The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 379 - Why AOC Is Wrong About Gender, Patriarchy, And Everything Else

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00:00:37.780 Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses fellow woman Kellyanne Conway of being sexist toward her because, quote, 1.00

00:00:47.820 the patriarchy has no gender.

00:00:50.440 We will examine why AOC is wrong about gender, patriarchy, and everything else.

00:00:55.700 Then, soccer star Megan Rapinoe agrees with her conservative critics about equal pay and a judge rules that President Trump can't block people on Twitter.

00:01:06.060 All that and more.

00:01:07.100 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:08.960 Okay, before we get to the sex that I want to talk about, which is the sexism and the gender and the patriarchy,

00:01:23.720 we have to talk about the sex that I don't want to talk about, which is this sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:01:31.580 Because you know how much I hate to point out that I told you so.

00:01:35.380 Well, yesterday on the show, I mentioned that the left would be framing this as an anti-Trump issue, that this is all about Donald Trump.

00:01:43.420 I just want to point out that the major Washington Post coverage on this today, this is the headline, quote,

00:01:48.880 No headline about the really shady, bizarre past of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:02:05.060 No headline about that.

00:02:06.040 No, no, it's just all about Trump, which is the only reason they're bringing this up now.

00:02:09.720 And I just want to, on this one point where they keep going back to this 2002 New York Magazine article where Donald Trump called Epstein a terrific guy,

00:02:19.120 I just want to remind everybody that Donald Trump regularly calls awful people terrific guys.

00:02:25.100 This is just, I guess, his way of speaking.

00:02:27.280 He'll, you know, if it's convenient, he'll say, Oh, yeah, him, he's terrific.

00:02:30.360 Oh, I really like that guy.

00:02:31.500 Even if he's the worst guy on earth.

00:02:32.920 He actually has done it about the worst guy on earth.

00:02:36.300 Back when he started opening negotiations with North Korea, he used the exact same word to refer to Kim Jong-un.

00:02:43.800 Here's President Trump.

00:02:44.800 We're making tremendous progress.

00:02:48.020 Chairman Kim has been really very open and terrific, frankly.

00:02:55.140 So we know this is just the way that President Trump talks, especially when he's flattering people.

00:03:00.740 I mean, Trump, historically, has been a flatterer.

00:03:04.020 He'll flatter people, and then the minute they turn on him, he'll call them the worst names you can possibly imagine.

00:03:11.080 This has been true of Rosie O'Donnell. 0.75

00:03:12.840 This has been true of everybody else that he's encountered.

00:03:16.880 I also want to point out, there is a lot of weird stuff with this Epstein story.

00:03:22.740 It seems like every hour we're getting new information that complicates the picture.

00:03:27.620 And there are some pretty wild theories swirling around.

00:03:31.840 I'm not going to call them conspiracy theories, because I guess they could be true.

00:03:35.260 But I'm not going to say that they're obvious facts, because we just really have no idea what's going on here.

00:03:41.280 But the big question that keeps popping up is, how did Jeffrey Epstein make all his money?

00:03:48.600 Because Jeffrey Epstein isn't just rich.

00:03:52.020 Jeffrey Epstein is really, really, really rich.

00:03:56.280 Jeffrey Epstein, in 1992, had the largest private residence in Manhattan.

00:04:03.480 Manhattan is the center of the world.

00:04:05.800 Manhattan is the most primo real estate on earth, basically.

00:04:10.260 And Epstein had the single largest private residence on the whole island.

00:04:16.120 There's rich, and then there's really rich, and then there is unfathomably infinite resources rich.

00:04:22.740 And Epstein falls into that last category, and the question you have to ask is, how?

00:04:30.320 The guy's a college dropout.

00:04:32.020 I guess he was at the Cooper Union, which is an art school, art and engineering.

00:04:35.800 He dropped out of it.

00:04:37.540 He then, this is kind of a weird coincidence, he was hired to teach at a private school,

00:04:43.480 a very prestigious private school in New York, actually not far from where I grew up.

00:04:47.100 He was hired there by Attorney General William Barr's father, Donald Barr.

00:04:54.340 And he taught there for a little bit, and then he left.

00:04:56.660 Then he worked at Bear Stearns, the financial firm, which went under.

00:05:03.160 This became a big part of the financial crisis in 2007, 2008.

00:05:06.040 Then he left under pretty shady circumstances.

00:05:09.920 We don't know why he left.

00:05:10.880 We don't know how he did there.

00:05:12.240 And he started his own hedge fund.

00:05:14.260 And then he ostensibly became this incredibly wealthy guy.

00:05:19.540 I know people who have worked for hedge funds and who have their own hedge funds,

00:05:22.980 and a lot of them have made an insane amount of money.

00:05:26.020 But it's also worth remembering, most hedge funds fail.

00:05:29.780 It's not like, I mean, hedge fund, even that term is so vague.

00:05:34.320 And so a lot of people at the time were wondering how, where did Epstein get his money from?

00:05:41.060 Is he just the greatest investor in the world?

00:05:43.440 I mean, who are his clients?

00:05:44.520 He kept his clients to be a tightly held secret.

00:05:46.800 We just don't really know anything about that guy.

00:05:50.180 And it gets even weirder because now today, from the Daily Beast, there's a report in about why

00:05:55.920 now Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who was then a U.S. attorney,

00:06:00.320 let Epstein off the hook with this sweetheart deal. 0.96

00:06:03.980 Instead of sending him away for life for all of the charges against him,

00:06:07.300 he got 13 months in a private wing of a county jail, and that's it.

00:06:11.360 And he got to leave six days a week for 12 hours a day.

00:06:14.540 How did he get that deal?

00:06:15.660 And this is what the Daily Beast is reporting.

00:06:17.340 Quote,

00:06:17.480 Is the Epstein case going to be a problem for confirmation hearings, Acosta had been asked.

00:06:24.880 Acosta had explained, breezily apparently, that back in the day, he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case.

00:06:32.200 He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had been told, in quotes,

00:06:38.500 to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade.

00:06:43.140 Quote,

00:06:43.660 I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone, he told his interviewers in the Trump transition,

00:06:51.000 who evidently thought that that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta.

00:06:55.780 The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.

00:07:00.140 This is the stuff of conspiracy theories.

00:07:02.440 I mean, this, except it's being reported by the Daily Beast, which occasionally is a sort of mainstream outlet.

00:07:08.140 You know, it's not like this is one of these really fringy sites.

00:07:11.340 As far as left-wing outlets go, Daily Beast is about as mainstream as they get.

00:07:15.520 Now, before we jump to the conclusion that this is all some secret plot by the CIA or intelligence or whatever,

00:07:22.120 it is possible that Acosta was just coming up with an excuse to explain why he bungled the deal with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:07:29.100 I guess that's possible. 0.74

00:07:31.000 Before we conclude that this is some crazy CIA plot to, I don't know, to have a sex ring or to entrap,

00:07:38.140 very powerful men, it's also possible that they were using, that the intelligence community was using Jeffrey Epstein as an asset for other purposes.

00:07:48.200 Maybe in the financial crisis.

00:07:50.000 I mean, the financial crisis was happening as this deal was struck.

00:07:53.400 Maybe he was useful to them in the collapse of Bear Stearns.

00:07:55.980 Maybe he was useful to them for other purposes.

00:07:58.720 We just don't know.

00:08:00.120 We don't know anything about this guy.

00:08:02.180 Anyway, and so the theories are swirling around.

00:08:06.460 There is one theory that the person backing Epstein isn't a person at all.

00:08:13.000 It wasn't just this cabal of, you know, zillionaires who all happened to like 13-year-old girls or 14-year-old girls.

00:08:20.420 One theory that Ann Coulter brought up yesterday is that he could have had a state sponsor,

00:08:25.080 that this was a state-sponsored intelligence operation.

00:08:27.880 I'm not saying that's what it was.

00:08:29.100 I have absolutely no idea.

00:08:31.080 Nobody else does either.

00:08:32.580 But the question of how Jeffrey Epstein made his money, who was funding him in the first place,

00:08:38.200 is going to be central to the rest of this case.

00:08:42.600 And so obviously we'll be following this as it builds.

00:08:46.900 Now to get to the sex that I want to talk about.

00:08:50.000 The sex that I want to talk about is AOC accusing Kellyanne Conway of being sexist toward her.

00:08:58.140 Now you might have heard that name, Kellyanne, that's a woman's name. 0.97

00:09:02.640 So AOC, also a woman, is saying that Kellyanne, a woman, is sexist toward a woman. 1.00

00:09:08.520 The reason why is that Kellyanne Conway on Fox News referred to the recent tiff between Nancy Pelosi and AOC as a catfight. 1.00

00:09:19.240 Here's Kellyanne. 1.00

00:09:19.940 Those four female Democrats that Nancy Pelosi is brushing back, I think they're all freshman members, 0.99

00:09:26.860 a major meow moment, brushing back in a huge catfight, really ridiculing them.

00:09:33.720 And they voted against the Democratic aid package.

00:09:36.920 Meow indeed.

00:09:38.500 Ooh, it was a catfight.

00:09:39.980 That's not a sexist term.

00:09:41.080 That's an accurate description.

00:09:42.300 This was a particularly snarky battle that was going on between, especially Nancy Pelosi and to AOC.

00:09:52.780 Here's how AOC described it.

00:09:55.100 Quote,

00:09:55.320 Meanwhile, the GOP nominated a woman for vice president in 2008. 0.98

00:10:20.520 One of our leading future presidential candidates is Nikki Haley, former U.N. ambassador, governor of South Carolina.

00:10:29.660 I mean, you could go down the list.

00:10:30.880 The GOP has a ton of women. 1.00

00:10:33.240 And, of course, Kellyanne Conway, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, first successful campaign, a female campaign manager in American history, and a senior advisor to the president.

00:10:42.960 So I don't think that hit makes a whole lot of sense.

00:10:45.640 But catfight isn't just a term used by Republicans.

00:10:50.600 It's a term that everybody uses to describe when two women are getting angry with each other. 1.00

00:10:55.460 I mean, you could say a fight between two men is a bunch of knuckle draggers or a couple of Neanderthals.

00:11:00.300 You hear those kind of terms as well.

00:11:02.840 But then AOC gets to her main point. 0.89

00:11:05.340 And this exposes the lie of the entire gender ideology movement.

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00:13:09.920 So then AOC follows this up.

00:13:12.820 And she gets to the actual point here that dissolves, I think, the transgender ideology. 0.53

00:13:19.920 And she says, patriarchy has no gender.

00:13:25.220 This is how she explains how a woman can be sexist against another woman. 1.00

00:13:29.860 She says, patriarchy has no gender.

00:13:33.220 Now just as a simple point of definitions, I went to the Oxford English Dictionary.

00:13:37.880 I thought maybe I'm wrong about the definition of patriarchy.

00:13:40.620 No, it turns out AOC is wrong.

00:13:42.360 But patriarchy, as defined by the OED, is, quote, a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line.

00:13:55.100 Father.

00:13:56.260 Male.

00:13:57.680 Okay.

00:13:58.300 That's patriarchy.

00:13:59.680 It does have a gender.

00:14:00.580 So on the surface, AOC's comment doesn't make any sense.

00:14:05.280 On the surface, the gender ideology, transgender ideology movement doesn't make any sense.

00:14:10.920 But there actually is sort of, almost, an internal logic to it.

00:14:16.280 And conservatives totally mistake how to deal with gender ideology and transgenderism.

00:14:22.540 We make the mistake of trying to argue this point on scientific grounds.

00:14:28.620 This is what you always hear.

00:14:29.500 Let's just talk about the science.

00:14:31.560 Forget religion. 0.95

00:14:32.700 Forget morals.

00:14:33.760 Forget philosophy.

00:14:34.860 We just want to talk about the science or the chromosomes or the biology or whatever.

00:14:41.720 I know that's tempting because scientifically our points are correct.

00:14:45.600 But gender is not a scientific concept. 0.99

00:14:48.920 The way that the left is talking about gender, the way that AOC is talking about gender and patriarchy, is not scientific.

00:14:55.740 Gender is not a scientific term.

00:14:57.200 Gender was a term that was never applied to human beings in popular culture until about the 1960s.

00:15:06.160 Gender was a term that was applied to language.

00:15:09.760 You have gendered language. 0.99

00:15:12.260 Really not so much in English, but in other languages.

00:15:14.900 So, for instance, Latino has a masculine gender.

00:15:19.220 Latina has a feminine gender.

00:15:22.260 Pizza, the Italian word pizza, it ends in an A and it's got a female gender. 1.00

00:15:28.900 But, I don't know.

00:15:30.380 Pranzo, which is the Italian word for lunch, it ends in an O and it's got a male gender. 0.99

00:15:35.340 The gender is a language term.

00:15:37.360 The entire purpose of the left making gender into a description of people is to undermine science.

00:15:45.760 It's to separate sex from gender. 0.93

00:15:49.220 You hear this all the time.

00:15:50.120 I talk to conservatives all the time on campuses around the country, and I think even many conservatives believe this.

00:15:56.340 They believe that there is a difference between sex and gender.

00:16:00.140 I mean, in their defense, this is what they're taught in classrooms.

00:16:03.580 This is what kids are now taught from kindergarten all the way through college or graduate school.

00:16:08.960 The thing is, there is no difference between sex and gender.

00:16:12.820 You can lock that away with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

00:16:16.420 Sex and gender have no difference. 0.99

00:16:19.060 We just have sex. 0.92

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00:18:34.840 So, even conservatives fall into this trap.

00:18:37.960 We buy the leftist premise that there's a difference between gender and sex. 0.82

00:18:43.580 Or, if we don't, maybe we don't want to grant that premise, but we try to argue about it scientifically.

00:18:50.100 There's no scientific argument for it.

00:18:51.940 Here is how, I've talked to so many left-wingers about this.

00:18:54.380 They can never answer the ultimate questions.

00:18:57.580 Here's how the argument goes.

00:18:58.780 This is what the left says.

00:19:00.920 They say, sex is biological, but gender is not biological.

00:19:06.920 It's a social construct.

00:19:08.860 It's psychological.

00:19:10.160 It's not physical.

00:19:12.220 It's not the same as sex. 0.83

00:19:14.900 But, if gender is just a social construct, if it's just sort of a choice, then people should

00:19:20.760 choose to make their gender conform to their biological sex, right? 0.95

00:19:25.240 If you can just kind of choose your gender, and it's just a matter of your personal will,

00:19:30.080 then if you're biologically a man, but you identify as a female, and that's just a choice,

00:19:37.480 then you should just choose to identify as a male.

00:19:39.640 That's much easier than going through all this awful surgery, mutilating yourself, changing

00:19:44.960 every single bathroom in the country, right?

00:19:46.920 Of course.

00:19:47.800 But then what the gender ideologues will say is, it's not quite like that.

00:19:53.340 Sex is in the body, in the chromosomes or the genitals or whatever, but gender is in the brain.

00:20:01.640 Okay, and you can't change your brain.

00:20:05.600 Well, okay, except then that means that gender is biological. 1.00

00:20:10.900 Then it's not a difference of biological and not biological, because the brain is the part

00:20:15.000 of the body.

00:20:16.140 The brain is probably the most important part of the body.

00:20:18.900 So then you have to conclude, sex and gender are both biological.

00:20:23.280 So how can your biology be both male and female?

00:20:26.080 How can your biology be both you are a man and a woman?

00:20:30.020 Except in the exceedingly rare case where there's some confusion in chromosomes or in genitals,

00:20:35.440 which is not what transgender ideologues are talking about.

00:20:39.580 How can it be both one thing and not that thing?

00:20:42.820 So this is what they're coming around to now.

00:20:44.700 This is the new stage of gender ideology. 0.99

00:20:46.960 And it's where you hear phrases like biologically female penises. 1.00

00:20:50.940 I had a gender activist tell me once at the University of Michigan, she said, yes, of course there 0.99

00:20:57.620 can be biologically female penises. 0.99

00:20:59.900 And of course there can be biologically male uteruses. 0.99

00:21:05.180 Biological.

00:21:06.100 See, because they want the language of science.

00:21:08.000 But if that is the case, then the words male and female, the words man and woman have no

00:21:14.120 meaning because the word male in that case can refer to either male or female.

00:21:21.340 The word man can refer to either man or woman and vice versa.

00:21:27.740 It's not that you're even changing the definition of the word so much as you're just getting rid

00:21:33.060 of the words altogether.

00:21:34.180 Now, they get very confused on this and they always run away and they can't answer these

00:21:39.260 questions.

00:21:40.240 But I actually see what they're trying to talk about.

00:21:43.180 What the gender theory people are trying to describe is not a scientific characteristic of

00:21:48.960 people.

00:21:49.900 They're trying to describe the soul.

00:21:53.500 They're trying to describe the difference between my physical body and my metaphysical

00:21:59.180 soul.

00:21:59.620 So, what the transgender ideologues say is, on the physical level, I look like a man.

00:22:05.220 You know, I've got broad shoulders, I've got a beard, I've got everything below the waist

00:22:08.920 that makes me look like a man.

00:22:10.520 But, at a more essential level, deep, deep down, somewhere that you can't see, I'm not

00:22:17.180 really what my body says that I am.

00:22:20.180 I'm something else.

00:22:21.720 There's a difference, they say, between me and my body.

00:22:25.380 And this is not a totally new question.

00:22:28.760 I mean, we think of transgenderism as this bizarre new idea.

00:22:31.580 It's just a bizarre new version of a very old idea.

00:22:35.280 This is the central question of the gender theory. 0.57

00:22:39.100 This is the central problem.

00:22:40.820 Is a question as old as time.

00:22:45.280 What is the relationship between me and my body and my soul?

00:22:49.540 And this question took on special modern significance with René Descartes, with the father of modern

00:22:55.480 philosophy, who laid the foundation for the Enlightenment and who, consequently, gave us

00:23:00.640 a lot of our modern problems.

00:23:02.460 What Descartes said is that the body is not essential to a person's identity.

00:23:08.120 So, my body, you know, I've got sort of swarthy skin, I've got a little bit of a Roman nose,

00:23:12.180 I've got some poofy hair.

00:23:13.320 That is not essential to my identity.

00:23:15.680 That's just sort of accidental.

00:23:16.920 What I really am is immaterial.

00:23:22.180 My body exists as a machine, and then my soul, which is who I really am, exists as a ghost

00:23:28.740 in that machine.

00:23:30.240 Now, I don't really believe that.

00:23:31.880 That's what a lot of modern people think.

00:23:34.560 That's what Descartes thought, and that's what these gender ideologues believe. 1.00

00:23:38.000 But this isn't the traditional understanding.

00:23:39.840 The traditional understanding of the body, the Christian understanding, Aristotle's understanding,

00:23:45.280 Thomas Aquinas' understanding.

00:23:46.920 Is that the body is essential to a person's identity.

00:23:51.840 Now, there are a lot of weird theories that have popped up throughout history to say that

00:23:55.480 the physical world is evil.

00:23:57.140 The physical body is evil.

00:23:58.800 Matter is evil.

00:24:00.140 And therefore, we should divorce ourselves from the material world.

00:24:03.420 This has cropped up as a number of bizarre movements and heresies and things like that.

00:24:07.440 Those ideas have always been defeated because civilization would collapse if we really believed that.

00:24:14.720 If we really believe that everything physical is just evil and terrible and awful and has to be utterly rejected,

00:24:20.740 you can't have a civilization.

00:24:22.840 You can't have a society.

00:24:24.040 You can't even move around in your own body.

00:24:26.780 But that's what the gender theory people believe. 1.00

00:24:30.460 They're searching for a soul.

00:24:32.640 But they can't bring themselves to admit that because they also tend to believe that there's no such thing as a soul.

00:24:39.000 So they're stuck in this awful place where they're arguing the extremes of two ideologies,

00:24:43.880 both of which are completely wrong.

00:24:46.140 I think I know how we can deal with this.

00:24:48.100 I think I know how we can talk to people about the gender ideology that isn't just, 0.85

00:24:52.720 look at the chromosomes, look at the science.

00:24:54.660 Because I think ultimately that doesn't really go anywhere.

00:24:57.040 We'll get to how to deal with them in a second.

00:24:58.840 We will also get to Megan Rapinoe.

00:25:01.640 I guess it must be a chilly day in hell because I'm actually agreeing with the soccer star on one question.

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00:25:58.380 So the gender theory people are trying to describe the soul, 0.99

00:26:11.060 except they don't believe in the soul because they tend to be materialists.

00:26:14.660 They tend to think that only the physical world exists.

00:26:17.720 And all of the things that aren't physical, like love and joy and the soul,

00:26:21.520 that it's all basically just an illusion.

00:26:23.680 That we're just matter.

00:26:24.660 We're just kind of flesh and that's all that we are.

00:26:27.960 So they distinguish between the physical body, sex, and the metaphysical mind, or gender.

00:26:35.120 But then they go right back and they deny the difference between the mind,

00:26:38.740 which is not physical, and the brain, which is physical.

00:26:42.020 And so you get to this contradiction.

00:26:44.520 Any way you slice it, gender ideology doesn't make sense. 0.99

00:26:48.600 But we are very foolish if we think that we're going to convince them of that based on science.

00:26:53.660 It's not a scientific question. 0.96

00:26:55.280 It's a philosophical and religious question. 0.99

00:26:58.500 And at times throughout history, when people have been philosophically and religiously shallow and stupid, 0.98

00:27:05.540 these kind of theories crop up. 0.98

00:27:07.700 The foundation for gender theory was laid by two things.

00:27:13.300 The decay of education and the decay of religion.

00:27:17.160 And we are now seeing the fruits of that.

00:27:19.420 Because people just don't, they have these really shallow ideas.

00:27:22.800 I mean, Dr. Johnson famously said,

00:27:24.800 all shallows are clear.

00:27:27.560 Little shallow bodies of water, very clear.

00:27:30.520 Profound things are murky.

00:27:31.760 You can't see to the bottom of profound things.

00:27:33.600 And we have a very shallow religious and educational culture right now,

00:27:37.820 which is why these gender people are so convinced that they're correct,

00:27:40.980 even though they couldn't possibly be more confused.

00:27:43.820 You're not going to be able to just convince people that gender ideology is wrong with a simple argument.

00:27:51.700 You're going to have to slowly build on that.

00:27:54.680 You're going to have to raise serious religious questions,

00:27:58.100 raise serious philosophical questions.

00:28:00.060 You're going to have to rebuild the educational system.

00:28:02.220 You're going to have to start going back to church or synagogue or wherever you go.

00:28:06.420 You're going to have to start taking these things seriously.

00:28:09.020 Because if conservatives just keep up this,

00:28:11.240 look at the science argument,

00:28:13.160 you're not going to convince anybody.

00:28:14.860 It's not about science.

00:28:16.120 It's about something much deeper and something that we've lost.

00:28:19.800 And we know as conservatives,

00:28:21.760 you can't just shout from the rooftop all day.

00:28:23.900 You actually have to do the thing.

00:28:25.740 You can't just talk about how great religion is.

00:28:27.940 You actually have to practice it.

00:28:28.980 You can't just talk about how great certain education systems are.

00:28:33.920 You have to do them.

00:28:34.800 You have to read the books.

00:28:36.060 And you have to make it a big part of your life.

00:28:38.520 So, bizarrely, I can't believe I'm saying this,

00:28:41.340 I actually sort of agree with AOC that the patriarchy has no gender. 0.68

00:28:46.940 Because nobody has a gender. 0.86

00:28:48.780 Because people don't have genders.

00:28:50.340 We have sex. 0.83

00:28:51.380 It's all about sex, baby. 0.99

00:28:53.840 And in other bizarro world news, 0.87

00:28:57.140 I'm also finding myself agreeing with the U.S. women's soccer star,

00:29:01.200 Megan Rapinoe, also on a question of sex.

00:29:04.440 Megan Rapinoe was on my MSNBC show last night,

00:29:08.020 and she was there to discuss her calls for equal pay 0.69

00:29:10.700 for the men's and women's soccer teams.

00:29:12.840 And she accidentally, I think,

00:29:15.200 but nevertheless, she agreed with the arguments of her conservative critics.

00:29:19.480 Here's Megan Rapinoe.

00:29:20.180 In the moments immediately following the final whistle,

00:29:22.860 you get that USA, USA chant,

00:29:24.800 but equal pay, equal pay along that same cadence.

00:29:27.240 I think fans want to know what they can do to support that fight.

00:29:31.020 Fans can come to games.

00:29:32.860 Obviously, the national team games will be a hot ticket.

00:29:35.760 But we have nine teams in NWSL.

00:29:38.140 You can go to your league games.

00:29:40.060 You can support that way.

00:29:41.820 You can, you know, buy players' jerseys.

00:29:45.100 You can lend your support in that way.

00:29:46.540 You can tell your friends about it.

00:29:47.780 You can become season ticket holders.

00:29:49.120 I think in terms of that,

00:29:51.940 that's the easiest way for fans to get involved.

00:29:55.200 She's totally right about this.

00:29:57.580 The issue of equal pay for the men's and women's soccer teams

00:30:01.020 is not a question of some regulation or some law

00:30:04.080 or some secret, hidden, institutional patriarchy.

00:30:08.140 It's a question of revenue.

00:30:10.360 Matt Walsh had a great point on this yesterday.

00:30:13.300 It's not just that women's soccer players are underpaid 0.99

00:30:17.580 or they're paid less than men. 0.90

00:30:18.920 They are paid less than men as a matter of just numbers.

00:30:23.020 But as a matter of, you know, hard cash,

00:30:25.740 as a matter of the percentage of their business that they're paid,

00:30:29.060 women's soccer players are actually overpaid.

00:30:32.140 And the reason for that is,

00:30:33.260 just to cite a few statistics here,

00:30:35.900 the Men's World Cup generated $6 billion in revenue.

00:30:39.700 That was the last World Cup, $6 billion with a B.

00:30:43.360 The Women's World Cup generated, can you guess,

00:30:46.920 $131 million of revenue.

00:30:52.700 Way, way, way less.

00:30:54.020 Not multiples, you know, an order of magnitude less.

00:30:56.580 Well over that.

00:30:58.460 So men, if you look at the total revenue of the World Cup,

00:31:01.120 were paid 7%.

00:31:02.780 That's what the players got.

00:31:04.440 If you look at the total revenue of the Women's World Cup,

00:31:07.160 they were paid 20%.

00:31:08.700 So they got almost three times as much

00:31:12.920 as a percentage of their total revenue that the men got.

00:31:15.760 Now women apparently want 400% of their revenue. 1.00

00:31:18.680 Where's that money going to come from?

00:31:19.740 Magic, I guess.

00:31:20.480 Or maybe they'll take it from the men's team

00:31:22.080 or something like that.

00:31:23.120 So she's right.

00:31:23.860 The way, if you want to build up women's soccer, 1.00

00:31:26.400 which I don't recommend you do,

00:31:27.600 but if that's something you want to do,

00:31:29.000 the way you do it is you buy season tickets,

00:31:30.920 you go to the games,

00:31:32.320 you buy popcorn and cracker jacket at the games,

00:31:34.580 or there they probably have like acai bowls

00:31:36.440 and kombucha or something.

00:31:37.620 I don't know, whatever they sell at the stadium.

00:31:39.240 You buy the jerseys.

00:31:40.460 I don't know if they have playing cards,

00:31:41.680 but you buy the cards.

00:31:42.660 You just, you give your money to the sport

00:31:44.860 and it becomes very big.

00:31:46.220 That's how baseball went from being,

00:31:48.600 you know, a relatively cheap endeavor

00:31:50.320 in the 1940s and 1950s.

00:31:53.340 Now I go to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium.

00:31:55.560 I have to take out a mortgage on my car.

00:31:58.160 It's a big business.

00:32:00.040 That's because people like it.

00:32:01.140 It's because people really care about it.

00:32:03.020 Now I don't want to give the wrong impression here

00:32:05.000 that I like Megan Rapinoe

00:32:07.180 or that I think she's like a good figure 0.90

00:32:09.640 in American culture. 0.99

00:32:10.900 She is awful. 0.94

00:32:12.980 And she exhibited in a video 0.98

00:32:14.420 that has now gone viral

00:32:15.600 with her holding her trophy,

00:32:17.840 why people really don't like her

00:32:20.260 and why people really don't like

00:32:22.060 the whole ethos around this women's soccer team.

00:32:25.060 Here is what Megan Rapinoe thinks about her win. 0.83

00:32:29.420 Is it she's so humble,

00:32:30.960 she's so thankful to God,

00:32:32.540 she's so thankful to all the fans?

00:32:34.360 No, she says three words.

00:32:37.200 I deserve this.

00:32:39.620 Oh, it's like everything

00:32:53.240 that's wrong with feminism. 1.00

00:32:54.700 It's everything that's wrong with

00:32:57.040 this soccer team.

00:32:58.940 It's everything that's wrong with leftism.

00:33:01.680 I deserve this.

00:33:02.940 I'm entitled to this.

00:33:04.460 I'm so great.

00:33:05.840 I'm so proud.

00:33:07.320 I have nothing to be ashamed of.

00:33:08.920 I'm the best thing ever.

00:33:10.360 This is pride.

00:33:11.280 I mean, we've been talking about pride

00:33:12.580 obviously for the whole month of Pride Month.

00:33:15.320 Pretty soon it's going to be Pride Year. 1.00

00:33:18.080 This is pride and people hate pride.

00:33:20.460 Pride is a vice.

00:33:21.940 Pride is a sin.

00:33:23.280 It's ugly.

00:33:24.200 Nobody likes it.

00:33:25.320 We like humility.

00:33:27.020 It's amazing to me

00:33:28.060 that the left gets on Donald Trump

00:33:29.620 because Trump brags all the time.

00:33:31.580 You know, he puts his name on everything.

00:33:33.260 Says, I'm the best president ever.

00:33:34.840 He actually has been a really good president.

00:33:36.480 He's got a lot to brag about

00:33:37.900 and he rarely misses an opportunity to brag.

00:33:40.480 And the left says,

00:33:41.600 this is awful.

00:33:42.220 This is terrible.

00:33:42.980 I hate this.

00:33:44.380 But I love when Megan Rapinoe

00:33:47.060 kicked a ball

00:33:47.920 only a little bit worse

00:33:49.320 than a 14-year-old boy.

00:33:51.120 And she deserves everything.

00:33:53.320 She deserves the bottle of 1.00

00:33:54.600 Veuve Clicquot champagne

00:33:55.520 she's drinking

00:33:56.160 and she deserves the statue

00:33:58.080 that she's holding in her hand.

00:34:00.000 You don't deserve it.

00:34:01.740 None of us deserves anything, frankly.

00:34:04.520 I mean, this is a major difference

00:34:07.400 between how conservatives

00:34:09.040 tend to view the world

00:34:10.440 and how radicals and leftists

00:34:13.380 and progressives tend to view the world.

00:34:15.440 I don't think I deserve anything.

00:34:18.580 I have an amazing life.

00:34:20.620 Everything that I've ever gotten

00:34:21.960 is an unmerited gift from God.

00:34:24.520 And all the suffering I've endured

00:34:26.160 is nothing compared to this great joy

00:34:28.180 of life that we have.

00:34:29.600 I mean, just to use a particular example,

00:34:31.440 I got a show

00:34:32.360 because I didn't write a book.

00:34:34.460 I didn't write a book

00:34:35.680 and then I published it

00:34:36.840 and it was called

00:34:37.280 Reasons to Vote for Democrats,

00:34:38.480 a comprehensive guide

00:34:39.340 and it's completely blank.

00:34:40.500 And then I got a show for it.

00:34:41.680 If that's not the unmerited grace of God,

00:34:43.280 I don't know what is.

00:34:44.600 If you have an attitude of gratitude,

00:34:48.320 that's sounding a little cliche,

00:34:49.540 but it's real.

00:34:50.600 It's a cliche for a reason.

00:34:52.000 If you have an attitude of gratitude,

00:34:53.760 you're going to have a better time in life.

00:34:56.400 You're going to be more thankful

00:34:57.760 for the people you have,

00:34:59.060 the friends you have,

00:34:59.760 the love that you feel,

00:35:00.720 the love of God, your creator.

00:35:03.120 Food is going to taste better.

00:35:04.540 Cigars are going to taste better.

00:35:06.220 Drinks are going to taste sweeter

00:35:07.260 because you don't deserve this.

00:35:10.200 You didn't invent your life.

00:35:12.260 You were given your life as a gift.

00:35:13.980 Ultimately, that's what it comes down to.

00:35:16.600 You didn't choose your parents.

00:35:18.040 You were given your parents.

00:35:20.960 And this is true for everyone.

00:35:22.420 This is true for people

00:35:23.160 who have disproportionate amounts of suffering.

00:35:25.800 This is true of people

00:35:26.660 who have relative privilege.

00:35:28.580 I'm kind of agreeing with the left

00:35:29.960 in that I'll check my privilege,

00:35:32.820 but I'm not upset about privilege.

00:35:35.460 I'm not ashamed.

00:35:36.120 I'm happy for privilege.

00:35:37.300 And we all have privileges.

00:35:39.000 It's a wonderful thing.

00:35:40.260 But she says,

00:35:40.980 I deserve it.

00:35:41.560 I'm entitled to it.

00:35:42.460 And it's why she always comes off

00:35:44.480 as bitter and awful.

00:35:45.600 And it's why that whole team

00:35:46.900 is bitter and awful.

00:35:48.120 And they hate their country.

00:35:49.820 And she at least hates her country. 0.98

00:35:51.620 And she disrespects the American flag. 1.00

00:35:53.920 And she has no sense 0.90

00:35:55.380 of how unimportant she is.

00:35:58.560 She has no sense

00:35:59.580 of all the wonderful gifts

00:36:01.160 she's been given,

00:36:01.880 the God-given talents

00:36:03.000 and the ability

00:36:05.860 to develop those talents

00:36:06.980 and a country to support her,

00:36:08.460 to send her abroad.

00:36:09.220 I mean, it's just terrible.

00:36:10.600 And it's not only a problem

00:36:14.220 of women's soccer.

00:36:15.120 This is a cultural disease 0.99

00:36:17.360 that has spread particularly

00:36:18.700 on the left.

00:36:20.120 And you've got to just 0.56

00:36:20.820 cut it off at the knees. 0.99

00:36:22.100 She doesn't deserve it. 0.98

00:36:23.340 She doesn't deserve anything. 1.00

00:36:24.980 And she's terrible. 0.75

00:36:25.940 And only when she acknowledges that

00:36:27.520 will she, I think,

00:36:29.400 come to appreciate

00:36:30.200 all the wonderful gifts

00:36:31.020 she's been given.

00:36:32.380 Now,

00:36:33.100 I have got some,

00:36:36.940 I think, actually,

00:36:38.440 pretty good news.

00:36:39.320 But it's really ironic news.

00:36:41.320 Out of the courts,

00:36:42.800 President Trump

00:36:43.500 has now been told

00:36:46.220 he can't block people

00:36:48.400 on Twitter.

00:36:49.560 I didn't even know

00:36:50.160 that President Trump

00:36:50.760 was blocking people on Twitter.

00:36:52.620 I don't think you should

00:36:53.720 ever block people on Twitter.

00:36:54.840 I think that's

00:36:55.300 the opposite of what Twitter is.

00:36:57.760 Twitter is all about

00:36:58.480 open exchange.

00:36:59.560 I've never blocked anybody.

00:37:00.920 I don't intend

00:37:01.680 to block anybody.

00:37:03.320 This court now,

00:37:04.480 this appeals court,

00:37:05.160 has come out and said,

00:37:06.040 President Trump can't

00:37:07.300 block his critics

00:37:08.200 on Twitter

00:37:08.780 because he sometimes

00:37:11.220 breaks news on Twitter

00:37:12.460 and so this cuts off

00:37:13.700 certain Americans

00:37:15.020 from hearing this news

00:37:16.700 and he sometimes uses it

00:37:18.380 to conduct government business.

00:37:19.840 So he just can't do it.

00:37:20.980 It's unconstitutional.

00:37:22.020 It's illegal.

00:37:22.460 It's wrong.

00:37:22.840 He can't do it.

00:37:23.820 The irony here

00:37:24.940 is that the left

00:37:27.060 blocks people on Twitter

00:37:28.240 way more than the right does.

00:37:31.040 They unfriend people

00:37:32.380 on Facebook

00:37:33.020 way more than the right does.

00:37:35.260 I mean,

00:37:35.660 I can't tell you.

00:37:36.460 There are left-wingers

00:37:37.420 that I've never interacted

00:37:38.900 with ever once in my life

00:37:40.160 and they will preemptively

00:37:41.300 block me on Twitter

00:37:42.300 because they're afraid

00:37:44.020 that I might say something

00:37:44.940 to them or something.

00:37:46.200 I mean,

00:37:46.360 that guy Carlos Maza,

00:37:47.440 the one who wants to censor

00:37:48.320 all the conservatives,

00:37:49.220 he blocked me

00:37:49.960 in like two seconds

00:37:50.920 and he's blocked,

00:37:51.740 as far as I can tell,

00:37:52.420 thousands and thousands

00:37:53.260 of other conservatives.

00:37:55.740 AOC blocks a lot 0.99

00:37:56.800 of people on Twitter.

00:37:57.540 I think now she's being sued 0.99

00:37:58.420 for it.

00:37:59.120 So what this ruling means

00:38:00.160 is if President Trump

00:38:01.320 can't block people

00:38:02.000 on Twitter,

00:38:02.680 AOC can't block people

00:38:04.340 on Twitter either.

00:38:06.060 You know,

00:38:06.260 the left can give it,

00:38:07.620 but the left can't take it.

00:38:09.720 And I actually think

00:38:10.620 this is a pretty good ruling.

00:38:11.700 Some conservatives

00:38:12.240 are a little upset

00:38:13.080 that Trump is,

00:38:14.240 you know,

00:38:14.880 being targeted.

00:38:15.740 And it is true. 0.71

00:38:16.420 They're going after Trump

00:38:17.220 because he's Trump.

00:38:18.040 But I'm all for it.

00:38:18.920 I want open communication.

00:38:20.220 I don't want to live

00:38:21.080 in a world

00:38:21.580 where we're blocking

00:38:22.640 each other

00:38:23.120 and we're siloing ourselves

00:38:24.380 and we're censoring

00:38:25.620 each other.

00:38:27.220 Speaking of more important

00:38:28.400 court cases though,

00:38:29.580 just a little heads up,

00:38:30.760 we'll talk about this

00:38:31.420 more at a later date

00:38:32.220 when it finally makes

00:38:34.180 its way up to the Supreme Court.

00:38:35.780 But getting back

00:38:37.100 to the main topic

00:38:37.880 of today's show,

00:38:38.740 talking about sex,

00:38:39.640 baby,

00:38:39.980 and gender,

00:38:40.720 there is a hugely

00:38:41.980 important court case

00:38:43.080 that's coming down the pike 0.92

00:38:43.960 and it's headed

00:38:44.400 for the Supreme Court

00:38:45.280 and it's called

00:38:46.000 the Harris Funeral Home Case.

00:38:48.680 The case is officially

00:38:49.840 RG and GR,

00:38:51.740 Harris Funeral Homes Incorporated

00:38:53.240 versus Equal Employment

00:38:54.680 Opportunity Commission.

00:38:56.320 And this case is all about

00:38:58.340 sex and gender,

00:39:00.420 whether or not there's

00:39:01.260 a difference between

00:39:02.040 sex and gender,

00:39:03.200 how we can even

00:39:04.180 understand or enforce

00:39:05.460 the left's difference

00:39:06.900 between sex and gender.

00:39:08.780 It's all about Title VII,

00:39:11.880 which is sex discrimination

00:39:13.720 from employers.

00:39:14.860 That's what Title VII

00:39:15.620 of the Civil Rights Act covers.

00:39:17.320 And it involves

00:39:18.060 an interpretation

00:39:18.720 of the protections

00:39:20.100 of Title VII.

00:39:21.020 So basically in this case,

00:39:22.400 you have a funeral home owner,

00:39:23.820 Thomas Rost,

00:39:24.800 and he has a dress code

00:39:25.800 for his employees.

00:39:26.780 Obviously,

00:39:27.280 it's a really touchy

00:39:28.120 business to be in.

00:39:29.360 You've got grieving families,

00:39:31.100 you know,

00:39:31.300 you're around sadness

00:39:32.580 and grief and sorrow

00:39:33.560 all day long,

00:39:34.420 and you want to make sure

00:39:35.220 you look professional

00:39:35.960 and you behave in a way

00:39:37.020 that is comforting

00:39:38.120 and consoling

00:39:39.340 to the grieving families.

00:39:41.300 So he says,

00:39:41.820 okay,

00:39:41.960 men have to wear 1.00

00:39:42.680 a jacket and a tie,

00:39:44.280 I don't know,

00:39:44.600 whatever it is,

00:39:45.240 and women have to dress 1.00

00:39:46.300 in this certain way.

00:39:48.060 Nobody suggests

00:39:48.960 that it's wrong

00:39:49.840 to say men have to dress

00:39:50.840 one way

00:39:51.200 and women have to dress 1.00

00:39:52.420 another way.

00:39:53.440 Nobody is arguing

00:39:54.580 that that's wrong

00:39:55.220 in this case.

00:39:55.760 What they're arguing

00:39:57.820 about here

00:39:58.360 is that one of Rost's

00:39:59.860 employees at the funeral home,

00:40:01.460 who is a man,

00:40:03.160 one day he went on vacation,

00:40:05.120 he comes back,

00:40:06.280 and he decided

00:40:07.240 he's going to now

00:40:08.080 start dressing as a woman, 0.97

00:40:09.720 at least when he feels like it.

00:40:11.700 Maybe he doesn't dress

00:40:12.320 like a woman all the time, 0.99

00:40:13.180 but he's going to dress

00:40:13.740 like a woman 0.99

00:40:14.200 when he feels like it.

00:40:16.000 And Rost said,

00:40:17.660 the owner,

00:40:18.140 he said,

00:40:18.400 you can't do that.

00:40:20.540 It's not all about you,

00:40:21.860 Buster.

00:40:22.360 It's about these

00:40:23.060 grieving families,

00:40:24.100 and if they see

00:40:24.880 a giant man

00:40:25.820 with a beard

00:40:26.400 wearing a dress,

00:40:28.020 like the guy

00:40:28.620 in that video,

00:40:29.320 you know,

00:40:29.800 who's screaming

00:40:31.220 at the employee

00:40:31.960 at the bodega,

00:40:33.740 and he says,

00:40:34.340 I am a woman,

00:40:36.340 it's ma'am,

00:40:37.220 call me ma'am,

00:40:37.760 that that's going

00:40:38.180 to be distracting

00:40:38.860 for grieving families.

00:40:40.760 Obviously,

00:40:41.160 that's the case.

00:40:42.720 Now,

00:40:43.260 the employee sues,

00:40:44.600 and this is going

00:40:45.400 to make its way

00:40:45.920 up to the Supreme Court.

00:40:47.700 The question is,

00:40:48.840 does Title VII

00:40:49.720 of the Civil Rights Act

00:40:50.900 say that employers

00:40:52.260 can't discriminate 0.99

00:40:53.300 on the basis of sex,

00:40:54.600 which is what we've

00:40:55.600 always interpreted it

00:40:56.680 to mean,

00:40:57.460 or does it say

00:40:58.540 that they can't

00:40:59.560 discriminate on the basis

00:41:00.840 of gender identity?

00:41:04.120 And what the left

00:41:04.820 is going to argue

00:41:05.380 in this case

00:41:06.000 is that,

00:41:07.160 of course,

00:41:07.820 it always included

00:41:08.800 gender identity.

00:41:10.000 When the Civil Rights Act

00:41:10.920 was passed,

00:41:11.480 no one had any idea

00:41:12.760 what this gender identity

00:41:14.460 thing was.

00:41:15.420 This was not,

00:41:16.260 there was no,

00:41:16.860 no one believed

00:41:17.560 that there was a difference

00:41:18.240 between sex and gender.

00:41:19.980 But just imagine

00:41:21.080 how this,

00:41:21.480 if it were the case

00:41:22.340 that a gender,

00:41:25.640 that it protected

00:41:26.820 gender identity as well,

00:41:28.360 and so therefore

00:41:29.120 the funeral home guy

00:41:30.680 has to let the funeral home 0.98

00:41:32.140 employee

00:41:32.580 with a big beard

00:41:34.200 dress up in a dress

00:41:35.300 regardless of what

00:41:36.520 the grieving families want.

00:41:38.660 If that were the case,

00:41:39.780 how is that going

00:41:40.500 to be enforced?

00:41:42.060 What if one day

00:41:43.000 he decides to dress

00:41:43.900 like a man

00:41:44.460 and he says,

00:41:44.980 well,

00:41:45.080 my identity today

00:41:45.960 is a man. 0.62

00:41:46.460 You have no ability

00:41:48.880 to run your business

00:41:50.700 as you would like

00:41:51.260 to run your business.

00:41:52.800 But beyond that,

00:41:55.980 what the plaintiff

00:41:57.300 in this case

00:41:57.740 is arguing,

00:41:58.420 the man who wants

00:41:59.380 to dress like a woman,

00:42:00.620 is he says,

00:42:01.100 well,

00:42:01.180 the way you can enforce it

00:42:02.480 is if a guy

00:42:04.480 can pass as a woman, 0.97

00:42:06.820 he looks more like a woman,

00:42:08.140 then he can be allowed

00:42:09.080 to dress like a woman. 0.61

00:42:10.200 But if he can't pass

00:42:11.380 as a woman,

00:42:11.800 then he can dress

00:42:12.340 as a man.

00:42:12.820 That's a reasonable

00:42:13.520 agreement.

00:42:16.340 That's a compromise.

00:42:17.860 That is insane.

00:42:19.060 And that is,

00:42:19.740 talk about the patriarchy.

00:42:20.980 Talk about going back

00:42:21.920 to arcane views of sex.

00:42:24.920 You're now going to

00:42:25.740 leave it up to an employer

00:42:26.760 to decide if a woman 0.87

00:42:28.040 looks womanly enough

00:42:29.040 or too manly

00:42:30.260 or a man looks womanly enough

00:42:31.740 or what?

00:42:32.140 Are you kidding me?

00:42:33.580 This is another irony of it

00:42:35.180 is as feminism 0.96

00:42:36.120 has long broken down

00:42:37.800 boundaries

00:42:38.720 and said,

00:42:40.200 look,

00:42:40.400 if a girl wants 0.98

00:42:41.180 to wear jeans

00:42:42.180 and she doesn't want 0.98

00:42:43.160 to wear a dress,

00:42:43.820 that's okay.

00:42:44.340 It doesn't make her

00:42:44.800 less of a woman. 0.87

00:42:45.460 A little girl

00:42:47.300 can be a tomboy.

00:42:48.780 A little boy

00:42:49.380 can play with dolls.

00:42:51.020 Now we're saying

00:42:51.620 the opposite.

00:42:52.220 We're saying

00:42:52.660 women must look 1.00

00:42:55.660 womanly. 0.86

00:42:56.520 They must wear dresses.

00:42:58.480 And men,

00:42:59.300 I don't know,

00:42:59.620 they have to be cowboys.

00:43:00.480 They have to wear jeans

00:43:01.080 or something.

00:43:01.860 They want to have it

00:43:03.140 both ways

00:43:03.820 on this issue.

00:43:04.740 But this makes

00:43:05.440 no sense whatsoever.

00:43:06.800 I'm hopeful

00:43:07.480 that this will win

00:43:08.360 at the Supreme Court.

00:43:09.380 But this is the issue.

00:43:10.580 I mean,

00:43:10.740 you have got this issue

00:43:11.580 coming down the Supreme Court

00:43:12.620 and you could have

00:43:13.520 gender identity

00:43:14.740 firmly implanted

00:43:16.700 in American law

00:43:17.620 all the way down

00:43:18.360 from the Supreme Court.

00:43:19.220 The stakes are very high.

00:43:20.060 We're going to be

00:43:20.380 following that case

00:43:21.140 as we will all of these

00:43:22.440 crazy gender questions.

00:43:23.600 In the meantime,

00:43:24.200 though,

00:43:25.000 we've run out of time.

00:43:25.820 So get your mailbag questions

00:43:26.740 and I'll see you tomorrow.

00:43:27.680 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:44:00.960 Hey guys,

00:44:01.360 over on the Matt Wall Show today,

00:44:02.740 the largest teachers union

00:44:03.960 in America

00:44:04.540 has just come out

00:44:05.620 full throttle

00:44:06.380 for abortion,

00:44:07.640 radically pro-abortion.

00:44:09.160 I think it may be time

00:44:10.240 to start homeschooling.

00:44:11.040 I've always thought that,

00:44:11.920 but I especially think it now.

00:44:13.460 Also,

00:44:14.360 there is an effort afoot

00:44:15.800 to stop the teens

00:44:17.040 from vaping.

00:44:18.180 And those efforts

00:44:18.940 have gotten

00:44:19.540 exceedingly corny.

00:44:21.620 And we'll discuss

00:44:22.280 the latest example.

00:44:23.300 And finally,

00:44:23.960 is air conditioning

00:44:24.880 sexist?

00:44:26.580 I can't believe

00:44:27.460 it's necessary

00:44:28.100 to have that conversation,

00:44:29.240 but it is.

00:44:30.760 So we will

00:44:31.640 today

00:44:32.220 on the Matt Wall Show.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 10, 2019

Ep. 379 - Why AOC Is Wrong About Gender, Patriarchy, And Everything Else

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