The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 462 - Culture Is Downstream Of Politics

00:00:00.000 The great Andrew Breitbart told us that politics is downstream of culture.

00:00:05.240 And of course, he was right, in a sense.

00:00:07.540 Pop culture has dictated plenty of political transformations over the years,

00:00:11.680 from public opinions on socialism to redefining marriage.

00:00:15.940 But politics affects culture, too.

00:00:18.440 As a banana duct taped to a wall sells for $120,000 at Art Basel,

00:00:23.020 as drag queen Story Hour hits preschools,

00:00:26.160 and as kids get hooked on hardcore internet porn before the age of 10,

00:00:30.300 Libertarians beware.

00:00:32.220 We examine whether politics can help fix our screwed up culture, too.

00:00:36.780 Then, speaking of bad politics and creepy sex,

00:00:40.160 disgraced former Congressman Katie Hill publishes an op-ed in the shameless New York Times,

00:00:45.720 which we will analyze as the dumbest article on the internet today.

00:00:49.120 All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:00.000 All right. Welcome to our new set.

00:01:02.160 We've been waiting for our new set for about 55 years now, I think.

00:01:06.940 We are on it. Very exciting. That's the good news here.

00:01:09.900 There's a lot of good news in Washington, at the White House.

00:01:13.300 Bad news on the Capitol for Democrats.

00:01:15.660 And all of this actually tells us a little bit about our culture.

00:01:19.840 The impeachment hearings, the way that's going,

00:01:22.220 actually does relate to $120,000 bananas and drag queen Story Hour and internet porn.

00:01:29.180 We will figure out how in a second.

00:01:30.880 First, we just have to mention the really great news for the White House,

00:01:36.460 because obviously no one else is going to do that at CNN or MSNBC,

00:01:40.000 or increasingly even on ostensibly right-wing sources.

00:01:44.440 So, last week's impeachment hearings, train wreck, right?

00:01:49.200 Don't believe the spin from the Washington Post or anybody else.

00:01:52.520 An absolute disaster for Democrats.

00:01:56.400 The impeachment inquiry hearings didn't come up with any evidence that Trump committed wrongdoing.

00:02:00.940 Then you had those three awful professors.

00:02:03.440 One was less likable than the next,

00:02:05.680 and the only one who had any sense was Jonathan Turley,

00:02:08.500 who's actually a liberal law professor, though he was called by the Republicans.

00:02:12.560 And he pointed out in a really calm, erudite, ironclad way

00:02:17.380 that the Democrats don't have nothing on President Trump.

00:02:21.200 You don't need to take my word for that.

00:02:22.660 You don't need to just accept and say,

00:02:25.760 oh, Michael is putting spin on this for the president.

00:02:28.360 It isn't just me.

00:02:29.400 Even Jake Tapper, even CNN,

00:02:32.340 believes that last week's impeachment hearings were a train wreck.

00:02:36.280 Tapper is now asking Nancy Pelosi

00:02:38.760 if she's afraid that she ended up helping Trump with the impeachment.

00:02:42.880 He's asking if she will regret the impeachment process

00:02:47.180 if the impeachment process ends up helping Trump.

00:02:49.740 It looks right now like it will help Trump.

00:02:52.480 And what is Nancy Pelosi going to say?

00:02:54.220 She's not going to say, yeah, you're right, Chuck.

00:02:56.040 We made a huge, or yeah, you're right, whatever his name is, Jake.

00:03:00.020 We made a huge mistake.

00:03:01.160 We never should have initiated the impeachment hearings.

00:03:04.100 No, she's not going to do that.

00:03:05.080 She's going to double down,

00:03:06.060 but her response is just not believable.

00:03:09.840 If you wake up the day after Election Day 2020

00:03:12.320 and exit polls show that impeaching President Trump

00:03:15.480 helped him get reelected, would you have any regrets?

00:03:19.020 No.

00:03:19.460 This isn't about politics at all.

00:03:22.160 This is about patriotism.

00:03:24.400 It's not about partisanship.

00:03:26.240 It's about honoring our oath of office.

00:03:28.580 This is the first president has committed all of these things,

00:03:33.480 as the constitutional experts said yesterday.

00:03:36.880 Nobody ever has even come close, not Richard Nixon,

00:03:40.880 even came close to his dishonoring his own oath of office.

00:03:46.560 So, no, this isn't a politics is not even a consideration in this.

00:03:50.760 This is about protect and defend the Constitution.

00:03:54.960 You know, it is actually impressive that somebody could tell

00:03:59.780 such an obvious and egregious lie

00:04:02.120 as the impeachment of Donald Trump has nothing to do with politics,

00:04:05.820 the impeachment that we've been pushing for,

00:04:07.600 for now four different reasons,

00:04:09.640 the first three of which failed,

00:04:11.200 and the fourth is probably going to fail too,

00:04:12.860 since before he even took office.

00:04:14.500 Yeah, it has nothing to do with politics.

00:04:16.760 It is impressive that someone could be in politics so long

00:04:20.260 to become so cynical to be able to tell

00:04:23.040 an absolutely egregious lie with a straight face.

00:04:26.580 But you can see, even in the way Pelosi's talking,

00:04:29.540 she stammers a little bit.

00:04:30.740 She holds up.

00:04:31.520 She's, even for her, and she's so past shame on this,

00:04:35.940 it's a little difficult to get it out.

00:04:39.480 She says, well, look, Jake,

00:04:41.480 this has nothing to do with politics.

00:04:44.180 This is about how he's so,

00:04:45.620 he's so much worse than Nixon.

00:04:47.400 And the implicit question here is,

00:04:50.120 how is he worse than Nixon?

00:04:51.280 What did he do?

00:04:51.940 She never gives an answer.

00:04:53.360 In all of the things that he did,

00:04:56.640 you know, from the first thing to that other,

00:04:59.960 the thing he did after that,

00:05:01.240 and then finally the third thing,

00:05:03.500 that was almost worse than the first two.

00:05:06.320 Well, how about you name them, Nancy,

00:05:07.740 except you can't because all of the charges

00:05:09.580 that you've made, treason, bribery, extortion,

00:05:12.620 this have been completely knocked down.

00:05:14.620 There's no, no evidence of it whatsoever.

00:05:16.980 She might as well go back to Russia collusion.

00:05:19.300 We had a two and a half year,

00:05:20.980 $30 million investigation into that,

00:05:23.260 came up with nothing,

00:05:24.080 but go back, at least that,

00:05:26.160 at least that one has a specific charge.

00:05:29.160 This is what, bribery?

00:05:30.500 How is, how is what he did bribery?

00:05:32.320 They got nothing, right?

00:05:33.540 So Nancy Pelosi does her best to stammer through this.

00:05:37.380 Representative Al Green,

00:05:38.720 one of my favorite members of Congress,

00:05:40.940 this Democrat who just,

00:05:42.240 he keeps saying the things

00:05:43.460 that they're not supposed to be saying,

00:05:44.800 like Al Green said at the very beginning of Trump's,

00:05:48.480 I think it was just after he'd been elected,

00:05:50.160 but maybe not even before he was sworn in.

00:05:52.240 He said, yeah, we got to impeach this guy.

00:05:53.740 Then slightly after he got sworn in,

00:05:55.380 he says, yeah, we got to impeach him.

00:05:56.540 Why? I don't know.

00:05:57.300 We got to impeach him

00:05:57.960 because if we don't impeach him,

00:05:58.860 he's going to get reelected.

00:06:00.000 He just keeps being accidentally honest

00:06:02.180 about the Democrats' plans.

00:06:04.080 Al Green knows that all of the current charges

00:06:07.340 against the president are so vague,

00:06:10.520 so nebulous, they're not real.

00:06:11.920 So Al Green has a new argument for impeachment.

00:06:14.920 The new argument is that we have to impeach Trump

00:06:17.420 to deal with slavery.

00:06:19.820 I know that you introduced

00:06:21.160 one of those first impeachment resolutions against Trump,

00:06:23.600 and let's look at how that went down.

00:06:25.020 It actually lost 364 to 58.

00:06:27.900 How do you think this process ends

00:06:30.160 if more evidence is revealed?

00:06:31.960 And are you concerned at all

00:06:33.340 that Americans are having a waning interest

00:06:36.660 as this process drags on?

00:06:38.220 Well, it was yesterday, in fact,

00:06:41.960 that we celebrated in a sense

00:06:43.920 that we had something

00:06:46.040 that was brought to the floor.

00:06:47.540 I do believe, ma'am,

00:06:49.580 that we have to deal with the original sin.

00:06:54.640 We have to deal with slavery.

00:06:57.060 Slavery was the thing

00:06:59.480 that put all of what President Trump

00:07:02.120 has done lately into motion.

00:07:04.100 Until we deal with the issue

00:07:06.080 of invidious discrimination

00:07:07.820 as it relates to LGBTQ community,

00:07:11.000 the anti-Semitism,

00:07:12.600 the racism,

00:07:13.900 the Islamophobia,

00:07:15.100 the transphobia,

00:07:16.180 and also the misogyny

00:07:18.620 that he has exemplified,

00:07:21.100 I don't think our work is done.

00:07:23.120 Oh, okay.

00:07:24.280 Yeah, that makes sense.

00:07:25.180 So they don't have him on Ukraine.

00:07:26.740 They don't have him on Russia.

00:07:28.300 They don't have him on taxes.

00:07:29.960 They don't have him on Stormy Daniels.

00:07:32.100 So now we need to impeach Trump

00:07:34.020 because of slavery.

00:07:37.560 What about the other 44 presidents?

00:07:41.060 You're going to impeach them over slavery?

00:07:42.620 No, just Trump.

00:07:43.460 We need to wait.

00:07:44.760 We've had slavery in America.

00:07:46.560 We had slavery beginning in the 17th century,

00:07:49.600 and we had it up until the mid-19th century,

00:07:52.800 and then we didn't have it anymore after that.

00:07:54.720 And then we had to wait about 150 years,

00:07:56.880 and then we needed to impeach the 45th president

00:07:58.920 to deal with slavery.

00:08:00.120 And that is such a ridiculous statement

00:08:02.620 that I think Al Green heard it in his head.

00:08:05.640 So then he corrected it even during the statement.

00:08:07.560 He said, and also racism, sexism,

00:08:10.560 misogyny, homophobia, transphobia,

00:08:13.080 phobia, phobia, phobia-ism, phobia-ism.

00:08:15.720 We need to impeach Trump for phobia-ism.

00:08:17.720 They can't nail him on any actual impeachable offense.

00:08:20.340 So it's just all this vague neologisms,

00:08:25.140 new words that have been created for an ideological purpose,

00:08:28.360 all of which amount to orange man bad.

00:08:32.140 Now, this is at the same time that Trump got some pretty good news

00:08:35.580 on the political front this week,

00:08:36.840 and the good news on the political front

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00:10:42.340 Okay, good news from President Trump here

00:10:45.200 or from Trump and for Trump.

00:10:48.360 The good news is this jobs report.

00:10:49.960 What happened in the November jobs report?

00:10:51.780 You probably haven't read about it

00:10:53.120 very many places.

00:10:54.920 266,000 new jobs created.

00:10:58.080 Unemployment at a 49-year low.

00:11:00.480 12-month wage growth is at 3.1%.

00:11:03.060 Very, very strong.

00:11:04.620 54,000 manufacturing jobs created.

00:11:07.480 Black and Hispanic unemployment

00:11:08.720 at or near record lows.

00:11:11.640 You couldn't ask for more good news, right?

00:11:16.100 Pretty much every single box you could check,

00:11:18.420 everything is doing great.

00:11:20.400 This is great news

00:11:21.520 and it really matters on the cultural front.

00:11:25.120 If politics were merely downstream of culture,

00:11:29.140 those numbers wouldn't matter, right?

00:11:32.520 Because you wouldn't,

00:11:33.280 who cares about the political events?

00:11:35.960 That's not going to shape the future.

00:11:37.240 The only thing that's going to shape the future

00:11:38.500 is movies, right?

00:11:39.700 If politics were merely downstream of culture.

00:11:42.320 But guess what?

00:11:43.640 Putting food on the table

00:11:44.600 is a cultural issue.

00:11:47.180 Having a job

00:11:48.020 when your husband or your father

00:11:51.440 or, you know,

00:11:53.640 when you have a job

00:11:56.140 or when someone in your family has a job,

00:11:58.300 that creates dignity.

00:12:01.020 That makes you feel dignity.

00:12:02.860 That raises everybody up.

00:12:04.860 That is a cultural matter.

00:12:08.500 Those things,

00:12:09.560 those cultural changes in this case

00:12:11.260 are coming by way of politics.

00:12:14.020 Just look at the black

00:12:15.220 and Hispanic unemployment numbers, right?

00:12:17.360 And then look at the black

00:12:18.620 and Hispanic approval ratings

00:12:20.040 of President Trump right now.

00:12:21.720 There are,

00:12:24.080 there was a major poll

00:12:25.080 that came out last week,

00:12:26.080 that Emerson poll,

00:12:27.140 which showed that black support

00:12:28.340 of President Trump

00:12:29.100 is 34 and a half percent.

00:12:31.240 Is that poll accurate?

00:12:32.780 I don't know.

00:12:33.320 I mean,

00:12:33.480 that's a,

00:12:33.780 that's a very high number.

00:12:35.080 Other polls have backed this up though.

00:12:36.680 NPR,

00:12:37.400 Marist poll was showing

00:12:39.020 the black and Hispanic support

00:12:40.320 of Trump is pretty high.

00:12:42.360 Rasmussen poll showed the same thing.

00:12:43.900 That is strictly political, right?

00:12:48.800 And yet,

00:12:49.500 if those numbers hold,

00:12:52.080 Democrats are in huge trouble

00:12:54.280 at the national level.

00:12:56.040 Democrats need to get

00:12:56.920 about 90% of the black vote

00:12:58.440 to maintain their electoral position.

00:13:01.720 If they lose that,

00:13:03.220 if Republicans get 15% of the black vote,

00:13:07.180 forget about 20%, 25%,

00:13:09.320 34 and a half percent,

00:13:10.720 it's over for the Democrats.

00:13:12.060 If the Democrats lose

00:13:14.360 their stranglehold on black voters,

00:13:17.480 that's a big political problem for them,

00:13:19.440 but that's a cultural shift as well,

00:13:22.340 a huge cultural shift.

00:13:24.380 If you,

00:13:25.300 if you were to crack up

00:13:26.440 this kind of racially homogenous voting

00:13:29.200 among, say, black voters

00:13:30.960 or to a lesser degree,

00:13:32.220 Hispanic voters,

00:13:33.080 that is a major cultural shift

00:13:35.000 that,

00:13:35.740 that speaks very well

00:13:36.840 of,

00:13:37.300 of our political process.

00:13:39.260 Some libertarian-minded conservatives,

00:13:42.060 like to pretend

00:13:43.780 that politics can never have

00:13:45.680 a positive effect on culture,

00:13:47.280 right?

00:13:47.880 So what they do is

00:13:48.940 they admit that politics

00:13:50.160 affects the culture,

00:13:51.300 but they'll say,

00:13:51.800 oh, it only destroys culture.

00:13:53.420 Politics can only destroy the culture.

00:13:55.280 It can never fix the culture.

00:13:56.400 That's obviously not true.

00:13:57.580 The Trump administration

00:13:58.440 has had a good effect

00:13:59.540 on culture in many ways.

00:14:01.060 The Reagan administration

00:14:02.480 had a very good effect

00:14:04.140 on culture in many ways.

00:14:05.240 A lot of people will tell you

00:14:06.240 from the Reagan era,

00:14:07.880 Reagan defeated

00:14:08.440 the Soviet Union,

00:14:09.300 amazing.

00:14:09.800 Reagan fixed the economy,

00:14:10.700 amazing.

00:14:11.280 But one thing they'll tell you,

00:14:12.640 Ronald Reagan made us all

00:14:13.660 feel good about ourselves again.

00:14:15.080 Made us feel good

00:14:15.820 to be Americans.

00:14:16.860 That is a cultural fact.

00:14:19.460 That is a mourning in America,

00:14:21.560 as his,

00:14:21.880 as his ad famously said.

00:14:23.660 So once you grant that,

00:14:25.900 that politics can have

00:14:27.280 a good effect on the culture.

00:14:28.740 Once you grant that,

00:14:30.980 then you've got to ask,

00:14:31.760 what is the role of politics

00:14:33.140 in these social questions?

00:14:34.760 This has become a big point

00:14:35.880 of contention,

00:14:36.640 specifically in regard

00:14:37.940 to the internet porn debate,

00:14:39.400 which we will get to.

00:14:40.700 I don't want to start

00:14:41.600 with internet porn.

00:14:42.360 I want to start with

00:14:42.980 $120,000 banana.

00:14:44.760 But before we get to that,

00:14:45.900 I have got to speak about

00:14:47.520 an intersection of politics

00:14:48.640 and culture too,

00:14:49.520 which is happening

00:14:50.400 in the movie theaters.

00:14:51.340 In theaters right now,

00:14:53.360 nationwide,

00:14:54.840 you can go see

00:14:55.760 No Safe Spaces,

00:14:57.300 which if you look

00:14:58.320 at the poster,

00:14:59.080 it says that it's starring

00:15:00.160 Adam Carolla

00:15:01.440 and Dennis Prager.

00:15:02.500 But we know

00:15:03.160 that that's not true.

00:15:04.060 We know that it's starring me

00:15:05.420 because I am in the movie

00:15:06.920 for about six seconds.

00:15:10.540 Adam and Dennis

00:15:11.280 take you on a wild ride

00:15:12.960 in this movie

00:15:13.560 to show you the effects

00:15:14.520 of political correctness,

00:15:15.800 identity politics,

00:15:16.800 and cancel culture.

00:15:18.520 It takes you

00:15:19.360 through the colleges.

00:15:20.580 It shows you

00:15:21.220 the impact on,

00:15:23.120 obviously,

00:15:23.940 college campuses,

00:15:24.620 but also big tech,

00:15:25.780 also in Hollywood.

00:15:27.560 No Safe Spaces

00:15:28.640 shows us why free speech

00:15:30.700 is so important

00:15:31.680 to a free society,

00:15:33.140 how it's being threatened,

00:15:34.420 what we can do

00:15:34.960 to fight back.

00:15:35.660 This is not a typical

00:15:36.540 documentary, okay?

00:15:37.780 It has animation,

00:15:38.860 it has recreations,

00:15:40.220 it has a lot of Adam's

00:15:41.720 just hilarious,

00:15:43.140 typical humor,

00:15:44.440 which is really,

00:15:45.680 really great.

00:15:46.060 We had Adam come

00:15:46.860 on the backstage show

00:15:47.660 the other day

00:15:48.240 and we, you know,

00:15:49.260 it's like we couldn't

00:15:49.840 even get a word out.

00:15:50.560 We were laughing so much.

00:15:51.860 No Safe Spaces

00:15:52.700 takes you behind the scenes

00:15:54.200 on Ben Shapiro's

00:15:55.400 riot-filled trip

00:15:56.460 to UC Berkeley.

00:15:58.640 Jeremy Boring,

00:15:59.680 the God King of the Daily Wire

00:16:00.640 as a cameo,

00:16:01.240 and then, of course,

00:16:01.820 you will find me

00:16:02.440 in the film too.

00:16:03.960 It's really,

00:16:04.520 really great.

00:16:04.980 Go check it out.

00:16:05.760 I think you're,

00:16:06.540 you're absolutely

00:16:07.200 going to love it.

00:16:08.200 My father saw it

00:16:08.940 this weekend

00:16:09.520 over in Connecticut.

00:16:11.300 It's all over the country.

00:16:12.640 It's rated PG-13

00:16:13.540 in theaters now.

00:16:14.760 Go to

00:16:15.020 nosafespaces.com

00:16:17.000 slash

00:16:17.420 Knowles,

00:16:17.900 K-N-W-L-E-S

00:16:18.840 for ticket information

00:16:20.200 and theater locations.

00:16:21.820 You're really

00:16:22.120 going to love it.

00:16:23.260 All right.

00:16:24.100 I want to talk,

00:16:26.500 before we get

00:16:27.160 to internet porn,

00:16:27.820 I want to talk

00:16:28.420 about a banana

00:16:29.060 duct tape to a wall

00:16:29.900 because it matters.

00:16:31.760 At Art Basel,

00:16:32.660 this art fair

00:16:34.280 that happens

00:16:35.180 all over the world,

00:16:35.920 this time in Miami,

00:16:37.340 a banana

00:16:37.980 duct taped

00:16:39.000 to a wall

00:16:39.840 sold

00:16:40.880 as an art piece

00:16:42.540 for $120,000.

00:16:45.060 The Italian artist

00:16:46.480 Maurizio Catalan

00:16:48.260 took a banana,

00:16:50.980 which will rot

00:16:51.920 within a week,

00:16:53.320 duct taped it

00:16:53.800 to a wall,

00:16:54.380 and then sold

00:16:56.160 that art piece

00:16:57.980 in quotes

00:16:59.060 for $120,000.

00:17:02.340 Now,

00:17:02.520 there were three

00:17:03.020 of these pieces.

00:17:03.820 The third banana

00:17:04.680 is expected to sell

00:17:06.960 for $150,000.

00:17:08.880 And then,

00:17:09.800 here's my favorite

00:17:10.420 part of it all.

00:17:11.880 Right after it sold,

00:17:14.080 a performance artist

00:17:15.460 named David DeTuna

00:17:16.940 ate the banana.

00:17:19.760 He ate the banana

00:17:21.060 because he was hungry.

00:17:22.540 So some guy

00:17:24.260 buys this banana

00:17:25.220 duct taped to a wall

00:17:25.940 for $120,000

00:17:26.880 because he's

00:17:29.100 an idiot.

00:17:30.480 And then David DeTuna

00:17:31.880 eats his banana.

00:17:36.160 This shows us

00:17:37.600 a major problem

00:17:38.840 with our culture.

00:17:40.280 A culture

00:17:41.020 that spends

00:17:41.700 $120,000

00:17:42.580 on bananas

00:17:43.700 taped to walls,

00:17:45.180 a culture

00:17:45.940 that considers

00:17:47.320 a banana taped

00:17:47.980 to a wall

00:17:48.380 to be art,

00:17:48.940 has lost

00:17:50.320 its sense

00:17:51.840 of the meaning

00:17:52.520 of the word art.

00:17:53.620 It has lost

00:17:54.300 its sense

00:17:54.900 of beauty.

00:17:56.100 It has lost

00:17:56.720 its sense

00:17:57.180 of what is good

00:17:57.880 and what is true.

00:17:59.280 Another one of these,

00:18:00.340 a portrait,

00:18:01.620 apparently hyper-realistic

00:18:03.000 portrait,

00:18:03.440 I'm not going to subject

00:18:04.120 you to looking at it,

00:18:05.620 of Channing Tatum's

00:18:07.280 private area

00:18:09.500 went up

00:18:10.800 on eBay.

00:18:12.480 It sold

00:18:13.220 for $6,600.

00:18:15.160 This was done

00:18:15.900 by an L.A. artist.

00:18:17.740 Contemporary art

00:18:18.540 is terrible.

00:18:21.420 Generally speaking,

00:18:22.380 with very few exceptions,

00:18:24.540 is terrible.

00:18:25.160 The paintings,

00:18:25.700 the movies,

00:18:26.080 the plays,

00:18:26.520 the novels,

00:18:27.080 and the buildings.

00:18:29.020 Now, politics

00:18:29.540 is downstream

00:18:30.080 of culture.

00:18:30.740 Okay,

00:18:31.120 but can politics

00:18:31.840 play a role here?

00:18:32.640 Of course it can.

00:18:34.000 I'm not saying

00:18:34.620 we have to ban

00:18:35.420 bananas taped to walls,

00:18:37.080 though maybe that

00:18:37.540 wouldn't be such

00:18:38.400 a terrible idea,

00:18:39.120 but I don't think

00:18:39.660 we have to do that.

00:18:40.620 But just think about

00:18:41.580 the role of politics

00:18:42.520 in art.

00:18:43.400 Think about the buildings.

00:18:44.980 I was in Grand Central

00:18:45.860 the other day.

00:18:46.700 I was in New York.

00:18:47.940 Grand Central,

00:18:48.560 one of the most

00:18:48.940 beautiful buildings

00:18:49.860 in all of New York.

00:18:51.040 Maybe the most

00:18:51.660 beautiful building

00:18:52.300 in New York.

00:18:53.240 Grand,

00:18:53.940 huge,

00:18:55.040 gorgeous.

00:18:56.660 It's made

00:18:57.440 in the Beaux-Arts style.

00:18:58.780 It's got

00:18:59.440 beautiful,

00:19:00.620 intricate design

00:19:01.720 and ornamentation.

00:19:03.300 And it's big

00:19:04.120 and it's grand

00:19:05.140 and it's central.

00:19:06.720 Compare that

00:19:07.440 to the Freedom Tower,

00:19:09.140 the new

00:19:09.540 World Trade Center building.

00:19:10.840 It's ugly.

00:19:12.080 It's an ugly building.

00:19:13.520 It's nothing.

00:19:14.060 What is it?

00:19:14.480 It's nothing.

00:19:15.500 It's a big glass

00:19:16.380 rectangle.

00:19:19.360 Cool.

00:19:20.000 Great.

00:19:20.840 Nothing permanent

00:19:21.660 about it.

00:19:22.100 Nothing enduring.

00:19:23.160 Nothing beautiful.

00:19:23.880 It's just a big box

00:19:24.820 where people can do work.

00:19:27.560 The city

00:19:28.440 is paying

00:19:29.600 for,

00:19:30.620 certainly for parts

00:19:31.980 of both of these buildings

00:19:33.320 and for maintenance

00:19:33.980 and for security.

00:19:35.920 Compare

00:19:36.200 the old Penn Station.

00:19:37.600 People don't remember this.

00:19:38.460 The old Penn Station

00:19:39.340 in New York,

00:19:40.060 one of the most beautiful

00:19:40.780 buildings in New York.

00:19:41.680 Grand,

00:19:42.160 beautiful.

00:19:42.740 When you walked in there,

00:19:43.660 you felt like you were

00:19:44.400 a king arriving.

00:19:46.280 Then there's the new Penn Station

00:19:47.620 which has that monstrosity,

00:19:48.940 Madison Square Garden

00:19:49.680 on top of it.

00:19:50.420 When you walk in there,

00:19:51.200 you feel like you're a rat

00:19:52.260 scurrying around underground

00:19:53.800 just trying to get

00:19:54.940 to where you're going

00:19:55.700 so you can run

00:19:56.600 in your little treadmill

00:19:57.340 for long enough

00:19:58.260 and then go back home

00:19:59.120 and sit in your other

00:19:59.980 tiny little box.

00:20:01.160 Those buildings

00:20:03.920 are works of art.

00:20:05.660 They're funded

00:20:06.240 by the government.

00:20:07.020 They really affect

00:20:07.800 our lives.

00:20:09.480 We know that money

00:20:10.400 affects our lives.

00:20:11.300 Obviously,

00:20:11.820 we can buy things

00:20:12.500 for our friends and family.

00:20:14.020 Beauty affects

00:20:14.860 our lives too.

00:20:15.800 When you're in a beautiful place,

00:20:17.200 you feel better.

00:20:18.160 You feel more at ease.

00:20:19.280 You feel more contemplative.

00:20:20.560 You can raise your head up

00:20:21.500 to higher cultural questions

00:20:22.660 and ultimately

00:20:23.620 to higher religious questions.

00:20:25.580 Imagine if the Supreme Court

00:20:26.840 building

00:20:27.140 in Washington, D.C.

00:20:28.540 Imagine if that

00:20:30.200 just looked like

00:20:31.100 a regular office building,

00:20:32.700 like a modern

00:20:33.380 late 20th century,

00:20:35.060 just glass and steel

00:20:36.380 and nothing nice about it,

00:20:37.580 no ornamentation,

00:20:38.360 just a box.

00:20:40.260 That would affect

00:20:41.380 the Supreme Court.

00:20:42.240 It would affect

00:20:42.680 our government.

00:20:43.760 There would be

00:20:44.080 no sense of weight,

00:20:44.960 no seriousness,

00:20:46.000 no history,

00:20:46.860 no tradition

00:20:47.460 to that building.

00:20:51.460 The government

00:20:52.380 has to build

00:20:53.480 public buildings.

00:20:55.300 It's not

00:20:55.900 a libertarian question

00:20:57.020 of does the government

00:20:57.920 have to be involved?

00:20:58.780 There should be

00:20:59.120 no public buildings.

00:21:00.180 There should be no,

00:21:01.100 government should never

00:21:01.900 interfere in any

00:21:02.740 piece of architecture.

00:21:04.820 It does.

00:21:05.860 The government does that.

00:21:06.780 It has a role

00:21:07.460 to play

00:21:09.080 in the building

00:21:09.860 of public buildings.

00:21:10.900 Since it does,

00:21:12.860 the question we have to ask

00:21:13.960 is what should

00:21:14.520 conservatives ask

00:21:15.440 from this

00:21:15.840 and conservatives

00:21:16.840 should ask the government

00:21:18.140 to make

00:21:19.180 beautiful buildings.

00:21:20.760 We have a role.

00:21:21.640 We want beauty.

00:21:22.860 We,

00:21:23.120 we know that

00:21:24.780 the government

00:21:25.180 does affect the culture.

00:21:26.640 We know that

00:21:27.020 the politics does.

00:21:28.080 Whether you want it to

00:21:28.760 or not,

00:21:29.020 it does.

00:21:30.580 So we need to make sure

00:21:32.040 that in so much

00:21:32.820 as politics

00:21:33.340 affects the culture,

00:21:34.260 it's got to do it

00:21:35.100 in a good way.

00:21:35.980 What else

00:21:36.540 do we see a role for

00:21:38.000 when it comes to

00:21:38.960 politics in the culture?

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00:21:46.240 I call it,

00:21:46.580 and I'm not saying

00:21:47.000 she's in a same-sex marriage.

00:21:48.900 No.

00:21:49.780 She's in a relationship

00:21:51.300 with,

00:21:52.440 I guess it'd be

00:21:52.880 called a quintuple.

00:21:54.460 She's in a relationship,

00:21:56.280 romantic relationship

00:21:57.120 with four men.

00:21:58.000 She's pregnant.

00:21:58.580 She doesn't know

00:21:58.980 who the,

00:21:59.300 the father is.

00:22:00.480 That's modern.

00:22:01.200 That's love is love.

00:22:02.040 That's to be celebrated.

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00:23:24.280 A Florida woman

00:23:25.100 is in a quintuple

00:23:27.340 with four men.

00:23:29.660 This was just

00:23:30.440 chronicled on a show

00:23:32.780 called

00:23:33.180 Love,

00:23:33.980 Don't,

00:23:35.300 Judge.

00:23:35.840 Here she is.

00:23:38.260 This is Tori.

00:23:40.000 She fell in love with

00:23:41.180 Travis

00:23:42.220 and Ethan

00:23:44.660 and Mark

00:23:46.580 and Chris.

00:23:49.480 Their four-way relationship

00:23:50.480 is working wonders for them.

00:23:52.060 The relationship

00:23:52.700 could best be described

00:23:53.780 by having

00:23:54.880 Tori as the hub

00:23:56.000 and all of us

00:23:56.680 are spokes

00:23:57.140 on a giant wheel.

00:23:59.020 But not everyone

00:24:00.020 understands the dynamic.

00:24:01.840 I was like,

00:24:02.240 oh, you're kidding,

00:24:03.420 that you're joking.

00:24:05.180 How will this

00:24:05.960 poly relationship cope

00:24:07.240 with a further addition

00:24:08.500 to the family?

00:24:09.640 And so who's

00:24:10.200 the father of the baby?

00:24:11.000 The baby.

00:24:14.660 Oh, you think

00:24:18.220 that's weird?

00:24:19.340 Oh, you think

00:24:19.900 that's maybe

00:24:20.380 not the best thing

00:24:21.260 in the world?

00:24:21.620 How dare you,

00:24:22.700 you bigot?

00:24:23.940 How intolerant

00:24:25.540 of you?

00:24:26.520 How phobic

00:24:27.360 and ism.

00:24:28.680 That is both

00:24:29.240 ism and phobic

00:24:30.240 that you're doing.

00:24:31.820 Of course not.

00:24:33.160 Of course not.

00:24:36.020 This is

00:24:36.980 a cultural issue,

00:24:37.980 right?

00:24:38.580 This woman

00:24:39.360 is in

00:24:40.980 a

00:24:41.460 romantic relationship

00:24:43.280 that she wants

00:24:43.960 to be recognized

00:24:44.920 culturally

00:24:45.580 and one presumes

00:24:46.640 politically

00:24:47.340 with four men

00:24:49.440 simultaneously.

00:24:50.620 They're having

00:24:51.020 a child

00:24:51.700 together.

00:24:53.380 They don't know

00:24:53.820 who the father

00:24:54.420 of the baby is.

00:24:56.400 There is a role

00:24:57.720 for government

00:24:59.120 here.

00:25:00.780 The government

00:25:01.460 has an interest

00:25:02.360 in protecting children.

00:25:03.580 The government

00:25:03.920 has an interest

00:25:04.520 in having a definition

00:25:05.440 of marriage.

00:25:06.800 The government

00:25:07.320 has an interest

00:25:08.160 in this kind

00:25:10.880 of social madness.

00:25:12.520 How did this

00:25:13.260 come about?

00:25:13.960 If

00:25:15.560 seven years ago,

00:25:17.960 eight years ago,

00:25:19.140 you had said

00:25:20.340 that this would

00:25:20.880 be chronicled,

00:25:21.800 that this woman

00:25:23.140 would have a

00:25:23.600 relationship with

00:25:24.160 four guys,

00:25:24.960 I think a lot

00:25:25.820 of people would

00:25:26.160 have said,

00:25:26.400 yeah,

00:25:26.560 maybe there are

00:25:26.960 a lot of

00:25:27.200 weird people,

00:25:27.700 especially,

00:25:28.300 no disrespect

00:25:29.400 intended,

00:25:30.000 but especially

00:25:30.360 in Florida,

00:25:31.020 you see a lot

00:25:31.520 of headlines,

00:25:32.000 right?

00:25:33.940 Except something

00:25:34.740 fundamentally changed

00:25:36.100 about seven years

00:25:36.820 ago,

00:25:37.080 which is that

00:25:37.500 we redefined

00:25:38.420 marriage for the

00:25:39.200 first time ever.

00:25:40.060 we fundamentally

00:25:42.000 redefined marriage

00:25:43.060 from a relationship

00:25:44.520 between husbands

00:25:46.240 and wives

00:25:46.840 to anything

00:25:49.200 goes.

00:25:49.840 We had a

00:25:50.300 definition of

00:25:50.940 marriage that

00:25:51.500 had endured

00:25:51.980 in the West

00:25:52.520 for all of

00:25:53.580 certainly recent

00:25:55.700 memory,

00:25:56.120 but for our

00:25:57.080 civilization,

00:25:58.200 which is that

00:25:58.560 one man

00:25:59.200 marries one

00:26:00.940 woman and

00:26:01.860 they have

00:26:02.160 children together.

00:26:02.820 now that has

00:26:05.600 broken down.

00:26:06.260 We've expanded

00:26:06.780 the definition

00:26:07.320 of marriage

00:26:07.720 to include

00:26:08.180 monogamous

00:26:09.000 same-sex

00:26:10.080 unions.

00:26:11.880 Why monogamous?

00:26:13.340 If the whole

00:26:14.120 argument for

00:26:14.800 redefining marriage

00:26:15.560 to include

00:26:15.960 monogamous

00:26:16.440 same-sex

00:26:16.880 unions is

00:26:17.440 love is love

00:26:18.400 and how dare

00:26:18.880 you judge

00:26:19.540 and the heart

00:26:20.240 wants what

00:26:20.580 the heart

00:26:20.800 wants,

00:26:21.480 then who

00:26:21.880 are you

00:26:22.200 to exclude

00:26:22.680 this woman

00:26:23.160 and her

00:26:23.520 four creepy

00:26:24.040 boyfriends

00:26:24.540 from marriage?

00:26:25.880 It doesn't

00:26:26.160 make any sense.

00:26:28.080 There will be

00:26:29.080 a political

00:26:29.680 push to

00:26:30.660 legalize

00:26:31.580 polygamy.

00:26:32.020 There already

00:26:33.000 is in some

00:26:33.620 quarters and

00:26:34.360 there is no

00:26:35.740 limiting principle

00:26:36.620 on the Supreme

00:26:37.480 Court's crazy

00:26:38.400 decision to

00:26:38.980 redefine marriage

00:26:39.720 because Justice

00:26:40.340 Kennedy woke

00:26:41.060 up and felt

00:26:41.480 like a romantic

00:26:42.060 poet one day.

00:26:43.320 So there will

00:26:44.180 be a major

00:26:44.700 push for this

00:26:45.420 and that is

00:26:47.400 a political

00:26:47.780 issue.

00:26:49.080 Obviously

00:26:49.580 marriage,

00:26:50.300 our families

00:26:51.280 are cultural

00:26:52.160 primarily,

00:26:53.060 but there is a

00:26:53.600 huge political

00:26:54.300 aspect to this.

00:26:55.860 There will be

00:26:56.620 an answer.

00:26:57.340 What is

00:26:57.800 marriage?

00:26:58.840 There will be

00:26:59.300 a political

00:27:00.100 answer to that

00:27:00.760 and if

00:27:02.000 we decide

00:27:02.620 to blow

00:27:03.020 open the

00:27:03.380 doors to

00:27:03.700 marriage,

00:27:04.000 which in

00:27:04.280 many ways

00:27:04.640 we've already

00:27:05.000 done,

00:27:05.600 that is going

00:27:06.040 to have

00:27:06.400 cultural

00:27:07.200 effects.

00:27:08.440 You know,

00:27:08.660 you say,

00:27:09.280 well,

00:27:09.380 that's crazy,

00:27:10.000 that's fringe,

00:27:10.540 that's not

00:27:10.840 going to happen

00:27:11.180 anytime soon.

00:27:12.040 Look at Drag

00:27:12.580 Queen Story Hour.

00:27:13.600 Remember Drag

00:27:14.180 Queen Story Hour?

00:27:15.200 This just burst

00:27:16.200 on the scene

00:27:16.580 like two months

00:27:17.120 ago and it's

00:27:17.820 this weird

00:27:18.300 thing where

00:27:19.260 at libraries

00:27:19.920 they bring

00:27:20.400 in drag

00:27:20.820 queens

00:27:21.140 to perform

00:27:22.460 sexualized

00:27:23.500 routines

00:27:23.920 for young

00:27:25.320 children.

00:27:26.140 We said,

00:27:26.480 that's insane.

00:27:27.540 Some more

00:27:28.280 libertarian-minded

00:27:29.120 defenders of

00:27:29.880 this said,

00:27:30.820 well,

00:27:31.800 who cares?

00:27:32.840 It's not that

00:27:33.400 many of them.

00:27:33.960 It's at libraries.

00:27:34.960 This is a

00:27:35.360 blessing of

00:27:35.820 liberty.

00:27:36.980 All right,

00:27:37.500 I guess we

00:27:38.040 need to

00:27:38.340 redefine

00:27:38.760 blessing.

00:27:39.300 Maybe we

00:27:39.540 need to

00:27:39.780 redefine

00:27:40.220 liberty or

00:27:40.940 more clearly

00:27:41.660 define it.

00:27:42.580 But obviously

00:27:43.920 this libertinism

00:27:45.100 is never

00:27:45.720 content to

00:27:46.540 remain where

00:27:47.000 it is.

00:27:47.280 It wants

00:27:47.620 to go

00:27:48.040 further.

00:27:48.740 So in

00:27:49.060 Montreal now,

00:27:51.140 technically not

00:27:51.820 America,

00:27:52.300 but it's

00:27:52.520 America's hat and

00:27:53.480 what you see

00:27:53.940 there is coming

00:27:54.440 here too.

00:27:55.340 Drag Queen Story Hour

00:27:56.420 has left the

00:27:57.260 libraries and

00:27:58.000 it's headed

00:27:58.380 straight to

00:27:59.440 daycare.

00:28:00.160 This is what

00:28:00.780 one of the

00:28:01.260 organizers of

00:28:02.120 Daycare Drag

00:28:02.820 Queen Story Hour

00:28:03.500 wrote on

00:28:04.180 Twitter.

00:28:04.780 This guy named

00:28:05.100 Dan Kravitz,

00:28:05.820 quote,

00:28:07.340 I'm proud to

00:28:07.980 have helped

00:28:08.480 organize a

00:28:09.280 Drag Queen

00:28:09.740 Story Hour

00:28:10.320 at our

00:28:10.660 local child

00:28:11.280 daycare.

00:28:12.520 Within these

00:28:13.060 children we

00:28:13.640 inspire a

00:28:14.240 love of

00:28:14.500 reading while

00:28:15.020 teaching deeper

00:28:15.700 lessons on

00:28:16.300 diversity,

00:28:16.920 self-love,

00:28:17.420 and tolerance

00:28:18.000 of others.

00:28:19.420 You know,

00:28:19.800 a lot of

00:28:20.160 the recent

00:28:21.060 debate on

00:28:21.640 the right

00:28:22.020 between the

00:28:22.620 libertarians

00:28:23.180 and the

00:28:23.760 more traditionalist

00:28:24.580 types is

00:28:25.520 over whether

00:28:26.140 there's a

00:28:27.780 role for

00:28:28.560 government to

00:28:29.160 say,

00:28:29.420 you know,

00:28:29.860 Drag Queen Story

00:28:30.500 Hour for

00:28:30.900 little kids,

00:28:31.480 that's a

00:28:31.880 little bit

00:28:32.140 too far.

00:28:32.680 Maybe we

00:28:33.000 need some

00:28:33.320 regulations on

00:28:34.120 this.

00:28:34.620 Maybe we

00:28:34.980 need some

00:28:35.360 laws.

00:28:36.460 And then

00:28:37.000 the libertarians

00:28:37.720 say,

00:28:38.100 no,

00:28:38.380 any laws

00:28:38.920 regulating

00:28:39.420 any social

00:28:39.960 question is

00:28:40.820 completely

00:28:41.440 unacceptable.

00:28:44.460 Where the

00:28:45.140 rubber meets

00:28:45.680 the road on

00:28:46.140 this question

00:28:46.700 is internet

00:28:47.620 porn.

00:28:48.080 My colleague

00:28:48.440 Matt Walsh

00:28:49.040 kicked a

00:28:50.000 beehive the

00:28:50.640 other day when

00:28:51.160 he said he

00:28:51.520 wants to ban

00:28:52.100 internet porn.

00:28:53.580 Massive debate

00:28:54.320 going on

00:28:54.740 online.

00:28:55.120 I will

00:28:55.980 give you

00:28:56.360 the correct

00:28:56.900 answer to

00:28:57.440 that debate.

00:28:57.880 We'll do

00:28:58.120 that in a

00:28:58.420 second.

00:28:58.720 First,

00:28:58.940 I've got to

00:28:59.220 say goodbye

00:28:59.660 to Facebook

00:29:00.740 and YouTube.

00:29:03.140 So,

00:29:03.660 look,

00:29:04.380 you like our

00:29:05.180 new set,

00:29:05.680 right?

00:29:05.840 You like our

00:29:06.240 new studio.

00:29:06.820 It's looking

00:29:07.100 pretty good.

00:29:08.480 Well,

00:29:08.880 all of this

00:29:09.320 requires money,

00:29:10.160 folks.

00:29:10.540 You know,

00:29:10.780 obviously they

00:29:11.300 don't pay me,

00:29:12.220 but they at

00:29:12.540 least need to

00:29:12.860 keep the

00:29:13.120 lights on.

00:29:13.580 So,

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00:29:21.160 in these

00:29:21.400 conversations that

00:29:22.120 we do

00:29:22.340 regularly on

00:29:23.180 the new

00:29:23.520 website,

00:29:23.940 on the new

00:29:24.260 app.

00:29:24.640 It looks

00:29:24.960 super cool.

00:29:26.200 Obviously,

00:29:26.540 you get me,

00:29:27.020 the Ben Shapiro

00:29:27.520 show,

00:29:27.740 the Andrew

00:29:28.000 Klavan show,

00:29:28.440 the Matt

00:29:28.680 Walsh show.

00:29:29.500 You get to

00:29:29.820 ask questions

00:29:30.600 in the mailbag.

00:29:31.200 You get

00:29:31.500 another kingdom.

00:29:32.260 You get

00:29:32.600 the Leftist

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00:29:33.280 Tumblr,

00:29:33.800 all very

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00:29:34.900 Head to

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00:29:36.300 We'll be

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00:29:48.680 All right.

00:29:50.400 This all

00:29:51.180 comes down

00:29:51.940 to

00:29:53.260 internet

00:29:53.560 porn.

00:29:54.420 That's where

00:29:54.660 it all

00:29:55.140 comes.

00:29:55.520 Welcome.

00:29:56.400 They say

00:29:56.780 sex sells,

00:29:57.480 so we're

00:29:57.740 now at

00:29:58.200 the sex

00:29:58.940 portion

00:29:59.280 of the

00:29:59.540 show.

00:30:01.160 The culture

00:30:01.980 is moving

00:30:02.640 radically

00:30:03.160 left at

00:30:04.920 an increasing

00:30:05.800 rate.

00:30:07.320 Okay.

00:30:07.660 That woman

00:30:08.220 with the

00:30:08.560 four dudes,

00:30:09.280 that's going

00:30:09.740 to be a

00:30:10.120 political

00:30:10.420 debate very

00:30:11.040 soon if it

00:30:11.480 isn't already.

00:30:12.620 Drag Queen

00:30:12.980 Story Hour

00:30:13.480 is certainly

00:30:14.620 a political

00:30:15.000 matter now.

00:30:16.420 And porn

00:30:16.900 is where

00:30:18.240 a lot of

00:30:18.620 this is being

00:30:19.060 fought.

00:30:19.460 Frankly,

00:30:19.940 I think it's

00:30:20.280 a cause of

00:30:20.960 a lot of

00:30:21.260 the confusion.

00:30:22.920 Matt Walsh

00:30:23.360 kicked off

00:30:23.760 this kerfuffle

00:30:24.340 on the

00:30:24.640 internet when

00:30:25.500 he said,

00:30:25.920 we need to

00:30:26.140 ban porn

00:30:26.700 and we

00:30:27.020 should jail

00:30:27.440 pornographers.

00:30:28.960 This elicited

00:30:30.160 outrage from

00:30:31.960 the more

00:30:32.500 libertarian

00:30:33.400 minded

00:30:33.840 segments of

00:30:35.380 the right.

00:30:36.540 Okay.

00:30:37.220 The,

00:30:37.780 there's a

00:30:39.560 writer for the

00:30:40.080 DC Examiner,

00:30:41.480 Brad Palumbo.

00:30:43.200 Palumbo,

00:30:44.160 he tweeted

00:30:45.940 out,

00:30:46.260 quote,

00:30:46.420 new rule.

00:30:46.980 All the

00:30:47.880 young

00:30:48.180 tradcon

00:30:49.020 dudes

00:30:49.500 tweeting

00:30:50.140 about

00:30:50.540 how

00:30:50.760 they

00:30:50.940 support

00:30:51.440 porn

00:30:51.900 bans

00:30:52.380 must

00:30:53.180 post

00:30:53.740 their

00:30:54.240 unredacted

00:30:55.320 web

00:30:55.980 browsing

00:30:56.600 history.

00:30:58.400 Okay,

00:30:59.120 this is the

00:30:59.860 kind of

00:31:00.420 typical

00:31:01.720 response

00:31:02.520 of the

00:31:02.960 more

00:31:03.100 libertarian

00:31:03.560 minded

00:31:03.800 people,

00:31:04.400 which is,

00:31:05.640 hey,

00:31:06.000 you think

00:31:06.640 that we

00:31:06.880 should

00:31:07.040 regulate

00:31:07.420 something

00:31:07.780 that's

00:31:08.040 bad?

00:31:08.600 Have

00:31:08.720 you ever

00:31:09.160 done

00:31:09.680 that

00:31:09.920 bad

00:31:10.220 thing?

00:31:10.580 Well,

00:31:10.980 then you

00:31:11.260 have no

00:31:11.680 standing

00:31:12.100 here

00:31:12.520 because

00:31:12.820 you're

00:31:13.060 a

00:31:13.160 hypocrite.

00:31:13.860 No.

00:31:14.380 First of

00:31:14.740 all,

00:31:15.140 first of

00:31:15.420 all,

00:31:16.120 hypocrisy

00:31:16.660 is the

00:31:16.960 tribute

00:31:17.260 vice

00:31:17.660 pays

00:31:17.960 to

00:31:18.120 virtue.

00:31:20.100 But

00:31:20.620 further

00:31:22.360 beyond

00:31:23.400 seeing

00:31:24.040 in this

00:31:24.480 a kind

00:31:24.760 of

00:31:24.880 contradiction,

00:31:25.800 ha,

00:31:26.160 some

00:31:26.500 guy

00:31:26.780 looked

00:31:27.120 at

00:31:27.260 internet

00:31:27.560 porn

00:31:27.980 like

00:31:28.500 all

00:31:28.860 guys

00:31:29.200 have

00:31:29.400 done

00:31:29.600 in

00:31:29.720 America.

00:31:30.540 Well,

00:31:30.840 then you

00:31:31.160 can

00:31:31.360 never

00:31:31.680 say

00:31:32.320 that

00:31:32.560 internet

00:31:32.960 porn

00:31:33.220 is

00:31:33.380 bad.

00:31:35.500 Rather

00:31:36.020 than

00:31:36.220 seeing

00:31:36.420 a

00:31:36.580 contradiction,

00:31:37.140 maybe

00:31:37.300 we

00:31:37.480 should

00:31:37.620 see

00:31:37.740 a

00:31:37.880 cause

00:31:38.280 here.

00:31:38.560 Amalia

00:31:39.640 Halakias

00:31:40.420 posted

00:31:40.900 on

00:31:41.120 Twitter

00:31:41.420 very

00:31:43.420 accurately,

00:31:44.660 quote,

00:31:44.940 it's obvious

00:31:45.540 the porn

00:31:46.200 is fine

00:31:47.120 plus you

00:31:47.660 can't

00:31:48.000 stop me

00:31:48.520 ha ha

00:31:48.900 chortle

00:31:49.320 Twitter

00:31:50.000 shrieking

00:31:50.520 is not

00:31:51.080 representative

00:31:51.600 of the

00:31:52.000 dominant

00:31:52.280 male view

00:31:52.780 which is

00:31:53.180 quote,

00:31:54.120 yes,

00:31:54.420 I watch

00:31:54.800 porn,

00:31:55.300 it's

00:31:55.500 gross,

00:31:56.040 it's

00:31:56.200 bad

00:31:56.420 for me,

00:31:56.740 I should

00:31:56.960 probably

00:31:57.360 stop.

00:31:58.160 This

00:31:58.500 seems

00:31:58.820 much

00:31:59.700 clearer

00:32:00.080 to me.

00:32:00.560 You know,

00:32:01.600 who knows

00:32:02.400 more about

00:32:03.180 the

00:32:03.540 dangerous

00:32:04.340 effects

00:32:04.880 of

00:32:05.120 crystal

00:32:05.440 meth?

00:32:07.100 Some

00:32:07.580 guy

00:32:08.640 who's

00:32:09.260 got his

00:32:09.820 life

00:32:10.040 in order

00:32:10.420 whose

00:32:10.980 job

00:32:12.060 it is

00:32:12.320 to think

00:32:12.700 and write

00:32:13.140 in a

00:32:14.280 nice

00:32:14.780 air

00:32:16.160 conditioned

00:32:16.560 beautiful

00:32:17.020 room

00:32:17.340 on the

00:32:17.600 Potomac

00:32:18.000 or a

00:32:19.220 meth

00:32:19.400 addict.

00:32:20.540 Probably

00:32:21.060 the

00:32:21.280 meth

00:32:21.480 addict

00:32:21.760 knows

00:32:22.120 what's

00:32:22.400 better.

00:32:24.080 You know,

00:32:24.480 I notice

00:32:25.340 the people

00:32:25.760 clamoring

00:32:26.300 for say

00:32:26.680 the

00:32:26.940 total

00:32:27.460 legalization

00:32:28.160 of drugs

00:32:28.680 like

00:32:28.920 heroin

00:32:29.280 or

00:32:29.620 crystal

00:32:30.100 meth.

00:32:30.560 They're

00:32:30.820 never

00:32:31.000 the

00:32:31.180 people

00:32:31.440 who

00:32:31.580 are

00:32:31.700 hooked

00:32:31.920 on

00:32:32.240 heroin

00:32:32.800 or

00:32:33.000 crystal

00:32:33.240 meth.

00:32:33.860 It's

00:32:34.340 always

00:32:34.820 people

00:32:36.040 who

00:32:36.300 have

00:32:36.480 really

00:32:36.760 abstract

00:32:37.360 ideological

00:32:37.700 views

00:32:38.160 of

00:32:38.300 politics

00:32:38.700 whose

00:32:39.280 lives

00:32:39.600 are

00:32:39.740 basically

00:32:40.080 in

00:32:40.300 order.

00:32:42.080 That

00:32:42.520 doesn't

00:32:43.660 seem to

00:32:44.360 make a

00:32:44.600 whole lot

00:32:44.880 of sense

00:32:45.220 to me.

00:32:45.620 You know,

00:32:47.320 Ben

00:32:47.620 Dominich

00:32:48.160 at the

00:32:48.740 Federalist,

00:32:49.200 he tweeted

00:32:49.760 out a

00:32:50.120 similar

00:32:50.460 version.

00:32:52.540 I think

00:32:53.820 a better

00:32:54.160 objection

00:32:54.620 to the

00:32:55.280 calls to

00:32:55.620 ban

00:32:55.820 porn,

00:32:56.160 but still

00:32:56.660 not

00:32:57.040 sufficient.

00:32:57.440 He tweeted

00:32:57.700 out,

00:32:58.020 quote,

00:32:58.480 are the

00:32:58.720 conservatives

00:32:59.140 who think

00:32:59.600 they can

00:32:59.900 ban

00:33:00.160 porn

00:33:00.420 online

00:33:00.820 purposefully

00:33:01.800 ignoring

00:33:02.180 the massive

00:33:02.660 expansion

00:33:03.160 of government

00:33:03.660 this would

00:33:04.260 require?

00:33:04.820 Or are

00:33:05.400 they too

00:33:05.780 stupid

00:33:06.260 to realize

00:33:07.160 it?

00:33:08.320 This is

00:33:08.680 another

00:33:08.900 example

00:33:09.380 where

00:33:09.600 social

00:33:09.900 conservatives

00:33:10.400 should

00:33:10.900 work

00:33:11.120 to

00:33:11.280 reestablish

00:33:11.840 cultural

00:33:12.320 stigmas,

00:33:13.000 which are

00:33:13.440 far more

00:33:13.820 powerful and

00:33:14.420 enduring than

00:33:14.940 government

00:33:15.200 regulation.

00:33:16.280 So,

00:33:17.680 he's making

00:33:18.480 the argument

00:33:18.920 that politics

00:33:19.460 is simply

00:33:19.980 downstream of

00:33:20.540 culture.

00:33:21.260 You can't

00:33:21.660 really affect

00:33:22.080 the culture

00:33:22.420 in a good

00:33:22.740 way with

00:33:23.060 the politics.

00:33:23.900 And do

00:33:24.240 you realize

00:33:24.380 how crazy

00:33:24.860 it would be

00:33:25.180 to jail

00:33:25.740 pornographers?

00:33:26.520 We could

00:33:26.740 never do

00:33:27.080 that.

00:33:27.460 Except we

00:33:28.080 do that

00:33:28.780 and we've

00:33:29.260 done that

00:33:29.560 recently,

00:33:30.560 which

00:33:31.240 perhaps Ben

00:33:32.620 forgot and

00:33:33.360 I think a lot

00:33:33.820 of conservatives

00:33:34.340 forgot.

00:33:35.060 We've

00:33:35.220 prosecuted

00:33:36.160 hardcore

00:33:36.580 pornographers

00:33:37.200 as recent

00:33:38.040 as 2008.

00:33:39.700 We sent

00:33:40.080 them to

00:33:40.380 jail as

00:33:40.780 recently as

00:33:41.280 2009.

00:33:42.480 In 2008,

00:33:43.240 in Tampa,

00:33:43.660 Florida,

00:33:44.000 a guy named

00:33:44.360 Paul Little,

00:33:45.880 who goes by

00:33:46.320 the name

00:33:46.560 Max Hardcore,

00:33:48.360 this guy's

00:33:48.740 like out of

00:33:49.080 a movie.

00:33:49.800 This guy,

00:33:51.520 his name is

00:33:52.080 actually Hardcore

00:33:53.180 and we're

00:33:53.480 talking about

00:33:53.900 hardcore

00:33:54.240 pornography

00:33:55.120 as the

00:33:55.540 real central

00:33:56.320 problem here.

00:33:57.140 He was found

00:33:57.600 guilty of

00:33:58.000 distributing

00:33:58.440 obscene

00:33:59.100 material over

00:33:59.920 the internet.

00:34:01.240 Not kiddie

00:34:01.800 porn,

00:34:02.120 by the way,

00:34:02.380 not something

00:34:02.780 that's,

00:34:03.120 you know,

00:34:04.560 we all

00:34:05.240 consider to

00:34:05.760 be illegal.

00:34:07.300 He was

00:34:08.040 found guilty

00:34:09.040 of distributing

00:34:09.600 obscene

00:34:10.360 material

00:34:10.860 through the

00:34:12.300 U.S.

00:34:12.600 mail and

00:34:13.340 over the

00:34:13.640 internet.

00:34:14.000 He was

00:34:14.160 sentenced to

00:34:14.540 46 months

00:34:15.120 in prison.

00:34:15.520 Here's a

00:34:16.640 writer in

00:34:17.180 Forbes

00:34:17.680 magazine

00:34:18.260 describing

00:34:19.140 what the

00:34:19.540 usual

00:34:19.880 Max Hardcore

00:34:20.640 scene

00:34:20.980 looks like.

00:34:22.000 Quote,

00:34:22.540 His formulaic

00:34:23.700 movies focused

00:34:24.420 on the

00:34:24.880 systematic

00:34:25.240 degradation

00:34:25.780 of his

00:34:26.260 female

00:34:26.560 co-star

00:34:26.980 of the

00:34:27.240 moment

00:34:27.460 who was

00:34:28.120 not

00:34:28.360 infrequently

00:34:28.920 dressed up

00:34:29.440 to resemble

00:34:29.900 a child,

00:34:30.860 wearing

00:34:31.100 pigtails,

00:34:32.100 discovered

00:34:32.420 on a

00:34:32.720 playground,

00:34:33.500 sucking

00:34:33.720 on a

00:34:34.060 lollipop.

00:34:34.940 The sex

00:34:35.340 scenes took

00:34:35.880 place on

00:34:36.420 what would

00:34:36.720 become an

00:34:37.360 iconic

00:34:37.780 yellow

00:34:38.220 sofa where

00:34:39.240 speculums

00:34:39.860 were introduced,

00:34:41.220 Hardcore's

00:34:41.780 verbal onslaughts

00:34:43.100 commenced,

00:34:43.600 and the

00:34:44.360 young women

00:34:44.800 were turned

00:34:45.340 into wild-eyed

00:34:46.340 dazed

00:34:46.740 zombies by

00:34:47.960 the finale.

00:34:49.420 Okay.

00:34:52.360 That seems

00:34:53.120 pretty obscene.

00:34:53.940 That seems

00:34:54.200 pretty bad.

00:34:54.880 Doesn't seem

00:34:55.280 good for

00:34:55.920 the

00:34:56.340 conservatives

00:34:58.060 or so-called

00:34:58.640 conservatives

00:34:59.160 who are

00:34:59.420 saying,

00:35:00.240 if you're

00:35:00.800 a conservative

00:35:01.420 we need to

00:35:02.000 support ubiquitous

00:35:02.820 hardcore porn

00:35:03.700 and if you

00:35:04.880 think that we

00:35:05.440 shouldn't have

00:35:05.920 ubiquitous

00:35:06.360 hardcore porn

00:35:07.180 and you think

00:35:07.840 maybe we

00:35:08.240 should use

00:35:08.520 politics to

00:35:09.120 stop it,

00:35:09.440 you're not

00:35:09.660 a real

00:35:10.120 conservative.

00:35:10.960 I think

00:35:11.260 what that

00:35:11.560 shows is

00:35:12.320 that the

00:35:12.580 meaning of

00:35:13.040 the word

00:35:13.380 conservative

00:35:13.940 has drifted

00:35:14.860 way too

00:35:15.840 far.

00:35:16.840 When

00:35:17.260 conservatism

00:35:18.000 is boiled

00:35:18.700 down or

00:35:19.300 redefined to

00:35:19.840 just mean

00:35:20.140 libertinism,

00:35:21.300 if not

00:35:21.960 outright

00:35:22.360 anarchy,

00:35:23.520 you've gone

00:35:24.220 too far.

00:35:24.820 You've

00:35:25.000 redefined

00:35:25.500 conservatism

00:35:26.420 too much.

00:35:27.160 Why is

00:35:27.540 porn bad?

00:35:28.660 Why is

00:35:28.960 it bad?

00:35:29.860 Nobody

00:35:30.180 thinks it's

00:35:30.700 good,

00:35:31.300 okay?

00:35:31.600 First of

00:35:32.000 all,

00:35:32.700 I don't

00:35:33.040 think I

00:35:33.640 actually need

00:35:34.360 to convince

00:35:34.740 people that

00:35:35.320 widespread

00:35:36.480 hardcore

00:35:37.020 internet

00:35:37.300 porn is

00:35:37.700 bad,

00:35:38.100 okay?

00:35:38.760 Do you

00:35:38.960 know how

00:35:39.180 I know

00:35:39.460 that internet

00:35:39.920 porn is

00:35:40.300 bad and

00:35:41.180 that everyone

00:35:41.540 thinks that

00:35:41.980 internet porn

00:35:42.440 is bad?

00:35:42.820 Because of

00:35:43.480 the incognito

00:35:44.400 window.

00:35:45.000 Because there

00:35:45.440 is actually a

00:35:46.160 function now

00:35:46.740 built into

00:35:47.500 every web

00:35:48.100 browser that

00:35:48.880 allows you to

00:35:49.360 hide what

00:35:49.860 you're doing.

00:35:50.840 When you look

00:35:51.440 at internet

00:35:51.860 porn,

00:35:52.380 do you go and

00:35:53.480 you kind of

00:35:53.780 open up the

00:35:54.300 window shades

00:35:55.380 and you say

00:35:56.000 and you say,

00:35:56.100 oh,

00:35:56.320 hey there,

00:35:56.880 neighbors,

00:35:57.400 how you

00:35:57.600 doing?

00:35:57.760 I'm me,

00:35:58.160 I'm just

00:35:58.440 going to

00:35:58.620 go look at

00:35:59.540 a bunch of

00:36:00.020 really gross

00:36:00.600 internet porn.

00:36:01.380 Take a look

00:36:01.960 if you want.

00:36:02.540 I'll just be

00:36:03.000 over here

00:36:03.420 doing that

00:36:04.100 thing that

00:36:05.020 I'm so ashamed

00:36:05.960 to do that

00:36:06.720 I have to

00:36:07.220 turn the

00:36:07.540 lights off,

00:36:07.980 close the

00:36:08.340 door and

00:36:09.400 put on

00:36:10.400 earphones and

00:36:12.140 put a towel

00:36:12.880 underneath the

00:36:13.460 door so nobody

00:36:14.060 can hear

00:36:14.380 anything.

00:36:15.400 Yeah,

00:36:15.720 but it's

00:36:16.240 really good

00:36:16.660 though.

00:36:16.900 It's a great

00:36:17.660 thing.

00:36:17.940 It's totally

00:36:18.260 fine.

00:36:18.880 A blessing

00:36:19.460 of liberty.

00:36:20.420 No,

00:36:20.700 I don't think

00:36:21.060 so.

00:36:21.860 What does

00:36:25.380 it specifically

00:36:26.340 degrades the

00:36:26.940 women who

00:36:27.640 are in the

00:36:28.120 scenes,

00:36:28.540 right?

00:36:28.740 It obviously

00:36:29.280 degrades the

00:36:30.220 performers.

00:36:30.860 It treats

00:36:31.120 human beings

00:36:31.860 who have

00:36:32.960 intellect and

00:36:33.780 will who

00:36:34.260 are higher

00:36:34.700 than the

00:36:35.040 animals.

00:36:35.620 It treats

00:36:36.200 them as

00:36:36.520 brutes and

00:36:37.100 it treats

00:36:37.480 them as

00:36:38.180 objects.

00:36:39.340 It literally

00:36:40.360 objectifies

00:36:40.980 people.

00:36:41.340 It turns

00:36:41.620 them into

00:36:41.920 nothing more

00:36:42.460 than their

00:36:43.000 flesh,

00:36:43.620 which is

00:36:44.140 crazy to

00:36:44.740 think about.

00:36:45.200 To think

00:36:45.380 about how

00:36:45.640 much time

00:36:46.100 people spend

00:36:46.680 looking at

00:36:47.400 internet porn

00:36:48.000 when really

00:36:48.760 all you're

00:36:49.160 watching is

00:36:49.840 just pieces

00:36:50.340 of flesh

00:36:50.880 bump into

00:36:51.420 each other.

00:36:52.200 And we

00:36:52.680 all get

00:36:52.940 titillated about

00:36:53.560 that because

00:36:54.100 we also have

00:36:55.140 a sexual

00:36:55.500 nature.

00:36:56.360 It degrades

00:36:57.120 the performance.

00:36:57.880 It also

00:36:58.220 degrades the

00:36:59.380 viewers because

00:37:01.240 you've got to

00:37:02.060 be that guy

00:37:02.600 who goes

00:37:02.940 into the

00:37:03.240 room and

00:37:03.560 turns the

00:37:03.860 lights down

00:37:04.220 and locks

00:37:04.540 the door

00:37:04.880 and closes

00:37:05.480 the blinds

00:37:06.180 and watches

00:37:06.940 that thing

00:37:07.500 and does

00:37:07.880 that thing

00:37:08.300 that doesn't

00:37:09.240 look very

00:37:09.700 dignified or

00:37:10.840 cool.

00:37:12.900 That's the

00:37:13.780 degradation

00:37:14.220 problem.

00:37:14.880 It's also

00:37:15.200 ubiquitous.

00:37:15.880 It's everywhere

00:37:16.380 and it's

00:37:17.760 viewed by

00:37:18.120 children.

00:37:18.940 93% of

00:37:19.840 boys and

00:37:20.240 62% of

00:37:21.060 girls report

00:37:21.980 seeing porn

00:37:22.800 before age

00:37:23.760 18.

00:37:24.240 And I

00:37:24.940 would add

00:37:25.340 to that

00:37:25.680 study

00:37:26.040 7% of

00:37:27.260 boys are

00:37:27.620 liars.

00:37:28.460 So I

00:37:29.240 would guess

00:37:29.680 it's even

00:37:30.180 a little

00:37:30.380 higher than

00:37:30.740 93%.

00:37:31.560 The average

00:37:32.840 age of

00:37:33.940 first internet

00:37:34.840 porn exposure

00:37:35.500 today, do you

00:37:36.260 know what the

00:37:36.500 age is?

00:37:37.680 11.

00:37:38.860 That's the

00:37:39.100 average age.

00:37:40.440 10% of

00:37:41.020 kids under

00:37:41.900 the age of

00:37:42.260 10 have

00:37:42.700 seen porn.

00:37:43.780 Why else is

00:37:44.340 porn bad?

00:37:44.980 Highly

00:37:45.380 addictive.

00:37:46.480 It has

00:37:46.840 long lasting

00:37:47.660 effects on

00:37:48.380 your brain.

00:37:48.900 It is

00:37:49.520 leading to

00:37:49.980 skyrocketing

00:37:50.740 rates of

00:37:51.100 erectile

00:37:51.600 dysfunction

00:37:52.020 among young

00:37:52.960 men, men

00:37:53.420 in their

00:37:53.660 20s who

00:37:54.200 should be

00:37:54.620 active, who

00:37:55.520 should be

00:37:56.060 virile.

00:37:57.160 They're now

00:37:57.720 suffering from

00:37:58.220 ED like

00:37:58.780 their Bob

00:37:59.180 Dole in

00:37:59.520 the 90s.

00:38:00.720 It also

00:38:01.520 has long

00:38:02.240 lasting effects

00:38:02.840 on your

00:38:03.140 soul.

00:38:04.240 That's a

00:38:04.660 question for

00:38:05.320 another day.

00:38:06.220 It's also

00:38:06.760 disgusting.

00:38:07.860 It's just

00:38:08.280 gross.

00:38:09.720 Right?

00:38:10.020 The porn is

00:38:11.040 gross.

00:38:11.920 I think the

00:38:12.380 people who

00:38:12.760 watch the

00:38:13.220 porn, which

00:38:13.680 is statistically

00:38:14.280 like every

00:38:14.920 guy in

00:38:15.300 America, but

00:38:16.880 hopefully there's

00:38:17.800 a movement

00:38:18.140 now to

00:38:18.600 really fight

00:38:19.660 back against

00:38:20.180 this, so I

00:38:20.500 hope that

00:38:20.740 number is

00:38:21.100 going down.

00:38:22.580 Especially when

00:38:23.300 the internet

00:38:23.640 was first

00:38:24.200 invented, like

00:38:24.800 everybody was

00:38:25.580 doing it.

00:38:26.200 I think only

00:38:26.700 now are we

00:38:27.200 seeing the

00:38:27.720 dangerous and

00:38:28.640 deleterious

00:38:29.120 effects of

00:38:29.660 it.

00:38:31.400 The porn

00:38:32.100 itself is

00:38:32.640 disgusting, but

00:38:33.520 the very fact

00:38:35.020 that everybody's

00:38:35.700 looking at

00:38:36.100 internet porn

00:38:36.600 all the time

00:38:37.040 is disgusting

00:38:37.860 in itself,

00:38:38.740 because it

00:38:39.200 makes us a

00:38:39.860 nation of

00:38:40.480 wankers.

00:38:41.660 And you

00:38:41.960 don't want to

00:38:42.580 be a nation

00:38:43.160 of wankers,

00:38:43.860 because that's

00:38:44.620 sad and

00:38:45.680 pathetic.

00:38:47.120 All right?

00:38:47.360 This is a

00:38:47.800 very tough

00:38:48.640 issue.

00:38:50.160 It's actually a

00:38:50.680 very tough

00:38:51.120 issue, not in

00:38:52.000 the clarity of

00:38:52.620 it.

00:38:52.760 I think we

00:38:53.080 all know it's

00:38:53.480 bad, it's

00:38:53.900 gross, it's

00:38:54.580 new, it's

00:38:55.040 highly addictive.

00:38:55.700 Our brains

00:38:56.180 were not built

00:38:57.000 to handle this,

00:38:58.440 and we have a

00:38:59.460 kind of vaguely

00:39:00.020 libertarian

00:39:00.580 politics.

00:39:01.460 At least the

00:39:02.660 right has

00:39:03.060 convinced itself

00:39:04.080 to become

00:39:04.480 libertarian in

00:39:05.200 recent decades,

00:39:05.960 and that's made

00:39:06.620 the problem a

00:39:07.160 lot harder.

00:39:08.000 Virtually,

00:39:08.480 everybody's

00:39:08.960 looked at the

00:39:09.340 stuff, it's

00:39:10.100 very addictive,

00:39:11.020 it would be

00:39:11.400 good to

00:39:11.740 discourage it,

00:39:12.400 right?

00:39:12.560 This was

00:39:12.900 common sense

00:39:13.880 until we threw

00:39:15.160 common sense out

00:39:16.260 the window.

00:39:16.680 So can the

00:39:17.840 government, that's

00:39:18.600 the first

00:39:18.840 question, is

00:39:19.220 porn bad?

00:39:19.740 Yeah, we

00:39:20.040 should all

00:39:20.280 agree with

00:39:20.600 that.

00:39:21.600 And if you

00:39:21.960 don't agree

00:39:22.280 with that, I

00:39:22.660 think you're

00:39:22.940 kidding yourself.

00:39:24.540 Right?

00:39:25.160 An industry

00:39:26.000 that exploits

00:39:26.700 like 18-year-old

00:39:27.900 runaway girls

00:39:28.640 and turns them

00:39:29.500 into nothing

00:39:30.100 more than

00:39:30.480 flesh, that's

00:39:31.220 not a good

00:39:31.660 industry.

00:39:32.000 The next

00:39:34.000 question is, can

00:39:35.240 the government

00:39:35.720 do something

00:39:36.300 about it?

00:39:37.620 The libertarian

00:39:38.400 immediately says,

00:39:39.100 no, oh God,

00:39:39.980 heaven forfend,

00:39:40.860 clutch your

00:39:41.180 pearls.

00:39:41.980 Yeah, of course

00:39:42.720 the government

00:39:43.260 can do something

00:39:43.920 about that.

00:39:44.840 We regulate

00:39:45.420 gambling, booze,

00:39:46.780 and tobacco

00:39:47.380 on the internet.

00:39:48.440 You need to

00:39:48.900 prove that you're

00:39:49.400 21 to buy a

00:39:50.460 pack of cigarettes

00:39:51.180 online.

00:39:52.120 When I try to

00:39:52.820 buy cigars

00:39:53.440 online, it's

00:39:54.580 difficult.

00:39:55.820 It should not

00:39:56.500 be difficult,

00:39:57.100 all right?

00:39:57.700 We also should

00:39:58.620 make it easier

00:39:59.080 to buy cigars

00:39:59.660 online.

00:40:00.380 It's an issue

00:40:01.260 for another

00:40:01.620 day.

00:40:02.220 You need an

00:40:02.700 ID to buy a

00:40:03.500 Playboy if you

00:40:04.160 go up to a

00:40:04.940 magazine rack.

00:40:07.200 So why is

00:40:08.160 everybody so

00:40:08.720 frazzled about

00:40:09.900 the prospect of

00:40:10.720 applying the

00:40:11.260 exact same

00:40:11.880 regulations that

00:40:12.740 we have for

00:40:13.200 cigarettes and

00:40:14.120 nudie mags to

00:40:15.440 internet porn?

00:40:16.200 Doesn't make a

00:40:17.400 whole lot of

00:40:17.820 sense.

00:40:18.260 There is no

00:40:19.040 constitutional right

00:40:19.980 to internet

00:40:21.080 porn, okay?

00:40:23.040 There's this

00:40:23.740 common objection

00:40:24.420 to regulating

00:40:25.500 porn, which is

00:40:26.200 that it's

00:40:26.980 un-American to

00:40:27.880 regulate porn.

00:40:28.640 What are you

00:40:28.900 talking about?

00:40:30.340 We have had

00:40:30.980 obscenity laws

00:40:31.860 in this

00:40:32.260 country forever.

00:40:34.060 We currently

00:40:34.920 have obscenity

00:40:35.660 laws in this

00:40:36.240 country.

00:40:37.100 We threw

00:40:38.060 pornographers in

00:40:38.980 jail under

00:40:39.500 those obscenity

00:40:40.120 laws 10 years

00:40:41.980 ago.

00:40:44.280 Look, you

00:40:44.880 might not like

00:40:45.560 it.

00:40:45.760 You might say,

00:40:46.300 well, we got to

00:40:46.740 get rid of those

00:40:47.240 obscenity laws.

00:40:47.940 Okay, but don't

00:40:49.020 tell me it's

00:40:49.460 un-American.

00:40:50.420 It's perfectly

00:40:51.520 American.

00:40:53.020 The country was

00:40:53.920 founded by

00:40:55.580 religious zealot

00:40:57.420 puritans who

00:40:58.800 left England

00:40:59.840 for Leiden

00:41:00.440 and left

00:41:00.940 Leiden for

00:41:01.500 America and

00:41:02.540 practiced a

00:41:03.180 very, very

00:41:03.940 puritanical form

00:41:05.040 of Christianity,

00:41:05.900 which I am not

00:41:06.820 advocating.

00:41:08.300 But you can't

00:41:09.200 say it's un-American.

00:41:10.040 You know, there's

00:41:10.320 this common

00:41:10.720 objection.

00:41:11.440 I think it's

00:41:11.800 one of the

00:41:12.280 most pernicious

00:41:13.200 lies that people

00:41:14.680 have bought into

00:41:15.560 in politics, which

00:41:16.760 is that you

00:41:17.220 can't legislate

00:41:18.800 morality.

00:41:20.420 That's what you

00:41:21.040 hear.

00:41:21.700 You can't

00:41:22.400 legislate morality.

00:41:23.400 Of course you

00:41:25.460 can.

00:41:26.360 Not only can

00:41:27.180 you, you

00:41:28.300 must.

00:41:30.160 You cannot

00:41:31.040 legislate without

00:41:32.100 legislating morality.

00:41:33.700 We exclusively

00:41:35.340 legislate morality.

00:41:39.440 What do I mean

00:41:40.720 by that?

00:41:41.640 When you're

00:41:42.580 arguing about

00:41:43.180 tax rates,

00:41:44.560 something as

00:41:45.140 basic and

00:41:46.060 boring as tax

00:41:46.880 rates, you are

00:41:47.900 using moral

00:41:48.740 arguments.

00:41:50.140 You're saying,

00:41:50.800 well, I have a

00:41:51.180 right to my

00:41:51.580 property and I

00:41:53.120 have some duty

00:41:53.700 to the

00:41:53.980 government, but

00:41:55.340 because of my

00:41:55.820 property rights, I

00:41:58.120 should keep more

00:41:58.600 of my property.

00:41:59.660 When you're

00:42:00.180 arguing about

00:42:00.600 health care, those

00:42:02.340 are moral

00:42:02.800 arguments.

00:42:04.040 We're on the

00:42:04.720 right side of

00:42:05.280 history.

00:42:05.840 We need to

00:42:07.100 extend modern

00:42:09.080 medical technology

00:42:09.920 to everybody

00:42:10.500 because that is

00:42:11.080 good and right

00:42:11.660 and just.

00:42:12.720 And the other

00:42:13.180 side of the

00:42:13.540 argument will

00:42:13.940 say, how dare

00:42:14.760 you?

00:42:15.300 You're totalitarian

00:42:16.480 and you're

00:42:16.860 stealing my

00:42:17.520 money.

00:42:17.980 You're infringing

00:42:18.760 on my liberty,

00:42:19.500 which is a God

00:42:20.020 given right, and

00:42:20.700 I'm going to

00:42:21.000 keep my liberty.

00:42:21.860 They're both

00:42:22.620 making moral

00:42:23.160 arguments.

00:42:23.740 Everybody makes

00:42:24.420 the moral

00:42:24.800 argument.

00:42:25.440 When it comes

00:42:25.840 to health

00:42:26.100 care and

00:42:26.340 everything else,

00:42:26.940 parking tickets.

00:42:29.040 Laws governing

00:42:29.860 parking tickets

00:42:30.720 involve moral

00:42:32.380 arguments.

00:42:33.840 The rights to

00:42:34.860 public land, the

00:42:35.840 rights to

00:42:36.180 private property.

00:42:37.480 You do

00:42:38.220 legislate morality,

00:42:39.260 right?

00:42:39.980 When it comes to

00:42:41.000 high-speed internet

00:42:41.760 porn, it's a new

00:42:42.460 problem, it's a

00:42:43.100 major social

00:42:43.680 problem, it has

00:42:44.480 victims, it's

00:42:45.100 affecting people's

00:42:45.900 health, especially

00:42:46.700 young men.

00:42:47.700 It's more or

00:42:48.660 less completely

00:42:49.160 unregulated now.

00:42:50.760 There's double

00:42:51.300 standards when it

00:42:52.060 comes to other

00:42:52.500 kinds of

00:42:52.840 pornography and

00:42:53.800 gambling and

00:42:54.300 other vices, and

00:42:55.380 it's making us a

00:42:56.560 bunch of wankers.

00:42:58.440 Do not be a

00:42:59.540 wanker.

00:43:00.020 That's not a good

00:43:00.640 country to have.

00:43:01.720 If you are a

00:43:02.280 wanker, go to

00:43:03.440 confession and try

00:43:04.300 to stop.

00:43:05.520 But at the very

00:43:06.220 least, forget the

00:43:07.000 personal question,

00:43:07.820 just from a social

00:43:09.380 perspective, from a

00:43:11.140 political perspective.

00:43:12.920 We don't want to be a

00:43:13.920 nation of wankers, so

00:43:15.640 we should take these

00:43:16.300 questions seriously.

00:43:17.600 Before we go, I've

00:43:18.600 got to get to Katie

00:43:19.480 Hill, speaking of

00:43:20.680 creepy, creepy sex.

00:43:23.700 You remember Katie

00:43:24.800 Hill.

00:43:25.140 She is that former

00:43:26.900 congressman who was

00:43:28.820 involved in a

00:43:29.380 thruple with her

00:43:30.420 husband and a

00:43:32.300 female staffer who

00:43:34.140 was right out of

00:43:34.740 college, and she

00:43:35.660 sexually exploited

00:43:36.680 this staffer, and she

00:43:38.140 put her on the

00:43:38.620 payroll, and she

00:43:39.340 dumped her, and she

00:43:40.740 moved her away, and

00:43:41.500 the staffer was

00:43:42.420 heartbroken.

00:43:43.320 If Katie Hill were a

00:43:44.520 man, this would be

00:43:45.160 the biggest sex

00:43:46.900 abuse, sexual

00:43:48.120 harassment case in

00:43:49.080 all of Congress, or

00:43:50.300 if Katie Hill were

00:43:50.880 a Republican, same

00:43:51.800 thing, but because

00:43:52.420 she's a Democrat

00:43:52.980 woman, they're

00:43:53.800 trying to make her

00:43:54.460 seem like a

00:43:55.140 victim.

00:43:56.940 The New York

00:43:57.620 Times, absolutely

00:43:58.560 shameless, publishes

00:43:59.720 an op-ed, Katie

00:44:00.820 Hill, it's not over

00:44:03.060 after all.

00:44:03.900 I overcame the

00:44:04.780 desperation I felt

00:44:05.840 after stepping down

00:44:06.740 from Congress, and

00:44:07.540 I'm still in the

00:44:09.120 fight.

00:44:10.620 Here's what she

00:44:11.300 writes.

00:44:11.540 On November 6,

00:44:14.060 2018, I was

00:44:14.960 elected to

00:44:15.360 Congress.

00:44:16.080 At 31, I was

00:44:17.120 one of the

00:44:17.480 youngest women

00:44:18.080 ever elected to

00:44:19.220 the House of

00:44:19.620 Representatives.

00:44:20.780 One year later, I

00:44:21.720 was sitting on a

00:44:22.340 train to New York

00:44:22.980 to meet with my

00:44:23.600 lawyers about

00:44:24.140 suing the Daily

00:44:25.180 Mail for

00:44:26.040 cyber exploitation,

00:44:27.800 and I was no

00:44:28.860 longer a member of

00:44:29.720 Congress, suing

00:44:31.160 because she's a

00:44:31.620 victim.

00:44:33.720 She stepped up to

00:44:34.620 a microphone.

00:44:35.200 It was the first

00:44:35.660 time I had spoken

00:44:36.640 publicly since my

00:44:37.560 relationship with a

00:44:38.520 campaign staffer was

00:44:39.440 exposed.

00:44:40.420 It's in the naked

00:44:41.000 photos of

00:44:41.520 me, taken

00:44:41.960 without my

00:44:42.540 knowledge and

00:44:43.080 distributed without

00:44:43.800 my consent, have

00:44:45.060 been posted online

00:44:46.040 since wild

00:44:47.160 accusations from my

00:44:48.360 estranged husband

00:44:49.320 about a supposed

00:44:50.540 affair with a

00:44:51.640 congressional staffer

00:44:52.660 which I've

00:44:53.000 repeatedly denied

00:44:53.920 since I had

00:44:55.140 resigned my

00:44:55.800 hard-fought seat in

00:44:56.780 Congress.

00:44:58.460 Now, notice, she

00:44:59.900 doesn't actually

00:45:00.860 deny the

00:45:01.420 allegations.

00:45:02.520 She says that she

00:45:03.700 has denied them,

00:45:05.020 but she doesn't say

00:45:05.640 they're not true.

00:45:06.420 Why?

00:45:06.660 Because they're

00:45:06.900 obviously true.

00:45:08.200 And by the way,

00:45:08.820 she obviously knew

00:45:09.480 the photos were being

00:45:10.140 taken.

00:45:10.420 And she's looking at

00:45:11.060 the camera in many

00:45:11.740 of the photos.

00:45:12.740 So that's a lie, too.

00:45:15.020 She goes on.

00:45:16.000 That day, oddly, I

00:45:17.280 didn't get nervous the

00:45:18.140 way I normally did.

00:45:19.420 I got every part of the

00:45:20.540 routine right.

00:45:21.200 I felt calm and strong as

00:45:22.380 I began to speak because I

00:45:23.520 had to be.

00:45:24.440 I needed to say something

00:45:25.560 to the countless people

00:45:26.520 who had put their faith

00:45:27.380 in me.

00:45:28.060 I needed to say something

00:45:28.960 to the girls and young

00:45:29.920 women who looked up to

00:45:30.820 me.

00:45:31.640 I needed to make sure

00:45:32.760 that my horrific

00:45:33.520 experience did not

00:45:35.060 frighten and discourage

00:45:36.300 other women who will

00:45:37.640 dare to take risks,

00:45:39.360 dare to step into

00:45:40.220 this light, dare to be

00:45:41.300 powerful.

00:45:43.260 Katie Hill should dare

00:45:44.300 to take a seat.

00:45:46.620 Sit down, sit this one

00:45:47.820 out.

00:45:49.200 We've been told for a

00:45:50.600 very long time that

00:45:52.920 shunning our moral

00:45:56.080 responsibilities, shunning

00:45:57.380 our conscience, shunning

00:45:59.040 our duties to one

00:45:59.900 another, shunning

00:46:01.180 dignity is empowering.

00:46:03.660 That's good.

00:46:04.180 It's what we should

00:46:04.640 strive for.

00:46:05.380 Overcome your conscience,

00:46:07.060 follow your will, exert

00:46:08.120 your will on others.

00:46:08.940 That's essentially the

00:46:09.980 case made by Katie Hill.

00:46:11.020 That's the case made by

00:46:11.940 the left.

00:46:12.480 That's a recipe for a

00:46:13.680 terrible, terrible

00:46:14.620 society.

00:46:15.880 We have to fix that.

00:46:17.660 We have to fix that

00:46:18.600 through movies.

00:46:19.440 We have to fix that

00:46:20.380 through plays.

00:46:21.160 We have to fix that

00:46:21.700 through art and culture.

00:46:24.740 We also have to fix

00:46:25.700 that in our politics.

00:46:27.040 Katie Hill is a

00:46:28.080 political figure.

00:46:29.260 She needs to suffer

00:46:30.000 political consequences

00:46:31.200 for what she's done

00:46:32.100 and we need to

00:46:33.160 acknowledge a

00:46:35.160 politics that

00:46:36.540 will acknowledge

00:46:37.080 the culture that

00:46:38.240 will make politics

00:46:39.360 downstream of culture

00:46:40.160 once again.

00:46:40.640 That's our show.

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00:47:42.320 Hey everyone,

00:47:43.160 it's Andrew Klavan,

00:47:44.020 host of the Andrew

00:47:44.840 Klavan Show.

00:47:45.760 You know,

00:47:46.020 for the past 20 years,

00:47:47.440 the American suicide

00:47:48.340 rate has been skyrocketing,

00:47:50.180 which indicates to me

00:47:51.100 that our corrupt elites

00:47:52.300 have created a culture

00:47:53.380 that leads to

00:47:54.360 dislocation and despair.

00:47:56.140 Now President Trump

00:47:57.220 has brought on

00:47:57.800 the good times,

00:47:58.740 and what do the elites

00:47:59.360 want?

00:47:59.860 They want him gone,

00:48:01.220 gone, gone.

00:48:02.360 They used to call elites

00:48:03.400 the best and the brightest,

00:48:04.560 but they're the worst

00:48:05.320 and the dumbest now,

00:48:06.480 and we'll talk about it

00:48:07.280 on the Andrew Klavan Show.

00:48:08.440 The Andrew Klavan Show

00:48:12.200 is the elder

00:48:14.520 who is very

00:48:27.840 dangerous.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 09, 2019

Ep. 462 - Culture Is Downstream Of Politics

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