Chapter 1: What does a viral column say about women and parenthood regret?
A viral column encourages women not to have children based on a highly scientific survey of Reddit. We will get into the supposed epidemic of parenthood regret. Then good news and bad news. The bad news is the Iran war and high gas prices will likely drag on for weeks. not just based on layman analysis that's coming from the administration.
The good news, after Iran, we are likely taking Cuba, and Mayflower will get some new cigar blends. That should be great. Finally, the Oscars apparently happened last night. I did not watch, but I saw the clips. You might have to if you didn't. Conan O'Brien took the opportunity at the show to invert reality. I'm Michael Knowles.
Chapter 2: How are current events in Iran affecting gas prices?
This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Is the CIA investigating Tucker Carlson for being an Iranian spy? That's the claim that Tucker is making on his show. It sounds kind of like a right-wing mad lib, a right-wing new media mad lib. Is the blank, is the Mossad surveilling Alex Jones for being a Club of Rome spy?
Is that you could fill it in with almost anything, but Tucker is making the claim quite seriously. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and I I wonder, I'm not saying this is totally made up. I just wonder how many layers of misinformation from how many places in the government, multiple governments, media organizations is coming out in this.
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Chapter 3: What happened during the recent Oscars and its significance?
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Chapter 4: Is there a connection between the Oscars and TPUSA's cultural impact?
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Reflexively, we had gotten used to saying, once again, nobody watched this stupid show. And that had been true all the way up through 2021. From 2015 or even earlier through 2021, the ratings of the Oscars kept declining. You used to have in the 90s, you'd have 50, 55 million people watching the Oscars. Then it dropped down to, I think, 10 million. I think that was the lowest number we ever saw.
Then it started to tick back up again. We don't have the ratings yet. I certainly didn't watch it.
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Chapter 5: What claims are being made about Tucker Carlson and the CIA?
I didn't watch any of the movies that were nominated. I watched part of the... Korean movie because it was recommended to me for the kids. And so I started to watch it. I didn't even finish the Korean movie. What was it called? I'm not performing. I just don't remember Demon Hunters, K-pop Demon Hunters. That was the only one that I even watched a part of this year.
But in any case, Conan O'Brien took the stage and he riled up the American right with this joke about TPUSA. I should warn you tonight could get political, okay? And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. It's at the Dave and Buster's down the street. A lot of tickets for that. Some of the right got upset about this joke. I liked it.
I liked the joke. I think it's pretty funny. I really liked it. And one of the many frustrating consequences of Charlie's assassination is that everybody is presuming to speak for him. Here's what Charlie would have thought about this. Here's what Charlie would have thought about that. Here's why Charlie Kirk would have supported my precise ideological and political agenda.
And I find the whole thing disgusting and I endeavor never to do it. even when I'm quite confident of what Charlie would have thought about this or that.
However, when it comes to jokes about TPUSA or about Charlie or about some of what we're doing here on the right, I can't help but remember that when South Park put Charlie in the show as a character, there was the Charlie Kirk Awards and then Cartman became Charlie. Charlie loved it. He took it as a badge of honor. I think I totally agreed with him. I think it was a badge of honor.
And so when I see this joke, major, major comedian, major, major talk show host and Oscars host making a joke about TPUSA and TPUSA's cultural impact from the stage of the Oscars, I think that's awesome, man. I love that. That's great. The only thing worse than people talking about you is people not talking about you when it comes to politics. I think it's great. One, it's a clever little joke.
And two, the import of that joke is that TPUSA matters. That halftime show, when they put on the alternative halftime show, that mattered. It got everybody talking. It did bonkers ratings, tens of millions of views. It mattered so much that the Oscars is going to make a joke about it. And the joke might be that the alternative halftime show didn't matter.
But the very fact that they're talking about it means it did matter. I love that joke. I think it's great. I love that Conan O'Brien made it. I think it's very much, you know, within the standards and norms of these kinds of jokes. And I think it only bodes well for TPUSA and the conservative movement at a time that the conservative movement could use it. Conan made a stupid joke after that.
Conan made a joke about elites, pedophiles, and the Brits. And the joke fell flat for a simple reason. Here's the joke. It's the first time since 2012, first time since 2012 that there are no British actors nominated for best actor or best actress. Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles. So we got that going for you.
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Chapter 6: How is the Iranian war expected to impact domestic politics?
It's this viral column. It's my lead story. This viral column. Okay, I have to get to it. It's my lead. Look, I don't care that I'm running late. Deal with it. Deal with it, Daily Wire producers. We have to get to it. I'll get to it quickly, though. Very stupid column. I regret having children. It's in the cut by New York Magazine. It was going bonkers.
Here is just the pitch of it, right at the top. Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large. What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might think.
The Reddit page, the rregretfulparents subreddit alone, gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate. Those stigma makes it hard to admit in real life. Below, three moms of young children talk about why they wish they could go back to their old lives.
First off, off the top, turning to Reddit to find samples of well-balanced, mentally stable people is like going to visit the Pygmies to put together a basketball team. You are setting yourself up for failure right off the top. But maybe there are some people who regret having kids. And they found, what, three people to be interviewed for this article?
A 34-year-old Rhode Island mother of a six-year-old and a three-year-old. I gave up everything I liked about my life to make children fit into it. When my husband and I were dating, his deal breaker was having kids. I didn't feel the same way, but I didn't see life without children as an option. The whole point of marriage is to have children. Some people don't get to have children.
Infertility is a cross that some people bear. It's a fallen world. But the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children. A good of marriage is the mutual support of the spouses. That's great. That's wonderful, too. But the point, the telos of marriage is having kids. She says, yeah, it was weird.
My husband said that the only reason he would want to get married is to have kids. Isn't that so weird? I remember telling my husband, I'm worried. I love our life now. And I'm not sure what it's going to look like with the child. He told me it's going to get better. I was the executive of a nonprofit, which was a stressful but fulfilling job.
I was worried about my career, but I thought there are working moms everywhere. People do this. Then I had my first baby. Okay. So right off the bat, I'm not going to get through. I mean, some of these get really dark, but right off the bat, this woman says, look, I was worried because I liked my life and I feared what would happen if I did the next thing in life. This reminds me of C.S. Lewis.
I forget which book it was. You know, he has so many great ones. But in it, he said that a child loves chocolate and thinks chocolate is the greatest thing in the world. And if you were to tell this child, you know, there are actually even better things in the world. There are even, let's say it's like a teenager or something. You know, not to make it creepy. I forget C.S. Lewis' exact wording.
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