The Michael Knowles Show - October 03, 2019


Ep. 426 - The Kids Are Not Alright


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Students at George Washington University shrieked and they screamed and they stormed out during my speech defending George Washington. Meanwhile, students at the Catholic Notre Dame University performed slam poetry and accused their classmates of murder because they espoused Catholic social views.

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00:00:15.240 Last night, leftist students at George Washington University shrieked and they screamed and they
00:00:21.300 stormed out during my speech because I defended George Washington at George Washington University.
00:00:28.300 Meanwhile, students at the Catholic Notre Dame University performed slam poetry and accused
00:00:34.380 their classmates of murder because, wait for it, those classmates espoused Catholic social 0.92
00:00:41.280 views.
00:00:42.500 Conservatives' knee-jerk reaction to these kids is to blame them as wacky and snowflakes
00:00:47.500 and all of that's obviously true, but we will examine whether or not there is some deeper
00:00:51.520 reason why the kids obviously are not all right.
00:00:54.840 Then, a profoundly moving moment at Amber Geiger's murder trial, Maxine Waters' chickens
00:01:01.660 come home to roost, and finally the mailbag.
00:01:03.800 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:12.560 So I'm at George Washington University last night in D.C.
00:01:16.420 and this is the third stop on this year's campus tour on the Men Are Not Women and Other
00:01:22.560 Uncomfortable Truths tour. And the reason the tour is called Men Are Not Women and Other 0.78
00:01:26.280 Uncomfortable Truths is because last spring, when I was at the University of Missouri-Kansas
00:01:30.900 City, I gave what I figured was my blandest speech ever, which was called Men Are Not 0.99
00:01:36.720 Women. If you'd gone back three years and told somebody that this would be a controversial 1.00
00:01:40.520 speech, they would laugh in your face. But at that speech, the students shrieked and
00:01:45.720 they screamed and they stormed out and one guy attacked me with a super soaker full
00:01:48.700 of we don't know what kind of creepy chemicals. So I thought that was it. That was the peak
00:01:54.520 of basic facts about life that could make left-wingers irate. Until I went to George Washington
00:02:02.940 University because I was invited to George Washington University to give a speech defending
00:02:07.740 George Washington and specifically their mascot, which is George the Colonial, who is George
00:02:12.900 Washington. I figured this should be pretty easy. Not only am I defending one of the greatest
00:02:17.840 men to ever live in the father of our country, first in war, first in peace, and first in
00:02:21.480 the hearts of his countrymen, I'm doing it at George Washington University. And I know
00:02:26.320 the universities are crazy now, but you figure if you choose to go to a university called
00:02:31.880 George Washington University, probably you at least don't hate George Washington. I was
00:02:38.440 so wrong, how wrong I was. I'm giving the speech, about 10 minutes in, some alarm goes off.
00:02:43.880 And as I'm just describing some of George Washington's historical feats, some pretty basic aspect of
00:02:52.100 Washington's life, these students leap to their feet and start shrieking profanities, vulgarities, 0.78
00:02:58.740 F you, F you, you're a fascist. And I was standing there asking them, what did I say that you object
00:03:06.260 to? What did I say that is making you call me all these things and making you have this hysterical,
00:03:11.540 emotional breakdown in a classroom? None of them could give any sort of answer. Here's just a short
00:03:16.880 taste of the students leaping to their feet.
00:03:19.880 These guys are really proving me wrong. You see, because my purpose was, that these students,
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00:03:47.840 So it's hard to hear over the shrieks and the shame and fascists and all this.
00:04:03.600 But what I mentioned is that a lot of the reason why left-wingers at colleges get upset by George Washington
00:04:12.640 or they get upset by Christopher Columbus or they get upset by America itself
00:04:16.280 is because of ignorance, because they're uneducated.
00:04:19.940 And obviously, students are uneducated.
00:04:21.940 They're getting educated.
00:04:22.820 That's why they're students.
00:04:24.020 But they're particularly uneducated these days because they have not been taught the history of their own country.
00:04:30.060 And in many ways, they've been taught an anti-history of their country,
00:04:32.860 written by left-wing polemicists like Howard Zinn, for instance, who wrote People's History of the United States.
00:04:38.180 So I made this point.
00:04:39.480 And then right on cue, these kids jump up and start shrieking nonsense.
00:04:44.060 And I said, you know, you're really not disproving my point here, kids.
00:04:48.780 If the point you're trying to make is that you're really not uneducated and you're really not emotionally volatile and wacky,
00:04:56.540 then probably this is not the sort of behavior you should engage in.
00:04:59.960 So the kids finally storm out and we go on with the rest of the lecture.
00:05:07.060 This has happened to me a few times on campuses.
00:05:09.160 Ironically, it always happens when I'm discussing the blandest topics.
00:05:12.840 But I notice in this culture, it's the most basic truths that are the truths that the left wants to deny.
00:05:19.800 They have to force you to not believe your own lying eyes.
00:05:23.920 So they have to force you not to believe that men are different than women.
00:05:27.940 They have to force you to believe that men are the same as women. 0.87
00:05:29.900 And if you challenge this, then they'll shriek at you.
00:05:33.400 They have to force you to believe that your country, America, is just absolutely rotten to the core and nobody's more rotten than the founder of the country.
00:05:40.300 And if you say, no, that really isn't backed up by any historical evidence, they'll shriek and they'll scream and they'll shout.
00:05:47.560 It's very easy to just laugh at the snowflakes and drink their leftist tears.
00:05:52.400 I do that.
00:05:53.100 I enjoy doing that.
00:05:54.200 But also, we need to ask ourselves, why is this happening?
00:05:59.800 What does it say about the culture and how can we fix it?
00:06:02.400 Because it's not just happening at GW.
00:06:04.180 Another viral video came out of Notre Dame.
00:06:07.780 I went to Notre Dame.
00:06:08.740 I was actually defending another historical figure.
00:06:10.480 They're Christopher Columbus.
00:06:11.860 And some students protested all of that.
00:06:14.620 But just this week, we had a bunch of students put out this video and it went viral on the internet where the students were lambasting their classmates for holding Catholic views.
00:06:29.740 So this was a group of leftist students who were accusing their classmates of being homophobic and transphobic and murderers even because they believe in Christian sexual ethics, because they believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
00:06:46.700 I know that I don't need to remind you, Notre Dame means Our Lady.
00:06:51.320 Notre Dame is a Catholic university, or at least it used to be.
00:06:54.500 It's nominally a Catholic university.
00:06:56.480 It's really the most famous Catholic university in the United States.
00:06:59.860 And these students who chose to go to Notre Dame, who are Notre Dame students, they went there.
00:07:04.940 It's like the students who choose to go to George Washington University, even though they hate George Washington.
00:07:09.160 These are students who chose to go to a Catholic university, are shocked and appalled that some of their classmates are Catholics. 0.50
00:07:16.140 And they're shocked and appalled and they want to shut them down.
00:07:18.500 And they want these students not to be allowed to have their clubs and not to be allowed to publish their thoughts and to espouse Catholic social views.
00:07:25.300 So they decided the best way that they could get their message out was through performance art and slam poetry.
00:07:32.220 And slam poetry is the death of art.
00:07:35.320 Slam poetry is, I know it's not considered a crime in the U.S. legal code, though of course it should be. 1.00
00:07:42.040 And I intend to lobby my congressman to make it a crime.
00:07:45.220 It is such an offense against art.
00:07:48.440 It is such an offense against beauty.
00:07:51.120 But this is the way they do it because the left loves this form of art.
00:07:54.780 And they love all forms of art that are destructive and ugly.
00:07:58.180 So here is just a little taste of these kids, these leftist students at Notre Dame, lambasting, baselessly smearing their classmates of murder because they can't understand why students at a Catholic university might be Catholic.
00:08:13.700 Your homophobic discourse soiled my air supply.
00:08:17.740 Your ivory tower theology slit my loved one's throats.
00:08:21.780 I'm trying to go to class without dead friends in my backpack.
00:08:25.020 Just trying to touch my girl's shoulder in the grass.
00:08:28.140 You want to unaffirm me, to lobotomize me with a crowbar.
00:08:32.620 While the murdered trans angels, 18 this year yet, leak brimstone into your praying mouths. 0.99
00:08:38.560 Students for Child-Oriented Policy, Irish Rover.
00:08:41.500 You say my piece had violent undertones, that it drew hostile attention.
00:08:46.280 You say expressing a Catholic viewpoint should not be equated to committing a heinous crime.
00:08:51.860 You contrasted your reasoned opinion with my intellectual chaos that you are targeted.
00:08:57.280 But I must respectfully say that the blood on your names did not come from you or the hate groups you've been inviting to speak on campus.
00:09:04.420 It was ours and my loved ones.
00:09:06.900 Your reasoned opinions seep into churches, into culture.
00:09:10.420 They diffuse like venomous gas from every outlet.
00:09:13.760 That is the very nature of discourse.
00:09:16.400 So it goes on.
00:09:18.060 I'll spare you the rest.
00:09:18.940 At one point, a girl takes a crowbar to a list of the students' names and starts banging.
00:09:24.580 And obviously, obviously, these kids are ignorant and uncultured and prideful.
00:09:30.200 And they produce terrible, terrible, terrible art.
00:09:33.740 Obviously, that is true, okay?
00:09:35.280 But it's not entirely their fault.
00:09:38.480 And what they're saying is very, very interesting and important.
00:09:42.180 What that girl just said is that reasoned arguments are venomous.
00:09:46.280 That reason itself, logic, the interpretation of facts to produce a coherent argument, is venomous, poison, destructive.
00:09:57.880 It's got to be gotten rid of.
00:10:02.100 This is not their fault entirely.
00:10:05.560 It's partially their fault.
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00:12:23.280 So the kids at Notre Dame obviously have some issues going on, and they're producing this
00:12:32.860 terrible art, and it's so incoherent, it's laughable that they choose to go to a Catholic 1.00
00:12:38.420 university named after Our Lady, and then they're shocked and appalled and horrified because some
00:12:44.600 of the students there are Catholic.
00:12:45.900 I bet not even most of the students are practicing Catholics, but just some of them are, and they
00:12:49.980 espouse Catholic views, and you're not allowed to do that at a Catholic school.
00:12:55.220 Two thoughts on this.
00:12:56.240 First of all, on the broader political point, what this shows us is a big aspect of this
00:13:02.220 debate between Sohrab Amari and David French.
00:13:05.520 And whatever you think about those two guys, and whatever even you think about the debate,
00:13:09.000 the premise here, the premise that Sohrab Amari is attacking, whether you think it's fair
00:13:15.520 or not, the premise is that in the liberal society, we're not going to make any grand
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00:13:23.800 We're not going to, everything's just going to be neutral, and what the religious conservatives
00:13:27.400 and Sohrab are saying is there's no such thing as neutrality like that.
00:13:30.700 Everybody's got to serve somebody, and so the liberal society is going to enshrine certain
00:13:34.440 virtues and moral precepts, and those will either be conducive to the good or will be
00:13:39.060 detrimental to the good.
00:13:41.840 The other thing he's going after is that in this kind of liberal idea, we'll just carve
00:13:46.280 out one little section of society for religion, and look, you can practice your religion there,
00:13:51.280 and you're not going to be able to practice it everywhere, but you practice it there, and
00:13:54.040 that's going to be okay.
00:13:55.180 And what Sohrab was saying is that's not true.
00:13:58.360 When you have that little cut out for religion, they're just going to go after that next.
00:14:02.280 And if you look at this story, it's hard to disagree with them.
00:14:07.160 We're not just talking about a religious institution.
00:14:09.240 We're not just talking about one university.
00:14:10.840 We're talking about the Catholic university in America, Notre Dame.
00:14:16.180 The students are trying to shut down Catholicism in Notre Dame.
00:14:19.620 And by the way, increasingly, they're being successful.
00:14:21.700 That school has really gone downhill in recent years.
00:14:24.400 So that's just the broader political point.
00:14:26.820 It shows you, gosh, we really are in the midst of a culture war.
00:14:30.060 Somebody's going to win.
00:14:31.380 Cardinal Manning said that at bottom, all political disagreements are theological disagreements,
00:14:35.500 and we are fighting, in many ways, a religious war.
00:14:38.220 It's not a religious war between Catholics and Protestants or between Muslims and Christians
00:14:42.520 or anything like that.
00:14:43.540 It's a religious war between the religious, those who have traditional religion, and this 0.90
00:14:48.780 neo-pagan leftism.
00:14:50.900 It's a religious war between those people who go to church and those people who worship at
00:14:55.320 the altar of the sun monster in climate change.
00:14:57.320 It's the kooky, materialist religions of the left versus traditional religion.
00:15:02.420 That's the broad political point.
00:15:04.280 When it comes to the kids, though, what to do about these shrieking, crazy, wacky, uneducated
00:15:10.000 kids.
00:15:10.480 It reminds me of John Stuart Mill's description of the difference between a conservative and
00:15:16.920 a radical.
00:15:17.400 So the philosopher, John Stuart Mill, says, the radical, the rationalist, the follower
00:15:24.360 of Jeremy Bentham looks at a received opinion and he asks, is it true?
00:15:30.720 That's all he asks.
00:15:31.680 Is it true?
00:15:32.680 The conservative, like Thomas Carlyle, looks at a received opinion and says, what does it
00:15:39.080 mean?
00:15:40.140 And I think that's a helpful way to look at the kids.
00:15:43.060 I mean, we should laugh and make fun of the hysterics, but we should also ask the question,
00:15:46.760 what does it mean?
00:15:48.480 What does it mean that these students who are very privileged, who are materially very well
00:15:54.780 off, even the ones who aren't well off, are very well off.
00:15:57.580 They're at expensive schools in the richest country in the history of the world.
00:16:01.440 What does it mean that they are losing their minds?
00:16:03.960 I was talking to a friend of mine last night after the speech at GW, and she's very insightful
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00:16:11.240 And she said, it's easy enough to say that these kids are totally lunatics to be upset,
00:16:19.360 but maybe they're right to be upset.
00:16:22.300 They're just upset about the wrong things.
00:16:24.900 And that really struck me.
00:16:26.980 It's very much that conservative response.
00:16:29.260 What does it mean?
00:16:30.600 These students really are upset.
00:16:32.160 I've been to enough of these campuses.
00:16:33.180 I've talked to enough of these students to know.
00:16:34.720 They are genuinely irate, furious, maddened, and losing it.
00:16:40.540 And a lot of them are on happy pills, and a lot of them have real problems.
00:16:47.540 What does it mean?
00:16:48.560 What are the kids so upset about?
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00:19:34.220 The question is, what are these kids upset about?
00:19:38.840 The ones at GW, the ones at Notre Dame, the ones that you see on viral videos at campuses
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00:19:44.880 The conservatives look at them often and we say, you kids are rich kids.
00:19:48.580 You spoiled little rich brats. 1.00
00:19:50.060 Shut up and stop complaining and stop whining.
00:19:52.340 Fair enough.
00:19:52.820 But something tells me they're not upset about their material prosperity, okay?
00:19:59.100 Materially, we are all doing great.
00:20:00.960 Even people who are struggling financially at various periods, still doing pretty great
00:20:05.120 because we live in an unbelievably rich country.
00:20:07.760 Now, the answer, shut up, stop complaining, you've got iPads, you've got iPhones, you've
00:20:13.140 got lots of good money, that's a flippant answer because we say that on the one hand, and
00:20:19.420 then on the other hand, conservatives know that the world is not just material.
00:20:22.820 It's not even primarily material.
00:20:25.240 Ronald Reagan famously quoted Winston Churchill who said, when great forces are on the move
00:20:29.700 in the world, we learn that we're spirits, not animals.
00:20:32.840 The destiny of man is not measured by material computation.
00:20:38.020 We are primarily religious beings.
00:20:40.800 We're primarily spiritual beings.
00:20:42.260 We are not, I mean, we have a body.
00:20:44.300 We're unified.
00:20:45.300 We're not, it's not like I'm not physical at all, but it's that old adage, money can't
00:20:50.040 buy happiness.
00:20:50.940 Money can buy a jet ski and people are happy on jet skis, but you're not on a jet ski all
00:20:54.600 the time, all right?
00:20:55.200 You're on a jet ski at most, what, an hour a day if you're near the water?
00:20:58.680 Come on.
00:20:59.900 Money actually can't buy happiness.
00:21:02.420 And so to take right off what these kids are saying and say, well, say you're rich kids,
00:21:07.020 you're having a good time.
00:21:08.620 That doesn't really get to it.
00:21:09.800 So they're not, I don't think they're upset about money.
00:21:11.820 Are they upset about politics?
00:21:12.860 Yeah, I guess they're upset that their preferred politician lost in 2016.
00:21:19.600 I mean, there was a study that came out of, I think it was ASU, which showed that 25% of
00:21:24.920 college students surveyed reported PTSD-like effects months and months after the presidential
00:21:33.140 election because their candidate lost and another candidate won.
00:21:35.720 I mean, that's crazy stuff, but they really did show clinically high levels of stress.
00:21:41.380 They really are upset about their politics.
00:21:43.200 What does that say?
00:21:44.200 It means maybe they've been taught a version of American politics that isn't true.
00:21:48.240 And maybe our political institutions have been degraded and maybe faith in our systems of
00:21:53.960 government has eroded.
00:21:55.500 That tells us something.
00:21:56.600 What about the culture?
00:21:57.440 Maybe they're upset about the culture.
00:21:59.600 They damn well should be upset about the culture.
00:22:01.660 Our culture is terribly degraded.
00:22:04.580 In the mid 20th century, huge numbers of Americans, perhaps the majority, subscribed to symphonies,
00:22:12.360 subscribed to local artistic venues.
00:22:16.100 That number has plummeted.
00:22:18.240 That is simply not the case anymore.
00:22:20.200 And even for the people who weren't going to symphonies, virtually everybody was a member
00:22:23.640 of civic associations.
00:22:25.640 The same free associations that Alexis de Tocqueville talked about in Democracy in America.
00:22:31.840 The Lions Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Bowling League.
00:22:36.140 People were members of those and they would go out and see their fellow Americans and have
00:22:39.640 friendships and go to each other's houses.
00:22:41.540 That doesn't really happen anymore.
00:22:43.880 Those numbers have all plummeted.
00:22:45.800 And people increasingly don't know their fellow Americans.
00:22:49.520 And you see this also because of urbanization.
00:22:52.120 The irony is, I've lived in cities most of my life.
00:22:55.640 You know many more people when you live in a small town than you do when you live in a city.
00:22:59.320 I would live in cities in New York with hundreds and hundreds of people, maybe more than that.
00:23:05.160 I knew like five of them because you just don't meet your neighbors.
00:23:08.460 When you're in a city, you just kind of keep your head down.
00:23:10.220 You keep walking.
00:23:11.040 That's the way it goes.
00:23:12.100 When you're in a small town, you know everybody.
00:23:13.700 Everybody knows everybody's business.
00:23:15.000 It's kind of frustrating sometimes.
00:23:16.640 But there is a community there.
00:23:18.200 It's not as isolating.
00:23:19.620 I think young people increasingly have every right to be upset about their culture.
00:23:25.480 And maybe they're misplacing that anger onto some politician or some conservative speaker on campus.
00:23:30.720 Or they're putting it on George Washington or Christopher Columbus.
00:23:34.140 But the anxiety that they're feeling is real.
00:23:38.060 And then most importantly, you got the politics.
00:23:40.940 You got the culture.
00:23:41.880 Maybe they're upset about religion.
00:23:43.280 In fact, I know they're upset about religion.
00:23:44.960 Because by and large and increasingly, they have been denied religion.
00:23:50.300 It's not even that they've been taught some religion that isn't true or they were brought to the wrong church and they want to go to a different church.
00:23:56.660 They've been denied serious religious education.
00:23:59.960 They've been denied even the question.
00:24:02.360 They've been denied the very fact that they are spiritual beings.
00:24:05.700 That man is a religious being.
00:24:08.880 Increasingly, children are being raised without religion.
00:24:10.960 They're part of the nuns.
00:24:12.100 Not N-U-N-S, but N-O-N-E-S. 1.00
00:24:14.960 They have no religious affiliation.
00:24:16.880 And so they channel their natural religious longings.
00:24:19.340 Man has a God-shaped hole in his heart.
00:24:21.080 That's true of everybody.
00:24:22.320 They channel that into the wrong places.
00:24:25.260 So they misplace that into politics.
00:24:27.040 Or they misplace that into their favorite online personality.
00:24:32.340 Or they channel that into the weather.
00:24:34.280 And they worship the weather.
00:24:36.860 And that is going to make people miserable.
00:24:40.560 And that's not their fault.
00:24:42.480 That they were deprived of that education.
00:24:44.180 I was sitting with a friend of mine.
00:24:45.700 A few friends of mine in New York.
00:24:47.360 And we were in this beautiful little private residence.
00:24:50.960 And someone was playing a Chopin Nocturne on the piano.
00:24:54.600 And this was midnight.
00:24:55.560 And everybody had a few Coca-Colas.
00:24:58.040 Or we'd had a few adult beverages.
00:24:59.700 And we were just sitting there.
00:25:00.840 Maybe five or six of us.
00:25:02.240 Listening quietly to this beautiful performance of a Chopin Nocturne.
00:25:05.640 Slightly drunken performance, but still excellent.
00:25:07.440 And we thought, gosh, this is so lovely.
00:25:11.700 And my friend turned and pointed outside and he said, so many people out there don't even know this exists.
00:25:20.140 And that's pretty sad.
00:25:22.220 I'm not saying that you need to sit quietly and listen to Chopin Nocturne all the time.
00:25:26.300 But it's really nice to do that.
00:25:28.100 It's really nice to know that those things exist.
00:25:30.940 It's the same difference between, you know, you love Hershey's chocolate.
00:25:34.840 I still like Hershey's chocolate.
00:25:36.160 But I like it less now than I used to when I was a kid.
00:25:38.360 And the reason I like it less now is because I've discovered other things that I like on my taste palette.
00:25:45.240 Darker chocolate, for instance.
00:25:46.880 Or Scotch.
00:25:48.400 Or different kinds of food.
00:25:51.220 Or cigars.
00:25:52.460 Or as you are educated, and I don't mean that book learning.
00:25:56.880 I mean as you grow and mature as a human being, your tastes change.
00:26:02.140 And it's not just the taste you put in your mouth.
00:26:03.680 It's the tastes, your intellectual tastes, your music tastes, your artistic tastes.
00:26:08.360 All of those things.
00:26:10.720 That has been denied for a lot of people.
00:26:14.520 And so they're still stuck with those basic things.
00:26:16.680 C.S. Lewis writes about this.
00:26:17.700 How kids think, you know, when they're little, they say all they want is chocolate and candy.
00:26:22.000 And they say this is the greatest thing ever.
00:26:24.300 And it's because they don't know about sex.
00:26:26.440 So, you know, when they get a little bit older and they learn about that, they say,
00:26:30.400 Oh, no, I was wrong about the chocolate and the candy.
00:26:32.180 There is something better than chocolate and candy.
00:26:34.880 But for this whole generation, because they've been denied culture, because they've been denied education,
00:26:40.740 they're stuck in this suspended adolescence.
00:26:45.260 And it doesn't feel good.
00:26:46.780 Nobody wants to be an overgrown child.
00:26:48.920 We see anxiety, depression, stress are way up among these kids.
00:26:52.800 Among teenagers, suicidality is up 70% in just the last two years.
00:26:56.880 The kids are not all right.
00:26:58.140 And they're not upset about George Washington and Catholic sexual ethics.
00:27:01.180 They're upset about something else.
00:27:03.840 Fair enough.
00:27:05.020 They're upset that our politics is shallower, that our culture is degraded,
00:27:08.300 and that they have no freaking clue what they were made for and why.
00:27:13.040 That's a big problem.
00:27:14.260 And the problem is not going to go away.
00:27:16.500 The problem doesn't just go away.
00:27:18.860 There's a viral video that just came out of a Michigan congressman, Haley Stevens,
00:27:23.460 shrieking, shrieking at her constituents like those leftists at GW,
00:27:28.120 like those kids at Notre Dame.
00:27:30.040 She's not much older than them.
00:27:31.260 She's a millennial too.
00:27:32.240 She's 36 years old.
00:27:33.240 She would fit right in with the slam poetry girls.
00:27:36.000 What is she shrieking about? 1.00
00:27:37.640 She's shrieking about our civil right to own a firearm. 0.99
00:27:40.820 She's shrieking about a civil rights organization existing to protect those rights. 0.97
00:27:45.260 Here is Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
00:27:47.860 This is why the NRA has got to go.
00:27:51.140 The NRA has got to go.
00:27:53.220 Got to go.
00:27:56.360 She's shrieking. 0.82
00:27:56.900 The NRA, our right to lobby our representatives in the First Amendment, that's got to go.
00:28:02.560 Our civil rights, they've got to go. 0.96
00:28:04.060 She just, she doesn't understand what the NRA is.
00:28:07.100 She doesn't understand what our constitution is. 0.51
00:28:09.220 In part, it's her fault because she's an overgrown child.
00:28:12.080 But in part, she was obviously denied a proper education.
00:28:15.840 You remember Maxine Waters.
00:28:17.020 Maxine Waters, not a millennial.
00:28:18.640 Let's put it that way.
00:28:19.780 She is now complaining because she can't go out to the store. 0.97
00:28:24.860 People mob her. 0.94
00:28:26.380 People yell at her. 0.96
00:28:27.320 She has to have private security.
00:28:28.620 Here she is on television complaining. 1.00
00:28:30.520 You think she's endangering people's safety? 0.99
00:28:32.880 Oh, absolutely.
00:28:34.180 I mean, I can't go to the grocery store anymore by myself.
00:28:38.200 I have to pay for security all the time.
00:28:41.280 Oh, that's too bad.
00:28:42.220 I don't like that at all.
00:28:43.380 They have security for me now when I go to campuses because people attack me.
00:28:46.480 And I think that's wrong.
00:28:47.220 And I think it's wrong that they attack Maxine Waters.
00:28:49.500 I wonder where they got the idea that they could just go out and attack politicians.
00:28:53.380 I wonder where these terrible people might have heard that they could go out and attack
00:28:58.180 politicians like Maxine Waters.
00:29:00.500 I wonder if they heard it from, um, checking my notes, uh, Maxine Waters.
00:29:04.300 If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station,
00:29:13.300 you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they're
00:29:20.140 not welcome.
00:29:21.640 That's, that's probably where they heard it from.
00:29:23.280 I got to say.
00:29:23.820 So Maxine, sorry, you know, maybe you planted the seeds.
00:29:26.340 That's an ugly society.
00:29:27.600 A society that says, mob your politicians and mob your historical figures and get rid
00:29:33.640 of George Washington, get rid of Columbus, shriek at your classmates, hate everybody.
00:29:37.620 Half the country is deplorable and irredeemable.
00:29:39.740 Don't forgive anybody for anything.
00:29:41.040 Don't try to understand what they're saying.
00:29:42.640 That's a terrible society.
00:29:43.700 And there was a moment, there was a moment that did go viral yesterday at the trial of
00:29:51.240 former Dallas police department officer, Amber Geiger, that shows you the alternative.
00:29:57.940 Amber Geiger shot this poor guy, Botham Jean, in his own apartment. 0.78
00:30:03.340 She thought that she was entering her apartment.
00:30:05.140 She was on the wrong floor and she saw him sitting on what she thought was her couch.
00:30:09.080 She shoots him dead, but it was his couch in his apartment.
00:30:11.980 She was, she was found guilty of murder and the deceased man's brother came out and made
00:30:19.680 an incredible statement.
00:30:20.600 We'll get to that in a second.
00:30:21.380 We'll get to the mailbag too, but first I got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
00:30:24.480 Most importantly, speaking of culture and good culture, another kingdom season three
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00:30:39.660 It is so good.
00:30:41.660 I mean, it is, it is really powerful and we talk all the time about how conservatives
00:30:45.600 need to get in the culture and need to transform our politics through our culture.
00:30:50.760 Drew did that with another kingdom.
00:30:52.460 It is just so powerful.
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00:31:39.000 Okay.
00:31:39.700 So you've got this awful, shallow society, vindictive society that hates one another.
00:31:44.980 And then you have this scene from the trial of Amber Geiger.
00:31:49.000 Amber Geiger, former Dallas police officer, shoots Botham Jean dead in his own apartment 0.95
00:31:56.240 because she thinks that she was in her apartment, which I guess was a couple of floors away.
00:32:00.460 She's found guilty of murder, not even manslaughter, but murder.
00:32:05.120 And she was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison.
00:32:09.120 And the deceased man's, I mean, he was, I think the guy was 26 years old, shot dead in
00:32:14.560 his own apartment for doing nothing wrong.
00:32:19.040 Absolutely tragic story, heartbreaking story.
00:32:21.500 And even the fact that she didn't mean to do it, she just got the apartment wrong.
00:32:25.080 I mean, it just, it just makes you weep for humanity and weep for yourself.
00:32:31.140 And her, uh, the deceased man's brother made a statement at this sentencing and it was,
00:32:37.760 I won't do it justice.
00:32:38.860 I won't even sum it up.
00:32:39.760 It is one of the most moving videos I have ever seen.
00:32:44.520 One of the most moving statements I've ever heard.
00:32:46.440 Give a listen.
00:32:46.840 And I, I wasn't gonna ever say this in front of my family or anyone, but I don't even want
00:32:57.700 you to go to jail.
00:32:58.600 I want the best for you because I know that's what, that's exactly what both of them would
00:33:09.640 want you to do.
00:33:11.360 And the best would be give your life to Christ.
00:33:14.400 I'm not gonna say anything else.
00:33:21.140 I think giving your life to Christ would be the best thing that both of them would want
00:33:27.400 you to do.
00:33:30.400 Again, I love you as a person.
00:33:32.880 And I don't wish anything bad on you.
00:33:45.160 I don't know if this is possible, but can, can I give her a hug, please?
00:33:52.060 Please?
00:33:56.620 Yes.
00:34:02.880 It's an unbelievable scene.
00:34:15.880 That's a man with far greater understanding of the world than the girls on the video or
00:34:25.180 the kids who shriek or the people who are yelling and screaming and upset and demanding
00:34:31.120 revenge and, and being vindictive to their countrymen and calling half of them deplorable
00:34:37.140 and irredeemable.
00:34:38.040 This woman shot his brother dead at, in his mid twenties in his own apartment.
00:34:44.700 And he says, I don't want anything bad for you.
00:34:47.760 I want the best for you.
00:34:49.760 I love you.
00:34:51.020 You should give your life to Christ.
00:34:52.900 He's not just doing it because of some shallow political ideology.
00:34:57.660 He's doing it because his savior lives and he's been commanded to do that by the man
00:35:03.420 who made him.
00:35:05.820 That is a beautiful society.
00:35:08.220 Imagine living in that society.
00:35:10.380 This isn't even the same as protesting justice.
00:35:16.340 They're participating in justice.
00:35:18.300 They're there at the justice system.
00:35:20.040 They respect the decision of the courts.
00:35:22.360 There is justice too.
00:35:23.700 And there is mercy.
00:35:24.720 Shakespeare writes, the quality of mercy is not strained.
00:35:28.700 It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
00:35:31.780 It is twice blessed.
00:35:32.820 It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
00:35:35.520 Tis mightiest and the mightiest.
00:35:36.920 It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown.
00:35:40.100 His scepter shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty, wherein doth
00:35:45.500 sit the dread and fear of kings.
00:35:48.040 Mercy is an attribute to God himself.
00:35:49.740 And we're only going to get that society back if we behave that way too.
00:36:02.680 We need to have a sense of that too.
00:36:04.440 It's why when people scream and shout at me, whether it's on television or on camera or anything
00:36:10.280 like that at one of these campuses, I do my best.
00:36:12.540 I don't always succeed, but I do my best not to give it right back to them, not to get angry
00:36:16.780 and take it personally.
00:36:17.840 Because what good is that going to do?
00:36:20.540 What good is that possibly going to do?
00:36:22.160 These people are very confused in this culture.
00:36:25.000 And there's a lot of pain and there's original sin and there's a fallen world.
00:36:28.300 And we can have, if we can show a little bit of mercy, it can be unbelievably powerful.
00:36:33.960 And we're very likely not going to achieve even one zillionth of the grace that you see
00:36:42.800 there with that man talking about his dead brother and the woman who killed him.
00:36:46.840 But if you show people that society and you show people the screechy, shouty, I hate you,
00:36:51.940 I hate you because George Washington was a fascist or something.
00:36:55.500 There's no question that we, we want to live in the former, the society of mercy and grace.
00:36:59.660 And for the uneducated, ignorant, uncultured, anxiety ridden, stressed out young people,
00:37:08.060 I think the big problem is they don't even know that that society can exist.
00:37:12.260 All right, we've got to get to the mailbag in our last moments.
00:37:14.940 I always run late.
00:37:16.260 First question from Nathan.
00:37:18.460 Will we see an impact on the youngest generation as adults due to today's twisted gender norms, 0.94
00:37:23.600 safe spaces, et cetera?
00:37:24.780 Well, of course, it's a funny, funny question to ask on this show.
00:37:27.520 I think the show basically answers that question itself.
00:37:30.160 Not only will we see the impact, but we're seeing the impact now.
00:37:33.220 We're seeing it in the rates of anxiety, stress, suicidality in the, the prescription of
00:37:39.780 psychiatric medications and depression pills, even to teenagers, even to 12 year olds.
00:37:46.160 But we're seeing the effects now of this kind of confusion.
00:37:48.940 And it's not merely a scientific confusion, though there's a lot of that.
00:37:52.400 It's not merely a political or a cultural one.
00:37:55.000 It is a metaphysical, spiritual, and religious confusion as well.
00:37:58.480 And what's so ironic about it is so much of the argument from the atheist left is we need
00:38:04.620 to ditch religion.
00:38:05.620 We need to keep religion out of public life. 1.00
00:38:07.480 We need to stop talking about the world as though God made it.
00:38:10.980 Because only then can we get to scientific reality.
00:38:15.260 What world has that given us?
00:38:17.540 We now no longer admit that men are different than women.
00:38:21.200 We now castrate young children and block them from going through puberty because their parents 0.99
00:38:28.700 think in some metaphysical way their little boys are actually little girls.
00:38:32.240 The moment we severed religious reality from public life, we didn't get more science.
00:38:38.960 We completely destroyed science.
00:38:42.120 And we got pseudo-scientific cultist movements like the cult of catastrophic climate change
00:38:49.960 that's going to kill us all in 10 years.
00:38:52.580 You don't, you don't lose religion and get more science.
00:38:55.700 You lose religion and you lose science too.
00:38:57.340 Because of course, science is predicated on certain religious premises and on faith.
00:39:03.740 We're seeing the impact today and young people are a crystal ball.
00:39:07.020 The campuses are a crystal ball.
00:39:08.260 They show you your future in 20 years.
00:39:09.720 We're seeing that in that congresswoman who's 36 years old now. 0.99
00:39:13.460 You got to fix the problem.
00:39:14.640 Problem, not all problems go away with time.
00:39:17.500 And if we're not going to fix that problem, it's only going to get worse.
00:39:20.380 From Connor, I find it more difficult to keep up with local politics in comparison to
00:39:25.860 that on a national level.
00:39:26.940 Can you provide advice on some of the factors or qualities you look for when choosing who
00:39:31.980 to vote for in local elections, especially when candidates may campaign on platforms you
00:39:36.400 are less familiar with or which seem to be indistinguishable from the field?
00:39:41.280 Yes.
00:39:42.760 Politics is increasingly national.
00:39:44.520 It used to be primarily local.
00:39:46.100 So Tip O'Neill, the Democratic Speaker of the House, used to say all politics is local.
00:39:51.940 That might have been true even as late as the 80s or 90s, but it is not true today.
00:39:55.660 Now all elections are referenda on national politics.
00:39:59.860 They're referenda on Trump or something.
00:40:02.620 So when you're voting and, you know, especially in L.A., you get all these different candidates
00:40:07.860 and they hide their political views and you can't even see the political affiliation.
00:40:12.020 This is one of the reasons political parties exist is because they show you what the differences
00:40:18.700 are.
00:40:19.080 You get a choice, not an echo.
00:40:20.240 So there's no way you're going to have time to research every single candidate for every
00:40:23.480 single office.
00:40:24.500 That's why if you tend to be more conservative, usually it makes sense to vote for the Republican.
00:40:30.100 If you tend to be more leftist, usually it makes sense to vote for the Democrat.
00:40:34.000 This isn't always true.
00:40:35.140 Sometimes candidates, there are Republican candidates who are really just terrible people
00:40:38.620 and there are Democratic candidates who are actually more conservative and more reliable.
00:40:43.280 So occasionally it makes sense to vote for the other person.
00:40:47.720 You'll know who those people are if they run a good campaign.
00:40:49.960 And if they run the good campaign, then maybe that's evidence that you should vote for them.
00:40:53.000 You'll know who those people are if you meet one of those Republicans.
00:40:55.680 This has happened to me.
00:40:57.100 I voted against Republicans before because I met him and I knew they were just sociopaths
00:41:01.200 who didn't believe in anything.
00:41:02.280 So I'm not going to vote for that person, even though they say that they believe what I
00:41:05.560 believe in.
00:41:06.020 I can't trust that they'll even do the people's work.
00:41:08.300 Look, the party, I know it's very fashionable these days to say parties are a terrible thing
00:41:14.040 and we got to get rid of political parties.
00:41:15.560 Political parties exist for a reason.
00:41:17.120 They make politics a little clearer.
00:41:19.140 That's one good way to do it.
00:41:20.600 And the other good way to do it is to judge people on their campaigns.
00:41:24.380 Campaigns have consequences.
00:41:25.960 And nobody would have put their money on Donald Trump in 2014, 2015.
00:41:29.640 And yet he ran the best campaign and he's been a, and by the way, we didn't even know
00:41:34.160 his religious affiliation because he'd worked with Democrats so much of his life.
00:41:37.060 But he ran the best campaign.
00:41:39.420 He was trustworthy and he got elected.
00:41:41.000 That's, that, that would be a good guide on the national level, even at local politics.
00:41:45.040 From Lena, I'm a hard worker and I've been putting in 10 to 12 hour days for the past
00:41:49.800 10 months at my job.
00:41:51.460 Now I'm starting to feel burnt out and I find it a bit depressing to think that this is just
00:41:55.740 what the future looks like.
00:41:57.100 I'm torn between making a steady paycheck or taking a leap and seeing what else is out
00:42:01.780 there.
00:42:02.000 What would you do in this situation?
00:42:03.520 You asked the wrong person, Lena, if you want the advice to stay in your steady job because,
00:42:10.980 but I bet you're asking the question because you know, that's not the advice I'm going to
00:42:13.960 give you.
00:42:14.820 I have done my best in my life to avoid stable and steady employment.
00:42:22.480 The two industries that I've worked in, usually simultaneously, are politics and show business.
00:42:28.720 The most volatile industries that very often have nothing to do with even talent or skill
00:42:35.440 or hard work and are largely based on chance, although I do think actually work pays off
00:42:40.100 in the end of that.
00:42:41.140 And I don't regret a thing.
00:42:42.960 I loved it.
00:42:43.660 I have gone through huge periods of unemployment.
00:42:45.680 I have had massive ups and massive downs in those industries and I wouldn't change it for
00:42:51.760 the world.
00:42:52.940 Now, the funny thing about this is I work 10 to 12 hour days.
00:42:57.120 I work more than that most days.
00:42:59.180 It doesn't feel like it though.
00:43:00.580 It doesn't feel like it if you're doing what you really want to be doing and you feel like
00:43:03.640 you're having some impact in the work that you're doing matters.
00:43:06.340 So, you know what I would do?
00:43:09.480 I would take a leap and do what you want to do.
00:43:12.480 This doesn't mean be stupid about it.
00:43:15.520 I think some people hear this and they say, okay, great.
00:43:17.540 I'm going to move to Hollywood and not have any other job and not have any income and I'm
00:43:21.340 just going to be a big movie star or I'm going to go into politics and I'm going to
00:43:25.420 become a big senator instantly and I'm not.
00:43:28.280 No, that's not how reality works.
00:43:31.240 You got to, if you want to do something that you really, really want to do that's in a high
00:43:34.180 risk field, you got to work even harder.
00:43:35.820 If 12 hour days are too much, you're going to have to work a lot more than that.
00:43:42.140 Stable, steady employment is a good thing.
00:43:44.420 If you find it's not fulfilling in life, you can find fulfillment elsewhere.
00:43:47.900 You can find fulfillment in family.
00:43:49.660 You can find fulfillment in your civic associations and of course you can find fulfillment in your
00:43:54.880 religious life and your spiritual life.
00:43:57.560 Doesn't mean that everybody needs to go out there and become a movie star or run for president.
00:44:01.720 But what it, what it does mean is everything is going to have those costs and what it also
00:44:09.600 means is this is your life.
00:44:12.740 This is it.
00:44:13.700 You, you didn't choose when to be born into this world.
00:44:16.140 Most likely you're not going to have any say in how you go out and you're going to get
00:44:20.080 to the end of your life and you may have regrets.
00:44:23.160 So you don't want to have those regrets.
00:44:24.840 You want to do the right thing and, and, and not feel that you squandered the precious
00:44:29.580 life that was given to you, which is a gift.
00:44:32.160 And when, when you've really got nothing to lose, all you've got to do is do the right
00:44:36.700 thing and work hard.
00:44:37.420 So I, I'm not going to tell you which one to do.
00:44:40.300 Keep the stable job or go out and do some crazy thing.
00:44:43.760 I don't even know what, what it would be that you want to do, but you do have, life
00:44:48.380 is all about those choices and you do have nothing to lose.
00:44:52.540 And I always say, go for it.
00:44:55.700 It's worked out, but I know a lot of people who burned out along the way from Tanner.
00:45:00.680 Oh, mighty cigar wizard.
00:45:02.660 Just want to say I'm a big fan of your show.
00:45:04.840 Non-politics related question.
00:45:06.520 Is there any modern music or genre that you genuinely enjoy?
00:45:09.360 What is your favorite style and or band?
00:45:11.560 Yes.
00:45:11.920 Yes, yes, there is.
00:45:14.040 I love soul music.
00:45:16.500 I love funk music.
00:45:18.580 I, I do like some modern rock bands.
00:45:23.300 I love, I liked Queen.
00:45:25.060 Queen is a great band.
00:45:26.360 I like Wings.
00:45:27.900 I'm the only heterosexual man in America that likes Paul McCartney's band Wings.
00:45:32.980 I, in terms of like really, I mean, I, when I can say modern, I'm talking about post-World
00:45:37.620 War I.
00:45:38.060 I, I obviously love the American Songbook guys.
00:45:43.840 In terms of really like actual new stuff.
00:45:46.900 Ah, I know who.
00:45:48.860 And this, this might be a note to leave on.
00:45:51.120 I really like Nickelback these days.
00:45:53.800 I didn't used to like Nickelback.
00:45:55.540 I used to think Nickelback was the worst band that was ever graced any stage in America.
00:46:00.380 But then President Trump sent out that tweet, that look at this photograph tweet.
00:46:04.340 He took Nickelback and used it as a just cudgel against Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:46:10.300 And it really gave me a strange new respect for Nickelback.
00:46:12.640 All right.
00:46:12.860 That's our show.
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00:47:20.600 It seems President Trump is getting sick and tired of being lied about 24 hours a day,
00:47:24.780 seven days a week.
00:47:25.780 The press can't understand it.
00:47:27.300 What's the big deal, they say.
00:47:28.740 Isn't that what we always do to Republican presidents?
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