Ep. 380 dissects Trump’s mixed record—DREAM Act deals and bipartisan dinners with Manchin, Sessions’ IRS inaction, and Comey’s firing—while defending conservative wins like judges and deregulation against media bias (91% negative coverage). The host pivots to cultural critiques: Switzerland’s Alps vs. LA’s flatness, "red pill" resistance to leftist indoctrination, and a listener’s near-death skepticism clashing with the speaker’s mystical birth experience. Ultimately, it frames Trump’s flaws as minor compared to Clinton’s alternative, urging conservatives to reclaim culture through truth—not just policy. [Automatically generated summary]
So what's the deal with President Trump these days?
He's making deals with Democrats.
He said he was going to build a wall and now he's pushing the Dreamer Act.
And Hillary Clinton is doing a book tour when he said he was going to lock her up.
So is he giving it to the people who got him in office?
Is he betraying them?
What's up with that?
We'll take a look at that.
There's also an amazing new movement among millennials and not just millennials.
It may change the way you think about the culture entirely and we'll talk about all that.
Plus the mailbag, so we'll solve all your problems.
But first, the federal government under the leadership of Donald Trump has so far been doing a terrific job handling the natural disasters that have struck the South.
Here's a brief montage of newscasters praising the president for his excellent leadership.
Okay, that was a little more brief than I was expecting, but there's more good news.
The economy is starting to really boom with the stock market skyrocketing, employment and income on the rise, poverty levels finally falling.
So here's a montage of commentators discussing how the White House is making America great again.
Well, they say in journalism that good news is no news, so maybe the press just wants to focus on where things have gone wrong.
So for instance, now that it's become pretty clear President Trump had absolutely nothing to do with the Russians, who had absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election, journalists are engaged in a period of deep soul searching, trying to figure out how they could have wasted so much of America's time over a story that really wasn't very important at all.
Here's a sample of some of the press's self-criticism.
All right, I'm joking.
The American mainstream media is still the same corrupt, biased, hate-filled, corrupt, leftist, dishonest, corrupt, immoral, corrupt, biased, corrupt, organ of misinformation it's been for the last 20 years or so.
According to our good friends at the Media Research Center, the network's evening news spent the summer trashing the president with coverage that was 91% negative.
This is a grand total of 3% worse than the 89% negative coverage the networks were giving Trump before the summer.
Network executives are launching a full investigation into what took them so long to squeeze out that extra 3% of hate and vitriol.
Journalists justify their negative, biased, leftist, corrupt, dishonest, hate-filled, corrupt, biased coverage by pointing out the ways in which President Trump deserves their attacks.
As Hillary Clinton spokesman and ABC newsman George Stephanopoulos says, quote, Trump has done some truly terrible things, like winning the election when we wanted him to lose and being a Republican when we're all Democrats.
Also, he doesn't panic and knuckle under when we call him racist, which makes him an absolutely horrible person, unquote.
CNN's Jim Acosta added, quote, look at me.
I'm Jim Acosta.
I can stand on my head and shout ignorant non-sequiturs at the same time.
Look at me.
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Look at me.
Under the relentless media attacks, President Trump's approval ratings have now risen to around 45%, whereas the media's approval rating has now sunk from shut up, you snake-hearted dirtbags, to kiss my butt, you lying pieces of garbage.
The president looks forward to pushing his negative coverage up to 100% to serve his goal of achieving re-election by winning every single state in the country.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
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You know, it really is interesting.
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President Trump's ratings are actually going up, and I predict they're going to continue to go up unless there's some terrible, terrible disaster.
Politico has a big article out now that the Democrats have thrown everything at this guy.
Everything.
I mean, Russia, his base sticks with him.
And once he starts to do well, and certainly once the economy takes off, you know, people who weren't with him before will also be with him.
And so everything they've done, it just hasn't worked.
So last night, President Trump had a dinner with three Democrats and I think four Republican senators to talk about pushing his tax reform deal.
He knows he's going to need some Democrats on there if they're not, if Mitch McConnell's not going to get rid of this ridiculous filibuster rule.
He knows he's going to need maybe 60 votes.
Maybe they can do it through reconciliation and get it through.
That's also possible.
But this comes on the heels of his making this deal with, as we now call him, Chuck and Nancy.
Suddenly, suddenly from crying Chuck and crazy Nancy Pelosi, they're Chuck and Nancy, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
He made this deal to extend the debt ceiling only three months when the Republicans, certainly the conservatives, were touting their 18-month plan.
They wanted to keep it going.
Now, Mitch McConnell, by the way, I just should add this in there, that Mitch McConnell says that it's not really three months.
It'll be spring before they have to deal with the debt ceiling because they're allowed to move money around all these kind of complex Senate rules.
But also, Donald Trump is now pushing passage of the DREAM Act.
I mean, Bush couldn't do it.
Obama couldn't do it.
He's not only saying once passage of the DREAM Act, he's tweeting to DREAMers, don't worry, even though we've rescinded the executive order against DREAMers, we're not going to throw you out of the country.
And we're not going to take any action while Congress is dealing with this.
So we're not going to, you know, we're not going to come after you.
So, I mean, this comes after, let's face it, this is, remember, we remember all those meetings, those rallies that he held where they were screaming, you know, build the wall, build the wall, still happening when he does rallies, not just in the campaign.
They're still shouting, build the wall.
And Trump is saying that they're not going to attach any DACA legislation, any DREAM Act legislation doesn't have to be attached to wall funding.
So he's basically giving that game away too.
So the question is, is he, it's two questions.
Is he stabbing his supporters in the back?
And do we care?
I mean, those are the two questions.
Because we, I, I should say, I'm a conservative.
I'm not a Trumpster.
Trump, listen, Trump is a far, far, far better deal than Hillary Clinton ever would have been.
And anybody who says, oh, you know, like, well, if we had Hillary Clinton and we had a Republican Congress, look, the Republican Congress has never done anything to help anybody.
Well, they held up Obama, but still, he did all those, he had got all those judge appointments, all those regulations that he put in there.
And now Trump is really putting some really good judges, not just in the Supreme Court, but right down the line.
These are things that can never be taken back, you know, and I mean, regulations can be rolled back, but they almost never are, and they are under the Trump administration.
So he's doing a lot of good things from a conservative point of view.
But here is The Guardian, right?
This is this left-wing British publication, and they're selling this narrative.
The mainstream establishment Republican leadership made a cynical calculation to tolerate Donald Trump's dangerous faults, believing they could use him to rubber stamp their long-sought conservative legislative agenda.
Now, every word in that sentence is untrue.
That just doesn't actually, does not describe what happened.
They made a bargain with a con man, and now he has betrayed them.
His deal last week with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on debt limits and disaster spending is a huge political betrayal.
But make no mistake, for Trump, it's good politics.
Americans are fed up with gridlock and dysfunction in the Washington, D.C. swamp, and they blame Republicans as much as Democrats.
Furthermore, the legislation which might pass by making deals with Democrats polls well across the political spectrum.
Okay, so let's start with the whole immigration thing.
Because from my perspective, immigration was never the big problem.
People thought it was.
What was the problem was the lawlessness.
It's a problem to have your government say we're not going to enforce the law because we're not.
I mean, that is an arrogant, tyrannical government.
They should have to pass laws, not through executive orders, get them through Congress, and then they should have to enforce them.
And every time Obama said, I'm not going to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, I thought like, well, what's the difference then between him and a king?
I mean, we elect these guys, they make legislation.
We may not like the legislation, so we have to change it.
But how if the president just says, oh, yeah, I'm going to use prosecutorial judgment and we're not going to prosecute those laws, then the laws don't exist.
So he's just swiping the laws away just like a king.
And I think that that is the thing that really bothered me about immigration.
It wasn't rapist and murderer Mexicans coming in.
I mean, we've handled plenty of immigration before, but you've got to do it legally.
You got to have a border.
You've got to check people through.
You've got to take the people you want and tell the people who you don't want that they can't come in.
So let's take a look at this dinner that went on last night.
The three Democrats who were there all come from states that Trump won big, right?
And they're all kind of conservative.
So you have Heidi Heitkamp, you have Joe Donnelly from Indiana, and Joe Manchin is the big one from West Virginia.
And Manchin has been, he's been a kind of moderate guy.
You know, he supports gun rights.
He's been against abortion.
You know, he's done a lot of things to work across the aisle.
So he came out after the meeting, after this dinner, and he said, you know, there was a bipartisan feeling there.
This is cut number two.
It was a very in-depth conversation.
Started out with infrastructure, Joe.
Talked a lot about infrastructure.
Gary went into detail and the president, you know, basically back and forth of what we could do, the exciting things that can happen, how we can work together, public-private, but also public-private means not just turning things over to the private sector and they're going to own it and run it, but basically building it quicker and faster, getting through the minutiae of all the time constraints of eight to 10 years to build something when we should be able to do it and permit it in two years.
So we got into that and then we got right into the depth of tax reform.
And the president was adamant from the get-go.
This is not a tax cut for the rich.
And I repeat that.
This will not be a tax cut for me or any rich people.
That kind of started off the conversation.
It went pretty good from there.
So he comes out of there happy.
These are three guys who have not joined the rest of the Democrats in the resistance.
They did vote, for instance, for Gorsuch for the Supreme Court to approve courses for the Supreme Court.
And, you know, the thing about infrastructure is there's going to be an infrastructure bill.
Democrats love this, but Democrats want it to be all government spending, so they control it.
They control hiring.
It gives us tremendous power over who gets hired, who gets contracts, gives them tremendous power to take graft, which Democrats love.
And, you know, what Trump is hoping to do is kind of work out some sort of private, public thing, which would be a little bit more conservative.
It would be a moderate program.
And of course, the tax thing, you know, they've got to cut corporate taxes.
They have not cut.
You know, let's hear a little bit more about Manchin on this.
He talks about this at number three, cut number three, what they're talking about for tax reform.
Tax reform or tax cuts, whatever you want to do, has to be done to where it stimulates the economy, grows the economy on a global basis.
It's competitive.
You know, we can create the market, global market, but we've got to compete in it.
Next of all, we can't continue to add to $20 trillion.
So you have to be very sensitive.
No more debt.
You can't add on debt.
We've got to see a pathway forward to start bringing this debt down and get ourselves fiscally responsible.
And I think that's what that conversation was last night.
And what I heard, willing to explore all avenues of this, understanding that Democrats, responsible, moderate, some of us conservative Democrats, who are looking for fiscal responsibility.
You know, I've always said this.
I'm fiscally responsible and socially compassionate.
So here's an example where Trump is actually not betraying his base at all.
The base knew he was going to do this.
This is what he talked about.
Some of us conservatives may be a little nervous about all the infrastructure spending.
We may be nervous that he's going to lose those corporate tax cuts.
Those are the big ones.
It really is not the middle class tax cuts.
It's the corporate tax cuts.
And the reason for that is money gets taxed when it moves.
Money gets taxed.
When you spend something, when I spend something, when the employer gives it to you, when money is in motion, it gets taxed.
So you can cut corporate taxes, expand business, expand employment, expand production, and all these things.
And actually, when you cut the rate, you actually make more money because the money gets is moving a lot faster.
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So I just have to stop about the Mansion thing because this is really funny.
He's on, what was he on?
I guess I think it was CBS.
Yeah, CBS, because it was Charlie Rose.
And Manchin comes in and he's been at dinner with the president in this bipartisan dinner.
So it's news.
It's a real story.
They start to run out of time.
Here is the question they ask Manchin.
This is the question they have got to know about this dinner.
Cut number four.
Senator, before you go, we got to go.
But before you go, what was the menu?
Chicken, beef, fish?
What was it?
It was a medallion.
It was a beef medallion.
And it was well.
It was well done.
Senator, I hate to pry.
I really do.
I hate to pry.
But did you have one scoop or two scoops of ice cream?
No, no, we had.
Let me tell you, the ice cream was so perfectly prepared, the ice cream came beside the dessert, Gail, and it looked like an egg.
And I said, I wonder why I'm getting an egg with my dessert.
And I cut into it, and it was beautifully sculptured ice cream.
The president said to love desserts.
Did he eat more desserts than you?
No, he did not.
No, he did not.
It's unbelievable.
They hate this guy so much.
No matter what happens in this country, if he blows North Korea off the face of the earth, no matter what he does, if the economy comes roaring back, they hate him personally.
And it's not working.
It is not keeping his, it's not keeping his poll numbers down.
Trump has really done everything that has kept his poll numbers down has been generated by Trump himself with cookie tweets and not getting the thing and by the Congress not getting giving him the deals he wants.
But look, this thing with the immigration thing, it doesn't bother me that much.
He is enforcing immigration.
Illegal immigration is way down.
I don't think a wall is going to make any difference.
But when a guy gets up at every rally and says, we're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it, he ought to build a wall.
And the people who hold him, who supported him, ought to hold him responsible for that.
But do I care?
No.
As a conservative, I just want the rule of law enforced that is happening.
The ICE agents are allowed to work again.
The ICE agents love Trump because he set them free to do their jobs.
So, the answer to the two questions, yeah, I think so far he has not done what he told his supporters he's going to do.
Do I care?
No.
And one of the funny things about me, of course, is because I was not a big Trump believer.
I always knew he was not going to do a lot of things he said.
I mean, here he is.
Let's go back and just remember.
Remember all those chants of lock him up.
Just like a month ago, weeks ago, he held a rally and they were shouting, lock Hillary Clinton up, lock Hillary Clinton up.
Well, now Hillary Clinton is roaming around free.
She's going out there, you know, selling her book.
And let's just go back for a minute to one of the debates where Trump said he was going to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the fact that she destroyed emails that were under subpoena.
For you to say that there was nothing wrong with you deleting 39,000 emails, again, you should be ashamed of yourself.
What you did, and this is after getting a subpoena from the United States Congress.
We have to move on, Secretary Clinton.
You can respond when we got to the point.
We want to give the audience a chance to bear in jail, let alone after getting a subpoena from the United States.
Secretary Clinton, you can respond.
So recently, Jeff Sessions said he's not going to prosecute Lois Lerner, who was head of the I who was right in the thick of that IRS scandal where the IRS was targeting and probably is still targeting conservative groups and not giving them breaks so that they could use tax breaks to spread their ideas during the election year.
It was very effective.
It really kind of undermined the Tea Party as they were gaining steam.
And Obama was good at that.
Obama was a master politician.
He was a Chicago Paul.
He knew how to break the backs of his enemies.
He really did.
And he knew how to, he knew, you know, one of the things that Obama knew is he knew how it can be important not to pass a law, to lose at passing a law, but to win on making it look like the other side was to blame and the other side looks mean like he did with the DREAM Act.
So anyway, now Jeff Sessions says he's not going to prosecute Lois Lerner.
And that's a tough one.
I mean, look, I like Jeff Sessions.
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I suspect if he can't prosecute her, it's because he just can't get the case he wants together and he doesn't want to spend public money chasing her around if he's not going to catch her.
But it really is interesting.
Plus, they're making charges.
You know, you saw Steve Bannon the other day said that firing James Comey was one of the biggest political mistakes ever.
So they asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders about this at the press conference, and she says, yeah, this guy has really broken the law.
You know, Comey has broken the law.
So she's answering the questions, was it a mistake to fire him?
This is cut six.
The president is proud of the decision that he made.
The president was 100% right in firing James Comey.
He knew at the time that it could be bad for him politically, but he also knew and felt he had an obligation to do what was right and do what was right for the American people and certainly the men and women at the FBI.
I think there's no secret.
Comey, by his own self-admission, leaked privileged government information.
Weeks before President Trump fired him, Comey testified that an FBI agent engaged in the same practice, they'd face serious repercussions.
I think he set his own stage for himself on that front.
His actions were improper and likely could have been illegal.
Comey leaked memos to the New York Times, your own outlet.
He politicized an investigation by signaling he would exonerate Hillary Clinton before he ever interviewed her or other key witnesses.
He's very happy with the decision he made, and I think he's been fully vindicated by a lot of those new things and knowing that it was the right one.
So then the next question a reporter asks her, or a couple of questions over is, are you going to put him away if he broke the law?
And she says that is not the president's job.
It's not the president's job to appoint a special counsel.
It's not a president's job to decide whether to indict and whether to prosecute.
So now that he's dealing with the reality of it, you know, it's a lot different.
It's a lot different to ask Jeff Sessions to go after Hillary Clinton, to ask him to go after James Comey.
You know, all those chants of lock him up, lock him up.
And it's entirely possible.
And this is something, because conservatives are not only, conservatives are not only laughing at his supporters, they're laughing at conservatives who said, well, you know, we'll see what we can get out of this guy.
But really, that's silly because it's very possible that his supporters understood that he was carrying them along on emotion, but they still hoped he would do a better job than anybody else who's going to go on there and be more responsible to them.
And I think on that score, he is, even though he hasn't fulfilled his promises.
It's a really weird situation because Trump is a very emotional figure and people are attached to him emotionally.
And those of us who care about policy are kind of confused.
Well, he said he would do this, but he's not doing that.
But I don't think that's what people are following him for.
I think they're following him for an attitude.
And I think he's fulfilled, delivered that attitude in spades.
You know, I have to have my picture taken a lot.
And this for somebody like me, look, I'm a writer.
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So just to finish off this thought, Trump is in some sense not delivering the things that he told his supporters he would deliver.
But we don't necessarily have to care because it doesn't mean he's doing a bad job.
And it doesn't mean that, it certainly doesn't mean that we conservatives are getting a worse deal than we would have gotten if the only other choice on the ballot had been elected.
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I think we're getting a much better deal than we would have gotten.
There are going to be things up ahead so far because I don't care that much about immigration except as a point of law.
So far, he hasn't done anything that has made my teeth grind together, but he will.
He's going to do some left-wing stuff that's going to drive me crazy and maybe you crazy too.
So we'll watch for that.
But so far, all he's doing is getting the gears of government moving again after eight years of an uncompromising ideologue in Obama, who really did jam things up.
So if he starts to get a little bipartisan support, that wouldn't be entirely a bad thing.
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I am studying abroad in Germany this year and will be traveling around Europe as well.
I was wondering, what were your favorite places to see and visit in Europe?
Well, I lived in Europe for seven years and traveled all over.
I think my favorite, my favorite city in Europe is still London.
It's not, you know, it's not what it was.
London is so, so super crowded that it is kind of hard to enjoy unless you can get it on off-season, off hours.
But it's still a beautiful, beautiful city, one of the great walking cities.
I love to walk and it's one of the great cities.
The other city, I just love Rome.
If you haven't seen Rome, you have to go because Rome, one of the things about Europe that is really interesting is the history is so present that you can feel it coming up through your feet.
And I found living in Europe, this sounds weird, but I found that living in Europe, I worried less about the fact that people die because you felt like you were part of this gigantic thing that had been going on and on and would continue without you and was there before you.
And it was a very relaxing feeling.
It's the opposite living here in Los Angeles where there's no history whatsoever.
Rome, I just loved, because of the layers of history.
You not only have ancient Rome, you also have the Christian era, you have the medieval era, you have everything, and all of it has left its traces in the city.
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And so it's just all there.
And of course, the wonderful, wonderful Renaissance art that is everywhere throughout the city.
Where else?
I love Edinburgh.
Edinburgh is a much underrated city.
All our friends at the Daily Wire are taking a trip to Edinburgh, and I told them it was one of my favorite cities in town.
I loved traveling.
In Switzerland, Switzerland is the only landscape I have ever seen that can match the American landscape.
If you've never, I've traveled a lot around America.
I've been in every state except North Dakota, I think.
I've been in every single state, and it's a beautiful country, America.
But the Alps in Switzerland, there's nothing like them.
When you see the Alps, you cannot.
It's like seeing a movie star.
You know how when you see like a really big movie star, you go like, wow, that's so, he looks so real, you know?
That's what the Alps look like.
The Alps just completely blow you away, and you can hike some of the most beautiful hikes ever.
All right, from Steve, dear sir, who has so many titles of brilliance that I'll forget one when properly addressing you, and I wouldn't want to disrespect you in that manner, so I hope you're all right with me calling you Sir Clavin.
Actually, it's Lord Clavin.
Throughout the summer, I have been struggling with lust.
Whenever I see attractive women, I tend to think lustful thoughts and have had lustful dreams in my sleep.
What are some ways to help refocus how I view my fellow female peers as children of God?
Well, you know, that's really interesting because I always try to answer the question that I'm asked, not the question that I think is coming or the question that the listeners want to hear.
I always try to answer the question I asked.
And so what he's saying is, what are some ways to help refocus how I view my fellow female peers as children of God?
Which is a really good question because women don't understand this.
Women do not know what it is to be, especially a young man.
Obviously, you cool off a little bit as you go on.
But when you're a young man, women do not understand the force of the desire that men live with.
The desire not just to have sex with women, but to the desire to have sex with various women, so that being married itself can be a real trial.
There are certain days when you just think, wow, I got to, you know, I have to have variety.
This is built into the system.
It is put there by God.
It is what we are, how we are made.
You know, so it's not something that you're going to be fighting against.
Now, people always quote Jesus when he said, you know, you've heard it said that thou shalt not commit adultery, but even if you have lust in your heart, that is adultery.
But I don't think Jesus is saying, therefore, you're a bad guy.
What he's saying, therefore, you are in a state of sin.
This is not what man was made to be originally, but it is what we are now.
So the question is not, how can you get rid of your lust?
You can't.
I mean, that is the way men feel.
And it's really difficult, especially, like I said, when you're young, it is really difficult dealing with women.
My father gave me, he did not give me a lot of good advice, but this is a great piece of advice he gave me.
I'm going to translate it out of obscenity because it was obscene when he gave it to me.
But basically, when I was a young man and I became, I grew up during the 60s and things got very sexual very fast for me.
And he gave me the piece of advice.
He said, just remember that every one of those beautiful women's bodies has a human being inside it.
Okay, that's not quite how he put it, but let's just say that that was the idea.
And that is something that I always have tried to remember, that the person you're talking to is not just a form and a shape that excites you, is actually a person with an entire universe inside herself that is there.
And that is, look, you're not your body.
You are a person.
You are a full, complete person.
Your body is one component of that.
Your body is doing what your body is supposed to do.
Your body is supposed to desire and reproduce and have sex and begin a new generation.
That is one of the things your body is made to do.
But you are not your body.
And in dealing with human beings, you can lust after them all you want, but just remember that there's a human being inside that shape that you lust for and treat her that way.
Treat her that way.
It'll actually improve your life in general.
I hope that's helpful.
There's nothing I can say that'll make the lust go away.
Like I said, it cools over time, but it never goes away.
Maybe I shouldn't say that.
Maybe it does eventually, but it takes its time.
It takes its time leaving.
From Daniel, would you recommend a couple getting a pre-nuptial agreement before marriage?
In my view, getting one seems to convey an underlying lack of trust.
But then again, there are so many marriages ending in divorce.
You know, for the very reason you say, I would not recommend a pre-nuptial agreement unless there is a fantastic disparity of wealth, in which case, for instance, in California, I think the laws, I'm talking off the top of my head, but I think the law is that basically the minute you get married, your property is common property.
So if you are some movie star and you marry a waitress, you know, it really isn't fair that you might, that marriage might fall apart within a year and she might take half your goods.
That really isn't fair.
And the same thing works the other way if the woman is the one with all the money.
If there's not that big disparity, I really believe that married couples should join their fortunes together completely.
I do not believe in separate bank accounts.
I don't believe in separate vacations.
I don't believe in a woman keeping her maiden name.
I believe that when you get married, you become one flesh and that should be reflected in everything you do.
So basically, I would just say, you know, I mean, you know, your bank account is your bank account and your property is your property.
And I think California is basically right about this.
Divorce is a genuine problem, but you shouldn't go into a marriage expecting divorce.
You should go into a marriage expecting that to be the rest of your life.
So I don't really recommend pre-nuptial agreements before marriage unless, as I say, there is some explicit reason.
There's some real reason why a divorce would render the outcome so unfair, so unfair that you need some protection.
Otherwise, most people tend to get married when they don't have all that much.
And I think that you should just get married and join your fortunes together.
From Sakari, dear overseer of the universe, Clavin, that is my part, that's my moonlighting job.
Were you a virgin before you got married?
I am worried that since I am not a virgin, it may be harmful to my future marriage if she is still a virgin.
Is that true?
You know, I was not.
Like I said, I grew up in the 60s.
Things really got nuts.
You know, one year when I was, say, 12 or 13, I would have thought, of course, you're a virgin when you get married.
And then the culture just shifted.
It was like an absolute earthquake and everything was different.
And little kids, and that's essentially what I was.
We're having sex.
We were having sex.
And, you know, that was the way of life.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I wouldn't recommend it.
But on the other hand, I also would not trade it.
I wouldn't trade the relationships I had.
Most of my relationships with women have been incredibly friendly and loving and kind.
There have been a few bad ones in there, but I wouldn't trade those relationships for anything.
No, it doesn't have to be harmful to your wife if she's a virgin and if she doesn't get obsessed with your thinking about your having other people in your past.
She has to not get obsessed.
You have to keep your mouth shut.
It's not something she needs to hear about.
If the women contact you from your past, and that has happened to me, you should very quickly put the kibosh on that.
As we used to say, you should very quickly shut it down.
Your first loyalty, your first interest should be in giving your wife a peaceful, happy, trusting life.
You shouldn't be emailing old flames.
You shouldn't be texting people that she doesn't know about.
You shouldn't be carrying on relationships online that could be construed as sexual in any way.
You be faithful, you be loving, you be affectionate, and your past is your past.
You can't change the past, so it doesn't matter, right?
But it's not necessarily hurtful.
Also, of course, before you get married, get a blood test.
Make sure you're not passing anything on besides your genes.
All right.
Last one, I guess.
We got to wind up.
Greetings, all-powerful ruler of the multiverse.
Have you or anyone you know personally ever had a near-death experience?
If so, has it strengthened said person's faith and or given them a more easy-going outlook on life?
I find myself thinking more about mortality, and while I'm a Catholic, I still find myself being fearful of what's after this life.
Thanks for reading.
Dave, I do know a woman who had a near-death experience.
It was a literal near, I mean, she died.
And she was a young woman, and she had a, I think, a heart attack, and she died.
And I saw her not long after at a party, and she, in fact, saw her, she lifted out of her body and was aware of what the doctors were doing, and she could see everything from a different point of view.
And then she was brought back into her body.
And the funny thing about her is she was kind of a communist, kind of a materialist leftist.
She had no beliefs.
And she still didn't have any belief after it was over.
So I said, well, what do you think?
And she said, well, I don't know.
I thought, like, really, you're vouchsafed a vision of the afterlife and it didn't change your opinion.
Who knows?
Maybe since then, it was pretty soon after she had it.
But I do, look, there's so many reports of them.
I do believe in them.
I do think they're true.
The only mystical experience I ever had, it is in my book, The Great Good Thing, in my memoir about my conversion.
When my daughter was born, I was actually swept.
I had an out-of-body experience.
I was actually swept out of my body.
It was completely real.
It wasn't an illusion.
I was totally aware.
I actually experienced the flow of my love for my wife, which is intense and ongoing, bleeding into my love for this new child.
And then I started to lose myself in what I saw with my own eyes.
And by the way, I was not a believer at the time in anything.
I saw with my own eyes was a sea of love.
I actually saw I was being swept away in a sea of love and I got scared and I pulled back into my body because I was afraid I was going to be swept away.
I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't done that.
So, you know, I do believe in these things.
I've seen them for myself.
There was no way for me to explain it.
I'm a very down-to-earth person.
I don't go around having mystical experiences.
I do believe in after-death experiences.
And if that gives you any faith, great.
Otherwise, I would say go for the faith.
Because look, if there's nothing, if there's nothing, you're not going to know about it anyway.
So you don't have to, there's nothing to worry about.
All right, it's time for Tickety Boo News.
So this is kind of a different way of looking at the news, a different way of looking at the world around this, because I think, you know, there's just so much...
It's not that I'm looking for good news.
It's that I'm looking for reality.
I'm looking for the constant flow of attacks and bad news and anger and rage to just part and let's see what's really going on.
And I think sometimes for conservatives, it just seems like the culture is against us.
It is against us.
The Democrats, the left, runs Hollywood.
It runs the academies.
You know, they're doing a fundraiser for hurricane relief.
And the last time they did this, remember with Katrina?
That's where Kanye West got up and said George W. Bush doesn't like black people and they've given, you know, so Stevie Wonder, who a lot of people, I'm not a big Stevie Wonder fan, but I recognize his talent.
He gives this speech, listen to this speech.
It's incredible.
They just can't stop and they can't hear themselves either because listen to what he says.
We've come together today to love on the people that have been devastated by the hurricanes.
When love goes into action, it preferences no color of skin, no ethnicity, no religious beliefs, no sexual preferences, and no political persuasions.
It just loves.
As we should begin to love and value our planet.
And anyone who believes that there is no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent.
So, I mean, I'm not even going to go for the cheap blind joke, but I mean, he goes, there's love.
It's for everyone.
It doesn't matter your politics, your sexuality, your race, your colour.
It's love.
It's love.
But if you don't believe what I believe, you're an idiot.
He can't even, they're so convinced of what they think.
They're so wrapped up in the bubble of what they believe that they don't see how they insult people.
And what you see, and especially you see this in the late night comedy shows, you see them training up their audience to believe what they believe.
And that's what makes us so feel like we have no chance to get these people back.
You know, the politics is downstream from culture.
Listen, here's Jimmy Kimmel.
Anybody, any comedian who doesn't look at Hillary Clinton now and come up with material about this is not doing his job.
He's not doing his job.
So Jimmy Kimmel is now, this is cut number one.
He does a thing where he has Lucy the Pooh, right?
He's Hillary Clinton as Lucy the Pooh.
But even as he's making fun of her, he can't make fun of her.
It's got to all be about Trump and it's got to be about the fact that she shouldn't have lost.
But listen, he makes one slight joke about her and listen to the audience react.
Listen to this.
Once upon a time, not too long ago, November 9th, to be precise, Piglet was skipping through the woods when he happened upon his friend Lucy the Pooh eating a giant jar of her feelings.
What's wrong, Lucy? asked the clearly uninformed Piglet.
What's wrong?
I was supposed to be the first Pooh president.
I've been preparing for this since I was a cub.
All the polls had me winning.
So how did you lose, questioned Piglet?
Well, I was better prepared in the debates, some foreign policy experience as Secretary of State, and I won the popular vote in a landslide.
I'm lost, said Piglet.
That sounds great.
Yes, but I never hosted a reality show or put my name on Vodka or grabbed a heffalump by the woozle.
Or visited Wisconsin, added Piglet.
Luzy the Pooh let out a big sigh and stared into the distance.
Well, at least I'll never have to deal with that loud orange lunatic ever again, muttered Luzy.
And suddenly, out of nowhere, Luzy heard a loud roar.
So then it just becomes Trump-bashing, as always on every late-night comedy monologue ever.
But you heard that the one time he mentioned the fact that Hillary lost because she campaigned badly.
Aw, the audience.
They're being trained.
They're like trained dogs who are being taught there's only one narrative.
This is what it is.
You know, and we are going to, and you, if you are a good person, you are going to subscribe to that narrative.
Now, here's the thing.
So that's late night TV.
That's all the powerhouses.
That's all the mainstream media.
That's being fed wherever you go.
You want to see Stevie Wonder.
You got to listen to climate change.
You want to watch Jimmy Kimmel.
You got to get the guy you voted for.
Watch him get slapped around every single night over and over and over again.
They just feel they own this culture.
Here is a YouTube star that we've had on a couple times.
She's just come out.
Her name is Candace Owens with the myth of the coon.
She is this absolutely, if you can't see it, she's an absolutely beautiful black girl.
This is her response to all of this.
I love this.
Here's the thing, famous ladies and gents.
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Nobody cares what you think.
Nobody.
Nobody cares what you think.
We don't care what you think.
I love this.
So here is Elizabeth Ames at the Fox website.
The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016.
Now it's overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance, the growing number of liberals, quote, taking the red pill.
People of all ages and ethnicities are posting YouTube videos describing red pill moments, personal awakenings that have caused them to reject leftist narratives imbibed since childhood from friends, teachers, and the news and entertainment media.
And of course, you remember the red pill comes from the Matrix.
Here's the famous scene.
You are a slave, Neo.
Like everyone else, you were born into bondage.
Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch.
A prison for your mind.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.
You have to see it for yourself.
This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill.
The story ends.
You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill.
You stay in Wonderland.
And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Okay, so if you haven't seen The Matrix, this is going to be a bit of a spoiler, but I'm just assuming everybody knows what it's about.
The Matrix is the fact that the entire world they live is an illusion, and they are being used.
Human beings are being used as batteries to power us machines, right?
They're powering machines.
But to keep them quiet, to keep them in their little cocoons where they are all wired up to these machines to suck out their brain energy, they give them this illusion.
That is what the Democrats and the leftists do.
They give you the illusion of virtue.
They give you illusion that you're living in this world of virtue to get power, to take power from you.
And people are finding out, and they call it taking the red pill.
So let's just look at a couple of these, just a couple of clips of this YouTube thing.
It's mostly young people, but it's all kinds of people really just saying they took the red pill.
Here's the dissent report.
Essentially, I took the red pill by a combination of a few different things.
For one, I saw really most of my friends on Facebook and in person, but largely on social media, moving extremely far to the left toward an authoritarian sort of progressivism.
They took these liberal ideas and they turned them into suppression of anything that stood in their way.
So it became fairly evident very quickly that these people weren't actually standing up for anything relating to liberty.
Really, they were just standing up for a divisive brand of politics that would tolerate no dissent whatsoever.
Okay, so that was a guy who saw this on Facebook, right?
He saw the hatred.
And by the way, this has been really intense.
I mean, I know a lot of people who are conservatives, but they're quiet conservatives.
They're moderate conservatives.
They don't go out around talking about it.
But suddenly they're looking on Facebook and they're seeing their friends unleashing this vitriol, this hatred.
And they're like, wow, if they said that to my face, you know, that would be a terrible, terrible thing.
But they're saying it on Facebook, they don't understand that they're talking to human beings.
Maybe they don't know about their friend's political persuasion.
So they're just saying this hateful thing.
And now these guys are seeing the hate.
And here is the other one.
This is a woman named Kristen Lauren.
So that was a guy who saw it on Facebook, saw it on the news, essentially.
Here is a woman named Kristen Lauren talking about her experience that she did something.
She's not very specific about it.
She did something that almost destroyed her life because she was following left-wing precepts.
I've taken the red pill.
So that is a matrix reference.
But it also has a lot to do with politics and worldview.
And after this experience, I took the red pill and I can't unsee what I see in the world now.
I can't remove my perspective just for comfort anymore.
It's like the world is a bad place and our society is so f ⁇ ed up and it's going to hell and hell and hell faster thanks to so many reasons that people just are throwing everything away.
And I almost threw everything of mine away because I was following my environment.
I was following what I thought was right.
I was following the advice of people who I thought cared about me.
I was following the advice of my society.
See, I mean, I find that very moving because that's the other thing.
Conservatives are not trying to hurt anybody.
They're trying to help people.
You know, when we talk tough and we tell you what reality is and we tell you, you know, that you're not a girl just because you put on a dress.
When we tell you that you're not being compassionate when you give out welfare to people and hook them on these things.
We're not trying to hurt people.
We're trying to help people.
And she had that as a personal experience that wasn't on Facebook.
She made decisions based on what the society, as she says, was telling her and suddenly realized, ooh, you know, that was a close call.
She said it was like a bullet grazing her, you know, that came that close.
Another woman is this Cassie Jay who was making a documentary, a feminist, who was making a documentary about the men's rights movement, meaning to attack them and started listening to their arguments and thought, wow, they're right.
They're right, you know.
And that's, and that was, and she stopped being a feminist and then found that her relationship with her boyfriend, surprise, surprise, really improved.
Suddenly her life started to improve as well.
You know, the thing about it is, is listen, we are now the leaders in trolling.
I think we have a great, you know, routine.
We're very funny.
Twitter, we just own Twitter.
Conservatives, I'm talking about Twitter.
We own Twitter.
We own the humor world.
These guys with their F-Trump every night are not that funny.
We really are.
The conservative voice is now the voice of humor.
But we also have to deal in facts.
We have to deal in information.
And we have to deal in a compassionate delivery of the truth because people are waiting for this message.
They are waiting to hear.
They have been cheated out of their birthright.
They have been cheated out of their American heritage.
They have been cheated out of the truth about the world.
And now that bill is coming due and they're taking the red pill.
They're getting angry.
We could start to win this fight.
We conservatives could start to win this fight if we just learn how to talk to them and how to welcome them when they come over.
It's good news, actually.
Who's coming on tomorrow?
I think it's Kurt Schlichter.
Is Kurt Schlichter going to be on?
He has just written an article saying that Trump is doing exactly the right thing by dealing with the Democrats.