The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 98 - Feminism Ruined Women (And Everything Else) ft. Faith Moore


Summary

We dig deep into the Daily Wire archives to find some incredible footage of what women were like before feminism, and what they were like after feminism. Plus, we answer the question: Which is better, Snow White or Feminism?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 There's a lot in the news today, and we are not going to talk about any of it, because who cares?
00:00:04.460 It's something about a memo, lying Democrats, same story, different day.
00:00:08.660 Instead, we will analyze feminism right down to its cold, frigid, bra-burning core
00:00:13.980 with PJ Media columnist and Disney princess enthusiast Faith Moore.
00:00:19.160 One question, which is the greater fiction, Snow White or feminism?
00:00:23.880 Then, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 I am so excited to get to this today.
00:00:36.580 We actually dug deep into the Daily Wire archives.
00:00:39.960 We found some incredible historical footage of what women were like before feminism
00:00:43.800 and then also, obviously, what women are like after feminism.
00:00:46.840 We have to talk about all of it.
00:00:48.700 We have a wonderful thinker and writer on the show today.
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00:03:32.560 Now, we talk about history a lot on this show.
00:03:34.640 You know that.
00:03:35.860 So, consider this a mini This Day in History segment because the archivists at The Daily Wire have dug up incredible footage showing what women used to look like before feminism.
00:03:47.100 Let's see it.
00:03:47.700 Please don't run away.
00:03:50.880 I won't hurt you.
00:03:55.080 I'm awfully sorry.
00:03:57.060 I didn't mean to frighten you.
00:03:58.980 But you don't know what I've been through.
00:04:02.240 And all because I was afraid.
00:04:05.720 I'm so ashamed of the fuss I've made.
00:04:08.560 What do you do when things go wrong?
00:04:15.320 Oh, you sing a song.
00:04:17.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:25.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:31.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:32.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:33.040 Oh, oh.
00:04:33.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:34.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:35.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:36.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:37.620 Oh, oh.
00:04:39.080 Oh, oh.
00:04:48.280 Ah, chirp, chirp, chirp.
00:04:50.320 That was so nice.
00:04:51.420 That was like watching a cartoon, Sweet Little Elisa.
00:04:54.200 Sweet Little Elisa is very fair-skinned.
00:04:55.540 It was just like, what a, that was so beautiful.
00:04:57.680 Now, also, I'm sorry.
00:04:59.600 You gotta come out of it.
00:05:00.980 Now, let's take a look at what feminism has turned women into.
00:05:04.860 that is not what a fetus looks like okay it's a clip of cells at 12 weeks
00:05:11.340 it does not look like that it's a clip of cells no hands are shown through that time
00:05:17.760 it's just a white friend with racist male that doesn't stand for women's rights
00:05:22.120 and get that camera out of my face
00:05:27.380 i am the feminist who is out to ruin your life i am the feminist who is ruining your perfectly
00:05:38.980 respectful marriage by suggesting audrey lord to the book club that your wife attends and yes
00:05:46.360 i am the one who convinced her to get that shorter haircut that you pretend to like but don't really
00:05:52.380 like i am the feminist who is pushing your daughter down the slippery slope of sluthood
00:05:59.180 by giving her a high five when she says she keeps her own supply of condoms
00:06:03.980 and incidentally i tried to turn her bisexual gay by recommending some dental dam yes
00:06:11.600 that's progress there it is there's the progress everybody what an advancement how enlightened
00:06:19.640 now we are what wonderful things feminism has brought to the world we have to bring on now
00:06:24.840 faith more a wonderful writer about all things feminist and uh more importantly a disney princess
00:06:31.820 addict faith thank you for coming on hi thanks for having me it's great to be here so faith my first
00:06:37.180 question which is more of a fantasy disney or feminism feminism absolutely feminism yeah no feminism
00:06:45.480 is based on a lie it's based on the lie that men and women are the same that gender is a social contract
00:06:51.180 that's a lie disney tells the truth about women and what's so strange about it too is that is the central
00:06:56.880 lie men and women are the same they're indistinguishable and yet it's called feminism they always say well
00:07:02.440 it just means men and women they deserve the same rights or whatever but then why then why is it called
00:07:06.540 feminism it's that we have a philosophy for that which is called egalitarianism so it seems on the one hand
00:07:11.600 it says men and women are exactly the same and on the other hand women are this totally separate
00:07:16.620 uh categorical entity and we need to give them everything and let them yell at us and kick our
00:07:22.080 signs down well not only that it also ends up saying that men are actually better than women because if
00:07:29.220 you say that gender is a social construct and men and women are exactly the same but everything that
00:07:35.740 is feminine is because of the oppression of men so women have to act more like men that
00:07:41.420 means men are better than women everything within the category of woman is lesser and worse and
00:07:47.900 terrible right given that given and it's funny because given the premise if men and women really
00:07:52.840 are no different then there are no women right then there there isn't a categorical distinction
00:07:57.020 between men and women it's just it's just men and men with long hair who look nicer now faith you
00:08:03.720 love disney princesses you have a pretty big facebook page about this you write about this frequently
00:08:08.760 why do you love them so i love disney princesses well all girls love disney princesses i mean little
00:08:16.020 girls love disney princess that's the most controversial statement that has ever been uttered on my program
00:08:20.280 yeah i'm i'm here to to just really shake things up with my disney princess conversation no i mean
00:08:26.820 it doesn't matter how much feminists try to convince us that little girls don't love princesses they do
00:08:33.120 they love princesses and the thing about disney princesses is that they're actually a great um
00:08:39.100 they're great role models for modern girls because they're they're brave and passionate and outspoken
00:08:45.100 and they have goals and they follow their dreams and all these things but they do it without
00:08:49.540 compromising their femininity their kindness their nurturing nature they want love they want to start
00:08:56.120 family all of these things but somewhere along the line feminists got a hold of the narrative about
00:09:02.600 disney princesses and they did to the princesses what they do to women which is that because they act
00:09:09.020 like women they've decided that they're just these victim danzels in distress husband hunters and we
00:09:16.260 believe them so the the pub the general public sort of believes them so anyone who tells you that they
00:09:21.440 love disney princesses apologizes first they say like i know i know they're really i'm sorry it's
00:09:27.380 so not modern i'm sorry but i just really love them you know and and moms like they ban them from
00:09:32.680 their houses and they're not allowed to like their daughters aren't allowed to watch them and these
00:09:36.020 things but but really i think in our current culture in our current situation situation about
00:09:42.840 gender these are some really great stories for little girls to be looking at to figure out how to
00:09:48.060 become women and you make the point on damsels in distress that's that's how a lot of people think
00:09:52.580 of them that's how they're portrayed that they're just waiting for the man to come around but you say
00:09:56.660 they're not damsels in distress just like women before feminism weren't just helpless damsels in
00:10:01.400 distress what what do these people get wrong so i mean you just play that whole thing about snow white
00:10:08.840 and in fact in that clip that you played she says i'm so what does she say i'm so ashamed of the
00:10:16.300 fuss i've made and so when you think about that right this is a person who i mean in that scene
00:10:23.420 she's just been like someone threatened to kill her essentially and then she ran away and she can
00:10:28.700 never come home so that's bad and but she's so ashamed of the fuss that she's made right and the
00:10:34.860 next thing that she does is she goes to a house find that it would be a really good place to hide out
00:10:40.960 and decides to make a deal with the people who who live there she is going to cook and clean for them
00:10:46.100 because she knows how to do that and they'll let her stay so i mean if if feminists want her to be a
00:10:53.020 freeloader and just get the men in the house to take care of her then that would be fine i guess but
00:11:00.700 really what she does is she actually shows up with a plan that's right she's not just offering her body
00:11:06.300 or something she says i have these skills and i'm going to make a deal and and strike out on my own
00:11:10.460 and not have to become some fake man in order to do it right exactly and i think they're they're almost
00:11:19.100 all like that until you get to the princesses that are the more recent ones that are supposed to be
00:11:24.940 more modern and then you get these princesses who are sort of like infantilized and objectified
00:11:30.300 like in their own story except those are the finest ones because they write and that's the new fiction
00:11:38.120 that they're it's not that we're seeing this throughout all of these disney movies and more largely
00:11:44.360 throughout all of the folk tales and fables that come to us through the tradition it we're actually
00:11:49.480 this is a modern advancement that the women are oppressed that they're this is an ideological vision
00:11:54.940 that's being imposed even on these stories even on these disney stories how long until we see a
00:11:59.620 transgender disney princess oh it's it's coming it's probably in development right now yeah i think
00:12:06.900 so i mean we had the first boy princess um but it was it was in a cartoon on on television so i guess
00:12:13.480 it doesn't officially count but yeah i mean there was a boy who was dressing up as a girl in order to
00:12:18.200 do something or other and you know so he was sort of lauded as disney's first boy princess oh my gosh i
00:12:24.660 actually don't follow the you'll be shocked to hear this i don't follow disney very closely
00:12:29.260 i didn't so they're already testing into what will become inevitably the transgender disney princess
00:12:35.540 also known as the end of disney princesses right exactly yeah i mean i think that's probably that's
00:12:41.920 probably gonna happen i mean there's already call for elsa from frozen to be a lesbian since um you
00:12:47.460 know she didn't have a love interest and all of this stuff so i mean all of that all of that is coming
00:12:51.840 and i think you're just gonna lose the girls you know yeah you're right then but this is what this
00:12:57.620 is what happens in the culture generally they lose they insist on adding this ideological vision
00:13:02.600 and then they lose their audience because it's no longer entertaining it no longer corresponds to
00:13:07.660 reality as we know reality is we as we as we see ourselves and as we see other people in the world
00:13:14.580 and they lose all the audience but they still win all of the awards because it's so important man
00:13:18.840 isn't it so important and powerful right exactly you know and now we're essentially telling you know
00:13:25.820 my my least favorite disney movie of all disney princess movie of all time is brave and brave is a
00:13:33.720 story about not growing up because they can't they they can't have her find a husband they can't have
00:13:40.720 her you know have her life they basically she goes out on the whole quest that a disney princess
00:13:45.680 goes out on and then ends up right back home where she started and we have no idea what's
00:13:48.660 going to happen to her so that's that's essentially what's happening is they're infantilizing women
00:13:54.300 by making it so that they can't they can't leave home because there's nothing for them out there
00:14:01.240 that's right you know you know there there is peter pan but peter pan is a sad tale it's a sad thing
00:14:07.260 that peter can't grow up and doesn't move on with his life and i i think this is sort of a jerk
00:14:12.960 right exactly i think this is kind of a a rationalist this is what happens with ideology
00:14:19.800 is ideology forgets that we live in time and we live in space and so they say this is it this is
00:14:25.020 the frozen moment but i don't know i really liked college college was a lot of fun i don't wish that
00:14:30.100 i were still in college because that's in the past i like other you know i've it was fun to be a child
00:14:35.380 but i don't wish that i were still a child and they lose that and and the old conservatives i like to
00:14:41.640 think look at reality as it is and they understand that we live in time we live in a space and you
00:14:46.360 can't stay in never never land forever lefties tell us they tell us all the time that gender is a
00:14:51.320 social construct but i'm i'm looking at you faith you look very much like a lady you seem objectively
00:14:57.860 prettier than i am your voice is higher pitched than mine is is there evidence that gender is a social
00:15:03.780 construct no in fact i think there's evidence that it is not a social construct that it is inherent
00:15:11.580 in men to be men and women to be women and there are even there are studies that sort of you know
00:15:17.200 the most recent one i saw was about sort of toy preference and they kind of they've they weeded out
00:15:23.720 all of these things like you know whether the mom and dad were there and all of this stuff and it was
00:15:27.620 like the girls pick the girl toys the boy i mean no it's ridiculous you know i and i think that when
00:15:35.180 when you try to prove that that gender is a social construct you you end up just sort of talking
00:15:43.120 yourself in circles and when the feminists do it they end up talking themselves into um victimhood
00:15:49.400 essentially well of course they it always ironically something that's supposed to empower them ends up
00:15:54.500 making them like little children and i love that you brought up the scientific studies because i've seen
00:15:58.400 these two studies that show that regardless of socialization regardless of the awful patriarchal culture
00:16:04.760 boys want to play with boy toys and girls want to play with girl toys and then in fake studies
00:16:09.440 in like gender studies but one of my hobbies a few years ago a buddy of mine did and i we did we did
00:16:15.800 this on tumblr we created a blog called gender studies department that was all it was i think it's still
00:16:21.760 up there gender studies department hyphen blog.tumblr.com and we would just post quotes from actual peer
00:16:28.800 reviewed published gender studies papers that absolutely meant nothing they were just random words
00:16:34.100 so one quote says and this is by this might be the most rational quote of all of them it says
00:16:40.100 at the root of eco-feminism is the understanding that the many systems of oppression are mutually
00:16:47.600 reinforcing building on the socialist feminist insight that racism classism and sexism or interconnected
00:16:53.580 eco-feminists whatever that is recognized additional similarities between those forms of human
00:16:59.340 oppression and the oppressive structures of speciesism and naturism and ism ism ism ism ism i notice all of
00:17:07.240 these other lefty ideas socialism environmentalism they keep creeping into discussions about feminism
00:17:13.000 can there be a conservative feminism i sometimes hear some of my conservative or my
00:17:18.460 conservative ish female friends say things like you know a woman with a gun that yeah with a gun that's
00:17:25.460 real feminism or a woman ceo raising children and going to work every day that's feminism or whatever
00:17:31.500 they say is there a conservative feminism or are isms and ideologies like feminism just un incompatible
00:17:40.200 with uh with conservative thought well i think that at at the heart of feminism or i guess at the
00:17:48.480 beginning of feminism i think it began with a notion that we can all agree with which is that men and
00:17:56.120 women are equally valuable to society that that you need men and women and that you know women should be
00:18:03.880 allowed to do the same kinds of things as men if they want to do them and i think and so i think that
00:18:09.620 if that were still true about feminism then maybe we could get behind it more than than we can now but
00:18:19.080 that that isn't actually what the feminists now are saying you know they're not they're not saying it that
00:18:25.740 men and women are equally valuable to society they're saying that they're the same and that certain
00:18:31.540 traits be they male or female are positive or negative i mean the thing is men have inherently
00:18:39.060 male traits and women have inherently female traits and there's no moral judgment about that it just
00:18:44.860 is so when you start to put moral judgment on the inherent traits that's when you get lost and i think
00:18:53.020 that feminism has gotten lost so i don't i don't know what the word would be for someone who thinks
00:18:58.740 rationally um but christian you know so christian i think is yeah i guess there are some other
00:19:04.620 versions too rational people and yeah i don't know that you know that's absolutely right there's a
00:19:09.320 the complementarity of the sexes poses equal value in christianity uh and and judaism uh the eve is
00:19:18.460 plucked out of adam's rib not out of his head she's not higher than adam not out of his foot she's not
00:19:23.540 lower than adam right out of his rib in the beginning god created man both male and female he created
00:19:28.580 them they have equal dignity but they're clearly not the same i hope they're not the same uh the blogger
00:19:34.080 speaking speaking of the complementarity of the sexes we're going to get a little saucy here the
00:19:38.300 blogger samara over at scary mommy wrote a piece called sometimes i want to be held by a man naked
00:19:45.420 without having sex is that okay the answer is no by the way uh she says that women need intimacy in
00:19:50.860 their lives and therefore they should be able to expect it from randos that they hook up with
00:19:54.180 what is wrong with that can't women have it all um no actually women can't have it all even when
00:20:00.400 they say when they're referring to the other thing which is like working and raising kids they
00:20:05.540 can't have it all in that area either but um no that is a ridiculous request because and the reason
00:20:12.740 it's a ridiculous request is because you don't actually know that person and therefore you can't
00:20:17.580 have intimacy with him you can have an intimate act but you can't have intimacy get intimate as in
00:20:24.600 like get it on as in like you know whatever you want to call that but you can't have intimacy with
00:20:30.780 that person because you just met them like an hour ago and you know now you're upstairs in their
00:20:36.720 apartment naked and and i think you know like if if you get naked in front of someone that you just
00:20:42.880 met um i think you're basically sending the message that you would like to have sex you're not
00:20:48.960 really sending the message that you'd like to just kind of lie there and i don't even that's always the
00:20:52.860 message i'm trying to send i don't know if people are misinterpreting what i'm that's the message you
00:20:57.200 know one time i went on a date with aziz ansari and he and i he and i just had well i'll save it for
00:21:02.600 another time but we just had very different views of what was happening you know well if you'd like to
00:21:07.020 tell me i can publish it and i'll keep your name anonymous good give it anonymous i i hope not a lot
00:21:12.720 of people watch the show so i don't think it'll really get out you know uh yes that is that is so right
00:21:17.600 there there is because you you wrote beautifully on this topic about how women do long for these
00:21:23.780 things in a way that men don't i'll i don't want to tell any tales out of school here folks but it
00:21:28.420 turns out that men are more comfortable with casual sex and desire it more than women do broadly
00:21:33.740 speaking um now you think that me too speaking of is awful me too uh some center-right writers have
00:21:41.880 jumped on board though they say yes these awful men they've harassed me too uh what is wrong with
00:21:47.440 this slacktivist hashtag du jour um yeah me too has sort of devolved into this i mean it's something
00:21:55.660 really interesting i think is happening about me too which is that you know initially it it arose i
00:22:01.960 guess because of all of the really horrible things that were going on like harvey weinstein and all of
00:22:06.420 those other people and and people were saying you know i was really really truly violated and but it
00:22:11.480 was very it very quickly devolved into um yes you know me too because somebody cat called me on the
00:22:19.760 street or you know me too because i saw a man one time or me too just because of the way michael
00:22:24.620 knows looks he's just kind of laying out an italian you got a gold chain it's doesn't i don't feel safe
00:22:30.160 like that guy on the subway looked like he was going to ask for my number and didn't me too um so
00:22:35.520 you know it's kind of that really delegitimizes the victims of actual sexual crimes right like
00:22:45.540 lumping all of those things together is really a terrible thing to do to people that have actually
00:22:51.180 experienced something horrific but especially these days there's great currency in victimhood
00:22:57.160 this whole my mother washed more floors for less money thing and so you see uh rape hoaxes you see
00:23:03.240 a spike in rape hoaxes on campus both before college and and obviously on college campuses
00:23:08.820 we've had major the the vast majority if not all of the major headline grabbing rape cases at
00:23:16.180 universities in the last five years have have come out to be hoaxes beginning with duke lacrosse but
00:23:21.780 all the way up to the uva uh scandal uh that rolling stone breathlessly reported on without any
00:23:27.440 evidence there's a lot of currency in that in that victimhood it seems to say something about the
00:23:32.820 culture that we're so proud to be victims it seems that something is unhealthy in the culture
00:23:37.300 yeah absolutely and i think um i think that it's all sort of a product of this um you know we're
00:23:47.240 we're so oppressed you know gender social construct kind of mentality um because if women are supposed to
00:23:56.940 behave like men when it comes to sex and they're supposed to um want to have the kinds of meaningless
00:24:02.540 sex and you know like swipe in whatever direction on tinder they're supposed to be swiping you know
00:24:07.700 then um then it's always the fault of the man if they feel violated or they feel uncomfortable in some
00:24:18.160 way because that wasn't actually what they wanted to do what they wanted to do was meet a nice guy and
00:24:22.000 fall in love and you know get married and have children so um you know then but it allows you to
00:24:28.400 maintain the lie by saying that you're the victim you were victimized something went wrong this isn't
00:24:34.380 normally how this progresses this regret is so uh out of character yeah this is how i'm supposed to
00:24:40.800 behave i'm supposed to want this but you know so you did something wrong and i'm the victim and now we
00:24:46.040 can maintain the lie right that's absolutely right uh you are happily married so you haven't fallen
00:24:51.660 victim to this awful trap you're a stay-at-home mother and you're married in the old-fashioned
00:24:55.700 way this is you're married in the very old school way where you find another person and then join with
00:25:01.480 them together but that's because you're not hip enough for sologamy you've heard of sologamy in
00:25:06.320 2006 alexandra gill married herself she had a ceremony for herself an italian woman last year
00:25:13.080 laura maizey invited 70 guests to a farmhouse in vimer cate to marry herself a 38 year old british woman
00:25:20.300 named sophie tanner in 2015 married herself after her father she actually cheated on herself and she
00:25:26.460 cheated on herself yeah and and that was after her father had given her away to herself so sad the
00:25:32.600 wedding party at hers by the way then danced to kendrick lamar's i love myself sex in the city
00:25:37.480 mentioned it in 2003 a lead character on glee in 2010 enjoyed a sologamous ceremony is this the most
00:25:44.380 depressing thing ever or is this a farce is this uh is this the perfectly logical conclusion of feminism
00:25:51.520 um yeah i mean i all of the above really depressing and a farce i think i mean i mean they certainly
00:26:02.500 don't think it's a farce they believe everything that they're saying but um yeah i mean i don't even
00:26:10.020 know what that means to marry yourself i mean aren't you already married to yourself i mean like
00:26:15.640 can you separate from yourself because if you if you can't separate from yourself then you can't
00:26:20.500 marry yourself either i don't i don't think you can even procreate with yourself try try as i have i
00:26:25.740 don't think it's possible it seems like it's slapping lipstick on a pig to use a phrase because
00:26:31.640 you p these people are alone and it's sad that they're alone and it would be nice probably if they
00:26:35.520 found somebody and probably they could find somebody but rather than say gosh i'm alone and
00:26:40.980 maybe i should change that in somewhere i should do something to change that uh instead what they do
00:26:46.080 is they say it's good to feel alone yeah i don't feel terrible i feel great about it and it it's really
00:26:50.820 sad a uh a kind of related question i guess as we're talking about these uh traditionalism versus
00:26:58.500 modernism should women stay home to raise their children did you make the right decision
00:27:02.400 i definitely made the right decision for me i mean i there is nothing i could imagine doing other
00:27:11.440 than this um and i think that more women probably should do it than than do now but i i really i
00:27:21.180 hesitate to say every woman should do something because then i start to sound like the feminist
00:27:25.200 um you know so i think what i definitely think is that you this this thing you can have it all you
00:27:33.560 know you can work and you can have your that's not true right if you if you go to work then you're
00:27:38.840 making a decision to parent less and to work less right you you have to there has to be a give and take
00:27:48.960 everywhere so it's a decision that you're making but you have to know that that's the decision that
00:27:53.560 you're making that's not hooray i'm gonna be you know a stay-at-home mom at the same time as being
00:27:59.180 at the office all decisions close off other opportunities to make one decision is to say no
00:28:05.560 to many other ones you know speaking of decision making chesterton said that heresy isn't the
00:28:11.220 promotion of vice over virtue it's the promotion of one virtue to the exclusion of all of the others
00:28:16.540 um that today seems to be consent you know most bars and nightclubs now employ a notary public
00:28:23.400 so they can stamp your physical contact consent forms in every single drunken encounter after i
00:28:30.320 think light hand stuff i think that's the point at which you have to go to the notary he will stamp
00:28:34.700 it then you can walk out together i haven't read the statutes in a while why has our culture elevated
00:28:39.840 consent to be more important than anything else because we've elevated sex to be more important
00:28:47.040 than anything else so when when you know well the person that you are about to engage in sexual
00:28:56.240 activity with it's ridiculous to assume that you should have consent like written consent because
00:29:01.940 that's a person who knows you that you know them if if something is happening that one of you doesn't
00:29:06.860 like you can just say so i mean that's fine i mean you probably should have written consent if you
00:29:12.900 decide to have sex with someone you just met at a bar i mean who who knows like what this who this
00:29:18.300 person is and what they're into i mean you don't know you know it could be marshall for goodness sakes
00:29:21.720 you don't know who you're gonna meet you've only talked to the person for an hour exactly i hear a
00:29:27.000 little voice um yeah so i mean i i think that's the problem right we we've said that that the sex is more
00:29:35.580 important than the connection or the intimacy or you know love and so then we don't actually know
00:29:43.860 what we're getting it's ironic too it's ironic in the sense that sex is we're told that sex is
00:29:50.960 meaningless it's casual you can do it whenever you want it's just like shaking a hand uh but also it's
00:29:56.280 the most important thing ever so if it's just casual if sex is no that doesn't carry any moral weight
00:30:01.040 then sexual assault is no worse than slapping somebody in the face right because the sexual
00:30:05.680 part doesn't make it any worse or more grave or more serious but of course we know that isn't
00:30:11.000 that isn't true and on this as we're as we're going back in time we go to chesterton we can go
00:30:15.800 back to burke burke wrote about the age of ideology post-revolution france proto-feminism he said
00:30:21.420 he's so prescient in every way he wrote now all is to be changed all the pleasing illusions which
00:30:27.460 made power gentle and obedience liberal which harmonized the different shades of life and which
00:30:32.960 by a bland assimilation incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private
00:30:39.060 society are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason all the decent drapery
00:30:46.240 of life is to be rudely torn off all the super added ideas furnished from a wardrobe of a moral
00:30:52.160 imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover
00:30:57.580 the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be
00:31:04.040 exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion on this scheme of things a king is but a man
00:31:11.520 a queen is but a woman a woman is but an animal and an animal not of the highest order and oh homage all
00:31:19.600 homage paid to the sex in general as such and without distinct views is to be regarded as romance
00:31:26.320 and folly regicide and parasite and sacrilege are but the fictions of superstition corrupting jurisprudence
00:31:32.180 by destroying its simplicity does feminism ultimately mean that a woman is but an animal and an animal not of
00:31:39.360 the highest order gosh well i lost you a little bit in the feed so i didn't hear the beginning of what
00:31:44.820 you just said but i heard the end of it um i i don't know how to answer that i feel like i feel
00:31:52.200 like feminism makes it certainly makes women into something that they're not um and i think you know
00:32:01.180 an animal i don't know i please don't record me saying that oh that's okay we'll turn the recorder
00:32:06.740 off keep it rolling keep i'm sorry yes okay well now now i can tell you okay but um you know but i
00:32:14.440 definitely think it makes um it makes women in well it makes women unhappy you know it makes it makes
00:32:21.380 them unhappy because they they can't get what they want which is you know love and uh intimacy and you
00:32:28.760 know someone to care for them and protect them that's that's what we want that's right and i don't
00:32:32.820 think it turns them into brutes like you know cows or something it doesn't turn them into angry bulls
00:32:38.580 although but looking at that first video perhaps it's an open question but it doesn't i don't think
00:32:44.080 he means that i think he means it takes away all of the things that elevate us above our animal nature
00:32:49.080 does it to men too actually turns us into just brutes who have no sense of chivalry and because they
00:32:55.060 also don't see any femininity in front of them nothing to elevate uh men out of our maybe knuckle dragging
00:33:02.120 beast like nature but faith you're enough to do that to us you're enough to elevate this whole
00:33:07.020 show have we ever had a more elevated show than this usually it's just like me and fleckis talks
00:33:11.880 or something is absolutely in the gutter faith thank you for being here we have to move on to the
00:33:16.000 mailbag so nice to see you i you wouldn't you are so lovely and nice and articulate you would never
00:33:22.680 know that you're andrew clavin's daughter you would never it's unbelievable thank you thank you for
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00:37:06.360 let's get right into it first question from ashton hey michael i have two questions
00:37:20.460 though each are of the same life-altering value first what is your favorite scotch do you prefer
00:37:25.360 a more peaty scotch like lagavulin 16 or a sweeter scotch like mccallin 12 the answer is yes the answer
00:37:32.380 is yes to that question second do you enjoy smoking a pipe as you do cigars i often find
00:37:37.280 that pipe smoking allows you to taste the tobacco a bit more clearly than cigar smoking keep living
00:37:41.460 the cultured life uh i much prefer cigars i have nine pipes i have some wonderful vintage pipes
00:37:48.100 these dunhills from the 60s i have a nice dunhill meerschaum pipe that i'll occasionally smoke
00:37:52.880 but one it's very frustrating how to tamp it and pack it and all that stuff you can get very high
00:37:58.280 quality tobacco but the tobacco isn't of the same quality because it's not long leaf filler as cigars
00:38:03.760 are uh it's much less expensive so i like that part of it but i do prefer cigars cigars you just clip
00:38:08.760 it you light it up you smoke it i also once read that's the uh the three kinds of smoking tobacco
00:38:14.060 correspond to the tripartite soul so the cigarettes are the pathos the appetite because they're kind of
00:38:20.780 addictive and you just want to feed an urge and the cigars are the ethos the spirited part and they
00:38:26.160 go outwards and they're big and you think winston churchill things like that and then the pipe is the
00:38:31.160 logos the logical part it's both the stem and the bowl male and female and it it's the philosopher
00:38:37.500 sitting and contemplating by himself so i'm more into the spirited part give me the the cigars and
00:38:43.020 the ethos thank good question from nathan michael can you answer this question correctly nathan buffalo
00:38:50.720 buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo i hope that helps from james dear michael
00:38:57.900 what is your view on churches giving to political candidates it's the same view i have of personally
00:39:02.200 giving to political candidates which is i don't uh put not your trust in princes where your treasure
00:39:07.540 is there will your heart be also we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities
00:39:12.800 against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high
00:39:16.920 places so i don't think the churches should be donating to it i think churches have better
00:39:21.100 things to do with their money that said uh we should certainly repeal this johnson amendment which
00:39:27.080 since 1954 has prevented churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates theoretically because
00:39:32.940 it's actually only stopped christian churches and jews and muslims from endorsing candidates and even
00:39:37.200 that's not quite true it really only stops conservative religious groups from endorsing candidates
00:39:41.800 in 2016 fully 28 percent of respondents to a pew research poll of people who attended black
00:39:48.600 protestant churches heard their pastor support hillary clinton over a quarter absolutely no
00:39:54.380 consequences whatsoever just nine percent of people who attended religious services generally heard
00:39:59.360 clergy speak about a particular uh political candidate but well over a quarter of black protestant
00:40:04.620 churches were preaching the anti-gospel of hillary and that had no effect the reason that they can't do
00:40:09.780 it is because of their tax exempt status so the government says you don't have to pay taxes
00:40:13.880 on your donations which of course they shouldn't pay taxes on their donations period but they said you
00:40:18.820 don't have to do that but you can't talk about politics uh you know this really just affects the
00:40:23.640 conservative churches one time i accidentally attended what's called an independent catholic church
00:40:28.080 i think they're they're like not in communion with the vatican they're very right wing more than
00:40:32.700 the society of saint pius x and they're uh they're probably i think i think it was excommunicated but
00:40:39.280 anyway i just went there because they did a latin mass and i wasn't i wasn't aware and because they're
00:40:43.840 not tax exempt i heard the guy at the podium he said in the homily the quasi priest i guess he said
00:40:50.360 you know okay the the dance will be on thursday and the picnic will be on wednesday and don't forget
00:40:57.220 that tuesday is your last chance to stop the abomination administration on their path of utter destruction
00:41:01.580 and i i really want my church to be able to get down to brass tacks like that and tell us to stop
00:41:07.120 voting for people who want to attack who want to make nuns pay for abortions and who want to kill
00:41:13.640 more babies and and want to raise my taxes all of which are terrible i won't rank them right now on
00:41:19.560 the show so you know left-wing churches get to endorse candidates but forget about that the true church
00:41:24.640 of the left which is hollywood and the mainstream media they constantly shill for democrats so the only
00:41:29.660 people stripped of our first amendment rights are religious conservatives it's time to do away with
00:41:34.020 the johnson amendment i hope trump does it pronto president trump has been excellent on these issues
00:41:38.760 so he very well might it's a totally unfair and un-american advantage to the left and it has
00:41:43.960 significantly hastened to the decline in our culture next question from patrick dear
00:41:48.880 knowles et al after watching your this day in history on king george the third and remarking on his
00:41:54.680 character and general light-handedness on the colonies i had to wonder how justified was the american
00:41:59.140 revolution if the levied taxes were to pay for a war defending britain's colonies and the king was
00:42:04.780 generally a good guy was the u.s right to break away why or why not thanks and love the show patrick
00:42:10.160 i do have certain certain tory sensibilities but no it was it was perfectly justified it was quite
00:42:17.680 justified because unlike the french revolution it was a conservative revolution in america george the
00:42:23.020 third was a decent guy he was generally more lenient than his government on the colonies
00:42:27.060 but he would not assent to representation in parliament i'm slightly biased here because two
00:42:32.540 of my forebears fought in the revolution one of them died john and simon knowles john died at bunker hill
00:42:38.120 simon also fought at bunker hill he was young to enlist though he was 16 or even younger and he was with
00:42:43.600 washington valley forge and white plains uh so i take some family pride in that and uh wouldn't want to
00:42:50.420 make them frown from heaven um i think it was totally justified because you have highly educated
00:42:56.100 englishmen in america with an ever separating culture half a world away being taxed without
00:43:02.080 representation or very much respect from their imperial government it's not that the taxes were
00:43:07.420 unfair it's that they didn't have a voice in parliament and george wasn't going to give it to them
00:43:11.320 uh these colonists were not backwater primitives who had no sense of self-government they weren't
00:43:17.860 colonials who didn't understand republics or democracy or christianity or the culture that gave
00:43:23.320 birth to self-government they were englishmen of equal uh political resources and tradition with their
00:43:30.760 quasi-countrymen across the pond had george assented to representation in parliament the revolution likely
00:43:36.780 would not have come but he didn't and so it came luckily it was a conservative revolution
00:43:41.640 uh if it preserved tradition rather than like the french tearing apart all of the foundations of
00:43:46.740 society banning christianity cults of reason killing priests beheadings regicide ours because it was
00:43:52.820 british and not french was far more orderly and it's a good thing that it happened because it gave
00:43:57.620 the u.s the requisite independence and distance to remain outside conversations of peace with hitler
00:44:03.600 or getting bogged down early in war efforts so that we could swoop in and save the old world twice
00:44:08.820 back-to-back world war champions very good thing from seamus do you think the act of writing can be seen
00:44:13.940 as inherently narcissistic not the way i do it definitely not the way i do it it depends on
00:44:19.760 what you're writing about if you're writing an empty celebrity tell-all memoir yeah maybe it's
00:44:24.380 narcissistic but if you're writing about something that matters certainly not but beyond narcissism i
00:44:30.020 maybe what you're getting at too is that there's a certain arrogance to writing or confidence in
00:44:34.480 stating your opinion and holding opinion uh in telling others what to think about the world
00:44:39.100 as former president of yale rich levin uh a lefty but uh you know rich levin was a lefty but he's
00:44:46.500 he's right about a lot of things he observed in a speech one time that the truth is arrogant
00:44:51.460 the truth is arrogant so we have this new culture would say that's your opinion man don't don't yuck
00:44:56.880 my yum don't tell me what to think that's so how arrogant of you the truth is arrogant the truth
00:45:01.340 it's arrogant to say that two plus two is four because you're saying that two plus two isn't
00:45:04.980 three and if someone says that two plus two is three then you're saying that they're wrong and
00:45:10.760 that they are less learned or less thoughtful or less intelligent the truth is arrogant that's okay
00:45:15.380 it's all right as long as it's the truth the truth above all things from mike uh from marley
00:45:20.120 michael on your program you have related reiterated the importance of majoring in an academically solid
00:45:25.440 field like history or literature rather than social science i'm a music history major and throughout my
00:45:29.880 studies uh the history especially of early music is highly politicized whenever the origin
00:45:34.800 is in any way based in christian theology or is a resultant from a church musician discovering a new
00:45:40.380 notation technique there's a near gut reaction to turn every early musical innovation or work into
00:45:45.380 some analogy for extramarital erotica or some anti-religious propaganda how did you combat the
00:45:51.060 politicization of studying something like history that should be factual and concrete but has become
00:45:57.400 more subjective uh over time thanks marley very luckily uh the one thing yale does very
00:46:04.800 well is is the history department actually and that doesn't mean they don't have insane history
00:46:09.560 teachers there that teach nonsense but there's a lot of freedom so they teach everything and so you'll
00:46:15.100 get donald kagan or you'll get john gaddis or uh charles hill or you'll get uh good teachers there
00:46:21.220 in the field of history who can uh learn you something and then you can avoid the classes that are bad
00:46:27.560 this does happen a lot with history history can become highly politicized
00:46:31.100 uh what you have to do is analyze the historical techniques and make sure that you're not learning
00:46:35.700 history through some historicist ridiculous lens uh and you have to look for the good professors
00:46:40.900 always study the professors don't who cares what the sub the course subject is all that matters when
00:46:47.420 you're studying an undergraduate is the professor i think it's probably true of graduate school as well
00:46:52.100 that you will learn even if it's a teaching something that you're not necessarily the most interested in
00:46:57.540 go to the good professor who views the world in a normal and rational and thoughtful way you will
00:47:04.300 learn much much more from that person even if it's not in your precise interest from lisa hi my name is
00:47:10.180 lisa i know i just said that i'm a new subscriber thank you and would you i would like to know what
00:47:14.740 your kingdom series is that you mentioned at the end of an episode you're uh absolutely fabulous thank
00:47:19.940 you and my grandparents came from italy and spain and i loved how you knew the italian word for
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00:47:55.900 conservatives from michael mr knowles i am hoping you can rebut a few liberal points i've heard this
00:48:01.220 week concerning the economy word is that members on the left should not shy away from debating the
00:48:06.220 so-called booming economy as it may not be as great as the right makes it out to be their proof
00:48:10.760 is that is the assertion of points that the stock market grew faster under obama's first year
00:48:15.020 wages haven't grown much and growth was higher in the three years preceding trump
00:48:18.720 also the bonuses being given out are from tax cuts and they're being undercut by large swaths
00:48:23.120 of employees being laid off interesting to hear your thoughts thanks it's not that our friends
00:48:27.320 on the left are wrong they just know so much that isn't so um to begin yes but barack obama came out
00:48:33.240 of the worst recession since the great depression as he was so fond of telling us and he had a terrible
00:48:37.600 recovery it was a recovery that never really happened but nevertheless it had to go somewhere
00:48:41.820 so yeah yes the economy did grow under barack obama it couldn't really have fallen any further than it
00:48:47.020 did uh certain aspects of the economy we can attribute to donald trump we were told by all
00:48:52.340 of the lefty predictors that the market would tank and never recover that's what paul krugman said
00:48:56.280 if trump were elected not true it did tank a little bit and then it shot right back up
00:49:00.220 uh we were told that uh we would never hit three percent economic growth we've blown past that
00:49:06.020 something barack obama never could do donald trump did in his first year consumer confidence is high
00:49:10.280 the imf the international monetary fund no fun of donald no fan of donald trump said tax cuts
00:49:15.620 tax reform will help the global economy as for the massive layoffs that's just total nonsense
00:49:21.240 the plural of anecdote is not data so if some company lays people off okay but as a matter of
00:49:26.720 the u.s economy we are are uh the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits in january
00:49:31.680 fell by a thousand to two hundred thirty thousand which keeps initial u.s jobless claims near a 45 year
00:49:39.060 low a half century low in unemployment economists polled by market watch had a forecast of 240 000
00:49:47.000 in the seven days before we beat it this is the tightest jobs market in decades this is the best
00:49:52.600 time for jobs in decades it's finally causing wages to rise which they haven't done in eight and a half
00:49:57.860 years hmm what happened for the last eight and a half years i wonder what what does that eight and a
00:50:01.380 half year period correspond with that i don't know it comes out of my head uh wages for private
00:50:06.080 sector employees have risen two point eight percent in the last year the biggest year over year gain
00:50:10.220 since 2008 huh what happened in 2008 i can't think what i had so strange uh unemployment is at a 17
00:50:15.540 year low um by other measures uh the economy added 185 000 jobs the market is at record highs but of
00:50:22.120 course look the market is going to correct at some point the markets don't track day to day with the
00:50:26.920 presidency and markets go through periods of boom and periods of bust periods of bullish markets and
00:50:31.980 bearish markets and so that'll uh correct soon i kind of wish president trump weren't tying his
00:50:37.580 success to the stock market so much because it's going to correct it has to and then democrats are
00:50:43.220 going to lambast him for it but neither the huge booms are owing to donald trump and neither are the
00:50:49.640 busts from neil hi michael the irish conservative government uh fina gale pronounced fina gale after years of
00:50:57.580 mounting pressure in ireland has announced a vote on repealing article 8 of our constitution this
00:51:02.500 article pertains to the equal right to life to both the mother and the unborn child could you please
00:51:06.800 shout out to fellow irish listeners like myself that they can visit check the register.ie and take
00:51:12.240 steps to ensure they are on the register if you have an irish passport you're eligible to vote this
00:51:17.460 also applies to irish abroad and scattered across the world like myself if you have a passport you can fly
00:51:22.460 home to vote to preserve the sanctity of life in the republic of ireland every vote counts thanks a
00:51:28.180 million it would be a damn shame if ireland allows uh allows widespread abortion that would be awful
00:51:34.140 so go check it out i'm happy to read that from nick almighty knowles what is your favorite moment in
00:51:38.600 the history of the usa probably have to end on this one guys what is your favorite moment in the history
00:51:42.960 of the usa also what brand of smoking jacket were you wearing on tuesday night during the state of the
00:51:48.620 union my favorite moment in the history of united states is the landing at plymouth that's my favorite
00:51:54.660 one because it wasn't supposed to happen everything conspired against it the government of holland
00:52:01.100 conspired against it uh the the english crown conspired against it uh they the weather conspired
00:52:09.460 against it they were blown way off course they were blown hundreds of miles off course they were supposed
00:52:13.640 to go to manhattan but they didn't even hit the nice harbor boston harbor that's right above
00:52:18.480 them they landed at this random place in plymouth and out walks basically the only guy two the two
00:52:23.860 only people on the continent who spoke english and and really uh squanto squanto was the one who really
00:52:29.620 spoke english who had bizarrely lived in london and lived in spain and it was it's just an example of
00:52:36.000 providence of divine intervention in the founding of america it's undeniable if if one looks at the fact
00:52:42.400 of it that that is the best explanation um and it's unsurprising because they are pilgrims it's like
00:52:48.000 almost too on the nose if you pitch this to hollywood hollywood would say nah it's too on the
00:52:51.660 nose that's ridiculous no one's going to believe that uh and that's followed by the battle of long
00:52:55.580 island is another one uh washington was the the revolutionary war should have ended uh the brits
00:53:02.040 should have wiped them out in new york they should never have been able to evacuate and then and then
00:53:06.540 the weather changed and washington was able to get basically everybody out without any casualties
00:53:11.300 just totally it should not have happened and yet it had to happen because it to me seems an evidence
00:53:19.720 of providence and there are countless other examples throughout our history and in answer to the most
00:53:24.180 important question that is a paul stewart uh double clasp double-breasted smoking jacket with i think
00:53:29.960 they're called are they turtle clasps or something they don't make it anymore that was given to me by my
00:53:34.900 godmother uh who is very very nice she was ridiculous it's probably the nicest article of clothing i'll ever
00:53:40.660 own and she gave it to me and then they stopped making it a year or two later because it turns out
00:53:44.680 that the 18th century 19th century dandy population has starkly declined in recent years so not a lot
00:53:51.760 of people are wearing smoking jackets if you can get your hands on one or a vintage one or something
00:53:55.520 do it they actually work they keep the smoke off of a lot of your clothing and they look very foppish
00:54:00.860 and ridiculous okay that's our show that's our week uh we will be back we have a special show to
00:54:05.720 announce coming next week but i don't i'll leave you wondering about it i hope you can survive the
00:54:10.440 weekend uh check out another kingdom if you want to binge that over the weekend too and then i will
00:54:14.940 see you on monday i'm michael knowles this is the michael knowles show
00:54:17.580 the michael knowles show is produced by marshall benson executive producer jeremy boring senior
00:54:28.380 producer jonathan hay supervising producer mathis glover our technical producer is austin stevens
00:54:34.280 edited by alex zingaro audio is mixed by mike coramina hair and makeup is by jesua olvera
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