The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles Book Signing and Q&A ｜ Speechless： Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

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00:00:30.280 Well, good evening, everyone. Good evening, Michael.

00:00:32.540 Good evening.

00:00:33.320 Hello. Welcome to The Daily Wire's live book signing of Speechless,

00:00:38.240 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. There it is.

00:00:40.920 My name is Cabot Phillips. I'll be your host this evening.

00:00:43.980 And of course, I'm joined by the man himself.

00:00:46.220 You may know him as the Saint of Suave, the Sultan of Swagger,

00:00:49.560 the prescient prince, the austere religious podcaster, Mr. Michael Knowles.

00:00:55.060 Wow. What an introduction that was.

00:00:56.980 There it is.

00:00:57.380 You're really good.

00:00:58.400 Michael, it's here.

00:01:00.100 Your book release day is here.

00:01:01.480 This is why I really feel good.

00:01:02.840 I have been, first of all, I've been a best-selling author for four years now.

00:01:07.280 You remind me every time I see you.

00:01:08.360 Yeah, I do. I wear a little name tag.

00:01:10.080 But I have never been an author of words until this very day. It was only blank books until this very day.

00:01:17.460 I have been shilling this book for what seems like, what, 18 months now? Two years? I don't know how long.

00:01:24.800 This book, this actually took some time to write.

00:01:26.940 I will say also, I have seen you around the office on a literal typewriter multiple times, and I've just assumed he is writing his book.

00:01:35.340 Yes, that was the sequel. The first one is speechless. The next one is shameless for how much we're selling this.

00:01:40.940 Do you know, this book was due to the publisher on the same day that my son was due into the world, and both of them came in on time?

00:01:51.400 Did you induce labor to get the baby part out of the way?

00:01:53.680 I actually, I kid you not, I finished, I finished the final little bit. I still had to do notes.

00:01:57.540 I finished the final little bit. I go into my wife's belly. I say, Sonny, you can come now.

00:02:01.880 Five hours later, her water breaks. It's not a joke. But I, I still had to finish up a few things.

00:02:07.300 So I'm sitting there in the labor, you know, delivery room, like the most callous husband in the world.

00:02:11.400 My wife is screaming. I was like, can you keep it down? I'm trying to finish up the book. We made it in.

00:02:15.540 They say the Lord doesn't play favorites. He might play a little bit of favorites with Michael Knowles.

00:02:18.880 Anyways, before we get into all of the festivities this evening, I'm going to give you a quick rundown of what we're getting into on this fine night.

00:02:26.000 First off, we'll be taking live questions from the viewers, from all you guys, everybody who pre-ordered Speechless.

00:02:31.880 So throughout the stream, buy the book. You'll get a chance to ask a question, and Michael will get to as many as he can tonight.

00:02:38.360 If you want to submit a question, again, if you want to submit a question, head over to premiercollectible.com slash Speechless, all right?

00:02:45.620 Once you make your purchase, you'll see a window to include your question.

00:02:49.140 And we're actually going to get to the first question right out of the gate.

00:02:52.360 So I've got a book here for you to sign. I'm going to give this to you.

00:02:55.040 The first question, as you were signing the book, Speechless, is from Connor in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:03:03.820 And Connor asks, you have this ringing bell that you do whenever the words speechless are said.

00:03:10.100 And how did you pick that? And did you just pick it because you wanted to Pavlovian dog people into buying it whenever they hear that bell?

00:03:19.660 Yes. That's my answer. I know it was two questions. The answer is the Pavlovian response.

00:03:24.840 Do you know, I started this maybe two, three months ago.

00:03:29.020 Every time I would say Speechless, I could be at dinner and I'd say Speechless.

00:03:32.100 There it is again, right?

00:03:33.160 I could be at dinner and I could say Speechless and it would just, and I could say Speechless and it, okay, there we go.

00:03:42.960 And, you know, it would just come out.

00:03:44.700 There was a listener to the show who mailed me two physical bells because sometimes I wouldn't be able, you know, if I didn't have a producer nearby, you know, let's say I'm having dinner and the producer showed up late, I couldn't get the bell in.

00:03:57.600 So I'd be there, I'd be caught without it.

00:03:59.220 I'd say, I would be sitting at the table and I would say Speechless, nothing would happen.

00:04:02.880 That is just a travesty. I can't imagine having to say that.

00:04:06.060 Uh-oh.

00:04:06.620 What is going on right now?

00:04:07.960 Oh, no.

00:04:08.420 What is happening?

00:04:08.860 I broke it. I said too many.

00:04:10.380 Oh, the camera's not just shaking. It's actually the whole ground.

00:04:15.980 Wow.

00:04:16.740 Wow.

00:04:17.260 That's what happens and we're back. Okay.

00:04:19.040 So that's what happens when we hear Speechless.

00:04:20.620 This is a real Hollywood studio.

00:04:21.640 That is how you start. The entire set was actually shaking people at home. That was not acting at all. We literally fell.

00:04:28.020 Also coming up this evening, beyond just having the entire world shake around us, we have a shout-out from all of your friends.

00:04:34.020 We had to kind of scrape the bottom of the barrel to find enough people willing to endorse the book.

00:04:37.640 But we got a few from the bottom of that barrel.

00:04:39.780 I get to hear from some of them this evening.

00:04:41.360 Right.

00:04:42.000 We might actually have a president of the United States that is offering an endorsement of your book.

00:04:47.240 I'm not going to say who it is.

00:04:48.360 No.

00:04:48.900 It might not be who you think it is.

00:04:50.040 Okay.

00:04:51.100 I'm just going to leave it there.

00:04:52.520 That's going to be at the very end.

00:04:53.700 You're going to have to stick around to get to hear from that.

00:04:55.660 And also, we're going to test your ability to fight through censorship.

00:04:59.860 The book is about censorship.

00:05:01.440 We're going to test your ability to fight through censorship, not metaphorically, but literally.

00:05:05.440 Just going to leave it there.

00:05:07.240 Stay tuned for that part as well.

00:05:09.080 But first, we talked about the dinging.

00:05:11.440 Your good friend Tim Poole, host of a fantastic podcast, which you'll be on tomorrow, talking about the book.

00:05:16.660 You actually had some of your wonderful listeners.

00:05:18.420 I don't want to say troll, because they weren't trolling.

00:05:21.880 They were just doing the Lord's work, promoting your book.

00:05:24.780 And they went on his show, and they forced Tim to have to do a free promo for your book.

00:05:29.620 They paid money to do this.

00:05:31.420 They actually paid money in Super Chats to get Tim to plug my book.

00:05:36.620 We have a super cut of that, so you can see just how many people.

00:05:40.380 You wonderful listeners.

00:05:41.380 Seriously, guys, this was awesome what you did.

00:05:43.700 Let's watch a little bit of a cut of that.

00:05:46.000 We got the footage right here.

00:05:46.860 Michael Brogan says,

00:05:49.560 Holy S, it's Michael effing Knowles.

00:05:52.140 That's it.

00:05:52.600 That's the super chat.

00:05:53.620 Plug.

00:05:54.620 Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

00:05:56.980 Ping, ping, ping, plug counter.

00:05:59.640 That was, that's my favorite comment.

00:06:01.600 Not only from this show, from weeks, from weeks of my show, too.

00:06:05.360 What you have done with your show and your audience to plug this book is genius.

00:06:09.280 Because now you come on my show, and they're making me promote your book.

00:06:13.440 All right, I'm going to read it.

00:06:14.620 Joseph Hoffman says, Michael, I'm looking forward to your new book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:06:21.540 Available not for pre-order.

00:06:22.800 Corporal Hillbilly says, Tim and gang, not asking for financial advice, but where are good places to get into the crypto game?

00:06:28.160 Also, don't forget Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.

00:06:32.100 Ha ha.

00:06:32.440 Ding.

00:06:32.640 P-Dawg says, if you want a depiction of life without electricity, read the Going Home series by A-American.

00:06:38.700 Really makes you think about how people would act.

00:06:40.840 Also, Michael Knowles' book, Speechless, is available for pre-order on Amazon.

00:06:44.780 Ding.

00:06:45.200 That dude is going to sell so many books.

00:06:47.080 Yeah, ding.

00:06:48.060 Speechless.

00:06:48.680 Mediocre Fisherman says, hey, Tim, when are you going to write a book?

00:06:51.060 If you didn't know, Michael Knowles' book, Speechless, is on pre-order.

00:06:54.560 Oh, you got me.

00:06:55.020 Oh, I love it.

00:06:55.560 They got me, promoting Michael Knowles' book.

00:06:58.440 All right, Neil Sawyer says, hey, Tim, just wanted to plug your newest channel, Cast Castle.

00:07:03.620 It seems like it's going to be great, but speaking of greatness, Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, is available for pre-order.

00:07:12.460 They tried to get me on this one, but they didn't do a good enough job, but I'm going to read it anyway.

00:07:17.340 Rampton says, the first chat's name was Nightingale Maury, but did you know that Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles,

00:07:25.560 is available for pre-order.

00:07:27.640 Also, I got my Tim Foyle Gorilla Share.

00:07:29.400 So Michael Knowles' book, Speechless, is on sale for pre-order.

00:07:34.700 That was beautiful.

00:07:35.660 What does that make you feel inside?

00:07:36.680 That is a really, really beautiful thing, because I'm glad that everyone is in on this.

00:07:42.500 The real motivation to write this book, some people said it's because I want to change the way that the conservative movement talks about free speech.

00:07:49.360 Some have said it's because I want to win back the culture and the country.

00:07:52.440 Yeah, sure.

00:07:52.840 Really, it's about the absolute vindictiveness, the pure vitriol I have for the New York Times.

00:08:02.040 And I just really want to hit that list.

00:08:04.020 I want to stick it right in their eye.

00:08:05.920 And everyone seems on board to help me do that.

00:08:08.540 You know the best way for people to help you stick it to the New York Times is going to premierecollectibles.com.

00:08:13.500 True.

00:08:13.680 And for just one small payment, you can help feed a little Italian boy and feed his ego in helping to tarnish the New York Times list.

00:08:25.780 You can put that anywhere, by the way.

00:08:27.060 That's totally fine.

00:08:27.760 With your name.

00:08:28.840 So we're going to get some more questions here.

00:08:30.160 We've got one.

00:08:31.220 This one right here is from Raymond in Chesney, South Carolina.

00:08:34.180 Raymond asks,

00:08:34.820 What is one thing that Americans are not doing that they should be doing to stop this takeover of words and speech?

00:08:42.100 God bless Mr. Knowles.

00:08:43.500 What do you think of Raymond?

00:08:44.900 You know, we were speaking of presidents earlier.

00:08:48.240 I hope that President Trump lives a good long life.

00:08:51.300 I hope that he has many more years on this earth.

00:08:53.580 He's got good genes.

00:08:54.660 You know, he's very well preserved by Diet Coke and delicious American food.

00:08:58.580 However, when the time eventually comes, as it must come for all of us, I hope that he donates his body to science and his spine to the GOP.

00:09:08.040 Because conservatives don't have courage on this issue.

00:09:11.800 I mean, even at the moments when conservatives have some moral clarity, they say,

00:09:16.500 You know, actually, Drag Queen Story Hour is not so great.

00:09:19.860 Maybe having perverts twerk for toddlers at, like, second-grade classrooms may be not the best thing in the world.

00:09:26.620 But then, you know what they'll say next?

00:09:27.820 They'll say, But I could never impose my views on, you know, my crazy view that it's not good for perverts to jiggle around for two-year-olds.

00:09:36.720 We need to be able to do that.

00:09:38.540 All regimes of speech, all self-governments need to make moral decisions about how we're going to live, how we're going to get along together.

00:09:46.560 Every society has taboos.

00:09:48.620 Every society has standards.

00:09:50.120 And what we need to be able to do is articulate a real standard, a substantive vision of politics.

00:09:56.480 We need to put that out there.

00:09:58.020 We need to be willing to embrace it and enforce it.

00:10:00.400 In the 1950s, you could get canceled for being a communist.

00:10:04.180 Today, you get canceled for not being a communist.

00:10:07.020 I think we need to go back to the more stable and serious standard.

00:10:10.860 I see a new hat here.

00:10:11.980 It says, Make Canceling Communists Great Again.

00:10:14.460 Yes.

00:10:14.980 I can't wait to wait.

00:10:15.380 That's a movement I would get behind.

00:10:16.880 I would do that for sure.

00:10:18.020 All right, so the next question here.

00:10:20.140 Sarah in Alpharetta, Georgia asks, Michael, you wrote a first book about reasons to vote for Democrats with zero words.

00:10:26.600 How different was it writing a book that actually had words?

00:10:29.720 Well, you know, that first book, no one gave me credit.

00:10:32.280 I had been researching that book for about 27 years at that point.

00:10:36.480 And, you know, everyone says that there were no words in the book.

00:10:39.260 There were words in that book.

00:10:40.720 There was an extensive bibliography at the back of reasons to vote for Democrats.

00:10:44.000 It was the only words in the entire book.

00:10:45.420 Here, I had to do a lot of research, but then I had to do the second step, which was to write.

00:10:51.740 And I will tell you, it was a little bit of a tricky process because I wanted to write a real book.

00:10:59.480 I'm not getting on my high horse, okay?

00:11:01.160 I'm not trying to say that this is, you know, the greatest work of political philosophy in the last several decades.

00:11:06.720 You would never say that.

00:11:07.440 The greatest work of—I'm not saying that.

00:11:09.200 What I'm saying is I wanted to write a serious, substantive work that was offering a different perspective because I never want to do this again.

00:11:18.300 It's very, very tiring to write a book.

00:11:20.780 So I want to get it all out here now, and then we're done.

00:11:23.060 That actually is perfect because Colton from Minneapolis asked, what was the hardest thing of writing this book?

00:11:28.780 This gives you a chance to just talk about all the hardship you had to go through.

00:11:31.520 I did.

00:11:31.960 You wrote this.

00:11:32.540 I had a lot of hardship.

00:11:33.680 So this is for Colton.

00:11:34.480 There you go.

00:11:34.840 Thank you very much.

00:11:35.620 The hardest thing about writing this book—well, I've got to find—I don't even know where to sign it.

00:11:43.100 There we go.

00:11:45.660 The hardest thing about writing this book was actually after it was written.

00:11:49.900 I enjoyed the research.

00:11:51.400 It was cool.

00:11:51.920 I kind of changed my mind on some things when I did it.

00:11:54.180 I enjoyed writing.

00:11:55.180 I do enjoy writing.

00:11:56.320 I go slowly, but I enjoy the work of it.

00:11:58.580 But the edit, and the edit, and the fight, and the battle, and I'm so miserable to work with.

00:12:07.860 If you are an editor, I'm just being—I'm so miserable to work with because I labor.

00:12:12.220 I mean, you know this.

00:12:12.860 You are an editor of mine here at The Daily Wire.

00:12:14.500 I labor over every comma, every little dash in the book.

00:12:19.020 Oh, it's so—I would throw me out of a window if I could have.

00:12:21.640 So we did that.

00:12:22.800 We had some debates over everything.

00:12:24.440 The cover art, every inch of this book has been argued over and thought over and hopefully will totally persuade conservatives to get along with my way of thinking.

00:12:35.960 I will point out, too, you are a formidable foe when it comes to the final editing process.

00:12:40.140 You might ask, hey, Mike, what about a suggestion on this sentence here?

00:12:43.940 Yeah.

00:12:44.320 This man stands his ground, ladies and gentlemen.

00:12:46.020 He says, here's my argument for why that sentence should not be changed.

00:12:49.300 Do you know what I actually—this is telling tales out of school, but I had a really lovely editor, a really talented editor at Regnery, and she sent me back very thoughtful edits.

00:12:59.360 And we're talking commas here.

00:13:01.280 We're not talking about really extensive stuff.

00:13:03.360 I wrote about 300 words per page in the comments section of why I wouldn't change the commas.

00:13:12.100 It's a whole new book.

00:13:12.640 And it is a whole new book.

00:13:14.280 Actually, there was this moment of real crisis when I was turning in my edit.

00:13:17.380 I had an old version of the word processor.

00:13:20.500 Most of it got deleted.

00:13:21.940 But I felt that was actually good.

00:13:23.460 I think she would have probably come to my house and strangled me had I sent in the original returns on it.

00:13:29.180 I would have gone to your house by now and strangled you in the editing process if I knew where you lived.

00:13:33.260 I've been very smart to not do that.

00:13:34.980 Next question here actually comes from Lianca in Girona, Spain.

00:13:40.000 Wow.

00:13:40.500 Hey, cool.

00:13:41.140 There we go.

00:13:41.600 So, Mr. Knowles is known for two things, a great talk show about politics and a blank book he authored.

00:13:47.720 How has the experience been changing from the talking format to the written format?

00:13:51.940 This one is for Lianca.

00:13:54.460 Well, you know, I was an author first.

00:13:56.900 I did.

00:13:57.420 I did the blank book actually before I got my show at Daily Wire.

00:14:00.680 I think I'm the only person in history to get his own talk show for not writing a book.

00:14:04.840 So, the written word or the unwritten word is really my first love.

00:14:08.720 I much prefer to write.

00:14:11.660 I enjoy speaking and, you know, that's very fun.

00:14:14.260 There are sort of different things to do.

00:14:15.520 But if you told me you could do one thing, you know, for the rest of your life, I really enjoy the writing process more.

00:14:22.840 It's more frustrating.

00:14:23.940 But the nice thing about writing is, like, if I go on my show, you know, and I get a little excited about a topic, on rare occasions, maybe I'll say something that then our wonderful marketing interns at Media Matters and the other leftist hit groups, they're going to break it out.

00:14:39.180 It's going to cause me a headache.

00:14:40.280 I'm going to lose a Razor sponsor.

00:14:41.580 I don't know, whatever it is.

00:14:42.200 And so, that's a real problem, whereas with the writing, whenever I want to say something really outrageous, really controversial, and just vile and obscene, I'm going to think about it first.

00:14:52.320 I'm going to know exactly what's coming, and I can publish it.

00:14:55.760 I like that.

00:14:57.080 Milton in Freewater, Oregon, asks, this isn't really a question.

00:15:00.400 I hesitate to read this one because it's just going to inflate your already very humble side.

00:15:06.720 It says, I bought your book for my husband as a Father's Day present.

00:15:09.020 He likes to say he started listening to the podcast at Daily Wire for Ben Shapiro, but he stayed for Michael Knowles.

00:15:15.020 He's a big fan who watches your show loyally.

00:15:17.120 I would appreciate it for Father's Day if you could give him a shout-out.

00:15:19.780 His name is Jesse Monk.

00:15:22.880 Jesse Monk.

00:15:24.620 Mr. Monk.

00:15:26.140 You are clearly a gentleman, a scientist, and a scholar.

00:15:30.540 You are a man of discerning taste, and your wife seems to me to be one of the luckiest, most blessed women on earth.

00:15:41.140 Thank you for your judgment, for your discernment, and I hope you enjoy the book.

00:15:45.660 If you, too, want to have a shout-out like that from Michael, again, premiercollectibles.com slash speechless.

00:15:53.440 You can get your questions in.

00:15:54.600 Michael will answer them, or ask for shout-outs, which I very much like that.

00:15:58.480 I'm going to have to start asking for shout-outs like that.

00:16:00.380 They're like, dear Cabot.

00:16:01.580 Let's wait a second.

00:16:02.420 What's that, Cabot?

00:16:03.260 So the next question, another international listener.

00:16:05.280 This one's from Italy, Bergamo, Italy.

00:16:07.560 This is Boltaire.

00:16:08.900 They ask, hi, Michael.

00:16:09.940 I'm dyslexic, but I'll really try to read your book.

00:16:12.240 I did manage to read your previous one, so we'll see.

00:16:14.440 From one Catholic to another, I wanted to ask you, what future do you see for our church

00:16:18.600 following the reduction in its believers?

00:16:20.780 Do you think we will die out, or do you think there will be a rebirth?

00:16:23.600 Do you think the different Christian faiths might merge?

00:16:26.800 Keep up the good work.

00:16:28.620 I do not think that the Catholic church will die out, because I, being a mackerel-snapping

00:16:33.380 papist myself, believe that the church has divine protection, and that Christ will be

00:16:40.060 with the church forever, and there's just nothing.

00:16:43.220 No matter how stupidly the leaders of the church run the thing, they can't overwhelm

00:16:50.040 our Lord.

00:16:51.120 There's a line from Hilaire Belloc, one of the great, curmudgeonly, brilliant Catholic

00:16:54.920 writers, who said that he has to take it as a matter of faith that the Catholic church

00:16:59.300 is divinely instituted.

00:17:00.380 But one of the pieces of evidence for people who do not believe is that no other institution

00:17:05.900 conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight, and I think that

00:17:10.560 is very true.

00:17:12.160 I am hoping to get an Italian translation of speechless out, and do you know why?

00:17:16.740 Why?

00:17:17.120 Because it's the only other language I have.

00:17:18.800 I don't speak Spanish.

00:17:20.100 I don't speak French.

00:17:21.040 I'm Catholic.

00:17:21.900 I don't even read Latin.

00:17:23.060 But the Italian, I have.

00:17:24.280 It's because you like swearing in Italian.

00:17:25.440 I like swearing.

00:17:26.360 You know, back in my single days, I wanted to be kind of suave with the ladies.

00:17:29.080 So that's the one, and I basically want to pick up another fee to do the translation.

00:17:32.120 All right, next question.

00:17:33.700 This one's coming from Daniel in Spring Branch, Texas.

00:17:36.900 Thank you for everything you do, Michael.

00:17:38.700 You're a much appreciated person in these crazy times.

00:17:41.680 On a more serious note, when will you do the drinking game with Steven Crowder?

00:17:44.820 That was actually less serious than I expected, but when will you do the drinking game?

00:17:48.120 Come on, Michael.

00:17:48.700 I can't wait to do it.

00:17:50.440 I was texting with Crowder, as I am wont to do.

00:17:54.560 He was supposed to come.

00:17:55.940 We were supposed to hang.

00:17:56.840 I don't want to give any dates in the future for when this is going to come out.

00:17:59.660 But Mr. Crowder told me that he was going to bring me some delicious cigars.

00:18:05.140 He's a big cigar guy, too.

00:18:06.340 I've heard.

00:18:06.900 And so then he didn't show up, and I was very, very upset.

00:18:11.760 A few days later, I receive a package in the mail.

00:18:14.980 He mailed me the cigars, and then I was much less upset.

00:18:18.660 Because I thought, all right, you know, I'll Crowder or take him or leave him,

00:18:21.700 but the cigars, that's what I wanted, and I got them.

00:18:24.120 So hopefully soon, but I still have a few of his stogies to smoke in the meantime.

00:18:27.500 That's beautiful.

00:18:27.900 Get you a friend that will mail you boxes of cigars.

00:18:30.640 I like that.

00:18:31.540 Next question.

00:18:32.720 This one is from Jason Rivas in Los Angeles, California.

00:18:36.180 Jason, stay strong there in Los Angeles.

00:18:37.620 We fled, but keep doing the Lord's work there.

00:18:40.440 The question.

00:18:41.040 My swarthy Savior, from a Catholic perspective, is getting drunk or high a sin?

00:18:47.720 Yes.

00:18:49.540 Next question.

00:18:50.640 Got to elaborate a bit.

00:18:51.680 It's not a sin to drink, for instance.

00:18:54.740 I mean, you can, I forget, there's another line from Chesterton.

00:18:58.600 Something to the effect of, wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there will be good cheer and good red wine.

00:19:04.120 You know, the Catholics are known for this.

00:19:05.820 Certainly the Irish are.

00:19:06.600 The Italians are, too.

00:19:07.440 So that's perfectly fine.

00:19:09.080 You know, I mean, our Lord's first miracle was turning water into wine for people who'd been hanging out for a while.

00:19:15.180 Well, yeah, at this wedding.

00:19:17.320 But drunkenness, I mean, you really shouldn't be doing that, you know, if you just become some derelict who's speaking in cursive all the time.

00:19:24.240 You don't want to be doing that.

00:19:25.240 And as for the devil's lettuce, as for the topic of the sin spinach, the old Peruvian parsley, you know what I'm talking about?

00:19:31.720 I'm talking about the Haitian oregano.

00:19:33.720 You know what I mean?

00:19:34.320 The ganja.

00:19:34.980 It's like Mary Jane.

00:19:36.240 The jazz cigarettes is what I mean.

00:19:37.880 I don't think that's cool.

00:19:40.480 I don't really have a theological argument to make.

00:19:43.120 I just find that most people who smoke, not all of them, but most who smoke pot regularly are a little more on the left.

00:19:51.060 There are some right-wingers who do it, too.

00:19:53.700 But my real argument against legalized marijuana is that the people for whom legalization is the number one political issue, I want to make them unhappy.

00:20:06.400 I don't want those—I'm not saying, you know, you have the occasional doobie and you turn on, you know, Miles Davis.

00:20:12.680 I don't know what people do when they smoke pot.

00:20:14.300 I'm not talking about that.

00:20:15.220 I'm saying these guys who just love it.

00:20:16.800 It's like they're wake and bake all day long.

00:20:18.520 I want them to not have a good time.

00:20:21.860 So that would be—is that a theological argument?

00:20:24.240 It doesn't sound like it, but it's the theology of Knowles, which is a very different kind of theology.

00:20:27.980 It's idiosyncratic, yeah.

00:20:29.520 Precisely.

00:20:30.300 Next question.

00:20:30.940 This one is from Aaron in Kansas City, Missouri.

00:20:33.340 To what extent is the left aware of their use of language to control political discourse and silence conservatives?

00:20:40.320 I do not believe that the average Democrat voter is aware of the end goal of their progressivism.

00:20:45.020 I find it difficult to believe Democrats, even politicians in general, have much deep thought into their speech and are more so blindly following a select few.

00:20:53.280 I hope your answer will leave me speechless.

00:20:55.260 Your rank-and-file Democrat voter has no idea what's going on, and your rank-and-file Democrat member of Congress has no idea what's going on about the words or about anything else for that matter.

00:21:06.320 The average IQ in the U.S. Congress is, you know, a little subpar.

00:21:11.660 It's at least like four standard deviations below the normal.

00:21:14.280 But the leftist intellectuals, the ones who actually sort of set the program and form the ideas which have consequences in politics, they know exactly what they're doing.

00:21:25.480 This actually is the subject of this book.

00:21:27.800 In Speechless, I go through the people I think are the most influential of these radical intellectuals.

00:21:33.820 Because I try to give them a fair argument.

00:21:36.220 I think I give them more than a fair argument.

00:21:38.100 Because we on the right, we like to flatter ourselves.

00:21:40.540 And we say, oh, we understand free speech.

00:21:43.320 These leftist snowflakes, they don't understand free speech.

00:21:47.140 Yes, they do.

00:21:48.200 They do.

00:21:48.600 They understand it much better than we do, which is why they're so much more effective at manipulating it and controlling the words and controlling our minds and controlling our politics.

00:21:57.920 And I think we need to learn a lesson from those people.

00:22:00.180 They are very sophisticated thinkers.

00:22:04.480 And it's going to require some sophistication on our part, which we have not really engaged in, to counter it.

00:22:11.140 What's the lesson to learn?

00:22:12.840 The lesson that you have to learn, I think, if I were to distill just one little nugget down, political correctness and wokeism and cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, is not a battle between free speech and censorship.

00:22:30.200 We think that it is.

00:22:31.400 The left convinced us that it is.

00:22:32.940 But it's not.

00:22:33.880 It's actually a contest between two competing sets of standards.

00:22:38.680 And those standards open up broad realms of speech and they close off certain realms of speech.

00:22:43.700 And conservatives used to know that.

00:22:45.140 We don't really know that anymore.

00:22:47.160 But it's going to cause, I think, some uncomfortable conversations on the right about how to deal with this issue of free speech and wokeness and cancel culture moving forward.

00:22:56.860 But the one thing I can promise you, no matter how resistant you are to adopting my argument, which I think is a sort of novel argument in this book, what we are doing now is not working.

00:23:07.520 What we are doing now, just even at the most tangible level, a handful of woke billionaire oligarchs in Silicon Valley censored the duly elected sitting president of the United States six months ago.

00:23:19.500 Whatever you think happened in the election, the guy was the duly elected sitting president and hipster Rasputin, Jack Dorsey, boots him out of the public square.

00:23:29.300 The guy is gone.

00:23:30.860 He had a blog for a little bit, you know, and he sent in.

00:23:33.720 He tried.

00:23:34.360 I mean, I wish the guy were platformed.

00:23:35.760 But they really effectively controlled that speech.

00:23:38.920 And in a republic, speech is politics.

00:23:40.540 So, no matter how resistant someone might be, to my argument, is the alternative really any better?

00:23:47.580 I don't think so.

00:23:48.260 See, I'm surprised it took us this long for you to bring up Jack Dorsey.

00:23:51.520 Another person I'm surprised has not been brought up yet that Josh from Spring, Texas brings up.

00:23:55.780 This is from Josh.

00:23:56.580 Michael, please say something in your Fauci voice.

00:24:00.160 Literally anything will do.

00:24:02.000 Thanks for all you do.

00:24:02.740 What do you think I am?

00:24:04.600 Do you think I'm some clown?

00:24:06.220 What do you think?

00:24:07.240 That I'm here to perform for you like Mr. Bojangles?

00:24:10.820 Does a little soft shoe?

00:24:12.720 Puts on my mask?

00:24:14.880 Tells you sheep where you can stick your freedoms and your liberties?

00:24:20.380 No, I will not do that.

00:24:22.020 No one tells Fauci what to do, you sheep.

00:24:25.880 I would like to revoke that question from Josh from Spring, Texas.

00:24:29.620 Please don't ask any more questions, Josh.

00:24:32.300 I don't have to go through that.

00:24:33.180 I will do an impression of Fauci throwing the ball, though.

00:24:35.680 First pitch.

00:24:37.360 Just a little dribble.

00:24:38.240 Just a little dribble.

00:24:39.300 It's all on the wrist.

00:24:40.040 It made Obama look like Curt Schilling out there.

00:24:43.000 The next question coming up, Jesse in Denver, Colorado.

00:24:46.400 Michael, what helps you to remain patient when dealing with individuals who are not as tolerant

00:24:50.680 as you?

00:24:51.520 You could just say with individuals who aren't you.

00:24:54.220 No one's as tolerant as you.

00:24:55.620 But what helps you deal with that?

00:24:56.500 Thank you.

00:24:56.780 I appreciate that keen observation of yours.

00:25:00.380 This comes back to the Catholic thing.

00:25:02.180 It really does because Catholics, if you've ever seen a Mel Gibson movie, you will know this.

00:25:07.580 Catholics have a way to make sense of suffering, right?

00:25:11.700 We have this view that suffering is sanctifying, that it is actually productive.

00:25:16.940 It is producing some good when we suffer in patience.

00:25:21.540 And so you have this idea of your long-suffering Nona, who you never call her, and she lets

00:25:26.820 you know about it every single time that you call.

00:25:28.360 So when I'm standing somewhere on a debate stage, let's say, and I've got some lib just saying

00:25:35.440 the stupidest, craziest, most insulting, vicious things, I think, bring it on, baby.

00:25:42.860 I'm building up that treasure in heaven.

00:25:44.300 Give it to me.

00:25:45.160 Suck it to me, which is great.

00:25:46.960 Also, patience is a virtue.

00:25:48.200 You know, it's really good because I, being of Italian and Irish extraction, actually,

00:25:54.260 I don't really look like it, but I am.

00:25:56.640 The temper is a real, it's a real concern.

00:25:59.980 So about once a year, I lose my temper.

00:26:01.560 The rest of the time, try to keep it cool as a cucumber.

00:26:04.640 Even keeled.

00:26:05.280 I like it.

00:26:06.260 Next question.

00:26:06.940 Benjamin, Asheboro, North Carolina.

00:26:09.800 Michael, which book is better, Speechless or Reasons to Vote for Democrats?

00:26:13.900 Also, I like this question.

00:26:15.140 Also, what is your Subway sandwich order?

00:26:17.540 You know, I'll answer the second question first because my first job, I've always been in

00:26:23.860 the arts.

00:26:24.840 You know, I've always been an artist.

00:26:26.160 My first job was as a Subway sandwich artist when I was 14.

00:26:29.520 Was it really?

00:26:29.980 Yes.

00:26:30.540 I rose up to actually become the manager at the store.

00:26:33.920 This was during the summer after eighth grade, and then I did it a bit, you know, when I was

00:26:38.160 in high school.

00:26:39.120 And, you know, some of the meats are a little suspect there, actually.

00:26:44.040 Which ones?

00:26:44.540 There's some issues.

00:26:45.340 This was years ago.

00:26:46.160 I don't want to, you know, get a libel suit from the Subway Corporation.

00:26:48.880 But it was not always great.

00:26:51.720 And the sandwich that I go to every time now, 100% of the time at Subway, the cold-cut

00:26:56.860 combo, the most processed, it's just all bologna.

00:27:02.100 It's, I get that, a little light mayo, lettuce, tomato, black olives, red onion, on a nice

00:27:06.220 bit of Italian bread.

00:27:07.380 Ooh, that's delicious.

00:27:08.540 Now, the less important question.

00:27:12.020 Which book is better, Reasons to Vote for Democrats or Speechless?

00:27:16.400 Let me ask you, which poem is better, The Iliad or The Odyssey?

00:27:21.940 Let me ask you, which poem is better, The Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost?

00:27:26.360 The Divine Comedy is actually, that was a bad example.

00:27:29.580 The Reasons to Vote for Democrats is my magnum opus.

00:27:33.080 I quoted Thucydides at the beginning of it.

00:27:34.880 I said, this is not an attempt to win the applause of the moment.

00:27:38.240 This is a lasting contribution for all time.

00:27:41.040 Uh, it, it is a classic, I think it's already in the Oxford World Classics edition, Reasons

00:27:46.460 to Vote for Democrats.

00:27:47.420 This book, you'll have to tell me yourself.

00:27:49.120 I think this is a contribution.

00:27:50.720 I think it's going somewhere.

00:27:52.540 But I need you to tell me.

00:27:53.480 I don't, I don't want to put that on myself.

00:27:56.100 Okay, the people spoke on the first book, they can speak on the second.

00:27:59.400 I just would give anything to go in and see you in, as like a 14-year-old subway manager

00:28:04.120 bossing around a bunch of people.

00:28:05.700 I did, yeah.

00:28:06.080 I'm sure to not resent you at all.

00:28:07.300 No, no, no.

00:28:08.360 Definitely not.

00:28:09.080 All right, next question, Bilal.

00:28:11.040 From London, and a quick reminder for everyone, these questions are coming in live, so if

00:28:14.500 you want to get a question in, go to premiercollections.com slash speechless, buy the book, and then a

00:28:21.040 pop-up comes on, offering the question, so you can still answer a question, it's not

00:28:24.280 too late.

00:28:25.200 Their question, Bilal from London, Ontario, oh, it's, no, it's London from Ontario, Canada.

00:28:30.900 Sorry about that.

00:28:31.720 How do you judge if something is immoral without the help of religion?

00:28:35.420 P.S., love the show.

00:28:36.600 I aspire to be amazing as you in the future.

00:28:39.260 That's very kind.

00:28:40.260 Thank you very much.

00:28:42.040 You can know something about morality from your inborn moral conscience, right?

00:28:46.680 We do have a moral conscience.

00:28:48.000 I know these days people believe, well, look, you think murder is wrong because of the society

00:28:54.460 that you were raised in, but other people think murder is right, and that's, you know,

00:28:58.580 it's just you have your values and your preferences.

00:29:00.640 That is simply not true.

00:29:02.720 People do have a natural, innate moral intuition, and there is such a thing as the natural law.

00:29:07.460 To give another example, and I guess this brings it to your religion point, the existence of

00:29:11.860 God can be known with certainty from the natural world using your faculties of reason.

00:29:17.560 This point is denied these days by radical skeptics on the left and even some on the right, but

00:29:24.280 it is simply the case.

00:29:25.260 We actually can know things about the world, about the physical world and what the physical

00:29:28.940 world then tells us about the metaphysical world.

00:29:33.080 I'm glad you can get those moral intuitions just naturally without religion, but religion

00:29:38.040 is how you systematize it and think rigorously about it.

00:29:41.100 There's this canard that religious people are superstitious.

00:29:45.240 We're superstitious unlike the genius secular scientists, right?

00:29:51.200 In my experience, religious people are the least superstitious people in the world because

00:29:55.840 all my atheist friends or secular friends, they're the ones with the crystals.

00:30:00.660 They're the ones with the horoscopes.

00:30:02.660 They're the ones with the energy and the chakras and all others and the psychics and all other

00:30:06.420 sorts of craziness.

00:30:07.280 You ever hear this line, I'm spiritual but not religious, which means I'm very interested

00:30:13.920 in myself, but I'm not that interested in God, but I think I'm very special.

00:30:18.480 So when people say that, they'll sometimes say that it's all about spirituality, not religion.

00:30:25.340 Religion is how you make sense of what you would call spirituality.

00:30:29.820 It's applying rigor and logic and reason to that.

00:30:32.800 And when you've got some kooky ideas, you get rid of them and you stick to what is really

00:30:37.000 true.

00:30:37.300 So you can do it, but I would urge you to go further and engage actually with religion,

00:30:42.080 which is not just some weird historical eccentricity, some little souvenir from the past.

00:30:47.600 It is the fundament, the way of understanding the world, even today, even right now.

00:30:54.100 All right.

00:30:54.420 So while you're signing that one, I'm going to just read your palm real quick.

00:30:57.760 Could you, yeah, tell me.

00:30:59.140 I'm not superstitious.

00:30:59.740 What is the, how many books are we going to sell?

00:31:01.660 This is all very real.

00:31:02.760 And again, I messed up a little bit.

00:31:05.440 Premiercollectibles.com.

00:31:06.160 I wasn't going to correct you.

00:31:07.320 Slash speechless.

00:31:07.920 I heard it.

00:31:08.140 What a good guy you are.

00:31:08.940 I heard it.

00:31:09.760 Not whatever I said.

00:31:10.820 I messed up.

00:31:11.600 I'm sorry to all of you.

00:31:13.420 Premiercollectibles.com slash speechless.

00:31:14.920 Again, we are still taking questions, so get them in.

00:31:17.520 The next question from our good friend Cassie in Reading, Connecticut.

00:31:22.720 Did you actually write this book?

00:31:24.640 Love the show.

00:31:25.540 I appreciate the skepticism.

00:31:27.560 Michael, the floor to you.

00:31:28.580 You know, in defense of Cassie's question, a lot of people hire ghostwriters.

00:31:33.720 This is a real practice, and certainly in political media.

00:31:36.780 And here are the five people who do it.

00:31:37.900 Go ahead, Michael.

00:31:38.280 Yeah, I could name more than five who do it.

00:31:41.400 This is something people do, especially politicians, but people in political media do it, too.

00:31:46.060 Sometimes you're just too busy.

00:31:47.220 Sometimes you collaborate with somebody.

00:31:49.320 Now, I think you have been on enough of my lengthy email threads on some column or something

00:31:54.360 to know that I could never relinquish that kind of control to anybody.

00:31:58.000 But I actually, I put myself in a bad situation because I was running out of time.

00:32:02.320 We were busy.

00:32:02.760 We were moving.

00:32:03.320 I was having my baby.

00:32:04.400 I mean, I wasn't.

00:32:05.260 My wife was.

00:32:05.980 I was there for it.

00:32:06.660 You did the hard work.

00:32:07.040 I did the hard work, though.

00:32:08.380 And I wanted to hire someone to just do the footnotes.

00:32:13.140 That's all.

00:32:13.800 I just didn't want to format the footnotes or anything.

00:32:16.780 But my pride wouldn't let me because I said, no, I don't want anybody to be able to say

00:32:21.200 I had a research assistant or I had a ghostwriter or something like that.

00:32:23.780 So I labored.

00:32:24.860 I labored over those notes.

00:32:26.520 Not a single other hand touched the book.

00:32:30.240 So any typos, I suppose, are my fault.

00:32:31.980 Why did I tell anybody that?

00:32:33.780 It doesn't make any sense.

00:32:34.160 No other hands have touched the book, but I'll tell you what.

00:32:36.800 They can touch the book if they order it.

00:32:38.440 They get to ask a question.

00:32:40.480 That's all I'm saying.

00:32:41.380 And you are such a hero.

00:32:42.320 No one else.

00:32:43.180 I'm not calling you a hero.

00:32:44.120 Other people have called you a hero.

00:32:45.360 I would say, yeah, I'm a great inspiration.

00:32:48.260 I would.

00:32:48.580 I'm really impressed by me.

00:32:51.560 They wouldn't be wrong to call you a hero.

00:32:53.800 Cole in Lafayette, Indiana asks, could you pin down to a single moment, event, or person

00:33:00.700 that contributed the most in turning you into the swarthiest sociopolitical theological philosopher

00:33:05.840 of our era?

00:33:07.160 Gosh, there are so many of these moments.

00:33:12.340 One of the first sentences I ever said, this is not a joke.

00:33:15.560 People are not going to believe this, but it's true.

00:33:18.000 It was, read my lips, no new taxes, which was a line of President Bush I.

00:33:23.020 I guess my grandfather taught it to me.

00:33:24.960 He held to that promise, right?

00:33:26.200 Not quite.

00:33:27.440 Unfortunately, it didn't work out too well for old H.W.

00:33:30.160 because he broke it and he got booted from office.

00:33:32.140 But my grandfather taught me to sing It's a Grand Old Flag.

00:33:35.120 I was absolutely fanatical about Bob Dole in the 96 election.

00:33:40.340 I was six years old.

00:33:41.380 I campaigned around my first grade classroom to get Senator Dole elected.

00:33:45.120 I knew he was a war hero and Clinton was a degenerate.

00:33:48.140 That's all I knew about it.

00:33:49.220 And I said, I want Dole.

00:33:50.460 So I was always a bit of a political junkie, had a little bit of a liberal phase, but was

00:33:53.960 mostly on the right.

00:33:55.260 My mother was very, she didn't push politics or anything on me.

00:34:00.320 I mean, her political views were kind of idiosyncratic too.

00:34:03.260 But she would always, if I ever made a political claim, she would force me to defend it, which

00:34:09.940 was very helpful.

00:34:10.920 You know, call out the BS.

00:34:12.180 She gave me good advice one time.

00:34:13.580 She said, the most important thing in life, Michael, best advice I can give you, do not

00:34:17.880 believe your own press releases.

00:34:19.300 That'll get you in trouble if you do that.

00:34:20.920 So I was always interested in politics.

00:34:22.600 I worked my first campaign at 18 for my friend Nan Hayworth.

00:34:25.240 And we did a whole crazy YouTube campaign for all of that.

00:34:29.100 And, you know, I tried to get out of politics, but you know what happened?

00:34:32.540 Sucked you back in.

00:34:33.140 Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me back in!

00:34:35.960 Hooah.

00:34:36.460 And now we're here today.

00:34:38.960 Simple enough?

00:34:39.800 Simple enough.

00:34:40.900 Dole.

00:34:41.220 I would love to see how your first grade classmates reacted to that.

00:34:44.580 Do you know, including...

00:34:45.520 Very popular.

00:34:46.100 Including Bob Dole.

00:34:47.480 I was the only person in the country who was really gung-ho about Bob Dole.

00:34:51.160 I think so, yeah.

00:34:52.100 Next up, Aaron from Tyler, Texas.

00:34:54.740 What logical fallacies would you say are most commonly committed by progressives from Aaron?

00:35:01.920 Which logical fallacy?

00:35:03.660 I guess the fallacy, or it's really more of a heresy, is radical skepticism or empiricism.

00:35:10.440 The idea that we either cannot know things for certain, or that we can only know things about the physical world.

00:35:16.580 You know, scientism.

00:35:19.440 It's not so much a fallacy as it is just a really stupid idea.

00:35:23.000 And it causes them to, when you are having any serious argument about philosophy or ethics or morality or religion or politics,

00:35:31.740 you know, anything about politics, they'll say, well, no, you can't make that argument.

00:35:35.300 Because you're arguing from philosophy or you're arguing from religion.

00:35:39.180 You're not allowed to do that.

00:35:40.200 You can only argue from what?

00:35:41.920 What else is there even to argue from?

00:35:43.380 So I suppose the fallacy, beyond the ad hominem attacks and beyond the reductio ad absurdum and all these sorts of things,

00:35:53.020 I find, I don't think I'm being hyperbolic, they don't know what politics is.

00:35:58.700 They don't actually know what politics means.

00:36:02.340 It's just how we all get along together.

00:36:04.020 They don't understand that man is the political animal, in the words of Aristotle.

00:36:07.840 They don't understand that what makes man the political animal, what makes him human and distinguishes him from the grunting beasts, harder to tell the difference these days, is speech.

00:36:17.320 That's why speech is so fundamental.

00:36:19.940 That's why I felt it was worth a book-length treatment.

00:36:22.300 It's very difficult to teach somebody that when you're in the heat of a political debate.

00:36:29.060 I mean, I think it's why so many of our political debates are so stupid on cable TV or even in public.

00:36:34.320 Our mind has become so shallow.

00:36:37.660 The words that we use, we don't even possess the language anymore to have these debates.

00:36:41.680 But hopefully you will be able to possess that language when you read this book.

00:36:45.940 Next up, Jacob Preston from Christchurch, New Zealand.

00:36:50.520 How do you memorize so many quotes?

00:36:52.660 You have a quote for everything.

00:36:54.500 Your biggest fan in New Zealand.

00:36:56.960 Wow.

00:36:57.560 Hey, Cabot, I thought you were from America.

00:36:59.540 I've been faking the American accent all along.

00:37:02.400 Wow, man, that was something.

00:37:05.620 Is Crocodile Dundee in the room?

00:37:07.400 Gosh.

00:37:08.400 Good for Jacob.

00:37:11.060 This is a very flattering question, which are my favorite kinds of questions.

00:37:15.700 You know, I was an actor in my wayward youth.

00:37:18.540 And so I do think acting training is certainly very good in politics.

00:37:23.220 It's really good in any kind of career.

00:37:25.800 Because in particular, it teaches you to be comfortable in your body.

00:37:28.540 It teaches you, ideally, how to make sense of human characters and to care really about the truth of a circumstance.

00:37:36.320 But it also really works your memory very well.

00:37:38.860 And one thing even beyond that sort of stuff, I mean, I'd obviously memorize a lot of lines and things, going back to when I was a kid.

00:37:44.720 But in English class, we used to have to memorize poems.

00:37:49.840 I mean, there are many, many poems that I could recite to you right now from eighth grade English.

00:37:55.740 Yeah, I know, only when I'm trying to woo you later on.

00:37:58.100 You know, I don't know how weird this thing is.

00:37:59.780 Save it for when they bring the drinks out.

00:38:00.720 Oh, yeah, gosh, that's, jeez.

00:38:02.460 This is really taking a turn.

00:38:03.680 Talk about decadent culture.

00:38:05.740 You know, if you work on it, it's like with a foreign language.

00:38:09.640 If you learn a foreign language when you're 12, you're going to have a much better time retaining it than if you learn a foreign language when you're 25.

00:38:15.400 So I would strongly recommend, if you want to work your memory and keep these quotes, I think it was, actually, it was Winston Churchill who said that a man who doesn't have a great education should just memorize a lot of quotes.

00:38:25.300 It will actually help stimulate his mind.

00:38:28.420 You should try to memorize a poem a week.

00:38:30.800 If you really want to stimulate your mind, memorize a poem a week.

00:38:33.220 Your recall will become better, and you will become smarter.

00:38:36.340 I must say, my wife and I have been reading through Scripture every morning together.

00:38:39.620 It's a lot harder to memorize verses now than it was when I was like eight in Sunday school and did it on a regular basis.

00:38:44.580 Keep doing it.

00:38:45.940 You lose it.

00:38:46.380 It's a muscle.

00:38:47.000 It's true.

00:38:47.580 We're going to take a quick little break here, not a break from the live stream.

00:38:50.480 This thing is going.

00:38:51.420 I think we deserve a drink.

00:38:52.840 I am arched.

00:38:54.500 Let's just get some water.

00:38:55.400 Just kidding.

00:38:56.160 How about you get yourself?

00:38:57.280 Hey, oh, man.

00:38:58.120 Thank you, Jacob.

00:38:58.580 Look at this.

00:38:59.360 Service.

00:39:00.740 I'll take a Moscow mule.

00:39:02.120 Jacob, what is this?

00:39:03.080 This is a martini?

00:39:04.100 I believe so.

00:39:05.020 I should hope so.

00:39:06.280 I don't know.

00:39:06.540 Otherwise, it's rubbing alcohol, maybe.

00:39:07.940 Thank you, sir.

00:39:08.680 Cheers to that.

00:39:09.740 We deserve it.

00:39:10.540 I think we've been working very hard.

00:39:12.460 I had the easy job so far tonight.

00:39:15.300 Go ahead.

00:39:15.700 Just drink that.

00:39:16.320 Just sip that in.

00:39:17.080 Everyone, if you have a glass, whatever it is, raise it to Speechless.

00:39:21.280 That's really...

00:39:21.860 Who made this martini?

00:39:23.400 This is an actual...

00:39:24.760 I'm very picky.

00:39:25.740 I'm picky about my commas.

00:39:26.900 I'm picky about my martinis.

00:39:28.160 Mine is much stronger than anticipated.

00:39:29.400 I thought this would be like a TV drink.

00:39:31.220 Yeah, well, you know...

00:39:31.960 This is a real drink.

00:39:32.560 You know what a martini is?

00:39:33.480 Churchill actually had a recipe for this, too.

00:39:35.020 Oh, give me the quote.

00:39:35.660 Martini is supposed to be gin and vermouth and, you know, an olive or something.

00:39:39.680 And what Churchill said is the best way to make the martini is you pour gin in a glass

00:39:43.600 while staring across the room at a bottle of vermouth.

00:39:46.640 So this is basically a glass of gin.

00:39:48.300 I'm being told my producer, Ben Davies, made it.

00:39:50.960 I hate to give him a compliment.

00:39:52.500 You did a good job.

00:39:53.360 This is...

00:39:53.620 Good job.

00:39:54.260 And for everyone at home, while you're toasting to the book, not too late to get the questions

00:39:58.680 in again.

00:39:59.320 Only halfway through with all these questions, so it's not too late.

00:40:02.460 Go to premiercollectibles.com slash speechless.

00:40:05.500 You buy the book, and then the pop-up comes for the question.

00:40:09.240 You can get in there.

00:40:10.560 We're going to play a quick little game here.

00:40:13.280 We're going to see how well you can put up with physical censorship, how long you can

00:40:18.040 continue communicating.

00:40:19.100 So I have a few of your favorite things here.

00:40:21.160 Okay.

00:40:21.680 It's not a baby.

00:40:22.380 It's not a puppy.

00:40:23.720 They're masks.

00:40:24.880 Oh, great.

00:40:25.540 All right.

00:40:25.860 So we're going to see how many masks you can put on while continuing to be able to say

00:40:30.740 the name of your book, which is, of course, Speechless.

00:40:35.800 Ding.

00:40:36.620 Before...

00:40:37.100 I didn't hear my ear, but I was just going to do it.

00:40:38.560 We've already used up all of our dings.

00:40:39.920 So I...

00:40:41.900 First of all, I feel very safe.

00:40:44.080 I can't help but know...

00:40:46.040 Okay.

00:40:46.340 So good.

00:40:46.960 We're going to try this on.

00:40:47.640 Some of these might have some writing on it.

00:40:48.880 I don't know.

00:40:49.280 Okay.

00:40:49.580 I mean, I'm not very familiar with masks.

00:40:51.760 So let's see if I can still say Speechless.

00:40:57.540 Controlling words.

00:40:58.220 Controlling words.

00:40:58.500 Yeah, I think I can.

00:40:58.980 I could hear that.

00:40:59.700 All right.

00:41:00.020 You can get this message loud and clear, huh?

00:41:02.320 I got it loud and clear.

00:41:03.140 You did.

00:41:03.780 I hope everybody got it loud and clear.

00:41:05.320 Okay.

00:41:05.720 Next up.

00:41:06.480 Okay.

00:41:06.840 Yeah.

00:41:08.560 I actually haven't...

00:41:09.560 I haven't seen these.

00:41:10.720 Let's...

00:41:11.320 Speechless.

00:41:13.440 Controlling words.

00:41:14.260 Controlling words.

00:41:14.800 Okay.

00:41:15.260 I can still hear you.

00:41:16.140 I think you're going to have to put another one on.

00:41:17.360 The air is getting a little thinner, but that's fine.

00:41:19.640 Okay.

00:41:25.900 I'm glad I didn't drink too much.

00:41:28.500 Speechless.

00:41:28.900 Controlling words.

00:41:29.900 Controlling words.

00:41:30.020 Controlling words.

00:41:31.080 You're starting to get a little more muffled.

00:41:32.480 If you see his face turning red, it's not because he's embarrassed.

00:41:34.900 It is probably because of a lack of oxygen.

00:41:36.860 So we'll do this quickly.

00:41:37.860 Probably going to turn blue.

00:41:39.620 Next up.

00:41:40.700 I feel so safe from the virus.

00:41:45.200 Speechless.

00:41:45.980 Controlling words.

00:41:47.240 Controlling words.

00:41:48.280 I can breathe all over you.

00:41:50.740 You are safe.

00:41:51.280 Oh, man.

00:41:51.680 I feel good.

00:41:52.780 Quadruple masks.

00:41:53.780 I think you should just...

00:41:54.900 We should probably keep going because I can still hear you.

00:41:56.460 No, totally.

00:41:57.060 This is what health looks like.

00:41:58.980 You know, this is a healthy society.

00:42:00.500 Listen.

00:42:01.180 Everyone asking...

00:42:02.000 I think we had one question.

00:42:02.900 How can I be a man?

00:42:03.800 This is what peak male performance looks like in a man.

00:42:05.900 You may not like it, but this is what it looks like.

00:42:07.840 This is what it looks like.

00:42:08.460 Next up.

00:42:08.940 Wow.

00:42:11.080 You're still...

00:42:12.240 The real victim here are the ears.

00:42:16.060 They're not really great.

00:42:17.980 Speechless.

00:42:18.740 Controlling words.

00:42:19.940 Controlling minds.

00:42:21.200 That's good.

00:42:21.720 We've only got two more for you to get through.

00:42:23.360 Okay.

00:42:23.560 I sound like I'm in an old movie.

00:42:25.220 Like, hey, yeah.

00:42:25.980 About me.

00:42:27.020 Okay?

00:42:28.040 It's your ears.

00:42:29.240 It's your ears.

00:42:32.180 Okay.

00:42:32.800 Well, that's really...

00:42:33.700 Uh-oh.

00:42:34.060 You know what's going to kill it is when the ear gives out.

00:42:36.760 The ear is already starting to get out.

00:42:38.320 It's getting a little red.

00:42:39.620 It's getting a little red.

00:42:40.220 Okay.

00:42:41.640 Speechless.

00:42:42.680 Controlling words.

00:42:44.200 Controlling words.

00:42:45.620 Look at that performance.

00:42:47.200 We've got one more for you.

00:42:48.720 Can you keep going?

00:42:49.940 I can hear him.

00:42:50.680 I hear you fine, actually.

00:42:54.800 Speechless.

00:42:56.560 Controlling words.

00:42:58.820 Controlling words.

00:43:01.780 And the crowd goes wild.

00:43:04.740 Gosh.

00:43:05.200 Your ear was hanging on by a thread.

00:43:07.340 By a thread.

00:43:08.340 I'm...

00:43:08.660 Wow.

00:43:08.980 That's really lucky.

00:43:10.060 Can you breathe?

00:43:10.620 Are you good?

00:43:11.040 I can breathe again.

00:43:12.400 The oxygen intake is good?

00:43:13.020 You know, my blood actually feels a little too oxygenated.

00:43:16.700 I think I need to correct that.

00:43:19.000 Get the blood flow going again.

00:43:20.040 I will drink to that.

00:43:21.600 We're going to get back to some questions.

00:43:22.700 Again, not too late to get your questions in.

00:43:25.440 I think we should just do some challenge now where you just start every day like that

00:43:29.680 on your show.

00:43:30.480 Because personally...

00:43:31.780 That's the nearest thing I've had to exercise in quite some time.

00:43:34.640 It's like that and walking to my car.

00:43:37.320 Next question.

00:43:38.740 Tom in Finley, Ohio.

00:43:40.520 How do you get rid of cigar breath?

00:43:42.480 Practical advice.

00:43:43.560 That's actually my real exercise.

00:43:45.240 Exercising my lungs.

00:43:47.060 The short answer is I don't.

00:43:49.020 I don't get rid of...

00:43:49.700 The key...

00:43:50.580 The problem with cigar breath is not the fresh cigar, right?

00:43:53.440 The problem with cigar breath is the stale cigar that then you breathe on others.

00:43:57.520 So the solution, of course, is to not let the breath get stale.

00:44:02.120 You want to keep it fresh all the time.

00:44:03.860 And it's very easy.

00:44:04.420 Just clip it, relight it, and you smoke your cigar.

00:44:07.800 This is one thing that my wife, a long-suffering woman, puts up with a great deal.

00:44:14.180 I try to have a cigar at night, read a book or something, and then I get into bed.

00:44:18.840 And she says, Mac!

00:44:20.340 And I say, yeah, girl.

00:44:21.360 She goes, Mac!

00:44:22.260 I just...

00:44:22.760 I hate that...

00:44:23.680 Your breathing on my face is disgusting.

00:44:26.220 Can you please...

00:44:26.800 But it's a non-negotiable.

00:44:29.200 The toothpaste doesn't do it.

00:44:30.560 The mouthwash doesn't do it.

00:44:32.620 I must smoke cigars.

00:44:34.420 There's a great poem by Rudyard Kipling about how he's got to choose between his beloved

00:44:38.120 and his cigar.

00:44:40.720 Doesn't turn out well for the lady.

00:44:42.100 You know, so I'm just...

00:44:43.240 One has to make compromises in a marriage, and that's ours.

00:44:46.640 I have a solution.

00:44:47.440 If you went to bed with all six masks on, I don't think she'd be able to smell it anymore.

00:44:51.700 No, I don't know if I'd wake up in the morning.

00:44:53.340 It sounds like she wouldn't be that upset with that.

00:44:55.620 It's a win-win for her.

00:44:56.640 It's a win-win.

00:44:57.720 Next up, James in Tilton, New Hampshire.

00:44:59.980 And a reminder for everyone, you can still get your questions in, and we still do have

00:45:03.620 some very special shout-outs coming, including a shout-out from a president of the United

00:45:08.020 States.

00:45:08.700 Again, not saying any names.

00:45:10.240 Wow.

00:45:10.740 Gosh.

00:45:12.300 You can still get your questions in.

00:45:13.840 Don't forget.

00:45:14.340 That's the middle of the story.

00:45:15.540 So the question is, really excited to read Speechless Michael.

00:45:18.740 What would your advice be for a young conservative looking to run for local office, state house

00:45:23.200 representatives in a blue state?

00:45:25.200 I'm going to give you two books, because I forgot a book on the last one.

00:45:27.300 Okay.

00:45:27.580 We'll get two books in there.

00:45:28.540 I'll sign you both.

00:45:29.860 I guess my first bit of advice is run.

00:45:32.480 No, that's actually confusing.

00:45:34.000 Don't run.

00:45:34.740 Do not run in the other direction.

00:45:36.560 Go have a good life.

00:45:37.780 I, no, I don't know.

00:45:39.500 That's my decadent luxury talking.

00:45:42.340 It's very good.

00:45:43.300 If you are willing to get into public service and elected life for the right reasons, that

00:45:49.800 would be very good, especially at the local level, because everyone has national ambitions

00:45:54.340 now.

00:45:54.860 The first office people run for now is for president.

00:45:57.760 And I think it is better to work at that local level.

00:46:00.600 That's where a lot of change happens.

00:46:03.180 That's where a lot of policy happens.

00:46:04.960 You should make sure that you're not relying on it for money.

00:46:09.340 I've seen politicians go bad if they need the money, and then they end up in kind of

00:46:13.540 crooked practices.

00:46:14.640 You should make sure you're not doing it to get famous.

00:46:17.080 There are easier ways to get famous.

00:46:19.820 And half the country will hate you.

00:46:22.040 And if you're in a blue state, more than half of your constituents will hate you.

00:46:25.980 So I wouldn't do it for that reason.

00:46:29.140 If you're in it for the right reasons, you know, you've got a good head on your shoulders,

00:46:33.120 a good moral compass, you have a concrete agenda, you're not just a convenience politician,

00:46:38.140 you're a conviction politician, then it's very simple.

00:46:41.480 You get a good campaign manager, you raise some money from friends and relatives, and

00:46:46.540 you run a very lean campaign.

00:46:48.840 Do not get fat.

00:46:50.100 Watch out for the consultants.

00:46:51.500 The consultants will eat up a lot of your money.

00:46:53.740 So keep it really, really tight.

00:46:55.480 And you have to be the one to knock on doors.

00:46:57.520 This is something, people ask me, it's not just politics, it's media, it's academics,

00:47:03.700 whatever.

00:47:04.280 They'll say, basically, how do I accomplish something without having to work very hard?

00:47:09.660 How do I accomplish something without having to make certain compromises on my leisure time?

00:47:15.060 You can't.

00:47:15.940 You can't.

00:47:16.820 Nobody at the top is getting off easy.

00:47:19.820 Everyone I know at the top of their game, especially in public life, is working very,

00:47:24.560 very hard, with the exception of Cabot.

00:47:26.960 Every other one I know is working very, very hard.

00:47:29.980 And so you will, too.

00:47:31.840 You will have to knock on the doors.

00:47:33.160 You will have to put the policy papers together.

00:47:35.280 You will have to make sure that your money's not going the wrong way and make sure that

00:47:39.000 your lawyers aren't messing up.

00:47:40.840 You've got to be willing to do that.

00:47:42.320 If you are and you're willing to take the slings and arrows, you should check yourself into

00:47:45.260 an insane asylum.

00:47:46.380 If they let you out, then best of luck in the race.

00:47:48.820 One question I do have, follow-up here.

00:47:51.720 You say in this answer, don't trust political consultants.

00:47:55.540 But a couple answers ago, you said, I was a political consultant right out of high school

00:47:59.320 on your friend's campaign.

00:48:00.680 I was a staffer.

00:48:01.660 Oh, a staffer.

00:48:02.060 I was a staffer.

00:48:02.740 Not a consultant.

00:48:03.220 I actually did consult on some campaigns.

00:48:05.020 The one thing you've got to be careful of, it is fine.

00:48:07.040 I mean, seriously, political consultants, you need them.

00:48:10.900 They actually do things.

00:48:12.120 They actually know how to file the paperwork or whatever.

00:48:15.400 But sometimes, here's what happens.

00:48:16.720 You'll see it on a local congressional race.

00:48:18.540 It's going great.

00:48:19.200 Everything's fine.

00:48:20.120 And you're raising money.

00:48:21.120 Maybe you get through the primary.

00:48:22.620 And then, once you're established, like they parachute in from Washington.

00:48:27.960 I don't know.

00:48:28.400 You'll see them all parachute in, and they all have their retainers, and you pay them

00:48:33.000 a lot of money, but they don't know the district.

00:48:35.560 So then you end up alienating yourself.

00:48:37.620 You would have been better had they never joined on in the first place.

00:48:39.760 You've got to really like the people, know the people, and be willing to shake the

00:48:43.360 hands yourself.

00:48:43.820 So we'll raise a toast to everyone except political consultants who do that.

00:48:47.460 Except the ones that I work with.

00:48:48.600 I like those guys.

00:48:49.720 They're great.

00:48:50.460 Next question.

00:48:51.200 Elisa from Murrieta, California.

00:48:53.880 I often think the world would be a better place if all social media disappeared.

00:48:58.900 Your thoughts?

00:48:59.700 I have deleted all of my social media accounts and can happily say I feel free.

00:49:03.280 This is fair enough at the personal level, I think.

00:49:07.260 Really, what you just need is discipline.

00:49:08.680 And if you don't, I don't mean this in any disparaging way.

00:49:12.640 Social media are designed to be very, very addictive.

00:49:15.700 So if you find yourself falling prey to that, then I think it's smart to take a step back.

00:49:20.480 Or maybe it's just one platform.

00:49:21.620 Maybe you're fine on Facebook, but you're bad on Twitter.

00:49:23.460 So yeah, get off of Twitter.

00:49:24.520 Absolutely.

00:49:25.880 At the personal level, do not fritter away your life.

00:49:29.240 We're all guilty of this.

00:49:30.360 You know, we'll just sit there.

00:49:31.100 How many minutes?

00:49:32.140 Sometimes hours.

00:49:33.020 We'll go by just scrolling.

00:49:33.860 You're just sort of drooling at the side of your mouth.

00:49:36.420 You don't want to do that.

00:49:39.380 However, at the political level, the social media are the reason that conservatives had

00:49:43.960 a pretty good run, at least running for office.

00:49:47.440 They didn't, you know, unfortunately, circumstances meant we didn't accomplish all that much.

00:49:51.260 Part of the reason we didn't accomplish all that much, we didn't follow the strategy in

00:49:53.960 this book.

00:49:54.760 But we were able to get our message out there beyond the gatekeepers of the establishment

00:49:59.660 media, beyond Hollywood, beyond Washington Post, or wherever.

00:50:03.020 However, because social media opened that up.

00:50:05.920 Then Trump gets elected.

00:50:07.860 The left freaks out.

00:50:08.980 That wasn't supposed to happen.

00:50:10.620 And so all of a sudden, they clamp down on everything again.

00:50:14.380 Now we're going to need some other platform.

00:50:16.460 Or we can exercise our political power, use our political will to get these guys, these

00:50:23.940 woke corporations who behave in what Mitch McConnell says is like a parallel government, to get in

00:50:30.240 line and give us our rights.

00:50:33.020 I like it.

00:50:33.860 I have a feeling people can read a little bit about that, too, in the book.

00:50:37.580 Savannah from Ranger Georgia asks, what is the best way to get younger adults to understand

00:50:43.160 politics and the radical left?

00:50:45.120 I have a younger sister who only believes things that she sees on CNN and TikTok.

00:50:48.740 I've given her book after book and tried to explain things with facts, but she still acts like

00:50:53.600 I'm the crazy one.

00:50:54.900 How can I get her to understand?

00:50:56.280 You gave her book after book.

00:50:58.300 Give her one more book.

00:50:59.280 One more book.

00:51:00.080 It's going to be, this is the one.

00:51:01.640 I actually, I mean that only half facetiously, because a lot of these political books, I've

00:51:07.600 noticed, they're just pure polemic.

00:51:10.400 You know, they are just all clubbing people over the head and preaching to the choir.

00:51:14.640 And I tried not to do that.

00:51:15.860 I actually probably spend more time in this book going after the right because of mistakes,

00:51:21.180 I think, that they've made and shallow ideas that I think they've espoused.

00:51:24.640 And I think we can learn from the left.

00:51:26.540 And you need to be willing to say, actually, the left is onto something here, but they've

00:51:29.880 gone totally wrong.

00:51:30.920 And here's what we can learn from that.

00:51:32.220 That's all very important.

00:51:33.400 In the defense of all these liberal people, they are saturated with this stuff.

00:51:41.160 All they get from their teachers, from their communities, probably from their churches, from

00:51:45.600 their schools, from their government, from Hollywood, is this leftist message.

00:51:51.360 Okay, so when you go up to them and you say, hey, maybe abortion's not like the greatest

00:51:58.880 thing in the world, they might well be shocked to hear that.

00:52:02.640 They may never have heard that before, right?

00:52:05.420 So you have to give them a little grace for having their entire world turned upside down.

00:52:10.800 The more they follow that, I think, the easier it will become.

00:52:13.560 You know, ideas tend to lead to their own logical conclusions.

00:52:17.040 But you've got to dip their toes in the water first.

00:52:19.840 You know, you show them a video here, a podcast here, pretty soon, they're listening to the

00:52:25.760 Michael Knowles Show every day.

00:52:26.980 They're reading this book.

00:52:28.460 Soon enough, they'll be reading Reasons to Vote for Democrats, and that's how you know you

00:52:31.080 really got them.

00:52:31.560 And you can buy your little sister a book from Michael Knowles at, again, premiercollectibles.com

00:52:37.600 backslash speechless.

00:52:39.260 Not too late.

00:52:39.760 Get your questions in.

00:52:40.640 Once you buy, you'll get to submit the question, and Michael here will be answering it.

00:52:44.460 Next up from Hila.

00:52:46.380 Hila, I'm sorry if I pronounced this wrong, from Bay City, Michigan.

00:52:49.520 What is something beautiful that has left you speechless?

00:52:52.480 I love the show, and I can't wait for the book.

00:52:54.700 So as you sign Hila's book, something that has left you speechless.

00:52:58.620 I was walking around Iceland one early March, late February, early March.

00:53:04.260 I was in the middle of nowhere.

00:53:05.740 I didn't realize that a road was closed off because of the weather my friends and I were

00:53:09.400 driving.

00:53:10.160 And I saw this beautiful, beautiful kind of mountain type thing.

00:53:13.280 And I couldn't explain to you why it was so beautiful.

00:53:17.280 It was actually more than, and there are a lot of things in Iceland in particular, especially

00:53:21.060 when you go down south and you get all these crazy rocks and it looks like it's in Lord

00:53:24.400 of the Rings, that are not just beautiful, but sublime.

00:53:29.360 There's actually a kind of terror associated with it.

00:53:32.000 And this would be a good analogy for holy fear, fear of God.

00:53:37.440 You see this phrase, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

00:53:40.620 What does that mean?

00:53:41.260 Am I supposed to be afraid like I'm afraid of a ghost or I'm afraid of a tiger or something?

00:53:45.460 No.

00:53:46.320 I am really in awe.

00:53:48.360 I'm really in wonder.

00:53:49.280 And there is a fear aspect there too.

00:53:51.360 This is very important.

00:53:52.400 This really is the beginning of wisdom.

00:53:54.220 And when you think about probably the most important conservative philosopher of the last

00:53:59.220 1,000 years or something, 500 years, it would be Edmund Burke.

00:54:03.280 Burke wrote the Reflections on the Revolution in France.

00:54:05.300 He's widely considered to be kind of the mac daddy of conservatism.

00:54:09.180 Edmund Burke was an aesthetic philosopher.

00:54:11.940 He was a philosopher of beauty.

00:54:13.760 And one of his most famous tracts, probably his second most famous tract, is on the origins

00:54:18.500 of our ideas and to the sublime and the beautiful.

00:54:20.780 So I think there was this problem that conservatives had for the last 10 years or so, which is we

00:54:25.840 became just egghead dweebs.

00:54:27.400 We became these guys who were like trying to manage around the outskirts of the liberal

00:54:32.340 establishment.

00:54:33.280 You know, we have spreadsheets and things.

00:54:35.620 That's super lame.

00:54:36.700 That is not what the conservative project is about.

00:54:40.080 They're about bigger things, more fundamental things, beautiful things.

00:54:43.160 You know, we want Roger Scruton, the late Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher, he said

00:54:47.640 conservatives probably want to conserve things.

00:54:51.640 What is a conservative?

00:54:52.380 Probably wants to conserve things.

00:54:53.740 And we want, if we want to love our country, if we want to conserve our country, we need

00:54:59.420 a beautiful country.

00:55:00.540 We need to have a place that we love, that we really like.

00:55:03.220 I think when we start thinking more in that direction, we're going to have a much better

00:55:07.200 time appealing to people than when we're arguing about how some stupid policy wonk thing is

00:55:11.180 better than the other one.

00:55:11.900 I have to ask you, has there ever been a point in your life when you have started a quote

00:55:16.500 where you said, as we all know, the great Edmund Burke said, and you paused and realized,

00:55:20.820 I don't have any Burke quotes right now.

00:55:22.760 And you just like made one up.

00:55:24.260 Oh, you can very easily do that.

00:55:26.020 I, you know, I've done it six or seven times tonight, obviously.

00:55:30.080 Edmund Burke.

00:55:30.840 I don't even read a work that I ever wrote.

00:55:32.480 But, you know, there are some times when, and writers have done this throughout the

00:55:38.040 ages.

00:55:38.060 It's the peak behind the curtain.

00:55:38.960 It's the peak.

00:55:39.560 Now, I'm not saying I've done this, but people have done this throughout the ages, where they

00:55:43.420 will attribute an idea that they want to mainstream to a very well-known writer.

00:55:49.100 I actually have not done that.

00:55:51.140 That's not what I'm doing right now.

00:55:52.440 But there is a little impulse to, you accentuate some strain of thought in a great thing.

00:55:57.460 They thought it, and I also thought it.

00:55:58.520 And so, therefore, you should agree with it, because some smart guy.

00:56:00.900 You know, as Abraham Lincoln said, don't believe everything you read on the internet.

00:56:04.820 I never do.

00:56:05.840 Lincoln was just pressy.

00:56:07.060 Smart guy.

00:56:07.840 Really smart guy.

00:56:09.080 Next up from Alec, another smart guy, I'm presuming, in Avon, Indiana.

00:56:12.940 If you were an animal, which one do you think you'd be, based on your appearance and personality?

00:56:19.960 So, let's do both.

00:56:20.900 Okay.

00:56:21.300 Based on appearance, which animal are you?

00:56:22.680 Based on personality, which animal are you?

00:56:23.840 It's both.

00:56:24.160 It's both is the same thing.

00:56:25.280 That's for Alec.

00:56:25.600 Thank you.

00:56:26.260 I would be an elephant.

00:56:27.760 It's my favorite animal.

00:56:28.880 One, because I have a bit of a Roman nose.

00:56:32.380 I don't know if the cameras really pick it up.

00:56:34.040 But, you know, a little bit of a...

00:56:35.720 The Italians are known for their pronounced note.

00:56:38.960 Dante.

00:56:39.880 Prodigious.

00:56:40.520 Yeah, Julius Caesar.

00:56:41.880 So, that, I think, is part of it.

00:56:45.520 They have active memories.

00:56:48.240 You know, my strongest muscle probably is my memory.

00:56:50.340 They are the symbol of the conservative party in the United States.

00:56:55.420 I think that's very important.

00:56:58.140 They are...

00:56:59.400 They've got thick skin.

00:57:01.760 That's very important.

00:57:02.680 And they have gigantic ears, which I now do after wearing those stupid masks.

00:57:05.720 There we go.

00:57:06.640 I like that.

00:57:07.620 And personality-wise, though.

00:57:08.920 Well, I guess that applies to personality.

00:57:10.500 It's all in there.

00:57:11.700 There's a unity of body and soul and spirit.

00:57:15.180 I know these days it's fashionable to say that my soul could be male, but my body female,

00:57:20.840 or vice versa.

00:57:21.960 But it just ain't true.

00:57:23.060 I won't say it.

00:57:23.600 If I look like an elephant, then I feel like an elephant, too.

00:57:26.700 Beautiful.

00:57:27.380 Live your truth.

00:57:29.180 Zach from Nassau, New Jersey.

00:57:31.560 No, I read that wrong.

00:57:32.980 Nashua.

00:57:33.480 Nashua.

00:57:34.040 New Hampshire.

00:57:34.520 Nashua, New Hampshire.

00:57:35.400 That wasn't even close.

00:57:36.640 I've been there, too.

00:57:37.200 Careful, guys.

00:57:37.620 I'm a quarter of the way through my drink.

00:57:39.120 Nashua, New Hampshire.

00:57:40.200 Is the internet to blame for this woke movement?

00:57:42.940 And how can we fight back against cancel culture?

00:57:44.780 No, no.

00:57:45.580 The internet perhaps has made it more popular, though I don't even think it really has.

00:57:50.420 And I sort of think the internet may be a net positive for the right, I think, because

00:57:56.440 the left had institutional power.

00:57:58.840 So, you know, this woke movement began at least 100 years ago, as I detail in this book.

00:58:04.000 And it goes back even a little bit further than that.

00:58:06.280 So I don't blame the internet for it.

00:58:08.400 And the internet actually has opened up other ideas.

00:58:11.480 It has led to, in some ways, a fracturing of society.

00:58:14.640 But I think more to the benefit of people on the right.

00:58:18.560 The woke ideology, you know, it's fashionable to blame everything on Marxism.

00:58:24.080 You know, on the right, it's like everything, like this, you know, this drink isn't that

00:58:27.380 good.

00:58:27.720 This is Marxism.

00:58:28.780 This is communism.

00:58:29.400 But the thing is, Marx was responsible for a lot of bad things.

00:58:34.940 And the woke movement really does come directly out of Marxism.

00:58:38.360 So it comes, when we talk about critical race theory, for instance, critical race theory

00:58:41.520 is a derivation of critical theory.

00:58:43.540 Critical theory comes from the Frankfurt School.

00:58:44.900 The Frankfurt School was called the Institute for Marxism.

00:58:46.680 These were Marxist academics.

00:58:48.500 And you could trace a number of other leftist movements right now all the way back to that.

00:58:54.140 And I think it really all goes back to Marx's line that we need to engage in the ruthless

00:58:59.400 criticism of all that exists.

00:59:02.580 Everything.

00:59:03.140 You've got to debunk everything.

00:59:04.720 Deconstruct everything.

00:59:05.620 Tear down every statue.

00:59:07.040 Tear down Lincoln.

00:59:07.900 Tear down Grant.

00:59:09.020 They're going to tear down Martin Luther King before this time is up.

00:59:13.720 That really does go back to this destructive movement.

00:59:16.620 And it's not even just Marx.

00:59:18.600 Whitaker Chambers, the ex-communist who became a very important conservative thinker in the U.S.

00:59:22.720 Witness.

00:59:23.040 Witness.

00:59:23.800 So the second book that you should buy after you get this book.

00:59:27.560 Whitaker Chambers said,

00:59:29.580 Communism is the second oldest faith of mankind.

00:59:32.540 It's the alternative faith of mankind.

00:59:34.700 It began not with Marx and Engels.

00:59:36.400 It began in the Garden of Eden when the serpent told Eve,

00:59:39.580 Ye shall be as gods.

00:59:41.380 You know, it's this pride.

00:59:43.100 It's this hubris.

00:59:44.680 It's this desire to control everything about the world.

00:59:47.860 That's what you're seeing on the left now.

00:59:49.260 So that goes back a long way.

00:59:51.060 And we ignore that aspect at our own peril.

00:59:54.820 Next question.

00:59:56.240 Jacob in Shelly, Idaho.

00:59:58.760 Buongiorno, Michael.

00:59:59.800 Hope all is well.

01:00:01.160 What is your favorite cigar and whiskey combination?

01:00:03.600 The real questions.

01:00:04.600 Okay.

01:00:04.860 If we're talking really top-shelf stuff, the 2008 Partica Casa del Habano special release,

01:00:12.100 very hard to find, 15 Anniversario.

01:00:14.180 That's great.

01:00:15.320 And it's very hard to get, one, because you can't really buy them in America,

01:00:19.620 and not many of them exist.

01:00:21.000 If we're talking about non-Cubans, I would have to say, you know, I'm very ecumenical.

01:00:30.120 I'd just like to point out, you've put more thought into this answer than any other answer.

01:00:32.840 This is the only one I would care about.

01:00:34.860 I would say that the cigar that I'm going to a lot right now, I love the Armada Man of War.

01:00:40.200 This is in, I have a cigar sampler pack at Thompson, which I'm not even trying to sell it right now.

01:00:44.600 I buy many of these sampler packs because they're way under market price,

01:00:47.820 and they're an extremely good deal.

01:00:48.740 That cigar, which not a lot of people know about, is really good.

01:00:53.720 The Oliva Series O Perfecto is a great cigar.

01:00:57.500 It's like six bucks a stick.

01:00:58.940 It's so good, and not a lot of people buy it.

01:01:01.600 And Stephen Crowder actually gave me a couple recommendations,

01:01:04.380 but he told me that he would kill my entire family if I mentioned it

01:01:08.540 because he's got a good price on them right now, and he doesn't want it to go up.

01:01:12.320 So are you going to do it, or I mean, family?

01:01:14.120 Yeah, family, or I curry some favor with the listeners.

01:01:17.160 The whiskey that goes along with it, I'm a simple man, Johnny Black.

01:01:23.140 Very simple.

01:01:23.660 There's the scotch of Winston Churchill, scotch of the Libyan dictatorship, Muammar Gaddafi,

01:01:29.220 the scotch of the Saudi royal family, the scotch of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

01:01:34.360 Christopher Hitchens made this point once.

01:01:36.220 Good enough for them, good enough for me.

01:01:38.220 I don't know if you really sold it there, but anyways, we'll move on.

01:01:40.460 Sarah from Gilbert, Arizona.

01:01:43.420 Hi, Michael.

01:01:44.120 Why do you suppose we have not had a wealthy, smart, conservative come forward

01:01:48.200 and create a new Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, or Apple?

01:01:52.360 Why do we only have Democrats running big tech?

01:01:54.440 Because it's not possible to do that.

01:01:56.880 I mean, there are good alternatives.

01:01:58.440 I love Parler.

01:01:59.760 You know, I use Parler, and I hope that Parler grows, but the big tech companies amassed a

01:02:07.480 critical mass, and they did so under fraud, really.

01:02:12.260 I mean, they told people that they would be able to see who they wanted to and speak to

01:02:16.000 whom they wanted to and see things in their newsfeed, and then that was taken away from

01:02:19.220 them.

01:02:19.800 And they used and exploited protections in the Communications Decency Act, which actually,

01:02:24.940 not for even big tech purposes, but for other purposes, is a fair part of this book.

01:02:29.160 They exploited those legal loopholes, gave them a huge leg up on the competition, and

01:02:34.560 then, even today, they don't tell us what the rules are, and very often, I think, they're

01:02:38.520 in violation of the law.

01:02:40.860 Bill Barr made this point, the former Attorney General, but then he's no longer the Attorney

01:02:44.460 General, and that was that.

01:02:45.560 And he said, it's very difficult to marshal multiple aspects of the DOJ to come together

01:02:50.680 on either antitrust action or fraud or Section 230.

01:02:54.600 So that's really, really tricky.

01:02:56.500 I hope that there's an alternative, but the thing that you want in a social media platform

01:03:03.100 is not the posting ability.

01:03:05.280 It's not the cool interface.

01:03:07.100 I mean, those are important.

01:03:08.400 It's the audience.

01:03:10.220 You are the product, right?

01:03:11.800 You are what is being sold.

01:03:14.060 So Google, Facebook, and Twitter amassed that audience already.

01:03:19.400 And I just think it's naive of us to think we can build our own Google.

01:03:22.940 I think, really, we need to use our political power to bring Google back in line with the

01:03:27.120 American tradition.

01:03:28.920 Matthew from San Antonio.

01:03:30.160 This book's for him.

01:03:31.760 From San Antonio, Texas, asks, Michael, your show and video shorts really liven up my day.

01:03:36.620 You say the things I wish I could.

01:03:38.300 Being in the Air Force requires I watch my tongue since I have the, quote, wrong opinion

01:03:42.300 on the culture.

01:03:43.460 I appreciate you, and I look forward to the day you announce your run for the White House.

01:03:48.240 It's not a question.

01:03:49.060 It's a statement.

01:03:49.920 That's very kind.

01:03:50.720 Wow, thanks so much.

01:03:51.940 Thank you for your service.

01:03:53.440 Thank you for your excellent taste in podcasts and for your support.

01:03:56.980 That's very kind.

01:03:57.780 I have no snarky comment to add.

01:03:59.460 No, okay.

01:03:59.900 That's just a great guy serving our country who obviously has excellent taste.

01:04:04.440 Thank you, Matthew.

01:04:05.120 You're the man.

01:04:06.060 Will from Alpharetta, Georgia.

01:04:07.280 The second from Alpharetta, Georgia.

01:04:08.680 My hometown, actually.

01:04:10.080 Really?

01:04:10.420 I spent eight years of my youth in Alpharetta, Georgia.

01:04:12.820 Wow.

01:04:13.060 So, shout out to those folks.

01:04:15.200 Michael, what is the best way to ensure that your own moral code is not being changed by the

01:04:19.360 environment around you, like Facebook censorship and the like?

01:04:23.020 Can we really free ourselves from the damage that has already been done by the left?

01:04:26.220 Well, when you say your own moral code, I fear that you're actually already letting them change your mind with these kinds of words.

01:04:37.120 I suppose people have their own preferences, and you're entitled to your own preferences, but you're not entitled to your own moral code.

01:04:43.680 There is morality.

01:04:45.120 Morality is objective.

01:04:46.680 If morality is not objective, then there's no such thing as morality.

01:04:49.500 We're just kind of babbling incoherently at each other, and you'd be saying, you know, I like chocolate ice cream.

01:04:54.740 You say, well, I like vanilla.

01:04:55.980 You say, well, let's debate that.

01:04:57.280 Well, there's nothing to debate.

01:04:58.400 You know, we're just talking about preferences.

01:04:59.940 So, it is objective.

01:05:01.920 You can know these things.

01:05:03.080 You have to be very careful on the words, though.

01:05:04.860 I mean, I suppose that's the theme of the night and the theme of the book.

01:05:08.240 You've got to be very careful that subtle semantic shifts are not subtly changing your perception.

01:05:15.600 I notice people do this with, especially transgenderism.

01:05:20.300 I know conservative people, because they want to seem really nice, and they want to prove to everyone that they're not mean.

01:05:27.300 They'll refer to Bruce Jenner as she.

01:05:31.440 And they'll say, well, Michael, what's it to you?

01:05:33.700 It's no big deal.

01:05:34.580 Because if I say she's a really nice girl, that creates an image in your mind.

01:05:41.160 But Bruce Jenner is not a she.

01:05:42.820 He might be a really nice guy, but he's not a really nice girl.

01:05:45.600 If you give the she, you give away the whole premise.

01:05:49.800 Or sometimes, to be really moderate about it, they'll say they.

01:05:55.060 The singular they.

01:05:56.320 They'll say, Bruce Jenner.

01:05:57.620 They is a nice guy.

01:05:59.760 They are not.

01:06:00.840 I don't know what it would be.

01:06:02.120 But they don't want to give offense.

01:06:04.500 Hear me, hear me.

01:06:06.540 The truth may give offense, but it is worthwhile to give offense with the truth.

01:06:12.380 The left is trying to convince us that the truth is cruel and lies are compassionate.

01:06:18.460 That's not true.

01:06:19.940 It's not true on the gender issue.

01:06:21.460 It's not true in our politics.

01:06:23.520 It's just, it's never true.

01:06:25.540 The truth will set you free and lies will enslave you.

01:06:28.280 And they want to flip that right now.

01:06:29.880 Do not let them do it.

01:06:31.020 Use the language.

01:06:31.660 Even if people call you a jerk for pointing out that Bruce Jenner is a man, let them call

01:06:36.360 you a jerk.

01:06:36.800 You are offering the compassionate and, more importantly, the truthful perspective.

01:06:41.740 For everyone out there that wants to memorize a quote, Michael Knowles, a wise scholar, once

01:06:46.620 said, the truth will set you free and lies will enslave you.

01:06:49.520 Wow.

01:06:49.980 Is that, I think I came up with that.

01:06:51.240 Did you come up with that?

01:06:51.680 I think I came up with that.

01:06:53.000 Yeah, I'm going to copy right now.

01:06:53.880 Tell everyone, as Michael Knowles once said on his book signing live stream.

01:06:57.960 We're down to our last book.

01:06:59.480 You have been, are you cramping up?

01:07:01.080 And one more thing I will add for the viewers at home.

01:07:03.140 You may have noticed, Michael signing a left-handed chap, multiple people have brought up his

01:07:07.960 run for president, potentially.

01:07:09.360 It's what they want to see.

01:07:10.640 Left-handed folks, three times more likely to run for president than right-handed folks.

01:07:14.740 We have an advantage in presidential politics, though I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

01:07:21.780 We died two years earlier on average.

01:07:24.220 Well, bad news depending on who you're asking.

01:07:26.200 That's true.

01:07:26.840 That's a good point.

01:07:27.540 And by the way, the reason lefties die earlier is because of mechanical accidents.

01:07:31.300 You know, I'm not the most physical guy in the world.

01:07:34.560 So I think probably I'll be okay.

01:07:36.160 You're selling yourself short.

01:07:37.160 Final question here.

01:07:38.940 Adam from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

01:07:41.360 Dear Michael, if Christ walked our streets today, what welcoming would await him?

01:07:46.600 Is humanity ready?

01:07:48.920 Some people are ready.

01:07:50.400 I hope that I'm ready.

01:07:51.500 You know, this is something that, depending on your denomination or your sect or your understanding

01:08:00.700 of Christianity, I know that some people believe that, you know, the minute that you

01:08:06.000 confess your faith, you're just, you're good, you can sin, but you don't need to really worry

01:08:10.580 about it.

01:08:11.700 Christ does tell us, though, you know, many will call me Lord, Lord, and I will say I do

01:08:15.320 not know them.

01:08:15.900 And one, the Catholic perspective on this is that one must die in a state of grace,

01:08:20.340 one must repent, one, there are certain, as St. John writes, there are certain sins

01:08:24.400 that are mortal, there are certain sins that are not mortal.

01:08:26.760 We must be aware of this.

01:08:27.940 We need to have a sense of sin.

01:08:30.620 There's another line that when the communion lines are long and the confession lines are

01:08:34.720 short, the society has lost the sense of sin.

01:08:37.800 Something's gone really wrong here.

01:08:39.260 I know that now we're not supposed to shame anybody.

01:08:41.900 You can't slut shame, fat shame, shame shame.

01:08:44.600 You know, if you have shame, you feel shame for that.

01:08:46.880 Shame is a very useful tool.

01:08:49.720 You should have the appropriate love for yourself.

01:08:53.320 You know, you want to love your neighbor like you love yourself.

01:08:55.060 If you hate yourself, then it's not going to go very well for your neighbor.

01:08:58.920 But you should have a sense of your own shortcomings.

01:09:02.920 You should despise those shortcomings.

01:09:05.800 And you should humbly beg of your Lord, Lord, please, I am not worthy.

01:09:11.360 You know, I've sinned for my fault and my most grievous fault.

01:09:14.880 If you cultivate that spirit of humility, then I think you're in a good position.

01:09:20.780 And if you don't, then I'd watch out, buddy.

01:09:23.640 Nobody knows the day or the hour.

01:09:25.380 Not even the sun could happen any time.

01:09:28.200 There's a song I love in country music called Rain is a Good Thing.

01:09:31.300 Yeah.

01:09:31.600 I think let's do a remix.

01:09:32.900 Shame is a good thing.

01:09:33.980 Shame is a good thing.

01:09:35.000 Not always a bad thing.

01:09:36.100 I think sometimes it can lead you to repentance, which can be a good thing.

01:09:39.360 That's true.

01:09:39.640 So for anyone on the website this week at thedailywire.com who was wondering, you know, has production

01:09:44.560 been a little down?

01:09:45.560 What's going on with the website?

01:09:46.820 It's because everyone at the Daily Wire was spending all of our man hours calling everyone

01:09:51.320 around the country saying, can you offer an endorsement for the book from Michael for

01:09:54.420 this live signing?

01:09:55.220 Yeah.

01:09:55.440 And they said no.

01:09:55.880 We need it.

01:09:56.440 And they said no, thank you.

01:09:57.520 Everyone.

01:09:57.940 How much?

01:09:58.200 Person after person said no, or we couldn't meet their demands of prices.

01:10:01.760 Yeah.

01:10:02.560 We did find a few.

01:10:04.220 In all seriousness, Michael, you got a lot of people that love the book.

01:10:07.140 They're willing to speak up for you.

01:10:08.780 It is awesome.

01:10:09.980 So we're going to play a little blurb here of people wishing you well.

01:10:13.000 Michael, you haven't seen any of these.

01:10:14.240 I have not seen it.

01:10:14.780 No, I actually didn't even know this was going to.

01:10:16.240 This is coming.

01:10:17.080 People kept coming up to me.

01:10:18.020 They said, Michael, are you excited for the live signing?

01:10:19.880 I said, I don't know.

01:10:20.640 I don't even know what that is, really.

01:10:21.860 I'm going to show up.

01:10:22.620 But people really put a lot of time into this so that they can flatter me.

01:10:27.220 I think that's the best juice.

01:10:28.200 That's what you took away from this.

01:10:29.240 That's great.

01:10:29.720 I love it.

01:10:30.160 So we're going to roll the tape here.

01:10:31.600 A lot of friends saying some very nice things about the book.

01:10:33.860 And they're telling the truth.

01:10:34.780 It's good stuff.

01:10:35.340 Let's watch it.

01:10:36.440 Hey, this is Kirk Cameron.

01:10:37.700 And Michael Knowles has a great book out right now.

01:10:41.140 It's called Speechless.

01:10:42.440 I'm sure you've heard lots about it.

01:10:44.700 Congratulations!

01:10:46.260 On your book Speechless.

01:10:47.580 It's fantastic.

01:10:48.600 It's funny, insightful, courageous.

01:10:49.900 I hear you have a book out.

01:10:51.180 Actually, I've read your book.

01:10:52.660 And I just want to say congratulations.

01:10:55.300 This is a really wonderful piece of writing.

01:10:57.420 Your first book had no words whatsoever, which I actually thought was quite fitting for a Yale graduate.

01:11:03.680 Your second book, you decided to jettison all of the principles that had led to the first book being a bestseller.

01:11:10.320 And you actually went with words this time.

01:11:12.720 I think that was a risky decision.

01:11:16.040 But you've made it.

01:11:17.540 Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

01:11:19.940 Truly an outstanding book.

01:11:21.280 I can confirm the left should be afraid of this book.

01:11:25.220 The left doesn't want you to read this book.

01:11:27.580 Oh, hold on a second.

01:11:28.800 Jay Hay is beaming something.

01:11:30.360 Tipping points?

01:11:30.980 How to topple the left's house of cards?

01:11:32.800 Please buy now.

01:11:34.520 Yeah, you should.

01:11:35.700 If you're on Amazon, you should buy both books.

01:11:37.240 But we're talking about Michael's book.

01:11:39.020 You left me in L.A.

01:11:40.560 You moved to Tennessee.

01:11:42.960 But despite that, from one far right nutbag to another, I want to wish you the best of luck with Speechless.

01:11:51.300 I have to admit it, I've actually read your book and it's actually good.

01:11:54.740 I don't know who wrote it for you, but you did an excellent, excellent job.

01:11:58.900 Speechless, it's really good.

01:12:01.140 So congratulations.

01:12:02.380 Personally, I can't read.

01:12:03.940 I'm an internet cartoonist, but from what I've been hearing, this is one of the greatest books that Michael Knowles has ever written.

01:12:12.280 That's a famous voice.

01:12:13.040 Speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.

01:12:14.800 Get yourself a copy.

01:12:16.100 You know that leftist rag, the New York Times?

01:12:18.780 I want you to sell so many copies that you get on their fraudulent bestsellers list.

01:12:24.800 I did, and I know that you want to be more like me.

01:12:28.420 Buy Michael's book.

01:12:29.780 It is the finest book ever written by any human being in the history of mankind, going back to the Gutenberg printing press.

01:12:38.320 Now, Michael, did I say that right?

01:12:40.000 And I want the scotch at least 25 years old and a really damn good cigar.

01:12:44.680 He insisted.

01:12:45.040 25.

01:12:45.320 Congratulations.

01:12:46.340 Everyone should buy this.

01:12:47.460 Everyone should read it.

01:12:48.380 It's going to help conservatives reclaim and restore our country and everything that we love about America.

01:12:53.080 And anyone who cares about the decline of the West has to get this book because it's brilliant.

01:12:56.820 So make sure you buy that book, and Michael, congratulations.

01:13:00.740 I'm sure that it will be at least the fourth best Daily Wire host book, which is high praise.

01:13:08.480 Hopefully, if you make a lot of money off this book, you actually deserve it this time.

01:13:11.820 It's actually a really good book, so congrats.

01:13:14.220 Congratulations, Matt.

01:13:16.640 So make sure you go and order that book now.

01:13:19.040 Check out his book, Speechless.

01:13:20.720 Maybe my Italian's not as good as it used to be, but...

01:13:40.720 That last part may be a little sacrilegious, so we'll absolve you of that.

01:13:45.560 You had nothing to do with that.

01:13:46.420 No, that's fine.

01:13:47.560 It was not you.

01:13:48.660 I have to work on my Italian because I didn't quite make out Go Buy Speechless now, but I'm sure that's what he said.

01:13:53.900 That is definitely what he said.

01:13:55.520 And for everyone at home who's thinking, I'm just tuning in, what's going on?

01:13:58.920 It's not too late.

01:13:59.700 You can still buy the book, premiercollectibles.com backslash speechless.

01:14:04.860 You can get your own signed copy of the book.

01:14:07.360 You're going to stick around and sign quite a bit more of these books.

01:14:10.780 Also, you're going to stick around because you've got the Candace show after this.

01:14:13.300 So stay, if you're on the dailywire.com, stay here if you're a member.

01:14:16.900 You can watch Michael on the Candace show right after this talking about all sorts of great stuff, including things that are in the book.

01:14:23.520 If you're on the YouTube channel, head over to dailywire.com right now.

01:14:26.560 You're not going to want to miss that.

01:14:28.300 And I'd be remiss if I didn't let you know that we have one more very special person that has endorsed your book.

01:14:33.300 Endorses might be a loose term.

01:14:34.900 A president of the United States.

01:14:37.060 You don't know about this.

01:14:37.960 This is about to be a very big moment for you.

01:14:40.000 Let's roll the tape.

01:14:40.940 Mike Knows wrote a book called Speechless Control Being Word Control Being Minded.

01:14:47.420 Thank you, thank you, thank you.

01:14:48.980 For sharing the powerful story and for helping the country understand what's happening here.

01:14:55.560 And in case you were wondering, he's a great and gifted writer.

01:14:58.780 I really mean it.

01:14:59.540 The honesty with which he stepped forward and talked about the problem and the hope that it gave me hope reading it.

01:15:08.980 Sooner than I suffered the pressure.

01:15:10.940 That is the most lucid thing he's ever said.

01:15:20.520 No, I've not seen that yet.

01:15:22.440 Wow.

01:15:23.380 That really, whatever expectation I had, I had really no idea where that was going.

01:15:28.960 That exceeded it.

01:15:30.840 Thank you.

01:15:31.580 Thank you, Mr. President.

01:15:32.640 Thank you, Joe, for sincerely endorsing my book, Speechless.

01:15:38.080 You know, the thing, you know?

01:15:40.400 You know?

01:15:40.960 You know?

01:15:41.540 Michael, I'm going to sign this off.

01:15:43.940 Do you have any final words for all the readers, everybody, your final closing thoughts on the book?

01:15:49.040 Well, I would hate to upstage the president.

01:15:51.220 So, I guess the only closing word I would have to say is,

01:15:55.140 Translation, go by Speechless.

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The Michael Knowles Show - June 22, 2021

Michael Knowles Book Signing and Q&A ｜ Speechless： Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

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