The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 173 - Civility vs. Niceness: Act Like A Man!

Episode Date: June 25, 2018

The President is telling Jimmy Fallon to act like a man, a dirty Virginia restaurant kicks out Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, and a muscular national policy is paying dividends from our southern border to Iran. We will analyze the key to civility: acting like a man! Speaking of manning up, a World Cup update from Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent Jeremy “the godking” Boreing. Finally, feminism ruins The Incredibles and everything else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The left has declared it will no longer act with civility, as if it ever acted with civility in the first place or had even the slightest idea what civility means. Meanwhile, the president is telling Jimmy Fallon to act like a man. A dirty Virginia restaurant kicks out press secretary Sarah Sanders, and a muscular national policy is paying dividends from our southern border all the way to Iran. We will analyze the key to civility, acting like a man. Speaking of Manning up, a World Cup update from Daily Wire 2 sports correspondent, Jeremy the God King Boring, finally, feminism ruins the Incredibles and everything else. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the

Michael Knowles Show. Plus, we also have big news. I have to announce this. This is going to be huge. If I know the internet, people are going to like this. In a special live stream, this coming Monday, July 2nd, at 7 p.m. Eastern, we will be joined by special guest Jordan Peterson to celebrate Independence Day. God King Jeremy Boring will host a new edition of Daily Wire backstage with me, Ben Shapiro and Drew Claven to look back on our country's birth and look ahead to its future. Subscribers will even be able to write in live questions for us to answer on the air. Again, that's this Monday, July 2nd, 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific with special guest, Jordan Peterson. You can find our special live stream on Facebook and YouTube, so don't miss it.

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And one aspect that they're missing about civility is manliness, manliness. Manliness. And what better way to start off a conversation about manliness than to get an update on the World Cup, you know, the manliest game of all. So we turn out of our sister network, Daily Wire 2, and Chief Soccer Sports Correspondent, Jeremy, the God King Boring. Jeremy. Bada boom! Thank you, Michael, M-I-C-H-A-E-L. It's good to be with you after what sports commentators all over the world

are calling the most intense weekend of sweaty athletic men not scoring since Thermopyly. Yes, I am talking about the FEMA World Cup. For our American viewers, that's the once every four years global sporting event that doesn't involve curling or figure skating. or bombing Iraq. In the most shocking match of the weekend, Uruguay, with a GDP literally lower than Bill Gates, defeated recent global superpower Russia by a staggering three points, those being the only three points scored in the match. Actor Tom Arnold responded to the match by promising to deliver never-before-seen video of U.S. President Donald Trump, covered in urine, praising Russia

on its near win, and reminding his constituents that America isn't much better than at soccer, if you really think about it. Uruguay's coach responded to the alleged video by dying mysteriously of polonium poisoning. In the all-important group F, this weekend saw Mexico, GDP 1.04 trillion, edge out South Korea, GDP 1.4 trillion, 2-1. While Germany, GDP 3.4 trillion, defeated Sweden $511 billion by the same score. You know what that means for group F, right, Michael? What does that mean, Jeremy? Why would anyone know the answer to that, Michael? I was hoping you knew.

Of course, the most anticipated match of the day today is between one of the most gay-friendly countries in Europe, Portugal, GDP 200 billion, and nuclear wannabes and throwers of gays off of cranes, Iran, GDP 393 billion, a quarter of which was a gift from John Kerry. Iran has promised that their football program is only intended for peaceful purposes, and that the fact that it fits neatly on the head of one of their enormous intercontinental ballistic missiles is strictly coincidental, and also a lie told by the great Satan, who they hope dies, but whom they mean no personal harm as they are a peaceful nation. The beautiful sport.

The beautiful sport, indeed. But of course, soccer isn't really, Michael, about who wins and who loses. It's really about women thinking men with accents and zero body fat and stripy shorts are cute, and everyone else rebuking America, capitalism, Western hegemony, masculinity, adulthood, and Jesus. Seriously. Seriously, Jesus never watched a single World Cup. You can look it up. That's in the Bible. In the Bible. Evidence of this can be seen in much of the reporting on the World Cup. Medium.com put out a list of 10 reasons you should watch the World Cup. Reason number one,

Team USA isn't in it. Take that, America. Reason number three, it's a great medicine against American arrogance. And A.L.com, and there are five reasons you should be watching the World Cup, said, it's a true World Cup, you guys. Four billion people cannot be wrong. Fortunately for our audience at home, we here at Daily Wire 2 did an in-depth investigation into the question of whether or not four billion people can be wrong and discover this shocking information.

This is a map of all of the nations in the world that love soccer. And this is a map of all of the nations in the world that have landed a man on the moon and returned him safely back. back to Earth. That's right, losers. It's America won, everybody else zero. A score soccer lovers the world over should be able to get their heads around. Michael, bada boom, back to you. Jeremy, that is some incredible in-depth research that you have done. I did have a question about

the Iranian soccer game. So do we have any information on whether all of the sanctions against Iran, the international sanctions, have prohibited Ford and Chrysler minivans for, you. from pulling up to the stadium there and picking up the children from the game. You know, interestingly enough, Michael, soccer moms in Iran actually are well equipped. And in other good international news, soccer moms in Saudi Arabia are now actually legally allowed to drive to the field to pick up those adorable six-year-olds as they learn basic motor skills. That is really wonderful. I'm so glad that those World Cup players will now be able to get their juice boxes in some of those countries. where here to four the soccer moms couldn't drive. Jeremy the God King Boring.

What an incredible recap. I look forward to hearing more. When are you going to be watching more of the games? Watching. Bada boom! Jeremy the God King Boring, everybody. Really important update. Really, really.

I thought I was going to be able to make it through that with a straight face. Years and years of conservatory training. Not a chance. Absolutely not. Really good stuff. I got to tell you, the World Cup was kind of bothering. me, you know, because I don't, it, I went to my favorite bagel place in LA this weekend.

My one refuge, I thought, from the kind of L.A. PC, hippie-dippy stuff, I go to buy a bagel, and what do I see? Two giant TVs with the World Cup on. A big sign that says, the place to watch the World Cup, your bagel place. And I think, okay. But watching those updates, I think I'm really starting to change my opinion. I'm getting a real kick out of this World Cup. Okay. So moving on from, you know, the manliest sport, the beautiful game soccer. Let's start talking about manliness here because manliness is the question of this, you know, Donald Trump saying, act like a man, Jimmy Kimmel, and then people saying, you're not being civil, you're not, what is this? What is? Okay, it's manliness and womanliness

are misunderstood across the political spectrum and it's playing out in our politics. You're seeing it in politics. You're seeing it on TV. You're seeing it in movies. We're going to get to the Incredibles by the end. But femininity, totally destroyed Incredibles too. And it's really sad, this misunderstanding of what manliness is. Over the weekend, we'll begin with Donald Trump and Jimmy Fallon and then we'll be able to move into, I think, Maxine Waters and Sarah Sanders getting kicked out of that restaurant and why that cartoon wasn't any good. Over the weekend, here's where it began. Donald Trump gave Jimmy Fallon important advice. Here's the exchange.

I don't know what to do. I don't know what. You can act like a man. Is this how you turned out of Hollywood Pinocchio that cries like a woman? What can I do? What can I do? What is that, man? Do we know if Donald Trump is part Italian? He looked very Italian in that photo. No, it was actually, apparently that was a recreation. That was Marlon Brando and was it Al Martino?

Who played Johnny Fontaine? Yeah, really, I think they really captured the essence there, though, of President Trump. And Jimmy Fallon. been complaining for a little while over how mean the left was to him after he did that interview. You remember, he did an interview with Donald Trump on his show during the campaign, and he kind of rubbed his hair. He said, I've got a question for you. Is your hair real? And he says, touch the hair. And he goes, rubs it. Oh, the hair is real. Right. Just classic Jimmy Fallon show. You know, Jimmy Fallon is the nice guy. Stephen Colbert. He's the left-wing political guy. And Jimmy Kimmel,

he's the every man, your average Joe, but he's a left-winger or two, right? And Jimmy Fallon's shtick is that he's the nice guy and everybody likes him and he's not going to ask you about abortion. He's just going to play games with you. On his show, you know, he started playing board games with his guests and things like that. Don Rickles was asked if he'd ever been on the Jimmy Fallon show. He said, no, he has to learn how to play Jenga first. You know, I mean, that's the tenor of Jimmy Fallon's show. So he has Trump on and plays with his hair.

And then by the way, he had Hillary Clinton on the next week. And he played stupid games with her too. And it's just, oh, nice, nice, nice. And he got eviscerated for this by the left. not the right that was attacking him. It was the left. They said, you're normalizing Trump as though the nominee of the Republican Party

hasn't been normalized, as though the guy that we've all known for 40 years in the pop culture, he hasn't been normalized until Jimmy Fallon scratches him on the scalp. Then all of a sudden he's a real threat. So they were so mean to him, and it kind of broke the guy.

This is going to play an important role a little later in the discussion between the difference between civility and niceness. Because Jimmy Fallon, man, he's just a nice guy. Here is Jimmy Fallon just crying, basically, really upset and complaining about what the left did to him after he talked to Trump on the show. I'm just doing five hours a week, man. I'm like working. I get in at 10 the morning.

I work until 7 at night. I'm just trying to make a funny show. You know the grind. So, you know, and you know me. I should have been worried when we're number one and whatever. So I never cared about that. I never will. I just want to make sure we had the best show possible.

Yeah. But it was definitely a downtime, and it's tough for morale for, you know, people. It's 300 people that work here. And so people are talking that bad about ganging up on you and really gang mentality. Plow. It was insane. It was people you wouldn't expect. And you're a sensitive guy.

You go, all right, we get it. I heard you. Right. You made me feel bad. So now what? You're happy? I'm depressed. You want to push me more?

What do you want me to do? I know. What would you kill myself? What would make you happy? Get over it. You've said your only regret about it really is that you didn't speak to quell the issue sooner. Is that right? Yeah, I probably should just talk and just done interviews immediately after me. You're like, I don't, dude, I don't believe in. Well, you don't do a lot of interviews. And your politicians, I don't. But it's like, I host a talk show every night. Why would I be on a show? The fact that you're having me on. I'm hopefully people tune in. But I go, yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want to make anyone angry.

And that's it. He says pretty, I actually sort of feel bad for the guy because he didn't sign up for this. He's actually trying to keep his late night show nonpartisan. But he said, they all ganged up on me. And the left loves ganging up these days. They gang. First of all, they're defending MS-13. They're defending one of the worst gangs in the world, violent gangs. Then they gang. You know, Maxine Waters is saying, gang up on them. When you see someone gang up, that woman who owns the restaurant, the red hen in Lexington, Virginia, is they gang up on them. Sarah Sanders, go gang up on her. We'll get to that in a minute. He's seeing, oh, they're all, they ganged up on me.

And that's what the left does. They do gang up. But that's just the way it is. So, of course, President Trump responds here in his very Trumpian way. He says, Jimmy Fallon is now whimpering that all he had, that he did the famous hair show with me where he seriously messed up my hair and that he would have now done it differently because it is said to have humanized me. He's taking heat.

He called and said, Monster ratings. Be a man, Jimmy. Be a man, Jimmy. So, of course, it is kind of funny, you know, as he says, he messed up my hair. Be a man, right? And that is a kind of funny juxtaposition. But that last advice in there, be a man, Jimmy, is really important. It's something totally lacking in the culture right now. And the question is, what is a man? What is a man? Because the right gets this wrong sometimes, too. It is true that the left is all these soy boys, as they are called. But the, the right sometimes has this obsession in dark corners of the internet with alpha males and beta males and blah blah and oh I'm a knuckle dragon blah blah right but that isn't manliness either you find manliness

in the virtues for that's where the word virtue comes from is from veer v i r which is which is man in latin virtue there is a virtue in acting like a man harvey mansfield wrote that good book on it manliness and he says that you know manliness has a sort of brutal form to it, but it also has a refinement and a politeness. So he gives the example, sometimes it's manly to hold the door for a woman and allow her to enter before you go in. And then sometimes it's manly to push her out of the way and say, get out of my way. I've got to stop the bad guy, right? Both of those things are manly, and they seem different, but they're part and parcel. Manliness is not nice. Jimmy Fallon is nice. That's why Donald Trump tells him he's got to act

like a man. Manliness is not nice. Niceness is pleasantness. To be nice is like, oh, he's such a nice guy. He's pleasant. He's agreeable. Being nice as being agreeable. You know, Alan Bloom, who wrote the closing of the American mind. In the 1980s, he indicted all of the American students that he knew by saying that they were nice. The nicest thing, the best thing you could say about these students is that they were nice. And what he meant is they're shallow. They don't. stand for anything. They don't have any core beliefs. They're uncultured. They're uneducated. They're not. They're just that. They're just nice. And, you know, manliness is not nice. It just isn't nice. To be agreeable, go along to get along, be timid, be a pushover. That is not

the same as being manly. And Donald Trump is not nice. Our government right now is not nice. It isn't doing nice things. That doesn't mean it's uncivil. You know, manliness right now is paying dividends for our government. And we're seeing it every day, more and more each, each day we see this. Manliness right now, an un-nice government is actually restoring civil government. It's restoring civility to our government. Just look on foreign policy. It came out today that the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, is saying that ripping up the Iran nuclear deal could topple the Iranian regime. Now, you've probably heard the name Javad Zerif before. He is John Kerry's boyfriend. He was the guy, you know, like late at night on Saturday nights, John Kerry picks up the phone once

Teresa's gone to bed. He's, hello, Javi, Javi, are you there? Javi, I'm just, oh, I miss you, Javi. I miss you, too, yeah. I just have been thinking about you a lot. You don't call any more, Jambi, no, no, mu, right? I mean, I'm half exaggerating here, but he actually does still call this guy, which is a whole separate issue that the former Secretary of State is undercutting, you U.S. foreign policy here by dealing directly with the foreign minister of Iran, when that foreign minister is saying the current U.S. policy that Donald Trump is pursuing, the aggressive, muscular, masculine foreign policy is possibly going to topple our regime. And there's a lot of evidence. That isn't just bluff from the foreign minister. The Iranian Rial, the Iranian currency,

has just plunged to a record low against the U.S. dollar. There's a major Indian energy company. It just cut its Iranian oil imports by half. Russia's second biggest oil producer was going to start building projects in Iran. It has halted all development there. So they're actually real serious warning signs here. And by the way, all of the people who are these big Trump critics, I think of some of the neo-conservative types at some of the magazines, you know, they're the ones pushing for regime change in Iran.

But they weren't able to affect it. the Obama administration wasn't able to affect it. Obviously, the Bush administration didn't pursue regime change in Iran. It looks like Donald Trump is actually the one who's going to do it. There are protests pouring out into the streets right now. We were told, oh, no, if you rip up the Iranian nuclear deal, you're going to emboldened the regime in Iran. They're going to be emboldened by this was keeping them in pay. Well, no, that isn't what's happening.

A little muscle goes a long way. Donald Trump took out that ad in the New York Times in 1988, I think it was, at the end of the Reagan era. and he said there's nothing about U.S. national policy that a little backbone can't cure. We're actually seeing that play out. And it isn't nice, but it is helpful. That strong foreign policy has gotten North Korea to the table, right? Gotten that crazy dictator with nuclear weapons to come to the table and possibly we can come to some sort of nuclear arrangement. Who knows? Again, we're in inning one or two of that. But it got them to the table. Previous administrations were not able to do that. How about on domestic policy? That's the

That's the least nice, isn't it? That's the area where Donald Trump, you know, is ripping babies from their mother's arms. Never mind that all the pictures that we've been shown aren't actually separated children. Never mind that they can't point to examples of that. Never mind that Barack Obama did the same thing actually on a much larger and worse scale. Never mind any of that. They're saying it's so not nice. It's mean.

It's inhuman. Tom Arnold was in this room yelling at me and saying, it's not human. It's not nice. It's mean. It's blah, blah, blah. So cut to a poll right now from CBS, mainstream media. About half of Americans say that we need to send illegal families back. 48% of Americans.

We catch them at the border. We have to send them back. This is a recent poll. That's despite the mainstream media spending 176 minutes during six days covering the poor little children in this very emotional coverage. Mainstream media spent six and a half minutes covering Barack Obama when he did exactly the same thing on a larger scale. That means that I'm no math expert. That means that the mainstream media spent 27 times more coverage on Donald Trump, all of these emotional segments. Nevertheless, about half of Americans, they send them back because that's what we want.

It is, maybe that's not nice. Maybe it would be more agreeable if we just rolled over and were pleasant. It's all come into the country. Anyone who wants to come in, come on in. Oh, you want to bring drugs? That's bring it. That's okay. I'm not going to stop you because I'm a nice guy.

I'm a nice guy. So why would I stop? Oh, that's, oh, you want to traffic in human little babies and you want to have little. little kids come over and force them to work on farms? Oh, that's okay. I'm not going to stop you. I'm really agreeable. Oh, that's what you want to sexually assault women at the border at a rate of 60 to 80 percent? Well, I'm not going to stop you because I'm such a nice guy. No, this is not a nice policy. This is a civil policy. This is a manly policy. This is a law and order policy. But that's what we need. That's what we need right now. And America agrees with that. Do you know that right now, half of Americans say that we need to build the wall?

half of Americans. That number would have been unthinkable even two or three years ago. But we are now seeing when the rubber meets the road and you get rid of all of the sort of pleasantries and the shallow niceness what the issue is, where the conflict really lies, and Americans want to protect their border because we're a nation of laws. We're not a nation of men. That's not what we're supposed to be. You know, that isn't nice, but President Trump has put the mainstream media in their place. This is the distinction. Manliness is not nice, but it is civil. It means relating to citizens. It comes from the Latin words, chivalis or kivilis, which is relating to the city, relating to people who live within the city.

I noticed this distinction. A left-wing reporter emailed me before this and asked me if it's not hypocritical, that Republicans now are saying people need to be civil, even though in the past, Newt Gingrich used to say, you know, they should be Republicans are too nice. right so isn't that hypocritical no the right is not nice but it is civil the left is not civil but it is nice look at the sarah sanders situation so press secretary of sarah sanders was kicked out of a restaurant in lexington virginia called red hen i mentioned the restaurant so that you never ever go there obviously right i mean that's she kicked her out the owner there is stephanie wilkinson and here's how the event went down because i don't know if this part's totally been covered so sarah sanders

goes in with some friends sits down at a table they start eating. The staff at this restaurant calls up the owner Stephanie Wilkinson, calls her up at home and says, the press secretary is here. What should we do? And Stephanie Wilkinson said, I'm going to come down there and kick her out. So she goes down and she says, she

marches up to Sarah Sanders and she says, you need to leave. I don't want to serve you at my establishment, so I want you to leave. And what does Sarah Sanders do? She leaves. A full reaction we cut now. Andrew Garfield, what do you think about that? We are all sacred and we all belong. So let's

just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked. Oh, that's sort of surprising from the left. So she should have just served Sarah Sanders, I guess, right? Did Sarah Sanders order cake? I don't know if she ordered cake. Maybe if she ordered cake or flowers, then the left would demand that Sarah Sanders be served. But maybe, I don't know, maybe it was roasted chicken or something. So, but look at that.

That's the, I mean, it is really incredible that on the left right now, they say, we need to serve everybody. How dare you kick someone out just because you don't want to participate in his game? marriage ceremony. That's wrong. That's terrible. But if I don't like somebody, I'm not going to serve them. Is Andrew being civil here?

No. When he says, bake a cake for everybody? No, that's just nice. Wouldn't it be nice if we just baked cakes for everybody? But it's not civil because it actually undercuts how citizens relate to each other in a free republic. By the way, the Sarah Sanders story doesn't end there. According to Mike Huckabee, the owner of the red hen, nobody has really talked about

this yet, followed the rest of the people across the street. So Sarah Sanders and her husband go home. The rest of their dinner party goes across the street. She follows them across the street, calls up other people, organizes a protest to yell and scream at them from outside the other restaurant and create this scene. Definitely not civil. Civility is not nice. It's not glib. It's not charming.

It's not weak. It's not timid. It's not all those things that we think it is. Civility means you can say hard things. Nice people can't say hard things. Civil people can say hard things. It's just a formal manner of behavior. It's to say, be an adult.

Act like a man. Don't be like a little boy. Little children yell and scream, and that's why we don't let little children govern us. The left wants to lower the voting age at this point, I think, to like seven. But why do I check my watch for that? But, you know, they want to lower, but when you have to grow up and behave as though you're worthy of the freedom that we have in a republic,

as though you're worthy to be a citizen. Unfortunately, we don't have that. just put a little button on it. Let's turn to the emblem of the left these days. Crazy old Maxine Waters. We want it done now. We're going to end numbers of your cabinet that have been booed out of restaurants. She's taking up at the house. Who sang no peace, no sleep. No peace, no sleep. And guess what? We're going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff says, and others, you really don't know the Bible. God is on our side.

On the side of the children, on the side of what's right, on the side of what's honorable, on the side of understanding that if we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody. And so, let's save the course. Let's make sure we show up,

wherever we have to show up. And if you'll see anybody from that cabinet, in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome. We have to protect the children. We have to, if you can't protect the children, you can't do anything unless you want to kill them in the womb and then do that, and definitely do that.

Don't protect the children. But, but that's actually, that makes you a good person. but otherwise you have to protect the children. So of course, of course, I don't even know if she understands this. I don't know if Maxine Waters understands very much, but this is not going to turn out well. What she is proposing is mob violence. That's what she's asking for. She says, when you see somebody that you disagree with and you don't like, you surround them, you physically intimidate them, you scream at them, you go to their place of residence, and you keep them awake at night, and you don't let them sleep, and you drive them crazy. so that bad things happen to them, to their body, to their lives, to their families. Go and she's saying, go to their house. She's saying terrorize their families.

That's what that means. Go keep them. Because, by the way, if you have a screaming mob outside someone's house, it doesn't just mean that they stay awake and their kids sleep soundly at night. That's not how that works. It's just terrorize people that you disagree with. This is civility from Maxine Waters, right? And of course, listen to how she says it.

She goes, they don't know the Bible, Reverend Maxine, Father Maxine, Bishop Maxine is telling us about the Bible. They don't know that, but we know God's on our side. It's on our side, right? The irony of this, of course, is a total misunderstanding of what civil society is, what government is. Because guess what? Maxine can criticize her opponents of things. She might not understand what she's criticizing them for exactly. And we can criticize Maxine for things.

And then if our solution to that is to terrorize one another, then we don't have a government. We don't have a country. We don't have a society anymore. You can't communicate. What they are saying, what the left is saying, Maxine Waters is their mouthpiece, saying stop communicating. Stop trying to get along and live together. Stop trying to deal seriously with issues. But in a formal manner of politeness that allows us all to live in relative peace and harmony, she's saying, forget all that, burn it all to the ground. That's what they want. You know, how does one respond to this? Well, the right should still be civil. The right should still be manly, you know, I mean, because that, those two things, civility and manliness, it says everything about the person who's doing it. It doesn't say anything about the opponent. They're all kind of crazy Maxine Waters running around. And that doesn't mean that we should get in the muck and start terrorizing her, does it? No. We should, we should say hard things. We should, we don't have to be nice about it.

But you don't want to get just, you don't want to start keeping Maxine Waters' family up at night, right? Maxine, she's always been like this, by the way. She loves violence during the L.A. riots in the early 90s. She loved it. She said, oh, this is, what a wonderful thing. How great. Oh, this is such a pivotal moment. We're burning down all of LA. That's great. Isn't that wonderful? You know, the sort of stuff that she's

advocating, we're seeing it all over the place already. In Florida, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, just came out. She said, three huge guys came up, were screaming at her, cursing at her one inch from her face, then one guy spit on her head. That's the world that Maxine Waters

wants. That's what she wants. But it's okay, because Donald Trump said a naughty word 10 years ago. That's okay because Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law. Immigration law that Barack Obama also partially enforced, immigration law that was passed 10 years ago, more than that. And parts of which were decided 20 years ago. Keith Ellison, deputy chairman of the Democrat Party, is now saying he's posing in photos with people who say the U.S. is stolen land. That's what they're saying. They're undercutting the fabric of the United States itself. And maybe the left is going to tune into my show. If you know anybody on the left, tell them to tune in right now.

Because they don't, because I'm going to give important advice. They don't know what civil means. They don't know what civility is. You know, they don't understand these semantic distinctions. I did that Prager video on why words matter on how these semantic distinctions actually matter a lot. We don't teach civics in school. And so it's no surprise that these people don't know what it means. civics requires good faith. It requires you to be an adult. It requires virtue. It requires the virtues. All of our founding fathers talked about this. They said, you know, this free republic is only fit for a moral and a religious people, for an upright people, for people who educates itself, for people who works hard, for people who isn't vicious, who don't have all the vices, who possess virtues. And this isn't virtuous. This isn't manly. This isn't grown up. This isn't adult. They're acting like little children. They're uneducated, uncultured. They just scream naughty words and they spout moral idiocy.

They're behaving like little children. But you got to people, if you're going to try to preserve the country, you got to act like a man. You got to do what real Donald Trump said to Jimmy Fallon. Don't act like a little boy. Don't act like a little kid. You got to grow up. Now, speaking of children, we're going to talk about this kid's movie, which gender politics and not being a man and all that sort of stuff has also destroyed.

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We'll be right back to talk about the Incredibles. Feminism ruins everything. This is where we get. You know, I was talking before about manliness as a kind of the difference between being a little child and being a grown man. Now I'm going to talk about manliness as the opposite of feminism. There's a subtle distinction here because feminism ruins everything. It ruins everything. It even managed to ruin the Incredibles. I have kind of a fresh face on this. You know, I don't like superhero movies. I don't ever see little kids movies. I just don't

go to them. I only want to see like foreign films in like Liechtensteinian with subtitles that I can wear a beret to and smoke cigarettes during in the theater. I really like those kind of more pretentious movies. But this one, sweet little Elisa, St. Little Elisa, St. Little Mrs. Noles, she wanted to go see Incredibles 2. And so I said, all right, I'll go see Incredibles 2, but I've never seen Incredibles 1. So I actually think I have a pretty good perspective on this because I watched the two movies back to back. I watched, just, I went straight from Incredibles, the original, and headed to the movie theater and saw the sequel. The first movie is one of the best movies of the last 20 years.

If you haven't seen it, go out and see it. It is so good. And the reason why it's so good, it's about superheroes, I guess, but it's really not about superheroes. I mean, it is. It's good in that genre, but it's so much more than that. And when movies are so much more than those genres, I tend to like them.

Like Logan, the movie Logan, I guess it's a superhero movie, but it's so much more than that. So I've really liked that movie. Or The Dark Night even is a superhero movie and it is more than just a superhero movie. It does have some weight to it. So I go into this with The Incredibles and the Incredibles is about this family led by Mr. Incredible He's the husband and there's a Laster Girl as the wife and three kids. But it's a movie about something. It's a movie about a midlife crisis. All of the other superhero movies are just basically popcorn movies where they all follow the exact same formula. There aren't even spoilers that you can give to them because we all know exactly how those movies play out.

This movie isn't like that. It's a movie about a midlife crisis. It's a movie about a guy whose glory days were in the past when he was a superhero fighting, you know, bad guys on his own. He makes a point all the time. He says, I work alone. I work alone. They're telling you something.

It's because he's single because he's a bachelor because he doesn't have kids in a job and a car and this. And he's just got all of his adventures there. And then he trades all of that in for a wife, a stay-at-home wife, and three kids and a car and a desk job in the suburbs. He trades all that in, and he's kind of miserable about it. You know, and there's some drudgery to it. So what does he start doing?

He starts doing things that guys going through midlife crisis do. He starts lying to his wife. He starts staying out a little late with his friend and just to try to relive the good old days. And his friend is like, what are we doing, man? Come on, right? He buys a sports car. And he starts going on these clandestine rendezvous

with a beautiful young woman. all without telling his wife. And when his selfishness, when his recklessness finally gets him into trouble, what happens? It's his wife who comes and tries to find him

because she's jealous. She's nervous. His selfishness is about to ruin his family and she catches him in the arms of another woman. Now, of course, because it's a kid's movie, they work around this in certain ways. But that's the basic structure of it.

This movie is so good. Even the bad guy is, his name is Syndrome. and it's a pun. It's a pun on sin because it's a movie about his own, Mr. Incredible's own original sin of pride, his own selfish pride. The bad guy in that movie, if you haven't seen it, I don't care about spoilers because this came out 14 years ago. The bad guy was his biggest fan as a little kid. He called himself Incrediboy and, you know, he really liked him. He's just, he's a manifestation of Mr. Incredible's own selfish ego. It's that syndrome, right, as S-Y-N or maybe S-I-N.

And the syndrome character, he is just a mere mortal, but he wants to be like a superhero, which is to say make himself like a god. So he creates all this technology to try to do it, right? And the only way that things come right in the end is when Mr. Incredible realizes that looking to the past and his old glory days as a bachelor, as looking to them as the good old days, that's totally backwards. He says to his kids, he says, and he says to his wife, you're my greatest adventure.

My greatest adventure lies ahead of me because I'm moving forward in my life. I'm not stuck in the past, you know, and needing to drive a sports car to try to pick up chicks. And so they come together as a family, and then they defeat the bad guy. And as if this weren't clear enough, these two old characters at the end, Frank and Ali,

one says, he goes, he goes, oh, that's old school. They did it the old school way. The other guy says, there's no school like the old school. Right? That's the like, oh, yes, he did the traditional thing. And that worked. That saved the day. Even, you know, the way they beat the bad guy is they do things that families do. They argue over a remote. The father throws a pass, like a football pass to his son. Right. It's so beautiful. It's a really good movie. I mentioned that because this new movie is so much worse. It's so bad. It's like the second. It's like the second. The second movie is an apology for the first movie.

The second movie begins. There will be some spoilers later, not quite yet. The second movie begins exactly where the first movie left off. So it's not like there's a huge time delay here. And then it basically just undoes the first movie. Everything in the first movie, it just says, no, never mind. I'm sorry, we shouldn't have said that. So something you probably have already heard, probably from the trailer,

is that this movie is much more focused on the wife, on Elastigrille. So here comes some spoilers. She's got all the action sequences. She's going to go. She's going to do the job. She's going to fight the bad guys. And her husband is going to be stuck at home with the kids, which he obviously screws up because what an idiot husbands are, right?

I mean, wives are just so much more competent than their husbands. Like, can he even work on microwave? Ha, ha, ha. And look, this is the oldest joke in cheap humor. This is every sitcom, every TV commercial. for the past 30 years has been about how the wife does everything great. She's perfect. She's the genius. She's brilliant. She's totally competent. And the husband, that guy can barely put his shoes on. What a dummy. How does that guy, how did he make it out of like his house as a kid?

I mean, so without getting hit by a bus or something. That's what they set up here. The movie can never give the wife any character flaws. She has to do everything perfectly. And Mr. Incredible, he's just sort of tangential. But another reason, Again, some more spoilers here. Why this is under, it undercuts the first movie. Is it in the first movie, it's Mr. Incredible who looks at his old days doing all the adventures with the bad guys and stuff. And the wife says, no, you're a family man now. Get a job, live in the suburbs, raise your family, be a good guy.

She doesn't want to go off and fight bad guys. She doesn't want to go off on her own and have independent adventure. And then in the second movie, which begins exactly where the first movie lets off, all of a sudden she said, never mind, no, I want to go fight bad guys on my own again. Oh, no, that'll be fun. Oh, that was so fun when I fought that bad guy on my own. It's just this feminist undercutting of the whole thing. And now some people are saying, major spoiler here. So close your ears for 20 seconds if you don't want to hear it. That the villain in this movie is a feminist. She's like a sort of, it's an embodiment of feminism. Right. Okay, villainous things are villainous. So that's true. I mean, that is how that plays out in movies. But it doesn't make up for it. It doesn't make up for what the whole movie is saying at the end. It's just, it just becomes this popcorn movie.

I'm not saying that Incredibles 2 is a feminist screed, you know, and it's awful and it's ruining society. It's just like, meh. If I had just seen Incredibles 2 and not seen the original right beforehand, I would say, okay, well, I probably wouldn't even talk about it. I'd say, well, that was whatever. Compared to all the other stuff coming out of Hollywood. whatever. But because it's an answer to the first, I just think it's a real missed opportunity. It took them 14 years to turn a wonderful life into an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. I mean, it is so, so frustrating. So let me know what you think. I know people have been tweeting me about this for two days since I put my review out.

So let me know what you think. I'm happy to hear more about it, but I have to tell you, I'm completely right. So that's the show today. Tune in again tomorrow. We have some pretty crazy guests coming up. I don't want to ruin it though and tell you all about it. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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