The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 89 - And The #FakeNews Awards Winner Is…Us!

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00:00:37.800 Time's up for the preening hacks who pretend to be journalists on television and in the press.

00:00:43.200 Time's up for the mainstream news media, which has decayed to become nothing more than the communications wing of the Democrat Party.

00:00:49.580 The real winner of the Fake News Awards is, you guessed it, it's us, baby.

00:00:53.880 We will analyze the surprising subtlety of this blunt stunt and why it worked so well.

00:00:59.280 Then, Fleckis Talks, Austin Fletcher and Philip Wegman join the panel of deplorables

00:01:03.820 to discuss how and why Democrats sold Dreamers down the Rio Grande,

00:01:09.260 the looming government shutdown, and why PC fanatics think white supremacy is okay.

00:01:15.260 Last but not least, the mailbag.

00:01:17.060 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:18.920 I'm wearing a black tuxedo today because time is up.

00:01:30.160 I'm so brave.

00:01:31.240 I am so courageous, aren't I?

00:01:33.180 But time really is up for the left-wing hacks in the mainstream media.

00:01:36.520 And I don't mean it's up in that they'll go away or they'll stop being left-wing hacks

00:01:40.700 or even that they'll stop influencing a lot of people.

00:01:43.000 But the time when places like the TV networks, the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.,

00:01:48.160 when they could pretend to be objective journalists, hard-hitting reporters,

00:01:51.720 just interested in the facts, that actually is over.

00:01:55.020 And you have Donald Trump to thank for that.

00:01:57.400 After weeks of waiting, last night, President Trump finally presented

00:02:00.780 the highly anticipated Fake News Awards.

00:02:03.880 For months now, political analysts have wondered what the awards will look like.

00:02:07.740 Will it be televised?

00:02:09.060 Will there be a red carpet?

00:02:10.200 Will people wear black tuxedos and little lapel pins and things like that?

00:02:14.360 Trump first announced the awards in November,

00:02:16.660 but no one was sure if he was kidding or not or if this was a real event.

00:02:20.220 He then announced on January 2nd that the awards would be presented on January 8th.

00:02:24.300 Then on January 7th, he announced that the awards would be January 17th.

00:02:28.280 And then last night, he tweeted the link to a blog post on the GOP website

00:02:33.320 listing 11 news stories that he's already criticized for being fake.

00:02:37.760 Oh, and also the website crashed.

00:02:39.280 So it didn't even load for several minutes.

00:02:42.960 The conclusion of months of persistent trolling,

00:02:45.440 which really was part of years of trolling the news media,

00:02:48.240 going all the way back to the campaign,

00:02:50.100 was itself just a troll.

00:02:51.740 I love it so, so much.

00:02:53.940 That's it.

00:02:54.920 That's all it is.

00:02:55.540 It's just a blog post.

00:02:56.660 It is a barely functional blog post.

00:02:59.160 Not a speech.

00:03:00.300 Not even a tweeted list.

00:03:02.140 Just a blog post at the GOP website.

00:03:05.720 And you know what happened?

00:03:06.440 But the mainstream media took the bait.

00:03:08.860 Of course they did.

00:03:10.000 Now, we should be clear.

00:03:11.040 This is a non-event.

00:03:13.120 Seriously.

00:03:13.880 This is not.

00:03:14.640 It didn't even load.

00:03:16.060 There was no fake news awards.

00:03:17.540 There was a blog post.

00:03:18.800 The mainstream media could have simply ignored this.

00:03:21.100 But they couldn't, could they?

00:03:22.320 No, they couldn't.

00:03:23.380 Because they're empty-headed kittens.

00:03:24.960 And this is their catnip.

00:03:26.660 Who covered it?

00:03:27.340 Everybody covered it.

00:03:28.100 Chrissy Teigen, whom I'd never heard of until last night, hosted a fake, fake news awards 0.83

00:03:33.200 from her Snapchat last night.

00:03:35.080 Newsweek ran the headline, quote,

00:03:37.020 Forget Trump's fake news awards.

00:03:39.560 Former Obama ethics chief announces president's biggest lie of 2017.

00:03:45.160 The article reads,

00:03:46.880 A former Obama administration ethics czar is planning to beat Donald Trump at his own

00:03:52.500 game Wednesday, trolling him with the Golden Pinocchio Award for his biggest lie of the

00:03:58.680 year on the night the president is expected to announce his most dishonest and corrupt media

00:04:03.640 awards.

00:04:05.220 Cool, bro.

00:04:06.160 Really cool.

00:04:06.700 You really got him.

00:04:07.640 You got him.

00:04:08.520 Wow, if President Trump had any idea that former Obama ethics czar Norm Eisen would tweet

00:04:15.620 something, then he never would have criticized the mainstream media.

00:04:18.600 Really?

00:04:19.020 Good job.

00:04:19.800 Wow.

00:04:20.500 You got him.

00:04:21.380 The Washington Post fumed, quote, Trump's fake news awards were a huge flop.

00:04:27.460 But guys, here's the thing.

00:04:28.540 Here's the little secret.

00:04:30.040 The fact that you're writing about the fake news awards, the fact that we're talking about

00:04:34.520 the fake news awards, the fact that there are 1,900,000 Google results for the term fake

00:04:41.000 news awards, that means that the fake news awards did exactly what they were supposed

00:04:45.080 to do.

00:04:45.980 How do people, I actually don't understand how people do not get this, how they still don't

00:04:51.220 understand.

00:04:52.100 As for the awards themselves, CNN won the night, taking home four out of the 11 accolades.

00:04:57.140 You're shocked, I know.

00:04:58.160 For those who still haven't seen the blog post or weren't able to load it last night, here

00:05:02.540 they are quickly.

00:05:03.260 These are the 11 hits.

00:05:04.520 Former Enron advisor Paul Krugman predicted in the New York Times that markets would never

00:05:09.000 recover from a Trump victory.

00:05:10.820 The Dow Jones, you'll observe, just hit yet another record high.

00:05:14.280 ABC News published an entirely fabricated story on Trump-Russia collusion, sending the

00:05:19.480 stock market tumbling.

00:05:20.640 CNN got another story about Trump and Russia entirely wrong.

00:05:23.720 Time magazine published a totally fabricated story about President Trump removing the bust

00:05:29.140 of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office.

00:05:31.400 WAPO lied about Trump's crowd sizes at a rally in Florida.

00:05:34.520 CNN lied about Trump overfeeding Japanese pet fish.

00:05:38.860 CNN lied about a meeting between Anthony Scaramucci and Russians.

00:05:42.640 Newsweek lied about the Polish first lady not shaking President Trump's hand.

00:05:47.040 CNN falsely reported that James Comey disputed Trump's claim that he was not under investigation.

00:05:51.840 The New York Times published a false story on Trump and global warming.

00:05:55.460 Then number 11, of course, the Russia collusion nothing burger, to quote Van Jones.

00:06:01.120 There is one last aspect of this that I'd like to point out because nobody's really been

00:06:05.460 covering it.

00:06:06.920 The mainstream media aren't the only objects of mockery from this stunt.

00:06:11.220 The fake news awards, it mocks the fake news media, but it also mocks award shows, precisely

00:06:16.140 as we enter award season.

00:06:17.900 Formerly glamorous celebrities wearing gazillion dollar gowns receiving gold trophies.

00:06:22.700 Just as the fake news awards highlight the irrelevance of the mainstream news media, their total fall

00:06:28.480 from respectability, it does the same for Hollywood, which has virtually, and literally, I'll point

00:06:32.920 out, burned to the ground in recent months.

00:06:35.320 The fake news awards worked because both Hollywood and the news media have become ridiculous.

00:06:40.500 And Hollywood and the news media have become ridiculous for the same reason.

00:06:44.200 They're really the same thing.

00:06:45.660 The Hollywood is a bunch of people going on television and pretending to be somebody they're

00:06:50.600 not.

00:06:51.220 And the news media are now a bunch of people going on television pretending to be something

00:06:55.560 they're not.

00:06:56.000 It's a bunch of Democrat communications advisors, Democrat propagandists pretending to be journalists

00:07:01.520 on television.

00:07:02.420 That's all they are.

00:07:03.280 They are nothing more than that.

00:07:04.420 They've traded both of those.

00:07:05.740 Hollywood and mainstream press have traded their original missions, which is to entertain on

00:07:10.780 the one hand and to doggedly pursue the truth on the other for shallow left-wing hackery.

00:07:15.820 Award shows, they are no longer glamorous.

00:07:17.860 They're tedious exercises in virtue signaling from millionaires complaining that they deserve

00:07:22.600 even more millions of dollars to pretend for a living.

00:07:25.520 The mainstream media are no longer respected precisely because formerly journalistic institutions

00:07:30.580 have become nothing more than petty propaganda centers.

00:07:33.500 If the press and celebrity reactions to last night are any indication, yesterday's fake

00:07:38.580 news awards will be the first of many because they still refuse to see why everyone is laughing

00:07:43.960 at them.

00:07:44.360 All right, let's bring on our panel. 0.88

00:07:46.460 So we've got a great panel with us today.

00:07:48.680 We have Fleckus Talks, Austin Fletcher from Fleckus Talks.

00:07:52.360 You've seen his YouTube channel.

00:07:53.600 And Philip Wegman from the Washington Examiner.

00:07:55.600 Philip, you look okay, but I got to tell you, Fleckus, wearing that Jersey tank top, you

00:08:00.560 look phenomenal, sir.

00:08:02.420 We got to get right into the news.

00:08:03.800 We don't have any more time to talk about fake news.

00:08:05.600 We got to talk about real news.

00:08:06.600 Democrats have sold the Dreamers down the Rio Grande after an apparently productive meeting 1.00

00:08:13.200 on immigration, open to the press.

00:08:15.340 We all saw it.

00:08:16.420 Dick Durbin alleged that Donald Trump called Haiti a not very nice place to live.

00:08:21.760 So Durbin, in doing that, poisoned any possibility of DACA compromise.

00:08:26.720 Why did he do it?

00:08:27.840 I don't know.

00:08:28.340 Philip, did Dick Durbin just realize that it's better for Democrats' electoral chances

00:08:33.140 to keep calling Trump a racist?

00:08:35.320 And if that means that younger illegal aliens need to be deported, so be it?

00:08:38.800 I think what Democrats are realizing right now is that a shutdown, at least in their mind,

00:08:43.880 is going to play well with their base.

00:08:45.900 And so they're hoping that going into 2018, a shutdown is actually going to buoy their chances.

00:08:50.680 We see this, yes, with DACA, where you have Dick Durbin making this kind of small jab that

00:08:56.500 in the larger scheme of things really only throws things off track.

00:09:01.060 So he does that to create a controversy, which slows down negotiations.

00:09:03.980 But then also we see this with CHIP and the current, you know, continuing resolution.

00:09:09.300 Democrats have been asking for CHIP for years.

00:09:10.500 And CHIP, by the way, just for people who don't know what it is, CHIP is the Children's

00:09:13.520 Health Insurance Program.

00:09:14.920 That's right.

00:09:15.400 That's right.

00:09:15.940 And so they have been asking for months that this would be included.

00:09:19.320 Republicans have put forward a bill that Democrats initially rejected.

00:09:23.080 They've put the CHIP funding into the continuing resolution to keep the government funded as

00:09:27.840 a compromise.

00:09:28.880 And now Democrats are suddenly quiet and they're saying, well, we're not going to mess with

00:09:33.000 this continuing resolution.

00:09:34.180 We would rather have a big shutdown fight. 0.64

00:09:36.300 And this is just completely duplicitous.

00:09:38.880 Totally right.

00:09:39.760 I agree with that analysis entirely.

00:09:42.240 Fleckis, Austin, this seems to me final irrefutable proof, as I've said for many years, that Democrats

00:09:48.280 do not give a damn about illegal aliens at all. 0.53

00:09:51.000 They just want to win elections.

00:09:52.340 They only pretend to care about illegal aliens when it suits their electoral needs.

00:09:57.360 Should the GOP finally talk bluntly about that, cut it out with all of the rhetoric about

00:10:02.100 compassion and humanity and these poor people and dreamers and all the other things that

00:10:05.980 we now know Democrats do not care about at all?

00:10:08.600 Should we speak bluntly?

00:10:10.760 Yeah, I absolutely agree.

00:10:12.500 I think it's about time that we did, because realistically, the Democrats have always been

00:10:16.940 appealing to the left's sense of morality.

00:10:19.880 And bigger picture, I think the left, especially the uninformed left that I come in contact with

00:10:25.480 at all these protests, they think they can solve global poverty with immigration.

00:10:29.400 So they think, oh, the dreamers, oh, like they came here young.

00:10:32.600 They're not familiar with the country they came from.

00:10:34.540 They just want a better opportunity.

00:10:36.440 And that's the narrative.

00:10:37.560 That's the narrative.

00:10:38.200 That's the narrative.

00:10:38.800 And then when it actually comes time to make something happen, they self-sabotage and would

00:10:43.280 rather shut down the government just to, you know, have a better chance in 2018.

00:10:47.480 So, I mean, I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists, and now the Democrats seem to

00:10:53.660 be, you know, getting time with us in our negotiations, and it's not good.

00:10:57.160 And they do it.

00:10:57.920 What's so offensive about it is there are so many awful costs of illegal immigration.

00:11:03.140 Something like 40% of young women who cross the border and girls who cross the border illegally

00:11:07.960 are raped.

00:11:09.420 These people are forced to live in the shadows.

00:11:11.600 They can't access a lot of services.

00:11:13.820 Obviously, there's the flip side of that, which is illegal immigrant crime and gang membership 0.98

00:11:18.240 such as MS-13.

00:11:19.880 And there are all these really awful, vicious aspects to it for both the illegal aliens and 1.00

00:11:25.140 for the American citizens.

00:11:27.160 And yet they couch it in this language of, oh, we're the ones who care about these people.

00:11:32.260 We're the only moral ones.

00:11:33.800 And then you find out when push comes to shove, they don't give a damn about these people.

00:11:37.120 They're perfectly willing to let them be deported or let there be some stopgap measure for them

00:11:42.600 because for them what it's all about is getting votes.

00:11:46.100 And specifically, if they can rely on 80% of votes, if amnesty goes through and these people

00:11:52.700 tend to trend Democrat, then they'll do it for that.

00:11:55.160 But if the illegal aliens were going to vote for Republicans, they would be the first people 1.00

00:11:59.920 loading up the deportation train.

00:12:02.700 So it's really frustrating.

00:12:04.660 And I hope that in this era of Donald Trump speaking bluntly and taking away a lot of

00:12:10.120 that nonsense PC political talk, that we can speak honestly about this and say, look,

00:12:13.920 Democrats, you're dirty, rotten cynics who are using these poor people as political cudgels

00:12:18.460 and as little pawns.

00:12:19.500 And we're not going to take it anymore.

00:12:20.780 And as long as they sign the pledge, the Michael Knowles show Dreamer DACA compromise pledge,

00:12:27.640 which is that they all get amnesty immediately as long as they agree to vote for Republicans

00:12:31.100 for 25 consecutive elections, then that's fine.

00:12:33.960 Then we can form a deal and these people get to stay.

00:12:35.940 I hope the Senate takes up my suggestion.

00:12:39.720 Moving on to the government shutdown itself, the White House today has signaled that it

00:12:43.920 will sign a one-month stopgap measure to fund the government until a longer military funding

00:12:49.500 deal and budget deal is reached.

00:12:51.860 Fleck us.

00:12:52.460 This seems to me like the win-win reality of Trump.

00:12:55.780 Either he's competent and gets good things done, or he's incompetent and the government

00:13:00.800 governs less.

00:13:02.260 Either way, that's cool with me.

00:13:03.840 Should Republicans fear a shutdown in this case?

00:13:08.420 I will hope there isn't a shutdown just because we need to keep paying the military.

00:13:13.660 And if the left is going to have this quid for a quo type thing where amnesty for all,

00:13:22.060 we're shutting it down, that's not how this should go.

00:13:25.180 And just to touch on the last point you made about the DACA people, the Dreamers coming 1.00

00:13:30.360 over and the left wanting their votes, the people I come in contact with at the protests

00:13:35.220 who are, a lot of the people are Latinos for Trump, a lot of these people came here legally

00:13:40.000 because they respect the country and love the country so much, and that's why they tend

00:13:44.620 to vote Republican.

00:13:46.000 So adding to your last point, the people who are coming here illegally, it makes perfect 1.00

00:13:50.940 sense that the Democrats want to help them as much as they can, because that's potential

00:13:54.820 Democrat voters who aren't really America first ever.

00:13:58.160 Well, that's their base, it's criminals.

00:14:00.000 But you're so right.

00:14:01.700 Of course we should have known that these people would trend to vote Democrat.

00:14:06.580 They're criminals.

00:14:07.320 And that's a key aspect of the left-wing coalition.

00:14:10.360 Good point.

00:14:10.860 Philip, is the White House breaking ranks with Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans who

00:14:15.180 have, who they themselves have signaled that they oppose the stopgap measure?

00:14:19.540 Or is there some strategy that I'm missing here?

00:14:23.080 Well, so I'm not clear on the day-to-day strategy when it comes to conversations between McConnell,

00:14:29.020 Ryan, and Trump.

00:14:30.340 That's definitely in flux and it's keeping Democrats on their toes.

00:14:33.660 One thing that I would point out, though, is I don't think that Democrats should be so

00:14:37.280 quick to make that foregone conclusion that somehow they're going to benefit because of

00:14:41.400 a shutdown.

00:14:42.500 Yes, Trump keeps changing his mind about DACA and immigration, but he has made some pretty 0.99

00:14:47.880 significant overtures when it comes to flexibility.

00:14:50.860 So I think that, you know, if you're talking about that Latino voter or that dreamer, they're

00:14:56.520 going to see that in this CR deal, Trump just is asking for a continuation of government

00:15:02.660 funding and they're asking to lock in a couple of different government programs and then deal

00:15:07.400 with DACA later.

00:15:08.220 So if this, if we shut down the government and then we're not able to get a DACA deal

00:15:13.020 later on, I think a lot of core Democrat supporters, a lot of those young people who are looking

00:15:18.240 for dreamer legislation to come through, they're going to be incredibly disappointed.

00:15:22.540 And I think they're going to see through, see through this stunt.

00:15:25.800 Yeah, I think you're right, especially if we keep hammering them in this way, if we keep

00:15:30.020 using blunt language and now that their chief communications wing has cracked, as we saw

00:15:36.640 last night in the fake news awards, I think there's a real chance.

00:15:39.180 In the old days, the fear was, even if we're right on the facts, we're going to be so blown

00:15:44.440 out by the press that it doesn't really matter and we just have to play by their rules.

00:15:48.320 I don't think that's true anymore.

00:15:49.640 It's largely not true anymore.

00:15:51.080 So let's cross our fingers.

00:15:52.380 During 2016, a bunch of Trump supporters started using the OK symbol and 4chan decided to troll

00:16:01.000 people into thinking that the OK sign was a white supremacist symbol.

00:16:05.000 So the son of New Jersey's Democrat governor, Phil Murphy, played this game.

00:16:09.080 He did a little circle sign during his father's swearing in.

00:16:13.080 And so the OK sign has many innocuous connotations.

00:16:16.920 Obviously, there's nothing inherently racist about saying, hey, OK, everything's good.

00:16:22.640 And there's also this childhood game whereby you make someone look at the little OK sign.

00:16:27.460 And then if they look at it, you punch them like they did on Malcolm in the Middle.

00:16:31.320 You might remember this.

00:16:36.360 Jerk.

00:16:38.000 You looked.

00:16:39.600 Ow! 1.00

00:16:42.200 Yeah, so I used to do that as a kid.

00:16:44.200 It's pretty fun.

00:16:44.680 And so anyway, 4chan decided to make this a symbol of their support for Trump or something.

00:16:51.640 And Media Matters immediately pounced on this.

00:16:54.460 So now the New Jersey press are calling this kid racist.

00:16:57.780 Fleckis is OK white supremacist.

00:17:00.640 I'm not asking, by the way, if white supremacy is OK.

00:17:03.940 That is a subtle distinction.

00:17:05.460 Is the OK sign, we can't use that anymore?

00:17:09.880 It's news to me.

00:17:11.100 But yeah, I mean, leave it to the left to ruin everything.

00:17:13.380 Um, they had the same thing with Pepe the Frog.

00:17:16.500 The Pepe the Frog was like a meme, a popular meme on 4chan and Reddit.

00:17:20.440 And then someone made, I think, a Nazi version of it.

00:17:23.360 And now everyone who's ever used the Pepe the Frog meme is a Nazi.

00:17:26.700 And it's just leave it to the left to ruin everything.

00:17:29.200 They've already ruined Hollywood.

00:17:30.660 They've ruined every, you know, city that they run.

00:17:33.020 Um, I just saw a L'Oreal commercial that came out today for a shampoo and the woman in the

00:17:38.300 commercial was wearing a hijab.

00:17:40.340 I don't get it.

00:17:41.900 You're kidding me.

00:17:42.820 That can't be true.

00:17:44.380 It's true.

00:17:45.080 It's true.

00:17:45.680 It came out today.

00:17:46.380 I tweeted about it.

00:17:47.380 That is unbelievable.

00:17:48.440 I have to go looking for that now.

00:17:50.640 That is almost beyond parody.

00:17:52.980 And that's the problem.

00:17:53.960 We are now beyond parody where even the OK symbol has become, uh, this Nazi thing or 0.66

00:18:01.480 this white supremacist thing.

00:18:03.160 Philip, you know, admitted and avowed racists like Richard Spencer, uh, they now use the symbol,

00:18:09.420 but it seems to me like it's ironic.

00:18:11.340 It seems to me 4chan is trolling PC culture, wherein even the most innocuous of symbols could

00:18:17.140 be deemed offensive.

00:18:18.220 And the PC culture totally took the bait.

00:18:20.820 So can we, can we use it or not?

00:18:22.340 Is someone, are they going to take a picture of this screenshot of me doing the symbol and

00:18:26.360 now I became a Nazi?

00:18:27.460 Is that what's going to happen?

00:18:29.000 Well, I think, I think that's, uh, generally how it works.

00:18:31.620 But I mean, where are they going to come after next?

00:18:33.180 Like the slug bug game?

00:18:34.560 I just don't get it.

00:18:35.460 They're ruining childhood.

00:18:37.000 Um, and the sad thing about this is that there's going to be some bad actor who eventually

00:18:41.240 comes along and starts using this as a racist symbol for real and they're going to ruin

00:18:45.220 it.

00:18:45.580 Yeah.

00:18:45.920 They're going to start ruining it just as much for the rest of us.

00:18:48.460 So we're, uh, you know, we're in trouble from the left and the right.

00:18:51.440 But they actually, the, the alt right in there being jerks about this kind of underscore

00:18:56.520 the same point for the mainstream media, which is that they don't get to tell me what totally

00:19:01.800 innocuous widespread symbols mean.

00:19:03.720 The mainstream media doesn't get to redefine the okay sign or the what's the next, the

00:19:07.880 thumbs up or something.

00:19:08.920 And likewise, Richard Spencer doesn't get to do that.

00:19:11.240 There are like 50 of these people in the entire world who are actually white to nationalists

00:19:16.120 who want to deport all the black people.

00:19:18.020 And they don't get to define widespread symbols for me.

00:19:21.300 They, they can, I've got two words for those people, the mainstream media and the alt right.

00:19:26.240 And those words are not happy birthday.

00:19:28.060 Okay.

00:19:28.360 That's all the time we have panel. 0.76

00:19:30.320 Thank you for being here.

00:19:31.240 Now it is time.

00:19:31.980 We have to get to the mailbag.

00:19:33.920 That is Philip Wegman from the Washington Examiner and Fleckis Talks.

00:19:37.620 Go check them out on YouTube.

00:19:38.840 Before we get to the mailbag, I'm sorry, Marshall, he's cutting me off.

00:19:42.660 It's, I'm hearing there.

00:19:43.460 It's like they're playing me off like at all the other awards shows.

00:19:46.400 Time's up for me.

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00:20:14.040 But who cares?

00:20:14.700 No one really cares about any of that stuff.

00:20:16.180 What we really care about is this.

00:20:18.920 And this Leftist Tears Tumblr, we now have a really wonderful vintage.

00:20:23.320 You have got to get this.

00:20:25.280 They're the Cory Booker Leftist Tears.

00:20:28.040 And I didn't know.

00:20:29.360 You never can quite tell when a vintage batch is going to come up.

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00:20:56.040 So you can gobble up all of Cory Booker's absurd performance the other day.

00:21:00.300 Okay, go to dailywire.com.

00:21:02.100 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:21:03.300 The first question comes from Clay Casasa.

00:21:16.760 There's a good Sicilian cake called Casata, but that's Clay Casasa.

00:21:19.940 Oh, voice of another kingdom, Knowles, I've loved movies since I was a kid and have started to write screenplays on final draft as a sort of creative hobby.

00:21:28.540 I have no delusions about getting into Hollywood on spec scripts, but I would like to make them good enough to submit to contests and see how they do.

00:21:35.460 I've enjoyed the throwback to old radio of another kingdom, and I'm wondering if that would be a legitimate way to get my stories to the masses.

00:21:43.460 I'm wary of the artistic trope of starting and stopping and never finishing projects.

00:21:48.880 Would you recommend finishing in the screenplay format or immediately shifting to scripting for podcasts?

00:21:54.280 Thanks, Clay.

00:21:55.620 I think that you should immediately start going into podcasts or whatever medium you can control to get your stories out there.

00:22:02.640 I say this for a few reasons.

00:22:04.420 You brought up the question of contests.

00:22:06.540 You have to ask yourself, what are you doing this artistic endeavor for?

00:22:10.240 If you're doing it just to amuse yourself and see if you have any talent and, you know, maybe some judge will tell you that you did a good job, then submit it to contests.

00:22:19.160 That's what that is good for.

00:22:20.920 And maybe they'll write you a note and say this was good.

00:22:23.000 And actually, if you want to work on your craft and get decent feedback, I suppose that's one way to do it.

00:22:28.360 If you are ready to release this material to an audience and you have a clear artistic vision and you just want people to see it, don't waste your time.

00:22:37.020 Those things go nowhere.

00:22:38.940 The odds of them working out are very low.

00:22:41.220 If you watch this show, you probably are slightly on the right or at least you're right curious and that's going to kill you in Hollywood.

00:22:47.540 It's really going to hurt you.

00:22:48.900 So I wouldn't do that.

00:22:50.180 It's just about getting the work out there.

00:22:54.100 There are few screenwriters and novelists who are more successful than Andrew Klavan.

00:22:58.960 And we've been called in for meetings on Another Kingdom with TV producers and people all around town, very big names.

00:23:07.020 Then they Google Andrew Klavan the night before and the meetings are icy cold.

00:23:10.880 And Another Kingdom has, I think, 17 or 1,800 five-star reviews.

00:23:15.980 It's got a gazillion downloads.

00:23:18.100 Don't waste your time on it.

00:23:19.340 Get the message out there.

00:23:21.660 You know, the trick of Hollywood, you go into any coffee shop and there are 5 million people writing screenplays on their laptops.

00:23:27.720 And not a one of them is going to get them made or very, very, very few of them are.

00:23:32.200 So do what you can to control your own distribution and you get an audience.

00:23:36.620 And that will tell you if it's good or not.

00:23:39.180 And it will tell you if you have a future in it, hopefully.

00:23:42.500 If you want to work on your craft, work with an editor, maybe submit it to contests.

00:23:46.020 But if you want people to see it, do it yourself.

00:23:48.600 From Garrett, Mr. Knowles, when is your book coming out in the audio book version?

00:23:53.160 It's like John Cage.

00:23:54.560 I heard it was quite the read.

00:23:56.400 Second, how do you respond to the opinion that morality is an evolutionarily derived trait which our ancestors used to cooperate with one another so that the race survived?

00:24:09.400 How do we know that morality, really what you're asking is how do we know that morality is real and it's not just some evolutionary tick that, you know, who cares what it is?

00:24:17.300 We've just developed it for some reason.

00:24:18.740 What this means, what you're suggesting by this evolutionary development, evolutionary morality, is that there is no good or bad.

00:24:27.640 There is no right or wrong.

00:24:29.400 Hamlet talks about this because if there isn't a morality, if there isn't an objective morality which human beings are sensing or intuiting or reasoning their way towards something,

00:24:40.460 if there isn't a standard outside of our own little brains, then nothing really is right or wrong.

00:24:45.120 And murdering and raping and pillaging, that isn't really wrong. 0.98

00:24:48.040 It's just not evolutionarily advantageous to certain groups.

00:24:51.980 So, therefore, I guess we shouldn't do it, but it doesn't really matter.

00:24:55.460 It's just not advantageous, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:57.360 Hamlet talks about this when he's talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

00:25:00.760 He says there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

00:25:05.600 This is this exact thesis.

00:25:07.800 And what you should know about that is that Hamlet is pretending to be insane when he says that.

00:25:12.380 That isn't Hamlet's actual outlook.

00:25:14.280 It isn't Shakespeare's outlook.

00:25:15.580 It's Hamlet pretending to be mad to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

00:25:19.180 So, the other aspect of this, of evolutionary morality, is it's totally unfalsifiable.

00:25:26.900 So, you know, we'll say, okay, why have I evolved to if I see a bus coming and there's a young woman in the way, 0.51

00:25:34.700 why would I risk my life and maybe give up my life to push her out of the way?

00:25:38.500 I guess there's an evolutionary advantage to that to groups because then she can pass on her genes. 0.99

00:25:43.560 Hopefully she can pass them on with me.

00:25:44.780 You know, that might be the other psychological advantage by natural selection.

00:25:49.180 But why, when I see an old woman about to be hit by a bus, do I also have the impulse to give up my life to push her out of the way? 0.98

00:25:55.620 Why do I have the reasonable understanding that it would be valiant and gallant and courageous for me to push her out of the way,

00:26:06.280 even if it gives up my own life?

00:26:07.520 Why is that a moral good?

00:26:09.200 There's no evolutionary explanation for that.

00:26:11.960 She can't have more children, presumably.

00:26:14.960 And the way that these people who advance this hypothesis explain that away is they say, oh, that's just a secondary trait.

00:26:21.520 That's just, yeah, there was a reason for that in your psychology and the way that evolution has made you.

00:26:26.900 But that is just a quirk from some other reason for the young woman or something.

00:26:31.920 It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:26:33.680 So nobody behaves as though morality, very few people behave as though morality is not real, as if there is no nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

00:26:41.960 A lot of people say that that's true, but they don't behave that way because we all know that that isn't true.

00:26:46.640 It doesn't make sense.

00:26:47.740 It ends up undercutting its own arguments.

00:26:49.440 And so whereas there may be many evolutionary explanations to a lot of things, if there isn't that outside of ourselves, if there isn't logic and reason and ideas and morality, moral standards outside of ourselves,

00:27:03.880 then we're all just babbling nonsense and nothing that we're saying makes any sense and you can't rely on your own faculties of reason to get along in the world.

00:27:11.600 But until we start doing that and we fully decay into just apes grunting at one another, then I don't think anyone is really taking that seriously.

00:27:20.760 From Noah.

00:27:21.660 Hi, Sir Michael Knowles.

00:27:23.680 You are my favorite guy in the news media.

00:27:25.540 Love your show.

00:27:25.880 Thank you very much.

00:27:26.460 It's very nice.

00:27:27.340 I grew up in the Foursquare Church raised by my grandparents who are missionaries to Malaysia and they hold no sympathies for the Catholic Church.

00:27:36.200 Or I hold no sympathies.

00:27:37.040 I don't know.

00:27:37.520 Either you or your grandparents don't hold sympathies.

00:27:39.180 I believe your argument that God having come to earth through a particular woman in a particular place and at a particular time should have a particular church is flawed.

00:27:47.920 Jesus chose 12 disciples to build his church, 12 men from every walk of life and every creed, men who on the day of Pentecost were surrounded by people of every nation and every tongue.

00:27:58.220 In other words, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, chose nobody in particular to build his church here on earth.

00:28:03.640 Michael, please tell me why I should be a Catholic or forever hold your peace.

00:28:07.140 A few points just to begin.

00:28:08.300 One, the purpose of this show is not to convert everybody to Catholicism, though that might be a secondary trait.

00:28:14.460 That might be a secondary effect of it.

00:28:17.680 And just there is one inaccuracy you said that they came from every creed.

00:28:21.840 They didn't come from every creed.

00:28:23.780 Part of all of the earth coming to Christ is seen in the story of the Magi.

00:28:28.720 They are supposed to have come from Persia, from other religions, other places.

00:28:31.900 Often they are represented as being one of each race.

00:28:35.140 But even your statement itself, Christ chose nobody, that is clearly not true.

00:28:40.780 Christ chose those people.

00:28:42.360 So he didn't choose nobody because they weren't nobody.

00:28:45.360 All of what you said is true.

00:28:47.400 If Christianity were a fable or a philosophy, that could stop there.

00:28:51.260 But Christianity isn't a fable or a philosophy.

00:28:53.860 It's a fact.

00:28:54.700 It doesn't begin in poetry.

00:28:57.160 It doesn't begin in mythology.

00:28:59.720 It begins in a thing that actually happened.

00:29:02.160 The birth of this guy, the life of this person that really happened.

00:29:06.320 It wasn't just cooked up in a writer's room somewhere in Hollywood.

00:29:10.760 It really happened.

00:29:11.980 Christianity is the greatest story ever told, but it isn't fiction.

00:29:14.740 And you are in the story.

00:29:15.920 So yes, Peter, Paul, Matthew, Judas, they all represent many things.

00:29:21.120 They are symbols, but they're symbols created by God who lived on earth in space and time.

00:29:27.420 And so are you.

00:29:28.300 You're in the story.

00:29:29.440 You are in the story, but you're also a real person.

00:29:32.040 The crucifixion and the resurrection and the feeding of the 5,000 and the woman at the well

00:29:35.860 and the walking on water, they all have tremendous symbolic and explanatory power.

00:29:40.440 They also really happened.

00:29:42.840 Same goes for you.

00:29:43.560 Your relationship to God is the relationship of Hamlet to Shakespeare.

00:29:49.240 In Christ, the playwright enters into his own story.

00:29:52.880 You cannot abstract yourself from the story of reality.

00:29:56.380 You can't get above it all.

00:29:57.720 You cannot lift yourself above it all.

00:29:59.700 You are in it.

00:30:01.040 Christ's church is universal.

00:30:03.120 That's what the word Catholic means.

00:30:04.480 It means universal.

00:30:05.880 It's also a real thing in time and space with real people.

00:30:09.080 Someday we will slip the surly bonds of earth and throw off this flesh, 1.00

00:30:12.120 but we aren't there yet.

00:30:13.560 Christ speaks forever about the importance of time.

00:30:16.980 My time has not yet come, the fullness of time.

00:30:19.460 He speaks of the bread being literally his body.

00:30:22.780 And he knows that this is a hard saying.

00:30:24.700 And he says this is a hard saying.

00:30:26.660 And the apostles can't stomach it.

00:30:28.420 Christ knows this.

00:30:29.200 And as tempting as it is to skip ahead, to deny the dramatic tension of our lives in time and space,

00:30:35.100 of the limits of human nature, we shouldn't do that.

00:30:37.980 There is a time for every purpose under heaven.

00:30:41.160 There's a time and a space for every purpose under heaven.

00:30:44.300 This is a real quirk of the modern era of modernity.

00:30:50.200 There's a reason that it coincided with the Protestant Revolution and all that has come after that.

00:30:55.160 It's a quirk of modernity to want to abstract ourselves, to pretend that we are not enfleshed,

00:31:00.620 that we are not in space and time, that the acts of value are not enfleshed.

00:31:05.760 I think a lot of times people would rather it be the ideas of the apostles rather than the acts of the apostles.

00:31:11.520 They would rather pretend that Christianity is just a fable.

00:31:17.060 It's a fable by which we can live our lives.

00:31:19.060 But it isn't a fable.

00:31:20.060 It really happened.

00:31:21.040 That's what makes it so real.

00:31:22.660 That's what makes the intersection of heaven and earth, of metaphysics and physics in Christ, so powerfully compelling.

00:31:28.780 It's why it's the greatest story ever told is because it's true.

00:31:31.980 It's nonfiction.

00:31:32.920 And you should live as though it's nonfiction, as though these things happened.

00:31:36.160 And there is consequence to what you do in time and space in relations to people.

00:31:42.320 Next question from Mark Levin.

00:31:45.420 Dear Swarthiest Man at The Daily Wire, Mr. Michael J. Knowles,

00:31:49.540 I am a recent economics graduate and have realized that I would love to turn my obsession with politics into a career.

00:31:55.160 What's the best way to get started?

00:31:56.420 As I'm in the New York metro area where it seems like the only available work is with progressive read socialist outlets.

00:32:03.380 All the best, Mark Levin.

00:32:04.660 Yes, that is really my name.

00:32:06.280 Can I leverage that?

00:32:07.800 Okay.

00:32:08.560 My first advice to you, you're an economics major,

00:32:10.920 is make a lot of money.

00:32:12.720 Don't go right into politics.

00:32:14.020 Make a lot of money.

00:32:15.360 Go and do something and make a lot of money to get you into politics.

00:32:19.680 Do that.

00:32:20.200 I'm from New York, and yes, it's very hard.

00:32:22.020 There are some Republican candidates there, though.

00:32:23.860 I still regularly advise candidates in the New York metro area on running for office and on their campaigns.

00:32:30.300 So there is that.

00:32:31.240 It's a little bit of a boutique industry because a lot of times Republicans don't win.

00:32:34.960 But I've been on plenty of winning campaigns in New York.

00:32:38.820 The reason you should make a lot of money right now is so that you don't need politics.

00:32:44.580 All the great politicians in history haven't really needed it.

00:32:48.700 They haven't needed to get reelected, and therefore they don't have to compromise themselves,

00:32:52.280 and therefore they actually achieve really good things.

00:32:55.280 It's also, it'll just make you more of a person.

00:32:57.320 If you spend your whole life working as a staffer in politics or as a, I don't know, as an elected official or something,

00:33:04.700 it really does wear away, I think, at you.

00:33:07.580 And it's good to just bring a life experience to politics.

00:33:11.700 So, you know, yesterday I had to miss the show because I was doing a film shoot.

00:33:16.920 Very rarely I still am an actor in Hollywood, and I still get cast.

00:33:20.480 I call it my semi-annual acting.

00:33:22.060 And it really brings a lot to my life to have something outside of politics.

00:33:27.740 Obviously, I spend most of my life with my head in politics.

00:33:31.080 I spend most of my life not writing political books, but it's good to have things outside of that, too.

00:33:37.480 And I think it will just, it'll make you a better politician or a better political analyst

00:33:41.360 or whatever you want to do in politics if you bring something outside of it.

00:33:45.760 That said, you will win any race you want if your name is Mark Levin and you move to the right district.

00:33:53.060 That is how things work, especially down ballot.

00:33:55.140 If you run for Congress or lower, certainly state representative or state Senate,

00:33:59.260 you will win if it's a Republican district and your name is Mark Levin

00:34:02.660 because people don't care about those races.

00:34:05.440 And inevitably, Mark Levin has 100% name recognition among Republicans,

00:34:10.100 and you have his name, and it'll just help you out.

00:34:13.140 So make a lot of money, but do it fast while Mark is still famous and important,

00:34:16.760 and then run for Congress or something.

00:34:18.700 You'll almost certainly win unless you run in New York, so you've got to move, too.

00:34:22.820 Okay, next question from Seth.

00:34:24.700 Dear Michael, king of trolls and champion of deplorables,

00:34:28.300 I often hear conservatives discuss the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values,

00:34:33.620 but I was wondering what texts or writings support this claim.

00:34:36.900 I want to be able to better defend this claim when I make it to my liberal colleagues.

00:34:41.360 Thanks for all the work you do for all of us deplorables out here, Seth.

00:34:45.860 Okay, so what do we mean by Judeo-Christian values?

00:34:49.980 Those are the values that come through Christianity into the secular and modern world,

00:34:55.620 ideas we get natural law and natural rights and all of that from.

00:34:58.540 Why are they called Judeo-Christian?

00:35:00.320 Well, because Christ was a Jew. 0.95

00:35:03.480 Christ is the Messiah from the Jewish people to all the nations of the world,

00:35:07.040 and all of the people who founded this country were Christian.

00:35:10.600 I have dear old Samuel Fuller, Dr. Fuller, my grandfather from the Mayflower.

00:35:17.440 He certainly believed that.

00:35:18.780 The country was founded up in Plymouth centuries before the Declaration of Independence was signed

00:35:24.380 by very serious Christian religious zealots to be a shining city on a hill.

00:35:30.480 Then, if you want founding documents to read, read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

00:35:38.660 The Declaration clearly states we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights,

00:35:43.740 including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:35:46.960 That alone is Christian. 0.75

00:35:48.460 How do we know it's Christian? 0.97

00:35:49.260 Because all of those people were Christian.

00:35:50.520 It is true that some were more deistic and a little less, more abstract in their Christianity.

00:35:56.620 But we know the country was founded as early as 1620 by Christians.

00:36:00.260 It was Christians who populated the place.

00:36:02.960 So that culture is, the politics is inseparable from that culture.

00:36:08.060 On the one hand, it is stated very clearly,

00:36:10.540 this is a constitution built for moral people and religious people,

00:36:14.420 and it couldn't survive beyond a moral and a religious people.

00:36:18.220 We also know all of them, beginning in the 17th century,

00:36:22.500 had these ideas and had this culture,

00:36:24.180 and that culture stewed in the United States, and it created this country.

00:36:28.820 So if you want to trace it back, I would trace the founding further back than 1776,

00:36:35.340 but look at the evolution.

00:36:36.560 This wasn't founded by a Muslim people, for instance.

00:36:39.520 This wasn't founded by Buddhist people.

00:36:41.460 It wasn't founded by Hindu people.

00:36:42.920 And the people who did that grew in a culture and had their vision of the world

00:36:47.320 formed by Christianity, which is the animating force of the West, 0.98

00:36:52.460 the meeting between Athens and Jerusalem, which gave us all of Western civilization.

00:36:59.160 From Marcus.

00:37:00.380 Hi, Michael.

00:37:01.680 I think this is possibly the most outrageous aspect of this Aziz story.

00:37:06.200 It's that they didn't finish their wine, which probably cost them $67 for the bottle.

00:37:10.400 Well, considering how expensive the restaurant is and how much the wine must cost,

00:37:14.940 would you ever leave a restaurant with wine still in your glass and still in your bottle?

00:37:20.160 I would never leave anywhere with wine still in my glass and still in my bottle.

00:37:24.440 That is a universal rule.

00:37:25.740 That is true at all places and all times.

00:37:28.100 Really, what a decadent culture that this guy's got money to burn

00:37:30.680 and he leaves booze sitting around.

00:37:32.100 A good Sicilian boy would never do that.

00:37:33.940 It's actually considered bad luck to leave wine on the table among a lot of different Italian regions

00:37:40.540 and that I think they're probably just explaining their own behavior.

00:37:43.880 From Andy.

00:37:45.000 Was it accidental that today you used the word indiscernible when you clearly meant indistinguishable?

00:37:51.400 Sorry, I know all the world loves a smart R's, but it made me wince.

00:37:55.200 I guess I'd said this about the sexes, that they were indiscernible. 1.00

00:37:57.440 I actually did mean indiscernible because I was alluding to a specific philosophical principle,

00:38:03.420 an ontological principle called the indiscernibleity of identicals,

00:38:07.540 that there cannot be separate objects or identities that have all of their properties in common.

00:38:13.800 This is also called Leibniz's Law after the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

00:38:19.040 So this issue with the genders is that people want to say that there are men and there are women,

00:38:27.780 there's feminism, and yet men and women are exactly the same.

00:38:31.920 They're indiscernible.

00:38:33.680 You couldn't tell the difference because they're identical.

00:38:36.300 But if men and women are exactly the same, then there's no such thing as women

00:38:39.420 because there aren't different categories.

00:38:42.360 If men and women are exactly the same, then there are only men. 0.85

00:38:45.160 And this is a minor example of all of feminism, which very often just hurts women 1.00

00:38:51.980 because, as Andrew Klavan says, it makes them take on male values.

00:38:55.820 But Descartes actually uses this same point of the indiscernibleity of identicals

00:39:00.800 to prove that he is different from his own body.

00:39:03.560 So it's kind of fun to, I don't know that I totally buy it, but it's very fun to look at that.

00:39:07.140 But that's what I was alluding to.

00:39:08.800 It's why I use that word when I discuss this issue.

00:39:10.920 It's because if you think about it, even two steps down the road into Leibniz's law,

00:39:16.340 then many of the claims made by feminists appear totally ridiculous. 1.00

00:39:21.740 From Samuel.

00:39:22.420 Dear Michael, as Catholics, we're supposed to find spiritual strength and comfort

00:39:25.600 in the sacraments and in prayer.

00:39:27.400 What happens when such resources seem to do nothing for us?

00:39:31.380 I've reached a period in my life where I do not think that I have a close relationship with God

00:39:35.140 that is necessary to live an ethical and happy life.

00:39:38.200 What should I do when Mass, Eucharist, reconciliation, and prayer

00:39:42.920 seem to have no positive effects on me?

00:39:45.240 Blessings in Christ.

00:39:47.020 This is going to sound blunt and mean, but it's just a little tough love.

00:39:51.260 Please don't take it.

00:39:52.280 I don't mean it in any mean way.

00:39:54.320 Stop thinking about yourself.

00:39:55.820 Stop it.

00:39:56.320 A man wrapped up in himself is a very small package indeed.

00:39:59.140 The sacraments aren't there so that you can feel really nice about yourself

00:40:02.100 or so that you can feel comforted.

00:40:03.900 I quote it frequently, but it deserves quoting again.

00:40:06.180 C.S. Lewis said, if you look for truth, you might find comfort.

00:40:09.000 If you look for comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort,

00:40:12.000 only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair.

00:40:16.160 The sacraments are there for the unity of heaven and earth and physics and metaphysics

00:40:20.120 and for you to touch God.

00:40:21.760 That's what Christ comes into being, to reconcile man to God and to redeem him.

00:40:26.960 There's a gratitude there, which if you just think about it a little bit,

00:40:30.380 you couldn't deny that gratitude.

00:40:32.220 Now, of course, not every time you go to Mass are you going to be enraptured

00:40:37.780 and having a numinous experience.

00:40:40.280 That won't happen.

00:40:41.160 It didn't happen to the Virgin Mary.

00:40:43.020 The angel Gabriel came down to Mary, appeared to Mary, said,

00:40:45.960 God himself will be conceived within you.

00:40:47.880 Then he went away and she went on with her life.

00:40:50.520 It's not like every moment was this total rapturous moment.

00:40:53.560 So you partake in the sacraments because they bring you closer to God,

00:40:59.600 but you'll have periods of doubt.

00:41:01.420 And a very subtle thing that begins to happen is once that emotional loveliness goes away

00:41:07.740 or it's not there every time, then you might question God himself.

00:41:11.240 You shouldn't do that.

00:41:11.980 That's your faith being founded in a place where it shouldn't be 0.99

00:41:14.720 or being placed where it shouldn't be.

00:41:16.520 But you see this in a number of more charismatic Protestant movements.

00:41:21.160 It's all about the feelings and, you know, the emotion of it

00:41:26.160 and the acoustic guitars and waving your hands in the air.

00:41:28.680 But that isn't there forever.

00:41:31.000 Nowhere in the Bible does it show that that occurs all of the time.

00:41:35.140 You know, God speaks to Jacob at certain times

00:41:38.160 and certainly he speaks to Abraham at certain times

00:41:40.080 when they're not just hanging out all the time.

00:41:42.440 So look outside of yourself.

00:41:45.000 I don't mean this as a criticism specifically of you.

00:41:47.140 I do it all the time too.

00:41:48.500 But look outside of yourself.

00:41:49.860 Look toward God.

00:41:51.340 And I think it'll get you out of your own head

00:41:53.780 and stop wondering why you aren't so happy all the time.

00:41:57.780 This is why, just a little bit of a side note,

00:42:00.340 whenever people at the holidays, like New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day,

00:42:04.520 they very often have a bad time

00:42:06.200 because you build these things up in your head

00:42:08.220 and it has to be perfect.

00:42:09.600 And I have to be enjoying myself all the time

00:42:11.020 and I have to be really happy all the time.

00:42:12.380 And why aren't I happy?

00:42:13.260 Why can't this be?

00:42:13.840 And you get miserable.

00:42:14.860 The holidays are miserable for a lot of people.

00:42:16.800 That isn't, stop worrying about why you aren't happy.

00:42:20.120 Stop worrying about why you aren't having pleasure

00:42:22.420 and why you aren't feeling the thing you think you're supposed to be feeling.

00:42:25.380 There's nothing you're supposed to be feeling.

00:42:26.900 You're just doing the thing.

00:42:28.040 You're doing it.

00:42:29.040 You're in communion with God.

00:42:31.740 That's good enough.

00:42:33.000 That's good enough even if you aren't feeling the chill

00:42:36.320 and emotional jolt of it at every single time.

00:42:40.700 Good luck.

00:42:41.540 God bless.

00:42:41.860 From Michael.

00:42:43.480 Is there ever an instance where government regulation

00:42:45.840 can fuel competition in the market?

00:42:47.580 I think specifically of the airline industry

00:42:49.200 which some claim is an oligopoly

00:42:51.480 that promotes a mirage of choice

00:42:53.960 and the illusion of competition.

00:42:57.380 More competition is better.

00:42:58.900 That's virtually always true.

00:43:00.980 And the example you cite actually proves it.

00:43:03.500 I travel on airplanes a fair bit

00:43:05.740 and it's a cliche to complain about air travel

00:43:09.540 because in many ways it is degrading.

00:43:11.100 They give you, I think, six square inches of space

00:43:14.240 for you to sit in on the plane.

00:43:15.900 I'm not a terribly gigantic guy

00:43:17.480 but I'm like, you know, obviously on three different people's laps

00:43:20.660 in the new way that airlines are laid out.

00:43:22.620 But that said, deregulation of the airlines

00:43:24.440 was a massive, massive success

00:43:26.340 particularly for the consumer.

00:43:29.020 The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978

00:43:31.720 freed up the airlines

00:43:34.000 and really broke up a lot of the legacy airlines

00:43:36.220 but the prices dropped tremendously.

00:43:38.380 Prices dropped $1,400.

00:43:39.700 Or, I'm sorry, prices dropped 40%

00:43:42.840 since the government set the prices

00:43:45.900 and controlled the airlines.

00:43:47.700 And economists estimate that today

00:43:50.520 the cheapest flight possible from L.A. to New York

00:43:53.280 would be $1,400 if not for deregulation.

00:43:56.380 I can get a round trip from L.A. to New York sometimes

00:43:58.380 for a couple hundred bucks.

00:44:00.060 Now, what does that mean?

00:44:01.500 It means that the things aren't as spacious anymore,

00:44:04.320 the waiting rooms aren't as spacious,

00:44:05.660 they don't serve you prime rib when you're on the plane.

00:44:09.120 That's because more people are using it.

00:44:10.720 It's much more efficient.

00:44:12.360 There are some airlines that make you pay for water.

00:44:14.400 Good. I'm glad.

00:44:15.460 I want to pay for water.

00:44:16.700 I don't want to be subsidizing that guy over there his water.

00:44:19.460 I want to have as much consumer choice as I possibly can.

00:44:23.040 Now you have to pay an upgrade fee

00:44:24.300 if you want to get like economy minus plus seven.

00:44:27.440 You know, I don't know.

00:44:27.980 You get an exit row you have to pay more for.

00:44:30.020 Good. I want it.

00:44:31.000 Because that means that when I'm a cheapskate

00:44:32.880 and I just want my quick flight back from New York or wherever,

00:44:36.620 I want to get the cheapest thing I can

00:44:38.560 and I'll go into my cocoon and sleep.

00:44:40.140 I was caught in the U.K. at a wedding

00:44:42.720 and through a mistake of the travel agent and of me,

00:44:47.520 my return ticket wasn't valid.

00:44:49.960 And I got stuck in the U.K.

00:44:51.060 I had to come back here to do the show

00:44:52.500 and the flight was 15 hours away.

00:44:55.240 I had to buy a new flight direct London Heathrow to Los Angeles

00:45:00.080 with 15 hours before the flight.

00:45:02.040 Most of the flights were thousands of dollars,

00:45:04.560 but a cheapo airline had one for 600 bucks

00:45:07.080 that I was able to buy

00:45:08.620 because of all of the competition in the airlines.

00:45:10.560 And it was a miserable flying experience

00:45:12.080 and I got to save a lot of money.

00:45:14.100 That is really good.

00:45:15.680 Whenever you see people complaining because of these things,

00:45:19.740 it's easy to get lulled into how nice and luxurious

00:45:23.360 a lot of accommodations are these days.

00:45:27.360 Don't forget how bad it could be.

00:45:29.000 Don't forget what will happen.

00:45:31.140 If the government comes in and starts heavily re-regulating

00:45:33.460 these airlines,

00:45:34.800 you're going to go back to before 1978

00:45:36.480 and yes, they might have served the primary,

00:45:38.840 but you paid a lot more money.

00:45:40.320 And the reason those lounges and those airlines weren't full

00:45:43.480 is because nobody could afford to fly.

00:45:45.420 So more competition, bring it on.

00:45:47.100 And if you want a nicer seat,

00:45:48.400 pay a little bit more money.

00:45:49.480 Okay, that's our show.

00:45:50.620 We will have a show tomorrow,

00:45:52.940 a Friday show because we couldn't do it yesterday.

00:45:54.780 So make sure you tune in.

00:45:56.140 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:45:56.740 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:45:57.740 I'll see you then.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 18, 2018

Ep. 89 - And The #FakeNews Awards Winner Is…Us!

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