The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 195 - The Greatest Jobs-Producer God Ever Created

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00:00:37.700 As socialist empty heads insist that the economy isn't working,

00:00:42.340 a record high number of Americans are working because the economy is absolutely soaring.

00:00:47.240 We will analyze the greatest jobs producer God ever created and the threats that it faces.

00:00:53.060 Then, I know you'll be shocked to hear this,

00:00:55.240 Jim Acosta is complaining some more,

00:00:57.940 Owen Benjamin stops by, that huge pianist friend of ours,

00:01:00.940 and Pope Francis changes church teaching on capital punishment. 0.96

00:01:05.000 We will analyze the many wonderful benefits of killing criminals.

00:01:10.440 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:12.660 That's a lot to get to in one day.

00:01:21.360 We're going to have to do it, though.

00:01:22.220 We're going to have to cover everything from how wonderful capitalism is

00:01:25.060 to questioning certain changes that are coming out of the Roman Curia

00:01:31.160 and out of the Vatican, certain things that seem a little strange.

00:01:34.040 You know, there's a difference, by the way,

00:01:35.280 when people, a difference between Protestants or more evangelical Christians and Catholics

00:01:40.600 is when more Protestant-leaning people question their pastors

00:01:45.800 or question their denominations' teachings.

00:01:49.180 They can be pretty vocal about it.

00:01:50.720 They can be pretty straight on.

00:01:52.160 And when Catholics do it, we say, 0.96

00:01:53.920 well, is it perhaps the case that the Holy Father is mistaken?

00:01:56.760 I wonder if I am misunderstanding the Holy Father.

00:01:59.760 We will have to see if we are misunderstanding the Holy Father on the death penalty.

00:02:03.240 Before all that, you know, another promise has been kept.

00:02:08.720 President Trump, he promised us.

00:02:10.300 Do you remember this?

00:02:10.880 He's made a lot of promises.

00:02:11.920 Everyone laughed at him. 0.99

00:02:12.700 He said he's ridiculous. 1.00

00:02:13.640 That'd be crazy. 1.00

00:02:14.720 Everything was going to go terribly if he were elected.

00:02:17.520 He promised us that if he were elected,

00:02:19.520 he would be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

00:02:24.440 And I remember when he said it.

00:02:26.040 Well, that's a really bold statement.

00:02:28.060 Turns out that has absolutely been the case.

00:02:30.780 President Trump, take it away.

00:02:31.740 I'll be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

00:02:35.900 So there's a great spirit going on right now,

00:02:38.880 a spirit that many people have told me they've never seen before, ever.

00:02:44.440 We're going to create jobs.

00:02:45.720 I said that I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.

00:02:52.080 And I mean that.

00:02:52.800 I really, I'm going to work very hard on that.

00:02:55.420 All right.

00:02:56.020 We're a year and a half in.

00:02:57.140 Let's see.

00:02:57.580 What does the record show?

00:02:58.560 The record shows that in the month of July, the most recent month that we have numbers

00:03:03.140 for, a record high number, 155,965,000 people were employed in the United States.

00:03:12.160 That is an all-time record high.

00:03:13.940 But by the way, that's the 11th record breaker since President Trump took office.

00:03:18.460 This is true, by the way, the way that Democrats and socialists try to spin this is they say,

00:03:24.740 well, the economy is working really well for some people, but it's not working well for

00:03:28.320 all people.

00:03:28.940 And this is when they try to demagogue on issues of class division or race division or sexual

00:03:34.120 division or whatever.

00:03:34.840 But even when you look at all of their divisive categories, the numbers still hold up.

00:03:40.100 We have record low black unemployment.

00:03:41.960 We now have record low Hispanic unemployment in the United States.

00:03:45.640 This is the second record because he's had record low Hispanic unemployment two months in a row.

00:03:51.480 Last month, the economy added 157,000 new jobs and unemployment has fallen below 3.9%.

00:04:00.100 To put that into perspective, economists consider an unemployment rate of 4% to 6.4% to be full

00:04:06.940 employment.

00:04:07.640 Because if you're in a system that has freedom, you're going to have some unemployment.

00:04:12.220 People are going to be changing jobs.

00:04:14.740 A company might fire somebody who's not doing a good job, and then they'll find a job that

00:04:18.800 they're better at.

00:04:19.660 So 4% to 6.4% is considered full employment.

00:04:23.640 And we are now looking at an unemployment figure below that.

00:04:27.620 We have more than full employment in this country.

00:04:31.380 And President Trump predicted it.

00:04:33.640 He said that would happen.

00:04:34.720 But why is that happening?

00:04:35.740 Because he said, I'm the greatest jobs president God ever created.

00:04:38.740 That might be true.

00:04:40.040 I mean, on the numbers, that is true.

00:04:42.380 But then he said, I'm the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.

00:04:46.720 And that isn't quite true.

00:04:48.240 He's the greatest jobs president, but he's not the greatest jobs producer.

00:04:50.940 The greatest jobs producer is capitalism.

00:04:53.360 It's economic freedom.

00:04:54.340 And it's a wonderful time to be seeing these numbers because you have the rise of socialism

00:04:59.180 across the United States.

00:05:01.240 We've talked about how the democratic socialists of America have increased their membership

00:05:05.560 eightfold in just two years.

00:05:07.260 The majority of millennials consider themselves socialist.

00:05:09.940 At the same time, we are seeing that economic freedom, economic liberty, capitalism creates

00:05:16.360 jobs.

00:05:16.920 It creates prosperity.

00:05:18.200 This is the first time that we've seen this in our political lives as millennials.

00:05:21.500 And it's impressive to see because why is President Trump the greatest jobs president

00:05:27.380 that God ever created?

00:05:28.400 Because he is increasing freedom and decreasing regulation.

00:05:32.080 He is letting people keep more of their money by lowering taxes, historic tax reform on companies

00:05:37.340 and on individuals.

00:05:38.740 He's deregulating the federal government.

00:05:41.020 So he's making it harder for these bureaucrats and technocrats to control every aspect of our

00:05:45.520 lives.

00:05:46.180 He's opening up trade.

00:05:48.840 He's negotiating better trade deals.

00:05:50.080 He's trying to get better trade deals.

00:05:51.700 We're drilling, baby, drilling.

00:05:53.640 We're now the biggest exporter of oil in the world.

00:05:56.680 We're producing energy.

00:05:58.900 You know, during the Obama administration, we would hear, no, you can't drill here.

00:06:02.540 You can't transport oil or natural gas here.

00:06:05.260 You can't do this.

00:06:05.920 You can't do that.

00:06:06.540 No, no, no, no, no.

00:06:07.660 And what President Trump did very simply, perhaps just on his gut, is when he got in,

00:06:12.300 he said, we are going to unleash this economy.

00:06:14.820 We're going to unshackle it.

00:06:16.100 We're going to open up the bonds that are holding this economy back.

00:06:19.040 And this thing is going to roar.

00:06:20.660 And it is roaring.

00:06:21.900 This economy should have been roaring years ago because you had that recession in 2007,

00:06:26.700 2008.

00:06:27.660 And after steep recessions, you should have a steep recovery.

00:06:32.240 But President Obama just put shackle upon shackle.

00:06:35.440 So what did President Trump do?

00:06:36.580 He opened that up.

00:06:37.520 He unleashed it.

00:06:38.580 Freedom works.

00:06:40.180 Freedom works.

00:06:41.620 It seems so simple.

00:06:43.580 I think even conservatives need to tell ourselves this sometimes.

00:06:46.420 Because sometimes we conservatives, you know, we get a little contrarian, a little tweedy,

00:06:52.680 a little traditionalist.

00:06:53.800 And we say, oh, I don't know about freedom.

00:06:55.440 Well, you know, pish posh.

00:06:57.200 No, freedom works very simply.

00:06:58.900 It works economically.

00:07:00.000 We're seeing that with all of these numbers.

00:07:01.380 It works politically.

00:07:03.040 It works creatively.

00:07:04.820 When you unshackle people, they are free to be creative.

00:07:08.620 They're free to do what they want.

00:07:10.180 And this is true as a matter of political speech.

00:07:12.620 The accusation against President Trump and this administration is that he's authoritarian.

00:07:17.720 Oh, he's authoritarian. 1.00

00:07:18.880 He's a fascist. 0.99

00:07:20.540 He's authoritarian. 0.98

00:07:21.660 How is he an authoritarian?

00:07:22.820 By letting people say and do whatever they want.

00:07:25.200 You know, one of the observations of this era in politics is people are sort of frenzied.

00:07:30.020 They're vocal.

00:07:30.980 They're politically engaged.

00:07:32.960 The federal government's not stopping them.

00:07:35.380 The authoritarian so-called government isn't stopping anybody from doing that.

00:07:39.660 You know, people are out there screaming.

00:07:41.900 They're angry.

00:07:42.820 They want impeachment.

00:07:43.720 They want this.

00:07:44.260 They want that.

00:07:44.580 The president doesn't tell anybody to stop doing that.

00:07:47.660 The freedom of the press has not been abridged.

00:07:50.060 The freedom of the people to speak their minds has not been abridged.

00:07:52.980 There is freedom out there.

00:07:55.080 And by the way, even with all that screaming and all that fake news and all that anti-administration

00:08:01.340 rhetoric coming out of the mainstream media, the administration's approval ratings are 50%.

00:08:06.340 They're doing very, very well because people, when you give them freedom, when they say,

00:08:10.520 look, you can speak and you can speak and you can speak, battle it out.

00:08:16.160 It gets really loud.

00:08:17.060 It gets really raucous.

00:08:17.960 It's not orderly.

00:08:19.100 It's not quiet.

00:08:20.440 It's not, it's not couth, but it's really raucous and people can get a semblance of the truth.

00:08:26.580 This is a wonderful thing.

00:08:28.560 Some people are not thrilled about this though.

00:08:30.600 And by some people, I, of course, am referring to Ron Burgundy himself, Jim Acosta.

00:08:36.240 Jim, take it away.

00:08:38.340 I just wanted to follow up on, on Sarah's question from NPR.

00:08:41.580 She asked you about Ivanka Trump's statement that the press is not the enemy of the people.

00:08:47.020 And she asked you whether or not the press is the enemy of the people.

00:08:52.160 You read off a laundry list of your concerns about the press and things that you feel like

00:08:56.640 are misreported, but you did not say that the press is not the enemy of the people.

00:09:02.340 And I, I think it would be a good thing if you were to say right here at this briefing

00:09:07.800 that the press, the people who are gathered in this room right now, doing their jobs every

00:09:12.500 day, asking questions of officials like the ones you brought forward earlier, are not

00:09:17.000 the enemy of the people.

00:09:18.160 I, I think we, we deserve that.

00:09:20.960 I think the president has made his position known.

00:09:24.640 I also think it's ironic.

00:09:26.640 I'm trying to answer your question.

00:09:28.180 I politely waited and I even called on you despite the fact that you interrupted me by

00:09:32.020 calling on your colleague.

00:09:32.980 I said, it's ironic, which is why I interrupted.

00:09:36.560 I'm trying.

00:09:37.100 But if you, if you finish, if you would not mind letting me have a follow up, that would

00:09:40.040 be fine.

00:09:40.520 But it's ironic, Jim, uh, that not only you and the media attacked the president for

00:09:45.960 his rhetoric, uh, when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country.

00:09:51.380 Repeatedly, repeatedly, the media resorts to personal attacks without any content other

00:09:56.180 than to incite anger.

00:09:57.220 Uh, the media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions, including your own

00:10:01.920 network, said I should be harassed as a life sentence, that I should be choked.

00:10:06.520 ICE officials are not welcomed in their place of worship and personal information is shared

00:10:10.560 on the internet.

00:10:11.360 When I was hosted by the Correspondents Association, of which almost all of you are members of,

00:10:16.340 you brought a comedian up to attack my appearance and call me a traitor to my own gender. 0.97

00:10:21.180 In fact, as I know, um, I'm, as far as I know, I'm the first press secretary in the

00:10:25.920 history of the United States that's required secret service protection.

00:10:29.120 The media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone

00:10:34.580 in this administration.

00:10:36.080 And certainly we have a role to play, but the media has a role to play for the discourse

00:10:39.780 in this country as well.

00:10:41.600 Preach, preach Sarah. 0.89

00:10:43.380 Yeah, baby.

00:10:44.500 So Ron Burgundy, Jim Acosta leans in there and he says, listen, you, uh, we have freedom

00:10:50.600 of the press in this country.

00:10:52.380 You need to respect the press.

00:10:53.540 You need to respect the freedom of the press.

00:10:55.780 And that's why you need to tell all the American citizens to shut up.

00:10:58.420 Why won't you? 0.85

00:10:59.160 Why won't you tell them to shut up?

00:11:00.360 They're saying mean things about me, Sarah.

00:11:02.020 Stop them.

00:11:02.560 And Sarah Sanders is saying like, well, that sounds like a you problem, Jim Acosta.

00:11:05.940 That certainly doesn't sound like a me problem.

00:11:07.960 He says, no, say it, say it.

00:11:09.280 And I love the idea of this, by the way, that Jim Acosta, you know, just a guy built in

00:11:14.560 a lab for CNN.

00:11:15.720 He's there.

00:11:16.260 He's saying, hey, listen, lady, say what exactly what I want you to say.

00:11:19.540 And she says, no, I'm not going to do it.

00:11:21.080 And then the left is outraged because a woman wouldn't say what Jim Acosta told her to say.

00:11:25.360 And she's exactly right.

00:11:26.800 By the way, she has been pilloried.

00:11:28.420 She has been attacked.

00:11:30.080 The she's the first press secretary in history to require a Secret Service protection. 1.00

00:11:35.000 And she says, no, we're not going to have that.

00:11:37.020 We're going to let you, Jim.

00:11:38.660 First of all, it's incredible that they still call on Jim Acosta.

00:11:41.480 I love that they do, because I think every time Jim Acosta speaks, Trump's poll numbers

00:11:44.900 go up three percent.

00:11:45.780 But they call on Jim Acosta.

00:11:48.600 They don't ban CNN.

00:11:49.740 They don't censor CNN.

00:11:51.340 And then what she's saying is not only do you get to speak, Jim, but your critics get

00:11:57.340 to speak, too.

00:11:58.300 That's how this works.

00:11:59.280 That's how this freedom is going to work.

00:12:01.280 And to hear the media whine and moan, it's as though they've never been attacked before.

00:12:06.020 They've never, no, this is unprecedented.

00:12:08.340 No, no, no.

00:12:08.580 Maybe Jim Acosta hasn't been attacked.

00:12:10.160 But what about Fox News?

00:12:11.140 Here's a clip from 10 years ago.

00:12:12.880 I think it was 2008 of a mob swarming Fox News.

00:12:16.120 Check it out.

00:12:17.240 Fox News!

00:12:18.160 Fox News!

00:12:19.240 That's your mess.

00:12:20.180 Fox News!

00:12:21.000 Fox News! 1.00

00:12:22.300 That's the f***ing fucking fucking black gun! 1.00

00:12:24.300 Fox News! 1.00

00:12:25.420 Fox News!

00:12:26.840 Fox News!

00:12:28.060 Fox News!

00:12:29.420 Fox News!

00:12:30.840 Fox News!

00:12:32.140 Fox News!

00:12:33.700 Fox News!

00:12:35.100 Fox News!

00:12:36.860 Fox News! 1.00

00:12:37.780 Get the f*** out of here! 1.00

00:12:39.280 Get the f*** out of here! 0.99

00:12:41.140 I'm sorry if that sounded like a fire alarm to you. 0.98

00:12:46.080 Because they have to bleep out every second and a half, every millisecond.

00:12:50.320 They've got a beep, beep.

00:12:51.580 Yeah, swarming them.

00:12:52.900 You know, Che Guevara t-shirts on.

00:12:55.680 You know, saying no borders, no this, no that.

00:12:58.080 And they're swarming.

00:12:58.520 They're saying F Fox News, F Fox News.

00:13:00.340 That's a lot worse than Jim Acosta's ever gotten.

00:13:02.780 That's a lot worse.

00:13:03.420 And you didn't really hear people complaining about it then, did you?

00:13:06.100 But freedom works.

00:13:07.080 Freedom works.

00:13:07.480 And the left is really nervous about this.

00:13:09.000 You've got, finally, this honest debate.

00:13:12.620 We were talking about the honesty right now of the midterm elections.

00:13:15.300 You have Democrats who are coming out and honestly saying,

00:13:18.860 yeah, we're socialists.

00:13:20.020 We want socialism.

00:13:21.160 We don't like freedom.

00:13:22.020 We want socialism.

00:13:23.160 Then you've got a Republican, a conservative administration that's saying,

00:13:26.220 have freedom.

00:13:27.920 Have it.

00:13:28.420 We're going to unshackle the economy.

00:13:29.780 You get economic freedom.

00:13:30.780 We're going to unshackle political discourse.

00:13:33.100 You're going to have political speech.

00:13:34.420 You're going to have freedom of speech.

00:13:36.620 Duke it out.

00:13:37.640 Do you want freedom or do you want slavery?

00:13:39.160 That's the question that Owen Benjamin has dropped by the studio to answer.

00:13:44.440 Owen, what's up?

00:13:45.060 You've been hiding quietly there since we've been doing that entire segment.

00:13:48.860 I've just been sitting on a pun the whole time.

00:13:51.940 Jim Acosted.

00:13:54.860 So that's what I got.

00:13:56.200 Am I right?

00:13:57.000 Yeah.

00:13:57.460 Owen Benjamin, ladies and gentlemen.

00:13:58.720 We'll see you next.

00:13:59.440 Why didn't I have you write the title for yesterday's episode about Jim Acosted?

00:14:04.140 I just thought of it now.

00:14:05.440 Because when I'm told to be quiet for a bit, I do a lot of really good thinking and puns.

00:14:09.880 This is why you make the big bucks and I'm sitting here in a broom closet.

00:14:13.020 Yeah, this is why I look like a mime.

00:14:16.220 I just got off a plane and I'm like, I look like a mime. 0.91

00:14:19.340 I'm here.

00:14:20.140 That's what you were doing, sitting silently.

00:14:22.100 Welcome.

00:14:22.660 I do the verbal mime where I'm like, I'm in a box.

00:14:25.920 In case you don't realize it, this is a box. 0.99

00:14:29.960 This sucks. 0.99

00:14:30.900 I am a mime. 0.99

00:14:31.680 Don't forget to tip me.

00:14:33.460 Hey, look, it's a rope.

00:14:34.360 It's not a chain.

00:14:37.500 So you're in town.

00:14:39.760 You just came here to mime and hang out.

00:14:41.720 What are you doing in town?

00:14:42.380 It's a good mime.

00:14:43.380 Well, I was going to go to Prager's birthday party and I just did that Prager U vid.

00:14:47.700 So I just stopped by Corolla's place and then you and then just hanging out.

00:14:51.620 That Prager U video was fantastic.

00:14:53.620 Thank you.

00:14:53.980 For those who haven't seen it, maybe we'll have to add in a video of this.

00:14:57.180 It's you talking about the death of comedy.

00:15:00.020 You're talking about what's happened to comedy.

00:15:02.020 And so you shot the video a while ago.

00:15:04.380 And then in the meantime, between you shooting the video and now, Netflix came out with the

00:15:08.520 Nanette anti-comedy comedy special.

00:15:12.460 I want to do an anti-plumbing plumber. 0.90

00:15:15.380 Where it's like, you know, I'm here to fix this pipe because human excrement is spraying 0.84

00:15:19.520 everywhere. 0.99

00:15:19.920 But I'm just, I was raped once. 1.00

00:15:22.720 So I'm going to go home and just, you're going to drown. 1.00

00:15:25.180 Like no, like no other job that could even possibly be.

00:15:29.300 It's unbelievable.

00:15:30.080 You go out and you say, I am, I thank you for paying money, everybody.

00:15:33.520 I am explicitly going to do the opposite of my job.

00:15:36.160 Right.

00:15:36.380 And for those of you thinking that I just brought up the rape thing to be a weirdo, that's 0.89

00:15:40.240 what she said.

00:15:40.920 So I was like referencing what she was like, trying to reference these horribly dark things

00:15:45.700 and then why, that's why she will not do comedy as she's being paid to do comedy. 1.00

00:15:50.220 Well, I will say you did have to clarify that because not a soul on earth has watched that

00:15:53.860 comedy special.

00:15:54.600 No.

00:15:54.720 That anti-comedy comedy special.

00:15:55.640 Well, except for their friends sending the trailer being like, what is this?

00:15:59.940 Wow.

00:16:00.260 Wow.

00:16:00.760 Yeah.

00:16:01.420 That, you know, it's true.

00:16:02.160 It would be like Jim Acosta getting on TV and spreading real news.

00:16:06.100 You can't do that.

00:16:06.720 That's not his job. 0.98

00:16:07.300 No, his job is to be the irrational, he has to act like a schizophrenic donkey all the 0.99

00:16:11.620 time. 1.00

00:16:12.500 Just hee-hawing and kicking and acting just ridiculous. 0.89

00:16:15.200 So this topic that I've been thinking about all week is freedom works. 0.84

00:16:19.400 Freedom is working.

00:16:20.920 It's working politically.

00:16:21.800 It's working economically.

00:16:22.820 This ties into your video, right?

00:16:24.500 This ties into like this oppressive, don't laugh, nothing's funny, don't, there's that

00:16:31.040 culture.

00:16:31.740 And then there's the culture of breathe the sweet air of freedom, have a laugh, have a chuckle.

00:16:36.680 Yeah, it's about consent.

00:16:38.620 You know, it's like, that's why it's so rapy on the left, you know?

00:16:41.380 Wait, how's it about consent?

00:16:43.340 Free markets.

00:16:44.500 It's consent.

00:16:45.160 It's like, I want to work with you, you want to work with me, let's make both of our lives

00:16:48.640 better, that consensual relationship.

00:16:50.680 And then you have socialism, which is at the end of a gun, I will establish the price of

00:16:56.260 bread without any factors.

00:16:57.600 Like, there really is an element of force versus consent, and that seems to permeate people's

00:17:02.200 entire lives.

00:17:02.960 The left, I mean, we've seen this now, all these stories come out of these, like, the

00:17:06.540 feminist good guys, the soy boy feminist guys, they are by far the creepy ones with 0.96

00:17:12.560 girls, they, like, follow them around. 0.99

00:17:14.720 And Harvey Weinstein, obviously, the Me Too movement.

00:17:17.220 Maybe there's something to this theory.

00:17:19.080 It's the coercion of the left that makes them feel entitled to take whatever they want.

00:17:22.840 Right, because what they're doing doesn't actually help women. 0.99

00:17:25.900 In fact, it's horrifying.

00:17:27.220 Where it's like, you know what being a woman is? 0.72

00:17:28.960 Lots of abortions, you know, work 90-hour weeks, never get married, see you guys in 0.95

00:17:33.280 50 years.

00:17:34.320 Like, that's, that's, it's someone who actually loves a woman, and, you know, we just had

00:17:39.300 our second child.

00:17:40.080 Yeah, congratulations.

00:17:40.980 You just had a kid.

00:17:41.800 The last thing I would do is establish a fake wage gap.

00:17:45.920 She, she, she has her master's in engineering.

00:17:47.680 My wife's a brilliant woman who wanted to stay home and be a mom and, and just push her into 1.00

00:17:52.080 the salt mines of, you know, and then just, and, and say, like, abortions and power men

00:17:56.920 and all this stuff, and then secretly, they're just up to no good, these guys.

00:18:00.780 Yeah, yeah, that's absolutely right.

00:18:02.240 That element of coercion.

00:18:03.860 Where do you see it, though?

00:18:05.020 I mean, because I'm interested in it from a cultural perspective and a political perspective.

00:18:09.140 So, the midterm elections right now are being, they're pretty honest.

00:18:12.680 Do we want to keep Trump?

00:18:13.940 Do we want to impeach Trump?

00:18:15.220 Do we want freedom?

00:18:16.340 Do we want socialism?

00:18:17.520 You've got these socialist candidates.

00:18:19.100 Where is it heading culturally?

00:18:20.360 Are we going to get more nanettes? 1.00

00:18:22.580 Are we going to get more anti-comedy?

00:18:25.240 I think there's going to be a lot of division, but I think there's more conservatism happening

00:18:30.120 with young people, but there is that millennial generation that just has all this dead and 0.95

00:18:34.820 no purpose, and they really, the problem I see is that the, so the, the evilness of socialism,

00:18:40.880 that whisper, like, I'll take care of your debt.

00:18:42.860 Yeah.

00:18:43.120 You know, they're like, really?

00:18:44.800 Because they're so, like, they can't default on it.

00:18:47.660 They were, my parents are professors, and they warned me about this a long time ago,

00:18:50.700 where they're like, this is going bad.

00:18:53.180 You know, the devaluing of the, of the, the, the college education, where they're just letting

00:18:58.600 in anybody, anyone can get along.

00:19:00.000 Oh, yeah.

00:19:00.460 You can graduate knowing it, nothing.

00:19:02.340 Nothing.

00:19:03.060 Yeah.

00:19:03.240 And my parents both taught things, like, actual things, not this, like, underwater lesbian ballet.

00:19:08.680 They, they didn't teach that?

00:19:10.080 Oh, they're clearly, they.

00:19:11.120 Well, my dad has his PhD on that.

00:19:12.640 That's one of his PhDs.

00:19:13.660 Yeah, good.

00:19:14.380 No, but they're just giving people nonsense.

00:19:16.660 They're actually, I read somewhere that if you study economics right now in college,

00:19:20.440 you leave knowing less.

00:19:22.100 Like, for real, because your basic thoughts are, are better than this Marxist nonsense.

00:19:27.080 Than what it's being replaced with.

00:19:28.600 Yeah.

00:19:28.960 And it's weaponized empathy, too, where it's like, I see the trick.

00:19:31.960 I see, like, don't you love poor people?

00:19:33.560 It's like, but socialism isn't about supporting the poor.

00:19:36.080 It's about destroying the rich.

00:19:37.320 It's an envy-based evil ideology.

00:19:39.560 And it's, once you see it, you're like, eh.

00:19:42.540 Well, you, you had that great video that came out, The Last Bernie Bro.

00:19:46.280 Oh, yeah.

00:19:46.780 Where, we'll have to put a link to it, because it's like, it's like a four-minute video,

00:19:49.740 right?

00:19:49.860 It's a pretty long video.

00:19:50.600 Yeah.

00:19:51.080 And, and The Last Bernie Bro, spoiler alert, is, is living in Venezuela.

00:19:55.980 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:56.460 He's like, on this mission.

00:19:57.940 He's like, I brought my, you know, my machete.

00:20:00.220 Made sure he pronounced it the way that, and then, you know, he's got Bumbles, his Frisbee,

00:20:04.240 and two Laquazes, and his vape pen.

00:20:06.420 He's like, I'm going to go where the utopia is.

00:20:08.240 And, of course, he goes to Venezuela, and my friend, who's playing the guard, is not

00:20:12.420 even looking that direction.

00:20:13.760 It's only to keep people in Venezuela. 1.00

00:20:15.500 That's right.

00:20:16.020 And he's, and he just, you know, spoiler alert, it's only four minutes long, but he steals

00:20:19.020 my passport, and I just have to stay in Venezuela.

00:20:22.280 Yeah.

00:20:22.420 Because it's this, it's this extended childhood.

00:20:24.700 There's no, you know, meritocracy is scary if you have no skills, and you're raised with

00:20:29.440 no values.

00:20:30.260 Of course.

00:20:30.760 And that's such an interesting point there in the video.

00:20:32.740 Like, it tells you a lot about the country, to go down to the border and see which way the guns

00:20:37.480 are pointing.

00:20:37.920 Oh, yeah.

00:20:38.580 Which way are they aimed?

00:20:39.180 No, because me and my buddy were talking about that.

00:20:40.740 We're like, there is no socialist country in history where people are trying to sneak

00:20:43.500 in, ever.

00:20:44.180 Right.

00:20:44.580 That's right.

00:20:44.900 There's always rafts coming out of Cuba.

00:20:46.580 Nobody in Miami is like, I'm going to float on a tire and get to Cuba.

00:20:50.540 That's never, ever happened, so why would we want that?

00:20:52.900 Like, North Korea, no one's running in.

00:20:54.740 That's right.

00:20:55.260 That's exactly, all the stan countries. 0.93

00:20:56.600 No one's trying to go into it.

00:20:57.380 No, the stans are not good dudes.

00:20:59.160 No, you know.

00:20:59.960 Stans, well, yeah, because I'm actually.

00:21:02.300 So he's got to track those guys down.

00:21:03.820 Afghanistan, Pakistan.

00:21:05.280 Dude, Stanley, man.

00:21:06.560 Stanley is not a good dude.

00:21:07.920 I'm watching Handmaid's Tale, and I thought I would hate it.

00:21:12.020 I thought it was going to be anti-conservant propaganda.

00:21:14.480 It's great.

00:21:15.200 Dude, it's awesome.

00:21:16.220 It's about Islam, though.

00:21:18.280 Like, I'm dead serious.

00:21:19.120 I'm watching this thing, and I'm like, this is accurate Islam stuff. 0.98

00:21:22.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:23.100 Like, even general mutilation is in it, covering the faces, eight wives. 0.90

00:21:27.600 It's literally, like, I'm watching this.

00:21:29.200 I'm like, how is this spun to be anti-Christian?

00:21:31.100 By the way, historians, when you're looking back to figure out when the moment was that we

00:21:36.260 all started to get jihad-ed.

00:21:38.360 It was this moment when Owen brought it up on the show.

00:21:41.520 This was the beginning of us at Daily Wire getting jihad-ed.

00:21:44.720 So thank you very much.

00:21:46.000 I appreciate that.

00:21:47.000 You got to see my artwork of Muhammad and various horses.

00:21:49.380 No, it's, I don't, yeah, it's nonsense.

00:21:55.260 It is.

00:21:55.720 No, I actually, I agree with you. 0.99

00:21:57.240 I've enjoyed watching Handmaid's Tale because it is just trash. 0.99

00:22:00.900 I mean, it's like a trashy show. 0.99

00:22:02.480 Yeah.

00:22:02.720 But you look at it, the people on the left earnestly believe that that is where the United

00:22:08.620 States under Donald Trump is headed.

00:22:10.220 But I think it's like a psychosis because they don't see that they're almost accurately

00:22:13.860 picturing socialism and some of these caliphates and stuff.

00:22:17.940 Like, it's not at all what the right wants.

00:22:21.540 Of course.

00:22:21.860 Like, it's all coercion.

00:22:23.380 It's all, there's no free markets in the Handmaid's Tale.

00:22:27.240 Like, you know, and that's the irony about this whole thing is they say what they're,

00:22:32.560 you know, like clearly Hillary Clinton had something going on with Russia because this

00:22:35.300 whole nonsense is coming from some weird projection. 0.96

00:22:38.320 It's like the closet gay guy with like eight Z-28s, you know, it's like, dude, why don't 1.00

00:22:43.320 you go camping with a dude? 0.99

00:22:45.220 Gay guy. 0.96

00:22:45.720 You were like, oh. 0.95

00:22:46.380 What are you, what are you, gay? 0.99

00:22:47.560 You don't want to go sleep with a man? 1.00

00:22:49.540 What are you?

00:22:49.940 I know.

00:22:50.380 Then you're like, why are you going so far?

00:22:52.360 And then the left, everything they're like going so far with, you're like, that's you.

00:22:56.160 Yeah, absolutely.

00:22:57.380 I mean, you even see when Jim Acosta, when Ron Burgundy is yelling at Sarah Sanders, he's

00:23:02.200 saying their premise is that the Trump administration is authoritarian.

00:23:05.540 And all Jim Acosta is saying is, tell people not to do anything.

00:23:09.040 Tell people not to talk.

00:23:10.060 Tell people not to criticize me.

00:23:11.380 He's like, we don't do that.

00:23:12.460 That's what you do. 0.78

00:23:14.040 You tell people to shut up.

00:23:15.540 We don't tell people to shut up.

00:23:15.980 Of course.

00:23:16.440 And of course, the irony is if it really was what they described, they'd all be dead

00:23:19.920 and they would never be able to say it.

00:23:21.220 Right.

00:23:21.980 Like the one way you know for a fact the media isn't actually being attacked in America

00:23:26.300 and this is not a fascist government is because you can hear them talk about that.

00:23:30.160 Right.

00:23:30.700 Right.

00:23:31.660 Incessantly.

00:23:32.020 Oh, and it's this like comfort with cognitive dissonance.

00:23:34.700 It's like Trump is Hitler, give him your guns, like all this stuff, you know, submit to

00:23:38.200 tolerance, like these things that like any child could see, the comfort in it has to come

00:23:44.120 from postmodernism where it's like there is no truth in the world because if not, how

00:23:48.520 do you function that way?

00:23:50.000 Yeah.

00:23:50.240 Like up, down, like up is down, down is up.

00:23:52.480 It just.

00:23:52.860 This is my question with the millennials and I honestly don't know which way it's going

00:23:56.760 to go.

00:23:57.220 The signs don't seem good.

00:23:58.900 You know, more than half of millennials identify as socialist.

00:24:01.740 They skew democrat, all these things.

00:24:05.100 But this is basically the first time in their lives, in their politically conscious lives,

00:24:09.320 that they've seen prosperity.

00:24:11.320 Yeah.

00:24:11.500 They're seeing right.

00:24:12.520 They're seeing freedom.

00:24:13.780 Their rhetoric sounds very pro-freedom.

00:24:15.760 Is there any way, do you think, that we can get them back or are they all just going to

00:24:19.060 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:19.660 We can totally get them back.

00:24:20.800 Do you think?

00:24:21.020 A lot of it is cultural too.

00:24:22.120 I think a lot of young men don't have any strong male role models.

00:24:25.020 That's why they're drawn to people like you and Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.

00:24:28.900 Because we're so masculine, you know.

00:24:30.320 We're just, we're so like Conan the Barbarian, don't you think?

00:24:33.800 We were talking before about how you were like the most manly guy at Yale at some point.

00:24:38.260 Yeah, that's right.

00:24:38.940 Well, it's only because like I would wear Oxford shirts every so often.

00:24:42.800 You know, I wasn't wearing a dress all day long.

00:24:44.840 Right.

00:24:45.180 You know, it's true.

00:24:45.960 They're like, he's not wearing mascara.

00:24:47.180 He must be a lumberjack.

00:24:48.540 Yeah.

00:24:50.020 It's true.

00:24:50.600 You think like, guys, I have never thrown a football in my life.

00:24:53.580 That's so funny.

00:24:54.580 That's right.

00:24:55.100 But there is a sense of that in the culture.

00:24:57.640 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. 0.99

00:24:59.880 I'm doing a speech for Yaf in the fall, which is how to be a man when you look like a Maddow.

00:25:03.720 And they're just very simple things that you can do.

00:25:06.320 But that's a very, that's a quality you just did that people want, where you can mock yourself.

00:25:10.780 Yeah, right.

00:25:11.420 Well, that's the other thing.

00:25:12.660 They're so precious. 1.00

00:25:14.520 The millennials, they're so shocked when you, I don't know, when I interact with guys, I'm a jerk, you know. 1.00

00:25:21.040 Yeah. 0.99

00:25:21.220 You kind of make fun of each other.

00:25:22.420 And you make fun of your own weaknesses or your own things that, like, I was laughing out loud when Shapiro was making fun of how he does ads.

00:25:30.420 Yeah.

00:25:31.060 It's like, that's so male.

00:25:32.580 That's so, like, normal male behavior where I would make fun of my size, like I'm an ogre.

00:25:36.340 We're all, you know, like, and sometimes people don't get that and they want it so bad again because they're like, that relieves our pressure.

00:25:44.760 That's what my PragerU video is about.

00:25:46.100 That's right.

00:25:46.600 Where it's like this pressure is building where no one can just mock each other.

00:25:50.320 Yeah.

00:25:50.600 And then it just explodes.

00:25:52.280 And I think that there is no mockery on the left.

00:25:54.700 It's all, because it's fundamentally such a lie that they can't ever be in their own skin anymore.

00:26:00.780 They can't just be free and criticize each other.

00:26:02.860 Like, me and you could have an argument over policy and our friendship wouldn't be affected at all.

00:26:06.560 In the least.

00:26:07.380 Yeah.

00:26:07.520 That's exactly right.

00:26:08.260 Yeah.

00:26:08.400 But for the left, when you attack their political opinions, they actually say this.

00:26:12.480 They say, you're erasing me.

00:26:14.240 You're erasing my identity.

00:26:16.220 You're invalidating me.

00:26:17.540 Like, you're really.

00:26:18.420 It's like, sometimes I want to be like, that dude's never seen a dead guy.

00:26:22.120 Like, I'll show you an erased person.

00:26:24.340 It's horrifying.

00:26:25.740 You know, it's kind of like, it's these people are almost doing live action role play with stuff they don't understand.

00:26:30.880 You know, one time someone was saying words are violence and I have two kids now.

00:26:35.460 I don't want to go to jail or anything, but I want to just, just, just, just go like this and be like, which one do you want?

00:26:40.880 You want a word? 0.97

00:26:41.680 Or do you want me to seriously knock your face off your body? 1.00

00:26:44.620 Do you want to, do you want to see how words are not violence?

00:26:46.680 And this is how I know that they don't have any sense of stakes because I'm a giant and I'm, you know, there's no fear sometimes in these people.

00:26:53.900 Yeah.

00:26:54.320 They're just like, you're the worst. 1.00

00:26:56.480 You're white. 0.99

00:26:57.200 You're a man. 0.94

00:26:58.020 Like, words are violence.

00:26:59.020 And I'm like, at no point in my life would I ever, that'd be like me looking at an eight foot man.

00:27:04.080 Yeah.

00:27:04.460 Yeah.

00:27:04.700 Like on a, like, I could eat you.

00:27:06.820 I know.

00:27:07.100 I literally would be like, do you need help?

00:27:08.780 Do you want me to rub your feet?

00:27:10.100 You know, it's like, how do you not have that fear of just violence?

00:27:13.340 Yes.

00:27:13.940 And cause I'm very anti-violence, but it's because, you know, I tell that to people.

00:27:17.900 So I'm like, dude, don't forget Sermon on the Mount or you'll get Leviticus again.

00:27:21.740 You know what I mean?

00:27:22.380 Like those are like, that base is still there.

00:27:25.100 That's right.

00:27:25.580 Like we've expanded it to this freedom and the lack of force, you know?

00:27:30.080 Yeah.

00:27:30.480 But you can go right back to that if people start forgetting about the work it took to

00:27:35.380 get these freedoms.

00:27:35.960 That's right.

00:27:36.400 I remember in Exodus, it says, thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 0.99

00:27:39.380 Perhaps, you know, we've got to go back to some of this more fundamental understanding.

00:27:43.540 I don't know that, uh, that is so right.

00:27:46.560 And the millennials, they're so afraid of, um, or they're, they're so coddled rather 0.99

00:27:51.140 that they, they don't have that sense of reality.

00:27:53.880 You'll talk to them and you'll just think like, have you never rubbed up against reality

00:27:58.320 for even one second?

00:27:59.720 Never once.

00:28:00.460 No.

00:28:00.800 They're atrophy.

00:28:01.660 It's after, it's like muscle atrophy.

00:28:02.960 It's like when you have a cast and then your wrist looks weird.

00:28:05.100 Yeah.

00:28:05.660 It's like, um, and it, it's not like there's, I remember where a concept of like spoiled.

00:28:11.140 It's not like they, they, they got everything taken from them with this.

00:28:14.540 It's not like there's no jealousy there because they now can't function.

00:28:19.080 They like have no ability of like functioning in the world.

00:28:21.740 And, and I think it's, you know, a bad parenting.

00:28:25.380 I can't put it all on them.

00:28:26.640 It's like their parents must, it's like fight club.

00:28:28.520 It's like that absentee father, the absentee God that like no one cared about me.

00:28:33.180 They just sent me out.

00:28:34.100 And then someone's always watching me.

00:28:35.760 Yeah, that's right.

00:28:36.380 That's right.

00:28:37.020 And there is like, I've noticed this with people, people who have actually

00:28:40.920 suffered in life, they go one of two ways.

00:28:44.260 Either they like go to jail or they are the most joyful people on earth.

00:28:48.160 Yeah.

00:28:48.380 I had that North Korean defector, Ji Song Ho came in here.

00:28:51.520 This guy, I don't know that I'll ever meet someone who has suffered.

00:28:54.920 Like I saw him as I was going into North Korea.

00:28:57.040 Did you?

00:28:57.820 Yeah.

00:28:58.420 Did you?

00:28:58.860 You know, where are you going?

00:29:00.040 It's utopia.

00:29:01.140 Yeah.

00:29:01.480 Socialist Democrats.

00:29:02.400 Why would you want to leave?

00:29:03.620 Why would you ever want to leave this utopia?

00:29:05.320 No, I saw him crawling out of the, as I was crawling in.

00:29:07.900 I was like, why are you leaving?

00:29:09.140 What's going on, dude?

00:29:10.200 Yeah.

00:29:10.440 Don't you want freedom?

00:29:11.660 Yeah.

00:29:12.320 Don't you want safety?

00:29:14.300 Bread lines.

00:29:14.700 Yeah.

00:29:15.080 Don't you?

00:29:15.540 So what happened?

00:29:16.460 So I talked to him and I noticed, I thought like, this is the most joyful person I've ever

00:29:20.940 met.

00:29:21.460 So now whenever like, you know, I don't know, I stub my toe on my chair, I'll say, ah,

00:29:26.120 my toe, you know.

00:29:27.300 And my wife, she'll say like, oh yeah, should I call Ji Song Ho?

00:29:30.720 Should I let him know?

00:29:31.700 Yeah.

00:29:32.140 I'll get a note, you know.

00:29:33.480 Like humans adjust.

00:29:35.440 Yeah, that's right.

00:29:36.420 Come on.

00:29:36.800 There's a stasis here.

00:29:37.500 But when I see these millennial types whining because like, they can't just be professional 0.79

00:29:43.380 poets.

00:29:44.220 Yeah.

00:29:44.360 They might have to like, get a job too.

00:29:46.440 I just think like, man, you got to talk to Ji Song Ho, man.

00:29:49.800 You got to talk to Ho.

00:29:50.660 I mean, you've never.

00:29:51.900 Because it's like, yeah, the inability of feeling joy.

00:29:54.600 That's the thing is even if they did become a famous rapper or something, they still would

00:29:58.500 never be happy.

00:29:59.280 They'd just be crying on a yacht.

00:30:00.780 Yeah. 1.00

00:30:01.520 It's like, this yacht is dumb. 1.00

00:30:02.900 It's like the same nightmare. 1.00

00:30:04.060 Whose crystal is flat.

00:30:05.300 Yeah.

00:30:05.940 Same nightmare, Sheetz with a higher thread count.

00:30:08.400 That's right.

00:30:08.680 Yeah.

00:30:09.280 Yeah.

00:30:09.620 That is it.

00:30:10.280 I mean, I just, like looking around, this is why I'm very into owning the libs.

00:30:13.600 I kind of, I disagree respectfully with our ambassador to the UN on this.

00:30:17.360 Owning the libs is, it's great because it's, it's so attractive.

00:30:22.040 It's, there's such a joy to it.

00:30:23.420 There's an exuberance.

00:30:24.400 Yeah.

00:30:24.600 And you compare that joy to this relentless, tedious, self-serious leftism.

00:30:32.100 How, why would you ever pick that?

00:30:33.440 Got to own the libs.

00:30:34.180 I'm not advocating killing the libs.

00:30:35.560 Yeah.

00:30:35.860 I want to just possess them.

00:30:37.000 That's what I always do without, without vegans.

00:30:39.040 Like, I'm always like, I wouldn't eat a person.

00:30:41.320 You know, you just try to like go so far that they're like, what?

00:30:44.440 Look, I'm a, look, I have compassion.

00:30:46.560 I'm a moderate.

00:30:47.180 Yeah.

00:30:47.420 I would never eat a human being.

00:30:48.680 I don't think.

00:30:49.360 Yeah.

00:30:49.640 I mean, I've never been to the Andes, but I don't know what happens.

00:30:53.840 Yeah.

00:30:54.020 It's like, no, like make it, I think leftism is such a destructive force that I, I don't

00:30:59.160 know why people are like saying that it's, I don't know.

00:31:03.200 I'm like, no, you got to take it out any way you can.

00:31:04.960 Get it out.

00:31:05.680 Just get it.

00:31:06.120 Cause it's like, and be funny with it.

00:31:07.980 I mean, if the best comedy they can do, if the comedy that the left has, which gets

00:31:12.680 Netflix hour long specials is not comedy, then like make them laugh, man.

00:31:18.440 People just want to laugh.

00:31:19.440 They want to smile.

00:31:20.440 They want to have a little levity, you know?

00:31:22.060 Yeah.

00:31:22.200 I thought my career was done because of like certain opinions I had and it's totally not.

00:31:26.800 Opinions like we shouldn't castrate children.

00:31:29.040 Literally.

00:31:29.440 For instance.

00:31:29.980 Yeah.

00:31:30.220 That, that opinion got you fired from everything.

00:31:32.200 Races all deserve jokes about them.

00:31:34.260 Yes.

00:31:34.800 Oh, that's.

00:31:35.640 Oh, there's nothing more condescending. 0.95

00:31:37.160 Like there'd be jokes I'd write with like a bunch of black dudes I'm on the road with 1.00

00:31:40.980 and some like just white girl and like. 1.00

00:31:43.880 Always a white girl. 1.00

00:31:44.740 Always.

00:31:45.320 Always a white girl. 1.00

00:31:46.120 I know.

00:31:46.200 And they're like, excuse me, excuse me.

00:31:48.140 My neighbor's mailman's best friend is named Tyrone.

00:31:50.840 And you're like, what are you talking about?

00:31:52.980 Like it's so infuriating.

00:31:54.740 Cory Booker's imaginary friend T-Bone would be very offended by that joke.

00:31:58.380 Yeah. 0.92

00:31:58.760 They have like invisible black people around them. 1.00

00:32:00.720 They're like, I got this one T-Bone. 0.89

00:32:02.800 And you're like, if you actually see human beings as individuals.

00:32:06.880 Yeah.

00:32:07.200 You never know when the pothole is coming because you don't see people as demographics.

00:32:11.240 That's right.

00:32:11.520 You know what?

00:32:11.820 You're mistaken.

00:32:12.240 I'm more into heightism.

00:32:13.100 Like I, if someone's under six, five, I don't even look them in the eye. 0.99

00:32:15.840 You can't.

00:32:16.740 How would you?

00:32:17.420 No, but I honestly, I think obviously I'm not a heightist, but like I think height is

00:32:22.400 way more divisive than race as far as what your day is like.

00:32:25.500 Totally.

00:32:25.840 There actually is height privilege.

00:32:27.060 That is true.

00:32:27.820 There are all these studies.

00:32:28.680 Yeah, but then it goes farther.

00:32:30.040 Like I'm almost 6'8".

00:32:31.360 Yeah, you're on the back end of that privilege.

00:32:33.120 I can't be on a roller coaster.

00:32:35.260 No one in a nursing home is over 5'10".

00:32:37.660 You know, like I'm the first one arrested.

00:32:40.580 You know, like there's all kinds of stuff.

00:32:42.380 You know, I'm like a Great Dane.

00:32:43.860 Like hips go out at like 40. 0.99

00:32:45.680 You know your mistake though.

00:32:47.960 When you were making jokes about all the races, if you had only made jokes about white 0.99

00:32:53.620 men, and even if you just said really vicious things about white men,

00:32:57.820 you could be on the New York Times. 1.00

00:32:58.940 No, if I endorsed Hillary Clinton, I could just like rape someone. 1.00

00:33:02.680 No, I'm dead serious. 0.99

00:33:03.580 True, it's true.

00:33:04.280 That literally is happening.

00:33:05.780 I know.

00:33:06.000 You might have had to donate.

00:33:07.080 You might have had to donate a little too.

00:33:08.680 Yeah. 0.95

00:33:08.840 Harvey Weinstein was in like openly raping people. 0.89

00:33:13.600 And they were calling him God. 0.91

00:33:16.240 That's right.

00:33:16.700 It's like what I just said seems so shocking, but people laugh.

00:33:19.700 Good people just laugh because there's so much truth in it that you're like, that's

00:33:24.380 true.

00:33:24.780 You can get away with anything.

00:33:25.820 Like I was like, and I think Louis CK is an incredible joke writer, but like I'll watch

00:33:29.680 some of his bits.

00:33:30.420 And I'm like, the way he's talking about his wife and kids, I'm like, you know, I'm like,

00:33:35.180 dude, you know, he's like my, my, my daughter's, I don't even want to say it on your show out

00:33:39.040 of respect.

00:33:39.520 And I'm like, whoa, man.

00:33:41.600 Yeah.

00:33:42.140 You know?

00:33:42.780 Yeah.

00:33:43.340 It seems to be a little, well, that's, that's like the James Gunn thing, right?

00:33:46.500 Yeah.

00:33:46.980 It's all jokes.

00:33:47.860 And you think, well, maybe, but there's some weird jokes.

00:33:51.760 I disagree with Shapiro.

00:33:52.780 And now I think he actually might've been right. 0.89

00:33:54.280 Cause the dude is such an assassin.

00:33:55.640 Like when you, when you're debating with him, you're like, whoa.

00:33:58.560 Oh yeah.

00:33:59.060 Easy Paganini.

00:33:59.780 He can sell spoiled milk to a cow.

00:34:01.360 I mean, it is.

00:34:02.140 Dude, cause I was, I was convinced that he was wrong about it.

00:34:05.120 Yeah.

00:34:05.280 And, and I, I realized he's actually right about it because for, cause he was talking

00:34:09.040 about if you know what you're getting into when you hire someone, you got to just eat

00:34:13.340 that.

00:34:13.800 That's true.

00:34:14.380 Right.

00:34:14.760 Yeah.

00:34:14.880 And so that makes sense because like,

00:34:16.720 my point was like, no, we have to have standards.

00:34:19.240 We can't go down that road of like, we're, we're becoming our enemies.

00:34:21.620 If we don't hire a known pedophile to babysit our kids, you know, it's like, no, there's

00:34:25.700 right and wrong.

00:34:26.500 And, and it's like, that's going to take a hit out of the business.

00:34:30.020 The fact that he writes these things.

00:34:31.720 Yes.

00:34:32.240 But I mean, what he's saying isn't funny.

00:34:35.900 And I know people have said that to me where they're like, your joke isn't funny.

00:34:38.700 I'm like, cause you don't understand hyperbole, irony and assumptions.

00:34:41.720 Yeah.

00:34:42.140 But yeah.

00:34:42.700 Cause lefties are known for their great sense of humor.

00:34:45.000 That's really what it's right.

00:34:45.920 Like I'll, I'll even like describe what the joke is and how it's the opposite of what

00:34:50.480 they think it is.

00:34:51.140 And they still don't get it.

00:34:52.020 Of course.

00:34:52.400 So I don't want to fall down that road and say James Gunn shouldn't do these jokes.

00:34:55.900 Well, I don't personally think he should, but he should not be around kids professionally

00:34:58.960 is all I'm saying.

00:34:59.660 Yeah.

00:35:00.060 I just love it.

00:35:00.840 It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

00:35:02.100 He was the first one to cheer when they all got fired for jokes and now it comes back

00:35:06.460 and bites him. 0.99

00:35:07.640 And, and it is great because, you know, these guys are, are dying by their own hypocrisy. 0.97

00:35:12.320 You're like living in freedom.

00:35:13.660 I mean, you're, and, and, and it's like, you just have a happier life.

00:35:18.360 Like I would get those like lefty development deals that you don't deserve and all that

00:35:22.960 stuff, but you don't enjoy it.

00:35:24.260 Again, it's almost like biblical.

00:35:25.640 It's like you get all the world and you get nothing, you know?

00:35:27.520 That's so true.

00:35:28.560 So what, uh, where are you up to?

00:35:29.720 Where can people see you?

00:35:30.560 Where can people find you?

00:35:31.520 Well, my website is a huge pianist.com.

00:35:34.380 I have three specials there, self-produced from the last year and a half.

00:35:37.180 And then, um, the PragerU video, watch it and share it.

00:35:40.000 I desperately want to beat Dave Rubin because he gets a little cocky about a 6.7 million.

00:35:45.080 Oh yeah, that's right.

00:35:46.980 Uh, and yeah, just YouTube.

00:35:48.440 And Dennis's birthday party.

00:35:49.600 Those are the places they can go.

00:35:50.700 I can't wait.

00:35:51.140 And Dennis's.com.

00:35:52.200 Yeah.

00:35:52.740 And where, so you figure, uh, James Gunn has a Twitter, ISIS has a Twitter.

00:35:56.180 Where can they find you on Twitter?

00:35:57.140 Not on Twitter.

00:35:57.880 Well, this is what, I got kicked off Twitter permanently for an, uh, a joke that if I could

00:36:02.180 say at a, at a Catholic preschool, not, not, not quite, but literally nothing.

00:36:08.640 And the more time goes on, the more people are like this joke, making fun of David Hogg.

00:36:12.860 Yeah.

00:36:13.260 Well, you know, James Gunn gets to stay on, on Twitter, but you don't.

00:36:16.860 I mean, that is like.

00:36:17.480 Dude, Farrakhan is on Twitter.

00:36:19.100 Farrakhan.

00:36:19.640 Yeah.

00:36:19.760 He like hates Shapiro.

00:36:21.380 Just for his race.

00:36:22.520 Yeah, that's true. 0.99

00:36:23.520 Dude, the left is so racist. 1.00

00:36:26.120 And it's like, these guys are on there talking about how Jews are like a disease. 0.99

00:36:30.460 I'm like, uh, what? 0.99

00:36:32.280 Yeah, but you're a huge pianist.

00:36:33.500 They're not going to let you on.

00:36:34.280 No, but I'm a, I'm a quarter Jewish, so that kicks in hard.

00:36:37.060 Oh, wow.

00:36:37.200 I'm like, excuse me?

00:36:39.720 And I didn't even find out I was Jewish until I was 20, but I always knew I was up to something.

00:36:43.380 You were like, you were the tallest.

00:36:44.440 Come on, that's a good bit.

00:36:45.320 You were.

00:36:47.140 Like, I always knew I was up.

00:36:48.900 I just think that's funny.

00:36:49.700 It's a true story, too.

00:36:50.360 I thought my grandmother was totally Jewish.

00:36:51.940 I didn't even know.

00:36:52.440 Is that, that is true.

00:36:53.320 Yeah.

00:36:53.600 You were, you were the tallest Jews in Samson. 1.00

00:36:55.800 I'm almost certain.

00:36:56.660 I know.

00:36:56.840 That's why I never cut my hair until I was recently.

00:36:59.180 Yeah.

00:37:00.120 That.

00:37:01.580 No, but Louis Farrakhan is on Twitter.

00:37:03.500 Like, that's insane.

00:37:04.780 That, that's true.

00:37:05.400 It is insane.

00:37:05.980 That's amazing. 0.99

00:37:06.420 Like, he's a genocidal, like, the way he talks about Jews is genocidal. 0.98

00:37:10.120 That's right. 0.83

00:37:10.680 But yet, I'm not allowed to be on there because I want my gun rights.

00:37:13.940 That's right.

00:37:15.760 That's right.

00:37:16.320 That's terrible.

00:37:17.120 That's all right.

00:37:17.540 Twitter's going to die anyway.

00:37:18.540 Like, Facebook and Twitter stocks are just plunging.

00:37:20.560 That's why they hate the free market, because nonsense is rewarded with a lack of money.

00:37:24.240 Yeah.

00:37:24.560 That's true.

00:37:25.060 That's absolutely right.

00:37:26.080 And, well, so I'm going to see you tomorrow.

00:37:28.160 Well, yeah.

00:37:28.460 And I want everyone to buy the leftist tears mug.

00:37:30.380 You got to.

00:37:31.020 Or, uh, Tumblr.

00:37:32.160 You got to get it.

00:37:33.180 The only way to get this, by the way, people, because I got to say goodbye to Facebook and

00:37:36.220 YouTube.

00:37:36.600 I've given you too much today.

00:37:38.260 I've, I've got to say goodbye.

00:37:39.680 Go to DailyWire.com.

00:37:39.960 But it says hot and cold.

00:37:41.020 What about lukewarm tears?

00:37:42.220 You can, you're not allowed to have it that way.

00:37:43.700 Pick a side.

00:37:44.500 Stand in the middle of the road.

00:37:45.580 Get hit by a truck.

00:37:46.580 Go to DailyWire.com.

00:37:48.100 Subscribe now.

00:37:48.800 Get the leftist tears Tumblr.

00:37:49.920 We'll be right back, unfortunately, without Owen.

00:37:52.140 Owen, thanks for being here.

00:37:52.820 Oh, dude.

00:37:53.240 I had a blast.

00:37:53.860 Cheers.

00:38:00.780 For those of you who didn't catch that, I just said goodbye to Owen and he stood up

00:38:13.000 and cracked his head on our ceiling lights.

00:38:16.560 That is, Owen is on the other side of height privilege.

00:38:19.060 He is not on the good side of height privilege.

00:38:21.480 Man, it's always good to have him here.

00:38:22.800 It's like a, like the Tasmanian devil, like it's 10 Tasmanian devils come through as he's

00:38:27.900 so funny and he's like got such a fresh perspective.

00:38:30.780 It's so good that this guy isn't being like just owned by studios.

00:38:35.700 He's on his own.

00:38:36.560 I mean, freedom works.

00:38:38.080 Now, this brings us to our final point today.

00:38:40.620 We're running a little late, so I'll try to cover it quickly.

00:38:43.440 There's another side to freedom.

00:38:44.800 When people abuse their freedom, when they use their freedom to break the laws, to hurt 1.00

00:38:48.840 other people, to violate the moral law, then we can kill them and the state can kill 1.00

00:38:54.640 them. 1.00

00:38:55.700 They can.

00:38:56.100 This has been true at all times.

00:38:58.800 It's acknowledged in the epistles.

00:39:00.900 It's acknowledged in Christianity.

00:39:03.160 It's always been the position of the Catholic Church.

00:39:05.060 And today, Pope Francis has amended certain aspects of church teaching in the Catechism

00:39:12.660 of the Catholic Church to say that the death penalty now is inadmissible.

00:39:17.860 That's his word.

00:39:19.580 The death penalty by civil governments is inadmissible.

00:39:23.180 So we'll go into what that means a little bit and some of the thoughts on the health benefits

00:39:27.380 of capital punishment.

00:39:29.040 But lefty politicians are cheering.

00:39:31.160 So fake Catholic politicians like the Cuomos, for instance.

00:39:35.040 The Cuomos, Mario Cuomo, invented this whole, I oppose abortion, but I think it should be 1.00

00:39:40.180 legal line.

00:39:41.540 Well, I'm personally opposed to abortion, but I support abortion. 0.98

00:39:45.720 And they're trying to have their cake and eat it too.

00:39:47.560 And it's absurd because abortion is intrinsically evil.

00:39:51.860 So Andy Cuomo is running with this.

00:39:53.120 Andy Cuomo, his son, the governor of New York, tweets out today, quote, the death penalty

00:39:57.200 is morally indefensible, has no place in the 21st century.

00:40:00.280 Today, in solidarity with Pontifex and in honor of my father, I will be advancing legislation

00:40:05.560 to remove the death penalty from state law once and for all.

00:40:08.520 This is the same guy, by the way, Andy Cuomo, who said that if you're not in favor of abortion,

00:40:13.940 you're not a New Yorker, you have no place in New York. 0.99

00:40:17.880 This is a radical lefty and he quotes his church when it's convenient.

00:40:22.840 So what is it with the death penalty?

00:40:25.880 Is the death penalty morally acceptable?

00:40:29.340 Well, what Pope Francis wrote today is this.

00:40:32.940 This is the new teaching of the Catholic Catechism.

00:40:35.220 The Catechism of the Catholic Church is the book of teachings of the Catholic Church.

00:40:38.640 There was a version that came out, I believe, in 1992, is it, from John Paul II, and it

00:40:44.980 formerly said that the death penalty in modern society, while not intrinsically evil, would

00:40:50.340 be practically non-existent because we have other ways of dealing with criminals.

00:40:55.120 It's now changed to recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority following

00:40:59.120 a fair trial was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and

00:41:03.520 unacceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.

00:41:07.580 Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost

00:41:12.980 even after the commission of very serious crimes.

00:41:15.560 In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed

00:41:20.780 by the state.

00:41:21.860 Lastly, more effective systems have been developed.

00:41:25.240 Consequently, the church teaches in light of the gospel that, quote,

00:41:27.860 the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity

00:41:33.160 of the person.

00:41:35.480 Hmm, hmm, hmm.

00:41:37.500 Well, I don't know.

00:41:38.360 So inadmissible.

00:41:39.160 What does inadmissible mean?

00:41:40.300 What is it really saying?

00:41:41.300 You know, because the Pope is not allowed to change doctrine.

00:41:46.040 That doesn't happen.

00:41:47.380 People mistake this frequently because people don't understand papal infallibility.

00:41:52.420 The Pope can't change doctrine of the church.

00:41:54.900 He can articulate doctrine.

00:41:56.660 He can clarify doctrine.

00:41:58.200 So inadmissible.

00:41:59.280 That's not the same as saying it's intrinsically evil.

00:42:01.160 Inadmissible means not capable of being admitted or conceded or allowed scope for or conceded

00:42:07.740 as valid.

00:42:09.560 Okay.

00:42:10.640 Tricky wording, isn't it?

00:42:14.280 Was it always inadmissible?

00:42:16.180 No.

00:42:16.660 It certainly wasn't always inadmissible.

00:42:18.400 St. Augustine writes about this.

00:42:19.620 He says,

00:42:19.840 The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions,

00:42:24.040 as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when he gives an explicit commission

00:42:29.220 to an individual for a period of time.

00:42:31.160 Thomas Aquinas says the same thing.

00:42:33.040 It is permissible to kill a criminal if this is necessary for the welfare of the whole community.

00:42:37.660 Now, look, Pope Benedict, this isn't a total break with Pope Francis.

00:42:41.460 Pope Benedict said, quote,

00:42:42.640 There may be legitimate diversity of opinion among Catholics about waging war and applying

00:42:48.200 the death penalty.

00:42:49.320 So there can be some disagreement.

00:42:50.480 It doesn't mean that now, if you're pro-death penalty, you are not Catholic or something

00:42:55.560 like that.

00:42:56.020 Certainly not.

00:42:57.120 But I would like to bring in a little bit of history before we go here on the death penalty

00:43:01.600 and the church and the health benefits of capital punishment.

00:43:05.320 In Rome, in 1817, Pope Pius VII was reigning.

00:43:09.640 Three robbers were beheaded.

00:43:11.460 They were beheaded for robbery.

00:43:12.640 Between 1814 and 1870, 369 criminals were beheaded in the papal states under the control

00:43:19.100 of the Pope.

00:43:20.280 You know, you've got to take care of those criminals. 0.84

00:43:22.380 Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who was the official papal executioner, used an axe to chop off criminals'

00:43:27.560 heads before the guillotine was brought in to be more humane. 0.77

00:43:31.140 The Pope, between 1814 and 1817, just three years, sanctioned the hanging, drawing, and quartering

00:43:37.260 of criminals 11 separate times.

00:43:39.820 Heinous crimes, particularly heinous crimes, were not treated in this way.

00:43:44.480 Instead, those criminals had their heads crushed with the mozzatello mallet.

00:43:48.600 That's a little stronger.

00:43:49.700 That doesn't seem to be quite in keeping with the modern teaching.

00:43:53.620 Agatino Bellomo, who was the last to be executed in the papal states, asked Blessed Pius IX for

00:44:00.060 a stay of execution.

00:44:01.560 Blessed Pius IX responded to him, this is the last person executed there, and said,

00:44:05.260 I cannot, and I do not want to.

00:44:08.340 And then he was executed.

00:44:11.000 The issue here is that capital punishment protects human rights.

00:44:15.860 It protects human beings, human life, and the natural right.

00:44:20.540 The natural law, rather.

00:44:22.720 So there are different kinds of punishment.

00:44:26.500 There is retributive punishment, punishment just for justice's sake.

00:44:30.860 There is deterrent punishment.

00:44:32.640 So when people are punished harshly for a crime, it discourages others from doing that.

00:44:38.120 There is therapeutic punishment.

00:44:41.720 You know, you can put someone into a rehabilitation center.

00:44:45.200 You say, oh, you know, the purpose of putting someone in prison is to rehabilitate them.

00:44:48.520 Okay, that's one of them too.

00:44:49.920 And there is medicinal punishment, medicinal capital punishment, which is that the Samuel Johnson quote,

00:44:57.400 when a man knows that he's going to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

00:45:02.840 When you know that you're going to be killed for your crime, it clarifies the world a little bit.

00:45:07.560 If the whole point of the Catholic teaching on capital punishment, excuse me, is that we want to bring people to Christ.

00:45:17.660 We want to give them a time to repent.

00:45:19.660 Well, when you're looking at that guillotine over there, it focuses your mind.

00:45:23.420 It really brings certain questions to mind.

00:45:25.700 A more modern example of this, because you can talk about all the papal states and popes chopping off people's heads and all that is very good.

00:45:33.360 But consider the Nuremberg trials.

00:45:35.220 During the Nuremberg trials of all the Nazi war criminals who slaughtered and genocided whole scores of people,

00:45:41.540 Pope Pius XII was so eager for justice that he sent his Jesuit archivist to assist the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials.

00:45:49.560 Pope Pius XII personally told the prosecutor, Robert Jackson, quote,

00:45:53.060 Not only do we approve of the trial, but we desire that the guilty be punished as quickly as possible.

00:45:59.340 One of the defining features of this pontificate is some confusion.

00:46:03.900 There seems to be a lot of confusion on matters of divorce, matters of who can receive the communion,

00:46:10.260 matters of capital punishment, matters of church teaching, evolution, where things are going.

00:46:15.560 I mean the evolution of the church, not monkeys turning into people.

00:46:19.060 There seems to be a lot of confusion, and it would be nice to have some clarity.

00:46:23.380 Because the church has had moral clarity on this issue for a very long time.

00:46:26.900 And if the confusion persists and suggests that capital punishment is intrinsic evil,

00:46:32.460 then first of all, church tradition will be changed.

00:46:36.400 The thoughts of the church will be changed.

00:46:41.480 But it's really morally unclear, because there's nothing Christian about letting the wicked rape the face of the earth, 0.89

00:46:48.840 letting the cruel rape the face of the earth. 0.90

00:46:50.360 There's nothing Christian about that. 0.50

00:46:51.620 And let's hope that that confusion doesn't persist any longer.

00:46:55.460 I told you at the top of the show, when Catholics have trouble with things that are coming out of the Vatican,

00:47:01.180 you're very respectful about it.

00:47:03.580 There was a group of clergy who formally accused Pope Francis of heresy.

00:47:09.560 But the way that you do it in the Catholic Church is, it's called a filial letter of correction for heresy.

00:47:16.800 And like, most Holy Father, we think we may have misunderstood what you were saying.

00:47:20.800 You know, very, very respectful.

00:47:22.200 So let's hope respectfully we can get some clarity on all of those matters. 0.98

00:47:25.080 And people don't forget the important medicinal effects of hanging and having your head chopped off.

00:47:29.620 In the meantime, you know, we started recording Another Kingdom.

00:47:33.660 Another Kingdom's coming up.

00:47:34.740 Get ready for, you've got to binge that first season, so you're ready for season two.

00:47:37.900 It is really, really cool.

00:47:39.680 I will tell you that.

00:47:40.540 In the meantime, I'll see you soon.

00:47:41.960 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:42.920 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:47:44.000 See you Monday.

00:47:44.400 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal.

00:47:53.240 Executive producer, Jeremy Borey.

00:47:55.320 Senior producer, Jonathan Hay.

00:47:57.160 Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover.

00:47:59.760 And our technical producer is Austin Stevens.

00:48:02.380 Edited by Jim Nickel.

00:48:03.880 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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