The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 88 - #MeToo Ends： Not With A Bang, But A Whimper

00:00:00.000 This is the way Me Too ends. This is the way Me Too ends. This is the way hashtag Me Too ends.

00:00:06.360 Not with a bang, but a whimper. We will discuss hollow men, sodden women, and the neo-Victorian 0.99

00:00:12.120 morality. Then, this day in history, I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:23.800 There is so much to get to. This is one of the most interesting cultural stories

00:00:27.500 that we've seen in a year or more. Before we get to that, a little bit of bookkeeping. In case you

00:00:32.640 missed it yesterday or you might be interested in seeing it, Ben and I went over to our friend

00:00:37.660 Ty Lopez's house last night. Ty Lope, you might know him. He had one of the biggest ads on YouTube

00:00:43.000 ever, I think. This is Ty. Just bought this new Lamborghini here. Fun to drive up here in the

00:00:49.280 Hollywood Hills. But you know what I like a lot more than materialistic things? Knowledge. In fact,

00:00:56.220 I'm a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold 2,000 new books

00:01:02.360 that I bought. It's like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, the more you learn, the more you

00:01:09.080 earn. I love that ad. That's the guy. I'm here in my garage with my Lamborghini and all my books and

00:01:15.080 everything. This is a really bizarre coincidence. Two of the first people that I met in LA right when I

00:01:22.060 got out here were Ty and Ben. So really totally randomly, I had just come into LA for some

00:01:28.360 auditions. A friend of mine that I was staying with said, oh, go to the cigar bar. I have some

00:01:32.140 work to do for a couple hours. So I go to this cigar bar down the street. I'm reading a book,

00:01:36.400 just smoking a cigar. A guy turns to me. He's reading a book. He says, you're the first guy I've

00:01:40.600 seen reading a book in LA. We should be friends. Which is true. The more I've lived here, the more I've

00:01:45.780 learned that. And so anyway, it turned out that he was living up at Ty Lopez's house, this internet

00:01:52.060 guru, you know, reads a book a day kind of guy. And so he invited me up to a party there a couple

00:01:58.220 days later. So my first taste of LA was hanging out with those guys. And obviously, I met Ben

00:02:04.360 through Andrew Klavan and Jeremy Boring and the whole Daily Wire crew. So this was a real melding

00:02:09.300 of the worlds. Ben did, I think, an hour-long podcast with Ty. Then I came in, I did an hour-long

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00:05:40.560 All right, let's get into this. Let's get into the main story. The Me Too campaign,

00:05:44.340 the hashtag Me Too campaign about sexual assault and harassment has officially jumped the shark.

00:05:49.120 We talked about this a little bit at the end yesterday with Alicia, but the fallout from this

00:05:54.060 piece is even more interesting really than the piece itself. The feminist website, babe.com, 1.00

00:05:59.920 gotta love it. They ran a piece yesterday titled, I went on a date with Aziz Ansari.

00:06:06.040 It turned into the worst night of my life. The worst night of her life. Wow. Clearly,

00:06:11.840 this is going to be a Weinstein-esque tale of abuse, rape, intimidation, blacklisting enormity,

00:06:17.940 right? These accusations are so bad, the accuser chose to remain anonymous, going only by the

00:06:24.200 emotionally evocative pseudonym, grace. So what does the accuser allege happened? She alleges that

00:06:32.180 she hit on Aziz Ansari, the left-wing comedian at an Emmys after party. He ignored her, but

00:06:37.520 nevertheless, she persisted. They exchanged numbers. That was that. She heads back across the country to 0.87

00:06:42.440 New York. He leaves her a voicemail and they chat via text for about a week. Now that part seems

00:06:49.180 minimal, but we'll get to why that's a key aspect of the problem here a little bit later.

00:06:53.020 So they set a date. Grace agonizes with her friends over what to wear, these jeans, yada, yada,

00:06:58.660 blah, blah, blah. She arrives at his apartment and here's where things go horribly, horribly wrong.

00:07:03.780 Did he attack her? No. Did he take her captive? No. No, no. Instead, he offered her white wine

00:07:12.280 instead of red. I'm serious. Babe.com writes, quote, after arriving at his apartment in Manhattan on

00:07:18.860 Monday evening, they exchanged small talk and drank wine. It was white, she said. I didn't get

00:07:24.940 to choose, but I prefer red, but it was white wine. Then Ansari walked her to Grand Banks, an oyster bar

00:07:32.360 on board a historic wooden schooner on the Hudson River just a few blocks away. I actually used to

00:07:37.920 live right around that area. Can you imagine the horror? Her host, her date, offered her the type

00:07:43.400 of wine preferred by virtually every woman on earth without even taking one moment to become a

00:07:49.020 psychic and read her mind and understand that she likes the other kind of wine before buying her

00:07:53.420 dinner at an expensive oyster bar. Lock him up. Lock him up. Call the police. Marshall, can you get the

00:07:58.240 police on the line? This is outrageous. So they had dinner and then Ansari asked for the check.

00:08:04.540 So Babe writes, Grace says she sensed Ansari was eager for them to leave. When the waiter came over,

00:08:11.460 he quickly asked for the check and he said, like, let's get off this boat. She recalls there was

00:08:17.460 still wine in her glass and even more left in the bottle he ordered. The abruptness surprised her.

00:08:23.140 Like, he got the check and then it was bada boom, bada bing, we're out of there. That's right.

00:08:30.040 That's right. You heard that correctly. Ansari was too quick to pay for their expensive dinner.

00:08:35.340 The classic faux pas. You're at a dinner and your date pays the bill too quickly. Isn't that,

00:08:40.360 it's a tale as old as time? Just terrible. So anyway, they go back to his apartment. They flirt

00:08:45.300 for a little bit. They get naked and they make out. As Babe tells it, she remembers feeling

00:08:50.380 uncomfortable at how quickly things escalated. Note the wording here. Grace doesn't remember

00:08:55.400 expressing her discomfort in any way. She doesn't remember telling him that they should keep their

00:09:00.720 clothes on or not to kiss her. She just felt it. Yeah, just felt it. Now things get really crazy.

00:09:06.400 Aziz Ansari allegedly tried to have sex with the naked lady in his apartment. 0.99

00:09:13.340 And they almost did. Can you believe it? They both made it to third base, as it were. And then 0.99

00:09:18.600 she finally told him firmly she didn't want to have sex. So they stopped and sat on the couch.

00:09:23.840 Then she started, um, how do I say this on a family-friendly show? She gave him another triple.

00:09:29.500 They kissed some more. Now keep in mind, they're still completely naked at this point.

00:09:32.820 Then she changed her mind again and said she didn't want to have sex. And she put her clothes 1.00

00:09:36.740 back on. And she said, you guys are all the same. You guys are all the effing same. Truer words,

00:09:43.760 by the way, have never been spoken. And that is a major aspect of this. But we'll get back to that

00:09:47.840 in a second. So she calls a cab and she leaves. Here's the most important line. Grace explains.

00:09:53.480 It took a really long time for me to validate this as sexual assault. I was debating if this was an

00:10:00.620 awkward sexual experience or sexual assault. As a rule, if you have to ask, it's the former,

00:10:07.040 not the latter. If you have to debate it, it's the former. It's not sexual assault.

00:10:10.740 At no point in this entire encounter did Aziz Ansari commit sexual assault. And that pains me to say,

00:10:16.600 because I don't really like Aziz Ansari at all. I don't find him funny. I think his political

00:10:21.140 preening is like nails on a chalkboard. And the character he plays on stage is an all-around soy boy. 1.00

00:10:26.100 But this is a classic case of regret, not assault. And that doesn't mean the girl doesn't have a

00:10:31.280 right to be sad or hurt or angry. She felt used because she was being used. Why did the girl

00:10:37.140 stick around at all? After the awful wine episode at the beginning, why did she stick around?

00:10:42.020 Because she liked Ansari and she wanted him to like her for more than her body,

00:10:46.460 for more than just a one or two night stand, for more than just sex. Now Ansari may have liked her.

00:10:51.200 He may have just wanted to score. I don't know. But like all men, 1.00

00:10:54.140 and especially famous men, and especially rich famous men, and especially rich influential famous

00:11:00.460 men, most especially of all, like rich influential famous men in a hookup culture that treats sex 0.94

00:11:07.180 like a handshake, he wanted sex and he expected it to come easy because that's our culture. 0.63

00:11:12.260 That's the ubiquitous culture surrounding sex that we live in. But why did she stick around? 1.00

00:11:17.740 If she felt uncomfortable, why did she strip naked and keep engaging in sex acts? Why did 1.00

00:11:22.320 she repeatedly let him make it so far around the bases? We have an answer from sexpert April

00:11:28.180 Mazzini. Yes, sexpert. That's a thing. Sexpert. Sexpert April Mazzini of askapril.com explains,

00:11:34.520 quote,

00:11:34.720 I hear from women who have sex on the first date and then try to leverage that act into love. 0.99

00:11:40.640 They impute their feelings about the sex on a first date onto the other person,

00:11:44.480 and those who feel that sex on a first date means interest are often hurt if a second date doesn't

00:11:50.760 evolve. A tale as old as time, but a trick not always so pervasive and relied upon. 46% of people

00:11:57.500 who use the dating website OkCupid say they'd sleep with someone on the first date, a high percentage

00:12:02.720 that just keeps rising in recent years. And OkCupid is a pretty good source here because online dating

00:12:07.580 sites and mobile apps like Tinder or Bumble or whatever. You know, in my single days, I always

00:12:14.760 used Grindr, but I never met the right lady. They always had these huge Adam's apples, which is 1.00

00:12:19.060 neither here nor there. The use of online dating sites and mobile apps among young people nearly

00:12:23.480 tripled just between 2013 and 2015, according to Pew Research. And there isn't a ton of research

00:12:29.480 available for how that trend has evolved even over the past three years. But I can tell you from

00:12:33.860 personal interactions, and you know it yourselves, every single young person in the country is on

00:12:38.700 these apps. I have multiple friends who even met their future wives on these apps. I'm going to go

00:12:44.240 to two weddings this spring, as a matter of fact, for friends who met on apps like Tinder. Still,

00:12:48.860 marriage is the exception, not the rule when it comes to all of these apps and these websites.

00:12:54.160 The trouble with these apps is that they incentivize a swipe right culture where the next better hookup is

00:13:01.080 always a click away. Why stick with the person you've got, the person sitting across from you or

00:13:05.680 in the bar or at the party or whatever, when your phone is buzzing with an endless stream of new

00:13:11.140 digital hotties? Buzz, buzz, buzz. That gets back to one of the earliest aspects of Aziz and this girl's

00:13:16.880 encounter, one that everybody's missing in their coverage. They met at a party. She hits on him.

00:13:20.900 He's not that interested. They chat a little bit. They exchange numbers. Then what happens?

00:13:24.820 They text for a week. They text.

00:13:28.080 They don't grab coffee or drink. They don't even talk on the phone. They text. And texts can be a

00:13:33.760 deceptive experience. We know that she's interested in him. Were the texts flirty? Yeah, presumably.

00:13:40.440 What did they say? What did she say to him? How did he respond? Texts are a virtual fantasy land.

00:13:46.300 There's no phone to hear the tone or the tenor or the hesitations in someone's voice. There's no face

00:13:51.360 staring you down to seduce or to embarrass or to shame or to amuse or do anything. Texts are a

00:13:57.940 blunt object. But increasingly, they're the only way that single millennials communicate.

00:14:03.120 A 2014 Gallup poll, and now we're talking four years ago, a full 68% of 18 to 29-year-olds

00:14:10.880 reported that they had texted, quote, a lot the previous day. That number plunges to 47% among 30

00:14:17.860 to 49-year-olds and down to 26% of 50 to 64-year-olds and 0% of me because I hate texting.

00:14:25.040 I hate, I hate, I really, you know it, Marshall. I do not text. I despise it. I find it, here's the

00:14:30.800 reason. I find it so rude when you're having a conversation with somebody to look down and

00:14:36.040 check your phone and start talking to somebody else. You say, hey, hold on a second. No, I know we're

00:14:40.680 having a conversation, but literally anything else on planet Earth is more interesting than what you're

00:14:45.720 saying to me. So let me pull out my phone, spin the roulette wheel, and assume whatever is on that

00:14:50.680 screen is more important than you. I hate it. I don't do it. And then I don't later on. So I don't

00:14:54.580 do it in the moment. And I don't even do it later on when I stop talking to somebody. Aside from that

00:14:58.820 digression, everybody texts and texting dehumanizes the person on the other end. It abstracts that

00:15:05.480 person. It removes every single sense of another person other than seeing a formalized abstraction of

00:15:12.040 their thought in the form of words on a screen. And maybe a weird picture or two. That's it.

00:15:16.920 It's not even like writing a letter, a long letter, where you get a sense of their feelings. It's just

00:15:20.280 three words, this, that, this, the other thing. It's very shallow. So even heading into the date,

00:15:26.980 Aziz and this woman head in with necessarily different perceptions and likely different

00:15:31.820 expectations. And then we equate Harvey Weinstein's violently raping women and ruining their careers and

00:15:37.260 blackmailing them with an awkward date and consensual sexual encounter that left a woman 0.98

00:15:42.260 upset because a man wanted to have sex. In a culture where sex on the first date is common 0.52

00:15:47.580 and basically expected. In a culture that tells you men and women are exactly the same. The sexes are 0.82

00:15:52.960 indiscernible. They want exactly the same things professionally, personally, and sexually. A culture

00:15:59.220 where two people could enter an encounter in good faith with exactly the same premises. And yet one

00:16:05.060 leaves hurt and one leaves confused. What's the problem? I'm a feminist. I'm a feminist. I'm a 1.00

00:16:10.700 feminist. Wow, you said it, Aziz. You said it. That's a great point. Joshi Herman, the editor of

00:16:15.840 babe.com said, we would publish this again tomorrow. The piece about this awful encounter with the wine

00:16:21.520 and whatever. It's newsworthy because of who he is and what he has said in his standup, what he has

00:16:27.540 written in his book, what he has proclaimed on late night TV. Her account is pointing out a striking

00:16:32.180 tension between those things and the way she says Aziz treated her in private.

00:16:38.660 Now, this is actually sort of a decent point. Why is it?

00:16:41.960 I'm a feminist. I'm a feminist. I'm a feminist. 0.99

00:16:43.960 Oh yeah, right again, Aziz. Good job. But that's, it's not just that the things he's spouting in

00:16:49.200 public contradict the things he does in private. It's that the things he's spouting in public

00:16:53.400 contradict the things that everybody does in private because feminism presents an incorrect 1.00

00:16:57.960 view of the world. That men and women are exactly the same and that hurts everybody involved.

00:17:03.340 Perhaps the craziest thing about this whole episode, this pathetic end to the Me Too movement,

00:17:08.160 is that it's got me agreeing with the Atlantic and the New York Times. That's awful. Caitlin 0.90

00:17:12.540 Flanagan writes in the Atlantic, quote, she tells us that she wanted something from Ansari and that she

00:17:18.240 was trying to figure out how to get it. She wanted affection, kindness, attention. Perhaps she hoped

00:17:24.760 to maybe even become the famous man's girlfriend. He wasn't interested. What she felt afterward,

00:17:30.700 rejected yet another time by yet another man, was regret. And what she and the writer who told her

00:17:36.540 story created was 3,000 words of revenge porn. I thought it would take a little longer for the

00:17:42.480 hit squad of privileged young white women to open fire on brown-skinned men. I had assumed that on the 0.96

00:17:48.140 basis of intersectionality and all that, they'd stay laser-focused on college-educated white men for

00:17:54.340 another few months. But we're at warp speed now, and the revolution, in many ways so good and so

00:17:59.400 important, is starting to sweep up all sorts of people into its conflagration. The monstrous,

00:18:04.600 the cruel, and the simply unlucky. Apparently there is a whole country full of young women 1.00

00:18:08.400 who don't know how to call a cab and who have spent a lot of time picking out pretty outfits for

00:18:13.100 dates they hoped would be nights to remember. They're angry and temporarily powerful, and last night

00:18:18.240 they destroyed a man who didn't deserve it. Wow. Absolutely right. Caitlin Flanagan is probably the best

00:18:23.780 writer in The Atlantic, and she's one of the reasons I still subscribe to The Atlantic. And by bizarre

00:18:28.340 coincidence, I actually found out just the other day she's Andrew Klavan's sister-in-law. She's

00:18:32.980 Drew's wife's sister. And I suppose that isn't coincidental that I would enjoy the writing of

00:18:38.180 Drew's sister-in-law, but still, very small world. She's exactly correct. She's brutally correct.

00:18:43.480 Barry Weiss in the New York Times writes,

00:18:45.920 I am a proud feminist, and this is what I thought while reading Grace's story. If you're hanging out

00:18:51.500 naked with a man, it's safe to assume he's going to try to have sex with you. If the inability to 0.93

00:18:55.960 choose a Pinot Noir over a Pinot Grigio offends you, you can leave right then and there. If you

00:19:01.160 don't like the way your date hustles through paying the check, you can say, I've had a lovely evening

00:19:05.520 and I'm going home now. If you go home with him and discover he's a terrible kisser, say, I'm out.

00:19:10.300 If you start to hook up and don't like the way he smells or the way he talks or doesn't talk,

00:19:14.640 end it. If he pressures you to do something you don't want to do, use a four-letter word,

00:19:18.360 stand up on your two legs and walk out the door. Aziz Ansari sounds like he was aggressive and

00:19:22.960 selfish and obnoxious that night. Isn't it heartbreaking and depressing that men, especially

00:19:27.140 ones who present themselves publicly as feminists, often act this way in private? Shouldn't we try to 1.00

00:19:32.140 change our broken sexual culture? Proud feminist, huh? Is that feminism? Weiss is saying men and women

00:19:39.700 want different things from sex. It's perfectly fine for men to pick up the check at dinner. It's not 0.83

00:19:44.280 disrespectful or patriarchal. It's perfectly reasonable for men to choose a wine and pour 0.73

00:19:48.640 their day to glass of it, though of course she may refuse it. She's right that there's a broken

00:19:52.580 sexual culture, but the sexual culture is feminist. You can't simultaneously say that the sexual culture 1.00

00:19:59.100 begun 60 years ago by feminism and sexual liberation is broken, and that's why we need more feminism and 1.00

00:20:05.360 sexual liberation. We're headed toward a neo-Victorian era. You can see it all around you.

00:20:09.980 You see it on college campuses, which are now hiring deans and deputy deans and deputy assistant

00:20:15.900 deputy deans to regulate and monitor sexual activity. The sort of campus sexual regulation

00:20:21.100 we haven't seen since men and women had to sign back into their single-sex dorm rooms at night,

00:20:27.080 however many decades ago. The era of original Victorian morality began after the post-Cromwell

00:20:33.500 restoration of the monarchy in England and led to a period of free living and all-around debauchery

00:20:39.280 modeled after the French, of course. A more libertine people, you know, have never graced this earth. 0.99

00:20:44.360 So Queen Victoria's uncle, George IV, was popularly seen as a pleasure-seeking playboy.

00:20:50.180 Scandal abounded. National leaders were regularly seen as decadent playboys. The culture was freewheeling

00:20:56.280 and fun. Does that sound familiar? Now what followed was a period of strict morals, personal restraint,

00:21:01.420 and cultural ascendance. We may be headed there now, but Victorian values were based in traditional

00:21:06.960 Victorian, in traditional Christian values until Charles Darwin and the crisis of faith

00:21:12.120 began eating away at them. The quality of the new Victorianism we're heading toward will be decided

00:21:17.180 by precisely which moral system, which view of the world we grounded in. So you better start praying.

00:21:23.440 Okay, can we get to this day in history now?

00:21:24.840 We do? No, we can't because we have to sign off. Marshall, you tyrant, you monster. I'm sorry. If

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00:21:45.560 Why would you do it? Well, you'll get me. You'll get the Andrew Klavan show. You get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:21:49.640 No ads on the website, blah, blah, blah. The conversation, you can ask different questions.

00:21:53.820 I think Drew's conversation is today actually at 2.15. Is it Marshall?

00:21:58.340 Yeah, you can hear him setting up next door.

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00:22:03.380 and you'll be able to ask Andrew Klavan questions today for the conversation. It's going to be really

00:22:07.920 good. But the most important thing, forget all that, the leftist tears tumbler. This is going to be a

00:22:16.160 big one, folks. The Me Too movement is completely over now. It's ended with a, with a bang, not with

00:22:21.240 a bang, but a whimper. Feminism is being brought into question because of our new cultural moment 1.00

00:22:27.580 and our new neo-Victorianism. You've got Hollywood falling apart because of this issue. Get it or

00:22:32.620 you're going to drown. Don't be stupid. You're going to drown on salty, salty, delicious leftist 1.00

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00:22:59.320 Okay, let's get to this day in history.

00:23:02.840 This day in history.

00:23:06.280 This is a big one. On this day in history, the Roman Empire officially began. Now, I'm not going

00:23:11.800 to go through the entirety of the Roman Empire in our last, you know, few minutes here. So let's

00:23:16.820 focus on one incredible historical coincidence at the outset of the Roman Empire that might shed some

00:23:22.300 light on the nature of the world, of the physical world and the metaphysical world. The Roman Empire

00:23:28.300 began when Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian as it is frequently called, heir to the assassinated

00:23:38.300 Julius Caesar, was granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. So Augustus ruled from January 16th,

00:23:45.980 27 BC until his death in AD 14. After the demise of the second triumvirate, which was formed by himself,

00:23:55.260 Mark Anthony and Marcus Lepidus to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar, Augustus restored the

00:24:02.160 semblance of the Roman Republic. There was the Senate and the legislatures and all that, the semblance of it.

00:24:07.180 In reality, he retained firm rule all for himself. There's much to note about Augustus, but consider

00:24:13.200 just this one fact. Augustus was not actually the son of Caesar. He was his adopted son. He was regularly

00:24:20.040 referred to as Divi Filius, son of a god, because upon Julius Caesar's death, a comet known as Caesar's

00:24:27.140 comet appeared above the earth. It was the brightest comet in recorded history, having even a negative

00:24:32.940 absolute magnitude. It could be seen even by daylight and was taken as a sign that Caesar had been

00:24:38.580 deified, turned into a god upon his death. And so the son of a god reigned on a throne in Rome and

00:24:44.660 initiated the Pax Augusti, the Peace of Augustine, the Peace of Rome, of so much of the civilized world

00:24:50.700 that blanketed the land. It was so named by Seneca the Younger and considered a miracle because of the

00:24:56.080 widespread war, which had wreaked havoc for so many centuries prior. At that same time, during that

00:25:03.320 same reign, another bright light appeared in the sky over Bethlehem to signal precisely the coming of

00:25:08.320 another king, a king whose kingdom is not of this world, a king who would be called not Filius Divi,

00:25:14.060 but Filius Dei, not son of a god or the divinity, but son of the one true god himself, and a king who would

00:25:21.640 bring not just peace for a time and a space, but for all time and space into eternity. A coincidence

00:25:27.100 so incredible, an example of God's whimsy so undeniable, and yet it's almost never taught in

00:25:33.000 history class or physics class or astronomy class. Alexander Pope put it well, all nature is but art

00:25:39.140 unknown to thee, all chance, direction, which thou canst not see. That's our show today. I'm Michael

00:25:45.540 Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. We are not going to be here tomorrow. I've got a film shoot that

00:25:49.780 I've got to be at tomorrow, because shockingly and incredibly, occasionally I still get hired as an

00:25:55.300 actor in this town, but I assume that'll be the last time, so don't worry about it again. So we're

00:25:59.400 going to do a show on Friday instead. We're still going to do the mailbag on Thursday, so get your

00:26:03.180 questions in ASAP, and until Thursday, I'm Michael Knowles, and I'll see you then.

00:26:13.820 The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Marshall Benson, executive producer Jeremy Boring,

00:26:18.860 senior producer Jonathan Hay, supervising producer Mathis Glover. Our technical producer is Austin

00:26:24.700 Stevens, edited by Alex Zingaro. Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina. Hair and makeup is by Jesua

00:26:30.900 Olvera. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire Forward Publishing production, copyright Forward

00:26:35.500 publishing 2018.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 16, 2018

Ep. 88 - #MeToo Ends： Not With A Bang, But A Whimper

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