Ep. 719 - 115 (More) Days To Slow The Spread
Summary
After a year and a half, the government is finally getting back on track, and we can celebrate Independence Day the way we should be celebrating it. But is there any silver lining in the storm? and I think there is.
Transcript
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After a full year since we were told 15 days to slow the spread,
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in his address last night to the nation, President Joe Biden finally gave us a timetable
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on when we can reopen the country. If we do all this, if we do our part,
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if we do this together, by July the 4th, there's a good chance you, your families and friends,
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will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout and a
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barbecue and celebrate Independence Day. That doesn't mean large events with lots of people
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together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together after this long, hard year
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that will make this Independence Day something truly special.
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Where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence
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from this virus. I think I'm going to mark my independence from you and all the
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other sociopath politicians who have the gall to stand there. I did the calculation from last
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night until July 4th. They're saying that they want another 115 days to slow the spread. One year
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after 15 days to slow the spread, they want another 115 days to slow the spread. How about we all just
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keep living our lives like some of us have been doing for a very long time now? How about we ignore
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all these absurd mandates from these outrageous politicians? How about we declare independence
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right now? I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment from yesterday is from Irving, who says,
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no one, absolutely no one, Michael. You know, this reminds me of my book. That's true. It does.
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It reminds me of my book. I think this is providential. It's the sort of silver lining in
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this storm cloud of our politics right now because, coincidentally, the book that I've been writing
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for a year and a half now, which is coming out in June, is exactly about everything we're seeing
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right now, particularly with the curtailment of our speech and the banning of books and the utter
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upending of our culture and our norms. So you can get that book, Speechless, Controlling Words,
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Controlling Minds. You can pre-order that right now, but as we will see a little bit later,
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you may not be able to order it for very long because the largest bookseller in the world is
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coming out and saying that politically incorrect books, in many cases, are not going to be allowed.
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You know, all these challenges notwithstanding, I still keep a lot of hope. I think that the future
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pathetic. If anybody is still taking these people seriously, if anybody is still heeding their
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guidelines, which are actually mandates, then that person is a dope. And most of us, I think,
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figured this out quite a while ago. Once that two weeks became three weeks, four weeks, two months,
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six months, eight months. I think a lot of us realized, oh, this is not exactly what we were
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told this is. Oh, okay. We're going to stop paying attention to these guys. When all the guidance kept
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changing day by day by day. I think a lot of us said, I think I'm going to ignore this now.
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Joe Biden is carrying this on, it would seem to me, because he needs to burnish his legacy.
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President Trump did everything that one can do as pertains to the virus before he left office.
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Right? Slowing the spread. That worked. They slowed the spread. Preventing the two million deaths
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within a year that we were told could happen. Yeah, prevented that. Obviously, the number was much
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lower than that. Developed a vaccine. We were told by people such as Joe Biden that there was no way
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that Trump could direct a vaccine initiative in the small window of time that he said he would.
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We did get the vaccine in that window of time. So he did everything. Now Joe Biden says, gosh,
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what's there for me to do? I need, I need to seem like Trump screwed up coronavirus and I succeeded on
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coronavirus. So he's offering us something really, really big, really important. If you're driving,
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I would stop. If you're standing, I would sit down right now. Here's big Joe Biden's big innovation
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to help us all survive coronavirus. At the time when every adult is eligible in May,
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we will launch with our partners new tools to make it easier for you to find the vaccine and where to
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get the shot, including a new website that will help you first find the place to get vaccinated and
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the one nearest you. Stop the presses. Ooh, we gotta, I need to stop my show right now. I need
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to process this huge news that Joe Biden's going to make a webpage. Joe Biden, the president of the
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United States has more resources at his fingertips than anybody in the world. He is going to make a
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webpage. And with, on top of that, you're going to get a webpage from the same people who brought you
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the Obamacare webpage. So I don't, hire me to make the webpage and I will go to WordPress and I will
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make a more successful webpage than probably the federal government will. Uh, not so much. Isn't
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that, that's, that's not so much of a big advance on the fight against coronavirus. Then what's next?
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We, we're going to get a webpage because we all need to get the vaccine. It was very
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interesting how much of a focus Biden put on you have to get the vaccine. You need to get all your
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friends to get the vaccine. Everyone needs to get the vaccine. But also of course, you need to keep
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wearing masks. That's just the science. Too often we've turned against one another. A mask, the easiest
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thing to do to save lives. Sometimes it divides us. So my message to you is this, listen to Dr. Fauci,
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one most distinguished and trusted voices in the world. Can you believe that masks, it's so easy,
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it's so obvious, saves lives. So you should just instantly, this is the first thing you should
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be doing. That divides us. That's become a divisive question because people don't listen
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to Dr. Fauci, the guy who told us not to wear masks. Now in the United States, people should
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not be walking around with masks. You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to
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this. Right now, people should not be walking. There's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
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When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better
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and it might even block a droplet. But it's not providing the perfect protection that people
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think that it is. And often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask
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and they keep touching their face. Can you believe people are so divided and they won't do the obvious,
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sensible thing and wear the mask? The people who are listening to Dr. Fauci who told them not to.
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Now, Dr. Fauci of course changed his mind on this. Later he said, no, you really, you should wear the
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mask. Definitely wear the mask. And his reasoning for his, his past advice was that he wanted to keep
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enough masks for the healthcare workers. So he said, yeah, we didn't want you peasants to take up all
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the good masks. We wanted those to be for the people in public health. So, but now we have enough
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masks. So now, yeah, actually you totally should wear masks. Everything I said before just wasn't
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true. So don't, don't believe that. Okay. Regardless of, uh, your stance on the masks,
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if you're still wearing this filthy cloth over your face in public, like a sheep, uh, you know,
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my views of it. Uh, but regardless, let's say you wear it. You want to do it. You want to do what
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Joe Biden says. Do you, does Joe Biden not understand why people might be a little skeptical
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because the single expert that he is holding up as the credible man here for the credible common
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sense advice. He's the one who not only first told us not to wear them, but then admitted that he
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mess misled us. He admitted that he was acting in a way that was political and actually obscuring
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the scientific reality. Now, beyond the masks, beyond the website, Joe Biden knows we're going
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to get through these dark, dark times in our country by washing our hands. We're seizing this
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moment in history. I believe we'll record. We faced and overcame one of the toughest and darkest periods
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in this nation's history. Darkest we've ever known. We need everyone to get vaccinated. We need
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everyone to keep washing their hands, stay socially distanced and keep wearing the mask as recommended
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by the CDC. Statesmanship in 19, 1940s, Winston Churchill. We shall go on. We should fight on the
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beaches and in the streets. We shall never surrender. Statesmanship in 2021. Wear the mask.
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Wear the mask. Wash your hands. You got to wash your hands. Use soap and water, warm water, not cold
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water. Cold water is not going to kill all the germs. Got to wear the mask. Got to wash your hands.
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The notion that this is the darkest time in American history, forgive me if I think it's a little
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hyperbolic. Is it not a little hyperbolic? The Civil War, it was pretty dark, wasn't it? World War
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to both of the World Wars, pretty dark time in our history. The, I'm not, I don't mean to downplay the
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China cough. It's bad. It is bad. It really is bad. Worse than that, worse than the Civil War. I don't,
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I don't think so. I don't think he's convincing anybody. Meanwhile, you've got these social
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repercussions like the schools, right? The schools are still shut down. Kids, rates of anxiety,
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depression, even suicide are spiking in a lot of places because they can't see their friends.
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They can't leave their home. They're stuck in their little pods. Joe Biden, he, he's going to
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figure a way out of this. Watching a generation of children who may be set back up to a year or more
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because they've not been in school because of their loss of learning. It's the details of life
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that matter the most. And we miss those details. The big details on the small moments, weddings,
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birthdays, graduations, all the things that needed to happen, but didn't.
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Yeah. We're missing those because of you and your political cronies.
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We should have reopened schools months ago. Even the public health experts said we should reopen
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schools months ago. You won't let us because you're in the pocket of the teacher unions because
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of your purely political calculations, because you and all the other sociopath politicians have
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exploited the flu or, uh, you know, the, the virus to seize an unprecedented amount of power in this
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country. You, you're the problem. You know, there was a little remarked upon aspect of this
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speech last night that it seemed like one of those Joe Freudian slips. Joe was talking about the death
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and destruction of it. And he referred to the virus and to natural causes.
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Leave behind loved ones unable to truly grieve or to heal, even to have a funeral.
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But I'm also thinking about everyone else who lost this past year to natural causes by cruel fate
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of accident or other disease. They too died alone. You catch that? Wasn't that a little weird?
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All the whole time we've been told this is a naturally occurring virus. It has nothing to do
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with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It has nothing to do with any sort of, uh, scientific,
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uh, formulation or anything. But then he says, there are so many people who, who died of the virus.
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So many people who died. And there are a lot of other people who died from natural causes.
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WHO, by the way, says we're not going to know the full story on the virus for years. I'm not,
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look, maybe Joe misread the teleprompter. I don't know. It seems like a little bit of a strange slip
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and let me know how you like the smokes. Joe Biden made it about 20 minutes in this address to the
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nation, which is longer than I think a lot of people thought it would be. This is the one advantage
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over of, of, of a president Biden over say a president Trump is when I would watch and have
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to cover these sorts of speeches with president Trump. They could be three hours long. They were
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very entertaining. So I enjoyed watching them, but I thought, Oh gosh, am I going to have a three
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hour Joe Biden speech? I can't. Oh, wait a second. It's Joe Biden. This thing's not going to go
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more than 20 minutes. Joe Biden's got to get to bed. This is way past his bedtime. President Trump
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though, actually offered a very pithy statement on the vaccine. He, he sent this out just a couple
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of days ago. And I think it bears repeating on air since he's now been deep platform from social
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media. We should get this statement as wide as possible. He writes quote, I hope everyone remembers
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when they're getting the COVID-19 often referred to as the China virus vaccine, that if I wasn't
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president, you wouldn't be getting that beautiful shot for five years at best. And
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probably wouldn't be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers.
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He's probably right. You know, and the way, the way that I, I'm, I think he probably is right is
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that all the experts were saying, you're not going to get this vaccine. It's going to knock
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six months. Are you crazy? It's going to take years. It's going to go on for years and years.
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And then it happened and it was guided by political process that this guy was running. So
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I love that. I hope everyone remembers because there's going to be a lot of people trying to
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rewrite history. I miss that guy. Speaking of missing men, speaking from men missing from our
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culture, I saw a letter written into Slate that really caught my attention. One, because this poor
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schlub is showing that he is engaging in sort of bad thoughts and bad behaviors, but also he's
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exemplifying, I think a lot about our culture. Headline, I don't want my wife to become a
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stay at home mom. Before the baby, she was ambitious. What happened? Dear care and feeding.
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I'm a new father of a beautiful 10 month old girl. My wife's company has a generous maternity
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leave policy and she has been at home with our daughter since the birth and is scheduled to
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go back to work just after her first birthday in January. But she recently told me she doesn't
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want to go back to her job. She would like to be a stay at home parent instead. Then he goes on
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about, I was trying to convince her not to do that. He says, one of the things that I was most
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attracted to was her ambition and tenacity. It's really surprising to hear that her career isn't
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that important to her anymore. Honestly, I don't want her to quit her job. She earns about the same as
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I do. And while we could make ends meet on any, on my income alone, it would impact our ability to
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save. And we'd need to give up one of our cars and cut back on extras that make life more enjoyable.
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I also just don't want to stay at home wife. I really admired her work ethic and I want her to
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set a good example for our daughter too. Seeing her give up like this is, give up like this
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is really disappointing. What should I do? Signed, suddenly the breadwinner. What should I do? What
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should I do? To quote the Godfather when he is asked that very question by Johnny Fontaine,
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you can act like a man. What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? What man are you?
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This is the husband who wrote this letter. This is putatively the husband who wrote this letter.
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So many things wrong with him. His wife has this daughter and she has the audacity to want to raise
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her own daughter. And you see, this is not ambitious. If the wife goes to the widget factory
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and types all day on her keyboard and just does spreadsheets, you know, and makes widgets and,
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well, she doesn't make the widgets, but you know, she's sort of supervising the, the, the people who
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have outsourced the widget making to the, and she, so she's doing that. That's really ambitious.
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But raising a human being, it's like, whatever, whatever. We can, you can just hire someone to do that.
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You see what this guy wants to do. He wants to send his wife to work for another man
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so that she can make money so that he can pay another woman to raise his child.
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Cause that's, that's the way it's supposed to work. That's ambitious. Otherwise, you know,
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if the mother doesn't want to do this, she's just, she's giving up and keep like this guy. I mean,
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I get it. I, I share his outrage. He's suddenly the breadwinner. I mean, he makes plenty of money,
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but he might not be able to buy a new car next year. Suddenly the breadwinner. It's like this,
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this selfish woman expects her husband to provide for his family. Can you imagine that?
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While she raises his child. Gosh, what a, what a selfish woman. What a lazy, selfish woman
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to, to want to raise her family and to want her husband to work and support the family.
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This dude is everything wrong with our culture and even the perception of it. I mean, maybe he comes
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by the perception, honestly, that raising a family is somehow giving up or it's lazy or it's not
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ambitious. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. We used to know that.
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We used to know that a, a mother with her child is the center of the world of this world that we're
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all living in is the absolute center. Everything else that we do in this material world, in our economic
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life, all of it exists to serve that. Not everybody gets to have children. It's actually hard for a lot
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of people to have children. For some people, they don't get that option, but we can cast,
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oh, it's nothing. Let's just, let's pay somebody else to raise our kid. That's the economic model
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that I don't mean just to beat up on this guy. I mean, this guy is truly a schmuck. He is a,
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a girly man, as we say. You know, it reminds me of the distinction between womanly and womanish.
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Womanly is a woman acting in a way that is proper for a woman to act, right? It's not an insult.
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It's a compliment. Oh, she's so womanly. Oh my gosh. When a man acts in a way that it is proper
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for a woman to act, it is, there's nothing admirable about that because those qualities are
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corrupted. They're perverse. They're wrong. It is womanish. So when you call someone a girly man,
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it's not an insult against girls. It's an insult against that guy because he's acting in a way
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that is so perverse. But, but he's, he's doing something that our whole culture is doing. And
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it's not just the left. It's not just the left, though they sort of instigated it in, especially
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in the 1970s, saying that the only values that matter are manly values and women need to be forced
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to go out and work. Simone de Beauvoir, who was one of the most famous feminists ever, I guess,
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and was also ironically the jilted common law wife of a notorious philanderer, the philosopher
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Jean Paul Sartre. One time Simone de Beauvoir was having a debate with Betty Friedan over feminism.
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There's two prominent feminists. And Friedan said, yeah, if women want to work good, if women want to
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stay home good. And Beauvoir said, no, we can't give them that choice. We have to force women to work
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because if we give them the option to stay at home, they'll take that option. And that is not
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conducive to liberation. The left believes that, and the right believes that. The right, you know,
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there are some proposals now to incentivize having families because we have a dying population and a
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birth rate below replacement. And so some people, I think, I think Rubio is the one who did this, said,
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we're going to incentivize work. Romney's plan of direct payments to families who have kids,
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that's, that's wrong. We need to incentivize work. We're the party of work.
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No. I think that if a woman wants to raise her family, that's a really good, wonderful thing.
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That should be incentivized by society. We should not force her to go out and work in the widget
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factory. There's nothing conservative about forcing women out of their homes to pay some other woman to
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raise their kids so that they can go work at the widget factory and get a paycheck. That is a totally
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perverse, ultimately liberal left-wing view of mankind. Viewing mankind as primarily an economic
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actor rather than what we really are, which is complex people with complex relationships born into
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families, born into communities who appreciate beauty, who serve God, who have more going on for
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them than their paychecks. My, my only advice I guess would be to this woman, which is, are you sure
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you're, you sure you've made the best choices? I'm not saying leave your husband, but, you know,
00:24:15.820
maybe smack him around a little bit, get him to, get him to shape up. Speaking of womanish men,
00:24:22.320
this transgender issue is really popping up. More and more, the left fighting back against the right,
00:24:30.480
fighting back against the left's idea that men need to become women. You know, my friend Ryan Anderson
00:24:34.760
has this hilariously titled book, When Harry Became Sally, responding to the transgender moment.
00:24:39.560
This scholarly book was kicked out of Amazon, but Amazon wouldn't give a statement. They now are
00:24:44.060
giving a statement. The statement is that we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ plus
00:24:50.960
identity as a mental illness. So, right, they're lumping in all of these various sexual identities.
00:24:56.920
So they're not going to sell those books. But the, the DSM, the central text of psychology,
00:25:04.560
declared these sorts of identities, a mental illness, until very recently. So presumably,
00:25:12.480
Amazon is not going to sell those scientific texts anymore. And presumably, any conservative book,
00:25:17.960
any conservative book that questions the transgender idea is liable to be canceled by Amazon.
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00:26:49.840
frame LGBTQ plus identity as a mental illness is, is to affect it. I'm not saying they're going to ban
00:26:58.280
every conservative book. I think that would be too dramatic in practice, but it is to reserve the
00:27:04.760
right to ban any conservative book that they want because any conservative book that touches on
00:27:13.980
human nature, even social questions, political questions, it doesn't even have to be specifically
00:27:20.640
on the transgender bathrooms or girl sports or whatever, but that touch in any way on human nature
00:27:25.960
is liable to violate this policy. If, for instance, I'm writing a book of, you know, it's not, not really
00:27:34.840
newsy at all. It's not one of these books dealing with issues of the moment. Let's say it's the most
00:27:39.440
scholarly philosophical text out there that says that mankind is a union of body and soul.
00:27:49.220
And so, you know, if you're a man, you're a man, you can't become a woman. That could be banned.
00:27:55.480
What about religious texts? I suppose religious texts do not present certain sexual identity as
00:28:04.820
a mental illness. They present sexual behavior that derive from those. Now we call it identity,
00:28:10.860
but they're, they're the Bible and the Quran would talk about behavior. They cast them as sin.
00:28:16.460
The Quran says that homosexuals, men who practice homosexual acts should be punished.
00:28:25.760
So is, is Amazon going to continue to sell the Quran? Presumably they will because it would be very
00:28:31.120
politically incorrect to ban the Quran. What about the Bible? What about the Bible that
00:28:35.540
prohibits, cast, castigates, cross-dressing many sexual acts? What about that? Is the Bible
00:28:46.220
going to be banned from Amazon? No, I don't think they're going to do that. Probably they wouldn't
00:28:52.000
mind doing that, but it's this slow, gradual process, setting the precedent, establishing the
00:28:58.620
premise, and then slowly, slowly enforcing it. I bet there are going to be a lot of conservatives who
00:29:03.940
say, okay, well, look, either Amazon's a private company, they can do what they want. That's what our
00:29:08.880
founders wanted. Or they'd say, well, you know, look, that's rude. We shouldn't be rude to people
00:29:15.620
and say that transgenderism is a mental illness. So, you know, we're just not good. Okay, that's
00:29:19.420
fine. And then slowly, slowly, gradually, and then more quickly, the left is going to gain ground.
00:29:26.320
On the topic of weird sex stuff, the latest sexual allegation against New York Democrat
00:29:31.500
Governor Andrew Cuomo is, we covered it a little bit yesterday, that Andrew Cuomo groped some woman.
00:29:37.280
It's a vague complaint, not sure that it's true. It's now been referred to the Albany Police Department.
00:29:42.920
So this incident may have risen to the level of a crime. Now, there's no evidence that the
00:29:50.100
governor is being investigated by the police, but the way that this is all playing out,
00:29:54.920
to me, makes these accusations on sex less credible. And it makes it clearer and clearer by the day
00:30:01.860
that this is all just about getting rid of Cuomo because of his nursing home scandal.
00:30:08.340
His Democrats are implicated in that scandal, whereas they're not implicated in him handing a
00:30:12.800
hot dog sandwich. Hot dog is a sandwich, by the way. Handing a hot dog or sausage and pepper sandwich
00:30:17.540
to a reporter and saying, you know, yeah, eat the hot dog. You know, it's not about that. And the
00:30:23.020
Democrats are not implicated in that. So if they can kill him for that reason, they'll do it.
00:30:27.160
When the real scandal here, of course, is on COVID. Have you followed the timetable here?
00:30:32.400
First timetable, Cuomo made people feel uncomfortable. Okay, that's not doing very much.
00:30:38.660
He kissed a staffer once. Okay, that's not, that's not really doing very much.
00:30:45.960
He, he gave a hot dog to a reporter. Okay, that's not, that's not really doing very much.
00:30:53.020
He, he touched someone inappropriately. Okay, that's not doing much. He groped a woman. Okay,
00:31:00.240
let's see. This is going to the police. Okay, let's see. It's so gradual and the condemnations
00:31:05.700
are so gradual. Okay, now we're going to have AOC condemn him. Now we're going to have Nancy
00:31:10.760
Pelosi question him. Now we're going to have some of the state Democrats start to come out against him.
00:31:15.620
Now we're going to have the majority leader in this, and, and of the New York state assembly and
00:31:22.420
the Senate start to come out against him. Now we're going to, and it's just so obviously calculated.
00:31:29.860
So it's weird. I'm in a way I'm kind of defending Cuomo on these very vague personal allegations
00:31:36.640
because that's not good enough for me. Look, I don't think Cuomo should be the governor. I want to
00:31:39.760
get rid of him, but I don't want that guy to go down alone. This is not, not a single, single person
00:31:45.860
scandal. This is a much broader scandal. And I want a whole lot of New York state Democrats to go down
00:31:50.940
for this. I want to take all the focus off these stupid sexual allegations. I want it all to be on
00:31:57.200
the nursing homes. New York politics, you'll notice is relatively controlled. It's a machine state.
00:32:07.860
There's a reason that the Cuomo name has been around for a long time in New York. The reason
00:32:11.500
his dad was a long time governor too. It's a state that is, it keeps a lot of tight control in the
00:32:16.680
Democratic party. In other parts of our country, politics is becoming less and less controlled.
00:32:21.640
In Minnesota, a, there is a new autonomous zone around an area that is now dedicated to George
00:32:31.900
Floyd, George Floyd Square. There is a militant style group that's taken over a blocks long George
00:32:40.720
Floyd site. That's created a hostile situation. This is according to News Nation. People that want to go
00:32:48.540
and support the George Floyd Memorial don't feel a sense of inclusion. There is more of a military
00:32:55.420
type atmosphere over there and a sense of fear, according to one Minneapolis resident.
00:33:01.020
So they're, they're losing control. And this is what the left does. The left uses these sort of
00:33:05.020
paramilitary groups, Antifa, BLM, whoever's here at the George Floyd area, to upset the system,
00:33:11.820
create a sense of urgency and then come in and take more power and also leverage this kind of
00:33:19.460
violence against Republicans. You saw this from the sitting vice president, Kamala Harris,
00:33:23.900
who when, when BLM and her, her fellow travelers and Antifa and other radical groups were burning
00:33:29.640
down the country, she said, this can't stop. This won't stop. This won't keep up the pressure on
00:33:34.720
Republicans. Now, as the trial about George Floyd's death gets underway, as more evidence comes to
00:33:42.220
light, as, as the facts about George Floyd's life and behavior, even on that day that the media
00:33:48.200
suppressed are coming to light, maybe the cop who was involved will not be prosecuted or rather will
00:33:55.080
not be convicted. If that is the case, you can expect a whole lot more autonomous zones and a lot
00:33:59.200
more violence. Before we go, I do have to mention, speaking of race hustling, you remember a while ago,
00:34:03.980
we talked about that gal, Amanda Gorman, who did the slam poem at the inauguration. She did one at
00:34:09.840
the Super Bowl too. And we went through the poem for a little bit and I pointed out that it's a very
00:34:13.900
bad poem. And as Harold Bloom, the literary critic said, slam poetry is the death of art. And that this
00:34:20.140
is, it shows how, how much our culture is decayed because this is simply about the appearance of
00:34:26.180
poetry, right? You know, she's a young black woman and it's, she's performing this poem in a way,
00:34:32.220
the poem itself isn't any good, but it's the, the optics are so good and we're so shallow as a
00:34:37.100
culture. Now that's all we care about. Well, I, you know, I hate to say, I told you so on the show,
00:34:40.940
I was proven right. Uh, this poem is now being translated into, uh, uh, Spanish. And there was
00:34:47.700
a translator, Victor Obiols, who was hired to do this, but the editor of the Barcelona publisher
00:34:53.120
told, uh, a news agency on Wednesday that once the translation was complete, the company received a
00:34:59.460
request from the U.S. publisher, Viking Books, that they had to ditch that translation. The
00:35:03.760
translation had to be done by a female activist with African-American origins, if possible.
00:35:10.260
What does the color of the, or the sex of the translator have to do with the art,
00:35:14.340
with the translation of the poetry, the actual work of art? Nothing, of course. And it is, you know,
00:35:20.760
talent falls on, on anybody. It falls on people in unexpected ways. But this isn't,
00:35:25.520
they know the poem's no good. It's not, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how the
00:35:29.460
translation is. It doesn't matter how the original poem is. They know the poem's no good. It's so not
00:35:32.980
about that. It's about the appearance. It's a very shallow aspect for our culture, which is now being
00:35:39.580
run by very shallow people who are telling us just 115 more days to slow the spread. I don't believe
00:35:44.900
them. I'm not going to listen to them. And I would encourage you to ignore the guidelines,
00:35:49.360
which are actually just mandates. Joe Biden coming out saying, you can do this. You can't do that.
00:35:53.440
I would choose you to, I would encourage you to, uh, to ignore them because I think
00:35:58.080
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00:36:02.180
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the mailbag. First question in the mailbag from Veronica. Hey, Michael, love your show. Thank
00:38:51.380
you for all that you do. I'm curious as to what your thoughts are about the deportation of former
00:38:55.680
Nazi concentration camp guard Friedrich Karl Bürger. Do you think that his deportation was the right thing
00:39:02.020
to do? Particularly thinking about him being a 19 year old at the time who was likely brainwashed by
00:39:07.880
Nazi propaganda throughout a good portion of his childhood. Could this situation in a way be
00:39:12.420
compared to former US presidents and military leaders who are being canceled for owning slaves?
00:39:17.160
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. No, I don't think it's comparable. I don't think that
00:39:21.380
this former Nazi is comparable in any way to George Washington. However, it is a complex issue.
00:39:28.720
When you're 92 years old, what responsibility do you have for the things that you did when you were
00:39:35.020
19? I think what this comes to is going to be a question of justice. Mercy, sure, and justice.
00:39:45.020
So a lot of Nazis fled and they escaped justice. And perhaps they led good lives. Perhaps they tried to
00:39:52.680
make amends. But this gets to a point that Roger Scruton made. The late, great Roger Scruton,
00:39:59.900
a conservative philosopher who actually, I hosted an event at the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation
00:40:05.380
yesterday with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons and Robbie George at Princeton,
00:40:11.640
which I think you can check out soon. I think it's going to go online. But anyway, Scruton made this
00:40:15.020
point. He said that civilization depends on confession and forgiveness. Our ability to
00:40:22.800
confess our sins, to say, you know, I did this and I have the sense of sin and I recognize it was
00:40:27.540
wrong. And when you do that, you sacrifice your pride, which is one of the reasons that the sacrament
00:40:32.480
of confession is so important. It is an action by which you must sacrifice your pride and acknowledge
00:40:39.440
your sins. And then forgiveness is when you say, okay, I forgive you and you sacrifice your
00:40:46.060
resentment, which we all cherish as well. We cherish our many resentments. So you both sacrifice
00:40:50.560
something and you move on together as a people. You do have to confess, you know, you have to confess
00:40:58.280
your sins. You have to in some way seek justice, which I don't know if this guy did. It seems like
00:41:04.140
this guy didn't do it. It seems like he was just kind of living on the lam for 70 years and then
00:41:07.380
the past comes back and your past sins come back to visit you again. The way that this does tie into
00:41:13.940
cancel culture, though, is that cancel culture has totally removed the ability for confession and
00:41:22.460
forgiveness. In the past, if you made a mistake, you'd apologize. You'd say, okay, I shouldn't have
00:41:27.220
done that. I'm sorry. And then we'd say, okay, that's fine. We accept your apology and that's why
00:41:31.840
America is the country of second chances, or it was. But now you know you can't do that. If you're,
00:41:37.020
if you're in politics and you apologize in any way, you will be destroyed. If you're in public
00:41:42.720
life and you apologize in any way, you will be destroyed. That's something that actually has
00:41:45.840
changed in recent years because we are no longer willing to forgive as a people. We're no real,
00:41:51.920
no longer willing to sacrifice our resentment. Actually, our school curricula are being reformulated
00:41:57.080
to stoke resentment. The grievance studies programs that have cropped up at universities and now are
00:42:04.640
even infecting high schools and middle schools and elementary schools. That was what Harold Bloom,
00:42:10.340
who was a liberal literary critic, he called it the school of resentment. The purpose of it is to stoke
00:42:15.240
resentment. Meanwhile, on the other side of that, the confessional side, we now have transformed our
00:42:22.900
culture from one in which we understood that pride is the queen of all vices, right? It's the
00:42:26.960
deadliest of the seven deadly sins. Now we believe that pride is a virtue. Pride is now celebrated in
00:42:33.520
parades, right? It used to be the case that pride was a stand-in for sort of gay parades. But now it's
00:42:40.900
really surpassed even that narrow sexual question. Now it's just all sorts of pride, right? Fat pride,
00:42:45.260
skinny pride. Pride is considered to be a good thing, but pride is not. Pride is what caused the fall
00:42:49.540
of mankind. So in that sort of a culture, then yes, I suppose there is a sort of, there is a tie-in to
00:42:57.160
cancel culture here. But really, I think the question ultimately is one of justice and mercy,
00:43:01.980
will and grace. In a right society, what you would be able to do is confess your sins,
00:43:08.440
take your punishment, and move on. And we would all move on together. But if you refuse to confess
00:43:13.420
your sins, if you refuse to take your punishment, if you refuse to do your penance, and if we, on the
00:43:19.020
other hand, refuse to forgive, then you can't have that in society. From Jacob,
00:43:23.100
Ciao, Signore e Noles. I was watching a video of Casey Cole, a Franciscan, explaining that the only
00:43:28.520
way of salvation is to help the poor. He was explaining that Christ also asked if people fed
00:43:33.160
him and clothed him and so on. He said it is not enough just by practicing the sacraments and
00:43:37.440
practicing and preaching the gospel. Would you agree that helping the poor is important to attain
00:43:44.180
salvation? Well, we are saved by the grace of God, right? And then responding to God's grace
00:43:53.320
in an act of faith. So that's how we do it. And so this is not simply done as an act of the intellect,
00:44:01.320
right? There is an action of the intellect here. But faith also looks like something. Christ says,
00:44:05.620
there are many people who will call me Lord, Lord, who I do not know, you know, who will not be saved.
00:44:11.240
So it's not merely an act of speech in the intellect. It actually has to be embodied.
00:44:16.220
Ours is an incarnational faith. So I haven't listened to what this Franciscan has said, but
00:44:20.700
in as much as he's saying that the theological virtue of charity looks like something and our
00:44:29.480
faith looks like something and it impels us to give alms and sure, okay, that makes sense.
00:44:34.900
But if he's saying, and I suspect he's not, if he's implying though, that somehow you are saved
00:44:40.320
by the act of giving money to the homeless guy, that would be the heresy of Pelagius. That would
00:44:46.420
be salvation through works, which is not true. I suspect that this Franciscan would be formed well
00:44:55.760
enough not to be saying that, but I can understand how that could be misinterpreted. So yeah, that would
00:44:59.900
not be the case. From Kelly. Hey, Michael. First of all, congrats on your baby boy. Thank you.
00:45:04.360
So I'm wondering, it was, it was Dr. Seuss, then a few Looney Tunes characters. What pop culture books,
00:45:10.180
characters, et cetera, do you think will be canceled next? Thank you. Huh? I, well, I, I mean, this is a
00:45:19.100
little bit of a cop out, but I think more Dr. Seuss will be canceled and I think more Looney Tunes will
00:45:23.280
be canceled. And I think that more Disney will be canceled too. You're already seeing some attacks
00:45:29.860
on Disney. There was a headline the other day that Disney is a park of privilege and it's,
00:45:34.760
there's not equity there. So you're going to see some of that crop up as well.
00:45:38.700
The reason that those guys are going to be canceled is one, because some of the cultural
00:45:43.580
observations that they make, or even the, just some of the jokes that they make contravene and
00:45:48.160
contradict the, the politically correct orthodoxy of the day. And the left can't tolerate that,
00:45:52.860
not for any principle, just because it's a challenge to their, to their power. But also I was just
00:45:57.800
re-watching Fantasia. I was re-watching some of the old Looney Tunes cartoons that were put to
00:46:05.320
classical music and they're really brilliant. They're really, really brilliant because they,
00:46:09.440
they are educating people. They are entertaining and educating toward people's higher faculties,
00:46:15.940
right? It's not just a bunch of cheap jokes and, you know, constant feeding of our lower appetites.
00:46:23.400
They're much higher. When you watch Fantasia, it's really an art, truly an artistic experience.
00:46:28.140
And the same is true of those old Looney Tunes cartoons. And that's something that the left,
00:46:32.100
I think, really does not want to have happen. This is why the left is always pushing toward
00:46:36.980
our baser desires, trying to remove, most notably, prohibitions on obscenity. Because when you can
00:46:42.380
arouse people's prurient interest, when you can arouse people's kind of baser desires,
00:46:48.940
then they're not going to be thinking with their higher, higher reason. And they're going to be
00:46:54.220
easier to control. So I could see that happening. And it's, they'll come up with some excuse about,
00:46:58.160
you know, race or sex or something, but that's going to be the real reason they're doing it.
00:47:02.000
From Matt, Michael, in the past, you've said the only good argument against the existence of God
00:47:06.140
is the problem of evil. And I think this is a good point. I'll put a pause right there. I think it's
00:47:10.600
the best argument against the existence of God, but actually I think it's, I think theodicy, the
00:47:14.780
problem of suffering and evil is an argument for God. I think it's a much better argument for God than
00:47:20.140
against God. But anyway, see your point. However, I'm curious, what do you think is the best argument
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against Christianity? And why do you think that argument falls short? Love the show, keep up the
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good work. Well, the best argument against Christianity is that Christ is not who he says he
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is, right? And C.S. Lewis answered this with the three L's. He says, Christ can either be a lunatic,
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a liar, or the Lord. So either he's just a complete nut and the things he's saying are not true,
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but he really believes them. Or he knows that what he's saying is not true, but he's deceiving
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people anyway. To what end? I don't, you know, to the point of the cross, okay. Or he really is the
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Lord. I think these fall apart because one, when you encounter Christ in the gospels, he doesn't
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seem like a lunatic and the people around him don't behave as though he's a lunatic. As to the liar
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point, it's hard to see what he would gain from his behavior. He knows that he is there to die,
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to go to the cross. So if he's just a con man, he's really not behaving like a con man.
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And then the only other option is that he's the Lord. Now there's this fourth option, which is
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that it's legend. I've had some Jewish friends of mine say this. Well, no, Michael, it's just a
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legend. We can't, you know, we can't rely on the gospels. They were written so much later.
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And, you know, it's just, there's no evidence that this stuff really happened.
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I think that falls flat. I think that's a little bit, bit of a cope, you know, for, for people who are,
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who don't want to engage in the first three arguments as well, because one, we have so many
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eyewitnesses to it. So you've got the gospel accounts, which are, which were written not
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particularly long after Christ's death. They were all written actually rather soon after Christ's
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death and resurrection. But you have hundreds and hundreds of eyewitnesses to the resurrection
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itself. You have a non-biblical accounts of Christ and early Christianity. You have the lives of the
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apostles, which don't make any sense if it's a legend, why these, why these people would go to
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travel to the ends of the earth, going to their deaths in, in most cases, because of a legend,
00:49:29.980
because of a joke, because, because either they were all fooled. Wow. That's amazing that they were
00:49:34.960
all fooled at once or that, I guess the legend argument requires that they were fooling everybody
00:49:38.980
else. But again, to, to what end? So that St. Thomas could die in India so that Peter could be
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crucified upside down so that Paul could have his head cut off. That doesn't make a lot of sense to
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me. So I, you know, I, that all the challenges to, to Christianity would be challenges on, on the fact
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of Christ, um, and his, and his life and the miracles. And, um, but I, I just don't think they
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really hold up to scrutiny. One way to think of it is that, uh, another good argument, I think Tim
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Keller made this, the Protestant pastor. He, he said that if this were just a legend, then the
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gospels would have been written differently. But they're, they're not, when you, when you read great
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myths and great legends, they read differently than the gospels do. The gospels read much more like
00:50:23.580
journalism, right? The gospels are not really so much an act of poetry or philosophy as they are an
00:50:27.860
act of journalism. And it's why in some details there seem to be some discrepancies between the,
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because their accounts, it'd be like reading the Washington post and the New York times. Well,
00:50:37.000
it's quite the opposite of that actually, because the gospels are true and the Washington post and
00:50:40.820
the New York times, you know, are, are not, but it's why they're the different gospels actually
00:50:45.680
are focusing on different aspects. They're seeing things from a different vantage. To me, these are
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all pretty good arguments that, uh, it's true from Paul. Dear Michael, dear, my question for you
00:50:55.020
involves a burden I've been carrying since the summer of 2019, a burden which has grown heavier with each
00:50:59.380
new daily wire membership tier that I've joined in the summer of 2019. I fell in love with a girl
00:51:03.300
in a Bernie Sanders t-shirt. It happens to the best of us. I will spare you the details, but nothing
00:51:08.500
long-term ultimately transpired for reasons having nothing to do with politics. The weight of knowing
00:51:12.780
I looked the other way on the Bernie Sanders t-shirt. However, as well as the fear that I might
00:51:16.920
do it again, remain with me to this day. I'm overcome with guilt and shame. Is my great sin
00:51:21.280
forgivable? How can I live with myself? How can I prevent this from ever happening again to myself,
00:51:26.460
my family, and my friends? I'll be forever indebted to you for any wisdom you can provide.
00:51:30.180
I beg you, please not mention this as Matt, to Matt, as my actions would surely banish me forever
00:51:34.340
from his channel. I come to you as I know you are a man of grace. Yours truly. We've all done it.
00:51:42.700
I remember, uh, William F. Buckley Jr., great conservative, was on Woody Allen's show one time,
00:51:47.480
and he was asked by a young girl, he said, what, uh, do you approve of mini skirts? And his answer was,
00:51:52.900
on you I do. Uh, I think that, uh, on good legs are always in good taste. So, uh, you know, these
00:52:00.760
things happen. I actually think that this is an opportunity for you not to be like this poor schlub
00:52:05.020
from Slate Magazine complaining about how his wife isn't making enough money for him. I would, this,
00:52:10.540
this is an opportunity for you. If you see a cute gal wearing that Bernie shirt, you spy her and her
00:52:15.840
cute little blue hair across the room with her ridiculous hipster glasses on, you know, and her,
00:52:22.740
her, uh, air of sort of feisty resentment at the world to look at her and say, you know, listen,
00:52:28.760
you're a cutie. I know you've got a heart of gold deep down there somewhere. And I, in my leadership
00:52:33.860
capacity, I'm going to guide you toward truth. I'm going to guide you away from your, your
00:52:40.500
misconceptions. That seems to me a wonderful challenge. Uh, but make sure you can do that.
00:52:46.180
You know, otherwise you're really setting yourself up for trouble. Do not wind up like
00:52:49.360
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