Ep. 2009 - Libs Hate This： My Ancestor Gets A Statue In D.C.
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Happy 4th of July! Actually, it's the 6th, but I'm on vacation this week, and I have a lot of great stuff to show you this week. First, I was the victim of one of the most egregious, totally made-up, fake news stories I've ever seen. I was in Washington, D.C. for a bunch of events celebrating our country, including the launch of a statue of my ancestor, Simon Knowles, who fought in the revolution as a boy at age 15, as well as The America 250, a big, great American State Fair on the National Mall. But the real reason I had to pipe in is because over this event is because, one, we have to celebrate our great country. And, two, I'm a huge fan of cowboy colostrum.
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Happy 4th of July. Actually, it's the 6th of July. I hope you're all having a very good day
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three in the octave of American independence. I know that I am because I'm not even here right
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now. I know it seems like I'm here, but I'm not. I'm on vacation with my family. I'm going to be
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on vacation this week. We have a lot of really, really great stuff that I've been dying to show
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to all of you that will be coming out all week because I just can't stay away. We'll be back
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with the regular show next Monday. But I had to come on for this one because, one, we have to
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celebrate our great country. Two, I was just in Washington, D.C. for a number of great events
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celebrating our country, including the launch, the debut of a statue of my ancestor, Simon Knowles,
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who fought in the revolution as a boy at age 15, as well as the America 250, a big, great American
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State Fair on the National Mall. But the real reason I had to pipe in is because over this
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event, I was the victim of one of the most egregious, totally made up fake left-wing
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news stories I have ever seen. We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We will get to all the great festivities to celebrate our country
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while the libs are trying to downplay all of that,
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or they're going to celebrate Somali Independence Day or whatever.
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But we're at that great statue unveiling for the new Freedom Plaza,
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I was there with Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary Brooke Rollins,
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who really deserves the credit for this beautiful display.
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code Knowles, cowboycolostrum.com slash Knowles. I was over the 250 celebrations. I was the victim
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of one of the most egregious bits of fake news I've seen in a while. I go to DC. I'm there to
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interview Vice President J.D. Vance. That interview came out last week, obviously made a lot of news.
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Then I go straight from that. I said, you know what? I got a little bit of time. I'll swing by
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the Great American State Fair. And they asked me if I would hop up for just a little bit and play
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the yes or no game for the people who are walking by or coming through. This is, I don't know what,
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at six o'clock, 6.30 PM, something like that. So I go up, I say, okay, anybody who's walking by,
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anybody who's in the crowd, if you want to come up, play the yes or no game, let's do it. And
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we'll show you some clips. We've got some great people, got a Democrat came up. I got heckled by
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some Democrat who then the minute I called him out, he just ran away. There was a Democrat-shaped
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hole in the wall when he was just running away from me. It was big, intimidating me. But we had
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some really good exchanges and the best exchange. I said, okay, anybody else, I got to go, but
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anybody else want to come up, play the yes or no game? And this little girl, this sweet little girl,
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10 years old, says, I want to play the game. So I said, okay, great. So she comes on up
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and we're pulling the cards for the game. And what was so funny is this girl was better at the game.
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She had better political insight than anybody else who was playing it. Maybe better than anyone
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else I've ever played it with. And so one of the cards, the prompt was the Salem witch trials did
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not go far enough. And I'm playing as this little 10 year old girl. And I say, okay, guess what I
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would say and she doesn't miss a beat she goes you would say yes and i said you're right why would
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i say yes and she goes wait for it because there are witches i go can this girl be my co-host from
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now on i mean this girl is saying she goes oh yes i could i yeah i'd love to and she was just so
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great and so then we were talking about this kind of explaining the whole thing and it's a little
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bit tongue-in-cheek but we're we're describing what the salem witch trials were and how there
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are all these like witchy women. You know, they go on TikTok and say, I'm a witch and I worship
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the moon and I, whatever. So we were kind of joking about this, going back and forth on that.
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And that was that. Then I said, okay, I got to go. This is fun. Nice to see everybody. I leave.
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The New Republic, which I think it was because Media Matters did a hit on this first,
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but then The New Republic picked it up. New Republic used to be a somewhat prestigious
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magazine on the left. And then it basically went out of business like 10 years ago.
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it was like a tongue in cheek exchange in a game.
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But I said, what's crazy is they couldn't even get the basic fact right, which is that we weren't debating at all.
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So I think, I don't know, one of our press agents writes to New Republic says that wasn't, you just got it totally wrong.
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I don't know, maybe they didn't want to get sued or something.
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I mean, many, many more people will see this because I'm talking about it on the show than ever read The New Republic.
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I think I'm pretty in the mainstream, but it's always far right.
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An Antifa guy can go blow up a school, and they'll say, well, you know, just a regular old Democrat.
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And then a conservative says, hey, I kind of like Trump or whatever.
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But anyway, it's a far right host at Trump State Fair lectures kid on the Salem Witch Trials,
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which is also not true. In fact, the kid lectured me and then we talked about it and then I spoke
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about it a little bit too. But it's so funny because they even in their correction got it
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totally wrong. It was this very sweet, very smart little girl who made the point. She was the one
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who advanced the thesis, there are witches. And then we talked about what that means and what
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witchcraft is and what these kinds of identities that crop up in history, what they talk about.
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So it's just completely, totally wrong. Not surprising, but it really took me back because
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the liberal media, since President Trump's re-election, especially since the re-election
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with the popular vote, they've been a little bit on their heels. They realized, shoot, we don't have
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any credibility anymore. They lost a ton of credibility after they lied about Trump in 2016.
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they lost all the rest of their credibility after they lied about COVID. I think that was what
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really did it for them, coupled with the George Floyd riots, where they'll be standing in front
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of a burning building saying, these are fiery, but mostly peaceful protests. I mean, they just,
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their credibility collapsed. And so they've been playing it a little more cautiously recently,
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but this to me, this was a throwback to 2016. I mean, you remember they were just making up
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stories about Trump. Trump is colluding with the Russians. Trump called Nazis fine people
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at Charlottesville. They would run these headlines that were the opposite of the truth. Trump was
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harder on Russia than his Democrat predecessors. And Trump explicitly said at Charlottesville,
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I'm not talking about Nazis. They're not fine people. They should be disavowed totally.
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And anyway, it was just, it was a real throwback. In some ways it was nostalgic
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that they totally lied. To this day, they totally lied about me and that event. No surprise there.
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I take it as a badge of honor. But in any case, I don't want to harp too much on the libs because
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this is 4th of July week. So I want to get to some of American history. The reason this statue
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came about for my ancestor, but a bunch of other people too, is because they wanted to do an
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installation for the ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution. Most people can name George
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Washington, maybe Lafayette. If you're a real history buff, you could name Nathaniel Green,
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John Stark. But we just think of a handful of these heroes of the revolution, the big officers,
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the big figures. What about the ordinary soldiers? There were a little over, I think it was 230,000
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men enlisted in the Continental Army. 48,000 of them served at any given time. And these are the
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guys who signed up often as kids. They made no money. Even if they were promised pay, the pay
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rarely came. They were starving throughout the whole war. My ancestor, Simon, he was there from
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Bunker Hill to Newburgh. So he was there through the whole war, 1775 to 1783. These guys barely
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to get paid. They leave afterward. He was discharged by Washington. He went back and
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became a farmer, as did most of these guys. And then finally, in 1832, Congress decided to try
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to give him a little bit of money shortly before they died. A lot of these guys had already died
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at that point. And they didn't do it for the money. They didn't do it for glory. They didn't
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do it for fame. Because they didn't get any of those things. Now, there are a handful of statues
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in DC, thanks to the Trump administration, to honor these kinds of men. But there were so many
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other men who don't have statues. And this, I think, is really important because statistically
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none of us is going to be George Washington, okay? Statistically none of us is going to be
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Alexander Hamilton or John Stark, even John Stark or Nathaniel Green who are lesser known.
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But we all can be those ordinary men, those ordinary men who did extraordinary things in
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the American Revolution. We can do that with a spirit of service, with a care for the common
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good with a patriotism and a love of country that recognizes that there is something greater than
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ourselves that we have an obligation to. And that by so doing, we really can earn, maybe in 250
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years, we'll get statues, but it's not for the statue. What we can do is we can earn a place
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next to them in virtue and in giving to the country. So anyway, here is that delightful
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event with the statues right by the White House in D.C. Thank you so much. It's a superlative
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honor and pleasure to be here with all of you. And on behalf of the Knowles family, I'd just
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like to thank all of you so very much from the bottom of my heart, especially, of course, Vince,
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Matthew, Secretary Rollins, Secretary Burgum. I can't forget Brittany and Lily
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and everybody else who's been involved in this. My father Tim is here today. My
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late-grandfather George is largely responsible for discovering the
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documentation around our great-great-great-great-great-grandpa
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Simon's service in the war. Simon signed up at 15 years old. He fought at the
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Battle of Bunker Hill with his father John and Simon went on to serve
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throughout the entire war. He was discharged with Washington in 1783 and
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until this morning there there was no monument to Simon's service. There was a
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small epitaph on a headstone in the middle of nowhere Maine that said four
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words, Soldier of the Revolution. That's all it said. Simon Knowles, Soldier of the
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Revolution. The only reason we know anything about his service is because
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Congress, decades and decades after the war, after many of them had died, they came around to giving
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those brave patriots a small pension. And from the pension application written in many of their own
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hands, we can learn a little bit about their service, who they served under, where they were.
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We learn about the sword that Simon inherited from his father who died after Bunker Hill. And
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that's about all we know. These were unsung heroes. These were ordinary soldiers. And these are the
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men who built our country alongside the handful of great glorious names that we know and it brings
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me all back to a line that president trump whom i also have to thank for for everything he's doing
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for our country especially restoring uh a recognition of the glories of our past with a
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look toward our future there's a line from president trump on the campaign trail last time
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that really stuck out with me it may have been when he was serving fries at that mcdonald's it
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it was one of the stops, someone came up to him and said,
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And I think we see that in an exemplary fashion today
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most of whose names no one has really ever heard of.
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and these are the men who built our country and they might have been unsung for hundreds of years,
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most of them will be unsung for hundreds of years more, but it's a reflection for all of us I think
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today to look around at these men and their example and to recognize that there's no such
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thing as an ordinary person, there's no such thing as an ordinary American, and we need to look to
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their example to do our part to fulfill whatever role it is that we have in life, whether we're
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working at the White House, whether we're working a job that doesn't get a lot of attention or a lot
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of praise, to do our part, to contribute to our country such that we can live an extraordinary
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life. And maybe 250 years from now, we can merit the same kind of recognition. Maybe we could merit
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a statue alongside these brave patriots. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be with all of you.
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God bless and God bless America. Wonderful event. I really, really am deeply grateful to the Trump
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administration and everyone who was there, Vince Haley and the cabinet secretaries and everyone
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who made this happen, Brittany Baldwin and Lilly and all the other people who made that happen.
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I do, I guess we got to get to the yes or no game that caused so much consternation on the left,
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so much so that they ran a completely fake headline in the New Republic about it.
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Here we have my quick little visit to the great American state fair, including my now infamous
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exchange about witchcraft with the smartest little 10-year-old girl I think I've ever met.
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It's wonderful to be with all of you. I also have a bunch of merch. Can I give anybody merch? Okay.
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He didn't have a microphone on, but he yelled out,
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you're a disgrace, and he flipped, he waved to me.
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But it was a one-finger wave, and then like a lot of
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Democrat critics I've found, he immediately ran in the other direction.
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There was like a that-guy-shaped hole in the wall on the proscenium.
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Then I bet you're going to tell me why I'm wrong.
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Now, some of them were Freemasons in the 1770s, that's true, though the number is kind of overstated.
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But I would go further back, and I would say the country was founded, really, by radical Calvinists.
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The answer you gave was that the country was founded by Freemasons.
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It was founded by, you know, pilgrims on the Mayflower.
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And a lot of these, there were even a couple of Catholics in there, not that many.
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But it was a kind of a rich and varied religious background of the country.
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But it had all sorts of varieties, from, you know, Catholics all the way up to these Freemasonic deists.
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Yeah, I think Thomas Jefferson was a deist, as I remember it.
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As is my sister out there, who's a big fan of yours.
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The reason I can't be Eastern Orthodox, and you can?
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So I'm crossing in and out between New Jersey and Pennsylvania quite frequently.
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Now, I shouldn't know that probably, but I found out I was conceived at the Jersey Shore, as were many of us.
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So you mentioned you were the one Democrat, other than the guy who yelled at me,
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you were the one who stood up and said, I'll come on the stage.
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Because you're clearly a very patriotic Democrat.
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What do you think about the state of the party?
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I think that currently a lot of the Democratic officials, especially the ones in Congress, they're too focused on trying to oppose Trump performatively as opposed to doing large-scale social action.
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And I also think that our current Democratic Party is too, like, reluctant and hesitant to take on the issues that a lot of the base supports much more to the party elites from New York.
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I totally agree with you. What do you think the issues are?
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I think the biggest issue is, like, as you know, Zoran Mabdani is the mayor of New York City.
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He is very popular, especially with his social issues.
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But a lot of those mainstream Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were just so hesitant to endorse him,
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even though the party base in the state of New York wanted him to win a lot more than Andrew Cuomo or obviously Curtis Slewell because he's a Republican.
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But they're just way too hesitant to take on, you know, a positive stance, at least in my view, of like racial issues,
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like the issues of gender and like uh gay rights issues i thought you were gonna say the opposite
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i mean i'm not surprised you like mom donnie and some of the more populous yeah he's for like young
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people and i'm a college student myself i thought you were gonna say that the problem with the dems
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right now is they're not focusing on like meat and potatoes labor issues you know wages health
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care i think that too i think that like i said i'm sorry i'm so sorry to interrupt by the way
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I think that we're too single-minded on trying to oppose Trump, which is what the opposition party in any country should do, is oppose the current party in power.
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But we're doing it in such a manner where there's not any feasible action, as opposed to just, we're going to put out a strongly worded letter, we're going to put this on Instagram.
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So on the issues you talked about, racial issues, gender issues, what legislation do you want to see from the Dems?
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Are we talking about transgender surgeries for kids or something?
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Like, if you look at the Respect for Marriage Act, for instance,
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I think that was a large milestone in recognizing the validity of same-sex marriages
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But I think that we should use more defining action,
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especially with, like, prejudice in schools and the workplace
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and in public and that like especially on gender issues with women with the wage
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gap and potentially being I'm sorry I'm stumbling over my words a little bit
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you know potentially being harassed in school or the workplace I think we need
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more recognizable action for that do you think that your party the Democrat
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Party will do better in elections if they focus more on racial issues and on
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the gender ideology? I don't think so, no. I agree. I don't think so. You know, it's sort of a pipe
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dream for me to want that, but I don't think so. I think if we focus more on, like, the cost of
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how much it takes to take care of your families or, like, gasoline prices, you know, electricity
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bills, I think the biggest things that we have right now are affordability and making sure that
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people are able to keep or get a job yeah if I were a Democrat which is very
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hard to imagine but if I were a Democrat I would advise the campaigns if they
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want to win to focus on that and and not maybe play it a little cooler on the
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trans issues and that kind of stuff yeah that's what tends to turn especially
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like older Democrats off from that sort of thing because they're just not you
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know as accustomed to seeing or hearing about the trans issues and it's sort of
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hard for them to accept those people yeah yeah and I I agree with that they're
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not as hip to trans stuff as young people like me and you yeah okay all
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right let's get to at least one more okay oh here's one the CIA is a force
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for good what would I say see that's a toughie because that one's kind of
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nuanced. I have a feeling that you would say no. I'm totally cleaning up. Mr. Davies, do I win
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anything if I keep getting all these points? No. Do you want my credit card? Nothing. Will you buy
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me a drink later? Maybe. Okay. You want my credit card? Could I get your credit card? I have an
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affordability crisis at the hotel bar. I actually think this is a very unpopular view on the right
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right now. I think generally speaking, the CIA actually is a force for good. And they've done
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plenty of bad things. And there have been a lot of bad apples. And they did like drug people in
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the 70s. They like, I guess, kidnapped people and forced them to get diseases. That was early on.
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And like Guatemala, I think. Yeah, when they kidnapped the Guatemalan communists, that's
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actually one of my favorite things they did so I don't count that one against them but you know
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drugging American citizens on the homeland that stuff's not great but overall yeah I do think
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there is a little a tad bit too much conspiracy theorizing on the right and I think the reason
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why we got a lot of that in recent years is because all of our public officials lied to us
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during COVID so I think that the conspiracy theories are kind of justified but the idea
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that the CIA is full of a bunch of lizard people who are like secretly controlling the entire world
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I don't really buy that, because having met some of these people,
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I don't think they're competent enough to actually do that.
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like every fourth thing they do just goes horribly wrong.
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If I get one out of three, I can make the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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This one is clearly written by my producer. The Protestant work ethic is the reason for
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American prosperity. Can I ask a question? Yes. Could you describe the Protestant work ethic?
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I can't, no, but probably my producer can. It's the idea, there's a long tradition of this,
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That those lazy Mediterranean Catholics are good for nothing and they just nap all day and drink wine
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Whereas the Protestants from the cold northern countries actually get up for work and they're really capitalist and Calvinist
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Predestination somehow plays into that and anyway, that's why they build great industries in America
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That's the theory and what would it would my answer be I would say
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again since you're catholic i feel like you would say no because that kind of digs at your religion
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yeah but look i i dig it the catholics a lot too i would i would say no but the only i think the
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protestant work ethic did actually contribute a ton to american prosperity i think so too
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especially because like we were kind of a protestant nation to begin with especially with
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our leaders some say but i i know i think it does because the protestants are kind of more
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get up and go when it comes to capitalism. They are. There's no doubt about it. The only reason
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I would hesitate is that I think that the real reason for American prosperity is because the
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founding fathers, they gave us this brilliant revolution that was not really a revolution.
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Even at the time of the revolution, you have guys like Edmund Burke, the founder of Anglo-American
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conservatism. Edmund Burke arguing in parliament, saying, guys, the Americans, they're not radicals,
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They're asserting themselves in their traditions,
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this balancing of the judiciary and the executive
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is actually in accord more with Catholic teaching
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So I don't want to kind of be guilty of historical revisionism, you know, like we was the founders or whatever.
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But like in a weird way, the American blueprint is deeply Catholic, even though a lot of the founders were not totally aware of it.
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I think that like a lot of the like, especially since the American Revolution was not your typical revolution,
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a lot of the revolutions that you end up seeing
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throughout history are more like class revolutions.
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Whereas the American Revolution wasn't a class revolution.
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were already in kind of entrenched aristocracy.
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going up against what was the nobility and the aristocracy.
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So if you're a Mamdani guy, that means you probably want that other kind of revolution.
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I think that if we wanted a revolution in this country, we should do it bloodlessly
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because everyone in this country deserves a fair America.
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Well, I'm glad I'm not going to spill any blood.
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Now that you told me you're not going to kill me,
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and someone who's like 10 years old walks up to me
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and says, like, you know, I love watching the show.
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And I say, this is indoctrination of the best kind.
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Elizabeth, I know a lady never tells her age, but how old are you?
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America should take over Mexico to restore law and order.
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What does a 10-year-old girl in a MAGA hat
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It's like all of the wisdom of the crowd is just in you.
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Because Mexico is not really the sort of thing that you kind of want.
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And what a beautifully articulate way to put it.
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Mexico is just not the sort of thing that I want.
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And yet you have a better sense of history and politics than most university graduates.
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Because, well, I think it was Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson that said baseball,
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is life or baseball is america it it was a really famous sport that time um and it was one of the
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first ones and they really liked it so so true i yes it is unfortunately today now that we're
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a big decade in empire people like uh football and stuff more than and like gladiatorial combat
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some of which we saw on the white house well not that long ago they like that more than baseball
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Because baseball takes a long time, and it's kind of boring, and it's more cerebral.
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But I think to restore America to greatness, we need more baseball.
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Well, this one providentially pertains to young women.
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yes oh you're so smart it's crazy why why would you say that the salem witch trials did not go
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preach can you are you available monday through friday to be the co-host on my show
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Because we've brought a lot of people onto the show in the past.
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They get some things right. They don't go far enough.
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But the actual answer as to why they didn't go far enough is there really are witches.
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And now the one area, not to sound like a big liberal,
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but the one area where the Salem witch trials went a little far is, I would say,
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So you had these, like, random judges, you know, kind of burning these ladies.
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But I think more, if it were more formalized, built up a little bit more, maybe with like a Grand Inquisitor or something, that would have been a better way to do it.
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Looking forward to fireworks and drinks and hot dogs.
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I hope you're all having a very good 4th of July week.
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I certainly am at the beach, not here right now,