Ep. 744 - The Euphemism Treadmill
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On today's show, Michael Knowles talks about the Democratic push to pack the Supreme Court, and why he thinks it's a bad idea. Plus, he talks about his new book, "The New Most Dangerous Game."
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Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court. Packing the court is when you increase the number of judges
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on the court. And to justify their calls to pack the Supreme Court, often explicit calls to pack
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the Supreme Court, they accused Republicans of packing the Supreme Court. And they did this by
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redefining the term packing the court to mean just replacing the judges when vacancies come up on the
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court instead of adding to the number of judges on the court. So that was the old strategy. Now,
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though, they've gone even further. While they are trying to pack the court, they are now saying that
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they are not only not packing the court, but they are in fact unpacking the court. Some people will
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say we're packing the court. We're not packing it. We're unpacking it. We're unpacking it, says Jerry
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Nadler. Yeah, come on. Up is down. Come on. True as false. Left is right. East is west. Come on.
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Democrats yet again attempting to redefine reality by redefining all the words. I'm Michael Knowles.
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most consistent strategy, which is to redefine reality or attempt to redefine reality by redefining
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all the words. That's basically the definition of political correctness. And they're doing that here
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with court packing. However, there is a little glimmer of hope for those of us who want to keep
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some semblance of our constitutional Republic. Namely, Nancy Pelosi is not gung-ho about bringing
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this court packing bill to the floor. I support the president's commission to study such a proposal,
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but frankly, I'm not. Right now, we're back. Our members, our committees are working. We're
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building the infrastructure, putting together the infrastructure bill and the rest. I don't know
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if that's a good idea or a bad idea. I think it's an idea that should be considered. And I think
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the president's taking the right approach to have a commission to study such a thing. It's a big step.
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It's not out of the question. It has been done before in the history of our country a long time ago.
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And the growth of our country, the size of our country, the growth of our challenges in terms of
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the economy, et cetera, might necessitate such a thing. But in answer to your question,
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I have no plans to bring it to the floor. No plans to bring it to the floor. This is a little
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bit of a side note. I don't like watching people talk when they've got a mask on. It makes them look
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like cartoon villains. It makes them look like banditos. It's weird. It's creepy. I don't like it.
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And she shouldn't be doing that. However, all of that said, I am pleased to see that Nancy Pelosi
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is now really only trying to use court packing as a bargaining chip. But she is suggesting,
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she is implying here that she does not actually want to pack the Supreme Court.
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The fact that this is so popular on the left, though, and among Democrats is just exhibit
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Z. I don't know. Exhibit Z times 50 of the disingenuousness that you hear from Democrats when
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they accuse Trump of upending constitutional norms and threatening our democracy because he
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sent a tweet or something or whatever, said something that he didn't even say that the
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Democrats pretended he said. The Democratic Party is trying to force in new states to give them a
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permanent majority. The Democrats are trying to turn the District of Columbia, the federal district
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that is never supposed to be a state, by definition, it is not supposed to be a state, trying to turn it
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into a state and they're trying to pack the Supreme Court. So I just don't want to hear it. I never want
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to hear another word about Donald Trump and the constitutional norms. The left doesn't actually
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care about constitutional norms because the left hates the Constitution. And so they're trying to
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upend all of society and not just our foundational legal document, the Constitution, but all of it,
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all the institutions, all the traditions. That is the plan of the cultural radicals.
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And conservatives are playing a fool's game when they try to win the debate by showing
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the illogic of the left's plans. There is no logic here. If Jerry Nadler can walk on TV and say,
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we're not going to pack the court, we're going to unpack the court. Anyway, yeah, we're going to do
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what we want. We're going to grab power and we're going to grab money. And that's just the way it is.
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This is not just happening at the level of elected office. This is happening throughout the culture.
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The Associated Press, which has long, not only given in to political correctness and woke language,
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but has in some ways led the charge in the past. They are now banning the people who follow the AP
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guidelines from using the term mistress. What's a mistress? A mistress is a lady who's sleeping with
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a married man, right? No, no longer. The AP style book says, quote, don't use the term mistress for
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a woman who's in a long-term sexual relationship with and is financially supported by a man who is
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married to someone else. Instead, use an alternative like companion, friend, or lover on first reference
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and provide additional details later. Now you see the problem with friend, say. I am friends with
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Andrew Klavan and Andrew Klavan is a married man. I do not want there to be any confusion about the
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nature of our relationship. So you've got these very vague words, friend, companion. They're really,
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they don't tell you anything. Then you've got a more specific word, lover, but there are all sorts
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of lovers. People can have lovers in a perfectly above board way, or at least relatively above board
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way. But when you're sleeping with a married man, that's not above board. That's wrong. That's sinful.
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You shouldn't be doing that sort of thing. But we're not allowed to use the term mistress.
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Whatever term you end up using is going to acquire negative connotations. This is called the euphemism
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treadmill. Steven Pinker, who is no conservative, but he's a Harvard professor. He pointed this out
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a number of years ago now. The idea of the euphemism treadmill is that radicals want to deny harsh
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realities. So they sugarcoat them with euphemisms. However, over time, the realities remain. And so the
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realities, because they continue to assert themselves, will recolor the euphemism that people
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add to it. So whatever word you're going to make up for mistress, it's going to take on a negative
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connotation. This is true for people who have mental deficiencies. Initially, terms like simpleton or
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idiot or moron were, or retard for that matter, were, you might say euphemistic. They were terms
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that were trying to describe in a way that was relatively polite and inoffensive, this deficiency.
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But because the deficiency is not particularly desirable, you know, it's a, it's a, by definition,
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it's a deficiency. Over time, it takes on a negative connotation. And so rather than just trying to
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be compassionate to people who have not just mental deficiencies, but all sorts of deficiencies,
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and we've all got something. Instead, what these linguistic verbal hygienists want to do,
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these cultural radicals want to do, is just come up with a new term. And they think that's going to
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change the underlying reality. It doesn't really happen. And I don't want to just straw man the AP's
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argument here. The AP goes a little bit further. They say, quote, we added this guidance last year.
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It's not new. We understand it's problematic that the alternative terms fall short, like suggesting
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that if I am friends with Andrew Klavan, that implies something that nobody wants to think
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about. But, they write, we felt that was better than having one word for a woman and none for the
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man, and implying that the woman was solely responsible for the affair. Well, it doesn't imply
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that the woman is solely responsible for the affair. There are all sorts of terms for a man
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who cheats on his wife with some woman. You call him a cad, you can call him an adulterer,
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you can call him a womanizer. There's plenty of terms for that. But you're right, it's not the
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same term. It's different. You wouldn't call a man who's in a similar kind of relationship
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a mistress. But the words are different, not because of the unfairness of our language and
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the patriarchy. The words are different because the sexes are different. And the sexes are very
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different in this regard. Very rarely are you going to find a young man who is a kept man
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from an older woman. You know, he's pursuing this older woman who's got a family, but she's
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cheating on her husband with this younger man. And it's an illicit relationship, but you know,
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she keeps him up in a nice apartment or something like that. That's just not how it works. Men and women
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have different relationships to sex. Their sexual desires are of a different character.
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The significance of sex to them is of a different nature. The things that men would do if they were
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not hemmed in by the moral order and our marital vows sexually are different than the behaviors that
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women would engage in. Feminism seeks to deny this. Leftism broadly seeks to deny this because they
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cannot stand the difference between men and women. It's why they're so obsessed now with
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redefining men to become women and women to become men and, and defining sex as a social construct.
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But there actually is a difference. And that's why there are different words. And you can try to
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change the words, but it's just not going to change that reality. I'll give you an example of
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trying to sugarcoat evil with sweet and soft words. NPR is just reporting this right now.
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For the first time, US and Chinese scientists have created embryos that are part human,
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part monkey in an effort to find new ways to produce organs for transplants. But some ethicists
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worry about how such research could go wrong. Gee, you don't say. Some, some ethicists are worried.
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Even here, what is this? Scientists have created, so it's the scientists have created it, right? Even
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though it's, one imagines these scientists are backed by not just national political cooperation,
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but international political cooperation. They've created embryos. What's an embryo? An embryo is a
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human. It's a person. They're part human, but part monkey. And they're just doing it to try to find
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new ways to produce organs for transplants. In plain English, what that says is that these Chinese and US
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scientists, obviously with political support, are creating human hybrids, breeding them,
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so that they can kill them and harvest them for organs, so that those of us who are currently
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older, who have survived birth, can live maybe a little bit longer. Scientists are now trying to
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create a human hybrid, specifically for the purpose of sacrificing that creature, so that we can eke out
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a little bit longer in this life. So we can steal their organs and put them in our own bodies
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and live a little bit longer. The ethical concerns, I don't think, are that the research will go wrong.
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I think it's gone pretty wrong already. People are just not aware. They don't have perspective.
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reported by NPR. It's not like it's some fringe website that pushes conspiracy theories on the
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internet. Actually, I guess it's NPR, so it is a sort of fringe website that pushes conspiracy
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theories. But they consider themselves mainstream. They're backed up by taxpayer dollars and the
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liberal establishment. And they're trying to present this idea that we're going to breed
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sort of semi-humans and harvest their organs for ourselves. They're trying to say this is a good
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thing. It's a good, it's a wonderful thing. You know, a bioethicist at Case Western Reserve
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University at Harvard. In Soo Hyun says, quote, I don't see this type of research being ethically
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problematic. It's aimed at lofty humanitarian goals. Well, there it is, breeding a race of
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semi-people to kill them and take their organs. That's, but it's for the purpose of helping
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old rich people today live a little longer. Isn't that, come on, that's great. It's a,
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that's a lofty humanitarian goal. Reminds us that the religion of humanitarianism is a very
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wicked religion indeed, because what it tries to do is divorce. It tries to keep some of
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Christianity, but without Christianity. And it ultimately turns our attention away from God
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toward just ourselves. And it leads to a radical sort of selfishness in the guise of this really
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moral, compassionate language, like you see here. There is nothing, I cannot imagine a single
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more selfish thing than breeding people to steal their organs or breeding half people or creating
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a new race that is somewhat human just for yourself. We used to recognize in this culture
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that death comes for us all and that there are some things that are worse than death. I've talked
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now for over a year about the neurotic hysteria that people have descended into during COVID
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because it seems they're just waking up to the fact that they could die. And by the way, the COVID
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death rate is pretty low. But even that is freaking people out and causing us to upend our society
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because people don't want to confront the fact of death. They want to push it to the side.
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They want to deny it. They want to avert it altogether if they can, which is a fool's errand.
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They don't believe in eternal things. They don't believe that there can be a life after death. They
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think, gosh, you know, all those stories about Christianity, those are fairy tales. How could
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anyone with two brain cells to rub together believe in that? You know, all those idiots like,
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I don't know, Thomas Aquinas or all those really dum-dums like Pope Benedict XVI or, you know,
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Isaac Newton or, I don't know, all the smartest people ever who have ever lived. You know, those
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guys, they believe in crazy, ridiculous stuff. And so we, because we're rational, because we're
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scientific, because we understand what's right, we are going to create monkey-human hybrids to steal all
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their organs and put them in our own bodies to live a little bit longer. Ah, something went wrong
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there. We need to turn not to these experts who are obviously ethically idiotic. Is that, is that
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the politically correct term? What term am I supposed to? They're simpletons. They're morons. I don't know
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what term I'm supposed to use. We should turn to people in the culture like this UFC fighter whom I
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had never heard of before because I don't really follow the sport, but she is great and she's much
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smarter than any of these, of these experts around us. Rose Namahunas. Is that a Namajunas, Namahunas?
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I don't know. She made this point in an interview that for her, she would rather be dead than red.
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I have, I have a lot to fight for in this fight and what she represents. And, um, you know, uh, I was
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just, I was just kind of reminding myself of, you know, all the, my background and everywhere that I
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come from and my family and everything like that. And we watched, um, and I kind of wanted to educate
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my training partner, Chico Caymus on, uh, the Lithuanian struggle and like just the history
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of it all. And, um, so we watched the other dream team just to kind of get like a overall sentiment of
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what we fight for. And, um, so just the, after watching that, it was just a huge reminder of like,
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yeah, it's better, better dead than red, you know? And I think, um, I don't think it's any coincidence
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that Whaley is red, you know, she's, uh, that's what she represents. It's nothing personal against
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her, but, um, that's a huge motivating factor of why I fight and I fight for freedom.
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So this fighter, she goes on, it's very eloquent. She, I guess this other fighter that she's referring
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to as some sort of pinko. And she says, look, we have, we actually have different values here.
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I would rather be dead than red. Yes. That that's not just jingoist slogans that Americans used to
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recite during the cold war. That is a moral truth. I would rather be dead than red.
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This goes right back to the Bible. When Christ says, do not fear those who can destroy your body,
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but destroy, but, but fear him who can destroy your body and your soul in hell.
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You, you should, you should not only be worried about your physical safety all the time. That will,
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that will deprive you of your dignity and you're going to end up, well, I guess we're,
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we're living in a moment when people are denying human dignity more broadly by creating little
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hybrids in, in laboratories and by trying to compost humans as we were discussing yesterday
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on the show. But I still believe that humans have dignity. I still think we have a rational
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soul. We have an intellect and a will and that we should, we're made in the image of God. I believe
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all of that. And so if I were forced into a political system that demanded, they told me,
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you need to embrace a radical atheist materialist system called communism, or we're going to kill
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you. It wouldn't take me two seconds. Say, oh, kill me. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of death. I don't
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want to suffer. I don't, I'm not exactly happy about pain. I don't want to endure that, but death
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itself. No, I'd like to extend my life reasonably, but you know, I'd like to like to live a good life
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in accordance with providence, but I know ultimately I'm going to die. And so I don't fear that. I want
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to just make sure that I'm in a, I'm in a good position when I die. I don't, I don't think it's
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necessarily wrong for researchers to be trying to figure out ways to improve human health,
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but there is a big difference between researching ways to improve human health
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and creating and destroying human-like creatures, you know, semi-human creatures
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for the purpose of living by their death. That is an inversion of, well, it's an inversion of
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Christianity. It's an inversion of, of the religion that has traditionally built our civilization.
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And it's an inversion of all the lines that we talk about, about how we need to be progressive
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and selfless and open. And yeah, it's all bunk. It's all total bunk. Speaking of reds, by the way,
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CNN, this poor schlub, this, this technical director from CNN who got caught on James O'Keefe's
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sting operation. O'Keefe has released a new video in which the CNN technical director explains that CNN
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I was trying to do some Lisa, trying to like the Asian hate, like the, you know, the people are
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getting attacked over there. A bunch of people that have been attacking Asians. Um, so I'm like,
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what are you doing? Like, we're trying to like help like the BLM and like, you're gonna, like,
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I mean, it's individuals. It's not a people, you know, um, that's not good. The optics of that are
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not good. These little things like that are enough to set back movements, you know, because the,
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the, the, uh, the far left will start to latch on and create a story of like, um, criminalizing
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an entire game, you know, just easy, easier headlines. I guess it's easier. It's easier
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headline. They just want to help BLM. That's all they're trying to do. But sometimes the reality
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is contradicting the BLM narrative. And it's just really frustrating if you're a reporter at CNN,
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because then, you know, there is a lot of pressure for you to report the news, but you're not there to
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report the news. You're there to push a narrative that is not in accordance with reality. And gosh,
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that's really frustrating. I kind of feel bad for this guy because I think he thought he was just
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impressing some chick on a date and instead he's just spilling secrets that are now, well, they are,
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they are depicting, I think the reality. Speaking of BLM too, I have to get back to this story that
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we've talked about the last couple of days. There's, there's more development on it. You know,
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that the BLM founder Patrice colors has been buying up lots of super fancy houses. They've renamed BLM
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by large mansions. So she came out, she denied it. She said, I'm not taking money unfairly out of BLM.
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And then the New York city BLM chapter said, wait, well, hold on. What are you guys doing?
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At least give us a cut. That's I think the implication, but Hey, I, this seems like it's
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not totally above board. Well, now we figured out how she got her money. According to the daily caller,
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a Los Angeles jail reform organization paid Janaya and Patrice consulting. I guess this is a firm that
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Patrice colors owns, uh, paid her $20,000 a month while she served as the chairwoman
00:23:53.460
of the, it's a ridiculous term in itself. Well, she served as the chairman of the jail reform group.
00:23:59.240
This consulting firm received a total of $191,000 over the course of 2019 via payments from reform LA
00:24:06.160
jails. That's just one organization paying them huge amounts of money. How many other organizations
00:24:13.140
was Patrice colors on the take from in extortion efforts? So she can't say, no, I wasn't taking
00:24:18.660
the money from the BLM organization. I don't take a penny from them. I just shake down all the companies
00:24:22.640
on my own through my consulting firm. So I don't even need to go through BLM man. Oh man. Is that woman
00:24:28.220
crafty? I, I need to plan a similar kind of strategy. And if I'm really going to sit there and try to
00:24:37.580
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xjernoles.com. So BLM, we're now beginning to find out how these radicals are making their
00:25:47.600
money. The way they're doing it is they fundraise for the organization, which is just the militant
00:25:53.500
wing of the Democrat Party. But then these founders of BLM, like Patrice Cullors, are buying
00:25:57.800
up all these zillion dollar homes, it seems, because they're shaking down all the other
00:26:01.580
shell organizations on their own through their own political consulting firm. What consulting
00:26:06.340
is this woman giving? It's just an extortion front, which a lot of race hustlers have done
00:26:11.060
over the years. This is nothing new. Al Sharpton used to do the same thing. This woman just
00:26:14.620
seems to have gotten more efficient about it. And I can't blame her. I blame her because
00:26:22.020
her goals are evil and bad, and because she's contributing to the destruction of the country
00:26:28.280
that I love. So I blame her for that. But just from a pure political operations standpoint,
00:26:33.800
I give her a lot of credit. I wish conservatives knew how to do this sort of thing. I wish
00:26:39.240
Republicans knew how to behave in this sort of way. What she is doing, what she has recognized,
00:26:44.620
first of all, is that big politics attracts big money. And both of those sorts of things
00:26:49.620
will give you a lot of influence. And she's just practicing that. And she is amassing for
00:26:54.560
herself a lot of money and a lot of political influence. And then she is exercising that influence,
00:27:00.120
not just to buy herself nice swimming pools or whatever, because she's doing that too,
00:27:04.400
but to advance her political agenda. If only conservatives could do that. You know, I'm not
00:27:10.760
saying conservatives should be immoral in any way or that we should violate any of the moral order.
00:27:16.900
But I wish that we understood what political power is and how to exercise it. Because the left is
00:27:24.220
much, much better at it. And they're very, very effective. Speaking of political campaigns,
00:27:31.260
hitting a little bit of a snafu, the confidence in the coronavirus vaccine is plummeting right now.
00:27:38.520
This, according to an economist, YouGov poll. So you know that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine went
00:27:44.180
on pause because there was apparently a blood clotting issue in certain rare cases. There was
00:27:48.680
killing people. So among those surveyed before the announcement of the Johnson and Johnson pause,
00:27:55.880
52% of respondents said that the vaccine was very safe or somewhat safe. Twice the number of people
00:28:03.500
who believed it was very unsafe or somewhat unsafe. After the announcement about Johnson and Johnson
00:28:07.900
came out, those figures seemed to change quite a bit. Only 37% of the respondents felt the vaccine
00:28:15.420
was safe. And 39% felt that the vaccine was unsafe. And it's not just the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
00:28:22.120
Blood clot deaths related to the vaccine have apparently been reported in Italy and Denmark
00:28:27.200
from AstraZeneca. And Denmark has now removed the AstraZeneca vaccine. I mentioned this a little bit
00:28:33.860
on the show yesterday. I think it bears reiterating. I'm not saying that the vaccine is totally unsafe.
00:28:39.500
I'm not saying that you are likely to get a blood clot if you take the vaccine. I'm not saying that
00:28:43.780
under no circumstance would I take the vaccine. What I am saying is there is a prudential risk
00:28:51.920
calculation whenever you're getting any sort of medical procedure. And the public health eggheads,
00:28:58.380
the liars in lab coats, such as Dr. Fauci, but all the other people that Dr. Fauci represents,
00:29:05.020
he's just the high pontiff in the, in the church of secular progressivism. When they told us,
00:29:09.560
no risk whatsoever, everyone's got to get the vaccine. Don't, don't calculate your actual risk
00:29:14.860
from the virus. Just go get it, get it, get it. You have to get it. You have to get it. There's
00:29:17.440
no risk whatsoever. They were obviously lying to you because there is always a risk. Might be a small
00:29:22.180
risk, but there are risks. And by the way, I think the reaction to it, the pause on the vaccines,
00:29:28.000
I think we can blame the same public health eggheads who have been misleading us. And in some cases,
00:29:34.700
is lying to us over the past year because their credibility is completely shot. So when people,
00:29:41.900
when whatever it is, 39% of people say they think the vaccines are unsafe, I can't blame them.
00:29:46.780
But Michael, only seven people got the blood clot issue out of a 7 million vaccinated. Okay, fine.
00:29:52.480
I just wish that the public health experts had been more forthright from the beginning,
00:29:56.840
because then we wouldn't have this problem of credibility, would we? Then people could exercise
00:30:01.400
prudence, which is a virtue you're not allowed to talk about anymore, but it is a core conservative
00:30:06.380
virtue. The radicals seem to be running the show. It's not just these radicals running through the
00:30:12.260
streets, burning down the cities, them too, but they seem to be in positions of serious power in
00:30:17.280
the Biden administration. Kristen Clark, who we sounded the alarm on months ago when her name was
00:30:22.200
floated for the Biden administration, she is up for the US Department of Justice Civil Rights
00:30:26.800
Division. She's supposed to lead that division. It's a very powerful division. I talk about her
00:30:30.940
actually at great length in my upcoming book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:30:33.980
available now for pre-order, by the way. This woman is a radical's radical. She published an
00:30:39.780
article at Harvard in the Harvard Crimson about how black people are superior to white people because
00:30:44.040
of the melanin in their skin. The same kooky theories that Nick Cannon, the actor, was spouting off on
00:30:49.440
some months ago. The same kooky theories that Professor Jeffries, famously this crazy professor in New
00:30:55.840
York, was spouting off on years and years ago. This woman was pushing the same stuff, and she's up for a
00:31:00.920
leadership role in the DOJ civil rights division. Senator Cruz absolutely wrecking this woman during
00:31:08.520
her testimony. Your advocacy and frankly extreme position on defunding the police
00:31:16.380
is paired with a history of not only excusing, but celebrating murderers who have murdered police
00:31:26.200
officers. It's been reported that during law school, you helped organize a conference with
00:31:31.180
speakers who referred to convicted cop killers as political prisoners. Did you organize the
00:31:38.300
conference, and do you support celebrating those who murder police officers as heroes and political
00:31:47.500
prisoners? I was a student providing logistical support to a notable historian who was the one who
00:31:55.420
organized that conference. So if there's a police officer in Philadelphia or New Jersey today
00:31:59.720
watching this hearing, how are they supposed to react to your nomination to one of the senior
00:32:05.520
positions of the Department of Justice, knowing that as a student, you participated in a conference
00:32:12.340
celebrating and lionizing cop killers? No, well, it goes on. You should take a listen to the whole
00:32:20.300
exchange. This woman basically denying that she said what she said. This woman said, no, no, forget the
00:32:27.640
headlines that have been written on my articles. Forget what I've written in articles. No, no, I
00:32:31.800
don't believe that. No, no. Like Jerry Nadler says, we're not trying to pack the court. We're going to
00:32:36.300
unpack the court. What? What are you talking? You can't just, you can't just use your words to
00:32:42.180
contradict reality, perfectly contradict reality, and then hope that on the strength of your
00:32:46.860
redefinition and your euphemisms, you will actually create the word anew. I don't care how narcissistic,
00:32:52.480
how prideful you are. You ain't going to succeed at that. The left keeps doing it. Cenk Uygur, big
00:32:56.980
left winger, he tweeted out the other day, now people are saying they won't travel to red states
00:33:02.700
because it's a danger to be around conservatives. Nearly half of Republicans say they won't take the
00:33:06.760
vaccine. It's literally hazardous to your health to be around this death cult. Their ignorance has
00:33:12.300
reached a clinical level. I think he's suggesting here that because conservatives, just by being who
00:33:16.720
they are, are a health threat that that would justify a public health response. What does that
00:33:22.000
mean? Can get pretty dark there. I love too that people who have been living in the neurotic fear
00:33:27.060
of death, like inside their own homes, afraid of the Wu flu for a year, call the rest of us a death
00:33:33.020
cult. But he's also just wrong on the numbers. By raw count, six out of the top 10 states right now
00:33:38.160
for COVID cases are Democrat run states. They're not Republican run states, 60%. And then if you look at
00:33:43.920
the seven day case rate per 100,000 people in the population, the top 10 states are all run by
00:33:49.640
Democrats, every single one. So even just on the pure facts, the data, the science, what's going on
00:33:56.220
in reality, Democrats' case does not, it completely falls apart. But the left, like Cenk, like this
00:34:04.080
woman, Kristen Clark, like Jerry Nadler, they believe that they can change the reality with their
00:34:08.740
very words. Don't let them do that. You got to listen to the best words, folks. If you want some
00:34:12.900
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00:34:25.120
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the show's doing great. But mostly because if it does really well in the ratings and everything,
00:34:44.740
then I think we get to all rename our shows so I can just be Michael. I've always more or less
00:34:49.740
wanted to be Cher. So, you know, if I just get that one name, that would really be great. Go check
00:35:05.460
Welcome back to the mailbag. First question from William, who writes,
00:35:11.680
Hey, Michael, you denounced the idea of composting your remains as a debasing or savaging the decorum
00:35:18.220
of the station we as God's chosen creation hold. I understand the point you were making,
00:35:23.100
but I disagree. When I saw the possibility of being composted in the future, I immediately told
00:35:28.340
my wife that is what I wanted if it was available. Those close enough to me to be concerned with my
00:35:34.240
physical remains have a saving relationship with their creator, and I can think of no greater use
00:35:38.100
or service for my physical remains than to feed my children's tomato plants and my creator's world.
00:35:44.600
Did you have a deeper theological objection to this practice, or was it simply that you
00:35:48.480
personally think it debases God's creation? Well, my personal opinion is based on my theological
00:35:53.240
views, but there's a more practical consideration. Namely, your kids don't want to eat you in a
00:35:58.540
tomato, my friend. I see the impulse of what you're saying. Well, we'll all be part of
00:36:03.880
creation, but I fear that that has more to do with the modernist pseudo-religion of environmentalism,
00:36:11.200
or Gaia, the idea that we're all just going to be part of the world, man. You are more than worm
00:36:15.500
food, my friend. You are more than a tomato. You have a special place in creation. You are made in
00:36:21.320
the image of God. You have base appetites. You have aspects of you that are kind of animalistic,
00:36:27.000
that make you in some ways like the human monkey hybrid that the psychopaths in lab coats are
00:36:33.960
currently creating. But you also have a higher rational will and intellect, which mediates
00:36:40.000
between your base animal nature and the divine will. And hopefully, as you practice the virtues
00:36:46.200
and grow in sanctity and holiness, you can focus more on that one and less on the bottom one. But you
00:36:50.780
are not a tomato and you should not be a tomato. And we all have a natural repugnance, I think,
00:36:57.920
at this. When you think about the reality of it, you might have a sort of rationalist, ethereal,
00:37:02.120
out in the pie in the sky idea of what that would be like and why it's so nice. But if someone served
00:37:06.320
you your daddy in a tomato, something tells me you would not want to eat it. And there is a great
00:37:11.340
wisdom in that repugnance. Not the least of which, because if you're Christian, the traditional
00:37:17.680
Christian expectation is that we look forward to the resurrection of the body in the life of the
00:37:22.700
world to come. Does this mean that your body needs to remain perfectly incorrupt for all of history?
00:37:28.360
And if it starts to decay in any way that you're totally up the river? No, I don't think that's
00:37:34.720
what we're saying here. But what it's saying is that the body has some significance to you.
00:37:40.020
You are not truly a soul that happens to be kind of briefly attached to the body, but the body doesn't
00:37:44.720
really matter. That is the argument of the transgenderists. That's the argument of the
00:37:49.280
Gnostics or the Albigensians or all sorts of other kooky sects that have cropped up in history. But the
00:37:54.120
body actually has something to do with who you are. And in the resurrection, after Christ comes again
00:37:59.580
and the resurrection of the body, the body will have something to do with you then too. And I think
00:38:03.120
that is why we need to treat the body with some respect, both now and after we turn to what many
00:38:10.100
people would consider to be worm food. From Sophia, hey Michael, I live in Israel, where our government
00:38:15.320
has instituted the green passport for people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Those who
00:38:20.080
choose not to be vaccinated, like me, are treated as second-class citizens and are barred from certain
00:38:24.380
events, hotels, etc. The Israeli version of the green passport has become the model for the UK and
00:38:29.500
other countries in Europe. This is a massive infringement of our human rights, privacy, assembly, etc.,
00:38:33.840
and has made our lives increasingly more difficult. My question is, if America does not go along
00:38:39.260
with the green passport, do you think this global initiative is dead in the water? As a global
00:38:44.100
initiative, I think it is, because the United States, whether we want to admit it or not,
00:38:47.380
is the global hegemon. China now is an emerging superpower, but the US still dominates and we
00:38:53.100
like to pretend that we're just our own country and other countries are other countries, but we run
00:38:58.900
the world. That's just the way it goes. And so if we disallowed these sorts of things, if we prohibited
00:39:07.080
green passports in the United States, like Ron DeSantis is doing, like Tate Reeves is doing in
00:39:12.600
Mississippi, like other governors are taking the lead on here, then I think it would have a lot
00:39:18.080
greater trouble being instituted around the world, especially for tourism, you know, when people rely
00:39:22.580
on American tourist dollars. So this is a fight I think we absolutely should fight, not even because
00:39:28.260
I'm totally against vaccines or something like that, but something really seems to have cracked here
00:39:32.680
in the country. We are, we are freaking out over this virus in a way that we haven't freaked out
00:39:39.740
over other deadlier viruses. And it's not because the science has changed. It's because the philosophy
00:39:45.460
and the religion have changed. And that's really bad for the culture. That's much more dangerous to
00:39:50.140
the body politic than the virus is to the body. From Cameron, dear Michael, I'm a 20 year old female
00:39:55.500
conservative at a very liberal university. Because of this, it's challenging to get career slash future
00:40:00.760
advice from someone who shares my values. I plan to attend law school and become a lawyer because
00:40:04.520
I'm passionate about fighting injustices like human trafficking. However, I also hold deep family
00:40:09.320
values and am worried a career will get in the way of my being a mother. Everyone I talk to thinks my
00:40:15.340
career is much more valuable because of the whole women empowerment thing. I agree, but raising a family
00:40:20.840
is much more empowering to me. How do I know I'm making the right decisions amidst all the liberal
00:40:26.180
nonsense? Thank you for all you do. Raise a family. Get married and raise a family. That is what you
00:40:32.980
should do. That is much more important than you going to law school and doing whatever else you
00:40:36.920
want to do. You can be involved in the causes you want to be involved in. You should ignore all of the
00:40:42.020
lib dummies who are telling you to ruin your life and you should instead get married and raise a family.
00:40:49.160
Would I give this advice to every single woman? No, I was actually talking to a friend of mine
00:40:53.260
last night who is having a little bit of a crisis in this regard as well, or at least having questions
00:40:58.460
about it. I do not deny that there is some very small number of women who truly have a total aversion
00:41:06.660
to raising a family and who really just need to be working in some career and they're really,
00:41:13.600
really drawn to that. I'm not denying that that is true. But the fact that in your question,
00:41:18.360
you are questioning that, right? The entire culture is telling you, you've got to put off
00:41:23.520
having kids, put off getting married, work at the widget shop, become a middle manager,
00:41:27.520
work on spreadsheets. That's the most important thing in life is spreadsheets and making widgets
00:41:31.120
and stuff. The fact that even amid all that ridiculous noise, you still say, God, I kind of,
00:41:37.140
I kind of want to raise a family. That's what you should do. That is 100% what you should do.
00:41:43.000
And if the whole culture is telling you that you're wrong, you should be much more confident that
00:41:47.260
you're right because the culture has gone completely crazy. Best of luck in all of your
00:41:52.000
endeavors. I hope you have a very, very good and fulfilling life, even if all the lunatics are
00:41:57.740
screaming at you. From Matt, Mr. Knowles, resident papist and Lord of Covfefe, my question relates to
00:42:04.640
the bedrock of Christianity, namely the resurrection. Disregarding the highly debated shroud of Turin,
00:42:11.280
is it reasonable to believe that the story of the resurrection, in the story of the resurrection,
00:42:15.240
without any physical evidence? If so, does that mean Christians believe a man rose from the dead
00:42:18.860
solely based on testimony? Your thoughts would be much appreciated and I'd be grateful to hear
00:42:23.200
any reading recommendations you have on the subject. Love the show and keep up the great work.
00:42:28.140
Well, I wouldn't dismiss the shroud of Turin, first of all. I mean, this is a little bit of a side note,
00:42:32.120
but the shroud of Turin is, I believe, worthy of belief. It is, for those of you who don't know what
00:42:38.700
the shroud of Turin is, it is this object that is a death shroud that has the image. It's like a three,
00:42:45.400
or rather, it's like an x-ray image of a dead man on it that looks a lot like what you would
00:42:51.860
imagine Jesus to look like. And there have been attempts to say that the dating doesn't work to
00:42:56.060
the right place, but those have been debunked. And no one has any idea really what this could be.
00:43:00.760
It seems that the image has been emitted through some burst of light, like an x-ray.
00:43:07.760
It's not paint. There's nothing like that. So anyway, I just think the shroud of Turin is quite
00:43:13.180
good evidence. But yes, my belief in the resurrection does not hinge on the shroud of Turin.
00:43:18.220
There are 500 eyewitnesses to the resurrection. They're written about in accounts that were compiled
00:43:24.600
within just decades of the crucifixion and the resurrection. If this was just completely bogus,
00:43:32.440
first of all, I don't think the accounts would match up quite in the same way that they do.
00:43:35.900
But also, you would have other accounts of people saying, this is completely bogus. You would have
00:43:39.740
people disproving it. But a lot of people attested to the resurrection. Then you have the lives of the
00:43:44.940
apostles, all of whom, I guess they could all be just totally nuts, but they don't seem like they're
00:43:50.680
totally nuts. And it seems weird to me that all of them would seem so totally nuts. And it seems weird
00:43:53.880
that they would seem so persuasive and logical to all the people at the ends of the earth that
00:43:57.460
they traveled to, to spread this message of the resurrection, the good news. It seems strange to
00:44:03.460
me if they, so if we say they weren't lunatics, if they were just liars and deceivers, I don't really
00:44:07.840
know what they would get out of it. Most of them, almost all of them died because they were preaching
00:44:13.680
that message at various places on earth. Thomas dies in India. Paul and Peter are killed in Rome.
00:44:19.460
So that, that's a little strange to me. And moreover, if you're saying, if you're saying that it's a
00:44:26.920
little strange to believe in this event, the central event in the history of the world, because we're just
00:44:34.560
doing it based on testimony, how do you believe in anything? Other than things that you can see with your
00:44:41.540
own eyes, how do you believe in anything? And by the way, even something you see with your own eyes
00:44:48.040
can deceive you later on because memories are somewhat fickle. So how do you believe in anything?
00:44:55.120
Why it's by applying your faculties of reason to perception and to testimonies that you have heard.
00:45:03.720
How do we know that Aristotle lived? How do we know that Napoleon lived for that matter?
00:45:09.240
How do we know that we went to the moon? How do we know that the sun is going to rise tomorrow? How do
00:45:14.680
we know that George Washington really lived and fought a revolution? How do we know any of this
00:45:22.600
stuff? It's based on testimonies and some are more credible than others. And it seems to me that the
00:45:27.400
testimony of the resurrection is far from being unbelievable or incredible or something.
00:45:35.400
You know, it's incredible in the sense that it inspires awe, but it seems to me that some of
00:45:40.300
the most credible testimony in the history of the world look at how people believed and how many
00:45:45.440
people believed at it, what that impelled them to do and what that has brought forth as a matter of
00:45:49.760
our civilization. From Justin. Hey, Michael. I look forward to your show every morning while
00:45:54.400
working from home. Thank you. That's very nice. I recently pre-ordered your book. Do I get a ding for
00:45:59.160
that? Is that a plug technically if I'm reading his letter? Okay. The judges have ruled. No ding.
00:46:04.260
Oh no. Okay. We got it. Okay. We got a ding. We got a ding. That's fine.
00:46:08.640
Anyway, he goes up. I ran into a little conundrum. I was hoping you could help with.
00:46:12.220
Is it better to order your book through Amazon to boost the Amazon numbers of conservative literature
00:46:17.240
or is it better to order through your publisher to avoid giving money to Amazon while also getting
00:46:22.080
a signed copy? I'm hoping you could advise since I have not been able to sleep at night because of
00:46:26.800
this. Thank you. Very kind of you to worry about this. Well, you can get an autographed first edition
00:46:30.900
and a little bit more money. It's not much more money. I think it's like the book lists,
00:46:34.240
it's for about 29 bucks. It's discounted on some of the websites to like 22, 23 bucks and you can
00:46:39.040
get a signed first edition for 30 bucks. So you can do that if you're interested. To your broader
00:46:44.640
question, I'll actually broaden this out even beyond my own book, though I do love to plug it,
00:46:49.220
which is should conservatives be patronizing these companies that hate us? In some cases,
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no, where it's easy enough to switch. Probably not. But in a case like Amazon, where Amazon just is
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the store, right? And they just dominate the marketplace and they especially dominate the
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marketplace for books. Then I don't think that we need to hold ourselves to the standard where we
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never use those companies and we're going to be so ideologically pure. I would go further than that
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and say, no, we should use the companies when we have to use the companies or when they dominate
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the marketplace. And then we should use politics to punish those companies and drag those companies
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back in line into not undermining our constitutional republic. This is what the left would do and they
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would do it to immoral ends, but they would recognize political reality and use it to their
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advantage. And I think the right should do that as well. Coincidentally, this is alluded to in that
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book that you are very kindly ordering. From Matt, dear Michael, my father is convinced that Lincoln was
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a bad president because he used slavery as an excuse to greatly increase the power of the federal
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government over the state governments. My dad says that this paved the way for the huge governmental
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overreach we are seeing today. I tend to disagree. I think governmental overreach largely began with
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Wilson and the administrative state and that Lincoln keeping the union together was a good thing.
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What do you think of Lincoln? And do you have any book recommendations that are fair to both sides
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of this argument over Lincoln? Came for Knowles, stayed for Knowles. Thank you very much.
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I'm pro-Lincoln. I like Lincoln. I'm not saying that there are no questions that you can make
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about his political career. I'm not even saying that the radical question of whether or not
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you had to fight this bloody, bloody civil war and rip the country apart over the issue of slavery
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in order to get rid of slavery. I'm not even saying that that's out of the question. A lot
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of other countries got rid of slavery around the same time we did, and they did it without a bloody
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civil war. So would it have been possible? Maybe, though I sort of doubt it. But this gets to the
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heart of a question that I think conservatives are debating right now, which is states' rights,
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very important. Federalism, very important. Local power, very important. But rights in the abstract
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take an object. The right to do what? States' rights to do what? And Lincoln had a much clearer
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moral vision here. He said, yeah, we like states' rights, but not states' rights to just do profoundly
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evil things. Apply this to abortion. Do the states have a right to get an abortion, you know, to have
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abortion? There are two schools of thought on this. The really mainstream one on the right is that,
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yes, you know, if we got rid of Roe v. Wade, it would go back to the states, and some states could
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have it, and some states couldn't. The stronger argument, though, actually, which is gaining ground
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on the right, and is pretty persuasive even to me, who used to think of the other argument, is,
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no, the 14th Amendment, you can't do it. You can't kill people like that. No, not even if the
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states want to. The states' rights to do what? When we think about our freedom of speech, free speech
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to say what? Freedom of belief, freedom of religion, freedom to believe what? What are we
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actually talking about? We got to get a lot more concrete, because politics has not only form,
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but substance, too. And that is really what's going to separate the good guys from the bad guys in the
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country that we want to be from the country that we don't want to be. And we need to get much more
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