The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 190 - Have We Ever Had It So Good？

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00:00:30.540 Crises, crises everywhere.

00:00:32.720 No, no, no.

00:00:33.300 I'm not talking about starvation or war, genocide, civil unrest, rape, murder, or poverty.

00:00:38.360 No, no, no.

00:00:38.940 What I'm talking about is a tape in which a guy that we know

00:00:42.900 pays off women that he's slept with

00:00:45.040 talks about paying off women that he's slept with. 0.97

00:00:47.480 I'm talking about men copulating with rubber dolls.

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00:00:53.280 The real problems.

00:00:54.720 We will analyze the most pressing crises facing our nation today,

00:00:58.340 and we will ask if we've ever had it so good.

00:01:01.260 Then, comedian and commentator Chad Prather joins to discuss the electoral landscape.

00:01:07.040 And finally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brilliant media strategy.

00:01:12.120 I'm going to compliment her.

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00:01:19.080 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:21.160 A lot to get to.

00:01:29.400 So many crises.

00:01:30.900 And the tape.

00:01:31.820 The big tape.

00:01:32.780 The big moment.

00:01:33.740 They got Trump, didn't they?

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00:03:00.780 Let's get to the big stuff.

00:03:01.840 The big topic today.

00:03:02.960 We're talking about the tape.

00:03:04.620 Michael Cohen.

00:03:05.380 Did he flip?

00:03:06.240 Did Fredo flip?

00:03:07.220 I know it was you, Michael.

00:03:08.340 Never take sides against the family again.

00:03:10.600 Was it?

00:03:10.920 Let's see.

00:03:11.360 Let's listen to the bombshell tape that CNN got and that all the mainstream media outlets

00:03:17.060 are reporting on.

00:03:18.320 What it means for Trump.

00:03:19.820 What it means for the Mueller investigation.

00:03:22.060 What it means for all of this and all of the terrible crises in our country.

00:03:26.040 Here is the Michael Cohen super secret Donald Trump tape.

00:03:29.520 I've spoken to Alan Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding.

00:03:38.740 Yes.

00:03:40.340 And it's all the stuff.

00:03:43.340 I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David.

00:03:51.360 You know, so that I'm going to do that right away.

00:03:53.520 I've actually come up and I've spoken to him.

00:03:55.000 So I'm all over that.

00:03:57.280 And I spoke to Alan about it when it comes time for the financing, which will be...

00:04:01.000 What financing?

00:04:02.940 Well, I have to pay him.

00:04:04.820 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:04:06.560 I got...

00:04:07.240 No, no, no, no.

00:04:07.920 Okay, there it is.

00:04:10.660 And so you can hear, they're making a lot out of this.

00:04:13.120 They say, okay, we got to pay.

00:04:14.980 Are we going to pay?

00:04:15.920 And Trump, you can't hear because it's all muffled.

00:04:18.020 It says, no, no, no, no, no, cash.

00:04:19.640 And Cohen says, no, no, no, no, no.

00:04:21.340 We're going to pay.

00:04:22.120 And Trump says, check.

00:04:23.440 Right?

00:04:23.700 So what they're alleging, what Michael Cohen's lawyer is alleging, what the anti-Trump forces

00:04:28.740 are alleging, is that Trump wanted to pay cash to pay off these girls that he had allegedly 0.87

00:04:34.180 slept with.

00:04:34.980 And Cohen said, no, no, no, no, no.

00:04:36.640 But when you hear the tape, it's pretty clear.

00:04:38.720 He's saying, no, no, no, no, with cash.

00:04:40.800 Don't pay with cash is now what Trump's team is saying.

00:04:43.320 And that seems plausible.

00:04:44.520 Look, I will admit when President Trump is twisting language a little bit, you know, in

00:04:49.980 Helsinki, he said, I meant to say wouldn't, but I said would. 0.99

00:04:52.820 But I, this is not one of those cases.

00:04:54.660 This is one, he's clearly saying something.

00:04:56.660 Oh, no, no, no, no, cash.

00:04:57.920 No, no, no.

00:04:58.380 I got this check.

00:05:00.080 It doesn't, don't, you're not going to pay with cash.

00:05:02.260 No, no, no.

00:05:02.900 You'll pay with check.

00:05:03.780 Right.

00:05:04.260 Okay.

00:05:04.580 So that's fine.

00:05:05.680 Now, this is the big bombshell, right?

00:05:07.440 It comes out.

00:05:07.880 It actually tells us a lot about Trump's media strategy.

00:05:10.180 But let's check in on the legality of all this.

00:05:12.640 Does this constitute a crime?

00:05:15.920 You know, there's a girl alleges that President Trump slept with her and he's basically, before

00:05:21.700 the election, he's just paying these people off to keep quiet.

00:05:25.280 There are a couple of things that are pretty funny about this.

00:05:26.900 One, it reminds me of that Mark Wahlberg movie, Four Brothers, where they say, I'll try to

00:05:32.480 clean up the language.

00:05:33.280 They say, you don't pay a hoe to sleep with you. 1.00

00:05:35.960 You pay her to go home.

00:05:37.140 And that's what we're seeing here.

00:05:39.500 Pretty interesting in this story, both with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, the new

00:05:43.380 Playboy playmate that allegedly slept with Trump 10 years ago.

00:05:47.180 They say that they, after their romantic tryst, Trump offered to pay them.

00:05:51.260 And both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, when they're talking to the media, they say,

00:05:54.820 I was so offended by this.

00:05:56.520 I'm not that kind of girl.

00:05:58.180 I can't believe you would call me that kind of girl to pay me, to sleep with me.

00:06:02.760 I can't believe you would allege that.

00:06:04.320 But then they took all the money later.

00:06:08.220 Isn't that interesting?

00:06:09.060 They said, you know, they said, oh, don't hand me an envelope full of money. 0.99

00:06:13.020 That makes me feel like a prostitute. 0.65

00:06:14.640 I want you to hand me a lot, lot more money later on to keep quiet. 0.99

00:06:18.740 Then I won't feel like a prostitute. 0.65

00:06:20.180 It's pretty funny because, you know, I don't know, what was Trump going to pay them to sleep 0.98

00:06:22.820 with them?

00:06:23.480 I can't imagine that much money.

00:06:25.780 But then later on, they say, no, no, no, I don't want that money.

00:06:28.060 I want $150,000 to keep quiet.

00:06:30.340 So really, it's funny because there are all these tears on camera.

00:06:33.300 Oh, I cried. 0.94

00:06:33.960 I couldn't believe he thought that I would accept money because I had sex with him. 0.55

00:06:37.900 I said, well, darling, didn't you accept $150,000?

00:06:40.680 Yeah, but that was different because that was a little later.

00:06:42.960 Okay, fine.

00:06:43.960 Was there a crime committed?

00:06:45.180 That's the question.

00:06:46.120 We talked to the wonderful, brilliant law professor, Alan Dershowitz, on the show last

00:06:50.800 week.

00:06:51.060 Here is Alan Dershowitz weighing in on whether this demonstrates a crime.

00:06:54.480 No, it sounds very plausible, especially since they did seem to use the word plural, that

00:07:00.040 perhaps what the president and Cohen were discussing is in the run-up to the election, there were

00:07:05.900 probably going to be lots of people who will come and demand cash in order not to embarrass

00:07:11.000 the president just before the election.

00:07:13.100 And they were discussing how to set up a corporation to make payments if necessary to keep it from

00:07:19.960 influencing the election.

00:07:22.100 That happens all the time.

00:07:25.760 That happens all the time.

00:07:27.220 Dershowitz's point is this doesn't demonstrate a crime.

00:07:30.860 Now, the one flip side, one argument that some of the anti-Trump people are making is that

00:07:37.280 this is similar to John Edwards.

00:07:39.120 You remember John Edwards, former senator, vice presidential candidate, Democrat, he was

00:07:44.720 paying off his mistress, and this was a campaign finance violation, allegedly, and they really

00:07:50.620 got him for it.

00:07:52.300 But if that is the line that they're drawing, if that's the analogy here, this bodes very

00:07:56.720 well for Donald Trump because the prosecution never got John Edwards.

00:07:59.680 He was never convicted of anything.

00:08:02.720 That worked out just fine for him.

00:08:05.260 And what really hurt John Edwards is he portrayed himself as this good Christian man, this upright

00:08:10.840 citizen, this wonderful, you know, and then it turns out he was cheating with this mistress

00:08:15.080 on his wife who was dying of cancer that really blew up his entire career, obviously.

00:08:20.420 With Donald Trump, you don't have that problem.

00:08:21.980 What's the new information?

00:08:23.300 President Trump paid off women that allege that he slept with them.

00:08:26.840 And President Trump has bragged about that.

00:08:30.120 There's no new information conveyed.

00:08:31.700 It's not going to destroy his political career, certainly.

00:08:34.120 And what's the legal problem?

00:08:35.800 If John Edwards wasn't convicted for these crimes, how are they going to get Donald Trump

00:08:40.440 on this?

00:08:40.880 So have to side with Alan Dershowitz here.

00:08:43.060 This can't be, this doesn't seem to present a really big issue for him.

00:08:48.000 It doesn't seem to present any new information either.

00:08:50.480 We know that he slept with these women 10 years ago.

00:08:53.100 We know that he likes playboy playmates.

00:08:55.440 Okay.

00:08:55.800 No new information.

00:08:57.320 Now, this brings up the next question.

00:09:01.440 Why did he allow this tape to come out?

00:09:04.080 Because the media aren't really reporting on this.

00:09:07.180 President Trump has attorney-client privilege here.

00:09:09.140 These were tapes.

00:09:10.100 Michael Cohen recorded him.

00:09:11.480 His lawyer recorded this conversation.

00:09:14.240 Why did Trump waive attorney-client privilege?

00:09:17.200 Trump allowed this tape to come out.

00:09:18.700 Well, there are a few reasons.

00:09:22.660 Clearly, President Trump doesn't think that this is going to kill him.

00:09:25.600 If he thought this was going to kill him, he wouldn't have waived attorney-client privilege.

00:09:28.600 Trump is now coming out and playing this against Michael Cohen.

00:09:32.080 So he tweeted out, he said, what kind of lawyer would tape a client?

00:09:35.240 So sad.

00:09:36.680 Is this a first?

00:09:37.780 Never heard of it before.

00:09:39.320 Why was the tape so abruptly terminated while I was presumably saying positive things?

00:09:43.360 I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped.

00:09:46.260 Can this be so?

00:09:47.120 Too bad.

00:09:47.600 So he's insinuating that Michael Cohen is a bad lawyer. 0.99

00:09:51.980 He's a crooked lawyer. 0.85

00:09:52.820 There's something wrong with him. 0.98

00:09:54.000 Fair enough.

00:09:54.640 I don't know what kind of lawyer tapes his client like that and would betray his benefactor.

00:10:00.260 I mean, you know, Dante puts the people who betray their benefactors in the lowest circle of hell.

00:10:04.960 This is a really bad thing.

00:10:06.800 And Michael Cohen is apparently turning on Trump.

00:10:10.360 He says the truth is going to come out.

00:10:11.880 He's hired Lanny Davis.

00:10:12.940 We're going after Donald Trump.

00:10:14.180 So it does raise questions about Cohen.

00:10:16.560 It raises questions about his integrity, if he has any integrity.

00:10:20.220 I don't know that people ever thought he had integrity.

00:10:22.100 But the fact that he would tape Trump, the fact that he's turning against his benefactor really does raise those questions.

00:10:27.100 And so I think that plays to Trump's advantage in all of this.

00:10:29.640 But doesn't everything else play to Trump's advantage here?

00:10:33.240 There's public polling that shows that the vast majority of Americans do not care about the Stormy Daniels story.

00:10:38.860 They don't care about it at all.

00:10:41.660 There was also a new poll out from Quinnipiac.

00:10:43.840 It showed that 21% of the entire American electorate considers the mainstream media the enemy of the people.

00:10:49.900 And they consider this story ginned up by the media.

00:10:52.660 This is a media non-troversy.

00:10:53.980 21% of all voters and 18% of independents.

00:10:57.560 So that number holds strong there.

00:10:58.820 That seems pretty strong.

00:11:00.980 You know, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh earlier, who is one of the best observers of politics, of course.

00:11:06.800 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%.

00:11:15.440 It's already very high.

00:11:16.560 It's already at 45%.

00:11:17.520 But it could be at 60%.

00:11:18.700 I have to disagree with Rush here.

00:11:20.500 I'm not sure about that.

00:11:21.500 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.

00:11:29.360 They'd gin up some other crisis.

00:11:30.520 They'd try to focus on the border, you know, the people being ripped from their families at the border.

00:11:35.340 Or they'd focus on some company going out of business, even though we have a record low unemployment and a booming economy.

00:11:41.620 They'd just focus on other real things.

00:11:44.040 And for President Trump, this is manageable.

00:11:46.300 The sex stuff is manageable.

00:11:47.560 It doesn't really hurt him.

00:11:48.640 It's already hurt him.

00:11:49.720 Whatever effect it's going to have on him, it's already had.

00:11:51.980 This Russia investigation, it doesn't hurt him.

00:11:54.200 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.

00:12:00.940 I had to Google her name because I don't even, who cares?

00:12:03.380 It's just kind of floating in the air.

00:12:04.940 Not the worst thing in the world.

00:12:07.360 So I do want to find out how intentional this is.

00:12:14.100 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?

00:12:22.840 I, you know, everything with Donald Trump seems to be a manipulation of the media.

00:12:26.740 I'm not saying he plays 4D chess.

00:12:28.160 I'm not saying he's Metternich or something.

00:12:30.120 I'm saying that he's really good at the media.

00:12:32.040 He has been for decades.

00:12:33.220 And this could be another example of this.

00:12:35.000 As long as the spotlight is on the sex and the Russia, it's not on other things. 0.74

00:12:38.960 And President Trump gets to go on with his, with his very effective administration.

00:12:43.020 You know, there's a reason that his approval rating is so high.

00:12:45.380 It's at 45%.

00:12:46.360 They seem to be doing something right here.

00:12:48.380 To help me analyze this, maybe I'm just looking at the glass half full here.

00:12:53.160 Let's bring on Chad Prather.

00:12:54.620 You know, Chad Prather from his viral video.

00:12:57.420 That's probably where you first saw him, Unapologetically Southern.

00:12:59.640 You might've seen him do a hit with me on Fox and Friends.

00:13:01.940 And you might know him from the Chad Prather show, his podcast.

00:13:04.900 He's got a, a comedy tour going on.

00:13:06.700 Let's bring on Chad.

00:13:07.440 You there?

00:13:08.680 Hey, Michael.

00:13:09.320 Good to hear from you, man.

00:13:10.140 Good to see you again.

00:13:10.940 Chad, thanks for coming on.

00:13:12.040 I appreciate it.

00:13:13.260 So you're on the road right now.

00:13:15.880 Is that right?

00:13:16.560 You're, you're doing your comedy tour?

00:13:18.340 I am.

00:13:18.900 Yeah.

00:13:18.980 I'm in San Jose.

00:13:19.720 So it's always great when you're a cisgender white male walking around San Jose with a cowboy hat on. 0.56

00:13:23.860 He gets some eyes, you know, I love seeing who, I love seeing who gets triggered.

00:13:28.200 Yeah.

00:13:28.760 Just all of them.

00:13:29.720 Yeah.

00:13:29.960 That's another good example of owning the libs, which I strongly encourage.

00:13:34.260 I'm a big proponent of that.

00:13:35.520 I want to know with this Trump stuff, you are torn around.

00:13:40.260 You're on the road.

00:13:40.940 You're, you're in places that constitute sometimes real America.

00:13:44.340 How do you think this plays?

00:13:46.440 The tape and the Michael Cohen and the Mueller investigation and the sex and the Russia and the blah, blah, blah.

00:13:53.500 What is your sense?

00:13:54.480 Do people care about this?

00:13:55.480 Are they really worked up about this?

00:13:57.220 How is Trump playing it?

00:13:59.120 Not a bit.

00:14:00.500 There, you know, people are going to come to my shows and it doesn't matter.

00:14:02.940 It's funny, Michael, because I've done shows now.

00:14:05.280 I've got two shows tonight and tomorrow night in San Jose, California.

00:14:07.920 Obviously not a conservative bastion in America.

00:14:10.780 I've got, I've had sold out shows in Portland, Oregon, Eugene, Medford, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, New York, New Jersey.

00:14:16.340 You get my point.

00:14:17.260 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.

00:14:24.740 Yeah.

00:14:25.000 Occasionally you might hear somebody who says, I wish the president wouldn't tweak that.

00:14:28.980 You know, some, some ladies wringing her hands going, I just wish he wouldn't do that. 0.99

00:14:32.540 But all that's just, that's just Trump.

00:14:34.800 And I think that's everybody's attitude.

00:14:36.760 You know, the thing is, we, what we're facing and you know this so well, it's just distractions.

00:14:43.460 And if it wasn't this distraction, it would be another distraction.

00:14:47.040 And that's what, that's what the media and the left is continually parading out here is, can we put out another distraction?

00:14:53.800 And I think at this point, really, and I've said this over and over again, it gets me in trouble.

00:14:57.640 It's become white noise.

00:14:59.160 People say, I can't believe you don't care more about this.

00:15:01.140 No, it's just white noise.

00:15:02.100 It's just a buzz.

00:15:03.080 Caucasian noise.

00:15:03.860 You mean Caucasian privilege noise. 0.68

00:15:06.000 Yeah.

00:15:06.320 You know, it is.

00:15:10.120 I do think it's all just noise out there.

00:15:11.680 And I look at the other crises, the big crises of the day.

00:15:15.540 One of them is straws.

00:15:17.800 Apparently, people are using too many straws.

00:15:20.200 This is a big concern for people. 0.93

00:15:22.120 People are having sex with rubber dolls. 0.93

00:15:25.020 That's another one. 0.99

00:15:25.960 And I have to wonder, is this the most decadent time in the history of the world?

00:15:30.320 Does anybody have any actual problem?

00:15:33.360 It's pretty amazing.

00:15:34.160 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.

00:15:42.660 I'm like, are you really drumming up a problem?

00:15:44.560 I mean, does anyone care that they are dismantling nuclear facilities in North Korea right now?

00:15:49.700 I mean, are we really that threatened?

00:15:51.620 I had a mentor of mine whose father-in-law passed away 20 years ago.

00:15:56.060 And when they were developing this new development in my hometown, they were tearing down.

00:15:59.180 They were cutting down all these trees to build.

00:16:00.980 And he was so worried, just wringing his hands.

00:16:02.660 He'd drive by and say, what's going to happen when we don't have any more trees?

00:16:05.140 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.

00:16:12.360 And sure enough, 25 years ago, that's what happened.

00:16:15.320 And blesses are.

00:16:16.560 So everybody, you know, the sky is falling.

00:16:18.600 The sky is falling. 0.91

00:16:19.440 It's absolutely ridiculous.

00:16:20.440 And then Cuomo comes out with this new tape and all that. 0.94

00:16:23.400 And it's such a, you know, nothing.

00:16:25.180 There's absolutely nothing there.

00:16:26.420 There's nothing to it.

00:16:27.400 I think we're bored with it.

00:16:28.760 That's what I think it is.

00:16:30.100 I think all of this actually comes up because we're bored.

00:16:32.380 If we had real problems, you wouldn't be worrying about the straws.

00:16:37.140 You know, I had my priest, Father Rutler, come on the other day.

00:16:40.200 He said, when the barbarian invades, there are no safe spaces.

00:16:43.600 You know, you can't worry about these little tiny things anymore.

00:16:47.040 What is it?

00:16:47.860 Have Americans grown soft?

00:16:49.400 I'm reminded of Teddy Roosevelt saying, Americans are soft.

00:16:52.440 We need a war. 0.97

00:16:53.260 We need some actual struggle to make people serious again.

00:16:57.520 What is it?

00:16:58.200 Has the country just gone too soft?

00:16:59.760 You know, if you go back to the idealism of, say, 1914, and right as the precursor to World

00:17:06.420 War I, everybody was looking in the mirror and saying to themselves over and over, in

00:17:10.620 every day, in every way, I'm getting better.

00:17:12.460 And they have this idealic view of the world.

00:17:14.480 World War I hit, and it was four devastating years, and everyone was affected by it, especially

00:17:19.160 Europe.

00:17:19.920 You know, 10 million men are dead in France, and all of a sudden, people come marching

00:17:22.880 back for more, and they see what real tragedy is like.

00:17:25.740 And I think we're living in a day where we don't understand what real tragedy is anymore.

00:17:29.780 We don't understand, yes, yes, we see the things because the bad news is constantly

00:17:33.760 paraded in front of us 24-7.

00:17:35.920 And like you said, it makes for, quote, good TV.

00:17:39.020 Tragedy and bad things make for good TV.

00:17:41.340 But people haven't faced anything that has toughened us up.

00:17:44.360 So now, you know, you read a magazine cover that says, The Rise of the Beta Male.

00:17:49.600 I mean, are you kidding me?

00:17:50.320 This is what we're talking about.

00:17:51.680 This is what we're discussing.

00:17:53.360 It's not really a rise, so it's more of like a slouching of the beta male, sort of like

00:17:57.620 off the couch a little.

00:17:58.580 Kind of an ease into it.

00:17:59.500 Yeah, it's kind of an ease into it, you know.

00:18:02.060 Yes.

00:18:03.880 Yes, yes, slay.

00:18:05.460 Yes.

00:18:07.360 You know, this reminds me, Steven Pinker has this book out, Enlightenment Now, and he

00:18:12.240 talks about this.

00:18:12.860 I saw him give a lecture on this in Orange County, which is that everything materially

00:18:19.000 is better, disease is down, war is down, life expectancy is up, infant mortality is down,

00:18:24.520 poverty is down, starvation is down, everything materially is getting better.

00:18:28.520 And people are getting more depressed, they're getting more anxious, they're getting more

00:18:32.980 neurotic, the suicide rate is going up.

00:18:36.740 This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to Steven Pinker or to other people who are

00:18:41.540 atheists or materialists, but it seems to me they're missing the cultural aspect.

00:18:46.560 So materially, everything might be getting better.

00:18:48.440 We're getting cheap t-shirts from China and, you know, we get a movie pass and get to see

00:18:52.800 movies for free and like all of that is great.

00:18:54.700 But on a cultural level, there does seem to be some decay.

00:18:57.780 Are you seeing that?

00:18:59.020 And do you think there is any way to reverse that trend?

00:19:03.120 I think people are disillusioned.

00:19:05.540 I think they're disengaged from reality.

00:19:08.180 And, you know, we live in a world where the statistic, one of the highest growing demographics

00:19:13.200 in America today are people turning 100.

00:19:15.240 I mean, people are living longer.

00:19:16.440 But yet you have an epidemic of opioid crisis and you have an epidemic of suicides amongst

00:19:23.760 teenagers and these things because there is this sense of hopelessness.

00:19:26.900 I always say, and I'll take all the heat for it, I think that there has to be a return to

00:19:31.740 a foundation of faith, both faith in God, faith in yourself, faith in the people around

00:19:36.180 you, faith in the culture, faith in the Constitution.

00:19:38.160 We can list these things out.

00:19:39.880 But there's a reason America has done what it's done the last 250 years, even with the

00:19:44.500 scars, even with the things we've done wrong, the things in our history that we need to

00:19:48.040 mend, heal and erase.

00:19:49.580 We still have done a lot of things right.

00:19:52.560 And we have to go back and have faith in that, faith in the process.

00:19:56.560 And it's amazing to me, people who want to come along and they want to say, well, the

00:19:59.800 only reason Trump won is because of the Electoral College.

00:20:02.200 Well, that's the only reason any president in history ever won the presidency.

00:20:05.440 That's the process.

00:20:06.860 And then you want to say, well, we're living in a day and age where maybe we need to look

00:20:12.320 at democratic socialism.

00:20:14.100 And that's not an answer.

00:20:16.260 Why are you going to change a process that's worked so well and go embrace something that

00:20:21.340 historically has proven itself to be tragic just so you can now be different?

00:20:26.420 So is there hope for it?

00:20:28.060 I think it's going to take a massive amount, a massive amount of coming back in together

00:20:34.300 to dialogue and discuss, you know, and I've said this, the old adage, the example of a

00:20:38.720 healthy bird has two healthy wings and it flies in a direction.

00:20:41.400 If you have one big wing on one side or the other, it's just going to fly in circles and

00:20:44.700 not get anywhere.

00:20:45.760 But I think the tendency is everybody wants to interpret one another as being out on the

00:20:50.960 tips of the wings.

00:20:51.720 We've got to get back into the vitality of the bird, if you will.

00:20:53.980 Get back into where the heartbeat and the body and the muscle and the movement, the motion

00:20:58.240 and the brain is.

00:20:59.580 And until people are willing to do that, because, you know, I say it all the time.

00:21:02.280 I say, we live in this world where we don't know each other anymore and we have a real

00:21:06.900 world.

00:21:07.280 You don't walk into the average restaurant.

00:21:09.080 You know, I'm in L.A. all the time.

00:21:10.280 I'm working on projects in L.A.

00:21:12.200 I go to L.A. just like this cowboy hat on walking through WeHo and people give me the

00:21:16.600 look.

00:21:16.780 But I can walk in a restaurant.

00:21:17.880 We don't immediately start having a conversation or a debate about politics.

00:21:21.320 Hi, how are you?

00:21:22.060 Good to see it.

00:21:22.560 We don't do that.

00:21:23.160 But yet we think we can go in at the end of the afternoon.

00:21:26.560 We drive in our garage.

00:21:29.000 The door goes down.

00:21:29.780 We go in.

00:21:30.180 We pull out our device and we think we can debate politics with a stranger from seven 0.99

00:21:33.960 states away and that be effective.

00:21:35.620 It's just not.

00:21:36.460 We've lost the concept of being neighbors and we don't know each other anymore.

00:21:41.180 And that's just a shame.

00:21:42.080 That's what's got to change.

00:21:43.020 That is so true.

00:21:43.840 This is actually why, ironically, I'm defending the, you know, owning the libs against some

00:21:50.240 of the attacks on it.

00:21:51.500 It's not because we need to be mean to our countrymen who see things wrongly, but it's

00:21:57.260 because comedy is a great tool.

00:21:59.660 Comedy is the great tool to do this.

00:22:01.080 You know, you do it, you know, you can either yell at people and be really angry or whatever,

00:22:07.120 but owning the libs is when you tell a joke. 1.00

00:22:09.380 Owning the libs is when you smack down some stupid idea and it's funny. 1.00

00:22:13.300 That creates some absurdity. 1.00

00:22:14.920 It shows some incongruity and that's fun.

00:22:17.100 I'd much rather convince my fellow countrymen to come over to my point of view by laughing

00:22:21.760 and having a little joy.

00:22:22.960 A little joy goes a long way.

00:22:24.780 And you're, you're literally doing that.

00:22:26.500 I mean, you are taking comedy and you're going to Portland and you're going to New Jersey.

00:22:30.340 How is, one, how's the tour going?

00:22:32.760 Where can people find you?

00:22:34.900 And, uh, and, uh, do you think that the left, which has been so humorless for a while is

00:22:39.320 going to get their sense of humor back?

00:22:41.280 I think they're going to have to, you know, we live in a day and an age where a guy who's,

00:22:44.880 who's as simple and ingenious as Jerry Seinfeld refuses to go on a college campus and do comedy

00:22:49.980 anymore because he's, he knows that everybody gets offended.

00:22:52.280 That's a shame, but the tour is going great.

00:22:55.140 You can find dates at watchchad.com and people are packing these theaters.

00:22:59.120 It's really great all the way across the country and it's been a lot of fun to watch because

00:23:03.780 I'm, I am an equal opportunity offender.

00:23:06.120 If I see something worth making fun of, I'm going to make fun of it.

00:23:08.560 If it, whether it's, you know, making a joke about the worthlessness of, uh, Barack Obama

00:23:12.420 giving a keynote speech at the NRA convention, or, you know, the fact that Donald Trump is

00:23:16.900 married to a supermodel because of his money, you know, I get the groans from that. 1.00

00:23:20.260 And I'm like, but come on, that woman never said, Oh, Donald, I love your hair.

00:23:23.300 You know, she trying to rub her fingers through it and the hairspray's pulling her fingers. 1.00

00:23:27.280 You got to be able to poke fun at that stuff and laugh at it.

00:23:30.500 If you don't, you're going to wind up crying.

00:23:32.280 Cause I think that laughing is, is a great unifier, but you know, the thing, the thing

00:23:36.520 is we've lost a culture of comedy because of this culture of offendedness that we have

00:23:41.280 and people can't, you know, it's comedy for comedy sake is okay.

00:23:46.520 I, I, I even want to defend a lot of these things that we come out and we get onto people

00:23:50.960 about and say, yeah, but it's being done in the vein of comedy and, uh, let it go.

00:23:55.580 Just let it go. Don't be so sensitive to it anymore.

00:23:58.460 So I tell people, learn how to laugh. Got to learn how to laugh.

00:24:01.260 I think it was Horace Walpole said, life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy

00:24:05.780 is the man who feels, but facts don't care about your feelings, folks.

00:24:08.820 So lighten up and laugh. Uh, Chad, go to watchchad.com. Check out the Chad Prather show.

00:24:14.040 I got to let you go. You get back on the road and keep offending everybody out there in San

00:24:17.500 Jose. Good to talk to you. We'll have to have you back on.

00:24:20.560 You too. See you soon, Michael. Thanks.

00:24:21.800 It's a good perspective. That's, that's why, you know, guys take yourself a little lightly

00:24:27.340 every so often. The reason, Chesterton said this, the reason that angels can fly is because

00:24:31.800 they can take themselves lightly. If you're so heavy and weighed down all the time, you're

00:24:35.060 not going to have a good life. Uh, and, and this brings us to our crises, all of the crises

00:24:39.980 that we're in right now, like the straw crisis. This is, if you can't laugh at the straw crisis,

00:24:44.780 what are you doing? But they take it very seriously. The left right now is banning plastic

00:24:49.860 drinking straws. Right now in San Francisco, they've banned plastic drinking straws. In Santa

00:24:54.860 Barbara, not too far up from us. I was just up there a couple of weeks ago. Uh, they've,

00:24:59.120 they've banned waiters at restaurants from giving out plastic drinking straws. They're

00:25:05.060 going to enforce this with a, uh, a thousand dollar fine or six months in jail. So if you

00:25:11.400 go to a restaurant in Santa Barbara, you are given a plastic drinking straw. That waiter can

00:25:16.380 go to jail for six months and or get a thousand dollar fine. And it compounds on itself. It's

00:25:21.440 not like that's the limit. If you go with your family, you sit down, it's a table of four.

00:25:25.760 That guy gives you people straws and your water. This guy could go to jail for two years. If

00:25:30.780 you have a party in there, you know, you, uh, you, you have a party, you invite your big

00:25:34.940 family, you know, you get a, let's say it's 40 people or something. That guy's doing 20 years

00:25:39.060 in the clink because he gave out plastic drinking straws. That is some crazy stuff. Now, simultaneously,

00:25:44.100 it's no longer a felony in California to knowingly give somebody AIDS. That's no longer a felony.

00:25:49.840 That's not a crime. Give somebody AIDS. That's fine. Uh, give them a plastic drinking straw so 0.55

00:25:54.680 they can enjoy their drink like a civilized person. You go to jail and you pay, and you pay money.

00:25:59.340 Uh, in New York city, New York has decriminalized public urination. So you go to California, you can

00:26:05.920 give somebody AIDS, go to New York city, you can urinate in the middle of the street. That's okay. If you 1.00

00:26:12.060 give somebody a plastic drinking straw, that is the crime. These are really, uh, backwards priorities

00:26:17.300 here. In California, they just tried to pass a bill to decriminalize heroin, to allow people to

00:26:22.360 shoot up heroin in certain safe places, but you can't have drinking straws. This is a really backwards 1.00

00:26:27.980 thing. And it's a culture that's obviously turned upside down. You know, in, uh, the way this whole

00:26:32.600 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

00:26:38.060 that people were using drinking straws. He thought that was wasteful. He had been indoctrinated into

00:26:42.660 some environmentalist thing. So he called some restaurants and made up this number. He said,

00:26:48.060 we use 500 million straws a day in the United States. Maybe. I don't know if that's true. And

00:26:54.600 now as a result, there's this major anti-straw movement. It's this, it's that urge among the left

00:27:01.240 to just invent crises, to invent problems. It has to do with their politics. You know, the, the way the

00:27:06.460 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, 1.00

00:29:40.040 and everybody I don't like is Satan. He is turning it up to Satan. You are evil. And what, 0.67

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 1.00

00:30:04.740 of this video of Elizabeth Warren and a couple other, uh, 60 year old women, white women 0.92

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 0.99

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 1.00

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. 0.83

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 1.00

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 more to get to. Uh, it's 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership. You get me, you get the

00:32:34.140 Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show. You have to ask questions in the mailbag, get them

00:32:37.440 in. That will be tomorrow. You'll blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You get this. You get, you get the,

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 will produce the leftist tears. It will be a perpetual motion machine. All of that for your

00:33:11.600 dailywire membership. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a lot more.

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 0.96

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 1.00

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 0.99

00:34:33.120 wives. We've heard this for years too. Public opinion polls show that men would prefer to look 0.99

00:34:38.660 at pornography than to go out and be with an actual woman. And this makes perfect sense. It actually does 0.93

00:34:44.120 make perfect sense because when you're with a woman, she's a person, you know, so she has desires, 0.69

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, 0.99

00:35:21.920 a good number of them are going to do it. You know, the robots, they're a little more flexible. 0.99

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 0.89

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 0.99

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 0.84

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. 0.85

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 1.00

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 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.96

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.96

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:42:17.960 of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stupid interview with Margaret Hoover. You could tell, obviously, 0.99

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. 0.99

00:42:43.560 They played dumb. They were obtuse. They said this wasn't satire. This was a fake interview 1.00

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 0.99

00:45:28.760 to basic questions. She appeared glib and giddy and utterly ignorant, proudly ignorant. And she said 1.00

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 1.00

00:45:51.980 her candidacy. It made Democrats look like idiots. And then the media and the Democrats seized on this 1.00

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. 1.00

00:46:14.860 The Republicans just made her look like an idiot. The conservatives just made her look like an 1.00

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 0.98

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

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Ep. 190 - Have We Ever Had It So Good？

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