The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 30 - Snowflakes and the End of Days ft. Allie Stuckey

00:00:00.000 The blazes conservative millennial Allie Stuckey joins in studio to discuss the whiniest generation. 1.00

00:00:07.260 There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

00:00:09.680 Then, Dr. Bickley and Emily Butler join the panel of deplorables to discuss Republican propaganda, my favorite,

00:00:16.460 Jimmy Kimmel's latest humorless hacking for Democrats, and meat-eating vegetarians.

00:00:21.380 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 My cup, it runneth over. My leftist tears mug, it runneth over.

00:00:36.080 This week, yesterday, you saw we had roaming come in. We had my first day with roaming.

00:00:40.980 And today, back-to-back, we're joined by Allie Stuckey, all the way from Texas, in the studio.

00:00:46.840 So we have to talk. I think you are the foremost expert on whiny snowflakes.

00:00:50.980 This is true. I am. Officially.

00:00:53.580 You know, I am, in a previous life, I've been an actor. I've been in numerous terrible indie movies that nobody's seen except at 3 in the morning on cable.

00:01:03.200 You are teaching me things about the art of method acting.

00:01:06.820 Yes.

00:01:06.980 Can you show the latest clip of Allie Stuckey?

00:01:10.600 So I just graduated from college last week, Harvard, actually, and I started my new job on Monday.

00:01:16.680 So obviously on Sunday night, I wanted to go out with my friends and celebrate.

00:01:19.960 It was a late night, so Monday morning, first day, I rolled in around 10.30, set up my desk, and my boss, my white male boss, had the audacity to come up to me and say,

00:01:32.180 Where have you been? Where have I been? Well, I've been celebrating. And I've been partying. And then I've been sleeping. And I've been resting.

00:01:38.600 Because you know what? This is a stressful time. And you know what? I feel a little bit pressured and a little bit endangered right now.

00:01:45.940 I do not feel safe. So I'll just leave and come back when you've changed your tune, Mr. White Male Boss. 0.97

00:01:50.900 And you know what he said to me? He said, You can pack up your stuff and go. And I said, What did you just say to me?

00:01:56.160 I can pack up my stuff and go? I'm fired? Just because I was late on my first day to work and because I'm not doing anything?

00:02:03.200 Are you kidding me? I mean, talk about sexism. This is the white male patriarchy at work right here.

00:02:08.200 Talk about discrimination. So now it's Tuesday. I'm back.

00:02:11.760 I've got my protesting signs in the trunk. And I am going to show them who's boss.

00:02:16.500 And I am going to show them that this millennial generation is not taking that crap from baby version Xers. 1.00

00:02:23.100 Okay? We are going to do whatever we want to. 0.99

00:02:26.140 And if we can't do that, and if we don't feel safe, then we're just going to quit.

00:02:30.740 And that is a real threat.

00:02:31.720 Give this woman an Oscar. 1.00

00:02:34.100 Somebody get that was the most incredible performance, not just of a millennial, but the most incredible performance I've seen in years.

00:02:42.400 Well, I appreciate that.

00:02:44.240 It was absolutely, especially the words, I feel endangered. I feel unsafe.

00:02:50.800 But it really, I'm not being facetious in any way. You nail so many points from beginning to end.

00:02:56.980 Well, thank you.

00:02:57.540 Yeah, the craziness. Now, by the way, just maybe people who are listening or watching don't believe me.

00:03:04.140 Here is a clip from my own dear beleaguered alma mater, Yale, from just two years ago.

00:03:09.840 Here's a clip of an actual millennial snowflake.

00:03:12.700 Your position as master is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in Sylman.

00:03:19.460 You have not done that.

00:03:20.980 By sending out that email, that goes against your position as master. Do you understand that?

00:03:25.660 No, I don't agree with that.

00:03:27.640 Then why the did you accept the position?

00:03:30.560 Because I have a different vision.

00:03:32.260 I have a different vision than you.

00:03:33.260 You should step down.

00:03:34.460 If that is what you think about being a master, you should step down.

00:03:37.960 It is not about creating an intellectual seat.

00:03:40.340 It is not.

00:03:41.360 Do you understand that?

00:03:42.880 It's about creating a home here.

00:03:45.220 You are not doing that.

00:03:46.780 You are supposed to be our advocate.

00:03:49.760 You should be at the event last night when you hear her Franco say that she didn't know how to create a safe space for her freshman exilman.

00:03:56.620 How do you explain that?

00:03:58.460 These freshmen come here and they think this is what Yale is?

00:04:01.200 All right.

00:04:03.580 Goodbye, everybody.

00:04:04.320 I can't.

00:04:04.920 I can't do a show after watching that.

00:04:06.860 But, by the way, just for the record, that Yale student was a girl named Geraldine Luther, and she, who asked who the F hired you, she was on the committee that gave him his position.

00:04:15.680 She was a student on the committee that hired him.

00:04:18.300 Just a little bit of fun.

00:04:19.720 I would have loved if he had just answered her and said, well, actually, it was you.

00:04:23.380 You did.

00:04:23.800 You hired me, so thank you.

00:04:26.600 Watching that, I actually do think maybe you need to up the hysteria in your own satirical performances.

00:04:32.720 But I have to ask you, channeling the movie as good as it gets, how do you play millennials so well?

00:04:39.560 Okay.

00:04:40.020 This is my tried and true method.

00:04:42.380 You can adopt it if you want to for the next time you audition for an indie film.

00:04:46.700 Yeah.

00:04:47.120 Take notes.

00:04:47.800 So I turn on the news.

00:04:49.640 I hear something.

00:04:50.520 I see a clip like this, and I'm like, wow.

00:04:53.800 This is really happening.

00:04:55.800 For some reason, I always get in my car.

00:04:57.480 I don't know why.

00:04:58.600 I get in my car, and I say, okay, let me channel these people.

00:05:02.120 Let me make sure that my brain turns to mush.

00:05:04.400 Well, it's because it's a safe space.

00:05:05.420 Yes, and try to dial back my, what's that called?

00:05:09.500 EQ, emotional intelligence, back to age 12, 11, or something like that.

00:05:15.280 And then I just kind of go from there.

00:05:16.780 Really, I just turn on my camera, and I start talking.

00:05:19.180 I don't write it out or anything.

00:05:21.080 That's how easy it is because it mirrors reality so closely.

00:05:24.380 That's probably why the majority of people that watch them think that I'm serious.

00:05:28.880 Do they?

00:05:29.540 They actually, they can't tell the satire from the reality.

00:05:32.400 No, no, they can't.

00:05:33.220 Wow.

00:05:33.740 And they just blow right past the fact that it's called the conservative millennial, and they just start typing away. 0.84

00:05:38.320 But that's just internet trolls for you. 0.74

00:05:40.080 This raises a real question that I have for the culture at this moment, especially this generation.

00:05:46.360 Are they beyond satire?

00:05:47.860 Have they transcended parody to the point that they have so embraced the absurd that it can't be funny anymore?

00:05:55.640 Yeah.

00:05:55.980 When you call the absurd to an absurd person, nothing rings funny.

00:06:00.620 There's no standard anymore.

00:06:01.760 Right.

00:06:02.080 It's just sad.

00:06:03.060 We were talking about this earlier.

00:06:04.620 If you live in irony, is anything really ironic anymore, or is it just reality?

00:06:10.020 When do we lose sight of what's irony and what's not?

00:06:13.500 I love irony.

00:06:14.960 That's probably more what this is than satire.

00:06:17.820 I just like playing upon the ridiculousness of the irony in which they live unknowingly.

00:06:22.940 But unfortunately, so many people live in that space that it is very hard to distinguish between what's true and what's not.

00:06:29.380 But that's okay.

00:06:30.340 I think that's all the more reason to do it.

00:06:32.220 So people hear the absurdity and the illogic at the core of their argument.

00:06:37.340 So they can say, wow, is that really what I sound like?

00:06:39.980 But do they hear it?

00:06:41.760 Is there – these millennia – I mean, we could do the show every day about how insane this generation of people is.

00:06:49.080 Basically, we do that anyway.

00:06:50.820 But do we give them in any way a bad rap?

00:06:54.400 Like, what is causing it?

00:06:55.860 On the one hand, it's hilarious.

00:06:57.180 It's great to laugh at this chick at Yale who's screeching in her better's face. 1.00

00:07:02.880 But on the other hand, it's really sad. 0.99

00:07:06.160 It's sad to see ignorant students saying, we don't want to learn anything. 0.99

00:07:10.320 We think that we know the whole world and we're going to invade against you and get you fired. 1.00

00:07:15.740 Yeah.

00:07:16.360 Well, unfortunately, it's kind of a long history lesson, I think.

00:07:19.860 I think it goes back to our parents and the generation before that and the generation before that.

00:07:24.500 I think the further – my personal theory is the further we get away from the Great Depression and the Great Wars,

00:07:29.820 the further we are – or the closer we are to entitlement, the further we are away from hard work

00:07:34.280 and really understanding what it means to work hard for a dollar, what the value of a dollar is,

00:07:40.740 and not having the privilege of having helicopter parents and parents that convince you that you are special no matter what.

00:07:48.920 Honorable mentions, trophy, participation trophy, all those things are relatively new.

00:07:53.480 And we didn't choose them.

00:07:56.620 Unfortunately, our parents did.

00:07:59.420 And so I can't say, of course, it's such like a millennial to kind of shift responsibility.

00:08:04.420 But it's not all of our fault that we don't take responsibility.

00:08:07.500 It's just mom and dad's fault.

00:08:07.580 It's mom and dad's fault that I don't take responsibility.

00:08:09.840 Duh. Duh. 1.00

00:08:11.020 But really, I mean, that's part of it.

00:08:12.440 And so – and then, of course, the last eight years of Barack Obama's presidency certainly didn't help that.

00:08:17.600 If we were predisposed to being entitled, certainly everything that Obama stood for, I think, conditioned that even further.

00:08:25.240 And that was evidenced by the fact that Bernie Sanders received more votes from millennials than Trump and Clinton did combined.

00:08:33.300 So it just kind of feeds into our predisposition for wanting free stuff and thinking that we deserve not just material things, but also to be intellectually coddled.

00:08:45.220 That the world – that the world is fair, that the world owes you something.

00:08:48.660 But how is it – this brings up two questions.

00:08:51.680 Not all of us are insane.

00:08:53.080 Not all of us have lost our minds.

00:08:54.900 That's true.

00:08:55.320 Some people are –

00:08:55.700 That's bummed.

00:08:56.280 Right here.

00:08:56.740 You and me, babe, we're going to go on and save America.

00:08:59.340 But really, I mean, there is this young, right-wing movement that does cut through this craziness.

00:09:05.500 So is it that soft times can't make great men, you know, that you really – you're a product of your times?

00:09:12.820 Is there any way to cut through that?

00:09:14.580 And then we'll have to talk about Texas and California.

00:09:17.280 But is there – how do we rise above it when we grew up in basically a luxurious time?

00:09:22.820 Yeah.

00:09:23.120 I think probably the first thing that I always advise millennials and especially college students to do, which, by the way, I found out for the first time when I was speaking out of college the other day.

00:09:32.960 I was talking about millennials and, you know, entitlement, everything we're talking about.

00:09:36.620 And this little guy raised his hand and he was like, oh, by the way, we're actually not millennials.

00:09:41.700 We're Generation Z.

00:09:43.220 That's right.

00:09:43.700 And I realized for the first time that I'm old.

00:09:46.200 Sad.

00:09:46.500 But anyway, how to break through that.

00:09:48.320 I mean, I always tell the first – the first thing I tell people is to read.

00:09:51.560 Just read.

00:09:52.280 I mean, our parents read so much more than we ever did.

00:09:55.640 All we do is scroll through our ideological echo chambers made possible by a Facebook algorithm.

00:10:01.860 But you know what I always say?

00:10:02.920 I'm sorry to contradict you, Allie.

00:10:03.940 I always say to watch a lot of podcasts.

00:10:05.860 Watch the podcasts.

00:10:07.080 Send them to your friends.

00:10:08.400 Particularly podcasts.

00:10:09.140 That's good, too.

00:10:09.380 Young people.

00:10:10.040 You bring a lot of young people on.

00:10:11.120 Anyway, that's just my two cents.

00:10:12.880 But you think we should read books.

00:10:14.380 I do.

00:10:15.060 I do think we can read books.

00:10:16.900 But there are other ways.

00:10:17.780 So if you're not a reader, if you don't like to read, you can also listen to podcasts.

00:10:21.240 For example, I listen to this podcast.

00:10:23.800 I also listen to liberal podcasts.

00:10:25.700 I listen to Pod Save America.

00:10:27.380 I love the liberal podcasts, Pod Save America.

00:10:31.100 They – maybe it's not proper etiquette to talk badly about people on the left doing podcasts.

00:10:36.760 It's terrible.

00:10:37.640 I mean, they're so bad.

00:10:38.460 Where do you think I get all the material for my satire?

00:10:41.020 I listen to Pod Save America.

00:10:42.380 I'm like, okay, got it.

00:10:43.520 Got the snowflake down.

00:10:44.820 My fiancée, sweet little Lisa, turned me on to this.

00:10:47.060 She said, like, I listened to all of your shows, so I wanted to listen to some left women. 1.00

00:10:51.560 There are no arguments.

00:10:52.440 It's just exasperation and swear words.

00:10:55.900 And exasperation.

00:10:57.100 And there's more exasperated –

00:10:57.960 And exasperated swear words, yes.

00:10:59.920 That's right.

00:11:00.680 Yeah.

00:11:00.920 Those are my favorites.

00:11:01.880 Yeah.

00:11:02.140 So I think it takes more effort probably than it used to to break out of our ideological

00:11:06.560 echo chamber simply because everything that has been made convenient to us in the form

00:11:11.860 of, you know, social media and information that we get from social media, it's tailored

00:11:16.840 to what we already think.

00:11:18.980 And so because of that, especially if you are on the left, then all you're going to get

00:11:23.940 is someone that bolsters your bias.

00:11:26.040 And if that's the case, then feelings of entitlement and everything that we've just been talking

00:11:32.340 about is only going to increase.

00:11:33.740 So what I encourage people to do, people like you and me who are just terribly logical,

00:11:38.460 it's because we do break out of those echo chambers and we allow ourselves to be intellectually

00:11:43.280 challenged.

00:11:44.080 Yeah.

00:11:44.720 Intellectually challenged.

00:11:45.660 That kind of sounds like that's a bad thing.

00:11:47.240 But intellectually, I guess – what am I trying to say?

00:11:52.380 Just help me.

00:11:55.000 Edified.

00:11:55.660 Edified, let's say.

00:11:56.480 Yes.

00:11:56.960 I guess intellectually challenged is what I really like.

00:11:58.700 Just like you, I'm very often overwhelmed by the strength of my own logic.

00:12:02.260 It's really – it's the weight of glory is what it is.

00:12:04.720 Right.

00:12:05.040 I feel a great weight of glory.

00:12:06.480 No, I agree with you.

00:12:07.240 Obviously, you need a curiosity and people who think the world owes them something often

00:12:12.800 aren't that curious.

00:12:14.260 Now, this brings me to my – this is my sales pitch to you, is that you're in Texas.

00:12:18.840 Yes.

00:12:19.180 There are a lot of great outlets like The Blaze, Steve Gratter's in Texas.

00:12:23.120 A lot of people are there.

00:12:24.440 I've never lived in a conservative place in my whole life.

00:12:26.680 I've only lived in New York.

00:12:27.960 I've lived in New Haven, a very liberal campus, Los Angeles.

00:12:32.160 Is it better for conservatives to live in red states or blue states?

00:12:36.540 Or should we be surrounded by people with whom we agree or people who are absolutely out of their minds?

00:12:42.540 That's a really good question.

00:12:43.940 While I just fear for you people that are over here in California, yes, that y'all are going to end up betraying us.

00:12:51.000 Because, see, in Texas, I'm around so many other conservatives that when the rest of the world is going crazy,

00:12:56.580 we're like, okay, the secession thing, are we going to do it?

00:12:58.980 And we can kind of bond over that kind of stuff.

00:13:01.220 Y'all are kind of, you know, y'all are isolated.

00:13:04.120 So I just fear for you guys that y'all are going to end up going off the deep end.

00:13:07.620 Y'all are going to be peer pressured into liberalism.

00:13:09.560 The other fear for our lives is that, you know, every time Steve Gratter gets jihad-ed in Texas,

00:13:15.580 he can go reach for one of the 7,000 guns within arm's length.

00:13:20.320 Yes, and y'all can't do that.

00:13:22.640 I don't know even how y'all deal with that.

00:13:24.820 That's my biggest worry.

00:13:26.500 It is true.

00:13:27.320 It's really hard.

00:13:28.300 I think in California now it's illegal to possess even one round of ammo.

00:13:31.940 You can only have zero round magazines in your guns.

00:13:34.500 Perfect.

00:13:34.920 Yeah, we're going to figure out a workaround for it, hopefully.

00:13:38.880 I think that's my next satire video.

00:13:41.800 Excellent.

00:13:42.400 There we go.

00:13:43.140 I'll take a story credit.

00:13:44.280 Okay.

00:13:44.440 Because I've always – I've liked being in left-wing places because it has totally – you

00:13:50.840 have to defend your views constantly.

00:13:52.940 That's true.

00:13:53.820 That's a really good point.

00:13:54.660 You become an apologist for conservatism.

00:13:56.680 You have – yeah.

00:13:57.240 I mean, I think Yale – I totally see your fear.

00:14:00.340 I think most normal people go to Yale and then 97% of them become left-wing automatons.

00:14:06.240 But there's this great 3% that come out, like, more reactionary than Genghis Khan.

00:14:11.720 You know, you come out just so –

00:14:13.540 Like stronger than ever.

00:14:14.220 Yeah, absolutely.

00:14:15.260 I mean, probably too far, you know.

00:14:16.820 Yeah.

00:14:17.060 But that – you just react against it.

00:14:19.540 Yeah.

00:14:20.040 And I think that's really important.

00:14:21.560 I think that you set a great example for the rest of us millennials.

00:14:24.800 Stop.

00:14:25.160 I can't wait to let me blush.

00:14:26.260 Whether you're on the right or the left, you make absolutely a good point that we all

00:14:30.220 should become apologists for our beliefs.

00:14:32.660 And I don't necessarily have to do that quite as much when I work at The Blaze and live

00:14:37.320 in Texas.

00:14:38.080 I went to school in South Carolina, and then I lived in Georgia.

00:14:40.600 So I'm just, like, bouncing around to the red states.

00:14:42.940 This is interesting, too, though.

00:14:44.300 And we have a game that we have to get to.

00:14:46.340 This is – I've been planning this out all morning.

00:14:48.640 This is – I think it's the hardest game.

00:14:50.960 It's harder than chess or go, that Chinese game.

00:14:54.000 But we'll get to that in one second.

00:14:55.840 Because I see your point.

00:14:57.540 A lot of times people who grow up with an idea, they rebel against it.

00:15:01.400 They get bored with it.

00:15:02.380 They don't – it's easy to fall away.

00:15:04.320 The easiest way to find an ex-Catholic is to see who went to Catholic school.

00:15:08.520 And then they always end up becoming atheists afterward because they don't like the nuns.

00:15:12.320 You've always been a conservative.

00:15:13.680 Yes, I have.

00:15:14.040 You've always been a Christian.

00:15:15.040 I have.

00:15:15.780 Yes, I have.

00:15:16.620 I grew up a conservative Christian.

00:15:19.600 We grew up watching Fox News.

00:15:21.860 My dad's actually a politician in Texas.

00:15:23.880 Sounds like paradise.

00:15:24.640 So, I know.

00:15:25.360 It sounds like I didn't have much of a choice.

00:15:27.440 They brainwashed me from an early age.

00:15:28.920 But you didn't rebel.

00:15:30.200 No.

00:15:30.600 Well, no, I didn't rebel.

00:15:32.200 Actually, I would say in college my ideas strengthened even further, even from a faith standpoint and from a political standpoint.

00:15:40.700 I didn't actually get into politics until a couple years after college when I looked around and realized that all of my very well-informed and well-educated friends just had no idea what was going on in the world and how it related to them.

00:15:54.120 Which is why I birthed to the conservative millennial and started making videos mostly for my friends.

00:16:00.020 And then it took off immediately and you were picked up by the blaze.

00:16:02.940 Not immediately.

00:16:04.220 Not immediately.

00:16:05.140 Not immediately.

00:16:06.140 It took a little bit.

00:16:07.340 But, yeah, it didn't take very long.

00:16:09.940 And now I'm on the Michael Mills show, so I'm just going to retire tomorrow.

00:16:12.340 Yeah, you reached the peak.

00:16:13.500 It's all downhill from here, Allie.

00:16:15.280 It's all – do you think – because I ask this question a lot.

00:16:19.600 I always get this in the mailbag.

00:16:22.140 How much does the Jesus matter to the conservatism?

00:16:24.620 I think it was a friend of mine, Elena Plott, once described conservatism as Jesus, guns, and capitalism.

00:16:32.300 How important is Christianity or a belief in God to this huge generation of nuns, people who grew up without religion?

00:16:41.440 How important is the religion to conservative policy?

00:16:45.520 Yeah.

00:16:45.740 Well, I think that conservatism is – it is necessarily a little bit subjective, and so it kind of depends on what exactly you feel is most important to conserve.

00:16:57.820 I certainly don't think it's absolutely necessary to be a Christian or even to believe in God, to believe that the Constitution is inherently good

00:17:08.740 and that it's a good foundation upon which we should be building our country.

00:17:12.940 I don't think necessarily you have to believe in a higher power to do that.

00:17:16.640 I think it absolutely helps.

00:17:18.100 I think it helps to say, this is where my moral compass comes from because Jesus told me that I am supposed to love others the way that I love myself.

00:17:26.460 I can always go back to that.

00:17:29.020 And so, yes, it kind of, I guess, makes it easier in a way, or they go hand in hand very well because, say, you don't have the faith at all,

00:17:38.300 it very easily, to me, goes into the direction of saying, well, why would you have to care about anyone except for, you know, survival of the fittest?

00:17:46.420 So, for me, they go hand in hand very well.

00:17:48.300 However, I have a very good friend who is an atheist who doesn't believe in any way that you need religion to be a great person or to be a conservative,

00:17:56.040 and it works for him.

00:17:56.840 So, I certainly can't tell him that he's not a true conservative, at least in a secular sense, simply because he doesn't believe in a judge.

00:18:03.660 Yeah, and he might be a conservative, but he might, Andrew Klavan always says, you can be a conservative and an atheist, you just can't make sense.

00:18:09.740 And so, it might well be the case that a conservative thinks, well, life, liberty, and property are pretty good things to call natural rights.

00:18:17.340 And they might believe that, and they might want to promote that, and that's all well and good by me, but they might not understand why those are natural rights.

00:18:25.960 Right, and what I would say to that as well, and what I have told my atheist friend, is that by holding on to those things without the foundation,

00:18:33.920 or without God being the foundation of those things, you still have a faith.

00:18:38.140 You are just saying that you don't believe in anything, but you actually have a faith in that, and you have a faith in what our Constitution says.

00:18:44.780 You're just choosing to not put your faith in God, but you still have a faith.

00:18:47.740 You have a faith somewhere, yeah.

00:18:48.720 So, that's a good point that he makes.

00:18:49.800 Hopefully, it won't be ripped up like the bad seeds that fall on the side of the road.

00:18:53.580 A warning to you atheist conservatives. 0.99

00:18:55.880 Whoa, parables coming out.

00:18:57.040 How about that?

00:18:57.640 Okay, we're getting too serious.

00:18:59.340 We're getting into parables and mustard seeds, so now we have to get to this game.

00:19:03.120 Basically, this is, I call this game, I've passed you out little cards.

00:19:06.600 You'll notice the cards say, under 10 or over 20.

00:19:10.040 The purpose of this game is to, I'm going to have Marshall read out a quote.

00:19:14.780 And the quote was either said by a millennial or an adult or some whiny adult or a toddler or a young child.

00:19:22.400 So, it's going to be, you have to guess, based on just the quote, whether the person is under 10 or over 20.

00:19:28.740 For this, we're going to have to bring on our other two panelists. 0.81

00:19:32.220 We have Emily Butler, and we have Dr. Bickley, the doctor himself.

00:19:37.180 PhD, MD, LOL, absolutely.

00:19:39.740 Thank you for joining us.

00:19:41.960 Get ready.

00:19:42.760 This is a very important game.

00:19:44.020 The points really, really matter.

00:19:45.640 All right.

00:19:46.040 Is everybody ready for the questions?

00:19:47.960 I am ready, Marshall. 0.99

00:19:49.500 Shoot when you're ready to go. 0.96

00:19:51.220 So, the first quote, in my heart, I'm still little. 0.98

00:19:59.720 I could have heard that at Yale.

00:20:02.300 In my heart, I'm still little.

00:20:03.160 I'm going to go with over 20.

00:20:07.320 Okay.

00:20:08.020 That is a nine-year-old named Samantha.

00:20:10.780 Did we all said over 20?

00:20:12.420 Yes.

00:20:12.880 Okay.

00:20:13.100 Well, I'm like, you are little.

00:20:14.540 Let's start off with a tough one.

00:20:15.260 Maybe we're overthinking.

00:20:16.600 We got tripped up.

00:20:17.540 Quote, you're treating me like I'm a child.

00:20:23.000 There is an obvious answer to this, right?

00:20:25.780 Under 10.

00:20:26.500 Under 10.

00:20:27.020 You're treating me like I'm a child.

00:20:27.960 Under 10.

00:20:29.100 The answer is 21-year-old Cora Miriam.

00:20:32.840 Trigglypuff.

00:20:33.540 It was Trigglypuff.

00:20:34.500 I knew it.

00:20:35.240 That is a trick question.

00:20:36.820 That was Trigglypuff.

00:20:37.600 All right.

00:20:37.980 Did anyone have it?

00:20:38.680 Who had it?

00:20:39.260 Had it.

00:20:39.740 The doctor.

00:20:40.260 Of course the doctor had it.

00:20:41.260 Okay.

00:20:42.020 All right.

00:20:42.500 Next question.

00:20:43.140 Next one.

00:20:43.840 Quote, sometimes I like to listen to Taylor Swift in my room.

00:20:47.360 And cry about cats that have died.

00:20:49.760 Same.

00:20:50.480 That's got to be.

00:20:51.380 That was me.

00:20:52.600 And I'm 25.

00:20:53.300 Yeah, absolutely.

00:20:53.860 That is definitely from Tumblr.

00:20:55.380 Over 20.

00:20:56.660 Eight-year-old.

00:20:57.780 Gah! 1.00

00:20:58.160 Thank you, man.

00:20:58.700 No, I'm just kidding.

00:20:59.440 It's, it's, no, it is.

00:21:00.900 It's eight-year-old.

00:21:02.100 Wait, which is it?

00:21:02.960 It's an eight-year-old or it's older?

00:21:03.860 It's an eight-year-old.

00:21:05.400 Bickley in the lead.

00:21:05.880 I don't trust the veracity of this at all.

00:21:06.680 But Emily got it.

00:21:07.500 Okay.

00:21:07.920 One for Emily.

00:21:08.760 Two for Bickley.

00:21:09.480 The doctor is leading.

00:21:10.300 I'm really bad at that.

00:21:10.720 Okay.

00:21:11.000 All right.

00:21:11.500 Next quote.

00:21:12.120 Oh, mom, dad, you need to help me.

00:21:17.440 Oh.

00:21:17.760 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:21:18.660 I'm going to say over 20.

00:21:20.060 Yeah.

00:21:20.480 We're all saying over 20?

00:21:21.340 Absolutely.

00:21:21.680 It is, in fact, over 20.

00:21:22.940 That is.

00:21:23.400 That is a 24-year-old sign.

00:21:24.360 I don't resist protest. 1.00

00:21:26.400 That is pathetic. 0.99

00:21:27.500 I don't resist protest. 1.00

00:21:28.880 That is so pathetic. 0.99

00:21:30.120 Okay. 0.99

00:21:30.620 So we all got that one.

00:21:31.560 Next one.

00:21:32.000 All right.

00:21:32.220 Next quote.

00:21:32.760 Resist adulthood.

00:21:33.940 I really love being human, but some days I really wish I could just be a fairy.

00:21:40.000 This is.

00:21:41.360 Hmm.

00:21:42.440 Let's hope.

00:21:43.240 Let's just hope, please.

00:21:44.880 I'm going to say under 10.

00:21:46.880 I don't think.

00:21:47.420 This is a woman or a girl named Emily at four years old.

00:21:52.400 Hey.

00:21:52.940 All right.

00:21:53.620 I feel a little bit better.

00:21:54.400 Under 10.

00:21:54.740 All right.

00:21:55.140 So none for Emily.

00:21:56.520 We got it.

00:21:56.880 That would have been truly depressing.

00:21:57.940 The next one is, quote, can I wear a bear costume at your wedding as I'm the ring bear?

00:22:04.340 Can I wear a...

00:22:05.940 I would say.

00:22:06.940 22-year-old ring bear.

00:22:08.420 I'll double down on under 10.

00:22:10.080 This is Simon, age seven.

00:22:12.360 Okay.

00:22:12.580 Age seven.

00:22:12.980 Okay.

00:22:13.260 Great.

00:22:13.560 Got it.

00:22:14.100 Next one coming at you fast.

00:22:15.140 I am a werewolf.

00:22:16.640 All right.

00:22:17.320 You go on right back at it.

00:22:19.880 Over 20.

00:22:20.820 I feel like this is a trick.

00:22:22.160 This is 28-year-old otherkin named Riviera.

00:22:30.320 We got to pause.

00:22:31.560 For the people who don't...

00:22:32.680 So who got that one?

00:22:33.500 I didn't get that one.

00:22:34.040 I got it.

00:22:34.700 You got it.

00:22:35.160 You don't recognize otherkin when you hear it? 0.70

00:22:37.360 So an otherkin for...

00:22:38.900 Did you say over 22?

00:22:40.180 Yeah.

00:22:40.520 Okay.

00:22:40.820 I'll have to put that.

00:22:41.300 So an otherkin is one of the 56 genders that now exist, according to Facebook and probably

00:22:50.360 every university in the country.

00:22:52.220 And otherkin is...

00:22:53.700 It's like a trans species, but not a real species, like a fake species. 1.00

00:22:58.360 So like I think I'm...

00:22:59.380 Like a werewolf.

00:23:00.060 I think I'm an elf for a werewolf.

00:23:00.820 I think we recently made a clip of a cat man the same way.

00:23:03.240 Yeah.

00:23:03.640 There was the...

00:23:04.180 Well, that's a different thing, I think.

00:23:06.460 There are also furries.

00:23:07.580 It gets very complicated.

00:23:09.400 Yeah.

00:23:09.640 Uh, we'll get into that later.

00:23:11.440 I'm sorry.

00:23:12.200 Keep going, Marshall.

00:23:13.420 Okay.

00:23:13.820 Next one is...

00:23:15.260 I am made of gold.

00:23:16.320 Treat me like it.

00:23:20.200 I'm going to go under 10.

00:23:21.560 Yeah, girl. 0.99

00:23:22.940 Millennial.

00:23:23.320 All right.

00:23:23.600 The answer is...

00:23:24.440 That is a 20-something woman's sign at the Women's March Rally in Washington, D.C.

00:23:28.420 There it is.

00:23:29.220 I knew it.

00:23:29.580 I'm going to start using that.

00:23:30.680 I like that line.

00:23:31.640 I am gold.

00:23:32.520 Who had it?

00:23:33.060 Who got it?

00:23:33.480 I tell myself that in the mirror every morning.

00:23:35.540 I would have a poster of that on my wall.

00:23:37.380 I am gold.

00:23:38.440 All right.

00:23:39.260 The next one is, quote,

00:23:41.040 It's about creating a home here.

00:23:44.480 All right.

00:23:45.000 That is a gimme, but it's really sad that it's a gimme.

00:23:47.820 That is Yale student, Gerilyn Luther.

00:23:50.480 All right.

00:23:50.580 The first one I think it all got right, that is Gerilyn Luther, a Yale undergraduate, Michael's

00:23:54.120 old best friend.

00:23:55.060 Yeah, that's my old professor, Gerilyn Luther.

00:23:58.320 Next one coming at you, quote, 0.67

00:24:00.300 Donald Trump is a bad man.

00:24:02.420 What do you say that for? 0.99

00:24:05.820 He just is. 0.99

00:24:08.580 Donald Trump is a bad man. 0.96

00:24:09.940 What do you say that for? 0.99

00:24:10.560 He just is.

00:24:11.440 Oh.

00:24:11.880 Yeah.

00:24:12.400 Given that logical progression.

00:24:14.100 Anyone on Twitter.

00:24:15.080 Over 20.

00:24:15.500 Do you think it's...

00:24:16.820 I'm going to say over 20.

00:24:20.160 I'm going to...

00:24:21.700 This is Kylie, six years old.

00:24:25.480 Might have lost my lead.

00:24:26.640 Allie got it.

00:24:27.780 Let's see who's...

00:24:28.520 No.

00:24:28.860 Okay.

00:24:29.240 So right now the doctor, Dr. Bickley, and Allie are tied.

00:24:32.920 Oh.

00:24:33.320 All right.

00:24:33.800 Let's break that tie with the next quote.

00:24:36.340 I don't vote.

00:24:37.720 I don't do no voting.

00:24:41.520 That's under 10.

00:24:43.460 Oh, I think that's...

00:24:44.620 Oh, no.

00:24:44.840 That's over 20.

00:24:46.500 This is, in fact, famous rapper and Coachella headliner Kendrick Lamar, 30 years old.

00:24:54.000 Over 20 and highly successful.

00:24:55.560 Who got that one?

00:24:56.160 And it was...

00:24:56.800 I didn't know it was...

00:24:57.680 I think we're still tied.

00:25:00.260 Wow.

00:25:01.000 All right.

00:25:02.600 Oh, sorry, Kendrick. 1.00

00:25:05.140 Donald Trump hates brown people. 0.99

00:25:08.420 I'll say over 20, right? 0.99

00:25:12.200 I could see some, like, college person saying that.

00:25:15.860 Do we have our votes in?

00:25:16.900 Allie, I need an answer.

00:25:17.920 Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:25:18.760 Is that your final answer?

00:25:19.720 Okay.

00:25:20.100 Sure.

00:25:21.100 This is Chelsea Handler, 42 years old.

00:25:24.120 Chelsea Handler.

00:25:24.900 Allie, the only one not to get it.

00:25:27.660 We all knew.

00:25:28.420 I didn't know it was Handler, though.

00:25:30.780 Okay.

00:25:31.400 Sweet Chelsea.

00:25:32.320 All right.

00:25:32.740 Next one.

00:25:33.300 Quote.

00:25:33.380 Next one. 0.99

00:25:34.020 I know Trump hates brown people. 0.98

00:25:36.620 That's the same quote. 0.99

00:25:38.660 I know Trump hates people with brown skin. 0.93

00:25:42.700 That's still the same. 0.66

00:25:43.940 That is a different quote?

00:25:45.360 This is a different quote.

00:25:46.160 This is Charlie at five years old.

00:25:47.380 It's hard to get it.

00:25:47.940 No.

00:25:48.100 Wait.

00:25:48.520 It's hard to tie the gold.

00:25:49.340 Oh, man.

00:25:49.780 Well, hold on.

00:25:50.380 I guess we had the vote.

00:25:51.120 I thought it was over 20.

00:25:52.740 I would have missed it.

00:25:53.040 Bickley was picking up over 20.

00:25:53.920 Honor system, I would have missed it.

00:25:55.400 Yeah, I would have missed it.

00:25:56.100 So we're tied.

00:25:56.680 All right.

00:25:57.660 Emily and Allie both got it.

00:25:59.120 I know five years old Chelsea Handler are hard to differentiate, guys.

00:26:00.880 Next one.

00:26:01.480 Quote.

00:26:02.220 If Donald Trump becomes president, I'm going to be super, super mad, and I'll move to a different

00:26:08.000 world.

00:26:08.360 Oh, man.

00:26:12.040 I don't know.

00:26:12.980 Dang it.

00:26:13.660 I'm actually getting nervous about this now.

00:26:16.380 Yes.

00:26:17.380 Yeah, it could have been like any celebrity, I guess.

00:26:19.640 We all say over 20.

00:26:20.840 Okay.

00:26:21.220 This is it.

00:26:21.720 Blake, five years old.

00:26:24.500 It's really sad that we can't differentiate.

00:26:27.440 This is really sad.

00:26:28.500 None of us got that point.

00:26:28.920 This is the last quote.

00:26:30.520 Okay.

00:26:31.280 All right.

00:26:31.500 So by the way, so right now, Allie and the doctor are tied.

00:26:35.480 This is the tiebreaker, possibly.

00:26:37.020 Okay, tiebreaker, here we go.

00:26:40.700 Quote, if he were to be elected, I'm moving to Jupiter.

00:26:45.600 Also basically the same quote.

00:26:48.320 I am going to go under 10.

00:26:51.660 God bless.

00:26:51.880 This is Cher at age 1,410.

00:26:55.680 Cher?

00:26:56.380 It's Cher.

00:26:57.120 Yeah, this is Cher. 0.99

00:26:58.200 Who got it?

00:26:58.760 Oh, you both?

00:26:59.400 Oh, all right.

00:27:00.020 Both got it.

00:27:00.460 Well, so Emily and I lost.

00:27:03.240 There's a tie between the good doctor, Bickley, and Allie.

00:27:06.280 But you know what?

00:27:06.620 None of that matters, because there are no winners and losers here at the Michael Knowles

00:27:09.940 Show.

00:27:10.340 There are only participation trophies.

00:27:12.280 Thank you all for participating.

00:27:13.600 Thank you.

00:27:13.900 I feel like we're all number one.

00:27:15.840 Don't you feel like we're just all number one?

00:27:18.100 Sure.

00:27:18.360 I'll give you a fist bump, too.

00:27:19.620 I'm supposed to be number one.

00:27:21.080 I'm supposed to be.

00:27:22.260 I'm supposed to be.

00:27:23.520 Hey, this is not about an intellectual space.

00:27:25.940 It's about creating a home here.

00:27:27.880 That's what the, that's going to be the motto of my show.

00:27:30.320 Okay.

00:27:31.160 Panel, thank you all for coming on. 0.99

00:27:32.960 We have got to, it was so stupid. 0.99

00:27:35.140 We have got to get to the important news of the day. 0.99

00:27:38.920 Before we do that.

00:27:39.720 That wasn't the important news of the day.

00:27:40.760 No, yeah, that was, that was the news to me of the day.

00:27:44.040 That was the most important news to me.

00:27:45.940 Now, before we get to all of this important news about Republican propaganda and Jimmy Kimmel's

00:27:50.620 craziness and meat-eating vegetarians and shrieking women who are being mean to veterans, 0.99

00:27:55.900 we have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:27:57.660 I know.

00:27:58.180 You want to watch more.

00:27:58.960 We have Allie Stuckey in studio.

00:28:01.600 Best day ever.

00:28:02.520 But in order to do that, you have to go to dailywire.com.

00:28:06.040 You have to pay $10 per month, $100 per year.

00:28:08.840 That's nothing.

00:28:10.240 You know what you get for all that?

00:28:11.200 You get me.

00:28:12.020 You get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:28:13.280 You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:28:14.560 I know what you're thinking.

00:28:15.480 So what?

00:28:16.020 So what?

00:28:16.660 Well, this is what?

00:28:17.840 The Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:28:19.580 This, it is the perfect vessel for all of the Leftist Tears and they are flowing day by

00:28:25.380 day.

00:28:25.680 I actually have a beautiful Jimmy Kimmel vintage 2017 in here right now.

00:28:30.880 It is absolutely indestructible.

00:28:32.940 It's made of crushed up Steven Crowder mugs that have been consolidated into, I think,

00:28:39.460 titanium.

00:28:40.340 I think that's how titanium is made.

00:28:41.960 So go over to dailywire.com right now.

00:28:44.240 We'll be right back.

00:28:55.680 Panel, MSNBC is now reporting that, quote, Republican propaganda efforts reach new, alarming

00:29:05.020 level.

00:29:06.100 They're referring to a piece that's out in the AP that shows that the Republican Governors'

00:29:10.460 Association now has a website.

00:29:13.820 The Republican Governors' Association is publishing a website.

00:29:16.460 It's called the Free Telegraph and it publishes stories that the Republican Governors' Association

00:29:22.360 wants you to hear.

00:29:24.000 This is obviously alarming because now Republicans have a very tiny media outlet.

00:29:31.240 Dr. Bickley, as an expert, what is your take on partisan media throughout American history?

00:29:37.400 As a doctor, I feel vaguely bad about it, but I feel that this story, I looked at the

00:29:48.580 MSNBC report on it, which is more hyperbolic than the AP even, which is remarkable, and the

00:29:55.240 sense of there's no self-awareness with these media outlets about the absolute monopoly they

00:30:02.080 have on all the major outlets, the overt bias, all of their reporting.

00:30:10.420 And they're really outraged about it.

00:30:12.760 And there's one thing that I'll give them that I think is actually legitimate.

00:30:16.340 I do think initially the Governors' Association should have made it very clear they were actually

00:30:23.580 sponsoring it.

00:30:24.220 They didn't for a second.

00:30:26.440 AP called them out.

00:30:27.680 They put that at the bottom of the website.

00:30:29.300 With that disclosure, great, whatever.

00:30:34.020 Bring it on, yeah.

00:30:34.820 What they're not asking, and they won't ever ask this, is why did they feel the necessity

00:30:39.340 to actually create this thing?

00:30:41.400 There's a reason, right?

00:30:43.320 There's no Democrats creating this.

00:30:45.680 They don't have to.

00:30:47.200 So they're not going to look at it like that.

00:30:49.800 They're going to have the sensational headlines.

00:30:52.060 And the unself-awareness of MSNBC reporting on AP reporting on this, the left owns all of

00:31:01.600 the mainstream media outlets.

00:31:02.740 There's the echo chamber.

00:31:03.860 There's the echo chamber.

00:31:04.720 There was that study that came out that 93% of mainstream reporting about Donald Trump has

00:31:09.200 been negative compared to reporting in the 40s about Obama and in the 50s about Bush.

00:31:15.340 There is this huge bias in the media.

00:31:18.840 But all of this is even relatively recent.

00:31:22.780 There were always partisan media outlets in the United States.

00:31:26.120 There was the Tennessee Democrat.

00:31:27.680 There was the Oklahoma Republican.

00:31:30.160 And then, starting after World War II, we started to have the so-called objective journalist

00:31:34.560 outlets.

00:31:35.820 Ali, you're a journalist.

00:31:37.060 You do real news and fake news.

00:31:39.280 What happened?

00:31:41.760 Was there ever really an objective media moment in the United States?

00:31:46.400 I do think that it's hard to deny that we've become, in our journalism, increasingly biased,

00:31:53.900 especially when we don't have all of the facts of the story.

00:31:57.080 Case in point, Russia.

00:31:58.500 It's been reported as fact for probably over a year now.

00:32:03.500 And yet, we don't even now, after a year of reporting, have nearly enough facts to be

00:32:09.540 able to say that he is guilty, that Trump is guilty of Russia collusion.

00:32:13.680 And yet, it's been reported as fact.

00:32:15.560 I don't think that used to be the case.

00:32:17.180 I do think that in yesteryear, it used to be, let us gather all of the facts that we have

00:32:23.020 and then let us come to that conclusion.

00:32:25.140 But rather, we start with the conclusion and then we back up from there.

00:32:28.320 And I think that's where it gets dangerous.

00:32:30.060 I do agree.

00:32:30.620 It's much clearer now.

00:32:31.740 We can clearly see, which we know that MSNBC is left-leaning.

00:32:36.260 They say it.

00:32:37.600 They say lean forward on their commercials.

00:32:39.680 And we know that the Free Telegraph is sponsored by the RGA.

00:32:44.280 But I'm even reminded of Walter Cronkite, the so-called most trusted man in America.

00:32:48.900 He unilaterally conceded the Vietnam War.

00:32:51.460 He said the war was lost when the war was not lost.

00:32:53.760 So maybe it's clearer now.

00:32:55.180 But I think it was always there and just maybe more insidious.

00:32:59.500 Emily, do you think that we need an objective media?

00:33:02.840 Or should we just have the right and the left and the Republican and the Democrat press shops fighting with one another

00:33:08.520 and we piece them together and get all the facts?

00:33:11.000 How do you even go about getting an unbiased media source?

00:33:14.560 There is no unbiased media source.

00:33:15.820 How would you even make one?

00:33:16.900 Yeah, we're all people.

00:33:18.260 We all have our own biases.

00:33:19.580 We're all going to write it.

00:33:20.520 Or at least our own point of view.

00:33:21.960 At least our own point of view.

00:33:23.080 And I think that the burden is much less on media outlets.

00:33:28.240 First of all, I think it was very funny that they called the Free Telegraph like masquerading as news.

00:33:34.100 Because, I mean, let's look on Vice.

00:33:35.940 Let's look at any documentary that pretends to be informative.

00:33:39.300 Even those like little box bubble videos they do where they're educating you and they're informing you.

00:33:45.280 That's explanatory journalism.

00:33:46.820 It's explanatory journalism.

00:33:47.780 What kind of other journalism is there, by the way?

00:33:49.660 Journalism is supposed to be explanatory.

00:33:51.380 We do know that climate change, Vox has educated me, that climate change is actually the cause of the Syrian conflict.

00:33:59.200 But they've re-educated you.

00:34:00.840 They have re-educated me.

00:34:03.340 You are so woke, Emily.

00:34:05.480 I read so many blogs.

00:34:07.000 I envy how woke you are.

00:34:09.100 It's tough.

00:34:09.940 It's not easy being this woke.

00:34:11.140 But I think that, first of all, the lines are blurred as to what is news and what is media.

00:34:16.100 It's all information.

00:34:17.340 It's all biased.

00:34:18.020 There's no way we can come up with an unpartisan source of information.

00:34:21.380 We can only make our biases clear.

00:34:23.660 Secondly, the burden is on the reader.

00:34:26.080 The burden is on the absorber of information to go back and understand what that is.

00:34:31.160 I was listening to an NPR clip a long time ago that live on NPR, the reporter said that Trayvon Martin was shot by a white man.

00:34:41.300 Oh, a white Hispanic man. 0.89

00:34:42.640 Yeah, you know that white Hispanic man?

00:34:44.140 There's no way to, like, report that.

00:34:46.800 There's no way to, like, say, you know, George Zimmerman was not.

00:34:49.180 I couldn't call in, you know.

00:34:50.920 It's up to us to know what the research is, to do it on our own.

00:34:54.860 And to avoid fake news sites like the Washington Post and the New York Times.

00:34:57.700 And the Daily Wire.

00:34:58.320 And the Daily Wire.

00:35:00.340 They did, the left did list us as, like, the number three biggest fake news site out there.

00:35:04.920 I don't know that we've ever run a fake story, by the way.

00:35:07.300 But, no, leave it to the left.

00:35:08.820 All right, we need to get, I mean, the news is hilarious right now.

00:35:11.680 But do you know what isn't hilarious is late night comedians.

00:35:14.140 Jimmy Kimmel is getting back in the humorless partisan hack business with his latest rant about Republican health care reform.

00:35:21.720 Not only did Bill Cassidy fail the Jimmy Kimmel test, he failed the Bill Cassidy test.

00:35:27.260 He failed his own test.

00:35:28.700 And you don't see that happen very much.

00:35:30.480 This bill he came up with is actually worse than the one that, thank God, Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and John McCain torpedoed over the summer.

00:35:40.080 And I hope they have the courage and good sense to do that again with this one.

00:35:43.220 Because these other guys who claim they want Americans to have better health care, even though eight years ago they didn't want anyone to have health care at all,

00:35:49.520 they're trying to sneak this scam of a bill they cooked up in without an analysis from the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office.

00:35:56.160 They don't even want you to see it.

00:35:58.020 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

00:35:59.660 Good one, Jimmy.

00:36:00.800 Allie, do you remember when Jimmy Kimmel was funny?

00:36:03.920 Me neither.

00:36:05.000 I think that was before we were born, Michael.

00:36:09.000 So, no, I don't.

00:36:10.280 And, unfortunately, he's just, he's wrong.

00:36:12.980 He's factually wrong.

00:36:14.200 I'm sorry, but do you remember when Republicans eight years ago didn't want people to have health care?

00:36:19.800 Is there anyone that you know in Congress who doesn't want people to have health care?

00:36:24.500 Yeah, of course.

00:36:25.160 We want them dying in the streets, I thought. 0.98

00:36:26.540 Right. 0.91

00:36:26.900 It's fun.

00:36:27.420 It's kind of fun for us to watch.

00:36:28.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:29.340 That's what the memo said, at least, from the Daily Telegraph.

00:36:32.100 That's why I'm a Republican, right.

00:36:33.260 Well, that's apparently what he thinks, and that's what he's convincing his audience by masquerading as a comedian.

00:36:39.140 And it's sad that we see people, one, conflate health care and health coverage, and then just use their platform that's supposed to be one of comedy and entertainment as a way to present fake news and alternative facts.

00:36:57.420 And then turn around and tell us that we're the ones who lied and that we're the ones who didn't pass our own test.

00:37:02.780 Doesn't make any sense.

00:37:03.720 Emily, this guy is not like Bob Hope or Johnny Carson.

00:37:07.840 Johnny Carson was actually a pretty left-wing guy.

00:37:10.840 He very rarely talked about his politics in interviews.

00:37:14.340 Occasionally he would let it slip a little bit.

00:37:16.480 I favor more abortion or this, higher taxes or whatever. 0.84

00:37:19.760 Virtually never on air.

00:37:22.120 He just was a great late-night host who told jokes wither self-control among late-night comedians.

00:37:29.860 Why has it gone away?

00:37:32.420 First of all, the Daily Show.

00:37:34.540 I think when we go back to where does news end and media begin, where does entertainment start and information end, it's all sort of rolling into one.

00:37:43.700 And especially since we've gone through this extremely partisan political election, you're looking at people who want to make politics funny.

00:37:54.560 And it's funny, ha-ha, because everybody's going to laugh along with me because if you don't, you're the person in the wrong.

00:38:00.480 You're the problem.

00:38:01.540 Yeah, it's like what Liz Lemon said on 30 Rock, where she's like, ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party, because a Liz Lemon party is mandatory.

00:38:09.980 But I do want to ask a question, is that the one thing that I was noticing that Jimmy Kimmel didn't say was two words.

00:38:17.700 Charlie Gard.

00:38:19.140 Charlie Gard.

00:38:21.320 That didn't even occur to me.

00:38:22.740 Didn't bring up.

00:38:23.280 But that is the defeater for this exact argument.

00:38:27.820 That's how government health care works, is a crying, determined family trying to save their son will be told absolutely no by the government.

00:38:38.240 Wanting to bring him to the country with the best health care in the world.

00:38:43.560 But I thought we have the worst health care.

00:38:45.280 I thought Jimmy Kimmel told me we have the worst health care.

00:38:46.880 Everyone else has it figured out except for us.

00:38:48.700 Like Cuba. 0.64

00:38:49.620 Yeah, yeah.

00:38:50.100 Like Cuba with all of their empty hospitals.

00:38:51.980 Absolutely right.

00:38:52.800 That is a really great point, because there's this little bit of compassion that we feel, and we don't realize that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that a government that can give you everything you want can also take away everything you have.

00:39:06.040 And that's not that funny.

00:39:07.240 And that isn't funny.

00:39:08.720 I ain't laughing, Jimmy.

00:39:10.580 Dr. Bickley.

00:39:11.200 You know, the whole, this to me wraps into the argument about, the discussion about the bias thing.

00:39:18.460 And I think there's been a, you know, like a more and more thorough embrace of relativism, where you think, well, there's no truth, you know, from the left.

00:39:29.360 And thus, you know, you present your own facts, right?

00:39:34.400 And I feel like the same thing is happening from, in the entertainment business, where it's like, there isn't, this is our, our whole ideology, or something like that, hangs on, even the entertainment industry now.

00:39:50.700 And it's sort of a, we're all gearing up toward presenting our truth and our reality.

00:39:55.920 And that's sort of overtaken the purpose of the different medium.

00:39:59.940 And Nick, absolutely.

00:40:00.840 This is, he's lost the, he's lost the sense of like, what am I actually here to do?

00:40:04.660 I'm here to entertain.

00:40:05.860 I'm here to entertain.

00:40:06.240 And a wide audience, as wide as possible.

00:40:08.860 And that's not, that's not actually what he's trying to do.

00:40:11.740 He's actually thinks that he is, he's there to propagate an ideology.

00:40:16.400 It is the tail wagging the dog.

00:40:18.180 And he's excoriating Bill Cassidy, Senator Cassidy, for promising one aspect of health care reform and then changing it slightly.

00:40:26.800 Whatever happened to, if you want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

00:40:30.100 And then millions of Americans lose their health insurance and lose their doctors.

00:40:33.880 He seems to have forgotten about that.

00:40:35.580 He's shocked.

00:40:36.620 He has the tears in his eyes.

00:40:39.160 Is it, though, I wonder, that, I mean, these guys are all professionals.

00:40:43.420 They're all showbiz guys.

00:40:44.680 Is it that they're so moved by their ideology that they can't help but push it all the time?

00:40:50.060 Or do they think it's going to get them better ratings in this fractured, politicized media environment?

00:40:54.400 The Jon Stewart point is a great point because I think they saw a lot of these similar-minded entertainers saw like a real success story there and think that they can imitate it.

00:41:07.320 No one's been able to pull it off.

00:41:09.320 No, absolutely.

00:41:09.660 Trevor Noah can't do it.

00:41:11.540 Who's a talented, enjoyable guy that's kind of generally likable.

00:41:16.340 He's pretty much flopping.

00:41:18.060 Yeah, absolutely.

00:41:18.900 He's definitely not significant like Jon Stewart.

00:41:21.680 Jon Stewart every week would make headlines, and it would matter.

00:41:25.180 It would move the needle, and it would move the conversation.

00:41:27.540 None of these guys can pull it off.

00:41:29.020 But I think they think they can do it.

00:41:31.460 You know, and I think there's so much ego.

00:41:33.440 I mean, even his test, he names it the Jimmy Kimmel test.

00:41:37.100 Yeah, the Jimmy Kimmel test.

00:41:37.820 I understand that he's in a dialogue with the congressman, but still, he embraces it.

00:41:43.240 He is the test.

00:41:45.460 Me, me, me.

00:41:46.500 And if you don't actually meet his standards, you fail the test, and that's what matters.

00:41:52.040 Well, that's what the founders and the framers talked about, right?

00:41:54.760 That good legislation for the republic had to meet the Jimmy Kimmel test.

00:41:58.800 Yeah, of course.

00:41:59.260 It's in Federalist 59 or something.

00:42:02.740 Yeah, the section on night shoehoes. 0.98

00:42:04.900 I'm surprised they were able to see that far ahead in the future to know who Jimmy was.

00:42:08.440 That's right.

00:42:09.300 Well, you know, speaking of the tribute that Vice pays to virtue in hypocrisy,

00:42:14.400 according to a new study out of Britain,

00:42:16.420 one out of three self-identified vegetarians eat meat when they are drunk,

00:42:21.180 which is a little strange because I eat carbohydrates when I'm drunk.

00:42:23.880 I eat pizza and stuff.

00:42:24.900 Who knows?

00:42:25.300 Different strokes for different folks.

00:42:26.620 Allie.

00:42:27.280 Yes.

00:42:27.880 Does this mean that we cannot trust how one self-identifies, perhaps?

00:42:33.100 Oh, my goodness.

00:42:34.100 This is a really deep question coming from drunk eating.

00:42:38.240 It really made me think this study, you know?

00:42:40.560 Yeah.

00:42:41.000 Well, my thought was exactly what your thought was,

00:42:43.760 is that if I was in that situation, I want biscuits, I want bread, I want toast,

00:42:49.060 all the things to say.

00:42:49.760 I just wonder what it is about, like,

00:42:51.860 I just want a juicy steak after a few beers that it is.

00:42:55.520 But I think it does, yeah, it does beg the question,

00:42:59.360 are we who we think we are sober?

00:43:01.760 That's the big philosophical question of the day, and we're done.

00:43:05.860 In vino veritas has always been my mantra.

00:43:09.300 Emily, these a third of vegetarians are eating meat when they're drunk.

00:43:15.820 Does it perhaps suggest that mankind is meant to eat meat,

00:43:19.520 that we're built to eat meat, 0.97

00:43:20.920 and we should stop with these Gnostic and ridiculous heresies 1.00

00:43:25.360 that tell us that we have to save Gaia by only eating lettuce and things like that? 0.86

00:43:30.440 Um, absolutely.

00:43:35.000 As a millennial, absolutely.

00:43:36.400 As a millennial.

00:43:37.140 As a vegetarian, get me a drumstick.

00:43:38.880 We're never supposed to eat meat.

00:43:40.820 This is absolutely forbidden.

00:43:43.860 Don't eat anything that has a face.

00:43:45.960 That's right.

00:43:46.860 You know?

00:43:47.260 I hear this all the time, so I'm a vegetarian.

00:43:49.000 That leaves us with only other millennials to eat. 0.98

00:43:53.880 That's true.

00:43:54.640 They certainly don't have any chests. 0.64

00:43:55.640 Internet trolls.

00:43:56.440 That's right, men without chests. 0.86

00:43:58.480 Doctor, you're an expert.

00:43:59.840 What do we make of this crazy study?

00:44:02.300 Well, again, as a doctor,

00:44:04.020 you know, I feel like there's truth that comes out when you're drunk,

00:44:09.860 but it's not all truth, man.

00:44:11.840 It's not all truth.

00:44:13.120 I've never experienced this.

00:44:14.160 You do some stuff.

00:44:14.920 Some bad things happen when you're drunk?

00:44:15.920 Yeah, I mean, sometimes it's just the thing that I don't let myself do, I do.

00:44:21.000 Is that who you are?

00:44:22.960 That's a hard question.

00:44:23.720 See, that's what I was thinking, because we can't apply that logic,

00:44:27.240 because you said, okay, does this mean that people shouldn't be vegetarians,

00:44:31.640 that we should eat meat because they eat meat when they're drunk?

00:44:34.140 Do you have to apply that to everything that you do?

00:44:35.720 Allie, man's heart is evil from the beginning.

00:44:37.760 Okay.

00:44:38.460 I'm just going to.

00:44:39.380 No, you make a good point.

00:44:40.800 Never mind.

00:44:41.200 Maybe we don't want to indulge our darkest fantasies like chicken McNuggets or something.

00:44:45.900 Maybe it actually means that we're not supposed to eat meat

00:44:48.340 because you are making bad decisions when you're drunk,

00:44:52.480 and if they're eating pepperoni when they're drunk,

00:44:54.340 then maybe that just means we're just all supposed to be vegetarians.

00:44:57.260 Snaps, you've convinced me.

00:44:58.680 We have to move on in viral video news.

00:45:01.940 This thing, I woke up.

00:45:03.020 Actually, Allie, I think you tweeted this out this morning.

00:45:05.200 That's where I saw it.

00:45:06.220 It will get your daily dose of outrage.

00:45:08.920 This will make your blood boil.

00:45:11.200 I'm not going to feed my pants on myself.

00:45:13.200 I'm going to push it just like I do.

00:45:14.740 There's nothing you can go about.

00:45:15.680 No, it's nothing.

00:45:16.480 It's okay.

00:45:17.100 I'm leaving because the food is nasty, and there's a dog.

00:45:19.500 So what?

00:45:20.000 What do you want to do about it?

00:45:20.800 It's nothing.

00:45:21.040 Okay.

00:45:21.600 He's alive because he fought for our country.

00:45:24.020 Congratulations.

00:45:25.260 Congratulations.

00:45:26.180 My husband's dead.

00:45:27.560 My husband's dead, Andrew.

00:45:28.940 What's your point?

00:45:29.660 Because he's alive.

00:45:30.620 My husband's dead.

00:45:33.200 Go for the because of your point.

00:45:35.740 So what?

00:45:36.440 It's still nasty to me.

00:45:38.220 I don't care.

00:45:39.000 No, it's not.

00:45:39.400 It's nasty to me.

00:45:40.480 Marshall, I might cut it off right there.

00:45:47.200 Do you by any chance have a translation of that into English?

00:45:50.840 Do you have an English translation of that exchange?

00:45:53.060 Yeah, that's about what I heard too.

00:45:54.940 That video, for those of you who couldn't see, is a woman in a dining establishment screaming 0.99

00:46:00.100 at a military veteran for carrying in his PTSD service dog.

00:46:06.420 Wow.

00:46:06.820 Emily, how has America gotten to this place?

00:46:12.920 That's a really difficult question.

00:46:14.840 I don't think I can answer, but I think it just circles back to millennials.

00:46:17.960 I agree.

00:46:18.520 I blame millennials too. 0.90

00:46:19.480 Fair enough for me.

00:46:20.800 Doctor.

00:46:21.540 All said.

00:46:22.140 Succinct.

00:46:22.560 Are we so ungrateful?

00:46:24.440 Why are we so ungrateful?

00:46:25.580 That's hard to watch, man.

00:46:26.740 That's really hard to watch.

00:46:31.780 I don't have a response to that video.

00:46:33.900 You're all, it is actually, it isn't like you can't come up with an idea.

00:46:38.940 It's so shocking to watch that you don't believe that it's really happening.

00:46:43.660 You know, only 2% of people in the country today have ever served in the military.

00:46:49.340 2% of the country has ever served in the U.S. military.

00:46:52.900 Does that explain our ingratitude during the world wars, during the greatest generation? 1.00

00:46:58.500 Everybody served in the military.

00:47:00.180 Or is it, is the essence, does the ingratitude come from ignorance of what these people have

00:47:06.240 gone through, Allie?

00:47:06.740 It shouldn't because as millennials, I mean, we've been in a war the majority of our lives.

00:47:11.860 But if we, we haven't gone over there.

00:47:13.680 No, we haven't gone over there.

00:47:15.080 That's very true.

00:47:15.800 And you do make a good point.

00:47:16.920 But we're familiar with it probably in a way that people over here weren't when the great

00:47:21.020 world, or when the great wars were going on simply because of what we can see in the

00:47:24.780 media and how many of our own contemporaries have fought.

00:47:28.000 I know you said it's not a lot, but we've been familiar with it our entire lives.

00:47:31.540 So I think the ingratitude has nothing to do with the percentage of people that have

00:47:35.000 actually fought, but just, again, this attitude of entitlement that we have been indoctrinated

00:47:40.860 into feeling.

00:47:42.320 Just the deference that people feel, both for their country and people who fought for

00:47:46.280 their country, it's just not where it was.

00:47:49.180 And almost it's become a bad thing to honor the vets and to honor the country and the flag

00:47:54.900 and the pledge of allegiance and all of that.

00:47:56.880 And so I think it's just a lack of deference and just an apathy towards anything that has

00:48:01.860 to do with patriotism and a taking for granted of the freedoms that we have.

00:48:05.440 And you're right that we have seen images of this war.

00:48:09.060 We've seen it on TV.

00:48:10.080 We've seen it all over the internet.

00:48:11.420 But you know what I think?

00:48:12.080 I don't think they see the guy protecting their freedom.

00:48:14.620 I think all they see is Abu Ghraib.

00:48:16.720 And they see these random memes that are usually incorrect on the data that we've killed all

00:48:22.000 these civilians.

00:48:22.580 And they have no sense of why we actually went there in the first place.

00:48:26.740 They have no sense with regard to Iraq that the policy of the United States government

00:48:30.440 since the 90s was regime change in Iraq, that the policy of the United Nations was regime

00:48:34.440 change in Iraq, that they had chemical weapons programs, that they had had a nuclear weapons

00:48:40.480 program.

00:48:41.060 They don't have any of that.

00:48:42.060 They just see America bad and they hate their country and they don't respect it.

00:48:46.580 It does seem to be echoes of the Vietnam War.

00:48:50.560 Is it ever thus?

00:48:51.500 Is there any way out of this apathy and this ignorance of where our own freedoms come from?

00:48:58.780 Solve it all for us, Emily.

00:49:00.340 Tell us the answer.

00:49:02.140 Yeah.

00:49:02.720 Have everybody sign up for the military.

00:49:04.720 Make it like Israel. 0.97

00:49:05.660 Make it mandatory.

00:49:06.340 That seems really hard.

00:49:07.620 I'm not a very strong guy.

00:49:09.760 I just kind of was hoping I could read a blog or something.

00:49:12.520 You think that's what we need?

00:49:13.360 You think we need a national civil service?

00:49:15.020 I think you need to read more blogs.

00:49:16.240 I think you need to give up me.

00:49:18.860 Yeah.

00:49:19.240 And I think you need to enlist in the military.

00:49:21.440 Enlist in the military.

00:49:22.300 At least one of those might be helpful to the country.

00:49:24.640 Definitely the blogs.

00:49:25.660 Mm-hmm.

00:49:25.900 Dr. Bickley, final thoughts?

00:49:29.680 Yeah, you know, I think it's even more, to me it's even worse than a lack of respect or something.

00:49:36.800 There's actually been such an undercurrent in education of animosity or vilification of the military in general.

00:49:43.800 And then I think also it complicates things with Iraq and stuff.

00:49:48.220 It's one thing to fight against the white Germans, but I think racism, the idea of racism has so saturated everything.

00:49:57.900 You know, it's like every, it impacted the view on everything.

00:50:01.180 Racism is the greatest evil, right?

00:50:03.660 And so just by Americans fighting people of a different, a recognizably different race, it's already got this negative connotation.

00:50:12.620 That's right. World War II was the best war ever, as some historians have called it, because...

00:50:17.480 It's equal.

00:50:18.060 It's equal, either European, but this is different.

00:50:21.460 That's an insightful point that I hadn't considered.

00:50:24.740 How do we...

00:50:25.560 It's so beautiful, man.

00:50:26.700 How do we fight the brown people? 1.00

00:50:28.040 That's how we're going to leave it on Dr. Bickley's profound question in America's military future.

00:50:33.480 That is our panel. Excellent discussion today.

00:50:36.060 Allie, thank you for coming in.

00:50:37.360 Thank you for coming in.

00:50:37.720 Allie Stuckey from The Blaze, Emily Butler, and the good doctor himself, Dr. Bickley.

00:50:42.560 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 20, 2017

Ep. 30 - Snowflakes and the End of Days ft. Allie Stuckey

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