The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 401 - Save The Planet： Don’t Recycle


Summary

The San Francisco Airport has officially banned plastic water bottles. Then, Joe Biden releases his first televised campaign ad. Finally, a new study published in an influential journal may have just confirmed 75 years of kooky, cranky, far-right conspiracy theories.


Transcript

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00:00:37.640 The San Francisco airport has officially banned plastic water bottles.
00:00:42.500 In a city teeming with human feces and used syringes, hydration for travelers is officially a bridge too far.
00:00:50.540 Ironically, a number of studies show the ever-multiplying environmental regulations not only don't help the environment,
00:00:56.980 but they actually hurt the environment.
00:00:59.100 We will examine the real purpose behind the rules.
00:01:02.500 Then, Joe Biden releases his first televised campaign ad, and the title is absolutely hilarious and completely oblivious.
00:01:11.400 We'll get to that.
00:01:12.220 Finally, a new study published in an influential journal may have just confirmed 75 years of kooky, cranky, far-right conspiracy theories.
00:01:22.640 All that and more.
00:01:23.380 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:25.140 What a show today.
00:01:33.620 Thank goodness I have my reusable leftist tears tumbler.
00:01:37.500 Otherwise, I think the police would come in and arrest me.
00:01:41.360 I think it would be a capital offense if I had a reusable water bottle here.
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00:03:53.720 We have got to talk about something that's not as comfortable, that's not as convenient,
00:04:00.420 that's not as luxurious, and that is all these stupid environmental regulations that
00:04:04.600 are coming out.
00:04:05.360 San Francisco airport has officially banned plastic water bottles.
00:04:10.800 That's the great scourge.
00:04:12.120 This is the great political issue of our day, not open borders, immigration, economic turmoil,
00:04:17.720 trade, war, IP theft.
00:04:20.580 No, no, no.
00:04:22.240 The big issue is plastic water bottles.
00:04:26.080 This new regulation comes three years after California banned single-use plastic grocery
00:04:32.820 bags.
00:04:34.080 Thank goodness we got rid of that.
00:04:35.500 The earth was hurtling toward Armageddon, but then we got rid of single-use plastic grocery
00:04:40.060 bags, and finally the earth was saved.
00:04:43.000 This, of course, all comes at the same time that we cannot get plastic drinking straws any
00:04:51.160 longer.
00:04:52.100 We've gotten rid of the plastic drinking straws.
00:04:55.720 Our civilization will be saved.
00:04:58.220 You can shoot heroin in the streets of San Francisco outside of an elementary school, and
00:05:04.840 the government will give you free needles.
00:05:07.660 But if you sip your iced coffee out of a plastic drinking straw, that is nearly a capital offense,
00:05:16.060 I think.
00:05:16.380 I think they're increasing the severity of that crime.
00:05:20.900 This plastic water bottle ban is incredibly stupid, and it's not just stupid because it
00:05:27.760 won't have that much of an impact.
00:05:30.540 It's stupid because the purpose isn't to help the environment.
00:05:34.540 The purpose is just to harm you, like all of these other regulations and bans.
00:05:40.500 It's not about the environment.
00:05:42.040 It's about inconveniencing you.
00:05:45.460 Here's how you know, by the way.
00:05:46.940 In San Francisco airport now, the ban is only affecting water bottles.
00:05:52.400 But you know, you go into the store at the airport or any deli or any convenience store,
00:05:57.340 they don't just sell water bottles.
00:05:58.700 They sell soda bottles, iced tea bottles, Gatorade, juice drinks, all these different kinds
00:06:03.260 of drinks.
00:06:03.980 All of those are fine at San Francisco airport.
00:06:06.280 The only one you can't get is a water bottle.
00:06:11.260 Why is it?
00:06:12.000 Because travel dehydrates you.
00:06:14.120 I've learned this the hard way.
00:06:15.540 One time I flew to New York for a bachelor party, so I was already a little dehydrated.
00:06:19.100 I get on the airplane, and I forgot that travel dehydrates you.
00:06:22.240 I felt like I was in the middle of the Sahara desert.
00:06:24.980 Men lose up to half a gallon of water from their bodies during a 10-hour flight.
00:06:31.360 It's a lot of water.
00:06:33.580 And you are also not allowed to bring any liquid past security in airports.
00:06:38.980 So what are you supposed to do now?
00:06:40.980 You're supposed to suffer.
00:06:42.820 That's it.
00:06:43.160 I guess you could bring, I don't know, a metallic water bottle or a reusable water bottle that's
00:06:48.260 empty through security and then go to the one water fountain somewhere in the airport
00:06:53.640 or you can go into the airport bathroom and fill up your water bottle.
00:06:57.420 Doesn't that sound delicious?
00:06:58.340 Doesn't that sound really appetizing?
00:07:00.980 Or you can suffer.
00:07:02.480 And that's what they want you to do.
00:07:03.500 They want you to suffer.
00:07:04.400 The whole point of this is inconvenience.
00:07:06.600 You saw this with the plastic grocery bag ban.
00:07:09.380 So three years ago in California, other states have followed suit.
00:07:12.320 But in 2016 in California, they banned single-use plastic grocery bags.
00:07:18.040 New York followed California this past March.
00:07:21.860 And when they did that, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, he declared that the ban would
00:07:27.120 quote, help reduce the litter in our communities, protect our water, and create a cleaner and
00:07:32.940 greener New York for all.
00:07:34.820 So that's what happened, right?
00:07:36.140 That's obviously what happened.
00:07:37.760 No, actually, of course not.
00:07:40.200 Plastic pollution got significantly worse.
00:07:43.180 We haven't seen the effect in New York yet because it just happened.
00:07:46.860 But in California, the ban actually caused more plastic pollution.
00:07:51.800 How did it do that?
00:07:52.460 How do we know that?
00:07:53.300 There was a study out of the University of Sydney that showed that the ban on the single-use,
00:07:57.740 little, thin, nothing plastic grocery bags led to a massive increase in the sale of thicker,
00:08:04.020 more environmentally damaging plastic garbage bags.
00:08:09.100 So, you know, the kind you line your garbage with at home.
00:08:11.900 How does that work?
00:08:13.360 What is the relationship between grocery bags and garbage bags that none of these economists
00:08:17.680 or none of these regulators or none of these environmental activists could have thought of?
00:08:21.660 Well, you know from your own use.
00:08:23.980 Back in the good old days when we had plastic grocery bags, you would go, you'd get all
00:08:27.360 your groceries, and then you'd save your plastic grocery bags, right?
00:08:30.940 And if you're anything like my family, you'd save like 300 of them.
00:08:34.340 You'd never use as many as you actually got, so you just have them in a pantry somewhere.
00:08:37.820 But you would use them.
00:08:39.080 You would slowly use them, and the way you would use them is to line your small little
00:08:43.260 garbage, garbages, your little trash bins.
00:08:47.080 And that was very easy.
00:08:48.360 It was, it was actually an organic way to recycle.
00:08:52.600 Because you got these bags, you don't want to go out and buy new garbage bags.
00:08:55.900 There's no reason to do that.
00:08:56.880 So you figure, okay, make use with that.
00:08:58.580 Throw your trash away, put that in the trash, throw it out, you're good to go.
00:09:00.940 Now that you can't do that, now that those bags don't exist, people have to line their
00:09:07.780 trash bins somehow, so they're going out there buying much more environmentally damaging
00:09:11.400 bags.
00:09:12.060 Okay.
00:09:12.600 Well, at least it's better as far as the grocery bags themselves are concerned, right?
00:09:17.860 Wrong.
00:09:18.500 Another study showed that paper bags, which is what replaced the single-use plastic bags,
00:09:23.120 are actually worse for the environment than the single-use plastic bags.
00:09:27.320 How do we know that?
00:09:28.160 Britain's environmental agency showed in 2011, that far back, eight years ago, that you would
00:09:33.880 have to reuse a paper bag, a paper grocery bag, three times if you wanted to bring its
00:09:39.480 environmental impact down to the level of a single-use plastic bag.
00:09:44.340 Now, do you ever reuse paper bags?
00:09:46.600 No, nobody does.
00:09:47.480 You just throw them out.
00:09:49.940 Ironically, you do reuse the environmentally pretty fine plastic bags, but you don't reuse
00:09:57.480 the paper bags.
00:09:58.100 So they're actually much worse for the environment.
00:10:00.020 Why is that?
00:10:01.260 It takes a lot more energy to make the paper bags.
00:10:05.000 You have to create the pulp.
00:10:06.100 You have to manufacture the paper bag.
00:10:08.480 And in all of that energy and all of that time, you could have just made that single-use,
00:10:13.060 very thin plastic bag from oil.
00:10:16.020 Okay, then.
00:10:17.140 Okay, then, Michael, you conservative, you anti-environmentalist.
00:10:21.780 Then forget the plastic bags.
00:10:25.480 Forget the paper bags.
00:10:26.780 I know.
00:10:27.820 I know the way that we can save the environment, right?
00:10:29.880 This is what all the activists tell you.
00:10:32.080 It's what, at the grocery store checkout, what they tell you.
00:10:34.720 You can buy one of those reusable cotton bags.
00:10:39.840 You ever see, oh, those are great bags, right?
00:10:41.600 That's the best.
00:10:42.480 That's when you really want to protect the planet from global warming.
00:10:45.140 You buy those bags.
00:10:46.120 All the most liberal people you know have those bags.
00:10:48.560 They bring them back and forth.
00:10:50.200 That's better for the environment, right?
00:10:52.040 No, that's the worst for the environment of all.
00:10:54.920 A headline from Quartz came out just this past April.
00:10:59.380 Quote, your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag.
00:11:06.260 Don't take my word for it.
00:11:07.840 Listen to the scientists.
00:11:09.300 2018 study from Denmark's Ministry of Environment and Food found that cotton shopping bags need
00:11:15.800 to be reused.
00:11:17.020 How many times?
00:11:17.700 You want to guess?
00:11:18.560 So if you want to bring the paper bag down to the environmental impact level of a plastic bag,
00:11:24.960 you got to reuse it three times.
00:11:26.880 Do you know how many times you got to reuse a cotton shopping bag?
00:11:31.380 20,000 times.
00:11:35.800 I'm not going to go to the grocery store 20,000 times in my life.
00:11:39.520 I go like twice a year anyway, but you're not going to do it.
00:11:42.420 And really what people do is they buy the bags and they use them one or two times and
00:11:45.380 they forget about them and then they lose them somewhere.
00:11:47.700 And then you buy another bag.
00:11:49.540 So now you're up to 40,000 times.
00:11:51.560 How many times are you going to repeat that cycle?
00:11:55.140 You're going to have to reuse these bags like 200,000 times before you can bring the environmental
00:12:00.400 impact down to a single plastic bag.
00:12:03.800 This was the worst option.
00:12:08.420 So what did this study out of Denmark find?
00:12:10.160 What is the best way to protect the environment in your grocery shopping endeavors?
00:12:17.760 The good old plastic grocery bag.
00:12:22.560 Now, okay, maybe the environmentalists just got it wrong.
00:12:25.300 They, look, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
00:12:27.700 Sure enough.
00:12:28.400 Now they've seen the error of their ways.
00:12:31.420 Have the environmentalists changed their tune?
00:12:33.540 Are they saying, oh gosh, we got to ban those cotton bags.
00:12:36.000 Let's bring back those plastic bags.
00:12:37.300 No, of course not because it's not about protecting the environment.
00:12:40.640 It's just about inconveniencing you.
00:12:44.180 This is a big difference between conservationism and environmentalism.
00:12:51.100 Conservation, Teddy Roosevelt loved conservation, right?
00:12:53.440 A lot of conservatives love conservation.
00:12:55.140 It's where we protect the natural environment because we like it.
00:12:58.460 We like the beautiful landscapes.
00:13:00.680 We like the deer.
00:13:01.880 We want to protect all the deer so that we can go out and hunt and kill the deer and then
00:13:05.580 eat the deer.
00:13:06.300 We like the environment for our pleasure.
00:13:09.680 Environmentalism flips that calculus.
00:13:12.340 And in environmentalism, it is no longer the idea that we're preserving the environment
00:13:16.880 for our benefit.
00:13:18.740 It's that we are serving the environment.
00:13:21.800 We are wicked, awful, terrible polluters.
00:13:24.100 And the environment is this beautiful quasi-divine deity, I guess.
00:13:30.520 This quasi-divine being.
00:13:32.360 And we need to serve the environment.
00:13:34.200 We need to save the earth as though the earth could be saved.
00:13:38.200 What does that even mean?
00:13:39.660 This religion of environmentalism has taken the place of traditional religion.
00:13:48.380 It offers all the elements of religion.
00:13:50.260 It offers sin in pollution.
00:13:52.500 It offers atonement in recycling.
00:13:55.380 It offers Armageddon in global warming, which is going to kill us in 14 months or 12 months
00:13:59.960 or 10 months or 12 years or 35 years or whatever it is now.
00:14:03.060 It even offers the sale of indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits.
00:14:08.400 It is a religious system.
00:14:11.520 Everybody's got to serve somebody.
00:14:13.200 And as traditional religious observance has waned, environmentalism, among other leftist
00:14:19.560 ideologies, has risen up to fill that void.
00:14:23.040 You see this perhaps most clearly, not even just in the United States with the plastic water
00:14:28.620 bans in San Francisco airport.
00:14:32.560 Look over in the United Kingdom.
00:14:34.660 Two big stories out of the United Kingdom.
00:14:36.320 A 34-year-old mother of three put her recycling in the wrong color bag.
00:14:44.140 So, you know, here we have black bags for trash or white bags for trash, and then we have blue
00:14:47.740 bags for recycling.
00:14:49.480 I guess they have the same in the UK.
00:14:50.520 And she went to her borough council to get the correct bags to be used for recycling, and
00:14:56.480 they didn't give her the bags.
00:14:58.200 So then she got permission to use the black bag, which is usually for trash, for her recycling.
00:15:03.540 So she's still recycling.
00:15:04.820 She's still separating it and putting her recycling out there.
00:15:07.140 Do you know what happened to this poor woman?
00:15:11.820 She was arrested and thrown in jail for still recycling, but not recycling in the correct color bag.
00:15:21.520 How did they catch her?
00:15:23.800 They found her on a closed circuit TV camera putting out the wrong color bag on the day for the recycling.
00:15:30.740 So they arrested her and threw her in jail.
00:15:35.020 The color of the bags in no way affects the environment, right?
00:15:39.160 Of course not.
00:15:40.060 But it does affect the moral dictates of the Church of Environmentalism.
00:15:44.620 Also in the UK, completely on the other side of this, the country's most prominent environmental
00:15:50.660 activists, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, just flew on a private jet to stay with their
00:15:58.500 good friend Elton John in Nice.
00:16:00.460 This was their fourth trip on a private jet in 11 days.
00:16:05.500 Fine, I don't care.
00:16:06.460 They can fly on as many private jets as they want, except at the exact same time, just last
00:16:10.920 month, Harry and Meghan posted on Instagram about how important it is to protect the environment.
00:16:16.180 This is the post, quote, as a continuation of our monthly social awareness approach to
00:16:21.680 shine a light on the accounts that are working toward positive change.
00:16:24.920 For the month of July, we turn our attention to the environment.
00:16:28.020 There is a ticking clock to protect our environment with climate change, the deterioration of our
00:16:33.480 natural resources, endangerment of sacred wildlife, sacred, like we're worshiping the wildlife.
00:16:39.380 What does that even mean?
00:16:40.040 The impact of plastics and microplastics and fossil fuel emissions, you know, like the
00:16:46.560 sort that are emitted from private jets.
00:16:48.780 The post goes on.
00:16:50.220 We are jeopardizing this beautiful place we call home for ourselves and for future generations.
00:16:55.780 Let's save it.
00:16:57.240 Let's do our part.
00:16:59.300 Okay.
00:16:59.860 Now, you could say it was just some staffer at the palace posting that Harry and Meghan didn't
00:17:07.400 post that.
00:17:07.900 They don't, they're not really that intense about the environmental thing.
00:17:11.260 They're not really being hypocrites.
00:17:12.880 They're, they're just caught up in, in the royal family.
00:17:15.780 No, no, it goes on.
00:17:17.260 The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, gives a quote, quote, environmental damage has been treated as a
00:17:24.280 necessary byproduct of economic growth.
00:17:26.420 So deeply ingrained is this thinking that it has been considered part of the natural order that
00:17:31.300 humankind's development comes at the expense of our planet.
00:17:34.060 Only now are we starting to notice and understand the damage that we've been causing.
00:17:38.960 With nearly 7.7 billion people inhabiting this earth, every choice, every footprint, every action
00:17:44.620 makes a difference.
00:17:46.620 Please visit the accounts we're following this month to figure out how you can create change
00:17:50.940 and help save our planet.
00:17:52.700 We can only do this together and every little bit helps.
00:17:56.760 Every little bit helps.
00:17:58.160 Every footprint, every action makes a difference.
00:18:01.660 Except for private jets, four times in 11 days.
00:18:05.640 Economic growth is the problem.
00:18:07.220 You see, economic growth is not worth environmental degradation.
00:18:11.560 A trip to Uncle Elton's house in Nice, that is worth environmental degradation, but not economic
00:18:16.320 growth.
00:18:16.580 Because economic growth just affects like all those poor people, all those common people.
00:18:22.520 It doesn't look as good on an Instagram post when you're the prince.
00:18:27.820 This is religious hypocrisy.
00:18:30.600 This is the same as any other sort of religious hypocrisy.
00:18:33.360 The guy who sits in the front pew at church on Sunday and then he spends Monday through Saturday
00:18:38.620 boozing and gambling and womanizing and lying and cheating.
00:18:41.340 It's not just failing to live up to one's own standards, which we all do.
00:18:47.020 We all fail to live up to our standards.
00:18:49.100 That's not an argument against having standards.
00:18:51.600 It's not just like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and these other leftist environmentalists
00:18:56.680 who take private jets everywhere, you know, Leo DiCaprio or somebody.
00:18:59.900 It's not just that they're failing to live up to their own standards.
00:19:03.320 It's not just that they're failing to live according to their ideology.
00:19:06.840 They're just ignoring their ideology.
00:19:08.620 They just do it.
00:19:09.400 They just fly private four times in 11 days.
00:19:12.520 They don't really believe what they're saying.
00:19:14.680 They're just pretending to believe it to conform to what has become the new secular moral order,
00:19:20.460 a big part of which is environmentalism.
00:19:22.900 They want you to pretend to care about nature and then not do anything to protect it.
00:19:28.460 But you got to pretend because we need a moral order and in a secular atheistic society,
00:19:33.700 environmentalism is going to fill that gap.
00:19:35.320 I think you should do the opposite of that.
00:19:36.980 I think you should stop virtue signaling on the environment.
00:19:39.880 I think you should not yammer on about the environment and post about it on Instagram.
00:19:43.680 And then you should protect the natural environment because it's nice and I like beautiful things.
00:19:48.740 And by the way, if you want to protect the natural environment,
00:19:51.760 when you're picking out your grocery bag,
00:19:54.600 save the earth.
00:19:55.400 Don't recycle.
00:19:59.160 We've got to get on to 2020.
00:20:00.680 2020 is, I've got to move away from the environment.
00:20:03.440 I'm getting too wrapped up here in saving the earth by constantly using plastic grocery bags.
00:20:09.260 So we've got to move on to 2020, which it won't matter if we save the planet anyway
00:20:13.100 because our country is going to be in ashes if the Democrats win.
00:20:16.140 Joe Biden has released his first TV ad and you could not have possibly scripted this ad any better.
00:20:24.720 Joe Biden, the 76-year-old doddering candidate in the race who can't even remember his own URL for his campaign website,
00:20:32.940 he has titled his first TV ad,
00:20:36.880 Bones.
00:20:37.960 Take a listen.
00:20:39.600 We know in our bones this election is different.
00:20:42.820 Stop it right there.
00:20:43.900 We know, we know in our bones,
00:20:48.420 we feel it in our bones that this election is different.
00:20:52.460 I feel it in my bones because I don't have anything else to feel.
00:20:56.620 I'm Joe Biden, a bag of bones.
00:20:59.460 Vote for me to be your president.
00:21:02.140 I'm a skeleton.
00:21:03.640 Joe Biden really leaning in to the age issue.
00:21:09.140 I just, it's like this classic thing with Biden.
00:21:12.500 He can't help but put his foot in his mouth.
00:21:16.320 I mean, even this, who cares, right?
00:21:18.720 I mean, he's, he's an old guy, but just, you know, if you're writing this,
00:21:21.280 if it's going through all the different stages of production, post-production, it's being released.
00:21:25.100 This is your first television ad.
00:21:27.100 Like, don't call it bone.
00:21:28.700 Don't, don't call it bones.
00:21:30.240 Don't use bones as the first.
00:21:31.640 It just reminds people that you are a thousand years old.
00:21:35.000 The stakes are higher, the threat more serious.
00:21:39.820 We have to beat Donald Trump.
00:21:42.040 And all the polls agree Joe Biden is the strongest Democrat to do the job.
00:21:46.520 No one is more qualified.
00:21:48.480 For eight years, President Obama and Vice President Biden were an administration America could be proud of.
00:21:54.700 Our allies could trust and our kids could look up to.
00:21:57.540 Together, they work to save the American economy, to pass the historic Affordable Care Act,
00:22:03.240 protecting over 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.
00:22:07.300 Now, Joe Biden is running for president with a plan for America's future.
00:22:11.680 To build on Obamacare, not scrap it.
00:22:14.020 To make a record investment in America's schools.
00:22:16.600 To lead the world on climate.
00:22:18.560 To rebuild our alliances.
00:22:20.520 Most of all, he'll restore the soul of the nation.
00:22:23.200 Biden, battered by an erratic, vicious, bullying president.
00:22:26.760 Strong, steady, stable leadership.
00:22:29.880 Biden, president.
00:22:31.360 I'm Joe Biden, and I approve this message.
00:22:34.180 Okay, let's break this down.
00:22:35.640 Because it's not a great ad, but I think it's signaling that the Biden campaign is moving closer to the right direction.
00:22:43.800 There are four parts to this ad, other than him talking about how he feels aches in his bones,
00:22:50.720 like osteoarthritis or whatever he feels.
00:22:53.200 The first part is that Trump is a racist.
00:22:57.100 So, this is how he launched his presidential campaign.
00:23:00.820 The first lines out of his mouth in his announcement video were perpetuating that Charlottesville hoax
00:23:08.380 that President Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists very fine people.
00:23:12.100 Even though you can see in the video footage, Trump explicitly condemns the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists.
00:23:17.860 That was the pitch from the beginning.
00:23:19.700 Trump is a racist, vote for me.
00:23:21.460 And he's keeping this up here.
00:23:22.960 You see the images from Charlottesville and the tiki torches and the white supremacists saying Trump is a racist.
00:23:28.920 All right.
00:23:29.920 The next part of the ad is Biden is the most electable.
00:23:34.260 This is the, probably the weakest part of the whole ad in terms of the Democratic electorate.
00:23:42.240 They already got burned on this argument.
00:23:44.280 Hillary's argument in 2016 was vote for Hillary.
00:23:47.020 Hillary is the most electable.
00:23:48.420 Don't vote for Bernie Sanders.
00:23:49.860 Don't vote for that other guy who played guitar on The View.
00:23:52.160 What was his name?
00:23:52.700 Martin O'Malley.
00:23:53.620 Don't vote for anyone else.
00:23:54.820 I mean, don't vote for any of the other candidates who wanted to get into the race, but didn't because Hillary was the inevitable electable candidate, actually including Joe Biden.
00:24:03.500 Don't do that.
00:24:04.580 Hillary's the most electable.
00:24:05.740 And then guess what?
00:24:06.560 She didn't get elected.
00:24:07.500 So I don't think the electability argument is really going to work.
00:24:10.760 This was the argument for John Kerry in 2004.
00:24:13.160 Vote for John Kerry.
00:24:14.200 He's moderate.
00:24:14.900 He's normal.
00:24:15.520 He's the most electable.
00:24:17.100 Guess what?
00:24:17.520 He didn't get elected.
00:24:18.100 Actually, one of the arguments against Barack Obama in 2008 and for Hillary Clinton was Hillary is the electable candidate and America's never going to elect a guy named Barack Hussein Obama to be the president.
00:24:32.640 Even forget the issue of race.
00:24:34.320 Even just his name sounds so foreign.
00:24:36.520 We obviously were just fighting a war against a man named Saddam Hussein.
00:24:40.700 It ain't going to work.
00:24:41.400 Don't vote for him.
00:24:41.900 He's not electable.
00:24:42.500 And then what happened?
00:24:43.560 He did get elected because he actually offered a vision.
00:24:48.100 It was a pretty vague vision.
00:24:49.640 It was a pretty leftist vision.
00:24:51.600 But he offered something that Hillary Clinton did not.
00:24:54.580 And Joe Biden is falling into this trap of just vote for me.
00:24:57.200 I'm the most electable.
00:24:58.160 You're only the most electable if you get elected, buddy.
00:25:00.440 And Joe Biden's poll numbers are still strong.
00:25:02.680 He's still leading the pack.
00:25:03.860 But just barely.
00:25:04.940 One poll has him tied with Elizabeth Warren at this point statistically.
00:25:08.140 And he keeps dropping as other candidates keep rising.
00:25:10.800 So that's pretty weak.
00:25:12.020 Then the third part of his ad is pretty good, which is he's tying himself to Obama.
00:25:17.160 It's a tough play because Obama is sort of passe now in the Democratic Party.
00:25:22.760 But if Obama comes out and endorses Biden, that would be a huge help to Biden.
00:25:26.800 Obama hasn't done it yet, but Biden should keep sucking up and try to get him to do it.
00:25:30.880 Michelle Obama is very popular.
00:25:32.400 At this point, she might be more popular than her husband.
00:25:34.780 She had that bestselling book.
00:25:36.380 The Democrats love her.
00:25:37.920 If he could try to get her support, that would be very helpful.
00:25:39.920 Tying him himself to Obama's legacy is probably a good idea in any circumstance.
00:25:45.860 But it's especially an important idea in this circumstance because what else does he have?
00:25:50.860 He's been in politics for 50 years.
00:25:52.660 He didn't accomplish anything in the Senate other than hold up the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991
00:25:58.340 and pass a crime bill in 1994.
00:26:01.140 It was a very good crime bill, but he's got to run away from that aspect of his career now
00:26:05.060 because the Democrats are going soft on crime and law enforcement.
00:26:08.040 So the only thing he's got is that he was the vice president to a relatively popular president named Barack Obama.
00:26:14.660 Tying him, that's a good point.
00:26:16.320 Then he closes the ad on Trump is a jerk, basically.
00:26:19.040 Trump's a terrible guy and I'm going to restore the soul of this nation.
00:26:23.380 Biden has vacillated in this campaign between being the moderate candidate in the Democratic Party.
00:26:29.680 I say moderate, only relatively.
00:26:31.400 He's still a pretty left-wing guy, but compared to, I don't know, Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren,
00:26:40.100 he's pretty moderate.
00:26:42.360 He's vacillated between that and between being the hard left radical,
00:26:48.000 saying he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment.
00:26:49.820 He now supports taxpayer funding for abortion.
00:26:52.360 He's trying to veer to the left.
00:26:53.980 He's not going to win that way.
00:26:55.220 He's not going to win by being somebody other than Joe Biden.
00:26:58.500 So I think if he doubles down on this, I'm the legacy of Obama.
00:27:04.280 I'm going to continue the Obama era.
00:27:09.680 I'm going to bring us all back to that good era before that awful, mean old orange man,
00:27:14.620 the mango Mussolini, came in and made everybody angry.
00:27:18.240 That could go somewhere.
00:27:19.620 But he just keeps putting his foot in his mouth.
00:27:21.560 I'm not convinced that this is going to be enough.
00:27:25.220 Even just the way the ad is made, it's like old TV.
00:27:28.780 It looks like it's from two campaign cycles ago.
00:27:31.220 Meanwhile, you've got President Trump, who is the king of social media.
00:27:34.780 He's always ahead on the media.
00:27:36.440 He's a king of the media and a creation of the media.
00:27:39.960 I mean, he's kept himself in the headlines for 40 years at this point.
00:27:43.520 Someone who's going to use the same old, tired, traditional media strategies,
00:27:47.280 even if he makes it through the primary election.
00:27:49.920 Probably not going to have an easy time in the general.
00:27:51.740 We have got to get to my favorite news story of the entire day,
00:27:56.020 which is about your precious bodily fluids.
00:27:59.560 It's about a conspiracy theory from all those far-right kooks that has gone on for 50 years,
00:28:07.280 more than that, 75 years at this point.
00:28:09.680 And everyone discredited it.
00:28:12.040 And then it turns out a study shows it might have been true.
00:28:14.380 We'll get to that at the end of the show.
00:28:16.080 I've got to bring on my friend Matt Best, who's here.
00:28:18.820 And I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:28:21.520 You are almost out of time to purchase tickets to our backstage live show tomorrow night,
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00:29:12.900 We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:29:13.980 We got to get to my friend, Matt Best.
00:29:27.260 Matt Best, you probably know him as one of the guys over at Black Rifle Coffee Company.
00:29:33.400 Matt has an incredible story.
00:29:35.100 He joined the Army at age 17.
00:29:36.960 He deployed five times to Iraq and Afghanistan with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.
00:29:44.400 Pretty tough guy, you know.
00:29:45.740 After he left the military, he then worked as a contractor with the CIA for five years.
00:29:50.000 Then he gets his bachelor's degree and he starts creating satirical videos.
00:29:53.860 He gets very involved in the media.
00:29:56.300 He helps build brands like Article 15 Clothing, the Drinking Bros podcast, and then, as you would
00:30:02.020 all know, a company that I love, Black Rifle Coffee.
00:30:04.780 So he's got a new book out, and it's got a hilarious title, Thank You for My Service.
00:30:09.220 Matt came by, and we were able to chat for a few minutes while he was going through LA.
00:30:13.840 So without further ado, Matt Best.
00:30:17.060 Matt, thanks for being here.
00:30:18.300 Thank you so much for having me on.
00:30:19.520 I'm excited.
00:30:20.000 By the way, Matt, with a name like Matt Best, you pretty much have to run for Senate, don't you?
00:30:25.260 There's a lot to live up to, especially with one T.
00:30:27.640 It's a little awkward, but...
00:30:28.880 That's true, yeah.
00:30:30.100 Yeah, my parents set me up to hopefully do something great.
00:30:32.460 That's really...
00:30:33.060 Well, you have.
00:30:33.640 You already have done something great.
00:30:35.020 You've got a very hilariously named title for your book, Thank You for My Service.
00:30:40.720 Indeed.
00:30:41.180 And this book covers a lot.
00:30:43.280 I think a lot that people would be interested in.
00:30:45.460 I know people are interested in you because of your coffee.
00:30:48.060 I know that for a fact.
00:30:49.040 I know my listeners are interested in that.
00:30:50.380 But also, you know, it occurs to me, something like 1% of Americans serve in the military at this
00:30:56.440 point.
00:30:57.100 Yep.
00:30:57.200 You know, I have a lot of military members in my family, so I kind of lose sight of that.
00:31:03.000 The majority of Americans probably have little to no contact with anybody who's actually served
00:31:08.120 in the armed forces.
00:31:09.340 That's fair to say.
00:31:10.320 And that's really the whole reason I wanted to write this book, to kind of discuss the
00:31:14.180 internal workings of being in special operations and loving my job.
00:31:17.320 I think too often people that don't understand the veteran community painless is kind of depressive
00:31:23.180 failures and victims.
00:31:24.820 And I think we're the complete antithesis of that.
00:31:27.760 I think that we're successful and motivated.
00:31:29.520 And I kind of wanted to combine that all into one crazy package and then tell some fun war
00:31:34.100 stories.
00:31:34.700 I've had some veteran pals of mine have said this.
00:31:37.100 They say one of the big issues in our current culture, which basically rewards victimhood,
00:31:43.080 you know, this leftist kind of, if you can claim victimhood, you get special privileges,
00:31:47.480 that in some ways it's actually turned military veterans, who should be the most heroic, the
00:31:52.440 most honored, you know, in our society, they've turned them into a special victim class too.
00:31:58.200 Absolutely.
00:31:58.720 I mean, if you look at any Hollywood movie out there, it's just the veteran comes back
00:32:02.120 from war, his puppy dies, he gets addicted to depressive medication, whatever the case,
00:32:07.720 self-medication.
00:32:08.400 And, you know, while there are issues about people coming back from war that need to be
00:32:13.440 addressed, I think the larger part of the veteran community that comes back is motivated
00:32:17.300 and successful.
00:32:18.220 And I really want to change that narrative, um, in Hollywood and just in civilian culture
00:32:22.660 as a whole.
00:32:23.220 So what do you think the biggest misconceptions are?
00:32:25.820 Obviously this idea that military members are.
00:32:28.540 It's victimhood.
00:32:29.020 Exactly what you said.
00:32:29.780 I think when people, they don't know if they say, thank you for your service.
00:32:33.160 Um, but you know, when I come back and someone finds out I have five deployments in a ranger
00:32:37.300 battalion, it's almost like, oh, I can't imagine what you've seen.
00:32:40.660 You know, I signed up for that job to go participate in the defense of America and willingly and knowingly
00:32:46.540 go take care of bad guys that want to kill innocent Americans.
00:32:49.500 So I'm just thankful for the opportunity to go serve my country.
00:32:52.680 And I want people to know that there's guys and gals out there just like that.
00:32:56.100 And you've also, when you came back, you've had an incredibly successful career as a civilian.
00:33:02.520 Yes, I got out and, you know, went through a couple of transition things and then I went
00:33:05.660 as a contractor for five years.
00:33:07.280 So I spent almost three years plus on the ground with, uh, in that capacity, which I learned
00:33:11.760 a lot, uh, from there and then that transitioned into entrepreneurship and trying to create
00:33:16.560 something special.
00:33:18.160 What, what about your military service do you think translated to the business side?
00:33:21.900 Is that, uh, cause we hear, you know, veterans are the best workers, obviously they're very
00:33:26.060 disciplined, obviously they're very courageous.
00:33:29.060 Is that overblown or, or do you think that your experience in the military really has helped
00:33:33.020 you as an entrepreneur?
00:33:34.540 100%.
00:33:34.940 You know, I think something, especially in the special operations community is creative
00:33:38.180 problem solving.
00:33:39.460 So looking at a very complex problem and then activating the team to navigate that.
00:33:44.980 And I think that's what business is.
00:33:46.560 You're presented with all these challenges every day.
00:33:49.120 The stress is immense, but you have to rally that team and solve the problems and keep moving
00:33:53.660 forward.
00:33:54.340 And that's the reason why we hire so many veterans at Black Rifle Coffee for that sole reason
00:33:57.680 is they have such a diverse set of skills that honestly, I don't know where else you'd
00:34:01.720 find someone with that other than the veteran community.
00:34:03.640 And, you know, it's funny because you, you do stand out a little bit to me and that a
00:34:07.780 lot of my veteran friends are, they're not very verbose.
00:34:13.060 They're not very loquacious.
00:34:14.320 They're men of few words and you're, you're kind of like a triple threat.
00:34:17.500 I mean, obviously you've got this service physically, you're like pretty tough guy, wouldn't want
00:34:21.500 to meet you in a back alley anywhere.
00:34:23.400 You also have this business acumen, this business brain, but you're also good on camera.
00:34:28.900 You've also been able to really master this moment in social media, use that to help your
00:34:35.060 business, use that to obviously communicate through your book.
00:34:39.380 Are you unique in that regard?
00:34:40.960 I mean, how did you develop those skills?
00:34:42.460 I don't think so.
00:34:43.100 I've just activated on those skills.
00:34:44.760 You know, again, I don't think that being a veteran should define you for the whole rest
00:34:49.460 of your life.
00:34:50.080 It's merely a guideline of who I am today.
00:34:52.060 And I've always loved art and being a creator and an ideator.
00:34:55.240 And so given the opportunity post-military, I kind of took all my experiences and started
00:35:00.200 YouTube videos to make people laugh and engage my community.
00:35:03.640 And I think that's what's most important about telling this story is whether you're
00:35:07.380 into artistry or drawing or making cups, mugs, whatever you want to chase in life, you can
00:35:12.820 do it and don't let anybody restrict you from doing that.
00:35:15.980 One thing I love about Black Rifle Coffee, actually my favorite thing about Black Rifle Coffee
00:35:19.840 is it's very good tasting coffee.
00:35:23.340 I don't care how many veterans you employ, if it's not good tasting coffee, maybe I'll
00:35:29.420 buy it, but I'll probably just throw it out.
00:35:31.240 I love that it's great tasting coffee.
00:35:34.080 How did you develop that expertise?
00:35:36.360 Where does that come from?
00:35:37.460 Why the passion for coffee?
00:35:39.440 Really, I'm a marketing and branding guy.
00:35:41.680 And so when I co-founded it with Evan Hafer, the CEO, former Green Beret, he used to roast
00:35:46.460 coffee overseas in Iraq and during the invasion and as a CIA contractor.
00:35:50.560 So he really had this massive passion for coffee because it's so communal.
00:35:54.940 Every morning, the team guys would come in, share that cup of coffee, talk about the operation
00:35:59.020 and then go execute on it.
00:36:00.720 And so that's really why we called it Black Rifle.
00:36:03.180 It's a tribute to military service and brotherhood.
00:36:06.220 And obviously, Evan is a coffee nerd, so it's going to be the best tasting coffee out there.
00:36:10.700 But you know, my second favorite thing about Black Rifle, obviously the first, most important
00:36:14.080 has got to be good coffee.
00:36:14.900 Second is, it doesn't hate America.
00:36:17.840 So I go to these other coffee shops and I feel they're a little unpatriotic.
00:36:23.080 I feel they're donating to things that I hate.
00:36:26.000 They're donating to things that seem anti-American.
00:36:28.060 And we have, at this moment, an actual epidemic of anti-Americanism.
00:36:33.380 People protesting the American flag.
00:36:35.400 Betsy Ross is apparently now some kind of bigot.
00:36:37.580 You've got major politicians running for president, Democratic politicians, who are applauding
00:36:43.000 those who would denigrate our flag.
00:36:45.780 Does this anti-Americanism, does this worry you in the long term or do you think it's
00:36:49.820 just some short-term fact?
00:36:50.680 It is the whole reason why we exist because I'm not going to placate the PC culture.
00:36:54.700 We're going to be exactly who we are.
00:36:56.420 Mark Twain, something said to the effect of being a patriot is loving your country all the
00:37:00.160 time and your government when it deserves it.
00:37:02.580 And America stands for unity and just absolute love.
00:37:05.800 I love this country so much.
00:37:06.860 We do so many amazing things.
00:37:08.340 And, you know, I will say something about other corporate entities.
00:37:11.000 When a law enforcement officer is asked to leave my coffee shop, the person that asked
00:37:14.500 that will be escorted out and the law enforcement will be given a free cup of coffee.
00:37:17.800 I can't stand for that.
00:37:18.960 It's absolutely atrocious that we're treating civil servants and veterans this way.
00:37:23.700 It's got to change.
00:37:24.800 And if not, I got to do it, right?
00:37:27.220 And by the way, you know, one of the lines that we keep pointing out is get woke, go broke.
00:37:32.520 So there's this very small group of leftist agitators who wants to tear down the whole
00:37:38.840 country, basically, and they want to protest the flag.
00:37:41.580 And generally speaking, when companies cater to them, their profits decline.
00:37:46.340 Their customer base declines.
00:37:47.540 They start to go out of business.
00:37:48.560 Because they're probably not working, so.
00:37:51.060 That's right, because they're probably not working very hard anyway.
00:37:53.580 But then, you know, your company is kind of just the proof of this is you go out there
00:37:59.080 and you say, look, guys, you can get coffee at a million different places.
00:38:02.680 Here's a cup of coffee that doesn't hate America.
00:38:05.300 And all of a sudden, you become one of the biggest coffee companies in the world.
00:38:08.260 Yeah, I think there's a sense of irreverence and passion for America.
00:38:12.220 And we always say, vote with your dollar.
00:38:14.180 And I think something that we do well is we're a very transparent company in what we do.
00:38:17.780 We show where we donate our funds to, who we're supporting.
00:38:21.260 And if you like us, you can buy it.
00:38:23.120 If you don't, well, then do something else.
00:38:26.040 That's right.
00:38:26.720 It's a vote with your dollar.
00:38:27.680 It's very hard in 2019 to be transparent with a corporate entity and know what they're
00:38:32.160 actually giving.
00:38:33.420 You know, other people say support veterans, but they're throwing money that absolutely
00:38:36.820 doesn't support veterans.
00:38:37.720 And one thing, you know, I also like that you guys have a sense of humor.
00:38:40.160 I find politics these days is so, you know, God, everyone takes themselves so seriously.
00:38:45.900 But you guys have a real sense of humor.
00:38:47.700 You really embrace the love of country with some levity to it, too.
00:38:51.640 You know, I mean, you've got like the Benjamin Franklin, you know, snake, join or die right
00:38:58.180 on the mug.
00:38:59.720 I find a lot of that kind of comedy in the book.
00:39:02.380 I mean, I think a lot of military books also are a little drier.
00:39:06.760 I don't want to be uncharitable, but they're a little drier.
00:39:08.760 Your book is not dry.
00:39:10.160 Yeah, I believe, you know, kind of humor through horror and all the experiences that I've had
00:39:13.880 in my life.
00:39:14.540 And there are people that have done extraordinarily more amounts of stuff in the military than
00:39:18.380 me.
00:39:18.720 But you kind of got to laugh.
00:39:20.440 There's no dress rehearsal in life.
00:39:22.240 And so if you're not smiling and loving and creating community, then why are you even here?
00:39:26.960 Right.
00:39:27.300 And when does the book come out?
00:39:28.400 August 20th.
00:39:29.180 August 20th.
00:39:29.880 So that's coming up.
00:39:30.620 You're probably on a media blitz right now.
00:39:33.500 I'm just excited to be here.
00:39:34.860 So that's right.
00:39:35.600 You know, excited to be here.
00:39:36.640 And I figure, like, first of all, compared to like Ramadi, this isn't that bad.
00:39:40.940 And also, compared to, you know, compared to fighting overseas, probably a media blitz
00:39:45.000 you can handle.
00:39:45.660 Yeah, I think it'll be okay.
00:39:46.700 If you've done something like that before.
00:39:47.880 All right.
00:39:48.160 I can't wait to hear back from everyone else listening on what they think of the book.
00:39:53.860 I know what they think of the coffee.
00:39:55.420 And they love it.
00:39:56.260 Matt, thank you for being here.
00:39:59.020 Thank you for your service.
00:40:00.560 And in terms of my day to day, probably the most important, thank you for your coffee.
00:40:04.960 Oh, appreciate it.
00:40:05.560 Thank you for all three of those, man.
00:40:06.920 And thank you for my service and everything here and having me on the show.
00:40:09.620 All right, Matt.
00:40:10.100 Good to see you.
00:40:10.540 Cheers.
00:40:11.900 All right.
00:40:12.880 Now we've got to talk about something much more important than any of this, which is how
00:40:17.480 we are all Alex Jones now.
00:40:20.200 We're all Alex Jones.
00:40:21.260 This is more important than the environmental protection.
00:40:23.480 This is more important than even Matt's book, even though it's a very good book and I
00:40:27.160 highly recommend you buy it.
00:40:28.420 This is more important than the 2020 election.
00:40:30.960 It's the fact that nobody knows anything.
00:40:37.480 Nobody knows anything.
00:40:38.800 Things we've been told for 50 years, 100 years, they can be upended overnight.
00:40:42.880 The food pyramid.
00:40:43.720 We were told there's the food pyramid.
00:40:44.980 You got to eat a ton of carbs and not a lot of fat.
00:40:46.880 Now the food pyramid is exactly the opposite.
00:40:49.620 Conspiracy theories are popping up and apparently true overnight.
00:40:53.380 One of them is one of the oldest ones in the book.
00:40:57.920 Truly proof that nobody knows anything for decades.
00:41:00.300 The kookiest, crankiest, wackiest conspiracy theorists on the right have harped on one
00:41:05.780 conspiracy theory above almost all the others.
00:41:09.540 That the fluoride that the government puts in drinking water is harmful to us.
00:41:15.060 This began in 1945.
00:41:17.240 The U.S. began fluoridating water because it prevents tooth decay.
00:41:21.480 And the caricature that almost immediately developed of right-wingers was that they all
00:41:26.400 thought that this was a communist plot to destroy us and the fluoride in the water was messing
00:41:31.320 with our brains and affecting us somehow.
00:41:34.380 This was parodied in the great film Dr. Strangelove when the Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper talks
00:41:42.740 about our precious bodily fluids.
00:41:45.900 I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion.
00:41:57.580 Now that part we all agree with.
00:41:59.080 I mean that's just, that's not the conspiracy theory part.
00:42:00.960 But then this is where the caricature comes in.
00:42:02.980 And the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
00:42:14.580 Okay, ha ha ha, you crazy stupid right-wingers.
00:42:17.680 Ha ha ha, you guys are so dumb, right?
00:42:19.520 Well, it turns out the conspiracy theorists very likely have a point.
00:42:23.560 There is a new study out, published in an influential medical journal,
00:42:26.540 that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs.
00:42:34.160 Apparently, the fluoride in the drinking water, according to this study,
00:42:38.700 is so affecting our precious bodily fluids that it's making us all stupider.
00:42:44.480 To put this into perspective, three quarters of the United States drinks fluoridated tap water.
00:42:50.080 And now when I'm at the San Francisco airport,
00:42:52.340 I can't even buy a regular water bottle without any fluoride in it
00:42:55.480 because that's been banned.
00:42:56.760 So I have to bring my own water bottle and fill up the fluoridated tap water.
00:42:59.780 Oh my gosh, maybe this is, all of the conspiracies are just coming together right now.
00:43:05.340 The main takeaway from this is not necessarily that communist infiltration
00:43:10.920 is affecting our precious bodily fluids.
00:43:14.260 I guess it could be.
00:43:15.480 But the main takeaway is that we know much, much less about the material world
00:43:22.640 than we think that we do.
00:43:23.980 We know so much less.
00:43:26.960 We pass these environmental regulations, all these big policies,
00:43:30.760 because we say this is how we're going to help the environment.
00:43:34.260 And guess what we do?
00:43:35.180 Because we're so stupid.
00:43:37.200 We end up harming the environment with the very policies that were intended to help the environment.
00:43:42.980 We tell everybody, you've got to eat the food pyramid.
00:43:45.420 You've got to stuff your face with cereal and pasta and breads.
00:43:49.660 That's how you're going to be healthy.
00:43:50.840 And then, 50 years later, they tell you, actually, we got it a little bit wrong.
00:43:55.080 You actually shouldn't have any of those things at all, ever, but you should eat a lot of fat.
00:44:01.160 And I don't know what it's going to be tomorrow.
00:44:02.720 One day we find out coffee is really healthy for you.
00:44:04.920 The next day we find out coffee is really bad for you.
00:44:06.540 Then the next day it's really healthy for you again.
00:44:08.400 The eggs are really good for you.
00:44:09.700 Then eggs are really bad for you.
00:44:10.780 Then eggs are really good for you again.
00:44:13.560 Global warming is guaranteed going to flood New York by 2013 or 2015 or actually never,
00:44:20.420 but it'll, you know, maybe in a little bit, but we're not quite sure when.
00:44:23.220 The earth is going to end in 10 months, 12 months, 14 months, 35 years, 12 years, 14 years.
00:44:28.360 I don't know, but it's going to end soon.
00:44:32.260 We know much, much less about the material world than we think that we do.
00:44:37.940 Now, what this calls for, my humble suggestion, is a little humility.
00:44:45.080 It's a little humility in your politics.
00:44:47.420 Maybe not passing these sweeping, gigantic, major governmental changes,
00:44:52.920 giving the government huge amounts of power on dubious premises.
00:44:57.460 Maybe being a little cautious.
00:44:59.300 Maybe looking for a little bit of evolution rather than revolution in our politics and our culture.
00:45:05.320 A little bit of humility.
00:45:06.960 And yet we live in a culture right now that celebrates pride.
00:45:09.900 We have whole months where we celebrate pride.
00:45:12.440 Not very promising.
00:45:15.640 This is true not just in our precious bodily fluids in our tap water,
00:45:19.500 not just in environmental regulations, but in everything else too.
00:45:23.640 Healthcare, foreign policy, the economy.
00:45:26.500 A little humility goes a long way.
00:45:28.720 But how can you ever recapture humility in a culture that celebrates pride?
00:45:33.900 That's our problem.
00:45:34.860 We'll have to figure it out.
00:45:35.780 But we won't be able to figure it out today because we're out of time.
00:45:38.680 I will see those of you who are going to be at Long Beach tomorrow live at our Daily Wire backstage live event.
00:45:45.300 No show tomorrow.
00:45:46.120 We'll be back on Thursday and do a Friday show.
00:45:47.900 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.
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