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Behind the Shove: Is Brigitte Macron an Abusive Groomer? (Ep.211) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. We have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stories to get to on this Monday. Monday, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: it's Tuesday. Just starting the week, having a day off,
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  Speaker 2: which was really nice. And I hope all of you
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  Speaker 2: had a restful Memorial Day. We're able to think about
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  Speaker 2: our fallen heroes. Not everybody was thinking about our fallen
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  Speaker 2: heroes yesterday because the Chicago mayor decided to use the
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  Speaker 2: day to celebrate Africa Day instead of Memorial Day. Libertarians
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  Speaker 2: slam Trump's ban on Harvard's international students as somehow anti-meritocracy.
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  Speaker 2: Students show college English majors, studies, I'm sorry, show college
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  Speaker 2: English majors, so students have zero reading comprehension. Emmanuel Macron
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  Speaker 2: is on camera being violently shoved in the face.
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  Speaker 1: By Brigitte Macron.
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z are now flocking to adulting 101 classes, and
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  Speaker 2: young people are fomenting a revival of Catholic aesthetics today.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I am Mayor Brandon Johnson, and I am proud
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  Speaker 3: to join you in recognizing and celebrating Africa Day. The
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  Speaker 3: continent of Africa. is made up of 1.2 billion people
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  Speaker 3: with diverse countries full of rich traditions, cultures, and heritage.
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  Speaker 3: The African diaspora can be found in cities and countries
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  Speaker 3: around the globe. And right here in Chicago, our proud
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  Speaker 3: African communities have made indelible contributions to the growth and
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  Speaker 3: fabric of our amazing city. So this Africa Day, let
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  Speaker 3: us take a moment to celebrate the achievements of the
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  Speaker 3: people of Africa, the progress made by African nations and
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  Speaker 3: the traditions and culture they have shared with us. And
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  Speaker 3: let us also show them that we will embrace and
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  Speaker 3: support them as they continue to overcome and face their
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  Speaker 3: challenges head on. Thank you and happy Africa Day, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday on Memorial Day, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decided to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate Africa Day. I guess a day not to celebrate Americans,
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  Speaker 2: not to celebrate the ultimate sacrifice that many have made,
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  Speaker 2: but instead to celebrate a continent.
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  Speaker 1: On the other side of the world. Guys, I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us see this and we go, is
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  Speaker 1: he stupid? Is he just insensitive? Is he dumb? And
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  Speaker 1: I say, no, you guys, that's not what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: This is intentional.
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  Speaker 2: This is an intentional act of ideological subversion. It's a
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  Speaker 2: symbolic move that reveals a deeper hostility toward American nationalism
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  Speaker 2: and identity. Ask yourself, does any African nation celebrate North
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  Speaker 2: America Day?
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  Speaker 1: Of course not.
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  Speaker 2: This kind of gesture only happens in the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America. among a political class driven by guilt, grievance,
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  Speaker 2: and globalist ideology that is constantly actively trying to undermine
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  Speaker 2: our national story. It is part of, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: a broader campaign to demoralize the American public.
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  Speaker 1: A slow erosion of.
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  Speaker 2: Pride, tradition, historical confidence. We're constantly fed a narrative of
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  Speaker 2: American national shame. where every founding father is a villain
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  Speaker 2: and every patriotic instinct is suspect. Figures like Columbus and
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  Speaker 2: George Washington and Junipero Serra, no longer honored but demonized. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I think we should examine our history critically. We do
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  Speaker 2: that all the time on this show. Acknowledging, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: the lies of Iraq and Afghanistan, especially on Memorial Day,
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  Speaker 2: the failures of our leadership class. But that doesn't erase
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  Speaker 2: the bravery of the soldiers who fought or the exceptional
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  Speaker 2: legacy of a nation that has led the world in
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  Speaker 2: many ways. The real goal here is cultural disarmament, to
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  Speaker 2: leave us hollowed out, ashamed, and easier to control. Because
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  Speaker 2: the people who apologize for their own existence, they have
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  Speaker 2: no real future. And that's exactly what cultural Marxists like
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Johnson are counting on.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, May 25th, marks the.
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  Speaker 2: Fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd. George Floyd,
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  Speaker 2: a 46-year-old black man, died in police custody with a
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  Speaker 2: fatal level of fentanyl in his system. Following the death
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  Speaker 2: of George Floyd, the United States was subjected to 574
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  Speaker 2: violent riots, which resulted in injuries to over 2,000 police officers,
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  Speaker 2: looting of businesses, over $ 2 billion in damage to property,
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  Speaker 2: over 20 deaths, including that of a retired St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis police captain.
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  Speaker 2: And the response to the anniversary of the death of
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd, which, by the way, is very relevant and
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  Speaker 2: connected to what Brandon Johnson did on Memorial Day. The
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  Speaker 2: response has been nothing short of insufferable, as I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: many of you can imagine. Here is Minneapolis poet laureate
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  Speaker 2: Janata Petras imagining a world of delicious mundane. This is,
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  Speaker 2: of course, from her quote from her poem, quote from
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  Speaker 2: her poem. where George Floyd grows old smoking his cigarettes
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  Speaker 2: and watching fireflies.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: All we really know was his last living desire was
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  Speaker 4: for a cigarette. In other words, a simple and neat,
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  Speaker 4: quick and light burn. of personal tobacco. Inhale, throat heat,
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  Speaker 4: and exhale. For a moment, the brain pauses and buzzes.
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  Speaker 4: For a moment, the heart is a soft float and
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  Speaker 4: you belong to you. Native homies, give the offering of tobacco.
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  Speaker 4: Soft hands, cupped gratitude. Put a little tobacco here. Smoke
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  Speaker 4: of prayer for your ancestors. their witness, their earthly nostalgia
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  Speaker 4: for earthly life and earthly pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Not everyone can do poetry, guys. Not everyone can do poetry.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, this goes on a lot longer.
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  Speaker 2: I gave you just a little snippet of this poem
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  Speaker 2: just to save you all. I didn't play the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing because it gets even worse. It gets even more bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, frankly, I.
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  Speaker 1: Wish that George Floyd was a regular guy. No one
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  Speaker 1: knew his name.
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  Speaker 2: He probably, I don't know if he would live forever,
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  Speaker 2: considering that he was a felon. He had this massive
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  Speaker 2: rap sheet. He had a fentanyl addiction. But at least
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't know his name. Because if we didn't know
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  Speaker 2: his name, maybe then Minneapolis and Portland and New York
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  Speaker 2: and Kenosha and Seattle and countless other cities wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: been engulfed in fiery but mostly peaceful protests all summer 2020.
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  Speaker 2: And again, like I said, for real, George Floyd probably
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  Speaker 2: was not going to grow old. The guy had a
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  Speaker 2: fentanyl addiction. outrageously long rap sheet. If he wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to OD, he was probably going to end up in prison.
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  Speaker 2: And yet here we are being subjected to crappy poems
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  Speaker 2: about this felon who has essentially been canonized as a
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  Speaker 2: saint by the political left. Five years later, we're still
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  Speaker 2: hearing about him. So what really is the legacy of
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd? The Summer of Love that burnt whole swaths
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  Speaker 2: of American cities to the ground is the legacy of
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd. The way criminals subverted and avoided any kind
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  Speaker 2: of accountability or justice is the legacy of George Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: Because Democrat mayors and prosecutors, they totally failed to uphold
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  Speaker 2: the rule of law. They allowed looters and vandals to
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  Speaker 2: walk free in the name of social justice that summer.
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris raised money to get them bailed out of jail.
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  Speaker 2: District attorneys often backed by progressive donors like George Soros,
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  Speaker 2: chose not to pursue charges, effectively sanctioning the destruction. Even Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats, claimed before there was any evidence, before
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  Speaker 2: it had been even considered in a rule of law,
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  Speaker 2: that George Floyd died of racism, of a racially motivated
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  Speaker 2: assault on his life. And again, it had not been
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  Speaker 2: decided in a court of law. You had ordinary citizens
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  Speaker 2: and small business owners bearing the cost, never recovering.
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  Speaker 1: So many of these businesses, they've never reopened.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, adding salt to the wound as we
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  Speaker 2: were living through COVID at this time, where these places
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  Speaker 2: were forcibly shut down anyways, forced to operate remotely, their
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  Speaker 2: revenue dramatically limited, and then suddenly they're getting looted and
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  Speaker 2: vandalized and burned to the ground. Today in places like
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  Speaker 2: Washington State, Many rioters have received massive settlements, sometimes to
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  Speaker 2: the tune of millions of dollars on the taxpayer's dime
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  Speaker 2: for minor injuries inflicted by law enforcement attempting to keep
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  Speaker 2: the peace. So we're paying to the rioters now, five
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  Speaker 2: years later. What was the narrative? The narrative that persists today,
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  Speaker 2: that America is irredeemably racist, that our legacy is shameful.
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  Speaker 1: And they didn't just vandalize. City Hall or loot Walmarts.
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  Speaker 2: They tore down statues representing the American mythos. So I
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  Speaker 2: say this was deeper than just an assault on American cities,
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  Speaker 2: on businesses. It was an assault on the civilization itself.
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  Speaker 1: It's a project.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, again, one that's bigger than just America. The
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  Speaker 2: cultural upheaval of 2020 was part of a broader result
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  Speaker 2: on the foundational values of Western Civ itself. At its core,
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  Speaker 2: the American mythos is rooted in a distinctly Christian worldview.
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  Speaker 2: The dignity of the individual, the sanctity of human life,
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  Speaker 2: the value of liberty, the belief in moral truth. And
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  Speaker 2: these ideas didn't emerge in a vacuum initially. They were
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  Speaker 2: cultivated over centuries through a Western tradition anchored in Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: That is precisely why the modern ideological coalition, comprising of
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  Speaker 2: cultural Marxists and technocratic globalists and progressive illiberals, seek.
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  Speaker 1: To dismantle it. Here and also abroad. Look at what's
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  Speaker 1: happening in the UK, in France, anywhere you go in
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  Speaker 1: the West.
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  Speaker 2: This is a reoccurring theme. I think they detest the
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  Speaker 2: moral order. the reverence of objective truth, the spiritual authority
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  Speaker 2: of Christianity. And I think what that history and the
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  Speaker 2: heritage represents is an obstacle to their vision of a post-national,
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  Speaker 2: post-religious world where human identity is fluid and morality is
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  Speaker 2: relative and power is, and this is key, centralized. This
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  Speaker 2: explains why corporate America so enthusiastically embraced the narratives of
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  Speaker 2: systemic guilt and national self-loathing.
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  Speaker 1: At first, it didn't seem to make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Nike raising money for BLM and coming out
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  Speaker 2: with these racism statements? Why are all of these corporate
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  Speaker 2: companies coming out with these anti-America systemic racism statements and
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  Speaker 2: giving money to these radical left-wing organizations when clearly this
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  Speaker 2: is partisan? It can't foster any kind of bipartisan.
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  Speaker 1: Patronage.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense from a logical perspective, but then
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  Speaker 2: you have to think about things deeper. Multinational corporations aligned
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  Speaker 2: with global capital rather than national interests view patriotism and
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  Speaker 2: sovereignty as threats to their bottom line. So it's actually
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  Speaker 2: a very easy to understand relationship. Wall Street doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: a populist grounded in localism and faith or national pride
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  Speaker 2: It wants consumers who revere the market above all, even
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  Speaker 2: at the cost of their own community's prosperity and cultural cohesion.
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  Speaker 2: The woke moral signaling from big business, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: is not accidental.
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  Speaker 1: It serves a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: By reinforcing a narrative, that deconstructs America's founding ethos. They
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  Speaker 2: help pave the way for a global technocratic order that
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  Speaker 2: is fundamentally hostile to the Western values that all of
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  Speaker 2: us actually believe in. And in the end, this is
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  Speaker 2: just something broader than the United States of America. It
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  Speaker 2: is about erasing a civilization rooted in faith, rooted in freedom,
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  Speaker 2: in the belief that truth transcends power. And it is
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  Speaker 2: beyond Democrat and Republican. It is beyond just America itself.
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  Speaker 2: It gets so much deeper than that. And it goes
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  Speaker 2: across all institutions. I mean, we were talking the media.
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  Speaker 1: We could talk corporate America. We can also talk education.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to get into education today. But this
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  Speaker 1: is very deep.
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  Speaker 2: And the alignment may seem obscure, unclear, but it actually
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  Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. And we're going to dig
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  Speaker 2: a little deeper into all of that in this show today.
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  Speaker 2: But first, I have to talk about our incredible sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I want you all to listen to this
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  Speaker 2: incredible exchange, I guess it's not an exchange, this soundbite
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  Speaker 2: from Batia Ungar Sargon on CNN. She is discussing Trump
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  Speaker 2: revoking Harvard's ability to host international students. And she makes
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  Speaker 2: an incredible point about national sovereignty, about nationalism in general,
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  Speaker 2: the priorities of this country when she talks about this
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  Speaker 2: move from the Trump admin.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that 25 percent, 27 percent of college students
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  Speaker 5: at our elite university are foreign students like this is
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  Speaker 5: utterly unacceptable. There are hundreds of thousands of brilliant children
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  Speaker 5: being left on the table. Children of color, children from
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  Speaker 5: inner cities, children from Appalachia who deserve those spots and
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  Speaker 5: deserve that education. Why are we giving it to Chinese?
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: Hold on a second.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is an excellent point. I think it
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  Speaker 2: should cut across party lines, cut across. I think everybody,
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  Speaker 2: if you're an American, unless you're the Harvard University admin,
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  Speaker 2: you should agree with this sentiment from Batia.
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  Speaker 1: But not everyone does. So this is a response. This
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  Speaker 1: is from libertarian Alex Naroste.
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  Speaker 2: And he's the Cato Institute's vice president for economic and
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  Speaker 2: social policy studies.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote this.
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  Speaker 2: Immigration restrictions are affirmative action for Americans. I believe in meritocracy,
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  Speaker 2: the best and the brightest, period. Only 4% of the
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  Speaker 2: world is American, so we're quite overrepresented in elite institutions
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  Speaker 2: because of government favoritism and our awesomeness.
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  Speaker 1: So what's he saying here?
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  Speaker 2: There is no inherent value in nations, cultures, or communities.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone is just an economic unit in this country. And
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  Speaker 2: this country is just an economic zone. We can't prioritize
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  Speaker 2: American citizens because that would be anti-meritocracy.
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  Speaker 1: That would be unfair.
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  Speaker 2: It should just be whoever is the best and the brightest,
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  Speaker 2: irrespective of that nationality, gets into Harvard University. We can't
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  Speaker 2: have affirmative action for American citizens.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting because essentially he's arguing that really there are
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  Speaker 2: no Americans or foreigners or shared histories or civic bonds,
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  Speaker 2: just the best and the brightest competing on a global
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  Speaker 2: marketplace stripped entirely of identity.
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  Speaker 1: No rootedness, no belonging, just economic optimization.
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  Speaker 2: A place where people are managed by unaccountable institutions that
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  Speaker 2: owe allegiance to no flag, no faith, no people.
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  Speaker 1: Just meritocracy.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a federal judge has paused Trump's order
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  Speaker 2: preventing Harvard from being able to enroll international students.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a pause on that. Again, we're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: these crazy judges. Surprise, surprise. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Universities do not have a legal right to bring in
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  Speaker 2: international students. By the way, a bunch of Chinese ones
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  Speaker 2: happen to be spies. But the executive branch holds the
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  Speaker 2: authority to issue or deny visas, including student visas, as
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  Speaker 2: part of its control over foreign policy and immigration. This
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  Speaker 2: is pretty simple stuff. The universities want to keep these
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  Speaker 2: students here because they're cash cows. This really isn't about meritocracy.
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  Speaker 2: The universities don't care about meritocracy. They peddle in DEI
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  Speaker 2: and pick students based off of immutable qualities like race
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  Speaker 2: and sexuality all the time. They like these students because
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  Speaker 2: they pay full tuition on top of often donating a
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  Speaker 2: lot more money to these schools. These are rich international
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  Speaker 2: students wanting their kids to get into elite and American institutions,
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  Speaker 2: and they are paying their way there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a racket. And it's a risk to national security.
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  Speaker 2: And it takes opportunities away from American citizens while the
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  Speaker 2: American taxpayer subsidizes these schools. This is the argument against
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  Speaker 2: this libertarian. Americans can and should... prioritize the education and
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  Speaker 2: opportunities of Americans.
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  Speaker 1: This is not hard stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But apparently this is hard for some people, liberals, leftists, libertarians.
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  Speaker 2: They don't understand it. Michael wants everybody to know, he
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  Speaker 2: said this before the show, that the Cato Institute does
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  Speaker 2: not represent his brand of libertarianism.
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  Speaker 1: The Mises libertarians are the best ones.
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  Speaker 2: He says he's a Mises Institute libertarian. You all can
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  Speaker 2: look up Mises versus Cato. I think that they're both
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  Speaker 2: just liberals and I'm not impressed by either, but I digress.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a terrible argument.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's equally impossible for the universities themselves to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Libertarians don't get it, right?
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  Speaker 2: They can't conceive of an idea where the American people,
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  Speaker 2: the American government should prioritize the education of American students.
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  Speaker 2: But the universities have completely divorced themselves from their core
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  Speaker 2: mission that it's impossible for them to comprehend as well.
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  Speaker 1: UChicago professor Rachel Fulton.
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  Speaker 2: Brown was on the podcast a while back, and she
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  Speaker 2: read aloud the Harvard mission statement, which, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read it to you again just for a reminder.
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  Speaker 2: This is a quote from Harvard's mission statement. To know
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  Speaker 2: God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation
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  Speaker 2: of all sound knowledge and learning. They completely abandoned that mission,
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  Speaker 2: as have most institutions of higher learning.
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  Speaker 1: There's no truth-seeking whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the university system is centuries in the making
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  Speaker 2: and was created by Christians who were seeking to know
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  Speaker 2: the truth, which, of course, is religion, is Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Most schools don't know what they stand for at all.
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  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, CBS 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley delivered a
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  Speaker 2: completely deranged commencement address at Wake Forest. And this pretty
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  Speaker 2: much sums up the state, I'm sorry, last week, not
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. And this pretty much sums up the state
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  Speaker 2: of the higher education system It really says a lot
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  Speaker 2: about where we're at.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred
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  Speaker 6: rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack.
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  Speaker 6: Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.
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  Speaker 6: And insidious fear.
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  Speaker 3: Is reaching.
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  Speaker 7: Through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our
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  Speaker 7: private thoughts. The fear to speak in America.
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  Speaker 6: Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives. They can
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  Speaker 6: make criminals heroes and heroes Criminals. Power can change the
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  Speaker 6: definition of the words we use to describe reality. Diversity
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  Speaker 6: is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned.
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  Speaker 6: Inclusion is a dirty word.
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  Speaker 7: This is an old playbook, my friends. There's nothing new
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  Speaker 7: in this.
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  Speaker 2: We must defend diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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  Speaker 1: That was the whole point of that little spiel.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing about pursuing the truth, Jesus Christ, Western Civ. Like, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're completely done with that.
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  Speaker 1: We've dropped it.
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  Speaker 2: It's about preserving grievance-based identity politics. That's the goal, making
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  Speaker 2: sure the schools can carry on the Marxist activism that
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  Speaker 2: they so love.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And then he has the gall to.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Stand there and scream and cry about the rule of law. Journalism, universities,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: freedom of speech, they're all under attack. Sir, the political
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: left weaponized the entire federal government against President Trump and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: half the country for the last four years.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But you want to talk to me about the rule
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of law?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Journalists lied about Kyle Rittenhouse, the Covington schoolboys, fired mostly
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: peaceful protests, the Russia collusion hoax, Brett Kavanaugh, Hunter Biden
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: laptop story, Joe Biden's mental acuity. Journalism is dead because
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: they killed themselves. The university system itself chills free speech.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: with political statements from the admin about George Floyd and
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: every other political topic. They disinvited conservative speakers and fired
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: conservative professors.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: There is no free speech.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: On college campuses, and they're the ones that made it so.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: The elites torched their own reputations, and now they're crying
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to us about it. Professor Rachel Fulton Brown just came.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Out with a fascinating substack.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It's titled Reading Comprehension, Current Year After the Flood, And
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: she recounts a study that took place about a decade ago,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: still really relevant today. I'm sure it's probably gotten worse
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: since then with the rise of chat GPT. But two
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: English professors tested 85 English major students who all graduated
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: from Kansas public schools. And all of these students thought
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: of themselves as AB level in their English studies. The
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: students were asked to read aloud from a Charles Dickens novel.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And they were allowed to use their phones to look
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: up words, and they had facilitators to guide them with questions.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And the sessions were recorded and analyzed using a detailed
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: coding system, 18 codes for narration, 62 for comprehension. And
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the results discovered that the results found that only four
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: students were deemed proficient. Forty-nine students couldn't understand enough to
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: finish the novel on their own. and 32 students had
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: some vocabulary and figurative language skills, but struggled with literal comprehension,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: meaning the majority of the college English majors could not
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: read or understand Dickens. And these are people that will
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: presumably go on to teach English to other students. So
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: how can they be expected to teach what they clearly
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: do not know? They can't even comprehend. Now, What is
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the concern, and this is what Fulton Brown points out,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: what is the concern of our government? Presumably people at
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: the Cato Institute, the Vivek Ramaswamis of the world. Well,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the concern is literacy is strongly tied to financial success,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and an educated populace will derail GDP growth. So this
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is very bad news. What does Professor Fulton Brown say?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: It's that very framing that is the problem.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And this is fascinating.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to read to you an excerpt from the Substack.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: She says, why should we expect our students to be
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: able to read for scriptural allusions and figures of speech,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: images and cross-references and patterns of meaning for symbolism and beauty,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and the resonance of phonemes when everything in their education
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: is telling them that reading is a skill that they
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: need to make money, and making money means filling in
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the right forms to get shipments from China or contracts
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: from India. Why should we expect our students to enjoy
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: reading when we have reduced their education to a series
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: of bullet points that they might as well get from
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: SparkNotes or ChatGPT? Why should they care about reading when
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: their souls have been rendered statistics in the calculation of
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: our national GDP? Truly, it is as if the waters
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: had only just retired from the face of the earth
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and the dinosaurs, dragons, and unicorns had all drowned, leaving
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: behind rotting skeletons of the joy that we once had
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: in singing to God. And we wonder that the students
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: cannot look up from their phones. On the one hand,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: we've reduced learning to job preparation and students to GDP inputs.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: And on the other hand, we have activists, professors, and
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: administrators preoccupied with DEI rhetoric and identity politics. And the
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: result is an academic environment where the soul of education
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: is lost. Students aren't inspired to seek truth, beauty, or wisdom,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but are instead taught to recite slogans or chase credentials.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: With meaning stripped from both the economic and cultural ends
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of the spectrum, we're cultivating a generation starved of any
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: kind of substance, where all sides, unwittingly or not, are
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: complicit in breeding stupidity. Shout out to Professor Rachel Fulton Brown.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: She's always excellent. Her substacks are always excellent. This one's titled,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: reading comprehension current year after the flood. You can go
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: find her work at fencingbearatprayer.substack.com. Also check out our interview together.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Rachel Fulton Brown and I, we did it right after Easter.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: It was an excellent interview.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of the liberal order, which by
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the way, I think it's dismantling. I think things are
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: starting to waver. We're going to get into that later
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in the show. But before we talk about that, left-wing
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: French president Emmanuel Macron said, was two-handed shoved in the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: face by his partner, Brigitte Macron, over the weekend. The
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: couple was landing in Vietnam for a state visit when
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: this happened.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Take a look. So you can see the doors of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the plane slowly open. This is a slow-mo. Two hands.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: She just shoves him in the face. He awkwardly waves
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: at the crowd. He turns back into the airplane. He
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: very uncomfortably walks out then. Brigitte follows behind. It's very awkward.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And it was also very violent. I mean, this was
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a serious shove, kind of shocking. Now, we're good with that, Mikey.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: In a statement yesterday, the French president tried to downplay
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the incident, saying that he was squabbling and rather joking
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: with Brigitte, adding that everyone needs to calm down. He
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: also blamed his opponents for blowing the altercation out of
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: proportion and making it into, quote, a sort of geoplanetary catastrophe,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: noting that people are always saying all sorts of nonsense.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know, guys, but this is not something that
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I think most couples do as a joke. Like, I
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: wouldn't put my hands on my husband's face and shove
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: him for fun. I don't know what other people do
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: for fun.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't do that for fun. I wouldn't be very
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: happy if Michael did that to me. But to me,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: this looks abusive.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: To me, this looks extremely abusive and violent. The Babylon
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Bee said French President Macron claims he fell down the
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: stairs again with an AI image of Macron with this
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: horrific black eye. Hilarious, but also a fair point. Like,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: is the president of France a domestic abuse victim? Macron's
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: office followed up telling the media, it was a moment
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: where the president and his wife were decompressing one last
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: time before the start of the trip by horsing around.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: It's a moment of complicity.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: It was all that was needed to give ammunition to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the conspiracy theorists.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, the conspiracy theorists. Now, of course, there are
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of conspiracies around Brigitte Macron.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Many believe, quite sincerely, they believe that Brigitte Macron is
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: in fact a man I'm not going to get into
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: all that. We don't have the time today. You can
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: go down that rabbit hole if you so choose. Things
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: get very murky. What I will say, and this is
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: a fact, there is a massive, massive age gap between
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Brigitte and Emmanuel.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Brigitte is 72.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel is 47. There's a 25-year age gap between the
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: two of them. And that wouldn't be entirely unheard of.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Certainly couples can have, I guess, meaningful relationships with that
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: big of an age gap. The problem with this relationship
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: is that Emmanuel met Brigitte when he was Brigitte's student.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: At the time, Brigitte was 40, a married teacher with
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: three children, and.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Emmanuel was 15.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: The pair reportedly began a relationship when Emmanuel was 16.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: His parents found out.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: He was transferred to a different school, but Emmanuel and
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Brigitte kept in touch. Again, the details and timeline get
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: kind of murky, but the pair officially married in 2007
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: when Emmanuel was 29 and Brigitte was 54. Now, this
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: has been presented in France and here in the United
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: States as some kind of cute little love story and
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: not as a story of grooming. But I think very
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: clearly this is a story of grooming. A male or
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: female 40-year-old teacher having a romantic relationship with their 15,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: 16-year-old student is predatory.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I don't care what gender you are.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Certainly, if this was a man and a female student,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: we would all be like, this is clearly predatory and
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: wrong and exploitative.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I don't care if Brigitte.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Is female or And her student, 15-year-old male, still predatory,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: still a groomer. So I am surprised to see the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: media sort of paint over this as, oh, this is
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: just normal couples horsing around, especially given the context of
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: their relationship. I think what we're looking at is Brigitte
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: abusing Emmanuel, and their relationship began as abusive, as predatory.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Can someone explain to me why every A liberal leader
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: in America also seems to have a weird personal background.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: We just keep hearing these stories.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Biden's background, Kamala's background, President Barack Obama's background.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It's all very strange. None of these people are ever normal.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: All of them seem to be bizarrely compromised or insanely
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: incompetent in the case of Kamala Harris to the point
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: where you wonder, how did you get to where you are?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And I really think that there is a sickness in
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the West. It's not just our leaders who are lost.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Apparently, it's everyone.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Apparently, Gen Z as a generation is flocking to adulting
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: 101 crash courses. Yes, desperate to learn what previous generations
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: might call common sense, how to do laundry, budgeting for rent,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: or navigating the grocery store. Gen Z is now trying
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to figure it all out because they have no idea
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: what to do with themselves. Pour a report from the
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: New York Post. Canadian colleges like the University of Waterloo
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: are stepping in to teach the basics of with online
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: toolkits like Adulting 101, which covers everything from healthy relationships to.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: How to not set your kitchen on fire.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: According to Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: State University and author of Generations, today's 20-somethings are hitting
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: adulthood with empty toolboxes. Kids are growing up less independent
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: than they get to universities, and they still don't know anything. Now, guys,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what the context is here, but
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: this is a very accurate, very true clip. Here is
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irving talking about what is
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: happening with this next generation.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: This is what's wrong with today.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: The young ladies today, they're not learning from mom.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: How to cook, we're losing recipes.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: And now we're going to.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: This is what's wrong with today.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: The young ladies today.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: They're not learning from mom.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: How to cook, we're losing recipes.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And now we're going to.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: featuring grandmas sharing their recipes because so many of these
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: dishes are just not being passed down to the next generation.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Like either it's just this, you know, I actually, what
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I think it is, is it's a decline of generational
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: living where, you know, you don't have young people staying in,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: in the community with their families.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: They're going off, they're living on the internet.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: They are separated from their, their homes and going to
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: the big city. There is, a lack of generational living.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: So a lot of these skills are not being passed down.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And so, like I said, there are all these YouTube
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: videos where grandmas are just documenting all of their dishes,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: all of their recipes, because if they don't, they're going
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: to die out.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: We're just not going to have them anymore. I look
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: at my own family. My grandma sews. She's an incredible sewer.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: She made a lot of her own clothes growing up.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: My mom has no idea how to sew, and I'm
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: terrible at sewing. I can knit a little bit, but
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I'm trash at sewing. And in my mom's defense, she
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: is an amazing cook.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: So she kept that. My little sister, Margarita, can sew.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: She's an amazing sewer. She made her own little skirt recently.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: And some people are bringing this back. There is like
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: a wave of young people who are trying to reclaim
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: all of these skill sets that have been lost over generations.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: But as a whole, a lot of us are losing
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: out on just these basic life skills that I think
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: are really necessary for human flourishing, for human society. I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: think somebody mentioned chores. I think chores are so important
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: for kids, not just like as a physical skill to
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: learn and something to know and carry on for your life,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: but to build self-confidence in young people.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: We just don't have chores anymore. It's kind of crazy.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Now, when I was growing up, I had a lot
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: of chores because I'm the oldest of nine kids, but
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: you're in a house of just two kids.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: It's suburbia.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Everybody has sports all the time and all these extracurriculars
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: and nobody is.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Doing basic housework. It's just not happening. No one's cooking.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: No one's cleaning.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: And so I think we're all lying to ourselves if
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: we don't admit that there is something being lost over
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: the generations. There really is a loss of generational wisdom.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: The young people are arriving in adulthood stripped of foundational skills,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: as well as cultural memory and a coherent worldview.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And I don't think these things are separate.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: The fact that colleges now teach basic life skills is
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: not just some sort of funny, Little tidbit, it is tragic.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: It reflects a generation that's raised without rootedness, without tradition,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: without the transmission of inherited wisdom. We're a totally disarmed generation,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: like spiritually, emotionally, practically, educationally. That's pretty bleak. But I'll
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: also remind you guys that this generation is more right-wing
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: than their millennial counterparts. And that's across all demos, male, female, black, white, brown.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Mostly it's pronounced among white men who are turning radically
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to the right in a very good way, I think.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: But across all demos, Gen Z is more right-wing than
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: their millennial counterpart.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: So there's something going on here.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And I wanted to draw your attention to this article
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: from EV Magazine, great online magazine. And they have a
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: physical magazine too, but it's an online publication as well.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: This is titled, The Revival of Catholic Aesthetics, Why Sacred
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Beauty is Captivating the Culture Again.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: This is fascinating.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: In this piece, Joanna Duncan explains how the inaugural mass
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: of Pope Leo.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Was more than a religious event.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: It was a bold, unspoken statement of sacred beauty and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: transcendent order in a world that seems to dismiss both.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: We had this vivid symbolism. Crimson vestments cascading over marble.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Veiled women standing in reverence.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Catholic queens and princesses dressed in white. We covered that
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: on the show. Michelangelo's designs as a backdrop. Here is
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: what it looked like. Sacred music too.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I think the author notes that even people who seem
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: to be most of the time indifferent to religion couldn't
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: look away. Secular news organizations, secular TikTokers and Instagram influencers
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: they were attracted to what was happening in Rome because
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: every element of this event spoke to hierarchy, humility, something eternal,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: something with a history. I mean, it was so attractive
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: to so many people in the secular world. And the
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: sacred aesthetic extends beyond the church walls and into the
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: very fabric of fashion. High fashion designers like Dolce &
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Gabbana and Valentino regularly incorporate Catholic iconography, veils, crucifixes, liturgical
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: colors into their collections. If we could throw up a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: video of that, Michael, you can kind of see what
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about in high fashion. We had the 2018
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Met Gala themed Heavenly Bodies. On this show, we've talked
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: about the rise of modest fashion among Gen Z women
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: and Christian veiling, an ancient tradition that it's not just Catholic,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: it is Christian.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: And then there's the.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Rising popularity of traditional Latin mass with its incense and
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: chants and ornate vestments. From Instagram to runway shows, Catholic
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Beauty is resurging, not as nostalgia, but I think as
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a healing language for souls that really are still longing
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: for sacred. As Duncan writes, the Catholic church still dresses
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: like she believes in eternity, and people are attracted to that.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: There really is a rising hunger, especially among younger generations,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: for truth, for beauty, for meaning, reflected in the revival
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of Catholic aesthetics, traditional values, sacred symbolism. And as people
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: are intent on erasing tradition through symbolic acts like celebrating
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Africa Day on Memorial Day, elevating George Floyd as a martyr,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: dismantling Christian classical education and Western values, they are on
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: a slow motion campaign of demoralization for everyone all across
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the West.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: And yet there is a.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Growing cultural undercurrent yearning to recover what has been lost,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: especially among young people, which I think is really beautiful
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: and something to be very optimistic about. You can see
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: it reflected in the fashion. You can see it reflected
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: in even the numbers of how they are voting. Even
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: the fact that young people would want to take an
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: adulting 101 class.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, it may seem stupid.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: You might want to laugh at them, But it is
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: a sign that they realize, hey, something's missing. I have
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to go back and figure this out and make a change.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I can't keep living like this. This is a positive thing.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: This is something, again, to be very optimistic about despite
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: some of the bleakness that continues in our contemporary culture.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: And with that, I appreciate all of you tuning into
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: the show on this Tuesday. I'm excited to see you
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: all tomorrow. Hope you all have a wonderful day. Make
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: sure to give Michael some love in the comments for
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: putting this show together. And if you want to follow
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  Speaker 2: me on Instagram or X, as always, my user is
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  Speaker 2: avitaduffy underscore one.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Soccer Podcast.
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  Speaker 5: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
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  Speaker 5: to be joined by Daryl Dike. Arguably, your most impressive
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  Speaker 5: quality cannot be measured.
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  Speaker 1: You're a guy who is the definition of grit.
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  Speaker 5: Injuries have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided
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  Speaker 5: yours would only be a chapter instead of the ending.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Daryl.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. That's a good intro right there.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. Follow and listen on
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