The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Good news. Good news. I know things have been a little tough lately.

00:00:05.400 What with the 20-month lockdown and the supply chain crisis and the energy crisis

00:00:11.000 and the historic levels of inflation. But we finally got some good news.

00:00:17.820 The average price of a gallon of gas went down two cents this week.

00:00:24.020 And the Democrats are bragging about this. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,

00:00:30.480 DCCC, posted a graph to Twitter showing a steep decline in the price of gas. You can see the

00:00:37.680 slope goes way, way down. The problem is that the whole y-axis of the graph on the left only covers

00:00:46.200 four cents. So it's not zero to $3.40. It's $3.37 and a half cents to $3.41 and a half cents.

00:00:59.740 And then the drop is only two cents, even though gas has gone up by more than a dollar since Joe

00:01:06.060 Biden took office. This reminds me of the White House bragging about the average cost of a Fourth

00:01:11.880 of July barbecue, decreasing by 16 cents on his watch. That seems like a lot now compared to

00:01:17.540 the amount that gas has gone down. Pretty pathetic, but it's the best accomplishment that they can

00:01:24.720 point to. And if the polls are any indication, the American people are taking note. I'm Michael

00:01:30.360 Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:31.400 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Red Outlaw,

00:01:42.400 who says, the Democrats' only argument for abortion is no take backsies.

00:01:49.840 That is actually a more articulate version of the case that the pro-abortion lawyer made at the Supreme

00:01:55.560 Court the other day. Couldn't point to the Constitution. Couldn't point to law. Couldn't

00:02:01.420 make a moral argument. Just said, well, hey, they made this decision 50 years ago and then 30 years

00:02:08.060 ago. No take backsies. That's stare decisis precedent. No take backsies. Not a very compelling

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00:03:25.700 Ring.com slash Knowles. Gas has gone down by two cents. Merry Christmas. I guess Christmas came

00:03:31.960 early for you, you grumbling ingrates. And by the way, if you are having trouble affording presents for

00:03:40.320 your family this Christmas season, or finding presents even with the supply chain crisis, why then

00:03:46.360 you can just join in the novel strategy that appears to be very successful that a lot of people

00:03:52.620 in Democrat cities around the country are doing, which is putting on ski masks and busting into

00:03:57.880 stores and stealing everything. And the great news about that strategy is that if you do it,

00:04:03.940 you, as long as you're a member of a favorite group, you, you almost certainly will not be prosecuted

00:04:09.320 for it. People will just look on as it happens and then let you get away with all of the stuff.

00:04:13.240 Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary was asked about this strange phenomenon of people

00:04:19.220 busting into stores, sometimes in broad daylight and just stealing everything out of the store.

00:04:23.800 And the cops don't do anything. And the DAs don't do anything. Even the security guards in the stores

00:04:27.940 aren't really allowed to do anything. And Jen Psaki was asked, what exactly is causing this spate of

00:04:34.980 crimes? When a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store,

00:04:41.680 a CVS, a Nordstrom, a Home Depot until the shelves are clean. You think that's because of the pandemic?

00:04:47.880 I think a root cause in a lot of communities is the pandemic. Yes.

00:04:51.700 This is why the root cause of criminals organizing into gangs and stealing everything from toiletries to

00:05:01.400 Gucci handbags and everything in the middle and television sets and everything, sneakers,

00:05:06.200 is because of the pandemic. The pandemic when the government just paid people to sit at home and

00:05:12.060 not do any work. That's, that's why. Because I'm sure all of these criminals were really productive

00:05:18.440 members of society before 2021. And just, they're just down on their luck. And that's why they've got

00:05:23.960 to make out with a cart full of Gucci handbags after throwing a rock through a window, right?

00:05:28.580 Right. The, the problem with Jen Psaki's analysis here, other than the manifest dishonesty and

00:05:35.640 insincerity is, is if she at all believes what she's saying, and I think the Democrats to some

00:05:41.800 degree do, they are taking the material view of man. Barack Obama used to do this. They would say,

00:05:49.920 hey, Obama, how come things are so bad in Syria and Iraq and they seem to be getting worse actually on

00:05:55.600 your, on your watch. And Barack Obama would say, well, it's because they don't have iPhones.

00:06:00.960 It's because they don't have enough jobs. But once we get them higher paying jobs and once we get them

00:06:05.940 iPhones and once we get them all the gizmos of American culture, then they'll stop waging jihad.

00:06:12.740 And it's a mistake that not only the modern American left makes, it's actually a mistake that

00:06:19.080 goes all the way back to the foundations of liberalism, even classical liberalism or whatever you

00:06:24.300 want to call it. This goes back centuries. It's the mistaken view of man as primarily an economic

00:06:30.620 being, right? The idea that stuff is the main thing that motivates us. That's what most of our

00:06:39.040 modern society is based on, on the left and on the right. And on the left, you see this with

00:06:44.040 communism. Once the people's material needs are met, then we'll all live in utopia. And with capitalism,

00:06:49.680 you see that all people are really motivated by is just making more money and buying more gizmos and

00:06:53.920 having more stuff. But I don't think that's true. I don't think that men are entirely or even

00:07:00.880 primarily motivated by stuff. I think that we're motivated by dignity, by spirit, by morality,

00:07:07.280 by affection for our neighbors, by a sense of loyalty and duty to our community all the way up to God.

00:07:13.120 I think we're motivated by a lot of different things. I don't think that we are primarily just

00:07:17.120 stuff. You know, I think we're stuff, but we're also spirit. And I don't think that this is going to

00:07:23.120 solve our problems. We are more than just consumers. Look at the West, the decadent West,

00:07:29.800 which has all of our material needs met, is burning our, our countries down. We are, we are

00:07:36.940 collapsing. It's not because we're not rich enough. The biggest problem afflicting the poor in America

00:07:43.440 is obesity. We've got a lot of stuff, but because we're viewing ourselves primarily as economic actors

00:07:49.720 rather than spiritual or metaphysical actors, then we're losing sense of what really matters

00:07:54.960 in society. We're going kooky. I mean, our countries are falling apart right now. All of the rights,

00:08:01.940 the traditions, the way of life that we have cherished in this country for a very long time

00:08:05.440 are disappearing before our eyes. And the ruling class is telling us they're doing it.

00:08:10.400 Joe Biden's COVID czar went on MSNBC yesterday and was asked,

00:08:15.180 after all of these measures, after two years of two weeks to slow the spread,

00:08:21.480 do you think that we will have vaccine passports, not just to go into the restaurant,

00:08:27.440 not just for international travel, but for domestic travel as well? And the COVID czar says, yeah, maybe.

00:08:33.460 Why the hesitancy to require proof of vaccination for domestic travel? That's something that,

00:08:39.020 especially with the rise of this new variant, we've talked to a number of public health experts,

00:08:42.540 including some who advise the administration, who say that is, in their estimation, the very next

00:08:47.940 step that should be taken to try to prevent further spread. Well, we do, as I talked about,

00:08:53.540 have those tight requirements on the international travel. We have the workplace requirements.

00:08:58.020 Jonathan, we'll continue to look at all options and everything's on the table.

00:09:00.960 We're going to look at all options and everything's on the table. Of course it is.

00:09:04.580 There are a lot of conservatives and even liberals in America who say, oh no, that couldn't happen here.

00:09:10.300 We're not going to take off the tinfoil hat, Alex Jones. Okay. You're not going to have to show

00:09:17.160 your passport to get on a domestic flight. You're not going to be just locked in and quarantined in

00:09:22.980 your state or hometown because you don't want to take the Fauci out you for the virus that poses

00:09:28.140 very little threat to the vast majority of people. It's already happening. It's happening in Canada

00:09:35.000 right now. Canada's passing these rules. Look at what's going on in Australia. We played a clip

00:09:39.320 yesterday of a news report that some men tried to flee a quarantine COVID camp in Australia and

00:09:48.680 they basically sent in the Marines. There were cops everywhere looking for these fugitives who escaped

00:09:55.220 the prison camp that they were in to prevent them from breathing the same air as other people.

00:10:01.740 It is happening right now. The only reason that you think it can't happen is because of a failure

00:10:09.800 of imagination. And this is something, we mentioned it a little bit yesterday. This is something that

00:10:14.860 the right needs to get better at understanding. The left has no failure of imagination. The left

00:10:23.600 has gone from the Democratic presidential candidate in 2011, all of the Democratic presidential

00:10:31.980 candidates, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, all the ones before them, Joe Biden, then the vice

00:10:37.880 president, them saying that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman, man and a woman,

00:10:42.440 which are hard and fast sexes that cannot be changed. We went from that 10 years ago to marriage

00:10:53.380 is completely redefined. Sex is completely redefined for the purpose of the Civil Rights Act. And there's

00:10:58.240 no such thing as same sex bathrooms increasingly at any institution in America. The left did that in

00:11:03.240 10 years. They fundamentally redefined reality and convinced basically the whole country to live in

00:11:10.080 a delusion. 10 years ago, what were the conservatives saying? Oh, come on. Some of us were saying this is a

00:11:16.440 slippery slope. Here's what it's going to lead to. But a lot of people on the squishy side and the

00:11:19.960 moderate side and even the moderate liberal said, oh, come on, that's never going to happen.

00:11:23.420 It's never going to happen, but it is. And I think conservatives need to be a little more

00:11:28.180 imaginative too, especially on Roe v. Wade. We've been so narrow. We've said all that we're going to

00:11:32.120 do on Roe v. Wade is overrule the case. And then maybe at that point, you know, it'll go back to the

00:11:36.900 states and we're just going to leave it there. No, we're not. We want to ban it throughout the country.

00:11:40.700 We can ban it throughout the country. We can do it. Don't learn a lesson from the left.

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00:13:23.180 is continuing to run the show. Joe Biden actually made a joke about this yesterday. He was,

00:13:29.480 do we have the clip? Joe Biden was talking about how, how he sees Dr. Fauci more than he sees his

00:13:35.640 wife. And he was asking, Hey, who's the real president here? I've seen more of Dr. Fauci

00:13:41.620 than I have my wife. We kid each other, but, uh, they look who's president Fauci. Um, but all

00:13:48.360 kidding aside, I sincerely mean it. All kidding. All, all kidding aside. I sincerely mean it. I

00:13:54.160 sincerely mean it too, Joe Biden. Yeah. Dr. Fauci is the president. He's got more power than you do.

00:13:59.480 It is much more likely that you will be thrown out of your job, Joe Biden, than that Dr. Fauci

00:14:04.440 will. Seven presidents have come along. Dr. Fauci has remained. All right. And he'll probably

00:14:09.920 remain into the next one too. So in these jokes, there's a lot of truth and Dr. Fauci is still

00:14:15.460 running the show. He was asked yesterday about these requirements. So hold on, you're going to

00:14:20.900 require proof of vaccination, at least for some air travel, for anyone who wants to get into the

00:14:26.360 country. The Omicron is threatening the entire world. All cower in fear from the Omicron.

00:14:33.360 Hey, what about all those illegals pouring across the border?

00:14:36.440 As you advise the president about the possibility of new testing requirements for people coming into

00:14:42.640 this country, does that include everybody? The answer is yes, because you know that the new,

00:14:50.160 the new regulation, if you want to call it that, is that anybody and everybody who's coming into the

00:14:56.500 country needs to get a test within 24 hours of getting on the plane to come here.

00:15:01.800 Well, what about people who don't take a plane and just these border crossers coming in in huge

00:15:06.180 numbers? You know, that's a different issue. For example, when you talk, we still have Title 42 with

00:15:10.660 regard to protection at the border. So there are protections at the border that you don't have

00:15:15.280 the capability, as you know, of somebody getting on a plane, getting checked, looking at a passport.

00:15:20.300 We don't have that there, but we can get some degree of mitigation.

00:15:24.180 This is great stuff from Peter Doocy. He's got a lot of wins in the White House briefing room,

00:15:28.680 but this one was great because he just lured Fauci in. He said, so Dr. Fauci, you're telling me that

00:15:35.780 these new testing requirements are going to be for everybody. Absolutely, Peter. They're for

00:15:44.040 everybody, for every single person, because Omicron is a big, scary thing and we got to stop it. So

00:15:51.360 everyone has to submit to these new rules. Okay. What about the thousands of illegals pouring across

00:15:58.800 the border every single day? Well, that's a different issue. What do you mean that's a different

00:16:03.300 issue? There's like a million of them coming up, more than a million of them. I think in August,

00:16:08.100 there were more than a million illegal aliens who poured across the border that we're not really

00:16:12.420 processing and it's all haphazard and a lot of them are not getting caught. More than, what are we

00:16:17.960 going to have? Two million people pouring across the border this way? So you're saying, you're saying

00:16:22.580 that for the, I don't know, let's say million legal immigrants who come over, they need all the

00:16:27.400 testing. They need all the requirements. Let's say for the countless millions of travelers that are

00:16:32.020 coming back and forth. Testing requirements, heavy screening. But the two million foreign nationals

00:16:41.960 that we know absolutely nothing about from impoverished, often failed, semi-failed states,

00:16:47.400 that it doesn't matter. No big deal. Yeah, that's a different issue, Peter.

00:16:51.380 Yeah. I think he's giving away the game here. Okay, these rules are completely arbitrary.

00:16:58.900 They have very little to do with public health. They have everything to do with controlling you.

00:17:07.740 They don't really believe this stuff. Joe Biden the other day, I was going to get to this later,

00:17:13.920 but I guess it really fits in now. Joe Biden the other day was caught in a store that required masks

00:17:21.520 walking around without a mask on. There's a clip of it. There's a clip. You can actually see being

00:17:27.920 filmed through a glass doorway that says required face covering. Like right next to it, you see Joe

00:17:34.900 Biden walking around without his face covering on. And here's another gotcha video. Well, it's a gotcha

00:17:41.380 video for a purpose because, yeah, I think that the required face covering is BS. When I see it in

00:17:46.720 stores, I don't follow it. When I'm walking around an airport, I don't follow it. I don't pay any

00:17:51.640 attention. Very rarely does anyone bother me because no one takes this seriously, including and

00:17:57.260 especially the people who are forcing these rules on you. But they're still going to force them on you

00:18:03.040 because it's an arbitrary exercise of power and their power has grown immeasurably over the past two

00:18:09.600 years and it's going to continue to grow. And you're not allowed to ask any questions about it.

00:18:13.860 Speaking of things you're not allowed to ask about, Whoopi Goldberg is very upset by the prospect of

00:18:21.660 overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. And she took to her panel of cackling hens on

00:18:27.860 the view to voice her main arguments against the very real possibility that Roe will be overturned.

00:18:39.120 Do any of you men have any eggs or the possibility of carrying a fetus? How dare you talk about what a

00:18:46.880 fetus wants? You have no idea. Now, I'm fine if you disagree with abortion. I have no problem with

00:18:56.440 that. My problem comes when you tell me what I need to do with my doctor and my family. How dare you?

00:19:04.180 So a lot of confusion and problems with Whoopi's pseudo argument here. The first one is she just

00:19:10.900 hasn't caught up to this because she's a liberal from decades ago and not a liberal from today.

00:19:16.280 Meaning she still thinks that the argument, men can't have babies and so men can't have an opinion

00:19:22.640 on abortion. She thinks that still is coherent in the new leftist view of the world. But the new

00:19:28.520 leftist view of the world is a transgender view of the world in which we are told that men can have

00:19:32.440 babies and can have a uterus and do have eggs. So that part is going to fall flat with some of the

00:19:37.840 younger viewers. But the cackling boomer hens who are watching the show, they will love that.

00:19:43.120 Then she moves on and she does this thing that liberals do. And I bet it's sincere, but it's so

00:19:49.340 stupid, which is she says, look, I have no problem, okay, if you oppose abortion. That's fine. I'm so

00:19:56.460 open-minded. I respect your opinion. But the minute that you do anything about that, the minute you let

00:20:03.460 your view of abortion affect anything in your life or the outer world, then I've got a big problem

00:20:08.680 with it. I don't, I don't mind if you have that view so long as you keep it trapped in your head

00:20:13.300 and never, never allow that to, uh, to express itself in, in public life. How dare you men and

00:20:22.140 pro-lifers? How dare you? How dare I? How dare I? I would tell, I will tell you how I dare.

00:20:28.040 I am a citizen. So I have rights, at least in theory, to participate in the government of this

00:20:35.820 country. I have a brain. I have faculties of reason. So I can tell that a baby is a baby,

00:20:43.460 that a baby is a unique human life from the moment of conception. And I have a conscience,

00:20:50.420 at least some, something of a functioning conscience. So I know that it's wrong to kill

00:20:55.600 innocent humans. That is how I dare. Those three things. Self-government, the ability to perceive

00:21:05.460 the world with at least some degree of accuracy, and the ability to make moral judgments. That's,

00:21:11.720 that's the same way that Whoopi dare make some arguments, except she is denying my right as a

00:21:18.400 citizen. She is neglecting and, and trying to deny the scientific reality of the baby. And she is

00:21:27.680 obtusely ignoring the moral reality of killing a baby. That's how. Now there, there's kind of a,

00:21:36.080 a deeper aspect to Whoopi's stupid remarks, which is, she says, how do you know what the fetus wants?

00:21:46.780 Right. The fetus, the unborn baby is not conscious that the baby could not tell you what the baby

00:21:55.240 wants. Like this morning, I was having breakfast with my baby. My baby is almost 11 months old, but he's

00:22:00.980 still not really talking. He says mama and dada. And he didn't like what we had for breakfast. And all he

00:22:06.100 wanted to do was eat blueberries. I wish that I could have asked my little baby, hey, little baby, what,

00:22:12.000 what do you want to have for breakfast instead? But I, he can't articulate his wants and he's an

00:22:17.340 11 month old baby, really a 20 month old baby. When you factor in the nine months that he was

00:22:21.600 gestating. So surely a six month old baby in the womb can't articulate what it wants. So how do you

00:22:26.360 know what the baby wants? How do you know the baby doesn't want to be murdered in the womb and then

00:22:32.180 scooped out by some psycho doctor? How do you know that? I actually do know that the baby doesn't want

00:22:37.340 that. The way that I know that is because in my understanding of the world, which is the

00:22:43.540 traditional understanding of the world that crafted our country and our entire civilization,

00:22:47.680 man has a proper end. There is a purpose to life. There is, the leftist tears tumbler is for

00:22:57.620 drinking leftist tears out of. Delicious. The leftist tears tumbler is not for hitting a baseball.

00:23:03.600 The leftist tears tumbler is not for writing a novel. That's not its proper end. And man has

00:23:08.020 a proper end too. And society has a proper end too. And we can know actually what is good for

00:23:13.080 people and we can know what leads to flourishing and we can know what is just and right. And in the

00:23:18.300 radical subjectivist world of Whoopi Goldberg, and I don't mean to just single out her and The View

00:23:23.880 and all these libs who are making these arguments, you can't know the proper end of man. And so it's all

00:23:28.020 just willfulness. And if we want to kill the baby, how dare you tell me that I'm not allowed to pursue

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00:24:54.820 Celebrate the moments that matter most. I was thinking about this Dobbs case, which is going

00:25:00.620 to dominate our political discourse all the way up through the midterms, probably no matter how the

00:25:06.760 case turns out, especially if they overrule Roe and Casey. This is going to be a dominant issue,

00:25:12.300 at least in the messaging of the campaigns. If we fail to overrule Roe and Casey,

00:25:16.580 probably the right wing is going to say that the conservative movement is a failure and they're

00:25:21.200 going to try to create something from scratch. But this is going to dominate. I thought, why are we

00:25:26.600 always speaking past each other here? And why does the pro-abortion side ascribe such bad intentions

00:25:36.560 to the pro-life side, that we hate women and we're misogynists and all this? Whereas the pro-life

00:25:42.760 side, I think, just believes the pro-abortion side is deluded and has been led astray by Satan,

00:25:47.960 right? But it's usually through their own ignorance. I supported abortion for my teenage

00:25:52.440 years until, I'm trying to remember when I got woke on abortion. I was probably 20 or 21. I was

00:25:57.660 having lunch with a bioethicist and she started to convince me that my arguments were insane and I

00:26:03.100 started to see the light. So I understand how people can be on the pro-abortion side.

00:26:06.980 I think the hardest thing for pro-abortion people to get about the pro-lifers is that

00:26:14.960 we treat abortion with both more gravity and less gravity than they do. What I mean by that is

00:26:24.640 we treat it obviously with more gravity because we recognize the enormity of the crime and sin of

00:26:30.660 abortion. But we treat it with less gravity because we tend to believe in God. We tend to believe in

00:26:37.280 Jesus. We tend to believe in the unfathomable mercy and grace of God by which you can be forgiven even

00:26:44.780 for so enormous a sin. And the libs generally deny that. What the libs have done, and especially in the

00:26:52.020 case of abortion, is replace the Christian moral vision, Christianity which has prohibited abortion from

00:26:57.800 the first century, going back to the very earliest days of the church, you see it in the didache,

00:27:02.380 the earliest catechism from the second century. They've replaced the Christian moral vision

00:27:07.660 with their own willfulness, right? Instead of thy will be done, as you say in the Our Father prayer,

00:27:13.480 the libs say, my will be done. This is like in Milton's Satan. In John Milton wrote Paradise Lost

00:27:20.040 and his character of Satan is cast down into hell and he says, well, it's not such a big deal.

00:27:23.820 Well, who cares if I lost heaven? The mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven or heaven

00:27:29.940 a hell. It doesn't matter that I'm in hell right now. It's just the mind. It's all just in the mind.

00:27:34.060 And so I am going to craft my own reality. Sound familiar? I'm going to craft, I'm going to deny the

00:27:39.740 reality in front of me. I'm going to construct my own reality. And it doesn't work. Everywhere Milton's

00:27:45.040 Satan turns is more wrath and more despair. It doesn't work when people deny the reality.

00:27:52.160 I'm a, if I'm a man, I'm a man, but I'm really a woman. I'm an I am you. I, I, who are you fooling?

00:27:58.180 Who are you trying to convince? The more, those people who were protesting for abortion the other

00:28:02.760 day who were screaming and shrieking and taking either real or pretend abortion pills and yelling

00:28:08.440 and shouting and pulling their hair out. Did they look happy? Did they look contented? Did they look

00:28:12.540 like they believed the nonsense that they were spewing? No, not at all. And, and I think what

00:28:18.280 motivates their fear for, of acknowledging moral reality is they fear that by acknowledging moral

00:28:24.480 reality, they'll have to face their sins, which is true. And they're going to have to suppress some

00:28:29.360 of their base desires, their disordered desires, which is also true. And they think this is going

00:28:33.640 to be a big burden. And so they just keep their heads in the sand. But the irony is it will relieve

00:28:39.200 your burdens if you acknowledge reality, obviously on the issue of abortion, but even beyond that,

00:28:45.580 even on the issue, I don't know, sexual confusion or political confusion. I think a lot of people

00:28:50.280 feel guilty that they had abortions because a lot of people have had abortions and they think

00:28:53.180 I can't become pro-life because that will mean that I have to face up to the fact that I killed my

00:28:57.920 kid and I could never be forgiven for that. But the thing is you actually can be forgiven for that.

00:29:03.820 And in order to be forgiven for that, you need to have some sense of the sin and you need to

00:29:08.440 repent. The irony is that you are already carrying a heavy burden. All of these people are by the

00:29:15.880 weight of their own sins. Okay. And they have no prospect for atonement until they, and for

00:29:24.140 absolution until they, until they face up to that. But if you do face up to that, it can all go away.

00:29:30.820 This is when, when Jesus says in the gospels, he says, my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

00:29:36.140 But that's what he's talking about. And it's a, it's a misunderstanding. I wish, I wish they could

00:29:41.080 get it through their heads because they're causing themselves and the country a lot of undue pain.

00:29:46.900 Speaking of weird sex stuff, did you know that like everybody is gay now? Did you know like every

00:29:52.080 single person, not just every single person in the country, that's not quite true, but Gen Z and the

00:29:57.540 people coming after them are super duper gay and all the other like LBT, all of them.

00:30:05.100 Pascal Emanuel Gobry from the Ethics and Public Policy Center just posted this graph from Statista.

00:30:10.680 Shows in 2014, uh, the percentage of the population that identified as LGBT. You saw it was

00:30:18.880 little, like somewhere around 2% for the silent generation born before 1946, somewhere around

00:30:26.760 two and a half percent for baby boomers, somewhere around maybe 3% for Gen X and about six or 7%

00:30:32.560 for millennials. Okay. All right. Fair enough. Then 2017, they took the same snapshot,

00:30:40.480 remained about the same for the silent generation of the boomers and Gen X, but it went up for

00:30:44.700 millennials. Went up to like 8%. Then they're doing that now. Stays about the same for silent

00:30:51.260 generation and Gen X and the boomers. Goes up even more to like 9.1% for millennials, 15.9% for Gen Z.

00:31:03.940 I'm not denying that there is some, uh, potentially natural basis for, uh, sexual desires and things.

00:31:11.440 Human beings are complicated. It's a fallen world. Everyone's got some strange,

00:31:14.700 sort of, uh, aspects to their psyche and especially sex is so important to human nature,

00:31:19.300 but there's got to be like some kind of social factor here, right? Unless Alex Jones is completely

00:31:26.480 right and there's just something in the water and they're turning the fricking frogs gay and

00:31:29.760 they're turning the fricking zoomers gay. Clearly there is some kind of social, philosophical,

00:31:35.560 psychological, spiritual factor going on here. And I pointed out not to castigate anything or anyone,

00:31:43.000 just to point out the conservatives were right. When, when the conservatives said this is a slippery

00:31:49.640 slope and you know, these kinds of, uh, sexual ideologies are going to spread throughout the

00:31:54.780 society. And then the Libs said that's not true and that's ridiculous. And what are you talking about?

00:31:58.720 It, it was true. We were, we were right. Society is never neutral. And this is a lesson, not just

00:32:07.400 for the Libs to learn. This is a lesson for the libertarians to learn as well. And some of the

00:32:12.680 conservatives who want to say, well, look, I'm going to do me, you do you. What you do doesn't

00:32:17.740 affect me. Everyone should just do whatever they want as long as it doesn't scare the horses in the

00:32:21.860 streets. It's not how it works. We live in society. We develop based on other people.

00:32:30.520 Very few people in the history of the world has, have ever lived alone in the woods. We live in

00:32:34.640 society and the way that other people behave, the way that other people structure their desires even

00:32:40.500 are going to affect everyone else. And that's why these problems are not just individual and

00:32:45.840 they're not even just cultural to be addressed by the private enterprise. They're political.

00:32:50.140 They're properly political as well. And to answer Whoopi Goldberg's question, how dare you

00:32:55.660 espouse an opinion about this? How dare I? Because I got a brain and I got a conscience and because I

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00:33:48.120 immediately. We will be right back with The Mailbag. Welcome back to my favorite time of the week,

00:34:05.920 The Mailbag. First question from Nick. Oh no. Hi Michael, Nick here, but not the Nick you're used to.

00:34:11.660 Thank goodness. I'm glad to hear that. There's that Nick who writes in with a lot of strange

00:34:15.820 questions. Okay, this Nick says, honestly, I think that Nick is just Drew Klavan trying to troll you,

00:34:20.680 very possibly. To my question, I have been unhappily married for years. I'm good at putting

00:34:26.220 on a facade and hiding my unhappiness from everyone. I find myself leaning closer and closer to divorce.

00:34:32.120 Without going into the nuanced details of my marriage, would you say that unhappiness with how

00:34:36.820 I'm treated in my marriage is enough grounds for divorce? No, it's not. It's not. You're asking a

00:34:44.800 Catholic this question, so something tells me you have an inkling of what I'm going to say,

00:34:49.060 because the Catholics say no divorce. Don't get divorced. Some marriages are not legitimate

00:34:54.300 marriages in the first place, which is why you can have annulment investigations. In some cases,

00:34:59.340 it is prudent and even desirable. It would actually be a good thing to have a kind of separation,

00:35:04.540 but divorce itself is a no-no. You're not allowed to do it. I certainly wouldn't get divorced over

00:35:10.500 this issue of unhappiness. Unhappiness. What does that mean? I have no doubt maybe you're being

00:35:14.940 treated poorly in your marriage. You say, look, I'm very good at hiding it, but I'm going to leave

00:35:21.840 my wife. What do you mean? It doesn't sound like you're very good at hiding it. You're not going to

00:35:24.580 be hiding it very well when you leave your wife and family, are you? I don't think so. I think it's

00:35:29.620 good to not complain all the time. I think it's good to just deal with it and grow in patience.

00:35:36.200 Patience is a virtue, but I don't think it's very virtuous if the end game of that is you're just

00:35:42.000 going to leave your family. I don't mean to make light of you having a difficult marriage. Some

00:35:46.220 people do have difficult marriages. Maybe you're being disrespected. Maybe that's because you are

00:35:53.120 not doing something right. Maybe it's because you're not leading your household in the right way.

00:35:56.200 Maybe it's because you just got a bad wife and she isn't dealing with her own problems. I don't

00:36:00.520 know. What I would recommend is marriage counseling, obviously. What I would recommend to, at a more

00:36:08.080 basic level, do the marriage counseling, but at a more basic level, I think you and your wife ought to

00:36:14.740 be honest about these things. I don't think you should just hide everything up. I think you do need

00:36:18.180 to communicate. You need to answer a really basic question. What is marriage? Maybe you guys have

00:36:25.740 different views of what marriage is, and that's a big problem, and that can really harm marriages

00:36:29.640 when you go into it not really having the same idea of what marriage is. My view of marriage is

00:36:35.080 that it is indissoluble. It is an indissoluble bond, and when I get under my wife's skin, she can't

00:36:41.280 divorce me. She can murder me. She is more likely to murder me than to divorce me because we have the

00:36:47.940 same idea of what marriage is. But today, for a lot of people, they think marriage is just something

00:36:53.840 you do, and maybe you don't even share bank accounts, and maybe you don't, I don't know,

00:36:57.440 maybe you don't share all that much stuff, and maybe she doesn't take your name, and maybe you'll

00:37:02.400 split up at some point when you don't like each other anymore. That's a kind of modern view of

00:37:06.240 marriage. I mean, now marriage, marriage at a very basic level used to involve sexual difference. Now

00:37:10.680 some people understand marriage not even to involve that. So I think you've got to answer what

00:37:15.520 is marriage, and I would recommend, is it Matthew chapter 19? There's that, I hope I'm not getting

00:37:22.400 the chapter wrong, but the chapter in the Gospels where Christ describes what marriage is. That's a

00:37:27.740 good place to start, and I would settle on those things, and I would communicate, and I would lead

00:37:32.940 your household. Your wife is called to follow you, right? And a lot of modern feminists don't like

00:37:39.760 that. How dare you suggest a wife obey, or submit, or be subservient? How dare you, you patriarch?

00:37:46.540 The man is called to love his wife, and sometimes the wife doesn't want to follow the husband.

00:37:52.500 A lot of the time, probably. And sometimes the husband doesn't want to love his wife,

00:37:56.540 but that's what we are called to do, and we ought to do it. From Scott, last Sunday, I was unfortunate

00:38:02.560 enough to be at a Waukesha Christmas parade with my young family and my parents. I had been to

00:38:09.680 or been a participant in this parade dozens of times, and to suffice it to say, this year

00:38:15.560 is one that I obviously won't forget. I'm writing to you, however, to get your advice on how you

00:38:20.720 would proceed if you were in my shoes. There are a lot of things about what happened that

00:38:24.260 have frustrated me, many of which you and your colleagues have spoken about over the

00:38:28.300 last week, but for the first time in my life, I have true hate in my heart, pure white-hot

00:38:31.940 hate for the man behind that wheel. I watched him tear down the street with no concern for

00:38:36.200 human life. I watched his car fly within a foot of my three-year-old son and continue

00:38:40.360 on his path of destruction before I could even react to grab him. The logical part of my brain

00:38:44.840 knows that this hatred only serves to hurt us and never him. He and I will never be face

00:38:49.020 to face. If justice serves, he'll rot in jail for the rest of his life. So in my shoes, what

00:38:54.920 would you do to cure yourself of this feeling and move on? Scott from Waukesha. Well, you understand

00:38:58.400 the problem, and I'll put the problem in a really blunt way. You can't go to heaven hating

00:39:04.100 people. You can't do it. You can't. It's not possible. And so unless you want to burn in

00:39:12.580 hell for eternity and say, well, at least I've got my hate. At least I've got my resentment.

00:39:20.360 At least I've got my wrath. Unless you want to do that, then you have to fix this problem.

00:39:24.740 One way to do it is this. I can't imagine my reaction. If I were there and my sweet little

00:39:28.520 buddy, you know, were a foot away from getting mowed down by this psychopath, black nationalist

00:39:35.020 terrorist, I would probably be pretty pissed off too. The other side of that is I would

00:39:44.700 probably get down on my knees sobbing in gratitude to the Lord my God for saving my son who was

00:39:51.120 within 12 inches of being mowed down by this person. All right. I think that obviously there

00:39:57.640 is a component of wrath and just anger, but the flip side of that is gratitude.

00:40:04.720 I'll give you a much, much less dramatic example of this. There was one time some years ago,

00:40:10.720 right, right before my show, I think it might've been right before the blank book. I was in Los

00:40:16.020 Angeles. I got a slice of pizza. I went from the office, got a slice of pizza. I was walking across

00:40:20.900 the street and I was crossing Ventura Boulevard right in the middle of traffic. I would never go to the

00:40:25.680 traffic light. And I was walking across to my cigar shop there. And so I'm walking in, you know,

00:40:30.780 Ventura Boulevard, there's a ton of traffic, all the cars are stopped. So I start walking in between

00:40:34.520 the cars and some jerk in a BMW decides to get into the turn lane and gun it like 60 miles an hour

00:40:41.440 down the turn lane so he can skip all the traffic and make a left or wherever he was going on the

00:40:45.720 street. No one sees him. The cars are too packed. I'm walking out. Before I know anything, I see this

00:40:51.860 car is coming. I'm holding a briefcase. My briefcase goes flying up in the air. This guy's mirror goes

00:40:58.260 flying off of his car. He screeches to a halt. People pour out of their cars, including this guy

00:41:05.140 who looks completely blanched, white in the face. And I'm still standing up because the briefcase was

00:41:13.640 an inch in front of me. And the briefcase caught the car. If I had left that pizza shop

00:41:20.560 one second earlier, I would have been smushed. Certainly before my show, I think before my blank

00:41:28.400 book, before anything, that would have been it. And this guy was going fast. I don't think I would

00:41:33.120 have really recovered very well, if at all, from this. And so in that instance, you could say, you

00:41:38.920 crazy, you know, I could have jumped on this guy and just started beating the life out of him. Or

00:41:43.440 you think, oh, thank you, Lord. Appreciate that. That was a nice bit of grace. And we recognize

00:41:48.660 there before the grace of God go I. You've done plenty of terrible things in your life. Probably

00:41:52.460 never mowed down a parade of people. And I don't mean to be glib about it, but you have done bad

00:41:57.600 things in your life. And in the course of justice, you know, remember, if justice be thy plea, consider

00:42:04.580 this that in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. So I would be grateful for where you are.

00:42:09.280 I would recognize that people who commit crimes do harm to other people and immense harm to

00:42:16.360 themselves. And we have to pray for our persecutors. And that's just the way it goes.

00:42:20.600 From Sarah, dear Michael, I would love some advice from a smart, put together guy such as yourself.

00:42:25.300 Go on. Go on. Stop it. Go on. I'm a woman in my late 20s and live a pretty good life,

00:42:31.200 all things considered. I like my job for the most part, but I feel like I'm not fully happy with what

00:42:36.000 I'm doing. I have friends and enjoy life, but feel a little lost and don't know exactly what I want to

00:42:40.780 do with my life, specifically work. I know you'll probably say go get married and have babies, but I

00:42:45.620 am certainly not ready for that stage in my life, but would love to know how you figured out what you

00:42:49.800 wanted to do with your career and how I can find that clarity. Sarah, Sarah, you called it.

00:42:57.220 You should go get married and have babies. You should. You should. No, Michael, I'm not ready

00:43:01.800 for that. I'm only in my late 20s. Sarah, come on. What are you waiting for? When I'm in my early 30s,

00:43:09.180 I'll be ready. When I'm in my late 30s, when I'm in my early 50s, I'll be ready. Come on,

00:43:12.660 Sarah, what are you talking about? I'm not saying you necessarily have to get married.

00:43:15.420 Right. You could discern a religious vocation. You could become a nun. You could engage in and

00:43:22.700 begin the process of consecrated single life. Plenty of people do that. These days, it's not

00:43:27.260 really talked about in society, but you could do that. Marriage is not for everybody. But what I'm

00:43:32.280 saying is you need to do something. Your problem that you're describing is that you just feel like

00:43:37.440 you're floating. You just feel like you're not going anywhere. You're just kind of,

00:43:40.420 ah, it's all, everything's fine. My job's, it's good. I like my job. I like my friends. I like,

00:43:45.000 but I'm not, I'm not doing the next thing. I'm not moving to the next level. I'm not,

00:43:49.260 I'm not going anywhere. And Michael, don't tell me to go somewhere. That's what you're saying.

00:43:54.780 You're saying, hey, I'm just floating and I don't know what to do next. Don't tell me to do

00:43:58.680 something next. I am telling you to do something next. Because if, if really, if all you're asking me

00:44:02.920 is, Michael, how did you figure out how to advance in your career from where you were,

00:44:06.780 where you were happy to where you are that you're now happier? I think, I don't know,

00:44:09.840 like, you know, do spreadsheets better or whatever, right? You know, yeah, do your job

00:44:13.900 better and you'll get a promotion and you're going to be in the exact same position that you are right

00:44:17.540 now. I'm not ready to move to this next stage of my life where I'm committing to get married and do

00:44:23.080 anything. I'm only in my late twenties. What are you talking about? Look, I did it too. I got married

00:44:27.160 in my late twenties. I wish I'd gotten married much earlier. You think you're going to lose all your

00:44:31.300 freedom. You're not. You're going to gain freedom. You think you're going to lose all your

00:44:34.700 opportunity. You're not. You're going to gain opportunity. When you get married, it's a commitment to

00:44:39.120 another person. It's also a commitment to society. You know, it's very, actually Pope Francis talked

00:44:44.000 about this the other day. He said, it's very hard to move from the fun of falling in love to a mature

00:44:50.340 love. This is true with people. This is true of society. It's true of your career. This is true of,

00:44:58.580 this is true of your God sometimes. We like falling in love and then it kind of fizzles six months

00:45:05.600 later and then we swipe right and just keep doing that. And you do that into your late twenties and

00:45:09.580 your thirties and then, okay, then it kind of wears off, doesn't it? Move on, move on to the mature

00:45:14.960 love, Sarah. You can do it. Do not be afraid. Fear not. You can do it. You'll be a lot happier.

00:45:19.980 From Joe. Almighty Professor Covfefe, had a question for you that I'd love to get your take on. I'm a

00:45:25.500 parent in California. My son's teacher asked that I provide her with photos of each year since my son's

00:45:29.560 birth for an activity in which my son will hold a globe and walk around the sun, the sun and seasons

00:45:37.480 blanket. While he's walking around the sun, the teacher and other students will be singing a

00:45:41.740 particular song. Can't decide if this sounds like some new age weirdness or if I'm being too paranoid.

00:45:47.240 Any thoughts on this? Thanks for everything. Love the show. Viva Covfefe. Well, it depends on what

00:45:50.860 the song is. Okay. I'll put it that way. If the song is some weird prayer to Gaia or some like weird

00:45:55.660 pagan goddess or something, then yeah, I guess that's kind of new agey and you shouldn't do it.

00:45:59.560 But it sounds to me like what the project might be is you're just, the students have all these

00:46:05.260 pictures from every year of their life and they're describing the revolutions around the sun and

00:46:09.740 they're understanding it in terms of how they're getting older. And that seems perfectly reasonable

00:46:13.700 to me and perfectly interesting. So I would, yeah, I think it's fine. Figure out what the song is

00:46:19.060 first. You got to, you know, the devil's in the details. From Kyle. To the best dressed host of the

00:46:22.840 Daily Wire. Stop it. Your dress shirts and sport coats always look great and I was wondering where you buy

00:46:27.080 them so I can pick some up as well. Thank you for all your hard work. Thank you for the question.

00:46:30.440 I'd love to give you the answer, but the clothing companies that provide a lot of my wardrobe do not

00:46:35.760 yet subsidize this show. They don't yet sponsor it. And so until they do, I'm sorry, I can't give them

00:46:41.700 free advertising. From Daniel. Hey, Michael. If, if as per current feminist ideology, sex work is work,

00:46:48.220 would it then be safe to extend that logic to it being okay to require workers to perform sexual

00:46:54.220 favors as part of the job description? I don't think the feminists will like where this leads.

00:46:58.300 Yes. Feminism began with, Hey, it's not right to sleep with your secretary to, um, Hey, it's

00:47:06.040 sleep, sleeping with people is real work to now like, Hey, you better sleep with your secretary.

00:47:11.520 That's real work, man. If that's where feminism went, then by golly, feminism is the greatest trick

00:47:16.560 that men have ever played on women. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you on Monday.

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