Ep. 65 - The Swampy Shore： Reality TV Reality
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Summary
The Jersey Shore has announced a new season, but who needs Snooki, Mike, and Pauly Shore when we ve got Donald, Chuck, and Nancy? We will analyze our wonderfully entertaining reality TV reality. Then, Allie Stuckey, Alicia Krauss, and Jacob Airey join the panel of deplorables to discuss new discoveries about the tomb of Jesus, spoiler alert: it s empty. Why millennials say, I feel, instead of I think. And the latest in Democrat sex scandals.
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The Jersey Shore has announced a new season, but who needs Snooki, Mike, and Pauly when we've got Donald, Chuck, and Nancy?
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We will analyze our wonderfully entertaining reality TV reality.
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Then, Allie Stuckey, Alicia Krauss, and Jacob Airey join the panel of deplorables.
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To discuss new discoveries about the tomb of Jesus, spoiler alert, it's empty.
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Why millennials say, I feel, instead of I think.
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It's probably because they feel and they don't think.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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In case you have never experienced this wonderful show, here's a clip.
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You look like Popeye and Crack in my face, Jerk.
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Boss seems to think that my hair is going to fall off and go into the ice cream.
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150 miles an hour on the highway on a street bike.
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What makes you think it's going to move in a gelato shop?
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When I was a kid, I would go to Wildwood with my family.
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One time, I was at Seaside Heights, also known as Sleazeside Heights, visiting a buddy in college.
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And we saw, we went to the house while they were filming.
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We saw a massive crowd down below because the situation was smoking a cigarette on the balcony.
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I actually, don't ask me why I know this, I was conceived at the Jersey Shore at Wildwood on the 4th of July of all times.
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I, again, please, I sort of wish I didn't know that.
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I don't know, man, because we have the swampy shore.
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We have the reality TV of one President Donald Trump and the Washington, D.C. that is revolving around him.
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Plus, we have a great cast of characters that he's given us.
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And this should not be surprising at all because it really does.
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Politics in 2017, more so than it did previously, more so than we've ever seen in the past, it resembles reality TV because we made the king of reality television president.
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This guy had a reality TV show, one of the defining reality TV shows on network television for 14 years.
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So we had these constant celebrities and new characters who came by.
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I notice all of the people who for years and years have sat at Heritage Foundation lunches and have written in all of the elite publications on the right.
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They've called for a culture warrior in the White House.
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And they seem to have had a vision of what that culture warrior would look like, and it didn't look like Donald Trump.
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So now that he is waging the culture wars, they hate it, and they're saying it's uncouth, and they're running away from him, and they're commiserating with their friends on the left and at the New York Times and in left-wing outlets.
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And they're saying, oh, yes, isn't it so awful?
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But, look, I'm for elite culture as much as the next guy.
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It actually occurred to me while I was writing this, I was listening to Abjoy et Abjoven Mapais.
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If you listen to Chanting or anything on Spotify, you'll see these ridiculous songs that come out of Provencal Poetry.
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Provencal Poetry is not the culture that we live in.
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It's a nice culture if you want to read old books and read old poetry and that sort of thing.
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And if we have rich Uncle Pennybags become the nominee of the Republican Party and wear a monocle and talk about how great Don Giovanni is or how he only listens to Bach, that doesn't engage in the culture.
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He might be a well-formed fella, but that isn't the culture that the American people pay attention to.
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And we now have a guy who's constantly talking about the NFL, who's talking about celebrities, who's waging the war where it exists.
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But that doesn't take into account my favorite character, which is Pocahontas.
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This morning, Donald Trump tweeted, quote, meeting with Chuck and Nancy today about keeping government open and working.
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Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our country unchecked or weak on crime and want to substantially raise taxes.
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After all of – you know, this is poetic diction.
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Ben talked about an excellent book by Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction, on his show the other day.
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It offers us so much in just, what, three sentences.
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He doesn't say Senator Schumer and Congresswoman Pelosi, Leader Pelosi.
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He then presents himself not only as the reasonable guy, but he's the innocent guy.
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It is laughable, this tweet, because he's saying, look, this is what I want.
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I just want these good things for the country, and so I'm going to meet with them today.
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You know, the only trouble is the only thing – I suspect this might not go very well because they're anti-American monsters who want to destroy your country for you.
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So I don't think there will be a deal, but maybe there will be, right?
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He presents himself as this perfectly innocent player, and he's forcing them to a corner.
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He's just said that they want to flood this country with criminals and illegal immigrants, that they want to raise your taxes and destroy your country.
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So he doesn't see a deal, but hey, you know, maybe it'll work out.
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So if they don't come, then it just underscores the narrative.
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He wants to do positive work for the country, but these obstructionists among Democrats will not do it.
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That's the other accusation that he's constantly implicitly leveling against them.
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And then Sarah Huckabee Sanders sends out a press release and says,
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the president's invitation to the Democrat leaders still stands, and he encourages them to put aside their pettiness,
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stop the political grandstanding, show up, and get to work.
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It's exactly, it was ever thus the minute he wrote this tweet, and now he looks like the adult, which is crazy.
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He's written this, the sort of statement from the president that we've never seen before.
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He's written this, and then ironically, he's the one who ends up looking like an adult.
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But many people on the left and the right are constantly scratching their heads or saying, what is he doing?
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If only he did something different, then it would all work out great.
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You know, you've got to give this guy a little bit of credit.
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He has been manipulating people to do what he wants them to do for decades, but he's done it explicitly on television for 15 years.
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This was his job, was to take regular people, not with a script, not with characters that he's written, regular people that he's met in life,
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and get them to do what he wants them to do to create entertainment on television.
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So this brings us to our next character, my favorite one.
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Here was Trump yesterday at an event honoring the Navajo Code Talkers.
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So that was the ultimate statement from General Kelly, the importance.
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And I just want to thank you because you're very, very special people.
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Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago.
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And from the heart, from the absolute heart, we appreciate what you've done, how you've done it,
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the bravery that you displayed, and the love that you have for your country.
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For those of you who aren't watching because you haven't subscribed, go over and subscribe.
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But if you're just listening, when he says Pocahontas, they're smiling a little.
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It's not – they're not taken aback and saying how awful this is.
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Pocahontas wasn't Cherokee, as Elizabeth Warren lying said that she was.
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Elizabeth Warren pretended to be a Native American Indian.
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I am far swarthier than Elizabeth Warren ever could possibly be, even during the summer in the sun.
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And Elizabeth Warren didn't just say that she was Native American Indian on job application.
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Like, she submitted a recipe to a cookbook called Pow Wow Chow.
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She is prostituting her fake ancestry, clearly for a career benefit.
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But Donald Trump is the one who's offensive by making this joke and pointing it out.
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By the way, this event would not have been covered by the press had he not made that remark.
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We wouldn't have seen wall-to-wall coverage of the Navajo Code Talkers Honor Summit had he not made this line.
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We're talking about how Elizabeth Warren is a liar and this clearly white woman pretended to be a Native American to further her career.
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It is deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a racial slur.
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Look, Donald Trump does this over and over thinking somehow he's going to shut me up with it.
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Didn't you know that Pocahontas is a racial slur?
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In my PC training, there are a lot of slurs that I was told not to say.
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Pocahontas wasn't one of them because Pocahontas was a Native American Indian from the northeast of America and also a Disney cartoon.
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And Ann Coulter once gave me tremendous advice.
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The first time I met her when I was in college, we were talking about how all the crazies at college would call you racist for saying that we ought to have lower taxes and less government in our lives.
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And she said, you know, Michael, when a liberal calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.
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She can't answer for her fraud, for her decades of fraud.
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So what she has to do, she looks ridiculous in every sense of that word.
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To think that she is like Pocahontas, which she claimed to be, is ridiculous.
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It reminds me of that meme that was going around of Sandra Fluke, who has her arms crossed.
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She was that Democrat contrivance who took the sacramental view of birth control.
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She had her arms crossed and frowning, and it said, that's not funny.
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He's forced her into this corner to make her deeply unlikable.
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Not that I'm saying she wasn't unlikable before, but Donald Trump is making her look even more unlikable.
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And by the way, she says that he's doing this to shut her up.
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He's doing it to get her on TV and to make her look as humorless as she is.
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It's to make her look ridiculous, which she is.
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There was that drama at the CFPB, speaking of Elizabeth Warren, the board, the Consumer Financial
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so-called Protection Bureau that Elizabeth Warren promoted and helped to create even before
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The drama that happened at the CFPB is that the director resigned.
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He named his deputy, a woman named Leandra English, to take over, but he has no authority
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The president can name the head of his executive agencies.
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So instead of formally nominating somebody and taking care of this in paperwork, basically,
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what Donald Trump was, was he named an interim director, Mick Mulvaney, his budget director,
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to walk down there with a bag of Dunkin' Donuts and take over the office.
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Well, if he had found some boring bureaucratic solution on paper to do this, then it might
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But it wouldn't have pointed out that this issue of the CFPB and all of these godless,
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headless executive agencies is not a boring bureaucratic problem.
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We asked him what the greatest threat to liberty was in the United States.
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He said it's these agencies, these executive agencies who have no accountability, certainly
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to Congress, and in this case, apparently not to the president.
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So he sent down a person, Mick Mulvaney, an outspoken critic of this agency, to have human
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drama, two heads, two directors of the agency duking it out, total catnip for the press.
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And we get to see this issue brought into stark relief.
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Does a legitimately elected president sent there by the American people, does he have the right
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to run his own executive agencies, or is some bureaucrat holdover who thinks that she knows
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better how to run your life than you do, who thinks she knows better how to run your government
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There was a commentator in 2016 who predicted that Trump would win because we want to keep
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A lot of people on the left and the right are saying Trump is doing horrible and he should
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abandon Twitter, or Trump is doing fine, but he should abandon Twitter.
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This isn't just bread and circuses, by the way.
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We're seeing a lot of great stuff happen in the federal government.
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We're seeing massive deregulation, an annual 13,000 regulations passed every single year
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by the federal government for the last 20 years.
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This year, zero net new regulations, massive deregulation at the EPA.
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Judge Gorsuch, a supremely good nominee and now Supreme Court justice.
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You know, the humor has been really a great way to accomplish political goals.
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And rather than encouraging Trump to abandon all of that covfefe, we should encourage him
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This has been an immense help to him and the show must go on, folks.
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So to continue to discuss reality television, I have to bring on our excellent panel of deplorables.
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But before we do, and we have a great panel today, we have Allie Stuckey, we have Alicia
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Allie, will anybody watch the New Jersey Shore or has politics made reality TV completely irrelevant?
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Oh, I don't know if it's politics making Jersey Shore relevant.
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I think it was probably already like that much before Donald Trump.
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I mean, I never watched this stuff, Michael Knowles.
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I watch other much more sophisticated reality shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette that,
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you know, things like Jersey Shore, they're just beneath me.
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On this reality TV show that we have in front of us, the Trump show, the Swampy Shore, Alicia,
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Because Elizabeth Warren says calling her Pocahontas is racist.
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What is more racist, to call Elizabeth Warren a white woman who isn't Native American Pocahontas,
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or for Elizabeth Warren to pretend to be a Native American Indian and write a recipe for a book called Pow Wow Chow?
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Yeah, that was a crab recipe, hailing from Oklahoma, southeastern Oklahoma specifically.
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And she also hailing from Oklahoma, I guess she needs to apologize where she was raised because it's, you know,
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It's, like, legitimately Pocahontas was somebody's name.
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And I do, I, like, it was cringeworthy yesterday when Trump said this in front of these American heroes that are probably pushing 100, let's be honest.
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And the CNN and MSNBC wall-to-wall coverage about how he was racist is just, it's beyond.
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And those guys, I mean, you point out they are probably, like, 100 years old at this point.
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Well, you know, that's the thing I notice about this administration is it's always awkward smiles because you can't predict any of this stuff.
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You remember in 2012 when Clint Eastwood came to the RNC and he talked to an empty chair?
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And he just gave, he ad-libbed a speech to an empty chair.
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Jon Stewart said he loved it because it was unscripted.
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It wasn't the usual glossed-over, scripted political convention we see.
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And you just, I don't know, to me, maybe it's like a car wreck, but you can't help.
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Jacob, the Jersey Shore, you might not have watched it.
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And I believe it was Vinny on the Jersey Shore said that things were going to get filthy, creepy, and weird.
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Certainly, politics these days is filthy, creepy, and weird, what with all of the sex scandals and whatnot.
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Is there any way to add a little dignity to either our television, our popular culture, and our politics?
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Or are we just on a straight train to decadence?
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I think we're on a straight train to decadence.
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I'm sorry to be a killjoy here, but I don't think the train ride is going to get any smoother.
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And by the way, bull crawdads are way better than crabs.
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That statement is a nice way to typify how everything you say, like the opposite is true, that we shouldn't trust any of your opinions.
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Well, the peeling of them is gross, but once you actually get them in your mouth, it's delicious.
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But then once you're in there, oh, man, it's so delicious.
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You could get your very own Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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Now, I would say this makes a great stocking stuffer.
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It would make a great main gift, main only gift to any of your loved ones.
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But I know you're not going to give it to anybody.
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You're going to keep it for yourself as you should.
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That excellent vintage, that Native American powwow vintage of Elizabeth Warren's Pocahontas tears,
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You are going to need this Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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Otherwise, you're going to drown in those tears.
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There is some good news just in time for Christmas.
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Scientific tests have offered new evidence that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
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where Jesus is believed to have been buried, though not for very long,
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does in fact date back to the Roman Empire, to at least the time of Constantine.
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Now, previous experiments only dated it to around 1,000 years old,
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but now we know it goes back to at least the time when Constantine started to renovate the place
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and make it a nice temple, a nice what would eventually become a church.
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Alicia, everybody I notice on today's panel is Christian.
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Alicia, do scientific corroborations such as this one,
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do they do anything to augment your faith, or do you draw some sort of hard line between your faith
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and other things you know about the world, between theology and things in natural science?
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I'm really sleep-deprived today, so of course you went to me with that esoteric question.
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I mean, I think I kind of read articles like this, and I'm like, that's cool,
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but there's an aspect of, like, faith, and, like, you don't have to believe to see.
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Actually, I think that was something that, like, Jesus said, you know, to Thomas.
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Yeah, like, good for you for not, you know, like, why are you doubting?
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And so I think that it is something that's cool.
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I'm somebody that has never been to the Holy Lands, would love to visit the Holy Lands.
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I've heard it's, like, a life-changing moment and experience.
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I have lots of friends and family that have done it,
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but I don't think that I don't need to see, like, oh, is this exactly where the manger was?
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Is this exactly the tomb that he was laid in for three days
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You know, it's very nice to see and then believe,
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but blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed.
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And yet, as you say, I also haven't been to Israel,
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but everyone who goes is just stunned and bowled over by it
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and goes back many times, makes the pilgrimage.
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So there is something about Christianity that is unique.
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Christianity is founded on fact rather than philosophy.
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It begins, it doesn't begin with some poetry or some philosophy.
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It begins with a journalistic account of a guy who lived in a place at a time
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who is performing miracles, who's doing things,
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in which the physical and the metaphysical unite.
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So, Ali, that unique foundation of Christianity as journalism, basically,
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does that do anything to shape your political views
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Although I think the unique thing about Christianity
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was not the fact that it started, I guess, journalistically,
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but just that it's different in any other faith in our philosophy
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it tells you all of the ways that you have to climb up the hill
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Christianity is different in that Jesus came down the hill to us.
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I think that's the difference, and that's really what shapes my faith,
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is the offer of reconciliation through nothing of our own.
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I think that's really what makes the difference.
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Well, maybe we'll get rid of superstition for Christmas.
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I want to know what the pastor's kid thinks, though.
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Well, I want to get to that, but on this point of Muhammad,
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it is worth noting, yeah, he's a guy who lived in time.
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But it's only in Christ that we see a guy who's saying, I am God.
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Even Muhammad doesn't go that far because, of course,
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Muhammad founded his religion after spending weeks
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So that uniting, it reminds me, I was reading this book last month
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called Symbolism and Belief by Edwin Bevan that C.S. Lewis recommends,
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and he talks about how values, values and these ethereal ideas for our lives,
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it's very easy to intellectualize them and just think of them as up here.
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They only really matter when humans do something with them, right?
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The book in the New Testament isn't called The Ideas of the Apostles.
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It's not just like the heretical Gospel of Thomas.
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makes it less just about sitting back and saying,
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oh, yes, this would be good, but I'm standing for something.
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but he won't walk, he won't move, he won't do things.
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And in fact, I remember when I was far away from my faith,
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I went through a period during my college years
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I was questioning God, and that's when I became a liberal.
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That's when I started to experiment with leftism,
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So, yes, definitely my, certainly my faith in Jesus Christ
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has affected how I see the world as far as politics
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So, speaking of college, there is an excellent professor,
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a law professor at Faulkner University named Adam McLeod,
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who insists that any student who uses the phrase,
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I feel instead of I think, must cluck like a chicken.
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And if they use isms, you know, all of those isms,
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this ism and that ism, or if they use vague, trendy words like fair, diversity, etc.,
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they must immediately stop and explain what they think.
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Okay, like right now, for example, the Hadeans need to come to America.
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But some people are all, what about the strain on our resources?
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But it's like, when I had this garden party for my father's birthday, right?
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That really changed the way I think about things, you know?
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They, it's all about, but they'll, you know, I feel like it would be better if we do this.
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Why do millennials only use the phrase, I feel?
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I also think that clucking like a chicken is not punishment enough,
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because let's be honest, drunk people do the chicken dance at weddings all across America.
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Wow, are you like prepping a dance for your wedding?
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But I think that it is definitely something to do with what we see on TV,
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what we, what our generation has read in media, what we, you know, romantic comedies, even,
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that like women are raised seeing from the 80s and beyond.
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but it does kind of teach this or reinforce this belief that everything is about feeling versus facts,
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And I think that that has really continued over,
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and it's something that you see continually in the education system.
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I mean, I'm looking at schools right now for my four-year-old,
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and every, every single tour, the two questions that are given the most time is the diversity question.
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And I'm like, no, not what about the feelings of the students.
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What are you going to do to get my kid into Harvard?
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You know, a professor of mine in college had a theory on all of this.
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He, this guy, Charles Hill, he's a lifelong diplomat, ambassador.
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And his idea was that over time, students have become much more afraid to make any statements of fact.
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They're too afraid because they think that the facts can be offensive.
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So you used to say the sky is blue, and then you could say, well, I think the sky is blue.
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And it was too, I believe the sky is blue because belief is a little, a little more wish-washy.
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And then ultimately you get, I feel like the sky is blue.
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Even the word like, which we make fun of the valley girl.
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Is it that millennials are afraid of making statements of fact?
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What, what is going on here with the relationship of millennials to objective truth?
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I do think it's what you and Alicia both noted, this kind of popularization of subjectivity and kind of shame about being objective.
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And it's not just objectivity, but we're so afraid of being judgmental.
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The worst thing you can be after being a racist and a bigoted, a homophobe is being judgmental.
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So if you say that anything is right or wrong, especially if you're on the right, then you're not only a bigot, but you are, you know, you're morally wrong.
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And so I think in an effort to avoid being judgmental or being called a bigot or what have you, people start with, I feel like, or I think.
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It's also something that you learn in, like, conflict resolution or if you go to, like, premarital counseling, they always tell you to start with, I feel, because it takes the responsibility off of the person that you're talking to.
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It's like, I feel like you're being really rude.
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I mean, that's just my feeling, but I feel like it.
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So I think that's kind of what we're going for.
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We're so afraid of being called a bigot or judgmental that if we're just starting with our own feelings, you can't get mad at me for that.
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It's kind of like saying no offense when you're actually being really rude.
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People only say that when they're being extremely offensive, you know, is it?
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I think it's also because people don't understand what an opinion is anymore.
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So they think, you know, I can say the sky is blue.
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Now, if I say I like the blue sky or the blue sky pleases me, I guess that's a preference.
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But to say I think and then a statement of fact, that's an opinion.
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Now, Jacob, this is a very frustrating issue when you talk to millennials about this.
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They want conflict resolution, just as Ali has said.
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But sometimes you need to push arguments to their extreme to actually get to an answer,
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Why are we so afraid of getting nitty and gritty in arguments with people?
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I think it has to do with pop culture, honestly.
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I mean, even if you grew up in the 90s like I did and you had the greatest version of the
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Disney Channel original series, every problem is solved in 20 minutes or less, right?
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And so whenever a problem goes beyond that 20-minute mark, you're like, I need a commercial
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So I think that it has to do with, I just want to resolve this quickly or it gets uncomfortable.
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And just like, and also has something to do with, what Ali said, being judgmental.
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We don't want to come off as judgmental, even if we know we're right.
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So when we say, oh, abortion is murder, and then a leftist says, well, that's judgmental.
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You're like, well, I'm judging whether the fact that this person has a life or not, and
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And we just need to, millennials need to not be afraid, especially conservative millennials
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need to not be afraid to stand up and say, look, this might not be solved in 20 minutes
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We're just going to have to work it out and get all the facts.
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It is totally an example of politics following culture, of the culture being so insidious
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And on the judginess, the don't be judgy, don't be judgmental.
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You hear this phrase sometimes now, which is don't yuck my yum.
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Don't say that the thing I like is disgusting or something.
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And the logical conclusion of this is what happened in the 20th century.
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There's a major movement among leftist intellectuals to normalize pedophilia.
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And now, obviously, this is in the air with, they say that Roy Moore, I guess that wasn't
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But nevertheless, girls who are too young to be having sex with, and you're picking them
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There was this movement to normalize all of that.
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If somebody finds that yummy, let's yuck it, man.
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And speaking of sex, in true reality TV form, we have to close on that.
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Bernie Sanders, you will recall, years ago claimed that women fantasize about gang rape.
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Another woman has accused Democrat rep John Conyers of sexual harassment.
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Democrat rep Al Green, we've learned, once threatened to sue a staffer that he had had
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And I am, by the way, I'm not making any accusations, lawyers who are watching this.
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However, Keith Olbermann is suddenly, unexpectedly, and inexplicably retiring from political media
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One wonders how long before the accusations start rolling in.
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I'll begin with the man on this panel, and then I can be educated by the ladies on this
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Jacob, is any man ever going to be able to hold political office again?
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Forget how are men going to hold office anymore.
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Why would they even run when all of their bizarre sexual experiences are going to come back
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We have to be careful what is part of the hysteria and what is actually credible allegations.
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And so as far as will men run again, I think so.
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I think we'll see more of the Pence role being adopted.
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You know, I'm going to go visit with this female staffer.
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I'm going to meet with this female colleague, but I'm going to always have a chaperone.
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But people are going to still say the Pence role is uncool because it just sounds so uncool,
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But I honestly think that we'll see this being implemented more.
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I'm expecting to hear him joining the Young Turks or RT.
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But that's, you know, what happened with Jesse Ventura.
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And I expect that's going to happen with Keith Olbermann.
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Well, fair enough, because he said he would retire from political commentary in all forms.
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But the Young Turks is just incoherent babbling and profanities.
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We're quite in the opposite direction that we were in the 1990s.
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Is this going to settle that any politician who's ever had an extramarital affair can't hold office?
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You know, like every single politician ever on the face of the earth, maybe other than Mike Pence.
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And when we wanted to elect a good guy versus, you know, Barack Obama, people were like, no.
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I do find it kind of fascinating how I have conversations with liberal friends, and now they're coming to the side of, oh, yeah, even though they won't call it morality kind of things or rules and regulations, they are now coming to the side of things like the Pence rule seem cool.
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I mean, look at all the praise that David Schwimmer got when he conducted that interview with the chaperone.
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Everybody during the hashtag Me Too movement was like, oh, my God, he's such a gentleman.
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But Mike Pence and David French do it, and it's, oh, my God, they're so anti-women.
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And I find it really weird, this convergence of right and left or moral and, you know, people that tend to be nonreligious and, you know, more immoral now saying that these old-fashioned rules can apply to 2017.
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Allie, almost one in five married couples met at work, according to some study that, I don't know, it's somewhere.
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But they say, you know, we've seen this before.
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A lot of people who are married meet at work, possibly up to 20%.
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So now that we're in this new era where the pendulum has so flown the other way, will that lead to a neo-Victorianism where we can no longer make any comments about our coworkers or date at work or heaven for fend to get married to any of our coworkers?
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I hope that 20% of people that have been at the office didn't start their relationship with some form of harassment or assault.
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As you lower the standard of harassment or assault, of course, anything like eye contact or asking someone out to get a drink could be considered harassment or assault.
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I think that there might just need to be some more creative ways in order for people to start relationships at work.
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I am kind of worried about the trend moving in the direction you talked about, the pendulum swinging of us trivializing matters of flirting that aren't really or trivializing sexual assault by talking about flirting or asking someone out for a drink or denying someone who wanted to stay over or something like that.
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I think that we need to be very clear with our definition of what sexual assault and sexual harassment is so we don't trivialize actual victims.
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And that's the direction that I see us going in.
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And I think that's probably what scares me the most.
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And I will say, when Marshall flirts with me every day, I don't take that as harassment.
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But yes, one answer might be gentlemanliness, chivalry.
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On that point, since I'm the patriarch, get out of here, you.
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Allie, Stuckey, Jacob Berry, and Alicia Krauss, thank you for being here, as always.
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I know we missed it last week because of Thanksgiving.
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