1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: If you are a regular listener of our show and 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 2: our podcast, you know that we are big proponents of 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 2: learning a trade. I'll tell you a great story. There's 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 2: a guy that I know named Bert Harvey, and he 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: has a small renovation and construction company. And one of 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: his employees they are very very religious. The family is 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: originally from Guatemala, although the kids were all born here 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: and they're they're very very religious. None of the I know, 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 2: all the brothers, all the siblings, they're all tradesmen. None 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: of them drink. They go to church like five times 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 2: a week there. They're very very devout and and you 13 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: know they don't even cost much less drink or smoke 14 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: or corrals or anything like that anyway. So their younger 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: brother went to work as an intern. He did very 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 2: well in college and went to work at Price Waterhouse Coopers. 17 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 2: I happen to have a friend who works there, and 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: I sent an email. He's a partner over there, and 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 2: I said, hey, just keep an eye on this kid 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 2: and see how he's coming along. He doesn't have any 21 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: white collar professionals in his family. Just if you don't 22 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 2: mind just popping on him, tell him if he has 23 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: any questions, because that's how I was as a young 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: man in a law firm. I didn't know what to do. 25 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 2: If your dad is a lawyer at a big law firm, 26 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 2: you can ask. But he didn't have any resources like that. 27 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: And the kid turned out to be golden for them, 28 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: so they made him a job offer, and he's graduating 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 2: this semester and he'll be sitting for his I don't 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 2: know if it's audit or tax. I don't know which 31 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: assurance or which division he's in. But he decided that 32 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: since he has a little extra time since he's been 33 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: an electricians helper with his brother, one of his brother's electrician, 34 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: that he would also use this occasion before he graduated 35 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 2: college to get his electricians license. And my wife and 36 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 2: I were laughing because he will almost certainly be the 37 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: only person with an electricians license at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Right, 38 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 2: this guy could wire your home but also provide strategic 39 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: audit or tax I'm not sure which group he's in 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: for your Fortune five hundred company. I just thought that 41 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 2: was cool. So going to college for the sole purpose 42 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: of going to college, I've always said as a waste 43 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 2: of time and money, and people don't understand what college 44 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: is and isn't Unless you're getting a degree in medicine 45 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 2: or law or architecture, pharmacy. You don't need a college 46 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 2: degree for most things you do in this world. I 47 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: have two law degrees, and I don't need them to 48 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: do what I do. I'm glad I did it. I 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 2: love studying law to this day. I'm glad I understand 50 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: the structure of our legal system, but I don't need 51 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 2: it to be a talk show host. Going to college 52 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: is an indulgence for most people earning a real life skill. 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: Now that's important. A few years ago, JD. Vance gave 54 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: the keynote address at the second National Conservatism Conference, and 55 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 2: he talked about how our universities have been corrupted by 56 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 2: the left, and that is the subject of our Saturday 57 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: podcast today. As you know, our podcast is a rebroadcast 58 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: of our radio show during the week, but when we 59 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 2: do a bonus podcast, that means it's a separate show 60 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: that we've done just for you and on Saturdays. Because 61 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: people were saying, hey, you know, I'm used to listening 62 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: to you every day and you're not on on Saturday. 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: Could you do something so have something to listen to. 64 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: So we started finding things that we like that we 65 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: listened to and adding those to the Saturday podcast and 66 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: making a bonus podcast out of that, and this week 67 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: it is what we think is a very good speech 68 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 2: by JD. Vance from a couple of years ago. 69 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: So enjoy so much of what we want to accomplish. 70 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 3: So much of what we want to do in this 71 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: movement in this country, I think are fundamentally dependent on 72 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 3: going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the 73 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 3: universities which control the knowledge in our society, which control 74 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 3: what we call truth and what we call falsity, that 75 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 3: provides research that gives credibility to some of the most 76 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 3: ridiculous ideas that exists. 77 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: In our country. 78 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: And so I'm excited to close this conference with this 79 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: particular set of remarks because I think if any of 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 3: us want to do the things that we want to 81 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 3: do for our country and for the people who live 82 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 3: in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the 83 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 3: universities in this country. Now, I am, as of July 84 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: of this year, a Senate candidate in the state of Ohio, 85 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 3: which is a very unique situation for me to be 86 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 3: in thank you. You can all go to jdvance dot 87 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 3: com and make yourselves as poor as possible to support 88 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: my campaign. But one of the things that consistently comes 89 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: up in my campaign, because I was one of these 90 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 3: people who didn't quite get Donald Trump in the beginning, 91 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 3: I sort of fully appreciate where he was coming from 92 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 3: or what he was about, and now I very. 93 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 1: Much do is this concept of red pilling. 94 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 3: And if you ever heard this term, it comes from 95 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 3: the movie The Matrix, which, as I understand it is 96 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 3: made by a couple of people who do not share 97 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 3: the politics of the people in this room. But the 98 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 3: basic idea is that once you see the way that 99 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 3: knowledge is transmitted, once you see the way that public 100 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 3: policy works in this country, it's very hard to unsee it. 101 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 3: And so there's this scene in the movie The Matrix 102 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 3: where the chief protagonist has given an opportunity to take 103 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 3: the blue pill or the red pill, and he takes 104 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 3: the red pill, and the red pill effectively reveals to 105 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 3: him the fundamental corruption that laid at the heart of 106 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 3: the society that he lived in. And I'm gonna come 107 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,359 Speaker 3: back to this analogy later on in my remarks, but 108 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 3: I think it's important to understand that so much of 109 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 3: what's going on our country, so much of what drives 110 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: truth and knowledge as we understand it in this country, 111 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: is fundamentally determined by, supported by, and reinforced by the 112 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 3: universities in this country. That is the world that we 113 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 3: live in. We live in a world that has been 114 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 3: made effectively by university knowledge. And if you ask yourself, 115 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 3: why have we consented to this? Why have we accepted 116 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 3: a world in which the universities, which by the way, 117 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 3: are not exactly politically sympathetic with any of the people 118 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 3: in this room, Why have we done that? 119 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: The universities will make two claims. 120 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 3: The first claim, what they provide for our society is 121 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 3: that they provide for the dissemination of knowledge and truth. 122 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 3: That's what the universities do. That's the first thing. And 123 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: the second thing the universities do in this country is 124 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 3: that they train young minds to think in innovative and 125 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: thoughtful ways about the problems that we'll experience. Because no 126 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 3: society can fully anticipate or appreciate what's a route to. 127 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: Come around the corner, and so it must train the. 128 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 3: Next of leaders to know what the next problems will 129 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 3: be to apply first principles to those problems and to 130 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 3: eventually solve the issues that our society encounters. That is 131 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: what the universities do to disseminate truth and knowledge and 132 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 3: to train the next generation of young minds. It's worth 133 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 3: asking ourselves whether the universities today actually do that. Do 134 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 3: the universities disseminate truth and knowledge? Do they train the 135 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: next generation of young minds to actually anticipate the world 136 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 3: as it is, to apply first principles to critical and 137 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 3: difficult problems. And I think the answer is obviously no, 138 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 3: That's obviously not what the universities do. But let me 139 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 3: provide just a few examples here. So just today, actually 140 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 3: I logged onto Twitter, the worst website in the entire world, 141 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 3: and I was introduced to a paper that was published 142 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: by you know, a professor's name I'd never heard in 143 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 3: the University of Texas. And the basic argument that this 144 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 3: professor ma meant is that many of the research outcomes 145 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 3: in astrophysics and in other fields can be predicted by 146 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 3: an artificial intelligence algorithm. This professor said that if you 147 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 3: want to actually predict what the next generation of academics 148 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 3: will produce, one of the very useful tools is artificial 149 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: intelligence algorithms. And it occurred to me, of course, that 150 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 3: for so much of the past ten or so years, 151 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: we've been told that all the blue collar jobs will 152 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 3: be replaced by artificial intelligence, and yet here's a professor 153 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 3: telling us that the academic knowledge that exists in our 154 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 3: society will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Of course, the 155 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: professor's reacted crazily to this. A pogram started on social media. 156 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 3: The guy was turned into the great Satan, and I 157 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 3: have to bring out my phone here to remember the 158 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 3: exact thing that was said here. But today the professor 159 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 3: who published this paper issued the following apology. 160 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: Let me just read it. 161 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: I apologize most humbly and sincerely for the stress that 162 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 3: I have caused with a p and as preprint the 163 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: paper and my book on using Metrics of research impact 164 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 3: to help inform decisions on career advancement. 165 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: My goal was entirely supportive. 166 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 3: I wanted to promote fairness and concreteness and judgments that 167 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: are now based uncomfortably on personal opinion. I wanted to 168 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 3: contribute to a climate that favors good science and good citizenship. 169 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 3: My work was intended to be helpful, not harmful. It 170 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 3: was intended to decrease bias and to improve fairness. But 171 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 3: of course, according to the mob, his research did nothing 172 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 3: of the sort and promoted bias and promoted on fairness. 173 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: And so this person has to propose this ridiculous apology. Now, 174 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 3: ask yourself, what is the purpose of a university that 175 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 3: responds to a paper with that kind of reaction? What 176 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 3: is the purpose of a university it is theoretically promoted 177 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: or it's sort dedicated to truth and knowledge. 178 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: Looking at a. 179 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 3: Paper like that and saying, you know, this is totally unacceptable, 180 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 3: this person must apologize. 181 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: Now here's another remark that I want to bring you 182 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: your attention to. 183 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 3: About a year ago, and I don't have the details 184 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 3: exactly correct, but about a year ago there was a 185 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: series of protests around surrounding the death of George Floyd, 186 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 3: which of course was a terrible tragedy. I personally find 187 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 3: the fact that our entire society was destabilized by it 188 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 3: for a generation ridiculous. 189 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: But we are where we are. 190 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 3: It was a terrible tragedy, and our public health authorities 191 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 3: last summer. Remember we're still in even in most relatively 192 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 3: pro freedom states, we're still in the midst of lockdowns. 193 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: And what did twelve hundred public health authorities all across 194 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 3: our country say about the anti economic devastation protests. 195 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,839 Speaker 1: Well, they said this, first. 196 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 3: Of all, the anti racism protests, the protests that issued 197 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 3: from the death of George Floyd. They should not be 198 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 3: confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings. Of course, 199 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: the protests against racism and against the death of George 200 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 3: Floyd are totally justifiable under our sincerely objective public health rubrics. 201 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 3: But protests against stay at home orders are rooted in 202 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: white nationalism. Now this is twelve hundred of our leading 203 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 3: public health authorities all across this country. Now think for 204 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 3: a second about all of the ways in which our 205 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 3: universities transmit not knowledge and not truth, but deceit and lies. 206 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 3: About eighteen or so months ago, I don't remember the 207 00:11:55,240 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 3: exact date, but a paper came out suggesting that gender 208 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 3: transition surgeries and hormonal therapies for adolescents who were experiencing 209 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 3: genders for you, was in. 210 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: Fact good for our society. 211 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: That the people who underwent these treatments were benefited in 212 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 3: various mental health ways. They had lower anxiety, lower risk 213 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 3: of suicidal ideation and so forth. But what was obvious 214 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 3: at the time to people like Michael Regnerus was that 215 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 3: the data on which this study was based was ridiculous. Now, 216 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: of course, the mainstream press and all of our elite 217 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 3: institutions reproduced this information as if it was the gospel truth. 218 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 3: And yet there were a few courageous souls who said, 219 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 3: the data on which this study is based is fundamentally ridiculous. 220 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: In fact, if you look at the data produced by 221 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 3: the people who created the study, what it found is 222 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 3: that there was no benefit to gender re assignment surgery, 223 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 3: there was no benefit to hormonal therapy for adolescence. Indeed, 224 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 3: the risk of suicidal ideation and the risk of mental 225 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 3: health problems actually went up if you looked at the 226 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 3: data seriously and honestly. Now, the people who called this 227 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 3: out at the very beginning were of course called homophobic, transphobic, 228 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 3: They were deplorable, they were unacceptable in our modern society. 229 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 3: And yet the institutions that are theoretically dedicated to the 230 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: transmission of truth and knowledge held this up as the 231 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 3: gospel truth, even as it was a lie. And it 232 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 3: was not just a lie, it was a lie that 233 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 3: led to increased suicide rates among our young girls and 234 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 3: increased confusion among kids all across our country. Ladies and gentlemen, 235 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 3: the universities do not pursue knowledge and truth. They pursued 236 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 3: deceit and lies. And it's time to be honest about 237 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:53,599 Speaker 3: that fact. Now we could go issue by issue, example 238 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 3: by example. 239 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: I've recently become obsessed. 240 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 3: I'm an alumnus of the law school at the ridiculous 241 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: Thank you Boo. I've recently followed the ridiculous situation at 242 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 3: Yale Law School, which when I was there was clearly 243 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 3: a liberal biased place. But I went back there and 244 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 3: gave a speech in twenty eighteen and it felt genuinely totalitarian, right. 245 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 3: It felt like the sort of place where if you 246 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 3: were a conservative student who had conservative ideas, you were 247 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: terrified to utter them, terrified of being socially ostracized, terrified 248 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 3: of getting bad grades from your professors. And recently what 249 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 3: we've learned is that a young student who invited a 250 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: bunch of students over to his house in a joking 251 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 3: way has been threatened by the diversity bureaucracy at Leyae 252 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 3: Law School, literally threatened that his bar examination might receive 253 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: a negative approval his character and ethics examination, might receive 254 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 3: a negative appraisal from the law school because he dared 255 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 3: joke about some of the ridiculous progressive orthodoxies that exist 256 00:14:59,080 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: on our campuses. 257 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: I'll think about that. 258 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 3: Think about what it means not just to be made 259 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 3: fun of or to be criticized by your peers, but 260 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 3: to have the diversity administrators at one of the best 261 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 3: law schools in the country literally threaten you that you 262 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: might not even be able to pass the bar examination 263 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 3: because you told a joke in a way that was 264 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 3: offensive to progressives. That is the world in which we 265 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 3: actually live, ladies and gentlemen. That is the universities that 266 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 3: we actually occupy. That is the unfortunate situation in which 267 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 3: truth and knowledge in our country actually reveals and disseminates itself. 268 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: Now we ask ourselves, this is ridiculous. 269 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: Of course, I imagine that I don't have to convince any 270 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 3: more of any of you that this is preposterous, that 271 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 3: the universities in our country are fundamentally corrupt and dedicated 272 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 3: to deceit and lies, not. 273 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: To the truth. But ask ourselves, why is this true? 274 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: Why is it that our universities are so committed to 275 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 3: some of the most preposterous, dishonesties in the world instead 276 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 3: of committed to the truth. 277 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: And my argument here is that it's about power. 278 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: So I want to talk to you just a lot 279 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 3: about a few of the people who are affected by 280 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: the lies that are told in our universities. So right now, 281 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 3: if you are a lower class person or a country 282 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 3: of any race, and you want to live a good life, 283 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: very often the story that you're told is that you 284 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 3: must go to a college or university. If you want 285 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 3: to live and work in a middle class life, you 286 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 3: must go to a college or university. 287 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, who does that benefit? 288 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 3: Who benefits from being told they have to go and 289 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 3: acquire sixty seventy eighty two hundred thousand dollars of student 290 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 3: debt to live a good life in our country? 291 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: That's right. 292 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 3: The fundamental lie of American feminism over the past twenty 293 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 3: or thirty years is that it is liberating for a 294 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 3: woman to go and work ninety hours a week in 295 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 3: a Cuba cubicle at Goldman Sachs, shipping her fellow countrymen's 296 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 3: jobs off to regime that hates them, and that is 297 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 3: liberation compared to the problems of family and patriarchy in 298 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: our modern society. Think about environmental justice, the term that 299 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 3: you'll hear if you're ever on a university campus these days, 300 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 3: where the net result of the policy of environmental justice 301 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 3: is to ship a large number of manufacturing jobs off 302 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 3: to the dirtiest economy in the world, that's China and Franklin, 303 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 3: India as well, in exchange for the good feeling that 304 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: you have done something for climate change, when in reality, 305 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 3: if you're shipping millions of manufacturing jobs off to China, 306 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 3: you're making our planet dirtier, not cleaner, and the people 307 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 3: who lose their jobs in the process. 308 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: Have a right to complain about it. 309 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 3: Think about critical theory, thank you, and what does it 310 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 3: mean for our leadership to learn that the way to 311 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 3: rectify racial injustice in this country is to put a 312 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 3: black graduate of the Harvard Business School on the board 313 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 3: of Morgan Stanley instead of to invest in black communities 314 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 3: all across our country. Are frankly white communities all across 315 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 3: our country. That is the ideology that comes from our universities. 316 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: And what is the net effect of it, What is 317 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 3: the purpose of it? Where does it come from. The 318 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 3: simple fact is that our universities tell the powerful what 319 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 3: they want to hear, and they couch it in ridiculous 320 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 3: political rhetoric instead of dealing with the real consequences of 321 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 3: progressive policy. Say you're a middle class Ohio and where 322 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 3: I'm running for Senate right now, and you're worried about 323 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 3: the fact that your heating bills this winter. 324 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: Look to go up by fifty or sixty percent. 325 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 3: Say you're worried about the fact that your grocery bills, 326 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 3: your gasoline bills are skyrocketing. Even as we speak, Ladies 327 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 3: and gentlemen don't dare complain about it, because didn't you 328 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 3: know the person who has implemented these policies is the 329 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 3: first female Treasury Sectory Secretary of the United States. She's 330 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 3: a great trailblazer who cares that you can't afford basic 331 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 3: necessities for your family. The universities tell us that so 332 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 3: long as we're trailblazing on diversity, equity, inclusion, it doesn't. 333 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: Matter if normal people get screwed. 334 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 3: All that matters is progressive or orthodoxy, and whether our 335 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 3: society reinforces it. This is the world that we live in, 336 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 3: and I hate to say, this is the world created 337 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 3: by universities that care more about fake culture wars, that 338 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 3: care more about identity politics, that care more about diversity, 339 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 3: equity and inclusion than they do their own society, and 340 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 3: they do the people who live in it. Critical race theory, which, 341 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 3: just to take a brief segue, may very well elect 342 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 3: Glyn Youngkin governor of Virginia tonight. I heard somebody. 343 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: Say he won. 344 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 3: I remember a similar feeling about a year ago, certain 345 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 3: that my guy won it, and it turned out it 346 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 3: turned out that there was some some toilet problems as 347 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:41,719 Speaker 3: a late night counting. 348 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: So I certainly hope that Glenn Youngkin wins. 349 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 3: And if, frankly, if we lived in an actual first 350 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 3: world country, we would know by eleven o'clock tonight, and 351 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: I will be toasting Glenn Youngkin's victory this evening. But 352 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 3: really ask yourself what critical race theory does and what 353 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 3: its purpose is. Right now, in American schools, there are 354 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 3: millions of children who are learning about the fundamental evil 355 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 3: of American slavery and America's racist pass And of course 356 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 3: we have a complicated past, and there are a lot 357 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,360 Speaker 3: of sins that we have to atone for but ask 358 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 3: yourself why American children are learning about America's racist past 359 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 3: one hundred eighty years ago instead of the fact that 360 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 3: this very moment, there is a major multinational corporation named 361 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 3: Apple that is employing slaves in China. Not one hundred 362 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 3: and eighty years ago, ladies and gentlemen, but right now, 363 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 3: this very moment, and you realize that progressive politics it's 364 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: not about an uplifting minorities. It's not about healing our planet, 365 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 3: it's not about looking after the poor. Progressive politics is 366 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 3: a language, a language used by our new oligarchy to 367 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 3: do things, on the one hand, to rob the American 368 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 3: people blind, and on the second hand, to tell them 369 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 3: to shut the hell up about it if they dare complain. 370 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:15,719 Speaker 3: That is the purpose of American progressive politics. That is 371 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 3: its net effect, and that is the ideology that is reinforced, 372 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 3: that has given legitimacy, and that is taught at our universities. Why, 373 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, are school children learning from school teachers 374 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 3: that America is a fundamentally racist and evil country because 375 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: those same school teachers learned it from some progressive professor 376 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 3: at a university's ten or fifteen years ago. That is 377 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 3: the fundamental problem of American truth and knowledge. 378 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: Today. 379 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 3: We create, we have created a system where to work 380 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 3: in the modern economy, to live a middle class life, 381 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 3: you have to go to a university. 382 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: That is what our elites tell, are you, young people? 383 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 3: And yet at those universities they are told that working 384 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 3: with your hands is looked down upon. They are told 385 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 3: that America is a fundamentally racist, in evil country. They 386 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 3: are taught the children who go through this university system 387 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 3: that this country, built by our fathers and grandfathers, is 388 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 3: an evil and terrible place. 389 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. 390 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 3: We are giving our children over to our enemies, and 391 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 3: it's time we stop doing it. 392 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: Now. Somebody mentioned Anthony Fauci. 393 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 3: And I didn't mean to talk about Anthony Faucci, but 394 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 3: of course I'm going to, because why not. 395 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: It's so easy, right, and I'm a synic candidate. Why 396 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: not bring up Anthony Fauci. 397 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 3: But you ask yourself, what is the claim of authority 398 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 3: that Anthony Fauci has. 399 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: We didn't elect them. 400 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 3: Oh, no person in here voted for Anthony Fauci. We 401 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 3: didn't do anything to make him the lord over our 402 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 3: entire economy and over our entire social life. 403 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: I saw recently that he said that if you want. 404 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 3: To hang out with your family over Christmas, two years 405 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 3: after the beginning of the pandemic, you should make you 406 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 3: and your children wear masks. 407 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: We didn't. 408 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 3: No person in this room, no person in our country, 409 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 3: gave Anthony Fauci this authority. 410 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: No person in this country gave the twelve. 411 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 3: Hundred public health authorities who issued that ridiculous letter authority 412 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 3: over our country. 413 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: Where does their authority come from? 414 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 3: It comes from the piece of paper that hangs up 415 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 3: in the office walls of every single one of them, 416 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 3: the university diploma. And we subsidize, we support, and in 417 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 3: our own ways, all of us reinforce the power of 418 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 3: universities to control our lives and control how we live them. 419 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 3: I was doing a donor event not too long ago, 420 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 3: encouraging people to support my campaign, which is of course 421 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 3: an important part of being a political candidate, and I 422 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 3: was talking with a person about how ridiculous it is 423 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 3: it that we tell our young people to go to 424 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 3: college to get brainwashed, to acquire sixty seventy eighty thousand 425 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 3: dollars student debt just to be able to live a 426 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 3: normal life. 427 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: In their own country, and he said, well, what's the alternative. 428 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 3: The donor at this meeting of a politically aligned person, 429 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 3: a person who's supporting my campaign, said well, what's the alternative. 430 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 3: I don't want my kid to become an h VAC specialist, 431 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 3: But if that's your attitude, ladies and gentlemen, we're going 432 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 3: to continue to empower the college, the colleges, and the 433 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 3: universities that make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately 434 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 3: carry the day. We have got to get out of 435 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 3: the mindset that the only way to live a good 436 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 3: life in this country, the only way for our children 437 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 3: to succeed, is to go to a four year university 438 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 3: where people will learn to hate their country and acquire 439 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 3: a lot of debt in the process. That is a 440 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 3: necessary component of our ideas ultimately caring the day. Not 441 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 3: only have seven or so minutes left, So I want 442 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 3: to leave you with a couple of thoughts here. The 443 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: first is, I believe you aren't correct me. If I'm wrong, 444 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 3: I don't see you. But this is the last public 445 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: speed each of this conference. 446 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: Is that right of course? All right? 447 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'm just want to make this really 448 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 3: awkward and end us on a very awkward I'm kidding. 449 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: But I want to encourage us. 450 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 3: And I know there have been a lot of discussions, 451 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 3: some of which I've been able to participate in or 452 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: at least watch, some of which I haven't participated in, 453 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 3: about what is national conservatism. And I want to leave 454 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 3: us with the thought that if national conservatism means anything, 455 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 3: it means standing for the people in this country who 456 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 3: have been screwed over. 457 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: The last thirty forty years. 458 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 3: I want to call your attention to three people, three 459 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 3: people all from Ohio. I'm biased, obviously, I'm an Ohio guy, 460 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 3: and I've been campaigning in Ohio the last few months, 461 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 3: but three people in the state of Ohio who I 462 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 3: think you know. They might not read the same books 463 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 3: that we read. They might not speak the same language 464 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 3: that a lot of you speak about politics and police theology, 465 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 3: but they're good people and they want to live a 466 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 3: good country in this place that their fathers and grandfather's built. 467 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 3: So one is a woman who cares a whole lot 468 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 3: about the immigration issue. I met her in southwestern Ohio 469 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 3: probably three months ago, and she really cares about the 470 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 3: southern border. 471 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: Because she's probably fifty five or so years. 472 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 3: Old, and she's caring for a young grand baby, just 473 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 3: like any of you've read my book. No, my grandparents 474 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 3: cared and cared for and raised me. She's raising a 475 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 3: grand baby that she didn't anticipate to raise because the 476 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 3: opioid epidemic that has spread all across this country took 477 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 3: her daughter from her, and she did the incredibly honorable 478 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,680 Speaker 3: thing of taking her own grandchild, even though she didn't 479 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 3: have a whole lot of money lying around into her 480 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 3: home to raise and support that child. 481 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: Novia Left tells a story that. 482 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 3: The the reason this woman cares about our ridiculous and 483 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 3: porous southern border is that she's a racist. She's a xenophobe. 484 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 3: She doesn't like Mexicans. That's why she doesn't want a 485 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 3: criminal gang controlling the US southern border. But what if 486 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 3: I told you that the fentanyl that's currently pouring across 487 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 3: our southern border destroyed and killed her child. What if 488 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 3: I told you that that same fentanyl is currently running 489 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 3: rampant in the community that she calls home. And what 490 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 3: if I told you that the reason she wants to 491 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 3: close the southern border is not because she hates Mexicans, 492 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 3: but because she loves her grand baby, and she wants 493 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 3: that grand baby to grow up in a community where 494 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 3: safety and security and community run wild, not fittanyl overdose. 495 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 3: I also want to tell you about a young father 496 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 3: who pulled his eleven year old daughter in northeastern Ohio 497 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 3: out of her school. Northeastern Ohio is where Cleveland and 498 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: Youngstown are for those of you who are uninitiated, And 499 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 3: he pulled as eleven year old daughter out of high school, sorry, 500 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 3: out of elementary school, because she came home for a week, 501 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 3: five days in a row, literally sobbing, because she was 502 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 3: being told by her teacher that she, because of her 503 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 3: white skin color, was an oppressor and that many of 504 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 3: the other children. 505 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: In her classroom were victims. 506 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 3: Now, the left, when we talk about critical race theory, says, 507 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 3: first of all, it's not taught in our schools, which 508 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 3: we now all know is ridiculous. But they'll say that 509 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 3: the desire here is to try to correct historical wrongs. 510 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 3: We're trying to uplift our black citizens. And yet this 511 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 3: eleven year old girl, her best friend in class was 512 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 3: a little black girl, and she was sad for two reasons. 513 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 3: First because her teacher was telling her because of her 514 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 3: skin color. She was a bad person. And I don't 515 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 3: care if we're talking about a little black girl in 516 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five or a little white girl in twenty 517 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 3: twenty one. Telling a little girl that she's evil because 518 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 3: of her skin color is disgusting and vile, and as 519 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 3: a Christian, I'd say satanic. But she was most sad 520 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 3: because her best friend in class. Ladies and gentlemen, let 521 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 3: me think about this, her best friend in class. When 522 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 3: they did their separation into victim and oppressors, she was 523 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 3: in the oppressor group and her best friend was in 524 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 3: the victim group. What is it that we're dealing with 525 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 3: when our adults tell eleven year old girls not to 526 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 3: love their fellow citizens, not to build friendships with them, 527 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 3: but to put them in one box as they put 528 00:30:55,760 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 3: themselves in another box. That's what we're dealing with in 529 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 3: this country. And as we talk about ideas, and we 530 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 3: talk about the importance of freedom and liberty and classical 531 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 3: American traditions, as we talk about national conservatism, as it 532 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 3: says on the banner, I hope the ORed member that 533 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 3: the reason we fight, the reason that we do what 534 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 3: we do. 535 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: I hate to say it, I love all of you. 536 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 3: I mean, I've met many of you, and some of 537 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 3: you who bought me a drink. It's not for ourselves. 538 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 3: It's for the grandma taking care of her grandbaby. It's 539 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 3: for the young father whose little girl just wants to 540 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 3: build a friendship with a person because they're both children 541 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 3: of God and not members of. 542 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: Separate groups victim and oppressor. Ladies and gentlemen. 543 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 3: We fight for the American nation, and we fight for 544 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 3: the people who live in it. Now I want to 545 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 3: close out here, and my timer says that I have 546 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 3: fifty seconds. Though I assume if I go a little 547 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 3: bit over, it's not going to ding me or you know, 548 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 3: give me some ridiculous sound. 549 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: But you know, I I thought a lot more than 550 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: any you know. 551 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 3: One of the things you do as a politician, and 552 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 3: I hate to say this, but I guess I'm a 553 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 3: politician now I'm running for office asking for people. 554 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: To vote for me. 555 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 3: One of the things that you do is you go 556 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 3: out and you give speeches and you ask people to 557 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 3: vote for you, and you talk to them about the 558 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 3: problems that you care about, and you hope they agree 559 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 3: with you. And I've thought a lot more than any 560 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 3: speech I've ever given about the way to close this out. 561 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 3: Partially because I'm the last person speaking this evening, and 562 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 3: this is such a wonderful conference, and congratulations to all 563 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 3: of you for participating and putting it on, but also 564 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 3: just because you know, this is a great moment in 565 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 3: our country's history. We're all figuring out what the conservative 566 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 3: movement will be in this new decade, we're all participating 567 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 3: in it. And I thought to myself, you know, I 568 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 3: really want to I really want to end this on 569 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 3: an inspirational note. And so I look to scripture, and 570 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 3: I look to you know, some of the great Holy 571 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 3: fathers and saints of the Church, thought about some of 572 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 3: the great heroes of Western civilization, and of course I 573 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 3: thought about some of the great American leaders. And the 574 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 3: person whose quote I ultimately had to land on was 575 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 3: the great prophet and statesman Richard Milhouse Nixon. And I 576 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 3: have to say before I get to this, that we 577 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 3: are celebrating today the birthday of Pat Buchanan, who first. 578 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: Who first got a start. 579 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,520 Speaker 3: In the Nixon administration, and I think is the genesis 580 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 3: of many of the ideas that we discussed here and 581 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 3: have discussed here over the past few days. But Richard 582 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 3: Nixon not known for his inspirational quotes. And I'm not 583 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 3: gonna lie to you. I'm not going to offer you 584 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 3: an inspirational quote tonight. I'm gonna offer you a true quote. 585 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 3: Because there is a season for everything in this country. 586 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 3: And I think in this movement of national conservatism, what 587 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 3: we need more of than inspiration is we need wisdom. 588 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 3: And there is a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said approximately. 589 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: Forty fifty years ago. 590 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 3: He said, and I quote, the professors are the enemy. 591 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,760 Speaker 2: If you liked the Michael Berry Show and Podcast, please 592 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 2: tell one friend, and if you're so inclined, write a 593 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,280 Speaker 2: nice review of our podcast. 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