The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1056 - Epstein Didn't Fund Himself

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00:00:37.540 The internet is ablaze with what most conservatives are calling a hellish techno-dystopia. This,

00:00:44.880 care of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has proposed building a 1,640-foot-high,

00:00:51.080 106-mile-long city for 9 million people built into a mirrored wall.

00:00:59.160 For too long, humanity has existed within dysfunctional and polluted cities that ignore

00:01:04.900 nature. Now, a revolution in civilization is taking place. Imagine a traditional city and consolidating

00:01:14.620 its footprint, designing to protect and enhance nature. The line will be home to 9 million residents

00:01:21.960 and will be built with a footprint of just 34 square kilometers. And we are designing it to

00:01:28.100 provide a healthier, more sustainable quality of life. The line's communities are organized in

00:01:34.640 three dimensions. Residents have access to all their daily needs within five-minute walk neighborhoods.

00:01:41.420 And the line's infrastructure makes it possible to travel end-to-end in 20 minutes with no need

00:01:48.560 for cars, resulting in zero carbon emissions. The line is 500 meters tall, 200 meters wide,

00:01:57.840 170 kilometers long, and housed within an elegant mirror glass facade. The line, the city that delivers

00:02:06.360 new wonders for the world. I love it. I totally love it. It is the answer to so many of our problems.

00:02:16.240 Conservatives hate this stuff because it's extremely ugly and inhuman. But libs love it. Libs are the 0.99

00:02:23.920 ones who are attracted to all this weirdo futuristic stuff, which means that Saudi Arabia has figured out a

00:02:31.600 way to cram all the libs into a giant self-sustaining wall that they basically never leave and convince

00:02:40.400 them that it's really cool and progressive and good for the environment. Here is the entire pitch.

00:02:45.840 You say, hey, libs, great news. Yeah, yeah, we figured out how to save the planet. Uh-huh. Yeah,

00:02:53.120 we solved climate change. Yep, it's great. We just need you to climb inside this giant wall prison.

00:03:00.280 Uh-huh. Just get on in there. Yep. And then that's it. Great job. We did it. And then they just stay

00:03:07.220 there. And then we get our normal society back. And by the way, lest you forget, it's a wall.

00:03:15.840 It's a wall. If the Saudis give us the technology and we can build this thing along our southern border, 1.00

00:03:22.920 right along the Rio Grande, then Mohammed bin Salman deserves a Nobel Prize. I am all in.

00:03:30.480 And this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:39.780 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Charles Davis,

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00:05:40.120 All one word. Speaking of difficult neighborhoods to live in, how's that for a transition? Portland

00:05:48.320 residents, Portland residents, one of the most liberal cities in a very liberal state in America,

00:05:54.140 they are finally realizing how terrible it is to live under those disastrous policies in those

00:06:02.540 terrible neighborhoods. And the Portland residents are speaking out. I'm living in a nightmare

00:06:07.660 neighborhood. It's really scary. For years, these neighbors have been watching the city's homeless

00:06:12.600 crisis spread across parts of southeast Portland. Now it's right outside their front door. I want to

00:06:19.160 cry. I just want my house back. Christina Hartnett lives on 80th and Powell, where a majority of the 0.76

00:06:24.740 campers stay. My lawn is now becoming a public bathroom. She fears leaving her house just to go

00:06:31.920 to work. And it is scary when you have grown men meth raging in your driveway. The last thing I feel

00:06:39.180 safe doing is going out and saying, hey, can I, can you please move so I can go to work? Calling the

00:06:44.500 police in city is an everyday chore with little reward. So far, no one has come to help us. I feel

00:06:50.960 like nobody hears us. Nobody cares about us. This mother didn't want to be identified on camera, 0.76

00:06:57.860 afraid of retaliation from those living on the streets. She rarely lets her children outside to

00:07:03.220 play. It's very sad because they're just kids, so they want to play.

00:07:09.680 That is very sad. This is really sad. We have so many of our public political debates at this level

00:07:16.840 of ideology, at the level of, well, this is my utopian vision for the future. This is my utopian

00:07:23.140 vision. This is how society would work if I were the king. No, this is how it would work if I were the

00:07:27.340 king. You see kind of these utopian visions coming out of Saudi Arabia right now. That's where our

00:07:31.480 political debates tend to live. But where the political debates really should live, and for

00:07:37.680 the vast majority of people who don't have their faces buried in the political headlines all the

00:07:42.620 time, where it really does live, is on, hey, do I have a good neighborhood for my kids? Hey, can I go

00:07:49.440 outside and not be afraid for my life? Hey, can I just kind of have a nice day-to-day existence

00:07:56.600 without having to worry about crazy meth heads or criminals coming and attacking my kids or stealing

00:08:02.280 my stuff or defecating on my lawn? That's the first kind of political problem you've got to solve

00:08:08.380 before we get to all of our wonderful pie-in-the-sky dreams. And it's not just Republicans

00:08:13.780 who think that way, and it's not just Democrats who think that way. At the elected level, frankly,

00:08:18.600 no one thinks in those basic terms about things that actually matter to people. This is why Trump was

00:08:24.000 such a breath of fresh air in 2016. I remember vividly when he was on the campaign trail,

00:08:29.360 and he was asked, what are you going to do if you're president? He said, I want to give people

00:08:32.780 good neighborhoods and a good place to live. And everyone, forget about the left, even everyone

00:08:37.500 on the right attacked him for it, because they all got their kind of egghead, libertarian,

00:08:42.740 ideologue, glasses, and bow ties on. And they said, well, actually, that's not the role of the federal

00:08:47.760 government to provide good neighborhoods for people. And actually, no, but the only thing you can do is cut

00:08:50.980 the marginal tax rate on the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I think the vast majority of people

00:08:54.860 heard Trump say that and said, oh yeah, that sounds good. I want a good neighborhood. I want a good

00:08:58.840 community. I want a good way of life, okay? And I want my president, with whatever power he's got,

00:09:04.960 to try to improve life at a very basic level for people, okay? At the level of how do we live day by

00:09:11.820 day? Those people in that video living in Portland, those are not rock-ribbed right-wing Republicans.

00:09:18.420 I imagine that inasmuch as those people have any political affiliations, they're all Democrats.

00:09:25.300 Just statistically, that's what we're looking at in Portland. And they know that these policies

00:09:31.720 are terrible. It's not just Portland. The New York mayor, Eric Adams, has been whining for two weeks

00:09:39.240 now about how Texas is busing illegal aliens up to New York. Illegal aliens, illegal immigration,

00:09:45.780 the policy that Eric Adams supports, a total Dem policy. Now New Yorkers are seeing the

00:09:51.800 consequence of that. They realize it's terrible. And on crime, too. And on homelessness, too.

00:09:58.160 The New Yorkers, most of whom are Democrats, are realizing that those policies are terrible.

00:10:03.820 Muriel Bowser down in DC, the super-lib Dem mayor of DC, is complaining that red state governors

00:10:10.500 are shipping illegal aliens to DC. Super-lib policy, they're just seeing the consequences 0.92

00:10:17.280 of it right now. It's the Democrats realizing that. That's what Joe Biden is worried about.

00:10:22.560 That's what the White House is worried about. They're not worried about angry Republicans or

00:10:26.700 even Republicans being fired up and energized for the midterms. What they're really terrified of

00:10:30.900 is that they're losing the moderates, and they're losing the centrists, and they're losing

00:10:34.660 a ton of Democrats. Because eventually reality reasserts itself, and you're seeing the consequences

00:10:41.140 of defund the police, and you're seeing the consequences of let the criminals off the hook,

00:10:45.260 and you're seeing the consequences of decriminalize all the drugs, and you're seeing the consequences

00:10:49.900 of destroy the economy, and you're seeing the consequences of flood the country with illegal 0.99

00:10:54.780 aliens. It takes a little while, but eventually you see the reality of that. And even the Dems don't

00:11:00.760 like it. Because even if they might be titillated by the pie-in-the-sky ideology, eventually, when

00:11:08.300 someone is defecating on your lawn, there is pretty much no one who is so committed to his or her

00:11:15.740 ideology that he will continue to support that. When you actually see the meth head tweaking on your

00:11:21.740 front step, that's just not going to work. So the only thing they can do is lie and try to redefine

00:11:27.360 all the terms. We are now in a recession. We are officially in a recession. The second quarter GDP

00:11:32.000 numbers have come out. We've got two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. The White House

00:11:37.520 has asked about this. This is just before the numbers come out. They're asked about their attempt

00:11:41.600 to redefine recession. And what do they do? They redefine redefining.

00:11:49.940 If things are going so great, though, then why is it the White House officials are trying to

00:11:54.560 redefine recession? No, we're not redefining recession. If we all understand a recession to

00:12:00.020 be two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in a row, and then you have White House officials

00:12:05.580 come up here to say, no, no, no, that's not what a recession is. It's something else. How is that not

00:12:10.120 redefining recession? Because that's not the definition. That is not the definition. Brian Feast

00:12:14.580 said in 2008, of course economists have a technical definition, which is of a recession, which is two

00:12:22.680 consecutive quarters of negative growth. I can tell you this. And then yesterday he said two

00:12:28.460 consecutive, two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of a recession.

00:12:33.800 It is not. It is not. Why did he say that it was? It is not. I can speak to, I can speak to you to what he

00:12:40.000 said yesterday in front of all of you, which is the last thing that you just repeated. There are many

00:12:45.100 factors. There are many factors, economic factors and indicators to consider. And I will say that

00:12:53.140 the textbook definition of recession is not, is not two negative quarters of GDP.

00:12:59.540 I will not, I will not speak to la, la, la, la, la, Karine Jean-Pierre, White House spokesman. La,

00:13:04.440 la, la, la, la, la. I will not acknowledge what the National Economic Council chairman said

00:13:09.280 in 2008. I will not, I will ignore that. I will only speak to what he said yesterday because Oceania

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00:13:58.740 Peter Doocy brings the receipts to the White House. Peter Doocy, the reporter in the White

00:14:06.140 House press pool, he shows up to the briefing room and he says, we're in a recession, right?

00:14:11.540 Or we're about to be officially in a recession. And Karine Jean-Pierre says, no, we're not in a

00:14:16.080 recession. He goes, why are you redefining recession? She goes, we're not redefining recession.

00:14:19.960 Recession is not two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And the person she cites is Brian

00:14:25.420 Deese, who's the director of the White House National Economic Council. Brian Deese has been

00:14:29.240 going on TV, going to the White House, saying that the actual technical definition of a recession is

00:14:34.160 not two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, which was news to all of us. Because

00:14:38.440 if you ever took an economics class, if you ever opened up a dictionary, if you open up a dictionary

00:14:42.200 today, you will find that the technical definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of

00:14:48.500 negative GDP growth. But then I was second guessing myself. I was being successfully gaslit by the

00:14:53.820 White House because I thought, huh, I don't know. I'm not an economist. Maybe I'm just wrong about

00:14:57.860 this. And then Peter Doocy says, wait a second. In 2008, this same man, this very same director of

00:15:06.560 the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, said verbatim the technical definition. Economists

00:15:12.760 have a technical definition of recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

00:15:18.260 Oh, okay. I guess we're just being gaslit then, right? And because Doocy brought the

00:15:23.200 receipts. Corinne Jean-Pierre had nothing to say. And her actual answer is, I'm not going to talk

00:15:28.360 about that. I'm not going to acknowledge what he said. I'm not going to acknowledge the dictionary.

00:15:32.900 I'm not going to acknowledge the economics textbooks. The definition of a recession is

00:15:36.960 whatever I want it to be, or whatever Joe Biden says it is. But that is not the case. Words do have

00:15:43.380 meaning. There is a reality to the economy, and we are now officially in a recession. Biden can keep

00:15:53.140 lying about it all he wants, just like the libs can say that a man is actually a woman, or the libs

00:15:59.960 can say that a baby is not a baby. And the libs are going to try to say that a recession is not a

00:16:03.640 recession, but it is. We are officially in a recession, and Joe Biden's lies are not going

00:16:09.120 to make it any easier on your wallet. Speaking of sketchy finances, I got to give a shout out to

00:16:14.320 Tyler Carden over at The Blaze. My friend Tyler came across a pretty interesting discovery last

00:16:22.040 night is when I saw it on Twitter. This comes from the New York Daily News. December 23rd, 1997,

00:16:29.280 article by Greg B. Smith. It's referencing some pretty nice Manhattan real estate, talking about

00:16:37.920 how the State Department owned some real estate, a nice building on East 69th Street, big old mansion

00:16:46.440 that was the official Iranian residence. And then someone took it over, and then the State Department

00:16:52.800 was renting it out to people. Listen to who the State Department was renting it out to. Quote,

00:16:59.100 the State Department began renting the building to Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach, Florida financial

00:17:04.920 advisor, in 1992 for $15,000 per month. By January 1996, Epstein had moved out. He eventually decided

00:17:14.640 to rent to Fisher, a lawyer who represented blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fisher began paying Epstein

00:17:20.920 $20,000 a month, a tidy $5,000 a month profit for Epstein that the government didn't know about.

00:17:26.160 Fisher moved his family into the upper floors and his law firm onto the lower floors. But the State

00:17:31.100 Department then found out about this. They insisted Epstein had not gotten permission to sublet,

00:17:34.920 and besides, it was furious about the profit that he was pocketing. And so the feds made Epstein kick

00:17:41.440 this guy out. Why didn't we know about this? We've been talking about Jeffrey Epstein for years now,

00:17:53.060 and for a while, the mainstream media didn't want to pick it up, and for a while, the government didn't

00:17:56.900 want to talk about him. There was always some sketchy stuff about him. Why are we only finding out

00:18:00.980 right now in the year of our Lord 2022, years after Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, long after the

00:18:08.740 trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, his madam, was taking place, long after all these dodgy crimes were

00:18:15.600 taking place, long after Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney, was apparently told that Jeffrey Epstein

00:18:23.140 belongs to intelligence. And then that story went away. Now we find out that Jeffrey Epstein's

00:18:29.160 landlord in his infamous New York City manse, the landlord was the U.S. State Department?

00:18:38.140 Huh? What? Can we get an answer on that? Can we get an answer from anybody? I don't have any,

00:18:45.400 I don't have any point to make here. Just raising the question, thought that was a little bit curious.

00:18:52.920 Seems to me, a lot of people have suggested, maybe Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just acting on his own. 0.86

00:18:57.560 Maybe Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just this eccentric gazillionaire with some weird sexual perversions.

00:19:04.420 Maybe Jeffrey Epstein had the backing of state actors, and whenever anyone brings up that question,

00:19:09.460 all of a sudden the story goes away. Maybe Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Maybe

00:19:14.780 there's a lot more to this story that implicates a lot more people. Maybe after years of these

00:19:20.120 investigations, and everyone doing their due diligence, and oh good, Ghislaine Maxwell's

00:19:24.040 going to prison, even though she's now being moved to a much lower security facility in Florida.

00:19:27.580 That's kind of interesting. How come we still don't have the black book? How come we still don't

00:19:32.020 know a damn thing about Jeffrey Epstein, and his operations, and the people he entrapped, and the,

00:19:38.480 got it in writing right here, got it in print, the state actors that he was regularly 0.92

00:19:44.540 working with? So, it's just more evidence. What we've all known for a long time, which is that

00:19:51.020 there is a degree of corruption in the permanent bureaucracy that a lot of us did not know existed.

00:19:59.100 I'm not just talking about, oh, those politicians are corrupt. Yes, politicians are very often corrupt.

00:20:03.380 Yes, political systems tend to be corrupt. But I'm talking about, not the elected people exactly,

00:20:09.560 I'm talking about the permanent bureaucracy, the state department, the executive agencies,

00:20:13.160 the intelligence community, that has, and the media that totally carries water for them,

00:20:19.960 that has been operating without virtually any oversight for a very, very long time,

00:20:26.800 implicated in some very serious crimes. And we're not getting, we're not getting any real news reports.

00:20:31.840 We're getting, how come, how come the head of the blaze just poking through some random threads on the

00:20:38.620 internet stumbled across this? Why didn't the Washington Post cover this? Why didn't the New York

00:20:43.900 Times? But the New York Daily News, that's where this was reported in the first place. How come we

00:20:47.300 didn't hear about this from any of the big establishment corporate media organizations? What are they

00:20:52.580 covering up? This is the kind of issue that gives us Trump 2024. Okay, this is the kind of issue

00:21:01.520 that gave us Trump 2016 and Trump 2020. And that is going to be very powerful for Trump in 2024.

00:21:10.480 Because the thing that Trump had, and I think to a large degree still has, that no other candidate

00:21:16.800 did have, is that he is totally from outside this world. Whatever you want to say about Trump and his

00:21:25.420 vices and his bad habits, the guy is not a career politician. He's not the usual kind of politician

00:21:32.060 that you see from either party. And whatever you want to say about Trump, the permanent bureaucracy,

00:21:38.060 the deep state, the intelligence community, whatever, hates this guy's guts and acted, I think quite

00:21:44.180 clearly illegally to undermine his campaign, to spy on him and to undermine his presidency. Which when you

00:21:49.900 look at the degree of corruption from the permanent bureaucracy, makes any reasonable person like

00:21:55.100 Trump more. And so he's out campaigning. Trump is very much on the campaign trail again, even though

00:22:00.320 he has not announced a presidential run. He's out there. He's speaking most recently in Washington,

00:22:05.660 D.C. about the issues that are going to affect 2024. The society that refuses to protect its children

00:22:12.680 is a society that soon will not be able to protect anybody. This is a hallmark of cultural and

00:22:21.580 social decay against which we should fight back very hard and very soon. We don't have time to wait

00:22:28.700 years to do this. The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergartens or providing 0.98

00:22:36.560 puberty blockers to young children who have no idea what a puberty blocker is. Neither do I, 0.98

00:22:43.240 by the way. Neither do most of the people in the audience as you smile. Let's just say they're not

00:22:50.540 good, are not just engaged in acts of depravity. In many cases, they are breaking the law and they

00:22:59.400 should be held fully accountable. Now, this is something that Trump does that other politicians

00:23:08.560 don't do. Every politician reads from the teleprompter just about. And Trump is reading

00:23:12.420 from the teleprompter there. And he doesn't quite have that 2016 energy. It's early in the cycle.

00:23:17.760 He's a little bit older. He's not at a rally or something like that. So it's a little bit,

00:23:22.200 and he's just reading from the prompter about the puberty blockers. And a lot of people don't

00:23:25.560 know what they are. And then he breaks the fourth wall. And he says, yeah, I don't really know what

00:23:28.960 they are either. Isn't this stuff weird? And he gives you this sense that he is actually a spectator

00:23:35.200 in the political process, that he's kind of with you. He's on the same side of the stage that you

00:23:40.500 are. He goes, what the hell are these people doing? I don't know. But it's bad. We know it's

00:23:43.440 bad, right? We all know that it's bad. So that's going to be his pitch. If this is the campaign,

00:23:50.160 it's good that he's talking about these social issues, the issues like transing the kids have 0.73

00:23:54.320 proven very effective for Republicans recently. But it's not that 2016 energy. Everybody's talking about

00:24:02.920 transing the kids. If Trump is going to really come out like a wrecking ball like he did in 2016,

00:24:10.180 he's going to need something that distinguishes him from the other guys. Because everyone's going

00:24:14.940 to be talking about transing the kids. In 2016, it was, we're going to build a big, beautiful wall. 0.72

00:24:18.820 We're going to completely shut down illegal immigration. All these illegals are rapists 1.00

00:24:22.020 and murderers. And nobody was talking like that on the Republican stage. I don't care how 1.00

00:24:27.620 against illegal immigration you were. You weren't talking like Trump. Trump needs something to

00:24:31.980 distinguish him again. Because even the outsider angle is going to be less persuasive after the

00:24:37.800 man was president for four years. I still think there's a good argument to be made. But it's not

00:24:41.560 going to be as strong. So as we approach the midterms, as we get after the midterms, as we see

00:24:47.360 to approach the moment where Donald Trump might be announcing that he's running,

00:24:52.000 whoever is advising him is going to need to hone that campaign message to give people a reason to vote

00:24:56.240 for him over, say, a Ron DeSantis, who right now is way behind in the polls. But it's also because

00:25:01.040 his name recognition is much, much lower compared to Trump. Ron DeSantis obviously wants to challenge

00:25:08.740 President Trump in 2024. And DeSantis has some real advantages here. He's got some,

00:25:14.960 Trump has some real advantages. He's super famous. He's hilarious. He's a celebrity. He was already

00:25:18.800 the president. He's got a lot of support. He's got a lot of advantages. DeSantis has some advantages

00:25:23.180 too, though. DeSantis is young. He's new. And novelty can be very helpful in politics. And he

00:25:30.300 is full of energy. He is also saying all the right things. We are taking a stand. And these bills I'm

00:25:36.960 signing into law today, foreign adversaries will not have access to our schools, government,

00:25:43.140 and companies like they have in the past. In fact, the first bill that I signed today safeguards our

00:25:48.560 public institutions from undue foreign influence. And that means prohibiting agreements between public

00:25:55.220 entities and the Communist Party of China or Cuba or any of these other malignant forces. As of the 0.60

00:26:02.440 time we sign this bill and it goes into effect, Florida, we will be banning things like Confucius

00:26:09.200 institutions from being in our universities or in our colleges. And I know we had issues with that

00:26:14.720 right here in Miami-Dade counties. We're also going to sign the Combating Corporate Espionage

00:26:19.580 in Florida Act. It creates new criminal offenses in Florida for the theft and trafficking of trade

00:26:24.960 secrets. This is really good stuff. The policy is really good. We do need to kick out this foreign 1.00

00:26:35.560 influence, especially Chinese influence. Something that DeSantis is honing in on, which is something that

00:26:42.580 Trump really honed in on, which is something that scandalized virtually every other Republican

00:26:49.060 in 2016 and almost all the Republicans at the national level is. They realize that we need to

00:26:56.860 wield state power. We don't need to become tyrannical. We don't need to become dictators. We don't need to

00:27:02.640 wield state power capriciously or arbitrarily. But conservatives, when we get power, we need to

00:27:08.020 use it justly. We need to use the power that people give us to do good things and improve

00:27:12.640 people's lives. For a long time, for decades in the conservative movement, Republican politicians

00:27:20.920 have repeated libertarian slogans to avoid doing their jobs. They said, well, you know, if we, gosh,

00:27:29.860 if we regulate Google, we'll be just like the leftists. Oh, we can't do, they would be very wrong

00:27:34.740 to wield the state to stop drag queen perverts from jiggling for little kids. Oh no, that would 1.00

00:27:40.020 make us no different from the leftists if we ever used any government power at all. No, no,

00:27:44.700 the founding fathers hated the idea of law and order and justice. No, what are you talking about?

00:27:49.800 That's just completely made up. It's a political joke. It's a farce that was pushed largely by big

00:27:59.220 corporations that just wanted less regulation. And it was pushed by libertarians who, as a percentage

00:28:06.100 of the electorate, are a very, very small percentage and who have an outsized influence or have had an

00:28:12.220 outsized influence in the conservative movement, but don't actually represent a large portion of the

00:28:16.660 American voting base. And it represents an idea that actually does not have a lot of grounding in

00:28:23.460 American history. And it represents an idea that politically is just completely impractical.

00:28:30.060 Power is going to flow to the people who are willing to use it and the institutions that are

00:28:33.620 willing to use it. That's a basic law of politics. And so if the Republicans get elected and say,

00:28:39.160 elect me, I'm not going to do anything, then you're just ceding the entire culture to the left. And then

00:28:43.060 I have to ask, well, why am I even voting for you? Why would I vote? I vote for the Republican,

00:28:47.100 he does nothing. I vote for the Democrat, he does something. But I vote for the Republican and the

00:28:52.440 Democrats going to do something anyway. So what's the difference? There's no reason.

00:28:55.740 And what DeSantis and what Trump and some other people too, you're seeing a little bit in the

00:28:58.800 Senate from Senator Cruz, from Josh Hawley a little bit. You're seeing this movement

00:29:03.200 among conservatives now to say, wait, no, we can keep boys out of the girls' room. We can 0.98

00:29:08.440 ban drag queen story hour. We can shut down certain Chinese goods. I know maybe it'll hurt GDP a little 1.00

00:29:13.840 bit, but this is a national security threat now. We can keep Chinese communist influence out of our 0.99

00:29:18.940 schools. We can say no. We can wield the power justly. The founding fathers were very well aware

00:29:25.000 of that. Every sane person in our country was aware of that until very, very recently. This is

00:29:30.240 a related story on this. Some big porn website just went down. A porn operator just pled guilty

00:29:36.800 to sex trafficking, to a sex trafficking conspiracy in a San Diego federal court. I'm not going to say

00:29:42.760 the name of the porn company, but their modus operandi was that they would lure these girls in, 1.00

00:29:48.020 these girls who wanted money, who were 18 years old, 19 years old, and they would say, hey, come do 1.00

00:29:52.560 this porn shoot, and don't worry. It's not going to end up on the internet. It's going to be for a

00:29:56.360 private DVD collection overseas. It's never going to be in America, and we'll give you some money.

00:30:01.280 And they'd bring the girls in, and they'd give them booze, and they'd give them drugs, and they'd 1.00

00:30:04.760 pressure them, and they'd coerce them in some cases, and then the girls would do it. In one case, 1.00

00:30:09.880 the girl was underage. It was a girl that was, I think, 17. And then what happens? The videos end up

00:30:16.420 online, ruins the girls' lives, ruins the girls' reputations, and they've had all these problems 0.98

00:30:21.040 since then. And this porn company just went down. The guy who owns the porn company is a fugitive

00:30:26.080 from Justice right now. He's on the run. They haven't caught him yet. This is great stuff.

00:30:30.460 The website's not great stuff, but using state power to shut this down is great stuff.

00:30:35.380 It's really important to do this. One, it's important for the girls. You might say, what,

00:30:39.140 what? These girls, these girls are so stupid. They didn't realize it was going to end up on the 1.00

00:30:42.440 internet. Yeah, I'm not saying these girls acted in the wisest manner. I'm not saying, no. But

00:30:49.420 we should protect, we should protect naive, reckless 18-year-old girls from ruining their lives 0.99

00:30:59.140 because of these predators who lie to them and deceive them and drug them and have sex with them 0.97

00:31:03.160 on camera and make a buck doing it. It's just wrong. There is no right to pornography. Pornography 0.99

00:31:08.940 is not good for you. Okay, it's not something that we, well, you know, George Washington and

00:31:14.600 John Adams, Patrick Henry said, give me high-speed internet porn or give me death, right? Is that

00:31:20.340 what he said? I don't think so. No, this stuff was considered illegal. Universally, it was considered

00:31:25.040 ugly and something that should be suppressed until about 10 or 20 years ago. And here's why,

00:31:31.520 by the way. Here's the reason that even if you like porn or whatever, if you're listening to this

00:31:36.500 show, you probably don't think porn is the greatest thing in the world. But even if you say, well,

00:31:40.220 people should have a right, people should have the license at least to look at porn sometimes.

00:31:44.260 Here's why porn is a bad thing. And here's why young men write into my show constantly about how

00:31:48.360 much they hate porn and how it's ruining their lives because they're addicted to it. Ask yourself,

00:31:53.460 why is it bad for a kid to grow up in a bad neighborhood? You know, we all agree it's bad.

00:31:58.940 When kids grow up in a bad neighborhood, it's bad for them. We'll say, oh man, those kids in the

00:32:02.440 inner city, man, they never had a chance. There's gangs around, there's drugs, there's education's

00:32:07.400 terrible. They grew up in a bad neighborhood. It's not even their fault, but it's going to put them

00:32:11.380 on a bad path. They're much more likely to have a bad outcome if they grow up in a bad neighborhood.

00:32:15.940 Why is that? Because our environment matters. Our society matters. It affects us. Even things that

00:32:23.800 the kids are not doing, just being around that stuff in your society does affect you and it can make

00:32:31.720 your life worse. That's just called politics. That's just called living together. It's when

00:32:38.860 you live in a culture mired in crime and vice and sin, when you're living in a place like Portland

00:32:43.840 and you've got just this stuff all around you. You're not the one taking the meth. You're not

00:32:47.360 the one defecating in public, but it's just all around you. It affects your life and it makes things

00:32:51.260 worse. And it tempts you to do the drugs and it tempts you to get involved in the crimes and it tempts

00:32:54.940 you to get involved in all sorts of bad stuff. And we have a political right to say, no,

00:32:59.740 get off my lawn. A classic conservative slogan, get off my lawn. Get off my lawn now. We have a 0.73

00:33:07.080 right to say, no, you don't get to take advantage of the girls. You don't get to deceive the naive 0.82

00:33:14.660 18-year-old girls. No, you don't get to do the drugs. No, you don't get to do this stuff. 1.00

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00:33:32.040 place. We have a right to, not just to liberty, properly understood, which is not the same thing

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00:35:52.220 We've now arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you

00:35:56.320 in the voice mailbag. Voice mailbag is brought to you by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com, select a plan,

00:36:02.940 enter promo code NOLSPODCAST, save 50% off your first month. All right, let's get to the first

00:36:07.720 question. Hey, Michael, this is Camille. I'm just calling in because I have a question about

00:36:13.300 guys and girls' mentality with dating. So as a girl, I have a very intense moral hangover,

00:36:20.280 probably derived from a lot of Catholic guilt, but it kind of prevented me from engaging in my

00:36:25.520 quote-unquote ho years. But I was wondering if guys have that same type of guilt, if they're in

00:36:31.460 their player years, not just guilt for what they're doing to girls, if they're not dating them,

00:36:38.120 if they're just hooking up with them, but if they have any guilt of just kind of living that more

00:36:42.900 immoral lifestyle of hookup culture. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, and love the show.

00:36:49.180 Love those phrases that I realized I did hear correctly when you said the men have the player

00:36:54.780 years, and then I think the first phrase you used was ho years for women. So first thing, 0.97

00:36:59.180 generally, if you haven't already gone through it, probably good to avoid those years.

00:37:04.180 I know it's very easy. I think a lot of people fall into it, obviously. But if you can avoid,

00:37:09.060 I wouldn't aim at having ho years or player years. Probably not that great. Your question though,

00:37:15.320 do men feel some shame and guilt from that? The answer is yes. Yeah. Not just because you roll over

00:37:24.780 on the pillow and you look at the girl lying next to you and you say, oh, why am I, yuck,

00:37:29.100 why am I doing this? Not just because of the girl, but because of you, because you are degrading 0.69

00:37:34.500 yourself. Because you are, when you pursue women or men in that way, as just a vessel for your own

00:37:43.540 pleasure, you are degrading yourself to the level of an animal. You are a human being with intellect,

00:37:49.360 with reason, with virtue, with integrity, with worth. But you degrade yourself to the level of

00:37:54.180 an animal that just needs to be titillated when you do that kind of thing. And it reduces your

00:38:01.180 view of the other person too. You're degrading the other person. And even if you have a crush on the

00:38:05.960 other person, even if you think very highly of the other person, when you engage in an act together

00:38:10.000 that is intrinsically shameful, that will lower your view of the other person as well. And it will

00:38:15.400 diminish the possibilities for a longer kind of love affair with that person. So, yeah, men have

00:38:20.440 it too. Men and women have it a little bit differently because men and women approach sex

00:38:24.880 differently. But men have it too. And men can get sex-austed. And men can feel that same kind of

00:38:29.800 shame. And ideally, that would be sooner rather than later if they have to go through that at all.

00:38:34.380 Next question. Howdy, Nostradamus. My name is Houston. And my question is about a topic that has come up

00:38:40.400 when discussing religion among my peers. I've grown closer to the church while in college,

00:38:45.020 both thanks to you and my study group. Here's the thing. I listen to a lot of metal, but not just

00:38:49.720 any type, specifically death metal. I understand that some of the lyrics are blasphemous, but I'm

00:38:55.080 far more captivated by the intricacies of the instruments, which makes sense since I play guitar

00:38:59.520 myself, both for a band and a church. Is it possible to be a practicing Christian while also

00:39:05.280 enjoying and performing this type of music? If not, couldn't the same be said for the modern

00:39:10.500 degeneracy that kids are listening to now? I've been told that as long as I don't feel

00:39:14.420 conviction, I'm okay. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks. A swarthy breakfast

00:39:18.940 taco.

00:39:22.200 Really, really good question. And I'm going to give you a really, really hard answer.

00:39:28.160 Yeah, you probably shouldn't listen to that. I'm sorry. I don't want to be a wet blanket.

00:39:32.900 It's not even just the lyrics. I mean, obviously, you shouldn't listen to music that is blasphemous,

00:39:37.460 but you can find metal. You can find extremely hardcore metal that is not overtly blasphemous.

00:39:43.100 That's not even the main issue. The main issue with death metal is the music, actually. It's more

00:39:50.900 the percussion. Plato has this point, which is he observes that more than anything else, it's music

00:39:59.380 and rhythm, even especially, that can transform your soul in that it bypasses your reason. When

00:40:08.620 you're listening to music, especially music that's very percussive, especially music that's very

00:40:13.340 beboppy, you know, or in the case of death metal, you know, it's all just like gung, gung, gung, gung,

00:40:17.900 gung. When you listen to that, you're not reasoning about it. You're not sitting back like you're

00:40:23.620 listening to, I don't know, a symphony by Bach and thinking about it and thinking in a really calm

00:40:30.040 way about it. And even then, you know, even more classical music will bypass your reason to a large

00:40:36.000 degree. But when you're listening to very percussive stuff, it will totally bypass your reason and it

00:40:41.200 will transform your soul. It will take the strongest hold upon your soul, as Plato says. And so you've got

00:40:47.060 to be aware of that. I'm not saying you can never listen to death metal again, but I wouldn't

00:40:53.480 recommend it. I wouldn't recommend it. I would recommend generally avoiding things that take

00:41:01.720 you totally out of your reason. And when you're in a mosh pit or you're listening to death metal or

00:41:06.820 something like that, you are out of your reason. When you drink three bottles of whiskey, you're

00:41:11.540 going to be out of your reason too. And you don't want to do that. Sorry to be a wet blanket. I'm not

00:41:17.360 saying you have to totally tune out all the death metal immediately, but I think as you grow in your

00:41:24.920 spiritual life, you will naturally pull away from that kind of music and pursue other kinds of

00:41:31.840 tastes. Sorry to say, I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but that's just the way it is. I'm sorry that

00:41:37.880 I have to Play-Doh pill you, but that's the way it goes. Next question. Hello, Michael, this is Tony

00:41:42.740 Fauci. I wanted to call and let you know that I am deeply disappointed in the disinformation that

00:41:49.440 you've been spreading on your show. And I wanted to tell you to tell all of your sheep to wear the 1.00

00:41:55.800 mask. Your sheep need to wear the mask. My question is this. Do you really think Elon Musk is going to

00:42:02.340 buy Twitter? If so, I might just have to retire early. Thanks. Remember to wear the donut, Michael.

00:42:10.120 Just wear the donut. You're not the real Tony Fauci. I'm the Tony Fauci. No, you're the Tony

00:42:15.960 Fauci. Which one do I, which one do I go for? I don't, I know that was an excellent,

00:42:20.260 it was a really excellent Dr. Fauci impression. Or you just are Tony Fauci. To your question,

00:42:26.240 is Elon Musk going to buy Twitter? Right now it looks like he is not. I actually did have a friend

00:42:30.180 of mine who from the very beginning of the Elon Twitter saga said, Elon doesn't really want to buy

00:42:36.000 Twitter. He just wants an excuse to sell Tesla stock at all time highs. It's the same thing as

00:42:40.860 when Elizabeth Warren complained that he didn't pay enough taxes. And Elon did a Twitter poll where he

00:42:46.540 said he was going to sell a bunch of Tesla and then he would have to pay taxes on it. My friend

00:42:50.840 viewed that as another kind of ruse just to be able to sell Tesla at very high prices. So it could be

00:42:57.120 that. It also, the other option is that this could be a way for Elon Musk to try to get a better deal

00:43:04.060 on Twitter. But I don't know, if I were a gambling man today, I would say Elon does not buy Twitter and

00:43:08.000 it was all just a really funny troll. Which is fine by me. I really enjoyed the troll. I got a real

00:43:11.820 kick out of it. And if Elon got to make a little bit of money on it, all the better. Though it may

00:43:16.540 backfire. He may end up having to spend a lot of money to get out of the Twitter deal. All of that

00:43:21.300 remains to be seen. But either way, we all got a bunch of lols out of it. So I think it was worthwhile.

00:43:26.080 Next, voice mailbag question.

00:43:28.520 Mr. Nostradamus, I am smiling Sam. I am a blue checkmark athlete. I've been

00:43:33.920 in the UFC for a number of years. And I'm one of those guys that thinks LeBron and people like

00:43:40.280 that should shut up and dribble. So I've kind of held myself to that same principle. I will shut up

00:43:46.200 and punch. Now my question for you is, should I keep doing that? I have a topic that I won't. I will 0.99

00:43:53.380 not hold my tongue on abortion. I am a foster parent. I have six children. I have adopted one. And I'm going

00:43:58.660 to continue adopting children until they are all mine. And they are all very loved.

00:44:05.020 Other than that, though, I tend to keep my mouth shut. Because like I said earlier, I'm a big fan

00:44:10.560 of the shut up and dribble thing. They aren't. Should I be fighting fire with fire? Should I be using all

00:44:16.900 the power that comes with my little blue checkmark to try and fight back to try and reassure others that

00:44:23.040 I'm with them? Or should I not? I appreciate it. Also, I live in Nashville. I would love to have

00:44:30.160 you and your family out for barbecue one of these days. Anyways, keep up the good work, my friend.

00:44:34.680 And thank you for the advice. That sounds great. Thank you for the invitation. Would love to do it.

00:44:39.100 And thank you for the question. Very good question. Should you use the great power and responsibility of

00:44:44.860 the blue check and voice your opinions? Perhaps. To some degree. My advice here is it's not an all

00:44:52.640 or nothing kind of thing. You don't need to either keep your mouth totally shut or have the MAGA hat on

00:44:59.060 doing jumping jacks constantly. You're very lucky that you're in the UFC, which is probably the most

00:45:03.380 conservative sports league there is in the country right now. So you'll get a little grace for that

00:45:07.680 anyway. But as you say, I won't keep my mouth shut on abortion. You could be judicious and prudent

00:45:14.440 about the ways that you speak up. You're not a politician. You don't hold a public office. So you

00:45:20.440 don't have to speak up on lots of these different issues. You certainly can. But perhaps you pick your

00:45:25.900 battles. Perhaps you do it in a way that's a little subtler. You do it through retweets. You do it through

00:45:31.780 posting, hey, I listened to this. I really liked this. You do this through weighing in in a way that maybe

00:45:36.460 has a little bit of a lighter touch. You're very known for a tougher touch in UFC. So maybe you try a

00:45:43.620 little bit of a lighter touch in politics. I think that can be really charming and effective if you're

00:45:49.620 a little bit winsome and witty about these things. So I would maybe lean into that. It doesn't have to

00:45:56.620 be an all or nothing. Owning the libs is much more an art than a science. Great question. Let's get to

00:46:03.900 at least one regular mailbag before we go. From Jackson. Hey, Michael. First off, just want to say I love

00:46:09.340 the show and have listened to you for years. Thank you very much. Recently, the topic of sexual

00:46:13.640 morality and ethics has come up a lot with particular emphasis on the perils of promiscuous

00:46:18.100 and hedonistic sex outside the confines of a monogamous union. Yes, we are living in the age

00:46:22.900 of monkeypox. Keeps cropping up. A key recurring point raised is that the kinds of sexual activities

00:46:27.880 that typically occur in these environments are deviant in nature, driven by a falling of society's

00:46:34.480 morality and commitment to prioritize healthy monogamous relationships. My question to you is this.

00:46:39.340 If a man and a woman are in a monogamous and committed marriage to one another, is it okay 0.96

00:46:44.440 for them to engage in sexual acts that may be considered kinky? Or would that still be considered

00:46:51.140 succumbing to the same temptations that drive so many to make immoral decisions about their

00:46:55.960 sexual behaviors? Curious about your perspective. Thanks again for the fantastic show. Really good

00:47:00.000 question. The question is, you've got some kind of pervy desires. Is it okay to act on them?

00:47:11.040 No, basically is the short answer. No, it's not. Because they are by definition perverted. They're

00:47:17.620 distorted. They're disordered. They're corrupted. And you don't want to be those things. You don't want

00:47:22.280 to be corrupted. You want to be properly ordered. Think about what is the most popular kinky behavior 1.00

00:47:30.840 in our pop culture. It's Fifty Shades of Grey, right? It's BDSM. What does BDSM stand for? It stands for 0.99

00:47:40.320 bondage, dominance, sadism, and masochism. Those are all bad things. Those are all wrong separately.

00:47:49.520 And torturing yourself, torturing other people, dominating someone, tyrannizing someone, and

00:47:55.620 enslaving someone. Those are all bad things. So you wouldn't want to do that. You certainly

00:47:59.360 wouldn't want to do that to your wife. Now, you might say, well, I'm not really doing it. It's not

00:48:04.840 real. It's just pretend. But you are really doing it. That's the thing. It's not even just a fantasy

00:48:10.320 in your mind. You are really acting it out in real time on a real human being. And you can even both

00:48:15.380 pretend that you're not really doing it, but you are. And where this is sort of dangerous for you

00:48:21.260 is that your desires influence your behaviors, right? You're saying, I have this sexual perverted 0.97

00:48:26.560 desire, and I therefore want to behave in a way that expresses that. But your behaviors also affect

00:48:32.800 your desires. This is what an acquired taste is. When you're a little kid, you don't like beer. You

00:48:37.680 take a sip of your daddy's beer, you don't like it. When you get older, you have some more beer,

00:48:41.620 and then you start to like it, and you acquire that taste, and then you start to desire beer.

00:48:45.860 Your behavior, anyone who's ever engaged, well, with drugs, it's very clear, or really just any

00:48:50.880 kind of habit, you know, that the more you do it, the more you can acquire a desire for it. And so

00:48:55.140 the more you indulge these kinds of desires, the more powerful the desire will become. And the desire,

00:49:02.380 in fact, could even change and become more intense and more hardcore. It happens with drugs. It happens

00:49:06.720 with sex and porn. It happens with sloth. It happens with all kinds of vices. And so you don't 1.00

00:49:13.320 want to do that. A good image of this actually comes from Dante, where Dante has this erotic love

00:49:20.860 for his lover, Beatrice. Not a lover. They don't act on anything, but she's just the woman in his mind.

00:49:26.060 And the beauty of Beatrice is erotic for him. It arouses erotic feelings. And he doesn't just

00:49:32.700 repress it. I'm not saying just repress everything. He points it in the right direction. So his erotic

00:49:38.780 love for Beatrice leads him up to heaven to see God. He sees God literally reflected in her eyes.

00:49:45.740 He's looking at his lover's eyes, and those eyes are reflecting the love of God. Now,

00:49:50.940 had Dante not been ordering his erotic love in the right way, in the right direction,

00:49:54.840 if instead he had been dreaming about or fantasizing about, you know,

00:49:58.640 taking Beatrice to Fifty Shades of Grey and whipping her with chains and things like that,

00:50:03.540 then he probably would not be pursuing that all the way up to heaven. He'd probably be going in

00:50:07.920 the other direction, where the whips and chains are used really all of the time.

00:50:14.200 This is a real wet blanket kind of a mailbag in a way, because I'm saying, don't listen to death

00:50:17.940 metal, or it's not good for you. Don't do weird stuff with your wife. But it's a fact, okay? And as

00:50:25.900 our pal says, facts don't care about your feelings. That's the way it goes. Wise people have known

00:50:29.880 this throughout all of history. And it's not just giving something up. It's not just giving up the

00:50:34.020 death metal. It's not just giving up the weird whips and chains stuff that you want to do with

00:50:38.760 your wife. It's giving you a much better alternative. It's pointing you at something 0.95

00:50:43.000 which is higher, which is music that can be higher, that can be just as, or more so,

00:50:47.180 instrumentally intricate and complicated and beautiful, much more even than the popular music

00:50:51.540 you're listening to. And an understanding of love and even erotic desire that is much higher

00:50:56.920 than whatever kind of behavior which you already admit is perverted might be in your mind at the

00:51:03.860 moment. We're falling creatures, so we're going to fall short. But you actually can order yourself

00:51:09.420 in a way. You can improve. You can grow in virtue. Your desires can become ordered in a more correct

00:51:15.000 way. And you can more and more approach the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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00:51:35.940 dailywireplus.com. It's going to be a lot of fun. Until then, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 28, 2022

Ep. 1056 - Epstein Didn't Fund Himself

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