The Michael Knowles Show - May 14, 2021


Ep. 764 - Animal Farm


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Bill Niedhardt explains why he thinks you should get the controversial COVID vaccine and why you should only get it if you order a burger with it. Plus, why it s not too early in the day to eat a burger.

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00:00:37.740 Some people in low-risk demographics do not want to get the hastily developed COVID vaccine
00:00:44.460 because they know that statistically speaking, the virus does not pose a great danger to them.
00:00:50.580 And the libs are very, very upset about this.
00:00:53.620 But they have now come across what they believe will be a surefire way
00:00:58.800 to convince all of these people to get the vaccine.
00:01:02.840 Free fries when you get vaccinated?
00:01:05.720 I got vaccinated.
00:01:09.560 You're saying I could get this?
00:01:11.800 Eat delicious fries?
00:01:14.300 Wait a minute.
00:01:14.720 But there's also a burger element to this?
00:01:20.220 Let me check with Bill Niedhardt.
00:01:21.640 Is it too early in the day to eat a burger?
00:01:23.440 No.
00:01:24.200 This could be breakfast?
00:01:25.100 Good to go.
00:01:25.680 Okay.
00:01:27.180 I want you to look at this and think about...
00:01:29.600 Don't make me watch this.
00:01:31.060 No.
00:01:31.900 Some people love hamburgers.
00:01:33.160 Some don't.
00:01:33.720 Really want to respect all ways of life.
00:01:35.840 But if this is appealing to you, just think of this when you think of vaccination.
00:01:40.500 Mmm.
00:01:42.860 Vaccination.
00:01:44.060 Mmm.
00:01:44.820 I'm getting a very good feeling about vaccination right this moment.
00:01:51.800 If that is what I think of when I think of vaccination, I'm never getting any vaccinations again.
00:01:57.020 I regret getting the polio vaccination if that is what I have to think of.
00:02:00.540 The argument is, hey, you animals, hey, let us stick you with this needle and we'll give you more slop. 0.98
00:02:08.320 Yeah, you like slop, don't you?
00:02:09.940 You filthy animals, you gluttons.
00:02:12.400 Yeah, get the burger.
00:02:14.240 That made me at least 99.7% less likely to get the vaccine.
00:02:19.440 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:02:20.020 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:02:38.840 You know, Paula, what you don't realize is that comment is going to come up in court someday when I've been fully charged with crimes against wokeness and I'm on trial to figure out which gulag I'm going to get sent to.
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00:02:54.580 This lady was radicalized. 1.00
00:02:55.980 And it's true, of course.
00:02:57.060 I mean, if you now, if you believe that we need to trans the kids and men can be women, you are mainstream, you're normal, you're a humanitarian.
00:03:04.400 And if you think, like, maybe we shouldn't do that, you're a radical.
00:03:08.920 Welcome to the radical side.
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00:04:25.340 What the Libs are trying to create is an elaborate system of carrots and sticks to get us to do what they want us to do. 0.99
00:04:33.840 And you've seen the carrot.
00:04:37.080 The carrot is the cheeseburger.
00:04:39.600 Bill de Blasio, that disgusting glutton, just letting juice drip down his face on television because he thinks that's going to entice us.
00:04:48.480 That's the carrot.
00:04:49.280 And then the stick is Joe Biden, who tweeted out yesterday, quote, the rule is now simple.
00:04:57.180 Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.
00:05:00.820 The choice is yours.
00:05:02.200 No.
00:05:05.820 And no, I think I'm not vaccinated.
00:05:08.760 I don't have any plans to get vaccinated anytime soon.
00:05:10.940 And I'm not wearing a mask.
00:05:12.180 I'm not wearing a mask basically anywhere.
00:05:14.160 The only place they make me wear a mask and I have no way around it is on airplanes because you're in that little tin can and they'll arrest you if you don't.
00:05:21.940 Otherwise, I ain't doing it.
00:05:23.780 I ain't wearing a mask, hugging people, shaking hands.
00:05:26.800 I'm like two seconds away from just French kissing people on the street because that is how unafraid I am of this thing.
00:05:34.300 And so Joe Biden knows that this is sort of an empty threat.
00:05:38.820 He knows there's really no way to enforce this, especially because the governors are the ones that are really going to be doing this.
00:05:42.700 And you've got governors like Ron DeSantis in Florida who are, who are, who are pushing the NOLS option on licking doorknobs and kissing strangers.
00:05:49.720 At this point, you know, it's a totally open.
00:05:51.660 Frankly, DeSantis has been open now for a year, but other states are following suit.
00:05:55.980 So Biden knows this isn't going to work.
00:05:57.580 And the, the dominant liberal regime is going to have to loosen up on some of the rules, which is what they're doing right now.
00:06:03.280 The CDC has come out and said, this is so wonderful.
00:06:06.540 You're so lucky.
00:06:07.120 They've said, if you're vaccinated, there is no need in most circumstances to wear a mask indoors.
00:06:13.720 Today, CDC is updating our guidance for fully vaccinated people.
00:06:19.320 Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing.
00:06:29.900 If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.
00:06:37.120 We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy.
00:06:44.940 Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.
00:06:58.340 Now, do you see what's changed here?
00:07:02.000 What was it?
00:07:02.760 Two, three weeks ago, we were being told by the public health professionals that even once you're vaccinated, you still need to wear a mask.
00:07:10.900 You still need to socially distance.
00:07:12.800 Nothing can change.
00:07:13.680 It doesn't matter that you're vaccinated.
00:07:15.400 It doesn't matter that your friends are vaccinated.
00:07:17.140 You can't change anything.
00:07:18.480 Fauci was pushing this most prominently.
00:07:21.160 And then what happened?
00:07:21.980 Well, just, just like they do, it seems like every few days here, they completely change the guidance.
00:07:27.980 Why?
00:07:28.600 Because there was no scientific discovery that, that helped, that led them to this conclusion.
00:07:33.620 It was a political realization.
00:07:35.760 They want people to get the shot.
00:07:38.380 People aren't getting the shot.
00:07:40.560 The reason people aren't getting the shot is because nothing changes if they get the shot.
00:07:44.640 Fauci was telling them, no, you still have to wear the mask, sheep.
00:07:47.480 You still have to physically distance, you sheep.
00:07:49.680 And so they said, okay, well, if I've got to do all this nonsense, regardless of whether
00:07:54.020 or not I get the shot, then I'm just not going to get the shot.
00:07:56.820 So now Fauci, the head of the CDC, Joe Biden realized, oh, okay.
00:08:02.420 If we want, if we want to incentivize people to get the shot, we actually have to give them
00:08:06.120 something once they do it.
00:08:07.140 So now what they're saying is you can not wear a mask and you can hang out indoors with
00:08:12.340 people.
00:08:12.780 Okay.
00:08:14.140 I've been doing that since the very beginning.
00:08:15.980 I've been doing that since at the very least last Easter, if I guess even earlier than
00:08:21.680 that, you know, it's Easter was like two weeks after it was two weeks to slow the spread.
00:08:25.300 But even before that, I've just been ignoring these people the whole time.
00:08:30.280 And you know what?
00:08:31.720 My life's been great.
00:08:33.120 It's been awesome.
00:08:34.540 And I, I really do wish that other people had tuned these guys out early on because they've
00:08:41.180 squandered so much time, people canceling weddings, people canceling social events, people
00:08:46.580 not seeing their loved ones.
00:08:48.060 Some, some of those elderly loved ones who have died in the meantime, and they didn't
00:08:51.560 do it because they were listening to these idiots at the egghead agencies instead of just
00:08:56.780 ignoring them.
00:08:57.380 So it's great.
00:08:57.980 Now they're saying, okay, Michael, you can ignore us.
00:08:59.800 And I say, okay, well, you know, cool.
00:09:02.860 I'll keep on keeping on then fellas.
00:09:04.560 That sounds, that sounds great.
00:09:06.500 But not everyone's gotten the message from the CDC, namely Joe Biden, who is supposed
00:09:13.180 to be the big boss here.
00:09:15.280 Joe Biden is not following the updated CDC guidance.
00:09:19.200 He is still wearing a mask indoors, even though he's been vaccinated and everyone around him
00:09:23.140 has been vaccinated.
00:09:24.280 Why is that?
00:09:25.120 Well, a, a Biden advisor here has come out, Andy Slavitt and said, no, no, no.
00:09:31.480 The reason that Joe is going to wear a mask when all you people are not is because a
00:09:36.480 different set of rules applies to very important people.
00:09:40.360 Well, look, I think people who've been vaccinated are starting to get a little bit impatient with
00:09:44.760 what can I do?
00:09:46.700 You know, can I go indoors?
00:09:47.900 Can I take masks off, et cetera?
00:09:49.360 And I think the CDC is getting there step by step.
00:09:51.580 So right now you can do pretty much everything outdoors without a mask.
00:09:54.580 You can do everything indoors if you're around vaccinated people with, without a mask.
00:09:58.960 So why were they all wearing masks in there yesterday?
00:10:00.820 Well, I don't think that, I'm not sure that the president is the average person.
00:10:04.880 I personally think there's a lot of protections around the president.
00:10:07.800 Why does he need lots of secret service agents?
00:10:09.600 Why does he, why do they, you know, belt and suspender everything with the president?
00:10:13.120 Because he's a very important person.
00:10:14.560 And I think you shouldn't take your mark just by what you see in the Oval Office.
00:10:17.960 I think most people, if you're indoors around other people that are vaccinated, the CDC says
00:10:22.320 it's okay.
00:10:23.380 And I think you should listen to the CDC on that.
00:10:26.460 What?
00:10:26.860 But the president has secret service around him because people are trying to kill him
00:10:31.600 with bullets and guns.
00:10:33.680 And most of us do not have people coming after us with bullets and guns.
00:10:37.000 And by the way, when they do, we, we will either conceal carry or some people have security,
00:10:41.060 right?
00:10:41.240 So that makes sense.
00:10:43.640 The virus does not discriminate against very important people.
00:10:48.220 The virus is a virus, right?
00:10:49.640 It just infects anybody who's, who's vulnerable to it.
00:10:53.560 So if the CDC is now saying, if you're vaccinated, you are not at risk of the virus, everybody,
00:10:59.760 you can look just like Joe Biden, you'd be exactly the same age, you share all of the
00:11:03.140 same characteristics.
00:11:03.960 Then why is the virus going to be particularly dangerous to Biden?
00:11:09.180 It doesn't make any sense.
00:11:11.920 But then Joe Biden has not made any sense for a very long time.
00:11:15.160 He was asked, this is almost sad.
00:11:17.340 If the guy weren't sort of hobbling along, half trying to pretend to be president,
00:11:23.020 and, and run our lives for us, I would feel pretty bad for the guy.
00:11:26.900 He was just asked about what's going on in Israel and the Palestinian territories right
00:11:30.680 now.
00:11:31.260 And if you can make sense of his answer, please leave, leave the translation in the comment
00:11:36.900 section because I can't quite make heads or tails of it.
00:11:39.640 I had a brief conversation with him yesterday and I have my, my intelligence community, the
00:11:51.220 defense department, as well as the state department have been in contact with all of their counterparts
00:12:01.800 in, not only in Israel, but in the region.
00:12:05.680 And one of the things that I have seen thus far is that there has not been a significant overreaction.
00:12:18.000 The question is how, how we get to a point where they get to a point where there is a significant
00:12:28.780 reduction in the attacks, particularly the rocket attacks that are indiscriminately fired
00:12:37.560 into population centers.
00:12:39.460 I've been looking at the, in Israel, they had people there firing there and I looked and
00:12:49.240 I talked to, oh, what was that?
00:12:53.260 Was there anything, huh?
00:12:54.040 What happened?
00:12:55.520 The guy is clearly not up to the job.
00:12:57.840 And you see it reflected in his foreign policy, by the way.
00:12:59.820 I'm under no misapprehension that Joe Biden is actually running things over there, but the
00:13:04.880 people that he's empowered are just as exhausted as he is.
00:13:08.040 Maybe not physically, but ideologically, they're just returning to the same exact Middle Eastern 0.97
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00:13:18.400 Then Trump comes in, completely upends that, that policy and doubles the number of Arab 0.99
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00:14:58.260 Joe Biden appears very confused.
00:15:02.680 However, there are, believe it or not, people who are even more confused than Joe Biden.
00:15:07.720 I'm speaking of the first transgender bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
00:15:16.600 So, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is apparently a mainline Protestant denomination.
00:15:25.800 And over the weekend, it became the first one to elect a transgender bishop, meaning that
00:15:31.760 a lady pretending to be a man is now considered a bishop in an organization pretending to be
00:15:37.820 a church.
00:15:38.460 We are underneath many, many layers of pretense at this point.
00:15:42.660 But she said, and I actually, I have to couch this here because I say she, because she's
00:15:49.000 a lady who's pretending to not be a lady, but it's not even so simple as she's pretending
00:15:52.420 to be a man.
00:15:53.360 She's still going by the name Megan, Megan Rohrer, and her pronouns are, are they and him.
00:16:04.620 So, when she is the subject of a sentence, she pretends to be multiple people.
00:16:10.860 But when she is the object of the sentence, she pretends to be a single person who is
00:16:17.080 also a man.
00:16:19.460 This, I, I would say the nearest analog I've heard to this is in the Bible.
00:16:24.700 When, when you, you hear various spirits crying out from bodies, we are legion, we, you know,
00:16:30.920 that you cannot do that.
00:16:32.580 You cannot be multiple people at one moment or in one grammatical structure and then a
00:16:37.400 single person in another grammatical structure and you can't be a man if you're a woman.
00:16:42.720 And you, and you can't be a bishop if you are a woman or even if you're a woman pretending 0.90
00:16:48.480 to be a man.
00:16:49.220 Caught up?
00:16:49.680 Confused enough?
00:16:50.300 Okay, here's what she said.
00:16:52.340 The first Council of Nicaea's first action was to try to limit the leadership roles of
00:16:56.680 trans pastors and bishops.
00:16:58.920 I'm going to put a pause there.
00:17:00.340 I'm a little skeptical of that claim.
00:17:01.700 You know, the Council of Nicaea did a lot of stuff, but I don't, okay, I'm going to
00:17:06.180 put a little pause there.
00:17:07.300 I'm grateful that the Lutherans of the SPS ELCA are beginning to dismantle this and some 0.98
00:17:14.020 of the other hurdles.
00:17:15.800 BIPOC, I don't, what is the BIPOC?
00:17:18.820 Does anyone know what BIPOC, I know it's a, like a race thing or a sex thing or something.
00:17:22.580 It's bi, is it a bisexual thing or is it a bi, is it like a black? 0.97
00:17:27.640 Bi, because a POC I assume is person of color, but anyway, I don't know. 0.76
00:17:31.060 Someone will give me the update.
00:17:32.740 Other hurdles that BIPOC and LGBTQ pastors, misspelled, encounter.
00:17:41.400 So with regard to the claims about the first Council of Nicaea, that didn't happen because
00:17:47.100 that's not a thing.
00:17:48.700 That's not, it isn't, I'm not just saying that transgender bishops, I'm saying that it's
00:17:54.040 not a thing.
00:17:55.300 Although the producers are updating me now.
00:17:57.320 BIPOC means black and indigenous people of color.
00:18:01.960 And I can tell, I'm looking at a picture of this woman.
00:18:04.180 She is most certainly none of those things, but I don't know.
00:18:08.980 It's just, now it's just slogans.
00:18:10.100 We did a whole show yesterday on the slogans and you just spout them unthinkingly.
00:18:15.000 It's not a thing.
00:18:15.820 You can't, you just simply cannot be a woman who has all the physical characteristics of 1.00
00:18:22.260 a woman, but then because she is confused in some way is on some deeper metaphysical level 0.69
00:18:27.540 a man.
00:18:28.020 That just isn't true.
00:18:29.160 And, and the irony of course, that she's making this claim about the first Council of
00:18:32.060 Nicaea is that the Christian understanding of human nature is directly contrary to her
00:18:39.600 claim about human nature.
00:18:40.880 The Christian understanding of human nature is that we're body and soul joined inextricably
00:18:44.120 on earth.
00:18:45.200 The transgender claim about human nature is, is a Gnostic claim. 1.00
00:18:49.200 It's the idea that we really were secretly something other than the way we look.
00:18:52.260 And, and the way that we physically are.
00:18:54.640 So that did not happen at the first Council of Nicaea.
00:18:57.820 Something that did happen at the first Council of Nicaea, St. Nicholas punched the Heresiarch
00:19:03.640 Arius in the face because he just couldn't stand his heresy anymore.
00:19:08.460 Santa Claus himself got pretty rough with the very charismatic and popular Arius because
00:19:15.780 he was spatting heresy.
00:19:17.000 You know, not, not very open-minded man, not just going to debate everything in the free
00:19:23.860 marketplace of ideas, you know, and the best ideas are going to win out.
00:19:26.560 No, this, actually the whole purpose of the Council, right, is not just to include everything
00:19:33.380 and everybody, but ultimately to exclude things, to exclude heretical ideas and organizations,
00:19:42.000 because that's the only way that you can have a church.
00:19:45.100 It's the only way you can define, and forget a church.
00:19:47.900 It's the only way you can have any discrete thing.
00:19:50.780 A nation is a nation because the things outside of it are not the nation.
00:19:57.480 An idea is an idea because things that contradict it are not that idea.
00:20:02.800 That, that is a very important purpose here.
00:20:05.880 And the, the libs try to make us forget that. 1.00
00:20:08.800 But many conservatives have just gone along with that.
00:20:10.780 We say, well, look, we're just open-minded.
00:20:12.200 We just, we're free speech absolutists.
00:20:14.420 You know, this is, this is the fundamental flaw with our strategy the last several decades
00:20:18.260 that I take up in my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:20:21.080 which is available now for pre-order.
00:20:22.420 Doing great on the pre-order yesterday.
00:20:23.600 I also have to make an apology for those on this show.
00:20:26.040 I, I plugged the book too many times yesterday.
00:20:28.740 I, I plugged it five times.
00:20:30.460 And by, you know, after the dings and everything, by the fifth one, 0.87
00:20:33.860 the screen started to shake and ultimately cracked.
00:20:36.900 So I'm sorry.
00:20:37.620 It was very scary for me here in the studio as well,
00:20:39.700 but I'm sure it was very scary for the audience.
00:20:41.520 And I'll, I'll try, I'm going to try to pull it,
00:20:44.200 but I'm going to try to restrain myself just a little bit, a little bit more today.
00:20:48.860 It is not just this weird Lutheran church that has mistaken ideas about identity and, 0.99
00:20:56.160 and its mission and the idea that things can be totally open forever and ever and ever.
00:21:02.480 The U.S. Army has gone totally woke as well.
00:21:06.660 We played a couple of weeks ago, a CIA recruitment ad about some woman talking about,
00:21:13.020 I'm proud, I'm brilliant.
00:21:14.380 And I'm a Latina woman, feminist, intersectional, and just this woke insanity.
00:21:20.700 It made me want to just abolish the CIA the first chance I possibly can.
00:21:25.340 But unfortunately now the army is following suit.
00:21:28.480 This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot Missile Defense Systems.
00:21:35.140 It begins in California, with a little girl raised by two moms.
00:21:46.740 Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.
00:21:55.420 I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.
00:21:58.580 I finished high school at the top of my class, and then attended UC Davis, where I joined a sorority full of other strong women.
00:22:06.720 But as graduation approached, I began feeling like I'd been handed so much in life.
00:22:13.360 A sorority girl stereotype.
00:22:15.440 I needed my own adventures.
00:22:17.620 My own challenge.
00:22:20.320 And after meeting with an army recruiter, I found it.
00:22:24.360 A way to prove my inner strength.
00:22:26.860 And maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.
00:22:29.420 I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone Lord, and I answered my calling.
00:22:40.320 Huh?
00:22:41.940 So when I was a kid, I'm going to, this is going to date me, go way back.
00:22:45.580 The army recruitment ads were a bunch of tough guys jumping out of airplanes and shooting guns and stuff like that.
00:22:50.960 And the slogan was, be all that you can be.
00:22:55.020 And it was like really tough guys.
00:22:55.980 And now, now the army recruitment ads are about how lesbians on Santa Monica Pier raised a ballerina who then joined the army later.
00:23:06.680 And, and, and what is she, what's she do?
00:23:10.820 What's the, what's the mission?
00:23:12.500 What's the, it doesn't, it's just the identity is the mission.
00:23:15.180 You see here, the, it's, I'm not surprised that the, that the army and the CIA are doing this.
00:23:20.480 I mean, these are defenders of the establishment.
00:23:24.280 If, if anything is a defender of the establishment, surely it would be the military and the intelligence communities, right?
00:23:30.280 The national security state.
00:23:32.340 And the establishment at this point has totally gone woke.
00:23:37.240 It's totally delved into identity.
00:23:39.040 And there's this shift.
00:23:40.060 This is actually, I'm going to totally hit the, the plug counter again today.
00:23:43.180 Because this is, this is a shift that I detail in my upcoming book, Speechless, which is that under political, in, under the old moral order, what matters most is what you do.
00:23:56.180 Under the new political correctness code, what matters most is what you say.
00:24:02.080 All the language we use, all the woke jargon.
00:24:04.720 Under the old moral order, we found our identity in God, right?
00:24:12.000 God who says, I am that I am, right?
00:24:14.380 That's, that is the essence of being.
00:24:15.940 We find our identity out there.
00:24:17.220 So we don't think about ourselves very much.
00:24:19.080 Under the new woke leftist moral order, all we ever think about is who we are.
00:24:26.560 All we ever think about is our own identity.
00:24:30.000 And my priest, Father George Rutler famously said that when you lose your identity in the I am, when you, when you divorce your identity from the I am, you're left with a pitiful question, which is who am I?
00:24:45.780 And you see this mostly on the left.
00:24:48.020 I'm black.
00:24:48.680 I'm a woman.
00:24:49.420 I'm a lesbian.
00:24:50.400 I'm a BIPOC, transgender, they, him, bishop, Lutheran, whatever.
00:24:55.840 And, but you see it in some identitarians on the right.
00:24:58.100 I'm white or I'm Nordic or I'm this or I'm that or I'm this or I'm that.
00:25:03.620 All of that though is such a shift from the old idea.
00:25:06.800 And you see it so clearly in the army because the point of the, you know what the point of the army is?
00:25:10.540 Kill our enemies.
00:25:11.300 That's the point.
00:25:11.880 Kill and deter by killing, deter the other ones, people who want to harm us.
00:25:18.460 But now that shift of doing is totally, that sense of doing is totally gone.
00:25:23.800 All of the recruitment for the CIA as well is who I am.
00:25:28.360 What I can, who I, who I'm going to be in my identity, in my mind, not what I'm actually doing, but in my mind.
00:25:35.960 In my mind, I can make a hell of heaven or heaven to hell is what, what Satan said in Paradise Lost.
00:25:41.700 And we're starting to see it all around us.
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00:26:14.540 Speaking of bad art, we, you know, we see this awful, ridiculous recruitment ad from the United States Army, but it's not just the United States, which is producing really bad art.
00:26:28.240 London now.
00:26:29.920 In London, Mayor Sadiq Khan has spent 7 million pounds.
00:26:35.820 So what is that?
00:26:36.460 I don't know the exchange rate right now, but you're talking certainly north of 10 million dollars, 14 million dollars maybe.
00:26:41.080 Um, on, on new public art.
00:26:45.480 And one of the things that he wanted to have redesigned is the sign at Piccadilly Circus, one of the subway steps.
00:26:54.480 Okay.
00:26:55.620 So if you go into this tube station in London now, you will see some pictures made by David Hockney.
00:27:01.340 Actually, just one picture, which could have been made on Microsoft Paint in 1995.
00:27:06.780 Just an O, just a yellow O, and then a purple drawing.
00:27:12.580 It says Piccadilly Circus, and the S is kind of below the rest of it.
00:27:16.120 And that's on a white background.
00:27:17.100 That's it.
00:27:18.760 I could have made this in 90 seconds, probably.
00:27:23.740 And this, who knows how much money this guy got.
00:27:27.160 And the mayor of London tweets out, quote, brilliant work from David Hockney in Piccadilly.
00:27:31.960 The first of a series of major art projects we've commissioned as part of our brand new Let's Do London campaign.
00:27:36.720 Lots more to come very soon.
00:27:38.020 Hashtag David Hockney.
00:27:38.940 And everybody is making fun of this.
00:27:41.760 I, I can tell you, this art is terrible.
00:27:45.700 And I have a little bit of authority on this topic because I am one of the most successful modern artists alive today.
00:27:53.900 This is true.
00:27:54.300 I am.
00:27:54.680 This is not a joke.
00:27:56.600 The blank book.
00:27:57.560 I've sold hundreds of thousands of copies of a blank book.
00:27:59.980 The book is just a little picture on the front, some blank stuff on the back, and then a bunch of blank stuff in the middle with a bibliography.
00:28:07.860 That is a modern art piece.
00:28:09.180 I hate modern art, but that certainly is a modern art piece.
00:28:12.660 And it's just about as popular a modern art piece as anyone else.
00:28:16.700 And I can tell you, I speak with credibility here.
00:28:20.420 Modern art is terrible.
00:28:21.980 What is so terrible about this?
00:28:24.340 Well, first, anyone can do it, right?
00:28:28.260 There's no artistry.
00:28:29.640 There's no skill here.
00:28:31.800 Anyone could do the blank book, right?
00:28:33.600 Anyone could do the Piccadilly Circus sign.
00:28:35.980 Anybody can do the urinal.
00:28:38.800 That urinal is one of the most famous modern art pieces, one of the earliest too.
00:28:43.520 I mean, the examples abound.
00:28:47.080 Anybody can do it.
00:28:47.980 But not anybody did do it, Michael.
00:28:50.900 You did the blank book and no one else did.
00:28:53.120 Okay, I guess.
00:28:53.880 Yeah, but it's still, that's still a problem that it requires no actual skill.
00:28:59.940 Second, it's ugly.
00:29:02.420 The Piccadilly Circus thing is not beautiful.
00:29:04.220 It's lopsided.
00:29:05.080 It's ugly.
00:29:05.620 Like so much modern art, it seems to be part of a cult of ugliness.
00:29:11.720 You see this especially with modern architecture, postmodern architecture.
00:29:15.980 It's hideous.
00:29:17.380 It's inverted.
00:29:18.320 The angles are all wrong.
00:29:19.980 It's incongruous.
00:29:21.320 Because the thought process here is that all of our standards of beauty are just totally
00:29:28.020 socially constructed.
00:29:29.100 They're not true.
00:29:29.580 There's nothing eternally true.
00:29:31.160 There's no rhyme or reason to the universe.
00:29:33.920 And so if I, you know, if I paint the Mona Lisa or I have a urinal on a wall, they're both
00:29:38.620 equally beautiful, right?
00:29:40.720 It's just because the beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
00:29:42.720 But it's just, it's all just, if we lived in a society where we were socialized and conditioned
00:29:48.040 to think that the urinal is more beautiful than the Mona Lisa, then we would think that.
00:29:51.720 There's nothing just intrinsic to the art that makes us attracted to it.
00:29:56.280 Okay.
00:29:57.840 And it's childish.
00:29:59.740 This piece in particular, the Piccadilly Circus thing, it is designed to, to look like
00:30:05.600 a child made it.
00:30:06.440 But there's a difference between childlike and childish.
00:30:12.120 We were told that you can't get into heaven unless you have child, unless you were like 0.86
00:30:15.720 a child, right?
00:30:16.460 In the sense of childlike wonder, childlike innocence.
00:30:20.200 But there's a flip side too.
00:30:21.660 I can say this as a new parent, you know, children can be little brats quite a lot.
00:30:26.840 Everyone who's ever been around a child knows that.
00:30:29.340 And this art is childish.
00:30:32.240 It's, it's just not up to snuff.
00:30:36.440 And there really is such a thing as beauty.
00:30:38.480 And there really is such a thing as goodness.
00:30:40.560 And there really is such a thing as truth.
00:30:42.800 And everybody can deny it.
00:30:44.560 And we can have that ugly Piccadilly Circus thing up everywhere, all over the country.
00:30:49.760 And it still won't be beautiful.
00:30:52.640 Even if a bunch of people pretend it's beautiful, it still won't be.
00:30:55.200 Because those transcendentals, beauty, goodness, truth are eternally true.
00:31:00.060 Speaking of childish British creations, Prince Harry is whining about being in the spotlight.
00:31:07.000 Prince Harry, you know, for a guy who doesn't like attention, this guy sure, sure attracts
00:31:12.800 a lot of attention and seeks a lot of attention.
00:31:15.000 He was whining about being in the spotlight on a podcast.
00:31:19.980 Helplessness.
00:31:20.400 Yeah.
00:31:20.680 That's my biggest sort of Achilles heel.
00:31:22.580 Yeah.
00:31:22.800 Feeling helpless hurts.
00:31:24.920 It really hurts.
00:31:26.140 Yeah.
00:31:26.300 And that's when you think to yourself, shit, like, I got the privilege.
00:31:29.020 I've got the platform.
00:31:29.820 I've got the influence.
00:31:30.620 And even I can't fix this.
00:31:32.560 Yeah.
00:31:32.820 I can't change this.
00:31:34.440 I was liking it to Truman Show.
00:31:36.620 Have you seen that movie?
00:31:37.380 Yep.
00:31:37.880 It's between the Truman Show and being in a zoo.
00:31:39.920 I think the biggest issue for me was that being born into it, you inherit the risk.
00:31:44.480 You inherit the risk that comes with it.
00:31:45.840 You inherit every element of it without choice.
00:31:48.580 And because of the way that the UK media are, they feel an ownership over you.
00:31:53.680 Literally, like a full-on ownership.
00:31:55.680 And then they give the impression to some of their, well, most of their readers that
00:31:59.520 that is the case.
00:32:00.260 But I think it's a really dangerous place to be if you don't have a choice.
00:32:03.440 But then, of course, then people quite rightly will turn around and go, so what if you didn't
00:32:06.780 have a choice?
00:32:07.280 It was privilege.
00:32:09.260 So if Prince Harry really wants privacy, he just needs to stop going on shows.
00:32:14.740 He just needs to sort of back away and live his private life with a lot of money and have
00:32:19.520 his privacy.
00:32:20.040 But he doesn't want that.
00:32:22.100 He only wants glowing, fawning media coverage and to placate his insane wife. 1.00
00:32:28.580 But he doesn't, he's not actually seeking the thing that he says he's seeking.
00:32:34.340 He just wants everyone to be really nice to him and no one ever to be mean to him.
00:32:38.180 He wants to have all the benefits of being in the public, but none of the downside of being
00:32:41.820 in the public.
00:32:42.380 And that simply is not how it works.
00:32:44.380 We need real leaders right now.
00:32:46.040 Before we get into the mailbag, I have to give a shout out.
00:32:49.200 Ron DeSantis doing a great job as governor of Florida.
00:32:52.240 Ron DeSantis just pardoned a couple that had been arrested for keeping their gym open.
00:32:58.180 He just pardoned them.
00:32:59.400 He said, nope, sorry, this crazy public health state.
00:33:04.500 You're not going to face consequences for that.
00:33:06.720 We're going to bring some justice here through the pardon system.
00:33:09.220 He's also pardoning anyone who was arrested for not masking or social distancing.
00:33:14.500 One of the most Orwellian and ridiculous phrases of my lifetime.
00:33:19.180 This is great stuff.
00:33:20.120 This is great leadership.
00:33:21.480 All the other governors should be following suit.
00:33:23.020 No question about it.
00:33:23.820 Great stuff.
00:33:24.220 Obviously, DeSantis would appear to have his eyes on the highest political prize in 2024,
00:33:29.660 and he's doing a very good job setting himself up for that.
00:33:32.380 Still need to see more from him, obviously.
00:33:33.920 It's early on, but he's doing really good stuff.
00:33:37.100 Also, speaking of real leaders, they booted Liz Cheney out of Republican leadership. 1.00
00:33:41.380 That's good.
00:33:42.720 That had to happen.
00:33:44.080 The person they wanted to replace her is this woman, Elise Stefanik, but Elise Stefanik is much
00:33:47.920 more liberal than Liz Cheney. 0.91
00:33:51.420 Elise Stefanik, it was, she voted for the Equality Act, that crazy transgender bill. 1.00
00:33:56.700 She voted for amnesty for illegal aliens.
00:33:59.280 She voted, I mean, she's just, she posed a lot of Trump priorities, but then at the very
00:34:03.460 end of the Trump administration, she sort of came around to him.
00:34:06.040 So President Trump likes her a lot and endorsed her for this position.
00:34:08.820 There is an actual conservative right now who is challenging her, Chip Roy.
00:34:13.020 Chip Roy is a solid conservative.
00:34:16.080 There's no perfect candidate.
00:34:17.360 People are going to say, well, there's this issue with Chip Roy.
00:34:19.080 Well, there's this issue.
00:34:20.120 Sure, but some people are squishier than others.
00:34:23.160 A, a GOP that respects its conservative base will put Chip Roy in leadership, and a squished
00:34:29.380 GOP will elevate Elise Stefanik, and it's just that simple.
00:34:33.220 Trump likes Stefanik right now.
00:34:35.080 You know I love Trump, you know, big, big supporter of the guy and voted for him twice.
00:34:39.440 At least Stefanik ain't it.
00:34:40.980 She just ain't it.
00:34:42.680 Chip Roy, much, much more conservative choice.
00:34:44.760 It's not even close.
00:34:45.580 It's not even a question.
00:34:46.280 Very glad there is a choice, not just an echo, and they're not just going to cram Stefanik
00:34:49.960 down our throats once they booted Liz Cheney out. 1.00
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00:35:48.860 We'll be right back with the mailbag.
00:35:59.520 Welcome back to the show.
00:36:03.780 My favorite time of the week, the mailbag.
00:36:06.300 First question from Scott.
00:36:08.520 Michael, my girlfriend and I are moving across the country for her job and we're going to
00:36:12.900 live and start our adult lives together.
00:36:15.220 We're both fresh out of college.
00:36:16.840 I want to get married.
00:36:18.000 I know she does too.
00:36:19.500 I know what your answer is going to be.
00:36:21.740 I agree.
00:36:22.800 Kayla, as long as you got that.
00:36:24.420 So where's the question?
00:36:25.700 However, we can't really afford to have a wedding with our friends and family there who
00:36:29.400 will, we will soon live far away from.
00:36:31.560 And I feel that the legitimacy of a courthouse wedding is questionable as we're not swearing
00:36:35.500 our vows in front of God and family.
00:36:37.300 I was hoping you might have some thoughts and advice.
00:36:39.500 Came for Ben, stayed for Knowles, subscribed for Klavan.
00:36:41.300 Okay, well, I guess that's, I guess that's fine.
00:36:44.080 That works well enough for me.
00:36:46.640 Get married.
00:36:47.820 You knew the answer.
00:36:48.620 You wrote into the show to get the answer that you knew I was going to give you.
00:36:53.080 Just get married.
00:36:54.320 You want to do it.
00:36:55.500 Your girlfriend wants to do it. 1.00
00:36:57.080 You've gotten past the hurdles.
00:36:58.620 I wish I'd gotten married younger than I did.
00:37:01.840 In the culture that I come from, getting married at, you know, 28 or 27, it's like you've got
00:37:07.760 a child bride, you know, in secular New York culture, people are saying, no, you can wait
00:37:13.600 until you're 40, wait until you're 50.
00:37:15.080 But if you come from a good culture and you and your girlfriend have your priorities in
00:37:20.280 line, then just get married. 0.79
00:37:22.400 You don't need to do it in front of a courthouse.
00:37:23.960 You can do it in a church.
00:37:24.860 If, let's say you don't have, you don't have $50,000 lying around to throw some grand,
00:37:31.000 elaborate, fancy wedding.
00:37:32.520 Okay.
00:37:33.680 Do you have like $2,000?
00:37:37.240 Can you scrounge up like $2,000?
00:37:39.540 I bet you can.
00:37:40.800 And for that, you can have a very nice wedding in a church.
00:37:43.780 So it will be very, very beautiful.
00:37:45.200 More beautiful than most of the nonsense people do today when they try to make it all up themselves
00:37:48.900 on some, you know, some fancy location or in some dining hall or something like that.
00:37:54.020 If you're in a church, you already got a lot of beautiful architecture for you.
00:37:57.800 You don't have to pay a penny for it.
00:37:59.180 And then have, have the reception either in the parish hall or I don't know, I don't know
00:38:03.780 if you may be Protestant in, you know, I'm sure there's some church hall somewhere.
00:38:09.120 And you can cater it very cheaply.
00:38:11.400 I, I've been to a number of weddings in the last four or five years and some, some of
00:38:17.660 them have been, you know, $70,000 crazy blowouts and some of them have been like $3,000, very
00:38:24.420 modest affairs.
00:38:25.600 And sometimes the more modest ones are much more beautiful than the crazy elaborate ones.
00:38:30.320 So I would just do that.
00:38:31.700 Do not, do not put the cart before the horse here.
00:38:35.020 This is an observation that actually speaking of staying for Clavin, he made early on, which
00:38:39.600 is that as weddings have gotten crazier and crazier and crazier, marriage has become more
00:38:45.960 and more shallow.
00:38:47.840 So the, the appearance of the thing has gotten really elaborate, but the thing itself has
00:38:53.000 atrophied.
00:38:54.240 What is important, what you're going to want is to be married.
00:38:58.880 You can do that.
00:39:00.360 I'm not saying you can do it for free, but you can do it before God and before at least
00:39:04.380 some people in your community for not a lot of money.
00:39:07.380 And by the way, you're gonna have to start making a bunch of money anyway, once you get
00:39:10.540 married.
00:39:10.920 So, you know, if you, if you can scrounge up a little bit of cash to cater, you know,
00:39:15.060 cater, cater, I don't know, cater at the local deli, cater Chick-fil-A and have a night
00:39:19.700 and just have a, you'll have a lovely time.
00:39:21.560 You'll have wonderful memories.
00:39:23.060 The one thing I wouldn't skimp on is the photographer.
00:39:24.820 You actually do want to have a good photographer and then you'll be married and your life is starting
00:39:28.400 and you don't need to worry about planning a party for three years because you are,
00:39:30.980 now you get to plan your life together and your family.
00:39:33.000 From Joshua.
00:39:33.700 Hello, Mr. Knowles.
00:39:35.400 My question is, I have started a new job and they are wanting us to be tolerant and accept
00:39:40.640 the transgender ideology of children.
00:39:42.460 Oh my gosh.
00:39:44.080 The person teaching the class said they were a Christian, but decided they would just accept
00:39:48.680 this ideology.
00:39:49.560 I just don't see how they can say they're Christian, but are okay with transing the children. 0.99
00:39:54.940 What do I do?
00:39:55.840 I feel like I should speak out, but I also don't want to be ridiculed for my beliefs.
00:39:59.700 Thank you so much for everything that the Daily Wire does.
00:40:02.020 I will continue to listen and be an all-access member.
00:40:04.540 Well, since you're a Christian, you'll remember that they turned Jesus into a clown. 1.00
00:40:10.240 Do you remember that?
00:40:10.900 Do you remember when the Roman centurions, when they put Jesus in a silly costume with 1.00
00:40:17.280 the robe and the staff and the crown of thorns and they mocked him and beat him and made fun
00:40:21.720 of him and ridiculed him, that it is not a fear that you might have that you'll experience
00:40:29.340 some ridicule for your faith.
00:40:31.220 That is a promise of the faith.
00:40:33.340 So I wouldn't worry about that.
00:40:34.680 Yeah, transing the kids is just, that's not permitted.
00:40:37.240 I would speak out.
00:40:38.420 Courage is the prerequisite for all of the other virtues.
00:40:42.020 Without courage, you can't have any of the other virtues.
00:40:44.300 And people write in all the time.
00:40:45.360 They say, hey, should I have integrity or should I just go along to get along?
00:40:48.800 But then someday I'll have integrity down the line.
00:40:50.680 No, you won't.
00:40:51.480 You won't have integrity down the line if you keep your head down now because you'll
00:40:55.280 just keep your head down forever and then you'll die.
00:40:56.900 So yeah, you should certainly speak out.
00:40:59.300 And you know what?
00:40:59.920 You might, you might lose your job.
00:41:01.980 So I'm sorry that I have to be the one to tell you that you've got to be willing to
00:41:06.200 lose your job to stand against transing the kids, but you do. 0.98
00:41:10.120 And you should get a better job.
00:41:13.100 This does not mean that you have to be flamboyant about every single one of your views all the
00:41:17.300 time, but if it comes down to, hey, you need to go along with transing the kids, you just
00:41:22.220 can't do that.
00:41:23.660 No, no one should be doing that.
00:41:24.900 From Selena.
00:41:25.840 Hey, Michael, I'm a junior in high school and I go to a Catholic school.
00:41:29.220 I'm getting confirmed into the church soon.
00:41:31.000 Great.
00:41:31.500 And I, I asked one of my teachers to be my sponsor.
00:41:34.300 I really respected her and how nice she is.
00:41:36.940 She's done a lot of great things for people.
00:41:38.580 In class, someone had told her that I'm a conservative.
00:41:40.860 I never hide the fact that I am, but I guess my teacher didn't realize it.
00:41:44.500 After class, she told me to rethink my decision on picking her as my sponsor for confirmation
00:41:49.680 because of my political beliefs.
00:41:51.160 She's a raging liberal and I never held it against her until now because she started making 1.00
00:41:55.380 rude remarks about the fact that I'm a conservative.
00:41:57.840 Should I rethink who my confirmation sponsor should be?
00:42:00.500 Thank you for being you.
00:42:02.020 I never would have made the decision to become Catholic without listening to you, Selena.
00:42:04.620 Wow, that's great.
00:42:05.380 Thank you very much.
00:42:06.000 I'm so pleased to hear that.
00:42:06.960 But when people tell you who they are, you should believe them.
00:42:13.100 So what I would say here, I don't know, obviously, the specifics of your situation.
00:42:18.580 I had plenty of extremely liberal teachers and I'm still in touch with many of them, actually,
00:42:23.120 from high school and even earlier.
00:42:26.080 So I'm, and we get along great.
00:42:29.080 And they'll tease me about my politics and I'll tease them about their politics.
00:42:32.460 And we would even do it when I was in school and it really wasn't a big deal.
00:42:35.560 It was kind of fun.
00:42:36.960 But here, as in, as in all things, you can, you can utter the same sentence.
00:42:42.660 And if you utter it with love and humility, it's going to have a very different meaning
00:42:48.380 than if you utter it with resentment and pride.
00:42:52.060 So if your teacher is saying, oh, here comes, here's that knuckle dragon, Attila the Hun,
00:42:57.280 Selena.
00:42:58.400 Okay, Selena, how you doing?
00:42:59.760 You know, hey, are you sure you want me to be your confirmation sponsor?
00:43:03.180 You know, I'm a big lib.
00:43:04.680 You know, I got the coexist bumper.
00:43:05.880 Are you sure?
00:43:06.400 Okay, that's fine.
00:43:07.220 If, if it's sort of joking and loving, that's one thing.
00:43:10.120 If it is, as you say, rude, passive aggressive.
00:43:13.100 If she was serious when she said, you should rethink this, then of course, you should, under
00:43:18.940 no circumstances, should you have her be your spiritual advisor here.
00:43:24.340 I mean, your, your spiritual mentor coming into the faith, your sponsor into the church.
00:43:30.860 Also, because depending on how much of a lib she is, she's very likely a heretic, right? 0.90
00:43:36.400 I mean, she, not to put it bluntly, we started out talking about heresy earlier on.
00:43:40.120 If she is a huge lib, if for instance, she supports legal abortion, that's a big, big problem. 1.00
00:43:47.640 If she supports redefining marriage, if she, she supports transing the kids or something 0.68
00:43:51.200 like that.
00:43:51.560 I mean, that is, you, you really should run in the opposite direction when you're talking
00:43:55.480 about a sponsor.
00:43:56.400 So I think it does depend on the, on the meaning of, of what this, this teacher is saying, you
00:44:05.060 know, and the, and the sense in which her comments have been made.
00:44:09.120 But yeah, if she's telling you who she is, then, then believe her.
00:44:13.380 Next question from Tegan.
00:44:15.280 Hey, Michael.
00:44:15.980 I'm from a small farming community in Northern Utah.
00:44:18.420 I've been a listener for a couple of years, just subscribed last week.
00:44:21.180 I'm a big fan of your show.
00:44:22.660 Why do politicians and people always, quote, that, quote, our democracy is at stake when
00:44:29.480 our country is not a true democracy?
00:44:31.300 What is the correct term to describe, describe our political system?
00:44:34.680 I hear strong conservatives often describe it as a constitutional republic.
00:44:37.740 What are your thoughts?
00:44:38.580 This is a keen insight.
00:44:40.660 Yes, there is a distinction between republics and democracies, but it's not so cut and dry
00:44:47.380 as, as they're being totally different.
00:44:50.180 Uh, there, there's a considerable overlap in the way these terms are used, especially
00:44:54.900 in regard to our own country, because the real complicating factor here is that the,
00:45:01.340 the, the framers describe this distinction in the Federalist papers, but the examples they
00:45:06.760 give of republics very often are direct democracies and the, the examples they give of democracies
00:45:11.220 are republics.
00:45:11.760 And so it's, it's just very confusing.
00:45:14.940 I would, uh, focus less on those abstract terms and more on the nature of the, the government
00:45:21.920 itself.
00:45:22.440 We have a specific constitutional structure.
00:45:25.240 It is different than other republics.
00:45:27.340 It is different than other democracies.
00:45:31.260 It is unique.
00:45:32.380 It has its own unique traditions.
00:45:33.500 It has its own unique, uh, pillars of government.
00:45:36.180 And it's evolved in different ways and it's been transformed in, in different ways too.
00:45:40.840 Um, the phrase our democracy is at stake is just silly nonsense.
00:45:46.180 I did a whole show yesterday on dead, dumb rhetoric, mostly from the left, but there's
00:45:51.120 a fair share of it on the right as well.
00:45:53.260 And, and this would be a good example of that.
00:45:55.220 I mean, this is one that is used almost exclusively by libs who despise democracy, right?
00:46:00.440 They're, they're people who from the progressive project starting a hundred years ago, took
00:46:04.840 political power away from the people and gave it to egghead technocrats to run our lives 1.00
00:46:10.080 for us.
00:46:10.460 Very anti-democratic and, and, uh, in a lot of ways.
00:46:14.460 So, and it's, this phrase is also used by the squishy Republicans who want to suck up to
00:46:18.380 the libs because they're just court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism and their whole
00:46:22.460 job is to lose with dignity, even though they don't have dignity at all.
00:46:25.400 So, all of that to say, get into the specifics here.
00:46:31.340 How is our democracy at stake?
00:46:34.600 You, you hear this phrase a lot with January 6th.
00:46:37.160 They almost, they came into our democracy, our sacred temple of democracy.
00:46:42.960 First of all, in our sacred temple of democracy, very little legislation is done in the Capitol.
00:46:47.880 Most of it's done at the agency, the executive agencies.
00:46:50.540 But furthermore, I think the real threat to our democracy, the more serious threat came
00:46:55.020 when BLM burned the country down for a year previously, when Maxine Waters told people
00:46:59.220 to attack Republicans in public.
00:47:01.640 Get up on them, get in their face.
00:47:04.340 You, you form a crowd.
00:47:05.820 Remember that?
00:47:07.340 Uh, that, that's a real, that's a greater threat.
00:47:09.040 But when we're only talking in these abstract sort of slogans, then a lot of that is lost.
00:47:13.880 From Killian, dear Mr. Knowles, in July of last year, I started dating this girl that
00:47:17.100 I truly thought I was going to marry.
00:47:18.820 After four months, she broke up with me because things got to be too busy in her personal life
00:47:22.880 and starting her first teaching job and pursuing an athletic career.
00:47:26.040 Wow, she's busy. 0.82
00:47:27.120 She said, with the amount of time this would take from her, it would put too much stress
00:47:30.620 on the relationship.
00:47:31.760 I should also include that my job has me on the road a lot, resulting in me being gone
00:47:35.740 15 to 18 days a week.
00:47:37.160 Oh, wow, okay, you're busy too.
00:47:38.900 It's been six months since we broke up and I think about her every day and I can't seem
00:47:41.900 to move on.
00:47:42.860 It was a great relationship and we had the same common interests.
00:47:46.020 I can honestly say I truly loved her and still do, just the timing was not in our favor.
00:47:50.340 I feel waiting around for someone is never a good idea, but I've been on some other dates
00:47:54.160 and I can't seem to connect with anyone.
00:47:55.620 What do you think of this situation and what would you do?
00:47:58.240 I'm going to give you what seems like contradictory advice, but it's really not.
00:48:06.940 You should pursue the girl that you want. 0.53
00:48:10.200 If you want this girl, you should pursue this girl. 0.98
00:48:13.120 Now, you got a man up to do it, so you can't just be like, well, if it's not, we'll be good
00:48:16.220 on your schedule and, and you, and by the way, I'm going to, I've got my personal freedom
00:48:19.560 and I'm going to be on the road 20 days a week, but I, no, you got to man up and just
00:48:23.120 be like, nope, you're going to spend more time with me and I'm going to make an effort
00:48:26.840 and I'm going to reduce the amount I'm on the road or something to pursue the girl.
00:48:31.740 Also, if she, if she really just doesn't want to be with you, if she just used the timing
00:48:38.260 thing as an excuse, which she may well have done, I don't know, women try to be nice 1.00
00:48:41.760 sometimes when they dump you. If that is the case, then you should not debase yourself
00:48:46.160 by pursuing a girl who is in no way interested in you. I'm not saying you can't persuade a
00:48:51.820 girl to become interested in you, but you're not going to do it by groveling and begging 0.99
00:48:55.060 and looking like a chump. Okay. I know those things seem like contradictory pieces of advice. 0.99
00:49:00.240 What they ultimately come down to is be confident. You always hear this. Hey man, how do I pick
00:49:06.140 up a girl? Be confident, but I'm not confident. Right. So just be confident. Well, I can't, 1.00
00:49:11.340 how can I be confident if I'm not going to just do it? You got to act to quote the Godfather
00:49:15.640 talking to Johnny Fontaine. You can act like a man. What's the matter with you? That's what you,
00:49:20.240 you've got to do. And this means that sometimes you pursue the girl quite directly. And sometimes
00:49:25.980 this means a tactical retreat. Okay. That the way you win a war is, is not just by rushing into battle
00:49:32.000 when you're going to lose. And it's not just by retreating. Wars are not won by evacuations,
00:49:35.880 to quote Winston Churchill, but you need to, uh, using prudence, which is a very important
00:49:40.320 conservative virtue. Strike that balance. And above all, be confident because courage is the
00:49:44.620 prerequisite of all the other virtues. One more question from Roland. Michael, first got to say,
00:49:49.100 I love the show. Your use of classical conditioning is impressive. Using a bell sound to control people's
00:49:53.820 minds. Like the name of your book, uh, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. I noticed
00:49:57.840 today when I heard the bell, when I heard a bell, like on your show, I thought of your book.
00:50:02.060 Well played, sir. Well played. Pretty sure I said that name while I was reading the question. Did I?
00:50:08.280 Oh, there it is. There it is. Everybody have a good weekend. I'll see you on Monday. I'm Michael
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