The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1103 - Conspiracy Theorists Become The Fact Checkers

00:00:00.000 We used to say that the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth was six to nine

00:00:04.780 months. It would appear that that timeline is accelerating. I have here in my hand an article

00:00:11.700 from the New York Times published on October 3rd. Headline, how a tiny elections company

00:00:18.440 became a conspiracy theory target. This is by Stuart A. Thompson. These are the first sentences

00:00:27.480 of the article. At an invitation-only conference in August at a secret location southeast of Phoenix,

00:00:32.760 a group of election deniers unspooled a new conspiracy theory about the 2020 presidential

00:00:40.960 outcome. Using threadbare evidence, or none at all, the group suggested that a small American

00:00:48.220 election software company, Konech, had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the

00:00:55.860 Chinese government backdoor access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United

00:01:00.820 States, according to online accounts from several people at the conference. It goes on and on about

00:01:06.680 the conspiracy theory. Okay. That's October 3rd, New York Times, Stuart Thompson. October 4th,

00:01:16.140 October 3rd, October 4th, October 4th, also by Stuart Thompson, election software executive

00:01:23.620 arrested on suspicion of theft. This is the first sentences. I'm not even picking each.

00:01:31.960 The top executive of an elections technology company that has been the focus of attention

00:01:36.840 among election deniers was arrested by Los Angeles county officials in connection with an investigation

00:01:43.120 into the possible theft of personal information about poll workers, the county said on Tuesday.

00:01:49.960 And what happened? Where'd they find the data? Mr. Gascon's office said its investigators had found

00:01:55.100 the data stored in China. It's the same paper. It's the same story. It's the same paper. It's the same

00:02:08.720 writer. It's 24 hours apart. Forget the same week or the same. It's October 3rd, October 4th.

00:02:17.720 And yet, when you look at the October 4th article, not a hint of an apology. No oops,

00:02:27.020 no official correction. Just a move along. Yeah, move along. Yeah, yeah. The thing we said that

00:02:32.320 didn't happen yet. Okay, it happened. Yeah, move along. Move along. Nothing to see here.

00:02:36.040 No, no, we have nothing to apologize for. On to the next dishonest attack. It's a reminder,

00:02:40.880 especially as we head into the midterms, that when Democrats start harping on some conspiracy theory,

00:02:46.900 when Democrats really spend a lot of time and energy attacking some so-called conspiracy theory,

00:02:52.700 you can be almost certain that the conspiracy theory is correct. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:02:59.340 is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from the

00:03:09.660 drummer's workshop at Norm's Music. He had it yesterday, too. This guy is good. This guy's good. He says,

00:03:15.540 on the next Scooby-Doo episode, Velma goes to Russia to try to save Brittany Griner. 0.95

00:03:22.340 Ruh-roh. That's true, of course. Because what the left has to do, because the left can't create

00:03:29.060 anything of its own, and its narratives are preposterous, and its agenda is deeply unpopular,

00:03:34.060 what they have to do is go into beloved institutions and beloved characters and beloved stories,

00:03:38.760 and then just rip their guts out, slice them open, rip out their guts, then climb inside them like 0.92

00:03:44.040 invasion of the body snatchers, and use those beloved characters and institutions to parrot 0.99

00:03:50.400 their own unpopular and incoherent narratives. That's what they have to do. That's the only way

00:03:55.620 it's going to work. So that's true. Of course, we're going to see that next week. Mickey Mouse talking

00:04:01.160 about the importance of transing the kids. Actually, they already did that one. They actually,

00:04:04.600 they already, wow. Truth is stranger than parody. The news is stranger than satire these days,

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00:05:43.040 theories going around and a lot of them are being proven correct. Here's a conspiracy theory. Do you

00:05:49.780 remember there's this conspiracy theory, right-wing, extreme, dangerous theory that schools are trying

00:05:57.900 to trans your kids? And initially the Libs said, this is not true. The schools are not transing the

00:06:05.480 kids. This is not being taught in school and it's good that it is. Huh? Yeah, it's not. The schools are

00:06:12.240 not. First of all, they're saying they're not teaching transgenderism and LGBT ideology.

00:06:18.280 That, it was pretty clear very quickly. You just look at the curricula, you look at the libraries.

00:06:22.720 Yes, they are teaching that. Okay, well, it's good that we're teaching that. Next, but they're

00:06:26.760 certainly not trying to actively inculcate these beliefs in your child to cultivate and groom,

00:06:36.240 really, these sexual orientations and behaviors in your child. That's definitely not happening until

00:06:42.320 until we have a top national school psychologist who is now part of a group offering to resettle

00:06:51.180 kids with queer parents. Not their parent. They're going to take the kids away from the kids' parents 1.00

00:06:58.820 and resettle them with homosexuals and other members of the queer community. This is the chairman, 1.00

00:07:04.960 chairlady, I guess, of the National Association of School Psychologists LGBTQ Committee, admitting

00:07:12.060 that she wants to put parents in their place to re-home, as she says, gay youth.

00:07:22.160 The group's resources for outed students section advises, quote, students who are facing familial

00:07:27.180 rejection or who need to leave their home for another reason. Let's just put a pause there. What do you

00:07:32.920 mean, need to leave their home for another reason? So familial rejection is saying the kid was thrown

00:07:38.020 out of the house. Where are the kids going to go? Okay, that's one issue. It's a complicated issue,

00:07:43.340 but that's one issue. But what about students who need to leave their home for another reason,

00:07:48.880 specifically for sexual reasons? Those people are, quote, encouraged to reach out to Amy,

00:07:56.820 she, her, immediately. They, and I think it's confusing. They do this now because they use a plural

00:08:02.180 pronoun to refer to individuals. But they, I think that means she, works with Safe Space Nova.

00:08:09.380 They are an adult. I'm just going to translate this into English. She works with Safe Space Nova.

00:08:15.780 She is an adult and can provide you with much more information. She's also confidential.

00:08:21.760 Saying that PLP, the Pride Liberation Project that we're talking about here, could re-home students

00:08:30.060 who don't like their parents, as well as pay them money and have an adult pick them up to take them

00:08:37.000 to their new lives. Group said it could provide false documentation to hide children's whereabouts

00:08:42.020 while they participate in the gay activities and hide them from their parents. Quote, 0.85

00:08:47.300 in the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a

00:08:51.020 supportive, queer-friendly adult. We will work with other supportive adult organizations in the region

00:08:56.520 to find you someone who can provide you a kind and affirming home. I try not to take cheap shots,

00:09:02.120 especially at the marginalized, same-sex attracted sort of people who are sexually confused. And I do

00:09:10.100 that because I think it's so easy. And I think to smear these people as all being kind of pedophiles or

00:09:16.720 criminals or something is not a nice thing to do. And so I generally try to avoid it.

00:09:22.080 It's really hard to read this and not think that these people are sick, perverted pedos. It's really 0.99

00:09:29.900 hard when you've got these people, these predators, who are working with predators in the schools and

00:09:37.220 school psychologists and these organizations and these nonprofits to target these kids who are having

00:09:44.260 fights with their parents, or maybe they're just going through a rough period with their parents,

00:09:48.420 as all teenage kids do, and say, hey, leave your home. We'll pay you to leave your home. We'll give 0.97

00:09:52.920 you money. We'll have that adult out there in that creepy white van. He'll come and pick you up,

00:09:56.760 and he'll take you to the nice, really nice home of a really nice queer man. And he'll take good,

00:10:01.580 good care of you. It's really hard to read that in a charitable way. I think the most charitable way

00:10:07.840 you can read that is these people are sick and obviously perverted and probably predators, 0.99

00:10:13.240 right? When you have that kind of an interest in someone else's 12-year-old, something's wrong, 0.98

00:10:22.000 okay? When you've got that kind of an interest in someone else's 12-year-old's sexual desires and

00:10:27.560 behavior, something is wrong with you, and you need to seek help, and you probably need to be kept away

00:10:32.500 from polite society. Just a conspiracy theory though, right? Right? No, no, we're not. We're not trying

00:10:39.240 to trans and queer your kids. And that's why we're sending that creepy, creepy old 40-year-old 1.00

00:10:44.800 Billy over there in the white van. Good old Billy from where he's the one wearing the leather vest.

00:10:50.100 Yeah, he's going to just come pick up your 12-year-old and take him away from you and hide

00:10:53.880 him and give him money and talk about sexuality with him, right? Yeah, it's a total conspiracy theory

00:10:58.700 though, right? You want to talk about another conspiracy theory? You remember, again, on the

00:11:02.300 transgender topic, we were told, no, no, no, no hospitals are transing the kids. This is completely 0.65

00:11:09.280 ridiculous. No one is, the transgender surgery is for adults, people over 18. Okay, maybe some 17-year-olds. 1.00

00:11:17.280 Okay, maybe some 16-year-olds. Okay, maybe some 13-year-olds. Okay, actually, and you've got it in

00:11:21.480 the reporting from people like Libs of TikTok and the handful of other actual journalists out there.

00:11:26.040 Oh yeah, actually, these kinds of procedures and chemicals and cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers,

00:11:32.220 these are being given to kids who are much, much younger. Well, there's some good news on that front.

00:11:37.080 The governor of Oklahoma, Governor Kevin Stitt, signed a bill that prohibits gender transition

00:11:44.920 services for children at an Oklahoma pediatric hospital. Okay, so that's good. And it's because

00:11:51.180 the hospital is reliant on state funds. So he can say, okay, we're not going to pass on certain funds

00:11:57.860 that we are in possession of that might come from the federal government too. But he wants to go

00:12:01.560 further because it doesn't actually outlaw this. It hopefully will stop it and put a lot of pressure

00:12:05.800 on it. But he says, I'm calling for the legislature to ban all irreversible gender transition surgeries

00:12:10.940 and hormone therapies on minors when they convene next session in February 2023. Now, there's a little

00:12:17.640 bit of wiggle room here, irreversible. I wouldn't, because the libs are going to dispute that it's 0.99

00:12:21.820 irreversible, even though it usually is. But he's obviously moving in the right direction. This is

00:12:26.440 good. You just got to watch the language. He says, we cannot turn a blind eye to what's happening all

00:12:29.860 across our nation. And as governor, I will not allow life-altering transition surgeries on minor

00:12:34.320 children in the state of Oklahoma. Great stuff. I strongly applaud you, Governor Kevin Stitt. Hey,

00:12:40.220 other Republican governors, where are you? Where are the rest of you? I know that some Republican

00:12:44.180 governors are making movements on this front right now. Let's do it. Let's get it done. I don't even

00:12:48.140 want to wait until the next legislative session. Let's get it done right now. Because the longer

00:12:53.360 this goes with those Republican governors not doing this, the more I'm starting to think they're

00:12:57.540 squishes. The more I'm starting to think they're fine with transing the kids. We know some of them 1.00

00:13:01.320 are. Asa Hutchinson, he's a fake Republican governor in Arkansas. He's fine with transing the kids. 0.97

00:13:06.920 Okay? Don't be like Asa Hutchinson. Be like Governor Stitt. Do not be like Governor Hutchinson.

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00:14:19.640 in there, How Did You Hear About Us box? so they know that we sent you. All these crazy conspiracy

00:14:26.360 theories that just all turned out to be true. Yes, they are indoctrinating kids into the weird LGBT 1.00

00:14:30.720 stuff. Yes, they are encouraging kids to engage in this kind of behavior and indulge these sexual

00:14:35.840 identities. Yes, they are overtly transing the kids. This is all happening. And one of my colleagues 0.58

00:14:41.600 has made a jihad out of this issue, and that would be my colleague Matt Walsh, who has an excellent

00:14:47.800 movie on the subject, What is a Woman? He's putting a ton of pressure, media pressure, on politicians here

00:14:54.760 in the state of Tennessee and around the country to change these laws. I think he's been very, very

00:15:00.240 effective at that. He's doing a really good job. So what happens? What happens when you pose a threat

00:15:05.860 to the establishment? Here's the hit piece. Here we go, baby. This is good from our good friends over

00:15:15.000 at Media Matters, our publicists. We've got Matt Walsh's sordid history as a radio host exposed.

00:15:23.780 As the co-host of the Matt and Crank program, Matt Walsh defended political violence and teen

00:15:34.080 pregnancy. He shocked an intern with a stun gun. So just on that last one right there, that's funny. 0.98

00:15:41.400 That's good. I think actually, I think that builds character when you can, I know it's not permitted in

00:15:46.880 every jurisdiction now, but I think the interns would get a lot better work done if you get every 0.93

00:15:51.340 once in a while, just kind of zap them. But okay, again, no context here, right? He performed racist

00:15:58.180 impressions of black men. Well, everything that conservatives do is racist, according to these 0.90

00:16:02.760 people. So okay, he did that. And he said that we probably lost our republic after Reconstruction.

00:16:08.780 Okay. So I went through, I'm not going to go through this. This article is so long. And it would

00:16:13.500 be kind of weird for me to read our publicists' work on the air, right? My job here is to just be on

00:16:19.600 the air. And then our publicists at Media Matters can put it all out there. But I went through it.

00:16:24.380 I went through, I said, okay, what's the best they got? What's the best they got on this guy?

00:16:29.140 Dig it up. Let me see, baby. This is the one. Matt's just launching his kind of stop transing 1.00

00:16:33.660 the kids tour right now. So this is the day that's obviously timed to be a political attack. What do

00:16:39.140 they got? And I'm looking through it all. It's just stuff that he, other than stupid jokes,

00:16:46.160 like he has shocked the intern or something. It's just generally just stuff that he still talks 0.99

00:16:50.920 about. Matt Walsh says there's a great replacement theory. He talked about that on Backstage like a

00:16:57.920 week ago. Matt Walsh believes that we shouldn't trans the kids. Yeah, that's true. So it's basically 1.00

00:17:04.540 the big, the big headline here is Matt Walsh continues to believe the things that he says he

00:17:09.060 believes. And that's the best they got. I thought that's pretty amazing. If this,

00:17:14.760 you got a whole research team, Media Matters funded with a lot of money. This is the best

00:17:19.560 they could do? I don't know. I don't know. I think I could probably dig up better stuff on Walsh.

00:17:24.000 That's pretty, pretty weak stuff. But what's it really about? It's not about Matt Walsh. It's not

00:17:28.460 about this local radio show that he was on 10 years ago. It's not about, it's not even about the poor

00:17:32.980 intern who apparently was shocked on camera or something. By the way, I was almost electrocuted

00:17:38.760 three days ago when I had the labor simulator on my abs for 20 minutes. No one, no, I don't hear

00:17:45.440 any, any lamentations for me. Where's my pity piece and Media Matters? No, only for the interns

00:17:51.240 do they get that. But regardless, it's not about Matt. It's not about any of that stuff. This is

00:17:55.300 about shutting down the hospitals. All the, all this info has been out there forever. We've, we've all

00:18:00.520 had our shows for years. This is because right now Matt is trying to shut down these pediatric gender 1.00

00:18:05.660 clinics. And because he at the moment is one of the big faces of it, they're just going to go after 0.92

00:18:11.440 him because they really don't want to shut down the hospitals and they don't want to shut down

00:18:14.780 the, and when I say hospitals, I mean quack, shaman, witch doctor, mutilation, pervert boot camps where 0.82

00:18:22.900 they take confused kids and then chop off their body parts and pump them full of the wrong hormones and 1.00

00:18:27.840 things like that. So obviously these things should be shut down. Why are the libs pushing for it? 1.00

00:18:32.280 There's the, I've said it on the show for days now. Well, I've said it for longer, but I've been

00:18:36.460 focusing on it for the past few days. There's an ideological component. The libs really do want to

00:18:41.920 upend the world. The libs actually hate reality as it is that the libs hate norms and traditions and

00:18:47.820 standards and the moral order. So they want to invert all of that. It's, it's that line that

00:18:53.320 Democrats quote all the time, going back to JFK, that is actually a quote from George Bernard Shaw's

00:18:58.120 play cycle back to Methuselah, which is actually a quote from the serpent in the garden of Eden,

00:19:02.600 tempting Eve. And the line is this, some people see things that are and say, why? I dream things

00:19:08.140 that never were and say, why not? And that's, that's the distinction right there, right?

00:19:12.420 Conservatives are looking at the way things are and they're saying, why? Why do things work this way?

00:19:15.840 What is it? What is human nature really like? What is the world? What, what, what are we here for?

00:19:20.000 What is the purpose of all these things, right? And the libs look at the world and they say,

00:19:23.800 I hate this. I want to, I want to remake all of this. I want to be as gods as, you know,

00:19:28.000 ye shall be as gods is the line from the serpent in the garden of Eden, tempting Eve. And it's a

00:19:32.220 line that Whitaker Chambers, after he had left communism, famously said, that's, that's the

00:19:36.660 beginning of communism. That's the beginning of this kind of radical leftism. That's, that's really

00:19:41.040 what it's all about. That's the ideological side. Then there's the financial side, which is these,

00:19:45.980 these gender hospitals, these, these quack procedures generate a ton of money. And, and so it's not just 0.98

00:19:52.160 the radical kind of communist leftist element. There's a cold, hard cash capitalist element here

00:19:57.300 too, which is that big corporations are going to make a lot more money if they, if they convince

00:20:01.600 people to take these quote, the words of public health administrators, big moneymaker surgeries and

00:20:08.500 procedures that then get them on a subscription plan of hormones and, and fix me up procedures for 0.93

00:20:14.340 the rest of their lives. And so if you can start someone on that at 20, that makes some amount of

00:20:18.480 money for big pharma. What about if you can get them on at 16? What about at 12? What

00:20:22.060 about at eight? That's more and more money for a, for a very expensive procedures for a much

00:20:26.000 longer time. So yeah, they're going to go after him because it's what they believe in their own

00:20:32.180 kind of perverted views of the world, but it's also because there's big money on the line as well.

00:20:36.340 Speaking of dredging up the past, there's a story that broke a couple of days ago about Georgia

00:20:40.600 Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Also, you know, sports legend, just absolute, you know,

00:20:47.120 OG kind of very, very popular guy in the culture. Now he's running for Senate as a Republican.

00:20:53.360 So here, here are the attacks on Herschel Walker. His son came out and tweeted out how angry he is

00:21:01.020 at Herschel and he doesn't like Herschel and he doesn't think Herschel should have run for Senate

00:21:04.140 and Herschel's a bad father. And he walked out on them and he slept with all these women and he was

00:21:08.500 big, domineering, scary guy. And okay, so that's, that's from the son. And then the second attack, 0.83

00:21:13.940 which I think is, is a bigger deal is there's an allegation published in the Daily Beast,

00:21:18.700 which is a left-wing rag that says that Herschel Walker paid for an abortion in 2009 and they claim

00:21:24.580 to have receipts and they claim to have a check and they claim to have, you know, a get well soon

00:21:29.580 card from Herschel Walker to this alleged baby mama. But Herschel Walker is very pro-life. So there he is,

00:21:36.220 he's a hypocrite and he killed a baby. That's what they're saying. Is it true or not? 1.00

00:21:40.280 The closer to election day that these kinds of stories and attacks come out,

00:21:47.940 the less credibility I think they have. This is what is called an October surprise. You wait on

00:21:53.320 some really damning information until October in the hopes of killing the candidate. And also because 0.88

00:21:58.920 if the news comes out in October, especially with early voting, then there's no time to fact check it.

00:22:03.520 So they make these allegations. What do they say? Trump colluded with the Russians. He's a Russian

00:22:07.480 stooge. He urinated on a prostitute in Moscow. The most ridiculous sort of things. And then, 1.00

00:22:13.020 yeah, it comes out a couple of years later that that was all completely bogus. But it doesn't

00:22:16.920 matter because the election takes place a month or two later. So I am skeptical of all this stuff,

00:22:24.240 that Herschel was this, you know, knuckle-dragging, absolute terror of a father who put his whole family's

00:22:30.020 life at risk. And, you know, that I'm skeptical. Maybe. I just don't know. I know that we've seen

00:22:35.640 in other cases, Herschel's son seems to have a good relationship with his father and seems to

00:22:39.740 be supportive. So again, and I think it's really, really hideous of the libs and the Democrats to

00:22:45.300 exploit the man's son this way to turn the son against the father. Absolutely hideous. It would

00:22:49.760 be hard for me to forgive that. But then what about the abortion? I don't know. Again, I don't believe

00:22:54.700 it because it's coming out so late. And I saw other reports that Herschel Walker had had children

00:22:59.960 out of wedlock. And so, again, I don't know. I don't pay attention to this tabloid stuff.

00:23:03.960 But it would be strange if you have kids out of wedlock already, why you would then say,

00:23:07.980 no, we can't have any kids out of wedlock. I'm going to pay for an abortion or something. 1.00

00:23:10.760 That to me is a little incoherent. But again, putting all of that aside, let's say it were true.

00:23:16.560 Let's say on the very slight chance it were true. Obviously, that's a terrible sin.

00:23:21.420 Obviously, the guy should go confess his sins. I hope he's repented. I hope that he's sincerely

00:23:26.840 pro-life. But when it comes down to how I would vote if I were citizen of Georgia voting on election

00:23:34.400 day and I were pro-life, that's no question. That's a no-brainer. Herschel Walker is running

00:23:40.760 on a pro-life platform. Raphael Warnock is a radically pro-abortion politician. No matter what

00:23:47.500 egregious sort of personal sin is in Herschel Walker's past, even if it did include an abortion,

00:23:52.360 which again, I'm saying, I don't. Herschel Walker denies it and I see no reason to trust

00:23:55.900 the Daily Beast over Herschel Walker. But even if it were true, that's not a hard decision for me.

00:24:01.800 In the one case, we get a guy who maybe he's a hypocrite or maybe he's not a hypocrite. Maybe 0.98

00:24:06.540 he actually just, like all of us, has standards and doesn't live up to them all the time.

00:24:10.120 And he is pro-life and will vote pro-life and supports life causes as a public figure. 0.98

00:24:17.520 Or I got this crazy radical socialist pro-abortion guy who wants to kill all the babies. That's not 0.98

00:24:21.840 hard for me. That's not a difficult. So I don't know that this attack totally lands. And I don't

00:24:29.220 see how it moves the needle. People might be disappointed or they, if they even believe it

00:24:34.840 at all, they might just dismiss it. Herschel says that his fundraisers went through the roof after this

00:24:38.920 attack came out because they see it as being dishonest and unfair. Either way, I don't see

00:24:42.920 how this really moves the needle for Warnock in Georgia. Speaking of the past, this is the saddest

00:24:51.480 story. There have been a lot of sad stories recently. This is one of the saddest stories I've

00:24:55.160 seen recently. Comes from McDonald's. I actually, this was really weird timing because the story just

00:25:01.640 broke today. But last night, was it last night? I think it was. Or two nights ago. I was,

00:25:08.660 I was getting back from a speech. It was two nights ago. I'm getting back from a speech.

00:25:15.240 And I, I arrived late. I hadn't had dinner. And I say, okay, I'm getting a little Mac attack right

00:25:20.840 now. I want to get a little double quarter pounder with cheese before I get home. It's late.

00:25:25.280 Elisa's already had her dinner. Plus I can sneak a little fast food, you know, and Elisa's not

00:25:29.500 looking. Okay, great. So I pull up and I see this weird thing on the menu at McDonald's.

00:25:34.520 It says it's a, I forget what they called it, but it was some weird co-branding thing. And it looked,

00:25:41.120 it looked like a Happy Meal, but it was clearly for adults. And it said limited edition, but it was

00:25:45.860 that little box, you know, you used to get for the Happy Meals. I said, oh, whatever. Ordered my

00:25:51.380 quarter pounder with cheese. Went home. Had a nice night. I find out today McDonald's is launching

00:25:57.800 Happy Meals for adults. They say, quote, we're taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald's

00:26:03.680 experiences and literally repackaging it in a way, literally, people use that word literally way too

00:26:07.920 much, repackaging it in a new way that's hyper relevant for our adult fans. McDonald's USA chief

00:26:14.120 marketing and customer experience officer Tariq Hassan said in a press release, everyone remembers

00:26:18.920 their first Happy Meal as a kid and the can't sit still feeling as you dug in to see what was inside.

00:26:24.020 That little red box could turn a regular Tuesday into the best day ever. And now we're reimagining

00:26:29.460 that experience in a whole new way, this time for adults. So what does it come with? It's in a box,

00:26:35.000 similar kind of box, and you open it up, and instead of the tiny little cheeseburger, it's a Big Mac,

00:26:39.340 because you're supposed to be an adult now. And instead of the tiny little drink, it's a big-sized

00:26:44.100 drink. Instead of the tiny little fries, it's bigger fries. And there's a toy. It comes with a toy,

00:26:51.340 because you're an adult, but you're going to go back and relive that experience. This is so sad.

00:26:58.400 Man, my generation is so freaking sad. The millennials are just, it's just pathetic, 1.00

00:27:04.680 because this generation just won't grow up. 1.00

00:27:09.300 Yeah, I like nostalgic things. Yeah, when I think of the 90s, that was fun, 90s fashion. And boy,

00:27:14.600 it was nice being a kid in some ways. Although, don't forget, nostalgia's history after a few drinks,

00:27:18.860 wasn't really the way you remember it. But okay, why do I need to pretend to be a kid again?

00:27:26.880 Why do millennials just, why won't millennials grow up? Grow up. Get married. Have kids. Get a normal 1.00

00:27:38.040 job. Grow up, man. Oh my gosh. Well, come on, Michael. Don't be such a downer. It's fun to relive

00:27:46.340 your childhood. You know the crazy part? I agree with that. It is fun to relive your childhood.

00:27:51.580 Do you know how you relive your childhood in a normal way? You have kids and then do things with

00:27:56.180 them. It saddens me so much when I see my fellow millennials going to Disney World alone. Alone.

00:28:05.340 Not with kids. Not even, forget, let's say they can't have their own kids. Not even with their nieces

00:28:09.040 or nephews or no, nothing. They go alone and they go on the rides themselves. They're in their 30s.

00:28:16.060 And then they go, what do they do? They go and get the Happy Meal and they try to collect all the

00:28:22.120 little toys so they can put the toys next to their other toy collection in their overgrown child

00:28:27.320 dystopia. Guys, grow up, man. Growing up is good. I know we all have this nostalgia for our past.

00:28:34.820 Let me tell you something. Barring, you know, certain years people have bad things happen,

00:28:39.560 traumas and things. But if you just, I'm saying year over year, I think my life has gotten better

00:28:43.740 every single year of my life. I love it. I look forward to the future. I do not fear getting old.

00:28:48.440 I love it. I look, I want to see my kids grow up. I want to, I want to continue to do work that I find

00:28:54.180 important and that I want to build a life with my family. I don't want to return to the freaking

00:29:00.200 playpen and play with little Grimace toys and suck on my Happy Meal. Slurp up a little, you know, 0.99

00:29:07.020 Coca-Cola and eat a cheeseburger. Okay. It's, you can do it with your kids. It's this, it reminds me

00:29:11.900 of that song by Kenny Loggins. You know, do you know the song, Back to Pooh Corner? So help me if

00:29:18.780 you can, I've got to get back. And it's this whole thing about, he wrote it when he was graduating high

00:29:22.700 school, how he was lost in the woods and he's got to get back to Pooh Corner. And what happened to

00:29:27.560 Winnie the Pooh and all of his friends? I can't find them anymore. And he's coming to terms with

00:29:31.560 leaving childhood and graduating high school and moving on and becoming an adult. He says,

00:29:36.700 I just want to get back to Pooh Corner, but I can't because that's over now. I'm going a little

00:29:40.480 further today than I thought I could. And all right, I'm out of here, right? But then he revisits

00:29:45.000 the song. He writes, after he had a kid, he writes another stanza and he says, you know,

00:29:49.980 I have made it back to Pooh Corner because I'm looking at my son right now playing with my old little

00:29:55.380 toys. But we can't, we don't do that as millennials. It's just, it's this generation 0.57

00:30:01.280 of completely stunted growth. And it's really sad. And I don't know why. Was it a failure of our

00:30:07.360 parents? Sure. Blame your parents. Is it a failure of the economy? Okay. Blame the economy. Is it a

00:30:11.960 failure of the, it's everybody else's fault other than your aunt? Okay, fine. Blame whoever you want.

00:30:15.600 I'm just telling you guys, oh, I'm preaching to the choir with you, but I'm telling the people who

00:30:19.560 are getting the adult happy meal. Growing up is good. It's good. I know it's scary. And I know

00:30:25.060 you don't, oh gosh, if I get married, then I won't be able to sleep with everyone else. You're 1.00

00:30:29.000 right. Oh gosh, if I have kids, I'll, I'll have to be accountable and responsible. Yes, you will.

00:30:34.720 Oh, that's scary. Yeah, it's scary. It's worth it. Growing up is worth it. When I was a child,

00:30:39.540 I ate happy meals. When I became an adult, I put away childish things and I bought happy meals for my

00:30:44.680 little kid. Okay. And for me, I buy double quarter pounders with cheese. Speaking of childish

00:30:49.880 behavior, Howard Stern, you know, shock jock Howard Stern has just made headlines for leaving his house

00:30:59.800 for the first time in two years. First time in two years. Do you know why? COVID. COVID. This is real.

00:31:09.440 I didn't believe this at first. Howard Stern had not left his house for two years. He's always been

00:31:17.660 a germaphobe and he's just deathly, neurotically afraid of getting COVID. And so finally, some of his

00:31:25.180 celebrity friends coaxed him out. He talked about this on his show. He said, I really had an exhausting

00:31:33.580 weekend emotionally, physically. For the first time in two years, I ventured out of the house.

00:31:37.400 It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven't been out in two years. He said, Jimmy Kimmel had

00:31:43.400 been urging him to come out. He said, Kimmel came over to visit him and Stern has been demanding that

00:31:47.500 whoever visits him take COVID tests before they come into the house. And the wife, Howard Stern's

00:31:53.720 wife wanted to leave, but Howard said, no, no. He said, I said to my wife before this dinner, I don't

00:31:58.360 want to go. I'm in a panic. I don't want to get COVID. He said, F it. I know I'm being a wuss. I know

00:32:05.280 I'm cleaning up the language a little, but for me, COVID is still going on and I haven't left my

00:32:09.500 house. I can't figure out how to integrate myself. I've been locked up so long and I haven't gotten

00:32:13.780 COVID. I'm afraid I'll be the one a-hole who gets COVID and I'll die. Even though people don't seem

00:32:17.740 to be dying that much anymore, he's still so afraid. I know people like this. I have friends

00:32:22.700 and relatives who still really don't eat inside restaurants. They'll try to eat outside. Even if it's

00:32:30.980 blistering hot, even if it's freezing cold, they just don't. They're just too, they're so

00:32:35.180 neurotically afraid of COVID. And it's the same thing. It's the same impulse. Howard Stern is

00:32:41.920 experiencing that the millennials who want to buy the adult Happy Meal are experiencing.

00:32:46.520 It's just that the refusal to accept life as it is, that you're born and you live

00:32:56.120 and you die. And time moves on. And we live in time and space. And you don't get to freeze time

00:33:03.200 forever. And circumstances change. People get sick. And time moves on. And you got to make good use of

00:33:10.380 your time. Think about Howard Stern. Oh my gosh, he's lost two years of his life. Two years of it. Let's

00:33:16.520 say Howard Stern lives to 90 years old. He'll really have lived for 88 years, right? Those two

00:33:26.360 years, he's been hunkered down like a complete maniac. And I think about this with the overgrown

00:33:33.120 children, millennials, who still want to, you know, who are still shocked when they, if they pay their

00:33:37.860 own cell phone plan, which is infrequent because a lot of them are on their family cell phone plans.

00:33:43.840 But if they pay their own bills every now and again, they'll say, I'm adulting. I'm adulting as

00:33:47.900 though they deserve a cookie for doing things that 30-year-olds are expected to do. No. And you just

00:33:54.560 think about, okay, they live to be 90 years old, but emotionally they're still 16. That's sad. They've

00:33:59.740 missed a lot of their life. Yeah, they've missed the hard parts and the suffering and the prospect of

00:34:04.600 sickness and the risk of death even. They've missed those things because they've been so coddled and

00:34:10.580 they've been so, so cautious and they've been so afraid to actually live. But they've missed life

00:34:17.180 too. That's what they've also missed. That's not good. We need to, we need to return to some

00:34:22.360 semblance of normal. Okay. We need to, we need to recognize sickness happens, suffering happens.

00:34:29.260 It's okay. Responsibilities happen. You're not going to get to sleep as much when you get married and

00:34:33.480 have kids. You're not, you have to work a little harder. You're going to have to make a little bit more

00:34:36.180 money. Okay. That's fine. You're going to die someday. That's true. That's the way it is. Just

00:34:39.700 don't, why would you live in constant fear of that? If you live, this is a trick of the devil,

00:34:44.660 but if the, if you live constantly harping on the past, whether out of anxiety or out of nostalgia,

00:34:50.920 and, or if you live on the future and trying to protect that future, so you never get sick and

00:34:55.240 you never die or anything, you completely miss the present, which is the only place where you can

00:34:59.400 actually live. You only live in the present. So either way, you spend all your life in the,

00:35:04.540 thinking about the past daydreaming or daydreaming about the future. You're not living in the present.

00:35:10.940 Grow up, not you, you know what you're doing, but these crazy people out there, they got to grow up. 0.95

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00:36:00.460 Enjoy a sale for the ages. Speaking of returning to normal, I mentioned yesterday that Elon Musk is,

00:36:11.240 looks like he's going to actually be buying Twitter. What that means is the only thing that,

00:36:18.660 forget about we can voice our views, we conservatives finally have a shot. Forget about our follower

00:36:23.260 counts. Forget. It means that Trump can return. Elon Musk has already said, he said,

00:36:30.240 I think banning Trump was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did

00:36:35.540 not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice. He said the decision was morally bad.

00:36:41.020 So it's not just that it was tactically sort of bad. He said it's morally bad.

00:36:44.600 And he says that he would reverse the permanent ban. Now this is complicated because Trump has said

00:36:51.560 that even if the ban is lifted, he won't go back to Twitter. He'll remain on his own platform,

00:36:56.240 which is Truth Social. And presumably when he signed on to Truth Social, it included some

00:37:01.740 provisions in the contract that say he can't go back to Twitter or something, right? Because that

00:37:05.640 would really gut Truth Social and Trump doesn't want to do that. So what's he going to do? He's in a

00:37:11.120 really tough position right now. This is one of the toughest political positions Trump is in.

00:37:17.100 The only one that's tougher is the COVID vaccines because Donald Trump did allow Fauci to have more of

00:37:23.100 a platform. Trump did not reopen the country after Easter as he had sort of dangled out there that he

00:37:28.500 could, which I think would have been amazing. He did get us the vaccines, which he has gotten a lot

00:37:34.240 of credit for, but the vaccines have a lot of problems. And then there were vaccine mandates,

00:37:38.460 not because of Trump. Trump didn't want to mandate them, but then the mandates came in later. And so

00:37:42.020 Trump is in this tough position where a lot of his base, myself included, hates the lockdowns and

00:37:47.760 doesn't like the vaccines. And he was one of the defenders of the vaccines, albeit not the mandate.

00:37:53.720 So that's, it's just a, that's a tricky one for him to navigate. And then this one is tricky for him

00:37:57.500 to navigate. Because if he refuses to get back on Twitter, it looks like he's just privileging his

00:38:04.940 private business interests over his political life, or it could look that way. And he would be

00:38:12.780 limiting his reach because people just don't use Truth Social. The only reason people use Truth Social

00:38:17.600 is to see what Trump is saying, and then they share it to other social media platforms.

00:38:21.340 So I read a bunch of Truth Social posts, but I read it, I just really read what Trump writes,

00:38:27.780 because I'm just interested in what he has to say. So that's what happens if he just stays on Truth

00:38:33.840 Social. But if he goes over to Twitter, one, it guts Truth Social, right? So this company just goes away.

00:38:40.180 And two, it might be seen as though he's going back and playing by their rules. He said,

00:38:47.520 he wouldn't do it, and then he did it anyway. Now, where do I come down on this? I want him to

00:38:51.940 have his Twitter again. He should do it. They don't want him to have Twitter. He will have a

00:38:57.120 much broader reach if he's on Twitter. I want him to go back on Twitter. I think it is likely to help

00:39:02.360 him and his prospects in 2024, which are still very, very strong. He's atop the heap by a long shot.

00:39:08.960 But especially in Florida, DeSantis now has a lead over Trump in a prospective 2024 presidential race.

00:39:14.680 I think in the middle of the country, Trump is still just so much stronger and better known

00:39:19.420 than DeSantis is. DeSantis just hasn't been around that long. Obviously, he doesn't have the name

00:39:23.980 recognition that goes along with being a celebrity for 40 years and the president for one term.

00:39:29.320 But still, if you're Trump, you got to be a little worried about that. And then the most important

00:39:35.280 reason I think Trump should go back on Twitter, I would find it very entertaining. I would love that.

00:39:39.220 I would love it. I would get to retweet it a lot. And so I strongly encourage him to do that.

00:39:46.020 Speaking of people running for president and Trump's prospects, Nikki Haley is headed out on

00:39:51.220 tour with her new book, If You Want Something Done, Leadership Lessons from Bold Women. 0.98

00:39:56.960 And she's planning to campaign for a bunch of Republican candidates ahead of the midterm 1.00

00:40:00.760 elections in November while she's on this book tour. And she has intimated that she's interested in

00:40:07.460 running for president. She's been a little unclear about would she run, will she not run. She says

00:40:12.560 she won't run if Trump runs, but then she's kind of positioning herself to run. You know she wants to

00:40:17.480 run. So what does this tell me? Whatever it means about Nikki Haley's personal political career,

00:40:25.540 it tells me that Trump is not quite as secure in the nomination as a lot of people think that he is.

00:40:32.940 And the reason I say that is not because of what the politicians are saying. Virtually all the

00:40:38.960 politicians are saying that they will not run if Trump runs. And yet they're all doing the sort of

00:40:45.720 things that candidates do as they prepare to run. Pompeo seems to be preparing a presidential

00:40:50.460 campaign. Mike Pence seems to be preparing a presidential campaign. Nikki Haley seems to be

00:40:55.180 preparing a presidential campaign. Tim Scott's publisher got in a lot of trouble because the publisher

00:40:59.100 wrote on a book flap that was leaked that he is preparing a presidential campaign. Tim Scott also

00:41:05.000 is doing the things that people would expect a candidate to do. So that's just four people right

00:41:09.260 there. Do I think that those four people could beat Trump? No, I'm not saying that. But politicians,

00:41:15.220 politicians whose names you know are very good at politics. They have made it to the very top of the

00:41:22.820 heat. They are the varsity politicians. Okay, they are division one politicians. And so the very fact

00:41:30.060 that they are positioning themselves in this way tells me that they, very astute political observers,

00:41:36.500 at least think that there is some serious chance that Donald Trump either doesn't run or isn't strong

00:41:42.400 enough to just completely dominate the field in 2024. More reasons for Trump, if he is going to run,

00:41:48.940 to really start to get a little bit more aggressive about 2024. Now, who's going to run on the other

00:41:54.560 side? People have been saying there's no way that Joe Biden runs, right? Kamala Harris is practically

00:41:59.460 already running for president. She's trying to, not successfully. Pete Buttigieg, same thing. He is

00:42:03.880 basically running for president already. And he and Kamala are trying to shiv one another. Speaking of

00:42:09.180 sharp objects, Mrs. Tomahawk, Senator Elizabeth Warren, clearly wants to run for president again. And then 0.99

00:42:14.660 Gavin Newsom is running TV ads in Florida. So he is running for president. And he's saying he won't

00:42:19.420 run if Biden runs. But again, he is beginning a campaign. Joe Biden says he's running. There was

00:42:27.240 just another story came out from Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton, very plugged in, Democratic extortion artist.

00:42:34.220 He's been around for many decades. Al Sharpton says that Joe Biden told him, quote, I'm going to do it

00:42:40.540 again as they posed for a shot in the Roosevelt room. He says, I'm going. I'm doing it. I'm running

00:42:48.820 for president. So again, maybe it's just bluster. Maybe he doesn't want to be seen as an empty suit

00:42:54.720 or a lame duck. But if I'm Joe Biden, I'm looking around and I'm thinking, look, I hate all of these 0.93

00:43:01.800 people. I hate Kamala. He hates Kamala Harris, right? Kamala Harris, whose presidential campaign, 1.00

00:43:07.500 the best moment of it was when she called Joe Biden a racist who supported segregation.

00:43:13.880 So Kamala hates her guts, doesn't want her to be president. Newsom, I don't know. I don't know

00:43:19.020 what he thinks about Newsom. Buttigieg, he beat out Buttigieg. I don't think he cares that much

00:43:22.780 about Buttigieg. Buttigieg also is not going to be president. I don't see him running any,

00:43:26.720 or I don't see him winning anytime soon. And then Elizabeth Warren, I don't think he cares for her

00:43:32.220 very much. The party, he doesn't really seem to like. And so it's possible that Joe Biden actually

00:43:38.560 runs again, which would be freaking hilarious. It would be so funny. This guy is bad now. This guy

00:43:47.120 has got no record to run on now. He's humiliates himself daily. The presidential race is two years

00:43:53.900 away. Come on, man. Come on, Jack. I mean, what's he going to run on? Things just, things just keep

00:44:01.840 getting worse. Marsha Blackburn had a great, great little monologue here. Just in, in just one minute, 0.99

00:44:07.300 she distilled everything wrong with the Biden energy policy. What we know is the White House wants to say,

00:44:15.260 well, this is a nuanced issue. There is nothing nuanced about being intentional in what you're doing.

00:44:22.980 Day one, declaring an end to the Keystone pipeline, ending offshore, putting a million acres in Alaska

00:44:32.620 out of reach, no new leases, ending fracking, drawing down the strategic petroleum reserve at a

00:44:40.560 billion barrels a day with no plans. I mean, a million barrels a day, no plans to refill this,

00:44:47.140 no plans. So of course the price is going up. And the interesting thing, OPEC will vote tomorrow

00:44:54.320 about whether or not they want to limit production. And we have to bear in mind,

00:45:01.160 we have no leverage with OPEC. The OPEC nations combined together are one of the top five holders

00:45:08.500 of U.S. debt. We have no leverage in this fight. And those prices could go right back up.

00:45:14.660 So succinct, really, really articulate. Marsha Blackburn really just nails him right there. And

00:45:20.740 these are urgent issues. Okay. These are issues I think that will matter in the midterms. You know,

00:45:25.520 I'm as much of a culture warrior as they get. And I frequently point out the Democrats transing the 0.94

00:45:30.600 kids and turning the freaking frogs gay. And I'm, I'm, I'm totally into the cultural issues. 0.99

00:45:35.340 At this point in the campaign, I think the cultural issues are energizing the right people.

00:45:41.520 And that's all there for the people who are not paying a lot of attention to politics,

00:45:45.720 who are sort of sitting on the fence or who are not particularly partisan or ideological.

00:45:51.100 These are real urgent issues. We are heading into winter. Gas prices are brutally high right now.

00:45:58.220 Energy costs generally brutally high. It's about to get cold. It's going to be a long,

00:46:02.220 cold winter. People are going to need to heat their homes.

00:46:04.260 Okay. I'm thinking the kind of voter I'm thinking about right now is that guy the other day,

00:46:08.400 when, uh, after the hurricane in Florida, DeSantis was going around doing his kind of

00:46:13.660 reconstruction tour. And this guy, he's wearing a wife beater. I think he goes, man, you know,

00:46:19.260 I'm look, I'm a Democrat and everything, but I'm voting DeSantis. That guy is good. He showed up

00:46:23.120 here. I like him. I listen, I'm voting DeSantis. And he didn't really give much of a reason why

00:46:27.100 other than, yeah, he's kind of competent. He shows up. He cares, man. These other,

00:46:30.260 these other guys are not competent. So I'll vote DeSantis. That guy, that voter is who Republicans

00:46:36.260 have to reach. And there is beyond all the ideological issues. That's why the only thing

00:46:41.320 Democrats are trying to talk about now is abortion. But abortion doesn't really motivate 0.99

00:46:46.060 all that many people, pro-life or pro-choice. It doesn't really motivate people all that much,

00:46:51.280 but they're really trying to make this, this ideological battle. And the Republicans are the

00:46:54.600 fascists and the threats to democracy and, and evil, terrible, no good, rotten conspiracy theorists. 0.97

00:47:00.220 And I think there's a really important argument that the Republicans have to make, which is just

00:47:05.100 like, yeah, okay, all that's BS or whatever. Talk about those issues if you want. Also, everything

00:47:11.240 that the Democrats are touching is turning to absolute ash. Okay. Everything that they're touching.

00:47:17.600 Before, actually, before we get, I want to get to the member block. Before we get to it, though,

00:47:23.640 Pete Buttigieg totally summed this up. Poor Pete Buttigieg obviously wants to run for president.

00:47:29.080 He is the transportation secretary. He goes on TV because he's been trying to get everyone to buy

00:47:34.900 Teslas. You got to buy electric cars, go buy electric vehicles. That's going to solve the,

00:47:38.540 you can't afford $7 a gallon gasoline. Well, buy a $50,000 Tesla. Why? What's so,

00:47:43.780 well, you guys are such dummies. Just go out there and buy a $100,000 car. 0.99

00:47:48.200 Because you can't afford to put gas in your 98 Chevy. Okay. Yeah, that's a great idea,

00:47:53.140 Pete Buttigieg. Thanks. He now, after the rolling blackouts, after the threats to the electrical grid,

00:47:59.540 especially in the liberal states, he was asked, okay, really, are you suggesting electrical

00:48:03.680 vehicles? That's really the way we're going to go into the future. He says, absolutely no time like

00:48:08.000 the present. Much of the power was out across half the state of Florida for a while. Much of it has

00:48:13.680 resumed, sir. But it did make some folks think, boy, these electric vehicles that are being pushed

00:48:20.140 between what happened in Florida and the grid that was compromised to the point where California

00:48:25.460 Governor Newsom wanted people to cool it for a while on when and how often they charge their EVs.

00:48:32.660 Do you think this reminds folks that we're not ready or the EVs are not ready for prime time?

00:48:38.460 Well, actually, I think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools. I was

00:48:44.460 just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple weeks ago. One of the things that was very impressive about

00:48:48.740 some of the vehicles that we saw, including, for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market,

00:48:54.340 entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So in an extreme

00:49:00.200 event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator,

00:49:05.660 except that you don't have to have a diesel ready for them. What they're doing is they're

00:49:09.460 using the battery capacity to power a home and in that sense could be very useful in a scenario like

00:49:16.080 this. You've got to give Pete Buttigieg credit for cleverness. He's got that just sort of Harvard,

00:49:23.660 McKinsey, smarmy little answer for everything that's not totally convincing, but it's at least

00:49:29.420 articulate enough. He's like, actually, no, it's really great as the power grids are failing in the

00:49:33.860 blue states. It's actually really great to have an electric car because you can't charge it,

00:49:38.680 but the car can charge your toaster or whatever, your cell phone. So it works in reverse. Yeah,

00:49:43.900 it can work in reverse. The problem is the car's dead. Yeah, the problem is during the last power

00:49:50.160 grid failures in California, people couldn't power their car. So they didn't have any power in the

00:49:55.860 electric car. The car was out of power. That's why they had to plug in dirty, filthy fossil fuel

00:50:02.820 generators into the car to charge the car. Yeah, it's great. If the car were charged,

00:50:08.280 then you could use it to charge your other things in a blackout. It's like saying, if I had some ham,

00:50:12.420 I could have ham and eggs if I had some eggs. Yeah, it's a lot of ifs, buddy. If ifs and buts

00:50:16.360 were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas. Okay, the rest of the show is continuing

00:50:19.840 now. You do not want to miss it. We've got fake headlines. We've got the real headlines from the

00:50:27.240 week. There's one fake headline in there. The producers have sent these to me. You have to guess,

00:50:31.220 and then I have to guess which the fake headline is. I've been on a roll so far.

00:50:35.040 We will see how it is going over at the member block. See you there.

The Michael Knowles Show - October 06, 2022

Ep. 1103 - Conspiracy Theorists Become The Fact Checkers

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