The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 56 - Happy Trump-aversary： 365 Days Of Covfefe

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00:00:37.560 Happy Trumpiversary.

00:00:39.920 Precisely one year ago, the good Lord blessed us with a Noahide deluge of leftist tears.

00:00:44.660 We will look back on 365 days of covfefe.

00:00:48.900 Then, we will also talk about how Ed Gillespie lost two nights ago,

00:00:52.920 and Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of dalliances with teenage girls decades ago.

00:00:57.960 Not good. Very bad.

00:00:59.260 Republican pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson joins us in studio to run the numbers for 2018.

00:01:05.340 Amber Athie and Roaming Millennial come on the panel of deplorables 1.00

00:01:07.980 to talk Kevin Spacey's Stalinist purge

00:01:10.980 and why Facebook wants you to send them naked pics.

00:01:14.300 Why wouldn't they?

00:01:15.200 Finally, the mailbag.

00:01:16.180 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:16.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:17.820 Happy Trumpiversary, everyone.

00:01:27.380 Now, before we get into all the good news,

00:01:29.600 and then Kristen is going to tell us all the bad news,

00:01:31.780 we have to celebrate some capitalism

00:01:33.420 because consumer confidence is at an all-time high.

00:01:35.940 The economy is doing really well.

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00:01:44.720 We're going to be talking about millennials later in the show.

00:01:46.580 I am a millennial.

00:01:47.840 That means two things.

00:01:48.980 I need instant ratification, and I don't want to pay very much for it.

00:01:52.020 I am melded, obviously, to my desk chair.

00:01:54.140 I can't leave it.

00:01:55.360 I don't ever leave it during the day.

00:01:56.600 I just scream for Marshall to bring me things like coffee and covfefe.

00:02:00.440 And with Stamps.com, you can get whatever you could get at the post office.

00:02:04.860 Literally anything you get there, you can get it from your desk.

00:02:08.400 So, you know, why would you still go to the post office

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00:02:22.640 Unlike the post office, Stamps.com never closes.

00:02:25.140 Me, you know, I need at least 15 or 16 hours of sleep a night.

00:02:28.220 That severely limits the amount of time that I can run errands, mail packages,

00:02:32.840 send out blank books to all of my Democrat friends.

00:02:35.020 So Stamps.com, luckily, doesn't close.

00:02:38.080 You get postage whenever you need it, 24-7.

00:02:40.660 It's really good, especially as a business solution.

00:02:44.020 In the old days, they used to have these gigantic machines that would always break

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00:02:54.600 But they would break.

00:02:55.220 They were clunky.

00:02:55.780 They were expensive.

00:02:56.380 No one wants that.

00:02:57.160 This is the 21st century.

00:02:58.600 Get with the 21st century, man.

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00:03:42.740 Never go to the post office again.

00:03:45.460 That is just right.

00:03:46.700 You've got to give those guys some love.

00:03:48.220 Okay.

00:03:48.680 Now, it is the Trumpiversary, everyone.

00:03:51.620 Happy day.

00:03:53.140 365 days of COVFEFE is what we're talking about.

00:03:56.040 How has he been doing?

00:03:56.820 If you look at the Democrat press releases or the mainstream media reporting, but I repeat myself, then the country is in smoldering ruins.

00:04:05.160 If you look at reality, not so much.

00:04:06.860 Here is the real story.

00:04:08.400 On the economic front, consumer confidence is at the highest level it's been in 17 years.

00:04:12.660 Over half a million jobs have been created in the first three months in office.

00:04:15.900 Furthermore, stock market rally has rallied since Trump, and it is the second biggest one since JFK was in office.

00:04:22.920 Those destructive tariffs and trade wars that conservatives feared have not materialized.

00:04:28.540 Tax reform awaits a congressional vote.

00:04:31.440 So, Congress, Republicans, go and vote for it.

00:04:33.640 On corruption, Trump imposed a five-year ban on lobbying the government by former White House officials,

00:04:38.860 and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign governments by former White House officials.

00:04:43.920 On the so-called social issues, Trump repealed the Obama mandate that forced states to fund Planned Parenthood.

00:04:49.420 He reinstated the Mexico City policy that protects U.S. taxpayers from having to fund abortions overseas.

00:04:56.160 Unlike his predecessor, Trump has refrained from refashioning the White House into a giant glowing rainbow

00:05:01.980 to celebrate activist judges' abuse of the Constitution.

00:05:05.460 Instead, quite the opposite of that, he's appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,

00:05:09.920 a marvelous, originalist justice considered the second coming of Antonin Scalia,

00:05:15.020 Scalia's old fishing buddy, albeit slightly thinner and less Italian.

00:05:18.380 He's also appointed 12 other textualist judges to the lower courts, and many others who await confirmation.

00:05:24.540 How about immigration?

00:05:25.560 On immigration, President Trump has added more ICE agents.

00:05:28.520 He has expanded deportation priorities.

00:05:30.840 He ended the immigrant advocacy program at the DOJ,

00:05:33.640 signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to defund sanctuary cities,

00:05:38.300 and as a result, the number of illegals crossing into the United States has dropped by at least 70%.

00:05:43.560 On foreign policy, where we were promised that Donald Trump would recklessly plunge us into nuclear war,

00:05:49.980 what has really happened?

00:05:50.900 Well, he got some trade concessions out of China.

00:05:53.360 He's convinced them to cooperate in wrangling North Korea.

00:05:56.140 He very ably handled the Syrian chemical attack, which was a test of American credibility and resolve,

00:06:01.500 and specifically a test that Barack Obama failed with his red line that was a pink line,

00:06:06.580 and then it was an invisible line.

00:06:08.740 He also oversaw the return of American high school student Otto Warmbier from North Korea,

00:06:12.860 which has added to the tension in that conflict, but he did get the student home before he died.

00:06:17.460 He dropped the Moab on ISIS, over which Syria just today declared victory, victory over ISIS.

00:06:24.220 He has approved the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.

00:06:27.160 Barack Obama's North Korea strategy of strategic patience is over.

00:06:30.600 Barack Obama's Middle East strategy of leaning from behind, it's over.

00:06:34.660 Donald Trump also pulled us out of the pointless virtue signaling Paris Climate Accord

00:06:39.200 that experts say would have no effect on the climate.

00:06:41.840 Speaking of the environment, at the EPA, 25 rules have been overturned.

00:06:45.880 19 rollbacks are in progress, 8 are in limbo.

00:06:48.720 $23 billion of regulations were slashed within the first six months of that presidency,

00:06:54.000 while a net 13,000 new federal regulations have been added annually for the past 20 years.

00:07:01.240 Under Donald Trump, the number of net new regulations is near zero.

00:07:05.640 As the New York Times reported in May,

00:07:07.480 quote,

00:07:08.140 Trump discards Obama legacy, one rule at a time.

00:07:11.600 This includes ending Barack Obama's disastrous so-called clean power plan,

00:07:16.700 which, as the Heritage Foundation explains, would have resulted in higher energy prices,

00:07:21.120 fewer jobs, less growth, and it disproportionately hurt poor families,

00:07:25.640 and it would have affected, you guessed it, zero environmental benefit.

00:07:30.880 Most importantly, Donald Trump has cracked the patina of credibility

00:07:34.760 that Democrat operatives masquerading as journalists once enjoyed

00:07:38.800 and sophisticated Republicans, those very nice Republicans with nice glasses like I have,

00:07:45.240 that they once indulged.

00:07:46.620 As a result, nearly two-thirds of Americans now recognize

00:07:49.880 that mainstream media outlets shill for Democrats rather than present unbiased reporting.

00:07:55.660 And Hollywood lies in rubble as the preening moralizers who hold their countrymen in contempt

00:08:00.260 are caught, literally, with their pants down.

00:08:02.760 All in all, an unexpectedly very covfefe year.

00:08:06.700 And if you've enjoyed all of these improvements,

00:08:08.820 the protection of your First and Second Amendments from the clause of Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court pick,

00:08:13.740 less government, more freedom, and strength abroad, thank a Trump voter.

00:08:18.580 I would also be remiss not to point out another anniversary.

00:08:22.240 Tomorrow is the Marine Corps birthday from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

00:08:26.480 The Marines have been keeping us safe for 242 years,

00:08:29.560 so thank you very much and happy birthday.

00:08:31.580 Now, in the news, Ed Gillespie lost in Virginia last night.

00:08:35.620 The Alabama GOP nominee, Roy Moore, has just been accused of trying to pick up teenage girls 40 years ago.

00:08:42.540 Not good.

00:08:43.720 And we are joined by pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson

00:08:46.140 for analysis on what the numbers look like for Republicans in 2018.

00:08:51.420 Kristen, I have just been so exuberant.

00:08:53.800 I've been so happy.

00:08:54.600 It's been a very covfefe year.

00:08:56.560 Make me feel terrible.

00:08:57.780 What is it looking like in 2018?

00:08:59.260 Oh, but I'm normally a cheerful person.

00:09:01.920 But if you are on the right side of the aisle, there's a lot of data that suggests the next 12 months could be kind of ugly.

00:09:10.620 That's not good.

00:09:11.020 Look, Republicans have been feeling good because many of these special elections,

00:09:14.360 since Trump has become president, have broken our way,

00:09:17.640 whether it's John Ossoff losing in Georgia and on and on.

00:09:20.860 And so Republicans had been feeling pretty good about things.

00:09:23.700 But the big test came on Tuesday night.

00:09:27.320 And in Virginia, you had in Ed Gillespie a candidate who was trying to split the difference

00:09:32.780 between being a fairly mild-mannered, nice, cheerful guy, been in D.C. forever, nice guy,

00:09:40.800 trying to, as much as possible, kind of embrace a Trump message,

00:09:45.520 a tough message on things like immigration, talking about law and order issues.

00:09:49.740 You've got MS-13, that there are, you know, over 1,000 MS-13 members in Northern Virginia,

00:09:55.900 sort of talking about those issues.

00:09:57.700 And I think in part because he barely won the primary.

00:10:01.440 He was primaried by a man named Corey Stewart,

00:10:03.760 who made a big issue out of keeping Confederate statues up.

00:10:07.300 Now, in the exit polls in Virginia, a majority of Virginia voters who turned out

00:10:10.980 said they do actually want to keep those Confederate statues up.

00:10:14.300 But nonetheless, that was not their main voting issue.

00:10:17.660 And so Ed Gillespie lost.

00:10:19.500 He lost by more than what the polls suggested.

00:10:21.980 It was a big loss.

00:10:22.820 It was a big loss.

00:10:24.020 And now there's the question of does this have national implications?

00:10:28.500 Now, I'm always hesitant to say, yes, it does have national implications

00:10:31.660 because, you know, whether it was that Georgia special election

00:10:34.480 or a statewide in Virginia, there are local dynamics.

00:10:37.900 There are individual candidates and their personalities.

00:10:40.100 But I think the thing that should have folks worried is that Ed Gillespie's numbers

00:10:44.060 looked pretty similar to what Donald Trump's numbers looked like,

00:10:47.240 especially in some of those bellwether swing counties.

00:10:50.120 Now, in a state that Trump won, that may be fine.

00:10:53.100 That may be perfectly enough to win.

00:10:54.820 But Virginia was not a state that Trump won.

00:10:56.900 And so I think for Republicans that are in places that Donald Trump didn't win,

00:11:01.200 they're going to be facing a really big challenge for those midterm elections.

00:11:04.780 Well, that's the question.

00:11:06.320 A lot of people, myself sort of included, but I'll at least acknowledge that I'm doing it

00:11:11.500 out of my defense of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

00:11:14.860 They'll say, well, Virginia is a blue state these days.

00:11:17.740 It's been going blue for a long time.

00:11:19.620 And there was a statistic going around that in the last five presidential administrations,

00:11:25.320 the president lost Virginia and New Jersey governorships in the first year in office.

00:11:30.120 I don't know how someone figured that out, but that's an interesting statistic.

00:11:34.380 Can we just write it off and say, well, it's a blue state.

00:11:37.900 Gillespie's not a great candidate.

00:11:39.200 He's a fine candidate.

00:11:40.740 And, you know, being pretty good doesn't get you over the finish line.

00:11:43.840 Or should we be worried that we're going to lose the house or something like that?

00:11:47.780 So I think it's, you should not think, oh, well, this is just a blue state going blue

00:11:53.500 because of the magnitude of the loss.

00:11:55.420 If Ed Gillespie loses by two or three points, hey, it's a blue state.

00:11:59.420 It happens.

00:12:00.020 You tried your best.

00:12:01.160 But it's the way in which he lost.

00:12:03.040 Ed Gillespie actually did great in places like Southwest Virginia,

00:12:06.480 places that Donald Trump did very well in.

00:12:08.720 Ed Gillespie's numbers were up dramatically,

00:12:11.140 up dramatically from when he was on a Virginia ballot three years ago.

00:12:15.380 So there are, there is a Trump coalition.

00:12:17.440 There are voters that have embraced Ed Gillespie more

00:12:20.020 now that he's gotten closer to a message that's Trump-like.

00:12:22.840 But it's in northern Virginia and even in the suburbs around Richmond.

00:12:27.380 So not just that beltway, you know,

00:12:29.200 these are all folks that work for the government.

00:12:30.740 This is further south in Virginia, but nonetheless, it's more upscale suburbs.

00:12:34.880 These are the types of places where Gillespie just got annihilated.

00:12:39.000 And that's where a lot of these swing districts are across the country.

00:12:42.180 If Republicans are struggling in middle to upper middle class suburbs

00:12:46.400 around metropolitan areas, that makes the math for the midterms very tough.

00:12:51.420 Yeah, I come from one of the most debated, contested congressional districts in the country,

00:12:56.480 New York 18 in the Hudson Valley.

00:12:58.540 And, yeah, they don't like Donald Trump there very much.

00:13:00.260 Very hard to run on him.

00:13:02.020 They're a Republican sort that wears these glasses and this kind of jacket,

00:13:05.260 and they work at hedge funds and things like that.

00:13:07.540 Now, you wrote a book called The Selfie Vote,

00:13:10.360 Where Millennials Are Leading Americans and How Republicans Can Keep Up.

00:13:14.460 But I have a question.

00:13:17.400 Where are millennials leading us and how can we keep up? 0.71

00:13:19.580 So where millennials, I think, are leading America is by embracing a lot of changes

00:13:25.220 that have other folks from other generations feeling anxious.

00:13:28.780 So whether it's cultural change with millennials having sort of more progressive views

00:13:33.780 on things like what is the definition of a family, things like smoking pot,

00:13:38.720 whether it's economics with millennials, I think, being much more open to...

00:13:44.780 Communism.

00:13:46.740 Well, okay.

00:13:48.480 I mean, there is data that suggests that a lot of millennials

00:13:50.680 don't actually really know what the term socialism means.

00:13:53.440 They think of Denmark.

00:13:54.400 They think, well, that's fine.

00:13:55.900 Maybe we could have that here.

00:13:56.820 Technological change, things that older generations sort of balk at or think.

00:14:04.220 Why would we want to change X, Y, or Z?

00:14:06.440 Millennials were very comfortable with it.

00:14:08.080 They don't go to church, right?

00:14:09.700 They don't...

00:14:10.000 They're just as likely to do things like pray daily,

00:14:13.520 but they're more likely to say, I'm not religious.

00:14:16.080 I'm spiritual, that sort of thing.

00:14:18.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:18.420 That is the worst.

00:14:19.160 So there are a variety of things where millennials are just abandoning institutions

00:14:24.900 that their parents' or grandparents' generation had embraced.

00:14:28.420 And so that creates a tension when Republicans tend to do really well

00:14:32.480 among voters who are married, who go to church, who are white,

00:14:35.160 who live in areas that are not as dense population-wise,

00:14:39.660 and you see that millennials are living in areas that are denser and more walkable,

00:14:43.580 and they're structuring their families in different ways,

00:14:45.840 and they're not going to church, and it's a very diverse generation.

00:14:49.340 All of these demographic things come together to make it really hard for Republicans

00:14:53.540 to have a message to the millennial generation without embracing diversity,

00:15:00.080 without embracing different family structures, things like that.

00:15:02.620 So it's created this tension, and in the book I try to give Republicans a way forward

00:15:06.840 that tries to preserve conservative principles.

00:15:09.960 I don't think the answer is Republicans should just become Democrats.

00:15:12.500 Democrat-alite or something.

00:15:13.620 Because young voters don't love the Democratic Party either.

00:15:17.960 Republicans have in some ways been given a stay of execution all along

00:15:21.000 because while young voters liked Obama, they're not fans of the Democratic Party.

00:15:25.920 But so what are things that conservatives can do that are completely in line with our principles

00:15:30.340 that match up with some of those values?

00:15:32.600 How can we use technology to make government run more efficiently, make it smaller,

00:15:36.660 make it do the few things that it's supposed to do really well

00:15:39.520 so it can stop trying to do all of the other things it shouldn't be doing?

00:15:42.840 Stuff like that.

00:15:43.600 And I think that there are a lot of opportunities that Republicans have missed over the years

00:15:47.520 that it just frustrates me because now we have the oldest millennials who are in their mid-30s.

00:15:53.900 It's too late to win them back.

00:15:55.760 The data that scares me nowadays is not seeing Republicans lose voters 18 to 29

00:16:00.660 because Republicans have been losing that age group for a decade or more.

00:16:05.640 It's now that we're losing voters in their 30s, those millennials are getting older.

00:16:09.440 Some of them are getting married.

00:16:10.460 They're buying homes.

00:16:11.280 They're paying taxes.

00:16:12.640 But they're not becoming Republicans.

00:16:14.020 And that should really concern the right.

00:16:15.860 Well, what you said reminds me of the title of your book, The Selfie Generation,

00:16:19.980 because you hear this all the time.

00:16:21.480 People say, well, I'm spiritual but not religious,

00:16:23.980 which to me means I don't care what God wants, but I'm very interested in myself.

00:16:29.040 So I do like the idea of me, you know.

00:16:31.480 And that is depressing, but obviously there's a certain narcissism that typifies the generation.

00:16:37.420 You might notice that I talk into a camera for a living every day of the week.

00:16:40.640 Like, the group that gives me hope is the next generation, Gen Z. 0.99

00:16:46.040 From some of the studies that come out from them, it seems they go to church more.

00:16:50.320 They're a little bit more conservative.

00:16:52.080 Is there cause for hope?

00:16:53.720 I think there are some areas where you find Gen Z folks embracing things like tough views on immigration,

00:17:01.880 you know, being further to the right than their millennial older brothers and sisters are.

00:17:07.720 We shouldn't just let everyone come in and blow up our cities or something.

00:17:10.320 Well, there are a handful of views where, you know, Republican teenagers have pretty conservative views.

00:17:16.780 There are issues, however, like gender identity, climate change,

00:17:20.160 where they trend even more progressive than their millennial older brothers and sisters.

00:17:24.920 But I think for Gen Z, their views have not been cemented.

00:17:29.220 For the millennials, we either came of age right before or during the Obama presidency,

00:17:34.720 and so for a whole variety of reasons, that has started to cement their views as being a little further to the left.

00:17:41.980 But for Gen Z, that stuff is much, it's malleable. 1.00

00:17:44.280 If you think of it like cement, when you first pour concrete, it's malleable.

00:17:48.440 You can still write things in it.

00:17:49.960 I think that's where Gen Z is now. 0.64

00:17:51.500 And if Republicans and conservatives make an effort to actually say,

00:17:54.980 here's why markets are good.

00:17:56.900 Here's why our values are good.

00:17:58.760 Those are arguments that were never made to millennials, but there's still time.

00:18:02.820 But what about that immigration argument?

00:18:04.400 If they're to the right on immigration, if they're to the right of what most Republicans were on immigration,

00:18:09.660 even 10 years ago, does that mean that we need to eschew Donald Trump and say,

00:18:15.080 this isn't what conservatism is?

00:18:16.620 Or do we have to take a little bit of the Trump movement and the Trump election and say,

00:18:21.320 yeah, maybe we should speak more bluntly about issues of legal and illegal immigration,

00:18:27.360 national security, even possibly tax regimes and free trade?

00:18:33.980 Well, I think the other thing you have to keep in mind, though, is the diversity of these generations.

00:18:37.980 So if you look at the baby boomer generation, I think three out of four are white, non-Hispanic.

00:18:42.980 And as you get further and further down into the generations, for millennials,

00:18:46.500 I think we're about 56 percent white, non-Hispanic.

00:18:49.380 For Gen Z, it's about half.

00:18:51.220 So the increasing diversity of America is showing up most prominently in these younger generations.

00:18:57.280 So the question is, how do you have a message that says it's important to have a secure border?

00:19:01.820 And it shouldn't be considered wrong to say that.

00:19:04.480 That doesn't sound like we want America where everybody looks. 0.78

00:19:08.480 Yeah, you know, you've got to find a way to have the argument for your policy

00:19:11.940 that does not sound like you don't want America's changing diversity to happen.

00:19:17.600 That's a hard argument for me to make because these days, you know, I guess I'd be okay in that America.

00:19:21.800 But during the heat of the summer, I would be booted right across.

00:19:24.660 I get very swarthy.

00:19:25.940 That Sicilian skin starts glowing out. 1.00

00:19:28.340 Okay, Kristen, thank you so much for being here.

00:19:30.960 I really appreciate it.

00:19:31.960 Kristen Soltis-Anderson.

00:19:33.220 And check out the book, The Selfie Vote, Where Millennials Are Leading America and How Republicans Can Keep Up.

00:19:39.580 And we better keep up because we need to win elections and keep the kevfefe coming. 1.00

00:19:42.540 Thank you, Kristen.

00:19:43.340 Thank you.

00:19:43.720 Okay.

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00:21:00.200 Okay, so in the news right now, I want to welcome the panel, by the way, Roaming Millennial.

00:21:16.540 Thank you for being here.

00:21:17.400 Just roaming.

00:21:17.780 Joe, just roaming.

00:21:18.740 We lost Amber.

00:21:20.380 This is like our second date now.

00:21:22.040 This is...

00:21:22.700 And by the way, good timing on the news cycle, because I think both of these stories are about

00:21:29.180 sex.

00:21:29.980 That's not good. 0.99

00:21:30.500 I'm going to get Harvey Weinstein for that.

00:21:32.280 The first one is Kevin Spacey.

00:21:34.160 They are editing Kevin Spacey out of all the money in the world.

00:21:37.580 Here is Kevin Spacey for a reaction.

00:21:39.120 Any pugilist worth his salt knows when someone's on the ropes, that's when you throw a combination

00:21:44.340 to the gut and a left hook to the jaw. 1.00

00:21:46.920 Even Achilles was only as strong as his heel.

00:21:49.660 Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

00:21:52.000 They seem so harmless at first, small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk.

00:21:57.540 But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood, sometimes from the hand that feeds

00:22:03.120 them.

00:22:04.060 That last one is too real.

00:22:05.720 I'm sure we should not have played that one.

00:22:07.260 But Roaming, is this a Stalinist purge of Spacey, or is it just capitalism at work?

00:22:12.660 You know what?

00:22:13.120 I was actually wondering that exactly about Stalin as well.

00:22:16.880 When I heard about...

00:22:17.780 I think it's Ridley Scott, the director who's editing Spacey out of his movie.

00:22:21.760 And you know what?

00:22:22.280 Okay.

00:22:23.220 To be honest, I actually really like Kevin Spacey as an actor.

00:22:26.060 I really enjoy his performance in House of Cards.

00:22:28.280 Me too.

00:22:28.640 I think he's really good in almost anything he's in.

00:22:30.860 But this does make sense.

00:22:32.540 I mean, if you have this huge movie, I think the budget was about $40 million I read.

00:22:37.900 You have this huge movie that's going to be promoted and it's going to be launching.

00:22:42.260 At the same time, one of the main actors is embroiled in this awful sex scandal harassment

00:22:47.540 allegation thing.

00:22:48.900 It does make sense to try to distance yourself from it.

00:22:51.600 Now, he's going a step further.

00:22:53.560 Not only are they excluding Kevin Spacey from the promotional events, they're actually just

00:22:56.840 editing him out entirely.

00:22:58.320 And apparently this wasn't the studio's choice.

00:23:00.500 This was the director's choice specifically.

00:23:02.540 And I think it is smart for business, even if it means they're going to have to spend some

00:23:07.060 money, invest a little bit more up front to do some reshoots.

00:23:09.300 But I think it also sends a more positive message from what we're used to seeing in Hollywood.

00:23:14.520 I mean, if we look at people like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, even Chris Brown from the music

00:23:19.680 side, we're so used to Hollywood kind of turning a blind eye when these allegations are made

00:23:24.940 against people and just kind of acting like it never happened.

00:23:27.580 But at least I think maybe now, because there's so much attention around the issue, we're actually

00:23:30.680 seeing people face consequences from it.

00:23:33.380 And I do want to say that I think this is different than just one person making an allegation

00:23:38.280 against someone that being unsubstantiated with Kevin Spacey and people like Harvey Weinstein.

00:23:41.640 We're actually seeing like documented instances many, many years.

00:23:45.160 And I don't see what immediate gain a lot of these people would have from launching these

00:23:50.220 allegations, which again, you know, I'm for innocent until proven guilty.

00:23:53.500 But this is something where we have to kind of look at everything contextually to figure

00:23:56.740 out what actually is happening.

00:23:58.500 And when you're talking about a $40 million film, which when you factor in promotion,

00:24:02.440 it could be $70 million or something like that.

00:24:05.000 Yeah, double almost.

00:24:05.700 The thing that's really crazy about this is for people who've never been on a film set or been

00:24:10.360 in the film industry, there is seven weeks right now.

00:24:14.240 There's seven weeks until the release of this movie.

00:24:16.220 They want to re-shoot.

00:24:17.820 They've recast.

00:24:18.520 They want to re-shoot.

00:24:19.180 They want to re-edit this movie.

00:24:21.240 That is insane.

00:24:22.540 I don't know that it's possible.

00:24:24.500 You know, I did an indie movie last year.

00:24:26.560 It just started screening next week.

00:24:29.260 There is an, you know, for big studio films, it could take at least seven months, a year.

00:24:36.000 To do this in seven weeks, I'm skeptical that they'll do it.

00:24:38.900 But clearly, they're worried about the money they're risking.

00:24:42.560 So I get their capitalist point of view.

00:24:44.540 They don't want to lose all that money.

00:24:45.820 Nobody goes to the movies now anyway.

00:24:47.540 From the viewer, though, from the person who is enjoying the artwork or reading the book

00:24:53.840 or seeing the movie, should we punish artists for their personal lives?

00:24:58.700 That's something that I've thought about as well.

00:25:01.180 And to me, you know, there's a difference between saying, oh, you know, Lady Gaga, she supported Hillary.

00:25:06.400 Katy Perry, she also supported Hillary. 0.98

00:25:08.360 But I can still enjoy their music.

00:25:09.680 There's a difference between saying, I'm going to let this artist have whatever political views they want,

00:25:14.080 you know, and accept that they're not going to agree with me on everything.

00:25:16.400 They might even say some kooky stuff.

00:25:17.660 That's fine. 0.95

00:25:18.540 There's a difference between that and saying, I'm going to continue to financially supporting someone who is a known sexual predator.

00:25:25.060 I do think it makes sense to make that distinction.

00:25:27.160 And I'm not someone who's going to boycott someone just because they have different political views than I do

00:25:32.320 or just because they have, like, a personal lifestyle that maybe I don't agree with.

00:25:35.780 But now we're talking about, like, actual crimes that are being alleged against him.

00:25:39.780 And I think that is something we need to differentiate between, like, oh, you know, they're just,

00:25:43.520 I just don't like their opinions, therefore I'm going to boycott them.

00:25:45.980 Like, no, that's not what we're talking about.

00:25:47.860 That's true.

00:25:48.400 And I guess if we're not going to financially support those predators, I guess, Marshall, today will be your last day.

00:25:53.240 There is a, I know, it's sad, but Roaming made the decision.

00:25:57.160 There's this book that Andrew Klavan and I were reading a few months ago called Darkness at Noon.

00:26:02.040 I forget the name of the writer.

00:26:04.060 He's an ex-communist, wrote a book about, it's a novel about communists, basically, in a Stalinist purge.

00:26:09.980 And it's interesting on a sort of meta-literary level because the author of that book, I believe, was accused of rape. 0.99

00:26:18.200 He was apparently just a dirty, rotten, horrible guy. 0.86

00:26:21.020 And yet the artwork that he produced is very good, and I'm glad that I read the book. 0.91

00:26:25.620 So that is a difficult balance.

00:26:28.260 I personally don't really care how awful the artists are.

00:26:31.200 I think the art stands on its own.

00:26:32.600 But fair enough, we shouldn't, I guess, I guess, while Marshall's still here, we shouldn't keep filing his paycheck.

00:26:38.580 So from, speaking of sex, Facebook wants you to send them nude photos over the Internet so that they can prevent your nude photos from going on the Internet.

00:26:49.660 Not sure if you saw that story.

00:26:50.800 This was a statement from Facebook, quote,

00:26:53.160 As part of our continued efforts to better detect and remove content that violates our community standards,

00:26:59.620 we're using image-matching technology to prevent the non-consensual, intimate images from being shared on Facebook.

00:27:08.120 And obviously, I am furious that I didn't think of this first.

00:27:12.160 The Michael Knowles Show anti-nude photo, nude photo collection program.

00:27:16.740 It's a stroke of genius.

00:27:18.380 Doesn't happen to everybody.

00:27:19.300 Only those geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg can think of it.

00:27:23.180 To take their point seriously, revenge porn is a serious issue.

00:27:27.640 It is a terrible thing that happens.

00:27:30.200 Will people, will girls who send naked photos, will they use this program because they trust Facebook more than their ex-boyfriends?

00:27:38.260 I think a lot of people will actually use this program.

00:27:40.840 I'm someone, I don't actually use Facebook.

00:27:43.220 Smart girl.

00:27:43.420 I had a Facebook account in, I think, ninth grade.

00:27:45.660 I deactivated it, tried to make a new one when my channel was starting.

00:27:48.840 Everything was different and confused me, got frustrated and gave up immediately.

00:27:52.540 So I'm still not on Facebook.

00:27:54.280 But a lot of people do really trust Facebook.

00:27:57.160 And I think for, I mean, we've seen this happen to celebrities all the time.

00:28:01.600 Even, I mean, this happens very commonly to, I think, high school and college students especially.

00:28:06.020 I wish it wasn't a thing that, you know, exes would feel the need to be, I guess, vengeful and to try to hurt people.

00:28:14.620 It's just, it's a bad situation.

00:28:16.060 And it's weird that this is now a thing in our society.

00:28:18.080 I'm not someone who would think like, oh yeah, I better just upload my nude Facebook photos to Facebook so that the nude photos I've sent to other people can somehow be edited out of the internet.

00:28:30.680 I'm like, hopefully that's just never a situation I will find myself in where that thought logic makes sense.

00:28:35.280 But I think a lot of people will actually do this if they are concerned, which I can see a lot of people, unfortunately, nowadays being concerned about.

00:28:42.240 What I wonder is if my personal profile is already a very tasteless nude photo, will they just automatically use that when people upload revenge porn?

00:28:50.340 I don't know.

00:28:51.080 You bring up that question, though.

00:28:52.360 Why on earth, in this age of hacking and of scummy boyfriends and of big brother technology, why on earth would a girl send her boyfriend or some other guy a nude photo? 0.97

00:29:05.280 Not that I am complaining per se, but like that seems like the most foolish thing in the world. 0.70

00:29:09.500 I mean, pretty much all of our devices are synced with, you know, the cloud or something, some sort of thing that keeps not only, you know, a copy of the photo on your hard drive, but also an electronic copy in your account.

00:29:19.840 So it just, it doesn't seem like a very good idea to me.

00:29:23.820 But I know with a lot of the celebrities that this happened to is because they were involved in like long, long distance relationships.

00:29:32.020 Still, still not a very safe and secure thing.

00:29:34.820 And I mean, we can talk about how it's not the best move to make, but I mean, a lot of the stories I've seen have, it's happened to high school students who are not making good decisions in the first place.

00:29:43.660 And I think really the emphasis of the blame should be on the person who either hacked it or leaked it.

00:29:49.460 I think it's a huge invasion of privacy to the person that happens to.

00:29:53.160 My advice to everyone is to do what I do.

00:29:54.940 I do Polaroid and then FedEx overnight.

00:29:57.380 It's more expensive, but it's much safer.

00:29:58.820 Right, that's the smartest way.

00:29:59.740 That's the way to do it.

00:30:00.940 Whatever happened to tasteless, I mean, you know, oil paintings, what happened to those?

00:30:05.120 Yeah, you know, there's this really great artist on Twitter, and she keeps painting these paintings from my photos, you know.

00:30:16.180 And so I tweeted something like, paint me like one of your French girls, but I think that was too far.

00:30:20.700 Nobody on Twitter wants anything to do with that.

00:30:23.740 Alas, alas, alas.

00:30:25.640 Roaming, thank you for being here.

00:30:27.040 We have to move on to the mailbag.

00:30:28.360 Always great to see you.

00:30:29.900 Thanks for having me.

00:30:30.940 And I will see you soon.

00:30:32.140 Now it is time for the mailbag.

00:30:34.180 Go ahead.

00:30:34.680 From Pete, I am slash was a lapsed Catholic that has attempted to return to the sacraments upon learning that my wife is pregnant.

00:30:42.960 Yet, I can't help but feel dishonest with myself as I still am heavily lacking in faith.

00:30:48.460 I've been agnostic pretty much since my confirmation.

00:30:50.940 I was too, and nearly chose Thomas as my confirmation name for that reason.

00:30:55.140 That's exactly why I did exactly that.

00:30:57.000 I want to return to the faith so my child has the same chance at it that I have had, but I can't manage having faith myself.

00:31:04.420 What advice can you give this heretic and to any others out there? 1.00

00:31:09.260 I don't doubt your heresy.

00:31:11.200 I don't mean to question your apostasy.

00:31:14.560 But even asking that question, even having that impulse when you think about your future child and your pregnant wife,

00:31:21.000 to me is evidence of the kernels of faith.

00:31:23.460 I don't think you'd ask that question if you didn't have it.

00:31:25.340 But this is a difficult question.

00:31:27.400 Andrew Klavan did a great video now eight years ago at PJ Media called How to Find God in 60 Days

00:31:33.560 because he was an atheist and he is now a Christian, wrote a great book about that called The Great Good Thing.

00:31:39.700 And his advice is to just pretend like God exists for 60 days.

00:31:44.720 Pray to him.

00:31:45.720 Behave like it's all true.

00:31:47.180 You know, try to follow God's will.

00:31:49.660 And then you will.

00:31:50.620 And then you'll believe in him.

00:31:51.420 I was basically an agnostic atheist type from my confirmation to my, I don't know, 21 years old, 22 years old.

00:32:01.360 And I was then intellectually convinced that God exists by some of the arguments for God.

00:32:06.780 St. Anselm and Thomas Aquinas and the ontological and the cosmological.

00:32:10.820 And so I was perfectly intellectually convinced that God exists.

00:32:14.060 I don't think there's really any good argument against God and there are many good arguments for the existence of God.

00:32:19.380 But I couldn't bring myself to faith.

00:32:21.000 I couldn't bring myself to praying, to a person, to a man.

00:32:24.760 And that came later.

00:32:27.260 I don't know how it happened.

00:32:28.960 I read more.

00:32:30.960 I followed that intellectual journey.

00:32:33.660 And until the numinous experience, the religious experience happened, I would recommend behaving as though it is true. 0.99

00:32:42.920 Because we'll get to this a little later.

00:32:44.720 Another question touches on this.

00:32:46.700 Because there are so many forces in this society telling you that if you believe in God, or specifically in the Catholic Church,

00:32:53.140 the most maligned of any of those institutions, if you believe in God and that version of Christianity, 1.00

00:33:00.120 then you're stupid, you're ignorant, you're uneducated, you engage in wishful thinking, 1.00

00:33:06.740 you are afraid of the dark and afraid of death, and you don't understand evolutionary psychology, 1.00

00:33:11.520 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all nonsense.

00:33:14.560 As Antonin Scalia said to New York Magazine once,

00:33:17.340 many more intelligent people than you or I have believed in the devil.

00:33:20.820 And it seems to me that the weight of intellect, the weight of history and philosophy and theology,

00:33:28.840 is with Christianity and with, specifically, I'm a Catholic.

00:33:33.900 So I would say don't be discouraged by what the culture is telling you,

00:33:39.640 because, you know, it's right there in the book, pal.

00:33:42.260 The culture is going to try to tell you that none of it's true and that you'd be a dummy for believing it.

00:33:46.940 So good luck and congratulations on your child.

00:33:49.040 I hope all goes well.

00:33:49.680 From Joseph.

00:33:50.820 Which of the seven deadly sins do you think is the most prevalent in modern society?

00:33:56.500 Yes, all of them.

00:33:58.740 You know, I guess they've always all been around.

00:34:00.920 The most prevalent seems to me pride, seems to me superbia, pride or hubris.

00:34:07.100 We were just talking to Kristen, who wrote about the selfie generation.

00:34:11.120 And, you know, the trouble with that one, it's the most prevalent.

00:34:14.320 Obviously, we're all taking selfies all the time, and I'm speaking into a camera for hours at a clip.

00:34:19.840 And, you know, there isn't a lot of real friendship or real conversation that occurs.

00:34:25.040 But also, it's where all of the other vices and sins come from.

00:34:30.420 So, you know, there is lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy.

00:34:36.580 But they all come from pride, and it's a pride that I was just discussing with that previous question.

00:34:43.460 It's a pride that God doesn't exist.

00:34:45.300 I'm the greatest thing there is out there.

00:34:47.680 It's a pride that I can do whatever I want.

00:34:49.740 I'm not transcending any moral order. 0.99

00:34:51.700 It's a pride that I can have sex with whomever I want, and relationships be damned, and people who love me be damned. 0.91

00:34:58.120 It's a pride that I can take whatever I want from someone else, and it doesn't really matter because there's no judge, and there's no judgment, and there's no good, and there's no bad, but thinking makes it so. 0.98

00:35:07.780 On and on and on.

00:35:09.000 It's a pride even in sloth. 0.80

00:35:10.420 It's a pride that, well, it all doesn't matter.

00:35:12.900 We're born in a random chance, and we're all going to turn to worm food, so who cares if I get up and do my job today or get up and do any work or be productive?

00:35:20.180 It is so – it infects everything.

00:35:23.480 So I'd be wary of that.

00:35:25.420 You know, pride is an occupational hazard, if not a prerequisite, of show business and politics, so we all have to be careful of that, but that's the one that the devil likes best.

00:35:38.040 From James, dear blank book millionaire, I wish, but, you know, it's still pretty good.

00:35:43.340 I'm not complaining.

00:35:44.240 Australia is still having its same-sex marriage debate, and I am voting no to changing the legal definition of marriage.

00:35:50.140 It is my view that voting yes would be ignorant of the history of marriage between a man and a woman and ignorant of the fact that it is an institution of forwarding procreation.

00:35:59.580 Makes sense to me, pal.

00:36:01.020 Does this position of not wanting to give same-sex couples the legal recognition of marriage conflict with a libertarian view of government?

00:36:07.420 No, it doesn't.

00:36:08.580 People say this a lot, libertarians who have a very myopic view of politics, but I suppose that's an occupational hazard of libertarianism.

00:36:17.560 It isn't. It isn't at all. It isn't a matter of rights. It isn't a matter of the government.

00:36:23.580 The left has done a great job at framing the issue of redefining marriage as one of rights.

00:36:28.600 This person has this right to marry a person that he loves, but this person doesn't have this right to marry a person that he loves.

00:36:34.760 But that's not where the debate starts. It isn't about the rights.

00:36:38.360 A premise of both of those questions is that marriage has a meaning that allows for a same-sex monogamous union, but the question we have to debate is what is marriage?

00:36:51.260 And furthermore, what are men and what are women?

00:36:54.280 If men and women are basically the same and there aren't really any differences between them, then the left's argument on same-sex marriage makes perfect sense.

00:37:03.100 If men and women are different, if they're complementary rather than indiscernible from one another, then that opens up a big question.

00:37:12.620 Now, there is a reason that for all of history marriage has been between a man and at least women, if not just one woman.

00:37:20.900 For most of our history it's been between a man and one woman.

00:37:23.260 But we also can look at marriage in today's day and age.

00:37:28.440 What does it mean?

00:37:29.280 What do men mean?

00:37:30.180 What do women mean? 1.00

00:37:31.000 What is the purpose of procreation?

00:37:33.460 Is it to bring a child into the world or is it so that the child can make us feel good about ourselves?

00:37:38.600 And the arguments against redefining marriage seem to me strong and have the weight of history to them.

00:37:44.820 There are some arguments for redefining marriage, but those aren't them.

00:37:49.180 And there's absolutely nothing that contradicts a libertarian view of government or conservative view of government or a Christian view of government or what have you about not deciding to redefine radically and fundamentally the basic institution of the West.

00:38:04.440 We should engage in that debate on a much more serious and sophisticated level, which is what is marriage, what are men, and how do we deal with a society in which traditional marriage has broken down entirely?

00:38:19.800 And so why not admit monogamous same-sex couples who might raise children better, who might live a much more productive life?

00:38:28.240 That's where the debate should be.

00:38:29.480 It shouldn't be on some frivolous matter of rights.

00:38:32.560 From Gregory.

00:38:34.540 Hello, Mr. Knowles.

00:38:36.620 Please note, my name is Jopert.

00:38:37.920 I just called you Gregory.

00:38:39.080 It may show my dad's name above, but that is false.

00:38:41.320 Well, I don't want to spread falsehood.

00:38:43.040 I am a Catholic and a junior in a liberal high school.

00:38:45.840 In AP Physics, we're building egg drop devices.

00:38:48.320 In my group, I suggested the idea of just gluing a small cross on the egg and dropping it unprotected.

00:38:54.620 This, of course, was a joke.

00:38:55.860 But more recently, I've been wondering what, in fact, would happen if I did this, if I dropped an egg with just the cross.

00:39:01.120 If with complete faith, for the purpose of converting the class, I dropped the egg with only a cross, what would occur?

00:39:07.540 I know that all things are possible through Christ, but I can't grapple with the idea that the egg would drop and not break in Christ's Jopert.

00:39:13.460 Yeah, good, man, because in the last temptation of Christ, I'll just read you the passage when the Antichrist takes Christ down to the wilderness.

00:39:24.620 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him,

00:39:29.840 If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence. 0.96

00:39:34.000 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up,

00:39:39.600 lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

00:39:43.560 But what did Jesus say?

00:39:44.500 Jesus, answering, said unto him,

00:39:47.460 It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

00:39:51.140 It is not up to you to show off God like a magic trick that you have power over.

00:39:55.620 You don't have power over Him.

00:39:57.680 Only by grace are you saved by the grace of Jesus.

00:40:02.320 So if even Jesus would not drop Himself down to test God, and He is God, I don't think you should either,

00:40:09.120 because that egg is going to end up everywhere.

00:40:10.520 From Brandon,

00:40:12.020 Dear Michael, I am the son of a Cuban immigrant, and I am currently attending a university

00:40:15.960 where I have often heard a romanticized view of the state of Cuba, perpetuated by students and faculty alike.

00:40:21.660 Oh, you mean anywhere in America?

00:40:23.080 Yeah, that's probably where you were.

00:40:24.220 This infuriates me because so many of my family members who are still in Cuba

00:40:27.480 tell us of the plight in which the Cuban people truly live.

00:40:31.140 How would you recommend I deal with these situations when they arise? 0.72

00:40:34.620 Do I attempt to re-educate these Bernie-loving ignoramuses, or just ignore them entirely?

00:40:39.780 Thanks, Brandon. 0.91

00:40:41.840 Good question.

00:40:43.440 I noticed this too when I went down to Cuba. 1.00

00:40:45.140 I noticed that people don't wear Che Guevara shirts down there like all of the idiot white liberals wear in America 1.00

00:40:50.940 who are completely ignorant of that slave island. 1.00

00:40:53.840 What you should do is give your testimony, just as you have, and this might be the one place that I'll abide the idea of white privilege, 0.99

00:41:03.880 but it is a white privilege.

00:41:05.120 It's at least an American privilege that we live in such luxury and freedom that we can become very lofty in our minds and say,

00:41:13.060 well, who cares if communism doesn't work in practice?

00:41:16.100 Does it work in theory?

00:41:17.520 Yeah, I know those Cuban people have been slaves for half of a century, and they've been killed and tortured and starved to death,

00:41:22.560 but, you know, look, it obviously was for a good purpose.

00:41:26.700 The road to hell is paved with good intentions, guys.

00:41:29.060 So I would engage with it all the time.

00:41:32.120 You have a unique perspective and voice, and people should hear from the horse's mouth what that horrific ideology and that horrific regime are really like.

00:41:40.280 From Jordan,

00:41:40.960 Hey, Knowles, my name is Jordan.

00:41:42.920 Since out of you, Ben and Andrew, I hear you're popular with the ladies. 0.98

00:41:47.000 Who'd you hear that from?

00:41:48.480 P.S.

00:41:48.920 Heard that from Andrew.

00:41:49.840 Okay, fair enough.

00:41:50.540 It's not true.

00:41:51.240 Yeah, totally fake news.

00:41:53.060 It's because I went to college with Drew's son, Spencer, and maybe he's telling tales out of school.

00:41:57.900 I'm a cashier, and I work with a girl named Samantha.

00:42:01.660 To be honest, she's way out of my league and more mature than me.

00:42:05.400 Come on, give yourself a little credit, man.

00:42:07.260 We're about the same age.

00:42:08.300 Sometimes we make eye contact, and maybe I get a smile from her without doing anything.

00:42:12.500 I'm not really experienced with asking a girl out.

00:42:14.280 I'm afraid of rejection like most.

00:42:16.140 What's the best way to get your foot through the door and stay out of the dreaded friend zone?

00:42:20.680 Also love to hear some inspiring love experiences you may have had that can help.

00:42:24.580 And I'm not giving you any of those, man.

00:42:25.900 That's going to be for my sequel romance novel to the blank book.

00:42:29.960 Thank you, Michael Knowles, a.k.a. Love Doctor.

00:42:33.400 Marshall, I want you to only call me that from now on.

00:42:35.200 No, that's not a thing.

00:42:36.320 Doctor Love, baby.

00:42:39.180 So I've gotten this question a few times, and so I'll give some variation on that because I don't know that I've given a complete answer on young men trying to find love in a swipe right culture.

00:42:50.440 I have had a girlfriend for longer than Tinder existed, so I'm really unfamiliar with that.

00:42:58.960 But the best advice I'll give you, which everyone will probably also give you, is to be confident.

00:43:03.840 I've seen a ton of really ugly dudes have beautiful girlfriends and wives because they are confident.

00:43:13.180 Henry Kissinger, I believe, said that power is the greatest aphrodisiac.

00:43:16.220 So be confident.

00:43:18.860 Be confident in yourself.

00:43:19.980 It isn't the end of the world if this girl doesn't go out with you, but it would be fun to go out with you. 1.00

00:43:24.140 So, you know, make it playful.

00:43:26.040 Make it a fun thing.

00:43:27.180 If it becomes a creepy or desperate thing, then she's not going to want to do it.

00:43:30.440 You wouldn't want to do it either.

00:43:31.840 It also helps in conversation if you like women. 1.00

00:43:35.460 It helps if you actually like these people and you're not just trying to get in their pants or something.

00:43:38.920 So if you, it's true in conversation generally.

00:43:43.260 If you have a conversation with someone and you are interested in what they're saying, it will be a better conversation and you both will enjoy it more.

00:43:51.180 And you might even get something out of it.

00:43:52.960 You might learn something or be entertained or what have you.

00:43:57.280 If you're not, if it's just a technique like you read one of those pickup books and you say,

00:44:02.200 Hey, honey, and you look like Mike the Situation from the Jersey Shore, then you're going to be a slick creep and she won't want to go out with you. 1.00

00:44:08.100 Just be confident, be interested in her, and keep it fun.

00:44:11.540 The purpose of dating is that it's very, very fun.

00:44:14.740 And ultimately, it leads to things that are probably less fun and more duty-bound like marriage and raising children and, you know, being a pillar of society.

00:44:21.360 But the early part, the dating is extremely fun.

00:44:24.080 So don't let it get you down.

00:44:25.540 I had a teacher in high school who was a biology teacher.

00:44:29.420 And he would say, don't think of this test.

00:44:31.320 No, I'm sorry.

00:44:31.880 This was my history teacher, a great history teacher.

00:44:33.940 And he would say, don't think of this test as an opportunity to be penalized.

00:44:38.100 It's an opportunity to fail out of class or something.

00:44:40.740 A test, an exam, is an opportunity to get points.

00:44:44.820 And so that's the same thing with asking a girl out.

00:44:47.620 It's an opportunity to go on a fun date and, you know, see what happens from there.

00:44:51.540 But it isn't something to dread or feel nervous about or rejection.

00:44:54.580 And if you get rejected, so what?

00:44:56.120 You know, that just goes with the territory.

00:44:58.480 And you'll try again next time.

00:44:59.420 I hope that helps.

00:45:00.760 From the Doctor of Love.

00:45:02.120 We've got to rename the show.

00:45:03.240 That's real good.

00:45:04.100 I am Michael Knowles.

00:45:05.320 This is the Michael Knowles Show, the Doctor of Love.

00:45:07.380 And we will be back.

00:45:09.460 This is the end for this week.

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00:45:35.980 That would really help us out.

00:45:37.120 And I think you'll enjoy it as well as Hollywood Lies in Ruins.

00:45:40.560 Then tune in for the conversation next Tuesday.

00:45:42.360 But I'll see you Monday first.

00:45:43.420 I'm Michael Knowles.

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00:45:45.520 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Marshall Benson.

00:45:54.320 Executive producer, Jeremy Boring.

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00:46:05.340 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 09, 2017

Ep. 56 - Happy Trump-aversary： 365 Days Of Covfefe

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