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00:00:44.120 The Wall Street Journal is lambasting Gen Z

00:00:46.760 for wasting all of its money on frivolous luxuries

00:00:50.260 like rotisserie chicken to eat so that they can live.

00:00:56.480 Also, according to a new survey,

00:00:58.060 Gen Z is lambasting Christianity 1.00

00:01:00.260 because Jesus has a God complex.

00:01:05.380 The kids, I think we can safely conclude,

00:01:08.840 are not all right.

00:01:11.700 Something's a little wrong.

00:01:12.940 And for the most part, actually,

00:01:15.220 I don't think it's their fault.

00:01:16.800 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:17.400 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:36.980 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:58.700 First up, Wall Street Journal.

00:03:01.400 Do you remember,

00:03:02.840 this was probably seven or eight years ago,

00:03:07.100 now maybe more,

00:03:08.680 there was this meme going around

00:03:10.220 of stodgy boomers criticizing millennials.

00:03:14.080 This was before the Zoomers really hit the scene. 0.69

00:03:17.200 Criticizing millennials back when we was young

00:03:19.320 and lambasting us for being profligate and wasteful

00:03:24.500 because we would order avocado toast at brunch.

00:03:29.740 And I didn't order avocado toast at brunch,

00:03:32.160 but apparently the millennials were doing this.

00:03:34.340 So they'd go out and they'd spend 15 bucks

00:03:36.920 on a piece of toast with avocado on it.

00:03:40.700 And at that time, before Joe Biden's inflation,

00:03:43.080 15 bucks was a lot of money.

00:03:44.460 So the boomers were attacking the millennials 0.99

00:03:47.160 because they said that's a waste of money.

00:03:48.800 Now they weren't attacking the millennials

00:03:50.600 for eating avocados or eating toast,

00:03:54.600 which are relatively basic foods.

00:03:56.240 Avocados are a little fancier,

00:03:57.440 a little more exotic,

00:03:58.220 but it's relatively basic.

00:03:59.820 The criticism was that they were overpaying for it.

00:04:03.560 You could buy a piece of toast and an avocado

00:04:06.580 and that meal should cost you like 60 cents,

00:04:10.560 not $15.

00:04:12.940 That was the criticism.

00:04:14.220 Now we have an update.

00:04:15.760 And the update is care of the Wall Street Journal,

00:04:17.920 still attacking millennials a little bit, 0.80

00:04:19.620 but Gen Z is the prime target.

00:04:22.440 Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt

00:04:25.120 and may never own homes,

00:04:26.840 but they're splurging on gut-healthy juices.

00:04:30.140 There is a lot of overpriced juice.

00:04:31.680 I agree, that is unnecessary usually.

00:04:33.700 They're splurging on gut-healthy juices

00:04:35.820 and rotisserie chickens.

00:04:40.400 Now, the thing about rotisserie chickens

00:04:44.520 is not only are they not particularly expensive,

00:04:47.960 I think they're like six bucks

00:04:49.320 for a whole cooked chicken at the grocery store.

00:04:51.700 They used to be five bucks when I was buying them,

00:04:55.680 but inflation.

00:04:56.980 Still, six bucks is a pretty good deal

00:04:58.440 for a whole chicken.

00:05:00.780 The thing about a rotisserie chicken

00:05:02.760 is not only is it inexpensive

00:05:04.760 for relatively nutritious food,

00:05:08.640 you know, a lot of protein.

00:05:10.520 Also, rotisserie chickens specifically are loss leaders.

00:05:15.540 So grocery stores in places like Costco,

00:05:17.860 which has great rotisserie chicken,

00:05:20.100 they price the cooked chicken below market value.

00:05:25.740 And the reason they do this,

00:05:27.380 as with all loss leaders,

00:05:28.500 like Costco does with the $1.50 hot dog and Diet Coke,

00:05:31.060 they do it to get you in the store

00:05:32.980 so that you feel like you're getting a good deal

00:05:34.760 because you are and it's awesome and I love it.

00:05:37.060 The Costco hot dog is one of my favorite lunches.

00:05:38.780 And then you go in

00:05:39.740 and you buy a lot of higher profit margin goods

00:05:42.540 or goods with any profit margin

00:05:44.640 and then the store makes money

00:05:46.100 as what a loss leader is.

00:05:48.560 So we have gone from

00:05:50.920 millennials are paying an order of magnitude

00:05:55.180 or more extra for some stupid brunch food

00:05:59.280 to Zoomers are eating anything but gruel. 1.00

00:06:03.820 You profligate Zoomers, eat your porridge. 1.00

00:06:07.160 Go out into your field,

00:06:09.240 pick your oats or whatever you grow there,

00:06:12.080 make your porridge.

00:06:13.740 And if you eat any,

00:06:14.720 if you ever dare to eat protein,

00:06:18.240 you are a decadent and luxurious spendthrift.

00:06:22.900 This ain't it, man.

00:06:24.760 This really ain't it.

00:06:26.940 It's, the Zoomers should be allowed to eat chicken. 1.00

00:06:30.660 They should be allowed to eat chicken priced

00:06:32.700 under fair market value, I think.

00:06:35.760 And this is a little bit of a correction.

00:06:37.760 There are plenty of problems with the Zoomers. 0.99

00:06:39.220 Like some of them are doing math

00:06:41.600 and hitting themselves in the head with hammers.

00:06:43.100 Like they have problems.

00:06:45.900 I grant that.

00:06:47.600 But a lot of those problems

00:06:49.240 come from the insane political context

00:06:53.100 into which they were born.

00:06:54.280 Including, I mean,

00:06:55.040 I'm making a little joke about Mr. Ickler 1.00

00:06:56.980 who was on my show,

00:06:57.880 this live stream guy, Clavicular.

00:07:00.060 But even that guy,

00:07:01.680 as I think came out in the interview

00:07:03.520 that I had with him,

00:07:04.440 the immediate source of all of his problems

00:07:09.620 is that he was bred entirely on the internet.

00:07:13.900 It's where he got the idea

00:07:15.300 to shoot himself up with illegal testosterone

00:07:18.100 and mess up his puberty 0.59

00:07:19.280 and sterilize himself 0.84

00:07:20.400 and cause all these other downstream problems.

00:07:23.740 That was all from the internet.

00:07:24.980 So the Zoomers grew up on the internet. 1.00

00:07:26.880 And even beyond that social context

00:07:29.780 of social media, say,

00:07:31.360 they grew up in an economy

00:07:34.260 that was a little different

00:07:35.800 than their parents

00:07:36.540 or their grandparents grew up in.

00:07:38.820 So they're saddled with a ton of student debt

00:07:41.800 because tuition has gone through the roof

00:07:43.200 for a variety of reasons,

00:07:44.300 largely including government subsidies.

00:07:46.520 They can't really afford homes.

00:07:49.480 A lot of their parents were divorced,

00:07:51.260 so they don't have a really good model of marriage.

00:07:53.320 So they put off getting married.

00:07:54.880 They grew up essentially without religion.

00:07:56.460 That's also kind of their parents' fault.

00:07:58.280 And it's society's fault broadly,

00:08:00.040 the society which dismisses religion, 0.81

00:08:01.780 kicks religion out of the public square.

00:08:03.000 So they don't have a good moral framework.

00:08:04.560 So they think that narcissism is a virtue.

00:08:06.840 They've replaced God 1.00

00:08:08.520 with whatever Nietzsche wanted to replace God with,

00:08:10.920 just the tyranny of the will and of the self.

00:08:13.640 And all of these problems,

00:08:16.040 I'm not saying they don't share

00:08:16.920 any responsibility for it,

00:08:18.740 but those are the circumstances

00:08:20.180 into which they were born.

00:08:21.100 And it legitimately constitutes a tougher upbringing

00:08:24.380 than millennials or Gen X or boomers

00:08:26.940 or even the greatest and silent generations had.

00:08:30.740 It does.

00:08:31.520 I know some of my friends and colleagues,

00:08:33.640 they like to say,

00:08:34.760 these dumb kids need to shut their mouths 1.00

00:08:36.240 and quit it with the maxing and the gooning

00:08:37.880 and the selling and whatever.

00:08:39.320 And they need to shut up 0.64

00:08:40.220 and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

00:08:41.860 And yeah, like, yes,

00:08:43.040 I would like people to pursue virtue

00:08:45.740 and cooperate with God's grace,

00:08:47.140 but you got to give the kids

00:08:48.480 a little bit of a break.

00:08:49.380 They grew up in broken homes

00:08:51.000 in a culture that radically promoted

00:08:53.500 sexual deviancy

00:08:54.700 and other kinds of deviancy as well

00:08:56.640 without religion 0.99

00:08:57.700 and in an economy

00:08:58.740 that really rigged the system against them

00:09:00.960 after they were told

00:09:01.980 to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars

00:09:03.940 in loans

00:09:04.680 to get a degree

00:09:05.760 that was effectively worthless.

00:09:07.320 It didn't give them a professional education

00:09:09.020 or a liberal education.

00:09:10.720 And now they're entering into an economy

00:09:13.260 that is in the midst of a revolution

00:09:14.940 caused by a one-in-at-least-a-century

00:09:18.460 technological development

00:09:19.820 such as AI.

00:09:21.200 So, like, give the kids a break.

00:09:22.240 Let them eat chicken.

00:09:24.280 Like,

00:09:25.780 Enlightenment propagandists

00:09:28.500 pretended that Marie Antoinette said, 0.99

00:09:30.600 let them eat brioche,

00:09:31.700 let them eat cake

00:09:32.620 when they were talking about

00:09:34.080 the peasants and the hoi polloi.

00:09:35.940 This is kind of the opposite version of that.

00:09:37.400 Let them eat chicken.

00:09:38.140 They can have chicken, all right?

00:09:40.000 I'll beat up on the Zoomers 1.00

00:09:41.380 as much as the next guy,

00:09:43.700 but give the kids a break. 0.53

00:09:44.820 Good grief.

00:09:45.800 Okay, now,

00:09:46.520 here's a problem for the Zoomers.

00:09:48.460 The Zoomers, 0.96

00:09:49.720 according to a new survey,

00:09:50.800 this is just published in The Spectator,

00:09:52.780 which I really enjoy.

00:09:55.080 The Zoomers are put off by Christianity. 1.00

00:09:58.440 Very interesting article,

00:09:59.760 why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus.

00:10:01.660 And the reason is,

00:10:04.240 well, I'll just read,

00:10:05.000 I'll read the first paragraph or two.

00:10:06.880 Many teenagers today

00:10:07.920 find Christianity off-putting 1.00

00:10:09.200 because Jesus seems too fond of mansplaining.

00:10:12.880 He appears to have a God complex

00:10:15.520 while the Almighty is alienating

00:10:18.040 on account of being really violent

00:10:19.680 and aggressive.

00:10:21.600 Okay, now,

00:10:22.600 I know what people are laughing at

00:10:24.360 just in the first two sentences.

00:10:26.480 They say,

00:10:27.080 well, they don't like that he mansplains

00:10:28.660 and that he has a God complex.

00:10:30.860 Well, this would probably make sense

00:10:33.360 because he is both God and man,

00:10:35.820 fully God and fully man.

00:10:36.880 He is the God man.

00:10:38.680 So, that would make sense.

00:10:40.520 Though I have to point out,

00:10:42.720 he actually does not have a God complex

00:10:45.480 because what he has is divine simplicity.

00:10:49.460 In other words,

00:10:51.400 God is not divisible into parts,

00:10:55.760 but is wholly simple.

00:11:00.040 He's wholly integrated.

00:11:01.600 So, anyway,

00:11:01.960 you would say he has a God simplicity, maybe.

00:11:03.900 In any case, yes, he is God.

00:11:05.900 He is God.

00:11:06.400 So, if he were to have a God complex,

00:11:08.180 I suppose that would be justified.

00:11:09.600 And he is man.

00:11:10.480 He is a man.

00:11:11.200 So, if he were to mansplain,

00:11:12.300 that would make sense.

00:11:14.160 They go on,

00:11:14.700 these are the findings in the report,

00:11:16.100 Troubling Jesus,

00:11:16.880 the third part of Youthscape's

00:11:18.160 Transiting God Project,

00:11:19.520 based on a survey of British 14 to 17-year-olds,

00:11:22.840 drawing on five reading groups

00:11:24.620 in which teenagers reacted to passages of scripture,

00:11:27.960 traditionally understood as conveying good news,

00:11:30.640 Youthscape faced reactions

00:11:32.900 radically different

00:11:33.880 from what it says might have been expected.

00:11:35.680 How is it different?

00:11:37.360 Well, Jesus was not only seen

00:11:38.580 as a condescending male chauvinist

00:11:41.200 and God the Father as a bully,

00:11:43.780 many youths discerned other issues in the readings.

00:11:46.620 One respondent found an unequal power dynamic

00:11:49.100 at play in the scriptures.

00:11:50.200 Gee, you don't say.

00:11:51.480 The transcendent God

00:11:52.600 who created everything out of nothing

00:11:53.900 is unequal in power to, like, you?

00:11:57.740 Yeah, interesting.

00:11:59.020 While another had, quote,

00:12:00.100 concerns about consent and abuses of power,

00:12:03.180 she saw in the relationship

00:12:04.560 between man and the divine.

00:12:06.400 In the minds of some young people,

00:12:07.760 the report concludes Jesus is, quote,

00:12:09.540 a troubling figure, arrogant, powerful,

00:12:11.360 religiously motivated.

00:12:15.040 Religion.

00:12:17.600 Jesus is religiously motivated.

00:12:19.800 He is, in fact,

00:12:20.700 and more so than they even understand.

00:12:22.860 Because religion is a habit of virtue

00:12:24.060 that inclines the will to give to God

00:12:25.360 what he deserves.

00:12:26.540 Christ is God.

00:12:27.680 He is the second person of the Trinity.

00:12:29.700 And yet, what does he say?

00:12:30.740 Not my will be done,

00:12:31.720 but the will of the Father.

00:12:33.380 No one knows the day or the hour,

00:12:34.720 not even the Son, only the Father.

00:12:36.200 So he's constantly receiving from the Father.

00:12:39.020 He is eternally begotten of the Father.

00:12:41.980 He possesses from the Father.

00:12:45.360 And is God himself

00:12:46.600 in this central mystery of the Christian faith,

00:12:49.640 which is the Trinity.

00:12:50.880 So, yes,

00:12:52.420 you know,

00:12:52.680 he is both this,

00:12:54.180 a subject of religion

00:12:55.800 and the end of religion.

00:12:59.760 Yes, that's very true.

00:13:00.980 Arrogant, powerful,

00:13:01.760 religiously motivated,

00:13:02.580 and male.

00:13:03.180 He's male, 0.71

00:13:03.540 and that's a problem.

00:13:04.220 Okay.

00:13:05.580 And they go on to say,

00:13:06.480 this is different than traditional interpretations.

00:13:08.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

00:13:10.680 However,

00:13:11.160 I think people are getting

00:13:12.060 the direction wrong here.

00:13:15.300 So, with Gen Z, 0.94

00:13:16.960 first of all,

00:13:17.360 you can't give any simple singular description ever.

00:13:21.320 Because Gen Z's distinctive feature

00:13:23.920 is that it is polarized.

00:13:26.060 It is much more polarized

00:13:27.600 than other generations.

00:13:29.660 For the millennials, say,

00:13:31.800 you have the kind of Obama libs, 0.68

00:13:34.400 and you have the center-right conservatives.

00:13:39.840 Some of whom have come around to like Trump.

00:13:41.680 They were maybe a little skeptical of Trump.

00:13:43.020 But, you know,

00:13:43.920 the chasm between the boomers today 0.99

00:13:46.640 in politics is like this wide.

00:13:48.960 So, if you're only listening to this,

00:13:51.040 I'm holding my hands an inch apart.

00:13:53.160 And then the chasm between Gen X, 0.70

00:13:55.960 maybe a little more,

00:13:56.880 roughly the same.

00:13:57.720 Chasm between the millennials,

00:13:59.300 it's a little more,

00:13:59.940 but it's still,

00:14:00.320 it's kind of the Obama generation, right?

00:14:02.340 When it comes to the Zoomers,

00:14:04.440 it's not that the Zoomers are picking

00:14:05.880 between Barack Obama and Paul Ryan, okay?

00:14:08.480 With the Zoomers, 1.00

00:14:09.860 they're either like Antifa agents

00:14:12.300 with septum piercings who are trans, 0.87

00:14:14.480 or they're Nazis.

00:14:16.760 It is like,

00:14:17.440 it's just a much further degree of polarity.

00:14:22.260 So, you have some Zoomers, 1.00

00:14:24.060 and this is where the kids are totally right,

00:14:25.720 and they're doing a great job.

00:14:27.120 You have Zoomers 1.00

00:14:27.820 who are deeply drawn to religion.

00:14:31.220 You have Zoomers 1.00

00:14:32.240 who are deeply drawn

00:14:33.140 to very traditional forms of religion.

00:14:34.600 You see a spike

00:14:35.820 in especially Catholicism,

00:14:38.500 especially among thoughtful Zoomers. 0.94

00:14:43.740 And you have transgenderism, 0.93

00:14:45.940 which is the most radical modern form

00:14:48.540 of Gnosticism,

00:14:50.740 including aspects of New Age

00:14:53.460 and the occult.

00:14:54.600 So, when we read this,

00:14:57.040 we read about these teenagers in the UK,

00:14:58.560 we say,

00:14:59.120 well, they don't like God

00:15:01.780 because they don't like authority

00:15:04.600 and men

00:15:05.780 and religion

00:15:08.420 and, I don't know,

00:15:10.920 truth.

00:15:13.240 They don't like hierarchy.

00:15:16.180 They don't, okay.

00:15:17.400 They don't like those things,

00:15:19.560 so therefore,

00:15:21.060 they don't like God.

00:15:23.140 It's actually the other way around.

00:15:26.300 And this is a key

00:15:27.540 to understanding political history.

00:15:29.140 All of leftism

00:15:31.520 comes down to a rebellion against God.

00:15:34.100 And I'm not being hyperbolic

00:15:35.420 and I'm not reading

00:15:36.880 too deeply into things.

00:15:38.260 That is where it starts.

00:15:40.120 As I've mentioned on the show,

00:15:42.380 many of you I'm sure are familiar with,

00:15:44.280 the term political left

00:15:45.580 comes from the French Revolution

00:15:46.900 when the atheists 0.79

00:15:48.380 sat on the left side

00:15:49.540 of the National Assembly.

00:15:51.460 And when they won,

00:15:53.280 they ransacked the churches,

00:15:55.440 they destroyed altars and statues,

00:15:58.280 they erected a statue

00:16:00.400 to the goddess Reason

00:16:02.040 in Notre-Dame de Paris.

00:16:05.360 It's a rebellion against God

00:16:07.760 because leftism endeavors

00:16:10.120 to put man in the place of God.

00:16:13.000 Diderot,

00:16:13.520 who inspired the French Revolution,

00:16:15.240 said that man will only be free

00:16:16.800 when the last king

00:16:17.980 is strangled with the entrails

00:16:19.180 of the last priests.

00:16:20.860 So that's what it's all about.

00:16:23.120 The reason that the left

00:16:25.360 pushes this nonsense on kids

00:16:27.960 that you have to hate men,

00:16:30.300 you have to hate Europeans, 1.00

00:16:31.980 because, you know,

00:16:32.460 Hilaire Belloc said,

00:16:33.800 the faith is Europe

00:16:35.300 and Europe is the faith.

00:16:36.280 You know,

00:16:36.460 that Europe really spreads

00:16:37.740 Christianity throughout the world.

00:16:39.680 And, you know,

00:16:40.680 the church is seated in Rome.

00:16:42.940 Some opinions vary on that these days,

00:16:44.640 but that's traditionally

00:16:45.900 the understanding.

00:16:46.540 The reason that they hate

00:16:50.700 the Europeans and the men

00:16:52.160 and authority

00:16:53.240 and disparate power dynamics

00:16:56.960 and claims of truth

00:16:59.840 that minimize the consent

00:17:03.100 and agency and autonomy

00:17:04.720 of individual men,

00:17:05.880 the reason they hate all that,

00:17:07.500 the reason that they

00:17:08.420 ram that down the throats

00:17:10.100 of kids in school

00:17:10.920 is because they hate God.

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00:17:15.660 whether it is witting or unwitting,

00:17:18.140 is to turn people against God.

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00:17:24.320 I mean, it's kind of silly,

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00:17:26.860 if God were a black woman, 1.00

00:17:28.280 I don't know,

00:17:28.740 if God were,

00:17:29.720 if whatever,

00:17:30.880 if religion were other than it is, 1.00

00:17:34.540 if our understanding of God

00:17:36.140 were other than it is,

00:17:36.820 if revelation were other than it was,

00:17:38.380 that would be the thing

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00:17:43.120 The other accidents

00:17:44.100 of the left's hatreds

00:17:45.400 come from hatred of God.

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00:19:06.760 Democrat Representative

00:19:07.880 Steve Cohen

00:19:08.740 has a very interesting pitch

00:19:10.920 for Democrats

00:19:11.700 as the midterms approach.

00:19:14.160 President Trump

00:19:14.820 is cracking down

00:19:15.500 on illegal immigration

00:19:16.340 because he won

00:19:18.040 the popular vote

00:19:18.740 running on mass deportations

00:19:20.560 against the illegal immigrants 1.00

00:19:22.040 in 2024.

00:19:23.740 And Democrat Steve Cohen

00:19:25.260 comes out,

00:19:25.940 he says,

00:19:26.960 you people are arguing

00:19:27.980 that the worst

00:19:29.040 of the worst criminals

00:19:29.980 in America

00:19:31.660 are illegal aliens.

00:19:32.880 No, no, no.

00:19:33.520 Au contraire,

00:19:34.080 mes frères.

00:19:34.460 the worst of the worst

00:19:36.920 are native-born Americans.

00:19:40.320 We need people

00:19:41.840 working in the front lines

00:19:43.140 of local law enforcement

00:19:44.180 to protect our citizens

00:19:45.440 from the worst of the worst.

00:19:47.160 The worst of the worst

00:19:47.960 are not the immigrants.

00:19:49.420 The worst of the worst

00:19:50.200 records show

00:19:50.980 are native-born Americans

00:19:52.660 and they are committing crimes

00:19:54.440 that hurt our citizens

00:19:56.040 and our cities.

00:19:56.920 And you're working against it

00:19:58.100 and thank you for that.

00:19:59.200 But by trying to get

00:20:00.220 our local law enforcement

00:20:01.340 where we have

00:20:01.920 an undercount

00:20:03.420 of officers in Memphis

00:20:04.960 to leave Memphis

00:20:05.980 and go to work for ICE

00:20:07.040 to deport people

00:20:07.880 is a wrong priority.

00:20:09.620 Print it,

00:20:10.540 print it,

00:20:11.180 cut it,

00:20:11.620 print it,

00:20:12.080 run it

00:20:12.380 in every midterm

00:20:13.860 congressional race.

00:20:15.960 Democrats say

00:20:16.740 the worst of the worst

00:20:17.620 are not illegal aliens.

00:20:18.760 The worst of the worst

00:20:19.520 are American citizens,

00:20:20.760 native-born Americans.

00:20:22.760 They're the worst.

00:20:23.780 And look,

00:20:24.280 they do believe that.

00:20:25.560 Steve Cohen

00:20:26.060 accidentally admitted this.

00:20:27.820 But what is he saying

00:20:28.980 particularly?

00:20:29.760 What is he even

00:20:30.220 intending to say?

00:20:31.200 What he's intending to say

00:20:32.380 from his perspective

00:20:33.760 is almost as bad.

00:20:35.300 When he says

00:20:36.080 it's not the illegals

00:20:37.780 we have to worry about,

00:20:38.960 especially in cities.

00:20:40.720 The worst of the worst

00:20:42.040 violent criminals

00:20:42.820 are not the illegal aliens.

00:20:45.000 They're native-born Americans.

00:20:46.120 What he is really saying

00:20:47.480 amid all those euphemisms

00:20:49.160 is

00:20:50.200 don't worry about Hispanics, 0.73

00:20:52.720 worry about blacks. 0.99

00:20:53.900 That's what he's saying.

00:20:55.200 He's talking about Memphis.

00:20:56.960 He's talking about crime

00:20:57.820 specifically in any city.

00:20:58.940 But if you want

00:21:00.140 to really drill down

00:21:00.920 in Memphis,

00:21:02.400 what native-born Americans

00:21:04.460 is he talking about?

00:21:05.520 Is he talking about

00:21:06.280 the WASP Methodist family

00:21:07.760 down the street

00:21:08.420 living just a few blocks

00:21:09.980 off Beale?

00:21:10.600 I don't think so.

00:21:11.980 What he's talking about

00:21:13.340 specifically is black people.

00:21:15.360 And so his pitch

00:21:16.480 to voters, I guess,

00:21:18.360 on why they secretly

00:21:21.040 don't want the mass deportations

00:21:23.220 that they voted for in 2024,

00:21:24.540 his pitch to voters is

00:21:25.680 Hispanics aren't the problem. 1.00

00:21:27.300 It's blacks that are the problem. 1.00

00:21:28.500 Let's go after them.

00:21:29.520 Now, of course,

00:21:30.060 he would never say that.

00:21:31.440 He's trying to speak in euphemisms

00:21:33.020 to say, no, no, no,

00:21:34.020 it's really a dichotomy

00:21:35.040 between the illegal aliens 0.89

00:21:36.160 and the native-born Americans.

00:21:38.600 But if we're talking

00:21:39.320 about the particulars

00:21:40.020 that he's bringing up here,

00:21:41.240 we're talking about

00:21:41.840 Memphis, Tennessee,

00:21:42.920 that's what he's saying.

00:21:44.660 And furthermore,

00:21:46.420 he is missing the whole point

00:21:47.580 of the illegal immigration

00:21:48.600 crime conversation.

00:21:50.780 Because you'll hear

00:21:51.200 these libs sometimes.

00:21:52.020 They'll say,

00:21:52.520 actually, do you know

00:21:53.500 that the illegal aliens 0.99

00:21:54.420 commit crime at a lower rate

00:21:56.040 than the native-born population?

00:21:57.180 And that's also

00:21:57.940 not really true.

00:21:59.580 Depends on how you

00:22:00.440 slice the statistics,

00:22:01.540 but it's not really true.

00:22:03.940 Regardless,

00:22:04.540 even if it were true.

00:22:07.120 The difference here

00:22:08.380 is that we have to deal

00:22:10.580 with the people

00:22:11.260 born in America.

00:22:12.420 We have to deal

00:22:13.160 with the American citizens.

00:22:15.000 There are plenty

00:22:15.440 of American citizens

00:22:16.380 across all races,

00:22:18.000 across the country,

00:22:19.000 in cities and country,

00:22:20.300 that I would love

00:22:21.240 to deport to Bukele 0.87

00:22:22.420 to get them out of here

00:22:23.460 because they're bad

00:22:24.020 for America.

00:22:24.540 There are plenty of them.

00:22:26.400 But we can't do that

00:22:27.400 because they're

00:22:27.940 American citizens

00:22:28.680 and they're entitled

00:22:29.440 to certain rights.

00:22:30.400 So the best we can do

00:22:31.800 is have a robust

00:22:32.960 police presence,

00:22:33.920 enforce the law,

00:22:34.860 keep them off the streets

00:22:35.800 so that they can't harm

00:22:36.860 innocent Americans,

00:22:37.960 also of all backgrounds

00:22:39.340 throughout the country.

00:22:40.100 That is not true

00:22:43.080 of illegal aliens.

00:22:44.720 None of those

00:22:45.420 illegal aliens

00:22:46.540 should be here.

00:22:47.920 Every single crime

00:22:49.460 that an illegal alien 1.00

00:22:50.920 commits in America

00:22:51.800 was needless.

00:22:53.680 It didn't have to happen.

00:22:55.140 Every single American

00:22:56.120 who is victimized

00:22:57.480 by an illegal alien

00:22:58.440 is victimized

00:23:00.240 specifically

00:23:01.100 because of the perfidy,

00:23:02.840 the treachery

00:23:04.160 of Democrats

00:23:05.480 who insist

00:23:06.800 that the illegal aliens stay. 0.97

00:23:08.040 Every rape,

00:23:10.220 every murder,

00:23:11.540 every robbery,

00:23:13.160 every drug deal,

00:23:15.200 every, every, every, every,

00:23:16.580 every was unnecessary.

00:23:19.540 We don't have to deal

00:23:20.940 with those illegals.

00:23:21.900 They're not supposed

00:23:22.580 to be here.

00:23:23.300 If we followed the law,

00:23:24.860 none of them

00:23:25.300 would be here.

00:23:26.620 That's the difference.

00:23:28.340 Even if you could argue,

00:23:29.760 well, really,

00:23:30.280 the worst violent criminals

00:23:31.520 aren't the illegal aliens.

00:23:33.680 There are those

00:23:34.280 native-born Americans

00:23:36.280 in Memphis,

00:23:37.240 wink, wink,

00:23:38.260 Steve Cohen,

00:23:38.940 little dog whistle there.

00:23:40.600 Even if that were true,

00:23:42.680 you're missing the point.

00:23:45.960 All of the illegal alien crime 1.00

00:23:48.460 is needless.

00:23:51.040 And you, Steve Cohen,

00:23:52.260 you and people like you,

00:23:53.540 every Democrat in Congress

00:23:54.740 and every swish Republican

00:23:56.120 who doesn't vote

00:23:57.360 for immigration enforcement,

00:23:59.120 you are responsible

00:24:00.020 for every one

00:24:00.760 of those crimes.

00:24:01.320 The same cannot be said

00:24:02.200 of crimes committed

00:24:03.140 by native-born Americans.

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00:25:31.780 Now there is some good news

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00:25:34.060 We have a report now

00:25:35.000 from CBS.

00:25:36.100 So they've made a move

00:25:37.440 a little bit more

00:25:38.280 toward the center.

00:25:39.280 They were pretty left wing.

00:25:41.140 Now Barry Weiss

00:25:41.900 is running CBS.

00:25:42.920 Barry Weiss though

00:25:43.380 is center left.

00:25:44.880 She's not center right. 0.99

00:25:45.800 She's not a conservative

00:25:46.460 in any way really.

00:25:47.700 She's center left. 1.00

00:25:48.440 She's just much more reasonable

00:25:49.660 than the other guys

00:25:50.360 who are running it.

00:25:51.300 Well CBS has a story

00:25:52.480 on a record number

00:25:54.820 of illegal alien detainees

00:25:56.780 giving up their cases

00:25:58.300 and voluntarily

00:25:59.220 leaving the country

00:26:00.160 and that figure

00:26:00.900 only appears to be climbing.

00:26:02.200 So you look at this

00:26:02.660 is a great,

00:26:03.320 great story.

00:26:04.980 The percentage

00:26:05.780 of detained cases

00:26:07.120 that end in voluntary removal.

00:26:09.580 They're receiving

00:26:10.540 their due process

00:26:11.200 and they say,

00:26:11.700 you know what,

00:26:12.080 whatever,

00:26:12.380 I give up.

00:26:12.800 I'm going back

00:26:13.160 to Venezuela.

00:26:14.880 It started at 1985.

00:26:16.020 you're looking at like

00:26:17.040 six,

00:26:17.420 seven percent.

00:26:18.580 Then it jumps

00:26:19.180 to 19 percent

00:26:20.520 by the end

00:26:22.580 of the Reagan era.

00:26:23.680 But then after

00:26:24.600 that Reagan amnesty,

00:26:25.660 oh,

00:26:25.860 it goes way,

00:26:26.640 way down.

00:26:27.200 By the 90s,

00:26:27.940 you're looking at

00:26:28.520 three percent,

00:26:29.440 two percent.

00:26:30.640 Then it kind of

00:26:31.220 hovers around there

00:26:31.940 for a little while.

00:26:33.000 Jumps up a little bit again.

00:26:35.360 Best you're getting

00:26:35.940 is right after Trump

00:26:37.040 was elected.

00:26:38.320 You get it up

00:26:39.020 to 21 percent.

00:26:41.080 It starts to go back down

00:26:42.760 as he has trouble

00:26:43.900 enforcing the border.

00:26:44.800 And then look at this.

00:26:45.960 He gets reelected

00:26:46.620 in 2024.

00:26:47.540 Spikes 28 percent. 1.00

00:26:49.300 So last year,

00:26:50.860 Trump formally removed

00:26:52.080 something like

00:26:52.740 525,000 illegal aliens,

00:26:54.520 which is much better

00:26:55.980 numbers than,

00:26:57.100 certainly than Biden

00:26:58.180 and then Barack Obama

00:26:59.980 even.

00:27:00.700 And they called,

00:27:01.700 they being the liberals,

00:27:03.160 say that Obama

00:27:04.180 was called

00:27:04.920 the deporter-in-chief.

00:27:07.420 And that was kind of

00:27:08.260 faking it because

00:27:09.040 Obama was counting

00:27:10.560 the illegals

00:27:11.860 that he just turned away

00:27:12.640 at the border.

00:27:13.080 So he artificially

00:27:14.180 inflated those

00:27:14.780 numbers.

00:27:15.200 In any case,

00:27:15.960 525,000,

00:27:16.820 you say,

00:27:17.080 all right,

00:27:17.280 that's a good start,

00:27:17.960 but we got something

00:27:18.680 like 20 million illegals

00:27:19.560 in the country.

00:27:21.500 The real story,

00:27:22.380 though,

00:27:22.500 was there were

00:27:22.920 a lot of self-deportations,

00:27:24.180 a lot of people

00:27:24.780 who just chose

00:27:25.680 to leave the country.

00:27:26.720 And I know some people

00:27:27.600 on the right

00:27:27.940 were skeptical of this.

00:27:28.840 They didn't totally believe it,

00:27:29.700 but we're seeing this

00:27:30.220 come up in numbers

00:27:30.780 in labor numbers.

00:27:32.740 We're seeing this come up

00:27:33.700 out of think tanks.

00:27:34.840 We're now seeing this

00:27:35.320 reported by CBS News.

00:27:36.620 28 percent of these detainees

00:27:38.400 just choosing

00:27:39.520 to remove themselves.

00:27:40.320 Those are not counted

00:27:41.380 in the formal deportations.

00:27:42.840 That's pretty good.

00:27:45.000 That's a pretty good number.

00:27:46.740 So why is this happening?

00:27:48.740 Other people on the right

00:27:49.640 have criticized

00:27:50.060 the White House

00:27:50.880 for putting on a show

00:27:53.040 of deportations,

00:27:53.980 but not really

00:27:54.860 carrying it out.

00:27:56.140 So they put on the show.

00:27:57.580 You know,

00:27:57.720 the cruelty is the point.

00:27:58.660 They have these

00:27:58.900 really cool edits

00:27:59.740 that come out

00:28:00.580 from the social media

00:28:01.740 accounts at DHS

00:28:02.660 and ICE. 0.63

00:28:03.840 And it's them,

00:28:04.440 you know,

00:28:04.920 smacking these illegals 1.00

00:28:06.060 on the ground,

00:28:06.880 cuffing them up.

00:28:09.080 You see this big show

00:28:10.420 of force in Minneapolis,

00:28:11.420 which the left

00:28:12.300 tried to fight Trump on.

00:28:13.680 Ultimately, though,

00:28:14.400 I think it was either

00:28:16.820 a draw or Trump

00:28:17.980 kind of won

00:28:18.540 because he got the locals

00:28:19.540 to start handing over

00:28:20.560 the criminals.

00:28:21.080 In any case,

00:28:23.360 some of those people

00:28:24.240 on the right say,

00:28:24.680 I don't want the show.

00:28:25.520 I want the deportations.

00:28:27.120 We all want more deportations.

00:28:29.060 But the show is important.

00:28:31.400 I mean,

00:28:31.560 look down at Bukele. 0.97

00:28:32.760 I mention Bukele a lot,

00:28:34.580 the wonderful leader

00:28:36.040 of El Salvador

00:28:37.120 to whom we send

00:28:38.200 a lot of these illegal aliens.

00:28:40.020 When Bukele started

00:28:41.360 rounding up the criminals

00:28:42.520 in this country,

00:28:43.200 face-tattooed gangsters,

00:28:44.960 in some cases,

00:28:45.800 Satan-worshipping gangsters,

00:28:47.200 when he started doing that,

00:28:49.140 he didn't just kind of

00:28:50.900 do it quietly

00:28:51.680 and get the job done quietly.

00:28:53.500 He made these great videos

00:28:55.620 absolutely humiliating

00:28:57.680 these people.

00:28:58.520 He then made videos

00:28:59.600 destroying the graves

00:29:01.200 of their members

00:29:02.060 and family members.

00:29:03.300 Like going in with sledgehammers 0.99

00:29:04.840 and smashing up

00:29:05.820 their gravestones

00:29:06.580 and treating these people

00:29:07.720 like cockroaches

00:29:08.600 and then putting them

00:29:09.580 on camera looking

00:29:10.460 like cockroaches

00:29:11.360 and sending a message.

00:29:14.080 The message was heard

00:29:15.380 because El Salvador

00:29:16.240 went from being

00:29:16.960 the most dangerous country

00:29:18.520 in the Western Hemisphere,

00:29:21.480 maybe the most dangerous country

00:29:22.640 in the world,

00:29:24.000 to one of the very safest countries

00:29:25.840 in the Hemisphere.

00:29:27.960 Very impressive.

00:29:29.620 The flamboyance

00:29:30.640 was the point.

00:29:31.620 Sometimes the libs say

00:29:32.220 the cruelty is the point

00:29:33.340 as if Republicans

00:29:34.100 are just sadists or something.

00:29:36.200 No, no, no.

00:29:36.880 The cruelty is not the point.

00:29:38.120 We don't want to be cruel.

00:29:39.000 We don't want to be unjust.

00:29:41.480 But the flamboyance

00:29:42.640 is the point, actually.

00:29:44.320 The showmanship

00:29:45.140 is the point.

00:29:46.360 It serves

00:29:47.060 a practical strategic purpose.

00:29:49.740 When you have these videos

00:29:51.120 of ICE showing up

00:29:53.860 and getting a little rough

00:29:54.780 with people,

00:29:55.720 totally within the confines

00:29:56.680 of the law,

00:29:57.000 but a little rough,

00:29:57.880 that sends a message.

00:30:00.220 When you show ICE

00:30:01.320 not backing down,

00:30:02.260 when you show leftists

00:30:03.720 try to attack ICE,

00:30:05.460 drive their cars into ICE,

00:30:06.880 and ICE finally protects themselves,

00:30:09.180 follows the law,

00:30:10.660 ICE shoots back,

00:30:11.940 that sends a message.

00:30:14.380 And the law is a real teacher.

00:30:16.320 So the question, of course,

00:30:18.600 was, well,

00:30:19.740 is the flamboyance

00:30:20.440 really paying off

00:30:21.180 or is it just a way

00:30:21.780 to mollify conservatives

00:30:22.740 who aren't getting

00:30:23.480 enough deportations?

00:30:24.400 I think the numbers

00:30:26.000 are pretty clear here.

00:30:27.640 They are resulting

00:30:28.660 in self-deportations.

00:30:30.120 They are resulting

00:30:31.020 in people voluntarily leaving

00:30:32.140 as they're awaiting processing.

00:30:35.020 This is good stuff.

00:30:36.780 Folks, very exciting.

00:30:38.320 For President's Day,

00:30:39.760 Daily Wire memberships

00:30:40.440 are 47% off.

00:30:41.960 Don't let me convince you

00:30:43.280 to subscribe to Daily Wire.

00:30:44.440 Well, you should let me

00:30:45.280 convince you to.

00:30:46.000 But how about you take it

00:30:47.980 on the advice

00:30:48.780 of Roger Avery,

00:30:50.140 who wrote Pulp Fiction

00:30:51.100 and who is a very,

00:30:52.920 very prominent writer

00:30:53.860 and filmmaker,

00:30:54.920 speaking to Joe Rogan

00:30:56.260 just the other day.

00:30:57.640 Have you seen

00:30:58.300 The Pendragon Cycle,

00:31:00.320 The Rise of the Merlin?

00:31:03.940 No.

00:31:04.380 Okay, so I had a chip

00:31:05.560 on my shoulder

00:31:06.000 when I started watching this.

00:31:07.160 I was like, okay,

00:31:08.100 this is very unlikely

00:31:09.080 that I'm going to enjoy

00:31:10.300 this production.

00:31:11.240 But they did it

00:31:11.820 for a micro-budget,

00:31:14.080 effectively.

00:31:15.120 They made something

00:31:16.120 that is absolutely

00:31:17.560 kind of reinvents

00:31:18.720 the mythology

00:31:19.420 and they do it

00:31:20.600 like proper television

00:31:21.700 where you kind of

00:31:23.040 love the characters

00:31:23.900 and they weave

00:31:25.600 an entire reality

00:31:27.240 and universe

00:31:27.740 that is just fantastic.

00:31:29.260 And it's done for like,

00:31:30.220 you know,

00:31:30.640 for very, very little.

00:31:32.160 You know,

00:31:32.960 they're spending billions

00:31:34.040 making these

00:31:35.220 Lord of the Rings things

00:31:36.440 and like nobody cares.

00:31:38.060 They're just awful to watch.

00:31:39.920 And in the meantime,

00:31:41.740 these guys just,

00:31:42.860 you know,

00:31:44.140 without anybody

00:31:44.800 paying attention,

00:31:46.060 cranked this out.

00:31:47.000 and I've only seen

00:31:48.940 four episodes of it,

00:31:50.240 but I am like

00:31:51.960 completely blown away by it.

00:31:53.680 That's so interesting

00:31:54.680 because I haven't heard

00:31:55.720 anything about it.

00:31:56.560 This is,

00:31:57.160 to me,

00:31:57.640 as good as classic television.

00:31:59.560 Okay,

00:31:59.960 you don't need to take

00:32:00.600 my word for it.

00:32:02.220 Take one of the great

00:32:03.560 men of Hollywood's

00:32:04.200 word for it,

00:32:05.500 Joe Rogan.

00:32:07.000 Go check it out.

00:32:08.000 Go become a Daily Wire

00:32:08.680 Plus subscriber.

00:32:09.860 And most importantly,

00:32:10.880 follow me

00:32:11.560 when you do that.

00:32:12.820 There are two stories

00:32:13.580 I have to get to it.

00:32:14.340 I'm going to have to

00:32:14.920 fly through them

00:32:16.080 because I know

00:32:18.020 I have to get to the mailbag,

00:32:19.100 but the State Department

00:32:20.580 has identified Code Pink

00:32:21.880 and other far-left groups

00:32:23.220 as Chinese tools.

00:32:25.820 These left-wing groups

00:32:27.040 as just fronts,

00:32:29.820 basically,

00:32:31.040 serving the purpose

00:32:31.840 of foreign adversaries.

00:32:33.440 And also,

00:32:34.480 Shakespeare might be

00:32:35.580 a black Jewish woman.

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00:34:03.140 My favorite comment

00:34:04.160 yesterday

00:34:04.520 is from

00:34:04.840 J Sumner6999

00:34:06.200 says

00:34:07.680 this lawyer,

00:34:09.800 oh,

00:34:09.940 the lawyer

00:34:10.240 in the case

00:34:10.660 of that squatter,

00:34:12.000 the squatter

00:34:12.580 in Maryland,

00:34:13.380 I think it was,

00:34:14.060 that lawyer

00:34:14.440 who went on

00:34:15.040 and just didn't

00:34:15.580 know how to say

00:34:16.060 anything.

00:34:16.300 It was great.

00:34:16.720 If you missed

00:34:17.040 the clip,

00:34:17.400 go check out

00:34:17.840 the show yesterday.

00:34:18.600 Anyway,

00:34:19.000 the comment is

00:34:19.460 he adds

00:34:19.960 an interesting

00:34:20.380 connotation

00:34:20.960 to the term

00:34:21.360 criminal lawyer.

00:34:22.520 Yes,

00:34:22.900 that's true.

00:34:23.720 There are a lot

00:34:24.120 of criminal

00:34:24.580 lawyers,

00:34:25.420 aren't there?

00:34:25.720 A lot of

00:34:26.080 double criminal

00:34:26.600 lawyers.

00:34:27.280 Okay,

00:34:27.740 real quick,

00:34:30.320 the State Department

00:34:33.040 has just identified

00:34:33.760 Code Pink.

00:34:34.420 Code Pink is

00:34:34.880 an anti-war group.

00:34:36.200 It's been around

00:34:36.620 since I was a kid.

00:34:38.240 As a tool

00:34:40.060 of the Chinese

00:34:41.180 Communist Party.

00:34:42.780 Under Secretary

00:34:43.340 of State

00:34:43.780 for Public

00:34:44.200 diplomacy,

00:34:44.740 Sarah Rogers'

00:34:45.320 partisan hacks

00:34:45.860 spent years

00:34:46.300 peddling the

00:34:46.720 phony Russia

00:34:47.140 collusion hoax

00:34:47.740 while turning

00:34:48.500 a blind eye

00:34:49.100 to the sprawling

00:34:49.780 web of far-left

00:34:50.520 activist organizations

00:34:51.460 who push the

00:34:52.000 agendas of the

00:34:52.540 Chinese Communist 0.72

00:34:53.060 Party.

00:34:53.900 Organizations like

00:34:54.560 Code Pink and

00:34:55.060 the People's Forum

00:34:55.620 denigrate the 1.00

00:34:56.160 United States,

00:34:57.080 whitewash the

00:34:57.580 violence of

00:34:58.020 Marxist regimes,

00:34:58.880 and run cover 0.94

00:34:59.380 for China while

00:35:00.040 enjoying an influx

00:35:00.720 of cash from a

00:35:01.820 donor network with

00:35:02.920 connections to the

00:35:03.680 Chinese Communist Party.

00:35:05.020 State Department

00:35:05.540 will pursue

00:35:05.960 complete transparency

00:35:06.760 for the donor

00:35:07.320 and NGO networks

00:35:08.160 that lobby for

00:35:09.260 our adversaries

00:35:09.920 and seek to

00:35:10.360 weaken the

00:35:10.680 resolve of the

00:35:11.080 United States.

00:35:11.580 The Department

00:35:12.260 assesses that

00:35:12.820 China, Iran,

00:35:13.580 and Russia

00:35:13.960 aggressively use

00:35:14.740 state media

00:35:15.160 proxies and

00:35:15.860 digital platforms

00:35:16.520 to spread

00:35:17.280 propaganda and

00:35:17.840 falsehoods,

00:35:18.540 undermine U.S.

00:35:19.000 credibility and

00:35:19.480 policies,

00:35:20.040 and expand their

00:35:20.760 influence.

00:35:21.100 This is a

00:35:24.340 little bit of a

00:35:24.960 complex issue

00:35:26.080 because you're

00:35:27.420 going to have

00:35:27.820 to hold multiple

00:35:29.020 ideas that are

00:35:30.460 in tension with

00:35:31.240 one another in

00:35:32.220 your mind at the

00:35:32.880 same time.

00:35:33.520 But this is part

00:35:34.480 of growing up

00:35:35.240 and we all have

00:35:37.600 to grow up

00:35:38.120 politically.

00:35:40.520 Idea number

00:35:41.280 one, Donald

00:35:43.060 Trump did not

00:35:43.900 collude with the

00:35:44.840 Russians.

00:35:45.520 The suggestion

00:35:46.340 that Donald Trump

00:35:47.240 colluded with the

00:35:48.240 Russians, that the 1.00

00:35:49.000 Russians rigged the 1.00

00:35:49.700 2016 election, is

00:35:51.340 Democrat propaganda

00:35:53.240 ironically cooked

00:35:54.960 up by the

00:35:55.880 Democrats with

00:35:56.880 Russian intelligence.

00:35:58.960 The idea of the

00:36:00.340 Russia hoax is in 0.73

00:36:02.200 a certain way a

00:36:03.220 Russia hoax, but

00:36:04.400 that was fake.

00:36:05.980 That isn't real.

00:36:09.240 Next thing to

00:36:10.180 know, certain

00:36:12.400 groups that are

00:36:13.800 on the left that

00:36:14.480 in some cases now

00:36:15.260 are even being

00:36:15.740 embraced by the

00:36:16.380 right, can have

00:36:18.820 serious unification

00:36:19.700 ideas.

00:36:21.400 Maybe not serious

00:36:22.280 ideas, but really

00:36:22.920 sincere ideas.

00:36:24.520 Code Pink sincerely

00:36:26.160 hates it when

00:36:27.300 America goes to 0.85

00:36:28.140 war.

00:36:29.120 And there are

00:36:29.360 people on the

00:36:29.740 right.

00:36:29.960 I mean, look, we

00:36:30.460 all kind of hate it

00:36:31.060 when we go to war,

00:36:31.680 but some wars are

00:36:32.360 justified, other wars

00:36:33.160 are not justified.

00:36:34.160 The Code Pink idea is

00:36:35.060 that basically whenever

00:36:35.660 America goes to war, 0.53

00:36:36.680 we're always in the

00:36:37.300 wrong.

00:36:38.540 But they might

00:36:39.120 sincerely believe

00:36:40.320 that.

00:36:41.720 Students for Justice

00:36:42.560 in Palestine, another

00:36:43.620 great example.

00:36:45.060 There is a serious

00:36:45.900 conversation to be

00:36:46.960 had about the

00:36:48.440 rights or overstated

00:36:51.200 rights or underserved

00:36:52.560 rights of the

00:36:54.000 Palestinian people and

00:36:55.860 the political solution

00:36:56.900 to the problems in the

00:36:58.280 Middle East and the

00:36:59.800 legitimacy of the

00:37:00.800 Israeli state and on

00:37:02.120 what grounds the

00:37:02.960 Israeli state is to 0.87

00:37:04.000 be justified.

00:37:04.700 And there is a serious

00:37:06.140 conversation to be had

00:37:07.160 about all of that.

00:37:10.420 And here's the third

00:37:12.080 part you have to hold

00:37:12.780 in your head.

00:37:14.540 Our foreign

00:37:15.520 adversaries actually

00:37:17.420 do use sincere

00:37:19.640 ideas and political

00:37:21.740 candidates to advance

00:37:24.220 their agenda against

00:37:25.240 America.

00:37:26.420 They actually do that.

00:37:29.500 The Russians did not 1.00

00:37:30.760 collude with Trump.

00:37:31.560 Trump did not collude

00:37:32.200 with the Russians.

00:37:33.020 Trump was much harder

00:37:33.720 on the Russians than

00:37:34.360 the Democrats were.

00:37:36.400 But it benefited Russia 0.98

00:37:38.600 when the Democrats

00:37:39.800 cooked up the Russia 0.85

00:37:40.760 narrative.

00:37:41.160 And again, Russian 0.99

00:37:42.780 intelligence like

00:37:43.420 indirectly kind of

00:37:44.280 worked on that.

00:37:45.200 But that is true.

00:37:47.000 That whole thing was

00:37:47.620 beneficial to the

00:37:48.300 Russians.

00:37:48.640 They had a stake in

00:37:49.740 the Russia hoax.

00:37:53.320 Our adversaries,

00:37:54.500 Russia, Iran, China,

00:37:56.480 do fund and promote

00:37:58.040 these groups like

00:37:59.240 Code Pink or

00:38:00.160 Students for Justice

00:38:00.840 in Palestine or

00:38:01.600 whatever.

00:38:01.840 They do it.

00:38:02.460 That is why I'm real

00:38:04.020 loath.

00:38:05.660 I mean, first of all,

00:38:06.340 the Students for

00:38:06.740 Justice in Palestine

00:38:07.360 thing is just kind of

00:38:09.240 silly.

00:38:09.500 The notion that we

00:38:10.980 need some grand

00:38:12.340 alliance with Islamists 0.68

00:38:13.800 is, I think,

00:38:16.220 contrary to the

00:38:17.360 historical experience

00:38:18.260 of Christendom.

00:38:19.460 The notion for

00:38:20.600 Code Pink, the notion

00:38:21.440 that wars cannot be

00:38:22.540 justified and that

00:38:23.300 America is always on

00:38:24.260 the wrong side of

00:38:24.820 wars, I think, is

00:38:25.520 ridiculous.

00:38:26.260 But I am sympathetic

00:38:27.540 to the people in the

00:38:30.860 traditional territory

00:38:32.220 of Palestine,

00:38:33.300 especially to

00:38:33.760 Christians there,

00:38:34.520 what Christians 0.86

00:38:35.060 remain.

00:38:36.240 I am sympathetic

00:38:37.120 to the idea that we

00:38:38.680 don't want to go to

00:38:39.260 war frivolously.

00:38:39.940 I'm sympathetic to

00:38:40.500 all of that.

00:38:41.440 Also, foreign

00:38:42.720 adversaries are using

00:38:43.500 those groups to

00:38:44.160 destabilize America.

00:38:45.280 This has been going

00:38:45.840 on for a long time.

00:38:46.660 Probably the clearest

00:38:47.360 example from recent

00:38:48.180 history is the Civil 0.51

00:38:49.240 Rights Movement.

00:38:50.660 There were great

00:38:51.540 aspects to the Civil

00:38:52.380 Rights Movement.

00:38:53.020 There were some bad

00:38:53.460 aspects to the Civil

00:38:54.140 Rights Movement, too,

00:38:54.760 but there were some

00:38:55.420 great aspects and

00:38:56.140 motivations to it,

00:38:57.180 without question.

00:38:58.660 And also, the Soviet

00:39:00.120 Union was funding the

00:39:01.040 Civil Rights Movement.

00:39:01.660 I know, it's difficult

00:39:04.620 to hold those ideas

00:39:05.400 in tension, but

00:39:06.180 growing up is

00:39:07.380 recognizing that.

00:39:08.720 Growing up is that

00:39:09.460 there are legitimate

00:39:10.560 domestic political

00:39:11.620 concerns that are

00:39:15.000 exploited by our

00:39:16.220 foreign adversaries.

00:39:17.300 And so we need to be

00:39:17.860 a little careful when

00:39:18.720 we talk about those

00:39:19.480 domestic concerns.

00:39:21.160 In fact, the reason

00:39:22.520 that they can be

00:39:23.300 exploited by our

00:39:24.120 adversaries is because

00:39:25.100 they're real concerns.

00:39:27.180 There's a certain

00:39:28.160 reality to it.

00:39:29.940 Nevertheless, we don't

00:39:31.320 want to inadvertently

00:39:32.360 be promoting the

00:39:33.200 propaganda of people

00:39:34.000 who have ICBMs

00:39:34.800 pointed at us.

00:39:35.620 Okay, last question.

00:39:37.620 Is Shakespeare a

00:39:38.680 Jewish black woman? 1.00

00:39:40.080 Here is a recent

00:39:40.980 news report.

00:39:42.380 What if the Bard

00:39:43.440 wasn't a white man

00:39:44.940 from Stratford at all?

00:39:46.360 What if William

00:39:47.580 Shakespeare was actually

00:39:49.060 a Jewish black woman? 0.98

00:39:51.760 Yes, coitely

00:39:52.820 outlandish theory that

00:39:54.800 is all being published

00:39:55.880 in a new book by

00:39:56.960 historian Irene Coslett,

00:39:58.960 and it's titled

00:39:59.660 The Real Shakespeare.

00:40:01.320 And in this, Irene

00:40:02.860 argues that Amelia 0.97

00:40:04.320 Bassano, a Jewish

00:40:05.840 woman of North

00:40:06.620 African descent, one

00:40:07.880 of the first women 0.95

00:40:08.680 to actually publish

00:40:10.020 poetry in the early

00:40:11.200 1600s, well, she was 0.96

00:40:13.160 actually the man we

00:40:14.140 all refer to as

00:40:15.000 Shakespeare.

00:40:16.060 Some of the most

00:40:16.580 beloved works of all

00:40:17.980 time, some of the

00:40:19.060 most famous, Macbeth,

00:40:20.580 Romeo and Juliet,

00:40:21.720 Hamlet.

00:40:22.420 Yes, those are all

00:40:23.880 actually Amelia.

00:40:25.180 That's according to

00:40:26.100 this new theory that's

00:40:27.240 been put forward by

00:40:28.240 Irene.

00:40:28.700 What if?

00:40:32.340 What if ifs and buts

00:40:34.020 were candy and nuts?

00:40:35.120 Well, then we'd all

00:40:35.580 have a Merry Christmas.

00:40:37.260 The answer to the

00:40:38.460 question, just to wrap

00:40:39.480 it up, the answer to

00:40:40.220 the question, was

00:40:40.860 Shakespeare a black 0.99

00:40:42.240 Jewish woman? 0.95

00:40:43.220 No, he wasn't.

00:40:45.380 Wouldn't that be

00:40:46.180 wacky if he were?

00:40:47.980 I love this story.

00:40:49.100 And the news anchor here

00:40:50.020 is kind of winking at it

00:40:50.900 because she knows it's

00:40:51.720 totally ridiculous.

00:40:52.320 But I just love, it

00:40:54.420 matters politically

00:40:55.420 because so much of the

00:40:57.020 way that we treat

00:40:57.780 literature, philosophy,

00:41:00.120 history, so much of

00:41:02.380 how we treat our

00:41:02.900 education these days, it

00:41:03.980 really just boils down

00:41:04.840 to what if it were

00:41:06.140 opposite day?

00:41:07.640 Yes, yes, yes.

00:41:08.680 I know what thinkers

00:41:10.140 have always thought and

00:41:12.020 what the wisest men of

00:41:13.260 history have always

00:41:14.260 believed and considered.

00:41:15.680 Yes, I know.

00:41:16.460 But what if it were the

00:41:17.700 opposite?

00:41:18.760 That's like, that's

00:41:19.520 modern education.

00:41:20.160 So anyway, what if, what

00:41:21.320 if, what if our mailbag

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00:41:30.020 Hi, Michael.

00:41:30.900 I have a question for

00:41:31.900 you and Mr. Ben Davies.

00:41:33.660 I'm really interested in

00:41:34.900 pursuing acting as a

00:41:36.100 career, and I know that

00:41:36.960 both of you have had

00:41:37.860 experience in that field.

00:41:39.480 I'll be graduating high

00:41:40.400 school with an

00:41:40.980 associate's degree in two

00:41:41.940 years, and I'm ready to

00:41:42.820 put in all the hard work

00:41:43.760 and effort required into

00:41:44.900 getting into the

00:41:45.620 industry.

00:41:46.340 I know acting can be

00:41:47.300 very tough in many ways,

00:41:48.400 but I'm willing to go

00:41:49.200 through that journey

00:41:49.880 along the way.

00:41:51.180 What is your advice on

00:41:52.180 getting into the industry

00:41:53.120 and making myself known

00:41:54.600 while avoiding the

00:41:55.780 pitfalls common with

00:41:56.960 actors?

00:41:57.560 Thank you for your time

00:41:58.400 and thank you for your

00:41:59.040 show.

00:42:00.320 Good question.

00:42:01.380 Run, run, do anything

00:42:02.540 else, run in the

00:42:03.160 opposite direction.

00:42:04.140 No, look, I really

00:42:05.960 enjoyed the craft of

00:42:08.140 acting, especially as a

00:42:09.180 student, you know, I

00:42:09.740 really enjoyed it in the

00:42:10.460 same way that I enjoy

00:42:11.240 playing, I don't know,

00:42:12.100 ukulele or piano or

00:42:12.980 something like that, and

00:42:14.200 more so even.

00:42:15.060 I took it very seriously.

00:42:16.720 I was at a very serious

00:42:17.940 acting conservatories.

00:42:18.940 You know, I really

00:42:20.240 delved into it, especially

00:42:22.040 following the modern form

00:42:24.980 of acting, which comes

00:42:25.760 from Stanislavski in the

00:42:26.660 Moscow Art Theater, up

00:42:27.860 through the group theater

00:42:28.540 in New York, teachers like

00:42:29.560 Stella Adler, Harold

00:42:30.880 Klurman, Lee Strasberg,

00:42:32.820 Sanford Meisner.

00:42:34.020 I studied with one of

00:42:35.320 Meisner's assistants for a

00:42:36.560 long time.

00:42:36.860 I have rethought the

00:42:41.460 morality of acting in

00:42:44.080 recent years.

00:42:46.140 After I quit it, I

00:42:47.140 sometimes say I'm the

00:42:47.700 only guy in history who

00:42:48.440 ever got cured of the

00:42:48.980 acting bug, but I've

00:42:49.800 rethought the morality of

00:42:50.700 it, in part because of

00:42:51.900 modern acting, because in

00:42:54.120 order to act well, especially

00:42:56.600 for the screen, but in the

00:42:58.200 style of acting that came

00:42:59.080 about in the 20th

00:43:00.060 century, it's not enough

00:43:01.820 to just like put on a

00:43:02.860 silly show and be, you

00:43:03.960 know, representational and

00:43:05.220 wear silly masks or

00:43:06.400 something, to do the new

00:43:08.960 form of acting, which is

00:43:09.860 now predominant, the more

00:43:10.960 naturalistic form of

00:43:11.920 acting, you have to

00:43:13.780 cultivate desires in you.

00:43:16.240 So if you're in love

00:43:17.120 with some woman on

00:43:17.820 screen, you have to

00:43:19.480 really fall in love with

00:43:21.120 her in order to achieve

00:43:23.400 some objective on the

00:43:24.560 stage or on the screen.

00:43:25.600 You have to really desire

00:43:27.160 that objective.

00:43:28.000 So you're messing around

00:43:29.440 not just with the things

00:43:30.860 you're playing pretend

00:43:31.680 at, you're messing

00:43:32.740 around with your heart,

00:43:34.700 with your soul, with

00:43:35.700 your loves, with

00:43:36.380 your desires, which I

00:43:37.960 think is damaging, at

00:43:39.480 least, and very likely

00:43:41.720 immoral.

00:43:42.760 So I am discouraging you

00:43:44.740 from doing that.

00:43:46.220 It's a great craft.

00:43:47.060 There are a lot of great

00:43:47.600 stuff.

00:43:47.940 I'm thrilled that I was

00:43:49.560 an actor and that I

00:43:50.180 studied acting, gave me a

00:43:51.000 lot of great stuff.

00:43:51.700 I can memorize things.

00:43:52.860 It makes me more

00:43:53.400 persuasive.

00:43:54.320 It teaches you about

00:43:55.940 human nature because you

00:43:56.860 really have to try to

00:43:57.580 figure out how human

00:43:58.180 beings tick.

00:43:58.720 It's very helpful to

00:43:59.220 politics.

00:43:59.760 It's why a lot of actors

00:44:00.540 go into politics.

00:44:02.220 But you need to be very

00:44:04.740 careful.

00:44:05.440 I was just listening to a

00:44:06.340 lecture as I was driving

00:44:07.000 into work this morning

00:44:08.020 about St. Augustine and

00:44:10.240 how St. Augustine invade

00:44:12.060 against the theatrical

00:44:13.300 productions of Rome.

00:44:15.200 Should we ask Mr. Davies?

00:44:16.280 Mr. Davies, are you there?

00:44:19.020 Is Mr. Davies in the room?

00:44:20.340 Hello?

00:44:20.820 I'm here.

00:44:21.260 Can you hear me?

00:44:22.080 Yes.

00:44:22.320 Can you hear me, Michael?

00:44:22.920 Yes, I have you.

00:44:23.700 What do you think?

00:44:24.100 Are you going to encourage

00:44:24.680 him to do acting or should he

00:44:25.660 quit?

00:44:26.120 I think you are being an

00:44:29.000 entirely wet blanket.

00:44:30.000 However, I do think that,

00:44:32.260 yes, you should run.

00:44:33.260 I think if there's anything

00:44:34.340 else that you find

00:44:35.100 interesting in your life,

00:44:36.280 you would rather spend

00:44:37.080 five to ten years mastering

00:44:38.480 that craft and having

00:44:39.320 success versus risking

00:44:41.120 everything, spending a ton

00:44:42.220 of money, working in bars,

00:44:43.840 trying to make a living while

00:44:44.720 you're trying to be an actor

00:44:45.400 in the process.

00:44:46.760 Hold on.

00:44:47.800 I just want to clarify.

00:44:49.480 Your argument differs from

00:44:52.020 mine.

00:44:52.240 We're giving him the same

00:44:53.020 practical advice, which is

00:44:54.020 don't be an actor

00:44:54.740 professionally.

00:44:55.820 But yours differs from

00:44:57.600 mine in that, yeah, I mean,

00:44:59.580 I totally grant.

00:45:00.340 The reason I have actually

00:45:01.360 a fair bit of respect for

00:45:02.280 actors, even though they're

00:45:02.940 nuts, is because actors

00:45:04.420 really are staking everything

00:45:05.580 on the lottery, basically,

00:45:06.980 which is either a sign of

00:45:08.240 madness or a sign of

00:45:09.200 courage, and the line is a

00:45:10.100 little blurry.

00:45:10.960 But my argument is that the

00:45:13.440 craft of acting, as it has

00:45:15.460 been practiced for the last

00:45:16.600 hundred years or so, is

00:45:19.060 morally dubious at best and

00:45:22.280 not conducive to you living a

00:45:24.280 great life.

00:45:24.800 In other words, I know very

00:45:26.560 successful actors, like top of

00:45:28.120 their profession, and even

00:45:29.420 they are not that happy.

00:45:30.900 So it's not just that not

00:45:32.120 making it will make your life

00:45:33.260 miserable, but actually making

00:45:34.400 it might make it even more

00:45:35.320 miserable.

00:45:35.980 Your argument is just you're

00:45:37.640 not likely to succeed.

00:45:39.460 Well, I was going to get to

00:45:40.360 that.

00:45:40.580 Per usual, you are correct, but

00:45:42.280 there's a lot of actors that I

00:45:44.480 know that have perfectly

00:45:45.260 terrific lives and families and

00:45:47.800 love their craft and are

00:45:49.020 terrific what they're doing.

00:45:49.880 Your example, though, of like

00:45:50.920 wanting to fall in love with the

00:45:51.840 person because you have to

00:45:52.740 almost in these intimate

00:45:53.460 scenes, you don't actually

00:45:55.280 have to do that.

00:45:56.040 You just have to have a really

00:45:57.040 strong feeling towards that

00:45:58.240 person.

00:45:58.520 So I actually know an actor I'm

00:45:59.320 not going to name, but he did

00:46:00.560 a terrific romantic

00:46:01.640 performance, but his goal was

00:46:03.020 to actually hate this person.

00:46:04.400 Interesting.

00:46:04.680 And so if he was passionately

00:46:06.000 hating that person, not

00:46:06.940 falling in love in those

00:46:08.060 scenes, it was intense and

00:46:09.020 awesome.

00:46:09.460 So that was almost something he

00:46:10.620 did to guard himself in those

00:46:12.040 scenes, but still get to give a

00:46:13.080 great performance.

00:46:14.040 That's wow.

00:46:14.840 That's very interesting.

00:46:16.400 Now, one could make a moral

00:46:17.940 argument that it's actually bad

00:46:19.120 to cultivate hatreds of

00:46:20.920 people, too, because if you

00:46:22.020 hate your brother, you're

00:46:23.040 like you've murdered him. 0.53

00:46:24.320 But that's very interesting.

00:46:25.460 I hadn't considered that.

00:46:26.060 OK, well, anyway, the upshot

00:46:27.740 of all of those aspects of

00:46:28.840 advice is you should not.

00:46:30.660 I mean, I think it's worth

00:46:31.780 studying acting because it

00:46:33.180 teaches you about human

00:46:34.000 nature and it gives you

00:46:35.680 actual practical skills.

00:46:37.260 Maybe the only quasi

00:46:38.400 practical skills I actually

00:46:39.820 possess.

00:46:40.960 But the it's as a good

00:46:44.260 lawyer friend of mine told

00:46:45.320 me some years ago, it's

00:46:47.920 it's not conducive to a

00:46:49.560 distinguished life.

00:46:50.280 That's true.

00:46:50.980 That's definitely true.

00:46:51.660 OK.

00:46:52.220 All right.

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00:47:23.060 segmentum.

00:47:36.440 What was it like, Merlin, to

00:47:39.040 be alone with God?

00:47:45.380 Is that who you think I was

00:47:46.680 alone with?

00:47:51.580 Merlin, I knew your father.

00:47:53.920 I am yet convinced that he was

00:47:55.380 not of this world.

00:47:59.080 All men know of the great

00:48:01.180 Taliesin.

00:48:02.380 You are my father.

00:48:03.580 Other gods should war for my

00:48:05.320 soul.

00:48:05.620 Princess Garrus, saviour of

00:48:09.180 our people.

00:48:12.280 I know what the bull god

00:48:13.340 offered you.

00:48:14.800 I was offered the same.

00:48:16.820 And?

00:48:18.280 There is a new power at work

00:48:19.560 in the world.

00:48:20.420 I've seen it.

00:48:22.660 A god who sacrifices what he

00:48:24.060 loves for us.

00:48:25.160 We are each given only one

00:48:26.320 life, Singer.

00:48:27.900 No.

00:48:29.040 We're given another.

00:48:29.800 I learned of Yezu the

00:48:34.240 Christ.

00:48:35.160 And I have become his

00:48:36.180 follower.

00:48:37.060 He's waiting on a

00:48:37.900 known, and I think you can

00:48:39.560 give him one.

00:48:40.620 Trust in Yezu. 0.87

00:48:41.960 He is the only hope for men 1.00

00:48:43.900 like us.

00:48:44.880 Faith to Britain never rests

00:48:46.140 in the hands of the great

00:48:47.040 life.

00:48:47.900 Great light, great

00:48:49.280 darkness.

00:48:50.500 Such things mattered to me

00:48:51.640 then.

00:48:53.060 What matters to you now,

00:48:54.240 mistress of lies? 1.00

00:48:56.560 You, nephew.

00:48:58.540 The sword of the high

00:49:03.080 king.

00:49:05.520 How many lives must be

00:49:07.000 lost before you accept

00:49:08.280 the power you were born

00:49:10.320 to wield?

00:49:13.240 Circling to the promises

00:49:14.520 of a god who has

00:49:15.340 abandoned you.

00:49:16.460 I cannot take up that

00:49:17.740 sword again.

00:49:19.240 You know what you must do.

00:49:22.740 Great light, forgive me.

00:49:28.540 The time has come

00:49:32.780 to be reborn.

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