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00:02:21.980 since we were kids, we all thought the future would bring us flying cars. And then every year,

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00:02:41.660 Elon finally gave us a flying car and it's awesome. It's even cooler than you thought

00:02:46.700 it would be. It's really amazing. We'll get to it. Then President Trump cancels a live streamed

00:02:51.480 execution. The execution is still going to go on. It's still going to be public, but no longer

00:02:55.400 live streamed. James Tallarico tries to walk back some of his craziest policies, and Tucker Carlson

00:03:01.760 weighs in on the attractiveness of horses, and he actually has a point. I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:06.260 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:21.480 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of new products, it's not just Elon with the flying

00:03:28.740 car. Apple has some new device, some new product for your home. And I've watched a commercial now

00:03:36.180 a couple of times. I have no idea what the product is really, but I do know that they're

00:03:40.640 trying to sell us the absolute worst vision of society I think I've ever seen. And so to help me

00:03:47.620 weigh in on these visions of society. You know, I don't know. We're kind of we're kind of feeling

00:03:52.840 a little down in the dumps. And I want someone to just brighten my day. I want to bring on a nice

00:03:58.000 chipper, optimistic personality for Friend Friday to just help me see the glass is half full, you

00:04:03.580 know. And who better to do that than my friend Matt Walsh? Matt, thank you for waking up early,

00:04:10.740 coming on the show, brightening me up a little bit. Before we get into the Apple commercial,

00:04:15.660 I want to talk about this public execution because I know I can always rely on you for a nice, sober, moderated, temperate take on any political issue.

00:04:28.380 President Trump has just announced Nidal Malik Hassan, former U.S. Army major turned traitor, is a very bad and evil man who killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier who died along with her unborn son and injured very seriously 32 more innocent people.

00:04:41.200 Barack Hussein Obama's FBI intercepted electronic communications between him and a radical Yemeni

00:04:47.080 cleric. When reviewed by his FBI terrorism task force, investigators concluded Hassan's emails

00:04:51.660 were not a threat. So he kind of goes on about how much he hates Obama and a lot of other issues

00:04:57.060 he has with other people. Then he says, look, we're still going to execute him in accordance

00:05:01.040 with justice. Worst attack on an American military base ever, at least a worst terrorist attack,

00:05:06.900 but we're not going to live stream it. Your tape.

00:05:13.340 I think this is one of the sloppiest and most ridiculous things I can remember seeing 0.98

00:05:19.940 certainly out of this White House or maybe any ever. It really is. I know it doesn't actually 0.98

00:05:27.680 matter because nothing matters anymore and everyone will forget about this by approximately

00:05:32.620 three o'clock this afternoon. But still, I mean, here's what I put aside the issue of whether or

00:05:37.940 not you should live stream the execution, because I think that there are arguments for it against it.

00:05:42.440 Certainly, the execution should happen. I'm very happy that this guy is going to be executed. 0.83

00:05:46.000 Should have happened a long time ago. That's my only complaint about that. But yes, he deserves 0.92

00:05:50.040 to be executed. Whether or not you think that he should be publicly executed. My question is, 0.99

00:05:55.060 how do you end up here where the president via social media has to announce that, okay,

00:06:03.060 actually, we're not going to kill him publicly? So what happened? There are two scenarios here

00:06:08.120 that I can imagine. One is that the secretary of war, Pete Exeth, just kind of off the cuff,

00:06:16.580 on his own, with no authorization, sort of floated the idea that, hey, maybe we'll kill 0.87

00:06:21.900 him publicly. And then later, the president had to backtrack on that. If that's what happened, 0.86

00:06:28.020 then Pete Exeth should be immediately fired because that would be a ridiculous thing for 0.61

00:06:32.160 a cabinet secretary to just announce that we're going to maybe do a public execution. 0.57

00:06:37.720 Live streamed. Not just public. It'll stay public, but yeah, live stream it for all the world to see.

00:06:42.220 Live streamed.

00:06:42.660 Little kids, yeah.

00:06:43.640 So, right. But I don't think that's what happened. So I can assume that he must have

00:06:49.580 had authorization to announce that. And so they must have had some kind of discussion behind the

00:06:56.700 scenes where they talked about doing this. And so then you would know, you could anticipate that,

00:07:03.260 of course, there's going to be some backlash. I mean, nothing that happened between the

00:07:07.440 announcement of the public execution and right now was at all surprising. So did they sit around

00:07:13.300 and come up with this idea and everybody assumed that, oh yeah, this is going to get unanimous

00:07:18.120 disapproval. Everyone is going to love this. This is going to be the most popular thing we ever did.

00:07:23.560 And then when it turns out that a lot of people are upset, they're like, well, I had no idea people

00:07:27.940 would be upset. I guess we have to backtrack. I just don't get it. I mean, if you're going to do

00:07:32.300 something like this, you have to be thoughtful going into it before you announce it. Be very

00:07:37.800 thoughtful, be very decisive, and have thought through all of the very obvious backlash that's

00:07:42.960 going to come and be prepared for that and be ready to see it through to the end in spite of it.

00:07:48.120 Um, and so this just makes it seem like it was like they didn't really even talk about it that

00:07:52.880 much. I don't get that. Can we pull up the post again from president Trump? So I think you're

00:08:00.040 right. I mean, the people who are saying, oh, this was all Pete Hegseth's fault. It was all

00:08:03.200 off the cuff. I think that's ridiculous. They're trying to scapegoat Hegseth. No, there's no way 0.98

00:08:08.420 that the secretary of war made this announcement without some conversation with somebody else at

00:08:13.500 the White House. But Trump actually kind of cops to that in the post, I think. He says, where is

00:08:19.920 it? With all of that being said, I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a

00:08:25.880 strong deterrent for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum like Hassan, 0.89

00:08:31.240 but many very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or 0.98

00:08:35.860 through any other visual device. He will die as scheduled by firing squad, but the event will not

00:08:39.720 be streamed. So in the post, and I see very few people talking about this, Trump does take some 0.71

00:08:44.680 ownership of this. He says, look, I want it to be streamed. I was convinced by the arguments

00:08:49.060 that it would be better to stream it. But many very good people came up afterward and they

00:08:55.400 basically persuaded me, okay, maybe we can tone down the streaming. So Trump himself is saying,

00:09:01.140 no, it's not just a Hegseth thing. I was all for it, but whatever, I'll back it off a little bit.

00:09:05.720 But did they not know that? Did they not anticipate that clearly a lot of people

00:09:12.420 are going to be against a public execution? Were they surprised by that? That's what I

00:09:17.980 don't understand. How could you be surprised by that? My guess is they knew that the left would

00:09:23.080 hate it, and that's great. We love whenever the left hates everything. I suspect they strongly

00:09:29.540 underestimated how many conservatives and Christians would oppose the live streaming

00:09:34.920 aspect, especially for the fact that once something's on the internet, it's there forever,

00:09:40.160 a bunch of kids can see it. For just a public execution in the town square,

00:09:44.300 if you want to bring your kids, you can. If you don't want to, you can leave little Johnny at

00:09:49.520 home, and then the guy hangs or gets shot, and then it's all over. So I think he basically made

00:09:56.040 the right decision here. On the actual matter, should it have been live streamed or no?

00:10:00.260 I think there could be a place for public executions. Here's how I break it down.

00:10:13.880 If you're going to do a public execution, this was my first thought when I heard about this. If

00:10:17.860 you're going to do it, I think there's a place for it. However, you have to approach it with

00:10:23.400 seriousness and dignity. This cannot turn into some kind of spectacle. It can't just be content

00:10:30.880 because even though this guy is a total scumbag and deserves to die, this is a serious thing. 1.00

00:10:36.780 You are taking a man's life and not just for his sake, but for the public's sake, for the sake of 1.00

00:10:41.800 the people that are carrying out this act. For all of those reasons, it needs to be approached with

00:10:46.500 with a certain gravity solemnity. You have a certain gravity, correct? And so if you can

00:10:53.500 approach it that way, then I think there could be a place for it. My concern was that I'm not sure

00:10:57.700 I have confidence that it will be approached that way. And so I guess my answer is it depends.

00:11:05.560 Yeah, no, this is such a great point because you have all of these Catholics now arguing over the 1.00

00:11:09.900 death penalty. The Catholic Church for roughly 2,000 years really didn't even question the 1.00

00:11:16.200 death penalty, and many doctors of the church, church fathers, evangelists, writers of the New

00:11:22.540 Testament defended the death penalty. Various popes carried out the death penalty, including

00:11:27.780 blessed Pius IX. But the argument from the recent popes is the death penalty is wrong,

00:11:33.660 both as a prudential matter and then increasingly since Francis, they say it's inadmissible because

00:11:39.820 it is contrary to human dignity and the gospel per se. And you say, okay, this will be debated

00:11:45.020 for decades, if not a century. But I see the argument at least is the death penalty reduces

00:11:54.060 man in some way, and it encourages bloodlust, and it encourages private vengeance or whatever.

00:12:00.600 Okay. The argument against that is no, no, no. The civil authority executing someone is in

00:12:06.200 defense of human dignity. Man is made in the image and likeness of God. That is why whosoever

00:12:11.440 sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. So actually, this is a really somber,

00:12:17.220 sober thing for the good of the condemned and for the good of society. But if you turn it into pure

00:12:23.680 content, you actually are kind of giving an argument to the people who are opposed to the

00:12:29.680 death penalty. So I think they made the right decision here. But yeah, if you're going to do

00:12:35.360 it, you can't have popcorn while you're watching the guy get his head blown off. You got to at

00:12:39.340 least pretend to put a frown on your face and treat it seriously. I want to, before I let you

00:12:44.520 go, I want to get to that Apple commercial because I don't know if you saw it. I don't

00:12:51.820 know if you saw it and sent like 10 billion tweets out about it and like pulled your hair out about

00:12:55.600 it. For those who haven't seen it yet, Apple comes out with a new product. This is how they present

00:13:03.360 it. If you're just listening, I'll narrate. It's introducing Apple Home View. Mom is getting

00:13:19.980 ready in the morning. She's dressed for work. Dad is running around the kitchen making pancakes

00:13:28.940 or something with a link to a french toast recipe from taste of home oh gross bet you didn't know

00:13:35.880 that french toast isn't actually french yeah right then why is it called french genius fine

00:13:40.320 live in ingrid hold please serious french toast french no french toast is not originally from

00:13:45.740 france what was that it's literally in the name whatever bruno okay so you got the little the 1.00

00:13:52.340 siblings arguing, the husband's a doofus, the boy is an idiot, the girl is smart, the 1.00

00:13:59.280 mom is put together. 1.00

00:14:02.380 Okay, the dad, I guess, dad has like a very full beard, he looks like a member of Al-Qaeda,

00:14:20.120 So I guess he hasn't spoken to his parents in about two and a half years.

00:14:25.220 He's too busy to talk about it because he's got to make breakfast for his professional wife.

00:14:35.560 Okay, the boy is doing like whippets or something. 1.00

00:14:38.680 He's just a complete idiot. 1.00

00:14:40.880 Not like that smart girl or that professional mom. 1.00

00:14:45.700 Okay, the girl is promiscuous. 1.00

00:14:48.260 she's texting her boyfriend 1.00

00:14:50.400 okay

00:14:52.040 she's putting on lipstick 0.95

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00:14:58.700 I knew it

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00:15:02.160 I'm right here

00:15:02.820 okay I can't tell

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00:16:21.100 Matt, first question, what is the product?

00:16:24.440 What is Apple selling?

00:16:28.640 I have no idea.

00:16:31.860 I mean, I think that that is, in some ways, the most important commercial that's ever been made.

00:16:38.640 I think that everyone should watch that commercial very carefully, take careful notes,

00:16:44.720 and then make sure that your own home life is exactly the opposite of that in every single respect. 1.00

00:16:50.920 Starting with, before we even get to the fact that, yeah, like every male in this family is a total slob moron 0.99

00:16:59.320 and the women are all much smarter and the wife is going to her important business job 1.00

00:17:04.820 and the meetings and everything and the dad's like spending his time making waffles or French toast or something.

00:17:11.140 But even aside from that, I mean, of course, this is what they're advertising.

00:17:14.280 Like the entire family is structured around this screen, like literally revolving.

00:17:20.680 The family revolves around this one screen and refers to the screen for everything, which is, of course, which is the vision of the future that these big tech freaks have for us.

00:17:33.320 And the actual product itself, I don't know exactly, but it's this is what Apple has been doing as far as I can tell for the last 20 years where they're just like taking they're taking the iPhone.

00:17:43.200 like this product we already have. They're taking the iPhone and then just taking that exact thing

00:17:47.620 and putting it into slightly different sizes and shapes. And so you have the iPhone that you carry

00:17:54.240 in your pocket. You have the one you can, it's a little smaller and you have on your wrist. You

00:17:58.180 have one that you can put on the wall. You have one that's on the counter. It's the same damn

00:18:02.100 product over and over and over. It doesn't do anything. None of those individual products do 1.00

00:18:06.340 anything that the other versions of it don't also do. So it's totally pointless. But they're

00:18:10.980 slightly different sizes. I don't know if you remember when the iPad came out. I think it was

00:18:15.240 the Onion or one of those websites. The news coverage of it was Steve Jobs pulls an all-nighter

00:18:21.320 duct taping nine iPhones to a clipboard and says, here's our new product. So it's all, yes,

00:18:27.460 it's all basically the same thing. What I'm struck by, though, is that in the commercial itself,

00:18:33.320 you basically have no idea what the product is other than it's a screen on the counter.

00:18:39.300 But you do know their vision of your family.

00:18:42.520 They do know their vision of society.

00:18:44.640 In other words, it seems that for the ad makers, leftism and social dysfunction is much more important to sell than whatever the gizmo is, whatever the doodad is.

00:18:57.520 So when are you going to place your order?

00:19:00.880 Well, here's the other thing, though.

00:19:02.620 I think that some people get a little bit wrong about this because it's actually it's not just that the people that make this ad, the people at Apple are trying to sort of promote this this chaotic, ridiculous, disordered family environment.

00:19:14.960 Not just trying to it's not it's not it's not that they're trying to promote it.

00:19:18.460 It's that they honestly assume that this is all, that this is what a family is.

00:19:22.760 Like they don't, they, I believe that they earnestly tried to make an ad portraying a normal American family.

00:19:31.420 And to them, that's what this is.

00:19:33.960 Like any, any other version of a family doesn't even exist.

00:19:37.640 And so this is just the reality that they've already assumed for us, which in some ways is worse, I think, than them kind of knowingly doing something subversive.

00:19:48.740 I think the subversive thing is now just, for them, a default, I think.

00:19:53.980 Yeah, you know, this actually, I'll get to the story a little later in the show.

00:19:57.340 Tucker is talking about how horses can sometimes seem attractive.

00:20:00.700 He was going off on bestiality, and everyone's dunking on him, and I'm going to face a firing squad because I actually think he has a point.

00:20:08.380 But the point he's making is about mimetic desire, and I suspect you have a point, Matt, which is for the last 30, 40 years, the vision that we have seen of home life from The Simpsons, from Everybody Loves Raymond, from whatever, like every single TV show and movie is that dad is a big fat doofus who sits at home and doesn't really do anything.

00:20:28.340 and the wife is way smarter and is the only reason that the family hasn't totally spiraled 0.79

00:20:33.360 into oblivion boys are just selfish slobs little girls are so much smarter and put together and

00:20:40.420 and so when that's the vision of of family life that you see from fictional stories you start to 0.95

00:20:47.600 enact that like you start to when you talk to a lib and you describe your conservative life

00:20:54.380 they'll look at you like you have three heads it's like oh what are you gonna do you're gonna

00:20:58.080 it's going to be like the 1950s, like what dad goes to work and what mom stays home with the

00:21:02.700 kids and like cooks dinner and keeps a house. And like, what you guys are going to like,

00:21:06.740 what pray together and go to church and like, what are you? And you just, you look at it and

00:21:10.020 you say, yeah, pretty much. That's is, yeah, it's great. Do you not, did you not know that was

00:21:17.340 possible? I did. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that, yeah, that's, I think that's exactly it. If

00:21:24.380 they looked at like in my, I mean, my, you know, no family is perfect. Everyone has their own

00:21:28.060 issues, but in my family, like we with six kids, none of them have phones. None of them like play

00:21:35.960 video games. We have one screen in the house and, uh, and we don't have any of this other stuff.

00:21:41.100 And, uh, the mornings don't work like that at all, but they would, they would look at that and

00:21:46.040 they would, and they would say that, first of all, they would doubt that it even exists. I don't,

00:21:50.100 I don't think that they even understand that families like that exist in the first place.

00:21:53.620 And if you could convince them that, no, no, no, yeah, this is actually how my family works, they would see that as the subversive thing.

00:22:02.300 They would see that as kind of the intrusion, this weird fringe arrangement that is intruding on what to them is the natural default state.

00:22:12.440 And increasingly, in a sense, culturally, they're right.

00:22:15.620 I mean, as they just kind of assume that this disordered family life is the correct default state, it increasingly becomes not the correct state but the default state for a lot of people.

00:22:25.000 And so it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that way, which is how it's intended.

00:22:28.240 It's weird because if you presented that commercial to someone from even the 80s, they would look at you like you had gone out of your way to present a completely inverted version of society at totally upending standards and norms.

00:22:43.540 But now, that is the normative version.

00:22:46.120 If you just drop a normie who goes to a normal school, who grows up in a normal kind of suburban area, they will think that's acute or something.

00:22:55.760 They will think that's the way to go.

00:22:57.540 They will take it as a matter of course that men are like that, women are like that, kids should react to their parents that way, everything should be chaos.

00:23:07.420 everything. And it's really sad, actually, because people base their lives and their

00:23:12.460 behaviors off of norms. And that is the norm. And we're the weirdos. We're the total weirdos.

00:23:19.160 Before I let you go, I actually will let you go this time. But before I let you go,

00:23:22.980 I do want to get to a different vision of the future, which is flying cars. First,

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00:25:39.880 We were told that in the future we would have flying cars. And then we got transgenderism 0.95

00:25:48.240 and infanticide and squalor and decay. 1.00

00:25:52.320 Now, Elon has given us a flying car.

00:25:58.580 This is the Tesla Roadster.

00:26:03.480 It's a big, crazy loop.

00:26:08.560 The car goes up the loop.

00:26:12.940 And it just sticks to the road.

00:26:15.060 it just sticks

00:26:17.520 and it drives upside down.

00:26:23.720 It drives upside down.

00:26:25.380 It sticks upside down.

00:26:30.840 And then it flies off

00:26:32.220 and lands with jetpacks.

00:26:34.120 Keep it rolling in the background

00:26:35.820 while I get.

00:26:37.100 Matt, is there?

00:26:38.120 You've been a little down.

00:26:39.440 You've been uncharacteristically down

00:26:41.200 this morning.

00:26:42.540 Is this cause for hope?

00:26:45.060 uh i well no um i'll tell you why because it is it's a it's very cool i think it's awesome i think

00:26:54.460 it's really i mean a flying car doesn't there does the flip very very cool i love it i want

00:27:00.560 one for myself my only issue is that like i i have been on the roads in this country really

00:27:06.460 really all across the country i've driven in many different states and i can tell you that almost

00:27:10.900 every, almost everyone in the country

00:27:12.860 is a terrible driver. I think

00:27:14.900 there are about five or six good drivers

00:27:17.140 and I'm one of them. That only leaves about

00:27:18.900 five other openings.

00:27:20.560 I look at the average driver. I cannot

00:27:22.820 trust them. The average

00:27:24.940 driver still has not

00:27:26.940 figured out how to merge onto the highway.

00:27:28.920 We're going to trust them now with a flying car.

00:27:31.440 We're going to trust them with a car that does

00:27:32.960 that can do backflips

00:27:34.920 and stick to the wall.

00:27:36.700 The average driver cannot be entrusted

00:27:38.920 with this technology. I can be.

00:27:41.480 So I think that I should get one.

00:27:44.080 And then we have to be very, very careful about who else we give this stuff to.

00:27:49.640 That's my only problem.

00:27:51.000 There's hope for you.

00:27:52.220 There's hope for you because you could presumably,

00:27:55.640 when these just horrific drivers can't figure out how to go left,

00:28:00.980 you could fly over them.

00:28:03.020 Or you could, when they kind of veer into your lane, you could tip the car.

00:28:06.460 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:28:07.080 But everybody else, it would be disaster.

00:28:10.080 Yeah.

00:28:10.900 Yes. When I'm driving on the highway and there's some moron in front of me who's about to miss his exit, so he slams on his brakes so he doesn't miss his exit, rather than just taking the next exit and turning around, and then it almost kills me. 0.97

00:28:23.440 Now, in a situation like that, I could just hit on the jetpacks, fly over that car, and go about my merry way. 0.98

00:28:30.020 So I think it's great. That's my point. It's great for me. It's an awesome tool for me to use and nobody else.

00:28:37.800 that that's kind of hopeful you know i mean that yeah okay i'll take that because it finally feels

00:28:44.240 like we're advancing again there people are arguing they're saying there's no practical

00:28:47.720 application for this technology whatever like i don't know we'll make a practical application

00:28:51.260 matt's already thinking about it right now by the way the cars are really heavy so even if the jet

00:28:55.500 pack doesn't take you all the way over you would just land on the other car flatten them into a

00:29:01.400 pancake and then just keep driving uh the last time we had a big era like this was roughly in

00:29:07.280 the 16th century when europe came and conquered the new world and i believe you have a new real

00:29:14.100 history episode out about this very fact we do it's coming out uh or i think it's coming out so

00:29:21.840 i don't think it's already out it's coming out at some point i don't even know when i think it's

00:29:24.600 next week at some point did you film it stay tuned for that you even written it what uh it's done i

00:29:30.480 mean it's it is film we did we did film it we filmed like a month ago so this is about we you

00:29:34.180 know, we've done a lot of interesting subjects. This one is probably the episode I had in mind

00:29:40.320 when we started this series of Real History. It's probably my favorite, one of my, not my,

00:29:45.400 absolute, one of my favorite stories from history, one of the most important stories from history.

00:29:48.820 We're covering the Spanish conquistadors, Cortes in particular, and the story, of course, of

00:29:57.720 Cortez arriving in modern-day Mexico and conquering the human-sacrificing Aztecs. 0.75

00:30:05.340 Hold on, hold on. You mean the Spaniards show up into Avatar land, and there are rainbows, 1.00

00:30:14.160 and everyone's singing the colors of the wind, and there's no property. Everyone just kind of

00:30:21.420 helps each other out with the nature spirits and he comes and imposes uh oppression on them

00:30:28.740 that's what you mean right there exactly it's a it's a total utopia they're talking to the trees

00:30:34.640 uh you know prancing through fields of daffodils or whatever uh yeah i mean that's that's of course

00:30:40.140 the version we get we get from the left but in reality the the what he stumbled into is like

00:30:46.020 it's impossible for us and maybe in some ways we can't imagine it because we have our own version

00:30:50.840 of human sacrificing here. But just imagine finding yourself in this alien wilderness,

00:30:58.540 and you've basically, this is what people don't really understand about Europeans when they came

00:31:02.040 to the New World. For all intents and purposes, they went back in time. I mean, they went back

00:31:07.900 5,000 years in the past. They're back in the Stone Age, because these are all basically Stone Age

00:31:13.160 people. The Aztecs were one of the most advanced civilizations in the New World, and they had just 0.91

00:31:17.360 reached the level of making pyramids, which is what, you know, the Egyptians had figured that

00:31:20.980 out 3,000 years before that. And so they're back in time in this like Stone Age, nightmarish 0.99

00:31:28.520 dystopia. And with a, you know, kind of ragtag bunch of a few hundred Spanish and some of their 1.00

00:31:36.020 Indian allies who came along to help them, they conquered this entire civilization. It's an 0.53

00:31:40.780 amazing story, incredible story. And a lot of people don't know about it because they don't

00:31:45.500 teach much about it in school. So you should watch the episode to find out. You need to watch

00:31:50.360 Real History with Matt Walsh whenever it comes out, or if it has already come out, you should

00:31:55.580 also go watch it at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Watch it while you're driving. It doesn't matter

00:32:03.020 because Matt will soon be able to fly over you in his car or kill you with his many, many ton

00:32:09.760 vehicle. Matt, excellent to see you. I look forward to watching the episode and I look

00:32:16.380 forward to driving in the car. Good to see you, Mike. See you next time. Okay. I do want to get

00:32:22.880 to why Tucker might have a point on bestiality. Before we get to that story though, I got to get

00:32:30.320 a little bit to James Tallarico. James Tallarico, we covered the debate. It was really a town hall.

00:32:37.280 They borrowed this line from Stephen Crowder,

00:32:43.580 change my mind.

00:32:44.600 So Crowder might end up suing some of the people

00:32:46.580 hosting these debates.

00:32:47.640 But it went off very well where Tallarico's talking

00:32:49.780 to ordinary voters.

00:32:51.300 And he's trying to walk back all of his craziest opinions.

00:32:54.960 So one of those was on abortion.

00:32:57.900 And Tallarico's answer opens him up to a big, big problem.

00:33:02.840 How would you convince me as a Catholic voter

00:33:05.080 that I can trust you that you would protect

00:33:06.980 the most innocent among us? I'm so, so grateful that you brought that question. I actually think

00:33:13.220 there's common ground we can find here. We may come to different moral and ethical conclusions

00:33:18.780 when it comes to the question of should abortion be legal or not? It sounds like you and I do come

00:33:23.580 to a different conclusion. That's okay. We're both Christians, and the Bible is silent on the issue

00:33:30.000 of abortion. It means you and I both have to look at different scriptures to try to come

00:33:34.580 to a conclusion. But what I think we can do is actually come together on reducing the number

00:33:42.060 of unplanned pregnancies and the number of abortions. Because if we treat this issue

00:33:47.280 as a public health problem and not a culture war problem, then we can actually make progress

00:33:54.120 together. Okay. So this is not James Tallarico, shout your abortion. Abortion is great. It's

00:34:02.240 women's rights, it's women's health. Let's go, girl. This is Tallarico backtracking to an older 1.00

00:34:08.780 Democrat position, which is that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. He says, well, look,

00:34:13.780 I think the Bible's totally silent on abortion. It's not, by the way. It's in the Ten Commandments.

00:34:20.040 And the Christian church has been explicitly opposed to abortion since the very first

00:34:25.360 catechism, the Didache. But okay, put that aside. He says, you know, I just think one thing we can

00:34:31.160 we can all agree on find common ground on is that we need to reduce the number of abortions

00:34:35.560 why that would have been the follow-up question i'm sorry that the the interlocutor here didn't

00:34:45.140 hit him with it right away but that's what everyone should be asking tallarico okay so

00:34:49.500 you've changed your view it's no longer shout your abortion it's that we all need to we need

00:34:52.920 legal abortion but we need to reduce the number of abortions okay why what's wrong with abortion

00:34:59.460 what's wrong with abortion I don't know what their answer is I don't mean to straw man them

00:35:06.040 I don't mean I just wanted what they'll say I had Democrats responding to me last night on this 0.99

00:35:10.880 they say oh come on Michael don't be stupid don't be obtuse when nobody thinks abortion is a good 0.99

00:35:15.420 thing first of all no there there are many women and Democrat politicians out in the street saying 1.00

00:35:21.100 we need to shout our abortion celebrate our abortion so there are people who say it's a 0.98

00:35:25.660 good thing. But okay, Tallarico is not one of those people anymore. All right. So what's wrong

00:35:30.780 with abortion? Is it just that it's uncomfortable? Is it just that it's a medical procedure and we

00:35:38.200 don't want unnecessary medical procedures? Okay, well, are we going to ban facelifts? Are we going

00:35:44.020 to ban Botox? Are we going to ban teeth cleanings? I don't know. There are lots of medical procedures.

00:35:49.020 We don't say that we need to reduce all medical procedures. No, no, no. There's something wrong

00:35:53.600 about abortions specifically. That's what you're implying. Okay. That's what you're stating.

00:35:58.880 So what's wrong with it? The thing that's wrong with it that they don't want to say

00:36:04.260 is that abortion murders a baby. But of course, if abortion murders a baby,

00:36:11.580 it shouldn't be legal. And if abortion doesn't murder a baby, there's no reason to reduce the

00:36:17.700 number of abortions. We don't say, we need to reduce the number of appendectomies. You know 0.96

00:36:24.560 what we really need to reduce in America? We need to reduce the number of tonsil removals. No, we 1.00

00:36:30.360 don't. We don't say, I don't know. If you need your tonsils removed, take them out. It doesn't

00:36:33.380 matter. You can do it if you want, not do it if you want. But we do say we need to reduce the

00:36:37.440 number of abortions. Why? They can never answer the why question because the minute they tell 0.92

00:36:43.680 you why they completely lose their justification to say that it should be legal at all. Okay,

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00:38:52.580 For more information, see calci.com slash regulatory. Tucker Carlson has gone viral

00:38:59.960 for appearing to sympathize or empathize with bestiality.

00:39:09.940 The nature of war results in the deaths of innocents.

00:39:13.780 And if you look at that enough on a screen,

00:39:15.300 it's like if you look at pornography enough

00:39:17.200 or bestiality videos all day after a while,

00:39:20.340 like it's kind of an attractive horse.

00:39:21.620 I get it.

00:39:22.540 I'm not into it personally, but it's not crazy.

00:39:25.300 Like we are shaped by the world around us, of course.

00:39:28.840 Okay, so everyone is dunking on Tucker for this

00:39:32.060 and inferring that Tucker has a thing for horses and other animals.

00:39:37.780 And I know that Tucker has said lots of objectionable things.

00:39:44.040 I know that Tucker is now a major enemy of the Trump administration

00:39:48.360 and is kind of practically a Democrat.

00:39:51.140 I know, I know.

00:39:51.760 All the litany of, okay, whatever.

00:39:54.220 I just want to put all of that aside for a second.

00:39:56.060 Can we just put all of that aside?

00:39:57.200 can I be the lone voice crying out in the wilderness? Tucker actually has a point about

00:40:03.960 the bestiality thing. Not that he's not saying horses are attractive, okay? The point he is

00:40:09.280 making is about human nature and mimetic desire. And he's tying this to a point about war. And I'm

00:40:17.360 not like an anti-war activist by any stretch of the imagination. But the argument he's making is

00:40:23.620 that. The more that war is normalized on TV, the more that people are exposed to images of war

00:40:30.680 and arguments in favor of war and propaganda for war, the more likely they are to support war.

00:40:37.220 Much as if you watch a lot of pornography, the more likely you are to find your will and your

00:40:43.640 desires shaped by that pornography, even up to and including one of the most horrific kinds of

00:40:48.880 pornography, which is bestiality, the relations between men and animals. I thought we weren't

00:40:54.800 going to talk about the Cornell case today, so I thought we were out of the woods when it comes

00:40:58.500 to weird sex stuff. But no, now it's actually somehow even worse. But that's the point.

00:41:03.240 Really, he says it in this crazy, bizarre way because he knows it's going to get attention

00:41:08.700 and go viral, and it totally works because Tucker's very, very good at media. But the

00:41:13.520 point he's making basically comes from Rene Girard, who I've mentioned on this show a number

00:41:17.880 of times, which is that we shape our behaviors and even our desires based on the behaviors and

00:41:24.700 desires of other people because man is a social creature. So it's that old line about how you're

00:41:30.260 the average of the five people you spend the most time with. And that is true. And that is contrary 1.00

00:41:35.980 to the liberal view of human desire. The liberal view of human desire is this blow-off steam view.

00:41:41.220 The liberal view of human desire says, oh, we should support pornography. We should support

00:41:45.320 a bunch of weird sex stuff. We should support a bunch of other aberrant behaviors like your wrath 0.86

00:41:50.000 or pride or whatever, because you blow off a little steam. So, okay, you engage in some

00:41:57.700 vicious behavior just to kind of blow off a little steam, and then you can go back to your virtuous

00:42:01.640 behavior. In other words, indulging in vice sometimes actually makes you more virtuous.

00:42:06.740 And the worst thing that we could do is repress our vicious desires, because then it's going to

00:42:12.180 blow up and make us even worse. And that's the liberal view. The classically conservative view

00:42:18.000 or the Aristotelian view is that, no, no, no, no, no. There's no blowing off a little steam.

00:42:22.240 Every time you commit vice, you become more vicious. You desire vice even more.

00:42:28.300 I was recently, I have an interview with Chris Hansen. Take a seat over there.

00:42:31.780 Why? You see how this looks, right? I have an interview with Chris Hansen coming out this

00:42:34.980 Sunday on Michael and. And I asked Chris a little preview. I said, how many of these guys that you

00:42:40.120 meet, these perps and pedophiles, how many of them do you think are just hardwired that way

00:42:45.260 versus the number of guys who just kind of developed this horrible desire over time?

00:42:52.420 And he said, oh, it's about a third. He said, I think a third of them are pretty hardwired that

00:42:55.940 way. And I think the rest of them just kind of fell into it. In other words, the majority of them

00:43:01.660 didn't start out with this most horrific attraction. They started out probably looking

00:43:08.600 at normal pornography. They started out, I don't know, looking at, leering at the lady walking

00:43:12.200 down the street. They started out indulging bad thoughts and desires, and then the sin ran away

00:43:17.400 from them. They thought they could play footsie with sin, and it would be okay, but actually,

00:43:21.780 no. Eventually, the sin takes hold of you, and it devours you, and you become this monster who's

00:43:25.860 sitting opposite of Chris Hansen, or who's looking at animals doing weird stuff, or whatever.

00:43:31.040 I know, I know. Everybody hates Tucker now, and I know he says all sorts of terrible things,

00:43:35.660 and he's anti-conservative and okay, whatever. Just put that aside for a second. It is kind of

00:43:41.160 funny that the bit that everyone is going after him for right now, that he said in this very

00:43:46.740 evocative graphic way, is a deeply conservative observation about human nature. It is. It is. I

00:43:52.040 know. I don't know. I'm not going to get drunk. I've never, hand up in the air, I have never been

00:43:56.740 attracted to an animal in my life. I don't even want to have a pet dog. I don't like animals,

00:44:00.900 period. I'm a people person. But mimetic desire is like a real thing. Okay, I want to get to the

00:44:07.820 mailbag first. So my favorite comment yesterday is from Aspie Devotions 6392. Speaking of one of

00:44:17.400 Tucker's hobby horses of late, the comment says, once again, Momdanistan and Jew York City are at

00:44:23.540 war for who owns the promised land. I know that is part of what the showdown in New York is all 0.91

00:44:28.940 about, it's part of what makes it so gripping, is that New York is a very Jewish city. I'm a 1.00

00:44:33.800 New Yorker. I've spent the majority of my life in and around New York. And everybody is either

00:44:38.320 Italian or Jewish. That's like the whole city. And so you get this most Jewish city in the world,

00:44:44.140 other than possibly Tel Aviv. And then you get this quasi-jihadi mayor who comes up and gets 0.78

00:44:50.800 elected because of mass migration. And so it just distills down these national trends, 0.69

00:44:57.760 these national ideological fault lines into Manhattan Island, a really, really densely

00:45:02.880 populated area. Totally, totally preposterous. And so you see Democrats absolutely collapsing

00:45:08.840 in support among Jewish voters. That's great. Love that. Come on over to the right. The water 1.00

00:45:13.240 is warm, but probably not enough. Probably not enough. So the Republicans are saying, all right,

00:45:18.360 Texas is looking shaky. Ohio's looking shaky. Maine is looking shaky, but don't worry.

00:45:22.480 We might even win in New York. I don't think so. I would not hold my breath for that.

00:45:26.760 finally finally we arrive at my favorite time of the week the mailbag it's sponsored by pure talk

00:45:30.880 go to pure talk.com slash knolls cannawles for pure talks best unlimited plan for just 29.95 a

00:45:35.760 month for life take it away hey michael this is nick it's sad to see many modern day conservatives

00:45:42.280 accused of symphony theater traditional styles of dance like ballet and tap or just the arts in

00:45:47.360 general as being inherently gay when in fact many of these hobbies have very christian and

00:45:51.720 conservative roots as someone who's done many musicals and dozens of tap dance routines over

00:45:55.900 the years how can we convince the conservatives to try to take back the arts from the liberals

00:46:00.200 who have had a chokehold on them for so many years now if you ever want to do a tap dance

00:46:04.200 routine together just let me know and we can make something work also imagine your baseball team

00:46:08.380 losing to the third lowest payroll in all the mlb anyways thanks for everything you do and for the

00:46:13.080 show you really took me on a journey with that question you really there were highs there were

00:46:17.740 lows it was like a great dramatic performance why is it that conservatives have failed to

00:46:24.580 recapture the arts. Why is it that we consider the arts liberal or gay, but I repeat myself,

00:46:30.780 why is that? It's true that there are conservative artists, going back to ancient Greece. You did

00:46:35.780 have some serious, like Aeschylus, you did have some serious conservative bona fides when it

00:46:41.660 comes to the arts, going all the way back to antiquity. But I don't think it's quite as simple

00:46:48.680 as you say. In other words, I think there is something about the arts that tends to attract

00:46:55.320 libs and weirdos and people who are a little bit deviant. There is a reason that for most of

00:47:01.160 history, actors were lumped among prostitutes and criminals in society that is considered a

00:47:07.340 kind of lower class thing. And I trained as an actor. I've worked as an actor professionally.

00:47:13.140 I trained in the modern style of acting, which is organic acting, and I'm like the only guy in

00:47:20.540 history ever got cured of the acting bug, in part because I do think it's morally compromising.

00:47:27.020 This actually gets to exactly what we were talking about with mimetic desire and how our wills can

00:47:31.880 be shaped by what we consume, what we see, the air that we walk through. When you're acting,

00:47:38.680 especially in the modern organic style of acting, method acting, or the Stanislavski system, or

00:47:44.000 the Meisner technique, or anything that came out of the group theater.

00:47:49.000 When you're doing that, what they teach you to do in acting 101 is, okay, if you are in love with

00:47:54.300 the woman in the play or in the movie, you have to really fall in love with her. If you want to

00:47:59.240 kill somebody, you need to really cultivate the desire to kill somebody. You have to live truthfully 0.98

00:48:04.040 in imaginary circumstances. Sanford Meisner writes about this in his acting book when he talks about

00:48:08.860 the Italian actress Eleonora Duzza. And something that really shocked, I think it was Bernard Shaw

00:48:13.440 who went to see the play, was that Duzza, when she was embarrassed on stage, she literally blushed. 0.97

00:48:21.620 Her cheeks actually flushed a little bit at that moment. It didn't happen every night, 0.94

00:48:25.940 but it did happen some nights, which clued in the audience to say, wow, something is really

00:48:29.800 going on in her inner life. And so, if you do that professionally, and you play all sorts of

00:48:34.340 characters, you're surrendering your will. You're surrendering a real important part of your soul

00:48:38.680 on stage. That's a little less so in writing, perhaps. No, maybe not. Drew talks about how

00:48:46.340 you have to picket wounds and scabs to be a novelist. Music. Music, Plato tells us in The

00:48:50.800 Republic, music is the art form that bypasses the reason most directly. It goes right to the

00:48:56.940 irrational soul. And so these things are kind of dangerous. And if you want to live an orderly

00:49:02.500 moral life, you have a tenser relationship to the arts. And that's in part how the libs dominate.

00:49:10.780 That's why it's also not so simple as to say, we're just going to start a conservative Hollywood.

00:49:13.980 You can't quite do that. There's an intrinsic tension that goes to the very nature of the

00:49:18.980 thing. Okay, next question. Hey, Smokey Mike. Come on, man, here. And I actually just finished

00:49:24.360 reading the screw tape letters for the first time. And as I was reading, I was thinking,

00:49:28.700 as correct as C.S. Lewis is, why do we give him the sort of validity that we do? I noticed that

00:49:34.720 you and Klavan like to do this with C.S. Lewis, but also people like Thomas Aquinas or Shakespeare.

00:49:40.580 When you talk about our society and what their commentary is, it seems like you mention it

00:49:45.020 in the context of them speaking as if it's absolute truth. And so my question is, why do

00:49:50.340 we give these kinds of historical figures that kind of credibility in the first place? How do

00:49:55.760 we know that they should be considered knowledgeable or reliable when what they've

00:50:00.380 said is hundreds of years old? I think what it comes down to is what gives these people the

00:50:05.600 authority that we give them other than the fact that they've been considered important for a

00:50:10.260 really long time. Anyways, I'm curious how you would explain that. Thanks. Yeah, good question.

00:50:15.680 what gives anybody authority? Your question really isn't about C.S. Lewis or Thomas Aquinas

00:50:20.480 or Shakespeare. Your question is about the nature of authority. And so you say, why do we give these

00:50:25.300 people such authority? We don't give them authority. We infer that they have authority.

00:50:31.320 And so how do we infer that they have authority? You say, what, just because people for a long

00:50:36.820 time have thought that they do? And the answer is kind of, yeah, basically. And we tested ourselves.

00:50:42.640 So when we read C.S. Lewis or Thomas Aquinas or Shakespeare, the things that they say ring true.

00:50:48.780 When it comes to C.S. Lewis, he's an eminently clear modern writer that conveys longstanding

00:50:55.140 truths in a way that it's easy for a 20th century, 21st century reader to understand.

00:51:00.360 With Thomas Aquinas, he's the common doctor of the church. He's just right about everything,

00:51:03.780 basically. And when it comes to Shakespeare, Peter Thiel made a good point recently,

00:51:09.640 which is that Shakespeare is sort of the king of the great books, but the great books as an

00:51:16.480 endeavor really emerges after the Enlightenment as a way to replace the great book, namely the

00:51:24.060 Bible. So as we sought to suppress and minimize the role of religion and the Christian tradition

00:51:30.100 and Christian authority in our society, we tried to replace it in these secular ways.

00:51:35.320 And so Shakespeare is really important for that, and he's also kind of the literary patron of 0.92

00:51:41.180 England. And he tells you truths about human nature. You read King Lear, you read Hamlet,

00:51:46.880 and you say, wow, that's me for real, for real. Wow, he sees me. Get out of my head, Shakespeare,

00:51:53.340 with probably less ultimate authority than someone like a Thomas Aquinas or perhaps even a C.S. Lewis.

00:51:58.820 But that's why. That's why. And you say, well, why do we trust these people? Why do we trust

00:52:03.220 the reputation that someone has earned over decades or centuries. I'd say, I don't know,

00:52:09.220 because we're not that smart, because we don't have that much time, because we can't recreate

00:52:12.880 the world from the beginning. It is a distinctly modern and liberal premise to say that we need to

00:52:21.200 figure everything out totally on our own, that we should not take anything as received wisdom,

00:52:27.140 that we should not trust our prejudices, that we should not listen to our elders. It's a very

00:52:32.220 modern revolutionary radical view that says that we should distrust authority. So we do it now

00:52:39.020 because much of what passes for modern conservatism is really libertarianism or just an

00:52:43.740 older form of liberalism. But we take things on authority because authority exists in the world.

00:52:49.660 We trust our elders and we have a little less faith in our own ability to figure every single

00:52:55.500 thing out. Okay, next question. What's up, Michael Knowles? I have a question and a statement.

00:53:00.060 First, how long do you think it's going to be before America has its first openly atheist president? 0.95

00:53:05.620 I know we have politicians like Joe Biden or James Tallarico who claim to be Christian, but they subvert all of its morality. 0.96

00:53:12.300 But how long before we have a president who unequivocally says there is no God and is still elected?

00:53:18.560 Secondly, news or noise, log in, log off, whatever you're calling it, it's here to stay, baby.

00:53:25.400 The people love it.

00:53:26.780 It's the best segment you have besides TEE Tuesday.

00:53:30.060 thank you mr davies what ai program did you use to throw your voice so that you could just defend

00:53:38.180 in the in the mouth of another news or noise which i guess we have to bring back for another week

00:53:43.480 uh in terms of an openly atheist president i don't think we're going to get that anytime soon

00:53:49.380 10 15 years ago obama era beginning of millennial progressive proto-wokeness

00:54:00.520 every we thought oh man all the fuddy-duddy stuff is over we're in a brand new world and you know

00:54:06.380 what presidents can be unpatriotic and everyone's gonna be gay and we're gonna we're not gonna have 0.88

00:54:13.520 borders anymore. And we did it. We've reached the revolution. Took us a long time after the 1960s, 0.97

00:54:20.440 but we finally made it. And then what happened? Then we got Trump. Then we got the most retrograde,

00:54:26.180 regressive president. Pendulum totally swung back. Look at Tallarico. I mean, Tallarico is

00:54:32.660 practically speaking, not just an atheist. He's like an antichrist. He uses scripture to contradict

00:54:40.520 the Christian tradition to mock God and to mock the mother of God. And he's just as bad as they 0.97

00:54:47.020 come. But yeah, he's not an atheist. He doesn't call himself an atheist. You could see a presidential

00:54:53.720 nominee, AOC, that kind of blithely ignorant socialist. You could see her maybe presenting 1.00

00:55:02.620 herself as an atheist, but probably not. She's not thoughtful enough. She'd say, I believe in 0.97

00:55:06.260 something. I believe in a higher power. Even as religion has declined, most Americans think

00:55:11.880 they've seen a ghost. Did you know that? The moment that we could have gotten the openly

00:55:20.300 atheist president, the moment that seemed most likely was the peak of the new atheism in the

00:55:24.980 mid-2000s, right around that early Obama era. Now Richard Dawkins is yearning for a cultural

00:55:30.640 Christianity, and Christopher Hitchens is dead, and new atheism is over. So it's done. It's not

00:55:36.780 going to happen. I'm happy to say that. Nietzsche says God is dead. God says Nietzsche is dead.

00:55:42.880 I know we're running late. I don't care. Last question.

00:55:47.020 Hi, I have a question about political parties. I'm a freshman in college, and in my federal

00:55:51.960 government class, my professor is a big fan of the way some European countries have many parties,

00:55:57.280 rather than how in the U.S. it really comes down to Republicans and Democrats.

00:56:01.800 My classmates were talking about how they like the idea of copying Europe and having more options,

00:56:06.400 like a Green Party, for example,

00:56:08.420 as well as differentiating parties more clearly between far-right, center-right, and far-left, center-left.

00:56:14.300 I'm wondering if this is a good idea for America,

00:56:17.400 especially because don't all disagreements spoil down to conservative or liberal dispositions?

00:56:23.260 Thank you.

00:56:24.260 So, oh, I love that bit you have there at the end where you say, hold on.

00:56:27.280 But ultimately, aren't all of these policy debates just down to two broad inclinations, dispositions, desires, the conservative view and the liberal view?

00:56:39.200 Yeah, conservatives, sometimes we like tariffs, sometimes we hate tariffs.

00:56:41.700 Sometimes we want more migration, sometimes we want less migration.

00:56:43.980 Sometimes we want more wars, sometimes we want fewer wars.

00:56:46.140 But you can still hold all of those policy views and be a conservative.

00:56:50.780 Why is that?

00:56:51.500 Because conservatism is much more a disposition.

00:56:54.840 And leftism is much more a disposition.

00:56:57.280 they disagree on all sorts of issues too.

00:57:00.380 Really, depending on what Trump thinks,

00:57:02.220 they will just think the opposite.

00:57:03.580 But it boils down to a disposition,

00:57:05.320 which is hating their dads.

00:57:07.160 So that seems to answer your question,

00:57:09.920 which is no, the two parties are a much better system

00:57:13.480 than the European parliamentary parties

00:57:15.300 where radical minorities can end up dominating,

00:57:18.380 where very little gets done.

00:57:19.980 There's much more chaos.

00:57:21.720 The European governments fall much more quickly

00:57:24.480 than American governments do.

00:57:26.480 So, no, I think our system is good.

00:57:28.080 This is another unpopular view, but whatever.

00:57:30.100 I'm here to tell you the truth.

00:57:31.060 I'm not here to flatter you.

00:57:32.380 The two-party system is terrible and awful

00:57:35.620 and the worst thing ever,

00:57:37.020 except for all of the other systems in modern republics.

00:57:40.680 I'm entirely in favor of the two-party system.

00:57:43.280 The two parties actually basically cohere.

00:57:47.380 They actually basically make sense.

00:57:49.660 It makes sense that someone who does not respect

00:57:51.760 the right to life for an innocent little baby

00:57:53.860 also will not respect the property rights 0.90

00:57:56.340 of someone in the middle class. 0.55

00:57:57.920 Also will not respect the political rights

00:58:00.080 of citizens who want to control their borders. 0.96

00:58:04.160 That actually does make sense.

00:58:05.780 There's a kind of a logic to it.

00:58:06.900 It's not, these aren't pure philosophical endeavors.

00:58:09.500 You know, it's politics is the art

00:58:10.820 of the practical and the possible.

00:58:12.120 But generally speaking, no,

00:58:13.500 we have a pretty good system.

00:58:14.780 All right, the rest of the show continues now.

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00:58:23.860 I don't know.

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00:59:09.580 Let me out!

00:59:13.700 You will remember your duty.

00:59:15.780 This isn't heroism! 1.00

00:59:17.740 You useless sot. 1.00

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