The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 93 - Burger King： Home of the Woke-er

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00:00:37.660 Popular homeless shelter and drug deal parking lot Burger King has a new marketing campaign.

00:00:43.040 The home of the Whopper no longer boasts about its bigger beef.

00:00:46.600 The bigger the burger, the bigger the burger, the burger's bigger at Burger King.

00:00:49.040 No, now the fast food giant is relying on leftist politics to sell hamburgers.

00:00:53.600 We'll analyze their latest ad and what it means for the culture.

00:00:57.580 Then, Benji Backer tries to convince me that conservatives should care about the environment.

00:01:01.960 Finally, Jacob Airy joins the panel of Deplorable to talk about that sexual deviant Barney the Dinosaur,

00:01:08.000 illegal aliens screaming at Chuck Schumer, and for some reason not being arrested and deported,

00:01:12.660 and why half the country wants to investigate the FBI.

00:01:15.580 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:17.760 Before we get into Burger King and the culture, get ready.

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00:05:31.800 Let's get right into this.

00:05:33.420 Today, I want to talk about politics infecting every aspect of our culture, what it says about the millennial generation,

00:05:39.620 what it says about our culture, what it says about the new slew of woke corporations.

00:05:43.820 Here is Burger King's latest hamburger ad.

00:05:48.980 Got a number one.

00:05:52.540 Hey, how you doing?

00:05:53.700 Do you know what number 98, what's going on with it?

00:05:56.000 Number 98, you got the Whopper?

00:05:59.040 Yeah.

00:05:59.580 So you got the slow access Whopper pass?

00:06:01.880 Wait.

00:06:02.400 What?

00:06:03.380 It's on the menu right there with the fast, medium, and slow.

00:06:07.140 Slow MBPS, fast MBPS, or hyper-fast MBPS.

00:06:12.720 That's MBPS, of course, standing for making burgers per second.

00:06:15.980 So if we got a Whopper now, we have to pay $26?

00:06:19.580 Well, that's how you get it fast.

00:06:20.880 That's the highest priority.

00:06:22.220 This is like a lane system?

00:06:23.420 It's going to be like 15, yeah, fast lane, slow lane.

00:06:25.480 It's like maybe like 15, 20 minutes.

00:06:27.840 What are you talking about?

00:06:29.580 Burger King Corporation believes that they can sell more and make more money selling like chicken sandwiches and chicken fries,

00:06:33.880 and now they're slowing down the access to the Whopper.

00:06:36.060 Were you given an option of chicken sandwich?

00:06:38.260 Yeah, I don't want a chicken sandwich.

00:06:39.780 Robert, I want a Whopper.

00:06:41.620 You get the point, right?

00:06:43.040 Isn't that clever?

00:06:44.080 Isn't that clever?

00:06:45.420 And that's how they're...

00:06:46.000 By the way, they wouldn't make any more money doing this.

00:06:47.740 They'd go out of business.

00:06:48.520 They are trying to make more money, though.

00:06:49.900 That's why they have this ad.

00:06:50.860 What's sort of strange about this hamburger ad, you'll notice, is that it doesn't at any point try to sell hamburgers.

00:06:57.700 Instead, it sells smug, glib attitudes toward political issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with its business or its product or really even its customers.

00:07:06.880 It's trying to use government regulation of the Internet, so-called net neutrality, to make hamburgers more appealing.

00:07:13.280 That is horrifying.

00:07:14.900 This is what Burger King ads used to look like in the good old days.

00:07:18.520 This is the Vanishing American. 1.00

00:07:22.740 The Vanishing American Hamburger.

00:07:25.740 It's been getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

00:07:30.720 Well, Burger King is out to save the hamburger.

00:07:34.880 With the Whopper.

00:07:37.040 A hamburger so big, it takes an extra big toasted bun just to hold it.

00:07:41.880 And we top that with pickles and chopped onions and fresh tomatoes and crisp lettuce.

00:07:49.600 The Whopper.

00:07:50.680 The king-sized burger you only get at Burger King.

00:07:55.100 Groovy.

00:07:56.220 Take the tribe to Burger King. 0.98

00:07:58.640 Home of the Whopper.

00:08:00.760 The burgers are bigger at Burger King.

00:08:03.200 The bigger the burger, the burgers are bigger at Burger King.

00:08:08.760 The bigger the burger, the better the burger.

00:08:10.120 The burgers are bigger at Burger King.

00:08:11.460 The bigger the burger, the better the burger.

00:08:12.820 The burgers are bigger at Burger King.

00:08:15.360 That ad was so effective because it actually sold hamburgers.

00:08:19.460 That ad was so effective that I was born 20 years after that ad played and I know it.

00:08:24.800 I know it.

00:08:25.160 I remember it.

00:08:25.860 I think a lot of people remember it, too.

00:08:27.280 But these days, they don't talk about the vanishing American and you have an American Indian looking all perplexed at the tiny little hamburger patty. 0.99

00:08:35.500 These days, advertisements instead prattle on about obscure federal regulations.

00:08:40.920 Of course, Burger King does not actually care about net neutrality.

00:08:44.760 It didn't make any public statement in 2015 when the FCC imposed rules to regulate the Internet.

00:08:50.080 Burger King does not currently lobby for government regulation of the Internet on Capitol Hill or at the FCC.

00:08:55.320 CMO of Burger King, Fernando Machado, said,

00:08:59.060 We believe the Internet should be like Burger King restaurants, a place that doesn't prioritize and welcomes everyone.

00:09:05.080 That is why we created this experiment to call attention to the potential effects of net neutrality.

00:09:10.760 That isn't true. They did it to call attention to their hamburgers.

00:09:13.900 It was exactly the opposite of what he just said, but it worked.

00:09:16.720 The mainstream media loved it. The Verge had a headline.

00:09:19.400 Burger King made a surprisingly good ad about net neutrality.

00:09:22.560 Reuters, Burger King tweaks U.S. regulator in new net neutrality advertisement.

00:09:27.200 Entrepreneur, you want fries with that? Burger King explains net neutrality in less than three minutes.

00:09:32.600 Fast company, Burger King uses the Whopper to teach a valuable lesson on net neutrality.

00:09:38.320 Marketing land, Burger King Whopper splains net neutrality's repeal in new ad, Adweek.

00:09:45.140 Burger King deviously explains net neutrality by making people wait longer for Whoppers.

00:09:51.000 The thing is, it didn't deviously explain net neutrality.

00:09:56.400 The explanation had all the subtlety of a hand grenade or a Trump tweet, but I repeat myself, it was not devious.

00:10:01.840 What it did deviously was pretend to agitate for net neutrality.

00:10:06.700 First of all, the analogy is total nonsense.

00:10:09.960 We did a whole episode on net neutrality.

00:10:12.700 A lot of people still don't understand it.

00:10:14.380 There was an incredible infographic sent around by a Democrat candidate for Senate, Ro Khanna, a pro net neutrality Democrat running for Congress from Silicon Valley.

00:10:24.920 This tells the whole story.

00:10:26.540 So last November, Ro Khanna, this Democrat pro net neutrality in the heart of tech land, posted an infographic on the Internet comparing the cost of the Internet with government regulations, commonly called net neutrality, and without government regulations, no net neutrality.

00:10:41.840 With the regulations, he showed you could get video, email, gaming, and social media all for one price, $54.99 per month.

00:10:49.980 Without the regulations, he warned voters you would have to pay different prices for each.

00:10:54.660 So that could be $17.99 per month for video, $8.99 a month for email, $14.99 for gaming, $12.99 for social media, and you could opt out of certain platforms and pay a little bit less.

00:11:07.800 So maybe you only pay for Netflix video but not YouTube video, so it would be cheaper than all of video, so on and so forth.

00:11:13.760 The trouble with Ro Khanna's argument here is that the net neutrality version without the customer choice cost $54.99 a month, and the no net neutrality version, the deregulated one, cost $54.96 a month.

00:11:28.080 So it's actually three cents cheaper.

00:11:30.460 He made the exact opposite point that he was trying to make.

00:11:33.120 You know, the argument for government regulation of the internet made the case against a government regulation of the internet.

00:11:40.660 Not very smart, Ro Khanna.

00:11:42.620 So you'll notice, by the way, that I'm stumbling on my words a little bit here, that I keep saying government regulation of the internet instead of net neutrality.

00:11:50.520 That's because net neutrality is a meaningless euphemism that is bandied about by the left to sugarcoat the reality of it, which is giving the government more control over the internet, making the internet less free, taking away consumer choice, both as to how they use the internet and as to how they pay for the internet.

00:12:06.600 But this is what the left always does.

00:12:08.100 They rely on these euphemisms, these subtle little lies that most people think are not worth fighting about, so they just use them.

00:12:15.120 And in so doing that, they can see the whole premises.

00:12:17.580 So I'm not going to do that. 0.92

00:12:18.360 It's tedious to use precise language, but it's also the most effective way to shut down their ridiculous arguments. 0.89

00:12:23.780 C'est la vie. 0.93

00:12:24.220 That's how it goes.

00:12:24.840 Anyway, back to net neutrality.

00:12:27.240 Why is a fast food burger company suddenly agitating on behalf of rules governing consumer choice on the internet a month and a half after the regulations were repealed and two and a half years after the rules were instituted to begin with?

00:12:40.480 A fast food burger company, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue of internet regulation,

00:12:45.860 It's because of a sad and tedious fact about our culture.

00:12:49.040 This stunt from Burger King was exactly that, right?

00:12:51.220 It was a marketing gimmick and it was geared toward a specific demographic, millennials.

00:12:55.620 For years, millennials have been turning away from fast food, leaving chains like Burger King or McDonald's or whatever scrambling.

00:13:02.400 According to a 2014 survey by Brand Keys, baby boomers are reporting an 18% drop in fast food visits and an 11% drop among Gen Xers.

00:13:12.060 The worst news is from millennials. 1.00

00:13:14.160 Millennials are expected to replace baby boomers as the nation's largest consumer buying group within just two years, by 2020.

00:13:21.080 And millennials hate fast food.

00:13:22.740 I don't.

00:13:23.200 I love fast food.

00:13:23.920 It's one of my guilty pleasures.

00:13:25.200 Also stogies and booze and fatty Italian meats and yada, yada, yada.

00:13:28.540 Also fast food.

00:13:29.580 I really like it.

00:13:30.460 That said, most of my fellow millennials hate it.

00:13:32.720 According to the 2014 survey, 89% of millennials prefer fast casual chains like Chipotle, even if those places cost more, which is absolutely insane.

00:13:43.980 Arby's, Wendy's, McDonald's are about 7 million times better than Chipotle or whatever frou-frou rice and beans faux-sophisticant millennials are willing to pay for.

00:13:55.900 Also, they don't give you Ebola.

00:13:57.480 Do you remember?

00:13:57.760 Didn't Chipotle give everybody Ebola a few years ago or E. coli or something, one of those things?

00:14:02.620 Yeah.

00:14:03.020 So fast casual places like Chipotle usually aren't even more expensive than fast food places.

00:14:08.180 It's the same thing.

00:14:09.160 You see this, you see the same thing on the coasts and in the country.

00:14:13.060 It's people who prefer Dunkin' Donuts to Starbucks because Starbucks is supposedly too fancy or expensive.

00:14:18.900 And Dunkin' Donuts, that's for the American Joe. 0.99

00:14:20.900 But the two places cost the same amount of money, actually.

00:14:23.500 So Starbucks just makes stronger coffee and has, you know, 12-year-olds drinking milkshakes and a bunch of wannabe screenwriters on laptops and stuff.

00:14:32.560 Dunkin' Donuts has more construction workers and donuts and things.

00:14:35.740 They cost the same.

00:14:37.100 So Robert Pasikoff, the founder and president of Brand Keys, which did that survey, he agrees that the price doesn't actually matter.

00:14:44.600 He explains, you don't build brands or loyalty on the basis of price.

00:14:48.260 That only works for commodities. 0.99

00:14:50.520 So facing an existential threat from millennials not eating in their restaurants, not able to manipulate them on the basis of price or really even food.

00:14:59.460 You know, it's going to take a lot to turn a place that has boasted for 50 years, the bigger the burger, the better the burger, the burger is bigger at Burger King, into some artisanal bespoke salad restaurant.

00:15:08.640 So they tried to make the king look like a Brooklyn hipster with the big beard and the jewelry and the curls and everything.

00:15:17.000 I'm not sure that worked either.

00:15:18.200 So they have one tool at their disposal that sadly says a lot about our culture and in particular the culture of millennials.

00:15:25.120 They can virtue signal and sloganeer on politics.

00:15:29.540 Sociologist Richard Florida explained, advertisers used to wonder how a spot would play in Peoria.

00:15:35.740 Now they wonder how it will play in Brooklyn.

00:15:38.700 Rob Biaco, a creative executive at a major ad agency, he admitted the same thing.

00:15:44.140 Marketers are increasingly relying on woke issue ads to target millennials.

00:15:48.540 In a phrase, he says, creatives are trying to make their toilet paper save the world, even though sometimes a Pringle is just a Pringle.

00:15:55.720 But for millennials, a Pringle can never just be a Pringle.

00:15:58.520 Everything has become politicized and activist.

00:16:00.800 Obviously, mainstream journalism, that was the first to go, the universities, now even the NFL, even Pepsi, even Burger King.

00:16:08.120 It's a sad state of affairs.

00:16:10.100 It says a lot about our culture.

00:16:11.320 C.S. Lewis put it well.

00:16:12.480 He said,

00:16:12.880 A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think about his digestion.

00:16:19.620 To ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one as for the other.

00:16:23.440 But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind, if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else,

00:16:33.260 then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease.

00:16:38.680 Our society is without question sick, and so we have to think a lot about politics.

00:16:45.040 But we're only thinking about politics so that we can think about culture and art and philosophy and building things and eternal questions and our nature and our creator, among other things.

00:16:55.360 But advertisers have rightly determined that millennials are obsessed with politics, shallow politics at that, not as a means but as an end.

00:17:02.700 And I think it's because they're using politics as a stand-in for something else.

00:17:08.340 They're trying to place all of their identity and all of their hopes in politics.

00:17:12.100 St. Augustine wrote about this.

00:17:13.600 He said,

00:17:14.360 You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee, O Lord.

00:17:21.280 Pascal put it in other words.

00:17:22.840 There was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace.

00:17:29.880 This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are,

00:17:38.540 though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words, by God himself.

00:17:47.360 Speaking of false religion and millennial obsessions, we have to bring on Benji to talk about environmentalism.

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00:20:56.340 Let's bring on Benji.

00:20:58.180 Benji Backer is the founder of the American Conservative Coalition.

00:21:02.460 He has been a conservative activist, I think, since he was in the womb.

00:21:06.060 And he is a wonderful college kid.

00:21:09.680 But he's going to try to convince me that conservatives should care about the environment.

00:21:14.540 He's spoken at CPAC.

00:21:15.540 I'm sure you've seen him elsewhere as well.

00:21:18.240 Benji, let's get right into it.

00:21:19.360 Why should conservatives care about the environment?

00:21:22.440 Michael, great to be here.

00:21:23.580 There's a few reasons.

00:21:24.380 First of all, it has an immense economic impact.

00:21:28.540 If the environment's doing well, the economy's doing well.

00:21:30.840 And that's just the truth.

00:21:32.600 Another reason for conservatives to really care about the environment is that it's the

00:21:35.920 number one issue that millennials think about when they go to the voting booth.

00:21:40.460 Some polls showed it as number two.

00:21:42.400 But either way, it's a really important issue for the youth demographic when they go to the

00:21:46.640 polls.

00:21:47.500 And the truth of the matter is Republicans haven't done an amazing job making it a priority over

00:21:52.340 the past 10 or 15 years.

00:21:54.300 Why is that, by the way?

00:21:55.340 I'm sorry.

00:21:55.780 Before we go on, because I agree with you.

00:21:58.000 I see that talking to millennials.

00:21:59.280 They really care about the environment and they're always worried about global warming

00:22:04.240 and things like that.

00:22:05.480 Why?

00:22:05.900 Why is this the number one issue for millennials? 0.97

00:22:08.680 Does that reflect some kind of agenda in our schooling?

00:22:12.600 Or is there some more legitimate reason as to why we're so concerned about it?

00:22:16.740 Yeah, I think part of it is in the schooling.

00:22:19.840 Obviously, we get taught about climate change and other environmental issues from a young

00:22:23.260 age.

00:22:24.080 That being said, I just think that young people have an inclination to change environmental

00:22:29.360 policy because they can see environmental changes happening, no matter if it's caused

00:22:33.520 by man-made climate change or not.

00:22:35.000 They see that environmental changes have benefits if it's done the right way.

00:22:40.620 And they also know about the economic impacts of being pro-environmental, especially if you're

00:22:45.600 a conservative who knows environmental policy, you know that being pro-environmental can

00:22:51.220 have immense economic benefits.

00:22:54.240 And so I think all those together have kind of made it a priority.

00:22:57.640 Obviously, the schools have pushed climate change into a lot of people's minds.

00:23:02.280 And so that's probably the first and foremost.

00:23:04.420 But there are other reasons as well.

00:23:06.280 Absolutely.

00:23:06.760 And do you see any distinction here?

00:23:09.720 Because I do think these schools have kind of made radicals out of conservatives like me,

00:23:15.160 where all I want to do is throw those little six-pack can plastic things onto schools of dolphins 0.95

00:23:21.080 because of how ridiculous the left is with its pro-environmental agenda.

00:23:26.320 Do you see a distinction between environmentalism and conservationism? 0.80

00:23:31.440 I do.

00:23:32.120 And I think that they should be the same thing.

00:23:34.460 I just think that the left has pushed it so far to the left that people have gotten turned

00:23:39.360 off by the environment.

00:23:40.400 And as a result, conservatives have kind of dropped the subject.

00:23:44.120 And so I think both sides are at fault that it's gone so far to the left.

00:23:48.140 And we've gotten to this huge divide where the right goes so far to say, OK, let's drill

00:23:53.100 on national parks.

00:23:54.480 Let's not even care about the environment at all.

00:23:57.940 And then the left has gone as far to say, you have to bike to work.

00:24:01.560 Otherwise, the world's going to blow up.

00:24:04.060 Obviously, that's an exaggeration.

00:24:05.380 But that's kind of how it seems sometimes with the left.

00:24:07.680 And so what we try to do at the American Conservation Coalition is put it more in the

00:24:11.920 middle, where you talk about some of the economic impacts.

00:24:14.340 He talks about some of the things that private people can do, private businesses can do, local

00:24:20.960 governments can do.

00:24:21.840 It's not all big government.

00:24:23.080 And I think big government has turned away a lot of conservatives as well.

00:24:26.320 It's just been turned into this thing where you expect the government to handle every

00:24:30.840 environmental problem.

00:24:31.780 That's not how it used to be.

00:24:32.800 Republicans used to embrace these things on a local level.

00:24:35.060 Sure, there used to be, I think before the environmental conversation became so hysterical

00:24:41.060 with Al Gore suggesting that if we don't do exactly what he wants, the world is going

00:24:45.980 to end.

00:24:46.840 And then the world doesn't end.

00:24:48.120 And he has even less credibility.

00:24:49.820 Before that, conservatives were more open to it.

00:24:52.400 But the distinction I see between conservationism and environmentalism is that environmentalism posits

00:24:58.820 that little animals and deer somehow have rights that need to be protected.

00:25:04.340 They have the right to not be shot or the right to, I don't know, free health care or

00:25:08.400 something.

00:25:09.060 And conservationism says that we have to preserve the animals so that we can keep on shooting 0.87

00:25:15.060 them.

00:25:15.480 You know, basically that we need to conserve our natural environments because it's very

00:25:20.400 beautiful and we enjoy seeing these nice animals and looking at beautiful parks.

00:25:25.920 But for the conservationist, it seems to me, it's all about the human.

00:25:30.420 The human is ultimately what matters in this relationship between the human and the environment.

00:25:35.880 And for the environmentalists, I wonder if it's a sort of pagan worshipping of an environment,

00:25:42.320 a kind of anti-humanist point of view that puts the little delta smelt in California above

00:25:50.060 human beings.

00:25:50.840 For some reason, we pour a huge percentage of our fresh water to feed these little anchovies 0.92

00:25:55.700 in California rather than using them to water golf courses so that we can, you know, have

00:26:00.420 a better time on the weekends or something.

00:26:02.420 Is there anything in that messaging where you think the environmental movement could get

00:26:08.420 a little bit more focused on human beings and a little less concerned about sardines?

00:26:13.760 Yeah, actually.

00:26:14.600 So the first thing I'll say is that I think everything's related.

00:26:16.980 You know, if you look at the study of science or just the environment in general, everything

00:26:20.680 has an effect on one another.

00:26:21.860 But the fact of the matter is that conservationists are the best environmental stewards out there.

00:26:26.960 If it wasn't for hunters and fishers, we'd have overpopulation.

00:26:30.360 The life cycle wouldn't happen between all the different animals and plants.

00:26:34.340 And so when the environmental left goes after hunters and fishers, they just don't realize

00:26:38.580 that they're imperative and so vital to keeping our environment going.

00:26:43.760 It's a matter of understanding the life process and how they all have to work together.

00:26:49.600 It's not just punishing humans.

00:26:51.640 There needs to be a cycle that goes around.

00:26:53.280 And I think that the environmental left needs to realize that.

00:26:55.680 On the right, people need to realize that at the same time, animals, plants, places of

00:27:00.980 land, those all matter as well.

00:27:03.420 And if you do it the right way, which conservationists tend to do, hunters and fishers tend to be

00:27:08.260 conservatives and really care about the environment, it can have immense economic benefits.

00:27:13.100 I mean, you look at hunting and fishing and how much it adds to the U.S. economy.

00:27:15.920 You look at clean energy and how much that adds to the U.S. economy with jobs and revenue.

00:27:22.080 I mean, there's so many ways to reap the benefits of these positive environmental impacts.

00:27:27.260 How do you think the Trump administration is doing on environmental matters?

00:27:30.860 We've loved seeing Scott Pruitt deregulating, firing, I think, half of the EPA.

00:27:36.980 Not so much for whatever impact that would have on the environment.

00:27:40.560 We haven't seen much of one, but because he's slashing these awful bureaucrats who think

00:27:45.980 that they can run our lives better than we can.

00:27:48.200 Does Trump get a passing grade so far from green conservatives like you guys, or does

00:27:53.820 he have work to do?

00:27:55.440 I think he has a little bit of work to do.

00:27:57.360 The administration itself actually has been pretty good, in my opinion.

00:28:01.060 There's been a lot of good things that have been done.

00:28:03.400 Ryan Zinke just did a hunting and shooting sports conservation council, which is very

00:28:08.500 imperative to the future environmental success of the country.

00:28:12.880 Actually, Congress, a lot of Republicans have put forward some really good legislation to

00:28:17.540 help de-backlog the national parks for funding.

00:28:21.740 They've put together a few acts as well.

00:28:24.560 Rex Tillerson has actually done some good things as well on the environment.

00:28:28.300 There's 33 Republicans on the Climate Solutions Caucus who kind of basically say that it needs

00:28:34.000 to be a priority.

00:28:35.020 Those are congressmen and women from all walks of the conservative aisle.

00:28:39.280 So I think that that's really key.

00:28:40.440 I think Donald Trump needs to make it a focus of his to focus on the environment.

00:28:44.880 Otherwise, one, he's not going to be able to get the youth vote as easily in 2020.

00:28:48.580 But additionally, I think that with him as president, conservatives have an opportunity to show

00:28:53.660 that it's not big government that can solve these problems.

00:28:57.580 It's private businesses.

00:28:59.280 It's local areas.

00:29:00.260 It's state governments and local governments and just citizens in general that can do the

00:29:04.660 right thing.

00:29:05.200 So making it a priority, I think, is going to be important for him.

00:29:08.620 And I think that it'll be something that conservatives can kind of prove that they can lead on if he

00:29:13.740 makes it a priority.

00:29:14.860 And that's such a nice point at the end.

00:29:17.440 If the environmentalist left or more likely the conservationist right made the point that

00:29:25.440 we need to protect our environment ourselves at a very local level, I'm starting with the man in

00:29:31.260 the mirror, I'm asking him to make a change, and municipal governments, local governments,

00:29:36.580 private organizations, conservation organizations, or corporations, that would be a much easier

00:29:43.020 way to do it.

00:29:43.680 That'd be a much easier way to build consensus on the issue rather than saying we're going

00:29:48.040 to staff up some crazy federal bureaucracy, sign on to absurd international agreements,

00:29:53.540 take more of your tax money, fund more private jets to Brussels or Davos or whatever Al Gore

00:29:59.740 thinks he's going to do to save the world this time.

00:30:01.920 If it became a little bit more focused on a local level and on how it relates to your

00:30:08.640 own life, I think it's a great way to build consensus on it.

00:30:11.940 And I wish you luck on that regard.

00:30:14.100 Anything that will shut up Al Gore and get him out of the room is good for me.

00:30:17.700 Benji, will you stick around for the panel?

00:30:19.180 Can you stick around another maybe 15 minutes?

00:30:21.500 Sure.

00:30:21.900 Sounds great.

00:30:22.240 All right.

00:30:22.500 I love it.

00:30:23.100 We have got to bring on our panel to talk about some news.

00:30:26.900 And by our panel, I mean our Jacob.

00:30:28.880 Our Jacob Harry will join us. 0.90

00:30:30.540 But before that, listen, Marshall is a tyrant. 0.78

00:30:34.300 You know this. 1.00

00:30:34.880 He's a sadist and a tyrant. 1.00

00:30:36.380 We have so much to talk about. 1.00

00:30:37.740 We've got Barney the dinosaur running tantric sex rings. 0.96

00:30:41.380 We've got to talk about illegal aliens. 0.73

00:30:43.200 And we've got to talk about investigating the FBI.

00:30:45.400 But if you're on Facebook or YouTube, I'm sorry, Buster.

00:30:49.200 You've got to go over to dailywire.com.

00:30:51.240 If you're already there, thank you very much.

00:30:52.980 You keep the lights on.

00:30:54.220 You keep covfefe in my cup.

00:30:56.180 You keep my bedding very nice with bowl and bran sheets.

00:31:00.540 But if you don't go over there already, you've got to do it.

00:31:03.880 What will you get?

00:31:04.660 Well, you'll get me.

00:31:06.000 You'll get the Andrew Klavan show.

00:31:06.980 You'll get the Ben Shapiro show.

00:31:08.120 You'll get to ask questions for the conversation.

00:31:10.820 I think I'm up next for that one.

00:31:12.340 So you can do that.

00:31:13.000 Ask questions in the mailbag.

00:31:14.540 You can hang out with us during the State of the Union.

00:31:16.940 That will be broadcast for everybody to see.

00:31:19.060 But, you know, we give special care to the Daily Wire members.

00:31:23.900 But forget all of that.

00:31:25.220 None of that matters.

00:31:26.860 This is what matters, guys.

00:31:28.140 The Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:31:30.140 This is what matters.

00:31:32.740 You need to protect yourself.

00:31:34.440 The natural environment can be a very scary place.

00:31:37.700 And regardless of whether Al Gore is right or not, we are all headed for massive flooding,

00:31:42.800 either because Democrats lost the government shutdown or because the polar ice caps or something are going to melt.

00:31:48.500 Make sure you protect yourself and your family with the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:31:51.520 This is the only EPA-approved vessel to house your radioactive Leftist Tears.

00:31:57.920 So you can have them hot or cold, always salty and delicious.

00:32:00.840 Make sure to go to dailywire.com right now.

00:32:02.600 We'll be right back.

00:32:03.140 Gentlemen, thank you for being here. 0.95

00:32:15.240 Barney the Dinosaur now runs a tantric sex ring.

00:32:18.320 Isn't that just the perfect symbol for our generation? 0.96

00:32:21.620 What in childhood was soft, cushioned, saccharine, shallow, 0.97

00:32:26.240 has grown up to become a sexually decadent trans reptile. 1.00

00:32:30.160 That's it. 0.99

00:32:30.660 That's our generation, baby.

00:32:31.800 The actor who played Barney the Dinosaur for 10 years, David Joyner,

00:32:35.900 has since 2004 run a tantric sex business where he treats about 30 clients whom he refers to as goddesses.

00:32:43.420 Let's take a look at some footage from that new business.

00:32:46.520 I love you.

00:32:49.500 You love me.

00:32:51.940 We're a happy family.

00:32:56.240 With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.

00:33:01.000 Won't you say you love me too?

00:33:06.540 Yuck.

00:33:07.700 There's a lot of continuity there, at least.

00:33:09.820 He's clearly formed a career himself.

00:33:11.960 So, okay, I don't really want to talk about Barney. 0.88

00:33:15.740 I do want to talk about sex.

00:33:18.380 There are not great numbers on this, but there are lots of cultural indicators that millennials are both less monogamous and that they have less sex.

00:33:26.780 One study showed millennials having significantly less sex than Gen Xers. 0.86

00:33:30.640 That said, millennials watch a ton of porn. 1.00

00:33:32.880 Pornhub.com, which is just one porn site, reported an audience that watched 4.4 billion, with a B, hours of pornography in 2015, with 60% of its audience comprising millennials.

00:33:44.280 Jacob, what does all of this say about millennials, hooked on porn, bizarrely open attitudes towards sex, and yet not having very much of it?

00:33:52.600 To me, it shows that they're buying the feminist narrative about what sex means.

00:34:00.300 Because as far as third wave feminists are concerned, women are just, they see sex the same way as men. 0.99

00:34:07.280 But that's not true.

00:34:08.840 No matter, but the feminists keep pushing these oddly male values, right? 1.00

00:34:14.440 The whole point of becoming an adult is you want to temper yourself and you want to be married.

00:34:20.780 I just celebrated four years with my own wife.

00:34:24.360 Congratulations.

00:34:25.420 She's clearly a saint. 0.99

00:34:26.580 Yes, and a perfect 10, whereas I'm a 4.

00:34:30.200 But anyway, the whole point of this is they want cheap gratification and even amazing television shows like that.

00:34:39.080 They push that onto our millennial culture, where sex is just a cheap thrill that you get. 1.00

00:34:44.700 Oh, and maybe it's a little extra special if you're married to the person, but not really.

00:34:49.920 And I think the millennials have just bought into this.

00:34:52.520 Yeah, you would think that people might grow up after a while.

00:34:55.460 I frequently say there's a time and a place for everything, and that place is college.

00:34:59.360 But you kind of got to move on.

00:35:00.820 Benji, you're a college kid.

00:35:03.240 Now, obviously, college is a little different thing.

00:35:05.660 So don't necessarily think that your current environment reflects the real world.

00:35:09.660 But do you foresee the situation getting any better for millennials?

00:35:12.720 Or is our culture going to just keep all of these trends right on track?

00:35:17.280 Yeah, I think it's kind of on track to keep going.

00:35:19.820 I think there's a couple of reasons.

00:35:21.060 One, you've got the super religious folks who kind of push their views on their kids or whoever,

00:35:26.960 and it kind of pushes people away from those types of beliefs.

00:35:29.660 And then you've got the feminists who really push the anti-religious beliefs on people. 1.00

00:35:36.800 And I think that accommodation is going to force it into the near future unless some things change.

00:35:42.100 I think you hit it right on the nail on the head when you talked about the instant gratification.

00:35:46.340 I think millennials are really looking for that.

00:35:48.860 It's just something that they've kind of been trained to do.

00:35:51.100 I mean, I look for instant gratification in almost anything.

00:35:53.620 You're kind of expecting it as a millennial because you've got phones.

00:35:57.500 You've got everything kind of right at your fingertips.

00:36:00.080 And so it's made it a little bit harder to kind of have that same patience as other generations have.

00:36:05.860 And then I think the media and both sides from the far religious right to the far feminist left,

00:36:13.680 I think that they both play a big role in kind of how millennials are being shaped right now.

00:36:18.220 That's true.

00:36:18.920 I don't disagree with your observation.

00:36:21.200 I do wonder, though, if there is some reason to hope.

00:36:24.820 Only from my own personal experience on this show,

00:36:28.220 every question I get in that mailbag is about some aspect of tradition or about Christianity or about returning to religion.

00:36:36.880 And often they're from millennials and they're from people who were raised without any serious engagement with the eternal questions

00:36:42.940 and the eternal questions about human nature and our relation to our creator and how we got here and how the world got here.

00:36:48.700 And I don't know.

00:36:49.620 I guess it could be a bubble, but I just see it a little bit.

00:36:53.500 I've always lived in pretty liberal places on the coasts and at universities.

00:36:57.240 And I do wonder if the smartest people in the world right now are talking about God and the future generations are talking about what was lost when we pretended to ourselves that God is dead

00:37:10.460 and what we threw away with modernity.

00:37:13.820 I don't know.

00:37:14.440 Obviously, it is the case that religious parents are going to tell their kids one thing and the feminists are going to tell their kids another. 1.00

00:37:20.600 But I wonder if maybe the children of the religious will be less turned off than the children of the feminists if we haven't hit a snag in the road.

00:37:29.280 I hope so.

00:37:30.040 But that's just that's my wishful thinking, man.

00:37:32.560 Let's move on to something much funnier.

00:37:34.020 A bunch of illegal aliens descended on Chuck Schumer's home last night chanting, if Chuck won't let us dream, we won't let him sleep.

00:37:41.540 Here it is.

00:37:41.980 Chuck won't let us dream.

00:37:44.120 We won't let him sleep.

00:37:46.020 If Chuck won't let us dream, we won't let him sleep.

00:37:50.300 If Chuck won't let us dream.

00:37:51.200 So, first thing, no one's stopping you from dreaming.

00:37:54.140 This is the trouble with euphemisms, right?

00:37:56.200 But also, those people look like they're 30.

00:37:58.820 I thought the dreamers were these cute little six-year-olds who didn't do anything wrong and they're really nice.

00:38:03.020 Those are just adults.

00:38:04.000 Those are adults who haven't figured out their own legal status and their own immigration situation.

00:38:08.200 Jacob, why don't we just round these people up and deport them? 0.93

00:38:11.920 They're clearly in violation of the law.

00:38:13.660 They're boasting about being in violation of the law.

00:38:15.860 They're rubbing our faces in it.

00:38:17.100 Look, keeping Chuck Schumer up at night is almost enough for me to offer them full amnesty.

00:38:22.740 But on a larger point, it's so disrespectful of American law, of the American government, of a country that has been so good to these people,

00:38:29.520 giving them free education, handouts, health care.

00:38:32.160 Why don't we just round up all of the rabble-rousing ones and send them back to whatever godforsaken country they fled from in the first place? 1.00

00:38:39.540 This is the question of the hour.

00:38:41.360 And I think that the fact that they protested Chuck Schumer, who's been probably their biggest advocate in the Senate,

00:38:49.720 maybe with a couple of exceptions, but he wasn't even home that night.

00:38:53.560 So obviously that group protesting at his house weren't the best and brightest of the dreamers.

00:38:59.820 But I think that we should look at it in stages just to round everyone up.

00:39:05.920 They'll just come right back.

00:39:07.140 I think, first off, we've got to get the border secured, and then we can say, okay, is this person worth giving a citizenship test? 0.92

00:39:17.240 Or is this person a criminal deviant that we should send back?

00:39:21.340 Either way, it's going to be a struggle as far as policy goes, especially as long as the media keep giving them headlines, you know, these children.

00:39:30.580 That's right, the 30- or 40-year-old children.

00:39:32.620 And on that best and brightest point, the data that we have, what the mainstream media would have you believe is it's all six-year-olds with seven degrees from MIT

00:39:40.520 who are really grateful and love their country, and they're just the most all-around apple pie people in the world.

00:39:45.580 But the data we have is that 25% of them are illiterate.

00:39:48.680 Half of them don't speak English.

00:39:50.720 In demonstrations like these, we see deep ingratitude and entitlement from a country that's been very good to them.

00:39:56.280 Benji, if Schumer won't give Trump the wall and an end to chain migration, will we just let DACA expire and start shipping these people home? 0.94

00:40:05.060 Who is going to blink first?

00:40:07.680 Well, I think, I'll answer that question in a different way.

00:40:10.460 I think that conservatives need to embrace the dreamers who are here and doing good things.

00:40:16.960 Now, there are people who are here doing bad things, but that can be said about any population.

00:40:21.420 The fact of the matter is that a lot of these dreamers had no control over whether or not they got here,

00:40:26.760 and they're just trying to live their lives in peace.

00:40:29.000 And I don't think that that protesting group kind of showcases what the entire population is like.

00:40:35.500 So that being said, there is a population like the people who are protesting Chuck Schumer,

00:40:40.780 which I think that you made a really interesting point talking about how Chuck Schumer is kind of the biggest advocate of these folks.

00:40:46.460 And, you know, when Black Lives Matter or the dreamers protest basically everyone and alienate everyone, 0.97

00:40:53.260 that's not going to get anything beneficial done, and it's fairly frustrating, and it makes their case look a lot weaker.

00:40:59.760 And I think that that's unfortunate because there are a lot of good dreamers here who didn't have a choice to come here

00:41:04.920 and should, you know, should be given the opportunity to succeed and be successful, and it's not their fault that they're here.

00:41:11.380 So I think that conservatives need to differentiate, and this is something that a Republican congresswoman said the other day,

00:41:18.040 was that you have to differentiate between the dreamers, who could be very good people who had no intention of coming here whatsoever

00:41:24.220 and are just trying to live their lives, and the illegal aliens who are crossing the border.

00:41:28.300 I think that there's an important distinction there, and you shouldn't lump them in on both.

00:41:32.540 I worry that it's a distinction without a difference because they use this term, they use the most loaded term imaginable, dreamer.

00:41:39.120 What on earth does dreaming have to do with the essence of this issue, which is illegal aliens, resident illegal people? 0.86

00:41:49.020 What does that have to do? They seem to be ossified in time, as Victor Davis Hanson wrote eloquently a couple days ago.

00:41:56.040 So we're talking about a group of people from only this period to this period who were brought over below the age of 18.

00:42:02.860 Now some of these people are almost 40 years old.

00:42:05.200 As I had mentioned earlier, half of them don't speak English, a quarter of them are illiterate.

00:42:11.340 Does the category of the dreamer, as the Democrats call it, I will not use that terminology because it's such a deceptive, insidious euphemism.

00:42:21.440 But of this category of people, the DACA people, the Democrats admitted this in a memorandum two weeks ago that they're relying on these people for their electoral strategy because they know that if they're granted amnesty, they will trend overwhelmingly to vote for Democrats.

00:42:37.620 So should Republicans embrace a group of people who don't share a lot of, as a category, don't hold together very coherently and who don't appear to have any advantages over other immigrant groups or other immigrant groups from Latin America who have come here legally and who are going to legalize a million new Democrat voters?

00:42:57.980 I just don't see what the advantage is for the Republican Party to say, yes, we need to grant amnesty to them.

00:43:05.140 The vast majority of the country doesn't want to give them amnesty, and 56 percent of Democrats don't even want to give them amnesty.

00:43:11.840 I think this is a total game being played by Democrats.

00:43:16.840 They're trying to fool us, and I wouldn't do it at all.

00:43:20.100 I'm more than happy to keep people in the country who will benefit the country and who really are little children or really don't have any means to support themselves.

00:43:32.100 But some 40-year-old who's out there screaming at Chuck Schumer because we haven't given him enough, absolutely not.

00:43:37.920 Send those people back, especially, and this is the most important thing, if they're going to vote for Democrats.

00:43:43.560 If the so-called, if the DACA people will agree to vote for Republicans for 25 consecutive elections, give them blanket amnesty.

00:43:50.580 I'm all in.

00:43:51.140 I think we've reached a grand compromise.

00:43:52.840 If I may, though, I think the Republicans, just speaking as a conservative, have really dropped the ball on outreach to Latina families because they have this fake perception by the fake news media that, oh, the Republican Party is the party of old white men.

00:44:13.580 But that's not true anymore.

00:44:14.960 But Republicans have been very bad at sending out that messaging because, really, if you talk to Latin American families, they have a lot of values.

00:44:23.500 Like, they are pro-life.

00:44:24.540 They are pro-marriage.

00:44:26.220 They are hardworking people who have good work ethics, and they can and will benefit society.

00:44:33.720 So I think that if the Dreamers or DACA recipients, as you call them, if they were to change and switch sides and say, hey, we're not going to vote for Democrats. 0.73

00:44:42.960 We're going to vote for Democrats, and we're going to show you how we can be a benefit to American society, I think that they could see a turnaround as far as that goes.

00:44:54.220 But I think that Republicans need to be better at messaging to that particular community.

00:44:59.480 Sure.

00:44:59.800 They work hard and go to church, so hopefully it won't be hard to get them to agree to vote for Republicans for 25 consecutive elections.

00:45:06.620 Benji, did you have a final point on this?

00:45:08.040 Yeah, and first of all, I don't know if it's even a political issue, and I don't really care if they vote Democrat or Republican.

00:45:15.420 To me, it's a human issue.

00:45:16.920 To me, it's not political at all.

00:45:18.680 Politics is the affairs of men. 0.99

00:45:20.740 Politics, as Aristotle defines it, it's how men interact with one another in cities.

00:45:26.100 To me, I care more about these people's lives than I care about who they vote for.

00:45:29.780 But I think it's up to Republicans to reach these people through our ideologies that can click with their personalities.

00:45:37.260 And I think that that's incredibly key, and I think it's an important point that was just made, that Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to these folks and not making the differentiation between dreamers and illegal aliens,

00:45:48.340 and also lumping all the people who, you know, all the dreamers into the category of the protesters outside Chuck Schumer's house.

00:45:55.540 I also just don't think that that's fair.

00:45:57.260 So I think that there's a few key distinctions to be made there.

00:46:00.620 Sure.

00:46:01.120 They're all illegal aliens. 0.99

00:46:02.620 That is, there's no distinction between a dreamer and an illegal alien.

00:46:05.900 But you're right.

00:46:06.480 Some of the illegal aliens are wonderful people who are patriotic and like America and work hard and go to church.

00:46:11.760 And we should keep those people, especially if they vote Republican.

00:46:15.020 And some people are awful and they're gangsters and they commit crime and they're a net drag on the population and they won't assimilate and they won't learn to read English and they won't learn to speak English.

00:46:24.700 And to lump those people in with good patriotic people who came here through no choice of their own and who love their country and are dedicated to it, that we shouldn't lump those two people together.

00:46:36.860 I absolutely agree.

00:46:37.860 I agree.

00:46:38.220 I agree.

00:46:38.880 On the final point here, speaking of our government and how we the people relate to it, a new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports shows that half of likely U.S. voters believe a special prosecutor should be named to investigate whether senior FBI officials handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a legal and unbiased fashion.

00:46:59.220 That is a whopping number.

00:47:01.380 Benji, do we need to investigate the FBI?

00:47:03.740 Man, oh man, I think we actually do.

00:47:06.120 There's just been so many fishy things going on over there.

00:47:08.960 And if there's nothing to worry about, what's the problem in hiring some investigators?

00:47:12.500 That's the way I look at it.

00:47:13.820 If they weren't acting in a biased fashion, they shouldn't have anything to worry about, in my opinion.

00:47:18.680 That's right.

00:47:19.220 And, you know, all those text messages went missing.

00:47:22.140 There is a lot of strange stuff going on at the Bureau.

00:47:25.080 Jacob, are we at the point now where we have to investigate the FBI either as a defensive measure, if the FBI really has been politicized by Democrats, or just to route out corruption generally in the federal government? 0.76

00:47:39.040 I think it's kind of ridiculous.

00:47:40.720 So we have this Russia collusion investigation going on.

00:47:44.060 And so now we're going to have another investigation to investigate whether that investigation is okay.

00:47:48.920 How about, no, we just end all the investigations and that if there is corruption within the FBI, let's fire those people.

00:47:55.700 And if they are treasonous, let's bring them up for treason.

00:47:58.140 That is what we're supposed to do.

00:48:00.080 All these investigations, all they do, all they do is create more red tape and they waste more time.

00:48:05.600 No, enough is enough.

00:48:07.800 Let's end all these useless investigations and let's root out corruption where it is.

00:48:12.000 Because it's not fair to malign all of the FBI.

00:48:15.000 There are fantastic agents.

00:48:16.760 There are great agents of the FBI.

00:48:17.820 Yeah, exactly.

00:48:18.480 Yeah, absolutely.

00:48:19.060 And so we need to be, so if there is corruption within the agency, which there could be, there could be corruption anywhere where there's a little bit of power, then let's root it out.

00:48:26.840 But as far as an investigation into the investigation of this investigation, no, that's absolutely ridiculous.

00:48:32.280 But I will say, yes, we should investigate Hillary.

00:48:36.540 Yeah.

00:48:36.740 That's the only one to keep going.

00:48:38.280 Of course.

00:48:38.480 Yeah.

00:48:38.700 And, you know, you make this point.

00:48:40.480 I'm sick of all the investigations, too, on principle.

00:48:42.880 That's the only one to keep going.

00:48:43.820 If we are in a position now where a lot of evidence shows that all of the investigations

00:48:48.580 into Donald Trump were intended at the highest levels of the FBI to subvert a democratic process, to subvert this presidential election, to undo it, to weaken this president, to weaken the choice of the American people,

00:49:04.840 then I think we might have to just flex our muscles on that and make sure that we aren't being taken for a ride by our self-appointed benevolent bettors in D.C. who think they can run the country better than we can ourselves.

00:49:17.080 Gentlemen, this has been a lovely discussion.

00:49:20.360 This is one of my favorite panels we've had in a while, and I never say that about all-male panels. 1.00

00:49:25.220 I have never once said that.

00:49:26.900 If we don't have Allie or Roaming or Cassie or whoever, I don't believe it at all.

00:49:31.180 But this has been great to have you both here.

00:49:32.760 Thank you very much.

00:49:33.740 Benji Backer and Jacob Airy will have to have you back again.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2018

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