The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 352 - Why Aren’t Millennials Growing Up？

00:00:00.000 A new survey shows millennials are poor, lonely, depressed, and socialist. 0.99

00:00:04.540 We analyze why young Americans are so miserable. 0.99

00:00:07.500 Then, Apple CEO Tim Cook gives Tulane graduates terrible advice.

00:00:11.940 And from the U.S. to the U.K., leftists are becoming violent and threatening our political system.

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00:03:48.440 Millennials are not growing up.

00:03:52.460 This, obviously, we see this in our own meanderings through life.

00:03:57.440 This is also being borne out according to surveys and data.

00:04:01.440 Millennials are not kids anymore. 0.97

00:04:03.280 I know they think they're kids.

00:04:04.380 I know they all think they're young and fresh faces, but millennials are actually now approaching middle age.

00:04:09.500 The oldest millennials are 38 years old right now, and they are staring down middle age in worse financial shape than Gen X or their parents, the baby boomers.

00:04:22.140 They're looking down middle age actually in worse shape than every living generation ahead of them.

00:04:29.020 Why is this?

00:04:30.880 Now, what the millennials will do is they'll blame the financial crisis and the recession.

00:04:35.320 Fair enough.

00:04:35.880 A lot of millennials graduated during an economic downturn.

00:04:39.300 This does have negative effects on your earning potential for the rest of your life.

00:04:43.920 However, we've also now experienced a full decade of economic growth and falling unemployment.

00:04:50.100 I mean, we have millions of jobs right now that are going unfilled because there aren't enough people who are looking for the jobs.

00:04:56.380 We have virtually no unemployment at 49-year lows, and the economy is going gangbusters.

00:05:01.700 We've had a huge bull run.

00:05:03.320 Again, the market is doing great.

00:05:06.420 Also, by the way, during the recession and the economic downturn, baby boomers were entering their 50s.

00:05:13.320 So they were entering into their prime earning years during that downturn.

00:05:17.460 So it hurt them as well.

00:05:18.700 Everyone has had to suffer.

00:05:19.880 And yet, millennials have less money, less property, lower marriage rates, and fewer children.

00:05:26.820 They are not doing the things that adults are supposed to do as they grow up.

00:05:33.640 Just as an example, the average household net worth of millennials is $92,000.

00:05:39.080 That is 40% less than what Gen X had at the same age and 20% less than what baby boomers had at the same age.

00:05:48.300 And baby boomers were hippie, dippy flower children. 1.00

00:05:51.360 I can't believe they would have any money, and yet millennials somehow have even less.

00:05:56.900 The only area where millennials are outperforming the people who came before us is in education, and even that is fake.

00:06:05.700 So the one area, according to all these social surveys, where millennials are doing better than other generations is in education.

00:06:11.860 And the reason they come to that conclusion is they say, well, see, X percentage of millennials went to college.

00:06:18.360 X percent of millennials went to a four-year college.

00:06:20.900 X percent of millennials got a master's degree or a PhD.

00:06:24.760 So on the surface, it looks like millennials are better educated.

00:06:28.060 Except we know they're not better educated because we've talked to them and we have eyes and ears.

00:06:31.980 So we know just a few little statistics.

00:06:35.440 A third of American millennials believe that George W. Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin.

00:06:42.420 Two-thirds of millennials have never heard of Auschwitz.

00:06:47.040 About 50% of millennials believe there are more than two biological sexes.

00:06:52.440 In really demonstrable ways, they are not educated at all.

00:06:56.700 We know there was a survey from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that tracked students at some of the top colleges in the country.

00:07:05.320 They found out that seniors graduating from Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, all these highfalutin schools,

00:07:13.460 seniors who were graduating knew less about their nation's history, system of government, and civics than incoming freshmen. 0.98

00:07:23.360 They had actually gotten stupider during their time in college. 0.95

00:07:28.540 So they have a lot of degrees, but they don't know very much. 0.98

00:07:31.160 Even that one area where they're supposed to excel, they don't.

00:07:34.740 However, what did they get for all of their degrees?

00:07:36.960 A ton of student debt.

00:07:38.260 So the one area in education where they are actually outperforming other generations is they have a lot more debt. 0.96

00:07:44.780 They paid a lot more to get a lot less.

00:07:46.680 The average student loan balance for millennials is $10,600, and some people obviously have a lot more than that.

00:07:54.120 Some people have zero, but that average is twice what Gen X owed at our age. 0.65

00:08:00.200 The generation that came right before us had half the student debt on average that we do.

00:08:05.120 So as a result of all of this turmoil, as you might expect, millennials are miserable. 0.97

00:08:10.780 Again, not just subjectively, objectively, we can see they are miserable.

00:08:17.640 You can see this in depression rates.

00:08:19.700 You can see this in rates of stress and anxiety.

00:08:23.100 The New York Times, like a broken clock, write twice a day, dubbed millennials the antidepressant generation.

00:08:29.660 Right now, one in six Americans is hooked on antidepressant drugs.

00:08:34.340 This includes one in 20 teenagers.

00:08:37.080 Millennials are hooked on these drugs and are getting these diagnoses at twice the national average.

00:08:44.840 Diagnoses of anxiety, depression. 0.99

00:08:48.600 So they're miserable. 0.85

00:08:51.180 They're clinically miserable. 0.99

00:08:53.120 They're being diagnosed as miserable. 0.99

00:08:55.520 Why?

00:08:58.060 Why is it?

00:08:58.960 Who is to blame for this or what is to blame for this?

00:09:01.860 A lot of pandering politicians are going around and they're blaming everything but the millennials.

00:09:06.560 And this is especially true as millennials become the politicians.

00:09:10.080 So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, blames the sun monster for everybody's problems 1.00

00:09:14.420 and she just sort of whines and complains. 0.99

00:09:17.040 And, I mean, AOC, the millennial par excellence. 0.74

00:09:20.280 You see Eric Swalwell doing this.

00:09:22.060 Pete Buttigieg, to a lesser degree, does this.

00:09:25.040 They blame economic downturns.

00:09:27.040 They blame the recession.

00:09:28.440 They blame the system. 0.98

00:09:29.980 They blame white men. 0.95

00:09:31.780 They blame the patriarchy. 0.95

00:09:33.380 They blame everything but themselves.

00:09:34.780 They blame capitalism.

00:09:38.160 They've now convinced millennials to support socialism.

00:09:42.440 For the first time ever, the majority of millennials, the majority of that generation,

00:09:47.460 support socialism over capitalism.

00:09:50.800 Those are all the external forces.

00:09:52.800 Some baby boomers, our parents, are blaming themselves for this.

00:09:56.660 Everyone's taking blame.

00:09:57.620 I think the misery is mostly millennials' fault. 1.00

00:10:04.080 I'm looking at that man in the mirror.

00:10:06.620 I'm asking him to change his ways, taking a little personal responsibility.

00:10:10.280 I think most millennial misery is not to blame on economic cycles or politicians or the sun monster,

00:10:17.780 global warming or any of those things.

00:10:19.640 I think it's because of what we ourselves are doing.

00:10:24.080 And that was just my hunch.

00:10:26.320 It turns out I'm correct.

00:10:27.560 Deloitte has come out with its global millennial survey.

00:10:31.440 Can you imagine how awful that survey must have been to administer?

00:10:34.380 Just talking to 13,000 millennials from 42 different countries.

00:10:37.960 It looked also at a little over 3,000 members of Gen Z.

00:10:43.180 And it identified personal behaviors that young Americans and young people around the world are engaging in

00:10:49.740 that clearly are causing them not to grow up.

00:10:52.900 It's causing them to live in Neverland.

00:10:55.020 And as a result of that, it's causing them to be miserable.

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00:12:35.900 Deloitte came out with a global millennial survey.

00:12:40.880 And I don't think they did the survey to figure out why millennials are children and why millennials are miserable.

00:12:46.720 But they identified a lot of behaviors that explain it.

00:12:50.360 So, just 50% of millennials and Gen Zers aspire to purchase a home.

00:13:00.040 They don't want to own a home.

00:13:02.880 Even fewer millennials and Gen Zers aspire to start a family. 0.87

00:13:08.420 Do you know what the majority of millennials and Gen Zers want to do?

00:13:12.180 57%.

00:13:12.660 They just want to see the world, man.

00:13:16.420 They just, you know, they just want to collect experiences.

00:13:18.860 I don't need stuff.

00:13:20.660 I just need experiences.

00:13:23.140 And I hear this all the time from my friends.

00:13:26.920 They say, who cares about owning stuff and settling down?

00:13:30.320 I just kind of want to be on the road, doing my own thing.

00:13:33.340 You know, I'm like Jack Kerouac on the road and puff, puff, pass.

00:13:38.800 In a certain sense, I think people admire this attitude.

00:13:43.520 Because you're saying, oh yeah, you don't care about material possessions.

00:13:46.880 You don't care about this stuff that'll just pass away.

00:13:50.020 I mean, my desk, even this Leftist Tears Tumblr eventually after 7,000 years will disintegrate

00:13:55.160 and pass away.

00:13:56.160 But memories, they won't pass away.

00:13:58.180 Experiences, they won't pass away.

00:14:00.340 However, what this ultimately means is an epidemic of selfishness.

00:14:06.560 You collect experiences because they're just personally satisfying.

00:14:10.600 And they're cheap.

00:14:11.720 And you don't have to build anything.

00:14:13.180 And you don't have to get a stake in anything.

00:14:15.400 When you purchase a home, you are saying, this is my land.

00:14:20.220 I am going to keep up this house.

00:14:21.780 I am going to fix it if the roof leaks.

00:14:23.660 I am going to pay for the new oil burner if the oil burner breaks.

00:14:27.180 I am going to fill this house with kids and with furniture and with other stuff that I'm

00:14:31.180 going to have to buy.

00:14:32.060 I'm going to take out a mortgage that I'm going to have to pay off.

00:14:35.120 How am I going to pay it off?

00:14:36.200 I'm going to work.

00:14:37.500 Why am I going to work?

00:14:38.380 Am I going to work because it's personally satisfying all the time?

00:14:41.220 No.

00:14:41.840 Hopefully, sometimes it'll be personally satisfying.

00:14:44.140 A lot of times, it'll be a job.

00:14:45.940 But I'll do it because I have accountability to my creditors, who I took the mortgage out

00:14:50.520 from, and to my wife and to my kids.

00:14:53.220 And I'm going to have responsibility.

00:14:54.740 And I don't just get to go out and travel the world whenever I want to.

00:14:57.740 I have to settle down into some duty.

00:15:01.480 That's what I think it is.

00:15:02.380 I don't think that it's just about money.

00:15:06.180 The defenders of the millennial view, the ones who say, I just want to go out and collect

00:15:10.960 experiences and see the world, they say, look, people graduated with a lot of student debt.

00:15:15.780 They graduated in a bad economy.

00:15:18.120 And so they can't afford to buy a house.

00:15:21.000 Okay, maybe that's true.

00:15:22.540 But if you can't afford to buy a house, how can you afford to travel all over the world?

00:15:27.320 World travel is not cheap.

00:15:28.800 It's very expensive.

00:15:29.700 And world travel is extra expensive because if you actually want to go around the world

00:15:33.940 for a couple months, you can't work.

00:15:35.820 So it's super duper expensive.

00:15:37.700 And I think what it boils down to ultimately is responsibility versus selfishness and self-indulgence.

00:15:45.580 Now, I have more evidence for this from the Deloitte survey.

00:15:50.140 According to the Global Millennial Survey, 52% of millennials said that earning a high salary

00:15:57.020 was a top priority.

00:15:58.020 52%, 48% of millennials don't care about earning a high salary.

00:16:07.760 Why not?

00:16:09.800 Again, the charitable view is, well, we're just not attached to stuff.

00:16:13.020 We don't need your corporate structure, man.

00:16:15.220 We don't need all that stuff. 0.77

00:16:16.760 The, I think, more realistic view is millennials are kind of lazy.

00:16:20.880 It's just socialism, right?

00:16:24.760 I mean, if you're, why would you work hard if you're not going to get that much more out

00:16:30.260 of it?

00:16:30.580 You say, okay, I'm perfectly willing to settle for an okay salary if I don't have to work

00:16:35.980 hard.

00:16:36.340 The people who build things, the people who do great things, the people who really succeed

00:16:40.500 at the top, they all work super duper hard.

00:16:44.760 They're not willing to settle.

00:16:46.460 In terms of money, if they make $100,000 a year, they want to make a million dollars

00:16:50.280 a year.

00:16:51.860 Some people, if they make $100,000 a year, they say, okay, cool, I'm going to only work

00:16:55.280 this hard for the rest of my life.

00:16:56.700 That's good.

00:16:57.320 100 grand, great.

00:16:59.200 But people who really build things, who work really hard, they'll say, no, I want more.

00:17:04.860 Even if they don't get more, $100,000 is a great salary.

00:17:07.400 They say, no, I'm going to work even harder.

00:17:09.040 The people that I've met who are really succeeding at the top of their game, the ones who have

00:17:12.800 made a ton of money or have gotten super famous or have been really effective in politics,

00:17:17.220 the one thing I notice about all of them is they are working all the time.

00:17:21.880 They're workhorses.

00:17:23.080 I think there's this myth that a lot of millennials have bought into because they bought into socialism 0.97

00:17:28.000 which is that the guys at the top are all lazy fat cats who just sit at their desk and 0.61

00:17:32.520 they have their feet up and they're counting their money like the guy on the Monopoly box 0.93

00:17:35.920 and they're puffing cigars and they're not working.

00:17:38.740 And it's really all the people who aren't making a lot of money.

00:17:41.560 They're just the ones working all the time.

00:17:44.700 In my experience, I've known a lot of people who don't make a lot of money.

00:17:47.600 I know a lot of people who make an okay amount of money and I've known some people who have

00:17:50.560 made a lot of money.

00:17:51.860 In my experience, the ones who make a lot of money are the hardest workers.

00:17:56.360 They work all the time.

00:17:57.720 Because there's not a lot of room at the top and you've got to fight really hard to get up there

00:18:02.200 and they do it.

00:18:03.780 I think millennials are missing that message. 1.00

00:18:07.640 They're saying, I don't want to work.

00:18:09.720 The system's rigged against me.

00:18:12.400 If I work really, that means I'm going to have to subordinate my will.

00:18:16.540 That means I'm going to not be able to indulge in everything I want to indulge in.

00:18:19.900 That means that I'm going to have to make a mortgage payment.

00:18:22.560 Then I'm going to have to settle in a place, in a town.

00:18:25.060 I'm going to have to know people and know my neighbors.

00:18:27.060 That doesn't sound fun at all.

00:18:29.540 I want to do me.

00:18:31.260 I mean, the only moral rule that we follow in this culture is if it feels good, do it.

00:18:38.340 You see this expressed in how we treat sex in just a hookup culture rather than a more

00:18:43.780 traditional culture.

00:18:44.560 If it feels good, do it.

00:18:45.740 You see it in how we approach our free time.

00:18:49.460 What do people do in their free time?

00:18:51.500 They play video games and they watch porn.

00:18:53.120 And that is the definition of if it feels good, do it.

00:18:55.940 Same thing in our jobs.

00:18:57.420 I mean, you see this in this social survey, 49% of millennials would, if possible, quit

00:19:04.140 their current jobs within two years.

00:19:06.860 Why?

00:19:07.320 Because they're dissatisfied with pay and they are not advancing as fast as they would like.

00:19:11.600 They come in and they want to be the boss on day one.

00:19:13.880 Less than three in 10 millennials expect to stay at a current job for the next five years

00:19:18.880 because jobs aren't fun.

00:19:20.900 Even fun jobs aren't fun all the time.

00:19:24.180 And you're told when you come from a generation, look, I came from it.

00:19:27.820 I have a ton of empathy.

00:19:28.700 This is why I am passionate about this topic is when you come from a generation where you

00:19:34.380 get a participation trophy and you get really high grades, even though you don't know that

00:19:39.200 much, you're going to be dissatisfied with the real professional world.

00:19:44.260 I played Little League for eight years.

00:19:45.900 I think I hit the ball four times.

00:19:49.080 Now, I did lean into pitches like Don Baylor, so I had a pretty high on-base percentage, but

00:19:53.260 I did not hit the ball.

00:19:55.360 I was not good at baseball.

00:19:57.340 And guess how many baseball trophies I have?

00:19:59.780 Eight.

00:20:01.080 Guess how many times my team won anything, any championship?

00:20:06.340 None.

00:20:06.680 Zero times.

00:20:07.980 But I have eight trophies because they gave them to me.

00:20:11.300 You'll notice in colleges now, the average GPA is much, much higher than it was in the

00:20:18.380 60s and 70s.

00:20:20.700 They would attack George Bush when Bush was running for president because he was a C student,

00:20:25.820 but he actually had higher grades than John Kerry, who he was running against.

00:20:29.300 And why?

00:20:29.840 It's because a lot of people had C grades then.

00:20:32.120 Now, very few people get Cs because of grade inflation.

00:20:35.660 Now, people get A's.

00:20:36.680 When I was in college, it was hard to get below a B+.

00:20:39.980 You had to really work.

00:20:41.280 You pretty much had to punch the professor in the face to get below a B+.

00:20:44.760 At Harvard, Harvey Mansfield, who's probably the last conservative faculty member there,

00:20:50.180 he gives students two grades.

00:20:51.960 He gives them the grade they deserve and then the much higher grade for their transcript

00:20:56.080 because grade inflation is a reality.

00:20:58.780 So you come out of that world where you're told you're super duper special and everything

00:21:02.620 you do is great.

00:21:03.300 You come into the professional world and then most people start out as grunts.

00:21:08.880 I mean, I've worked grunt jobs, plenty of them.

00:21:12.800 And if you've been told your whole life that you're a winner and you're a winner and everything

00:21:17.760 you do is great and you're better than this and you get into a job where you just have

00:21:20.980 to be a grunt, you'll be dissatisfied with that.

00:21:23.660 You want to leave it within the next two to five years.

00:21:26.340 The percentage of millennials who see starting a family as very important is now down to 39%.

00:21:35.760 That's down six points from the generation.

00:21:38.160 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:21:38.960 That's down way from the generation before us and the generation before that.

00:21:43.600 The bright side is actually, it's a little bit higher for members of Gen Z. 0.93

00:21:48.220 So it's not just that things are getting progressively worse all the time.

00:21:51.240 It's actually that millennials are the most stuck in childhood. 0.99

00:21:56.560 Millennials are the most miserable. 1.00

00:22:00.660 In terms of the behaviors that describe the difference between adulthood and childhood, 0.98

00:22:06.620 the generation that came right before us, Gen X, exhibits them at a higher rate than millennials.

00:22:11.140 And the generation that's coming right after us is exhibiting it at a higher rate than millennials. 0.99

00:22:15.900 There's just something about our generation, which especially won't grow up.

00:22:22.520 I think part of this is we grew up in the Obama era, not to blame Barack Obama for everything,

00:22:28.540 but talk about a mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy administration.

00:22:34.720 The Obama era was hope and change.

00:22:37.700 We can do anything.

00:22:38.800 You don't have to work.

00:22:40.180 People who built things didn't build things.

00:22:42.200 You didn't build that.

00:22:43.540 It just happened because of the government.

00:22:45.220 When Obama ran for re-election, you had the life of Julia.

00:22:48.860 Julia never had to work. 0.98

00:22:49.960 From cradle to grave, Big Daddy Obama would give you everything you wanted.

00:22:53.960 Don't worry.

00:22:54.620 I mean, when Barack Obama passed the Affordable Care Act,

00:22:58.580 and Nancy Pelosi was trying to push Obamacare through Congress, 1.00

00:23:02.840 she said it'll be so great because right now your health insurance is tied to your employment.

00:23:09.720 So you've got to stay at your job to keep health insurance, which is very expensive.

00:23:13.000 But now, once we divorce health insurance from your job, you can quit your job.

00:23:17.920 You can become a poet.

00:23:19.560 You can become an artist.

00:23:22.180 Now, I've looked at a lot of bad art, and I've read a lot of bad poetry in my life.

00:23:27.580 Most people shouldn't be artists and poets.

00:23:29.280 Most people should work at jobs.

00:23:32.200 Man was made to work.

00:23:33.360 But we were told during those years, work is a bad thing.

00:23:36.800 You shouldn't want to work.

00:23:37.880 You shouldn't want to settle down.

00:23:39.480 You should just get everything for free.

00:23:41.700 Now, we're kind of breaking out of that.

00:23:43.320 So I'm not surprised that Gen Z is starting to change its views on that.

00:23:47.520 But do you know what the top concerns for millennials are on, according to this survey?

00:23:53.260 If I were a millennial, and I had read all of this information, my top concerns would be,

00:23:58.740 I'm never going to accomplish anything.

00:24:00.220 I'm going to be buried in debt.

00:24:01.400 I'm not going to have a family.

00:24:02.500 We're going to have dropping birth rates.

00:24:04.300 I'm going to die lonely.

00:24:05.820 I would have a lot of very serious concerns.

00:24:08.560 Do you know what the top concern for millennials is?

00:24:11.940 Global warming.

00:24:12.700 They're buried in debt.

00:24:16.020 They have worthless education.

00:24:18.240 They don't have good jobs or good work ethic.

00:24:22.940 They don't have houses.

00:24:24.220 They aren't settled down.

00:24:26.000 They're upset and miserable all the time.

00:24:28.780 Their politics is falling down around them.

00:24:31.120 And they are most worried about the sun monster.

00:24:35.240 And how in 100 years, the global mean temperature is going to increase 0.2 degrees,

00:24:41.380 according to some model somewhere, which will have some effect on the polar bears, but we don't know what.

00:24:48.040 That's their top concern.

00:24:49.380 Do you know what their next biggest concern is?

00:24:52.900 Income inequality.

00:24:55.440 The distribution of wealth.

00:24:57.940 Their concern isn't their own incomes, which are low, and they should try to make them higher.

00:25:02.340 Their concern is income inequality.

00:25:04.580 They would be fine if everybody's income were lower, as long as they were less unequal.

00:25:12.680 As long as the rich were poorer, that would be okay.

00:25:16.620 Not that everybody should make more money.

00:25:18.620 No.

00:25:19.440 It's also because of a certain entitlement.

00:25:22.680 Imagine the entitlement that you would have to feel to say,

00:25:26.560 yes, my second most important concern is that that guy's money is in his pocket instead of my pocket.

00:25:35.480 I mean, it is literally the feeling of entitlement to somebody else's money.

00:25:40.000 It's like what Bill de Blasio said, the mayor of New York, in his presidential announcement video.

00:25:45.260 First line, there's a lot of money in this country.

00:25:48.040 It's just in the wrong hands.

00:25:50.200 That's what millennials are saying.

00:25:52.180 Look, I haven't made a lot of money.

00:25:53.720 I don't want to work very hard.

00:25:54.780 I don't want to make a lot of money.

00:25:55.960 I don't want to settle down.

00:25:57.340 But there's a lot of money in this country.

00:25:58.960 It's just in the wrong hands.

00:26:00.240 Give me your money.

00:26:01.160 And then the third biggest priority, according to millennials, terrorism, crime, personal safety.

00:26:09.440 So the only actual threat to these people is the third biggest concern.

00:26:15.000 After global warming and after the redistribution of wealth,

00:26:19.720 because they think that rich people are too rich.

00:26:23.940 Totally backwards.

00:26:24.780 Now, this will make people miserable.

00:26:30.820 Much more than an economic downturn.

00:26:33.600 Much more than whatever outside force they're whining about.

00:26:37.160 This attitude is what is going to make you miserable.

00:26:41.020 That sense of entitlement.

00:26:43.020 That hysterical, apocalyptic, ideological view of nature and politics. 0.95

00:26:51.420 That will make you miserable.

00:26:52.700 Not settling down.

00:26:53.820 Not having close relationships.

00:26:55.300 Not working hard.

00:26:56.120 That will make you miserable.

00:26:58.280 Hard work.

00:26:59.280 I know it doesn't seem like it all the time.

00:27:01.360 Hard work makes you feel good.

00:27:03.020 And it makes you feel good because you have actually accomplished something.

00:27:05.920 Out here in Hollywood, everybody is an unemployed actor or writer or director.

00:27:11.840 And they're always, should I get a day job?

00:27:16.520 Should I change?

00:27:17.340 Should I do something else?

00:27:19.000 Success is a good thing.

00:27:20.680 If you feel better about yourself, you can provide more for your family.

00:27:24.180 It's nice.

00:27:25.000 At a certain point, you have got to stop blaming daddy for all of your problems.

00:27:31.500 Millennials are adults now. 0.97

00:27:32.780 We talk about millennials like they're still kids. 0.91

00:27:35.300 I'm 29.

00:27:36.720 The oldest millennials are 38.

00:27:40.620 And they're mostly unmarried and not having kids.

00:27:43.660 They're not acting like adults.

00:27:45.480 That is the lie.

00:27:47.120 I mean, the lie that we have been told is you can be a kid forever.

00:27:50.580 However, it's a neverland generation.

00:27:54.000 I won't grow up.

00:27:54.980 I won't grow up.

00:27:56.420 Because we think it's nice to be a kid.

00:27:59.340 Oh, how free and happy everything was when we were children.

00:28:02.360 We didn't have any responsibilities.

00:28:03.940 Yeah, that's nice when you're a child. 0.99

00:28:05.800 But it's pathetic when you're an adult. 0.95

00:28:08.620 I know you think in your teens or early 20s, you think, gosh, all I want to do is go out 0.98

00:28:13.160 to bars and hang out and be single and hook up and do whatever.

00:28:16.900 Because all of those things are super fun.

00:28:18.600 They're really fun when you're a teenager in your 20s. 0.97

00:28:22.400 And they're pathetic when you're in your 50s. 0.98

00:28:25.980 Because time moves on. 1.00

00:28:28.600 You have to mature. 0.56

00:28:30.520 If you don't mature, if you stagnate, then you will decay and you will become miserable.

00:28:35.460 And this is in part because millennials have been taught awful lessons that they have internalized.

00:28:41.460 And one of those lessons came to us just the other day at the Tulane University commencement ceremony

00:28:46.300 from Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.

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00:29:18.800 We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:29:19.860 So, the millennial generation is particularly miserable because they won't grow up.

00:29:38.080 I guess that's a failure of parenting.

00:29:39.620 I guess that's a failure of our educators.

00:29:41.320 At a certain point, it's your own failure that you're not engaging in those behaviors.

00:29:44.600 But millennials are continually being taught bad lessons.

00:29:49.980 The generation after us, Gen Z, continually being taught bad lessons.

00:29:54.620 And in this case, from one of the most successful people in the world, Apple CEO, Tim Cook.

00:29:59.080 He's got one opportunity to give advice to graduating seniors.

00:30:02.540 Here's the advice he gives.

00:30:03.440 In some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard.

00:30:10.400 We've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress.

00:30:16.680 And you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure.

00:30:21.480 When we talk about climate change or any issue with human costs, and there are many,

00:30:27.100 I challenge you to look for those who have the most to lose and find the real, true empathy

00:30:35.800 that comes from something shared.

00:30:39.820 That is really what we owe one another.

00:30:44.260 Today, certain algorithms pull toward you the things you already know, believe, or like,

00:30:50.840 and they push away everything else.

00:30:54.140 Push back.

00:30:55.460 It shouldn't be this way.

00:30:59.460 In that speech, he gives completely contradictory advice.

00:31:05.100 So the first thing he says, this is the worst thing he said, and he made it at the center of his speech.

00:31:10.380 He said, in many ways, my generation has failed you.

00:31:13.520 We focused too much on the fight and not enough on progress.

00:31:19.340 And what he means is, we focus too much on open debate.

00:31:22.760 We focus too much on debating our ideas in the public forum and letting everybody have their say

00:31:28.940 and then letting the good arguments win.

00:31:30.680 We focus too much on that and not enough on progress, like on the issue of climate change.

00:31:36.640 What is progress?

00:31:39.220 Who's progress to whom?

00:31:40.860 What Tim Cook is talking about is what he thinks is progress.

00:31:45.560 And he said, we focus too much on letting everybody have their own say in their own self-government and not enough on forcing people to do exactly what I want them to do.

00:31:54.540 We focus too much on letting people debate the science of global warming and pointing out that all of the models that the global warming alarmists have made haven't come true and how the world actually won't end in 12 years.

00:32:05.260 We focus too much on that and not enough on completely upending the economy because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told us to.

00:32:11.900 What he's saying is undercutting our system of government.

00:32:16.720 And then, not five minutes later, he says, algorithms are feeding you your own opinions and you shouldn't just get your own opinions.

00:32:23.860 You should hear other people's opinions.

00:32:25.020 Yes, that part is true, but then why did you just tell us to stop engaging with other people's opinions and just through our own brute force and tyranny of will, force progressive opinions on the whole country?

00:32:41.760 Totally opposite thinking.

00:32:45.340 But that is the message that the culture is telling us.

00:32:49.280 That's the message that millennials have internalized.

00:32:51.420 We have become much less tolerant.

00:32:54.360 We have become much less capable of civil discourse.

00:32:57.960 We've become much less capable of self-government.

00:33:02.000 There's a new report out from the Knight Foundation.

00:33:04.500 It shows that 41% of college students, the people that Tim Cook is talking to, believe that hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment.

00:33:14.260 I bet Tim Cook agrees with that.

00:33:16.060 I know Tim Cook agrees with that.

00:33:17.360 One, because Apple censors conservatives, but also because he's saying we have to stop focusing on the fight.

00:33:25.780 And he's using the word fight to mean debate.

00:33:28.200 This is what the left has done broadly is they conflate speech with violence.

00:33:33.840 And so, listen, we use the fight in a metaphorical way.

00:33:37.400 The left is now actually conflating speech with violence, saying we focus too much on open debate.

00:33:42.700 Let's just focus on progress.

00:33:44.760 And if you're just going to focus on progress, then you have to stifle debate, which is what big tech is doing.

00:33:49.620 It's what Apple is doing.

00:33:50.580 It's what 41% of colleges want to do.

00:33:53.220 They want to shut up people who have different views from them.

00:33:57.040 Now, fortunately, 58% of college students believe that hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment. 0.98

00:34:06.040 So you have 41% say it shouldn't, 58% say it should, 1%, apparently too stupid to understand the question, probably shouldn't be in college in the first place. 0.90

00:34:15.560 But only 58% believe that hate speech should be protected by the First Amendment. 0.95

00:34:20.940 The only speech that is addressed by the First Amendment is hate speech, by the way.

00:34:26.760 Because what is hate speech?

00:34:27.760 What does that term mean?

00:34:28.880 It means whatever people want it to mean.

00:34:31.240 The left wing calls this program hate speech.

00:34:34.340 The left wing says if you're to the right of Hillary Clinton, you're engaging in hate speech.

00:34:39.340 So the only reason we have to protect speech is because some people want to shut it down.

00:34:46.300 If speech is inoffensive to everybody, you don't need to protect it because no one can.

00:34:50.580 You only have to protect hate speech.

00:34:54.000 And 41% of American college students want to gut the First Amendment.

00:34:58.240 And this is interesting because it breaks down a little bit by demographic groups.

00:35:02.160 The majority of college women don't think hate speech should be protected. 1.00

00:35:07.100 Most women. 0.98

00:35:07.940 The majority of black students don't believe that hate speech should be protected.

00:35:12.280 The majority of students believe that shouting down speakers is always or sometimes acceptable.

00:35:18.960 I've been shouted down giving campus speeches.

00:35:22.940 A lot of other conservatives have too.

00:35:25.600 A lot of the administrators of these schools have defended that practice.

00:35:29.920 But now the majority of students at university campuses, which depend on the free exchange of ideas,

00:35:36.460 think it is acceptable always or sometimes to silence through the heckler's veto ideas that they disagree with

00:35:43.560 or that they think that they disagree with, but they probably don't understand them because they haven't heard them

00:35:47.500 because they shout them down.

00:35:48.580 At least, at least, the silver lining is that 83% of these students agree that violence is unacceptable

00:35:57.900 as a means to ending an event that you don't like.

00:36:00.400 So that's good news.

00:36:01.900 The bad news is 17% of college students think that physical violence is an acceptable way

00:36:08.360 to shut down an event that you don't like.

00:36:10.660 Again, this varies along racial lines for some reason.

00:36:14.680 60% of black students believe inclusivity is more important than free speech.

00:36:19.300 What does inclusivity mean?

00:36:20.520 I don't know.

00:36:21.380 It's ironic that 60% of black students believe that inclusivity is more important than free speech 0.96

00:36:26.320 because now at half of the colleges in America, they have racially segregated dorms.

00:36:31.620 Black-only dorms.

00:36:35.080 So you have the majority of black college students saying,

00:36:38.920 we need inclusivity, we're so focused on inclusivity that we should trounce the First Amendment.

00:36:45.620 Also, we should racially segregate our dorms, which is the exact opposite of inclusivity. 0.73

00:36:50.600 It is segregation.

00:36:52.280 49% of Hispanic students believe inclusivity is more important than free speech.

00:36:56.800 42% of white students believe that inclusivity is more important than free speech.

00:37:03.660 Now, I don't know why this varies along racial lines.

00:37:07.500 I suspect it is the same problem that we've been talking about. 0.82

00:37:11.260 You've got cynical people, cynical educators and cynical politicians targeting specifically black students

00:37:17.760 and insisting to them that they are victims, that life isn't fair, 0.73

00:37:22.220 that it's rigged against them, that they can't succeed.

00:37:24.480 And if you've been told that from the time you were in the cradle

00:37:26.860 to the time that you're graduating college,

00:37:29.800 if you've been told that you shouldn't listen to other ideas,

00:37:33.180 if you've been told by the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook,

00:37:35.500 that we shouldn't have any more debate.

00:37:37.100 We should just have progress.

00:37:39.360 It makes perfect sense to me that you especially would believe that inclusion

00:37:42.960 or progress or whatever euphemism you want to throw in is more important than free speech.

00:37:50.460 What this is leading toward, all of it, is violence.

00:37:53.760 Not just violence on campus.

00:37:56.100 You know, I got attacked by that weirdo Antifa guy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

00:38:00.940 Other professors have been attacked too.

00:38:02.600 There was an event with a conservative, Charles Murray, at Middlebury College,

00:38:05.860 and a female professor there got whiplash because of it. 1.00

00:38:09.260 When Ben went to speak at Berkeley, it cost the city $600,000

00:38:13.100 to secure Berkeley against a 5'9 Orthodox Jew who's relatively mild-mannered 1.00

00:38:19.320 because of the threat of violence.

00:38:21.820 But it's not just on college campuses.

00:38:24.180 Now, from the U.S. to the U.K., the violence has turned on politicians.

00:38:29.040 So, in the United Kingdom, the conservative politician Nigel Farage,

00:38:33.960 who is a Brexiteer, he wants to affect the Brexit that the people voted for,

00:38:39.420 is being attacked with milkshakes.

00:38:41.760 This is an epidemic going around.

00:38:43.340 And in Britain, leftists are throwing milkshakes at politicians they don't like.

00:38:49.260 And so, Nigel Farage just got hit with one yesterday, and he keeps on walking by.

00:38:53.280 Tommy Robinson, who is an independent journalist, he's a political activist,

00:38:58.140 and he talks about questions of Islam, same thing, gets attacked with a milkshake.

00:39:03.160 How do you think the mainstream media are reacting to political violence in the U.K.?

00:39:07.620 Protesters in Britain have weaponized the milkshake.

00:39:10.980 In the latest in a series of attacks on right-wing politicians,

00:39:15.020 Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was doused with a milkshake yesterday.

00:39:18.800 That was actually salted caramel, if anyone's wondering.

00:39:21.420 He was campaigning.

00:39:22.720 These attacks have come to be known as milkshaking.

00:39:26.440 Now, this follows egging.

00:39:27.820 It follows pieing.

00:39:28.960 There's punching.

00:39:30.520 I don't know.

00:39:31.000 Put some of that energy.

00:39:31.680 I know I'm sure it feels great.

00:39:32.960 I'm sure people love the feeling, and the pictures fly around the world.

00:39:35.800 But put some of that energy into campaigning.

00:39:38.100 Maybe the people you don't want to be in office won't be in office.

00:39:40.320 And maybe just drink the milkshake.

00:39:41.660 It seems like there's a better way to do it.

00:39:42.740 Police are actually asking places to not sell milkshakes.

00:39:45.820 That was really interesting.

00:39:47.000 That's interesting.

00:39:47.700 Around Edinburgh, supposedly, they actually asked places around a political appearance not to sell milkshakes.

00:39:52.660 I'm sure it feels great.

00:39:53.700 I think it was salted caramel.

00:39:54.920 Ha, ha, ha.

00:39:55.560 Look at that.

00:39:56.100 Look at that, Nigel Farage.

00:39:57.540 Burger King made a joke about this.

00:39:59.540 They tweeted out that they were going to give out free milkshakes so that people could throw them at politicians.

00:40:04.420 And I get it.

00:40:05.280 Milkshakes are funny.

00:40:05.980 And if you don't like a certain politician, it's funny to throw something on him.

00:40:11.440 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:40:11.920 It's not a big deal.

00:40:12.600 It's a milkshake.

00:40:13.520 Oh, come on, Michael.

00:40:14.500 The weird chemicals that they threw on you at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, they weren't toxic.

00:40:19.420 It wasn't ammonia.

00:40:20.820 It didn't bleach your skin.

00:40:22.080 It's not a big deal.

00:40:24.520 Okay.

00:40:24.900 Well, look.

00:40:25.340 We're all big boys.

00:40:26.640 Me and Farage and Tommy Robinson.

00:40:28.700 We can ruin a suit, I guess.

00:40:31.360 I mean, I don't like buying new suits, but that's fine.

00:40:33.180 We can take a milkshake or we can take a squirt of some weird perfumes.

00:40:38.200 But the principle that is being established here by the left and being laughed at by the mainstream media and by corporate America is that it's okay to throw things at politicians.

00:40:47.520 So guess what happens?

00:40:48.420 Not a week after these protests started, someone decided to up the ante and throw a brick at Tommy Robinson.

00:40:54.780 Brick?

00:40:55.180 That's a little tougher than a milkshake, isn't it?

00:40:58.740 I mean, this is what we said when it happened at University of Missouri.

00:41:01.020 You say, okay, I mean, I'm glad it was a non-toxic chemical that they squirted on me.

00:41:05.780 Just as easily could have been a toxic chemical.

00:41:08.020 Just as easily could have been something else out of a different kind of gun.

00:41:10.820 Just as easily could have been a brick.

00:41:13.740 And this is being laughed at.

00:41:15.100 This is being encouraged.

00:41:16.140 There is a fundamental breakdown of polite society, of civil society.

00:41:21.320 I mean, this estimate that came out of the schools on the segregated dorms.

00:41:26.080 At least 75 American colleges have black-only graduation ceremonies and 43% of colleges surveyed have blacks-only residential halls.

00:41:37.440 Segregated residential halls.

00:41:40.100 A breakdown of civil society.

00:41:42.580 The opposite of inclusion.

00:41:44.180 And in this era, 4 in 10 Americans embraced socialism.

00:41:49.520 43% of Americans, not just millennials, Americans overall, as millennials become a bigger proportion of the voting population.

00:41:56.500 43% say socialism is a good thing.

00:41:59.040 That's up from 25% in 1942.

00:42:03.080 This is all happening.

00:42:04.680 You know, as Ernest Hemingway said, bankruptcy happens gradually, then suddenly.

00:42:10.580 Leftism happens gradually, then suddenly.

00:42:12.640 We're seeing it happen suddenly now.

00:42:14.880 You're seeing it with the upending of our political system, the embrace of socialism.

00:42:18.680 Some people are trying to fight back.

00:42:20.100 President Trump, very clearly trying to fight back.

00:42:23.180 America was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination, and control.

00:42:31.820 We are born free and we will stay free.

00:42:35.160 Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.

00:42:46.120 So, President Trump said this during his last State of the Union, and this was a great line. 1.00

00:42:55.820 We all cheered.

00:42:56.720 And some people said, well, maybe it could be.

00:42:58.280 I mean, AOC wants it to be.

00:43:00.220 Bernie wants it to be.

00:43:01.300 What he said is literally right, though.

00:43:03.500 America will never cease, will never be a socialist country.

00:43:06.660 Because if America became a socialist country, it would cease to be America.

00:43:10.940 America would be unrecognizable as a socialist country.

00:43:16.700 America is the opposite of a socialist country.

00:43:20.400 And yet people want to totally invert what America is and make it into the opposite of America.

00:43:27.840 This radicalism is making everyone miserable.

00:43:31.420 I mean, it is measurably, clinically making people miserable.

00:43:35.720 From the gender issue, to the education issue, to the civil society, to the institutions, to the way that we interact with each other, to the way we communicate, to the way that we conduct our politics.

00:43:48.060 It's making people miserable.

00:43:49.740 And so, what does the left insist on?

00:43:51.340 More radicalism.

00:43:53.140 This is, the left, they have such a knack for this.

00:43:56.300 They, they'll institute a government program.

00:43:58.840 Government program that creates a lot of problems.

00:44:02.140 Look at the Great Society.

00:44:03.600 President Johnson's welfare program.

00:44:05.600 So, all of this welfare spending, it's aimed specifically at, at poor black Americans, but other people as well.

00:44:13.040 And what happens?

00:44:14.200 In the Moynihan Report, you look at it 20 years later, it turns out those government programs hurt the very people they were intended to help.

00:44:21.360 They ensnared people in cycles of poverty.

00:44:24.360 Increased rates of crime.

00:44:25.600 Increased rates of divorce.

00:44:26.880 Increased rates of out-of-wedlock birth.

00:44:28.840 Lower marriage rates.

00:44:32.600 Higher poverty.

00:44:33.540 Higher crime.

00:44:35.300 And so, what does the left come in and say?

00:44:36.760 They say, wow, that's a big problem.

00:44:39.340 I guess we need more government.

00:44:40.900 Government creates the problem, and then the left tells us we need more government to fix the problem.

00:44:45.740 Radicalism creates the misery, then the left tells us we need more radicalism to fix the misery.

00:44:49.680 The same principles apply to the culture. 0.99

00:44:52.500 Feminism is making women miserable. 1.00

00:44:53.980 We can measure this from the 1970s to the present. 0.98

00:44:56.760 Since the rise of second wave feminism to the present, women have become less happy, both in relative terms to men and in absolute terms. 0.98

00:45:04.880 Feminism is making women miserable. 1.00

00:45:07.400 And so, what do the feminists tell us? 1.00

00:45:09.460 Yeah, we need more feminism. 1.00

00:45:11.200 The reason it's making women miserable is because we don't have enough feminism. 1.00

00:45:14.720 We have a wage gap, which is completely mythical.

00:45:17.400 We don't have perfect equality.

00:45:19.100 We need more feminism to fix the problem caused by feminism. 1.00

00:45:22.940 The sexual revolution, making people miserable, making people lonely.

00:45:27.280 So, what is the sex revolution types?

00:45:28.900 What do they tell us?

00:45:29.580 We need more sex revolution. 1.00

00:45:32.140 We need to shout your abortion. 1.00

00:45:34.200 We don't need abortion to be safe, legal, and rare.

00:45:36.100 We need more of it.

00:45:37.140 We need more pornography. 0.99

00:45:38.700 We need more hookup culture. 0.91

00:45:40.120 We need less stable relationships.

00:45:42.280 And yet, we keep being told.

00:45:44.360 There was a piece that just came out in the New York Times.

00:45:46.600 I'm sure they choked this one down.

00:45:47.920 They didn't want to publish it.

00:45:48.780 Turns out, guess who the happiest of all wives are in America? 1.00

00:45:54.660 The left would tell you it's single Democrat women living in the city, 1.00

00:45:59.960 working at a non-profit, probably, right?

00:46:01.900 Or like working in some coffee shop or something.

00:46:05.760 No.

00:46:06.440 This is what the New York Times reports.

00:46:08.000 Broken clock, right twice a day.

00:46:09.460 Quote,

00:46:10.440 It turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, 0.57

00:46:14.560 followed by their religious progressive counterparts.

00:46:17.240 Fully 73% of wives who hold conservative gender values 0.96

00:46:21.140 and attend religious services regularly with their husbands

00:46:23.840 have high-quality marriages.

00:46:25.940 The most conservative, the most traditional people are the happiest.

00:46:30.200 Another survey just came out.

00:46:32.620 This survey is a doozy.

00:46:33.960 It showed that President Trump has made America less racist.

00:46:39.320 Make America Great Again has made America less racist.

00:46:42.180 We've been told for three years.

00:46:44.160 The New Yorker wrote,

00:46:45.220 quote, hate on rise since Trump.

00:46:47.620 Time Magazine wrote,

00:46:48.760 racist incidents up since Donald Trump's election.

00:46:51.540 The Nation wrote,

00:46:53.060 Donald Trump's rise has coincided with an explosion in hate groups.

00:46:57.300 Except now, there's a new survey out from the University of Pennsylvania.

00:47:01.820 It shows that Americans, quote,

00:47:03.240 have actually become less inclined to express racist opinions since Donald Trump was elected.

00:47:08.360 Anti-black prejudice, they found,

00:47:09.820 declined by a statistically insignificant degree between 2012 and 2016.

00:47:14.300 So during the Obama years, racism and anti-black prejudice did not really decline,

00:47:19.780 did not measurably decline.

00:47:21.160 But then after 2016, it took a sharp dive that was statistically significant.

00:47:26.840 Contrary to their expectations,

00:47:28.400 the fall was as evident among Republican voters as it was among Democrats.

00:47:33.760 Progressive radicalism gave us racial bigotry.

00:47:41.300 Make America Great Again, stark decline in racial bigotry.

00:47:47.260 People who have traditional marriages, very happy.

00:47:51.540 People who don't, not happy.

00:47:54.720 This tells us something about radicalism and tradition.

00:47:58.060 When I talk about conservatism, I'm talking about tradition.

00:48:03.380 Traditional marriages.

00:48:04.940 Traditional American institutions.

00:48:06.900 Make an America Great Again.

00:48:08.220 Traditional American views on hard work and achieving something.

00:48:12.580 And loving your neighbors.

00:48:14.500 The left views tradition as an irrational madness to be replaced.

00:48:18.960 The tradition, it's not a manifesto.

00:48:21.220 It's not a dogma.

00:48:22.080 It's not an argument like the left is making.

00:48:24.600 It's not an ideology.

00:48:25.520 The right recognizes the brilliance of tradition.

00:48:30.520 When I say tradition, I'm talking about just things that have stuck around a long time.

00:48:34.500 Because what the right realizes is that if lots and lots of people have done a certain thing

00:48:40.700 for a very, very long time, all over the world, all over our civilization,

00:48:45.220 maybe they knew something that I don't know.

00:48:49.180 Maybe they were onto something that the social engineers

00:48:53.000 who concocted a new institution or a new definition of marriage

00:48:56.360 or a new definition of the economy or a new definition of gender roles,

00:49:00.520 it didn't know.

00:49:03.220 How about on marriage?

00:49:04.300 You know, Gloria Steinem told us,

00:49:05.920 a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle during the sex revolution. 1.00

00:49:09.600 Well, if that's true,

00:49:10.640 then how come virtually everyone everywhere has gotten married forever?

00:49:13.580 Maybe there's some wisdom in that tradition.

00:49:17.520 I think people are waking up to it.

00:49:20.160 But one generation has been really, really affected by this radicalism.

00:49:26.360 That's the millennials. 0.82

00:49:27.260 If they want to have a good life, they're going to have to wake up to it fast

00:49:29.580 because time is running out.

00:49:31.480 As all of us are not kids anymore,

00:49:33.580 we're not living in Neverland as much as we might think we are.

00:49:36.560 That's our show.

00:49:37.180 Get your mailbag questions in for Thursday.

00:49:38.440 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:49:39.820 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:50:11.500 Hey, everyone.

00:50:13.300 It's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:50:15.360 You know, if it weren't for the fact that the Democrats own the news and entertainment media,

00:50:19.360 it would be obvious by now that they are living in a blithering fantasy world. 0.98

00:50:24.200 Donald Trump is a racist, except who's he racist to? 0.99

00:50:26.840 He's a dictator, except what does he dictate? 1.00

00:50:29.140 He's lawless.

00:50:29.980 But what laws has he broken?

00:50:32.380 They have invented a Donald Trump of the imagination,

00:50:35.320 and he ain't the real Donald Trump at all.

00:50:36.860 We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.

00:50:38.980 I'm Andrew Klavan.

00:50:39.980 I'm Andrew Klavan.

00:50:40.600 I'm Andrew Klavan.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 21, 2019

Ep. 352 - Why Aren’t Millennials Growing Up？

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