Ep. 1965 - Viral JP Morgan Exec Story Explained in 5 Mins

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A lawsuit goes viral for its lurid claims that a beautiful JP Morgan bankress sexually assaulted a shlubby Indian man. And the story is a great measure of our BS detectors and the pornification of society. Then conservatives allege that a new film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm betrays the novel's original anti-communist pro-capitalist message, revealing that basically no one on the left or the right understands Animal Farm. And finally, the Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering might achieve the impossible, namely allowing Republicans to win the midterms. I'm Michael Knowles, this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Alex Jones is finally shutting down info wars after a massive lawsuit and all sorts of attempts for years and years to shut it down. Info wars, RIP, we'll get to what that means for politics, any lessons that we can take from that. First though, biggest political takeaway. Guys, sometimes we can take the win. I know conservatives are always supposed to be mopey and despairing and saying the West is lost and all is going down the tubes. But this Supreme Court win in Louisiana versus Calais was a really big deal because it said that the Libs can't racially gerrymander. They would be violating the Constitution, the 14th and the 15th Amendments, if they were to draw congressional districts based on racial discrimination. The Libs argued that that's what the Voting Rights Act demanded that they do. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3. The Voting Rights Act says no such thing. And furthermore, what the Democrats were doing was unconstitutional. All of this right up on the political primaries, the primary in Louisiana I think is May 16th. So it's really, really coming up. But the governor of Louisiana says we're going to redraw the congressional maps anyway. We're now getting politicians coming out of my own state of Tennessee. President Trump posting about a conversation that he just had with the governor of Tennessee. He said I had a very good conversation with Governor Bill Lee this morning wherein he stated that he would work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw in the congressional maps of the great state of Tennessee. Likewise, all of the other political representatives of Tennessee have promised to do so. This should give us one extra seat, one extra seat just in Tennessee, and help save our country from the radical left Democrats and their country destroying policies of high tax, open borders, transgender mutilization. I like that neologism. Defunding the police, ice, border patrol, no voter ID, soft on crime, and so much more. Thank you Governor Lee, push hard. So I love this, especially as it pertains to my own state of Tennessee. But notice you pick up one seat in Tennessee and then maybe you pick up another seat in another state that redistricts to get rid of the unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Maybe you pick up another seat in another state. We don't know how many states are going to redraw their lines quickly enough for it to affect the midterms. But you could be looking at over half a dozen seats that go to the Republicans. As a result of this Supreme Court decision. And all of a sudden I was having flashbacks. You remember just about a month ago I sat down with House Speaker Mike Johnson, a man I greatly admire. And we're sitting there and I think Mike Johnson is a great shooter. So I asked him, I said, how are you guys feeling about the midterms? This is all on camera, you can go check the tape. And he says, Michael, I think we're going to win. I think we're going to expand the majority. I said, you know, listen, I don't want to call anybody a liar here. I don't want to call anybody delusional. Look, I know it's kind of your job to say that if you're the speaker of the house. But I don't know, I'm a little bit skeptical. This is a tough political environment. Obviously, the party that is in power usually loses the first midterm. I don't know about that. He seems so confident. I said, what is a smart guy, a good politician? Okay, whatever. And then fast forward. I don't know if this is what was in his mind, but it is amazing. You get this Supreme Court decision. Supreme Court says in that beautiful majority opinion by Alito with a separate concurring opinion by Justice Thomas that goes even further than Alito saying, yeah, we're not doing the racial discrimination in the gerrymandering. All of a sudden, okay, yeah, Democrats have a lot of momentum at their backs just given the nature of the midterms. But if we're flipping seven seats, Republican, just automatically if the governors and state houses can do their jobs and redistrict in time for the elections, if you get an automatic seven seat advantage or more, we just don't know how many it could be. Sure, you got this razor razor thin essentially one seat majority in the house right now. If you add seven to that, all of a sudden, Democrats, look, they could retake the house. No doubt about it. But all of a sudden, that takes a lot of wind out of their sails. This is really big and it's very important right now because the White House is facing major uncertainty. The way this breaks down is that the Iran war is very, very unpopular. The Iran war could be over by the midterms. I mean, the fighting in the Iran war is over and actually was over within the six week timeframe, four to six weeks that Trump had promised. But now we're in this tenuous ceasefire where the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. It could cause cascading, economic and political effects. The actual firing of missiles could kick off again. We don't know. It's really uncertain and Americans really don't like the war. It's less popular than the Vietnam War. So you have that on one side, big challenge for Republicans. On the other side, you have literally everything else that Trump has done, which is very popular. The deportations, great jobs numbers. CNBC was just giving the president plot. It's on that. Obviously, record high stock market, law and order, prosecuting the bad guys, freeing the pro-life grannies, ending woke, ending the transgender nonsense. On and on and on, everything that Trump has done is really, really good and really, really popular other than you have this political football of the Iran war, which if it resolves happily is a major foreign policy victory, but it threatens to overwhelm the whole legacy. Anyway, in an uncertain political environment like that, if the states can do their job and redistrict in time in accordance with the Supreme Court's ruling, I'm going to feel a lot better about the midterms with a seven point advantage. Now, speaking of political power, revolutions, apparently there's a new movie version of Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a short little novel you probably read it in seventh grade or something. It's by George Orwell. And I haven't seen the new movie. I think Angel Studios put it out. I haven't seen it yet. I tried to get a screener. I still haven't gotten a screener, so I haven't watched it. And there's this big debate that's broken out, even on the right, where some people are promoting the movie because conservatives generally like George Orwell. We like to quote George Orwell. We quote 1984. We quote Animal Farm. We quote his essay Politics in the English language. We use the adjective Orwellian. It's become an adjective. I think this Pope actually, Pope Leo, was the first pope ever to use the adjective Orwellian. So anyway, we like Orwell. We quote Orwell. We talk about Orwell. I'm not certain that many people have actually read Orwell or know very much about Orwell because you have some people going out there saying, this is great. A movie about Animal Farm. Go see it. It's going to be awesome. And then other people on the right saying, don't promote this movie. This movie betrays the original message of Animal Farm. Animal Farm originally is a pro-capitalist, anti-communist movie, or book, rather. And this movie is anti-capitalist. It's a leftist movie. It's a betrayal of George Orwell's vision. And I don't, I haven't seen the movie. Apparently it takes a lot of liberties and I don't know, I don't even know if I will go see it. But what I am taking away from the whole debate is that nobody understands George Orwell. Nobody understands Animal Farm because no matter what the new movie does, no matter what, how it changes the story or if it's anti-capitalist or whatever, it's got a bunch of libs in it and directors and whatever. No matter any of that, Animal Farm is not a pro-capitalist book. Animal Farm is about the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm is about a fight within the left. It is a fight between communists. You have the character Old Major. He represents Lenin. Then you have the character Napoleon. He represents Stalin. Then you have the character Snowball, who represents Trotsky. And the only sort of plausibly good guy among all of those is Snowball, Trotsky, whom a lot of disillusioned communists in the West exalted as the good guy and Stalin as the bad guy. George Orwell was a socialist. George Orwell said that everything he has written has been in furtherance of democratic socialism as I understand it, he said. And so it gives him a little wiggle room because you say, well, you didn't understand democratic socialism very well because socialism is awful. But Orwell supported the commies in the Spanish Civil War. He was a man of the left. An Animal Farm has nothing to do with capitalists. Spoiler alert, if you haven't read the novel, the conclusion of Animal Farm is that the communist revolutionaries under Stalin were just as bad as the capitalists or the royal family, you know, the original regime that was overthrown or the American capitalists. But the conclusion is not that the capitalists are good and the communists are bad. The point of Animal Farm, mapping closely on how the left saw the Russian Revolution, is that some of the communists were good, but the good communists lost to the bad communists and the bad communists are basically just as bad as the capitalists. They're no worse, they're no better. And the reason the right has embraced Animal Farm in George Orwell generally is because Orwell was anti-totalitarian and the modern left is quite totalitarian. So there are some similarities here, but I don't know, I'm not going to lose sleep over Animal Farm. I think people just totally misunderstand Orwell. And it's a fine book, but you know, it's like a fine book to read when you're in eighth grade. It's not war and peace, it's not anacorenena. And whether or not there's some live movie about it, okay, whatever, that's fine. I don't need to worry about that. We all should pay closer attention to what these works actually mean because I love Orwell, it's great to quote Orwell, but it's even better to quote actual conservatives, traditionalists and classical politics. Okay, enough of a rant about a movie that I haven't even seen. Now we have to get to the story that everyone wants to talk about, which is this J.P. 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It has gone viral based on a lawsuit filed by a kind of shlubby looking Indian guy who says that his superior, who is a rather attractive woman, sexually harassed him. I can't read all of the claims. It reads like a Dear Pentecostal Letter or worse. This is a family show but it involves this woman just demanding sex, this very good looking banker woman demanding sex from this kind of shlubby Indian guy. The language is very vulgar. She apparently would just constantly offer to do him various lewd favors. She would apparently say terrible things about his wife. I think the line from the lawsuit was she said she was showing off her, what's the technical term, gazumbas to this banker and she said I bet your fishhead Asian wife doesn't have cannons like these. So really nasty, racist, lewd accusations. And anyway after everyone was sharing this story all around for 24 hours it turns out it's completely made up, just completely made up. Chirayu Ranu who's the Indian go filed the lawsuit filed it under the pseudonym John Doe. He didn't want his name on it. He accused his 37 year old executive director of turning him into her sex slave by drugging, oh yeah she apparently drugged him with like date rape drugs and then threatened to slash his bonus if he didn't sleep with her. So the woman hits back with a statement to the post by her lawyer saying Lorna categorically denies the allegations she never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place. Furthermore a JP Morgan investigation found this woman was not the superior to this guy so the claims that she would withhold promotions or bonuses were impossible. JP Morgan conducted a relatively quick investigation, found no basis for any of this and then the guy apparently pulled his lawsuit allegedly for corrections but then it was never refiled. So this story is a lot of fun, one because it's sort of titillating, juicy but the real reason it's a great story is because it is a good test of your BS detector. When I saw this story I said you know that's very lured, I'm not sure I should even be reading this story but I said I don't know, doesn't ring true to me. Color me a little bit skeptical. As you read the claims they read like a kind of a fan fiction like a wish casting on the part of a shlubby guy who's got a hot lady working at his bank. So it's a good test of one's BS detector and all of our BS detectors are a little bit off. They've been skewed by social media algorithms and they've been skewed by a popular culture that denies basic aspects of the truth. I mean let's not forget to not to beat a dead horse but to use the example that was clearest in our culture for the past five years. Half the culture told us that a man can be a woman and looked at us with a straight face and made us say that, tried to make us say that. So obviously the BS detector is a little bit off. Furthermore, this is proof that everyone's brain has been melted and turned into a thick lumpy goop by pornography. If you believe, I'm not reading, this is a family show, we're not doing that to your brains but if you read the claims that this lawsuit made before it was retracted you just say women don't talk like that. Now look our culture being pornified means that I guess maybe there are some women who talk like that. Maybe there are some women who are aping male desires in order to but generally speaking no. The stuff that you read in that lawsuit was something out of like a cheap porn film. That's not something that actually happens. It's what guys want to believe women will say to them. Not to put too far to point on it, no lady has ever referred to her uppermost assets as cannons ever. Not once, not once in history has a woman seriously referred to those anatomical features as cannons. That's the sort of thing a guy, especially a guy who maybe is a little less familiar with the English language, a guy who maybe is of Indian extraction would think that she would say. When you are constantly misperceiving, misinterpreting the world, when you constantly have ill-formed preconceptions especially about the opposite sex, that is a good time to one turn off the pornography obviously and two sit back for a second reconsider your priors. I think of this politically the people who told us for five years with a complete straight face that you had to put a hanky over your face to prevent the spread of a virus told you that the COVID vaccine had no deleterious effects whatsoever that it would protect you from getting COVID and then when that wasn't true it was a protection from transmitting COVID then when that wasn't true it said protect you from hospitalization that was kind of unfalsifiable. The culture that told you that a man can be a woman, all these people who looked you and said absolutely a man can be a woman how dare you suggest otherwise. As all of these things have come crumbling down with a million other examples you need to step back and you need to readjust all of your priors and you need to tune out the penthouse playboy lawsuits. Just I don't know everybody needs to detox desensitize for like go on a spiritual retreat okay just get your mind out of the gutter and your mind away from the screens other than this screen when you watch this show okay speaking of unbelievable stories I teased this story yesterday you know how much I hate to say I told you so when Victor Orban was booted out of Hungary Victor Orban who was the conservative prime minister standing up to the liberal globalists in Brussels of the European Union who wanted mass migration who's the only one who said we're not taking migrants and Brussels colluded to boot him out of office and the way they did it was by backing this guy Peter Magyar who said that he was even more right wing than Orban and his victory was heralded by Hillary Clinton Gavin Newsom the head of the European Union on and on and on they were Alex Soros the son of George Soros they were all really excited when this guy won so that gives you a good sign that this guy's maybe not the most conservative person in the world or at least he won't fight for real conservative policies but you had some people including right wing pundits in America saying no guys actually this is super duper genius 5d chess this new guy who the entire global liberal elite just backed to replace Victor Orban this guy is secretly even more based than Orban huh guys this is secretly a big win for us and I said you don't how can you possibly believe that you probably believe that the hot JP Morgan bank risk was assaulting the shlubby Indian guy that's guy if you that's obviously not true and now we have evidence that much as I hate to say I told you so I told you so a Hungary is about to wave the rainbow flag okay we'll get to that we'll get to President Trump making a very important policy pivot after meeting the king of England we will even get to uh info wars shutting down first though want to tell you about brickhouse nutrition go to take lean.com use promo code nulls k-w-l-e-s this 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undermining democracy orban won many times he was prime minister for 16 years he was clearly an expression of democracy but for the libs when they say democracy they really mean liberalism liberalism is a political ideology democracy is just what most of the people want so those two things don't necessarily have anything to do with each other but for the left they they're identical so when orban came out he said we're gonna have illiberal democracy they view this as a contradiction in terms there's nothing contradictory about it orban said we're not doing any weird gay stuff we're not flooding the country with migrants we're we're gonna ground our country on christianity which is the the bedrock of the country the country that was founded by saint steven a thousand years ago this is why the sovereign in hungary is the crown of saint steven so uh on the on the national day parade they they would put a cross in the air it's really really beautiful stuff the outstore ban five seconds later you get gay tv according to the owner of this this channel i won't try to pronounce it in hungarian it's called rainbow tv adult content will be made available on the channel along with lgbtqi cultural and gastronomic content so i don't know some frufru tasting menus or something plus a bunch of weird sex stuff obviously this was going to happen the only way that the globalists the liberals could win in a conservative country like hungary was by running a conservative candidate so he ran on all this stuff i'm gonna be even more right-wing than orban i'm gonna do all this but he who pays the piper calls the tune and this guy had the backing of brussels and now it appears these going to do brussels bidding i hope that i'm proven wrong about this i hope that this guy tells the e you to go stuff it i don't buy it i don't i don't see it happening and all of those right-wing pundits even the right-wing pundits who said no guys actually secretly this is awesome this is a moment where we say okay we got to re-examine our priors are we is our judgment really intact did you believe the jp morgan story did hold on guys take a step back here it's amazing political punditry it's the only job where you can consistently be wrong about everything and then show up to work the next day and no one cares political punditry and sports commentary i'm gonna say the two you can be wrong about everything you get to keep your job it's crazy okay speaking of foreign relations president trump it's made a very important announcement i consider this personally a very important announcement trump is lifting the tariffs on scotch whiskey and i'm a scotch man look i'm in kentucky right now we just had a great mayflower event last night for the kentucky derby i'm getting ready to place my bets i know i'm supposed to drink bourbon i live in tenancy i don't i'm a scotch man i love scotch i like rye i even like bourbon but i'm a scotch man so great news trump says in honor of the king and queen of the united kingdom we have just left the white house soon headed who have just left the white house soon headed back to their wonderful country i will be removing the tariffs and restrictions on whiskey having to do with scotland's ability to work with the commonwealth of kentucky on whiskey and bourbon two very important industries within scotland and kentucky so he says i'm great news i like the king so much i'm going to lift the tariffs on scotch provided that you lift your tariffs on bourbon first so there's a little deal making going on here people have wanted to do this for a long time in that that there had been great intercountry trade especially having to do with the wooden barrels used because a lot of scotch and foreign whiskies are made using bourbon barrels so there's there's a lot of interplay the king and queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do without hardly even asking that's the key line much as i care about scotch and bourbon that's the key line here for us the king and queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do without hardly ever asking a wonderful honor to have them both in the usa president donald j trump the takeaway here is that a monarch was able to get better diplomatic results than an army of bureaucrats and technocrats a monarch over t was able to get more effective diplomacy accomplished then the entire foreign ministry and the trade representatives and all the bureaucrats of the uk and the us for that matter and i shouldn't even just say a monarch because in america we have this natural aversion to monarchy in large part because of a liberal history that we've been given of the american revolution which was not anti monarchical it was a war of independence but we almost had a formal monarch in america that proposal was was on the table ultimately hamilton was overruled but instead we got a president who is like a monarch and that's not even a dirty word the m word we have the n word that's the m word but it doesn't have to be a bad word the president practically speaking is a much more powerful monarch than any monarch who currently reigns today without question there's no question about that but this means that you had essentially two monarchs speaking to each other in the american government we have the monarchical element we have the democratic element we used to have an aristocratic element in the senate we still have it to some degree i guess in the supreme court but we have this mixed regime uk to some degree has that too though they very much weakened the aristocratic element they basically abolished in the house of lords they've really weakened the monarchical element and that's been building for hundreds of years now and it's essentially run by the parliament but nevertheless you have these two monarchs and they get something done and i i think it's ironic or maybe i'll call it paradoxical that on the 250th anniversary of the american revolution a war in which my ancestors fought you know i i'd love the american revolution i i love the great men who gave us our country i don't mean to diminish 1776 at all but history did not begin in 1776 and i think there's a greater appreciation as our country ages of the civilizational foundations on which our country is built you read about this a lot in the federalist papers the founding fathers were keenly aware of this we seem to have forgotten it somewhere along the way of the 20th century and we're beginning to rediscover you saw that beautiful essay from the state department came out about a year ago in which the author referenced the the wellsprings of our country uh the Aristotle thomas equinus you know people that you don't usually hear referenced but they obviously uh are form part of the basis of our civilization and i think we're beginning to recognize call me a crypto monarchist here but i don't i think people really get this i think trump obviously gets this that we don't want a tyrant we don't want a dictator we don't want an autocrat we don't want any of that stuff but what we do want is a figure who can rise above party politics who can unify the country who can speak to the more dignified elements rather than the merely efficient elements of our politics and the way we try to do that is with the president increasingly so but that role was traditionally filled by a king and it's very funny that the libs who say well no kings they're all giddily taking selfies with the king of england they don't really mean no kings they mean is no tyrants no autocrats no dictators but that's different trump is neither of those things either but trump trump is kind of a king in that way you know he is kind of he is kind of the king he's filling that role and i'm here for it well let's let's see how the third and fourth and fifth terms go before we finally weigh in on it okay uh big exclusive story uh to mary margaret ola hand of the daily wire we've covered the anti christian bias that you saw from the biden administration from a lot of democratic administrations go back to the obama administration but we're getting it even more clearly right now according to this exclusive the biden doj a an employee of the biden doj was texting around about how he would like to imprison any nun wearing the traditional habit so here's the line this is uh molly gaston assistant u.s attorney says i just noticed for the first time the nuns near the oath keepers in one of the new york times photographs so trying to argue that the nuns are secretly you know the right-wing extremists and you saw this come out from the the doj the doj partnering with the splc comes out and says that the catholics are radical extremists potential domestic terrorists said basically the same thing about concerned parents who didn't want to chop off their kids genitals so you see this in the text look at the nuns next to this radical right-wing group joseph cooney another doj guy i know molly i would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them the nuns joseph cooney i'm with you although i'd like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit ha ha ha ha ha ha that's kind of a funny joke from a liberal who hates the church who hates you know that's a kind of secular lib joke it's kind of ha ha ha t he he until the government's actually doing it and the problem is these guys worked for the justice department that actually did that that actually put out missives categorizing catholics as terrorists and actually sent jack booted thugs to spy on catholic churches in fact i'm pretty sure i had a personal experience of this i haven't talked about that publicly but i'm i'm pretty sure i ran into a fed around these times at a church asking around about people so this was happening then the doj lied about it then we found out that this was the this directive went out to field offices around the country all this after joe biden as vice president was suing nuns now you have the trump administration and the president is going to be the president of the now you have the trump administration no longer partnering with the left-wing groups going after the nuns now you have the trump administration indicting that left-wing group encouraging religious liberty freeing catholic political prisoners what a difference an election makes okay i said i would get to it i'll get to this really quick point alex jones is shutting down after years and years this was the preeminent conspiracy content show network juggernaut of a media company then alex jones made this claim that the sandy hook shooting was fake and the parents of the kids sued him and bankrupted him to the tune of like a thousand bazillion good jillion dollars we just a crazy ruling that effectively bankrupted the company they've been fighting it for years the onion the left-wing satire supposedly your left-wing satire company tried to buy it and i think they finally succeeded so now after all the law fair info wars has gone down here's alex jones saying goodbye and all glory goes to jesus christ and our heavenly father the leads guys that erect us we are commit ourselves to god in this holy fight and we are committed and if god stands with us who can stand against us and that's how i close out so i salute you all what a crew the hell we've been through has only made us stronger let me ask you would you have any other way are you not stronger now this fight yeah i salute this crew and all the viewers and listeners to this fight and i commit myself to jesus christ hands god bless the info war you are the info warrior lives forever we're gonna play frank sinatra blue eyes and come back with the great tom rinson and jadar to close this out god bless you all that's it the next phase starts the real war begins now all right so that's it ave at kwaevali info wars i can't help but find alex jones lovable he's a lovable guy he's endearing he's not look what he did that got him in this hot water is indefensible i think what he did was very wrong when he was saying and maybe he maybe sincerely believed it that the sandy hook shooting was was fake or a hoax but nevertheless this caused a lot of pain to the families of the kids and so look that he was sued for this and he lost his company and you can find him very lovable and endearing kind of kind of feel sorry for him he's going to go he'll be fine he'll go do another company he's a media genius he he's the absolute king of all conspiracy content he's he's the best ever do it he'll he'll be fine i suspect but we should take a political lesson here the political lesson is lawfare works and you know a lot of times the conservatives only understand that lesson in a defensive posture so these liberals are wielding lawfare against us and we need to we need to stop it this is not fair they shouldn't be doing this and they need to understand this in an offensive posture the the conservatives have bought a cynical liberal line that all of politics is just about open debate in the free marketplace of ideas and blah blah blah and that's not true wrote a book about that it's called speechless controlling words controlling minds you can get it anywhere you're a little it'll slow today guys maybe it's because of the time delay on my travel nevertheless they bought this idea that you should never engage in lawfare lawfare is great lawfare is awesome lawfare works the law is a teacher politics is not merely downstream of culture politics also informs culture and it works this is the the saddest one of the saddest conclusions after we saw the reaction to charlie kerks assassination one of the really sad conclusions that no one wanted to admit is that assassinations work that's why people keep doing them so we I don't know we've denied this especially the libertarian side has denied this how incentives work how sticks and carrots work and so bringing it away from terrorism into just the rule of law and lawfare that works when you want to shut somebody up and there is a legal basis for shutting that person up you do it in courts you do it with lawyers you do it with the government you do some of that seems icky to conservatives who don't want to get their hands dirty in real politics take a lesson from that whether you love alex jones whether you don't like it's very lovable again i don't know how you could really hate alex jones but regardless forget about info wars just the lesson from all of this is let's do some lawfare the trump administration is doing it very very well right now let's let's follow that lesson daily wire members have a brand new original mini doc waiting for them right now the race to rescue over Easter weekend 2026 an american fighter jet was shot down over iran and a wounded officer vanished into one of the most dangerous mountain ranges on earth alone injured and hunted by an enemy nation he had one chance stay alive long enough for america to come get him what followed 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My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop norm's music who says ABC better put a tarp out for Kimmel's final monologue yes that's true if they if they do can him but again I sort of hope they do speaking of bringing consequences to bear for people also again people keep pointing out I said that some years ago in reference to something totally different I said that comedians shouldn't be fired for telling jokes and then I said Jimmy Kimmel obviously should be fired so if we're going to treat that as a syllogism the only conclusion we can reach is that Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian underscored by a drummer's workshop at norm's music's point which is that he needs a tarp he's just crying all the time and so let's hope he cries a little bit more on his show finally finally we've reached my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag our mailbag is sponsored by pure talk go to pure talk comm slash noels k and w l e s to claim unlimited high-speed data for just 34.99 take it away hi michael this is megan from the creme de la creme coming to you with another dating question I was recently talking to a guy who told me that he likes to listen to youtube videos of stories like romance stories of single dads basically getting rescued by billionaire women sort of like a weird reverse pretty girl scenario which totally gave me the ick but then I realized that I like to read omish romance novels because I'm fascinated with omish culture and I know that they will not get graphic so my question is in general as good christian people is it inappropriate for us to be reading romance novels of any kind and more specifically is this guy really icky or is it just me thanks as always megan was that question a mad lib was that like a I love to listen to blank omish romance novels and he listens to blank divorced dads that's wow that's there's so much so much to unpack in that question uh first off let's take it in reverse order is it wrong for christians to read romance novels it depends I mean look the word novel comes from the word romance like in uh in the roman in the romance languages we just call them romances that's what a novel is so I don't know is it is it okay to read some trash paperback that's essentially pornography probably not is it okay to read weathering heights yeah I think I think it is weathering heights has a little steamyness a little there's a sex scene in there that most people miss but you can read romances I think but romances are a little dangerous so you're right to realize there's spiritual danger don't forget in the fifth conto of of the divine comedy the paolo and francesca the adulterous lovers blame their affair on the fact that they were reading a romance they were reading a galahaw you know and so anyway you should be careful about it but if you're reading omish romances that's probably about as wholesome as it gets for that tier of literature now to to the related but separate question of should that guy give you the ick yes he should that's weird that's really weird first of all he's not even reading the romances he's listening to them on youtube which is not cool it's not it's like if you're gonna read something if you're gonna if you're gonna do a thing do the whole thing like trashy romance novels that's a thing what he's doing it's like decaf coffee you know it's like the thing without the essence of the thing he's doing trashy romance novels on youtube like the audiobook of trashy romance novels first of all that should give you the ick right there second of all the reason it should give you the the ick is not just because it may or may not be pornography i don't know if it is the reason is it's inverting the male and female roles to be pursued is the role of the woman to pursue is the role of the man one time out of a thousand maybe that gets a little jumbled but generally those are the those are the rules to be the provider is the role of the man to be provided for is the role of the woman again that's not always the case some women are the breadwinners it has there's always lady thatcher out there but generally that's the rule to be rescued is the role of the woman to do the rescuing is the role of the man so the fact that his fantasy which obviously appeals to the prairie and interest to some degree at least is to by every measure be in the place of the woman not even just one or two but like by every single measure to be in the place of the woman and have the woman in the place of the man that should throw up red flags that's that's trans that's trans behavior don't be surprised if he starts wearing your dresses anyway don't even get that far i don't know that if i were in your shoes i maybe would not go on the second date next one hey mike my name is brian ruka and i have been reading the gospel every week in anticipation of practicing before getting to the pew and this week jesus tells the disciples that he is the way and the truth and the light no one comes to the father except through me if you know me then you will also know my father from now on you do know him and have seen him into that philip replies master show us the father and that we and that will be enough for us it always amazes me at how flawed the apostles are throughout the gospels and i was curious if you have a take on that if that's in there to help it relate to us as flawed humans uh or what is the goal of showing us that because i know personally it helps me feel better about myself because these guys with jesus is closest friends companions and followers and even they still had trouble wrapping their head around the mystery of christ thanks and keep up the great work really really good question i remember when i reverted to the church after 10 years of practical uh and sometimes explicit atheism i i said you know i should probably read or reread the gospels that's a pretty good idea i open it up and i was immediately taken by the reality of it all and how kind of funny it is sometimes that our lord you know when he's talking to the apostles he'll tell them the truth he'll show them the truth and then they'll just say like the dumbest thing you've ever heard and he'll say how much longer do i have to be with you people why am i i'm god i created the cosmos and now there's there's obviously a lesson there for all of it because his love is infinite and you know he loves his apostles and he loves you too but that line is so funny he says i'm the way the truth in the life whoever has seen me has seen the father whoever has seen me has seen the father you have now seen the father and what does saint philip say immediately says oh cool hey so when can we see the father he says what do you not he says how long have i been with you philip how long have i been with you do you not hear the words coming out of my mouth it's very difficult to hear the words it's very difficult especially when we're look we're in this veil this double darkness into which we're born which is ignorance and sin and especially as we find ourselves deeper and deeper into sin uh we it's hard to hear the the words of our lord you know our our lord can overcome even the worst ignorance and the worst sin but that's the state in which we find ourselves and so yes it is it that is for us to relate that is because it's reality the other reason it's related in the gospels is because it happened and that's how the world really works and you relate to it not just because you find yourself to be a flawed person but also because it's just how the world is you relate to it because it rings true because it is true okay today's fake headline friday the rest of the show continues now you do not want to miss it become a member use code null skin in a bls check out for two months free on all annual plans