The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 94 - Cecile Richards, Maniacal Ghoul： A Retrospective

00:00:00.060 Cecile Richards, the maniacal ghoul who for the past dozen years has run the largest abortion mill in America, 0.68

00:00:06.120 is reportedly stepping down from the eugenics factory and organ harvester.

00:00:10.120 We will take a look back on the abject misery Cecile leaves in her wake. 0.64

00:00:14.360 Then Liz Wheeler and Ariel Davidson join the panel of deplorables to discuss President Trump's apparent willingness

00:00:19.960 to speak with Special Counsel Robert Mueller under oath,

00:00:23.740 Trump's vowing to cut off aid to the Hamas-electing Arabs in the fictional country of Palestine

00:00:28.780 right next to Never Never Land, unless they return to peace talks,

00:00:32.620 and CNN advocating cuckoldry.

00:00:35.000 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:45.280 Coming in hot today, we've got cuckoldry, we've got abortion, there is a lot going on in the Palestinians. 1.00

00:00:50.740 Cecile Richards appears to be stepping down as the leader of Planned Parenthood. 0.94

00:00:54.340 So let's have a look back on the havoc wreaked by that maniacal ghoul.

00:00:58.240 Under Cecile's leadership, Planned Parenthood has killed 3 million babies, 0.86

00:01:02.300 300,000 per year, 30% of annual abortions.

00:01:05.780 As former Planned Parenthood manager Abby Johnson points out,

00:01:09.080 Richards has overseen a 51% decrease in breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood,

00:01:14.280 a sum total of zero mammograms given,

00:01:16.680 despite Cecile's public insistence that Planned Parenthood gives out mammograms, it does not,

00:01:21.600 a 65% drop in pap smears, major drop in STD testings,

00:01:25.660 and a 670,640 patient drop since Planned Parenthood shifted its focus away from providing any health services 0.69

00:01:34.780 whatsoever entirely to killing babies. 0.71

00:01:37.320 During Cecile Richards' reign, Planned Parenthood has also been exposed for refusing to report statutory rape, 1.00

00:01:43.960 for aiding sex traffickers, for taking money explicitly to kill black babies, 0.96

00:01:48.520 and for illegally selling baby organs and body parts on the black market for profit to the highest bidder. 0.87

00:01:54.220 The FBI is now investigating Planned Parenthood for criminal actions.

00:01:58.960 Here are senior Planned Parenthood officials Jennifer Russo, Deborah Nukatola, and Mary Gatter,

00:02:05.100 caught on hidden camera discussing their crimes.

00:02:08.560 The company that you're working with right now, do they, so they have very clear specifications,

00:02:12.580 do they take the whole specimen though?

00:02:14.120 Yeah.

00:02:14.420 Okay.

00:02:15.040 Did you do it?

00:02:15.800 I know.

00:02:16.320 So if you do it starting from the breach presentation,

00:02:20.000 there's dilation that happens as the case goes on,

00:02:22.140 and often it'll last if you can evacuate and attack a lot.

00:02:25.640 And she's very, very conscientious about kind of trying to facilitate the whole process,

00:02:30.320 and even like, you know, convert to breach on ultrasound,

00:02:33.340 and make sure that we can get, you know, everything out loud.

00:02:36.420 Yeah, we like to do that.

00:02:37.940 Oh, you do?

00:02:39.420 What kind of volume do you need and what gestational order?

00:02:41.980 What we've been quoting is $50 per specimen.

00:02:44.660 I think some people are doing more, some slightly less.

00:02:46.960 Yeah, $50 is on the low, $50 is like 12 years ago.

00:02:49.760 What would you expect for intact tissue?

00:02:57.900 What sort of compensation?

00:02:59.660 What sort of...

00:03:00.360 Well, why don't you start by telling me what you're used to paying?

00:03:03.100 Well, you know, in negotiations, a person who throws out the figure first is at a loss, right?

00:03:07.820 So...

00:03:08.420 I want a Lamborghini.

00:03:09.840 That's how I want a Lamborghini.

00:03:13.560 I want a Lamborghini.

00:03:15.760 I want a Lamborghini.

00:03:16.880 That's Planned Parenthood admitting to negotiating, to haggling over what price should be paid for baby parts,

00:03:25.080 and for whole baby cadavers.

00:03:27.740 In that previous video, Planned Parenthood is admitting to making sure that babies come out whole cloth and fully intact

00:03:37.200 so that they can get a higher price for them on the open market.

00:03:40.220 I wonder why the Justice Department is investigating them.

00:03:43.420 I wonder.

00:03:44.000 And it's funny how Barack Obama didn't investigate them two years ago when these tapes came out,

00:03:48.060 but there's a new sheriff in town, and now Planned Parenthood is being investigated.

00:03:52.660 So what else does Cecile Richards leave behind as her legacy? 0.95

00:03:55.960 Martin O'Malley, the former shirtless Democrat candidate for governor,

00:03:59.940 pushed in 2016 the oft-repeated claim that 97% of the work that Planned Parenthood does

00:04:05.480 is about mammograms and preventative health.

00:04:08.800 To begin, Planned Parenthood doesn't provide mammograms, absolutely none.

00:04:12.600 Cecile Richards herself was exposed for pushing this lie.

00:04:15.100 Planned Parenthood arrives at that 97% number by counting each service, no matter how small, separately.

00:04:21.280 So if a woman comes in for an abortion, she might also have an STD test, a pregnancy test,

00:04:26.020 a foot massage, a glass of water, some oxygen from the air.

00:04:29.140 Smaller services are each counted separately to obscure that essentially the only thing Planned Parenthood does 0.99

00:04:33.840 is kill babies. 1.00

00:04:35.020 Speaking of water, Rich Lowry made a good comparison. 0.72

00:04:37.880 45,000 runners participate in the New York City Marathon,

00:04:41.500 but 2 million cups of water are handed out along the way.

00:04:45.600 So by Planned Parenthood's logic, the New York City Marathon is mainly in the hydration business.

00:04:51.400 Only 2.2% of what the New York City Marathon does is award medals to runners.

00:04:57.000 97.8% of the New York City Marathon services are passing out cups of water.

00:05:02.700 So the New York City Marathon, it's not in the marathon business.

00:05:04.980 Why would it be in the marathon business?

00:05:06.380 It's in the hydration business.

00:05:08.340 Stop demagoguing Republicans or whatever they say.

00:05:10.980 In reality, when comparing the prenatal services and adoption referrals Planned Parenthood gives out

00:05:16.820 to the abortions that they perform,

00:05:18.780 it becomes clear that 94% of Planned Parenthood's work under Cecile Richards' watch has been abortion.

00:05:25.960 Now, just a little bit of good news before we get to our panel here.

00:05:29.020 As of yesterday, a pro-life lawyer, Alex Azor, former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia,

00:05:35.320 has been confirmed to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

00:05:38.500 Good news. Adios, Cecile.

00:05:41.120 I hope you're stuck in whatever cavern of hell spawned you for at least another thousand years or so. 0.95

00:05:46.020 Okay, let's get to the panel. 0.93

00:05:47.280 We have Liz Wheeler. You know her from OAN.

00:05:50.160 And Ariel Davidson.

00:05:51.640 Ladies, thank you for being here. 0.98

00:05:53.200 This is a lovely antidote to yesterday's all-male panel. 1.00

00:05:57.400 It's really nice to have you here.

00:05:59.540 Liz, we'll begin with you because we don't have Ariel yet.

00:06:02.360 Liz, what is the future?

00:06:03.760 Thank you. I'm flattered.

00:06:04.720 But we would start with you anyway.

00:06:06.100 You're always on the front of my mind.

00:06:07.660 What does the future look like for Cecile Richards?

00:06:11.320 She's leaving Planned Parenthood.

00:06:13.100 She's got this wake of dead bodies behind her. 1.00

00:06:16.000 What's she going to do? Run for president? 1.00

00:06:17.480 Run for the Democrat nomination for president?

00:06:19.200 I don't know. I've been shocked, actually, to see, especially on Twitter, how many liberals are wanting her to follow in her mother's footsteps and run for governor of Texas here. 0.88

00:06:29.820 I'm actually talking about this on my show tonight.

00:06:31.940 But the idea of legacy, which is what people are talking about when it comes to Cecile Richards, her legacy, 10 years at Planned Parenthood.

00:06:39.040 The idea of legacy is what you leave in your path, you know, your footprints, the mark you make on this earth.

00:06:44.320 The legacy of this woman is horrifying.

00:06:47.380 I mean, everything that you said about her is 100 percent accurate.

00:06:50.640 She leaves a trail of blood behind her. 0.99

00:06:53.580 All the money that she's made is blood money. 1.00

00:06:56.460 And if I may, if I may stoop to a little bit of a conspiracy theory here, I'm talking about this on my show.

00:07:00.460 Please, we encourage it on this show, yeah.

00:07:02.760 Good. I thought you might like this.

00:07:04.420 So I was writing my final point just before, my final point for my show.

00:07:07.420 That's sort of the monologue that I use to close out my show at the end.

00:07:10.360 I was writing that right before I came on here, and I'm talking about the legacy of Cecile Richards.

00:07:14.660 As I close out my Word document, to email it to my producers, to put into our programming, to get it into the teleprompter,

00:07:21.080 guess what the word count was on my little legacy, my little overview of Cecile Richards.

00:07:26.220 What was it?

00:07:26.840 666.

00:07:28.660 666 words.

00:07:29.940 Tell me that that's a coincidence.

00:07:31.760 You know, Liz, all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which thou canst not see.

00:07:37.660 We often find a lot of meaning in little coincidences and symbols, and certainly you couldn't write that any better than ending up with 666.

00:07:48.460 It says a lot, by the way, about the Democratic Party.

00:07:51.140 You know, this was the party that not too long ago, just as recently as their most recent presidential nominee,

00:07:58.040 said that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare, said that we shouldn't have a ton of abortion.

00:08:03.300 Now, we have a woman leaving Planned Parenthood, clearly contemplating her political future, 1.00

00:08:08.920 who not only encourages rampant abortion, but actually practiced it, is actually the reason that abortions have increased so much at Planned Parenthood.

00:08:17.500 What does that say about the direction of the Democrats?

00:08:20.560 Right. No, no, it's horrifying. You're right.

00:08:22.240 They don't advocate for safe, legal, and rare abortion anymore.

00:08:25.380 I mean, I don't think they care whether it's safe, because if you look at the statistics, it's not a safe procedure,

00:08:30.380 certainly not for the unborn child, but not for the woman who undergoes this abortion either.

00:08:34.220 They certainly want it legal. They want it legal up until the moment of birth.

00:08:38.200 There was actually, we talked about on my show a week or so ago, there was actually a student,

00:08:41.700 I think he went to the University of Knoxville in Tennessee.

00:08:44.320 He was advocating for abortion after birth, abortion up to two years of age,

00:08:49.120 because he said until you get to that age, you're not, quote unquote, sentient.

00:08:53.100 Therefore, if you can't communicate, how do we know you can feel?

00:08:56.320 How do we know you can perceive?

00:08:57.960 And therefore, we as a society have a right to do with you or do away with you as they please.

00:09:03.020 And to be honest, it seems like he's maybe on the fringe,

00:09:06.140 but the logic that he's following is the logic that has been given to us by the left.

00:09:10.540 It is what they are embracing.

00:09:12.200 They tell us that we should not apply any stigma to abortion, that there's nothing wrong with abortion.

00:09:17.400 There's no side effects or consequences from abortion.

00:09:19.820 They want to hashtag shout your abortion at this point. 0.65

00:09:22.560 The Democratic Party used to boast within its membership many, many people who were pro-life and Democrats.

00:09:30.640 Now we hear from Tom Perez, he's the chairman of the Democratic Party,

00:09:35.600 that pro-life candidates are not welcome in the Democratic Party.

00:09:39.080 If you believe in the sanctity of life, if you think that abortion ends a human life and kills a baby,

00:09:44.500 you are not welcome anymore in the Democratic Party.

00:09:46.600 That is as extreme as we've seen from the Democrats in I can't tell you how long.

00:09:50.400 That's right. They've clearly moved toward advocating fourth trimester abortions.

00:09:53.940 They've been moving that way for a long time.

00:09:56.080 And this is an aspect of the Democrats.

00:09:58.800 It used to be so disingenuous.

00:10:00.280 At least now they're sort of honest and open about it.

00:10:02.600 They used to say, this was the Mario Cuomo line,

00:10:05.600 and it's been used by a lot of ostensibly Catholic or Christian Democrats ever since.

00:10:10.440 They say, I personally would never get an abortion, but I support a woman's right to choose to get an abortion.

00:10:18.600 Which is really saying, I would never murder my own precious seed, which will be so important for this society and for my family. 1.00

00:10:25.760 But all of those poor little black babies, we should all kill them. 1.00

00:10:28.420 That's what they're saying. 1.00

00:10:29.260 That's the line of the Democratic Party.

00:10:30.660 It is an essentially, you saw all of these arguments brought up in like Freakonomics.

00:10:36.600 They would say, well, you know, if there is more abortion in inner cities, there will be less crime and less welfare dependency.

00:10:44.540 And I had a great lunch once with the bioethicist Diana Shaw, the political philosopher.

00:10:49.100 And she said, which argument that these lefties are positing for abortion, which argument could not be equally applied to killing people who are, 0.89

00:10:58.640 to killing black people in the inner cities who are committing crime and who are some people who are on welfare? 0.99

00:11:03.600 Which of these arguments could not be used for killing people who are mentally retarded? 1.00

00:11:08.300 Which of these arguments could not be used for killing the elderly who are no longer contributing to the American economy? 0.98

00:11:14.620 And every single argument that these people make for abortion, when you look just past the surface, becomes a morally horrifying, morally repugnant argument. 0.92

00:11:25.060 We now have Ariel, very quickly, before we move on past this maniacal ghoul.

00:11:29.460 Thank you for being here.

00:11:31.120 What is Cecile Richards' future?

00:11:33.500 Is she going to be running for office anytime soon? 1.00

00:11:36.000 Oh gosh, I hope not.

00:11:37.100 I mean, the problem is, is that you kind of touched on it when I hopped in, is that it had, you know, abortion in general has become something that's been, I would say, celebrated on the left quite extensively.

00:11:49.440 And I think it was a very focal point, a focal point of the Women's March.

00:11:53.920 I think it's become something that is sort of a banner under which the left has tried to assemble as many progressive women as possible.

00:12:01.060 So I think Richards, you know, has amassed quite a following in her, unfortunately, in her ghoulish stature. 0.99

00:12:09.340 She has definitely garnered some national attention.

00:12:12.700 I just, I sincerely hope she doesn't run for office. 1.00

00:12:15.480 She's a horrible human being. 1.00

00:12:17.440 I hope that this is the last that we see of her in the public eye. 0.98

00:12:21.040 But who knows?

00:12:21.860 I mean, I think that she's amassed quite a bit of sinister power.

00:12:26.400 And it's, it's, I would, I'd be curious to see what her next move is, quite honestly.

00:12:30.560 She'll probably serve in a few boards on the left. 1.00

00:12:33.760 It's probably, you know, corporate boards.

00:12:35.100 That's what I imagine.

00:12:35.500 She's already on the Ford Foundation board.

00:12:37.680 Evil in high places, principalities and powers.

00:12:40.940 And the Ford Foundation, apparently.

00:12:43.140 Michael, if I may add one thing, I would say her legacy, if you look over the past 10 years, what she's done and what she's left in her wake, Margaret Sanger would be proud.

00:12:51.240 Margaret Sanger started Planned Parenthood with a eugenicist vision. 0.98

00:12:54.800 She started Planned Parenthood wanting to exterminate black babies. 0.98

00:12:59.400 That's what Cecile Richards has done in her 10 years at Planned Parenthood. 0.99

00:13:03.340 She talks about women's health.

00:13:04.900 But if you look at the statistics, Planned Parenthood performs less than 2% of pap smears, less than 2% of cancer screenings, less than 2% of breast exams, 0% of mammograms.

00:13:13.880 But across our country, they perform 34% of abortions.

00:13:17.820 That's millions and millions of babies who have died under, under Cecile Richards while she's been leading Planned Parenthood.

00:13:23.520 That's her legacy, broken lives, broken hearts, and dead babies. 1.00

00:13:27.720 That's right.

00:13:28.200 If you read Margaret Sanger's book, Woman in the New Race, it is clear. 0.96

00:13:32.000 Very often the left accuses us of using spurious quotes, saying that she wanted to kill minority babies. 0.56

00:13:38.540 And they say, oh, she was being ironic or she was saying this or that.

00:13:42.200 Yeah, that's a joke I make a lot too.

00:13:43.680 Yeah, that's a hilarious joke.

00:13:45.360 But it's beside the point.

00:13:47.660 It is so clear from her famous book, Woman in the New Race, that she considered ethnic minorities and immigrants a drag on the American population.

00:13:58.160 And she says if women are going to give birth to the new race, we need to give them good stock to give birth to. 1.00

00:14:03.780 And it's clearly eugenicist.

00:14:05.420 It's clearly bigoted.

00:14:06.280 All right, enough about it.

00:14:07.160 Cecile Richards has done her very proud.

00:14:08.620 Now she's gone.

00:14:09.380 Enough about her.

00:14:09.920 I don't want to talk about those ghouls anymore.

00:14:11.500 We've got so much exciting stuff to talk about in the news.

00:14:14.560 President Trump has signaled that he is not only willing to testify to special counsel Robert Mueller under oath, but that he is looking forward to it.

00:14:22.620 Liz, I love how the braggadocio here.

00:14:26.260 I love the enthusiasm.

00:14:27.780 Is this a terrible idea or a very horrible idea? 1.00

00:14:31.340 Yeah, it's with all due respect to our president, it's a stupid idea for him to testify under oath. 0.99

00:14:35.340 I understand that he's playing the role of an innocent man here. 0.81

00:14:38.680 And given all the evidence that we have not found in the last year of investigations, I believe that the evidence shows that he is an innocent man.

00:14:45.940 There's no evidence of collusion between he and the Russians, between any of his campaign officials and the Russians, between any of his administration officials and the Russians.

00:14:54.960 But my question, if I were President Trump, before I would agree to testify in this special counsel investigation is, have you been operating in good faith?

00:15:05.160 Has your investigation been operating in good faith?

00:15:07.520 Has the FBI been operating in good faith?

00:15:09.540 Has the Department of Justice been operating in good faith?

00:15:11.660 If the answer to that is anything other than a resounding yes, and we all know that it is a resounding no, I wouldn't get near that with a 49-and-a-half-foot pole, because it's just a trap.

00:15:23.380 They're just going to try to use his words against him, because they're trying to build a case for obstruction of justice.

00:15:28.740 And we know how our president is with his words.

00:15:31.260 He's a little bit loose with the language sometimes, I'd be willing to admit.

00:15:34.680 And that's right, you could indict a ham sandwich.

00:15:37.000 It sure looks like a trap.

00:15:38.080 Ariel, is there any chance Mueller passes on questioning Trump, says he doesn't want to question Trump, and that Trump is really just making a PR bluff here because he knows he won't actually be called to testify?

00:15:50.460 So the question I would ask myself here, so is it a PR bluff?

00:15:54.680 Does he know that he won't have to testify?

00:15:56.920 Or is it, you know, just more of the impulsive Trump we've come to sort of, you know, endearingly expect, right?

00:16:02.740 So when I heard that he made this statement, I immediately assumed that it was a product of impulsivity.

00:16:08.700 I suspected that perhaps he hadn't spoken with his lawyers yet.

00:16:12.860 So, you know, I wonder if this offer will even last that long after Trump is sort of perhaps, you know, talked out of it by his own lawyer team.

00:16:22.100 You know, this sort of speaks to what we know we elected initially, which is we know we elected someone who is not a politician.

00:16:30.260 And for all of the, you know, sort of victories that's garnered for us, having someone outside the D.C. circuit, it also means in situations like this, where impulsivity seems to reign supreme in certain situations, where Trump is eager to show to the public that, you know, I am an innocent man.

00:16:46.960 I'm not even sure if it's necessarily a PR stunt, or if you are someone who's truly innocent, you might very well be eager to just say, look, question me.

00:16:54.100 You know, I know that I'd be happy to.

00:16:56.340 I'd be, you know, I'd be glad to.

00:16:57.700 And so that was sort of the take I had on it.

00:17:00.220 And I do think that even if it is, were to be perceived as a PR stunt, if there's any sort of genuine sentiment behind it, which is really just an innocent man trying to say, you know, look, I have at it.

00:17:11.960 I'll tell you everything you want.

00:17:13.140 I'm yours.

00:17:13.660 I'm an open book.

00:17:14.300 Yeah, that's an endearing, that is a good selling point.

00:17:18.540 And that does, I think, if it really is in line and consistent with Trump's past nature of impulsivity, I think it speaks actually pretty well to the fact that he's innocent.

00:17:29.040 Just one point I find, I agree with that largely.

00:17:33.000 One point I do find, though, is on the impulsivity, Donald Trump clearly gives the impression that he's just shooting from the hip and he's always impulsive.

00:17:40.740 But the case of Steve Bannon makes me think there's something more going on.

00:17:44.620 The curious case of Steve Bannon, who Trump knew was leaking when he left the White House, he knew was saying bad things publicly about Donald Trump, he knew was speaking to this tabloid writer, Michael Wolff.

00:17:56.660 And yet Donald Trump didn't attack Steve Bannon until months later, until Bannon was at his weakest point after the Alabama Senate race that he totally blew.

00:18:07.480 And when Steve Bannon publicly accused Trump of treason, then he finally hit him.

00:18:12.340 But he actually held his tongue, which makes me wonder if some of Donald Trump's insults and what appear to be his rash reactions might be a little more thoroughly thought out and calculated than not.

00:18:26.120 Maybe I'm just trying to fill the leftist Tumblr glass half full here.

00:18:29.860 I'm not sure.

00:18:30.500 On to more exciting and happy Trump news.

00:18:33.160 President Trump has vowed to cut off USAID to Palestinians until they stop disrespecting the United States and get back to peace talks.

00:18:40.300 For those of you who are not fans of fantasy fiction, Palestine is an imaginary country just off of the coast of Never Never Land that nevertheless keeps electing terrorists to govern them. 1.00

00:18:50.160 President Trump said, quote, they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them.

00:18:55.600 We give them hundreds of millions.

00:18:57.140 That money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace.

00:19:00.740 Liz, why has it taken the U.S. this long to take such a strong and obviously correct stand?

00:19:07.340 Right.

00:19:07.840 And what an excellent question this is, Michael. 0.98

00:19:09.340 I'm not sure if we're allowed to curse on this show, but it is about damn time to cut off funding from the Palestinian Authority. 0.99

00:19:18.260 I know your viewers are highly intellectual people, but let me walk you through what happens with the money that we, our tax money, by the way, that the United States gives to the Palestinian Authority. 0.78

00:19:28.340 And I want to make sure that that is clear.

00:19:30.320 When we say the United States gives money to the Palestinian Authority, it is our money.

00:19:35.120 The money our government takes out of our paycheck every week.

00:19:37.600 So the United States gives about $300 million to the Palestinian Authority in so-called aid every year.

00:19:43.300 The Palestinian Authority then has implemented this program, which we will call Pay to Slay. 0.90

00:19:48.560 It's called Pay to Slay because it is exactly how it sounds. 0.98

00:19:52.400 The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists to kill Israelis, Jews, and Americans, anybody who does not agree with their radical Islamic views. 0.99

00:20:02.340 They pay these terrorists. 0.98

00:20:03.960 They pay them a stipend based off of how serious of a crime they can commit.

00:20:08.480 The more gruesome the murder, the higher the stipend they get paid.

00:20:12.100 If you murder an Israeli, your family is taken care of for life.

00:20:15.560 If you are in jail, you get a raise based off of how long your sentence is, all depending on how grisly of a crime you commit.

00:20:22.680 Michael, guess how much money the Palestinian Authority uses to fund their Pay to Slay program? 0.84

00:20:28.180 The exact same amount of money that the United States gives to the Palestinian Authority every year.

00:20:34.820 Oh, my gosh.

00:20:35.600 Oh, my.

00:20:36.240 You know, it's funny because I often watch CNN or NBC or ABC or read the New York Times or the Washington Post, so I haven't read about any of that.

00:20:43.680 Isn't that so strange, Liz?

00:20:45.460 It's very strange.

00:20:46.240 They don't seem to report on this, do they?

00:20:47.920 It is really horrifying.

00:20:49.740 And for years, we've only been listening to attacks on Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, the only liberal government in the Middle East, the only government in the Middle East that respects the rights of really any of its citizens, and the poor, the Palestinian country.

00:21:06.060 It's taught as though this is a nation state.

00:21:08.160 It's never, ever been a nation state.

00:21:09.900 They elect terrorists.

00:21:11.280 As you say, they pay their citizens to slaughter innocent people, American allies and Israelis. 1.00

00:21:17.000 Yeah, it's about time.

00:21:18.840 Ariel.

00:21:18.940 Right, and that little girl, oh, if I may, that little girl, I believe she was seven or eight years old.

00:21:23.180 She was asleep in her bed in Israel when a Palestinian terrorist, a 19-year-old man, climbed through her window and stabbed her to death.

00:21:30.400 I'm sure she was asking for it, given, you know, given how she occupies their territory, given how she wages preemptive attacks on them. 1.00

00:21:38.700 And she certainly, this eight-year-old child, was asking him to be killed.

00:21:41.700 Clearly she's a belligerent, right?

00:21:43.200 Yeah, that's, clearly this is within the confines of legal war, right?

00:21:46.780 Absolutely.

00:21:47.620 Glad we're defunding these people.

00:21:49.220 Ariel, the consensus class are shrieking that Trump has destroyed the so-called peace process, which has obviously generated nothing but warfare and misery for decades.

00:21:58.580 Is there any chance that this tough love is actually not only a good way to strike back at these terrorists, but the most likely course for peace in the region?

00:22:08.700 So, I agree.

00:22:11.080 So, I want to just add on to what Liz was saying as well.

00:22:13.800 That $300 million is about 10% of the Palestinian Authority's budget.

00:22:19.020 So, they are, for every $10, they spend $1 going to funding terrorist activities.

00:22:25.240 And the other thing I will say, so you were asking, is this going to help, or is this going to assist the peace process?

00:22:32.560 I absolutely, 100% believe it will.

00:22:35.260 I think Netanyahu and Trump spoke earlier today and precisely about this fact.

00:22:41.780 And Netanyahu touched upon a very interesting point, which is you can't really have peace without it being based upon truth.

00:22:49.540 And the truth is that when you, when you, when they moved the, or when they are deciding to move the embassy to Jerusalem, they are acknowledging reality.

00:22:58.760 The United States is acknowledging that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel.

00:23:02.180 They are not engaging in any sort of semantic warfare.

00:23:05.500 They aren't engaging in any sort of slip of tongue.

00:23:08.100 We are acknowledging fact.

00:23:09.640 We are acknowledging reality.

00:23:10.900 Only then, after acknowledging reality, can you begin to engage in a legitimate peace process.

00:23:15.920 So, when it comes to the Palestinian Authority, their inability to accept reality is what has been very detrimental to any sort of peace in the region. 0.59

00:23:27.100 And, you know, I think the other fact to consider here is that, you know, Trump has sort of taken away this fantasy, if you will, that Jerusalem will never be part of Israel.

00:23:37.940 And this has always been something that's sort of been dangled, that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas both had dangled in front of their citizens as a way of saying, you know, there's a possibility, there's a chance.

00:23:48.620 No, there isn't a chance.

00:23:50.140 There's no chance that Jerusalem will not be part of Israel.

00:23:53.160 And for the Palestinian Authority to continue to dangle it and knowingly, in the deep down, knowing that it's not a possibility, but still using it as a cudgel to promote terrorist activities, it's something they dangle in front of their citizens. 0.77

00:24:08.080 You know, going back to what Liz was saying, what do you think the impetus is, beyond just monetary gain, what do you think the impetus is for someone to, you know, go over and try to murder Israeli citizens?

00:24:17.280 They believe that there's a possibility that Israel will give up Jerusalem.

00:24:22.460 That's right.

00:24:23.260 That they'll give up their whole country.

00:24:24.260 It's not happening.

00:24:24.820 That's right.

00:24:25.700 It is wonderful to deal in reality.

00:24:28.860 Yeah, you need reality as the prerequisite for any sort of negotiation.

00:24:33.540 And I think Trump is drawing serious lines and putting reality into stark light, something that Barack Obama refused to do, only muddled it up, only further brought warfare to the region.

00:24:45.320 Absolutely.

00:24:45.600 Okay.

00:24:45.840 We have still got to talk about cuckoldry, but unfortunately, if you are on Facebook and YouTube, if you're not on dailywire.com, you don't get to hear us debate the major issue, CNN advocating cuckoldry.

00:25:00.820 So, I'm sorry.

00:25:03.540 We're at this point now in reality where we can't tell parody anymore.

00:25:10.480 Reality has transcended parody, and that's where we are on CNN pushing cuckoldry.

00:25:14.840 But if you're on Facebook and YouTube, you have to go to dailywire.com if you want to hear the expert analysis.

00:25:21.640 Plus, we have the mailbag to get to, and your lives will be changed.

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00:25:28.960 What do you get?

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00:25:41.600 So, you'll also get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:25:44.540 Now, we have Trump at Davos right now, the global elite.

00:25:49.340 Every elite, self-appointed, benevolent, veteran in the world is over there. 0.99

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00:26:11.140 Ladies, I'm a little embarrassed to bring this topic up to you, but it's important, I think, that we have a panel of men and women here to discuss this important issue.

00:26:30.400 CNN is now advocating literal cuckoldry.

00:26:33.380 CNN headline today is cuckolding can be positive for some couples, study says.

00:26:39.400 Cuckoldry, for those who don't know, doesn't just mean when you vote for a moderate Republican like Jeb Bush, but it is more traditionally when a wife cheats on her husband. 0.51

00:26:50.380 So, it's the oldest insult in the Italian language.

00:26:52.820 You grow up hearing this all the time.

00:26:54.320 The word cornuto is the sign of the cuckold.

00:26:56.880 You see in rock music this sign.

00:26:59.020 Those are the horns of the cuckold.

00:27:00.660 Sometimes you'll see little old men from southern Italy wearing a gold necklace that looks like a little chili pepper. 0.93

00:27:05.500 That is the horn of the cuckold.

00:27:07.040 That's because in old Italian culture, it's the worst thing that could possibly happen. 1.00

00:27:12.520 It's the same thing as the evil eye.

00:27:14.680 The worst insult is to call somebody a cornuto.

00:27:17.040 So, anyway, CNN advocates this now.

00:27:19.200 According to a new survey, 58% of men fantasize about their wives sleeping with other men.

00:27:25.580 And, obviously, the survey only polled John Kasich supporters.

00:27:28.960 But, oh, I don't know.

00:27:29.660 I haven't looked into the numbers on the survey, but that's just what I assume.

00:27:33.800 I'll have to look into it further.

00:27:34.820 There are also a third of women surveyed, apparently, fantasized about cheating on their husbands.

00:27:39.860 Ariel, is this a sign of the times, or have men and women always been self-destructive sex freaks? 0.53

00:27:46.320 Well, the cuckold term, I always thought of the Canterbury Tales from Chaucer.

00:27:51.040 I think when he used it, that was sort of a motif he used in a few of his tales as well.

00:27:56.020 So, as you were mentioning, it's been around for quite a long time, this idea.

00:28:00.800 I never thought of it as a fantasy when I was reading these stories.

00:28:05.200 Is that right?

00:28:06.040 It was a nightmare.

00:28:07.240 Marriage material, gentlemen, if you're watching. 0.52

00:28:10.220 You found the one woman who doesn't have these weird fantasies. 0.94

00:28:12.680 CNN felt compelled to write a defense of it.

00:28:17.060 I mean, that, to me, in and of itself is sort of bizarre, right?

00:28:19.660 I understand the word, you know, that cuckold has been thrown around to refer to different conservatives.

00:28:26.320 I get that.

00:28:27.260 But CNN writing a piece on defense of it just really struck me as utterly bizarre.

00:28:32.000 And really, if this is what's become socially acceptable, perhaps a degradation of our culture in some way.

00:28:39.820 If those polling numbers are correct, I mean, that's wholly disturbing.

00:28:43.000 Apparently, the survey, by the way, was undertaken by the writer Dan Savage, 0.98

00:28:47.160 who is some depraved sex freak who tried to ruin Rick Santorum's career. 0.91

00:28:50.860 And just like a little gadfly, you know, and CNN is running this as though it's coming out of the University of Oxford. 0.97

00:28:56.940 You know, it's a serious scientific study.

00:29:00.260 It's just disturbing.

00:29:01.220 It's just, I read it, and I was like, this is really where our culture is headed.

00:29:04.780 I mean, we are totally done for.

00:29:06.320 This is, it was absolutely, I was just appalled also that it was put out.

00:29:09.660 You know, I expect it from maybe a BuzzFeed or Slate.

00:29:12.440 But from CNN, I don't know.

00:29:14.580 I mean, it's really grotesque.

00:29:16.040 I know.

00:29:16.560 You would expect it to be even grosser if it's being run on CNN.

00:29:19.860 Liz, Liz, we appear to have a culture of cucks, if you will.

00:29:24.400 But I've always loved this insult, especially because of my, half of my ancestry is Italian.

00:29:30.100 I've heard these kinds of things for a very long time.

00:29:33.460 I think it's a great insult.

00:29:34.880 Now people are saying the word cuck or cuckold is, an insult is racist for some reason.

00:29:40.060 It has racist connotations.

00:29:41.920 But I guess everything in this culture is racist.

00:29:43.900 I don't know.

00:29:44.480 Is it okay to use the insult cuck or cuckold or cornuto?

00:29:49.440 I don't know.

00:29:50.080 I can tell you like the insult though, because it seems like you are trying to say it as many

00:29:53.260 times as possible.

00:29:54.120 What, the word cuckold?

00:29:55.080 Yeah, maybe.

00:29:55.880 I don't know.

00:29:57.340 Okay.

00:29:57.840 No, my reaction.

00:29:58.540 First of all, thank you for sending this topic to me.

00:30:00.880 It was a true waste of five minutes reading that article.

00:30:03.920 And my first reaction when I read this was, it sounds like a lot of these people who were

00:30:07.360 polled watch too much pornography. 0.95

00:30:08.980 If these are the types of fantasies that they're having, it's disgusting. 0.98

00:30:12.400 It's messed up.

00:30:13.900 Why it would be racist?

00:30:15.140 I have no idea.

00:30:16.000 The only thing, this term has been popularized by the alt-right, who, as we know, are racist,

00:30:22.100 tend to be very racist.

00:30:23.440 They have used that term in the last year or two to describe anybody, basically, who doesn't

00:30:29.540 agree with their twisted views.

00:30:31.680 So in that sense, that's probably where the connotations of racist.

00:30:34.760 I tend to, I guess, not pay attention when the other side hurls accusations of racism

00:30:41.080 just because they do it so constantly that it dilutes the real term.

00:30:45.760 But I'm not sure if the connotations of this word are particularly racist that I know of.

00:30:49.160 Right.

00:30:49.600 You know, I'm certainly not going to allow the 50 white supremacists in America to take

00:30:55.080 away one of the finest insults in any language.

00:30:57.940 They don't, that's our word.

00:30:59.300 Okay.

00:30:59.560 I speak as a representative of the Sicilian Americans.

00:31:02.120 That's our word, buddy.

00:31:03.000 And I think you're right about the porn.

00:31:05.620 Pornhub.com, just one porn site, reported, I believe, 4.4 billion hours of porn have been

00:31:12.280 consumed annually in the last few years, 60% among millennials.

00:31:15.780 So yeah, stop.

00:31:16.660 If you're starting to get weird fantasies, man, turn off the porn.

00:31:20.120 That is probably not good for your health or your marriage or our culture.

00:31:23.980 Okay.

00:31:24.400 We have got to get into the mailbag.

00:31:25.900 I'm very sorry.

00:31:26.860 Ladies, I could spend all day with you. 1.00

00:31:28.680 Very nice.

00:31:29.080 Thank you for coming to discuss Cecile Richards and Trump and cuckoldry and CNN.

00:31:33.700 It's been very nice.

00:31:34.640 We'll have to have you back.

00:31:35.280 Liz Wheeler, you catch her on OAN and Ariel Davidson.

00:31:38.320 You find her writings all over the internets.

00:31:40.320 Thank you for being here.

00:31:41.100 Let's get into the mailbag.

00:31:43.540 Okay.

00:31:43.980 So in the mailbag, we have the first one from Seamus.

00:31:47.860 Hi, Michael.

00:31:48.880 Which is a better combination of college majors, economics and English or political science

00:31:54.720 and economics?

00:31:56.300 English.

00:31:56.900 English and economics.

00:31:57.880 So if you're going to have to major in any social science, only major in one social science.

00:32:02.680 I don't really put a lot of stock into political science.

00:32:06.620 I'm interested a lot in political philosophy.

00:32:08.680 I think there's a lot to be gleaned from studying the ancients, Aristotle and Plato, the moderns,

00:32:15.100 Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, even much more recent ones, Edmund Burke, Michael Oakeshott,

00:32:22.880 and so on.

00:32:23.720 But political science, I really don't trust that much.

00:32:26.260 I think the social sciences are easily manipulatable and not terribly reliable.

00:32:30.940 That includes economics, by the way.

00:32:32.260 But something like English, studying English, will ground you in a more real discipline and

00:32:37.520 a more real vision of the world.

00:32:39.960 Literature is one of the, if not the most important way, to enter into a kind of accurate

00:32:46.140 and fuller vision of reality.

00:32:49.760 Literature brought Andrew Klavan to believe in God and to Christianity.

00:32:55.360 History, I think, would be a good way to do that too.

00:32:57.580 Or mathematics or harder science, physics, might be a good way to do it.

00:33:03.880 Maybe you study economics because you want to get a job at a bank or something, but study

00:33:07.580 English alongside it.

00:33:08.660 I think it'll serve you a lot better in the future than some poli-sci degree.

00:33:12.300 Barack Obama studied political science.

00:33:13.800 That's all you need to know.

00:33:15.140 Next question from Jeffrey.

00:33:18.220 Knowles, I just read Genesis 10 through 11 last night.

00:33:21.240 And in your opinion, is Nimrod perhaps the best name in the Old Testament or should I

00:33:25.300 withdraw my judgment until I make it further in?

00:33:28.600 Nimrod is an excellent name. 1.00

00:33:30.460 My favorite Old Testament name, I think, is Jehoshaphat.

00:33:33.440 I've been trying to convince sweet little Elisa to name our first child Jehoshaphat.

00:33:36.720 It's not going very well.

00:33:38.100 Nimrod is good. 1.00

00:33:39.020 It's too bad, though, that now Nimrod is considered synonymous with idiot or moron. 0.99

00:33:44.220 The reason for that, so Nimrod in the Bible is a mighty hunter before the Lord. 0.99

00:33:48.540 And there is an episode from the 1930s of Bugs Bunny where Bugs Bunny refers to Elmer

00:33:54.600 Fudd as Nimrod, ironically, sarcastically, because Elmer Fudd is not a mighty hunter

00:33:59.740 before the Lord. 1.00

00:34:00.600 But now, ever since then, people say Nimrod and it just means moron or idiot. 1.00

00:34:03.960 Very sad. 1.00

00:34:04.600 Too bad for Nimrod and for that mighty hunter.

00:34:06.640 Next question from Michael.

00:34:08.140 I always run into a snag when debating welfare with friends who are Democrats.

00:34:12.460 They always point to the fact that I have used government assistance, such as the GI Bill

00:34:16.500 on Medicaid, which admittedly has helped me greatly.

00:34:19.100 How can I take a stand against welfare when I have personally experienced its benefits?

00:34:23.480 This is one of the most insidious arguments by the left to shut down debate.

00:34:27.180 They get you hooked on some of these programs, which you've already paid into and which you've

00:34:31.340 already, obviously, which you've used if they're at your disposal. 0.51

00:34:34.520 And then they say you'll be a hypocrite if you suggest that there are problems within

00:34:38.720 those programs or that they need to be reformed or curtailed. 0.97

00:34:41.360 And it's just a way of shaming you and basically getting you on the hook and then dragging you

00:34:47.440 wherever they want you to.

00:34:48.540 First of all, not all welfare is graded equal.

00:34:50.820 So an employment incentive for people who are willing to risk their lives to serve our

00:34:55.080 country is different than Obama phones.

00:34:57.760 The GI Bill is different than Obama phones.

00:35:00.200 But second, the two have nothing to do with one another. 1.00

00:35:04.740 You'd be an idiot not to use programs that are at your disposal. 0.99

00:35:08.260 If you've already paid into these things, our society has already paid into these things. 1.00

00:35:11.780 And if you need Medicaid or if you're going to use the GI Bill, of course do that.

00:35:14.960 You've served in the military.

00:35:16.320 Take what was part of the deal when you signed up, which is a GI Bill to help out with education.

00:35:22.320 Your personal life has nothing to do with the unsustainability and generational theft of

00:35:26.920 out-of-control entitlement programs that have to be reformed or they'll go bankrupt.

00:35:30.260 It has nothing to do with whether or not 100% debt to GDP is going to be a drag on the

00:35:35.800 economy or slow down growth.

00:35:37.500 Those are totally separate things.

00:35:38.900 You shouldn't feel guilty at all about using the programs that were part of the deal that

00:35:42.480 you signed up for and that has nothing to do.

00:35:44.820 That should not in any way try to cloud your clear judgment on whether or not these programs

00:35:50.000 are sustainable or good for society or need to be reformed or curtailed.

00:35:53.440 Next question from Robert.

00:35:55.040 Hi, Michael.

00:35:55.720 I am a big fan of your relationship advice.

00:35:58.460 Oh, very lovely.

00:35:59.600 Alisa, sweet little Alisa is not a big fan of my relationship advice, but you know, whatever.

00:36:02.800 I'll see what I can offer you.

00:36:04.440 I would like to hear your thoughts on my current situation.

00:36:06.900 What are your thoughts on girlfriends or wives going out to dance clubs with their single 0.97

00:36:11.460 friends?

00:36:12.580 My girlfriend's girlfriend recently asked her out to a dance club. 0.70

00:36:16.900 My girlfriend and I are both very Catholic and hold strong Christian values.

00:36:20.680 I want to say I trust my girlfriend and would be okay with her going out, but I don't trust

00:36:24.480 her friend who is someone that recently went to the women's march and has a different set

00:36:28.720 of values.

00:36:29.340 You don't say.

00:36:29.800 She is someone that is immersed in the hookup culture.

00:36:32.440 I would like to get your perspective.

00:36:34.820 Thanks.

00:36:36.440 Okay.

00:36:37.180 So I guess the first question is, do you trust your girlfriend and you both see the world

00:36:42.660 the same way?

00:36:43.280 Okay, that's fine.

00:36:44.200 Then the second point is that dance clubs are awful, especially unless you're single,

00:36:48.520 unless you're single and are trying to score or something, dance clubs are like the worst

00:36:52.980 thing ever.

00:36:53.540 And even then, if you're a guy who isn't just like a giant Hulk or football player or something,

00:36:58.040 dance clubs are not your best bet.

00:36:59.820 You'll do a lot better to pick up a chick elsewhere that you can use your words or something. 0.79

00:37:04.580 So I guess the first question is, why does she want to go?

00:37:08.040 The whole point of going to dance clubs is to dance with other people and then maybe go

00:37:11.660 home with them.

00:37:12.500 So if your wife isn't going to do that, probably she wouldn't have a whole lot of fun doing 1.00

00:37:16.600 it.

00:37:16.940 I guess you could go with her.

00:37:18.280 However, I've gone to plenty of clubs in my life and even when I'm not, you know, prowling

00:37:24.820 for ladies and that's okay. 0.99

00:37:26.960 I guess that can be fun.

00:37:29.260 But I guess the real question is, why would she want to go?

00:37:33.060 I wouldn't worry too much.

00:37:34.820 If you think your girlfriend is going to cheat on you, you probably have other issues that 0.84

00:37:38.260 you guys should talk about.

00:37:39.300 But the real question is, it probably just won't be that fun.

00:37:41.800 If you're not going to go get drunk and dance up on a lot of guys and hook up with people,

00:37:47.060 there isn't much of a reason as a single person to go to dance clubs.

00:37:50.860 So do that. 0.56

00:37:52.020 And I hope that my advice is not then going to force you to have to go to these things

00:37:56.100 too because they're not a lot of fun.

00:37:58.000 There are a lot of other better nightlife possibilities and bars and places you can go

00:38:03.420 to.

00:38:03.800 So sorry if I just got you looped into a bad Saturday night.

00:38:06.660 Next question from Spencer.

00:38:08.980 Spencer, to his most excellent majesty, the king of trolls, it is undeniable that you

00:38:13.800 bear an uncanny resemblance to the young Michael Corleone in Godfather parts one and two.

00:38:18.360 Thank you.

00:38:18.780 And thank you for leaving out part three.

00:38:20.460 My question is simple but intriguing.

00:38:22.380 If your fictional Sicilian counterpart is Michael, does that mean Clavin is Vito Corleone, Marlon

00:38:28.320 Brando?

00:38:28.880 And what about Ben?

00:38:29.960 Is he Sonny or perhaps the family's lawyer, Tom Hagen?

00:38:32.760 I would like to hear your thoughts, Spencer.

00:38:34.620 So I guess just on strictly ethnic grounds, if I'm I, the Sicilian American fellow, is

00:38:42.280 Michael, probably Ben has to be Hyman Roth, right?

00:38:45.140 He has to be the Lee Strasberg character. 0.75

00:38:46.840 He's got to be the Jewish gangster. 1.00

00:38:48.220 I don't know. 0.83

00:38:48.980 I haven't really analyzed one for one.

00:38:51.380 Some of it breaks down.

00:38:52.560 The one thing I do know is that Marshall is Fredo.

00:38:54.840 That goes without saying Marshall is Fredo Corleone.

00:38:57.280 And we'll have to build the movies all around that.

00:38:59.820 Next question from Hendrick Hahn.

00:39:01.200 If you are descended from the Mayflower, were your ancestors also Puritans, the much-hated

00:39:05.640 Calvinists?

00:39:07.080 They were indeed.

00:39:08.840 So half of my family comes, is descended from Mayflower lines in northern Europe and Great

00:39:14.680 Britain, and then the other half is from sardine boats coming over from Sicily.

00:39:18.320 So the waspy ones were indeed Calvinist Puritans. 0.90

00:39:22.160 But more importantly, those pilgrims were separatists.

00:39:25.400 So they separated from England, and then they separated from Leiden when they thought their

00:39:29.580 kids were getting a little bit too Dutch.

00:39:31.220 They were wearing too many clogs or something.

00:39:32.840 So Dear Grandpa Samuel Fuller would certainly be scandalized by my popishness.

00:39:37.680 But I only had one pilgrim ancestor.

00:39:40.920 The three other Mayflower ancestors were strangers, the so-called strangers.

00:39:45.720 They just came along for the ride, but they weren't religious zealots.

00:39:48.400 They were not pilgrims, is one way to put it.

00:39:51.780 They were just derelicts, all three of them.

00:39:54.040 One of them, John Billington, was the first person in Plymouth Colony to be executed for

00:39:59.280 murder.

00:39:59.860 They were rogues and knaves and knavish rogues. 0.96

00:40:02.660 So perhaps it is that balance that has instilled in me from a young age the important maxim of

00:40:07.860 St. Augustine, Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.

00:40:11.320 Next question is from Brenda.

00:40:12.900 Mr. Knowles, why do you say Protestant revolution instead of the more common Protestant reformation?

00:40:19.160 Is it because as a Catholic, you disagree that the church was in need of reform?

00:40:22.620 Thank you, Brenda.

00:40:24.020 The church is always in need of reform.

00:40:25.860 No one has ever doubted that, I don't think.

00:40:29.120 Pope Francis and perhaps Pope Benedict suggested that, I think it was Pope Benedict, suggested

00:40:33.980 that the devil is in the Vatican.

00:40:36.000 The devil is there, which is not much of a surprise given that we've just had two of

00:40:41.000 the greatest men of the century, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, and the devil

00:40:46.940 gets a little feisty and wants to tear things up.

00:40:49.320 There are scandals, banking scandals, sex scandals.

00:40:51.440 It's always in need of reform.

00:40:53.460 The reason I use revolution is I think that that term is just much more accurate.

00:40:57.960 On the surface, the Protestant revolution was not a reformation.

00:41:02.100 It did not reform the church.

00:41:04.100 It was a schism.

00:41:05.400 It broke away from the church and created new sects and denominations of various variations

00:41:13.300 on Christianity.

00:41:14.380 But it wasn't a reform movement.

00:41:16.300 Perhaps it began as a reform movement, but Luther left, and then he was excommunicated

00:41:20.860 and he wrote terrible things about the church and vice versa.

00:41:23.460 So it just doesn't count as one.

00:41:25.560 I got the idea to call it revolution from the historian Jacques Barzin, the great historian

00:41:30.340 of Western civilization.

00:41:33.220 And also he wrote a wonderful book on the modern era called From Dawn to Decadence.

00:41:36.320 And the reason it really ought to be called revolution is that it, in many ways, kicked

00:41:41.000 off the modern era.

00:41:42.360 It was a worldwide revolution.

00:41:44.640 It dramatically changed the course of history.

00:41:47.040 It wasn't a mild reform of some liturgy or liturgical practice or some political aspect

00:41:52.340 of the church.

00:41:52.860 It was a major break and it caused a lot of chaos, at the very least, in the history of

00:41:59.180 the West.

00:41:59.940 And so I think you have to refer to it as a revolution.

00:42:02.880 Next question, from Patrick, dear Michael Knowles, King of Trolls, a while back, you

00:42:08.480 spoke briefly about the early American holiday of training day.

00:42:12.020 This is a wonder, what a holiday.

00:42:13.960 What a good, this is a good question to end on.

00:42:15.680 In which colonists would go and eat, drink, and shoot guns?

00:42:18.520 I've looked for a while, but I can't find any information on it.

00:42:21.760 Can you give us some more specifics?

00:42:22.940 It would be a shame for such a quintessentially American holiday to be forgotten and wonderful

00:42:27.300 if it could be revived.

00:42:28.360 Thank you and love the show.

00:42:29.800 Absolutely.

00:42:30.200 The early New England settlers, beginning in the 17th century, held training days six

00:42:35.080 times per year, I believe.

00:42:36.780 And it wasn't all frivolous.

00:42:38.060 It wasn't just having fun.

00:42:39.560 Training days were largely serious occasions, making sure that they could put musket ball

00:42:43.820 warheads through King Philip foreheads and various things like that.

00:42:47.700 They had to make sure that they were ready to fight in case the Indians got a little feisty 1.00

00:42:51.840 as they intermittently did.

00:42:53.540 Lots of shooting, a lot of cleaning arms, prizes were awarded, silver cups and handkerchiefs

00:42:59.480 and things like that for the best shot.

00:43:01.600 That went on about six times a year.

00:43:03.780 Following all the fun, there would be dinners held in public squares, and it was more festive.

00:43:09.100 Eventually, though, as the colonists became more prosperous, these training days gave way

00:43:14.340 to muster day in which various militias would parade and compete with one another even after

00:43:19.760 the Indian wars.

00:43:21.180 There would be wrestling matches.

00:43:22.860 There would be various drills.

00:43:25.620 The old men and young boys and all of the women would judge and see who was the best shot and 0.96

00:43:29.960 root for who they wanted from the sidelines.

00:43:32.380 It became a far more decadent affair than training days.

00:43:34.960 They had eating booths and tent shows and auction carts and candy stands and New England

00:43:39.780 rum selling for three cents a glass.

00:43:42.480 Those exercises lasted around until 1855 as the country then prepared to actually slaughter

00:43:49.120 one another rather than merely wrestle and drink rum.

00:43:52.220 That was the end of training day.

00:43:54.340 It's been a century and a half since then.

00:43:56.520 Maybe we could revive that thing.

00:43:57.740 I think it would be a lot of fun, so get on that.

00:44:00.440 That is another thing to look forward to in 2018.

00:44:02.340 Okay, that is our show.

00:44:05.200 Now, obviously, Another Kingdom is out.

00:44:07.940 All 13 episodes are out.

00:44:09.820 That's my narrative podcast with Andrew Klavan, where I play a 30-year-old schlubby guy in

00:44:15.100 Los Angeles who can't get a job in the entertainment industry.

00:44:18.180 No idea why he would cast me for such a part.

00:44:20.780 And then he walks into Another Kingdom through a portal, and he's in this world with ogres and

00:44:26.540 horses and knights and ladies and a bloody dagger and a dead damsel at his feet.

00:44:30.420 So you can go and binge that.

00:44:31.800 It would really help us out.

00:44:33.100 We're still pitching this at pretty big places around town, and we get to go in there and

00:44:37.080 say, we've got almost 2,000 five-star reviews, and we've got a gazillion downloads, and you

00:44:41.480 have to put us out there.

00:44:43.120 And then they say, but you're conservatives. 0.97

00:44:44.420 We want to tar and feather you. 1.00

00:44:46.100 And you say, well, you have to anyway, damn it. 0.99

00:44:47.960 So let us, please, help us to put a fork through the eye of the executives in Hollywood. 0.97

00:44:54.380 Leave a five-star review, download, send to your friends.

00:44:56.460 It would be very helpful.

00:44:57.420 One other thing.

00:44:58.140 This is like a very minor, almost stuff I like.

00:45:00.500 I just started reading the David Bentley Hart New Translation of the New Testament.

00:45:04.300 It is really illuminating, really interesting.

00:45:07.700 If you've already listened to Another Kingdom over the weekend, check it out.

00:45:11.340 It's pretty cool.

00:45:12.020 And we're going to try to get him on the show later on.

00:45:13.540 Okay.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 25, 2018

Ep. 94 - Cecile Richards, Maniacal Ghoul： A Retrospective

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