The Michael Knowles Show - May 29, 2023


YES or NO with Sean Spicer ｜ Real Answers and Real Drinks


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48 minutes

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Sean Spicer joins Betsy and Betsy to discuss his new children s book, The Parrots Go Bananas. Betsy and Sean also talk about the White House Correspondents Dinner, and Betsy tries to figure out whether or not she should give up alcohol for Lent.

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00:00:00.000 It's not, we're going to have some words with Mr. Davies.
00:00:04.020 It's not about the size of the crowd, it's the angle you photograph it from.
00:00:25.160 I know it's a drinking show, but I consider it to be very wholesome,
00:00:28.780 very family-friendly.
00:00:30.240 Sometimes we will have non-alcoholic beverages.
00:00:33.460 Sometimes we will even have children's books.
00:00:36.720 Before we get to my very special guest with his very special children's book,
00:00:40.860 you need to get this game, yes or no.
00:00:44.560 You get to watch it, you participate virtually,
00:00:46.740 you can participate in real life, in the flesh,
00:00:49.040 if you go to dailywire.com slash shop.
00:00:51.560 We did an initial run of this.
00:00:53.760 We seriously underestimated how many of you would want to host a drinking game
00:00:58.580 in your home.
00:01:00.240 We are selling out very quickly of the pre-orders,
00:01:02.160 so go to dailywire.com slash shop.
00:01:03.860 Play the yes or no game with your loved ones in the flesh.
00:01:08.080 I have one of my loved ones in the flesh.
00:01:09.920 That would be Sean Spicer.
00:01:12.880 Sean.
00:01:13.380 I was hoping it was me.
00:01:16.100 Where's my loved one?
00:01:17.160 Get this man out of here.
00:01:19.120 You are here.
00:01:20.620 I'm so glad that you're here in person.
00:01:22.320 You have brought me your new children's book.
00:01:24.840 Yes.
00:01:25.420 The Parrots Go Bananas.
00:01:27.380 It's targeted towards children 4 to 12.
00:01:30.280 You're just outside the age range, but close enough.
00:01:32.400 I have the maturity of someone under 4.
00:01:35.360 It's all about how old you act and think.
00:01:37.920 And identify.
00:01:38.600 We're good.
00:01:40.000 Plus, I think a lot of reporters can benefit from it,
00:01:43.060 so it's about fake news.
00:01:45.040 There's a wide range.
00:01:46.380 It's not just what's on the label.
00:01:47.460 We also specialize around these parts of children's books
00:01:52.180 that can be appreciated by adults as well.
00:01:54.860 I'm also glad, finally, we have another mackerel-snapping paper done.
00:01:59.820 During Lent, I've decided, this is the first time ever in my whole life,
00:02:03.960 I've decided not to drink.
00:02:05.660 Oh, this is a first for you.
00:02:06.920 This is a first ever.
00:02:08.140 And it's actually, it's not as hard as I thought.
00:02:09.980 I don't have the shakes 24 hours a day.
00:02:12.280 But you now also have a fruity-looking, non-alcoholic beverage.
00:02:16.420 Yeah, I've done it for about, actually, over 30 years.
00:02:21.000 Really?
00:02:21.360 Every time at Lent?
00:02:22.460 Yeah, at Lent.
00:02:23.000 Really?
00:02:23.380 Yeah.
00:02:24.480 Actually, yeah, so it's been over 30 years.
00:02:26.620 Do you know one time for Lent,
00:02:28.000 I actually gave up these fruity, non-alcoholic beverages?
00:02:31.420 And it was almost harder.
00:02:33.460 Because during the day,
00:02:35.100 I don't usually start with an eye-opener of whiskey in the morning or something.
00:02:38.940 Yeah.
00:02:39.380 But that's very impressive.
00:02:40.940 So you know you're not an alcoholic.
00:02:42.760 No, I know that I can do like 40, whatever,
00:02:45.060 or, you know, counting Sundays, it's like 45 days.
00:02:47.680 Right, right.
00:02:48.280 I'm not really sure that that's the medical definition of that.
00:02:51.940 Well, that's what I'm going with.
00:02:53.120 Okay, I'll subscribe to that.
00:02:55.020 So usually, if there's a woman on the show, she will go first. 0.99
00:02:58.140 You are a man, so I will go first.
00:02:59.860 Shall we begin?
00:03:00.540 We shall.
00:03:02.480 Scaramucci is a fed.
00:03:05.640 Scaramucci is a fed.
00:03:06.800 I'm going to say that you would say yes,
00:03:12.880 because he was clearly an agent of the federal government for 11 days.
00:03:19.200 For a lot of reasons, I'm going to say no.
00:03:23.480 And I actually, I think a lot, enough of you that I think that you would say no as well.
00:03:29.980 Yeah, yeah.
00:03:30.680 I agree.
00:03:32.440 I would say no.
00:03:33.280 So, he burned bright, he burned hot, and then he was out of the White House.
00:03:40.240 I just don't know that the feds, I think that there's a standard.
00:03:46.780 So, I'll leave it at that.
00:03:48.500 How's that?
00:03:49.040 This is very diplomatic of you.
00:03:50.700 Thank you, it's Lent.
00:03:51.760 If I can, it's Lent.
00:03:53.260 Yeah, we'll have you back after Easter.
00:03:55.300 You can go more into detail.
00:03:57.120 I'm going to drink anyway.
00:03:58.080 Yeah.
00:03:59.400 Whatever this fruity concoction is, it's very enjoyable.
00:04:01.360 Yeah.
00:04:01.520 So, now you go.
00:04:02.840 Yes.
00:04:05.600 It's true what they say about the United States Navy Reserves.
00:04:14.720 Is they Winston Churchill?
00:04:16.860 Is they, well, okay, I'll just answer.
00:04:19.060 I know.
00:04:24.760 This is, I just, I'm trying to get inside of your head right now.
00:04:30.760 Let me know if you succeed.
00:04:32.100 I know.
00:04:32.960 There's something preventing that.
00:04:37.800 Oh, my apologies.
00:04:39.560 My apologies.
00:04:40.020 Did I get it right?
00:04:44.860 Uh, no.
00:04:47.760 I thought that you were going to guess yes.
00:04:49.880 Mm-hmm.
00:04:50.280 But I didn't, see, this was the hardest part, is that I didn't know, I didn't have any presumptions.
00:04:54.260 So, it was a flip of the coin, to be fair.
00:04:56.580 And I equally went with the coin flip.
00:04:59.420 So, you know what Winston Churchill said about the Navy?
00:05:03.860 Sure.
00:05:05.560 Now, I don't know, does that apply to the United States?
00:05:08.860 The United States doesn't apply to the Reserves.
00:05:10.600 The Reserves, that's why I was a little, that's, this is where I think your team was throwing a curveball.
00:05:15.640 There's so many layers.
00:05:17.120 Yeah, that's why I was like, I don't, the curveball with a twist.
00:05:21.520 Do you think what, do you think what Churchill said about the Navy is true, just generally?
00:05:28.860 He's a truth teller.
00:05:32.140 He's a truth teller.
00:05:33.940 Bet all three, rum, sodomy, and the lash. 0.95
00:05:36.480 There's, yeah.
00:05:37.560 I believe it is yours.
00:05:39.300 Sir.
00:05:43.340 I'm sorry, two questions in.
00:05:45.460 I'm very concerned about the writer.
00:05:48.820 Yeah, I've, I had those concerns.
00:05:52.340 They were affirmed, and we keep Mr. Davies around.
00:05:55.840 I'm just wondering what sites he's searching on the internet.
00:05:59.580 I hope he uses ExpressVPN.
00:06:01.020 Yeah, no, I'm just hoping that it's not a Daily Wire computer.
00:06:05.400 This explains a lot of the spam you guys are getting.
00:06:10.040 There's definitely, yeah.
00:06:11.960 Mr. Davies, is there something you want to tell us?
00:06:15.160 Okay.
00:06:16.280 Dancing with the stars in woke Hollywood is like wrapping your toes in bacon and playing footsie with a tiger.
00:06:23.640 It's very dangerous.
00:06:27.860 Okay.
00:06:29.340 What would you say?
00:06:30.300 No?
00:06:38.120 You answered correctly for me.
00:06:40.040 You answered correctly for me.
00:06:43.520 You seem to, you seem to dance very well.
00:06:46.600 Well, that's a lie.
00:06:47.960 No.
00:06:48.480 Then you didn't watch the show.
00:06:52.880 I also think that.
00:06:54.080 Relatively.
00:06:54.400 I think that if you would, if we had played this game prior to being on the show, I might have answered differently.
00:07:02.720 I enjoyed the experience thoroughly.
00:07:05.020 Yeah.
00:07:05.800 And so, therefore, what I would have thought of my experience before going on versus after, very different.
00:07:13.360 Yeah.
00:07:14.720 I enjoyed it.
00:07:15.660 And I enjoyed all of the people that I interacted with.
00:07:19.380 So, I didn't.
00:07:20.700 You did seem to get on well with it.
00:07:22.860 I did sort of wonder when it was announced, you know, that you won the show.
00:07:26.840 What problem I have.
00:07:28.760 Yes, you know, yeah.
00:07:29.960 Whether the medication didn't run out.
00:07:31.420 Like, call your doctor.
00:07:34.100 Yeah.
00:07:34.620 But, no, you seemed to get on pretty well with them.
00:07:36.800 I did.
00:07:37.400 I loved it.
00:07:37.980 And I think I went in eyes wide open.
00:07:39.840 And that was the thing.
00:07:40.680 And I also think, look, that negotiation was three years in the running.
00:07:45.440 And I don't mean it wasn't like it.
00:07:46.520 But my point is that I developed some relationships where there was a back and forth where I felt confident that this was not, you know, like a setup.
00:07:53.820 That there were people who generally thought, hey, this could be a fun experience.
00:07:56.920 And, you know, we'd gotten to know each other.
00:07:58.640 And I thought, okay, well, this isn't going to go that bad.
00:08:01.220 Yeah.
00:08:01.760 Yeah.
00:08:02.100 Okay.
00:08:02.740 All right.
00:08:05.580 It's not.
00:08:08.940 We're going to have some words with Mr. Davies.
00:08:11.060 It's not about the size of the crowd.
00:08:12.940 It's the angle you photograph it from.
00:08:15.440 How would you answer it?
00:08:27.400 Correct.
00:08:28.840 Incorrect.
00:08:29.400 Incorrect.
00:08:29.900 I think that you can make, the perception does make a difference.
00:08:34.360 You can.
00:08:34.900 Okay.
00:08:36.180 So.
00:08:36.820 But.
00:08:39.180 Nevertheless, would you not argue, as I would, if you argue this, I would defend you as arguing this.
00:08:44.600 Thank you.
00:08:45.520 It was the largest crowd ever.
00:08:47.280 Okay.
00:08:47.640 If you just, we're talking about the numbers of eyeballs on the inauguration.
00:08:52.160 It was the largest one ever.
00:08:53.480 Oh, my God.
00:08:54.780 This is probably the most litigated thing that I've had to deal with.
00:09:00.040 And, unfortunately, we don't have the hours necessary to.
00:09:03.900 But, look, I've made the case.
00:09:06.020 And the thing, I mean, the quick version of this.
00:09:08.280 Yeah.
00:09:08.420 Is the goal at that day was to basically say kind of what you're saying, which is it wasn't just about, if you actually look at the words, it wasn't about just saying, hey, here's the number of people in the National Mall.
00:09:20.920 It was about the audience size meeting.
00:09:22.400 And there were people that were watching it online.
00:09:23.880 There were, frankly, technological advances that didn't occur during the Obama or the George Washington or Abe Lincoln years.
00:09:32.620 Right.
00:09:32.780 So, therefore, you could stream things on platforms that didn't exist.
00:09:37.880 Therefore, I thought it was pretty safe.
00:09:39.780 And, therefore, right?
00:09:41.220 If we're talking about the audience for my show in the room, it is at most one person.
00:09:47.120 If we're talking about the audience for my show digitally, it's at least four or five people.
00:09:51.460 Okay?
00:09:51.940 So, we're talking about the majority of my show is online.
00:09:54.800 You're going to tell me that's not the audience?
00:09:56.320 That was such a bogus attack on you.
00:09:58.920 Well, I don't, I will say that there might not have been the most artful delivery.
00:10:06.000 But.
00:10:06.440 But I.
00:10:08.040 But thank you.
00:10:09.120 As someone who's occasionally been attacked in the press for.
00:10:13.260 I've seen.
00:10:14.760 I, you know, the funny thing is, I think, I'm pretty sure I did come across something.
00:10:20.060 It was, yeah, it was, I don't, I couldn't even remember the topic now.
00:10:23.300 But, you know, the libs will, what they will do is they try to find, they'll go word for word, even if your words are precisely, perfectly right, they will either present them in a way that is the least charitable way possible, or they'll just rewrite them.
00:10:38.120 Right.
00:10:38.440 But it's also, the funny thing is, I love how they'll take what you're saying and make it assume the worst, right?
00:10:47.500 Yeah.
00:10:47.640 For lack of a better way to put this.
00:10:49.940 But when someone on the left says it, they'll go, well, you know what they meant was.
00:10:53.580 And I'm like, wait a second.
00:10:54.940 Oh.
00:10:55.200 This is insane.
00:10:56.000 I mean, it was funny.
00:10:56.800 My first book, I had this fact check that I was talking about.
00:11:00.520 And I quoted Mike Pence, he was referring to this jobs report, and he said, you know, more Americans are working now than ever before.
00:11:07.820 And it was statistically true.
00:11:09.220 Like, let's call it 200,000, 200 million people were working, whatever it was.
00:11:13.360 And so he said that.
00:11:14.960 The Washington Post fact checker came out and said it lacked context.
00:11:18.180 Because when you looked at it proportionally to the size of the U.S.
00:11:21.160 And I was like, what?
00:11:22.460 He literally said a true thing.
00:11:24.600 But then they went in and said, but he lacked context because of the proportion of our overall population.
00:11:31.100 And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:11:33.300 But if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
00:11:35.180 Well, listen, when you really parse what he was really meaning.
00:11:39.060 Right.
00:11:39.700 And I took the Amtrak and Snowball said this or Corn Pop.
00:11:42.900 I mean, like, there are literally, like, I got shot at here and Mandela took me out of jail.
00:11:47.420 I mean, like, those are like.
00:11:48.520 Sniper's in Boston.
00:11:49.040 Yeah, those are like literally not true things.
00:11:51.760 My son, I didn't talk to him about his business associates.
00:11:54.860 I mean, none of that stuff.
00:11:56.260 This might not be my laptop.
00:11:58.240 None of that stuff, you know.
00:11:59.520 Forget about the context.
00:12:00.560 He's probably telling the truth.
00:12:02.260 And, you know, everyone talks about Corn Pop, but Snowball.
00:12:04.860 He was the real capo di tutti copy. 0.59
00:12:06.920 And also, he's the mastermind.
00:12:10.760 He gets off all the time.
00:12:13.040 Yeah.
00:12:13.920 Elon Musk is, at the very least, onto something when he tweeted,
00:12:18.000 Aliens built the pyramids of, referencing the Great Pyramid of Giza.
00:12:24.500 I actually have very strong thoughts on this.
00:12:26.980 Recent, recently strong thoughts.
00:12:29.060 Is that because, and I'm just, I want to, just so I understand the context before I answer,
00:12:34.180 is that because the Giza sheets are from there?
00:12:37.840 The softest.
00:12:38.720 Yeah.
00:12:39.340 It's not explainable if it's merely a product of humans.
00:12:43.160 Okay, because I just want to, this helps me answer.
00:12:47.580 I'm going with yes.
00:12:49.180 Yes.
00:12:49.560 I say yes as well.
00:12:50.760 Okay.
00:12:52.680 You were correct.
00:12:54.420 Then you are correct.
00:12:56.240 This one, I, yeah.
00:12:57.640 My thought, though, is.
00:12:59.780 I'm getting thirsty, so I need to.
00:13:01.700 You've got to get something wrong.
00:13:03.720 My thought is, it's not aliens, because aliens aren't real.
00:13:07.900 But he's onto something in that, when most people talk about aliens, I think they're
00:13:12.720 talking about demons, sightings, or just their imagination.
00:13:16.420 The libs can't make sense of demons, because they don't have much of a sense of the spiritual
00:13:20.020 world, so it has to be a physical.
00:13:21.420 Oh, so you're actually, see, I was just thinking, does Elon think that more than is it true?
00:13:26.240 Well, he thinks it, but I think he's onto something in that.
00:13:29.020 Oh, see, that was, because I actually was answering it in the context of, do you think he thinks that?
00:13:34.020 Do you think he's onto something?
00:13:35.160 I really hadn't thought that much about it as much as I think that, like, he's kind of
00:13:40.000 thinking kind of that way.
00:13:41.140 So here's what I wonder, is when they were building the pyramids, and they say, well,
00:13:46.000 how on earth did they do this?
00:13:48.460 I don't want to seem like the guy on the History Channel who attributes everything.
00:13:51.680 Demons.
00:13:52.460 I think they worshipped demons, and I think demons play all sorts of little tricks, and
00:13:56.980 they're very smart.
00:13:57.660 They're nothing compared to God, but, you know, they do work little tricks in the world.
00:14:01.260 Increasingly, you're seeing occult practices, or people are becoming reacquainted with
00:14:04.760 this idea.
00:14:05.160 And if you told me that there was weird demon stuff going on in these ancient pagan cultures,
00:14:12.320 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:14:13.340 I'm going to spend a lot more time on the internet.
00:14:16.060 Your Wikipedia rabbit hole this evening is going to be ours.
00:14:19.940 Yeah, I'm going down this one.
00:14:21.500 I think there's strong evidence for it.
00:14:23.040 Let me know.
00:14:23.800 Let me know.
00:14:24.500 Obviously, it'll be after the game.
00:14:26.260 You're up.
00:14:26.700 Okay.
00:14:30.020 White hate is now more widely accepted than the 2020 election results.
00:14:38.160 Oh, this is a gimme.
00:14:39.460 Oh, that's...
00:14:40.880 Well, hold on.
00:14:41.700 I mean, I...
00:14:42.200 Wait, wait.
00:14:42.600 Okay, so you're...
00:14:43.060 I don't even...
00:14:43.760 I'm not hesitating.
00:14:47.500 Okay, you're right.
00:14:48.820 I was trying to parse double and triple negatives here and all sort of...
00:14:52.620 Oh, no, no.
00:14:53.060 That's straight up.
00:14:53.940 It's...
00:14:54.420 You're right.
00:14:54.780 It's obviously...
00:14:55.640 It's not only accepted.
00:14:56.700 I mean, it's...
00:14:57.820 Right.
00:14:58.160 It's taught in schools.
00:14:58.880 It's taught...
00:14:59.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:59.460 Yeah, yeah, of course.
00:15:00.180 This shouldn't be...
00:15:00.860 Like, that's a layup.
00:15:02.400 You're right.
00:15:02.840 I think Mr. Davies there clearly got bored and was like...
00:15:06.320 Just give me a gimme.
00:15:07.800 I was trying to think if there were any...
00:15:09.360 No, but you're right.
00:15:10.040 I've run out of stuff.
00:15:11.600 You're right.
00:15:12.140 You're right.
00:15:12.780 It is...
00:15:13.340 This is making me wonder what's next, because right now...
00:15:17.560 It is tasty.
00:15:19.100 It is.
00:15:20.020 I know.
00:15:20.740 Maybe there is something.
00:15:21.800 I was going to say there's...
00:15:22.800 Well, there's...
00:15:23.880 We knew that you weren't drinking for Lent, but we figured, okay, at least a little ketamine,
00:15:28.680 you know, angel dust.
00:15:30.100 It does...
00:15:30.540 It's fine.
00:15:30.960 Yeah.
00:15:31.260 Okay.
00:15:32.300 Okay.
00:15:33.380 The most entertaining press secretary from the past 15 years is sitting at this table.
00:15:40.860 Hmm.
00:15:41.780 What you would answer and what I would answer.
00:15:44.360 The most entertaining of the last 15 years.
00:15:48.280 So...
00:15:48.760 Oh.
00:15:51.900 You got that right.
00:15:53.880 Would you...
00:15:54.760 I'm trying to see how charitable you would be to some of the people who have come before
00:15:59.260 and after you.
00:15:59.840 You're right.
00:16:11.800 So who is it?
00:16:13.020 It's KGP, hands down.
00:16:14.120 Obviously.
00:16:14.720 Yeah.
00:16:15.220 Obviously.
00:16:15.860 Yeah.
00:16:16.220 Yeah.
00:16:16.900 Yeah.
00:16:17.400 I think that could have been an easy out.
00:16:19.500 Mm-hmm.
00:16:19.740 Just saying, except for...
00:16:21.540 Yeah.
00:16:22.440 She... 1.00
00:16:23.040 That would have made it a little more challenging.
00:16:24.940 Mm-hmm.
00:16:26.180 But that's a gimme.
00:16:27.500 It's a gimme.
00:16:29.240 There have been colorful press secretaries in the past.
00:16:31.600 And you were entertaining in that you brought a lot of personality to the role.
00:16:34.860 But you were not entertaining in the way that KGP is entertaining.
00:16:37.860 I think part of it is, is that there's days when you're like, it's like, what time does
00:16:44.260 this briefing end?
00:16:45.080 And she's like, look, we've read the briefings to the brief that Congress has briefed us on.
00:16:52.120 And you're like...
00:16:52.920 But lady, I'm just asking you for a time here.
00:16:54.860 It was just, what time is it?
00:16:56.800 Yeah.
00:16:57.240 Well, we're going to have to get back.
00:16:59.000 And so, as I've said before, look, I said look before, and we've looked at looking, and
00:17:08.220 okay, you're...
00:17:10.520 And I'm like, no, no, no.
00:17:11.920 I have no follow-up.
00:17:12.920 I have no follow-up to that question.
00:17:13.900 So that...
00:17:14.720 You're right, yeah.
00:17:15.520 Unfortunately.
00:17:16.500 Now we agree.
00:17:17.700 Sad to say.
00:17:19.600 Your average Democrat voter would be totally fine.
00:17:22.860 By the way, I do love Democrat voter.
00:17:25.460 Yeah.
00:17:25.880 It just needles.
00:17:26.720 No ick.
00:17:27.280 No ick.
00:17:27.560 No ick.
00:17:28.120 I don't...
00:17:29.000 I do it intentionally.
00:17:30.520 Every time.
00:17:31.000 It's one of those times where, like, when they...
00:17:32.900 You know, every time when I was at the RNC, they would say, like, can you please not
00:17:36.600 do that?
00:17:36.920 And they're like, oh, definitely, I'll double down now.
00:17:38.820 I have to...
00:17:39.780 Because it's...
00:17:40.240 I learned this.
00:17:41.500 I wrote a column in college.
00:17:43.340 Good.
00:17:43.620 And the editor was a big lib, you know.
00:17:45.520 But he knew that I like to punch these things up and irritate all the libs on campus.
00:17:51.480 And he goes, Michael, you missed something.
00:17:53.100 You made a huge mistake.
00:17:55.000 You wrote Democratic Party.
00:17:56.780 It's like, hey, thank you for having my best interests here.
00:18:00.040 You're right.
00:18:00.440 Never again will I do it.
00:18:02.300 That's...
00:18:02.700 I...
00:18:02.900 Yeah.
00:18:03.340 So there you go.
00:18:04.180 Okay.
00:18:04.440 Your average Democrat voter would be totally fine letting Hunter Biden teach their kids
00:18:09.080 in public school.
00:18:19.500 I'm going to say you would say yes.
00:18:21.120 You're right, though.
00:18:21.880 I would say no.
00:18:22.800 I would say no.
00:18:23.440 You would say no.
00:18:24.280 Yeah.
00:18:24.420 Okay.
00:18:24.820 And I'll tell you why.
00:18:25.540 Because I think that there is a big difference between the average Democratic voter.
00:18:31.560 I still think that that's 55, right?
00:18:35.820 So if we take average, right?
00:18:37.580 Yeah.
00:18:37.800 That there's still a little bit...
00:18:39.960 Interesting.
00:18:40.280 So I think there's a big difference between the loudest voices in the Democratic Party,
00:18:45.060 the ones that we see on Twitter, the ones we hear in Congress, and the ones that are
00:18:48.480 on television, versus the ones that you still walk down the street and they say, I'm a Democratic
00:18:53.420 voter.
00:18:53.880 I think it's becoming increasingly smaller.
00:18:56.520 But that average is probably still just over...
00:18:59.520 I mean, it's becoming...
00:19:01.080 In two years or three years, I might have to vote differently.
00:19:04.300 Yeah.
00:19:04.580 But for now, it's still over that 50% mark.
00:19:08.660 See, you were approaching it from analyzing the data on the voter side.
00:19:13.800 I was taking it from the Hunter side, and I just thought, well, Hunter Biden's a straight
00:19:18.560 white male.
00:19:19.060 There's no way they would be fine with that.
00:19:20.920 He's a degenerate, but, you know, he is...
00:19:23.400 No, you make a great point, though.
00:19:24.560 I think you're probably right about that, even just when you think of voters, right?
00:19:29.540 Voters skew older.
00:19:31.140 Right.
00:19:31.340 They skew a little more responsible, usually.
00:19:33.940 Yeah.
00:19:34.140 Yeah.
00:19:34.460 So that's why...
00:19:35.040 Because I just thought that the average...
00:19:37.760 I think if you were talking about, like, the people on Twitter, they would be like,
00:19:42.480 oh, of course, what's wrong?
00:19:43.480 He's great.
00:19:44.240 Like, he could talk about redemption and painting and...
00:19:47.960 The little bubbles or whatever, the little circles.
00:19:50.020 And relationship advice.
00:19:52.080 Yeah, he's got it.
00:19:52.840 And strong families.
00:19:54.560 And, you know, coping.
00:19:57.700 I mean, like, there's a lot of...
00:19:58.820 But I don't see the average...
00:20:01.620 I still think you can walk down the street in a lot of communities, and they'd be like,
00:20:04.820 you know, so...
00:20:05.760 Yeah, I think you're right.
00:20:06.780 That's very fair and charitable.
00:20:08.520 That's you.
00:20:09.140 That's me.
00:20:09.720 Yeah.
00:20:10.600 That's what happens when, you know...
00:20:11.740 After a few of these seltzers, they... 1.00
00:20:14.420 I know, a little bit of watermelon.
00:20:15.760 In the long run, it's more dangerous to send your child to public school than it is to let
00:20:21.140 them travel abroad in the Middle East for a year at the age of 17.
00:20:24.780 For sure.
00:20:46.160 See, I don't...
00:20:48.920 I'm going to say no.
00:20:49.920 Okay.
00:20:50.780 And I'll tell you why.
00:20:51.840 Because I...
00:20:53.120 And it's a close call.
00:20:54.720 I...
00:20:55.300 Because, unfortunately, I think if you're in 12 grades of public school, there's an indoctrination
00:21:03.980 that you can't undo.
00:21:05.160 Yeah.
00:21:05.680 I can protect a kid for a year in the Middle East.
00:21:08.560 I mean, through...
00:21:09.800 If you really wanted to, you could check in every day, and I'm going to track you with
00:21:13.200 like this app and load you up with Apple AirTags.
00:21:15.560 Totally.
00:21:15.960 And it depends, you know, are you in a nice part of Beirut or Israel or something?
00:21:21.480 Or are you, you know, trafishing through...
00:21:22.780 And if it was truly like, if you had to think about it, you could do something to say limit
00:21:26.640 your travel to here.
00:21:27.840 12 years trying to protect your kid in public school these days with that agenda, there's
00:21:32.200 maybe one year or two years, you know, a good teacher or a good school.
00:21:36.260 But like, you've got to traverse elementary, middle, and high school.
00:21:39.360 Yeah.
00:21:39.580 No way.
00:21:40.220 Wait, so you're landing on it's safer in the Middle East. 0.63
00:21:43.320 Yeah.
00:21:43.840 Well, that's what I thought I answered.
00:21:45.420 In the long run, it's more dangerous to send your kid to public school.
00:21:48.700 So you're saying it's more dangerous.
00:21:50.020 So yes, it's...
00:21:50.920 The public school is more dangerous.
00:21:52.040 Correct.
00:21:52.560 Yeah, yeah.
00:21:52.980 Okay.
00:21:53.200 Oh, yeah.
00:21:53.620 Oh, totally.
00:21:54.360 Okay.
00:21:54.660 Totally agree.
00:21:55.440 Absolutely.
00:21:55.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21:56.180 Because, yeah, I mean, I just think, even from a physical standpoint, I mean, if you go
00:22:03.100 to some, like, inner city schools, they can be pretty rough and tumble, maybe not quite
00:22:06.420 like the streets of Yemen, but...
00:22:07.720 I don't even know that it's inner city.
00:22:09.440 Yeah, or just anywhere.
00:22:10.600 The anecdotes...
00:22:12.020 Yeah.
00:22:12.620 ...that come back now about fights that break out and the inability of administrators
00:22:18.060 and teachers to stop them...
00:22:20.420 Yeah.
00:22:21.600 Totally.
00:22:22.000 And, I mean, like, the videos that I've seen online of some of these middle school kids
00:22:26.120 acting out and the teachers' inability to stop them, I don't think it's limited now
00:22:31.940 to inner city.
00:22:33.840 I think this is going well into the suburbs.
00:22:35.680 I totally agree.
00:22:36.340 And you just think, when kids' minds are so malleable when they're really, really young,
00:22:40.960 if you poison that, you know, you hang around...
00:22:44.140 Well, that's what I'm saying, though.
00:22:44.980 You can't get this...
00:22:45.660 Totally.
00:22:45.680 I mean, 12 years of that, and again, I'll give you three that you could maybe protect,
00:22:50.920 but that's still nine that you're, right?
00:22:53.700 You're not public school educated, nine, 12, yeah.
00:22:55.500 Yeah.
00:22:56.000 Plus, now, you know what the libs do is they say, you've got to go to kindergarten, you've
00:22:59.720 got to go to pre-K, you've got to go to pre-pre-K.
00:23:01.500 I mean, they basically, they take you from the newborn ward and they throw you into an institution.
00:23:06.660 People who get upset about nicknames are real tight asses.
00:23:11.760 Hmm.
00:23:13.700 Hmm.
00:23:20.200 Oh, yeah.
00:23:20.920 I mean, I don't think there should be any disagreement about that.
00:23:24.540 We're both on that.
00:23:25.200 What's your favorite nickname that you've had?
00:23:28.460 Mr. Awesome.
00:23:31.460 I just got one the other day, because I said, I was like, I don't, you don't want to make
00:23:35.180 up your own nickname, obviously, so I...
00:23:36.600 What?
00:23:36.860 The old enough. 0.83
00:23:37.960 No, that was what they called you in high school.
00:23:39.680 No, no, they...
00:23:40.620 Okay, I didn't know that.
00:23:41.680 No, hold on.
00:23:43.320 See, no one told me that.
00:23:44.760 I was in, I was asking these guys in the chat, I said, what's a good nickname, you know,
00:23:52.580 and they have all this stuff, and I said, it's kind of lame, it's not cool.
00:23:55.640 This is what they've landed on.
00:23:57.480 Big Mike.
00:24:00.080 So can I just ask, and I'm not trying to cut, but who's in this chat?
00:24:03.800 I, well, it would, um, my, yeah, it's Davies, Davies' mother, um, you know, my, not even
00:24:11.120 my wife, obviously, no, she would not tolerate.
00:24:13.160 It sounds like a bunch of short people.
00:24:14.820 Yeah, yeah, it's really, yeah, we've got Ben, Ben Shapiro, um, yeah, you know, just a
00:24:20.420 lot of, a big Mike over here.
00:24:21.860 You don't think that's fitting?
00:24:22.940 Yeah, it is.
00:24:23.600 It's very fitting, um, but, yeah, I, I, this is, this explains a lot, though.
00:24:31.000 Okay.
00:24:31.900 What?
00:24:33.800 Yeah, no, it's your call.
00:24:34.960 I'm up.
00:24:35.480 You gotta slow down.
00:24:36.020 I gotta slow down, man.
00:24:37.420 I'm really, it's a lie.
00:24:39.120 Banning transgenderism in public schools will galvanize the left more than it will encourage 0.99
00:24:44.460 the base to vote in 2024, assuming the conservative base.
00:24:48.120 Okay, so banning transgenderism. 0.98
00:24:50.300 Will help the left more than the right.
00:24:53.980 And just banning it in the public schools will help the left more than it will help the right.
00:24:57.860 I say, no, I think it, I think it's a total winner for the right.
00:25:04.820 Oh.
00:25:05.280 A total, you.
00:25:06.300 Oh, I, I don't.
00:25:07.300 You don't?
00:25:07.820 Okay.
00:25:07.940 No, I think the left will go absolutely bonkers.
00:25:11.780 Really?
00:25:11.960 Right, yeah.
00:25:12.440 In the same way that Roe has fired them up.
00:25:15.240 Mm-hmm.
00:25:15.460 Uh, I think that these guys, it'll fire up young people and, I mean, they, they have made
00:25:21.000 this cause celeb.
00:25:22.380 So.
00:25:22.780 Yeah, it is their, it's their favorite issue.
00:25:24.440 Right.
00:25:24.600 It's the only one they want to talk about.
00:25:26.000 Right.
00:25:26.220 And I, the, the way that they have presented this is, is a human rights and a civil rights
00:25:32.200 issue.
00:25:32.740 So I, I think that they would look at this as a, I mean, look at what they've done with
00:25:36.460 Don't Say Gay. 0.95
00:25:37.180 Right.
00:25:37.380 You're literally talking about kindergarten to third grade, not talking about sexuality.
00:25:41.500 I mean, most kids don't have a clue what, you know, half of the body parts they have
00:25:46.140 are.
00:25:46.420 Right.
00:25:46.600 And we're saying don't talk about sexuality and people went nuts.
00:25:49.280 Disney's putting out statements and corporations are trying to, you know, I mean, so can, if you
00:25:54.540 literally made a ban, they'd go nuts.
00:25:57.100 Right.
00:25:57.540 Right.
00:25:57.960 Going up to grade 12 or something.
00:25:59.900 Yeah.
00:26:00.300 I suppose that's true.
00:26:01.140 Cause I mean, they called that Florida bill, the Don't Say Gay.
00:26:04.560 They also called it the Wait Till Eight.
00:26:07.200 The idea that, hey, maybe just once, how about nine?
00:26:10.760 Is nine okay?
00:26:11.120 I just, the thing that I find so funny is that like literally as a parent, you're, you're
00:26:16.420 sitting here saying, what would, tell me what, you know, you can't put your kid on
00:26:21.300 the rise at an amusement park and you're going, but I'd like to do that.
00:26:24.540 I'd like to talk to you about sexuality.
00:26:26.180 I mean, what about like when you're done, can we get into financial planning?
00:26:30.020 Well, you'll, you'll never get that in any public school.
00:26:33.700 Whoa, slow down here.
00:26:34.540 Hey, hey, hey.
00:26:35.120 We got to figure, you know, we got to take you over to the books.
00:26:36.900 There's some tax consequences about what we're talking about.
00:26:38.980 You're not ready to hear this.
00:26:40.100 There's a lot of, I mean, what?
00:26:43.380 Yeah.
00:26:43.900 No, I think you're right in the sense that, you know, I do a campus tour with Young
00:26:48.600 America's Foundation and we asked the schools, is there any topic in particular that you
00:26:53.780 think young conservatives really want to have addressed?
00:26:58.220 Seven out of 10 times, the gender issue.
00:27:01.020 Yeah.
00:27:01.140 The gender issue.
00:27:02.120 You know, how many, how many times are you going to talk about how boys are boys and girls
00:27:05.500 are girls?
00:27:05.880 I guess you have to do it a number of times.
00:27:07.520 I mean, it is crazy.
00:27:09.180 The idea that, the thing that I find funny is that you have this juxtaposition where
00:27:14.100 it's all about science, science, science, and then you're like, wait a second, but you
00:27:19.280 don't want to.
00:27:20.320 Of course.
00:27:20.940 Yeah.
00:27:21.800 I'm constantly amazed.
00:27:24.260 January 6th, we'll go down in history as the modern day Gulf of Tonkin.
00:27:31.060 Hmm.
00:27:31.500 Wow, there are layers to that question that I'm not sure Mr. Davies even fully appreciates.
00:27:38.820 Yes.
00:27:39.420 Hmm.
00:27:39.720 I think he came across something on the internet and just put it right there.
00:27:42.620 That's usually what he does.
00:27:43.820 Yeah.
00:27:45.160 He's like, I hope these guys explain what that means.
00:27:48.020 Yeah, what is the, guys, what is the Gulf of Tonkin?
00:27:53.560 Yeah.
00:27:54.480 I, you got, you got it right for me.
00:27:57.240 Yeah, and same.
00:27:57.900 Because I, I just, I don't, I think there is a, same kind of thing when I was saying
00:28:03.000 before about the parents and Hunter Biden.
00:28:05.260 Like, there is a sect among the left that might believe that.
00:28:12.180 Yeah, yeah.
00:28:12.640 But I don't believe, and actually I would include a good chunk of the political media.
00:28:18.040 Yeah.
00:28:18.440 But I don't think beyond that, that that's really accurate.
00:28:22.520 Right.
00:28:22.780 So, if that, if you quantified that question with a little bit more specificity, then maybe.
00:28:30.320 But I, I just don't think the broader, you know.
00:28:33.220 And I, I do wonder, because the thing that's interesting is that when you talk about historical
00:28:39.560 dates, most of the time you can start to go beyond a generation and say, you know, is that
00:28:46.440 going to be taught, I don't know that, you know, I do wonder what, what the next generation
00:28:54.080 is going to be taught.
00:28:54.880 It may be in some textbooks and it may be, but I don't know that it's going to resonate.
00:28:59.800 I mean, you think I, I, I, for me, 9-11 is obviously very personal.
00:29:03.620 I was very close to the Pentagon.
00:29:06.020 I, you know, serve in the military and, but it's amazing how many people have lost the
00:29:14.640 significance of that day, right?
00:29:15.920 Yeah.
00:29:16.240 And that was a direct attack on the United States.
00:29:19.060 Thousands of Americans killed.
00:29:21.060 A war that ensued for two decades.
00:29:23.600 Yeah.
00:29:23.760 Thousands more killed.
00:29:24.700 Sort of epoch shaping.
00:29:25.760 And yet, and I go, okay, if you lose the significance that amongst a good chunk of the population
00:29:34.400 and, and I'm not trying to, but I just, when you start to talk to folks, they still get
00:29:38.960 it, but they may not have, and in, in 20 years, you start to realize how that faded.
00:29:43.660 I, I do think January 6th doesn't have the same residents.
00:29:46.540 Of course.
00:29:47.080 And I, even this past year on December 8th, I looked down at the clock.
00:29:52.300 I said, oh, yesterday was December 7th.
00:29:55.000 And I did, because my grandfather fought in World War II.
00:29:57.940 I was, I was history buff.
00:29:59.340 I always thought that was a really important date.
00:30:01.240 And I thought, oh, I just totally missed it this year.
00:30:03.060 And then, of course, 9-11 even.
00:30:04.800 I mean, that one, I, I still pay attention to that one, but a lot of people don't really
00:30:09.420 acknowledge it.
00:30:09.920 And I think, December 7th, September 11th, if you had the audacity to add the date January
00:30:19.160 6th to that, it would be a punchline of a very dark joke.
00:30:23.020 Okay.
00:30:23.360 That's absurd.
00:30:24.580 Right.
00:30:24.680 And it's, and it already kind of is a sort of punchline of a hold of January 6th.
00:30:28.900 Yeah, I agree.
00:30:29.520 Okay.
00:30:30.980 I'm up.
00:30:31.620 I keep, every time it's me, I forget.
00:30:33.940 And you only had half of me.
00:30:35.440 So far.
00:30:36.140 Can I get a refill, please?
00:30:37.240 Let's do, I'm going to be speaking in cursive by the end of this.
00:30:39.500 A big reason the U.S. government wants to ban TikTok is because they're jealous that only
00:30:45.000 China can use it to spy on you, and they can't. 0.57
00:30:48.020 So I'm going to, like, no, you're right in how I would answer no, because they can spy on you.
00:31:05.760 Well, but also, I don't think the people that are banning, because it's members of Congress, I don't think there's a universal thought bubble.
00:31:18.360 It spans different reasons.
00:31:20.420 Although, by the way, my best, there's a Washington Post tech reporter who tweeted out that it's unbelievable that, and I'm butchering it a little bit, but I'm not far off, that basically he said,
00:31:35.080 it's unbelievable that members of Congress are about to ban TikTok, and most haven't used it.
00:31:39.140 And I was just like, well, that's like saying that they're about to, like, most people are going to vote to go to war, and they haven't fired a missile.
00:31:45.380 I mean, that's, like, the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
00:31:47.160 Yeah.
00:31:47.720 It's a national security threat.
00:31:49.140 You don't go, let's go use it first.
00:31:52.080 Let me just make sure they've got all my data, and then, okay, good.
00:31:55.460 Download it.
00:31:56.380 Okay, they've got all my keystrokes.
00:31:57.500 Now ban it. 1.00
00:31:58.020 Right.
00:31:58.860 Yeah.
00:31:59.180 So, yeah, I just don't give them that.
00:32:03.540 Now, there may be some again, but I don't think that's the prevailing.
00:32:06.120 I do wonder, too, if part of the pressure to ban it is a financial pressure from Silicon Valley that doesn't want competition.
00:32:13.920 Oh, that may be.
00:32:14.640 I'm sure part of that is.
00:32:15.560 But I will tell you, the funny thing about it is, if it is, they're doing a bad job.
00:32:21.060 Yeah.
00:32:21.940 Because I agree with you.
00:32:23.000 If I were YouTube or Snap or any of these folks, I would be trying to push them out a little or egg it on, and I don't get the sense that they are.
00:32:30.320 That's interesting.
00:32:30.900 And I would, which I would if I were them.
00:32:34.060 I'd pile on and be like, hey, they're not.
00:32:35.660 Yeah, the communists are taking everything.
00:32:37.320 Right, yeah.
00:32:37.660 But the dirty secret, by the way, that I thought was hysterical, three things.
00:32:41.120 One, when the CEO of TikTok testified, his talking points were written by a PR firm in D.C. that's closely tied to Google, right?
00:32:54.600 No, no, no, well, to Google, but also to Anita Dunn.
00:32:57.020 She was a partner there.
00:32:59.760 It's a Democratic firm tied to Obama.
00:33:02.420 Anita Dunn, his senior advisor, that she's on leave from that firm.
00:33:05.460 This is, right?
00:33:06.280 Then, secondly, all of these media organizations, Playbook, Axios, Punchbowl News, they've all taken TikTok's money in the form of sponsorships.
00:33:15.720 So you wonder why you haven't had, right?
00:33:18.460 And then the third thing that I think is interesting is when Trump didn't accept the intel community's warnings about Russia's interference, everyone on the left and the media went nuts and said, can you believe that Trump will not accept the warning?
00:33:33.020 17 intelligence agencies.
00:33:34.860 He is not accepting.
00:33:36.100 And then when the FBI and the intel communities come out and say, TikTok is a threat to national security, they go, well, you know, I mean, it's not.
00:33:43.260 This isn't.
00:33:44.060 Pitch podge.
00:33:45.140 Da, da, da, da, da, da.
00:33:46.040 What's FBI?
00:33:47.840 Yeah, it's different.
00:33:49.640 Yeah, it's different.
00:33:50.340 I mean, it's amazing that they all freak out when it's the FBI.
00:33:53.920 But when they all want to do it and it's their base and they're all getting money, then it's like, you know, who are they to say anything?
00:34:03.880 You know, it's amazing how it plays out.
00:34:06.580 So that's what I think is interesting about that.
00:34:09.480 This is interesting.
00:34:10.540 I have not seen a card yet.
00:34:11.820 This is fascinating.
00:34:12.680 As I go to read this, there's highlighter on two words.
00:34:15.960 Wondering what's going on here.
00:34:17.340 A national divorce is both.
00:34:19.340 That's one of the highlighted words.
00:34:21.420 Possible and likely the other highlighted word.
00:34:25.240 So the two highlighted words that we must stress is that the national divorce is both.
00:34:32.540 Both.
00:34:33.880 Possible, which I would have highlighted possible and likely.
00:34:37.280 I don't know.
00:34:37.560 This is weird.
00:34:38.240 I don't.
00:34:38.800 Somebody wasn't really focused with their highlighter.
00:34:41.680 Remedial.
00:34:42.620 Highlighting.
00:34:43.280 Highlighting.
00:34:43.800 I don't know what kind of, like, classes the Daily Wire has.
00:34:47.380 Mr. Davies failed the second grade.
00:34:49.580 I'm going to have to talk to Jeremy about this.
00:34:51.520 But the national divorce is both possible and likely.
00:34:54.840 Okay.
00:34:55.360 Okay.
00:34:55.840 All right.
00:34:58.940 Yeah.
00:35:00.080 No, it's just fake.
00:35:01.660 No, it's a separation.
00:35:02.800 It's a trial separation.
00:35:05.620 And I've got to be honest with you.
00:35:06.680 See, what's missing from this is an understanding of the prenup.
00:35:12.280 That when the colonies were getting together, and this is something that, again, is just missing in history.
00:35:17.760 Because there was a prenup.
00:35:18.540 And this is governing a lot of what's happening right now.
00:35:22.100 And that's why there's not going to be a divorce.
00:35:24.440 Because the cost of the settlement would be too high.
00:35:27.360 And some of the custody battles that would ensue were way too messy.
00:35:30.880 It's like, you know, when couples who don't like each other, but they've been together for so long, they just kind of live separate lives.
00:35:37.780 Maybe it's under the same roof.
00:35:39.440 Yeah, that's true.
00:35:40.160 Now, I wonder one could, if they really wanted to pursue this, a couple of mackerel snappers, probably not big on divorce. 0.69
00:35:46.100 But there could be an annulment investigation.
00:35:49.600 One could look into the nature of a revolution.
00:35:50.960 By the way, I was watching this story the other day.
00:35:54.180 I believe it's Oregon and Idaho about how one part of one county is trying to join.
00:35:59.680 And I was like, you know, that in itself I thought was fascinating.
00:36:03.880 But you start to think of like a bunch of these states where you think of like Texas, right?
00:36:08.680 So you've got Austin and then a bunch of more conservative parts around it.
00:36:14.760 Even think of Tennessee here, right?
00:36:16.400 So you've got Nashville and then a lot of the rest of Tennessee.
00:36:19.600 Pennsylvania's got this issue, right?
00:36:21.080 Even Virginia to some extent.
00:36:22.520 But like a lot of these states, so this idea of a national divorce, Georgia, you've got Atlanta and the suburbs, and then the rest of Georgia. 0.98
00:36:29.800 I don't think that's why it's not possible.
00:36:31.940 It's funny because within the states, there's very few that you've got this.
00:36:38.360 I mean, yes, you've got your Californians and New Yorks versus, say, a Montana, a South Dakota.
00:36:43.940 But that's not...
00:36:44.780 How do you extricate these things?
00:36:46.620 You know, during the Cathar Crusade of, I believe, 1206.
00:36:49.980 Is it 1206 or 1207?
00:36:51.740 I always, it keeps me up at night.
00:36:53.900 I was, well, anyway, I don't want to call it out.
00:36:56.720 So the Catholics came down and there were these Cathars, you know, these crazy Albigensians who were destroying civilization. 1.00
00:37:03.600 And I forget which military leader it was, just as I forgot if it was 1206 or 1207.
00:37:09.480 And they go and they say, all the Catholics come out of the town, but the Catholics don't come out. 0.53
00:37:13.520 So it's the Catholics and the Cathars are mixed up together. 0.97
00:37:16.960 The good civilization and the people destroying civilization.
00:37:20.180 And so he says, well, what do we do?
00:37:21.860 And the, I think, true, though it's become legendary line is, kill them all, God will sort it out.
00:37:30.880 And I fear, you know, we're all kind of jumbled up together here.
00:37:33.740 I don't want to get lost in the shuffle.
00:37:35.780 Yeah, I feel like sometimes there has to be a little bit of a mess and then things do sort.
00:37:41.820 Like, you go through a little bit of a family fight for a while.
00:37:45.160 Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if you think about, like, the 1970s and there's some periods in our nation's history, who knows,
00:37:53.120 but where things are a little messy and then we eventually kind of come out on the other side.
00:37:57.760 I'm hoping that that's...
00:37:59.020 Yeah, I think that happens.
00:38:01.120 It's just, you know, you push through.
00:38:02.880 We've got the seven-year itch.
00:38:04.220 You know, we've got the 167-year, I don't know, how old is the country?
00:38:08.500 Older than me.
00:38:09.280 Yeah, it's a little older than me.
00:38:10.840 Okay, speed round and it's my turn.
00:38:12.860 Okay.
00:38:13.100 Michael Knowles would make it farther as a press secretary than he would in a dance competition,
00:38:19.700 not necessarily because of his quick wit and knowledge of the political process,
00:38:23.700 but rather because he's so used to lying to his producer about when he will arrive to set
00:38:27.660 and because his legs can barely take him up the stairs,
00:38:30.320 much less keep an eight count while holding on to a professional dancer for life.
00:38:35.220 I'm sensing a little tension in these questions.
00:38:37.500 I just, I'm going to, I went yes early because there was a little bit of a tell in that.
00:38:46.920 I would say you did, you got it right.
00:38:49.920 I did.
00:38:50.340 Okay, good.
00:38:50.920 And, yeah, okay.
00:38:54.240 Clearly, I need a bib.
00:38:55.600 I need a bib. 0.98
00:38:57.060 It's a very nice jacket.
00:38:58.140 Thank you.
00:38:58.740 Yeah, it's on loan.
00:39:00.560 This is going to be a problem.
00:39:02.180 I don't know if the men's warehouse will take it back.
00:39:05.920 Anyway, the second amendment will be abolished in our lifetime.
00:39:14.860 It might be nullified, though, I fear.
00:39:17.340 See, the thing is, I agree.
00:39:18.720 Like, I don't know.
00:39:19.420 The court may do something to, to your point, nullify.
00:39:21.760 I don't, I don't think you're going to actually get rid, to over, I mean, I don't, we have such a hard time enacting amendments.
00:39:30.280 Yeah.
00:39:30.580 I don't, it would be almost impossible to get rid of one.
00:39:33.420 Yeah.
00:39:33.820 So, you could get a liberal court that could interpret it in such a way that would reverse interpretations of it.
00:39:41.260 But I don't see it.
00:39:41.980 Yeah, I could see the sort of, well, the penumbras of the emanations of the penumbras say, you know, they meant a squirt gun or something.
00:39:50.500 Exactly.
00:39:51.760 The strongest candidate for the Democrats in 2024 would be Michelle Obama. 0.90
00:39:55.820 This, of course, could be because of all the lib boxes checked.
00:39:59.340 Michelle never accomplished anything meaningful politically. 0.97
00:40:02.260 Virtue signals on every topic.
00:40:04.180 Would only, was only proud to be an American when they gained power and would, I'm not reading this.
00:40:12.140 I'm not.
00:40:14.840 See, this is interesting because I don't know enough about, there are a lot of people who share this.
00:40:21.500 Okay, I'm not going to, because I don't want to.
00:40:23.220 There's one, do you know the thing that's written here that I don't read?
00:40:25.700 No, I don't, I don't.
00:40:26.460 It says, and would be the first trans woman of color to run for president.
00:40:33.320 But then it says here, due to YouTube rules, make your guess, but do not verbally confirm if the other person guessed correctly.
00:40:42.100 Give only an ambiguous nonverbal confirmation.
00:40:44.780 I've actually lost the question.
00:40:50.940 Yeah, good.
00:40:51.800 But here's what I would just say.
00:40:53.060 I agree.
00:40:53.500 Here's what I would just say on this.
00:40:54.500 I think that just on the first part of this, Michelle, I've heard enough people on the right, Michelle Obama will never run for president.
00:41:02.700 She's never wanted to run for president.
00:41:04.620 She's expressed that over and over again.
00:41:06.340 And I find people on the right who talk about this to just lack an understanding of how, not this is a process, but she's not going to get drafted into doing this.
00:41:17.240 Yeah, I totally agree.
00:41:19.320 I'm glad we didn't even move those classes.
00:41:20.480 Yes.
00:41:20.980 Because people, they don't understand.
00:41:24.480 If you've ever seen a presidential race, even somewhat like at a distance, but with any kind of intimacy, you know, it's a brutal, miserable.
00:41:35.140 Right.
00:41:35.420 Well, that's the thing.
00:41:36.140 Yeah.
00:41:36.940 I mean, it consumes two years of your life.
00:41:39.100 And also, you have, I mean, this is the thing.
00:41:41.080 On any office, you have to want to do it.
00:41:42.880 When people say, I'm trying to talk so-and-so into running, you can't, for any office, class president, you don't talk someone in.
00:41:49.140 All right, Mitch Daniels broke my heart.
00:41:50.460 This is a dumb question.
00:41:51.640 Okay.
00:41:52.300 People who shame men for being short are nothing more than height supremacists.
00:41:57.100 Height supremacists.
00:42:05.120 Yeah.
00:42:05.660 Yeah.
00:42:06.100 Like, duh.
00:42:06.660 It's pretty obvious.
00:42:07.200 It's an evil bigotry.
00:42:08.840 Yeah.
00:42:09.000 And it should be eradicated.
00:42:09.940 What do they call that?
00:42:10.600 The soft bigotry of...
00:42:12.540 Yeah, the short bigotry...
00:42:15.360 Yeah, this is...
00:42:16.440 By the way, Sean, when you said this is a stupid question, we could apply that to the whole game, to every single moment of the game.
00:42:25.260 I just, I feel bad for...
00:42:27.300 I mean, I get the work requirement.
00:42:30.900 We haven't been using ZipRecruiter recently.
00:42:33.500 We've been using a stick that we throw outside.
00:42:37.080 Yeah.
00:42:37.680 Fair enough.
00:42:39.500 Ron DeSantis will be the Republican nominee in 2024.
00:42:42.540 You waited for me.
00:42:51.100 I did.
00:42:54.140 You're correct.
00:42:55.600 You're incorrect.
00:42:56.520 Okay.
00:42:57.580 Yeah.
00:42:58.120 I couldn't tell...
00:42:59.360 So, here's the thing.
00:43:00.520 Is it possible?
00:43:01.440 Sure.
00:43:01.800 I'm not really...
00:43:02.640 Yeah.
00:43:03.020 But I've approached this from a place of logic.
00:43:08.640 And the logic is that every state has a threshold, right?
00:43:12.120 A minimum threshold that you have to get in a caucus and a primary, the minimum has always been 10%.
00:43:17.500 Some as high as 20%.
00:43:18.900 That's part of the reason Trump won in 2016.
00:43:21.900 Yeah.
00:43:22.020 Meaning, so, if you're in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, whatever, if you don't get X percent, and like I said, minimum is usually 10%, then you get no delegates.
00:43:29.300 Yeah.
00:43:29.400 So, right now, Trump and DeSantis are the only two people who would even qualify under the 2016 rules for any delegates.
00:43:37.120 Trump has been actually going around working the state parties to raise their threshold and do this.
00:43:41.780 Trump is going to have a six-month head start.
00:43:45.100 He also has two cycles of data on every Republican voter and a ton more fundraising prowess.
00:43:52.540 So, for those reasons, the ability to say, I'm going to run a mile and give you a one-lap head start is just a huge advantage.
00:44:01.960 You know, the only reason I hedged a little bit here and thought you might say yes is just because you know the GOP kind of powers that you've worked around them.
00:44:13.520 And it seemed to me a lot of the established institutional powers on the right have been increasingly pro-DeSantis.
00:44:22.840 I didn't know if that was right.
00:44:23.700 Yeah.
00:44:23.980 But I agree with you, Alex.
00:44:24.540 That's why I'm saying I don't rule it out.
00:44:26.860 Yeah.
00:44:27.160 Right?
00:44:27.480 So, I'll give you my quick scenario.
00:44:28.980 I think if DeSantis were to put all of his chips in Iowa or New Hampshire and strike a knockout blow, my knockout blow, I mean, I think if you beat the former president in one of those two states by three, four, five percent, I think that's a very significant hurdle to then overcome if you're Trump.
00:44:50.440 And then it would set off a series of, you know.
00:44:55.080 Reconfiguration.
00:44:55.580 Yeah.
00:44:55.720 But I think that that's what it would take.
00:44:58.380 And that's a big, big, you know, obstacle to overcome.
00:45:02.840 So, I think it's possible.
00:45:04.240 But I just don't think it's likely.
00:45:06.280 We've got a ways to go.
00:45:07.600 There's a lot more that can happen.
00:45:09.380 But again, so I'm not ruling anything out.
00:45:11.120 I'm not saying it's – but it is Trump's to lose.
00:45:13.100 Yeah.
00:45:13.360 I agree.
00:45:13.800 I totally agree.
00:45:14.540 Okay.
00:45:14.720 Last question.
00:45:15.400 No, this is yours.
00:45:15.900 Oh, yeah.
00:45:16.520 Okay.
00:45:17.680 I get that I'm the guest, but that was, you know.
00:45:19.600 I mean.
00:45:20.600 Okay.
00:45:20.920 Roughly 50% of Democratic congressmen are closet communists.
00:45:27.000 Basically, Senator McCarthy was right.
00:45:31.460 McCarthy was talking about the State Department, first of all.
00:45:33.920 But – and he – well, okay.
00:45:37.740 How are we going to answer?
00:45:38.400 Are we going to answer based on – this is a very poorly written question.
00:45:41.960 Are we going to answer based on the congressman or the State Department bureaucracy?
00:45:46.680 I think it's – I think clearly the intent of the question is members of congress.
00:45:52.300 Yeah.
00:45:52.600 Okay.
00:45:53.100 Okay.
00:45:53.560 Closet communists.
00:45:58.720 Again, I'm doing the analysis here.
00:46:00.780 I think that you have to look at the current.
00:46:02.920 So you have 214.
00:46:06.980 14-ish.
00:46:10.120 So that gets you –
00:46:11.300 I was going to say 15.
00:46:12.660 Something like that.
00:46:13.340 But it's still – you're looking at 107.
00:46:15.280 Yeah.
00:46:16.680 You think I'm going to say they're commies, half of them?
00:46:23.940 Yeah.
00:46:25.980 Are you?
00:46:27.660 Well, I was going to say no.
00:46:29.140 I don't know.
00:46:29.520 Now you're kind of convincing me.
00:46:31.120 No, I don't think they're commies.
00:46:33.040 Did I get this right, by the way?
00:46:34.040 You think they are commies?
00:46:34.700 No.
00:46:34.920 I think that under the current math, I probably think a third.
00:46:39.600 Yeah.
00:46:39.960 Yeah.
00:46:40.340 Right.
00:46:40.680 I mean, there are like actual avowed socialist people.
00:46:44.720 I just think for most of them, it's not that they're – it's kind of like some people
00:46:49.140 think the devil is under every rock.
00:46:51.120 You know, it's like the devil's real, demons are real, but they're not under every single
00:46:53.700 rock everywhere.
00:46:54.440 It's like a third.
00:46:55.120 It's like a third of the rocks.
00:46:57.140 And the pyramids.
00:46:57.800 And they're definitely under the pyramids.
00:46:59.840 But the Democrats, I think, yeah, some of them are avowed socialists and communists.
00:47:06.000 Right.
00:47:06.180 Most of them are just libs.
00:47:07.920 Right.
00:47:08.300 You know, and that's bad too.
00:47:09.880 No, I do think it's evolving that way.
00:47:11.840 I do think that more and more each cycle are moving in a way that finds socialism an acceptable
00:47:16.620 thing and don't think that that's wrong.
00:47:19.220 Yeah.
00:47:19.600 But I don't know that we're there yet.
00:47:21.060 And I think part of it is that because you've got so many older members of Congress, there
00:47:25.640 are old school blue blood type Dems, that they're not there yet.
00:47:31.300 But as they're getting replaced with the new younger ones, absolutely.
00:47:34.300 Well, as that moves in that direction, as we move toward this national, I don't know,
00:47:41.800 what is it, separation or these communists sort of taking over, yeah, then we'll look
00:47:46.540 forward to, as that approach is, filling this with something a little bit stronger.
00:47:50.040 Cheers.
00:47:50.220 Yeah.
00:47:50.640 In the meantime, though, go get this book.
00:47:54.200 Bravebooks.com.
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00:47:56.140 The Parrots Go Bananas.
00:47:59.560 Nice fruity drinks for a fruity drink.
00:48:01.140 It actually matches.
00:48:02.180 Think about that.
00:48:02.580 That was very good.
00:48:03.240 Look at that.
00:48:03.540 That is so.
00:48:04.580 Okay.
00:48:04.740 We've been very harsh on the producers in this episode.
00:48:07.280 Yeah, but that's very, yeah.
00:48:08.580 I assume that was like, yeah.
00:48:11.080 It's the only compliment they're ever getting on this show.
00:48:13.420 We'll see you next time on Yes or No.
00:48:15.500 Thank you.