The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 199 - Smart People, Frivolous Press

00:00:00.000 The West Hollywood City Council has voted to remove President Trump's star from the Hollywood

00:00:04.780 Walk of Fame. I headed down to Hollywood Boulevard to gauge people's reaction, and I was actually

00:00:09.500 shocked by what I found. We'll show you. Then, speaking of Hollywood, some of the biggest players

00:00:14.420 in Hollywood are right now very angry with me for pointing out that the critically acclaimed 0.99

00:00:19.540 audience dismissed movie Sorry to Bother You is lazy neo-Marxist trash. We will analyze. 0.98

00:00:25.980 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says more stupid things. Candace Owens stops by to discuss her white 1.00

00:00:31.640 supremacy. And finally, The Mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.460 Oh, so much to get to today. We've got a lot. I'm sorry we're a little late. There is a ton going

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00:02:23.980 Hollywood City Council voted to get rid of Donald Trump's star. Now, of course, when they voted on

00:02:29.240 that, they had to then urge the Chamber of Commerce and the LA City Council and on and on and on

00:02:33.900 to remove President Trump's star from the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. So I went down to

00:02:39.120 Hollywood Boulevard to see if the people who are walking around on Hollywood Boulevard, the locals,

00:02:44.160 the residents, people from Los Angeles, tourists, to see what they think about that local lefty

00:02:50.780 government West Hollywood's idea. I was shocked by what I found. Here it is. The West Hollywood City

00:02:56.360 Council has just voted to remove President Donald Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'm

00:03:02.340 Michael Knowles. I'm here to get people's reactions on the removal of Donald Trump's star.

00:03:12.440 Should Trump get to keep his star or should they rip it up?

00:03:15.760 They should rip it up. I mean, if it upsets people, just remove it, I guess.

00:03:19.920 I don't know why he had one in the first place. I wasn't too sure.

00:03:23.140 Well, he's a big TV star. He had that show, The Apprentice.

00:03:25.880 I don't like that show. What about the other stars that upset people, like the Bill Cosby star?

00:03:29.980 Oh. Well, they didn't, they weren't racist against people, I guess, or they didn't talk.

00:03:36.460 But Bill Cosby's a rapist against people. 0.99

00:03:38.560 That's true. 0.98

00:03:39.320 You know, right next to Donald Trump's star is Kevin Spacey's star.

00:03:42.480 Oh, that's right. That's also controversial. That's harsh.

00:03:45.960 What do you think we should do about, say, Bill Cosby's star?

00:03:49.820 I gotta sleep on it.

00:03:51.120 What do you think? Should the star be removed?

00:03:53.160 Oh, it's kind of a hard question, but I think it's good.

00:03:57.440 So you think the star should stay?

00:03:59.640 Yeah, stay, yeah.

00:04:01.000 It doesn't bother me.

00:04:02.940 The star doesn't bother you?

00:04:04.180 It doesn't bother me.

00:04:05.080 Would you say that you support Donald Trump or you don't support him?

00:04:09.720 They just voted in the West Hollywood City Council to get rid of Donald Trump's star.

00:04:13.300 What do you think about that?

00:04:14.640 I think that's wild. You should leave it there, you know?

00:04:17.960 Or would you call yourself a Trump supporter?

00:04:20.120 Nah, I'm just dead.

00:04:22.360 That should Trump get to keep his star?

00:04:23.680 It doesn't feel like it's right to just remove it, just because someone vandalized it.

00:04:28.020 Would you guys call yourselves Trump supporters?

00:04:30.760 Not necessarily. I'm more, like, moderate, I guess.

00:04:33.840 I think they shouldn't have to, you know, remove it or something or nothing like that.

00:04:38.120 You know, I think that's just more spreading more hate.

00:04:39.640 You know, it's just turning people against each other.

00:04:41.280 And they actually have no power to get rid of that star.

00:04:44.280 It's all up to the Hollywood here, Chamber of Commerce.

00:04:46.980 Would you call yourself a Trump supporter?

00:04:49.060 Yes. Yes, I would.

00:04:50.540 There aren't that many of us out here.

00:04:52.500 No, there isn't, man. No, there isn't. It's just me and you, man.

00:04:55.340 For me, it doesn't really matter if he has a star or not.

00:04:59.000 So it's really just a symbolic thing that they've decided because they don't like the president.

00:05:03.200 You think it's virtue signaling?

00:05:05.040 Absolutely, I think it's virtue signaling.

00:05:06.920 Believe me, it's good for business. Whether you like him or not, people want a picture.

00:05:10.280 Either thumbs down or thumbs up.

00:05:13.920 So, that's fine.

00:05:14.980 That's a true story. Donald Trump is good for business.

00:05:17.700 Mail the new star and put a wall around it.

00:05:19.880 That's what I think. And a bigger star, too, on like four blocks.

00:05:23.260 That's a great idea. I'm in.

00:05:24.820 Thank you. Thank you.

00:05:25.720 All right, guys. Peace and love. I love you guys.

00:05:27.120 So that's what you've heard.

00:05:28.220 The local lefty politicians here are so disconnected from the people who actually walk around Hollywood

00:05:34.240 that they all say one thing about the star and the people on the street say exactly the opposite.

00:05:39.960 An important lesson not to believe the mainstream media and lefty politicians.

00:05:45.160 A lesson that will always serve you well.

00:05:47.520 I'm Michael Knowles from Hollywood Boulevard.

00:05:49.880 I like that guy who said he's going to build the wall around Trump's star.

00:05:53.820 I think we need to build a wall around Donald Trump's star and we need to make the West Hollywood City Council pay for it.

00:05:59.560 And that wall is going to get 10 feet higher and higher and higher.

00:06:02.260 You're going to need a ladder to climb up and look down into it.

00:06:04.320 I was really actually quite surprised. 0.85

00:06:06.280 We were going to go out there and do a video about how all these people are hypocrites, right? 0.75

00:06:10.840 That's what we suspected we'd find in Hollywood. 0.71

00:06:13.060 You go out there. You say, should they remove Trump's star?

00:06:14.820 They say, yeah, I want to take a sledgehammer to it myself.

00:06:17.680 Yeah, I want to hit it myself.

00:06:19.160 And then you say, what about Brett Ratner?

00:06:21.320 What about Cosby?

00:06:22.420 What about Harvey Weinstein?

00:06:23.380 What about all these other guys?

00:06:24.440 And they'd say, oh, yikes, right?

00:06:25.620 That was what we assumed we would find.

00:06:27.580 But no.

00:06:28.700 The reason we thought that is because the media are always hysterical.

00:06:31.700 So they'll always say, oh, yes, all these people in Hollywood, they hate Trump.

00:06:35.200 They want to get rid of him.

00:06:36.560 No, that isn't the case.

00:06:37.820 I mean, look, President Trump's approval rating is quite high.

00:06:40.260 It's around 50 percent, according to daily tracking polls.

00:06:43.640 It's higher than Barack Obama's was at this time in his presidency.

00:06:46.340 He's actually quite popular.

00:06:47.900 He's not popular with the media.

00:06:49.360 He's not popular with local lefty politicians.

00:06:51.800 You know, the mainstream media run 92 percent negative coverage of Trump.

00:06:55.580 But he's very popular.

00:06:56.820 He's uncommonly popular with people.

00:06:58.980 And we found that to be true even in Los Angeles, even in Hollywood.

00:07:04.140 And this brings us to this other issue, this huge disconnect between the ideologues and

00:07:09.320 the media types and Hollywood types and people, you know, people who live wherever.

00:07:13.900 They could live in Palookaville.

00:07:14.800 They could live in Hollywood.

00:07:15.780 But they're people who don't work in the media or who don't work in politics or don't work

00:07:20.060 in those sort of rarefied social areas, which are considered very elite.

00:07:26.700 That difference, you see this in a movie that I saw last night that I'm getting dragged all

00:07:30.400 around the Internet for.

00:07:31.180 I saw the movie Sorry to Bother You.

00:07:34.480 This movie is getting universal critical acclaim.

00:07:37.380 It had a 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:07:39.560 That's now dropped slightly to 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:07:44.000 I said, OK, I got to go see it.

00:07:45.720 A couple of the actors in it I liked.

00:07:47.880 So I said, OK, well, I'll go see this movie last night.

00:07:50.080 It is the single worst movie I have ever seen.

00:07:53.800 That is no exaggeration.

00:07:54.960 I've seen a lot of horrific movies.

00:07:56.900 But this movie, let's just play the trailer.

00:08:01.160 Can we play the trailer?

00:08:01.740 Hey, Mr. Kramer, this is Langston from Regal View.

00:08:31.740 As always, we'll be getting that out to you right away.

00:08:36.540 You're doing so good with the voice thing.

00:08:38.280 Holla, holla, holla, holla, holla.

00:08:40.700 Oh, yeah.

00:08:42.840 All right.

00:08:44.660 Hell yeah. 0.51

00:08:45.600 You're going upstairs, Power Caller.

00:08:47.880 They even have their own elevator.

00:08:49.840 Welcome, Power Caller. 0.99

00:08:51.060 I hope you did not masturbate today. 1.00

00:08:53.440 We need you sharp and ready to go. 1.00

00:09:04.260 I got promoted.

00:09:05.380 I'm a Power Caller.

00:09:06.280 What do they sell?

00:09:07.200 They're not selling, but we're selling.

00:09:08.760 No, there's no amount of money that'll make me do that.

00:09:12.120 Here's the starting salary.

00:09:13.620 Well, man, I'm going to have to get me some new suits.

00:09:15.760 Whatever I wear, I know I'm here to be clean.

00:09:17.860 It is morally emaciated.

00:09:19.520 I can't ride with you.

00:09:20.820 I'm doing something that I'm really good at.

00:09:22.900 Cash, I'm going to make you a proposal.

00:09:24.660 I can see that you want to say no, but I wouldn't do that before you see what I'm offering.

00:09:32.540 Cash, you are awesome.

00:09:36.440 This movie is uniquely terrible.

00:09:41.040 I actually recommend that people go see the movie.

00:09:44.180 Just to understand how degraded our society has become, our art has become, and our politics has become, you've got to see this movie.

00:09:51.320 I'm not telling people to stay away from theaters.

00:09:53.120 You should see it.

00:09:53.860 I mean, there were people who eventually, after an hour 45, they walked out of this thing.

00:09:58.440 It was so bad.

00:09:59.660 But I was determined to stick it out, and I'm glad I did.

00:10:02.460 The director of that movie, Boots Riley, actually tweeted at me because I gave it a bad review on Twitter.

00:10:08.000 And he said, well, I'm glad to have a bad review from you.

00:10:10.560 You know, a bad review from you is great, great encouragement.

00:10:13.480 It's a great endorsement.

00:10:14.400 I'll explain why that movie is so terrible, why the critics love it, why audiences hate it.

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00:12:30.120 Okay.

00:12:31.280 Why is this movie so bad?

00:12:33.220 The movie suffers for many reasons.

00:12:37.820 There's nothing redeeming in the movie.

00:12:40.220 There's nothing.

00:12:40.800 So to set it up, it is a Marxist movie.

00:12:43.620 It's a, I suppose I should say a neo-Marxist movie because there's a racial component added 0.79

00:12:48.280 to this class struggle issue.

00:12:50.820 It's, you know, it's set obviously in the modern day.

00:12:53.460 There are modern problems that it's allegedly dealing with, but it is a neo-Marxist movie.

00:12:58.440 And don't take my word for it.

00:13:00.020 Boots Riley, the director, admits that himself.

00:13:02.120 He calls himself a communist.

00:13:03.540 He's been a communist since he was 15 years old.

00:13:05.980 Boots Riley joined the Progressive Labor Party, which is a Marxist-Leninist organization.

00:13:10.140 He joined it at the age of 15.

00:13:11.520 He is a full-fledged communist.

00:13:12.900 He's open about what this movie is about.

00:13:14.860 So it's deeply perverse and it's deeply ideological, which just screws up art to begin with.

00:13:19.460 But the reason that really matters is that, you know, art is supposed to reflect reality.

00:13:25.300 We're supposed to consume art, a movie or a painting or a novel or something, and we see

00:13:29.900 something about ourselves, about our experience of human nature or our experience of the world.

00:13:34.740 This movie is based on a false ideology, an ideology that should have been relegated to

00:13:39.700 the dustbin of history.

00:13:41.600 That ideology is communism.

00:13:44.100 And all of the premises just don't work, especially it doesn't work these days.

00:13:47.400 What they're saying is that economic liberty in this is really slavery.

00:13:52.600 I mean, they draw a direct connection to that.

00:13:54.380 Economic liberty means that people don't have jobs.

00:13:56.940 But we look around us now.

00:13:57.920 The economy is much freer.

00:13:59.100 We have lower taxes, less regulation, and the economy is booming.

00:14:02.440 Everybody has jobs.

00:14:03.460 There are more jobs than people to fill them right now.

00:14:06.440 Wages are increasing.

00:14:07.820 Prosperity is increasing.

00:14:08.840 We know this to be the case.

00:14:10.420 So our own experience of reality contradicts this movie.

00:14:13.900 But there's so much more to it.

00:14:15.300 There's so, you know, the communist slogan is that religion is the opiate of the masses.

00:14:21.720 It's the opium of the masses.

00:14:23.280 And there's a part in this movie where a guy, this broken down, working class man, he takes 0.78

00:14:29.460 a crucifix and pops out what seems to be a Eucharist and eats it like it's his medicine, 0.67

00:14:34.340 like it's an opiate, like it's a drug.

00:14:37.200 And that's the other aspect.

00:14:38.480 That's the filmmaking aspect of it.

00:14:40.100 So ideologically, it's so wrong that you can't relate to it.

00:14:45.440 Nobody can.

00:14:45.960 People will pretend to relate to it because they want to feel like they're, you know, part

00:14:48.880 of the working struggle, man.

00:14:50.020 But nobody really can.

00:14:51.380 But it's so clumsy.

00:14:53.280 Everything is so clumsy.

00:14:54.580 So just as a technical aspect of filmmaking, directing, writing, it's really weak.

00:15:00.740 I mean, it's really just abysmal.

00:15:03.280 The main character's name is Cassius Green.

00:15:07.140 Cassius Green.

00:15:09.100 You get it?

00:15:10.340 Do you get it?

00:15:11.480 Cassius Green.

00:15:13.200 It's really, really subtle.

00:15:15.380 And by the way, if you didn't get it, his nickname is Cass.

00:15:18.160 So just in case you didn't get it.

00:15:20.360 The, the, I don't, this is a spoiler alert.

00:15:22.300 It doesn't matter because the movie is so awful.

00:15:24.280 You should go see it, but you know, it doesn't matter.

00:15:26.640 But close your ears for 10 seconds if you don't want to hear this.

00:15:29.180 The, the big reveal at the end is all the people that are working for The Capitalist are turned

00:15:34.740 into horses.

00:15:36.240 They're workhorses.

00:15:38.200 You get it?

00:15:39.300 Do you get it?

00:15:40.660 It's really subtle.

00:15:42.900 It's so, it's so bad.

00:15:45.360 And, and, and, you know, look, I hate, acting is a hard thing.

00:15:48.540 Working in show business is a hard thing.

00:15:49.800 So I actually hate criticizing, uh, artists.

00:15:53.220 But the acting is fine.

00:15:55.300 I'll leave it there.

00:15:55.860 The acting is fine.

00:15:56.700 There's no standout performances.

00:15:58.460 It's actually a couple, there are a couple very small roles that you, that you have a moment of,

00:16:02.640 oh, that was good.

00:16:03.700 Broadly speaking, the acting is fine to not fine in the movie.

00:16:07.500 The writing is horrific.

00:16:08.580 The cinematography is clumsy.

00:16:10.640 It's not, it's almost clever at points, but it's pretty clumsy.

00:16:13.420 The movie just is bad.

00:16:15.580 It's just really shallow and bad.

00:16:17.860 Nevertheless, the reviewers love it.

00:16:20.100 Uh, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, 62% from audiences.

00:16:23.780 That tells you basically all you need to know.

00:16:25.440 St. Louis Dispatch says, Sorry to Bother You is an uncompromising and timely film of unapologetic brilliance.

00:16:30.420 Chicago Reader says, Sorry to Bother You ponders the danger of trying to assimilate into the white world.

00:16:35.700 But it's a multiracial, proletarian call to arms.

00:16:39.800 One of the premises of the movie is you can't get ahead unless you use the white voice. 0.77

00:16:43.860 So these black people have to talk like they're white people. 1.00

00:16:46.720 The idea being that you, you, you, if you become upwardly mobile, you're selling out your race. 0.97

00:16:53.180 That's, that's a premise of the movie.

00:16:54.900 And then the other is that freedom is slavery.

00:16:56.700 I mean, it's really quite Orwellian.

00:16:58.500 And you would think that the experience of people under socialism and communism would banish those awful ideologies to, to the end of history.

00:17:05.040 You know, we had Ji Song-ho come in here the other day from North Korea, the North Korean defector.

00:17:10.380 I wonder if Boots Riley would ever look him in the face and talk to him about how great communism is.

00:17:15.260 His family starved under a communist dictatorship.

00:17:18.420 He was maimed.

00:17:19.140 He was brutalized.

00:17:20.120 He was tortured for years and years under communism.

00:17:22.180 I wonder if Boots Riley, this know-nothing from America who grew up in, relative to the rest of the world, utter prosperity.

00:17:29.900 I wonder if that guy would look him in the face and tell him how great communism is.

00:17:32.900 It's so, I mean, the thesis of the film basically is productive work is bad, upward mobility is bad, laziness is good, and we should be unproductive and make bad art.

00:17:44.700 It actually, the film actually lifts up bad art, which is funny because it's very bad art.

00:17:48.640 Really awful.

00:17:49.480 I've got to get to, we've got Candace Owens stopping by. 1.00

00:17:51.720 Very quickly, I do want to cover Ocasio-Cortez saying stupid things. 1.00

00:17:56.340 Here she is. 1.00

00:17:56.780 Take it away, Alexandria.

00:17:57.640 Go ahead, please.

00:17:59.140 She is the leader of, no, no, she, I mean, Speaker, or rather Leader Pelosi, hopefully, you know, we'll see.

00:18:07.800 She's the current leader of the party, and I think that the party absolutely does have its leadership in the House.

00:18:13.320 We have our leadership in the Senate as well.

00:18:15.720 Okay, well, so Nancy Pelosi is not the head of the Democrat Party. 0.96

00:18:23.600 The chairman of the Democrat Party is Tom Perez, and Nancy Pelosi isn't the highest ranking elected Democrat, right?

00:18:29.460 I mean, that would be Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate.

00:18:32.920 Senate is a more powerful, more prestigious body than the House of Representatives.

00:18:36.200 She just doesn't even know these basic things, and she's been running for a while now. 0.97

00:18:41.420 Doesn't take Ali Stuckey to do this tour. 1.00

00:18:43.920 Keep going, Alexandria.

00:18:45.660 So we're paying for this system.

00:18:47.620 Americans have the sticker shock of health care as it is, and what we're also not talking about is

00:18:52.900 why aren't we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who die

00:18:57.980 because they can't afford access to health care?

00:19:00.260 That is part of the cost of our system.

00:19:02.320 Where do you even begin with that?

00:19:08.440 The reason that we're not doing that is people dying is not simply a function of our current health care system.

00:19:18.260 Everybody dies.

00:19:20.320 People will die.

00:19:21.180 I know you might be shocked to hear this, Alexandria, but under socialist health care, people will die too.

00:19:26.260 Actually, we've seen people be killed by their governments under socialist health care.

00:19:29.500 Just this year, we've seen those poor little babies in the United Kingdom.

00:19:32.600 Baby Alfie, baby Charlie Gard, they were killed by their socialist health care system.

00:19:36.420 But they will die. 0.99

00:19:37.360 They'll all die.

00:19:38.040 At most in this world, one person has escaped death.

00:19:42.000 At most.

00:19:42.820 Right?

00:19:43.020 There's one guy, and you're not him.

00:19:45.840 And socialism won't create him. 0.99

00:19:48.980 Unbelievable, her ignorance. 0.97

00:19:51.100 And it's a beautiful thing. 0.99

00:19:52.800 I can't believe she keeps going on TV.

00:19:54.780 I don't know why.

00:19:55.920 And to watch Chris Cuomo, Fredo Cuomo, just...

00:19:58.360 It's really terrific.

00:20:01.780 We've got to bring on our dear friend, Candace Owens. 0.97

00:20:05.020 Candace, as you know, got in trouble for being a black white supremacist the other day. 1.00

00:20:09.540 A bunch of white lefty girls basically accused her of white supremacy. 1.00

00:20:14.040 So, I talked to Candace earlier today.

00:20:16.460 Let's bring her on. 1.00

00:20:18.080 Candace, you know, I try not to have any white supremacists on my show.

00:20:21.980 I really make a point of that.

00:20:23.400 But I made an exception for you. 0.86

00:20:25.840 You know, you've been in the news a lot recently as a black female white supremacist. 1.00

00:20:31.360 What do you have to say for yourself?

00:20:33.340 You know, not much here. 0.97

00:20:35.160 It is difficult in this country being a black white supremacist. 0.99

00:20:40.100 It's even more difficult when you find out from white people that you're a white supremacist. 0.95

00:20:44.780 But it's been a difficult week for me and my family. 0.76

00:20:47.300 But I'm coming out on top here.

00:20:48.740 So, those girls, because you did find out from white people, those girls who surrounded you start doing the blow horn, start whistling in your ear, they were all white. 1.00

00:20:57.680 I looked at the video. 0.89

00:20:58.620 It looked like all of them were these white girls who were yelling at you and calling you a white supremacist because you, a black woman, wouldn't do what they told you to do. 0.97

00:21:08.580 That is exactly right. 0.99

00:21:09.960 It sounds absolutely loony.

00:21:11.860 But that is what happened. 0.94

00:21:13.480 I mean, they are really white.

00:21:15.720 I mean, these people, and it's funny because Philadelphia, it's a 44% black city.

00:21:20.300 So, it's actually unique. 0.76

00:21:21.560 Like, it's uniquely black. 0.79

00:21:23.080 It's 44% black and that's not including other minorities.

00:21:25.840 So, it's a majority minority city, Philadelphia.

00:21:29.540 And it was just, I think, one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me. 0.97

00:21:33.580 What was crazy is the entire police force is black. 1.00

00:21:36.720 So, there was only one police officer that was white. 1.00

00:21:39.060 The other 10 of them were black and Hispanic, and they started shouting at the police officers, you guys are race traitors. 0.98

00:21:45.140 And I said to them, whose race are they betraying? 0.99

00:21:48.120 Yours?

00:21:49.100 We are, 100% of the black people in this situation are on my side.

00:21:54.840 And then, that's unbelievable.

00:21:57.000 And this, I mean, this is one of many incidents with you this week.

00:22:00.440 You sent out that tweet, it was so brilliantly done, where you took Sarah Jong, the Asian New York Times editorial board member, her tweets about white people, her tweets denigrating white people, and you switched the race.

00:22:15.740 And you were booted off of Twitter for that.

00:22:18.620 I was.

00:22:19.200 I was booted off of Twitter because for harassment, and you're not allowed to discriminate based off of race and gender.

00:22:24.920 But she wasn't booted off of Twitter.

00:22:26.900 She was not.

00:22:27.440 She kept the tweets up since 2013.

00:22:29.260 So, she's had those tweets up.

00:22:30.660 She hasn't even taken them down in lieu of the controversy.

00:22:34.220 But instantly, as soon as I said it about black people and Jewish people, I was wiped off.

00:22:39.600 And look, I agree that the sentiments are racist, and that was the point.

00:22:43.140 You know?

00:22:44.060 But why, what is the platform saying when you say that it's all right to discriminate against white people, but it's not okay to discriminate against black people?

00:22:51.260 So, you're saying that now you get suspended from Twitter, and then Twitter finally puts you back on after a day or two.

00:22:59.800 So, then it's all good?

00:23:01.220 Then the big tech is okay with you now?

00:23:03.700 No, actually.

00:23:04.580 So, three hours after I tweeted that, I was reinstated.

00:23:08.700 I didn't even apply to be reinstated, but there was so much noise.

00:23:12.240 Twitter went crazy with this.

00:23:13.700 And then their big people must have been like, oh, it was a big accident.

00:23:16.660 And they sent me an apology, but I just logged on to my Facebook account.

00:23:20.580 I just landed in Arizona, and I'm kicked off of Facebook, too.

00:23:24.000 I'm in Facebook jail for 24 hours with a warning for the exact same tweet. 0.99

00:23:28.680 The black people just sit underground like goblins. 1.00

00:23:32.540 So, hey, what can we say? 1.00

00:23:33.580 Big tech really cares about black people, not so much if your skin's white. 0.80

00:23:37.600 Wow.

00:23:38.380 That's so, that is incredible.

00:23:40.780 So, it's the same tweet?

00:23:41.980 You just posted the text or a screenshot or something?

00:23:44.720 Yeah, it was a screenshot of the exact same tweet.

00:23:47.520 So, I didn't even redo it for Facebook's platform. 0.97

00:23:49.720 I just screenshot, like, black people should live underground like goblins. 1.00

00:23:52.920 But the best part of the tweet is that I specifically say under. 0.93

00:23:55.860 The following tweet is from Sarah Jong, New York Times editor.

00:23:59.520 I simply replaced the word white with black.

00:24:01.940 And it's not okay.

00:24:03.000 It's unacceptable because that's where we're at in this society.

00:24:05.560 They condone hate against white people.

00:24:08.280 And they say that they're doing it.

00:24:09.620 I don't know.

00:24:09.960 Maybe they're calling balls and strikes because of slavery, I guess. 0.64

00:24:13.680 We're just allowed to just be blatantly racist to white people in this society. 0.97

00:24:18.080 Because black people represent a minority, we're allowed to be blatantly racist to white 0.93

00:24:22.060 people in this society.

00:24:22.880 And I'm strongly against it.

00:24:24.060 It's ideologically inconsistent.

00:24:25.560 The oppressed are not allowed to become the oppressors.

00:24:27.840 It doesn't work that way.

00:24:28.760 It is incredible because that, the, the, your tweets so clearly showed that, that there is

00:24:35.280 this racial double standard and that by big tech, by the New York Times, by all of these

00:24:40.260 huge privileged institutions, uh, uh, bigotry against white people is tolerated.

00:24:45.700 And they talk about white privilege, but it's hard to get more privileged than the editorial

00:24:49.020 board of the New York Times.

00:24:50.420 Why is that?

00:24:51.140 You know, that what the left says to this, by the way, is they say, you can't be racist

00:24:54.740 against whites because whites are on top, even though, you know, they, they use the 0.98

00:24:59.260 wage gap all the time.

00:25:00.180 They're not, by the way.

00:25:00.620 White people are not on top. 0.98

00:25:01.680 That's right.

00:25:02.560 Asian Americans are on top. 0.82

00:25:04.000 That's the, that is, it's the craziest myth.

00:25:05.780 The wealthiest people in this country are, are, um, Japanese Americans and Indian Americans.

00:25:10.300 So it's, it's completely false to even say, but they don't, they don't like those facts.

00:25:13.980 You know, the people that are most likely to get approved for a mortgage loan at the bank

00:25:17.700 are Asian Americans, not white people.

00:25:19.720 Okay.

00:25:20.420 So it, you know why?

00:25:21.640 Because it's based on credit and they have better credit than everybody else.

00:25:24.120 So these are the facts they conveniently wipe away.

00:25:26.580 They don't want to talk about Asian Americans, you know, because it completely blows up their

00:25:30.400 entire argument that black people, um, are being discriminated against based off of the

00:25:34.160 color of their skin.

00:25:35.020 You know, most of these circumstances, especially when you talk about bank loans, we have bad

00:25:38.480 credit.

00:25:39.120 Why should someone loan you money?

00:25:40.380 And if you actually look at the statistics, I've been reading this book, um, currently, uh,

00:25:44.420 Dr. Thomas Sowell's race intellectuals, and he just debunks all of these myths over

00:25:48.700 and over again and gives you the, the concrete facts.

00:25:51.400 Another part they don't want to tell you is that black people are more discriminated against 0.73

00:25:54.540 in black banks than anywhere else.

00:25:56.620 You know, so it's, it's all about like society likes us divided.

00:26:00.240 They like people to have an excuse to get through life.

00:26:02.580 And I exist just trying to disrupt that narrative because it's not healthy for people on either

00:26:07.120 side.

00:26:08.060 That, that is exactly right.

00:26:09.280 Because it's funny when you mentioned, they say the wage gap and they compare everything

00:26:12.940 to white men and you say, you know, when you look at median income, according to the Bureau

00:26:18.100 of Labor Statistics, white men are not at the top, uh, the top earners in wages.

00:26:22.760 They'll say, well, why, why are you talking about the Asians?

00:26:25.100 Why are you bringing that up?

00:26:26.080 And you say, look, I didn't bring it up, man.

00:26:28.080 I'm not the one who's talking about these racial categories.

00:26:30.820 You are.

00:26:31.460 But, and so they bring them up, but then they get everything even then wrong.

00:26:35.160 They get it all backwards.

00:26:36.280 The wildest thing to me, there were two amazing things about that video.

00:26:40.420 One is that it's all these white girls shrieking F white supremacy, which in itself is demonstrating 0.98

00:26:47.340 white supremacy, right? 0.99

00:26:48.680 They, they are the white supremacists.

00:26:50.640 But then the other aspect is when they, they run out of their tired slogans and they just

00:26:55.940 started screaming sounds.

00:26:58.380 It was like demons mawing in hell, you know?

00:27:01.460 That's what it sounded like.

00:27:02.720 Why?

00:27:03.380 Blood curdling shrieks like, I was like, this is what I would imagine hell was like, you

00:27:08.300 know, like if you were just down there, like if Satan was in your soul, you would just

00:27:12.020 start shrieking.

00:27:12.700 It was blood curdling.

00:27:13.720 It's like, it wasn't even animalistic.

00:27:15.520 It was something entirely of another world.

00:27:17.840 That's right.

00:27:18.220 You know, and what was that?

00:27:20.360 Well, that's what I wonder.

00:27:21.680 Does that tell us something?

00:27:23.020 I mean, you were there, you're the one who experienced it.

00:27:25.180 Does it tell us something about the left?

00:27:26.700 Does it tell us something about their arguments?

00:27:28.420 Why are they, you know, I was waiting for them to say like, what have you to do with us,

00:27:32.120 Candace Owens?

00:27:32.880 You know, what does that, what does that tell you about where the left is right now?

00:27:37.320 You know, to me, it's very clear that they're losing.

00:27:39.640 So in the same week, we saw the Rasmussen poll that was released, which said that black

00:27:43.400 support has doubled for Donald Trump since this exact same time last year.

00:27:48.040 That's really significant because the left, since he has stepped in office, how many times

00:27:52.260 do you think if we had to count, if you and I had to count on MSNBC and on CNN, how many

00:27:56.660 times they have said the word racist and racism, we wouldn't be able to count.

00:28:00.640 I can't count that high, okay?

00:28:02.320 So, and yes, despite that, despite them aggressively pushing this narrative, black people are embracing

00:28:09.520 Donald Trump.

00:28:10.540 And that goes to show you that it's not working anymore.

00:28:12.880 That's falling on deaf ears.

00:28:14.500 You can't, you can only say it, but so many times before, at least for me, it was just

00:28:17.680 like, okay, everything can't be racist.

00:28:19.360 I mean, anything that happens to a black person is called racist.

00:28:22.260 We saw this week, LeBron James scandal.

00:28:25.160 It's okay. 1.00

00:28:25.740 You can think that a black person is dumb. 1.00

00:28:27.620 You can think that a white person is dumb. 1.00

00:28:29.020 That could not be based off of their skin color. 1.00

00:28:31.160 It could be based on their IQ.

00:28:32.660 I mean, there's strong evidence to support the claim that Maxine Waters is a low IQ individual.

00:28:37.720 You know, so.

00:28:38.740 You're telling me.

00:28:39.780 You are telling me.

00:28:41.620 No, that's absolutely right.

00:28:43.000 I do think they're clearly desperate.

00:28:45.220 They're seeing their divisive coalition breaking apart right before their eyes.

00:28:50.360 And that's where the scream comes from.

00:28:51.860 They don't, they, they've run out of slogans and lies and they just, it's this, this scream.

00:28:56.500 But before I let you go, because I know I've got to let you go, I, I would be remiss if

00:29:01.040 I didn't bring up my favorite conspiracy theory on the internet, which is that that video

00:29:05.840 of you with all the white girls yelling at you really secretly, you staged all of that.

00:29:11.880 You paid the cops, you staged everything, uh, because it's, I think it's basically left

00:29:16.860 wing trutherism.

00:29:18.440 Yeah.

00:29:19.020 Yeah.

00:29:19.320 What do you, what do you have to say to that?

00:29:20.540 That was so crazy.

00:29:22.060 And I was like, explain to me, because actually the Washington Post called us and CNN called

00:29:26.260 us asking us to answer that claim.

00:29:28.640 And, you know, Charlie was so angry.

00:29:30.560 He got so angry at the question that he calls me up and he says, okay, could you actually

00:29:34.780 call them?

00:29:35.260 Because I'm going to lose my on the phone.

00:29:37.020 And so, so I called them and I'm like, you know what?

00:29:40.000 I was like, I'm not even going to answer the question.

00:29:41.380 I want you to actually tell me how we could have staged it.

00:29:44.860 Like just create it for me.

00:29:45.840 How could we have done it?

00:29:46.580 I call the police officers.

00:29:47.960 I call Antifa.

00:29:48.600 I'm like, I know you hate us.

00:29:49.560 Let's just work together to get this done.

00:29:51.600 I mean, it was just nonsense.

00:29:52.640 And in the person on the phone, uh, the Washington Post editor couldn't come up with this scenario.

00:29:56.180 I was like, do you understand how implausible it is that we created this scenario and colluded

00:30:00.480 with Antifa to come harass us and colluded with the police officers and, uh, the restaurant

00:30:06.880 owner who gave a statement and said, I didn't know what was going on.

00:30:09.580 They just saw people at the window throwing things at them.

00:30:12.340 And I, and the funniest part, which nobody's talking about is that, uh, the restaurant

00:30:16.100 owner says, I thought they were vegans outside.

00:30:20.520 Yeah.

00:30:20.920 They're very nice to the chickens and the fish, you know, that that's it.

00:30:25.340 I'm sure I'm, yeah, you would have had to collude with everybody.

00:30:27.680 You probably would have colluded with the Russians too.

00:30:30.200 What I think what it is, is that the reality is stranger than the fiction.

00:30:34.080 They try, remember our, our pal, Ali Stuckey did that fake interview with Ocasio-Cortez.

00:30:38.960 That satire. 1.00

00:30:39.860 And they said, you're making Ocasio-Cortez look stupid. 1.00

00:30:43.780 You said, we don't need, we don't need to make Ocasio-Cortez look stupid. 1.00

00:30:46.980 We don't need to make these lefties look racist and crazy. 1.00

00:30:50.620 They, they do just fine by themselves. 0.99

00:30:53.460 Right.

00:30:53.920 And that's exactly it.

00:30:54.980 And what I think is good though, is that it really, it's, it's, it was such a strong

00:30:58.400 case.

00:30:58.760 Those images are so vivid of seeing these white girls shriek and these white guys shriek. 0.64

00:31:02.860 And it actually helps us more than it hurts us.

00:31:05.260 So I would just, I'm so happy with it because so many people that were on the left wrote

00:31:09.100 to me and said, I don't recognize my party anymore.

00:31:11.400 You know, this is where I draw a line in the sand.

00:31:13.540 So, and this is how, no Democrat politician spoke out against it, by the way.

00:31:17.740 So we'll see what comes of it.

00:31:19.080 But I think that stuff like this, the crazier they get, the more desperate they get.

00:31:22.180 It just helps our cause.

00:31:23.540 Absolutely right.

00:31:24.340 Well, it's really great work.

00:31:25.600 I hope you get your hearing back from all those blowhorns and whistles.

00:31:28.920 I'll let you go.

00:31:29.760 I know you just landed in Arizona, but as always, Candace, very good to talk to you.

00:31:33.820 And you're the, you're the one exception.

00:31:35.520 I'll have no white supremacists on my show except for you. 0.97

00:31:39.100 Yes.

00:31:39.880 Thank you.

00:31:40.960 Talk to you later, Candace.

00:31:42.420 Bye-bye.

00:31:44.220 All right.

00:31:44.760 I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:31:46.200 If we haven't been shut off yet after yesterday's show, if you are on dailywire.com, thank you

00:31:51.420 very much.

00:31:51.920 You help keep the lights on and covfefe in my cup.

00:31:54.300 If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go to dailywire.com right now.

00:31:57.080 Why?

00:31:57.580 Why you ask?

00:31:58.240 Well, you get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:32:01.080 You get to ask questions in the mailbag.

00:32:02.280 That's coming up right now.

00:32:03.600 You get to ask questions in the conversation.

00:32:05.560 I'm the one next.

00:32:06.340 I think that's next week.

00:32:07.620 And most importantly of all, you get this.

00:32:10.880 This is very important because when white lefty girls are triggered and upset by that 1.00

00:32:18.320 black white supremacist, Candace Owens, you're going to, I lost the train somewhere. 0.97

00:32:23.300 I don't, I haven't quite followed it. 0.99

00:32:24.620 You're going to need the leftist years tumbler.

00:32:26.040 Otherwise you're going to drown.

00:32:26.760 Go to dailywire.com.

00:32:27.920 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:32:29.240 All right, let's do it.

00:32:40.780 We've got to run through these.

00:32:41.960 As always, we're running late.

00:32:43.400 From Larry.

00:32:44.340 My name is Damaris, ah, for the A's.

00:32:49.480 All right.

00:32:50.180 New subscriber here, and I love your show.

00:32:51.840 Your bit today about the leftist tears from Ohio had me in tears laughing.

00:32:54.820 I would like to get your opinion on what makes the Democratic Party think that if they throw

00:32:58.140 a fit long enough or loud enough that they'll get their way.

00:33:01.300 I look at them in pity because every time I see them throwing a fit makes me think of little

00:33:05.520 kids at the store throwing themselves on the floor demanding their way. 0.95

00:33:08.500 And then I see a bunch of parents, Republicans, dragging their butts to the car and giving

00:33:12.440 them a whooping, but then they don't come back any different.

00:33:15.580 It's a bit daunting for me to see.

00:33:17.140 I know y'all see it more than me, but what's your take on it?

00:33:20.700 That's exactly why.

00:33:21.860 The analogy is exactly right because the Democrats today, basically the whole party and certainly

00:33:27.480 the left wing of the party, which accounts for about 99.7% of it, behave like children.

00:33:33.480 They behave like little children.

00:33:34.640 And why is that?

00:33:35.440 Why do little children misbehave? 0.69

00:33:37.680 Well, because they're morally ignorant, so they're not, you know, they do bad things.

00:33:43.560 They are tempted to do bad things and they're not really at an age of reason. 0.98

00:33:48.000 And two, because they're poorly educated.

00:33:50.660 They're not really educated, so they don't know very much.

00:33:52.820 The same holds true of Democrats these days.

00:33:54.760 They're very credentialed Democrats these days.

00:33:56.740 They usually have degrees from good colleges or a lot of different degrees.

00:34:00.720 But the quality of the education is so bad that the trouble is not what they don't know,

00:34:05.960 but all of the things that they know that just ain't so, like in history or political

00:34:10.180 philosophy or broadly in public policy.

00:34:14.480 You know, over 50% of millennials identify as socialist.

00:34:18.260 All of those millennials, virtually all of them, were born after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:34:21.960 They don't remember the horrors of communism.

00:34:23.980 They don't remember these things.

00:34:25.620 And because they don't realize that life existed before they were born, they fall right into

00:34:30.760 all of those traps.

00:34:31.920 Excuse me.

00:34:33.340 A few too many stogies.

00:34:34.680 They fall right into all of those traps.

00:34:37.440 You've really got to, like with a child, be patient.

00:34:40.760 You know, educate them.

00:34:42.000 Have a little tough love.

00:34:42.800 You don't want to torture them.

00:34:43.780 You don't want to be too harsh.

00:34:45.080 Just have a little tough love.

00:34:46.360 And I think we're seeing this happen right now.

00:34:49.300 There's a big growing up that's going on right now.

00:34:51.840 President Trump's approval ratings are quite high.

00:34:53.840 People are seeing that freedom works.

00:34:56.480 I think all around the country we're doing pretty well.

00:34:59.240 So hopefully we can keep that up.

00:35:01.380 From Joel.

00:35:02.360 Thanks for being an Ask Me Anything guest at the New Right Network.

00:35:05.240 Now on to my mailbag question.

00:35:07.080 You mentioned in an earlier mailbag that you would advocate for strategic voting.

00:35:10.840 I reside in Georgia and we have a huge governor's race this November.

00:35:14.820 I know Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate, is most likely going to win due to Georgia's

00:35:18.640 Republican majority against radical Stacey Adams.

00:35:21.400 But I'm considering voting for the Libertarian Party for them to gain ballot access statewide.

00:35:26.280 Our state Republican Party seems to be very swampy and does not seem to advocate for

00:35:30.140 true conservatism, whatever that is.

00:35:32.380 They declare the district where my university resides a lost cause for the Georgia GOP.

00:35:37.580 Any advice on this conundrum?

00:35:40.040 I always advocate the Buckley rule named for William F. Buckley Jr. to vote for the most

00:35:46.240 right viable candidate.

00:35:48.860 You should vote for the most right viable candidate.

00:35:51.920 So in this case that probably means voting for the Republican.

00:35:55.240 I don't know that it's a good thing for the Libertarian Party to get ballot access.

00:35:59.200 I don't know that we should have multiple parties, third parties, fourth parties.

00:36:02.560 I don't think that necessarily helps.

00:36:04.220 I don't see evidence that that helps our politics.

00:36:06.460 But for instance, if you're in a place where you've got two Democrats and a Republican,

00:36:11.840 the Republican is simply not going to win.

00:36:14.420 You know, you're surrounded by blue.

00:36:16.220 Nobody's going to vote for the Republican.

00:36:17.880 All of the evidence shows nobody's going to win.

00:36:19.560 And you've got a wacko socialist and you've got a Joe Manchin Democrat, a more moderate,

00:36:25.620 whatever that means these days.

00:36:26.600 Then I think it's perfectly right to strategically vote for the better of the two viable choices,

00:36:31.800 for the more right of the two viable choices, even if they're awful.

00:36:35.240 But in a case where you just think, oh, I don't know if that Republican is strong enough.

00:36:38.940 I think there are better ways to move the party to the right than by trying to create

00:36:44.320 a third party, for instance, or something like that.

00:36:46.000 I'm not sure that that works.

00:36:47.440 Bill Buckley famously did it in New York.

00:36:49.040 He started the Conservative Party because the GOP in New York was so far gone.

00:36:53.080 It was so unbelievably liberal.

00:36:54.960 John Lindsay, the Republican mayor candidate, eventually became a Democrat.

00:36:59.640 You know, it was that far gone.

00:37:00.480 It's still pretty bad.

00:37:01.540 So in that case, maybe a third party works.

00:37:03.540 In Georgia, I'm not sure Georgia's that bad.

00:37:05.160 I'm not familiar enough with Georgia politics on the ground level.

00:37:08.640 So you'll have to make that call.

00:37:10.120 But I think broadly, voting is about affecting certain government,

00:37:14.160 bringing about certain government, bringing about certain public policy.

00:37:16.360 It's not really about you.

00:37:17.340 It's not about you feeling really good about yourself.

00:37:19.420 So if the Republican isn't that bad, and the Libertarian Party, who knows what they will do,

00:37:25.700 then I'd vote for the Republican.

00:37:27.540 From Andy.

00:37:28.560 Hi, Michael. 0.97

00:37:29.500 I religiously hate your guts, obviously. 0.96

00:37:32.440 Obviously. 0.99

00:37:33.360 I mean, just look at you.

00:37:35.160 What's not to hate?

00:37:36.580 In all seriousness, now you said you were an atheist for 10 years from 13 to 23.

00:37:41.120 I myself have been an atheist now for seven or eight years.

00:37:43.780 I'm a conservative.

00:37:44.900 Agree with all conservative views on politics.

00:37:46.680 However, when it comes to God, I don't see any evidence whatsoever that a God or anything supernatural exists.

00:37:52.000 Literally can't find a scrap of evidence whatsoever that anything beyond the natural that we know exists.

00:37:57.800 What evidence did you see that I didn't, that showed you something supernatural does exist?

00:38:02.380 Or is it those 10 years you were being agnostic and really did believe in a higher power all those years?

00:38:08.560 Thanks.

00:38:09.120 Hate your show.

00:38:10.140 All hail Ben Shapiro.

00:38:13.560 Let me try to answer all of those questions there.

00:38:15.800 First of all, I don't think there's any such thing as an atheist.

00:38:19.420 Because when the plane starts shaking, when the bullets start flying, even the most ardent atheist starts praying.

00:38:25.720 And also, the atheists who always talk about how they're atheists, they, I don't know, I don't talk constantly about things that I don't think exist.

00:38:34.580 I don't talk about unicorns all the time, you know.

00:38:37.120 So I'm really skeptical.

00:38:38.420 I think people are in a relationship with God and they either hate God or they are angry at God or whatever.

00:38:44.340 I would have probably called myself an atheist, but I no longer think atheists really exist.

00:38:48.840 As for evidence of the supernatural, I think what you mean is the metaphysical, things beyond the physical world.

00:38:53.980 You know, this is a physical object.

00:38:55.380 Even though it has metaphysical importance, the left is tears tumbler.

00:38:59.380 Obviously, things exist beyond the physical world.

00:39:01.920 Mathematics exists.

00:39:03.180 You're not a math denier.

00:39:05.280 Probably you would say the moral order exists.

00:39:07.600 You behave in a moral way.

00:39:08.900 There's something outside of time and space that has a moral order.

00:39:14.520 There is a metaphysics to the world.

00:39:16.800 There is that which is not physical.

00:39:18.760 Ideas exist.

00:39:20.080 Ideas aren't physical.

00:39:21.340 Those are metaphysical.

00:39:23.460 Consciousness is hard to explain as a matter of just physical processes.

00:39:27.300 I don't, I don't, there's no evidence of consciousness as a physical process.

00:39:30.580 Your own thoughts, the spirit, the mind, the soul, ideas, those are all metaphysical things.

00:39:36.280 What convinced me that God exists is that the arguments for God are quite good and there isn't really a good argument against God.

00:39:43.420 There were many good arguments for God.

00:39:44.820 The one that got me, my reversion experience was a lot like C.S. Lewis's.

00:39:49.620 And I, I've been told that this is very uncommon, but it was certainly true of me and it was very similar to Lewis in that certain arguments really convinced both of us.

00:39:59.880 The ontological argument for one is a really elegant little argument that, that did in fact convince me.

00:40:06.380 But it was intellectual at first.

00:40:07.880 It was all just intellectual.

00:40:09.040 I was convinced by that argument.

00:40:10.920 There is the argument from the unmoved mover, the primary cause, the cosmological argument, the argument from beauty, the argument from consciousness.

00:40:19.280 There were, there were many, many arguments for God.

00:40:22.540 And they're all pretty compelling.

00:40:24.960 But it was slow.

00:40:25.800 I mean, it's a gradual process.

00:40:27.300 Doesn't happen overnight.

00:40:28.380 Didn't, didn't quite happen like Saul on the road to Damascus.

00:40:31.200 There was a, a general coming to.

00:40:32.980 And what are the arguments against God existing?

00:40:36.660 Pain, suffering.

00:40:37.920 I guess those are some arguments against God existing.

00:40:40.120 But, but really I think those are arguments for God.

00:40:43.060 A world with freedom will imply a world of, of sin and, and pain.

00:40:47.400 Would we prefer a world without freedom?

00:40:49.380 Would we prefer a world that isn't the best possible world?

00:40:51.440 I don't think so.

00:40:52.460 So I, I would explore those arguments first of all.

00:40:54.760 And then I would ask yourself why all of the great geniuses throughout all of human history have believed in God and a, and a pretty similar conception of God.

00:41:01.920 You might want to ask yourself that.

00:41:03.620 Some girl was talking to Antonin Scalia in New York Magazine.

00:41:06.060 She said, what, do you believe in the devil too?

00:41:08.580 And he said, yes, I do believe in the devil.

00:41:10.540 Many more intelligent people than you and I have believed in the devil.

00:41:13.640 That's important advice too.

00:41:14.920 It requires a little bit of humility.

00:41:16.740 Ask yourself this.

00:41:17.460 You say, I see no evidence for God.

00:41:18.840 God doesn't exist because I don't understand metaphysics.

00:41:21.840 I mean, you said things in that question that are demonstrably untrue, right?

00:41:25.960 That, that there, there are only physical things in the world.

00:41:28.440 You're writing that down shows that there are more than physical things in the world.

00:41:32.200 But ask yourself this.

00:41:33.920 How good are you at math?

00:41:36.000 Do you know algebra?

00:41:36.880 Do you know trigonometry?

00:41:38.220 Do you know calculus?

00:41:39.020 Do you know advanced calculus?

00:41:40.180 Do you know analysis, stochastic analysis?

00:41:42.520 Do you know, what, you don't.

00:41:44.540 Of course you don't.

00:41:45.500 Do you know advanced physics?

00:41:47.000 Do you know, no, you don't.

00:41:47.820 You have a, a pretty elementary grasp of all of those things.

00:41:51.740 Why on earth would you think that you have a grasp of God who is infinite?

00:41:56.920 That you could pin, pin down God.

00:41:58.460 That you should understand God.

00:41:59.480 Why, what would make you think that?

00:42:00.660 You can't do multivariable calculus.

00:42:02.780 What would make you think that you can understand all of metaphysics, that which created and

00:42:07.400 sustains the world?

00:42:08.460 Probably not a lot there.

00:42:10.360 I would ask yourself those things.

00:42:11.720 But you need to be humble to begin with.

00:42:13.140 You need to be humbled.

00:42:13.960 And it's very hard to be humble when you're an atheist.

00:42:17.620 There's this pridefulness that is just endemic to that affliction of the mind.

00:42:22.760 And fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, humility.

00:42:25.640 And so you'll have to go after that first.

00:42:27.440 As C.S. Lewis said, you can't look for comfort when you're looking for God.

00:42:31.440 You have to look for the truth.

00:42:33.060 If you look for truth, you might find comfort in the end.

00:42:36.120 But if you look for comfort, you'll find neither comfort or truth.

00:42:38.620 Just soft soap and with wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

00:42:42.540 So look for the truth, and I think you'll conclude what all of the great minds and spirits

00:42:47.800 of history have concluded as well.

00:42:49.640 Do we have time for one more?

00:42:50.860 I'll do like one more, maybe.

00:42:51.880 Just one more, I promise.

00:42:53.260 From Justin.

00:42:54.780 Hey, Michael.

00:42:55.260 My best friend is an alcoholic, and his parents threw him out of the house, and he is now

00:42:59.180 living with his girlfriend and her mother, who are also alcoholics.

00:43:02.020 Yikes.

00:43:02.860 He has a bachelor's degree and half a master's, and is working at a pizza place, and has dropped

00:43:06.420 out of school.

00:43:07.720 His family has told me not to talk to him about it, and that they've done everything

00:43:11.200 they can do to try and get the help he needs, and that I shouldn't talk to him about

00:43:15.900 it because it will make things worse.

00:43:17.120 Any advice?

00:43:18.860 I don't know the particulars of your relationship.

00:43:20.940 I don't know the particulars of this guy.

00:43:23.220 I just know what you've told me.

00:43:25.340 A little tough love helps.

00:43:28.380 You need tough love.

00:43:29.240 Some people think that being friends now is being pleasant, being amiable.

00:43:32.580 No way.

00:43:33.340 Sometimes you've got to be really tough with your friends, and usually it's a sign of

00:43:37.260 friendship to be really tough.

00:43:38.640 Now, what's going to work?

00:43:39.560 Is it going to work if you're just screaming at him?

00:43:41.800 I don't know.

00:43:42.220 Maybe that would work.

00:43:43.260 Is it going to work if you ease him into a conversation?

00:43:46.700 You have a kind of intervention?

00:43:47.900 I don't know.

00:43:48.360 But people don't have a respect for tough love these days.

00:43:51.900 They think it's being really mean, you know, harshing people's mellows, things like that.

00:43:55.600 But it's not.

00:43:56.400 It's not.

00:43:56.900 You need tough love, and real friends have that.

00:44:01.500 Real friends have a real honesty to them.

00:44:03.360 Shallow friendships, which I see all around, especially in this town.

00:44:06.460 I see a lot of shallow friendships.

00:44:07.760 That's when you go to brunch every so often, and you just, oh, how's the food?

00:44:10.600 Oh, it's good.

00:44:11.240 The eggs are good.

00:44:12.020 He, he, he.

00:44:12.580 You know, oh, yeah.

00:44:13.240 But real friendship is you're digging into real things.

00:44:16.020 It's two people standing next to each other, looking at the same thing, dealing really

00:44:19.860 honestly with one another.

00:44:21.260 You got, you should be honest with them.

00:44:23.320 But you, but you know that relationship.

00:44:25.160 I can't give you some doctrinal proclamation.

00:44:27.920 You got to know the relationship, because that's the substance of friendship.

00:44:30.740 Okay.

00:44:31.640 Is that it?

00:44:32.480 Sad.

00:44:32.880 Okay.

00:44:33.160 Before we go, because that's all we've got time for here, I do have to remind you, you're

00:44:37.860 going to have this weekend.

00:44:38.680 Just remember, we are shooting the second season of Another Kingdom right now.

00:44:42.440 Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:44:44.380 Which is going to be really good, so you got to make sure that you check out season one.

00:44:49.500 We're actually still live right now.

00:44:51.140 Okay.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 09, 2018

Ep. 199 - Smart People, Frivolous Press

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