Dr. Everett Piper exposes how universities like Oklahoma Wesleyan reject "not a daycare" relativism, clashing with leftist indoctrination at schools like Berkeley, where tolerance trumps truth—mirroring iGen’s faith collapse and suicide spikes. He accuses liberal culture of hypocrisy, from Obama-era religious freedom violations to silencing dissent, while praising SNL’s "Black Jeopardy" for mocking performative identity politics. Klavan frames Piper’s Not a Daycare as a battle cry: conservative parents must abandon secular campuses or risk raising a generation raised on moral chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
The New York Times, a former newspaper, is reporting that a feud has broken out between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The story broke after anonymous sources within the Times told reporters within The Times that editors within The Times would like stories about the Trump-McConnell feud from anonymous sources within the Times.
According to these sources, the feud began shortly after McConnell failed to secure a majority Republican vote for repealing Obamacare.
A furious President Trump responded by calling McConnell a turtle-faced new new head, whereupon the disgruntled Senate Majority Leader struck back by writing Melania Trump's phone number on the wall of the Senate men's room.
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It's a prank that will likely be remembered in the Senate until they're all voted out of office as they deserve.
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Words Without Thought00:03:37
So we got to take a quick look at the aftermath of that just like incredibly amazing press conference with the press.
Now the press is lying to cover up the fact that they were destroyed, right?
So they're just rewriting the story.
I love the press.
You know, we've gotten so crazy.
Did you hear the story about ESPN?
Did you hear this?
Robert Lee, I know.
They took this guy.
He's an Asian American and sports announcer named Robert Lee.
And he was going to announce the UVA game, the University of Virginia game, Charlottesville.
And so they took him off because his name was the same as the Confederate General.
But they issued a clarification today.
They actually did issue a clarification saying the problem is that he actually is the Confederate general.
He has been hiding out as a statue all this time and then came back to life as an Asian man to bring back the Confederacy with all Asians this time.
So it's really, it was a master plot.
So luckily, ESPN caught it in time.
Anyway, so yesterday, right, I mean, the day before yesterday, Trump makes this incredible speech, lashes out at the press, just hammers them, and the press falls apart.
They absolutely fall apart.
Meanwhile, the left is rioting in the streets after all this time of being told that no, no, no, there's not violence on both sides.
The left is rioting in the streets.
Here is CBS's report the next morning.
Listen to who's to blame.
And by the way, there were very, very few Trump supporters out there.
It was just a protest.
Let's listen to CBS.
Good morning.
This is where thousands of protesters and Trump supporters were gathered before the rally.
They were very vocal, but largely peaceful.
All of that changed, however, after the president spoke.
And a small group of protesters ignored police orders to leave.
A small group after he spoke.
It was only after he spoke.
It was like those words, those evil words.
He went out there.
They were throwing the words, were throwing things at the police.
It was terrible.
It was a terrible scene.
Don Lemon, who just made a complete ass of himself, I mean, if he needed to do that, he just went out and lied about what he said.
All day long, the next day, yesterday, all day long, he's saying, like, we didn't say Trump was crazy.
We didn't attack his mental.
Listen to him.
Listen to this.
He blows it off.
When people criticize and say, oh, well, they're questioning the president's sanity and all of that.
They know better.
They're doing it just because to make a political point of some sort.
Yeah, what could they have possibly seen?
Play what Don Lemon said that day.
This is six.
He's unhinged.
It's embarrassing.
I don't mean for us, the media, because he went after us, but for the country.
This is who we elected president of the United States, a man who is so petty that he has to go after people who he deems to be his enemy, like an imaginary friend of a six-year-old.
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It was without reason.
It was devoid of facts.
It was devoid of wisdom.
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There was no sanity there.
He was like a child blaming a sibling on something else.
He did it.
I didn't do it.
He certainly opened up the race wound from Charlottesville.
A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning those business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable.
But other than that, he was completely objective.
And I also love the way the press just hammers this guy, hammers, hammers, hammers him.
Something like 90% of their stories are negative.
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Trump's New Tone on Veterans00:07:34
I mean, that's the only thing.
So Trump also took a different tone yesterday.
Trump was signing legislation.
This is the thing he's getting no credit for.
You know, he really is going after the VA, you know, these terrible scandals that the VA, these veterans who can't get their benefits and they're getting terrible health care.
I mean, essentially what we're doing is we're condemning veterans to Obamacare.
We're condemning veterans to government health care.
But he is making it possible to fire people, so important.
And he's got this new Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act, which streamlines the process of veterans appealing claims over disability benefits.
So he goes out and he took a slightly different tone than his Phoenix speech.
Here's Trump.
It is time to heal the wounds that divide us and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us.
We are one people, with one home, and one great flag.
Okay, he went a little off script there after he had it for a minute there.
We had teleprompter Trump and then, you know, it was just Godzilla destroying everything.
But, you know, the thing that always gets me about Trump is like, no matter what he does, and there are times when I love him and times when I hate him.
You know, there's all kinds, you know, he's just that guy.
He's just this huge personality, huge flaws, some really good things that he's done.
But no matter what he does, I look at the other side and they're just so bad.
I mean, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton has her new book coming out called What Happened.
I mean, that's what it says, but you have to read it.
Yeah, exactly.
You have to read it though.
You have to read it in the right tone of voice.
It's what happened.
Why did I lose?
What happened?
And she's reading this thing about Trump standing in back of her, which, you know, I was looking at different videos.
This must have, I assume this really happened because Hillary wouldn't lie, would she?
Come on.
You know, I mean, but every time I see him, it's her standing in front of him, but he's behind his lectern.
He's exactly where he's supposed to be.
But this is her recounting how he stood in back of her during one of the debates.
This is not okay, I thought.
It was the second presidential debate, and Donald Trump was looming behind me.
Two days before, the world heard him brag about groping women.
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I know you love to intimidate women, but you can't intimidate me, so back up.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
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But she's right.
He is creepy.
Oh, wait, that's not the same guy, though.
Back up.
You creep.
I mean, this is the thing that really gets me.
You know, President Obama remained personally popular throughout his eight years.
He remained a personally popular president.
But everybody who supported him was voted out of office because he was a bad president.
He was bad at being president, but he came across as a nice guy.
And I think he did terrible things, but he was a nice guy.
But now they're acting like, whereas Trump, who is not a nice guy, doesn't come across, you know, comes across as a loose cannon, he's actually done some really good things so far already, and hopefully will do more when the Senate and Congress comes back to, you know, is sitting again.
But their idolatry, do we have the Knucklehead Rose on?
take a trip to knucklehead row at the new york times knucklehead row the op-ed page of the new york times it's like they have a piece today unbelievable It's by a woman named Carolyn Randall Williams, who I think was a cookbook author.
She's this young lady, and she writes this thing, come back, Obama, and explain to us what's going on.
She says, President Obama, now is the time to start talking.
I appreciate your instinct to hold back, to follow the keep quiet about the new guy tradition of former presidents, but these are not traditional times.
They're unprecedented and frankly unprecedented.
You deserve a break, but we're out here in this hand basket.
Mr. Obama, listen to this.
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You are the president who shed tears in public after Sandy Hook.
Now we are a country troubled by the looming possibility of a constitutional crisis and hate groups are claiming the president as theirs.
We need your voice.
Where are you, Obama?
There is not a saner, more trustworthy opinion that many of us would rather hear.
I'm not sure that's grammatical, but anyway, you know, it's like that.
That is the left all over.
He sang Amazing Grace after the Charleston killings and he shed tears.
So he must have been a good president.
And this guy is such a blustering, bumbling guy.
But it's not like Mr. Obama, you corrupted the IRS.
You set the Middle East on fire.
You withdrew from Iraq too soon.
You gave Iran a nuclear weapon.
Come back and tell us.
And she ends it.
She says, my generation graduated from college and got our first job and became adults all while you were president.
We learned to experience politics through the lens of your eloquent presence in the White House.
In this respect, you raised us.
So we are unaccustomed to all of this wildness.
Just because we're grown up doesn't mean we don't need to hear from the man who brought us up.
I mean, like, this is the world we're living in.
Like an Asian American broadcaster named Robert Lee is a resurrected Confederate general.
And Obama was a good president because he knew how to cry on camera.
And he did know how to cry on cue.
I have to give him credit where credit is due.
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Hi, Dr. Dr. Piper.
I'm glad you're here.
Dr. Everett Piper is the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University and the author of Why I Am a Liberal and Other Conservative Ideas.
His new book, which I was reading over the last couple of days, is Not a Daycare, The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth.
Dr. Piper, it's good of you to come on.
I appreciate it.
This is a fascinating book.
And I think the best way to introduce people to this book is for you to tell the story of how you read it, because I read that story with my mouth hanging open about Corinthians.
It's an amazing tale.
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on, Claven.
I'm honored.
And briefly, it was about two years ago at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, where I serve as president, that we have required chapel on Wednesday and Friday.
It was just before Thanksgiving.
And the sermon for that particular day was on 1 Corinthians 13.
For those who don't remember, it's the quintessential love chapter of the Bible.
You've heard it read at a thousand weddings.
Love is patient, love is kind.
Well, we actually had a student at my conservative Christian liberal arts institution that came forward and confronted the speaker after this particular homily.
And he said, you offended me.
You singled me out.
You made me feel uncomfortable.
You victimized me.
I'm serious.
From the love.
What was his problem?
What was his problem with?
Well, apparently he felt guilty.
He felt that we were wrong for making him feel guilty for not being loving enough.
So I had a response.
I challenged the young man and I said, you know that feeling you had of discomfort during that sermon on love?
It's called your conscience.
You might want to attend to it.
And then I suggested, you know, at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, as any good university should, we're going to challenge you and we're going to confront you.
We're not going to coddle you and we're not going to comfort you.
We actually expect you to grow up and become a man of character rather than sit around and be selfish and self-absorbed and narcissistic in your sin.
So if you feel guilty during a sermon or an altar call, good.
Confess what's wrong with you rather than blaming everybody else about what's wrong with them.
And I concluded by saying, my land, this is a university, it's not a daycare.
And that led to this book and this interview.
Yeah, because the thing went viral.
I mean, everybody was passing it around because it was, you know, because everybody's so tired of these, they call them snowflakes, but there's one, you know, you tell so many stories about them, but we've all heard the stories.
So what is this coming from?
I mean, this was not, this was starting when I was in school, which is a long time ago, but it's gotten to be, you know, it's gotten to be like a plague.
What is causing this?
I would argue it's my industry.
It's education.
We've created this monster and it's turning around to bite us.
For decades, we've been teaching lousy ideas.
We've been teaching self-absorption and self-actualization and narcissism.
We've been teaching kids that it doesn't matter what you believe as long as it works for you.
You know, Richard Weaver wrote a seminal work in 1948 and he titled it, Ideas Have Consequences.
And what was his point?
Ideas have consequences.
Ideas matter.
They always lead somewhere.
And if you teach bad ideas, you get bad culture, bad kids, bad government, bad corporations, and bad community.
If you teach good ideas, the big ideas, the first things, you get good culture, good kids, and good community.
Like your grandmother said, garbage in and garbage out.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
We've been teaching terrible ideas for decades, and now we're seeing terrible behavior in our campuses and in our campus green.
There's no getting away from the fact that when you talk about these bad ideas, these are leftist ideas.
I mean, these are not, the ideas that I hear on campuses, none of them is from the right.
It's all from the left.
And it's kind of a narrative on the right that the left made this march through our institutions, that they very purposely took over the academy, took over Hollywood, took over the news business.
Do you feel that this was an intentional assault on the academy?
Do you feel the left as a movement did this on purpose?
M. Scott Peck called it the diabolical human mind.
I have a friend, Dr. Graham Walker, calls it the pathology of the intellect.
In the epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul calls it the reprobate mind.
These are all references basically to this.
The smarter you are, the more arrogant you become, and you drink your own Kool-Aid and you believe your own lies.
So yes, the Academy is at fault.
Was it intentional?
You could argue whether it is or it isn't, but the fact of the matter is, we've been teaching these ideas, these terrible ideas for decades, and now we're suffering the consequences for it.
And what you see today is ideological fascism rather than intellectual freedom.
A fascist was a Roman bundle of sticks bound together so tightly that it couldn't be broken.
It's out of that we get the word fascism.
And today, if you don't comply, if you don't submit, if you're not one of us, if you don't think like we think and believe like we believe, we're going to crush you, we're going to suppress you, we're going to sequester you, we're going to expel you.
You're verbotent and you're unwelcome.
It's the opposite of intellectual liberty, classical liberalism.
It's ideological fascism.
Well, we're talking about this book by Dr. Everett Piper, Not a Daycare, The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth.
Now, the book, Oklahoma Wesleyan News University is a Christian school.
And you talk a lot about Christ and teaching Christianity.
And I've argued for a long time that we need a revival at the intellectual top rather than a tent revival.
We need one in our academies and with our intelligentsia, which I actually believe is happening even as you and I are sitting here talking about it.
But not every school is a Christian school.
And there are schools that are great schools, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, these are terrific schools, or they used to be, that would, in some sense, wouldn't they be betraying their brief to be teaching Christianity as if it were the truth?
I mean, is that a problem?
Actually, no.
Let me explain why, in my view.
And this is the beauty of a liberal arts academy.
You and I could debate that.
Harvard and I could debate that.
But Harvard and Dartmouth and Princeton and Yale and all of the Ivy League institutions, with the exception of one, were founded explicitly in a Judeo-Christian ethic.
Harvard, for example, had its original mission statement that said, to lay Christ at the bottom is the foundation of all learning.
So I'll use your word, revival.
Revival implies that you can revive, return, reform, go back, go back to what?
To a true north, to veritas, Latin for truth, which is still on Oxford's shield some 1,000 years after it was founded.
So my question would be this: Do you believe what G.K. Chesterton said when he said, you have no freedom without fences?
Freedom does not suppose or presuppose a free-for-all.
Freedom cannot be had without boundaries.
You can't play soccer if you don't understand the rules, if there isn't a referee to blow the whistle.
If it all digresses to power and privilege, you can't play the game.
So what would you rather have?
The French Revolution and the guillotine, or the American Revolution and self-evident truths that are endowed to us by our Creator?
I think the proof's in the pudding as to which model and paradigm gives you more intellectual and personal freedom.
Well, I certainly agree with the last part of what you just said, and the proof is in the pudding.
But the thinkers that led up to the French Revolution, the Enlightenment thinkers, some of the thinkers who came after, who were anti-religion, thinkers like Nietzsche and people like, you know, who basically oppose the entire idea of God, would you not teach them?
Oh, no, I would teach them robustly.
I want my students to understand Nietzsche better than anybody else.
I want my students to understand the debate, to engage in it, to have a robust argument, to exchange ideas.
It's the beauty of conservative education: we conserve the time-tested truths that are endowed to us by our Creator.
It's the beauty of classical liberal education because you believe in liberty and liberation and freedom and justice.
And the truth, like Christ said, the truth shall set you free.
Not your power or my privilege, not your person, not your pulpit, not your podium, not your priest, not your pastor, not the pedagogue, not the politician.
Truth will judge the debate.
And it's only within the context of those fences, to go back to Chesterton, that we can truly engage in what the Academy was established to do, and that's pursue liberty and liberation that's grounded in a standard bigger and better than you and me.
Let me challenge this, put forward a challenge.
It may not be what I would say personally, but I know it is what people would argue on the other side.
We believe, both you and I believe that certain parts of the truth are just revealed to us.
They're axioms.
They're things that, as you say, are self-evident.
And as Jefferson said, are self-evident.
But there are many people who simply do not accept the Bible as the truth.
Are these people going to be excluded?
Is the other side of too much tolerance intolerance?
Are the people who will not, don't want to live a biblical life, don't want to live according to what they see as basically the fiat of religion?
Are those people to be excluded from education?
Absolutely not.
In fact, I would argue that somebody that disagrees with everything I've said on your program today would have more freedom on my campus than they would at Berkeley, for example.
You can come to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and engage in this discussion with me with much greater liberty, liberation of freedom to disagree with me at my campus than you would have at Berkeley.
The proof is there.
Milo, for example, whom I disagree with on a lot of things, would enjoy more intellectual freedom here.
That does not presuppose or assume that I'll agree with him.
And in fact, we may disagree robustly, but we can have that debate.
We can have that disagreement.
We can exchange ideas in a civil and tolerant fashion without saying, I can't tolerate your intolerance and I hate you hateful people, and I'm sure that nothing is sure, and cut off the very branch upon which we sit.
We actually believe there's an answer at the end of the day.
And the belief in that answer gives us the freedom to pursue it.
All right, a couple more, more practical questions.
One of the things that always puzzles me is why parents of basically conservative bench send their kids to these schools.
And I mean, you know, people shell out a lot of money for these schools, as I well know, and you save up your whole life to be able to do it.
And sometimes these kids go into debt.
Why do the parents keep doing it?
And how can you get them to stop?
They're crazy.
I mean, it's a simple answer.
But stop it.
Your question is the perfect summary to this interview.
What in the world are you doing?
You spend 18 years of your life training up your child in the way he should go so that when he is old, he will not depart.
And in the first 18 minutes, as you drive away from your campus of choice, they're taking pride in tearing his heart, mind, and soul out.
Why would you do that?
Why would you pay for that?
Parents need to start paying, excuse me, start voting with their pocketbook and their feet.
They need to stop sending their kids off to these institutions that teach this problem and send them to a school that actually believes that there's a right and wrong answer at the end of the day.
I'll close with this.
I don't give you a degree in opinions at Oklahoma Wesley University.
I don't say you majored in an opinion.
I actually hope you learned something.
Opinions lead to bondage and slavery.
Pol Pot had an opinion.
Mao had an opinion.
Robespierre had an opinion, and it did not end well.
Christ said, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Which paradigm do you want for your kid?
Which one will lead to a freer culture and freer society?
Well, I think a lot of people are going to feel, I think you are, you know, fighting against the tide, but that doesn't mean you can't win.
Not a daycare, the devastating consequences of abandoning truth by Dr. Everett Piper.
Dr. Piper, thank you for coming on.
I appreciate it very much.
Oh, I'm honored.
Thank you for having me.
Thanks a lot.
You know, I have to say, I wrote, it was right after Obama won again.
I wrote a piece that's still up on City Journal, you can find it, called The Long Game, in which I said, you know, conservatives typically neglect the culture.
And among the things that we have to do is we really have to start arguing for a revival at the intellectual top.
I mean, this is the thing.
The idea of relativism has played itself out.
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It makes no sense.
The idea of multiculturalism was disproved on September 11th.
You know, these things have fallen apart.
And we can make the argument, but it's a tough argument to make because I think religion is, you know, obviously religion in the modern world is going to look different than medieval religion.
You know, the medieval people didn't know as much as we know.
We were talking, Spencer and I were talking before about C.S. Lewis's idea that in the Middle Ages, they saw the sky as the dome of a cathedral, whereas we see it as infinite, meaningless space.
But you can't stop seeing it as infinite space.
It is infinite space.
You can't stop seeing it.
You can't continue to believe that the sky is a dome once you've sent a rocket up through it.
So, we're going to have to make sure that our religion addresses a scientific world instead of closing our eyes to the things that science has taught us.
You know, if you don't think this is a big deal, I mean, there's so much stuff going on on the left right now.
This is the thing that really gets me.
If Donald Trump is so evil, if Donald Trump is so evil, why is it only the left trying to silence people?
Why is it only the left that assaults the Bill of Rights?
If Donald Trump is such an evil guy, when was the last time Donald Trump did anything to get in the way of the practice of our religion, the free expression of our religion, like Obama did when he sued the little sisters of the poor?
The little sisters of the poor.
I mean, how much of a villain do you have to twirl your mustache to go after the little sisters of the poor to force them to pay for contributions, you know, for contraception?
I mean, it's like when he did that, I was like, I thought, gee, if there were any media at all, if we had any honest media, they would be looking at the president of the United States saying, you are using the power of the government to go after the little sisters of the poor.
It's like, no, Mr. President, don't make us pay for contraception.
Yes, you will pay for contraception, little sisters of the poor.
It will, you will pay, or I'll tie you to the railroad track.
But I mean, he got away with it because the press wouldn't do it.
If Donald Trump is so evil, why are the only people who want to get rid of the right to free speech on the left?
Why is that?
I do not understand it.
You know, there's a review of a book, interestingly enough, there's a review of a book in the Wall Street Journal today called IGen: Why Today's Superconnected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy, and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood.
And the interesting thing about it is it's by this woman, Jean Twenge.
And I read that and I thought, gee, didn't we just talk about her on the show?
And in fact, she had written an op-ed.
And this happens a lot because you want to promote your book, you write an op-ed to sort of go along with it.
But she was writing about the fact that suicide is now the second cause of death among young adults, which is a stunning, stunning observation, a stunning fact, a stunning stat.
And she writes this book where she says, tolerance is their religion.
This is the review of the book.
Church going and faith are in freefall among iGeners.
So iGeners are like the next generation up.
Their views on LGBTQ matters are more liberal than those of any previous generation.
So too, their views of sex.
They're having less sex themselves, but are less judgmental about the sexual habits of others, which is really interesting because it's a failure to preach what you practice.
It means that you know that you should have a little self-control.
You know that promiscuity is bad, but you don't want to tell anybody.
You know, you don't want to tell anybody.
Keep it to yourself and let them get syphilis.
They don't want to.
But there's something that they are not tolerant about, and that was what Dr. Piper was saying.
It's deemed if it's an offense against tolerance itself, because tolerance is their religion.
So members of iGen, Ms. Twenge say, are more likely than their predecessors to support restricting speech.
She found that more than one out of four students, 28%, agreed that a faculty member who on a single occasion says something racially insensitive in class should be fired, while 16% believe a student who did the same thing once should be expelled.
In a rare moment of judgmentalism, Ms. Twenge adds, This is the dark side of tolerance.
It begins with the good intentions of including everyone and not offending anyone, but ends at best with a reluctance to explore deep issues and at worst with careers destroyed by a comment someone found offensive and the silencing of all alternative viewpoints.
I mean, this is the problem.
This is the problem.
You can talk about Donald Trump's manners, which are terrible.
You can talk about his bullying, which is the thing I find most offensive about him.
You can talk about his personality being unbridled and uncontrolled and all this stuff.
Why is it if he is so evil, why is it that the dear Father Obama, who we miss so much, because he cried that his side are the only people violating, openly trying to destroy the Bill of Rights.
I don't understand it.
I do not understand why good manners trumps actual destruction of our values and of the laws that have protected us for so long.
All right, stuff I like.
And then we will leave you to the Clavenless weekend, I'm afraid.
You know what we haven't talked about yet, though?
I didn't say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
Were they on us with us the whole time?
Great, good for you.
But you know what?
You know what?
We let you stay on.
But that means that's another reason why you should subscribe.
It's only a lousy 10 bucks a month.
What are you waiting for?
10 bucks a month?
And you get to be on the mailbag if you, yeah, you can just subscribe for the month and be in the mailbag and we'll answer all your questions, save your life, change your life.
It'll be an amazing experience.
But if you subscribe for the year, it's just $100, $99.99.
And keep the penny and don't spend it all in one place.
Plus, the Liberal Tears mug, it's Liberal Tears Tumblr.
The Liberal Tears Tumblr is made of Valerian steel.
It cures baldness in some.
It's like it keeps your Liberal tears warm or cold, however you prefer them.
And it automatically refills every time Donald Trump makes a speech.
So this is, it's an amazing thing.
And it doesn't have Steven Crowder's name on it.
I think Crowder's coming on next week.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I love Steven.
We're going to let him out of his padded cell and bring him over.
Stuff I like.
I am not and have never been a Saturday Night Live fan.
I think it is a self-indulgent, mostly unfunny show.
I think every six weeks they do something kind of amusing.
But there is one routine they did.
It's not that long ago, called Black Jeopardy.
And they had one thing with Tom, I want to say Tom Hanks.
Thanks.
I always want to say Tom Cruise was Tom Hanks, who was fantastic in it.
And the concept of Black Jeopardy is obviously black people playing Jeopardy and they have these kind of weird categories like, I don't know, will be the category.
And the answer is, what is, I don't know.
And so they have all the, but one of the contestants turns out to be a Trump supporting white guy with a beard played by Hanks.
And so they start going down the line asking questions.
And here's just a bit of it.
Okay, let's stay with you better for 400.
Okay, the answer, your job wants to take $40 a month out of your check for 401k.
Shanice, what is, you better give me that money so I can buy me some scratch-offs.
Yeah, you damn right.
You damn right.
I mean, why do I need a retirement plan when I got Monopoly Millionaire's Club?
I play that every week.
Yeah, well, that's good for you.
Okay.
The board is yours, Shanice.
Let's go with they out there saying for 200.
Okay, the answer, they out here saying the new iPhone wants your thumbprint for your protection.
Oh, okay, then, duh.
What is, I don't think so.
That's how they get you.
Yes!
I don't trust that.
Me either.
Oh, I read that and go straight to the government.
My book is not bad, though.
The boat is yours.
Well, let's go over to, mm, I don't know for four.
Okay, the answer there, he says his dog doesn't bite.
Shanice.
What is mm?
I don't know.
He got teeth, don't he?
Yeah, that's it.
Anything with teeth, you know?
Anything with teeth.
Let's stick with mmm, I don't know for six.
Okay.
Caitlin Jenna says she belongs on the cover of Essence magazine.
Keely.
What is?
I don't know.
You can't do everything.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
You know, I mean, there was a time.
Absolutely.
Oh, yeah, I remember.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's go to They Out Here Saying for A.
Okay, the answer there.
They out here saying that every vote counts.
Oh, Doug again.
What is come on?
They already decided who wins in the report happening.
Yes.
It's so brilliant because basically it destroys identity politics, right?
It's like it says there's no difference in the races.
It's all culture.
Their culture is essentially the same.
It is a brilliant, brilliant piece of satire.
And with that, we're going to leave you flying blind into the Clavenless weekend.
I hate to do it at this point.
God, last week, I had some violence, people getting fired.
It's awful.
It's awful.
But if you survive, we will be here again on Monday and we will explain the devastation to you.
I'm Andrew Clavin.
This is The Andrew Klavan Show, and we'll see you then.
Is it aching with some nameless needs?
Is there something wrong and you can't put your finger on it?
Right then, roll to me.
And I don't think I have ever seen you so so in despair.
So if you want to talk to me, guess who will be there?