The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1052 - Tom Cruise Was Right

00:00:00.000 I want to take you on a little trip down memory lane, all the way back to 2005,

00:00:06.540 when an eccentric movie star gave an infamous interview on the Today Show.

00:00:11.620 Here's the problem. You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do. All it does is mask the

00:00:17.320 problem, Matt. And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem. That's what it does.

00:00:23.340 That's all it does. You're not getting to the reason why. There is no such thing as a chemical

00:00:29.100 imbalance. I'm saying that drugs aren't the answer. These drugs are very dangerous. They're

00:00:34.780 mind-altering, antipsychotic drugs. And there are ways of doing it without that so that we don't

00:00:41.320 end up in a brave new world. Yes, there are abuses. And yes, maybe they've gone too far in certain

00:00:46.740 areas. Maybe there are too many kids on Ritalin. Maybe electric shock is... Too many kids on Ritalin, Matt.

00:00:51.120 I'm just saying. But aren't there examples where it works? Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you're glib.

00:00:56.580 You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance,

00:01:00.600 you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt.

00:01:05.340 Okay? That's what I've done. And you go and you say, where's the medical test?

00:01:10.840 For that interview, Tom Cruise was turned into a national laughingstock. He nearly lost his career,

00:01:18.380 and he was called crazy. Crazy, not like everyone in Hollywood is crazy, which they are, 0.83

00:01:23.740 but especially crazy. Crazy because he contradicted the medical establishment, 0.98

00:01:30.240 which had been making money hand over fist, slinging depression pills to treat an alleged

00:01:36.360 chemical imbalance in the brain. On the one side of the issue, you had a kooky, weirdo movie star.

00:01:44.620 On the other side, you had the entire public health authority. Guess who was right?

00:01:50.960 A new meta-analysis that has just come out looking at studies involving tens of thousands of people

00:01:58.640 has concluded that the chemical imbalance theory is completely bogus. Most depression pills are what

00:02:06.840 is called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRIs, which are said to work by correcting

00:02:13.240 abnormally low serotonin levels. This scientific review, which was published in the journal

00:02:19.000 Molecular Psychiatry, finds, quote, no clear evidence that low serotonin levels are responsible

00:02:26.160 for depression. In the words of the study's lead author, a psychiatry professor at University

00:02:31.020 College London and consultant psychiatrist at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust, quote,

00:02:37.240 many people take antidepressants because they believe and have been led to believe their depression

00:02:43.060 has a biochemical cause. But this new research suggests this belief is not grounded in evidence.

00:02:51.380 After a vast amount of research conducted over several decades, there is no convincing evidence

00:02:58.220 that depression is caused by serotonin abnormalities, particularly by lower levels or reduced activity

00:03:05.520 of serotonin. Now, this seems like a pretty important finding for the 85 to 90% of the public that,

00:03:14.000 according to surveys, believes in the chemical imbalance theory. This seems like a really big finding

00:03:20.760 for the millions of Americans, one in eight, who take these depression pills to correct a chemical imbalance

00:03:28.980 that apparently does not exist. For the one in 29 American teenagers and younger who have been

00:03:36.380 prescribed these drugs under false pretenses. And it's good that after decades of pharmaceutical

00:03:42.880 companies peddling these drugs, often through incessant TV commercials touting the theory and

00:03:48.740 minimizing the considerable side effects, it's good that now it's come out that there was never any

00:03:54.240 scientific evidence for the theory. That's good. Better late than never. But it leaves one nagging

00:03:59.840 question. How did Tom Cruise know this back in 2005? How did a guy whose job it is to look good on

00:04:09.000 camera know more about psychiatry than the entire medical establishment and mainstream media 17 years

00:04:17.120 before this analysis came out? Forget Tom Cruise for a second. Forget the depression drugs for a second.

00:04:22.780 How is it? How is it that a bunch of weirdo bloggers and fringy tweeters and Alex Jones,

00:04:31.360 a frequently shirtless radio host who yells into a microphone, how is it that all those people

00:04:36.740 have a much better record on COVID and the vaccines than, say, Dr. Fauci, Rochelle Walensky,

00:04:45.420 the World Health Organization, and the entire public health establishment? How is it that I,

00:04:50.240 okay, and not, I don't, you know, I hate to say I told you so, how is it that I, a guy with no higher

00:04:55.760 education than a bachelor's in history and Italian poetry, how is it that I, and most of you, most of

00:05:02.380 whom do not have medical degrees, how is it that every single time we contradicted the public health

00:05:08.580 establishment and their propagandists in the press and big tech on COVID over the past few years,

00:05:14.900 on the Wuhan lab, on mortality rates, on the danger to young people, on the efficacy of the vaccines

00:05:21.180 against infection, on the efficacy of the vaccines against transmission, on the relation between

00:05:26.080 vaccines and menstruation, on the risks of the mRNA technology, the list goes on and on,

00:05:30.880 on every single part of it. How is it that we were always right and the authorities were always wrong?

00:05:39.160 Ignorance on their part? Malice? Greed? Indifference, perhaps? Whatever it is, it turns out that the

00:05:49.800 people our establishment has maligned as crazy for decades were right all along. And the only people

00:05:57.800 who seem crazy today are the ones who still think those authorities have even one ounce of credibility.

00:06:04.340 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:06:14.080 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from CoolPapaJMagic, who I have to

00:06:18.440 meet this guy. CoolPapaJMagic has had so many of my favorite comments. He says, I love what Michael's

00:06:23.100 saying here. People are not taught anymore that demons are real. Satan too, and even God for that

00:06:28.300 matter. We are in complete disorder. I see what you're saying, which is they're not even taught that

00:06:32.780 God is real. But the way it sounds is, and even God is real, even in addition to those things. When

00:06:38.080 of course, God is the most real, God is the source and summit of all being, being himself. But you're

00:06:43.000 right. You're right. Those things are real. As Antonin Scalia said, many more intelligent people

00:06:47.380 than you and I have believed in the devil. Those things are real. That spiritual world, those spiritual

00:06:55.560 realities are real. Certainly, certainly much more real than chemical imbalances in the brain. We just got

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00:08:15.800 slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S Podium. Let's grow. Speaking of sickness, Joe Biden has COVID. The president of the

00:08:23.940 United States has COVID. So announced the White House doctor. White House doctor Kevin O'Connor

00:08:28.600 said in a memo that the president is, quote, currently experiencing mild symptoms,

00:08:35.000 mostly rhinorrhea, which is not a word that anyone should use. There's no reason to use it. That means

00:08:40.280 runny nose. Did you know that? That's a gross word. No one should use that. He's experiencing

00:08:45.460 rhinorrhea and fatigue with an occasional dry cough, which started yesterday evening. So the good news is,

00:08:51.920 seriously, I'm not being facetious or anything here. It's good. I'm glad. Joe Biden is a fellow human

00:08:57.440 being. We hope he makes a full recovery. I'm glad that he's a parent. Apparently it's experiencing

00:09:02.860 mild symptoms. Can't help but notice though, that it's a little bit ironic that Joe Biden got

00:09:11.400 the virus because, you know, I won't even explain it. I will take you on a little journey. Here is a

00:09:17.680 play in three acts. You're okay. You're not going to, you're not going to get COVID if you have

00:09:23.620 these vaccinations. Yeah.

00:09:29.760 There he is. He's getting a shot. Okay. Stay in there.

00:09:35.040 Hey folks, guess you heard this morning I tested positive for COVID, but I've been double vaccinated,

00:09:40.060 double boosted. Symptoms are mild. And, uh, and I really appreciate your inquiries and your concerns.

00:09:46.060 He got COVID. He got COVID. He said, if you get the vaccine, you can't get COVID.

00:09:52.840 And then he got the vaccine and then he got a bunch of boosters. And then, then he got COVID.

00:09:59.620 Shouldn't he have to answer for that? Shouldn't he, he spread fake news. He's, he spread medical

00:10:07.780 misinformation. People will lose their careers for that these days. They will be deplatformed for that.

00:10:13.040 But don't the, don't the libs broadly, Biden in particular, but he can't answer anything.

00:10:17.360 Don't the libs broadly have to answer for that, but they're not giving any answers at all. Here's

00:10:21.680 another question people are asking, where did Biden catch COVID? You remember during the Trump years

00:10:26.300 when, when Trump got COVID, there was one time at CPAC, the conservative political action conference,

00:10:32.360 COVID spread at CPAC. Coincidentally, I happened to be in the green room where COVID spread. And because

00:10:39.100 there were a number of high, very high profile administration people there, I, I ended up

00:10:43.640 getting put on a bunch of lists where they said, don't, don't go anywhere near Michael because

00:10:47.080 Kellyanne Conway and Ted Cruz was there. And there were a number of other key administration people.

00:10:53.960 And they said, these awful people, they were in the room, stay away from them. This is a super

00:10:58.700 spreader. Conservatives are so irresponsible. Well, okay. Where did Biden catch it? What super 0.99

00:11:03.880 spreader event was he at? The white house won't answer.

00:11:06.840 Where was he infected? I don't think we know. I certainly don't know if you, if you have any

00:11:11.660 thoughts on it. Look, I don't think that that matters, right? I think what matters is we prepared

00:11:16.260 for this moment. I think what matters is what Dr. Jha just laid out. If we look at where we were,

00:11:22.300 we're a year and a half ago. This is a president when he walked in, one of his first priorities was

00:11:27.480 to make sure we had a comprehensive plan to get people vaccinated. And so now today, look, look to today,

00:11:34.220 more and more people are getting closer to having a more normal life. Vaccines are available. And as

00:11:40.680 Dr. Jha said, if you have not gotten vaccinated, please do. If you have not, if you're, if you have

00:11:45.440 not gotten boosted, please do. These are, these are treatments that are going to keep you safe. And I

00:11:52.460 think that's what matters here is making sure that we continue to do the work. And the good thing is

00:11:57.440 that, uh, the president again has been, uh, uh, vaccinated and double boosted.

00:12:01.660 That's the really important thing. Cause could you imagine if he hadn't been vaccinated and boosted

00:12:06.800 by golly, he might've gotten COVID. They, he said the thing, the white house said the thing that they

00:12:12.020 always say, whenever the libs who said that if you get the vaccine, you won't get COVID. And then

00:12:16.560 they get COVID and they said, well, thank goodness I'm vaccinated and boosted by golly. Could you imagine

00:12:21.100 how bad it would be if I, if I hadn't been vaccinated and boosted? No, I can't imagine.

00:12:27.120 I have no reason to believe that it would be worse actually, because you people, the very same people

00:12:33.320 who told me with such certainty, you will not get the virus. If you take the vaccine, you will not

00:12:38.560 transmit the virus. If you get the vaccine, you are the very same people who are telling me, yeah,

00:12:42.860 well anyway, in this kind of unfalsifiable way, it would definitely be worse. So get, get the vaccine

00:12:46.780 anyway. I, I don't know folks. I don't know when you're, when you're wrong about pretty much every

00:12:53.860 major public health question. And when you lie in some cases, I just, I'm not so inclined to believe

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00:14:38.440 has just posted, I assume this was a TikTok. Was this libs of TikTok? Of course, libs of TikTok,

00:14:44.980 one of the greatest journalistic outlets around today. There's a second grade teacher

00:14:50.340 who has some sort of queer identity. And she just posted a really amazing story. Her entire

00:14:58.520 second grade class just came out to her as transgender. Okay. So it took a couple of days

00:15:04.360 for me to make this TikTok, um, without crying because that's what I do. Um, please ignore

00:15:10.700 the dog bone crunching behind me. Anyhow, um, one of my students, uh, felt safe enough to share

00:15:17.700 his pronouns with me. And when he did so, once the class knew that I knew, they all switched

00:15:26.060 pronouns. They're second graders. Like I'm torn between being really, really happy to be a safe

00:15:34.380 space and just absolutely furious that an entire group of second graders has to keep this secret

00:15:39.740 from not safe people. Why are kids feeling unsafe? And furthermore, why does everyone talk about how,

00:15:49.780 how are the kids going to understand? Kids f***ing understand it. It's easy for them. It's the adults 0.61

00:15:54.720 who have all of the frigging issues and hangups and bulls***. Kids are fine. 0.99

00:16:01.280 So this woman said one true thing in that statement. She, when she said it's the adults 0.99

00:16:07.060 who have the hangups and the issues. Yes. One adult in particular in this situation has a lot of hangups

00:16:13.420 and issues and is very confused about her sex and the relationship that she's supposed to have 0.98

00:16:18.860 to students, to little kids who are not her kids and the relationship that those kids are supposed to

00:16:23.920 have to their parents who she derides as unsafe people. Does this woman seriously believe that 0.55

00:16:33.580 her entire class of second graders, what is a second graders? Seven years old? If you're five years old

00:16:40.100 in kindergarten, you're seven years old. An entire class of seven-year-olds. All of them were born in the

00:16:46.800 wrong body. All of them, a hundred percent of seven-year-olds who look like boys, they're actually 0.99

00:16:55.100 secretly girls. And ones who look like girls are actually secretly boys. And that's, do you think

00:16:59.260 that's the explanation? Or do you think they just have a weirdo teacher who is confusing them?

00:17:05.740 Which do you think it is? Obviously, I mean, none of you, if you're listening to this show,

00:17:10.680 you definitely have some common sense. You know what the answer is. I don't know what that woman 1.00

00:17:14.680 believes. It's hard for me to believe that she could be so stupid as to think that an entire class 1.00

00:17:20.440 of seven-year-olds just happens to all have this very, very rare psychological condition. 1.00

00:17:27.340 This sexual delusion where you think you're the opposite sex. She must know, she must realize 0.99

00:17:33.180 that what she's doing is pushing a radical sexual agenda. That really is a cult. It is a weird

00:17:42.120 gnostic religious movement that makes very outlandish claims about human nature and who we

00:17:48.180 are and the relationship that the soul has to the body. And like all cults, tells kids to cut off

00:17:53.560 their parents. Tells people to cut out their family. Your family is awful. Your family, they're trying to

00:17:59.540 harm you. They're not as enlightened as we are. Just talk to us. Talk to us about your sexuality,

00:18:06.940 kids. Don't. And you know, that's the other thing about cults is they always have a weird sexual

00:18:11.020 component. 99 times out of 100, that cult leader is getting frisky with the ladies in the cult. I

00:18:17.700 don't know. It's so strange how all these prophets, all these modern day prophets and religious leaders

00:18:23.060 and cult leaders, how they always seem to have, how they're always getting messages from beyond this

00:18:29.480 realm to sleep with all the ladies. Isn't that kind of weird? And you're getting a similar effect here

00:18:34.300 with these groomers. It's just a cult. And the question is, do you, in the name of equality and

00:18:42.400 tolerance and open-mindedness and liberality, need to tolerate a publicly funded institution

00:18:49.760 to which you send your children to send them into a cult? A weird, creepy sex cult that teaches them 0.65

00:18:57.860 to hate their parents and to disbelieve reality and to hate their own bodies. Do you think you have 0.96

00:19:03.940 to do that? I don't think you do. I think the teacher should be fired. I think these ideologies

00:19:08.260 should be banned from schools. I think the books that peddle these ideologies should be banned from

00:19:12.540 schools. They should be burned. Okay. I'm going to go a little further. Let's go all the way.

00:19:17.260 All right. Book burning has a long history in Western civilization. Plato supported book burning.

00:19:23.040 The apostles supported book burning. Certain Catholic theologians supported book burning.

00:19:28.340 The leading Protestant theologians supported book burning. I don't love Martin Luther. He's not my

00:19:32.760 main man. He supported book burning too. We've had lots of this. In early America, they supported

00:19:37.320 book burning. Now, I'm not suggesting that we take this so far. I actually, I'm a very open-minded

00:19:46.160 person. I really like tolerance. I tolerate all sorts of crazy ideas. I talk to radicals all the time.

00:19:51.400 But there is a difference between being a kind of open-minded, interesting, tolerant person who is

00:19:59.160 curious about other ideas and supporting with your taxpayer dollars a weirdo cult that indoctrinates

00:20:06.200 your kids in the sacred texts of this insane leftist religious ideology. Okay. There's a big

00:20:14.640 difference here. And we don't need to tolerate that. And we don't need to tolerate these weirdos

00:20:18.480 turning their kids, turning the students in their class against their parents. You don't have,

00:20:22.200 you can just fire them. We have the political right to do that. Do we have the political will?

00:20:26.480 I'm not so sure, but we do have the political right to do that. Speaking of weird sex stuff in public

00:20:30.520 health, monkeypox is spreading like, not like wildfire. It's spreading actually very, very slowly,

00:20:37.480 but it is spreading in America. And it's spreading specifically in, on the coasts,

00:20:43.200 in very liberal cities among homosexual men. That's where it's spreading. And the LA Times 0.69

00:20:49.380 has figured out why monkeypox is spreading. The LA Times has a headline,

00:20:55.000 why are we botching the monkeypox response? Blame homophobia.

00:20:59.320 Yeah. This guy, Senator Scott Wiener, who is a state senator in San Francisco. He says,

00:21:08.160 we are on our own as always. His name is Wiener. Just going to leave that there. We are on our own

00:21:13.120 as always. We can't count on anyone else. Rampant homophobia is why monkeypox is spreading. That is

00:21:19.260 not true. Monkeypox is spreading because certain gay men are having orgies and they just shouldn't, 1.00

00:21:27.300 just don't do that. If they didn't do that, they wouldn't catch monkeypox. 0.99

00:21:32.160 What they're suggesting here is that we need to mobilize our entire public health apparatus

00:21:38.300 to take on the monkeypox issue. Why don't we have enough vaccines? Because there is no monkeypox

00:21:42.340 vaccine. Because the vaccine that people are getting against monkeypox is actually a smallpox vaccine.

00:21:47.740 And why don't we have a monkeypox vaccine? Because monkeypox was never a big issue. And it's only

00:21:51.860 spreading right now because of a Belgian fetish conference and Spanish bathhouses, 0.94

00:21:57.040 for gay men. And if they didn't go to the bathhouses and they didn't go to the weird 0.99

00:22:01.040 fetish orgies, there wouldn't be monkeypox spreading around. It would still be confined

00:22:05.700 to Zaire and a few small places in Africa that have been dealing with this problem for about 50

00:22:12.280 years. But it hasn't really spread too much. It hasn't become a massive problem. Let's go further.

00:22:18.780 Maybe they'll say, well, look, we were able to gin up the entire public health apparatus to create a

00:22:25.280 COVID vaccine. You saw how well that turned out. Why can't we do that to create a monkeypox vaccine? 0.84

00:22:31.160 Why can't we do that to? Well, because COVID spread like wildfire. It infected pretty much everybody.

00:22:39.280 It could be pretty tough on certain vulnerable populations. It shut down the world in terms of

00:22:46.060 the governments shutting down the economies. And so there was a pretty good political argument for

00:22:51.560 that. And you couldn't avoid having COVID by changing your personal behavior. That was one

00:22:56.940 of the ironies of COVID is people thought that by wearing a special mask or by even taking a special

00:23:02.000 shot, they would avoid getting COVID. And that didn't happen. Pretty much everybody has had COVID

00:23:06.420 and lots of people have had COVID multiple. I've had COVID multiple times. I suspect many of you have as

00:23:12.400 well. Monkeypox is not the same. You can avoid getting monkeypox. You're not going to get it by

00:23:20.200 riding the subway. You're not going to get it by going to work. You're not going to get it by going

00:23:22.980 to the store. Don't have gay orgies and you won't get monkeypox. That's it. But we are told in our 1.00

00:23:29.060 society, you're not allowed to say that. You're not allowed to recommend that people not have gay

00:23:34.840 orgies. That's a political right. Gay orgies are a natural right. That's why James Madison wrote the 1.00

00:23:40.780 constitution was to enshrine the right to Belgian fetish conferences. So if you, you have the right

00:23:46.780 to keep and bear leather ball gags or something. No, you don't. None of that is a right. We absolutely

00:23:52.080 as a political community can discourage that sort of thing. And we should discourage that sort of

00:23:56.160 thing. And it would do a hell of a lot more for the public health than most of the COVID response

00:24:00.320 and, and the shenanigans that big pharma has been up to for the past several decades. No question.

00:24:05.380 Speaking of weird sex stuff, speaking of sexual rights, the house of representatives,

00:24:12.060 the Democrats are taking on the real big issues. The Democrats have just put up the right to

00:24:20.080 contraception act, the right, the right to condoms bill. Right now we've got record high inflation.

00:24:26.340 We've got the first major war in Europe in 70 years. We've got record high illegal immigration,

00:24:32.960 millions of foreign nationals pouring across our border. We still have the public health issues of 1.00

00:24:37.980 the, the hangover from COVID. We've got all these problems. And they say, you know, the big issue

00:24:42.600 condoms. Do you, does anyone have trouble getting condoms in America or the pill or any of that? No,

00:24:50.780 it's everywhere. It's every, it's ubiquitous. But the right to contraception act would quote,

00:24:56.140 protect a person's ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception

00:24:59.760 and to protect a healthcare provider's ability to provide contraceptives,

00:25:03.160 contraception and information related to contraception. They're doing this because

00:25:06.140 abortion was a big loser for the Dems and they couldn't argue against the Dobbs decision and they

00:25:12.620 couldn't really argue against the overruling of Roe v. Wade and it doesn't pull very well.

00:25:16.280 So they're trying to make that decision about other issues that are not at risk. They're trying to make

00:25:20.900 that decision about the redefinition of marriage in Obergefell. They're trying to make that issue about

00:25:26.120 the constitutional right so discovered in, in Lawrence v. Texas to homosexual sodomy. They're 0.98

00:25:32.020 trying to make it about Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird, which discovered somewhere

00:25:37.200 in the constitution in 1965 and 1972, the right, the elusive right to put on a condom first for

00:25:44.360 married couples and then for non-married couples too. Don't know where that one was in the text,

00:25:48.600 probably between the emanations and the penumbras written in the invisible ink. And so they're trying

00:25:52.320 to make it about that. But the court in the Dobbs decision said explicitly, we are not revisiting

00:25:58.000 any of those issues. Contraception, homosexual sodomy, even marriage. We're not revisiting 0.99

00:26:02.540 any of those. Clarence Thomas in his concurrence said we should revisit those things perhaps.

00:26:07.980 He couldn't get any other justice to sign on. None of these things are at risk whatsoever.

00:26:13.020 They are all ubiquitously available. But the Dems have to tilt at windmills because they can't,

00:26:18.440 they can't run on anything else for the midterms. Intelligent, loyal, wise, dignified Republicans

00:26:28.980 would call this out for what it is. Say this is such a BS, ridiculous distraction. I'm not going 0.99

00:26:35.040 to vote for it. And then you've got the squishes. And then you've got the squishes. So there were two

00:26:42.720 Republicans who voted present on the bill. My problem isn't even with them. People should have

00:26:48.320 voted no on the bill. But my problem isn't even with the two Republicans who voted present. My

00:26:52.300 problem is with the eight Republicans who voted yes. Number one on the list, you can guess.

00:26:56.920 Who do you think she is? Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Liz Cheney says, yes, we absolutely need to enshrine 0.99

00:27:04.280 the right to condoms and birth control and all that. Anthony Gonzalez, John Katko, Adam Kinzinger,

00:27:10.380 Brian Fitzpatrick, Nancy Mace, Fred Upton, and Maria Salazar. I am really glad that Republicans

00:27:19.080 have wised up since the last stupid, ridiculous Democrat trap vote, the one on enshrining the 1.00

00:27:26.740 redefinition of marriage. I'm glad 47 Republicans voted for that. Then I read their names on this show, 1.00

00:27:31.700 and I think they're just absolutely very disappointing people. Okay. I'm glad that that number went from 47 to

00:27:38.920 eight since we read those names. But these eight, I mean, these guys are just completely worthless 0.85

00:27:46.540 in politics. They should be removed from the Republican Party. If the numbers are anywhere 0.98

00:27:52.860 near right for what we're looking at in the midterm elections, the Republicans are going to have a way

00:27:57.660 bigger than eight seat majority. So these guys, we should throw them out of the party. I mean,

00:28:03.000 a lot of them aren't coming back. Liz Cheney is almost certainly going to lose. Adam Kinzinger is

00:28:06.480 certainly not going to come back. So there are a lot of people like that, but it's pathetic. 0.99

00:28:11.260 Now, there's the Democrat view, which is that, to get into the actual issue of contraception, 0.97

00:28:18.620 is the Democrat view that we have an absolute constitutional right to condoms and birth control.

00:28:24.160 That's just not true. Even if you like condoms and birth control pills and IUDs and all that stuff,

00:28:28.420 it's not in the Constitution, right? If it were in the Constitution, how come it took until

00:28:31.900 1965 to discover it? And how come in 1965, when the Supreme Court discovered this alleged right,

00:28:37.920 how come they said, no, the right only exists for married couples? And it took another seven years

00:28:42.140 for the court to, I don't know, they got out a bigger magnifying glass in the Constitution.

00:28:45.600 They said, oh no, actually, no, we missed it. In this paragraph, it's for unmarried couples too.

00:28:50.680 Yeah, it's right there. It's really deep in the substantive due process. You know,

00:28:55.560 that contradiction in terms, that ridiculous liberal legal theory that has allowed the libs 0.72

00:29:01.920 to shred the Constitution. So even if you support it, it's obviously not in the Constitution, right?

00:29:06.740 But a really popular view, even among some conservatives is, look, birth control,

00:29:12.460 it's not in the Constitution, but it's a good thing. Birth control is a good thing. We should 1.00

00:29:16.640 support it. It's great. If we don't want to have abortions, we got to have birth control

00:29:20.420 as though you can only have one or the other, as though you at least need to have one of those

00:29:26.000 things. And that's a popular view. But here's my unpopular view in some quarters. Birth control is

00:29:35.740 bad. It's a bad thing, and we should discourage it. Not saying pass a national ban. I'm not saying

00:29:41.660 that that's not going to happen like the Democrats are yelling about. But it's a bad thing. Can we all

00:29:47.020 agree it's a bad thing? No, maybe we can all agree that. Well, what about if we look at the history

00:29:51.680 of birth control? You ever look into just Google, like, what's the history of birth control?

00:29:56.440 Birth control, the modern birth control movement, comes in the 19-teens, and it was popularized by

00:30:01.920 Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. It was a eugenicist movement to allegedly improve

00:30:08.580 the race by stopping undesirable people from producing kids. That's what it was for. It specifically 0.97

00:30:15.680 was aimed at cutting the black population and the population of people with a lower IQ, 1.00

00:30:20.440 all those stupid idiots. They shouldn't be able to have kids. That was what it was for. That's 1.00

00:30:24.780 what it was popularized for. Margaret Sanger, I think, coined the term birth control. 0.88

00:30:30.020 Do you think that campaigns that were initiated by Margaret Sanger, by one of the worst human beings 0.89

00:30:36.260 ever in the history of our country, do you think that they're all just, like, totally hunky-dory?

00:30:40.100 There's not a chance that maybe there's something a little bit wrong with them?

00:30:42.340 Furthermore, don't you think that some of the side effects of birth control have been

00:30:46.960 sort of bad for our country? Like, for instance, encouraging a culture of promiscuous sex, 1.00

00:30:52.440 which has hurt women. It's led to this, what they call the rape culture, the Me Too movement. 1.00

00:30:57.660 It's hurt men, too, by causing them to just become unaccountable, irresponsible. It's caused people

00:31:04.400 to delay marriage quite a lot. It's destroyed the birth rate in the United States. We've had a below

00:31:08.880 replacement birth rate for 50 years now, where the country is literally dying. That's probably not

00:31:13.980 good either. It severs the connection between sex and procreation. That can't be a great thing. And

00:31:19.680 it's just kind of anti-human, right? That's what those movements, that's what Planned Parenthood was

00:31:23.520 all about. It's just, we want fewer people. People are a kind of pox and plague on the planet. And so

00:31:29.560 we've got to have fewer people. We don't like all these people. And the Public Health Authority

00:31:35.740 really got behind that. You know, the Public Health Authority that's gotten pretty much

00:31:39.380 everything wrong. Don't you think? I'm just asking you, I'm not saying you've got to totally come out

00:31:45.080 and oppose birth control right now. I'm just saying, if you kind of think through it in a way that's not

00:31:49.820 totally reflexive, and you're not, if you just think, it's probably not a great thing, right?

00:31:55.540 It's probably not a great thing. And I hope that conservatives start to get a little bit,

00:31:59.920 especially these Republicans in the House, I think, I hope they start to get a little bit deeper

00:32:04.020 in their thought about how we're talking about these kinds of things. And I just hope that the

00:32:08.340 Republicans stop being the Democrats from 10 years ago. Okay, I hope that the Republicans are saying

00:32:13.680 birth control is a great thing. I hope, I don't want to have a Republican Party that extols the 1.00

00:32:18.400 virtues of Margaret Sanger and the eugenicists. You know, I just don't think that's, I want a choice,

00:32:24.140 not an echo. If I'm going to vote for two parties and my choices are the Democrats or Democrats from 10

00:32:30.740 years ago, I just, I don't even really want to vote. I want a choice. I want a different view

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00:33:41.520 more. Here we go. My absolute favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag

00:33:58.720 sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com, select a plan, enter promo code NOLSPODCAST to save 50%

00:34:05.080 off your first month. All right, before we get to the written mailbag questions, we have

00:34:10.240 my favorite, the voice mailbag questions. Take it away.

00:34:13.820 Hi, Michael. My name is Lizzie, and I love your show. I was just wondering your thoughts on

00:34:19.240 why people, especially obviously the liberals and these woke people, why exactly do they say that

00:34:27.780 Trump is the worst person or the worst president in all of history, and everything bad is because of

00:34:34.820 Trump, and Trump ruined the world, and blah, blah, blah. Obviously, I understand that he's not 0.99

00:34:41.100 this politician who's pretending to be the best friend of everyone. I think Joe Biden kind of does

00:34:49.460 that. Obviously, Obama does that. I think that's fake, and that's BS. And honestly, I kind of like how

00:34:54.940 Trump was more real, but is that why they don't like him? Is it because he did the Muslim ban or

00:35:01.900 things like that scandal where locker room talk? I'm just curious. Obviously, you can't question

00:35:08.800 liberals, but why do they think this exactly? They hate Trump in particular because Trump offered an

00:35:16.860 actual alternative to the uniparty consensus, and because he was relatively very effective.

00:35:27.160 The Republicans and the Democrats support different things. They have different policy

00:35:32.660 prescriptions to some degree. They seem to be in opposition, but very often, the parties work together.

00:35:39.640 For instance, a lot of Republicans talked a good game on immigration, but they secretly supported

00:35:45.040 immigration. And the reason for that is because their donors in the Chamber of Commerce want the

00:35:50.000 cheap labor. And another reason for that is they want to keep the entitlement programs solvent. And 0.98

00:35:54.900 you can't do that. We were just talking about abortion and contraception in our dying population

00:35:59.760 that we've had for 50 years. You need a massive influx of immigrants if you want to keep those programs 1.00

00:36:04.740 afloat, and you want to keep the GDP where it's at or growing. So the Democrats want mass migration

00:36:10.620 because it gives them an electoral advantage, usually gives them an electoral advantage.

00:36:14.980 And the Republicans say they don't want mass migration, but they never do anything to stop

00:36:19.140 mass migration because they benefit, and in particular, their donors benefit. That would be one

00:36:24.740 example. When you get to something like abortion, there are a lot of elected Republicans who might have

00:36:31.100 talked a good game on abortion, but they didn't actually do the things that would be necessary

00:36:35.040 to stop abortion in America. One reason for that is they were able to fundraise very well 0.88

00:36:39.700 off of abortion. On issues like American manufacturing, the American worker, Democrats 0.54

00:36:44.520 sold out the American worker a long time ago when they adopted a full-throated globalism 0.58

00:36:50.220 and outsourced a lot of jobs. Republicans did the very same thing.

00:36:54.680 So on an issue like free trade and outsourcing, the Republicans and the Democrats pretty much

00:37:00.000 agreed with one another, and on and on and on. And then Trump comes in there, and on immigration,

00:37:05.340 he actually offered a different answer, significantly different than what you were

00:37:10.860 hearing from other Republicans. He actually said, I'm going to build the wall. I'm going to deport

00:37:14.440 people. I'm going to make it more difficult for people to come over. And in the early days

00:37:19.080 of the Trump administration, you saw mass migration decrease dramatically on an issue like free trade.

00:37:24.720 He offered a totally different answer on free trade and tariffs than the Uniparty had offered.

00:37:28.780 So that really bugged them. Democrats are fine with Republicans who are court jester conservatives,

00:37:35.140 who put up a little bit of a show of opposition, but they actually, when push comes to shove,

00:37:40.280 they just concede. They lose with dignity. They don't have any dignity, but they say,

00:37:44.260 we're going to lose with dignity, okay? And that's fine by them. The Democrats are okay with it.

00:37:48.780 They'll pretend that they hate them, but really they're okay. The Liz Cheney's,

00:37:52.680 the Adam Kinzinger's, the Mitt Romney's, those kinds of people.

00:37:55.060 When a Republican comes out and is effective and offers an actual alternative, they're especially

00:38:01.360 going to hate that Republican. They're always going to hate the current Republican. Whoever

00:38:04.840 the current Republican is, is going to be Hitler. And the past Republicans, they're going to have 0.63

00:38:08.020 more of a strange new respect for. But Trump is a little bit different because Trump, probably just

00:38:13.340 by virtue of his lack of, of elected political experience, he just came in and he said, oh, I thought

00:38:18.560 we actually believed all the things we say we believe. I'm going to actually do them. And the Republican

00:38:23.020 establishment said, no, no, that's just the thing we say on the campaign trail. You can't actually do

00:38:26.860 that stuff. And that, that in particular aroused the ire of Dems. Next question.

00:38:33.400 Hello again, Nostradamus. Last month, I sent a voicemail bag asking for advice to my friend who

00:38:37.700 wants to have a baby with or without a man. I agree with everything that you said and your thoughts

00:38:41.440 were really what I wanted to say, but I couldn't articulate them well. I told her ahead of time that

00:38:45.300 I agree with everything that you said and I recorded your response and sent it to her.

00:38:48.920 She told me she showed the video to her therapist. Her therapist doesn't agree with her being selfish.

00:38:53.380 Because in his view, it's not selfish for her to want a child. I feel like her therapist is too

00:38:57.380 affirming to be a therapist or even talk about logistics and morality in this case. Now she

00:39:01.720 tells me that she has a fear of men and is still going to follow her own schedule with the artificial

00:39:05.500 insemination. She's had less than desirable boyfriends over the years. And I feel like it's

00:39:09.840 skewed her view of men and how she values herself. Despite that, she truly does want to get married 0.67

00:39:14.360 one day to a man who will come in and value her. She's expressed this to me and I wish I could be there

00:39:18.920 for her and support her without being the yes girl. I know it's not my place because I'm not

00:39:23.020 her parents. She's working on her relationship with her parents again, but as her friend,

00:39:26.660 I don't know what to do. Thank you for your advice and love the show.

00:39:30.220 Great question. Why would, the thing you should ask her is why she would bring this question to

00:39:36.160 her therapist? Why would her therapist have anything to say about this? Why would she bring

00:39:43.980 a question of morality and bioethics to a psychologist or a psychiatrist? That would

00:39:50.560 be like bringing a question about astrophysics to me. I don't know. I don't know anything about

00:39:55.320 astrophysics. In as much as I have any expertise at all, it's not in astrophysics. So why would you

00:40:01.740 ask me? Likewise, the psychologist's job is to, well, we've been a little harsh on psychologists

00:40:08.140 on the show today, haven't we? Because Tom Cruise was more correct than the entire psychiatric

00:40:11.880 establishment for 17 years. But beyond that, let's say, because I actually do think some psychologists

00:40:19.960 can do important work. Drew Klavan says his life was saved by a psychologist, not by people just

00:40:26.160 selling pills, but by actual talk therapy. So in as much as a psychologist has expertise,

00:40:31.740 it's on the way that your psyche works and the way that you think about yourself and the way that

00:40:38.920 your mind is perceiving the world and your role in the world, right? But the psychologist doesn't

00:40:46.440 know a damn thing, or by virtue of his education, doesn't know a damn thing about morality or sexual 0.94

00:40:53.360 ethics or the relationship of a mother to her child in a sort of grand moral scheme. He doesn't 0.98

00:41:01.720 know anything about that. She really should be bringing that question to a priest or a pastor.

00:41:06.900 But maybe your friend doesn't have a priest or a pastor. She should be thinking of that question

00:41:11.760 through the view of moral philosophers, through perhaps the view of the Bible, may I suggest.

00:41:18.620 But today, because we live in a therapeutic culture, because we live in a culture that ignores

00:41:24.160 objective reality, that frequently denies the objective moral order, that thinks that priests are just a 0.88

00:41:29.500 bunch of witch doctors and charlatans and shamans. We make everything about psychology and psychiatry,

00:41:36.080 because that just makes it all about us, and we think that we're the only people in the world.

00:41:39.920 But if you look at the record, especially of the psychiatric establishment for the, I don't know,

00:41:46.060 for the past hundred years, but especially for the past couple of decades, who are the shamans here?

00:41:51.480 Who are the witch doctors? Who are the quacks? It ain't the priests, okay? It ain't the moral 0.99

00:41:57.160 philosophers. I think it's the people peddling the therapeutic society. Next question.

00:42:02.620 Good morning, Smokey Mike. This is Julia, your number one fangirl. Today, I have a little bit

00:42:08.120 more of a serious question. My best friend is planning on working at BP starting August 1st as an engineer.

00:42:17.140 This will be her first job as an engineer. However, she just found out that BP is paying for its

00:42:26.640 employees' abortions. She's a very devout Catholic, very pro-life. She wouldn't even get the Fauci-ouchie

00:42:34.320 because of the abortion connections that it had. So you can just imagine her moral qualms in this

00:42:41.020 situation as well. My question is, do you think that it would be morally okay for her to work at BP

00:42:48.320 while they're paying for their employees' abortions, or should she seek employment elsewhere? 1.00

00:42:53.360 Thank you so much. I look forward to your answer.

00:42:57.120 Short answer is, I do think it would be morally okay, but it is a moral question. The reason I

00:43:03.320 think it's okay is because we're discussing not a direct engagement with evil, but an indirect

00:43:10.960 participation with evil. You're working for a company, and the company has a certain insurance

00:43:15.400 policy, and the insurance policy covers travel for people who want to go get abortions, which is

00:43:21.280 very, very bad, but it's pretty indirect. I suspect most companies in the country, if not the vast

00:43:29.380 majority of companies in the country, have similar policies or will institute similar policies in the

00:43:35.680 wake of the Dobbs decision. I think the government, I'm certain the government has that policy.

00:43:41.680 So does that mean that it would be immoral to work a government job? I don't necessarily think so.

00:43:47.460 The military pays for abortions. Does that mean it's immoral to serve in the American military?

00:43:53.060 At a certain point, I think the participation is so indirect, and the presence of this is so ubiquitous

00:44:01.940 that it would be illicit to do so. But should she? I don't know. I mean, that's a question for her.

00:44:12.340 What degree of participation in evil is she willing to tolerate to exist in the world? 1.00

00:44:20.980 If my company, if I were working for a company that were going out and promoting abortion,

00:44:27.780 sponsoring Planned Parenthood, donating lots of money to Planned Parenthood, I probably would quit

00:44:33.440 and go to a company that was a little bit more sane. But if we're talking about essentially insurance

00:44:38.280 policies and benefits, I just don't know how you can avoid that in the modern world. And as long as

00:44:43.260 the participation is indirect, perhaps it's tolerable. All right. Last voicemailback question.

00:44:47.860 Hello, Michael. I'm not a long-time listener. I'm not a fan. In fact, I do not support your work

00:44:54.960 in any way. My name is Dr. Anne Lesby, and I am a gender studies professor at ACL University.

00:45:02.440 When I am not educating in the classroom, I dedicate my free time to educating the ignorant on Twitter 0.99

00:45:09.060 and exposing dangerous right-wing transphobic fascists such as yourself. Here's my question. 1.00

00:45:16.440 Considering the havoc you wreak daily on vulnerable groups such as drag children's performers and sex 1.00

00:45:24.260 workers of color, how do you sleep at night? Really great question, Anne Lesby, Dr. Lesby. One of my

00:45:33.060 favorite Twitter accounts. I would encourage anyone who is not already following Dr. Lesby,

00:45:38.960 Dr. Lesby, Anne, to follow her account. I'm really glad to hear your voice. That's great.

00:45:46.440 How do I sleep at night? With the great comfort of a Helix mattress. That is how I sleep at night.

00:45:53.440 Let's get to some written mailbag before we go. Question from Caden. I am a Christian white man

00:45:58.300 who knows I'm a man, and I'm in need of some advice. About to start my freshman year of college,

00:46:02.400 I'll be staying in the dorms because my scholarship will help pay for that. Problem is that I got an

00:46:07.980 email from one of my assigned suitemates telling me that she is transgender. This is a girl who thinks 1.00

00:46:14.080 she's a boy in the boys' dorms, meaning I would have to share a bathroom with this person.

00:46:18.740 There's no way that I'm going to room with this person. Do you have any advice on how I should

00:46:22.960 proceed without getting canceled and losing the scholarships I have? I'm an all-access member

00:46:26.620 from Oklahoma. Love the show. Thank you for everything that you are doing on the culture front.

00:46:33.640 Tricky question. I guess I would file for a religious exception. It's silly that you have to

00:46:40.520 make this a religious matter, but transgenderism is a religious matter, and that's not your religion. 0.82

00:46:45.180 You have a different religion, I imagine. That's what I would ask for. I would do it politely. I

00:46:51.000 wouldn't make a big stink and start protesting before you even make it to campus. He who pays

00:46:55.200 the piper calls the tune, and the university is paying for this stuff. I agree with you. I think

00:47:00.580 that situation is probably intolerable. I wouldn't do it. It's just wrong. Men and women should not be 1.00

00:47:07.900 living in the same suite together, no matter what their professed sexual desires are or their gender

00:47:13.540 identity or whatever. So I would do that. This is one where I think you probably catch more bees with

00:47:19.660 honey than with vinegar, but I would hold your ground on this and maybe start looking at some

00:47:26.780 backup plans too. It's always good to be prepared. Always good to have an off-ramp. Okay, that's our show.

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