that President Trump
00:09:30.800 is totally right
00:09:31.560 to view the Mueller investigation
00:09:33.500 as a political cudgel
00:09:34.880 with which his opponents
00:09:36.740 are attacking his presidency.
00:09:37.820 Why did those indictments
00:09:39.120 come out just before
00:09:40.140 the Russia conference?
00:09:41.980 Isn't that a little suspect?
00:09:43.180 That was obviously
00:09:44.080 a political move.
00:09:44.800 It was a political move
00:09:45.600 driven by Bob Mueller
00:09:46.820 and he deserves
00:09:47.520 criticism for that.
00:09:48.860 I mean,
00:09:49.080 that is,
00:09:49.760 he's all,
00:09:50.420 this whole time
00:09:51.140 we've heard that Bob Mueller
00:09:52.380 is above politics,
00:09:53.720 he's this figure,
00:09:55.100 this totally upstanding guy.
00:09:56.540 Well,
00:09:56.720 then why is he making
00:09:57.880 such a nakedly political play
00:09:59.620 to release those indictments
00:10:01.220 right before the Russia summit?
00:10:03.380 That's on the one hand.
00:10:05.700 Now,
00:10:05.940 who knows whether,
00:10:08.340 you know,
00:10:08.920 I take President Trump
00:10:10.140 at his word all the time,
00:10:11.280 but who cares?
00:10:13.080 Here is what,
00:10:13.640 the real thing that's bothering me
00:10:15.080 is that these frivolous Republicans
00:10:17.080 who are clutching their pearls,
00:10:18.680 getting so up in arms
00:10:19.660 about all of this.
00:10:20.680 You know,
00:10:20.940 what do we know
00:10:21.860 about the intelligence agencies?
00:10:23.640 What do we know
00:10:24.180 about them right now?
00:10:25.040 Because we're being told,
00:10:26.080 how dare President Trump
00:10:27.800 not,
00:10:28.200 you know,
00:10:29.880 not totally accept the word
00:10:31.280 of his intelligence agencies
00:10:32.780 and officers
00:10:33.420 when he's speaking
00:10:35.200 in Helsinki.
00:10:36.360 Well,
00:10:36.660 look,
00:10:37.020 sure,
00:10:37.420 he's abroad,
00:10:38.000 he should,
00:10:38.460 you know,
00:10:38.900 obviously he should side
00:10:39.660 with his own country
00:10:40.880 over whatever someone else
00:10:42.140 is saying
00:10:42.580 or a Russian dictator
00:10:44.520 is saying.
00:10:45.180 But on the other hand,
00:10:46.340 the federal agencies,
00:10:48.020 the investigative agencies
00:10:48.940 have become horribly corrupted
00:10:50.660 and politicized.
00:10:51.740 What do we know about them?
00:10:52.880 The FBI under Barack Obama
00:10:54.480 was used to spy on
00:10:57.860 a political opponent's
00:10:59.800 presidential campaign.
00:11:00.800 We know that happened.
00:11:01.900 What do we know
00:11:02.560 from the former head
00:11:03.860 of the FBI,
00:11:04.920 James Comey?
00:11:05.620 Well,
00:11:05.820 when we look at James Comey
00:11:06.800 right now,
00:11:07.300 he is begging people
00:11:08.320 to vote for Democrats.
00:11:09.620 This man who's supposed to be,
00:11:10.580 the last guy that they told us
00:11:11.580 was above politics
00:11:12.560 and he's such an upright guy
00:11:14.080 and he's an honest broker.
00:11:15.160 He is now going on Twitter.
00:11:16.220 He said on Twitter,
00:11:16.880 quote,
00:11:17.340 all who believe
00:11:18.060 in this country's values
00:11:19.060 must vote for Democrats
00:11:20.360 this fall.
00:11:21.560 Former head of the FBI.
00:11:22.760 Does that compromise
00:11:23.620 the integrity of the FBI?
00:11:25.020 I don't know,
00:11:25.600 maybe.
00:11:26.060 How about the CIA?
00:11:27.200 John Brennan.
00:11:28.280 John Brennan is now
00:11:29.180 going on Twitter
00:11:29.660 saying President Trump
00:11:30.500 is a traitor.
00:11:31.540 He's treasonous,
00:11:32.820 spewing all kinds of bile.
00:11:34.060 John Brennan,
00:11:34.560 by the way,
00:11:35.120 who voted for
00:11:36.120 the Communist Party
00:11:37.220 nominee for president
00:11:38.140 during the height
00:11:39.380 of the Cold War.
00:11:40.640 That John Brennan.
00:11:41.520 Does that compromise
00:11:42.260 the integrity
00:11:42.880 of the intelligence agencies?
00:11:44.700 Does that compromise
00:11:45.580 the integrity
00:11:46.920 of our executive agencies?
00:11:48.900 Yeah,
00:11:49.040 I think it does.
00:11:50.280 It's not President Trump
00:11:51.160 who's done that.
00:11:51.720 It's not President Trump
00:11:52.340 who's turned his back.
00:11:52.980 Those guys have done it.
00:11:55.040 You know,
00:11:55.220 President Trump and Rand Paul
00:11:56.200 put it pretty well
00:11:56.940 when it comes,
00:11:57.560 in particular,
00:11:58.120 to the case of John Brennan.
00:11:59.220 Here they are.
00:12:00.500 I think Brennan's
00:12:01.360 a very bad guy
00:12:02.340 and if you look at it,
00:12:03.500 a lot of things
00:12:04.060 happened under his watch.
00:12:05.340 I think he's a very bad person.
00:12:07.300 Your thoughts on that,
00:12:08.040 Senator?
00:12:09.020 You know,
00:12:09.580 I agree completely.
00:12:10.580 I think John Brennan
00:12:11.600 is completely unhinged
00:12:12.960 and you see him now
00:12:13.980 calling the president
00:12:15.120 treasonous
00:12:15.820 and what should worry
00:12:17.000 every American
00:12:17.720 is John Brennan
00:12:18.500 was in charge
00:12:19.200 of the CIA,
00:12:20.440 the most powerful
00:12:21.340 intelligence-gathering
00:12:22.740 group on the planet.
00:12:24.960 They can absorb
00:12:25.680 every bit of information
00:12:26.900 you can imagine,
00:12:27.780 your phone calls,
00:12:29.160 your metadata,
00:12:30.020 your bank records,
00:12:30.900 your visa records.
00:12:32.000 They could destroy
00:12:32.920 any person's life.
00:12:34.540 The person at the head
00:12:35.540 of that turns out
00:12:36.740 to be very much
00:12:37.640 a partisan,
00:12:38.400 a Trump-hater,
00:12:39.480 and very much
00:12:40.040 just someone
00:12:41.720 who is,
00:12:42.340 you know,
00:12:43.860 a Trump-hater.
00:12:44.560 I guess that's the best
00:12:45.220 way to put it.
00:12:45.940 But, you know,
00:12:46.940 I really am worried
00:12:47.900 that he was head
00:12:48.540 of the CIA
00:12:49.180 for so long
00:12:50.040 harboring all that bias.
00:12:52.720 Well said,
00:12:53.560 gentlemen.
00:12:53.920 I totally agree.
00:12:54.880 So you've got those guys
00:12:56.040 compromising the integrity
00:12:58.120 of the agencies.
00:12:58.920 Then you've got,
00:12:59.480 how about Andy McCabe?
00:13:00.340 Remember him?
00:13:01.120 There are so many
00:13:01.780 scandals that are
00:13:03.100 coming out right now
00:13:03.900 from the FBI,
00:13:04.820 from political appointees
00:13:06.240 over there,
00:13:06.800 that it's hard to keep
00:13:07.640 track of all of them.
00:13:08.320 But Andy McCabe
00:13:09.060 not too long ago
00:13:09.860 was disgraced
00:13:10.840 and kicked out
00:13:11.460 because he lied
00:13:12.240 to federal agents
00:13:12.980 under oath.
00:13:13.620 This was a major
00:13:14.360 official.
00:13:15.960 How about Peter Strzok
00:13:16.840 and Lisa Page,
00:13:17.620 the lover FBI agents?
00:13:20.340 Peter Strzok
00:13:20.960 is testifying before Congress.
00:13:22.280 He says,
00:13:22.540 no,
00:13:22.900 those texts,
00:13:23.780 the texts where I said
00:13:24.640 I was going to use
00:13:25.200 the power of the state
00:13:26.000 to stop President Trump
00:13:27.180 from becoming president,
00:13:28.700 that, you know,
00:13:29.240 that didn't mean
00:13:29.920 what you think it means.
00:13:30.780 Oh, you fools.
00:13:31.540 You know,
00:13:31.640 he looked like that ghoul,
00:13:33.200 that demon on that.
00:13:34.560 What do you have to do
00:13:35.780 with me,
00:13:36.880 Trey Gowdy?
00:13:37.780 I mean,
00:13:38.040 he just looked so dishonest.
00:13:39.520 And now we know
00:13:40.360 from his lover,
00:13:41.640 Lisa Page,
00:13:43.340 who is,
00:13:43.860 this has been reported
00:13:44.700 by Rep. John Ratcliffe,
00:13:46.860 that she contradicts
00:13:48.380 Peter Strzok's statement.
00:13:49.440 She says,
00:13:49.880 no,
00:13:50.040 those texts mean
00:13:51.020 what they say they mean.
00:13:52.040 They look like that,
00:13:52.820 which is that FBI agents
00:13:54.400 who are investigating Trump,
00:13:55.640 who are in the heart of it,
00:13:56.600 who were on the Mueller team,
00:13:58.120 who actually got fired
00:13:58.940 when this became too public,
00:14:00.460 that those guys
00:14:02.020 were trying to use
00:14:02.720 the power of the state
00:14:03.520 to stop the Trump presidency.
00:14:05.600 That is a horrifying thing.
00:14:07.300 How about
00:14:07.800 when President Trump
00:14:09.320 met with Loretta Lynch
00:14:10.200 on the airplane,
00:14:11.340 former head of the
00:14:12.260 Department of Justice
00:14:13.060 under Barack Obama?
00:14:14.380 What about when they met
00:14:15.040 and then just coincidentally
00:14:16.260 Hillary got off the hook
00:14:17.240 shortly thereafter?
00:14:19.060 President Clinton,
00:14:19.760 I'm sorry,
00:14:20.120 President Clinton,
00:14:22.320 former future President
00:14:23.420 Hillary Clinton
00:14:23.940 got off the hook
00:14:24.860 shortly thereafter.
00:14:26.920 And then what about
00:14:28.100 Barack Obama?
00:14:28.740 We know that he's
00:14:29.280 politicized other agencies.
00:14:30.600 He politicized
00:14:31.900 the IRS.
00:14:34.980 I mean,
00:14:35.120 I was in some groups
00:14:36.020 that were targeted
00:14:36.560 by the IRS.
00:14:37.420 He used the administrative
00:14:38.380 agencies to target
00:14:39.980 his political opponents.
00:14:41.400 So, okay,
00:14:42.080 now conservatives
00:14:42.940 are clutching
00:14:43.620 their pearls on this.
00:14:44.620 They're saying,
00:14:44.840 oh no,
00:14:45.500 oh no,
00:14:46.040 how could you ever
00:14:47.160 question these
00:14:47.920 bureaucratic agencies?
00:14:48.980 When did it become
00:14:49.540 conservative to just
00:14:51.040 blindly defend
00:14:52.480 the bureaucratic agencies
00:14:53.800 of the federal government?
00:14:55.600 Is that conservative now?
00:14:56.800 I don't,
00:14:57.140 it's not,
00:14:57.520 that's not the conservatism
00:14:58.840 that I learned.
00:14:59.420 I don't think so.
00:15:00.260 There are obviously
00:15:00.880 crooks there.
00:15:01.400 And it's really sad
00:15:02.520 for the rank-and-file agents
00:15:04.280 because there are a lot
00:15:05.320 of very good rank-and-file agents
00:15:06.720 there and their reputations
00:15:08.100 have been tarnished.
00:15:09.260 They've been tarnished
00:15:10.160 because they've been
00:15:10.640 associated with
00:15:11.660 crooked bad actors
00:15:13.000 like Peter Strzok,
00:15:14.240 like Lisa Page,
00:15:15.660 like all of these
00:15:17.500 other guys,
00:15:17.940 like James Comey,
00:15:18.960 you know,
00:15:19.520 Andy McCabe.
00:15:21.360 Their reputations
00:15:22.280 have been tarnished.
00:15:22.900 It's not our fault.
00:15:23.720 It's not conservatives
00:15:24.360 who did that.
00:15:25.040 And it's not our
00:15:25.780 responsibility to clean
00:15:26.800 up the mess that was
00:15:28.140 created by these crooked
00:15:29.460 Democrat officials,
00:15:30.980 by these left-wingers
00:15:32.280 who were in positions
00:15:33.100 of state power
00:15:33.880 and the public trust
00:15:34.960 and who abused
00:15:35.460 that public trust.
00:15:36.320 That's not our problem.
00:15:37.340 And for conservatives,
00:15:38.260 I know you can never
00:15:39.300 criticize the intelligence
00:15:40.920 agencies.
00:15:41.580 Give me a break.
00:15:42.360 That isn't,
00:15:43.340 where's your love of liberty?
00:15:45.040 Come on, man.
00:15:45.920 You know,
00:15:46.480 also on this,
00:15:47.820 why can't conservatives
00:15:48.580 take yes for an answer?
00:15:49.820 We keep beating up
00:15:50.680 the president,
00:15:51.300 you know,
00:15:51.640 he said this,
00:15:52.480 he shouldn't have said that,
00:15:53.400 okay.
00:15:53.860 And then he says
00:15:54.820 the opposite
00:15:55.580 and we couldn't
00:15:56.280 take that either.
00:15:57.040 Just take yes for an answer.
00:15:58.120 Keep your eyes on the prize.
00:15:59.700 There is historical precedent
00:16:01.040 for this,
00:16:01.480 by the way.
00:16:01.880 People think,
00:16:03.040 you know,
00:16:03.420 that history began
00:16:04.520 the day that they were born
00:16:05.420 or these days
00:16:06.100 that history began,
00:16:07.500 excuse me,
00:16:08.300 probably just yesterday.
00:16:10.060 They did this to Ronald Reagan.
00:16:11.660 They did this to Reagan
00:16:12.440 and Gorbachev.
00:16:13.440 Howard Phillips
00:16:14.200 of the conservative caucus
00:16:15.440 in the 1980s
00:16:16.280 referred to President Reagan
00:16:18.140 as a useful idiot
00:16:19.200 for Soviet propaganda.
00:16:20.560 Does that sound familiar?
00:16:22.020 Does it?
00:16:22.400 Norman Podhoretz,
00:16:23.660 you know,
00:16:24.100 a leader in the conservative movement,
00:16:25.880 said that President Reagan
00:16:27.380 meeting with Gorbachev
00:16:28.380 shamed himself
00:16:29.340 and the country.
00:16:30.980 Sound familiar?
00:16:31.560 How about George Will?
00:16:32.640 George Will,
00:16:33.220 a foreign,
00:16:33.840 previously,
00:16:35.080 until recently,
00:16:35.840 Republican conservative columnist.
00:16:38.020 He said,
00:16:38.900 Reagan went down
00:16:39.780 like a punctured balloon.
00:16:41.680 Time flies.
00:16:42.720 For conservatives,
00:16:43.580 Ronald Reagan's foreign policy
00:16:44.780 has produced much surprise
00:16:46.380 but little delight.
00:16:47.520 Just attacking him.
00:16:48.480 And then Newt Gingrich,
00:16:50.260 whom I like
00:16:51.220 and who had just recently
00:16:52.860 came out pretty strongly
00:16:53.700 against President Trump
00:16:54.560 for Helsinki.
00:16:55.460 He said in 1985
00:16:56.320 of Ronald Reagan,
00:16:57.660 measured against the scale
00:16:58.660 and momentum
00:16:59.120 of the Soviet Empire's challenge,
00:17:00.540 the Reagan administration
00:17:01.680 has failed,
00:17:02.480 is failing,
00:17:03.100 and without a dramatic change
00:17:04.120 in strategy,
00:17:04.860 will continue to fail.
00:17:06.160 President Reagan
00:17:06.760 is clearly failing.
00:17:08.120 He said that meeting
00:17:09.300 with Gorbachev
00:17:09.880 was the most dangerous
00:17:10.640 summit for the West
00:17:11.460 since Adolf Hitler
00:17:12.600 met with Neville Chamberlain
00:17:14.000 in 1938 in Munich.
00:17:17.320 Guys,
00:17:17.820 this has happened before.
00:17:19.620 It actually kind of
00:17:20.380 makes you feel better
00:17:21.060 about this moment in history
00:17:22.060 when you think,
00:17:22.920 oh yes,
00:17:23.420 this has all happened before.
00:17:24.840 The same hyperbolic,
00:17:26.120 ridiculous statements.
00:17:27.300 Ronald Reagan won
00:17:28.040 the Cold War.
00:17:28.840 Ronald Reagan is the guy
00:17:30.160 who tore down
00:17:31.360 the Berlin Wall
00:17:32.080 and freed people
00:17:32.900 behind the Iron Curtain.
00:17:34.280 And to hear the things
00:17:35.220 they were saying about him,
00:17:36.100 one wonders if they'll be
00:17:37.160 saying the same things
00:17:37.920 about President Trump
00:17:38.800 pretty soon.
00:17:40.220 The other side of this too,
00:17:42.180 and then we'll move on
00:17:43.040 because this actually
00:17:44.060 has broader implications
00:17:45.040 for history
00:17:45.660 and for the kind of
00:17:46.340 conservative,
00:17:47.520 what we conservatives
00:17:48.240 should be doing day by day,
00:17:49.600 what it means for us.
00:17:50.680 But do people think
00:17:52.660 that there are just
00:17:53.280 no stakes right now,
00:17:55.140 that it's all just a game?
00:17:56.340 I really do think
00:17:57.520 some people,
00:17:58.200 especially some Republicans,
00:18:00.140 are treating this
00:18:01.100 like it's all just
00:18:01.760 a little game.
00:18:02.960 It's all just about manners
00:18:04.160 and, you know,
00:18:05.260 whether they'll be
00:18:06.000 looked on well
00:18:06.840 at the certain parties
00:18:08.180 and cocktail parties
00:18:09.020 that they go to
00:18:09.760 or whether, you know,
00:18:11.540 this old jockey
00:18:12.280 for the next position
00:18:13.180 or this or that.
00:18:13.900 There are real stakes.
00:18:14.880 This is about liberty.
00:18:15.980 This is about freedom.
00:18:17.520 You know,
00:18:17.880 Jeff Flake,
00:18:19.060 the future former
00:18:19.920 Senator Jeff Flake,
00:18:21.400 has he called
00:18:22.160 President Trump shameful,
00:18:23.800 a failure,
00:18:24.860 you know,
00:18:25.080 or just, oh,
00:18:25.620 it's the worst
00:18:26.160 sort of invective
00:18:26.800 against him.
00:18:27.660 And he tweets
00:18:28.460 this stuff out.
00:18:29.320 And then the very next tweet
00:18:30.740 is a, I kid you not,
00:18:32.060 it's a picture
00:18:32.460 of Jeff Flake
00:18:33.360 taking a selfie
00:18:34.740 next to a pig
00:18:35.760 wearing American flag
00:18:37.580 bunting, you know,
00:18:38.780 and it's,
00:18:39.440 he's making a joke.
00:18:40.240 It says,
00:18:40.560 what am I doing?
00:18:41.300 This pig can't even read.
00:18:42.600 Ha ha ha.
00:18:43.260 You know,
00:18:44.020 smile for the camera.
00:18:45.160 Like, are you kidding me, pal?
00:18:46.640 Do you not realize
00:18:47.560 that there are stakes here?
00:18:49.000 This is what he says.
00:18:49.740 Oh, I'm putting on,
00:18:50.800 I'm putting on
00:18:51.280 my serious Jeff Flake face.
00:18:52.820 Mm, mm, mm.
00:18:53.680 This president's awful.
00:18:54.520 I want to take him down.
00:18:55.740 Mm, mm, mm, mm.
00:18:56.580 And the next man,
00:18:57.140 tee hee, look,
00:18:57.740 I'm with a pig.
00:18:58.380 Hee hee.
00:18:58.880 I mean,
00:18:59.220 it's like they're just,
00:19:00.460 they're like failed
00:19:02.580 Hollywood celebrities
00:19:03.500 or something,
00:19:04.140 you know.
00:19:04.440 It's just,
00:19:04.900 they turn it on and off.
00:19:05.860 One wonders if some
00:19:06.760 of these people
00:19:07.340 have core beliefs.
00:19:08.480 if they realize,
00:19:10.560 oh,
00:19:11.220 the only way that we can
00:19:12.760 affect liberty,
00:19:13.640 the only way that we can
00:19:14.540 increase liberty,
00:19:15.420 the only way we can
00:19:15.940 reduce government
00:19:17.120 restriction,
00:19:17.800 the only way we can
00:19:18.440 achieve some modicum
00:19:20.120 of global leadership
00:19:20.880 and geopolitical peace
00:19:22.360 is through politicians
00:19:25.380 and through administrations.
00:19:26.480 And the Trump administration
00:19:27.220 has been very good on this.
00:19:28.600 So I'm going to support that
00:19:29.580 because I want the thing.
00:19:31.520 I don't just want
00:19:32.220 the appearance of the thing
00:19:33.200 like the left.
00:19:33.760 I want the thing itself.
00:19:34.820 I want the liberty itself.
00:19:35.980 And you've got to wonder
00:19:37.100 if these sort of
00:19:39.160 frivolous conservatives
00:19:40.260 like Jeff Flake,
00:19:41.580 if they want that,
00:19:42.480 if they have their eyes on that
00:19:43.360 or if they're just
00:19:44.120 big grinning teeth
00:19:45.860 and empty suits,
00:19:46.760 you have to wonder.
00:19:47.780 But the people who are
00:19:49.380 actually affecting policy,
00:19:50.620 they're not empty suits.
00:19:51.540 And sometimes they misspeak
00:19:52.660 or whatever.
00:19:53.320 We should give them
00:19:53.880 a little grace on that.
00:19:54.780 And most importantly,
00:19:55.700 when they come out
00:19:56.640 and they apologize
00:19:57.340 and they say,
00:19:58.000 no, yesterday was opposite day,
00:19:59.440 take yes for an answer, people.
00:20:00.880 Come on.
00:20:01.620 Goodness gracious.
00:20:02.460 There are objects here.
00:20:03.800 And speaking of
00:20:05.120 frivolous conservatives,
00:20:07.040 I think there's a parallel here
00:20:08.740 with the environmental movement.
00:20:11.080 There's a real parallel.
00:20:12.180 There's the same sort of
00:20:13.960 mistaking the forest
00:20:16.280 for the trees
00:20:16.800 for getting your priorities
00:20:17.680 all jumbled.
00:20:18.560 It reminds me a little bit
00:20:19.640 of G.K. Chesterton.
00:20:20.840 He said that
00:20:21.400 heresy isn't
00:20:22.560 the promotion of vice.
00:20:24.260 It's the promotion
00:20:25.040 of one virtue
00:20:25.820 to the exclusion
00:20:26.560 of all the other virtues.
00:20:27.740 There's a big story out today
00:20:28.660 with regard to
00:20:29.200 the environmental movement.
00:20:30.460 Bjorn Lomborg,
00:20:31.520 who is the director
00:20:32.060 of the Copenhagen
00:20:32.840 Consensus Center,
00:20:34.120 environmental think tank guy.
00:20:36.640 He came out and said
00:20:37.860 pretty clearly
00:20:38.520 in no uncertain terms
00:20:39.520 that the push
00:20:40.480 among environmentalists
00:20:41.600 to make all energy,
00:20:44.060 you know,
00:20:44.240 solar power,
00:20:45.420 wind power,
00:20:47.100 renewable energy
00:20:47.800 is very cruel
00:20:49.020 to 1.1 billion
00:20:50.740 poor people
00:20:51.320 around the world.
00:20:52.700 And, you know,
00:20:54.800 his point here
00:20:56.020 is that
00:20:56.540 it's very easy
00:20:57.720 for us
00:20:58.180 sitting here with,
00:20:59.420 you know,
00:20:59.660 in a world
00:21:00.080 powered by oil
00:21:00.920 to say,
00:21:01.320 oh, it would be better
00:21:02.100 if, you know,
00:21:02.560 we didn't do that.
00:21:03.420 We should probably
00:21:04.400 just power our cars
00:21:05.280 on hopes and dreams
00:21:06.240 and unicorn juice.
00:21:07.620 But for people
00:21:08.360 who are trying to subsist,
00:21:09.680 who are trying to live,
00:21:10.500 who are trying to be pulled
00:21:11.720 out of global dire poverty,
00:21:14.480 they need those tools.
00:21:15.940 And if we say to them,
00:21:16.820 no, no, no,
00:21:18.000 no, no, Bangladeshies,
00:21:19.200 you're not allowed
00:21:19.720 to use oil.
00:21:21.080 You know,
00:21:21.620 these are people
00:21:22.300 who could contract diseases,
00:21:23.560 who could starve,
00:21:24.200 who could live in poverty
00:21:25.000 because of our whims,
00:21:26.240 because we think
00:21:26.700 that the environment
00:21:27.280 is more important
00:21:28.020 than people's lives,
00:21:29.140 than people flourishing
00:21:29.960 and being able
00:21:31.120 to support their families.
00:21:32.920 They did this
00:21:33.620 in the United States
00:21:34.400 when the environmentalists
00:21:35.780 pushed ethanol.
00:21:37.100 So they said,
00:21:37.700 look,
00:21:37.880 we're going to start
00:21:38.400 using more corn
00:21:39.440 in our fuel
00:21:40.580 instead of dinosaur juice,
00:21:42.040 instead of fossil fuels
00:21:43.100 and oil,
00:21:43.720 and that'll be better
00:21:44.540 for the environment.
00:21:45.500 What could go wrong?
00:21:46.500 What could possibly go wrong?
00:21:47.820 Well,
00:21:48.160 what went wrong
00:21:48.800 is that the use of ethanol
00:21:50.100 drove up corn prices
00:21:51.540 tremendously.
00:21:52.500 By 2011,
00:21:53.580 which is not that long
00:21:54.840 after ethanol,
00:21:55.680 we'd started really using it,
00:21:57.520 the price of corn
00:21:58.480 had risen
00:21:58.960 from two to three dollars
00:22:00.700 to seven dollars
00:22:02.240 and multiplied per unit
00:22:03.880 by, you know,
00:22:04.680 over a hundred percent
00:22:06.340 and possibly over 200 percent.
00:22:10.880 Ethanol went from five
00:22:11.980 to ten percent
00:22:12.660 of the corn demand
00:22:13.920 to over 40 percent
00:22:14.960 in the United States.
00:22:15.860 That has effects,
00:22:17.120 and this is the case
00:22:17.760 with a lot of leftist policy.
00:22:19.360 There are always
00:22:20.120 unintended consequences.
00:22:21.460 When the federal government acts,
00:22:22.580 when the government acts,
00:22:23.600 it's easy to say,
00:22:24.400 see,
00:22:24.680 it's helping so-and-so.
00:22:25.880 How uncompassionate of you
00:22:27.180 not to want to help
00:22:28.100 the little delta-smelt anchovies
00:22:29.680 that most of my fresh water
00:22:30.880 goes to,
00:22:31.700 but there are all of these
00:22:32.840 unintended consequences,
00:22:34.180 and in this case,
00:22:35.220 you're talking about
00:22:36.200 over a billion
00:22:37.520 impoverished people
00:22:38.900 around the world.
00:22:39.840 Wind, solar,
00:22:40.600 wave energy
00:22:41.240 comprises
00:22:42.260 under 10 percent
00:22:43.500 of electricity
00:22:44.240 in the OECD,
00:22:45.780 and the only reason
00:22:46.860 it even comprises
00:22:47.980 that much
00:22:48.560 is because there are
00:22:49.240 massive subsidies.
00:22:50.220 Just last year,
00:22:51.060 $160 billion
00:22:52.100 worth of subsidies.
00:22:53.920 Electricity is almost
00:22:55.300 in all parts
00:22:56.780 created through
00:22:57.440 fossil fuels.
00:22:58.720 It's generated
00:22:59.320 by fossil fuels.
00:23:01.140 So just to use
00:23:02.160 the Bangladeshis
00:23:02.900 actually as an example,
00:23:04.440 in Bangladesh,
00:23:05.320 a study was done,
00:23:06.380 electrified households,
00:23:07.840 when a household
00:23:08.380 got electricity,
00:23:09.940 what that meant
00:23:10.700 was a 21 percent
00:23:11.760 increase
00:23:12.460 in annual income
00:23:13.720 and a 1.5 percent
00:23:15.060 reduction in poverty
00:23:16.360 every single year.
00:23:19.040 Not just one.
00:23:19.900 It's not like
00:23:20.220 they electrify the home
00:23:21.060 and they get
00:23:21.620 an extra 20 percent
00:23:22.340 of income
00:23:22.700 and a 1.5 percent
00:23:23.780 decline in poverty.
00:23:24.520 It's every single year.
00:23:26.000 That is a massive benefit,
00:23:28.220 a massive help
00:23:29.100 to their quality of life.
00:23:30.680 And yet,
00:23:31.860 what we have
00:23:32.280 from the environmentalists
00:23:33.200 is, no,
00:23:33.500 who cares about
00:23:34.000 those starving
00:23:34.920 Bangladeshis?
00:23:35.880 What about the trees?
00:23:37.260 What about the delta smelt?
00:23:38.840 What about those
00:23:39.280 cute little anchovies?
00:23:40.760 No, forget those people.
00:23:41.680 No, those are like
00:23:42.220 distant people
00:23:42.860 who speak another language.
00:23:43.800 Forget about them.
00:23:44.460 The anchovies,
00:23:45.160 they're right here
00:23:45.660 in California.
00:23:47.140 This reminds me
00:23:48.120 of when I was in Cuba.
00:23:49.820 This view,
00:23:50.340 you know,
00:23:50.560 where people just
00:23:51.120 totally lose
00:23:51.700 their priorities
00:23:52.320 because I got back
00:23:54.380 from Cuba
00:23:54.780 and I talked
00:23:55.120 to my lefty friends.
00:23:55.980 They said,
00:23:56.240 ooh, how were the cars?
00:23:57.680 Ooh, is it nice?
00:23:58.820 Oh, that was,
00:23:59.620 isn't that so quaint
00:24:00.780 that they have old cars?
00:24:02.020 They have old cars
00:24:03.000 that are uncomfortable
00:24:03.640 and barely can still run
00:24:05.240 because they aren't allowed
00:24:07.460 to have anything else.
00:24:08.340 They're not allowed
00:24:08.760 to have,
00:24:09.580 one, economic prosperity
00:24:10.760 and two,
00:24:11.880 there are certain imports
00:24:12.960 and products
00:24:14.680 because they live
00:24:15.180 on a slave island.
00:24:16.600 You know,
00:24:17.080 I even talked
00:24:17.780 to these liberals
00:24:18.300 that I met,
00:24:19.540 these lefties
00:24:20.020 at the Havana airport
00:24:20.960 and they said,
00:24:22.160 oh, isn't it so nice?
00:24:23.700 Isn't it so nice
00:24:24.440 that they don't need
00:24:24.960 air conditioner?
00:24:25.780 It's so,
00:24:26.120 like,
00:24:26.420 they don't need it,
00:24:27.360 you know?
00:24:27.740 Like,
00:24:28.000 we in America,
00:24:29.080 we need air conditioner
00:24:30.360 but those Cubans
00:24:31.180 don't need it.
00:24:32.780 Yeah,
00:24:33.200 they live in,
00:24:33.720 like,
00:24:34.040 sweltering misery
00:24:35.000 because they're not
00:24:36.020 allowed to have it.
00:24:36.980 Yeah,
00:24:37.100 but you don't need it then.
00:24:38.080 If you think that's so great,
00:24:39.020 how about you turn off
00:24:39.600 your air conditioner
00:24:40.200 in the middle of summer
00:24:42.080 in a Caribbean island?
00:24:43.180 No,
00:24:43.460 you won't do it.
00:24:44.300 It's a real othering
00:24:45.880 to borrow the left-wing term.
00:24:47.260 It's a real looking down
00:24:48.560 at people like they're lesser,
00:24:49.960 like they don't deserve
00:24:50.720 what you deserve,
00:24:51.820 like they don't enjoy what you,
00:24:53.120 like they're a different species almost.
00:24:54.980 Oh,
00:24:55.200 no,
00:24:55.360 they don't,
00:24:56.180 we'll just,
00:24:56.580 they can skip ahead.
00:24:57.460 It's a total
00:24:58.200 missing of priorities
00:25:00.620 and you see it on the left.
00:25:01.720 You see it all the way
00:25:02.720 from birth to death
00:25:03.860 and everywhere in between.
00:25:05.440 It's the left
00:25:05.940 that's pushing abortion,
00:25:07.080 killing babies.
00:25:08.280 It's the left
00:25:08.860 that is pushing
00:25:09.560 these anti-human policies
00:25:10.840 of prioritizing
00:25:11.940 the Delta smelt
00:25:12.680 over human beings.
00:25:15.220 And it's the left
00:25:16.900 who's pushing death
00:25:18.020 with dignity.
00:25:18.840 We have to kill old people.
00:25:19.960 No,
00:25:20.160 they're not having
00:25:20.680 the best time ever anymore,
00:25:22.120 so let's kill them.
00:25:22.840 Plus,
00:25:23.080 they're using up,
00:25:23.780 plus they're using up
00:25:24.700 a lot of medical resources.
00:25:26.400 Most of your medical spending
00:25:27.720 in life
00:25:28.000 is in the last six months
00:25:29.240 of your life,
00:25:29.620 so let's just,
00:25:30.080 let's just pull the plug early.
00:25:31.360 That's the part
00:25:31.700 they don't say out loud,
00:25:32.600 but they do whisper it
00:25:33.360 to one another.
00:25:34.160 From beginning to end,
00:25:35.060 it's an anti-human ideology
00:25:37.140 or coalition of ideologies.
00:25:38.780 And when you sense that,
00:25:39.940 when you get a whiff of that,
00:25:40.780 I think that's how you know
00:25:41.620 that it isn't right.
00:25:43.460 In a theological way,
00:25:44.700 it's where you see
00:25:45.360 the sort of mark
00:25:46.480 of the devil coming around
00:25:47.560 whenever people are trying
00:25:48.640 to really increase
00:25:49.280 human misery that way
00:25:50.320 in the name of compassion.
00:25:51.760 And just even in a more material
00:25:54.200 and secular way,
00:25:55.460 you can just see it.
00:25:56.740 When someone wants
00:25:57.680 the anchovies
00:25:58.800 to have a better day
00:25:59.840 than the Bangladeshis,
00:26:01.140 run away from that ideology.
00:26:02.540 That's not a good ideology.
00:26:04.340 And this gets to another,
00:26:05.040 do I have to say goodbye
00:26:05.620 to Facebook and YouTube?
00:26:07.060 I was just,
00:26:07.920 I was going to explain
00:26:08.660 the meaning of life.
00:26:09.400 Can I explain
00:26:09.800 the meaning of life?
00:26:11.220 Do I have time for that?
00:26:12.260 Okay,
00:26:12.500 well,
00:26:12.700 I won't explain
00:26:13.500 the meaning of life,
00:26:14.120 but I will explain
00:26:15.300 why conservatives
00:26:16.260 find more meaning in life.
00:26:17.900 There's a new study out.
00:26:19.400 It's a study out of UC,
00:26:21.200 University of California.
00:26:22.900 It was a study
00:26:23.740 that actually analyzed surveys
00:26:25.660 from about 16 different countries
00:26:27.700 and it found
00:26:28.820 a higher life satisfaction
00:26:30.700 and that conservatives
00:26:32.720 had a,
00:26:34.440 found more meaning in life
00:26:36.200 across the board.
00:26:37.580 Conservatives over lefties
00:26:38.680 found more meaning in life
00:26:39.680 and had more happiness
00:26:40.660 and had more life satisfaction.
00:26:42.240 Why is that?
00:26:44.340 Well,
00:26:44.640 let's just see
00:26:45.080 what the studies say.
00:26:45.800 They found that
00:26:46.240 conservative states
00:26:47.080 were happier
00:26:48.040 than left-wing states
00:26:49.100 even just within
00:26:50.100 the United States
00:26:50.800 and one of the reasons
00:26:51.980 for that is that
00:26:52.760 conservative states
00:26:53.540 are less neurotic
00:26:54.500 and having come from
00:26:55.720 New York and California
00:26:56.620 I can personally attest
00:26:57.880 to that.
00:26:58.380 That is very true.
00:27:01.660 This is according,
00:27:02.640 by the way,
00:27:02.960 to Gallup Healthways
00:27:03.820 Wellbeing Index,
00:27:04.580 the U.S. Census Bureau,
00:27:05.880 CBS News,
00:27:06.540 New York Times polls
00:27:07.320 and obviously
00:27:08.180 presidential election results
00:27:09.480 2000 to 2008.
00:27:12.320 The study also found
00:27:13.880 that happiness
00:27:15.000 and finding meaning
00:27:16.080 in life
00:27:16.500 are more likely
00:27:18.000 related to social issues
00:27:19.220 rather than economic issues.
00:27:21.160 They're,
00:27:22.360 I don't use the term
00:27:23.880 social issues
00:27:24.520 because all issues
00:27:25.200 are social issues.
00:27:26.220 If it's political,
00:27:27.080 it's social
00:27:27.500 because it involves
00:27:28.180 more than one person.
00:27:29.200 But it is cultural
00:27:30.080 and that is the real
00:27:31.220 crux of it.
00:27:32.080 It's cultural
00:27:32.680 and it gets down
00:27:33.280 to the cult.
00:27:33.840 It gets down
00:27:34.200 to what you worship.
00:27:35.220 That is going to determine it.
00:27:36.340 I'm not surprised at all
00:27:37.280 that people who view
00:27:38.280 life as sacred
00:27:39.320 and who view
00:27:40.620 the human being
00:27:42.920 as having certain roles
00:27:44.140 and certain teleology
00:27:45.180 and certain purposes
00:27:45.920 is going to find
00:27:47.100 more meaning in life
00:27:47.820 and be therefore happier
00:27:48.840 than people who just
00:27:50.020 want lower taxes.
00:27:51.420 You know,
00:27:51.920 if you're economic,
00:27:52.540 that's the cool thing
00:27:53.720 to be in college.
00:27:54.440 You know,
00:27:54.540 I'm a social liberal
00:27:55.920 but a fiscal conservative.
00:27:57.360 Like,
00:27:57.640 I really don't care
00:27:58.460 about culture at all
00:27:59.300 but I like me
00:28:00.040 and I like money a lot,
00:28:01.060 man.
00:28:01.400 You know,
00:28:02.500 puff, puff, pass.
00:28:03.160 I'm not surprised
00:28:06.140 at all to find that.
00:28:07.760 This,
00:28:08.600 you see it all
00:28:09.420 throughout literature.
00:28:10.240 You see it all
00:28:10.560 throughout politics
00:28:11.580 and history
00:28:12.340 but especially
00:28:14.500 at this moment
00:28:15.060 with the rise
00:28:15.760 of the nuns,
00:28:16.920 the people who don't
00:28:17.940 affiliate with any religion
00:28:19.120 which is taking place
00:28:20.040 almost entirely
00:28:20.800 in the Democratic Party
00:28:21.700 and on the left wing
00:28:22.420 of the political spectrum.
00:28:23.580 You're seeing
00:28:24.420 a simultaneous rise
00:28:26.000 almost one for one
00:28:27.780 in suicides,
00:28:29.600 in depression.
00:28:30.380 I'm not saying
00:28:31.000 that that's a causation
00:28:32.020 but I am saying
00:28:33.100 that those two things
00:28:33.940 are coinciding,
00:28:35.300 that they're happening
00:28:35.740 at the same time
00:28:36.440 and it's hard to imagine
00:28:37.960 that they don't have
00:28:38.500 some relationship
00:28:39.260 to one another.
00:28:40.300 Of course it makes sense.
00:28:41.480 If you really believe
00:28:42.760 as prominent left wingers
00:28:44.660 are trying to tell us
00:28:45.400 and has become
00:28:46.360 a sort of mainstream view
00:28:47.680 among a major
00:28:48.360 political party,
00:28:49.480 if you really believe
00:28:50.400 that life has no purpose,
00:28:52.360 you have no inherent dignity,
00:28:55.660 you're a random
00:28:56.400 accidental collection
00:28:57.420 of cells,
00:28:58.300 there's no good,
00:28:59.080 there's no evil,
00:29:00.240 there's no love,
00:29:01.360 there's no joy,
00:29:02.180 it's all just a trick,
00:29:04.460 it's all just an illusion
00:29:05.580 and the only reason,
00:29:07.840 the only momentum
00:29:09.020 you have to keep going
00:29:09.920 is pleasure,
00:29:11.100 just giving yourself pleasure,
00:29:12.940 you're not going to
00:29:13.980 ultimately be gratified
00:29:15.040 by that.
00:29:15.720 When the pleasure turns off,
00:29:17.240 then you're going to
00:29:17.580 want to turn off too.
00:29:18.720 It is a horribly dystopic
00:29:21.080 and distressing way
00:29:22.080 to live through life
00:29:22.880 and conservatives
00:29:23.380 don't have that.
00:29:24.460 Conservatives are
00:29:25.040 buttressed against that,
00:29:25.980 one, because conservatives
00:29:27.000 tend to be more religious
00:29:27.940 and two,
00:29:29.000 because of the tradition.
00:29:30.080 Conservatives tend to be
00:29:30.840 more traditional
00:29:31.440 and thankfully,
00:29:33.000 even when bad ideas
00:29:34.000 crop up and sort of
00:29:35.080 pervade the culture,
00:29:36.160 the tradition keeps you
00:29:37.300 rooted.
00:29:37.780 As long as you do rituals,
00:29:39.400 as long as you sort of
00:29:40.440 preserve the traditions
00:29:41.480 in a society,
00:29:42.400 you're still going to be
00:29:43.280 connected to that thing
00:29:44.360 which has some sanity,
00:29:46.000 which has some foundation.
00:29:47.440 On the neurosis,
00:29:49.640 I noticed that my
00:29:50.600 conservative friends,
00:29:51.640 broadly speaking,
00:29:52.800 are a lot less anxious
00:29:54.080 and worried and nervous
00:29:55.380 and angry all the time.
00:29:57.240 And my left-wing friends,
00:29:58.220 they're pulling their hair out.
00:29:59.340 This is true.
00:29:59.860 You know,
00:30:00.340 when the conservatives
00:30:01.460 lose a presidential election,
00:30:02.880 they're unhappy about it.
00:30:03.900 They're not pleased.
00:30:05.340 But they don't, like,
00:30:06.320 flood into the street
00:30:07.420 and start burning down cities
00:30:08.640 like the Democrats do.
00:30:09.820 They don't refuse
00:30:10.340 to concede elections
00:30:11.220 as happened in 2000,
00:30:12.760 as happened in 2016.
00:30:14.360 They just sort of,
00:30:15.500 they move on,
00:30:16.040 they try to be constructive,
00:30:17.120 they try to channel
00:30:17.700 their frustration
00:30:18.320 into something better
00:30:19.300 because they have a purpose.
00:30:21.340 You know,
00:30:21.680 neurosis is a symptom
00:30:23.020 of narcissism.
00:30:24.300 I say this to my friends
00:30:25.300 all the time in New York
00:30:26.180 and LA
00:30:26.780 and they're shocked
00:30:27.660 and horrified,
00:30:28.320 but it is.
00:30:28.820 It's a symptom of narcissism.
00:30:30.540 It means that you're obsessing
00:30:31.700 over yourself all the time.
00:30:33.640 People who are too obsessed
00:30:34.660 with their personal health,
00:30:36.020 what they're eating,
00:30:36.760 you know,
00:30:36.960 this month I'm a crypto-vegan,
00:30:39.240 paleo, dairy, GMO, whatever.
00:30:42.320 It's narcissism.
00:30:43.520 It's because you're only
00:30:44.360 concerned with yourself
00:30:45.420 and how every little thing
00:30:46.760 feels on you
00:30:47.580 and maybe if I change this,
00:30:49.360 you're treating yourself
00:30:50.180 as an idol.
00:30:51.020 You're treating your body
00:30:51.740 as a machine
00:30:52.600 that you're worshipping,
00:30:53.480 as an idol.
00:30:54.100 Don't do that.
00:30:54.940 You're not perfect
00:30:56.620 and so that's going to leave you
00:30:57.780 not gratified.
00:30:59.140 But when you look
00:30:59.600 outside of yourself,
00:31:00.860 then I think you'll have
00:31:02.400 much better psychological effects.
00:31:04.320 You'll have more happiness.
00:31:05.140 You'll find more meaning in life.
00:31:06.260 And the study, by the way,
00:31:07.040 even looked to different kinds
00:31:08.720 of happiness,
00:31:09.600 not just quality of life,
00:31:11.560 you know,
00:31:11.720 well-being,
00:31:12.320 smiley, smiley pleasure
00:31:14.600 but also eudaimonic
00:31:16.540 like eudaimonia,
00:31:18.600 the Aristotelian sense
00:31:19.920 of really having meaning,
00:31:21.380 of pursuing a good,
00:31:22.320 of pursuing virtue.
00:31:23.760 You will have more of that
00:31:25.080 because you're looking
00:31:25.780 outside of yourself.
00:31:26.960 You know,
00:31:27.320 a man wrapped up in himself
00:31:28.820 makes a small package indeed.
00:31:30.860 Look outside of yourself.
00:31:31.780 Conservatives are able
00:31:32.480 to do that.
00:31:33.260 That's why conservatives
00:31:33.980 are better at understanding
00:31:35.200 different people's points of view.
00:31:36.660 That's why the left
00:31:37.540 is much worse
00:31:38.280 at understanding the right
00:31:39.860 than the right is
00:31:40.460 at understanding the left.
00:31:41.580 It's why the left
00:31:42.100 will unfriend people
00:31:43.180 on social media
00:31:44.000 who disagree with them
00:31:45.040 but the right doesn't do that
00:31:46.480 nearly as often
00:31:47.480 as the left does.
00:31:48.820 There's a little bit
00:31:49.620 more understanding.
00:31:50.320 There's a putting something
00:31:51.220 outside of yourself.
00:31:53.300 Don't be a narcissist
00:31:54.300 and it's frequently people
00:31:55.960 who accuse others
00:31:57.840 of being narcissists,
00:31:59.000 you know,
00:31:59.180 of saying like,
00:32:00.380 who scream all the time,
00:32:01.920 Trump's a narcissist.
00:32:03.140 You're, you know,
00:32:03.600 getting people's faces
00:32:04.400 really angrily.
00:32:05.580 I think they have the problem,
00:32:07.220 don't they?
00:32:07.720 Because narcissism
00:32:08.620 has a meaning.
00:32:09.340 It has the excessive love of self,
00:32:13.760 of constantly adoring yourself,
00:32:15.140 looking at yourself all the time.
00:32:17.880 I think it's those,
00:32:18.720 I don't think President Trump
00:32:19.540 is a narcissist.
00:32:20.360 I don't see much evidence of that.
00:32:21.660 He might be crude,
00:32:22.540 he might be brash,
00:32:23.380 he might be self-interested
00:32:24.920 but I don't see him
00:32:25.920 as a narcissist.
00:32:26.760 I see him as too blunt
00:32:27.620 and too connected
00:32:29.780 to reality for that
00:32:30.680 and that's an important thing.
00:32:31.920 Your life will be better.
00:32:34.120 Rates of depression,
00:32:35.040 rates of anxiety,
00:32:35.900 people are popping
00:32:36.580 all of these meds.
00:32:37.440 It's proliferating the culture.
00:32:38.820 Don't let it happen to you
00:32:40.120 and the way that you can do it
00:32:41.160 is just stop thinking
00:32:42.360 about yourself all the time
00:32:43.320 and really,
00:32:44.620 I think this is just
00:32:45.180 a rationalization
00:32:45.920 because I don't want to eat
00:32:46.780 all those healthy diets
00:32:47.700 like, you know,
00:32:48.900 GMO,
00:32:49.520 non-GMO and all that
00:32:50.340 but really,
00:32:51.620 I mean,
00:32:51.900 really do it.
00:32:52.380 You will be happier
00:32:53.240 and who knows,
00:32:54.240 you know,
00:32:54.520 you'll be happier
00:32:56.620 both in a sense of meaning
00:32:57.640 and in the pleasures
00:32:59.440 of your life
00:32:59.980 because you'll be eating
00:33:00.620 a lot better food.
00:33:01.540 Okay,
00:33:01.960 I do have to say goodbye
00:33:03.060 to Facebook and YouTube.
00:33:03.860 Now,
00:33:04.620 I do want to get,
00:33:05.420 before we go away
00:33:06.160 to this day in history
00:33:06.900 but I'm sorry.
00:33:08.000 If you're on Facebook
00:33:08.720 or YouTube,
00:33:09.160 go to dailywire.com.
00:33:11.260 Why?
00:33:11.840 Well,
00:33:12.140 you'll spend 10 bucks a month,
00:33:13.280 $100 for an annual membership
00:33:14.600 because we're not like
00:33:15.620 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:33:17.180 We are capitalists here.
00:33:18.360 We want your money.
00:33:19.500 Give us your money
00:33:20.140 and we will give you value,
00:33:21.940 you know.
00:33:22.140 We'll give you my show,
00:33:23.420 the Andrew Flavin Show,
00:33:24.380 the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:33:25.280 You can ask questions
00:33:25.960 in the mailbag.
00:33:26.460 Get those mailbag questions
00:33:27.280 and we're doing them tomorrow.
00:33:28.060 You can ask questions
00:33:29.060 in the conversation
00:33:29.760 but that's like
00:33:30.980 a little bit of value.
00:33:31.940 That's like a little hint of value.
00:33:33.640 The real value, baby.
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00:33:40.180 and frivolous
00:33:41.300 Republican tumbler.
00:33:42.320 You need them
00:33:42.960 because they're salty,
00:33:43.820 they're delicious,
00:33:44.420 they keep pouring out.
00:33:45.580 We're going to be talking also
00:33:46.720 in the next week or so
00:33:48.120 about impeachment
00:33:49.160 and why the left
00:33:50.060 really just probably
00:33:51.300 can't impeach Trump
00:33:52.140 and then
00:33:53.000 we're going to need
00:33:53.860 to make this
00:33:54.640 like seven sizes bigger.
00:33:56.040 It's going to have to be
00:33:56.460 like one of those giant gulps
00:33:57.620 at the convenience store.
00:33:59.900 Go to dailywire.com.
00:34:00.760 We'll be right back
00:34:01.300 with This Day in History.
00:34:12.300 All right.
00:34:12.960 In my last minutes here,
00:34:14.640 we've got to talk
00:34:15.560 about parallels in history.
00:34:17.020 I notice this
00:34:17.860 about history right now
00:34:18.860 that
00:34:19.740 all nature is but art
00:34:21.920 unknown to thee,
00:34:22.660 all chance direction
00:34:23.400 which thou canst not see.
00:34:24.540 There are really weird
00:34:25.560 coincidences that happen
00:34:26.580 in history,
00:34:26.940 parallels between
00:34:27.820 current events
00:34:28.940 and things that happened
00:34:29.900 100 years ago
00:34:30.620 or 50 years ago
00:34:31.300 and things that happened
00:34:32.240 1500 years ago,
00:34:33.620 2000 years ago.
00:34:35.120 On this day in history,
00:34:36.560 in 1940,
00:34:37.980 FDR,
00:34:38.980 Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
00:34:40.320 Democrat president
00:34:41.220 and king
00:34:41.920 was nominated
00:34:42.760 for a third term
00:34:44.000 for president.
00:34:45.080 Unprecedented,
00:34:45.860 anti-American,
00:34:46.960 a really awful move
00:34:48.120 and sort of set up
00:34:49.280 some of the
00:34:50.380 political dysfunction
00:34:51.200 that we have around today.
00:34:53.260 Also on this day in history,
00:34:54.480 in the year of our Lord,
00:34:56.560 64,
00:34:57.980 Rome burned under Nero,
00:35:00.240 under Emperor Nero.
00:35:01.640 That seems coincidental.
00:35:04.160 Isn't that a little weird?
00:35:05.500 On the day that
00:35:06.380 the American Republic
00:35:07.460 sort of caved
00:35:08.640 on its basic
00:35:09.680 Republican image
00:35:11.700 and Republican
00:35:12.600 self-understanding
00:35:13.880 and a president,
00:35:16.180 Roosevelt,
00:35:16.800 broke the example
00:35:18.000 of George Washington
00:35:19.300 himself,
00:35:19.920 first time in
00:35:20.440 American history,
00:35:21.000 and decided,
00:35:21.880 no,
00:35:22.120 I will be a king
00:35:22.860 until I die.
00:35:23.700 I will reign in this country.
00:35:25.200 That's also the day in history
00:35:26.580 that Rome burned
00:35:27.580 to the ground.
00:35:28.600 How interesting.
00:35:29.620 Under a terrible emperor.
00:35:31.260 So FDR,
00:35:32.000 FDR is lionized
00:35:33.160 because he faced
00:35:34.400 difficult challenges
00:35:36.060 to World War II
00:35:37.200 and the Great Depression
00:35:38.640 and he ably handled
00:35:41.120 World War II
00:35:41.820 and he ineptly handled
00:35:44.040 the Great Depression.
00:35:45.040 Now it's difficult
00:35:45.660 to prove a negative,
00:35:46.960 but it's quite clear
00:35:47.520 there have been plenty
00:35:48.040 of economic studies done,
00:35:49.160 one recently out of UCLA,
00:35:50.380 to show why
00:35:51.840 the Great Depression
00:35:52.600 was so prolonged,
00:35:53.740 what is such a strange event
00:35:55.420 that didn't recover
00:35:56.260 very quickly
00:35:57.020 because of the wage controls
00:35:59.060 that FDR was instituting.
00:36:00.600 You know,
00:36:01.060 at one point I believe
00:36:02.180 FDR set the price of gold
00:36:03.500 because of his favorite number,
00:36:05.340 his lucky number.
00:36:06.360 He just picked it,
00:36:07.300 you know,
00:36:07.520 that is not good.
00:36:08.660 It's such horrific interference
00:36:10.020 into the economy
00:36:10.780 that it prolonged it
00:36:11.780 for a decade.
00:36:13.660 But he's lionized
00:36:14.780 because he said,
00:36:15.240 well,
00:36:15.420 the country could have collapsed
00:36:16.940 if not for him.
00:36:18.700 I can't prove a negative,
00:36:19.720 but I can point
00:36:20.860 to clear economic indicators
00:36:22.120 that he prolonged
00:36:23.660 the Depression.
00:36:24.440 But that isn't the real problem
00:36:25.540 with Roosevelt.
00:36:26.040 The problem is that
00:36:26.600 he spit in the tradition
00:36:27.520 of George Washington
00:36:28.900 and all of his,
00:36:31.680 all of Washington's successors
00:36:33.020 and created this American monarchy.
00:36:36.080 He was the American monarch.
00:36:37.940 FDR was a lifelong politician.
00:36:39.640 He ran for New York State Senate
00:36:40.940 at 29 years old.
00:36:42.480 Then he was governor of New York.
00:36:43.840 Then he was elected president
00:36:45.420 in 1932.
00:36:48.180 He decided to run
00:36:49.420 for a third term,
00:36:50.340 unprecedented in 1940,
00:36:52.180 ostensibly under the guise
00:36:53.520 of patriotism.
00:36:55.060 You know,
00:36:55.280 war was launching in Europe
00:36:57.660 and he felt that he would,
00:37:00.420 it would be unpatriotic
00:37:01.680 to have a normal presidential election cycle
00:37:05.840 while the war was going on in Europe.
00:37:07.960 I don't know if that's really true.
00:37:09.120 Has that ever happened
00:37:09.700 in other wars in the United States?
00:37:11.240 The U.S. had fought plenty of wars
00:37:12.520 before that.
00:37:13.140 World War I,
00:37:14.260 Spanish-American War,
00:37:15.280 Civil War,
00:37:16.340 is that the War of 1812?
00:37:18.580 Did we really start
00:37:19.260 practically suspending
00:37:20.740 presidential elections
00:37:21.660 or at least ignoring
00:37:23.280 the custom of George Washington
00:37:24.700 because of that?
00:37:25.380 No.
00:37:25.780 It's a ridiculous excuse.
00:37:28.120 And you know it's a ridiculous excuse
00:37:29.380 because of 1944.
00:37:30.440 He ran again for president
00:37:31.500 a fourth time in 1944
00:37:33.080 and was elected,
00:37:34.580 although at that point
00:37:35.160 he was a thousand years old
00:37:36.460 and died in office.
00:37:38.060 But he didn't need to run in 1944.
00:37:40.120 The war was already,
00:37:40.900 was already basically over.
00:37:42.880 Rome had been liberated.
00:37:44.300 The Allies had landed successfully
00:37:45.660 at D-Day.
00:37:46.280 Paris had been liberated.
00:37:47.420 The Japanese had been routed
00:37:48.780 out of Burma.
00:37:49.440 The war was going very well.
00:37:50.880 But people don't look at that.
00:37:52.680 They say,
00:37:52.820 oh, how patriotic.
00:37:53.700 He was, you know,
00:37:54.660 just defending his country
00:37:55.640 in the war.
00:37:56.380 Nonsense.
00:37:57.600 This guy was a real threat
00:37:59.060 to democracy.
00:37:59.800 He pushed through a lot
00:38:00.380 of anti-constitutional programs.
00:38:02.220 He tried to pack the courts.
00:38:03.460 I mean, he really tried to
00:38:05.020 and in many cases successfully
00:38:06.680 subverted our constitutional system
00:38:08.780 of government.
00:38:09.760 That's a real threat of liberty.
00:38:11.120 And that's what I'm talking about
00:38:12.200 when the left, certainly,
00:38:14.740 but also when frivolous conservatives
00:38:16.520 start attacking Trump
00:38:18.100 because he used the wrong word
00:38:19.880 in Helsinki
00:38:20.500 because he didn't speak
00:38:21.380 with Reagan-like eloquence
00:38:23.460 in,
00:38:24.500 when he was talking
00:38:25.580 to the Russian dictator.
00:38:27.360 And by the way,
00:38:28.100 when Ronald Reagan spoke
00:38:29.120 with Reagan-like eloquence
00:38:30.080 to the Russian dictator,
00:38:31.300 they said the same mean things
00:38:32.640 about him
00:38:33.020 and they said the same
00:38:33.820 pointed things about him.
00:38:36.120 You've got to keep your eye
00:38:37.240 on the prize.
00:38:39.020 Where does the threat
00:38:40.000 to liberty lie?
00:38:41.120 Does the threat
00:38:41.560 to liberty lie
00:38:42.340 from President Trump
00:38:43.700 saying a couple wrong words
00:38:45.320 on cameras
00:38:46.780 and before some dictator
00:38:48.500 that we've,
00:38:49.480 that Americans have said
00:38:50.360 plenty of nice things
00:38:51.120 about before,
00:38:51.800 that George Bush
00:38:52.360 said nice things about,
00:38:53.320 that Barack Obama
00:38:54.260 said nice things about
00:38:55.160 and, you know,
00:38:56.080 deferred to
00:38:56.640 in many foreign affairs.
00:38:57.920 Is that where
00:38:58.680 the threat to liberty lies
00:38:59.640 or does the threat
00:39:00.540 to liberty lie somewhere else
00:39:01.800 in a bureaucracy,
00:39:03.320 a federal bureaucracy,
00:39:04.160 executive agencies
00:39:05.340 led at times
00:39:07.460 by crooked figures
00:39:08.520 in the FBI
00:39:09.360 and CIA
00:39:10.020 where those agencies
00:39:11.280 are overstepping
00:39:12.260 their constitutional bounds
00:39:13.440 and in some cases
00:39:14.360 trying to overturn
00:39:15.260 a presidential election
00:39:16.380 where you've got
00:39:17.440 a commission,
00:39:18.640 a special counsel
00:39:19.420 that drops indictments
00:39:21.020 strategically timed
00:39:22.120 to upset
00:39:22.800 international relations.
00:39:24.940 A basically unaccountable
00:39:26.740 special counsel
00:39:28.320 and investigation.
00:39:29.900 The man with more power
00:39:30.980 in the world
00:39:31.860 probably than the president
00:39:33.000 does,
00:39:34.180 where does the threat
00:39:34.880 to liberty lie?
00:39:35.980 Where does the threat
00:39:36.740 to our constitutional system lie?
00:39:38.720 It doesn't lie
00:39:39.480 in a couple
00:39:39.960 strange words
00:39:42.080 from a guy
00:39:42.760 who's known
00:39:43.200 for using strange words
00:39:44.320 but who otherwise
00:39:45.180 is preserving liberty.
00:39:46.160 It lies elsewhere
00:39:47.440 and you've got to,
00:39:48.440 you know,
00:39:49.320 it's very easy
00:39:50.360 to just throw stones
00:39:51.600 and attack
00:39:52.080 and try to always be
00:39:52.920 in the popular position
00:39:53.920 but that's not
00:39:55.000 the adult thing to do.
00:39:56.000 It's a childish thing to do.
00:39:57.320 You've got to preserve liberty.
00:39:58.540 Would he or wouldn't he
00:39:59.540 or would he or that?
00:40:00.460 Who cares?
00:40:00.960 Take yes for an answer.
00:40:02.080 Keep pursuing liberty.
00:40:03.380 And try to prevent
00:40:04.520 try to prevent tyranny
00:40:06.340 in America
00:40:06.720 where you can
00:40:07.420 or else we're going to end up
00:40:08.640 like what happened
00:40:09.160 in Nero's Rome.
00:40:10.320 Get your,
00:40:10.820 on that happy note,
00:40:12.040 get your mailbag questions
00:40:13.140 in for tomorrow
00:40:13.700 so that we can answer
00:40:14.600 all,
00:40:15.220 every single one of them.
00:40:16.320 I know we've been running
00:40:16.900 a little bit late recently
00:40:17.780 so I'm going to have to
00:40:18.520 speed through them tomorrow
00:40:20.180 and get as many answers
00:40:20.920 in as we can.
00:40:21.720 In the meantime,
00:40:22.300 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:40:22.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:40:24.100 I'll see you tomorrow.
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