Ep. 193 - Save The Planet： Use Plastic Straws
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When you're drinking salty and delicious leftist tears from our tumbler, please be sure always to use a plastic straw. For one, it will prevent the salty tears from staining your teeth, and that's important. But two, it'll help to save the planet and shrink the non-existent garbage island in the Pacific Ocean, while bears don't starve in the Arctic, and electric cars kill people. We will analyze everything you know that just ain't so about mankind's impact on our natural environment. Then the Griffin family stops by to discuss giving birth to a baby in a Chick-fil-A restaurant in America, on This is America.
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As the only authorized manufacturers of leftist tears tumblers in the world,
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I think it is important that we finally stand up here at The Daily Wire
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and do our environmental duty to help save the planet
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When you're drinking salty and delicious leftist tears from our tumbler,
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For one, it will prevent the salty tears from staining your teeth,
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But two, it will help to save the planet and shrink the non-existent garbage island
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in the Pacific Ocean while polar bears don't starve in the Arctic,
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fracking doesn't poison water wells, and electric cars kill people.
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We will analyze everything you know that just ain't so
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about mankind's impact on our natural environment.
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Then the Griffin family stops by to discuss giving birth to a baby
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in a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Texas on This Is America.
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I'm going to have to cancel this segment afterward.
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Finally, the celebrities gunning to take down President Trump in 2018 and beyond.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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You know, when I was doing that setup, I probably should have had a straw
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Now my teeth are going to be all stained, and I won't be saving the environment.
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You know that for the last two weeks now, the straws have dominated the headlines.
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Starbucks is getting rid of its plastic straws.
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Now they're going to infantilize us and use those little sippy cup things.
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I think the latest statistic from the seven-year-old who did a survey is that seven zillion straws
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are used every day, killing the environment, killing the polar bears, all this stuff, right?
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It turns out that banning plastic straws is bad for the environment.
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Right now, Starbucks is still going to be instituting this.
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I love the stories where the really earnest environmentalist, the preening types, get proven totally wrong.
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Because they might have good intentions, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Why is banning plastic straws bad for the environment?
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And in particular, we should focus on number two and number five.
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Number five is polypropylene, and number two is high-density polyethylene.
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Straws are made, plastic straws, the kind you get at the coffee shop, are made from number two and number five plastic.
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Only three percent of number five plastic is recycled.
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So 97% of number five plastic, we send it to China to recycle it.
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So the straws that they're using could be number two, could be number five.
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Those lids, those sippy cup lids are much thicker, and they're number five.
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So they're replacing the straws with these thicker lids, and the thicker lids are virtually impossible to recycle.
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So it actually will create a greater negative environmental impact.
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This whole straw thing, I don't think we've covered this enough,
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You might be wondering why you woke up one day and all of a sudden plastic straws were public enemy number one.
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You might say it's because we live in an utterly decadent culture with no actual problems,
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The other reason is that there's this nine-year-old boy named Milo Kress, nine years old in 2011, seven years ago.
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And he decided that there were too many straws like a nine-year-old does.
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Nine-year-olds make these kind of stupid observations and extrapolate from there.
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So this number, 500 million straws consumed daily.
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It's been reported by the National Park Service.
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The trouble with it is it's plucked out of thin air.
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There was a nine-year-old who thought there were too many straws, Milo Kress,
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and so he called up a couple companies, he called up a few restaurants,
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and just decided that the number was 500 million.
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People gave him totally different numbers for daily use or for yearly use or whatever,
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Why I use this statistic is because it illustrates that we use too many straws.
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I think if it were another number, it still illustrates the fact that there is room for reduction.
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and then we conservatives find out that what they've just said is nonsense,
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and they say, well, it's not true, but it gets to a greater truth.
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It's not that it's not true, but it's a greater truth.
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The point is, do what we environmentalists say and stop using the straws.
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Say, well, you need to present to me some kind of,
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is that, you know, there's this garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean.
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There's a huge floating island of plastic bottles and, you know, refuse that we don't recycle,
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and it's floating, and it's taking over the whole ocean.
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If you looked at these pictures, you would believe that, like, half of the ocean of the earth
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We know this because they went to the heart of it,
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where the highest concentration of these plastics are in the ocean.
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Objects, you know, like the size of this tumbler or something.
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They found 1,000 of those over thousands of square miles.
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So you could have one of these for, you know, 10 square miles, something like that,
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Now, you might be saying, well, Michael, you can be saying that.
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It's not that I don't believe you, but I've seen the pictures with my own eyes.
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Those pictures are taken off the coast of Manila in the Philippines.
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It's taken off the coast of other South Asian and East Asian cities that are just dirty,
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I could take a picture from the dumpster downstairs.
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I believe by my 200th episode, that's where I'm going to be living.
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I could go take a picture of that and say, you know, isn't this dirty?
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And then try to pretend like it's the Pacific Ocean.
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It does get to a really important point with the left, though,
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which is that because they control the narrative, because they control the culture,
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Another example of this is they say, before Roe v. Wade,
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5,000 women a year died from back alley abortions.
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Now, the guy who started saying that, he admitted he just made it up.
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The actual number was like 20 or 30 or something the year before Roe v. Wade.
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But you get these images in your head, these numbers, these pictures.
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A really great example of this, this one spread like wildfire last year,
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is that climate change is killing that polar bear.
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I'll narrate it for those of you who aren't watching.
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Here is that poor polar bear starving because of climate change.
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He says, this is what a starving polar bear looks like.
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It's because you didn't recycle your plastic straws.
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This bear was spotted by National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklin on Somerset Island
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I'm waiting for the Sarah McLachlan music to start playing.
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The bear went missing after this footage was shot,
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making it impossible to know specifically what ailed it.
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However, scientists warn that as temperatures rise and sea ice melts,
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polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet, seals.
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They're forced to wander into human settlements looking for food.
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Without finding another source of food, this bear likely only had a few hours to live.
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It is estimated by the photographers and National Geographic that two and a half billion people saw this video and the images in this video.
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They're saying climate change is starving this polar bear, right?
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Finally, these photographers and National Geographic itself, by the way, are admitting that this was a lie.
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The first line of the National Geographic video said,
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This is what climate change looks like, with climate change highlighted in the brand's distinctive yellow.
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In retrospect, National Geographic went too far.
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They said, National Geographic went too far in drawing a definitive connection between climate change and a particular starving polar bear in the opening caption of our video about the animal.
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And by the way, if this were caused by climate change, if we could say definitively, this is what climate change looks like,
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we would expect the polar bear population to be plummeting.
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But according to the 2016 Scientific Working Group, right now on Earth, there are between 22,600 and 32,200 polar bears.
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That's up from 22,000 to 31,000 in 2015, a year before that number was taken.
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And that's way up from an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 in 2005.
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Despite what the climate hysteria websites might tell you,
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all of the evidence points in the direction of the polar bear population being way, way up.
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And in fact, estimates from the 1960s said that at that time there were between 8,000 and 10,000 polar bears.
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So obviously that population has doubled, if not tripled, in the intervening 50, 60 years.
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Now, what the climate change people will tell you is, well, we don't know.
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And you say, well, you've just given away the whole story because you don't know, right?
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We can say at most that we don't know how many polar bears there are.
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But the climate change people, the environmentalists, the environmental hysterics,
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they always act as though they have such certainty, right?
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They say, this is what climate change looks like.
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This will do, if you do this, it's going to lead to, but so frequently it doesn't.
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It's just images designed to pull on your heartstrings, to manipulate you,
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to stop using your reason, to start supporting left-wing policies
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that either will have no impact on the environment or will hurt the environment.
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It's almost enough to make me get a Tesla, and that's the electric car.
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The electric car, that's good for the environment, right?
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We can at least agree the electric car is good for the environment, right?
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I'll try to rev it more so it only gets like 13 or 14.
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According to a study from the University of Minnesota, electric cars are terrible for the environment.
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This was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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It produces more carbon emissions than conventional cars, and that's because of the batteries.
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The batteries are really awful for the environment.
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The co-author of that study, Julian Marshall, who's an engineering professor, says,
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it's kind of hard to beat gasoline if you want to protect the environment and people.
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Electric cars produce 3.6 times as much soot and smog death as gasoline cars.
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And the reason for this, but I don't know if you're confused about this,
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the reason why that is true is because electricity doesn't come from magic.
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You know, you go, you've got your little electric car and you get to drive in the fast lane in Los Angeles,
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and then you plug it in at night and then unicorns jump up and down joyfully and power your car.
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Instead of unicorns on the other end, it's coal.
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It's not exclusively coal, but it's largely coal.
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39% of America's electricity is produced by coal.
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Ethanol produces 80% more air pollution mortality than gasoline vehicles.
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Also, it causes the price of corn to double or triple, which starves people in the third world.
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You're killing people with your pollution and starving them in the third world.
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The only good one, and this is the piece de la resistance, the only way to make the electric
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cars work and not be terrible for the environment is there is a way.
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There's a way to make electric cars half as polluting as gasoline vehicles.
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Now, the environmentalists, the one really good solution to all of this, other than nuclear,
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which they also won't let us do, the other really good solution is natural gas.
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And they won't let us do it because they spew out ridiculous propaganda like gas land and
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tell us that natural gas is poisoning our water supplies.
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Here's just a little clip from that ridiculous movie.
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For those of you who couldn't see, he held his lighter underneath the faucet and after
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a little while, there was a puff of fire, you know, from the gas that came in.
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So, the implication here is that the fracking is poisoning our water supply.
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The only trouble with that is that the Colorado Department of Natural Resources investigated
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this case and said there are no indications of any oil and gas related impacts to the
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What is true here, as is true in a lot of places where natural gas is prevalent, is that the
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natural gas in the water supply comes from natural sources.
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There was a Duke study published on this, also published in the Proceedings of the National
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Academy of Sciences, showed that there's higher methane in water wells near gas wells.
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The issue here, though, is it's caused by faulty steel casing and cement sealing.
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It's also, by the way, that water supply is not contaminated by fracking fluids.
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One reason for that is that fracking fluids are 99.5% water and sand.
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Natural gas industry is responsible for 2% of the Pennsylvania smog-causing volatile organic
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compounds, 5% of nitrogen oxides, and 1% of small particulates emitted by oil.
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The aspect here that conservatives should really take away is not just the owning the
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libs and the dancing and the spiking the football, all of which is great.
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And it's not just that whenever an environmentalist says something, you should do the opposite,
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What it is is the limits of certainty, the limits of certainty in science, the limits
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And it takes a great deal of education to find out what you don't know.
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I'm reminded of Donald Rumsfeld who said there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown
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But that's actually a pretty sophisticated degree of thinking.
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We like to pretend that the expert in the white lab coat is going to give us all of the
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They're much closer to shamans than they are to gods.
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One thing I know about science is that it's almost always not true, because they keep upending
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And when you act as though you have utter certainty about the physical world, about the material
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world, you're going to get yourself into trouble.
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And so the conservatives have a kind of contrarian streak in them by nature, I think.
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When these people are telling you with certainty that in 200 years the world is going to explode
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because you're using a sippy straw, you know, you're using a plastic straw instead of that
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sippy cup, just tell them the other side of it.
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It's really very enjoyable because, you know, environmentalism, it's so clear, but all shallows
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America, we're running a little late, as we always are.
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I'll let them speak for themselves, but the mother, Mrs. Griffin, was, you know, nine months
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And she went into a Chick-fil-A bathroom to use the bathroom.
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This is the most American story I've ever heard.
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I think I'm basically going to have to shut my show down after this because I can never get
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anything more patriotic than the Griffin story.
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I'm really honored because I know you haven't done a ton of interviews, but I saw this story.
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And just for people who haven't heard all of the background, you gave, Mrs. Griffin, you gave
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birth and Mr. Griffin, you helped deliver your new daughter in the bathroom of a Chick-fil-A
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You then swaddled the baby in your shirt, which was a Trump 2020 shirt.
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I have to ask you, is this the most American thing that has ever happened in history?
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We were actually going to have a bald eagle cut the cord.
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If fireworks went off in the cash registers in Chick-fil-A.
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Well, actually, you bring up the umbilical cord, and this is a really incredible part of the story
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that hasn't gotten a ton of attention, which is that there were a lot of potential complications
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Mrs. Griffin, I believe you have epilepsy or you suffer from epilepsy.
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And the baby was said to possibly have a heart condition.
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And the umbilical cord was wrapped around your daughter's neck.
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In fact, in the delivery room, all of this was pre-planned for the birthing plan because
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We were supposed to have between eight to 10 doctors in the delivery room from neonatal specialists
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There was just supposed to be a room full of doctors, not a bathroom stall with just us.
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So I do want to ask, before I ask how you were able to do this, because I think if this
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set of challenges were presented to me, there would be a Michael-shaped hole in the wall.
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So, you know, we drive by a lot of cattle ranches.
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And the hospital that we had to go to was because of the high risk of both the wife and
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Like I said, all of those specialists that were waiting for us there.
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Earlier in the day, earlier in the day, we had gone to her 38-week checkup.
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Gracelyn May was born two weeks early to the day.
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So earlier in the day, we went to her two-week checkup.
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And her doctor checked Fallon out and said, you know, she's three centimeters, but she should
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You know, go home, relax, take a bath, have fun.
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You know, it's maybe three days, maybe seven days.
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I said, honey, can you take me to the nail salon?
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I was having contractions, but they weren't like anything.
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I mean, I've had two babies before, so I kind of knew what was going on.
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I knew they were, you know, it could be any day now kind of thing.
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But I, when I got to the nail salon, I was like, okay, no massaging, just change the paint
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Cause I don't want, you know, to bring on my labor.
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I was, you know, really not wanting her to come two weeks early, but.
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I only, listen, I want to look good when Grace LeMay arrives, but I, you know, you can't.
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I wanted my pink toes because I'm having a girl.
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And the only reason we ended up at the Chick-fil-A was one of our good friends who was going to
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watch our older girls for us when we, we actually went to the hospital, lives in the community
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So we had called her and said, Hey, we don't have time to meet you at your house.
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Just meet us in the parking lot of Chick-fil-A.
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Just jump right off the highway, drop the kids off in the parking lot and away we go.
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So when we pulled into that Chick-fil-A a little bit after 20 minutes after 10, obviously they
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It must've looked like something completely sketchy because we come screeching in there right
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And then here comes our friend screeching right up next to us.
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We jump out of the car and putting kids in her car.
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If I was in the Chick-fil-A looking outside, I probably would have called my one-one then
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and said, we're about to get robbed because there's some sketchy stuff going on out front.
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So they're like, who's this guy that I can only imagine what was on.
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I really didn't think I was going to be giving birth.
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I was like, I think we have time to stop since Chick-fil-A is the only lighted place
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I assume, Mr. Griffin, that you did not join your wife in the bathroom.
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And then at what point do you know that you're about to have a daughter?
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So once they opened the door for her, which the Chick-fil-A employees, check this out.
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The only reason why they were even there is the employees at Chick-fil-A, they were just
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waiting for their parents to come pick them up.
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So, yeah, I don't know for a fact, but after hearing all this, I was thinking maybe they're
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underage or maybe they're not licensed or they're just teenage kids.
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They definitely were young because the looks on their faces were like, that is the best
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We're abstaining from sex, probably after marriage too.
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So, so you're, you're in the bathroom, you're, you're giving birth.
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And what I want to know is, uh, Mr. Griffin, you, this is not an easy birth.
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I guess you've had a little bit of practice with this before.
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I mean, I would just be so in any, in the best of circumstances, I would be sweating bullets,
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sweating blood probably in these circumstances.
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I just kept thinking, I thought I had to go to the bathroom.
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And so I, of course I'm screaming, you know, I'm in excruciating pain and that's how I found
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And I know it's like a TMI, but it was like, it was happening.
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I scream and Brenda, the, um, the lady working that night, um, she's a drive-through director.
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You know, they're like, like we said, they, they were closed and so they were just finishing
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She's like, Hey, your wife's screaming in the bathroom.
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I had just put the, kiss the kids goodnight and try to calm them down a little bit.
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I just said, you know, traumatized, you know, kiss them goodnight.
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And then as I was walking back to the Chick-fil-A, I heard Brenda scream, your wife's in the bathroom
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So I run in there and she had locked the door because, cause that's what you do.
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So we got the door unlocked and I, when I, I opened it up and she's in the first stall,
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It's made for one, definitely not made for two and a baby to clear, to set the record straight.
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I did not choose the handicapped stall because I did not have time.
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So all I could do was wedge between the toilet and the back wall of the stall and get into
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that back little corner there and, um, you know, kind of assess what was going on.
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And I could just see the head crowning and my wife was standing and I told her, honey,
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we're going to do something great, but we're going to do it right here and we're going to
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So she put one hand on the sidewall and, uh, first the, her head came out.
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Cause my biggest fear was dropping her in the toilet.
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And I, I had my, my water had broken the moment he literally like open the door jammed in.
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He, like he said, he came in, he wedged himself back there and he was,
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I told her, I said, you know, you were the CEO, you're the manufacturer.
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You're the, you, you did the, you were the whole, I just ran your shipping and receiving.
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Well, it is really amazing to consider the mental states of both of you at this point,
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because Mr. Griffin, on the one hand, you're there, you're thinking, I look, I'm, I'm the
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I've got to kind of manage this, control this, you know, make sure that the umbilical cord
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isn't going to remain wrapped around her neck, whatever.
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But then Mrs. Griffin, you are in the worst, basically the worst of circumstances to be
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doing this and, and no drugs whatsoever, no, no pain medication at all.
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Do you get a medal of honor for that or something?
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That is, you know, we've all had to suffer through the world cup over the past few weeks,
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Meanwhile, you're doing the most athletic feat ever to be done.
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You know, you're up there like tap dancing while giving birth.
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So, so you do this and the, and the baby's fine.
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There's no worry of, uh, you know, the, the umbilical cord or anything like that.
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So what happened was, um, as soon as I saw that the head was crowning, that's when I yelled
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to whoever could hear, cause there were no Chick-fil-A employees in the bathroom and
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I just shouted, somebody call 911 and bring me towels or clean something clean, whatever
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And, um, like I said, the, the head stopped her at the shoulders because I could tell that
00:30:34.240
So unwrap the cord twice and then told Fallon, Hey, we've got, I need two really good pushes.
00:30:42.100
So she pushed hard and she came out and, um, I couldn't see anything by the way.
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So I didn't want to alarm her that the cord was wrapped around the neck because one of
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the big concerns with this pregnancy and this delivery was because of the epilepsy, lowering
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her threshold of having a seizure was a real danger.
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So I didn't want to put an extra stress on her saying, Hey, the cords wrapped around her.
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And, uh, got that done and just told her to push and, uh, wrapped her up in my Trump shirt,
00:31:23.420
And, uh, and, uh, that's all I had at that time when she, she, when she did come out,
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And that's how I dried off Gracie is with that.
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And then the Chick-fil-A representative, uh, Brenda came back in with 9-1-1 on the phone
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I'm like, you, you, you've got to put them on speaker.
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And, um, so I was asking questions, um, about, you know, her being blue.
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I knew it was one of two things, either oxygen levels were low or she was cold.
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But really quickly after that, Chick-fil-A started bringing in some of the towels that
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If you don't think that there was divine intervention in this whole thing, I'll just
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Those towels that they brought in, I was asking for warm towels and they brought them to me
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and they were brand new white towels about the size of a kitchen towel, terry cloth that
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They were microwaving them, putting them in whatever they were doing.
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It turns out that Brenda knew that in their, one of their storage rooms was brand new towels.
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And just happened that that day, the air conditioning went out in that room only.
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So she went in there and there were nice warm towels because it was 104 degrees that day
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They were nice warm towels sitting there wrapped in plastic.
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She just opened them up and brought them to us.
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You know, I, I, I'm a big believer in Providence.
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I, you can see these sorts of things all the time.
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I always think that God sometimes, you know, he'll whisper in your ear, he'll say, Hey,
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Michael, Hey, you know, and then of course we don't ever notice.
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So he says, Hey dummy, come on, look, I'm right here.
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And you know, so you have the, the Chick-fil-A, this, this American institution, you've got
00:33:11.440
the Trump shirt, you know, self-reliance, delivering yourself.
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Well, and I'm praying that everything behind me is going well because I sure as heck don't
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I'm like, Oh dude, I hope this guy knows what he's doing.
00:33:25.320
But no, no, I literally, no, in all seriousness, I was praying and I just said,
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please, like, please, Lord, give my husband wisdom and, um, patience and strength.
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And just, of course, praying for this baby to catch her.
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Uh, I wanted her to cry cause I didn't hear her cry right away.
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So I knew something was up when she wasn't crying.
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And because again, the seizure was definitely a concern of mine and, um, we needed just to
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And so I just knew I just needed to hang in there.
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And it was, it was a rough, it was a rough few minutes, but, um, actually about 10 minutes
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The EMS didn't show up for about seven to 10 minutes after.
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I, you know, I tell you the whole time I could not sit down because then both before the placenta
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And so if I had moved one inch in any direction, it would pull it from her belly, from her belly
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So he's trying to hunch over and I'm hunched over and my body is, my nerves are shot.
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And I have to tell you, my, my nerves are shot just listening to the story.
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I, I'm on the edge of my seat, even though I know it has a happy ending.
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I, I picture, I haven't had my first child yet.
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And I've always pictured sort of like a pacing around the waiting room and like a blazer chain
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But you know, your daughter's name is Grace Lynn May, uh, aptly named, clearly grace abounds
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And I'm so pleased for all of you, I have to let you go, but I'm so pleased that,
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uh, everything worked out as miraculously as it did.
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And, and you now have a lifetime supply of Chick-fil-A and a job for your daughter when
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I don't know what the best part of that story is.
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I do always, uh, I, I sometimes joke with my wife.
00:35:44.720
We, we say, you know, gosh, I really, really hope that our baby is cute.
00:35:50.160
And you, you clearly lucked out even on that front, even on that front, grace abounds.
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Uh, I can't, I can't wait to, uh, I'll check back in in 16 years, uh, when, when your daughter
00:36:12.000
If only the bald eagle came down and clipped the umbilical cord with its talons.
00:36:15.540
Uh, so I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:36:18.720
I do want to talk about this election a little bit.
00:36:20.340
I want to talk about the celebrities who are going to be jumping in and, uh, probably
00:36:26.220
destroying Democrats' chances again, just like they did in 2016.
00:36:29.080
And also the new Republican challenger who is now suggesting he will primary Donald Trump
00:36:38.180
If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go to dailywire.com.
00:36:40.620
It is 10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
00:36:48.680
The conversation, the mailbag, get your mailbag questions in, right?
00:36:57.500
I'm going down, uh, to give a speech at, uh, YAF, Young America's Foundation, and I'm
00:37:02.600
going to be talking about the great benefits of owning the libs, a robust defense of owning
00:37:08.260
And you're going to need this tumbler because otherwise the whole district of Columbia is
00:37:13.800
Make sure you get your leftist tears tumbler and make sure you get extra plastic on it just
00:37:18.880
Maybe if you have, if you have an old leftist tears tumbler, just toss it in the Pacific Ocean.
00:37:37.820
All the celebrities are coming out in force to stump for Democrats just like they did in
00:37:45.460
Here is a new public service announcement from the voice of the American people, Vox Populi,
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Do you care about gun control, women's health, income inequality, the environment, health care?
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Oh, I'm already six months late on my annual cleaning.
00:38:26.920
Uh, voter turnout during midterms is historically terrible, with nearly half the voters compared
00:38:34.400
And that's just not going to work this November.
00:38:36.540
Wow, I can't believe we're still fighting to protect basic human rights and the planet.
00:38:46.920
Oh, we gotta get people to volunteer to make sure other people vote.
00:38:50.500
Then can we go lie down somewhere, maybe with a beach?
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Is she just using, like, five plastic straws at a time while driving her Hummer around?
00:39:03.240
I didn't, this has taken a turn that I didn't expect.
00:39:13.560
I counted up on the Wikipedia page last night of the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential race.
00:39:18.980
I believe the number is 1,868 celebrities, athletes, actors, directors, musicians, endorsed
00:39:36.600
And two, there's not a celebrity disparity anymore.
00:39:39.900
We have one of the biggest Hollywood celebrities not only stumping for us, but he's actually
00:39:47.460
Also, Hollywood looks awful with all this Me Too stuff.
00:39:50.260
You know, these people look really morally decrepit.
00:39:54.880
And they haven't turned out good product in a long time, other than Mission Impossible 3.
00:39:59.220
When Tom Cruise tells me to vote for somebody, I'll probably vote for that person.
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But all of these other people, I don't, why would I listen to Jane Fonda?
00:40:05.200
Jane Fonda's a traitor to her country who posed on anti-aircraft for the Vietnamese.
00:40:13.840
In other celebrity 2020 news, LeBron James is suggesting that he's going to run for office
00:40:19.500
You know, we're just in the throes of silly season when all of this happens, the dog days
00:40:25.140
The one story worth mentioning, though, because I suppose it could be real, it's also ridiculous,
00:40:30.660
is being reported by the Daily Caller, which is that Bill Kristol, the former editor, now
00:40:37.540
editor-at-large of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, considered neoconservative, Straussian
00:40:44.800
magazine editor, very anti-Trump, is considering primarying Donald Trump in 2020.
00:40:55.660
Bill Kristol was a professor of mine during a summer fellowship that I had.
00:41:00.760
I listened to his podcast, Conversations with Bill Kristol.
00:41:04.100
I actually like the guy, even though he's really going off the rails with this never-Trump
00:41:12.540
It will not help him, it will not help the Republican Party, it will not help the conservative
00:41:17.240
It will just look really, really foolish and frivolous.
00:41:24.820
Bill Kristol said, we need to take one shot at liberating the Republican Party from Trump
00:41:39.300
We've gotten historic tax reform, excellent judges, federal judges, and Supreme Court justices,
00:41:47.320
peace abroad, really strong foreign policy, good foreign policy, a booming economy.
00:41:57.080
We've got the issues that Democrats usually harp on racial division.
00:42:01.000
We've kind of wiped those out because not only are we winning in the popular culture, but
00:42:06.500
we're also winning historically low black unemployment.
00:42:11.880
I think all crime is hate crime, but hate crime, as we define it, is down.
00:42:21.520
Why do we need to liberate the Republican Party from Trump?
00:42:24.540
Is it because the years of George W. Bush were so much better for conservative governance?
00:42:29.480
I'm not attacking President Bush, but is that really the height of conservatism?
00:42:34.520
So was Medicare Part D the height of conservatism?
00:42:36.840
No Child Left Behind, was that the height of conservatism?
00:42:39.600
Harriet Myers, even John Roberts, was that great conservative governance?
00:42:50.060
Why on earth would we liberate the Republican Party from Trump and conservatism from Trumpism?
00:42:54.340
I understand the skepticism of President Trump in 2016, but he's done a very good job.
00:43:00.120
You know, we laugh about LeBron James running for office or Oprah or whatever, and they
00:43:07.960
Donald Trump isn't qualified to be president, and I agree with that in 2016, but now he is.
00:43:18.940
You can't say, well, now we're just electing celebrities who are unqualified.
00:43:23.040
That could have been the case had Trump been a bad president, but he's been good.
00:43:29.040
It's really ideological, really frivolous, really silly.
00:43:32.300
According to the Daily Caller, Mr. Crystal is in Boston now.
00:43:35.840
He's meeting with New Hampshire political strategists.
00:43:42.600
I really do like what Mr. Crystal offers to the conservative movement.
00:43:46.060
I recommend listening to some of his podcasts, even though they need to fix the audio on it.
00:43:50.200
The audio is not great, but the show is really quite interesting.
00:43:57.100
Are we fighting one another over how best to hold our teacup or how to comport ourselves
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If it's the latter, get your priorities straight.
00:44:14.440
Because there are real issues that are being fought.
00:44:16.660
Rich Lowry from National Review has an excellent column out about how the United States is
00:44:25.620
You can say crazy-eyed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:44:31.940
You know, there are 42 candidates running with the Democratic Socialists endorsement in 2018.
00:44:42.580
He's brought this Medicare for All socialist medicine canard.
00:44:50.880
Healthcare is the place that they try to do it most.
00:44:53.200
President Reagan, before he was president, when he was still just a terrific B-movie actor
00:44:57.700
in Hollywood, he had a great album about the evils of socialist medicine.
00:45:03.320
We don't need to be fighting over how to hold our Chablis glasses.
00:45:06.500
We need to fight this real battle because it's coming and it's evil and it could really
00:45:11.800
Here, for those of you who haven't heard it, is Ronald Reagan talking about the evils of socialist
00:45:18.580
I have been asked to talk on several subjects that have to do with the problems of the day.
00:45:24.720
Now, back in 1927, an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president
00:45:31.160
in the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism.
00:45:34.980
But he said, under the name of liberalism, the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
00:45:40.500
There are many ways in which our government has invaded the precincts of private citizens, the method of earning a living.
00:45:48.700
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
00:45:58.540
It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
00:46:04.260
Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it.
00:46:10.980
Now, in our country, under our free enterprise system, we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world.
00:46:19.420
Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied anyplace.
00:46:26.920
The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to choose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other.
00:46:33.580
The right to choose, the quality of the care, the prosperity that it engenders and that it symbolizes.
00:46:41.600
You should listen to the whole thing. The whole album is 10 or 11 minutes. You can find it all over YouTube.
00:46:47.700
Socialism is slavery. The way they try to institute it, they get it in by the back door on health care
00:46:52.040
because they think people won't act rationally on health care.
00:46:55.280
They won't be willing to point out the advantages of freedom in health care because it's so immediate.
00:47:03.760
The government that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you've got.
00:47:09.240
If you have looked at no other news story in the last couple of years, look at little baby Alfie Evans
00:47:14.260
or little baby Charlie Gard in the UK, babies who their parents wanted them to get treatment elsewhere.
00:47:21.520
But the socialist government in the UK, I'm not talking about Venezuela, I'm talking about the developed world,
00:47:26.140
the United Kingdom, would not let those babies seek treatment in the United States or in Rome or anywhere else.
00:47:32.540
They said, this baby is going to stay here. We own this baby. The baby is going to die. Deal with it.
00:47:37.120
The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to own you,
00:47:42.240
big enough to take away everything you've got. You've got to fight it tooth and nail.
00:47:45.420
Medicare for all is slavery. And get your priorities in order, people.
00:47:48.660
People don't get angry because President Trump doesn't spell all of his tweets correctly or he uses random capitalization.
00:47:55.120
There's a really evil, evil ideology that is rearing its ugly, crazy-eyed, batty head.
00:48:05.940
I will not see you tomorrow, but I'll be back Thursday and Friday.
00:48:08.440
Get your mailbag questions in. We're doing it Thursday.
00:48:10.320
If you're in D.C. or if you're at the YAF conference, I'll see you there.
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In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you soon.
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