The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 210 - The Virtues (And Vices) Of Selfishness

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00:00:38.040 iPhones, millennials, and the sacrament of self-love have infected every aspect of society 0.82

00:00:44.200 from Alex Jones' browser history all the way up to the White House and even the Vatican.

00:00:49.340 We will discuss the virtues and vices of selfishness.

00:00:52.560 Then, on this day in history, George Washington shows the difference between pride and dignity.

00:00:57.880 Finally, the mailbag.

00:00:58.960 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.880 We've got to get right into it today.

00:01:09.380 There's so much to get to, beginning with Alex Jones' browser history.

00:01:13.700 The question here is selfishness, because this is something that cuts across conservatives and leftists.

00:01:20.440 I remember when I was 17 years old, I was introduced to Ayn Rand, the author of The Fountainhead,

00:01:26.740 and what's that other one book that nobody's read, Atlas Shrugged, and The Virtue of Selfishness.

00:01:32.540 And this is her philosophy.

00:01:34.380 Her ideology is a selfish ideology. 0.98

00:01:37.080 It's also atheistic.

00:01:38.700 And I, like every other 17-year-old who reads Ayn Rand, immediately bought it.

00:01:44.360 This is a phase that I think every 17-year-old boy has to go through,

00:01:48.100 is really liking Ayn Rand for a couple years.

00:01:49.980 And then usually people move on past that.

00:01:52.880 Some people still, like, really love her forever and ever.

00:01:55.740 And she talks about the virtue of selfishness.

00:01:57.980 When is selfishness good?

00:01:58.920 When is selfishness bad?

00:02:00.280 When is selfishness, when can it be used to a better purpose?

00:02:03.480 And when does it make us look ridiculous and degrade our humanity?

00:02:08.780 Let's begin at the back end of all of that.

00:02:12.160 Here is Alex Jones explaining why, in a videotape of his cell phone browser,

00:02:19.460 he had what appeared to be transgender pornography coming up.

00:02:23.820 Mr. Jones, take it away.

00:02:25.460 And also, what about the trans porn on your phone, Alex?

00:02:28.420 Are you ever going to talk about that?

00:02:30.040 Say that again?

00:02:32.000 Trans porn on your phone? 0.57

00:02:34.320 That's all they keep talking about.

00:02:36.800 You know, I saw a couple news articles about that.

00:02:38.740 It's ridiculous.

00:02:39.360 I was, like, looking up some reporter we're trying to hire today

00:02:41.860 and punched in some number, and it popped up porn on my phone.

00:02:44.840 Everybody's had porn pop up on their phones hundreds of times.

00:02:47.380 So I'm sitting there with a phone on air showing it to everybody

00:02:51.140 because I couldn't get a URL up in the studio.

00:02:53.320 And then, like, something pops up.

00:02:55.460 I'm like, oh, my God.

00:02:56.580 And I looked at it.

00:02:57.440 It wasn't the news blurted out because there was nothing there.

00:02:59.800 They blurted it to then say something was there.

00:03:01.960 Then you went to it with some porn menu.

00:03:03.740 I probably had porn menus pop up 500 times on my phone.

00:03:06.900 So I appreciate your call.

00:03:07.940 I mean, it's insane, ladies and gentlemen.

00:03:10.660 There's two types of people, people that look at porn and people that lie about it.

00:03:14.380 But I wasn't looking at porn on my phone.

00:03:17.420 I don't take phones on air that I look at porn on.

00:03:20.300 And so I saw all that.

00:03:21.840 I didn't respond to it.

00:03:22.760 I mean, if I respond to half the attacks on me, it's absolutely ridiculous.

00:03:26.280 But I'll say this.

00:03:27.500 The Amazon ads, the Viagra ads, the weird non-plastic bag ads are taking my iPhone over.

00:03:33.580 iPhones didn't used to be that bad like Androids.

00:03:36.660 Note to self, never show cell phone screen on the air ever.

00:03:42.220 Never.

00:03:44.000 Alex Jones.

00:03:45.000 I actually don't really want to beat up on Alex Jones for this

00:03:47.780 because I felt the same way when Kurt Eichenwald,

00:03:50.420 that insufferable left-wing writer.

00:03:52.780 When he got caught looking at tentacle porn on the internet,

00:03:55.760 there's this sub-genre of pornography where it's tentacles.

00:03:59.240 And he got caught looking at it and he gave some bogus excuse where he said,

00:04:02.480 oh, it was just a joke.

00:04:04.120 Ha ha.

00:04:04.660 Right, everybody?

00:04:05.320 It was just, you know.

00:04:06.220 And which is, he was obviously looking at tentacle porn.

00:04:09.000 And I sort of feel this way with Alex Jones because he's exactly right.

00:04:13.040 There are two kinds of people.

00:04:14.200 People who have looked at pornography on the internet and liars.

00:04:17.340 At least among men.

00:04:18.820 At least among guys.

00:04:20.340 There are, like, statistically in the United States,

00:04:24.340 100% of men have looked at naked ladies on the internet. 0.94

00:04:28.060 Or, in the case of Alex Jones,

00:04:31.200 have looked at men who look like naked ladies on the internet

00:04:34.120 because perhaps Mr. Jones was drinking the same water

00:04:37.400 that the frogs have been drinking for the last few years.

00:04:40.280 So, I said I wasn't going to make any jokes about it, and I did.

00:04:43.540 That's awful.

00:04:44.320 No, because everyone's done it.

00:04:45.840 Everybody has looked at porn on the internet,

00:04:48.400 especially for the generation of people like my age and younger

00:04:51.500 who grew up basically with the internet.

00:04:54.860 Like, a full 100% of people have seen porn on the internet.

00:04:59.460 So, that isn't the issue.

00:05:00.560 It isn't about judging people for looking at porn on the internet.

00:05:03.460 It's not about judging Alex Jones.

00:05:05.820 It's not about judging Kurt Eichenwald or whatever.

00:05:08.760 But this is very important because it shows porn usage for what it is.

00:05:14.520 Like, there's a reason that he's embarrassed by this.

00:05:17.960 There's a reason that I just made that note.

00:05:19.420 Don't ever show your phone on camera.

00:05:23.420 There's a reason people are ashamed of this,

00:05:25.680 which is that it's a shameful thing.

00:05:28.080 It's a shameful thing to look at tentacle porn or whatever.

00:05:32.600 Here's the proof of this.

00:05:33.900 This is the Norm MacDonald theory on sex.

00:05:36.660 He has a whole bit on one of his albums

00:05:38.540 about how sex is a dirty, shameful, filthy thing

00:05:41.160 that is obviously only meant for procreation.

00:05:43.500 And his evidence for this is that when you go into your room to have sex,

00:05:47.700 you close the blinds.

00:05:49.740 You know, you don't like open the windows,

00:05:52.000 put a camera there, broadcast it to all your friends.

00:05:54.640 And obviously, that's even more so true

00:05:57.140 of when you look at porn on the internet.

00:05:59.020 When people look at porn on the internet

00:06:00.500 and then they get caught, like Alex Jones,

00:06:02.660 even Alex Jones, who is a master of just exposing himself,

00:06:07.100 literally exposing himself.

00:06:07.960 He takes his shirt off a lot.

00:06:09.240 He's just out there.

00:06:10.200 He's not ashamed of anything.

00:06:11.320 Even he gets flustered.

00:06:12.540 Even he says, oh, well, I didn't.

00:06:13.960 And these are crazy.

00:06:14.660 See, and I don't know, even he can't spin this yarn.

00:06:17.440 Even Kurt Eichenwald says, oh, this wasn't true.

00:06:19.320 This didn't happen.

00:06:20.120 People get very flustered

00:06:21.580 because it's obviously a shameful thing.

00:06:23.320 And the reason it's proliferated

00:06:24.500 is because it's so easy.

00:06:26.440 Everybody has seen it.

00:06:27.620 You get it instantly.

00:06:28.940 Nobody can catch you.

00:06:29.980 It's very difficult to catch you.

00:06:31.940 So people say, oh, well, it's a harmless activity.

00:06:35.620 But it isn't really harmless.

00:06:37.040 You know, a lot of studies have been done on this.

00:06:38.700 It's overuse of porn and high-speed internet porn and video porn

00:06:43.780 can cause erectile dysfunction in young guys.

00:06:47.960 It can cause really perverted fantasies.

00:06:50.360 It's caused guys to stop wanting to sleep with their wives or girlfriends

00:06:54.220 because it doesn't match the fantasy of porn.

00:06:57.440 You know, we talked a little bit about this, I think, yesterday.

00:06:59.660 Porn is a fantasy.

00:07:01.200 And so it's a shameful thing.

00:07:04.140 This should be a lesson to everybody.

00:07:05.580 Obviously, people, when the lights are out and the walls are closed

00:07:08.180 and the window's down, people do things that they're not proud of.

00:07:11.100 That's human nature.

00:07:12.540 That is just built into us.

00:07:14.460 But this is a lesson that we shouldn't do that, you know.

00:07:17.440 These things do come to light.

00:07:19.660 And you just don't want to do those things.

00:07:23.100 You know, what is the old...

00:07:24.120 I think an old gym coach of mine said,

00:07:25.980 a character is what you do when you think nobody's watching.

00:07:29.340 So, you know, if you're looking at transgender tentacle porn 1.00

00:07:32.580 on the internet when nobody's watching,

00:07:33.780 that's not a good thing.

00:07:35.640 Because it's selfish.

00:07:36.860 It's ultimately selfish to just sit in a room and pleasure yourself.

00:07:40.980 It's not gratifying because you're not doing anything.

00:07:43.560 You're not helping anybody.

00:07:44.340 You're not producing anything.

00:07:45.600 And it won't make you happy over time.

00:07:48.100 Just like any other selfish activity.

00:07:50.860 Doing drugs, abusing alcohol,

00:07:54.220 you know, staring in the mirror and admiring yourself or whatever.

00:07:57.460 I mean, that's like the extreme example of selfishness.

00:07:59.960 Anytime you're just doing something for your own pleasure,

00:08:03.480 your own gratification,

00:08:04.600 you're going to get tired of that

00:08:06.000 and ultimately you're not going to be fulfilled.

00:08:08.940 There are some uses, though.

00:08:10.940 There are some uses to selfish behavior.

00:08:13.820 If you can put your self-interest

00:08:15.520 and channel it toward a public good,

00:08:18.360 then selfishness is not a dirty thing.

00:08:20.980 Then it's not like the tentacle porn.

00:08:22.580 And Kanye West describing Donald Trump,

00:08:25.660 two very self-interested men,

00:08:27.620 explains this very well.

00:08:29.960 And it's why selfishness is not necessarily

00:08:32.340 a dirty word in politics.

00:08:34.240 Kanye, take it away.

00:08:35.740 I feel that he cares

00:08:37.800 about the way black people feel about him.

00:08:46.900 And he would like for black people

00:08:51.360 to like him like they did when he was cool

00:08:55.120 and the rap songs and all this and stuff.

00:08:57.420 Yeah, and he will do the things

00:09:02.360 that are necessary to make that happen

00:09:06.240 because he's got an ego like all the rest of us

00:09:10.980 and he wants to be the greatest president.

00:09:15.840 And he knows that he can't be the greatest president

00:09:18.820 without the acceptors of the black community.

00:09:22.340 So it's something that he's going to work towards.

00:09:25.920 But we're going to have to speak to him.

00:09:28.400 Yeah, we're going to have to do it.

00:09:29.520 Yeah, we're going to have to do it.

00:09:30.000 Well, let me go with you the next time you go to the White House.

00:09:32.780 I need to go with you to the White House.

00:09:35.680 I got a couple of things I got to say.

00:09:37.520 So this is a longer interview.

00:09:39.180 And, you know, he goes on and on about this.

00:09:41.380 But the point is very important,

00:09:43.840 which is Donald Trump doesn't want to offend the black vote.

00:09:49.500 He doesn't want to offend black people.

00:09:50.960 He wants them to like him.

00:09:52.320 He remembers in the 1990s, you know,

00:09:54.160 there were all these rap songs about how cool it was to be Donald Trump

00:09:56.760 because Donald Trump was this billionaire playboy.

00:09:59.320 And that's, you know, that's very popular.

00:10:02.160 Now he wants to get that back.

00:10:03.560 He wants to channel his self-interest for black people. 0.96

00:10:06.860 It's not that Kanye West says Donald Trump,

00:10:10.100 he's thought through the ideals of the American founding

00:10:13.600 and he realizes that all men are created equal

00:10:15.960 and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights

00:10:18.240 because that comes from the natural law and the natural creator.

00:10:21.020 And therefore, we all need blah, blah, blah.

00:10:22.440 No, it isn't that.

00:10:23.660 He gives a much straighter argument that I think everyone can believe,

00:10:26.720 which is that he wants black people to like him

00:10:28.960 because he wants to be liked,

00:10:30.480 because he wants to be a successful president.

00:10:33.000 That's a good enough answer.

00:10:34.760 I think people on the right, conservatives mock this sometimes.

00:10:37.800 They say, oh, he's so narrow, he's so shallow, Trump.

00:10:41.040 He's so, oh, who wants Kanye West's support?

00:10:43.500 Kanye West is shallow and selfish and not,

00:10:46.160 he's not this high ideal guy.

00:10:48.340 Fine, but they're doing good things.

00:10:50.260 You can channel these natural instincts.

00:10:52.940 You can channel lower passions toward a public good.

00:10:56.580 I mean, there is a selfishness there that's a good thing.

00:10:59.340 If Donald Trump can be a good president for everybody,

00:11:02.860 help everybody succeed, put black unemployment at historic lows,

00:11:06.520 put the economy at historic highs, market highs,

00:11:10.600 you know, have wages increase.

00:11:12.380 If he does that because he read the Federalist Papers one day

00:11:15.620 and it really opened his eyes,

00:11:17.840 or if he does that because he just wants the history books to be nice to him,

00:11:21.920 either way, I'm happy.

00:11:23.380 Either way, the black unemployment rate goes down.

00:11:25.720 Either way, the stock market goes up.

00:11:27.600 Either way, I win.

00:11:28.860 That's fine.

00:11:29.480 You know, we don't need to treat the presidency like it's a religion.

00:11:32.700 We don't need to treat it like it's the Vatican.

00:11:34.960 Nowadays, we might have to treat the Vatican like it's the presidency,

00:11:37.480 but we'll get to that later.

00:11:39.240 We don't have to treat it in these exclusively idealistic terms.

00:11:43.400 If he's using his selfishness to become a good president,

00:11:47.300 that's a very good thing.

00:11:48.480 And this applies not just to the individual players in politics.

00:11:51.620 This applies to national policy too.

00:11:54.640 The Washington Post has this story today.

00:11:56.360 This is an absurd story, but it shows you where the logic of this ends up,

00:12:03.340 especially for the left, and it shows you why you do need self-interest

00:12:06.700 or you can't look after anybody else.

00:12:08.980 From the Washington Post, this is the headline, quote,

00:12:11.420 U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border,

00:12:15.620 throwing their citizenship into question.

00:12:18.540 So it's based on this policy right now.

00:12:20.880 The U.S. is, people present their documents.

00:12:23.980 They say, here's my birth certificate, here's whatever, I want a U.S. passport.

00:12:26.660 But if they were born along the southern border,

00:12:29.400 the State Department is saying, hold on a second,

00:12:31.360 we need to prove that you're a citizen.

00:12:32.940 Now people are up in arms.

00:12:34.180 They're saying this is racist.

00:12:35.540 This is denying Americans their rights. 0.55

00:12:37.820 This is bigoted.

00:12:39.340 Some dum-dum on Twitter was comparing Trump to Hitler because of this,

00:12:43.620 which, by the way, you remember Donald Trump deported that Nazi 0.93

00:12:46.940 a couple weeks ago?

00:12:47.840 That should buy him some he's-not-Hitler cred for a little while, 0.83

00:12:50.520 but that's neither here nor there.

00:12:53.780 Here is what the piece goes on to say in the Washington Post, quote,

00:12:57.820 On paper, he's a devoted U.S. citizen.

00:13:00.860 His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered

00:13:03.180 by a midwife in Brownsville at the southern tip of Texas.

00:13:06.560 He spent his life wearing American uniforms,

00:13:08.940 three years as a private in the Army,

00:13:10.580 then as a cadet in the Border Patrol,

00:13:12.640 and now as a state prison guard.

00:13:14.440 But when Juan, 40, applied to renew his U.S. passport this year,

00:13:18.300 the government's response floored him.

00:13:19.760 In a letter, the State Department said it didn't believe

00:13:23.600 he was an American citizen.

00:13:26.420 Okay?

00:13:27.500 So that's bad.

00:13:28.400 That doesn't sound good on its surface, right?

00:13:30.000 There's a guy who served his country, 40 years old,

00:13:32.340 and they said they don't believe he's an American citizen.

00:13:34.580 So this has to raise a few questions.

00:13:36.760 Why don't they believe he's an American citizen?

00:13:39.640 Is this question just or is it unjust?

00:13:43.240 And has this happened before?

00:13:45.020 Is this some totally new thing?

00:13:46.560 So despite the headline, despite the first scare paragraph,

00:13:50.200 the article actually goes on to explain all of this,

00:13:53.360 and it should refute the entire headline,

00:13:55.040 because this goes back to the first sentence of the article.

00:13:57.560 First sentence is,

00:13:58.540 his official American birth certificate

00:14:00.400 shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville.

00:14:03.240 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:04.080 The official one.

00:14:04.820 The question is, is that true?

00:14:05.880 So the piece goes on.

00:14:06.880 Quote,

00:14:06.960 The government alleges that from 1950s through the 1990s,

00:14:11.340 some midwives and physicians along the Texas-Mexico border

00:14:13.860 provided U.S. birth certificates to babies who were actually born in Mexico.

00:14:17.860 In a series of federal court cases in the 1990s,

00:14:20.720 several birth attendants admitted to providing fraudulent documents.

00:14:23.820 So just listen, even when they're admitting that this is a totally legit thing,

00:14:29.140 the Washington Post can't quite give it to them.

00:14:31.800 They say,

00:14:32.700 The government alleges blah, blah, blah.

00:14:35.080 But then later in that same paragraph,

00:14:36.660 they say,

00:14:37.160 In a series of federal court cases,

00:14:39.080 the birth attendants admitted to providing fraudulent documents.

00:14:42.300 So it's not that the government alleges this.

00:14:44.640 It's that we know for a fact it's true

00:14:46.420 because the people who did it admitted it years ago.

00:14:49.820 So forget alleges.

00:14:51.200 We know this is a legitimate thing.

00:14:52.980 This isn't the government trying to pull a fast one.

00:14:54.760 We know this is a legitimate thing.

00:14:56.360 And is this new?

00:14:57.560 Is this something that just happened?

00:14:58.780 Is this a brand new policy that's never happened before?

00:15:02.280 Trump's just using it as an excuse to deport people he doesn't like

00:15:06.100 or to discriminate against people he doesn't like

00:15:08.020 because that's what's being alleged by the left.

00:15:09.720 But the same exact piece in the Washington Post goes on.

00:15:12.360 Quote,

00:15:12.720 Based on those suspicions,

00:15:15.080 the State Department during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations

00:15:18.640 denied passports to people who were delivered by midwives

00:15:21.820 in Texas's Rio Grande Valley.

00:15:25.340 Did you?

00:15:25.980 Really buries the lead, doesn't it?

00:15:28.220 The last thing says,

00:15:29.620 not only during the last Republican administration,

00:15:32.800 George W. Bush,

00:15:33.440 but even during the previous Democrat administration under Barack Obama,

00:15:36.640 this exact same policy was in place.

00:15:39.920 Nothing new.

00:15:40.640 So why is this a news story?

00:15:42.000 It's a news story because the mainstream media

00:15:44.480 are trying to use it as a cudgel against Donald Trump.

00:15:47.500 So they're going to dig up something that was barely reported on,

00:15:50.520 if at all reported on,

00:15:51.600 when it happened in the first place.

00:15:52.960 They're going to say,

00:15:53.400 see, Trump's being a racist,

00:15:55.360 Trump's being this,

00:15:55.920 Trump's being that.

00:15:56.720 The reason I bring this up, though,

00:15:57.880 is not just to beat up on the mainstream media,

00:15:59.680 which is a daily hobby.

00:16:00.820 It's a wonderful thing to do.

00:16:02.140 I encourage it.

00:16:03.220 But the reason I bring it up

00:16:04.360 is because of the policy itself,

00:16:06.800 which is,

00:16:07.820 we have not just credible evidence,

00:16:09.840 we have proof that

00:16:11.920 some of these birth certificates

00:16:14.420 were fraudulent

00:16:15.500 during the 1950s to the 1990s.

00:16:18.500 We're talking about a four-decade period here,

00:16:20.620 five-decade period.

00:16:23.240 And so the United States

00:16:24.620 has two options here.

00:16:26.140 Either it can say,

00:16:27.720 oh, well,

00:16:28.160 it doesn't really matter

00:16:29.000 if we're giving foreign nationals

00:16:30.900 the rights of U.S. citizens.

00:16:32.180 That's okay.

00:16:32.760 That's fine.

00:16:33.500 Whatever.

00:16:34.000 Hey, it's okay.

00:16:34.680 What does it matter to us?

00:16:36.060 Those guys are poor in Mexico, 0.98

00:16:37.320 they can do that

00:16:38.800 or they can pursue

00:16:39.740 their selfish interest.

00:16:41.900 Their self-interest in this case

00:16:43.980 for the United States

00:16:44.880 is to protect its borders,

00:16:46.420 to protect its sovereignty,

00:16:48.520 to protect the legitimacy

00:16:50.060 of its citizenship,

00:16:51.680 and to kick people out

00:16:52.780 who shouldn't be here.

00:16:53.980 Now, this seems icky to people.

00:16:55.880 The whole left is saying

00:16:56.860 that's selfish,

00:16:57.480 that's selfish,

00:16:57.960 that's selfish.

00:17:00.020 Governments have to be selfish.

00:17:02.140 Governments have to pursue

00:17:03.040 their own interests.

00:17:04.760 And when governments

00:17:05.320 don't pursue their own interests,

00:17:06.500 when they don't pursue

00:17:08.000 the interests of their people,

00:17:09.200 it's not just that

00:17:10.640 they're being charitable

00:17:11.480 or compassionate or something.

00:17:12.820 They're being tyrannical.

00:17:14.460 They're being tyrannical.

00:17:15.360 If a government

00:17:15.860 is not pursuing your interests,

00:17:17.620 if you are not being represented

00:17:19.040 by your government,

00:17:20.660 that isn't a small matter.

00:17:22.380 That's a matter of the government

00:17:23.720 becoming tyrannical,

00:17:25.700 of opposing the will of the people,

00:17:27.340 which in the United States

00:17:28.620 is not kosher.

00:17:30.200 That's not what our republic

00:17:31.440 was built on.

00:17:32.320 It's a very, very bad thing.

00:17:33.880 Governments have to pursue

00:17:34.760 their interests.

00:17:35.680 These days,

00:17:36.500 among the left

00:17:37.280 and among the idealistic,

00:17:39.700 ideological right,

00:17:42.280 they're pretending that

00:17:43.380 countries don't have interests.

00:17:45.540 This is where nationalism

00:17:46.560 has become a bad word.

00:17:47.840 We're going to talk to

00:17:48.580 Yoram Hozoni,

00:17:50.420 the author of

00:17:51.480 The Virtues of Nationalism.

00:17:53.220 We're going to be talking to him,

00:17:54.260 I think, next week

00:17:54.960 about this issue.

00:17:56.640 To say the country

00:17:57.520 has its own interests

00:17:58.160 is a bad thing.

00:17:59.220 All you heard

00:17:59.900 from the idealistic right,

00:18:01.100 all you heard from the left,

00:18:02.260 is,

00:18:02.320 oh,

00:18:02.940 Trump,

00:18:03.420 he's saying

00:18:04.540 that other countries

00:18:05.820 need to pay up

00:18:06.800 to their responsibilities.

00:18:08.760 He's saying

00:18:09.600 that the United States

00:18:10.760 is going to pursue

00:18:11.760 our own interests.

00:18:13.020 He's saying

00:18:13.440 we're going to put

00:18:13.900 America first.

00:18:15.100 Where are my pearls?

00:18:16.100 Where can I,

00:18:16.600 I've got a clutch,

00:18:17.420 where are they?

00:18:19.140 What's wrong about

00:18:20.100 saying America?

00:18:20.700 They said

00:18:21.180 that America first

00:18:22.520 harkens back

00:18:24.060 to Charles Lindbergh

00:18:25.220 or something.

00:18:26.100 It doesn't harken back

00:18:27.360 to Charles Lindbergh

00:18:28.040 in the minds of the people

00:18:28.840 using it today.

00:18:30.140 The Americans who say, 0.81

00:18:30.980 yeah,

00:18:31.020 I think we should

00:18:31.360 put America first, 0.94

00:18:32.300 they're not thinking

00:18:32.760 of Charles Lindbergh.

00:18:33.940 They're saying

00:18:34.280 we have a national interest

00:18:35.380 and it's incumbent

00:18:36.560 upon the government

00:18:37.340 to follow our interests

00:18:39.060 because we're the people,

00:18:39.840 we're their bosses.

00:18:41.460 There's nothing wrong

00:18:42.600 with that.

00:18:42.900 That's self-interest.

00:18:43.700 It isn't,

00:18:44.560 you know,

00:18:44.900 people draw a difference

00:18:45.800 between self-interest

00:18:46.920 and selfishness,

00:18:48.380 you know,

00:18:48.600 between being childlike

00:18:50.500 and child-ish.

00:18:51.860 One of those is bad.

00:18:53.020 One of those

00:18:53.480 is perfectly appropriate

00:18:54.980 and it is perfectly appropriate

00:18:56.460 for the government

00:18:57.340 to pursue the interest

00:18:58.640 of the people.

00:18:59.920 Putting America first

00:19:00.680 is not a bad thing.

00:19:02.080 The late Senator John McCain

00:19:03.520 ran his 2008 presidential campaign

00:19:05.720 on the phrase

00:19:06.580 country first.

00:19:08.160 Do you remember

00:19:08.540 this was the whole

00:19:09.240 country first thing?

00:19:10.420 Other candidates

00:19:11.280 have used this too.

00:19:12.100 They say country first.

00:19:14.400 Can someone explain to me

00:19:15.440 the difference between

00:19:16.100 country first

00:19:16.760 and America first?

00:19:18.280 America is the country,

00:19:19.440 right?

00:19:19.640 We're talking,

00:19:20.160 we're not talking,

00:19:21.380 these people aren't running

00:19:22.240 for president of Mexico

00:19:23.260 or president of Hungary

00:19:24.580 or something, right?

00:19:25.240 It's America first 1.00

00:19:25.880 or country first

00:19:26.380 and yet it's a bad word.

00:19:28.280 You're not allowed

00:19:28.760 to say it.

00:19:29.680 It's a good thing

00:19:30.420 for countries

00:19:30.900 to pursue their interest

00:19:31.680 because in the United States,

00:19:33.220 by the way,

00:19:33.540 when the United States

00:19:34.180 pursues its own interest,

00:19:35.880 everything gets better

00:19:36.820 for everybody.

00:19:38.080 When the United States

00:19:38.900 is allowed to pursue

00:19:39.700 its own foreign interests

00:19:41.220 abroad,

00:19:41.760 the world is more peaceful.

00:19:43.120 When the United States

00:19:43.900 is allowed to pursue

00:19:44.620 its own economic interests,

00:19:46.060 the world is more prosperous.

00:19:47.880 When the United States

00:19:48.620 is allowed to pursue

00:19:49.280 its own environmental interests,

00:19:51.840 the environment improves.

00:19:53.660 This was the issue

00:19:54.240 of this Paraclimatist Treaty.

00:19:55.320 We pull out

00:19:56.080 of the Paris Climate Treaty

00:19:57.060 because we say

00:19:57.460 we're putting our country first.

00:19:58.820 You don't get to take away

00:19:59.560 our sovereignty.

00:20:00.240 You don't get to tell us

00:20:00.860 what to do.

00:20:01.400 What happens?

00:20:02.240 We're the only people

00:20:02.960 who improve the environment.

00:20:06.380 So many other signatories

00:20:07.640 of the Paris Treaty

00:20:08.400 actually are destroying

00:20:10.380 the environment.

00:20:11.200 They're not living up

00:20:11.880 to their promises.

00:20:12.680 They're polluting

00:20:13.200 at even higher rates.

00:20:14.460 The United States,

00:20:15.440 when we pursue our interests,

00:20:16.540 things get better.

00:20:17.160 This is almost always the case.

00:20:19.600 We've got to move on

00:20:20.300 a little bit,

00:20:21.000 but as a matter

00:20:22.740 of national policy,

00:20:23.460 don't let the mainstream media

00:20:24.780 fool you. 0.99

00:20:25.680 Don't let them pretend

00:20:26.960 that a country pursuing

00:20:28.020 its own self-interest

00:20:28.700 is a bad thing.

00:20:29.800 Self-interest can be

00:20:30.580 a very good thing.

00:20:31.220 This is the premise

00:20:31.860 of liberal economies.

00:20:33.260 This is the premise

00:20:33.780 of liberal democracy,

00:20:35.360 is that when you allow people

00:20:36.820 to pursue their interests

00:20:38.060 in good faith,

00:20:39.280 to pursue their interests

00:20:40.080 in good faith

00:20:40.640 and to discipline themselves

00:20:41.580 and to order themselves

00:20:42.340 and not just look at

00:20:43.340 transsexual porn all day, 0.87

00:20:44.660 but to actually discipline

00:20:45.880 themselves and pursue virtue,

00:20:47.440 but when they pursue

00:20:48.320 their interests

00:20:49.000 with that discipline,

00:20:52.420 things get better.

00:20:53.500 Freedom works,

00:20:54.400 and it does.

00:20:55.420 You know,

00:20:55.780 when Americans

00:20:57.760 keep an orderly sense

00:20:59.260 of self-interest

00:20:59.940 and virtue

00:21:00.620 and pursue their interests,

00:21:01.960 the country thrives,

00:21:02.820 the world thrives.

00:21:03.800 When they do that

00:21:04.780 without the sense

00:21:06.020 of discipline,

00:21:06.640 then it falls apart

00:21:07.320 and then they start

00:21:07.800 worshipping fire demons

00:21:09.520 in the Nevada desert,

00:21:11.220 have sex with each other 0.94

00:21:12.200 in orgy domes.

00:21:13.120 You don't want that.

00:21:14.160 I mean,

00:21:14.300 these things can fall apart,

00:21:15.580 but self-interest

00:21:16.140 can be a good thing.

00:21:16.920 Freedom works

00:21:17.520 when you have people

00:21:18.400 who are ordered to it,

00:21:19.900 when liberty

00:21:20.900 doesn't become licentiousness.

00:21:22.540 And this perversion

00:21:25.080 of the idea of liberty,

00:21:26.440 this perversion

00:21:27.080 of the idea of self-interest

00:21:28.140 is nowhere more apparent

00:21:29.940 than in this billboard.

00:21:31.440 This was going around

00:21:32.140 Twitter yesterday.

00:21:33.320 This billboard

00:21:33.860 is unbelievable.

00:21:35.260 The billboard says,

00:21:36.600 do we have the words,

00:21:37.760 it's something to the effect

00:21:38.780 of black women

00:21:40.940 look after their families

00:21:42.120 and they take care

00:21:44.760 of themselves.

00:21:46.140 Abortion is self-care.

00:21:49.640 Abortion is self-care.

00:21:52.040 So I'm looking at this thing

00:21:53.580 and all these progressives

00:21:54.620 are sending it around Twitter.

00:21:56.180 They're saying,

00:21:56.700 yeah,

00:21:57.280 support black women.

00:21:58.680 Yeah.

00:21:59.740 The logic of this billboard is

00:22:02.080 support black women,

00:22:05.980 kill black babies. 1.00

00:22:07.460 Because it's not even saying

00:22:09.000 like all women 0.97

00:22:10.220 or all whatever.

00:22:10.760 It's saying,

00:22:11.360 no, no,

00:22:11.880 we need to kill

00:22:13.600 specifically black babies.

00:22:15.860 And that's progress.

00:22:17.040 That's progressivism in 2018

00:22:18.440 is kill black babies 1.00

00:22:19.840 at a higher rate

00:22:20.360 because it's self-care.

00:22:22.640 And the argument here,

00:22:24.380 by the way,

00:22:24.820 is that somehow

00:22:25.760 it's good for a mother, 0.99

00:22:27.980 it's good for herself

00:22:29.100 to kill her child. 0.50

00:22:30.520 There's no evidence of that.

00:22:31.860 Mother Teresa said,

00:22:32.840 I believe in 1994,

00:22:34.120 that the greatest cause

00:22:35.280 of evil in the world,

00:22:36.520 the greatest policy issue

00:22:37.700 of evil in the world

00:22:38.480 is abortion.

00:22:40.300 Everyone mocked her 0.94

00:22:41.200 and they said,

00:22:41.560 no,

00:22:41.720 what about genocide?

00:22:42.620 What about this?

00:22:43.060 What about that?

00:22:43.700 She said,

00:22:44.360 if a mother can kill 1.00

00:22:45.880 her own child,

00:22:47.380 that is the greatest

00:22:49.340 font of evil,

00:22:51.060 interpersonal evil.

00:22:52.080 Because if a mother 0.80

00:22:52.620 can kill her own child, 1.00

00:22:54.080 what can't we do?

00:22:55.500 What won't we do?

00:22:56.820 Is there any bond

00:22:57.920 more sacred than that

00:22:58.860 from mother to child?

00:23:00.220 And if you can murder

00:23:00.940 your own child,

00:23:01.500 what won't you do?

00:23:02.380 And that's what they're saying.

00:23:03.320 They're saying now

00:23:03.800 it's self-care.

00:23:05.220 This is not proper

00:23:06.860 self-interest.

00:23:07.460 This is real selfishness.

00:23:09.400 This is base,

00:23:10.560 wicked selfishness.

00:23:11.600 And you don't want to do that

00:23:12.580 because when a man

00:23:13.540 is wrapped up

00:23:14.300 in his own self,

00:23:15.740 he makes a very small

00:23:16.620 package indeed.

00:23:17.800 You know,

00:23:18.000 you don't only,

00:23:19.040 if you're just there

00:23:20.020 staring at the

00:23:20.820 transsexual frog porn 0.99

00:23:22.400 or whatever,

00:23:22.840 I don't know what it is.

00:23:23.660 If you're just doing that,

00:23:24.700 you will not be fulfilled.

00:23:26.240 Do you ever,

00:23:26.540 you know,

00:23:26.840 whenever someone

00:23:27.800 satisfies the flesh,

00:23:29.280 that can be you go

00:23:30.180 and you just eat

00:23:31.060 a table full of food

00:23:32.340 or you drink

00:23:33.100 three bottles of whiskey

00:23:34.220 or you do whatever

00:23:35.460 you do on your cell phone,

00:23:36.420 browser or whatever

00:23:37.480 or you leave

00:23:38.320 the orgy dome

00:23:39.200 at what's the,

00:23:41.440 what's the festival called?

00:23:42.740 Burning Man.

00:23:43.520 You leave the orgy dome

00:23:44.560 at Burning Man.

00:23:45.340 I don't think people

00:23:46.360 ever walk out of there

00:23:47.500 and they say,

00:23:48.160 gosh,

00:23:48.480 I feel great about myself now.

00:23:50.300 Yeah,

00:23:50.460 I really did.

00:23:51.160 I really pleasured myself.

00:23:52.960 I gave myself

00:23:53.880 a lot of pleasure.

00:23:55.520 You know what they're going

00:23:56.140 to read at my funeral

00:23:56.960 someday?

00:23:57.360 They're going to say,

00:23:58.000 you know,

00:23:58.880 he,

00:23:59.480 oh,

00:23:59.800 John,

00:24:00.620 John lived a lot.

00:24:01.620 He went to the orgy dome

00:24:02.680 and looked at stuff

00:24:03.600 on his cell phone browser

00:24:04.720 and ate a table of food

00:24:05.780 and guzzled bottles

00:24:07.060 of whiskey morning tonight.

00:24:08.340 He really pleasured himself.

00:24:10.460 Let it,

00:24:10.740 let it be said

00:24:11.460 of that great

00:24:12.580 and glorious man.

00:24:13.800 He pleasured himself.

00:24:15.860 Nobody wants that.

00:24:17.260 Nobody wants that

00:24:18.340 on their,

00:24:19.020 as their epitaph.

00:24:20.080 Nobody wants that

00:24:20.760 on their,

00:24:21.180 on their headstone.

00:24:22.840 But that's what this

00:24:23.980 stupid billboard is saying.

00:24:25.840 They're saying,

00:24:26.560 it's really self,

00:24:27.660 it's really caring for yourself

00:24:28.680 to kill your baby. 0.98

00:24:29.780 Nobody,

00:24:30.580 not a soul,

00:24:31.580 not the biggest

00:24:32.460 shout your abortion proponent 0.97

00:24:34.200 in the entire world

00:24:35.620 wants it written

00:24:36.520 on her headstone.

00:24:38.200 Here lies

00:24:39.160 Sally Jones.

00:24:41.720 She killed her babies. 1.00

00:24:43.440 Nobody wants that.

00:24:44.500 It's a shameful thing.

00:24:45.920 It is

00:24:46.320 far more shameful

00:24:47.740 than looking at

00:24:48.900 transgender porn 0.99

00:24:50.140 on your browser.

00:24:51.080 It's far more shameful

00:24:52.120 than that.

00:24:52.500 We all know

00:24:53.120 that that's true.

00:24:53.860 And the people

00:24:54.640 who put up these billboards

00:24:55.560 and say it's self-care,

00:24:56.980 it's self-care,

00:24:57.780 it's shout your abortion, 1.00

00:24:59.180 it's good,

00:24:59.800 it's loving,

00:25:01.140 it's,

00:25:01.760 they know it's a lie.

00:25:02.860 It's such an absurd lie.

00:25:04.640 Kill black babies, 1.00

00:25:05.520 that's progress.

00:25:06.380 That is such

00:25:07.240 an absurd lie

00:25:08.620 and no amount of saying it,

00:25:09.880 it doesn't matter

00:25:10.320 how big your billboard

00:25:11.240 is going to get,

00:25:11.920 it doesn't matter

00:25:12.260 how loud you shout

00:25:13.280 your abortion,

00:25:13.960 that isn't going

00:25:14.780 to change the fact

00:25:15.760 that is a shameful thing.

00:25:17.940 The next one

00:25:18.640 they're going to do

00:25:19.100 is euthanasia.

00:25:20.600 They're going to do it

00:25:21.160 for assisted suicide.

00:25:23.040 You know,

00:25:23.480 black women 1.00

00:25:23.940 take care of themselves.

00:25:25.080 They have to look

00:25:25.460 after themselves.

00:25:26.740 Assisted suicide

00:25:27.420 is self-care.

00:25:28.060 That's what they're going

00:25:28.600 to say.

00:25:29.320 That is as incoherent

00:25:32.240 as abortion being self-care.

00:25:35.640 It's as incoherent.

00:25:36.920 Those things aren't self-care.

00:25:38.780 The challenge

00:25:40.360 that we have to do

00:25:41.060 because we have

00:25:41.460 a broken human nature

00:25:42.380 and we have original sin

00:25:43.940 is to take

00:25:44.860 our inherent selfishness,

00:25:46.160 the pride

00:25:46.660 that caused the fall

00:25:47.700 and turn that

00:25:49.120 away from ourselves

00:25:50.160 to not look away,

00:25:51.900 to channel all of that,

00:25:52.980 to do something good.

00:25:54.400 And that can be done.

00:25:55.220 That can be done

00:25:55.840 in politics

00:25:56.800 as we're seeing.

00:25:57.580 It can be done

00:25:58.240 in the government

00:25:58.880 as we're seeing.

00:25:59.500 It can be done

00:26:00.040 in business.

00:26:01.220 Those things can be done

00:26:02.340 but that's the only way

00:26:03.080 we're going to do it.

00:26:03.800 We're not going to do it

00:26:05.000 by denying

00:26:05.760 the reality of selfishness

00:26:07.540 and we're not going

00:26:08.080 to do it

00:26:08.540 by pretending

00:26:11.160 that awful,

00:26:12.040 shameful things

00:26:12.540 are somehow

00:26:12.900 good and glorious.

00:26:14.200 This, of course,

00:26:14.980 brings us to

00:26:15.860 the Catholic Church.

00:26:16.920 I do have to address

00:26:17.700 this in our last minutes

00:26:18.860 before the mailbag here.

00:26:20.800 I do want to correct

00:26:21.780 one thing.

00:26:22.440 I think I said

00:26:22.980 on the show

00:26:23.380 the other day

00:26:23.980 I referred to

00:26:25.480 that whistleblower,

00:26:26.720 that high-ranking

00:26:27.660 Catholic official,

00:26:28.940 the nuncio to Washington,

00:26:30.460 the Vatican's ambassador

00:26:31.640 to the U.S.

00:26:32.140 I referred to him

00:26:32.960 as a cardinal,

00:26:33.800 Cardinal Vigano.

00:26:35.200 He's not a cardinal.

00:26:35.920 He's an archbishop

00:26:36.640 but he's not a cardinal

00:26:38.060 and this seems like

00:26:38.600 a minor distinction

00:26:39.380 and it's easy

00:26:39.840 to get confused

00:26:40.480 but the reason

00:26:41.180 that's important

00:26:41.760 is because he's

00:26:42.640 not a cardinal.

00:26:43.400 He's not in a power play,

00:26:45.860 a personal power play

00:26:46.880 in the Vatican.

00:26:47.520 He's not in the

00:26:48.200 College of Cardinals

00:26:48.900 or something like that.

00:26:50.760 There's a lot less

00:26:52.100 to selfishly gain

00:26:53.580 from this.

00:26:54.900 There's just,

00:26:55.780 this is much more clearly

00:26:57.620 an act of,

00:26:59.680 an act of conscience

00:27:00.840 and an act of love

00:27:01.560 for the church

00:27:02.140 to air out

00:27:03.080 this dirty laundry 0.54

00:27:03.780 which so many clerics,

00:27:05.640 so many Vatican officials

00:27:06.460 don't want to do.

00:27:07.700 But I've got to play

00:27:08.780 this for you.

00:27:11.120 This guy,

00:27:12.320 Cardinal Cupish,

00:27:13.380 I said that

00:27:14.080 uncharitable people

00:27:15.020 refer to this guy

00:27:15.980 as Cardinal Cupcake

00:27:17.040 which is not nice.

00:27:18.160 I wouldn't do it.

00:27:18.820 Not nice to do.

00:27:20.360 But Cupish,

00:27:21.080 I think it's actually

00:27:21.680 pronounced Soupish.

00:27:23.300 But people call him

00:27:24.160 Cupcake so then

00:27:24.820 they think it's Cupish.

00:27:26.020 But I believe it's Soupish.

00:27:26.920 Whatever his name is,

00:27:28.560 this is a guy who,

00:27:29.580 he's the one who came out

00:27:30.460 immediately and said,

00:27:31.140 the Pope doesn't have

00:27:31.780 to say anything.

00:27:32.560 Well,

00:27:32.940 I'll let him tell you

00:27:33.900 himself.

00:27:34.320 Here's Cardinal Soupish.

00:27:35.100 The Pope has a bigger agenda.

00:27:37.120 He's got to get on

00:27:37.740 with other things

00:27:38.480 of talking about

00:27:39.780 the environment

00:27:40.340 and protecting migrants

00:27:42.920 and carrying on

00:27:44.140 the work of the church.

00:27:44.920 We're not going to go

00:27:45.640 down a rabbit hole

00:27:46.320 on this.

00:27:46.920 The record shows

00:27:47.780 that whenever

00:27:48.680 there's actionable

00:27:49.660 information,

00:27:51.500 Pope Francis acts.

00:27:52.720 Quite frankly,

00:27:53.680 they also don't like him

00:27:54.600 because he's a Latino.

00:27:55.700 It's not just about

00:27:56.440 the Catholic Church.

00:27:57.420 Let's look at

00:27:57.960 all the agencies

00:27:58.700 and institutions

00:27:59.720 that deal with children

00:28:00.580 on a day-to-day basis.

00:28:02.520 Anything else?

00:28:03.420 Anything else you want

00:28:04.180 to blame this on

00:28:04.880 except for what's actually

00:28:07.220 being discussed?

00:28:08.740 This is unbelievable.

00:28:10.540 Look at what he said

00:28:11.280 just there.

00:28:11.980 I can't even go

00:28:12.620 through all of that.

00:28:13.420 He's saying that it's

00:28:14.540 because people are racist

00:28:15.840 that they're attacking him.

00:28:17.560 They're saying that

00:28:18.200 Pope Francis can't address

00:28:19.900 the major sex abuse scandal

00:28:22.660 that he is now implicated in

00:28:24.400 by a high-ranking,

00:28:25.380 incredible church official

00:28:26.860 because he's got to talk

00:28:28.420 about what air can do

00:28:30.560 petitioners

00:28:31.080 and subverting

00:28:32.000 immigration law

00:28:33.100 because he's got to talk

00:28:34.300 about global warming

00:28:35.400 and immigration

00:28:36.020 so he can't address

00:28:37.280 the serious accusations

00:28:38.980 credibly leveled

00:28:40.100 against him.

00:28:40.920 Then what else?

00:28:42.680 What is he saying?

00:28:43.460 He says we have to talk

00:28:44.140 about other groups

00:28:45.240 because he makes

00:28:46.880 a fair point here

00:28:47.720 which is that

00:28:48.160 the Catholic Church

00:28:48.940 does not have higher rates

00:28:49.960 of child abuse

00:28:50.580 than any other

00:28:51.540 religious denomination

00:28:52.700 according to any study

00:28:53.860 and children are

00:28:55.700 orders of magnitude

00:28:56.920 more likely to be abused

00:28:57.980 by school teachers

00:28:58.760 than by priests.

00:28:59.620 Sure, that's fine.

00:29:00.560 But that's not what

00:29:01.000 we're talking about.

00:29:02.500 That's not what we're

00:29:03.180 talking about at all.

00:29:03.840 We're talking about

00:29:04.460 specifically this guy's buddy,

00:29:08.620 Cardinal Supesha's buddy,

00:29:10.200 Cardinal McCarrick,

00:29:11.280 who has been

00:29:13.320 seriously accused,

00:29:15.420 credibly so,

00:29:16.620 of abuse

00:29:17.140 not just of

00:29:18.020 seminarians and priests

00:29:19.540 but also of minors.

00:29:21.360 We're talking about

00:29:22.280 Pope Francis

00:29:22.840 who has been implicated

00:29:23.780 in a cover-up here.

00:29:25.200 We're talking about

00:29:25.980 another story

00:29:27.660 that just came out today

00:29:28.660 which is that

00:29:29.380 Pope Francis

00:29:30.100 apparently gave

00:29:31.540 a sweetheart apartment,

00:29:32.720 a really posh

00:29:33.600 Vatican apartment

00:29:34.700 to a priest

00:29:36.000 who was known

00:29:36.660 to be a problem priest

00:29:38.400 to this guy,

00:29:39.880 what is his name,

00:29:40.920 Monsignor Luigi Capozzi.

00:29:42.880 He was known

00:29:43.300 to be a problem priest,

00:29:44.140 he was known

00:29:44.620 to engage in sexual behavior,

00:29:46.380 known to be a big issue.

00:29:48.100 He gave it to him

00:29:48.820 as a favor

00:29:49.400 for his friend

00:29:50.340 Cardinal Francesco

00:29:51.300 Coco Palmerio

00:29:53.340 and this priest

00:29:55.600 ended up

00:29:56.300 having a drug-fueled

00:29:58.580 gay orgy 0.98

00:29:59.480 in this

00:30:00.120 Vatican apartment

00:30:01.060 for hours and hours

00:30:02.380 on end.

00:30:02.780 It's only because

00:30:03.260 the neighbors

00:30:03.740 who also are priests

00:30:05.160 almost certainly

00:30:06.040 called the cops on him

00:30:08.000 and he finally

00:30:08.300 got arrested for this.

00:30:10.840 There are serious

00:30:12.320 sex abuse

00:30:13.180 and cover-up issues here

00:30:14.220 and what is

00:30:15.500 Cardinal Cupich's response?

00:30:16.960 No.

00:30:17.900 No, no, no.

00:30:18.640 We've got,

00:30:19.160 I've got more important

00:30:19.980 things to do

00:30:20.500 than to deal with this.

00:30:21.380 This is the classic

00:30:22.220 response of the left

00:30:23.080 by the way

00:30:23.520 which is that the left

00:30:24.380 loves humanity

00:30:25.040 and they don't care

00:30:26.260 that much about humans.

00:30:27.880 They say,

00:30:28.300 no, I've got,

00:30:28.900 I can't talk about

00:30:29.720 these people

00:30:30.160 who have been sexually abused.

00:30:31.680 I can't talk about

00:30:32.520 these people

00:30:33.040 who have covered up

00:30:34.440 sexual abuse

00:30:35.180 and who have been

00:30:35.620 personally,

00:30:36.760 directly implicated

00:30:38.040 in this.

00:30:38.680 I've got to care

00:30:39.540 for humanity.

00:30:40.660 I've got to stop

00:30:41.540 global warming.

00:30:43.000 I've got to subvert

00:30:44.040 U.S. immigration laws.

00:30:45.720 I have a much

00:30:46.800 more important task

00:30:47.800 than your silly

00:30:48.720 little sex abuse scandal

00:30:49.840 give me a break.

00:30:50.840 This is outrageous.

00:30:51.840 An outrageous response.

00:30:53.000 I mean,

00:30:53.240 this response

00:30:54.200 by the Cardinal

00:30:55.360 is the most

00:30:56.480 tone-deaf response

00:30:57.980 to a legitimate

00:30:59.720 social grievance

00:31:00.640 since Marie Antoinette's

00:31:02.800 apocryphal line

00:31:03.760 let them eat cake

00:31:05.460 which she didn't

00:31:06.580 actually say.

00:31:07.560 This is at least

00:31:09.040 as tone-deaf as that

00:31:09.940 and they need

00:31:10.720 to give an answer

00:31:11.340 for it.

00:31:12.120 But I'm sure

00:31:12.940 more is going to

00:31:13.740 come out every day.

00:31:14.520 And by the way,

00:31:14.940 while this is all

00:31:15.500 happening,

00:31:16.040 just a note

00:31:16.840 for the New York Times.

00:31:17.840 The New York Times

00:31:18.380 ran a headline.

00:31:20.080 While all of this

00:31:20.720 is,

00:31:20.900 I mean,

00:31:21.360 worse and worse news

00:31:22.420 every single day

00:31:22.980 for Pope Francis.

00:31:24.240 This is the headline.

00:31:25.600 Francis takes high road

00:31:27.000 as conservatives

00:31:28.040 pounce

00:31:28.680 taking criticisms

00:31:30.260 public.

00:31:32.640 That's the news report.

00:31:33.880 That's not an op-ed.

00:31:34.780 The news report

00:31:35.500 from the New York Times.

00:31:36.540 Francis takes high road

00:31:38.440 as conservatives

00:31:40.040 pounce

00:31:41.000 taking criticisms

00:31:42.400 public.

00:31:42.880 So they're saying

00:31:43.840 that they're judging

00:31:45.480 that Francis

00:31:45.940 is taking the high road

00:31:46.840 by refusing to acknowledge

00:31:47.900 the legitimate

00:31:48.900 and credible

00:31:49.820 allegations about him

00:31:51.200 covering up sex abuse

00:31:52.100 for one.

00:31:53.040 They're then saying

00:31:53.700 that the news story

00:31:54.480 is not the credible

00:31:55.460 allegations of sex abuse

00:31:56.520 but that conservatives

00:31:57.640 are pouncing

00:31:58.780 and by pouncing

00:31:59.960 they mean

00:32:00.860 asking questions

00:32:02.420 about the credible

00:32:03.840 allegations of sex abuse

00:32:04.980 and cover-ups

00:32:05.960 by the priest.

00:32:07.020 And then

00:32:07.320 this is the best part.

00:32:09.180 The third part is

00:32:09.820 the New York Times

00:32:11.020 headline is

00:32:11.840 that the conservatives

00:32:12.780 are pouncing

00:32:13.360 and that's bad

00:32:14.020 and they're not

00:32:14.400 taking the high road

00:32:14.920 because they're taking

00:32:16.020 the criticisms public.

00:32:18.060 So they should be

00:32:18.620 covering them up.

00:32:19.280 That's what the headline

00:32:19.840 is saying.

00:32:20.500 The conservatives

00:32:21.260 should be good

00:32:21.960 they should be nice

00:32:22.520 and they should cover up

00:32:23.540 all of the sex abuse.

00:32:24.600 They should cover up

00:32:25.300 all of the cover-up

00:32:25.940 of the sex abuse.

00:32:26.900 This shows you

00:32:28.260 by the way

00:32:28.660 for certain

00:32:29.580 that the New York Times

00:32:30.460 does not care about

00:32:31.260 the victims of sexual assault.

00:32:32.600 They do not care

00:32:33.200 one little bit.

00:32:34.520 They care about leftism

00:32:35.620 and they have

00:32:36.440 what they think is a pope

00:32:37.460 who is pushing leftism

00:32:38.840 and who's covering

00:32:39.800 for cardinals

00:32:40.360 who are pushing leftism

00:32:41.400 and there does seem

00:32:42.160 to be a strange

00:32:43.080 coincidence of leftism

00:32:45.100 and these cardinals

00:32:46.640 and bishops

00:32:47.220 who are covering things up

00:32:48.160 and that's all they care.

00:32:49.660 That is what they clearly

00:32:50.640 care about here.

00:32:51.680 They don't care about abuse.

00:32:52.720 The headline is

00:32:53.240 begging them 0.58

00:32:53.980 to keep covering up

00:32:55.020 the abuse.

00:32:55.600 Now they actually

00:32:56.080 had to change this online

00:32:57.140 because it was

00:32:58.040 so beyond the pale.

00:32:59.020 So the online version

00:32:59.780 is Vatican power struggle

00:33:01.400 bursts into open

00:33:02.280 as conservatives pounce.

00:33:03.980 Conservatives aren't pouncing.

00:33:05.280 There's a credible

00:33:05.860 allegation

00:33:06.460 that these left-wing clerics

00:33:08.480 have been covering up

00:33:10.220 or participating in

00:33:11.740 sexual abuse

00:33:12.660 for a long time.

00:33:13.640 That's what happened.

00:33:14.300 That's the news story

00:33:15.080 but conservatives pounce.

00:33:16.020 They do this in politics

00:33:16.760 all the time.

00:33:17.480 You know there's more

00:33:17.940 I want to get to.

00:33:18.620 There's another important

00:33:19.300 story to get to

00:33:20.120 and there's this day

00:33:21.120 in history.

00:33:21.580 Man I didn't get to

00:33:22.100 anything today.

00:33:22.740 We got to get to

00:33:23.180 the mailbag though

00:33:23.740 I'm sorry to say.

00:33:24.600 We'll have to save

00:33:25.400 those other things

00:33:25.980 for next week.

00:33:27.800 In the meantime

00:33:28.220 go to dailywire.com

00:33:29.960 because we've got

00:33:30.400 a lot of mailbag.

00:33:31.840 What do you get?

00:33:32.340 You get me.

00:33:32.700 You get the Andrew Klavins show.

00:33:33.460 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:33:34.080 You get to ask questions

00:33:34.660 in the mailbag.

00:33:35.120 That's coming right up.

00:33:35.720 You get to ask questions

00:33:36.240 in the conversation.

00:33:36.960 I'm practicing my Ben Shapiro voice.

00:33:38.100 I want to see how fast

00:33:38.620 I can talk.

00:33:39.020 Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

00:33:39.980 But before any of that

00:33:41.800 you got to get

00:33:43.040 the leftist tears tumbler.

00:33:45.180 You got to get it

00:33:45.940 because this

00:33:46.700 this leftist tears tumbler

00:33:50.480 tastes like the effects

00:33:51.940 of people pursuing

00:33:53.260 their appropriate

00:33:53.900 rational self-interest.

00:33:54.960 This tastes like the effects

00:33:56.540 of enforcing immigration law.

00:33:58.880 This tastes like

00:33:59.940 the effects of Donald Trump

00:34:01.480 doubling,

00:34:02.380 more than doubling

00:34:02.880 his support

00:34:03.380 among the black vote

00:34:04.280 which is traditionally

00:34:05.240 a Democrat stalwart vote.

00:34:07.460 This tastes like

00:34:08.840 the virtues

00:34:10.200 of pursuing self-interest

00:34:11.820 not the vices

00:34:12.520 and that's a wonderful thing

00:34:13.520 because there is nothing

00:34:14.400 vicious about leftist tears.

00:34:16.140 They are a true

00:34:16.800 wonder and a blessing.

00:34:19.160 Go to dailywire.com

00:34:19.920 We'll be right back

00:34:20.400 with the mailbag.

00:34:20.860 I never get to

00:34:31.860 everything that I want

00:34:32.700 to get to

00:34:33.040 but I also never get

00:34:33.920 to finish the mailbag

00:34:34.760 and I'm probably

00:34:35.640 not going to today.

00:34:36.460 We're going to give it

00:34:37.060 a good try though

00:34:38.220 from Robert.

00:34:40.140 I wanted to point out

00:34:41.640 that smoking substances

00:34:42.940 grown from the earth

00:34:43.940 to get high

00:34:44.800 has been around

00:34:45.380 for thousands of years

00:34:46.220 mainly in Asia

00:34:47.020 so it's not exactly

00:34:47.860 a new drug.

00:34:48.480 I generally appreciate

00:34:49.440 your insight

00:34:49.900 on most subjects

00:34:50.780 but your anti-pot rant

00:34:52.300 was lacking depth

00:34:53.320 love your show.

00:34:54.760 Well thank you

00:34:55.340 for watching the show

00:34:56.040 I appreciate it.

00:34:56.880 I knew I was going

00:34:57.580 to get this objection

00:34:58.580 so I wanted to head it off

00:35:00.480 but I'll say it again

00:35:01.380 I don't deny that.

00:35:03.760 Yeah smoking pot

00:35:04.620 has been around

00:35:05.240 for like all

00:35:06.380 of human history.

00:35:07.540 Using drugs

00:35:08.320 smoking drugs

00:35:09.100 to get high

00:35:10.200 to you know

00:35:11.300 whether it be

00:35:12.000 shamans in the desert

00:35:13.200 or eating

00:35:14.520 or smoking

00:35:15.060 whatever in Asia

00:35:15.860 or the pre-Columbus Americas

00:35:17.760 yeah that's been around

00:35:19.580 for all of human history.

00:35:20.960 That hasn't been

00:35:21.820 mainstream in the west.

00:35:23.780 That's true

00:35:24.180 that's from other cultures

00:35:25.340 absolutely.

00:35:26.280 In fact this is my

00:35:26.920 defense of alcohol.

00:35:28.220 Alcohol has been

00:35:28.940 with our culture

00:35:29.600 since the dawn of time.

00:35:31.920 Alcohol has been around

00:35:32.660 a very long time.

00:35:34.280 In fact Christ

00:35:35.700 the

00:35:36.480 from which we get

00:35:38.300 our Christian culture

00:35:39.200 from whom we get

00:35:39.780 our Christian culture

00:35:40.380 his first miracle

00:35:41.260 was to turn water

00:35:41.980 into wine

00:35:42.520 for drunk people.

00:35:43.500 Not just any wine

00:35:44.200 but very good wine.

00:35:44.900 So this was the argument

00:35:47.060 people say

00:35:47.580 if you

00:35:48.220 why don't we have pot

00:35:49.840 pot is not as bad

00:35:51.100 for you as alcohol.

00:35:52.480 Well I'm not arguing

00:35:53.460 that one way or the other

00:35:54.220 I'm just saying

00:35:54.640 alcohol is part of our culture.

00:35:56.200 So if you try to get rid

00:35:56.980 of alcohol

00:35:57.520 you're going to fail.

00:35:59.320 You're going to end up

00:35:59.800 with prohibition.

00:36:00.600 You're going to

00:36:00.800 it's just simply

00:36:01.640 not going to work.

00:36:02.500 You're butting up

00:36:03.120 against thousands

00:36:04.140 and thousands

00:36:04.880 and thousands of years

00:36:05.660 of tradition

00:36:06.500 and culture

00:36:07.220 and ideologues

00:36:08.620 think that they can get rid

00:36:09.440 of thousands

00:36:09.820 and thousands of years

00:36:10.520 of tradition overnight

00:36:11.380 but we know

00:36:12.440 that that can't really happen.

00:36:13.800 So I'm not

00:36:14.360 arguing one way or the other

00:36:15.420 I'm just saying

00:36:15.820 that's not going to work.

00:36:17.100 My question is

00:36:17.740 why would we introduce

00:36:18.460 a new one?

00:36:19.600 Why would we introduce

00:36:20.520 marijuana into the culture?

00:36:21.580 Marijuana doesn't come

00:36:22.360 from our culture.

00:36:23.440 Marijuana was introduced

00:36:24.480 as a mainstream concept

00:36:25.900 very very recently.

00:36:27.480 So why would we

00:36:28.220 help that become mainstreamed?

00:36:30.140 Yes that's part of

00:36:30.860 Asian culture

00:36:31.440 or whatever.

00:36:32.480 Smoking things to get high

00:36:33.540 is part of a lot of cultures.

00:36:35.300 They can have it.

00:36:35.980 That's their culture.

00:36:36.960 Why would we introduce it

00:36:37.860 to ours?

00:36:38.140 What's the benefit?

00:36:39.280 Why would we do it?

00:36:39.900 I see no reason.

00:36:40.760 I'm not even saying that

00:36:41.680 pot is a terrible thing

00:36:43.300 or that it's worse than alcohol

00:36:44.300 or it's worse.

00:36:44.800 I'm not saying that at all.

00:36:45.960 There's a time and a place

00:36:46.640 for everything.

00:36:47.200 That place is college.

00:36:48.680 One in seven Americans

00:36:49.940 smokes pot on occasion

00:36:51.840 year to year to year.

00:36:53.360 I'm not saying

00:36:53.980 I'm just saying

00:36:54.660 why would we mainstream it?

00:36:56.020 Why would we legalize it?

00:36:56.940 Why would we encourage it?

00:36:58.040 If the government

00:36:58.840 were to pull away alcohol

00:37:00.320 from our culture

00:37:01.020 that would be

00:37:01.880 a real incursion.

00:37:03.480 That would be a real

00:37:04.140 interference

00:37:04.960 into our culture

00:37:06.220 and our society.

00:37:07.000 But if the government

00:37:09.460 were to stop

00:37:10.720 legalizing marijuana

00:37:11.560 that's not interfering

00:37:12.500 in our society.

00:37:13.380 Marijuana has never

00:37:13.940 had a place

00:37:14.380 in our society.

00:37:15.660 So why would we

00:37:16.180 introduce it now?

00:37:16.940 People have to think

00:37:17.680 not ideologically

00:37:19.360 about this

00:37:20.040 because ideologues

00:37:21.480 think they can get

00:37:21.980 rid of culture overnight.

00:37:23.260 They have to think

00:37:23.920 about this more broadly

00:37:25.400 from a traditional perspective

00:37:26.700 from a perspective

00:37:27.380 of culture and society

00:37:28.640 and conservative thought.

00:37:30.040 Next question

00:37:30.620 from Emmanuel

00:37:31.680 God with us.

00:37:34.100 Hi Michael

00:37:34.600 I was wondering

00:37:35.320 if you could speak

00:37:36.140 to the vocation

00:37:36.780 of the artist

00:37:37.300 particularly with your

00:37:38.060 background as an actor

00:37:38.900 and now in the context

00:37:40.100 of Catholicism.

00:37:41.220 I've been struggling

00:37:41.720 with this for ages

00:37:42.540 constantly looking

00:37:43.420 for something to tell me

00:37:44.560 that it's a good thing

00:37:45.340 I wasn't built

00:37:46.300 to be an accountant

00:37:46.960 or a mechanic

00:37:47.680 or anything

00:37:48.500 with any conceivable

00:37:49.400 life skill.

00:37:50.300 I have no problem

00:37:51.400 paying my dues

00:37:52.560 working at a regular job

00:37:54.180 until I can do

00:37:54.880 what I ought.

00:37:55.840 That's not the issue.

00:37:56.800 I just want to know

00:37:57.600 that it's a good thing

00:37:58.880 to aspire to.

00:37:59.920 That the church

00:38:00.600 and the world perhaps

00:38:01.480 might need someone like me.

00:38:02.820 Thanks so much.

00:38:03.340 Love the show

00:38:03.680 and keep up the good work.

00:38:04.600 Well, as somebody

00:38:05.760 who has no discernible

00:38:07.320 hard skills whatsoever

00:38:08.400 I feel able

00:38:09.800 to answer your question.

00:38:11.260 Of course you should

00:38:12.100 pursue art

00:38:12.720 if that's what

00:38:13.360 you should be doing.

00:38:14.160 But you can't really

00:38:14.980 you can't plan

00:38:16.700 these things out

00:38:17.320 too much.

00:38:18.160 And if you make

00:38:18.760 an idol out of your

00:38:19.960 art or your

00:38:21.280 preferred job

00:38:22.060 or your preferred craft

00:38:22.820 you're going to go

00:38:23.440 down a bad path

00:38:24.220 and that isn't the thing

00:38:25.120 that you should be doing.

00:38:26.560 I'll say this

00:38:27.300 as someone who's never

00:38:27.900 going to work

00:38:28.260 in this town again.

00:38:29.220 I still on occasion

00:38:30.480 get the opportunity

00:38:31.320 to work as an actor.

00:38:32.540 So I'm doing

00:38:33.520 Another Kingdom

00:38:34.000 with Andrew Klavan

00:38:34.660 right now.

00:38:35.240 We're doing

00:38:35.740 the second season

00:38:36.340 of that.

00:38:36.680 The first season

00:38:37.080 was very successful.

00:38:38.140 Second season

00:38:38.600 is going to be successful.

00:38:39.720 I've been able

00:38:40.060 to do a handful

00:38:41.320 of movies and plays

00:38:42.100 some of which

00:38:42.600 were good

00:38:42.920 some of which

00:38:43.260 got good reviews

00:38:43.900 and that's always nice

00:38:45.160 but you don't get

00:38:45.740 to do it all the time.

00:38:47.000 I say now

00:38:47.480 the only time

00:38:47.900 I get hired

00:38:48.280 as an actor

00:38:48.720 is by Ted Cruz

00:38:50.540 Dennis Prager

00:38:51.820 and Andrew Klavan.

00:38:52.920 Those are the last employers.

00:38:54.520 That doesn't

00:38:55.260 keep me up at night.

00:38:56.160 I'm not crying

00:38:57.200 and sad all the time

00:38:58.500 because I'm doing

00:38:59.020 something different

00:38:59.580 than that.

00:39:00.000 You'll do

00:39:00.860 what you can do.

00:39:01.560 You take the step

00:39:02.240 that's in front of you

00:39:03.240 but art is a wonderful thing.

00:39:04.940 I've never wanted

00:39:05.920 to become an accountant

00:39:06.780 or to become a mechanic

00:39:08.280 or to do anything

00:39:09.140 that is practically useful

00:39:10.740 whatsoever

00:39:11.120 and I think I'd be

00:39:12.440 unhappy doing that

00:39:13.300 and I don't think

00:39:13.980 I'd make a contribution

00:39:14.680 to that at all

00:39:15.500 but if you're

00:39:16.860 interested in things

00:39:18.600 such as

00:39:19.320 art

00:39:19.980 or

00:39:20.460 politics

00:39:21.560 philosophy

00:39:22.300 those sorts of things

00:39:24.380 that's one

00:39:25.100 theology

00:39:25.640 whatever

00:39:26.100 then pursue those things.

00:39:28.060 Pursue what you think

00:39:28.760 that you're

00:39:29.180 called to do.

00:39:30.180 A good way to measure this

00:39:31.280 to see if you're actually

00:39:31.940 doing the right thing

00:39:32.780 is

00:39:33.540 one

00:39:34.180 are you willing to work

00:39:35.300 when people offer you

00:39:36.400 an opportunity

00:39:36.940 are you willing to do it

00:39:38.120 even if it's not exactly

00:39:39.460 what you planned out?

00:39:40.640 You can never plan

00:39:41.320 your own life for you.

00:39:42.200 It never works out that way.

00:39:43.340 If it did work out that way

00:39:44.560 we'd be in a very shallow

00:39:45.940 paltry world.

00:39:48.260 So

00:39:48.420 are you willing to do that work?

00:39:50.620 Do you

00:39:51.060 do you mind being led

00:39:53.400 where the thing leads you to go?

00:39:54.640 Then perhaps

00:39:55.500 you're willing to do that

00:39:56.720 and are you willing to

00:39:58.460 deal with it

00:39:59.360 if you can't pursue that art

00:40:00.760 for a year

00:40:01.780 or two years

00:40:02.360 or three years

00:40:02.920 or you do something else?

00:40:03.940 If you're willing to go

00:40:05.020 where God is leading you to go

00:40:06.480 then

00:40:07.180 you're on the right path.

00:40:09.220 If you're making an idol

00:40:10.200 out of your art

00:40:10.800 and you're languishing

00:40:11.680 and you're upset all the time

00:40:13.180 like virtually

00:40:14.080 everyone is in Hollywood

00:40:15.100 especially actors

00:40:16.020 and directors and writers

00:40:17.120 if you're languishing

00:40:18.080 and saying

00:40:18.280 I want to do this

00:40:18.980 I want to do this

00:40:19.640 I want to tell God

00:40:20.320 how my life is going to go

00:40:21.240 then you're not doing

00:40:22.060 the right thing

00:40:22.480 and you should really

00:40:23.080 rethink your priorities.

00:40:23.880 From Jody

00:40:25.140 Hey Michael

00:40:26.260 Why was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:40:29.420 Why was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:40:33.520 late to the socialist

00:40:34.520 political rally

00:40:35.280 in Boston?

00:40:36.740 Because she was Stalin

00:40:37.980 Thanks Michael

00:40:40.360 I thought that was a question

00:40:42.320 when I read that

00:40:43.020 I didn't realize

00:40:44.140 it had the punchline built in

00:40:45.520 I'm going to use that

00:40:46.420 that's really good

00:40:46.880 I'm going to use that

00:40:47.240 while I wear my shirt

00:40:48.100 while I wear my

00:40:49.000 She Guevara shirt

00:40:49.960 from Nathan

00:40:50.740 Hey Michael

00:40:51.340 You have multiple times

00:40:53.000 put down churches

00:40:53.820 that use acoustic guitars

00:40:55.040 I know there are typically

00:40:56.420 more problems

00:40:57.060 with those kind of churches

00:40:58.160 but let's ignore that for now

00:40:59.180 I feel the same way

00:41:00.400 but I don't know why

00:41:01.240 Other than pure tradition

00:41:02.840 it should be this way

00:41:04.360 because it's always been this way

00:41:05.420 Do you have a reason

00:41:06.340 why some instruments

00:41:07.160 are more or less appropriate

00:41:08.220 to use when praising the Lord

00:41:09.520 and where, why

00:41:11.020 do you draw that line?

00:41:12.720 I assume organs are okay

00:41:13.860 but what about pianos?

00:41:14.700 Keep up the good work

00:41:15.340 and God bless

00:41:15.880 Yes, there is a hierarchy

00:41:17.460 Certain instruments

00:41:18.760 are more fit for worship

00:41:19.900 than others

00:41:20.360 and I say this as a guitar player

00:41:22.100 You know, I've played guitar

00:41:23.100 since I was like 12

00:41:24.260 or something like that

00:41:25.200 I actually enjoy playing guitar

00:41:26.480 and strumming around

00:41:27.160 but guitar is a lesser instrument

00:41:29.020 The reason I've been playing guitar

00:41:30.460 since I was 12

00:41:31.260 I basically taught

00:41:32.820 maybe I took a couple classes

00:41:33.920 but I basically taught myself

00:41:35.340 how to play guitar

00:41:36.000 Most people teach themselves

00:41:37.440 how to play guitar

00:41:38.080 is because it's an easy instrument

00:41:39.380 to play

00:41:39.780 Now, certain composers

00:41:41.480 have made good use of guitar

00:41:43.080 Classical guitar

00:41:44.080 made it a complicated instrument

00:41:45.580 but not as complicated

00:41:47.240 as a violin, for instance

00:41:48.640 Not as complicated

00:41:49.600 as the harp

00:41:50.400 You know, there are

00:41:51.460 there are higher instruments

00:41:52.680 to play

00:41:53.040 harder instruments to play

00:41:53.960 the French horn, whatever

00:41:54.980 There are

00:41:55.700 and they do different things

00:41:57.920 You know, the ancient Greeks

00:41:59.400 and all wise people

00:42:02.500 throughout history

00:42:03.060 have recognized

00:42:03.860 that music plays upon your soul

00:42:06.260 It's the most important

00:42:07.400 of the arts

00:42:08.500 because it speaks

00:42:09.280 right to your soul

00:42:10.060 It can put you in a different

00:42:10.980 mood

00:42:11.660 It can put you

00:42:12.200 in a different perspective

00:42:13.080 It can make you

00:42:13.660 rethink certain things

00:42:14.660 which is why

00:42:15.360 when you play

00:42:15.780 really guttural

00:42:16.600 visceral

00:42:17.100 ugly tribal music

00:42:18.280 you feel less elevated

00:42:20.400 you feel less human

00:42:21.260 than if you're listening

00:42:22.180 to Bach or something

00:42:23.100 What I think should be used

00:42:25.940 for worship

00:42:26.360 is actually just the voice

00:42:27.640 I think the early church

00:42:29.980 had it right

00:42:30.480 I think the Eastern Orthodox Church

00:42:32.020 still has it right

00:42:32.860 It should be the voice

00:42:33.840 I think the whole liturgy

00:42:34.880 should be sung

00:42:35.600 The reason for this

00:42:36.700 is it takes out

00:42:37.340 that personality

00:42:38.080 There's nothing worse

00:42:38.960 I suppose there are

00:42:40.720 some worse things

00:42:41.560 but when it comes to the liturgy

00:42:42.800 there's nothing worse

00:42:43.480 than a priest getting up there

00:42:44.560 and giving the performance

00:42:46.320 of Hamlet

00:42:46.820 that he never got to play

00:42:47.800 He goes up there

00:42:49.040 I'm going to really perform

00:42:50.040 this gospel today

00:42:50.960 I'm going to make you

00:42:51.720 feel it with my emotions

00:42:52.940 and goes up there

00:42:53.960 and does a shtick

00:42:54.600 and starts telling jokes

00:42:55.460 and does a little soft shoe

00:42:56.320 during his homily

00:42:57.180 People don't want that

00:42:58.040 You don't want personality

00:42:59.360 You want the priest

00:43:00.700 to be a conduit

00:43:01.440 between God and you

00:43:02.720 You want to see

00:43:03.840 Christ through the priest

00:43:05.640 and this is why

00:43:07.000 you want the ad orientem

00:43:08.240 facing you

00:43:09.040 You don't want the priest

00:43:09.580 facing you

00:43:10.220 like he's doing

00:43:11.120 a shticky vaudeville show

00:43:12.720 You want you and the priest

00:43:14.300 together

00:43:14.820 to be looking up

00:43:15.720 toward God

00:43:16.220 to be looking at the altar

00:43:17.140 to be looking through

00:43:18.680 to heaven

00:43:19.260 So I much prefer the voice

00:43:21.360 Oregon is nice too

00:43:22.800 There are a lot of great

00:43:23.640 old Protestant hymns

00:43:25.160 that sound very nice

00:43:26.460 in Oregon

00:43:26.880 but when you get

00:43:29.500 to the guitar church

00:43:30.460 you get these saccharine things

00:43:32.620 Catholic and Protestant alike

00:43:34.140 you get these eagle's wings

00:43:36.300 and oh yeah

00:43:38.020 it's really like

00:43:39.040 a bad 90's rock song

00:43:40.820 that doesn't

00:43:42.100 that will not lift you up

00:43:43.820 to worship

00:43:44.220 that makes you just

00:43:44.780 look back at yourself

00:43:45.760 and your own saccharine

00:43:47.020 sentimental pop culture

00:43:48.500 and then looking at the priest

00:43:50.260 and seeing if the priest

00:43:51.080 is putting on a good show

00:43:52.100 and if he's entertaining you

00:43:53.480 One of the real giveaways

00:43:55.000 for this is if people applaud

00:43:56.320 at the end of mass

00:43:57.260 If you're applauding

00:43:58.440 then you're going to the theater

00:44:00.120 I hope you like the play

00:44:01.740 Was it a good musical?

00:44:03.240 Did they do the good dance

00:44:04.600 at the end?

00:44:05.440 That's about a play

00:44:06.560 If you're applauding people

00:44:08.600 in church

00:44:09.720 you're probably not looking

00:44:11.120 at who you're supposed

00:44:11.620 to be looking at

00:44:12.380 So I

00:44:14.460 you know

00:44:14.740 even when it comes

00:44:15.320 to those old Protestant hymns

00:44:16.380 the ones on the organ

00:44:17.060 and everything

00:44:17.380 I really like those

00:44:18.500 very straight ones

00:44:20.040 where it's like

00:44:20.340 we will worship God

00:44:21.740 and we're worshiping God

00:44:23.360 let's keep worship God

00:44:24.860 you know whatever

00:44:25.280 Those are great

00:44:27.020 because they take out

00:44:28.620 this saccharine personality

00:44:29.940 and they direct you

00:44:31.740 toward God

00:44:32.340 if you can do that

00:44:34.480 with an instrument

00:44:35.060 very good

00:44:35.700 certain instruments

00:44:36.500 are more likely to do that

00:44:37.560 but otherwise

00:44:38.020 use the human voice

00:44:38.920 I think it was Augustine

00:44:40.000 who said

00:44:40.460 to sing well

00:44:41.680 is to pray twice

00:44:42.900 to sing well

00:44:45.080 that's an important

00:44:46.260 qualifier there

00:44:47.340 but to sing well

00:44:48.200 is to pray twice

00:44:48.880 and that's

00:44:49.260 I think we should be

00:44:50.380 singing the whole time

00:44:51.360 when we get up to heaven

00:44:52.020 we're going to be singing

00:44:52.680 and we should do that

00:44:54.040 in the liturgy

00:44:54.680 because the mass

00:44:55.900 should be heaven on earth

00:44:56.700 from Jonathan

00:44:58.180 do we have more time

00:44:59.480 I can do like one more

00:45:00.520 hello

00:45:01.600 hello

00:45:02.560 I've been single

00:45:03.800 for several years

00:45:04.600 and have thought

00:45:05.320 of getting back

00:45:06.140 into the dating game again

00:45:07.480 but I have little

00:45:08.340 to no confidence

00:45:09.240 is there some way

00:45:10.520 out of this trouble

00:45:11.320 yes

00:45:12.580 I'm going to give you

00:45:14.520 the advice

00:45:15.080 that Don Corleone

00:45:16.100 gave to

00:45:17.140 Johnny Fontaine

00:45:18.280 when he was trying

00:45:19.280 to get out of his contract

00:45:20.380 to get a better contract

00:45:21.560 imagine that

00:45:23.220 these are your shoulders

00:45:24.160 you're going to act

00:45:25.380 like a man

00:45:26.100 what's the matter

00:45:27.720 with you

00:45:28.140 you've got to act

00:45:29.240 like a man

00:45:29.680 that's the answer

00:45:31.000 you've got to act

00:45:31.420 like a man

00:45:31.880 and that should tell you

00:45:33.780 every single thing

00:45:34.660 about it

00:45:35.120 you are a man

00:45:36.040 you are a man

00:45:37.220 gender is not 1.00

00:45:37.960 socially constructed

00:45:38.820 biological sex

00:45:39.900 is not socially constructed

00:45:40.960 act like a man

00:45:42.160 act like what you

00:45:42.900 were built to be

00:45:43.700 you have no confidence

00:45:45.060 just do it

00:45:46.180 forget about

00:45:46.760 when people say

00:45:48.000 I have no confidence

00:45:48.780 it's because they're

00:45:49.300 thinking about themselves

00:45:50.180 they go

00:45:51.140 I'm thinking of me

00:45:51.960 should I be doing this

00:45:52.920 am I doing this right

00:45:53.620 do I look good

00:45:54.180 am I wearing this

00:45:54.820 stop it

00:45:55.420 stop thinking about yourself

00:45:56.440 don't do that

00:45:57.820 just act like a man 0.98

00:45:59.020 acting like a man

00:45:59.660 doesn't mean dragging

00:46:00.340 your knuckles

00:46:00.860 like knocking the lady 1.00

00:46:02.260 on the head

00:46:02.640 with a mallet

00:46:03.860 or something

00:46:04.320 acting like a man

00:46:05.420 means being a gentleman

00:46:06.300 too

00:46:06.640 doing the other thing

00:46:07.420 but what it really means

00:46:08.540 is focusing on

00:46:09.620 the girl

00:46:10.900 if you're on the date

00:46:11.640 focus on the girl

00:46:12.540 if you're trying to meet a girl

00:46:13.840 don't be desperate

00:46:15.640 because when you're desperate

00:46:16.420 you're thinking about yourself

00:46:17.540 you're just thinking about

00:46:18.100 your own desires

00:46:18.740 your own needs

00:46:19.600 as a matter of practical

00:46:21.060 where do you meet girls 0.95

00:46:21.900 there are a lot of places

00:46:22.520 you can meet girls

00:46:23.180 you can meet girls

00:46:23.780 at a bar

00:46:24.220 you can meet girls

00:46:25.080 at a church

00:46:25.560 you can meet girls

00:46:26.440 in a club

00:46:26.940 a lot of times

00:46:27.540 you can meet girls

00:46:28.060 through friends

00:46:28.640 you can meet girls

00:46:29.520 on those apps

00:46:30.760 I kind of missed the apps

00:46:32.320 because I had a girlfriend

00:46:33.140 during the apps

00:46:34.140 but I know multiple people

00:46:36.400 who have gotten married

00:46:37.140 from the apps

00:46:37.740 close friends

00:46:38.320 and family of mine

00:46:39.080 so the apps can work

00:46:40.400 and you know

00:46:41.020 some of them are very religious

00:46:42.400 so you know

00:46:42.980 some of the apps

00:46:43.620 are to hook up

00:46:44.300 and some are not

00:46:46.240 they're for more serious things

00:46:47.460 so I don't know

00:46:48.540 use that

00:46:48.860 do whatever works

00:46:49.640 I'm not saying

00:46:50.260 you've got to be prudish

00:46:51.040 about it

00:46:51.460 and be waiting

00:46:52.180 to meet her

00:46:52.700 in the choir loft

00:46:53.540 at your church

00:46:54.100 or something

00:46:54.480 you go meet a girl

00:46:55.220 wherever you're going

00:46:55.640 to go meet a girl

00:46:56.220 but just be confident

00:46:58.520 about it

00:46:59.500 you say I don't have confidence

00:47:00.700 just be confident

00:47:01.500 but how do I be confident

00:47:03.340 just act like a man 0.98

00:47:04.400 that's really what it takes

00:47:06.780 when you're thinking

00:47:08.200 of yourself

00:47:08.660 this is actually

00:47:09.140 a perfect question

00:47:09.940 to end on

00:47:10.440 because it ties exactly in

00:47:12.000 with selfishness

00:47:13.260 and self interest

00:47:14.240 they're used interchangeably today

00:47:17.420 but there really

00:47:17.940 should be a distinction

00:47:18.740 if you're being selfish

00:47:20.360 you're just trying

00:47:21.120 to use the girl

00:47:21.880 to fill some hole

00:47:22.800 in yourself

00:47:23.340 some desires

00:47:25.180 I really want sex

00:47:26.120 or I really want

00:47:26.820 a dinner companion

00:47:28.520 or whatever

00:47:28.900 but self interest is

00:47:30.820 it's not good

00:47:31.960 for man to be alone

00:47:32.740 you've got to go out there

00:47:33.580 you've got to

00:47:34.040 find a partner

00:47:34.840 you want to

00:47:35.680 men want women 1.00

00:47:36.680 that's a natural fact

00:47:38.100 and you're going to

00:47:40.400 pursue that self interest

00:47:41.540 and the way you're going to do it

00:47:42.560 is do the things

00:47:44.040 that men are supposed to do 1.00

00:47:44.880 hold the door open

00:47:45.720 pay for dinner

00:47:46.580 don't go Dutch on dinner 0.95

00:47:47.580 pay for dinner

00:47:48.220 pay for the drinks

00:47:49.120 whatever

00:47:49.460 and be interested in her

00:47:51.480 this is the advice

00:47:52.440 for when you're on the date

00:47:53.340 I am shocked

00:47:54.580 at how men

00:47:55.520 do not understand this

00:47:56.720 shut up

00:47:58.560 and listen to her

00:47:59.260 it'll be the best conversation

00:48:01.600 they will love it

00:48:03.140 this is ironic

00:48:03.700 because I talk

00:48:04.360 every day

00:48:04.960 for 45 minutes

00:48:06.120 to you

00:48:06.540 but I'm telling you

00:48:07.540 maybe it's because of that

00:48:08.520 that I've learned this

00:48:09.740 in every other aspect

00:48:11.040 of my life

00:48:11.560 listen to them

00:48:12.400 if you're just there

00:48:13.160 to pontificate

00:48:13.960 then you're not

00:48:15.340 going to learn anything

00:48:16.460 you're not going to have

00:48:17.000 a good time

00:48:17.460 talking to people

00:48:19.000 is only interesting

00:48:19.680 when they teach you something

00:48:21.040 when they show you

00:48:21.940 some aspect of human nature

00:48:23.020 and I promise you

00:48:24.340 at the end

00:48:25.700 if you let this girl

00:48:26.440 talk for 90% of the time

00:48:27.660 then you're going to walk away

00:48:28.860 she's going to say

00:48:29.280 wow you're an excellent

00:48:29.940 conversationalist

00:48:30.820 wow I've never met

00:48:31.800 a better conversationalist

00:48:32.920 but just do that

00:48:34.180 don't

00:48:34.560 I know it's

00:48:35.100 it seems like

00:48:36.700 a cop out to say

00:48:37.880 be normal

00:48:39.620 be a man

00:48:41.440 go get the girl 0.99

00:48:43.040 I know that seems like

00:48:44.460 I'm not giving you

00:48:45.160 good advice

00:48:45.560 I'm giving you

00:48:46.400 excellent advice

00:48:47.180 there is no secret

00:48:48.780 it's not in that book

00:48:50.060 you know

00:48:50.640 the pickup guide book

00:48:51.860 there's no trick

00:48:52.860 there's no

00:48:53.540 you're going to

00:48:53.980 hack their brain

00:48:55.480 or whatever

00:48:55.900 no

00:48:56.280 there's no

00:48:57.240 you just

00:48:57.640 people can sense it

00:48:59.560 don't be

00:49:00.000 don't be inauthentic

00:49:01.140 be authentically

00:49:02.660 the best version of you

00:49:04.220 be authentically

00:49:04.880 who you're supposed to be

00:49:05.880 hope that helps

00:49:06.660 get back to me

00:49:07.980 let me know if it works out

00:49:08.760 you've got to binge

00:49:10.220 Another Kingdom

00:49:10.680 because we're filming

00:49:11.800 the new season

00:49:12.580 of Another Kingdom

00:49:13.140 so you've got to

00:49:13.960 get through season one

00:49:14.840 the new season

00:49:15.660 is even better

00:49:16.420 the first season

00:49:17.440 was popular

00:49:17.880 the new season

00:49:18.540 is even better

00:49:18.960 it's been a lot

00:49:19.400 of fun to do it

00:49:19.960 go to dailywire.com

00:49:21.180 in the meantime

00:49:22.380 have a good weekend

00:49:23.060 I'm Michael Knowles

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 30, 2018

Ep. 210 - The Virtues (And Vices) Of Selfishness

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