The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1989 - Spencer Pratt Loses LA Mayoral Bid After Shady Ballot Dump

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00:01:02.100 Republican hope Spencer Pratt goes down in LA. And as much as I hate to say I told you so,

00:01:07.340 this is one of those predictions I only got half right. The minute Spencer Pratt made a splash

00:01:12.880 and everybody started talking about how he was going to beat the Dems and flip Gomorrah by the

00:01:18.100 sea over to the GOP, I pointed out that that was not going to happen. I pointed out that the

00:01:23.680 communist Karen Bass was going to win re-election. And so far, that observation has been spot on.

00:01:29.080 But the part I got wrong was that I predicted that Pratt would beat the socialist candidate,

00:01:35.000 Nitya Rahman. And to be fair to myself, I was right about that on election night. On election

00:01:40.920 night, Spencer Pratt was beating that candidate by a lot. And then five days of mail-in ballots

00:01:47.880 and dumps from hundreds of ballot drop boxes have given the socialist just the boost she needed

00:01:55.060 to take Pratt out of the race altogether. A reminder that 2020 never really ended.

00:02:00.580 It's just been laying dormant, waiting for the opportunity to reemerge. Then the Pentagon

00:02:06.860 offends Mormons and the YouTube couple that murdered their baby because he had Down syndrome

00:02:11.220 might have made the whole thing up. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:27.900 On election day

00:04:29.500 in Los Angeles, here are

00:04:31.320 the results. It was changing a little

00:04:33.260 bit, and obviously it was a live situation.

00:04:35.160 so we don't have perfect numbers on it, 1.00

00:04:37.720 but Karen Bass had anywhere from 35 to 38% of the vote. 0.95

00:04:41.700 So she was going to win, as I predicted,

00:04:43.220 even though everyone who thinks that Twitter is real life,

00:04:46.780 totally, obviously there's a relationship

00:04:48.380 between Twitter and real life,

00:04:49.340 but everyone who thinks that Twitter

00:04:50.260 is really representative of real life,

00:04:52.060 they thought Spencer Pratt was going to win in LA.

00:04:54.020 And I told you all, as I've told you

00:04:56.160 with all of the meta-political phenomena

00:04:57.940 that occur on the right, on the left,

00:05:00.200 but that occur on social media,

00:05:01.520 I said, this is not indicative of real life.

00:05:05.160 I was right. Karen Bass had about 35% to 38% of the vote. Spencer Pratt had 28% to 30% of the 0.64

00:05:11.760 vote. Okay, so he comes in number two. And Nitya Raman, the socialist, had 20% to 23% of the vote.

00:05:18.160 That was on election day. But you know, it takes a lot of days to count all those ballots, doesn't

00:05:23.800 it? We used to say that about banana republics and totally degraded polities where they steal 1.00

00:05:32.260 elections all the time. Now we say that about our own country. What does that say about us? 1.00

00:05:36.600 So after five days of counting all those extra ballots, being dropped in by helicopters,

00:05:43.320 Karen Bass has about the same amount. Her total's gone down a little bit. She's at 34.7%.

00:05:48.580 And Nitya Rahman, the socialist, overtakes Spencer Pratt. She's got 27.1% of the vote.

00:05:55.280 and Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. About 3,000 votes. Just a nice, convenient 3,000 votes

00:06:03.720 separate the two of them. Stealing elections is nothing new, especially to the Democrats.

00:06:10.120 Maybe the most infamous example of this and consequential example of this in recent history

00:06:15.140 was the 1948 Senate election in Texas where LBJ stole the election. He stuffed a ballot box

00:06:22.760 full of ballots, put him just over the edge. This was litigated all the way up to the Supreme

00:06:27.200 Court, and the Supreme Court didn't want to interfere. So they said, well, we don't really

00:06:29.420 have jurisdiction here. They just kind of punted on the question. Robert Caro, the definitive

00:06:35.300 biographer of LBJ, basically proves that LBJ stole that election, but plenty of other people

00:06:39.980 have proven it too. But it was too late. Robert Caro is writing his books in 1991. LBJ wins the

00:06:47.560 election in 1948, then becomes vice president, then Kennedy is killed, becomes president. He's

00:06:53.920 one of the most destructive presidents we've ever had. He's out of office and dead by the time that

00:06:57.500 we can definitively prove it. We know for a fact that election was stolen. Plenty of elections

00:07:01.980 have been stolen in America. So the question is, did the Democrats steal this election too?

00:07:08.020 We don't know for certain. Trump got into this very testy interview with Kristen Welker from NBC,

00:07:13.540 very testy interview where he says, look, they're stealing the election in California.

00:07:16.200 She says, do you have proof? Do you have proof? Where's your proof?

00:07:20.960 This is the most secure election in the history of the world. It's the most secure election since

00:07:25.300 the 2020 election when we did all the same stuff. Okay, no, I don't have proof. I don't have proof

00:07:30.760 that they've stolen the election in LA. But you know what I do know? I know that they have

00:07:36.420 widespread mail-in voting, which is intrinsically less secure than in-person voting.

00:07:43.580 I know that they don't have voter ID, which means that the election is much less secure than it

00:07:49.340 needs to be. I know that they have ballot harvesting, where activists can just go around

00:07:56.220 to all sorts of communities, retirement homes, take somebody's hand, fill out the ballot,

00:08:01.640 and they can then take possession of that ballot and bring it in on behalf of the voter.

00:08:05.500 I know that LA has ballot drop boxes all over the city. Not very secure ballot drop boxes.

00:08:14.240 Just dump in whatever you want. I know that there are shenanigans in LA. I remember the 2016 0.97

00:08:19.320 election. 2016 election. I haven't told this anecdote in a minute. I go to vote. I'm one of

00:08:24.560 the only Republicans in LA. That's actually not true. There are a lot of Republicans in LA. Just

00:08:28.300 there are a lot more Democrats than there are Republicans. But I think there might be more

00:08:31.620 Republicans in LA County than just about any other county in the country, just because of how big it

00:08:35.620 is. Anyway, I go to vote in the primary in 2016. All good. Then when I go to vote in the general

00:08:42.880 election, they seem to have lost my voter information. I had to file a provisional ballot.

00:08:48.160 I said, that's pretty weird. I voted just fine in the primary. And you know that I'm a Republican.

00:08:52.360 That's weird that I can't vote formally in the general. I speak to another Republican friend of

00:08:58.920 mine. And he's in a different precinct, all different, same thing. He voted just fine in

00:09:03.580 the primary, but they didn't have his voter information for the general. He had to file

00:09:07.620 a provisional ballot. And he's a lawyer, so he actually fought that all the way to the end.

00:09:11.560 And they said, oh, it was a clerical error. How can we not conclude that there's cheating in LA?

00:09:19.140 I guess that's my question. No, I don't have proof that they stole the LA election.

00:09:22.940 And I never thought Spencer Pratt was going to win. So I'm pretty, I'm not utopian here. I'm

00:09:27.800 not idealistic. But how can we, how can you ask us to conclude that there was not cheating

00:09:35.780 when you have changed every single rule just about available to you to increase the likelihood

00:09:43.580 of cheating? And you're not concerned about that. And you're not concerned about the optics. And

00:09:47.640 you're going to double down on that. And you're going to take five days to count the ballots in

00:09:50.780 an election like we're some banana Republican Latin America. How can we not conclude that there 0.58

00:09:55.620 is cheating. At the very least, Democrats who are so concerned about trust in our sacred

00:10:02.020 institutions of democracy, the very fact that so many voters believe justifiably that there might

00:10:08.280 be cheating because you've changed all the rules to increase the likelihood of cheating,

00:10:12.440 surely that, the very perception, should impel Democrats to change the rules so that we all

00:10:19.100 have trust in our institutions, right? No, they have no interest in doing that whatsoever.

00:10:22.900 no reasonable person can conclude that there's not cheating going on in LA that's the problem

00:10:30.840 and so long as the party in charge which is now formally being run by an actual communist

00:10:36.980 Karen Bass was a formal member of a communist organization so long as that party doesn't care

00:10:43.300 at all about improving the perception and the trust in our institutions

00:10:47.220 I think the reasonable conclusion to reach is yes, of course, there's cheating.

00:10:54.800 Now, speaking of morality, it's very immoral to steal elections. Speaking of morality,

00:11:00.580 Pentagon is in a lot of hot water because the Pentagon released a new list of how they're

00:11:07.380 categorizing religions in the military. And this is not a list of the religions that are permitted

00:11:13.360 in the military. You're permitted to have any religious beliefs you want in the military.

00:11:17.220 This is not a list of who gets access to special services or anything like that.

00:11:21.800 It's just a way of classifying.

00:11:23.700 The military categorizes and classifies everything.

00:11:26.680 It's a way of classifying the religions of the members of the armed services.

00:11:32.740 And they've done a major re-hold.

00:11:35.820 We'll get to what they took out in a second.

00:11:38.360 But they're in big trouble because members of LDS, Mormons, are accusing the military of being unfair to them.

00:11:46.500 And here's why.

00:11:47.220 here are the formal religions now listed for the US military. Agnostic, Baha'i faith, Buddhism,

00:11:56.260 and then this litany of Christian flavors. So it's Christian hyphen Assemblies of God,

00:12:02.940 Christian hyphen Baptist, Christian hyphen Brethren, Catholic, Church of Christ, Church of

00:12:09.160 God, Church of the Nazarene, Episcopal Anglican, Evangelical, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran,

00:12:12.800 Methodist, non-denominational, Orthodox, other, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Quaker,

00:12:16.600 Reform, Scientist, Seventh-day Adventist. And then that's the end of the list of Christian

00:12:20.700 religions. Next one on the list, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, LDS.

00:12:28.180 So the Mormons show up not categorized as a Christian religion,

00:12:32.560 followed by Hindu, Islam, Judaism, no religion, other religions, and Sikh.

00:12:39.260 And the LDS come out and they say, why are you not listing us as Christian? And we know all of

00:12:45.840 the reasons for which LDS would not be listed as Christian. But the chief reason is that LDS does

00:12:52.480 not hold to Trinitarian theology. So the centerpiece of the Nicene Creed of all of historical

00:12:58.800 Christianity, LDS does not hold to. So you say, okay, I guess it's fair that it's not listed as

00:13:04.560 Christianity. But I have to come out here in defense of the Mormons, of the LDS, because

00:13:11.800 Because if Trinitarian theology is the criterion, the essential criterion, the crucial criterion, to use a pun, for Christianity, why are the Jehovah's Witnesses listed as Christian?

00:13:27.820 Why are the Pentecostals, at the very least the Oneness Pentecostals, who deny the Trinity, why are they listed as Christian?

00:13:35.080 Why are the Christian scientists who deny the Trinity?

00:13:37.120 Why are they listed as Christian?

00:13:38.660 why are some of the quakers quakers some many quakers believe in the trinity but some do not

00:13:44.900 and it's not an essential matter of the quaker religion so i have to say here without obviously

00:13:50.440 i'm not changing my views on christianity i'm not changing my views about the trinity or the

00:13:54.200 essential aspects of the creed but it does seem to me that the mormons are being unfairly singled

00:13:59.840 out here if you're going to say the essential criterion is is trinitarian theology fair enough 1.00

00:14:05.200 But then why did the J-dubs get a pass? 1.00

00:14:07.960 The Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian scientists. 1.00

00:14:11.760 You know, a very thoughtful guy, great follow on Twitter, Hadar Hazoni, responded when I asked this question and said, well, maybe it's because the Mormons have added scripture. 0.87

00:14:22.700 So they have a new, forget about the differing views of who Christ is and who God the Father is.

00:14:27.280 And, you know, obviously LDS differs greatly from the various historical understandings of Christianity.

00:14:35.820 But he pointed out, he said, well, you know, look, they have this extra scripture.

00:14:39.060 So maybe that was the criterion on which this decision was made. 0.89

00:14:41.740 But I don't even think that holds water because Christian scientists

00:14:44.900 have an additional book that's on par with scripture as well.

00:14:51.920 I think it's called Science and Health.

00:14:53.820 And they consider that to be equivalent to scripture.

00:14:57.200 So it does seem to me that the LDS are being unfairly singled out here.

00:15:02.360 And, you know, everybody beats up on the Mormons all the time.

00:15:05.400 And Mormons are very reliable Republican voters.

00:15:09.600 They live very, very good family lives.

00:15:11.720 They're very sort of model citizens in many, many ways.

00:15:15.080 And I do think this would be an example of them being kind of unfairly singled out.

00:15:19.580 So then some people, a lot of people responded to that and said, yeah, well, the J-dubs and the Christian scientists and all these other people, they should be kicked off the list too. 0.99

00:15:26.000 I say, fine, whatever. 1.00

00:15:26.980 However you want to look at the classification for the purposes of the military, that's fine.

00:15:32.380 but it does seem to me there should be an even standard here. Now, before everybody wants to

00:15:36.700 beat up on the Pentagon, I want to point out the Pentagon rehauling this list or overhauling this

00:15:42.920 list of the religions is a good thing. Do you know what they took off? They took off a lot.

00:15:48.500 First on the list they removed is messianic. I think that refers to messianic Jews and messianic

00:15:55.120 Judaism. That's not the same thing as just a Jew who believes in Christ. Obviously, the very first

00:16:01.020 Christians in the entire world were Jews, were ethnic Jews who believed in Christ.

00:16:05.580 Messianic Judaism is a more modern religion, which is a subset of Protestantism. And obviously,

00:16:10.980 there just aren't that many of them in the world. So listed under Christian other as a relatively 0.96

00:16:16.220 small denomination of Protestantism. Okay, I get that. That probably doesn't deserve its own

00:16:21.380 category. Then think about these. Ekankar, E-C-K-A-N-K-A-R, Ekankar. Under Biden and the

00:16:30.340 Democrats, that was a religion recognized specifically by the Pentagon. Heathen, that was 0.99

00:16:36.220 another one. Native American Church of the Spiral Tree. I mean, I'm sure there are many, many 1.00

00:16:41.120 listeners from the Native American Church of the Spiral Tree, right? Troth, Rosicrucianism, 1.00

00:16:47.860 Dion Wee, which is Dianic Wicca. By the way, there were three forms of Wicca, of witchcraft, 0.77

00:16:54.360 three forms of witches specifically listed by the Pentagon under the liberals as religions to be

00:17:01.840 recognized specifically. Shaman, seox, we, asatru, pagan, humanist. How is humanist a religion?

00:17:12.260 Eastern religions, just generally. Unitarian universalist. I guess that one was a little

00:17:18.320 more prominent in America's history. Unitarian universalist, also not really a religion because

00:17:22.240 they don't seem to believe almost anything specifically. Wicca, just Wicca generally,

00:17:27.920 magic and spiritualist, which is truly just as occult as it gets. Magic spelled M-A-G-I-C-K

00:17:33.940 and spiritualist and atheist. Those were all listed as religions. So the Pentagon did a great 0.96

00:17:38.000 job and we ought to give Pete Hegseth a lot of attaboys for removing all of that ridiculous 0.86

00:17:42.440 nonsense. Doesn't mean that people who hold to these views are not permitted in the military.

00:17:47.820 I'm not convinced that people who like worship demons and Satan should be in the military.

00:17:52.840 That seems like a bad idea, but whatever.

00:17:54.220 They're still allowed in the military.

00:17:55.580 They're just not specifically demarcated as a religion recognized by the Pentagon.

00:18:02.040 But I do think, I think there is a double standard here being appealed, applied to LDS.

00:18:07.160 So this brings us then to a profound moral question, which is this viral story.

00:18:13.140 It's all anybody's been talking about for a few days.

00:18:14.800 You know, I've been in, I was in the UK.

00:18:16.060 I was speaking at the Oxford Union, which was an absolute delight. I think that debate is going to

00:18:19.520 be coming out sometime in the next couple of weeks. Great, great time. I actually did two

00:18:23.420 events at Oxford. I did a separate speech followed by Q&A. Then actually there was another Q&A,

00:18:28.060 meet and greet sort of thing. And then there was finally the formal debate that evening.

00:18:31.340 So that'd be a lot of fun. Keep your eyes out for that. In the meantime, everybody's talking

00:18:34.340 about this Ridgeway couple. The Ridgeways who were some YouTubers who came out and they said,

00:18:39.580 hey, we just aborted our kid because he has Down syndrome. Thank you so much for your support.

00:18:45.100 We love that you support us while we killed our kid.

00:18:47.640 And now they're defending it.

00:18:49.040 It's become a big, big controversy.

00:18:52.340 Now there's a question over whether or not

00:18:54.200 they made the whole thing up.

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00:21:25.960 it's a beautiful song it's a beautiful candle is this jesse ridgeway mcjugger nuggets abortion story

00:21:34.800 just totally fake they have been milking this thing this was a channel these were some big

00:21:41.400 youtubers they were getting millions and millions of views then they kind of disappeared and now

00:21:45.780 they're the talk of the town again because they came out and said yeah my wife is pregnant they

00:21:49.380 were filming everything was really really weird they're filming everything even filming the wife

00:21:53.140 getting the test results that the baby has Down syndrome and sobbing on camera, the husband just

00:21:58.880 mugging for the camera and all things really, really weird. They're saying, yeah, no, it's

00:22:02.180 good. We didn't want our kid, you know, to be defective. So we killed our kid and, you know,

00:22:05.980 no big deal. The guy came out, he said, look, I just didn't want to have to bury my son.

00:22:11.780 He said, I killed my kid in the womb. He has Down syndrome. I killed my kid because I didn't want

00:22:17.360 to have to bury him someday. If you have Down syndrome, you're probably going to have a shortened 0.99

00:22:20.820 lifespan and all sorts of problems, so I didn't want to bury my kid. To which, of course, we would

00:22:25.360 respond, you didn't want to bury your kid, so you threw him in a medical waste bin instead.

00:22:32.120 This is one of the central lies of abortion, is the idea that you can just snap your fingers

00:22:37.180 and pretend that your child was not conceived. Say, no, no, no, it's just a clump of cells,

00:22:42.080 it's nothing. Now, of course, this abortion occurred at 20, 21 weeks. Anyone who's ever

00:22:47.700 been pregnant, anyone who's ever had a kid knows, a baby at 20, 21 weeks, it's fully formed.

00:22:54.620 In all of the identifiable ways of seeing a baby, this is a baby. Not that that even should

00:22:59.900 necessarily matter when you're contemplating abortion, because a person's a person no matter

00:23:03.500 how small, but 20, 21 weeks, I mean, that is just totally undeniably a baby in every visual and

00:23:10.900 auditory way. Nevertheless, he says, yeah, I didn't want to have to bury my son.

00:23:17.700 So I chopped him up and vacuumed him out and threw him in a medical waste bin.

00:23:22.160 Some people are saying this was all made up because apparently Jesse Ridgeway, a big part

00:23:28.280 of his YouTube channel, is blurring the line between fictional narratives and reality.

00:23:32.840 And actually the thing that I guess made him famous 10 years ago was that he did this whole

00:23:36.720 series. And he just wrote about this too. Again, as he's getting all his new attention, he said,

00:23:40.680 10 years ago today, I shot my father and fled to Switzerland with what I thought was $30,000

00:23:44.720 in cash. It wasn't. The money was spent, I was spent, and I was on the run now. When I finally

00:23:49.280 tasted freedom, I was faced with an immeasurable guilt for an unforgivable act. I killed the man 0.95

00:23:53.300 who wanted me to be better, albeit in his own sick way. Don't ever do what I did because I have 0.84

00:23:58.300 to live with that now, and I don't know if I can handle that, I said, pleading to my YouTube

00:24:01.600 audience. The internet exploded as thousands of cop calls flooded in. Everyone thought this was

00:24:06.500 real. It was like War of the Worlds. 80, 90 years ago, War of the Worlds was this radio broadcast

00:24:11.460 about an alien invasion. And people thought it was real. It was fictional, but they all thought

00:24:15.340 it was real. The world watched in horror as the psycho kid confessed that he was leaving YouTube

00:24:19.640 forever. He goes on and on and on about this whole thing. And he says, but this, that fake tragedy

00:24:24.700 now set the stage for this real tragedy. And you just, you can't quite tell. Was this all a hoax

00:24:30.580 just to get our attention? I hope it was. I certainly hope he didn't actually kill his

00:24:33.900 Down syndrome kid. But then some people are saying, well, no, hold on. Maybe he's just

00:24:38.240 suggesting that this was a hoax to get all of the fire off of him because he actually did kill his

00:24:44.220 kid because he's he's being just pilloried including by the speaker of the house by

00:24:49.180 everybody for doing something that by the way most people who have down syndrome kids do

00:24:54.380 that's i guess what makes this if it is just art i pray i hope it's just art if it is just art it's

00:24:59.660 it's quite good art because most babies with down syndrome are aborted in the u.s most people who

00:25:05.040 have a Down syndrome baby, do what this guy did. But when this guy does it, we all recognize it

00:25:08.820 as profoundly evil. We see all the ways in which this is deeply, deeply evil. In Iceland, they kill

00:25:14.660 basically every single baby with Down syndrome, and they cheer it on. They say, we've eradicated 1.00

00:25:18.380 Down syndrome. They haven't actually eradicated Down syndrome. They just committed genocide.

00:25:23.800 They just kill all the babies with Down syndrome. But there are questions. I mean, here's the video. 0.99

00:25:28.920 Here's the video where the woman supposedly finds out that her baby has Down syndrome.

00:25:35.040 Yeah, Jeffrey said, and I don't, maybe you could speak to this, but there's a Down syndrome chance for the baby, but it's like 95 out of 100% chance.

00:26:05.860 So first thing you see is, hold on, this is sick, man.

00:26:09.040 What kind of husband would film this?

00:26:12.220 What kind of husband would put his wife in this situation

00:26:14.420 where she's reading the test results and then crying on camera

00:26:17.480 and they're talking about how their kid has Down syndrome

00:26:18.900 and then filming her walking off camera with this music underneath? 0.97

00:26:21.740 I mean, this is sick, psycho stuff.

00:26:23.460 Now, we live in an age where everything's content,

00:26:25.320 where people just live online all the time.

00:26:26.920 So it's plausible that it might be real, but you don't know if it's real.

00:26:30.500 Some people are also pointing out she just doesn't look pregnant.

00:26:33.760 And if she had the abortion at 20, 21 weeks, she's definitely not 20, 21 weeks pregnant.

00:26:37.340 But if they got the test results earlier and then only committed the abortion later, then she would be, what, 12 weeks pregnant, maybe nine weeks pregnant?

00:26:46.840 I guess it's possible she wouldn't really be showing them.

00:26:49.160 You just don't know.

00:26:51.280 Then on top of that, last point on this, then I'll get to what it really gets to, is that this guy in his bio, in his internet creator bio, they write that this is a guy whose tool of the trade is to blur the line between fiction and reality.

00:27:11.300 So we don't know.

00:27:12.220 I think this would be a case where we need to assume he's guilty until proven innocent.

00:27:16.180 I know our standard of justice is that you're innocent until proven guilty, but if he's just

00:27:23.600 punking us, one, it is really great art, but two, he's punking us by admitting to committing a very

00:27:33.860 grave moral crime, even if it's not recognized as such by the civil authority. And so I think

00:27:38.500 he would have to prove to us he didn't really do it to escape the opprobrium that is being rightly

00:27:43.180 heaped upon him. So I don't know. I don't know if it's real or not, but you know what I do know

00:27:47.440 just from a political and media standpoint? This tells us a lot about ourselves, and this tells

00:27:53.880 us a lot about content, and this tells us a lot about what we're desiring. Content, content,

00:28:02.740 we used to call it entertainment, or content has been getting more and more personal and authentic

00:28:09.580 for like the entire history of our civilization. And you just a little brief history of content.

00:28:17.260 In ancient Greece, you had these great plays by Euripides, by Sophocles, by Aristophanes,

00:28:24.260 these great plays, but the plays were very, very representation.

00:28:27.840 And they even, they were kind of tied in with religion, but they were very representational

00:28:32.300 in that you'd have the characters speaking their lines, but then you would have a chorus

00:28:35.560 behind them who played a role in the place. It was very removed. Nobody thought that they were

00:28:39.920 looking at reality. Then, I'm skipping ahead a little bit, there's a lot more to fill in along

00:28:44.100 the way. In the Middle Ages, you had morality plays. Then with Shakespeare, you get this real

00:28:49.580 injection of psychology, of a personal inner life, even though the Shakespearean actors are not going

00:28:56.420 to be confused for naturalism because they're speaking in rhyme and meter. But so much so that

00:28:59.580 the literary critic Harold Bloom says that Shakespeare actually invented the self, invented

00:29:04.180 the individual in his writing, because it's so psychological, it's so personal. Then you get

00:29:10.000 naturalism taken to a greater extreme. You get rid of the rhyme, you get rid of the meter, you make

00:29:14.260 everything a little bit smaller. Now things are not always about princes and kings, and now it

00:29:20.060 shrinks down to a much more personal level. You get Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg. This ties in

00:29:24.600 with the development of naturalistic acting from the Moscow Art Theater with Konstantin Stanislavski.

00:29:30.540 This thing comes over to the United States through the group theater, through method acting and other forms of technical acting.

00:29:36.360 You get naturalism in movies.

00:29:37.960 So you go from these big, well, what do you say here, scout?

00:29:44.020 What are you talking about here? 0.99

00:29:45.560 And that kind of silly accent. 0.98

00:29:46.660 You move into Marlon Brando, sitting in the back of the car with his brother. 0.98

00:29:49.960 You're my brother, Charlie.

00:29:51.640 You should have looked out for me.

00:29:53.040 It's kind of mumbling, very personal.

00:29:55.240 It feels much more real.

00:29:56.860 Then you go from that into naturalism in acting, which has dominated for 100 years, into reality TV.

00:30:04.060 Now it's getting even more personal.

00:30:05.460 Now the line between reality and fiction is even more blurred.

00:30:08.460 Then you get into live streaming.

00:30:09.780 Then you get into clavicular, kind of.

00:30:11.220 Clavicular is maybe the apotheosis of this.

00:30:13.560 And you just don't know what's real.

00:30:14.920 Even clavicular on his live streams multiple times knows that his girlfriend's various girlfriends are pregnant.

00:30:20.820 And then there's no follow-up on that.

00:30:22.240 You don't know if that's real or if you're just kind of making it up for clicks.

00:30:24.500 And now this.

00:30:26.480 we used to sit in the theater and watch opera and big plays. Now we sit on our couches and

00:30:32.360 look at our phones and we don't know what's real and what's not real. And I think there's something

00:30:36.600 very psychologically damaging about that. Because going back to ancient Greece, part of the reason

00:30:42.160 you would go see a play, what's the purpose of the theater? What's the purpose of movies?

00:30:46.340 One of the purposes is to experience catharsis, to experience the emotional rollercoaster,

00:30:52.040 To see something new, to understand some new aspect about human nature or the world, and then to experience the emotions of that without the consequences.

00:31:01.720 So you learn something, it can be edifying, it can help bring you through your day into new places of understanding.

00:31:11.900 But it was safe because you're not really intertwined in that.

00:31:14.980 With the new, really personal, authentic, intimate, right in your face, right on your phone form of content.

00:31:22.040 It's all intertwined.

00:31:23.480 And rather than helping you to understand reality better,

00:31:25.880 it actually makes it more difficult

00:31:28.460 for you to understand reality

00:31:29.480 because you can't tell the difference

00:31:30.660 between fiction and the real world.

00:31:33.120 Okay, speaking of intimacy,

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00:32:46.940 It's been a subdued pride month. 1.00

00:32:48.980 Thank goodness. 1.00

00:32:49.660 We're so happy for that.

00:32:51.260 We reached peak woke a little after COVID.

00:32:54.280 I think probably about 2023. 1.00

00:32:55.800 That was when they were transing everyone. 1.00

00:32:57.760 Everything was gay. 0.99

00:32:59.360 2024 election happens. 0.79

00:33:01.080 Trump wins the popular vote, 0.52

00:33:02.240 specifically running against the radical LGBT culture stuff.

00:33:05.620 All of a sudden, the corporations basically get the picture.

00:33:08.160 Even the Dem politicians get the point.

00:33:10.020 They don't change their views, but they downplay it.

00:33:11.860 They run like moderates, like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. 0.80

00:33:14.040 one company is doing its best to revive the gay stuff. That is HelloFresh. HelloFresh issued a 0.99

00:33:22.000 statement for Pride Month. They said, we know eating isn't always a top priority this month.

00:33:27.700 We respect that. But for those of you who are prepping, for those of you who are dot, dot,

00:33:34.160 dot, prepping, dot, dot, dot, we have an extensive lineup of high fiber recipes available. Happy

00:33:40.420 pride. So prepping, I'm inferring here from this statement. I think HelloFresh has done campaigns

00:33:48.480 like this before. Prepping means that you change what you eat in order to prepare for

00:33:56.620 really gross stuff, really aberrant actions. This is a family show, so I'm going to try to

00:34:04.000 use my words carefully. Really deviant, aberrant actions where you would not want to have eaten

00:34:11.940 some Indian food before that or something. I don't know. Let's leave it at that.

00:34:14.720 Someone responds to HelloFresh and says, how about a Pride Month discount code bottoms up?

00:34:23.720 Bottoms up. And then HelloFresh responds and says, yeah, great idea. Use code bottoms up

00:34:30.360 for a Pride Month discount, and then they tagged the guy who wrote it. You ask, we deliver literally.

00:34:36.400 The comments cooked, they concluded. Okay. Okay, first, yuck. Yuck. Icky, gross, yuck.

00:34:47.400 If I could spoon out my mind's eye this morning and have deleted the HelloFresh story entirely,

00:34:53.140 if it were not making the rounds as virally as it is, how much better we would all be.

00:34:56.560 hellofresh thinks they're doing something really clever for pride month one they think that they're

00:35:01.900 marketing their product well i don't know that they are we're all talking about it so in that

00:35:07.160 way they are but it we all have this really gross taste in our minds as a result so this doesn't

00:35:14.400 make me more inclined to shop at hellofresh it makes me nauseated it now makes me associate

00:35:19.680 hellofresh with nausea to the point that i politics or ideology aside i just don't want

00:35:24.540 to go to HelloFresh because I'm associating it with something yucky. But furthermore,

00:35:29.160 I don't think this is good for pride. I don't think this is good for LGBT. Do you know why? 1.00

00:35:36.060 Because think about how the LGBT movement has advanced. Everywhere for basically all of human

00:35:42.180 history, all the LGBT activities have been considered kind of gross. A lot of it has

00:35:49.260 existed. Maybe it exists to a greater degree now, but it's kind of been on the fringes of society.

00:35:54.180 people don't really talk about it. People are going to do it, whatever, but you certainly

00:35:58.000 don't promote it or try to consciously think about it. The way that the LGBT rights movement

00:36:04.680 has advanced, specifically, has been by getting people to not think about what it actually means.

00:36:14.360 That's really how they did it. And it begins in earnest with will and grace. Don't forget the

00:36:19.620 early days of the LGBT movement. The early days of it, it was all this like guys in leather 1.00

00:36:25.880 walking down the street in pride parades doing gross stuff, and it repulsed normal people. 0.99

00:36:31.480 Then the LGBT movement started to get some liftoff during AIDS because the LGBT behavior 0.90

00:36:37.980 was leading to a massive AIDS epidemic. And the public authorities tried to lie about it and 0.95

00:36:42.900 pretend that there was also an epidemic of heterosexual AIDS that just isn't real.

00:36:46.920 that's not put that one away with the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy that's that was that

00:36:51.140 was a fiction pushed by the authorities but but then what really pushed it into the mainstream

00:36:56.520 was Will and Grace and Will and Grace which was this show about a couple of gay guys and a couple

00:37:00.720 of straight ladies Will and Grace very specifically never got into the details of what actually went

00:37:08.000 on I remember even as a kid that show was on you know it was on prime time on NBC I think

00:37:12.440 and I remember thinking and I grew up in a very liberal place I was very open-minded on these

00:37:16.520 things. But I remember thinking it was kind of sad that this guy and this girl lived together,

00:37:20.220 but they never get married or get together because he was gay. I remember just thinking,

00:37:24.960 oh, it's kind of sad, but whatever. I wasn't judging it too much because the whole shtick

00:37:29.000 was just not getting people to think about what it actually means, like nuts and bolts,

00:37:34.980 as it were. And that's how the LGBT movement advanced throughout the 2000s and the 20-teens

00:37:41.580 to the point that for the first time in our country, and if you go back to the Netherlands 0.72

00:37:47.040 in 2001 for the first time in all of human history anywhere, we actually redefined marriage

00:37:51.040 because we had so put out of our minds what the LGBT stuff actually means that we said,

00:37:55.820 yeah, it's basically the same as a man and a woman united together for the purpose of the

00:38:01.320 procreation and education of children. HelloFresh. I don't know, they're going along with the LGBT

00:38:07.760 getting a little big for their britches, a little big for their chaps, where now they're reminding 0.70

00:38:14.020 people of what it actually is, beyond the euphemisms and the rainbows and the pride and

00:38:19.480 the slogans. What it actually is, is that. And that's kind of yucky. And we're not going to

00:38:27.920 send the purity police. We're not going to become Shiite and send people to people's bedrooms. But 0.99

00:38:31.300 we don't, no one wants to promote that. And I don't think anyone wants to shop at HelloFresh.

00:38:37.760 I think they've gone too far. I think they jumped the shark. Okay. Speaking of the LGBT movement in

00:38:43.140 Pride Month, major, major poll out from Gallup. You know, I hate to say I told you so. This one

00:38:49.960 proving something that I have been mocked for years for predicting, showing that support for

00:38:57.040 so-called same-sex marriage is collapsing. I was mocked not only by the left, I was mocked by huge

00:39:03.380 swaths, if not the majority of the right, for saying that gay marriage, it's not permanent,

00:39:08.600 it's going to go away, probably go away sooner rather than later. And they said, you're crazy, 0.99

00:39:12.880 you're backwards. We lost that battle. Move on. We got to give up that issue. We got to move on. 1.00

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00:40:44.680 My favorite comment yesterday is from Knight Rider BS,

00:40:47.300 who says,

00:40:47.980 I don't see how people can care more about pets than humans.

00:40:51.460 I can.

00:40:52.700 I totally can.

00:40:54.680 It's the same reason that you see this

00:40:56.700 sometimes reflected in surveys,

00:40:57.840 that young men prefer pornography to actual relationships. You see this in Japan has been

00:41:04.580 a problem for years. The reason is that human beings are complicated and pets are not. 0.97

00:41:12.420 Human beings are complicated. Pornography is not. Pets just kind of do whatever you want them to do.

00:41:19.280 Same thing goes for pornography. It's just kind of whatever you want. It's all about you.

00:41:22.720 Whereas when you have a human relationship, a relationship to a spouse or to a friend or

00:41:26.520 family member, or certainly to your child. They don't just do whatever you want to do. You have

00:41:30.740 to deal with them on their own terms, and you have obligations toward them that are much more

00:41:34.940 significant than your obligation to your pooch. So this is in response to the Ridgway couple

00:41:39.140 spending a year trying to save their little pooch from some disease. Meanwhile, the minute that their

00:41:45.640 baby doesn't come out absolutely perfect, they say they're going to grind him up and try again.

00:41:50.140 Say, how could someone do this? How could someone be nicer to their dog than to their baby?

00:41:53.340 because it's way easier. It's way easier. It's much less fulfilling. It's much less

00:41:59.500 satisfying. It's a familial and civilizational suicide to do so. But I see how they do it.

00:42:04.780 It's because it's easy. Gallup reporting. New US poll shows a downtick in support for same-sex

00:42:10.640 marriage and for the transgender ideology. This shows that support for those two things has 0.74

00:42:19.060 stopped rising after two decades. I'll just read a little bit from the report, the set of The

00:42:23.480 Guardian. Acceptance of same-sex marriage and relationships in the US has flattened after more

00:42:27.720 than two decades of steadily increasing support, with an ongoing decline among Republicans. About

00:42:32.320 65% of US adults believe same-sex marriage should be legal, down slightly from 71% in 2022 and 2023.

00:42:39.080 Most of the change is now, is due to dropping acceptance among Republicans, obviously. In the

00:42:43.960 new survey, which was concluded in May, only 37% of Republicans say same-sex marriage should be

00:42:47.960 legally valid. Well, 35% say gay and lesbian relations are morally acceptable. Very, very 0.89

00:42:53.320 interesting. So more Republicans are willing to say that same-sex unions should be valid

00:43:00.560 than are willing to say that it's morally acceptable. That shows you just the encroachment 0.81

00:43:06.420 of libertarianism on the conservative mind. Very deleterious turn of events over the last 60, 70

00:43:12.140 years. But it's only 37% say same-sex marriage should be legally valid. And that phrasing is 0.65

00:43:18.200 better than what you saw in the first paragraph. Because one of the ways the libs won on same-sex

00:43:24.600 marriage is by saying, well, should gay people be allowed to get married? I just had this debate.

00:43:29.040 I was on Piers Morgan's show in the UK. It was a very raucous, wild segment with an LGBT activist 1.00

00:43:35.280 and comedian, nice guy. But he couldn't understand. He actually couldn't even understand the argument

00:43:41.240 I was making. And Piers was getting a riotous kick out of the whole thing. But I said, no,

00:43:45.640 no, it's not that gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. They're allowed to get married.

00:43:49.640 The question is, what is marriage? And I said, marriage, it seems to me, is the lifelong union

00:43:55.880 of a man and a woman for the order toward procreation and the education of children.

00:43:59.740 And even if you don't like that, it can't be anything else. That's what makes marriage marriage.

00:44:06.920 i can't just redefine my leftist years tumblr as a pizza i can say look the leftist years tumblr

00:44:14.520 it's a beverage vessel for actually for leftist years but also for my fruity millennial seltzer

00:44:19.620 and it's for you know bringing that into my mouth so that i can be have nutrients and but you say

00:44:24.500 well i want it to be a pizza they say okay well but it's not a pizza they say what i want it to

00:44:29.700 be a pizza well how dare you exclude my desires how dare you push your views on me i want it to

00:44:35.640 be a pizza. I say, it's not even up to me. It's just not a pizza. And the point with marriage is

00:44:40.660 if marriage is not a union between a man and a woman ordered toward procreation education of

00:44:44.920 children, what is it? What delineates it? What separates it from every other institution? I

00:44:52.140 actually should be more specific. Marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman ordered 0.95

00:44:57.380 toward the procreation education of children. Because a guy and a girl, boyfriend and girlfriend 0.85

00:45:02.680 can have a kid. It's not necessarily a lifelong union. It's an order toward procreation, maybe

00:45:08.480 not necessarily the education of children. But if it's just like two people who love each other,

00:45:14.500 plenty of people who are not married love each other, and plenty of people who are married

00:45:17.660 don't actually love each other that much. So that's not the criterion. Two people who live

00:45:22.060 together, plenty of people live together who aren't married. Plenty of married couples don't

00:45:25.700 even live together, at least for decent stretches of time. What is it? And this is why same-sex

00:45:33.700 marriage is going to disappear eventually, I hope sooner rather than later, because there are 0.99

00:45:37.180 negative social consequences, especially for kids. But it will eventually disappear.

00:45:43.480 And the reason is, it's contrary to reality. It's contrary to nature.

00:45:48.500 it just isn't that just isn't marriage and people know even if we try to overcome our reason

00:45:55.340 even if we try to overcome the limits that exist within reality at a certain point reality is going

00:46:01.020 to win that's what's happening and you're seeing this it is declining the support is declining it

00:46:06.360 will continue to decline because it is contrary to reality and i hate to say i told you so but

00:46:12.820 i was totally right about this okay i'm just gonna i'm just gonna bring up another story i'm not

00:46:18.220 necessarily saying there's a connection between what I was just talking about in this story.

00:46:22.020 I'm not, look, don't read too much into this. I'm not necessarily, James Tallarico. I know we were

00:46:27.320 just talking about pride and HelloFresh and same-sex marriage, but I'm just, for no reason

00:46:33.500 whatsoever, I now want to talk about James Tallarico. James Tallarico, I can't leave the

00:46:38.280 show today before we get to this. James Tallarico is going all around Texas trying to pretend he's

00:46:44.740 just one of the fellas. You know, he's just like a regular old Texan. You know, we got elected

00:46:48.340 me to the Senate. God is non-binary. Women are persons with uteruses, but I'm a regular old 0.99

00:46:54.200 Texan, fella. Hey, Bubba, vote for me. And so James Tallarico is posting these pictures 1.00

00:47:00.600 of him sitting at barbecue joints, attempting to seem like a Texan by eating the barbecue.

00:47:07.380 and he looks repulsed. His girlfriend is a vegan. He's not a barbecue guy. He's not a

00:47:18.360 beer and a barbecue guy. And watching him try to choke down barbecue, it reminds me of Jacob Fry,

00:47:25.600 the mayor of Minneapolis, trying to choke down that Somali slop. You remember that? Do we have, 1.00

00:47:31.200 yeah. You remember that Jacob Fry there when he's trying to suck up to the Somalis who've 0.97

00:47:34.900 now Concord, his city. He's sitting there eating that just obviously disgusting Somali slop, 1.00

00:47:40.920 and he's trying to choke it down. He's obviously nauseated. He's like, 1.00

00:47:43.840 oh, this is really, Jabba, this is really good. And you see the Somali guy just laughing at him 1.00

00:47:48.980 like, oh yeah, yeah, you like that? They probably gave him intentionally the most 1.00

00:47:53.020 disgusting Somali food. Not that Somalis are exactly known for their Michelin rated restaurants. 1.00

00:47:57.900 In any case, it's perfect. Because in Jacob Fry's case, you have sympathy for him. You say, look, 1.00

00:48:03.440 This guy lives in a conquered city. He's trying to hold on to his position as mayor. So he's going

00:48:07.140 to choke down the foreign slop. Okay. But in Tallarico's case, he's eating the indigenous 1.00

00:48:13.520 food. He's eating the food of Texans. And he himself seems like the foreigner. It's kind of

00:48:19.860 the flipped version of what's going on in Minneapolis. Jacob Fry, look, I don't know if

00:48:25.680 he really believes all the nonsense, the leftist gobbledygook he promotes. But he's just trying

00:48:31.380 to pander to get votes from a foreign population that's taken over a city. In Texas, Tallarico is 1.00

00:48:37.320 the foreigner, and I don't know that he is going to make it. Does not read as authentic. It's not 1.00

00:48:42.660 great content for him. It's very funny content for us. Okay. Much more to get to, but the rest

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 08, 2026

Ep. 1989 - Spencer Pratt Loses LA Mayoral Bid After Shady Ballot Dump

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