Ep. 190 - Have We Ever Had It So Good？
Summary
On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kosta is joined by comedian and commentator Chad Prather to discuss the bombshell Michael Cohen tape. Plus, a look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brilliant media strategy, and the world's first ever test tube baby.
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I'm not talking about starvation or war, genocide, civil unrest, rape, murder, or poverty.
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What I'm talking about is a tape in which a guy that we know
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talks about paying off women that he's slept with.
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I'm talking about men copulating with rubber dolls.
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We will analyze the most pressing crises facing our nation today,
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Then, comedian and commentator Chad Prather joins to discuss the electoral landscape.
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And finally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brilliant media strategy.
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Let's listen to the bombshell tape that CNN got and that all the mainstream media outlets
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What it means for all of this and all of the terrible crises in our country.
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Here is the Michael Cohen super secret Donald Trump tape.
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I've spoken to Alan Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding.
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I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David.
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You know, so that I'm going to do that right away.
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And I spoke to Alan about it when it comes time for the financing, which will be...
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And so you can hear, they're making a lot out of this.
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And Trump, you can't hear because it's all muffled.
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So what they're alleging, what Michael Cohen's lawyer is alleging, what the anti-Trump forces
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are alleging, is that Trump wanted to pay cash to pay off these girls that he had allegedly
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Don't pay with cash is now what Trump's team is saying.
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Look, I will admit when President Trump is twisting language a little bit, you know, in
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Helsinki, he said, I meant to say wouldn't, but I said would.
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It doesn't, don't, you're not going to pay with cash.
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It actually tells us a lot about Trump's media strategy.
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But let's check in on the legality of all this.
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You know, there's a girl alleges that President Trump slept with her and he's basically, before
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the election, he's just paying these people off to keep quiet.
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There are a couple of things that are pretty funny about this.
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One, it reminds me of that Mark Wahlberg movie, Four Brothers, where they say, I'll try to
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They say, you don't pay a hoe to sleep with you.
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Pretty interesting in this story, both with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, the new
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Playboy playmate that allegedly slept with Trump 10 years ago.
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They say that they, after their romantic tryst, Trump offered to pay them.
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And both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, when they're talking to the media, they say,
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I can't believe you would call me that kind of girl to pay me, to sleep with me.
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They said, you know, they said, oh, don't hand me an envelope full of money.
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I want you to hand me a lot, lot more money later on to keep quiet.
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It's pretty funny because, you know, I don't know, what was Trump going to pay them to sleep
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But then later on, they say, no, no, no, I don't want that money.
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So really, it's funny because there are all these tears on camera.
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I couldn't believe he thought that I would accept money because I had sex with him.
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I said, well, darling, didn't you accept $150,000?
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Yeah, but that was different because that was a little later.
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We talked to the wonderful, brilliant law professor, Alan Dershowitz, on the show last
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Here is Alan Dershowitz weighing in on whether this demonstrates a crime.
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No, it sounds very plausible, especially since they did seem to use the word plural, that
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perhaps what the president and Cohen were discussing is in the run-up to the election, there were
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probably going to be lots of people who will come and demand cash in order not to embarrass
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And they were discussing how to set up a corporation to make payments if necessary to keep it from
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Dershowitz's point is this doesn't demonstrate a crime.
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Now, the one flip side, one argument that some of the anti-Trump people are making is that
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You remember John Edwards, former senator, vice presidential candidate, Democrat, he was
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paying off his mistress, and this was a campaign finance violation, allegedly, and they really
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But if that is the line that they're drawing, if that's the analogy here, this bodes very
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well for Donald Trump because the prosecution never got John Edwards.
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And what really hurt John Edwards is he portrayed himself as this good Christian man, this upright
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citizen, this wonderful, you know, and then it turns out he was cheating with this mistress
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on his wife who was dying of cancer that really blew up his entire career, obviously.
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With Donald Trump, you don't have that problem.
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President Trump paid off women that allege that he slept with them.
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It's not going to destroy his political career, certainly.
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If John Edwards wasn't convicted for these crimes, how are they going to get Donald Trump
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This can't be, this doesn't seem to present a really big issue for him.
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It doesn't seem to present any new information either.
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We know that he slept with these women 10 years ago.
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Because the media aren't really reporting on this.
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President Trump has attorney-client privilege here.
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Clearly, President Trump doesn't think that this is going to kill him.
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If he thought this was going to kill him, he wouldn't have waived attorney-client privilege.
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Trump is now coming out and playing this against Michael Cohen.
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So he tweeted out, he said, what kind of lawyer would tape a client?
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Why was the tape so abruptly terminated while I was presumably saying positive things?
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I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped.
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So he's insinuating that Michael Cohen is a bad lawyer.
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I don't know what kind of lawyer tapes his client like that and would betray his benefactor.
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I mean, you know, Dante puts the people who betray their benefactors in the lowest circle of hell.
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And Michael Cohen is apparently turning on Trump.
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It raises questions about his integrity, if he has any integrity.
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I don't know that people ever thought he had integrity.
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But the fact that he would tape Trump, the fact that he's turning against his benefactor really does raise those questions.
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And so I think that plays to Trump's advantage in all of this.
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But doesn't everything else play to Trump's advantage here?
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There's public polling that shows that the vast majority of Americans do not care about the Stormy Daniels story.
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It showed that 21% of the entire American electorate considers the mainstream media the enemy of the people.
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And they consider this story ginned up by the media.
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You know, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh earlier, who is one of the best observers of politics, of course.
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But he said without this sex stuff, the Stormy Daniels, all of the Mueller investigation, he thinks that President Trump's approval rating could be at 60%.
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I think if people weren't focused on the sex stuff, if people weren't focused on Russia, on the Mueller investigation, the witch hunt, they'd be focused on something else.
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They'd try to focus on the border, you know, the people being ripped from their families at the border.
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Or they'd focus on some company going out of business, even though we have a record low unemployment and a booming economy.
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Whatever effect it's going to have on him, it's already had.
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This Russia investigation, it doesn't hurt him.
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Public polling consistently shows the American people don't care about Russia, don't care about Stormy Daniels, don't care, or the new girl, Karen McDougal.
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I had to Google her name because I don't even, who cares?
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So I do want to find out how intentional this is.
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Is this really the, you know, the lawyer turning on Trump and Trump turning on the lawyer and it's going to, or is this more good TV?
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I, you know, everything with Donald Trump seems to be a manipulation of the media.
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As long as the spotlight is on the sex and the Russia, it's not on other things.
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And President Trump gets to go on with his, with his very effective administration.
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You know, there's a reason that his approval rating is so high.
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To help me analyze this, maybe I'm just looking at the glass half full here.
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That's probably where you first saw him, Unapologetically Southern.
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You might've seen him do a hit with me on Fox and Friends.
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And you might know him from the Chad Prather show, his podcast.
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So it's always great when you're a cisgender white male walking around San Jose with a cowboy hat on.
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He gets some eyes, you know, I love seeing who, I love seeing who gets triggered.
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That's another good example of owning the libs, which I strongly encourage.
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I want to know with this Trump stuff, you are torn around.
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You're, you're in places that constitute sometimes real America.
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The tape and the Michael Cohen and the Mueller investigation and the sex and the Russia and the blah, blah, blah.
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There, you know, people are going to come to my shows and it doesn't matter.
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It's funny, Michael, because I've done shows now.
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I've got two shows tonight and tomorrow night in San Jose, California.
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Obviously not a conservative bastion in America.
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I've got, I've had sold out shows in Portland, Oregon, Eugene, Medford, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, New York, New Jersey.
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And people drive in to these places and they sit down and they enjoy a show and not a single person is distracted by these things.
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Occasionally you might hear somebody who says, I wish the president wouldn't tweak that.
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You know, some, some ladies wringing her hands going, I just wish he wouldn't do that.
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You know, the thing is, we, what we're facing and you know this so well, it's just distractions.
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And if it wasn't this distraction, it would be another distraction.
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And that's what, that's what the media and the left is continually parading out here is, can we put out another distraction?
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And I think at this point, really, and I've said this over and over again, it gets me in trouble.
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People say, I can't believe you don't care more about this.
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And I look at the other crises, the big crises of the day.
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And I have to wonder, is this the most decadent time in the history of the world?
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I mean, when they're saying that mankind, or as Trudeau would say, people kind is going to be finished in 50 years if we don't stop using plastic straws.
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I'm like, are you really drumming up a problem?
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I mean, does anyone care that they are dismantling nuclear facilities in North Korea right now?
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I had a mentor of mine whose father-in-law passed away 20 years ago.
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And when they were developing this new development in my hometown, they were tearing down.
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They were cutting down all these trees to build.
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And he was so worried, just wringing his hands.
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He'd drive by and say, what's going to happen when we don't have any more trees?
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And my mentor told him one day, he said, well, there will be enough wood to build a box to put you in it and put you in the ground.
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And sure enough, 25 years ago, that's what happened.
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And then Cuomo comes out with this new tape and all that.
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I think all of this actually comes up because we're bored.
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If we had real problems, you wouldn't be worrying about the straws.
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You know, I had my priest, Father Rutler, come on the other day.
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He said, when the barbarian invades, there are no safe spaces.
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You know, you can't worry about these little tiny things anymore.
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I'm reminded of Teddy Roosevelt saying, Americans are soft.
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We need some actual struggle to make people serious again.
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You know, if you go back to the idealism of, say, 1914, and right as the precursor to World
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War I, everybody was looking in the mirror and saying to themselves over and over, in
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World War I hit, and it was four devastating years, and everyone was affected by it, especially
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You know, 10 million men are dead in France, and all of a sudden, people come marching
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back for more, and they see what real tragedy is like.
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And I think we're living in a day where we don't understand what real tragedy is anymore.
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We don't understand, yes, yes, we see the things because the bad news is constantly
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And like you said, it makes for, quote, good TV.
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But people haven't faced anything that has toughened us up.
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So now, you know, you read a magazine cover that says, The Rise of the Beta Male.
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It's not really a rise, so it's more of like a slouching of the beta male, sort of like
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You know, this reminds me, Steven Pinker has this book out, Enlightenment Now, and he
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I saw him give a lecture on this in Orange County, which is that everything materially
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is better, disease is down, war is down, life expectancy is up, infant mortality is down,
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poverty is down, starvation is down, everything materially is getting better.
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And people are getting more depressed, they're getting more anxious, they're getting more
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This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to Steven Pinker or to other people who are
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atheists or materialists, but it seems to me they're missing the cultural aspect.
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So materially, everything might be getting better.
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We're getting cheap t-shirts from China and, you know, we get a movie pass and get to see
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But on a cultural level, there does seem to be some decay.
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And do you think there is any way to reverse that trend?
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And, you know, we live in a world where the statistic, one of the highest growing demographics
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But yet you have an epidemic of opioid crisis and you have an epidemic of suicides amongst
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teenagers and these things because there is this sense of hopelessness.
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I always say, and I'll take all the heat for it, I think that there has to be a return to
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a foundation of faith, both faith in God, faith in yourself, faith in the people around
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you, faith in the culture, faith in the Constitution.
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But there's a reason America has done what it's done the last 250 years, even with the
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scars, even with the things we've done wrong, the things in our history that we need to
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And we have to go back and have faith in that, faith in the process.
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And it's amazing to me, people who want to come along and they want to say, well, the
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only reason Trump won is because of the Electoral College.
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Well, that's the only reason any president in history ever won the presidency.
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And then you want to say, well, we're living in a day and age where maybe we need to look
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Why are you going to change a process that's worked so well and go embrace something that
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historically has proven itself to be tragic just so you can now be different?
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I think it's going to take a massive amount, a massive amount of coming back in together
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to dialogue and discuss, you know, and I've said this, the old adage, the example of a
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healthy bird has two healthy wings and it flies in a direction.
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If you have one big wing on one side or the other, it's just going to fly in circles and
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But I think the tendency is everybody wants to interpret one another as being out on the
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We've got to get back into the vitality of the bird, if you will.
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Get back into where the heartbeat and the body and the muscle and the movement, the motion
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And until people are willing to do that, because, you know, I say it all the time.
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I say, we live in this world where we don't know each other anymore and we have a real
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I go to L.A. just like this cowboy hat on walking through WeHo and people give me the
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We don't immediately start having a conversation or a debate about politics.
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But yet we think we can go in at the end of the afternoon.
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We pull out our device and we think we can debate politics with a stranger from seven
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We've lost the concept of being neighbors and we don't know each other anymore.
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This is actually why, ironically, I'm defending the, you know, owning the libs against some
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It's not because we need to be mean to our countrymen who see things wrongly, but it's
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You know, you do it, you know, you can either yell at people and be really angry or whatever,
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Owning the libs is when you smack down some stupid idea and it's funny.
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I'd much rather convince my fellow countrymen to come over to my point of view by laughing
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I mean, you are taking comedy and you're going to Portland and you're going to New Jersey.
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And, uh, and, uh, do you think that the left, which has been so humorless for a while is
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I think they're going to have to, you know, we live in a day and an age where a guy who's,
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who's as simple and ingenious as Jerry Seinfeld refuses to go on a college campus and do comedy
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anymore because he's, he knows that everybody gets offended.
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You can find dates at watchchad.com and people are packing these theaters.
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It's really great all the way across the country and it's been a lot of fun to watch because
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If I see something worth making fun of, I'm going to make fun of it.
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If it, whether it's, you know, making a joke about the worthlessness of, uh, Barack Obama
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giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention, or, you know, the fact that Donald Trump is
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married to a supermodel because of his money, you know, I get the groans from that.
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And I'm like, but come on, that woman never said, Oh, Donald, I love your hair.
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You know, she trying to rub her fingers through it and the hairspray's pulling her fingers.
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You got to be able to poke fun at that stuff and laugh at it.
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Cause I think that laughing is, is a great unifier, but you know, the thing, the thing
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is we've lost a culture of comedy because of this culture of offendedness that we have
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and people can't, you know, it's comedy for comedy sake is okay.
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I, I, I even want to defend a lot of these things that we come out and we get onto people
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about and say, yeah, but it's being done in the vein of comedy and, uh, let it go.
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Just let it go. Don't be so sensitive to it anymore.
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So I tell people, learn how to laugh. Got to learn how to laugh.
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I think it was Horace Walpole said, life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy
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is the man who feels, but facts don't care about your feelings, folks.
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So lighten up and laugh. Uh, Chad, go to watchchad.com. Check out the Chad Prather show.
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I got to let you go. You get back on the road and keep offending everybody out there in San
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Jose. Good to talk to you. We'll have to have you back on.
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It's a good perspective. That's, that's why, you know, guys take yourself a little lightly
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every so often. The reason, Chesterton said this, the reason that angels can fly is because
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they can take themselves lightly. If you're so heavy and weighed down all the time, you're
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not going to have a good life. Uh, and, and this brings us to our crises, all of the crises
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that we're in right now, like the straw crisis. This is, if you can't laugh at the straw crisis,
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what are you doing? But they take it very seriously. The left right now is banning plastic
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drinking straws. Right now in San Francisco, they've banned plastic drinking straws. In Santa
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Barbara, not too far up from us. I was just up there a couple of weeks ago. Uh, they've,
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they've banned waiters at restaurants from giving out plastic drinking straws. They're
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going to enforce this with a, uh, a thousand dollar fine or six months in jail. So if you
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go to a restaurant in Santa Barbara, you are given a plastic drinking straw. That waiter can
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go to jail for six months and or get a thousand dollar fine. And it compounds on itself. It's
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not like that's the limit. If you go with your family, you sit down, it's a table of four.
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That guy gives you people straws and your water. This guy could go to jail for two years. If
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you have a party in there, you know, you, uh, you, you have a party, you invite your big
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family, you know, you get a, let's say it's 40 people or something. That guy's doing 20 years
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in the clink because he gave out plastic drinking straws. That is some crazy stuff. Now, simultaneously,
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it's no longer a felony in California to knowingly give somebody AIDS. That's no longer a felony.
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That's not a crime. Give somebody AIDS. That's fine. Uh, give them a plastic drinking straw so
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they can enjoy their drink like a civilized person. You go to jail and you pay, and you pay money.
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Uh, in New York city, New York has decriminalized public urination. So you go to California, you can
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give somebody AIDS, go to New York city, you can urinate in the middle of the street. That's okay. If you
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give somebody a plastic drinking straw, that is the crime. These are really, uh, backwards priorities
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here. In California, they just tried to pass a bill to decriminalize heroin, to allow people to
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shoot up heroin in certain safe places, but you can't have drinking straws. This is a really backwards
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thing. And it's a culture that's obviously turned upside down. You know, in, uh, the way this whole
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thing started, by the way, is because of a nine-year-old kid. I kid you not. A nine-year-old kid, uh, didn't like
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that people were using drinking straws. He thought that was wasteful. He had been indoctrinated into
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some environmentalist thing. So he called some restaurants and made up this number. He said,
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we use 500 million straws a day in the United States. Maybe. I don't know if that's true. And
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now as a result, there's this major anti-straw movement. It's this, it's that urge among the left
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to just invent crises, to invent problems. It has to do with their politics. You know, the, the way the
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left views politics, the way that rationalists view politics is they just see it's problem after
00:27:10.740
problem after problem. And we just, we always need a problem and you always need a solution.
00:27:14.420
That's all politics is. Conservatives tend to take a nicer view of politics, a more broad view.
00:27:19.480
Politics is a political tradition. We're living through a political tradition. We can rely on
00:27:23.600
institutions. We can rely on traditions to get us through our politics. It's not the foremost
00:27:27.860
thing in life. But when you have to rationalize everything in politics, like the left does in some
00:27:32.780
elements of the right, then all of a sudden it's every little problem. And when things are going
00:27:36.920
too well, when, when, you know, everything is tickety boo to quote Andrew Klavan, then you have
00:27:41.380
to make up problems like this problem of the drinking straws. And you become very hysterical.
00:27:47.820
Case in point is one Senator Cory Booker. Do I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube or can I get
00:27:52.020
to Cory Booker? I'll get to Cory Booker. Okay, good. Here is Cory Booker, the, the cryingest Senator in the
00:27:58.980
United States. Here is Cory Booker talking about the danger of appointing Brett Kavanaugh to the
00:28:05.200
Supreme Court. Here he is. There is so much at stake here that this has nothing to do with politics.
00:28:11.420
This has to do with who we are as moral beings. And so I want to call on everybody. I'm not here to
00:28:18.880
tell folk just what they should know. I'm here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment,
00:28:25.500
there is no, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystanders. You are either
00:28:35.440
complicit in the evil. You are either contributing to the wrong or you are fighting against it.
00:28:43.300
There's a saying from the Abrahamic face in one of the Psalms that says,
00:28:47.260
Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death. We are walking through the valley
00:28:51.720
of the shadow of death. But that doesn't say, though I sit in the valley of the shadow of death.
00:28:56.420
It doesn't say that I, I, I, I'm watching on the sidelines of the valley of the shadow of death.
00:29:01.660
It says, I am walking through the valley of the shadow of death. It says, I am taking agency that
00:29:07.560
I am going to make it through this crisis. And so I am calling on everyone right now who understands
00:29:13.340
what's at stake, who understands who Kavanaugh is. My answer says, if someone shows you who they are,
00:29:19.980
believe them the first time, he has shown us who he is.
00:29:26.480
Cory Booker is really turning the hysteria up to 11. You know, there's a line on the internet,
00:29:31.280
which is, everybody I don't like is Hitler. That's how people engage in internet discourse.
00:29:36.320
Cory Booker sees your everybody I don't like is Hitler, and he raises you,
00:29:40.040
and everybody I don't like is Satan. He is turning it up to Satan. You are evil. And what,
00:29:45.080
what is the evil act? If you are okay with a completely boring, you know, sort of Brooks
00:29:51.700
Brothers tie wearing judge who went to Yale law school. If you're, if you're okay with that guy
00:29:56.240
being a judge, he's already a judge. He's been a judge for a long time. If you're okay with him
00:29:59.620
being a judge, you're evil. You're Satan. You're evil. And it's so, it's so funny in the background
00:30:04.740
of this video of Elizabeth Warren and a couple other, uh, 60 year old women, white women
00:30:09.700
standing there and just like, mm, yeah, preach. Mm, amen. Mm, yeah. Like, it's not, not a good
00:30:14.720
look, ladies. Doesn't, doesn't really look great. Not, you know, I'm not feeling electricity going
00:30:19.400
through here. And Cory Booker, look, this is a very cynical move by Cory. He's trying to position
00:30:24.960
himself for 2020. And so he's, uh, turned up this emotion thing. He, he, I remember in one of the
00:30:32.580
hearings, he said, I cried tears of rage. And he's all this yelling and emotionalism. He used to be a
00:30:39.100
kind of normal guy, by the way. He used to be the guy who in 2012 was defending Mitt Romney. He said,
00:30:44.780
oh, Mitt Romney's not that bad. This was the guy when they were saying Mitt Romney was the devil.
00:30:48.400
The last time the Democrats had a devil, he said, oh, he's not that bad. He's okay. Let's come on,
00:30:52.580
everybody take it down. But Cory is now thinking that his only ticket to the White House in 2020 is
00:30:58.520
if he becomes one of these screeching, emotional, hysterical people. The schtick does not play well.
00:31:03.120
He's just not good at it. Other politicians are good at that. Obama was pretty good about pulling on
00:31:08.340
the heartstrings. Cory Booker is not, this is not his strength. If he wants to have a prayer at the
00:31:12.880
White House, he's, he's got to try something else. This is not, not going to work, but they have to
00:31:17.420
create this crisis. They've backed themselves into this corner where there is a crisis and everything
00:31:21.700
has to turn it up, turn it up, turn it up to 11. But nobody really believes that. Nobody thinks
00:31:27.240
that Brett Kavanaugh is the devil. Nobody thinks that appointing a judge to a court is, that's the end of
00:31:33.840
the, you know, that Satan's victory over, uh, his eternal victory over the world. No, nobody thinks
00:31:38.500
that. And, and so it doesn't ring true. I don't, I don't really see this strategy working well for,
00:31:43.660
uh, for Democrats in the future, but they're going to, they're going to have to do it. The only person
00:31:47.200
who's actually sort of pivoting and, and doing it pretty wisely is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We'll get
00:31:52.480
to that a little bit later. Still a lot to get to. The last important crisis is the sex bots. Sex bots
00:31:58.900
are taking over the world. They might turn us into an endangered species. That's a new report out
00:32:02.880
today that the Japanese might become an endangered race because of the prevalence of sex robots there.
00:32:09.040
Uh, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the first test tube baby born on this day in history
00:32:12.700
in 1978, what that, uh, gets to and why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a brilliant media move in
00:32:20.760
turning on, uh, turning on Ali Stuckey, our friend of the show. We'll explain how that happened, but
00:32:25.880
you got to go to dailywire.com. I'm sorry. What do you want me to do? Go to dailywire.com. We have a lot
00:32:29.840
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00:32:34.140
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00:32:44.920
by the way, pretty soon, I don't know. I haven't talked to, uh, the, the department that makes these
00:32:49.960
tumblers yet. We need to start including plastic straws in them. I know that you can sip it, you know,
00:32:54.500
but it tastes good when you sip it. We need to, and maybe we'll put two plastic straws in them.
00:33:00.000
And so you can go over, get the, it'll be like a, it'll be a meta leftist tears tumbler. It itself
00:33:06.260
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00:33:24.500
Sex bots. This is the last decadent crisis that we've got to deal with today before we get to the
00:33:31.980
cultural aspect of the heart of all of this. Talk about a decadent crisis. The big crisis plaguing
00:33:37.520
mankind right now is that we created robots to have sex with, and we're doing it too much.
00:33:47.300
This is endangering the population of Japan. Always Japan. You know, those guys are always a
00:33:54.340
little ahead of the curve, aren't they? They had VCRs or they produce all this technology. And now
00:33:59.200
they're having sex with all of the technology that they've created. So this is the problem.
00:34:04.540
Sex robots are now available to people. They're not totally widely used yet, but in Japan,
00:34:11.100
they've really taken a liking to them. Japan has had a declining population for a long time now.
00:34:14.660
They're below replacement rate. And for the first time in history now, or for the first time in
00:34:20.920
recent history, their birth rate is below the million mark, and it's below replacement. So
00:34:26.860
what's happening is in Japan, men prefer to have sex with silicone devices rather than with their
00:34:33.120
wives. We've heard this for years too. Public opinion polls show that men would prefer to look
00:34:38.660
at pornography than to go out and be with an actual woman. And this makes perfect sense. It actually does
00:34:44.120
make perfect sense because when you're with a woman, she's a person, you know, so she has desires,
00:34:50.320
demands, rights, things, you know, you've got to kind of, you know, unless you're a total psychopath,
00:34:56.160
you've got to kind of, how do you feel? Do you like, is this okay? I don't know. You know,
00:35:00.120
you got to buy them dinner. You don't have to buy a robot dinner. And it's this utter narcissism. I mean,
00:35:05.000
there's this utter egotism and selfishness to one, to just take pornography over a woman,
00:35:11.740
but then certainly this robot. I mean, it is a really perverse thing. And we can joke about it.
00:35:16.100
It's a ridiculous news story, but it is a real fear because if men can just have sex with robots,
00:35:21.920
a good number of them are going to do it. You know, the robots, they're a little more flexible.
00:35:27.900
I mean, you know, the list of potential advantages goes on and on and on, but it's a real worry and
00:35:33.720
it brings up bioethical concerns. Not a joke. I mean, people say the libertarian point of view is,
00:35:40.540
oh, let people do whatever they want. Come on, just freedom. Just let people do whatever they
00:35:45.080
want. That isn't freedom. And I don't think conservatives should advocate that kind of
00:35:49.020
freedom. Conservatives from the time of Edmund Burke, certainly onward, have advocated ordered
00:35:54.940
liberty. That word ordered is important. Not libertinism, not just like sex, drugs, and rock and
00:36:00.660
roll, but a true liberty. And you know, Christ says the man who sins is a slave to sin. And there's
00:36:08.540
this connection between sin and vice and your freedom. If you're addicted to some substance,
00:36:14.660
then you're not really free, are you? Because that appetite is controlling you. The reason that
00:36:19.700
you have a classical education is to instill virtues in you and to practice the virtues and to be able to
00:36:27.780
not become a slave to sins like this. And that's the case with these sex robots. It's just another
00:36:33.560
addiction. It's like heroin. It's like meth. Pornography is an addiction. It's booze, whatever,
00:36:39.040
whatever. Pick your poison. Those are addictions. And if you're addicted to something, then you're not
00:36:42.540
really free. I don't know if there will be some law passed against this. I don't know. It probably
00:36:48.580
will require a lot more than a law. Probably will require an education and a moral education. But right
00:36:54.000
now in the West, around the world, our moral sense is really decayed. It's really rotted. And the right
00:36:59.520
is a little bit guilty of this too, when we buy into that ridiculous libertarian notion of, oh, you
00:37:04.400
know, man, whatever. If it doesn't hurt anyone else, just do it. No, that's not how you have a good
00:37:08.560
society. John Adams said that the United States is only built for a moral and religious people.
00:37:14.800
You can't have liberty if you're not going to govern yourself. Someone will instill order. Either you
00:37:21.400
can order yourself and discipline yourself and carry yourself like an adult, or the government's going
00:37:25.940
to do it for you. But order will be preserved. We will not have chaos. Society will not tolerate
00:37:31.160
that. So a little word of warning is I know, I know, I know what you're thinking out there. You, you
00:37:36.360
behind that computer screen, you demographically speaking, most likely young male viewer of this
00:37:41.480
program, you are thinking, oh, a sex robot. That doesn't sound so bad. Oh, well, I wonder, I wonder if
00:37:46.960
they could do, oh, they can do that thing. Oh, there are some real pitfalls here. It's a real, a real
00:37:52.900
worry. And, and we've had bioethical concerns like this before that we haven't dealt with
00:37:57.280
very seriously. And, and, you know, it's in those small things that the rot begins. This
00:38:03.400
brings us to this day in history, because on this day in history, in 1978, the first test
00:38:08.220
tube baby was conceived. This is, what was the baby's name? Louise Joy Brown. First baby
00:38:17.040
conceived artificially. And people all wonder, they said, is this okay? Is this ethical? What
00:38:22.660
do we do? Will there be problems? Will there be birth defects? Will they be sterile? Whatever.
00:38:27.420
Now, in vitro fertilization exists all over the place. This is a mainstream procedure. People don't
00:38:33.140
seem to have much of a problem with it. The Catholic church still frowns on it. The Catholic
00:38:36.960
church still prohibits it. But a lot of other, even other Protestant organizations, they say it's okay.
00:38:42.420
And we haven't dealt with the ethical implications of this. I mean, infertility is a multi-billion dollar
00:38:47.640
industry. Just the business of egg donations is a multi-billion dollar industry, to say nothing of
00:38:53.320
all of the other procedures. And look, the procedure itself, IVF is very expensive. It can cost $25,000
00:39:00.780
to create a child through this process. And there are some problems that come along with it. You know,
00:39:07.480
there's twice the rate of birth defects, according to one study that was published in the New England
00:39:11.560
Medical Journal. But then there's the question of pro-life, because so frequently, IVF involves the
00:39:18.880
destruction of embryos, of little babies that have been conceived. And the pro-life movement doesn't talk
00:39:25.520
about it a whole lot, but they should. There was a WAPO piece about this, and they said, how come the pro-
00:39:29.440
lifers don't talk about in vitro fertilization? When you do in vitro fertilization, because it's so expensive,
00:39:35.060
usually they'll fertilize four to eight eggs. And so you'll conceive four to eight little babies,
00:39:43.700
and you'll freeze some of them, and then you'll implant the others. So if you implant, let's say
00:39:48.100
you implant four in the womb, then you see which ones take. Some of them, statistically speaking,
00:39:54.500
won't take, and they'll be destroyed. And then if they all take, what frequently happens is selective
00:39:58.580
abortion. So then the parents will say, oh no, well, we don't want four, so let's kill off three of
00:40:04.380
them. And oh, let's do it by, okay, we don't want them to have that disease, okay, because you can
00:40:09.120
screen for these things now. We don't want them to be that gender, we don't want them to, right,
00:40:12.480
we don't want, you can make a designer baby. We're much further along to that as possible. So,
00:40:18.560
much further along to that than we'd like to admit to ourselves. So you've got this situation where
00:40:23.900
we're protesting against Planned Parenthood, because they're killing babies in the womb,
00:40:29.180
but we're not concerned about this process, IVF, because it's so nice. We only see the nice
00:40:33.980
stories on the news. Oh, a couple that couldn't conceive, now they can conceive a child, and isn't
00:40:38.880
that nice? I know people who are test tube babies. You think, I like my friend, so I think this process
00:40:43.720
should be allowed to continue. But there is a cost to this. I mean, you are conceiving children and
00:40:48.880
killing them, or donating them to medical research, or locking them away in a freezer forever. And if
00:40:53.960
you really believe that life begins at conception, if you believe that some insolument happens at that
00:40:58.660
point, then you're freezing them away forever. That is a pretty horrific thing. But we don't think
00:41:03.480
through these easily enough. We only think about the nice aspect, or the frivolous aspect, or the
00:41:07.820
glib aspect. Oh, you know, oh, it's a sex robot. Who cares? Let the guys in Japan have fun. There are
00:41:14.160
implications. There are unintended consequences about this. And when you have a moral regime that
00:41:18.400
is so insane, if you've got a moral structure that basically today in the West is, if it feels good,
00:41:24.820
do it, then you're not going to be able to think through those things. And it could have really
00:41:28.180
disastrous effects. All of the futurists that we talked to, all of these public intellectuals who come
00:41:33.220
out, and they say, I'm terrified about AI. I'm terrified about the extinction of the human
00:41:38.200
species. I'm terrified about this. I'm terrified about that. Perhaps we should start taking that
00:41:41.700
seriously. Because otherwise, we're going to end up in a position where you've got people blathering
00:41:49.080
like Cory Booker, you know, about evil and the evil and the evil. But we don't see the evil right
00:41:52.820
in front of our face, which is usually the case. All right, enough about IVF. I know I've got to go
00:41:56.680
very soon before I go. I want to end on a happy note, which is the mainstream media meltdown over
00:42:05.260
Ali Stuckey's video making fun of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So the mainstream media went
00:42:11.600
bonkers with this. Ali Stuckey, we played the video yesterday. She did this obvious satire video
00:42:17.960
of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stupid interview with Margaret Hoover. You could tell, obviously,
00:42:23.600
satire was on a different set. She was wearing different clothing than the woman in the video.
00:42:28.260
The other video, the first video, had gone completely viral. Everybody had already seen
00:42:31.880
that. But what the mainstream media did is instead of saying, okay, you know, this parody,
00:42:38.140
whatever, we liked it or we didn't like it or what have you, they decided to call it fake news.
00:42:43.560
They played dumb. They were obtuse. They said this wasn't satire. This was a fake interview
00:42:48.900
designed to deceive people. So the Washington Post ran the headline. They said, after a fake interview
00:42:53.300
of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went viral, its maker said it was satire. She said it was satire in the
00:43:00.420
first place. When they posted it, there was a little winky emoji. The Intercept, another website
00:43:05.760
said, fake interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was satire, not hoax, conservative pundit says,
00:43:12.780
as though, you know, this is a big conspiracy, as though Ali Stuckey, you know, was trying to
00:43:18.720
deceive people, which obviously isn't the case. The Washington Times said, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
00:43:24.340
calls out Ali Stuckey for parody interview. And that's true. Ocasio-Cortez is calling her out for
00:43:29.880
it. You know, The Verge, a million Facebook users watched a video that blurs the line between bad
00:43:35.600
satire and fake news. No, it was just funny satire. It doesn't blur any line. It wasn't bad. It was just,
00:43:42.180
wasn't fake news. And then, oh, the rap gets even better. They say, CRTV host of doctored Ocasio-Cortez
00:43:49.260
video doubles down. Of doctored, what doctored video? It was satire. And then Ocasio-Cortez comes
00:43:57.280
with her punch and she landed it. This was a good punch. She said, Republicans are so scared of me
00:44:03.120
that they're faking videos and presenting them as real on Facebook because they can't deal with
00:44:08.500
reality anymore. Here's one bona fide truth. Election day is November 6th, which I don't actually
00:44:15.620
don't know if that's true this year. We should look that up. That'd be, I would not put it past
00:44:18.840
Ocasio-Cortez to get the election day wrong in that, but okay. Okay, honey. All right, Ocasio-Cortez.
00:44:25.340
We're not afraid of you. Here's my proof of that. You are welcome on my show anytime. Please come on my
00:44:30.920
show. It'll be live or live to tape. We won't, we won't doctor anything. We can just have a frank
00:44:36.720
conversation, you and me. We come from very similar backgrounds, both poor, you know, grew up in poor
00:44:43.240
neighborhoods in New York when we were little babies and then before elementary school moved to the
00:44:47.020
suburbs. We grew up one town away from one another, Yorktown Heights and Bedford Hills, went to adjacent
00:44:51.820
high schools. We have such a similar background. It'll be a fair fight. Just come on, just do it. I mean,
00:44:57.220
the difference is you lied about your upbringing and I didn't lie about mine, but just come on. I won't be
00:45:01.840
afraid. You won't be afraid of me. I won't be afraid of you. We'll, we'll have a discussion about
00:45:06.380
democratic socialism. Come on the show. Do it. Alexandria will put it all behind us. Of course,
00:45:11.940
she won't do that. She won't come on the show. She saw this opportunity and so did the mainstream media
00:45:16.760
to vindicate herself on that Margaret Hoover program. So what happened is she went on the
00:45:21.680
Margaret Hoover show and she looked so foolish. She didn't know anything. She didn't know the answer
00:45:28.760
to basic questions. She appeared glib and giddy and utterly ignorant, proudly ignorant. And she said
00:45:36.300
they, Margaret Hoover asked her a basic question about Israel and she said, oh, well, I'm not the
00:45:40.920
expert on geopolitics. He, he, he. Even though she has a degree in international relations from a private
00:45:46.080
university that costs a quarter million dollars to attend. She looked so stupid. It could have destroyed
00:45:51.980
her candidacy. It made Democrats look like idiots. And then the media and the Democrats seized on this
00:45:58.120
opportunity when Ali Stuckey made a pretty funny satire video. They said, what we can do now is
00:46:03.380
pretend that the satire video is real, is a real attempt at fake news. And then when people call
00:46:09.160
Ocasio-Cortez an idiot, we'll blame it on Ali Stuckey. We'll blame it on CRTV. We'll say, no, no, no.
00:46:14.860
The Republicans just made her look like an idiot. The conservatives just made her look like an
00:46:18.860
idiot. No, no. She did, she did it all herself. She did it just fine. But I got to hand it to the
00:46:23.240
Democrats. This was a very slick political move. They're, they're blurring the two. They're saying,
00:46:28.160
oh, forget the Marlowe Hoover thing. Forget about that. We're talking about the Ali Stuckey video.
00:46:31.940
They did it. It was nefarious. Uh, don't, don't go back and watch the original tape. She looked great
00:46:36.740
on the original tape, but in that one, they made her look stupid. Really brilliant. Good opportunity.
00:46:41.880
I can't, can't knock them for it. I would have done the same thing if I were running a totally
00:46:46.780
ignorant and, uh, and, uh, radical and extreme candidate like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Of
00:46:53.060
course, I wouldn't do that because I'm a conservative, but well done. They, they took
00:46:57.380
their dirty trick. Well, we'll see how it plays. I think they landed it. Alexandria, if you want,
00:47:01.680
if you're really earnest about this, if you're earnest about not being afraid, going, just speaking
00:47:07.080
very frankly, come on the program, please. Hashtag, hashtag don't be afraid. I don't know. Get some,
00:47:13.700
get some campaign going. I really, I really would love to speak with her. We can talk about,
00:47:18.280
we can talk about democratic socialism, but I bet you won't do it. Okay. That's our show. Get your
00:47:22.420
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