The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 261 - The War On Advent

00:00:00.000 The years-long war on Christmas continues to rage on, but now Christmas is finally winning.

00:00:06.340 Now, cultural conservatives must turn our attention elsewhere,

00:00:10.260 move the war on Christmas forward to the more insidious struggle, the war on Advent.

00:00:15.280 We will analyze what conservatives can learn from Advent.

00:00:18.340 Then, President George Bush dies at 94.

00:00:21.060 We examine his legacy.

00:00:22.720 A climate change alarmism burns down Paris.

00:00:25.360 And you're going to be shocked to hear this.

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00:00:30.560 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:38.960 Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays.

00:00:41.240 So nice to be back here in L.A.

00:00:43.380 And I, obviously, the war on Christmas has been going on for a long time.

00:00:47.260 Some deny it. Many people deny it.

00:00:49.060 We will show the evidence for it.

00:00:50.540 But I want to move in a new direction.

00:00:52.740 I want to move the war on Christmas forward. 0.62

00:00:55.140 We're winning. We're making up ground.

00:00:57.220 Christmas is winning. Santa Claus is on top of a tank.

00:00:59.780 And there's a new place to go, which is Advent.

00:01:02.360 The people not paying attention to Advent.

00:01:04.880 Conservatives, Christians, religious, irreligious, everybody can learn a lot from Advent.

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00:02:39.800 Let's get to the war on Christmas. 0.88

00:02:42.120 Obviously, some conservatives don't believe that there is a war on Christmas.

00:02:47.100 It actually turns out the majority of Republicans, 56% of Republicans, do not believe this is a war on Christmas.

00:02:53.320 I think largely this is from the fiscally conservative, socially liberal set.

00:02:57.920 They don't want to get, oh, they say, I'm not one of these people.

00:03:00.400 You know, I just want to go and I'm a cool guy and I want to go to cocktail parties.

00:03:04.080 I don't care about silly things like the war on Christmas.

00:03:06.440 But there obviously is one.

00:03:08.420 The evidence is all around.

00:03:09.880 In 2005, Boston got rid of its Christmas tree.

00:03:14.500 It officially changed the name of the Christmas tree to the holiday tree.

00:03:18.380 What holiday is it for?

00:03:19.460 Gosh, I don't know.

00:03:20.380 What is it?

00:03:20.800 Is it Arbor Day?

00:03:22.380 I guess actually that is the one example it could be for Arbor Day.

00:03:25.360 In 2005, Walmart got rid of Christmas from its marketing materials.

00:03:28.860 Target, same thing.

00:03:30.260 Best Buy in 2006 got rid of Christmas from their marketing materials.

00:03:33.980 The classic example is Starbucks.

00:03:35.960 Starbucks for years and years had little snowmen and snowflakes and Christmas trees and things

00:03:41.080 on their cups.

00:03:41.780 Then in 2015, they decided they were going to take out anything that even vaguely resembled

00:03:46.640 Christmas paraphernalia and it was just a red cup.

00:03:49.660 And that's what this is all about.

00:03:50.880 The war on Christmas is about this bland, tedious, taking the particular out of life.

00:03:57.140 The thing that makes life enjoyable are the details, the particulars.

00:04:01.340 That's why we like diversity.

00:04:02.580 That's why we like talking to people who don't agree with us, maybe, or who see the world

00:04:06.480 a little differently.

00:04:07.400 That's why we like eating different kinds of food, watching different movies.

00:04:10.940 We don't just watch the same thing day after day, reading different books.

00:04:13.820 We like that diversity and the diversity comes out in the particular.

00:04:17.700 It seems to me what the war on Christmas people want, what the left wants broadly, is for us

00:04:21.520 all to be exactly the same, look the same, dress the same, talk the same, just be gray

00:04:25.640 like that new meme going around, the NPC meme.

00:04:29.700 It's the meme of the non-player character and it makes out the left to be just like robots

00:04:35.700 who have nothing differentiating them from everybody else.

00:04:38.860 That is what this is about.

00:04:40.000 It's about taking away the particularity of the season and the particularity of which holiday

00:04:46.300 is being celebrated.

00:04:48.220 We can say happy holidays, but which holiday are you talking about?

00:04:51.260 You're not talking about Arbor Day.

00:04:53.080 So they did this at Starbucks in 2015.

00:04:55.960 There was both a backlash from some cultural conservatives and then people pretending that

00:05:02.040 there was a much larger backlash to make fun of cultural conservatives.

00:05:05.540 So the next year, it got even worse.

00:05:07.880 The cup got, it was a green cup and it just had a mosaic of random people on it.

00:05:14.000 Didn't have anything to do with New Year's, nothing to do with Hanukkah, nothing to do with

00:05:17.220 Christmas, not even anything to do with Kwanzaa, which is a completely made up,

00:05:21.260 holiday.

00:05:22.020 It's a contrived atheist socialist holiday made up in the 1960s by a professor at Cal

00:05:28.700 State Long Beach.

00:05:29.640 It has nothing to do with, it has no tradition whatsoever.

00:05:33.260 It's just a political fad that virtually nobody celebrates anymore.

00:05:36.720 Didn't even have that.

00:05:37.680 It was just a green cup with a, you know, what ostensibly should have been the least

00:05:42.720 offensive picture.

00:05:43.840 Nobody could have any problem with it.

00:05:45.420 Trouble is it wasn't saying anything.

00:05:46.920 It didn't celebrate any particular holiday.

00:05:49.240 Then President Trump gets elected.

00:05:50.520 He campaigns in part on the war on Christmas.

00:05:53.540 He gets elected.

00:05:54.820 And so, you know, the Starbucks cup, it starts, you get a little bit more, a little bit more

00:05:58.600 shades of Christmas in there.

00:06:00.120 This year, oh man, I go in on November 1st.

00:06:02.820 They're already blasting Christmas music wall to wall.

00:06:06.120 They're already, they've got four different Christmas cups, a little holly in there, the

00:06:10.760 big Christmas blend of, it's great.

00:06:12.340 So, Christmas is winning the war on Christmas.

00:06:16.040 And that is a wonderful thing.

00:06:17.120 I'm happy to hear it.

00:06:18.080 But, because we can never just be happy and take a win, we now have to look at the next

00:06:23.520 problem.

00:06:24.160 Look, I am happy.

00:06:25.300 I am celebrating that we are winning the war on Christmas.

00:06:27.960 President Trump, I don't want people to think that I'm not grateful for it.

00:06:31.280 President Trump campaigned on this.

00:06:32.580 People made fun of him for it.

00:06:33.600 And it is true, just anecdotally, you go to places now and you hear Merry Christmas more

00:06:38.200 often at the Christmas tree lighting at the White House.

00:06:41.680 Here is President Trump making this point in his typically subtle way.

00:06:46.300 Merry Christmas, everybody.

00:06:48.340 We just have to say it all together.

00:06:50.080 Merry, Merry Christmas.

00:06:51.460 It's great to be with you.

00:06:52.980 And let's light the tree.

00:06:54.900 First Lady will do the honors. 1.00

00:06:57.320 We have to say this.

00:06:58.360 We have to say it.

00:06:59.120 Just in case you didn't miss my, in case you missed it.

00:07:01.200 So you remember during the Obama era, Barack Obama took Christmas out of the White House

00:07:07.280 Christmas card.

00:07:08.540 Just said, happy holidays, have a good holiday.

00:07:11.060 But there was no Christmas in there.

00:07:12.180 This was a big break with tradition.

00:07:13.980 Now, Representative, Democrat Rep Jim Cooper got the Trump White House Christmas card.

00:07:20.760 He said it's the gaudiest Christmas card he's ever seen.

00:07:23.400 It's gigantic.

00:07:24.560 It's oversized.

00:07:25.700 It's red.

00:07:26.220 It's got gold all over it.

00:07:27.760 Very, very Trumpy.

00:07:29.020 It says, Merry Christmas, written right on top.

00:07:31.800 I'm offended that I did not get one of these cards, but c'est la vie.

00:07:34.620 These things happen.

00:07:36.020 So in any case, they've got the Christmas cards out there.

00:07:41.500 Barack Obama, you'll remember during his administration, started a fight with the little

00:07:45.900 sisters of the poor.

00:07:46.840 He wanted to make a group of nuns pay for abortions. 1.00

00:07:49.360 This was obviously a terrible thing.

00:07:51.600 People shouldn't be forced to violate their conscience, especially nuns.

00:07:54.880 And what did Donald Trump do?

00:07:56.220 He comes into office, he invites a group of nuns in a full habit, just as Christian as

00:08:02.360 they can possibly look, to come and sing at the Christmas tree lighting.

00:08:05.460 Here they are.

00:08:05.820 Just lovely.

00:08:27.920 It turns out that group of nuns, they are very popular musicians.

00:08:31.660 They've had Billboard and Amazon number one recordings.

00:08:36.000 They're number one in classical.

00:08:38.320 They're not beating out Ariana Grande, but they're still doing pretty well.

00:08:41.360 So this is all great.

00:08:42.520 This is a big embrace of this.

00:08:43.820 You've even got Hollywood stars like Chris Pratt talking about Christmas in explicitly

00:08:48.440 religious terms.

00:08:50.140 Chris Pratt gave an impassioned delivery.

00:08:53.600 He was describing the Gospel of Luke, kind of like Charlie Brown, at the annual candlelight

00:08:57.940 procession at Disneyland over the weekend.

00:08:59.940 Here's Chris Pratt.

00:09:00.540 About 2,000 years ago, God sent an angel named Gabriel to a city in Galilee named Nazareth

00:09:12.900 to a virgin who was betrothed to a man named Joseph of the house of David.

00:09:19.100 This is a descendant of King David.

00:09:21.600 And that virgin's name was Mary.

00:09:25.580 And having come in, the angel said to her, Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with

00:09:32.600 you.

00:09:32.960 Blessed are you among women.

00:09:37.300 The Bible says, when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of

00:09:42.940 reading this was.

00:09:44.220 That seems confusing to me.

00:09:45.600 So I'll just paraphrase.

00:09:46.680 She was kind of scared because an angel just fell up from the ceiling.

00:09:49.100 I love that guy.

00:09:52.780 I also love the way that he takes these very serious, he's obviously quite Christian, and

00:09:59.380 he takes these serious Christian concepts.

00:10:01.240 And then he does infuse it with his movie star, young guy, exuberant energy.

00:10:07.480 He did this at an awards ceremony where he told people to believe in God and understand

00:10:12.240 that they have a soul and the soul matters.

00:10:13.820 But he just does it in his way that's not pedantic.

00:10:16.060 It's not, it's just really, really good.

00:10:17.440 So it's great to see him do that.

00:10:19.740 That's, that's all wonderful.

00:10:22.000 Now that we're in the Christmas season, there is this rush to rush it.

00:10:27.600 There's this surge of people trying to rush our way to Christmas.

00:10:31.980 We're back in, we've got the particularity of it, because it doesn't make sense.

00:10:35.680 Why are people talking about it's the most wonderful time of the year?

00:10:38.560 Oh, it's a new family and it's the most wonderful time.

00:10:41.100 Why is it wonderful?

00:10:42.120 Why is this time wonderful?

00:10:44.460 If it's just the holidays, if it's not about a holiday, if it's not about a holiday that

00:10:49.280 celebrates something, then why are people so happy and excited and nice?

00:10:53.640 It's not just the turkey, you know, it's not just people eat turkey at other points of

00:10:56.640 the year.

00:10:57.180 Why is it?

00:10:57.760 What makes it different than Thanksgiving?

00:10:59.040 What makes it different than the 4th of July?

00:11:01.100 The next stage of this, the thing that I think we could all use a little help on is

00:11:07.780 Advent, because people forget Advent.

00:11:09.760 Advent is that period of time before Christmas.

00:11:13.460 It's this time that the four Sundays before Christmas in the Christian tradition celebrate

00:11:19.840 four mysteries that are supposed to prepare us for Christmas.

00:11:23.620 It's this penitential season.

00:11:25.100 It's more of a solemn season.

00:11:26.720 It's not all dancing around the Christmas tree yet.

00:11:28.920 And the four mysteries that are celebrated are death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

00:11:34.700 We explore these mysteries.

00:11:38.400 We meditate on these mysteries that mankind has considered for all of human history.

00:11:44.020 When we were living in the caves, we have contemplated these mysteries.

00:11:47.480 What is death?

00:11:48.440 What does death mean?

00:11:49.520 What is judgment?

00:11:50.380 Will there be a judge?

00:11:51.260 Will I have to pay for my sins?

00:11:52.740 What is heaven?

00:11:53.440 Is there hope of something after this world?

00:11:55.280 What is hell?

00:11:55.860 Will I be punished in the hereafter?

00:11:58.040 What does punishment look like?

00:12:00.100 These are mysteries.

00:12:01.460 You know, the right has always been really strong in taking Christmas's side in the war 0.81

00:12:05.880 on Christmas.

00:12:06.660 And the left has constantly been trying to drive out Christmas celebrations.

00:12:10.500 And it's very easy to understand that concept.

00:12:12.660 But very few people are sticking up for Advent.

00:12:16.080 And Advent could really teach us something.

00:12:17.980 Whether you're a Christian, whether you're not Christian, whether you're on the left,

00:12:21.080 whether you're on the right, everybody could really use it.

00:12:23.660 It's such a fever pitch right now.

00:12:25.700 We're all at each other's throats.

00:12:27.420 Politics is quite divided.

00:12:28.960 We're really angry at each other.

00:12:30.480 The left is especially angry at the right.

00:12:32.640 And we're missing fundamental, eternal mysteries.

00:12:36.900 Major, major questions, beginning with death.

00:12:39.520 Yesterday was the first Sunday of Advent.

00:12:41.580 We're now in the Advent season.

00:12:43.240 And I think it really, really matters.

00:12:45.340 Because sometimes when people are at a fever pitch in politics,

00:12:48.600 I sometimes think, do you not realize you're going to die someday?

00:12:51.060 John Maynard Keynes, the economist, said,

00:12:53.600 in the long run, we're all dead.

00:12:55.260 So I don't know if your policies will work in the long run.

00:12:57.160 In the long run, we're all dead.

00:12:58.180 And when we contemplate that mystery, I think it makes us appreciate each other a lot more,

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00:14:47.280 So this is Advent.

00:14:48.480 Nobody wants to talk about Advent.

00:14:50.060 We want to start playing Christmas music starting on November 1st.

00:14:53.840 I suppose this is evidence that people can never be happy.

00:14:56.740 You know, last year I was complaining that Starbucks didn't do enough for Christmas.

00:14:59.800 Now they start Christmas on November 1st.

00:15:02.140 And I say, no, that's too soon.

00:15:03.500 But maybe, maybe, they're just not getting it wrong.

00:15:05.620 You need a middle ground.

00:15:06.900 You need to have a little balance here.

00:15:08.740 And if you rush Christmas, it's like rushing through dinner.

00:15:11.740 It's like you sit down to a beautiful dinner and you've got steak and turkey and potatoes and all of this.

00:15:18.960 And you sit down and you just start eating pudding cups.

00:15:21.720 And then you say, oh, I'm full.

00:15:23.100 I already ate all my pudding cups.

00:15:24.200 No, you want to build up.

00:15:25.360 And you want to remember why we need Christmas in the first place.

00:15:29.160 Why is Christmas the most wonderful time of the year?

00:15:31.420 Why is Chris Pratt reciting the narrative from Luke?

00:15:35.160 Why is he reciting the infancy narrative?

00:15:37.120 Why do we watch a Charlie Brown Christmas where he's reciting this amazing moment in the woods somewhere around the year zero?

00:15:46.460 When in a little cave, in a little manger, surrounded by livestock, because there was no room at the inn, the God who created all of us, the divine love that made us in the universe, becomes flesh, enters into the creation as a little baby born on a traveling road, born in the lowest of the low, inside of a cave.

00:16:10.580 And why does that matter?

00:16:12.720 What does that mean?

00:16:13.680 Why do we need that to happen?

00:16:15.500 The reason we need that to happen is because of death and judgment and heaven and hell.

00:16:20.840 You know, in our culture, we are so afraid of death.

00:16:24.680 I see this all the time when I read all of the tech blogs and science blogs.

00:16:29.800 Every other day, there's somebody in Silicon Valley who says that we're about to find the cure for death.

00:16:35.400 Oh, we're so close to the cure for death.

00:16:38.000 All those people who lived before us, they sure missed out because now they're dead, but we're going to live forever.

00:16:42.980 And this reminds me of every foolish ruler for all of history, every pharaoh, every guy who was certain he was going to find the elixir of life and he would live forever.

00:16:53.240 And we make fun of these people because we know death is a fact of life. 0.88

00:16:57.340 I don't know that we would want to live forever in this world.

00:16:59.580 I don't think I would in this world of decay and corruption.

00:17:02.460 I don't want to live forever in this world, but we will die.

00:17:05.000 But now the cosmetics industry has exploded.

00:17:08.920 People spend ever more money on products, on surgeries, on Botox, on plastic surgery, on whatever to make it look as though they are not aging, to try to pretend that we're not going to die.

00:17:20.480 I go to funerals, you know, people who are not religious, friends of mine who are atheistic, and it's always so sad.

00:17:26.920 They have these really sad celebrations of life, they call it.

00:17:30.560 And I guess it's nice you like the person you want to send them off, but you don't know what you're celebrating because in those moments, people don't understand what death is.

00:17:38.740 They don't know, is there a heaven, is there a hell, where is this going, what does it mean, is life some random chance.

00:17:43.660 The left has convinced us that there is no meaning to life, that there is just life is a random cosmic accident. 1.00

00:17:50.420 It's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 1.00

00:17:53.960 And so when we die, it's just a pure tragedy. 1.00

00:17:57.640 There's no comedy to it, there's no hope.

00:17:59.800 What is it?

00:18:00.680 Obviously, religious people say, some religious people say that there is life after death, that death isn't the end, but death does have a meaning.

00:18:09.200 They have different explanations.

00:18:10.420 Why did death come into the world?

00:18:12.680 Why do we have to die?

00:18:14.340 Why are we in a creation such that we have to die?

00:18:17.860 What is the biblical answer?

00:18:19.760 It's because man is free.

00:18:21.280 Man has free will, man sinned, and so because man sinned, sin and death entered into the world and corruption and decay, and that's why.

00:18:30.280 So there's death.

00:18:31.800 The second mystery is judgment.

00:18:34.340 Why?

00:18:35.020 We're in this world where we say, don't judge.

00:18:37.060 Don't be so judgy.

00:18:38.240 Don't yuck my yum, man.

00:18:40.420 Why are you being so judgy?

00:18:42.500 There's no right or wrong.

00:18:43.820 It's just like, you know, it's whatever it is.

00:18:45.540 This throwing off ideas of judgment has come back on us where now our entire ethical discourse basically amounts to, if it feels good, do it.

00:18:56.220 So that's about the level of moral discourse that we have right now in the country.

00:19:00.700 We can't explain why it's not good to do certain things, why it's not good to, like, watch a bunch of porn and go carousing all the time and stop by wherever else, you know, because one particular sin of our culture is that sex is everywhere.

00:19:17.100 I mean, there are a zillion sins in the culture.

00:19:18.960 One of them is that, so it's a good example, because we say, oh, if it feels good, it doesn't matter, it's okay.

00:19:24.140 Well, as long as you're not hurting anybody or if you're hurting them, but it's okay and they kind of like it or, you know, that's what our discourse has gotten down to.

00:19:31.100 And you'll even have people dishonestly quoting the Bible, quoting the scripture, and they'll say, well, you know, judge not lest ye be judged.

00:19:39.540 Correct.

00:19:40.040 I'm not judging a person.

00:19:41.220 I'm not going to condemn a person.

00:19:42.480 But we must make moral judgments.

00:19:44.840 It's the only way that we can live.

00:19:46.080 The only way that we can get out of bed in the morning is to make a judgment.

00:19:49.760 Say, should I get out of bed or should I stay in bed all day and sleep?

00:19:54.260 You go down to your kitchen and you make a judgment.

00:19:57.100 You say, do I eat Cheerios or do I eat bacon and eggs?

00:20:00.400 I never eat Cheerios.

00:20:01.500 I only eat bacon and eggs because I'm an adult.

00:20:03.540 But, you know, some people have these judgments.

00:20:05.540 They have to, do I smoke three cigars tonight or 17 cigars tonight?

00:20:08.440 What am I going to do?

00:20:09.060 These are all judgments.

00:20:10.180 But we don't want to have those judgments.

00:20:12.140 And I think it's in part because we have the sense of sin.

00:20:16.960 Mankind has always had the sense of sin.

00:20:19.100 Everybody sins constantly.

00:20:21.200 We are always making terrible decisions.

00:20:23.940 But that's why we need a corrective.

00:20:27.860 That's why we need Christmas.

00:20:29.300 That's why we need to at least atone.

00:20:31.540 That's why we need to accept a moral standard.

00:20:34.460 But because we don't accept any of these things now, we have the sense of sin and we're so anxious.

00:20:39.600 We so don't want to be judged for it that we're trying to abdicate all of our moral reasoning.

00:20:45.940 Maybe the second weekend in Advent could do a little something, even for conservatives who have that kind of thought.

00:20:51.920 Then there's heaven.

00:20:53.100 What is heaven?

00:20:53.840 Is there hope?

00:20:55.640 After death, if there's judgment, is there a hope of something beyond this world?

00:21:01.140 You know, the theological virtues are faith, hope, and charity.

00:21:06.320 Without hope, we have nothing.

00:21:08.140 When Dante enters into hell in the poem, the Divine Comedy, on top of hell, it says,

00:21:13.220 Abandon all hope, ye who enter. 1.00

00:21:14.600 We have a spate of despair in America.

00:21:17.620 We have suicides way on the rise.

00:21:19.320 Among teenagers, it's up 70%.

00:21:21.140 Among the whole culture, it's very high, especially middle-aged men.

00:21:24.840 Middle-aged white men in particular are killing themselves in spades.

00:21:27.300 A ton of people taking antidepressant drugs.

00:21:31.500 That number is way, way up.

00:21:33.080 And now, for the second year in a row, for the first time in half of a century,

00:21:37.260 the average life expectancy is decreasing because of despair.

00:21:41.600 What does that have to do with heaven?

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00:23:21.620 Heaven.

00:23:22.700 Is there any hope?

00:23:25.060 I see people despairing.

00:23:26.720 And I know there are mental health problems.

00:23:28.760 People have.

00:23:29.380 But mental health problems doesn't explain the surge in suicides.

00:23:35.040 It doesn't explain the surge.

00:23:36.180 The reason why average life expectancy for the second year in a row, for the first time in 50 years in America, has actually decreased.

00:23:45.280 Decreased in the wealthiest, most prosperous, most free, most equitable country in the world.

00:23:49.800 People are not living as long.

00:23:50.980 It's because of suicide and drug addiction, drug overdoses.

00:23:55.540 Why are people killing themselves with drugs and other means?

00:23:59.700 It's because they are despairing.

00:24:02.280 Despair means without hope.

00:24:05.340 It is the absence of hope.

00:24:07.640 Spare is to hope.

00:24:09.800 And it's the absence of that.

00:24:11.460 But what are we hoping for?

00:24:13.380 Well, there's various things.

00:24:15.900 I am hoping.

00:24:17.360 One thing that kind of keeps me going is once I finish this show, I'm going to go up and smoke a stogie because we've got the backstage holiday edition coming up.

00:24:25.040 That's one thing.

00:24:25.840 Maybe tonight I'll get to go see Sweet Little Elisa.

00:24:27.720 That's a hope.

00:24:28.220 I've got a hope that, I don't know, that the show gets really big.

00:24:32.660 I've got a hope that I'll get to go to some more colleges and give more talks.

00:24:35.420 I've got all of these various hopes.

00:24:37.020 I have plenty of hopes.

00:24:39.180 But what are my ultimate hopes?

00:24:41.460 It has to transcend the physical world because ultimately I'm going to die.

00:24:45.740 No one here gets out alive.

00:24:47.420 Maybe one guy.

00:24:48.440 I know one guy who did.

00:24:50.100 And he's about to be born in a few weeks.

00:24:51.900 But other than that, it's very difficult to, you know, once you're in the ground,

00:24:57.840 you're going to stay there for a long period of time.

00:25:00.340 So what is that ultimate hope?

00:25:01.540 Is there somewhere that I can go?

00:25:02.580 Does my soul live on?

00:25:04.260 What is my soul?

00:25:05.760 Is my soul physical?

00:25:07.060 Or is it metaphysical?

00:25:08.200 Is it spiritual?

00:25:09.700 What is that?

00:25:10.860 So the other reason you need this is because we live in a really nice culture where everything is super pleasant all the time.

00:25:17.640 And we have cool electronics and TVs going.

00:25:19.880 And it's all just really, really nice.

00:25:21.020 Great.

00:25:22.260 But as a result of that, when things go wrong, people lose their minds.

00:25:26.320 You know, millennials, the most coddled generation in American history. 0.97

00:25:30.420 For kids at college right now, there was a study done out of Arizona State University.

00:25:34.740 It showed that two years after the 2016 election, students were, a quarter of college students were suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

00:25:45.300 And that's not made up.

00:25:46.260 They weren't just pretending.

00:25:47.320 They were actually suffering clinically high levels of stress.

00:25:49.780 Stress levels as high as people who experience a mass shooting incident seven months after the mass shooting.

00:25:56.580 That's how high it is.

00:25:57.640 Because a Republican won the White House.

00:25:59.640 When things are so nice, when we're in a decadent society, when kids are coddled and protected from the harsh realities of the world,

00:26:07.800 then when things go wrong, they're so fragile, they break, they crack.

00:26:12.140 Why is that?

00:26:13.460 What is the ultimate hope?

00:26:14.720 If you don't have an ultimate hope, then once those things crack, you're going to fall into a pit of despair.

00:26:19.420 So what is heaven?

00:26:20.700 And then the fourth mystery, what is hell?

00:26:23.380 Is there hell?

00:26:24.200 Antonin Scalia did an interview with New York Magazine with this very glib woman a number of years ago.

00:26:29.520 And he mentioned that he believed in hell.

00:26:32.920 And she made fun of him.

00:26:33.940 She said, oh my gosh, it must be very scary to believe in hell and the devil.

00:26:38.200 He said, you know, this is basic Catholic theology, that hell exists. 0.97

00:26:41.800 Do you know how out of touch you are with America?

00:26:45.340 Most of Americans believe in hell and in the devil.

00:26:48.500 Most of people throughout history have believed in hell and the devil.

00:26:52.040 Why does hell matter?

00:26:53.380 Hell matters because it means there is divine justice.

00:26:56.980 What we like to do, both in religion and in our sort of pseudo-religions,

00:27:01.420 you hear all these people who say I'm spiritual but not religious.

00:27:04.080 Oh, I'm not a Christian, but I like Christian teachings.

00:27:06.920 Oh, okay, whatever.

00:27:07.700 What they try to do is they want all the really nice, comforting things and they don't want any of those harsh realities.

00:27:15.260 They want the heaven, they don't want the hell.

00:27:17.180 They want a God without wrath to lead a people without sin into a kingdom without judgment

00:27:20.860 through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross, to quote a famous theologian.

00:27:25.420 So, if there is no hell, what does that mean?

00:27:29.200 It means God is all merciful.

00:27:30.560 We know God is merciful.

00:27:31.740 He is love.

00:27:32.400 God is love.

00:27:32.820 But if there is no hell, then there is not that justice.

00:27:37.240 And we don't have the human freedom.

00:27:38.680 You know, so much what Chris Pratt is talking about at that candle lighting ceremony

00:27:42.600 is this incredible moment in the world.

00:27:46.180 At the Annunciation, when the angel comes down and tells Mary that she's going to give birth to Jesus.

00:27:53.220 The angel comes down.

00:27:54.500 God's grace pours down on the world.

00:27:56.140 And then heaven holds its breath because Mary ascents.

00:28:01.300 She still has free will.

00:28:02.980 She can turn away from God.

00:28:05.460 She can say no, but she says, I am the Lord's servant.

00:28:09.060 May his will be done.

00:28:10.380 We have free will.

00:28:11.640 This is the defining feature of humanity.

00:28:13.720 We have freedom.

00:28:14.580 We have liberty.

00:28:15.600 And we can reject God.

00:28:17.220 We can choose hell if we want to.

00:28:19.020 We can go right down there. 0.99

00:28:20.340 We can choose hell on earth. 0.51

00:28:22.100 We can choose hell beyond earth.

00:28:23.980 It is up to us.

00:28:25.420 God does not deny us that dignity of freedom.

00:28:28.960 How beautiful a thing it can be that there is justice.

00:28:32.140 How beautiful a thing that we have that liberty.

00:28:34.660 You know, in America, we talk about liberty so much.

00:28:37.220 Our country is like a free country founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:28:42.020 But how do we pursue that happiness?

00:28:43.480 And what is the substance of that liberty?

00:28:45.660 Why is it so important?

00:28:46.880 Why is it so essential?

00:28:48.040 How do we exercise it?

00:28:49.880 And when we use our liberty and we abuse our liberty, how do we get mercy?

00:28:53.620 How do we redeem ourselves?

00:28:55.420 That is what we are waiting for at Christmas.

00:28:59.140 That's what Christmas is about.

00:29:00.640 It's not, you know, like I wouldn't recommend discussing that at your office Christmas party.

00:29:06.740 I don't know when, you know, Susie the secretary is sloshed on eggnog, you know, and you start discussing death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

00:29:15.300 That might be a little bit of a downer.

00:29:16.920 You know, everyone's playing rock around the Christmas tree and you're there with a little fire and brimstone.

00:29:20.340 And I'm not suggesting that.

00:29:21.460 But in the moments when you're not at those Christmas parties that are all over the place or holiday party or whatever, in the moments when you're actually contemplating the season and the reason for the joy of this season, think about those things.

00:29:34.340 Because it seems, maybe it seems a little sad or inconvenient or we don't want to think about it.

00:29:39.620 The reason that we have despair flying throughout our culture is because, precisely because, we don't want to think about it.

00:29:46.780 This is the season to do it.

00:29:48.120 Don't skip it because if you skip that season, you are going to skip the entire celebration.

00:29:52.440 We have so much more to talk about.

00:29:54.420 We've got to talk about President George Bush dying, the legacy of George Bush, people on the left and the right are getting it wrong, the Paris riots.

00:30:00.920 These are my favorite riots.

00:30:02.400 As far as riots go, these ones couldn't be better because the mainstream media won't report on the actual cause of the riots, which is global warming alarmism.

00:30:12.460 We will get to that in a bit and we've got a lot more if we've got time.

00:30:15.200 But coming up tonight, let's talk about hope.

00:30:18.080 Talk about awaiting wonderful things.

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00:31:10.480 And it's coming to an end this season.

00:31:12.100 And this season, I tell you, when I go to these campus speeches, you know, I was on the road for, I've been on the road forever.

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00:32:15.780 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:32:27.100 President Bush died.

00:32:28.800 This was not shocking news.

00:32:31.440 I got the news, you know, when I saw the update and I wasn't exactly thinking, you know, oh, did he flip his Mustang?

00:32:38.260 Did he?

00:32:38.820 Although, frankly, with President Bush, he was still jumping out of airplanes at age 90.

00:32:43.240 But a life well lived.

00:32:44.940 You know, good guy.

00:32:46.040 He was a war hero.

00:32:47.120 People, I think, are getting reactions to this wrong on both sides.

00:32:51.380 I guess really, really my first reaction was, we all knew he was not long for this world.

00:32:58.340 His wife died earlier this year.

00:32:59.620 He's had a million health problems.

00:33:01.220 He's lived a good life.

00:33:02.660 Now he's getting his eternal reward.

00:33:04.520 But I was thinking, you know, Nixon dead.

00:33:07.660 Ford dead.

00:33:09.100 Reagan dead.

00:33:10.460 Bush dead.

00:33:11.140 But Jimmy Carter, you know, Jimmy Carter.

00:33:15.200 You cannot stump that guy.

00:33:17.260 He had brain cancer, for goodness sakes.

00:33:19.000 He beat it.

00:33:20.020 That guy, he's going to outlive all of us, Jimmy Carter.

00:33:22.400 Best of health to President Carter.

00:33:25.060 So President Bush died.

00:33:27.700 And some conservatives were a little down on Bush's career.

00:33:32.700 Why?

00:33:32.900 Well, George Bush Sr. was not a conservative.

00:33:36.820 He was running basically from the establishment wing of the Republican Party, the moderate ring

00:33:42.080 of the Republican Party.

00:33:43.300 I think he backed Goldwater, so he did have that in him a little bit.

00:33:46.220 But he was the moderate guy, anti-conservative movement broadly.

00:33:51.480 He coined the term voodoo economics to refer to Ronald Reagan's economic plan, supply side

00:33:57.860 economics, which defined the conservative movement for so long.

00:34:01.160 So Bush was a supporter of Planned Parenthood for a very long time, so that irks some conservatives.

00:34:08.340 He abandoned Richard Nixon, you know, called on Nixon to resign.

00:34:11.720 He raised taxes.

00:34:13.340 You know, one of the first expressions that I ever learned as a kid, I think I was two

00:34:16.960 years old, was, read my lips, no new taxes.

00:34:19.400 My grandfather taught it to me.

00:34:21.200 And the irony, this was what George Bush said.

00:34:23.660 This was his promise.

00:34:24.920 He said, read my lips, no new taxes.

00:34:27.420 And then he immediately just raised taxes.

00:34:29.360 And it probably cost him the 1992 election.

00:34:32.300 So that bothers conservatives.

00:34:33.800 What else?

00:34:34.140 What else are they harping on?

00:34:35.660 He, very famously, at the end of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan wins the Cold War.

00:34:41.140 And then George Bush is there.

00:34:43.140 And he's overseeing the dismantling of the Soviet Empire.

00:34:46.320 And he makes this, actually in a few instances, he talks about what the new world order will

00:34:52.260 look like.

00:34:52.720 And this has bred a lot of conspiracy theories.

00:34:55.600 And there is some basis in what certain people want world order to look like.

00:35:00.300 But then it has this, you know, then also the tinfoil hats and the spacemen come out.

00:35:05.440 Here is what President Bush actually said about that.

00:35:07.400 We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new

00:35:14.440 world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct

00:35:21.140 of nations.

00:35:21.800 When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order,

00:35:29.500 an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the

00:35:35.660 promise and vision of the UN's founders.

00:35:39.100 Okay, so people, some conservatives who are excitable react to this and they say, see,

00:35:44.360 it's a nefarious plan for just a government to govern the whole world and the total loss

00:35:48.300 of freedom and sovereignty.

00:35:49.500 And that's not my reaction.

00:35:51.020 My reaction is, oh, he likes the United Nations.

00:35:54.720 Okay, all right, whatever.

00:35:56.420 That's fine.

00:35:57.500 That's cute.

00:35:58.280 But what he's really talking about is that prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, prior

00:36:03.180 to the dismantling of the Soviet Empire, we had a bipolar world.

00:36:07.220 We had the American sphere, the Western sphere, the free sphere, and we had the communist sphere,

00:36:11.780 the Soviet sphere.

00:36:13.200 And that was a world broken up between two great powers.

00:36:17.160 After the fall of the Berlin Wall, you had a new world order. 0.93

00:36:20.160 By definition, you have a new world order because America is the only remaining superpower.

00:36:24.960 And then the question was, how are we going to handle the dismantling of this empire?

00:36:28.520 What role will the United States play? 0.64

00:36:30.920 Obviously, it's the leader of the world.

00:36:32.600 How much will we allow ourselves to be governed by international, supranational institutions

00:36:37.060 like the United Nations, like the IMF, like the EU, like all of these different international organizations?

00:36:45.960 And President Bush clearly favored a much broader role for them than conservatives do.

00:36:51.300 But whatever.

00:36:52.520 He wasn't talking about going in and, you know, making everyone loyal only to one god emperor

00:36:57.960 of the entire planet.

00:36:59.060 That isn't what he was talking about either.

00:37:00.620 It was just a kind of typical middle-of-the-road republicanism.

00:37:05.580 That's the bad stuff.

00:37:06.860 And I got to tell you, in the whole of a career, that's not the worst thing in the world because

00:37:11.300 the good aspects of President Bush's legacy were really excellent.

00:37:16.660 He was a true war hero, shot down over the Pacific.

00:37:20.620 I think the youngest pilot, right?

00:37:23.480 Basically, the youngest pilot in the war.

00:37:26.460 He survived.

00:37:28.060 He was able to survive his plane crash.

00:37:30.160 He came up, lived a totally admirable life, went to Yale, started having kids, captain of

00:37:33.980 the baseball team, skull and bones, left Yale.

00:37:36.680 He could have easily gone into banking in New York.

00:37:39.300 His family was a major Wall Street family, and he didn't.

00:37:42.620 He chose to move to West Texas, strike out on his own, make his own fortune, his own way.

00:37:47.440 He was able to do that.

00:37:48.440 He ran for office.

00:37:49.380 He lost an election, then he won.

00:37:51.460 He was the head of the RNC, I believe.

00:37:54.320 He was the head of the CIA.

00:37:56.380 He had this long career.

00:37:57.780 But the reason I really, really admire George Bush is because he was a totally loyal vice

00:38:02.860 president to Ronald Reagan.

00:38:05.000 He was really, really loyal.

00:38:07.420 He went out there.

00:38:08.140 Sometimes you hear of vice presidents arguing with their presidents, trying to go out on

00:38:11.480 their own, and he wasn't.

00:38:13.020 George Bush and Ronald Reagan probably didn't agree on very much, but Reagan treated him with

00:38:17.060 respect, and George Bush treated Reagan with the utmost deference and respect.

00:38:20.620 He went out.

00:38:21.580 He was always campaigning, promoting the president.

00:38:24.160 You didn't see a lot of leaks from the office of the vice president.

00:38:27.120 You didn't see him trying to undermine Ronald Reagan.

00:38:30.660 He played his role.

00:38:31.800 And when Reagan was shot, there was this defining moment where George Bush then comes in acting

00:38:38.460 as the president, and he could have sat in Ronald Reagan's chair before the cabinet, and

00:38:42.580 he didn't.

00:38:43.400 He sat in his own chair.

00:38:45.660 And Ronald Reagan said about this that that's when he knew he had a truly loyal vice president.

00:38:50.400 Bush was there.

00:38:50.860 He didn't want to make it seem like he was coming in, taking advantage of a situation.

00:38:55.200 And so that's a beautiful thing.

00:38:56.660 I mean, he was a loyal guy to the greatest president of the 20th century.

00:39:01.220 That's a good legacy.

00:39:03.940 And he lived an upright life.

00:39:07.180 There's not much more to say about that.

00:39:08.800 And so you've got people on the left now trying, some of them are saying he was a great guy

00:39:13.200 because they want to attack Donald Trump.

00:39:15.760 Some of them are saying he was a terrible guy because the left just hates conservatives

00:39:19.280 and hates Republicans and even people who they mistakenly think are conservative who aren't

00:39:23.080 really conservative, like George Bush.

00:39:25.320 And so you've got that.

00:39:26.740 And then you've got people on the right attacking him because he wasn't conservative enough.

00:39:30.160 My thought, he was my first president when I was born.

00:39:33.540 He was loyal to Ronald Reagan, the greatest president of the 20th century.

00:39:38.640 He helped dismantle the Soviet empire. 0.83

00:39:40.960 He managed a successful and limited operation in Desert Storm, very successful.

00:39:45.640 He always had dignity out of the office.

00:39:48.740 He didn't, like Barack Obama, he didn't take the opportunity to just constantly attack

00:39:53.260 his successors.

00:39:54.460 He was an all-around dignified guy.

00:39:57.460 Hats off to him.

00:39:58.820 Lived a good life.

00:40:00.320 Served well.

00:40:01.140 Did good, had good things to do in American politics.

00:40:04.960 Helped to bring the Republican Party to the right, even though he himself wasn't trying

00:40:09.200 to do that.

00:40:09.960 As a member of the Reagan revolution, he was, he did do that.

00:40:13.200 That's a good thing.

00:40:13.960 Hats off to you, President Bush.

00:40:15.240 Thanks for all you did.

00:40:16.300 I hope you're enjoying your eternal reward.

00:40:17.800 Now, Paris.

00:40:19.740 Oh, Paris.

00:40:20.680 Have you been following these riots?

00:40:22.380 They have been, this is the best riot ever.

00:40:24.580 The riots aren't good.

00:40:25.360 People get injured.

00:40:26.140 I hope people don't die.

00:40:27.120 You know, it's obviously, that's very bad.

00:40:28.580 But as far as riots go, it's the best one ever because it explains and demonstrates the

00:40:33.380 insanity of European leftism, particularly environmentalism.

00:40:39.400 So far, 400 people have been arrested in these riots.

00:40:43.020 200 people have been injured.

00:40:45.020 75,000 people have protested.

00:40:47.660 An estimated 75,000 people going out on the streets.

00:40:50.380 So what is the protest about?

00:40:52.280 Because in France, people are protesting all the time.

00:40:55.400 They're always striking, going on protests, going on riots.

00:40:58.180 My priest, Father George Rutler, describes a Frenchman as an Italian in a bad mood.

00:41:02.580 You know, they're always kind of angry and ornery and, oh, right?

00:41:07.720 So that's fine.

00:41:08.600 Why are they doing it now?

00:41:09.980 They're doing it now to protest pro-environmentalist politicians.

00:41:14.700 They're doing it to protest global warming alarmism.

00:41:17.600 They are rioting right now because self-appointed elites who want to pretend that the sun monster

00:41:24.940 is a more pressing problem than what people need in the here and now are bankrupting these

00:41:30.020 guys.

00:41:30.660 So French citizens were already hit by this.

00:41:33.960 Earlier in the year, Macron, the president of France, said that he was going to attack

00:41:37.740 global warming and he was going to institute a new fuel tax to convince people to stop using

00:41:44.700 fossil fuels.

00:41:45.980 So they were already hit with this massive tax increase in January.

00:41:48.920 More than 60% of the cost of fuel in France comes from taxes.

00:41:54.260 If they cut out those useless taxes, you would have cheap fuel all over France.

00:41:58.480 Now there is a new fuel tax.

00:42:01.000 Why?

00:42:01.260 To fight climate change.

00:42:02.240 This is what Barack Obama tried to do.

00:42:05.300 This is what he said.

00:42:06.040 He was pretty open about it before he wasn't open about it.

00:42:08.400 He said, yeah, we've got to raise the cost for people to use oil and gas so that it hurts

00:42:15.740 them so that they have to start using wind power or whatever other imaginary thing doesn't

00:42:21.200 really produce that much energy.

00:42:22.740 So he was insisting on this.

00:42:24.060 We've got to make it hurt.

00:42:24.820 I was elected that I know so much better than the people.

00:42:29.120 Macron knows so much better than the French.

00:42:31.240 Obama knows so much better than the Americans.

00:42:33.220 He's going to hurt them.

00:42:35.060 He's going to force them to lose money, have a tough time feeding their family so that we

00:42:40.760 can stop sending carbon dioxide into the environment.

00:42:45.140 They did say initially that oil was running out.

00:42:47.800 Remember, they told us that here 10 years ago.

00:42:49.680 And then now we're the biggest producer in the world of oil and natural gas.

00:42:53.480 That's what they're saying.

00:42:54.320 Oh, we're going to run out.

00:42:55.020 We need to do this.

00:42:56.200 Their theory is getting in the way of reality.

00:42:58.260 All the time, these environmentalist types, the global warming alarmists, talk about all

00:43:02.840 of the climate refugees, all of the people whose lives are going to be upended by global

00:43:07.900 warming and climate change.

00:43:09.180 We haven't seen any of them yet.

00:43:10.640 They don't exist yet.

00:43:11.620 But in the fantasy world of the left, they'll exist just in five more years, the day after

00:43:16.080 tomorrow.

00:43:16.880 When are we going to see?

00:43:17.420 Didn't you say they were going to be around in 2013, 2015?

00:43:19.940 No, no, no.

00:43:20.520 I said that you would see climate refugees the day after tomorrow. 1.00

00:43:23.680 When am I going to see them the day after tomorrow?

00:43:25.740 Okay, I'll wait for the day after tomorrow.

00:43:27.560 But in the here and now, in the reality, we are seeing climate refugees. 0.99

00:43:31.580 It's the people protesting in the streets in France.

00:43:34.320 They're the climate refugees. 1.00

00:43:35.960 They're the climate change refugees. 1.00

00:43:37.620 The ones who are dealing at their pocketbooks, trying to feed their families because frivolous

00:43:44.140 politicians like Emmanuel Macron and Barack Obama are trying to tax them into oblivion.

00:43:49.600 They're using the sun monster as an excuse to steal more government power and steal more 0.77

00:43:54.800 wealth from private citizens.

00:43:56.920 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you'll be shocked to hear, is on this exact same point.

00:44:01.840 She's speaking in even more grandiose terms than Obama and Macron.

00:44:04.820 We were at the brink, at the cusp of an abyss, and we did not know if we would be capable of

00:44:10.920 saving ourselves.

00:44:12.200 We have.

00:44:13.180 We've done it.

00:44:14.520 We've dug deep, and we've done what we thought was impossible.

00:44:18.280 We went to the moon.

00:44:19.580 We electrified the nation.

00:44:21.340 We established civil rights.

00:44:23.020 We enfranchised the country.

00:44:24.920 We dig deep, and we did it.

00:44:27.160 We did it when no one else thought that we could.

00:44:30.420 That's what we did when so many of us won an election this year.

00:44:35.020 That's what so many of us did.

00:44:37.420 That's what we did.

00:44:38.700 It's just the same. 0.98

00:44:40.580 Stopping Jim Crow, stopping black people from being murdered in America. 0.98

00:44:46.260 It's the same thing as electing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.77

00:44:49.200 It's almost, I actually can't even see the difference.

00:44:51.700 When I look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when I stare into her googly eyes, all I see is Martin

00:44:58.940 Luther King Jr. marching down on Washington.

00:45:01.360 That's what I see, right?

00:45:02.660 Is that what you see?

00:45:03.400 No?

00:45:03.700 Maybe not.

00:45:04.880 This is a problem of people who don't have any problems.

00:45:08.880 The problem with people who don't have any problems is they need to make problems because

00:45:13.240 they need to struggle, and so when everything is going so well, they need to focus on the

00:45:18.160 sun monster.

00:45:19.000 They need to make up, or they need to struggle because we want struggle.

00:45:23.080 We want to achieve things in life, and when they're not achieving the things they should

00:45:26.020 achieve, they invent them, and that is the sun monster.

00:45:29.820 So, same thing.

00:45:31.360 She's comparing it to all.

00:45:32.220 In her mind, I bet she believes it.

00:45:33.800 In her mind, global warming, which the predictions have consistently been wrong.

00:45:40.540 We're told that even if we had instituted the Paris Climate Agreement, we would only reduce

00:45:44.840 the temperature, or prevent two degrees of warming, rather, within the course of 100

00:45:48.900 years, and ironically, we didn't take part in the Paris Agreement.

00:45:52.540 We're doing it.

00:45:53.740 We're actually winning on that.

00:45:55.400 We're actually reducing our carbon emissions in accordance with it, and the people who did

00:45:58.780 sign on are not doing that.

00:46:00.320 We're in all of that.

00:46:01.000 We know all of the facts, but she believes that slapping a higher gas tax on middle-class

00:46:08.620 Americans, that is tantamount to ending slavery. 0.98

00:46:11.760 That is the kind of moral idiocy that happens when we don't take real problems seriously. 0.97

00:46:16.440 Problems in the here and now, political problems, temporal problems, and eternal problems. 0.92

00:46:20.320 A good note to leave on at the beginning of Advent.

00:46:23.400 That is our show.

00:46:24.140 Tune in to Daily Wire backstage.

00:46:25.360 We have so much more coming up.

00:46:27.160 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:46:28.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:46:29.740 I'll see you later.

00:46:30.180 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal.

00:46:38.980 Executive producer, Jeremy Borey.

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00:46:42.880 Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover.

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00:46:48.120 Edited by Jim Nickel.

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00:46:54.500 The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production.

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00:47:00.180 Today on The Matt Wall Show, an NFL player is in big, big trouble for hitting a woman.

00:47:06.540 But from a modern, enlightened feminist perspective, why should it be any great sin for a man to hit a woman? 0.99

00:47:12.920 We'll talk about that.

00:47:13.700 Also, we'll look at the prison reform bill that President Trump supports.

00:47:18.520 And Baby It's Cold Outside has been banned from a radio station.

00:47:22.060 Will they also ban all of the other sexually charged songs that comprise 90% of modern music?

00:47:28.760 I'm guessing not.

00:47:30.180 That seems a bit inconsistent.

00:47:31.400 We'll talk about all that coming up on The Matt Wall Show.

00:47:33.640 We'll talk about it.

00:47:34.060 Thank you.

00:47:34.200 Thank you.

00:47:35.060 Bye-bye.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 03, 2018

Ep. 261 - The War On Advent

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