The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Three years after all the powers that be attacked and censored anyone who suggested that COVID

00:00:05.980 maybe escaped from a Chinese biolab, called us all crazy conspiracy theorists, more and more

00:00:12.400 government agencies are admitting that the virus most likely came from the Chinese biolab.

00:00:19.260 But so what? The liberals are simply claiming that back then, the science suggested that the

00:00:24.540 virus originated in nature. And now, they say, the science has developed and shown that it likely

00:00:31.860 began in the lab. No big deal. That's how science is supposed to work, right? Not quite. Now that

00:00:39.360 Republicans control the House of Representatives, we are finally able to investigate and see how that

00:00:45.420 early scientific consensus developed. And it turns out it's not very scientific. In fact, it's looking

00:00:53.840 pretty much entirely political. On April 17th, 2020, here is what Dr. Fauci told reporters.

00:01:03.460 There was a study recently where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the

00:01:10.600 sequences in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now

00:01:17.740 totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. So the paper will be available.

00:01:26.540 I don't have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.

00:01:32.600 Straightforward enough, right? Sounds like it. Except what Fauci didn't tell you is that he was the guy

00:01:40.620 who prompted the study, specifically in order to debunk the lab leak theory that we now know was

00:01:48.380 almost certainly correct. And that we knew at the time, actually, many of us, was almost certainly

00:01:53.600 correct. According to the House Republicans and Democrats investigating Fauci, this is a bipartisan

00:01:59.580 select committee, quote, the evidence available to the select subcommittee suggests that Dr. Anthony

00:02:07.600 Fauci prompted Dr. Christian Anderson, professor, Scripps Research, to write Proximal Origin, and that the goal

00:02:15.360 was to disprove any lab leak theory. The select committee found that Dr. Anderson privately did not find

00:02:25.500 the natural origin theory particularly compelling, despite saying so publicly. This is how fake news works.

00:02:33.500 Whether we're talking about fake news in the Trump-Russia hoax, whether we're talking about

00:02:38.600 fake news in my own recent run-in with being accused of genocide, to the fake news from Dr. Fauci and the

00:02:46.300 origin of COVID. The liberal operators who control the scientific, media, big tech, and government

00:02:54.200 establishments work in collusion with one another. So in the case of COVID, they concoct the scientific

00:03:02.940 rationale, which is then adopted by the government, which is then reported on by the media, which is

00:03:09.400 then protected through censorship of contrary views by big tech, all to push a conclusion that they had

00:03:15.540 already reached from the very beginning, a conclusion that was political in nature. Then, occasionally,

00:03:22.040 we find out the whole thing was a political operation. But only later, long after the revelation,

00:03:27.140 would have had any practical political effect. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.

00:03:33.600 In this case, well into Dr. Fauci's pleasant retirement, where unfortunately it seems he will

00:03:40.220 face no consequences for his deceit. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:45.220 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Toby, who says the real reason

00:03:56.680 Michael gave this CPAC speech was to get Ben to defend him for the first time. Did Ben defend me?

00:04:03.260 I haven't caught up on all the shows. Did Ben? Wow. That's how you know that what I said at CPAC was

00:04:09.440 completely, 100 percent, there's no way to attack it, is even, even Ben is saying I was totally right.

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00:05:30.380 Hallow.com slash Knowles. We are now all basically agreeing that COVID came from the lab, right?

00:05:38.440 You know there was that report from the energy department. The energy department saying,

00:05:41.780 no, yeah, now we think COVID probably came from that lab. We have heard from the FBI,

00:05:46.660 this clip was from a week or two ago, Christopher Wray, the FBI director, admitting, yeah, we,

00:05:52.700 yeah, that's pretty much, that's what we think.

00:05:54.100 Now there's this department of energy study that says it's likely to have come from a lab leak,

00:06:01.560 although the confidence low. It cites the FBI. What is the determination by the FBI?

00:06:08.000 So as you note, Brett, the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic

00:06:16.700 are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan. Yes, we do know that. We've all known that for

00:06:24.240 a very long time, but only now is this being accepted by the powers that be. So why is it?

00:06:30.640 My question is not, okay, how did the virus leak? We know how the virus leaked. We're at least pretty

00:06:37.920 certain of it. My question always, when truths that we have long suspected are finally being

00:06:44.300 mainstreamed, why now? Why are they releasing it now? I wonder if the reason that the government

00:06:50.860 and the media establishment are willing to release this now is because tensions with China are a little

00:06:56.380 bit higher. Back in those early days, I think that everyone was a little softer on China. Now we've

00:07:02.960 had the spy balloon coming across. You're seeing more incursions from China into the South China Sea.

00:07:08.260 There's a little more tension around a potential invasion or blockade of Taiwan. Taiwan is

00:07:13.180 economically and technologically very important for the United States. So is that maybe what's going on,

00:07:18.240 that this is a game of chess being played by people who did not just yesterday discover this,

00:07:23.760 who actually from those early days suspected it, but now it's starting to play out. You've always got

00:07:28.620 to ask yourself these questions when it comes to the news. The first question that you've got to look at

00:07:34.480 is not anything to do with the details of any given news story. The first question is,

00:07:41.560 why am I being presented with this story? Why am I being presented with this headline and why are they

00:07:48.020 doing it right now? But even just on the operation of fake news, this is how fake news works all the

00:07:54.340 time. They get the story wrong. Very often they get the story intentionally wrong to achieve a political

00:07:59.680 purpose. And then you get the fake news on page A1 of the newspaper and you get the retraction or

00:08:06.700 the correction or even just the stealth edit on page Z10,000 of the newspaper. So very few people

00:08:12.360 see it. Everyone sees the original fake headline. Very few people see the correction. I did just

00:08:17.340 experience this very recently when the libs decided to accuse me of genocide. And quickly enough,

00:08:24.260 they had to change the headlines because it was obviously libelous. But all the libs, not you,

00:08:29.800 the conservatives understood this from day one. Every prominent conservative, even the prominent

00:08:34.620 squishy type of conservatives who don't even like me all that much, they all came out immediately and

00:08:38.960 said, this is such a bogus story. But the libs all saw the fake headline. How many of those libs who

00:08:43.820 are now calling me a genocidal maniac, how many of them saw the very quick corrections that the news

00:08:50.580 organizations had to make because they were violating libel law and their lawyers, I'm sure,

00:08:54.960 called the editorial team and said, you've got to change the headlines. Many fewer people saw those

00:08:58.580 corrections, especially because there were stealth edits. So I mentioned yesterday on the show that

00:09:03.420 after I demanded a retraction, Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, some other outlets pretty quickly

00:09:09.020 changed their headlines. Now, Huffington Post has changed their headlines because they're afraid of

00:09:12.580 hearing from their own lawyers. I think The Independent and the UK has changed their headlines,

00:09:16.120 but they didn't want to add any editorial notes. So we pointed out, hey, this is still libelous.

00:09:20.200 Okay, so now they're starting to add editorial notes acknowledging the change. This is my

00:09:24.160 favorite one. This is my favorite editor's note for a correction that I have ever seen in my whole

00:09:29.160 life in any news story. And I feel so privileged that it just happens to be from a story that involves

00:09:34.800 me. Editor's note. The headline has been changed to more literally reflect the words Knowles used.

00:09:44.260 The headline has been changed. The headline has been changed from the complete BS that we lied about,

00:09:52.700 the words that we put into his mouth. Now, okay, we're changing the headline to reflect what he

00:09:58.160 actually said. It's just such an admission. You could say, editor's note, we are hereby acknowledging

00:10:05.480 that we, the Daily Beast, publish fake news. We are a fake news organization. And occasionally,

00:10:11.080 we cross the line into legally actionable libel. So, okay, we'll use the words he actually used.

00:10:18.120 Remember that, I want to frame this editor's note. I want this to be on the wall of my studio.

00:10:23.540 Editor's note, don't believe anything that you read in the liberal press.

00:10:30.240 So, and it was very kind of everyone to come out and defend me, all the people on the right. One person

00:10:34.980 in particular who did that was Senator Mike Lee, who pointed out this is libelous. And the guy knows

00:10:39.740 quite a lot about constitutional law, being a Supreme Court litigator and a US senator.

00:10:43.880 So, moving on from all the nonsense about my CPAC speech. Senator Lee just had a wonderful exchange

00:10:51.760 with a woman who is from the Independent Women's Law Center on the topic of sex and gender, but not

00:11:01.000 specifically on the topic of transgenderism. He actually dug into an issue that goes back much

00:11:08.140 further. And it goes a lot deeper. An issue where if we want to really get at the heart

00:11:14.980 of our present crazy sexual gender madness, which is dominating the headlines, it's all the libs want

00:11:21.200 to talk about. And therefore, the conservatives have to talk about it because it's upending society.

00:11:25.280 That issue is before transgenderism, before redefining marriage, before all the crazy sexual

00:11:33.760 revolution stuff, it goes all the way back to feminism and the feminist would-be constitutional

00:11:41.040 amendment called the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment, which would destroy women's rights

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00:13:01.260 That is Bambi, B-A-M-B-E-E.com, Bambi.com. Type in Michael Knowles. Senator Lee has recently dug into

00:13:08.920 a recurrent, an almost perennial leftist issue. It's been cropping up since the 70s.

00:13:17.300 And it's called the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment. This is the Feminist Constitutional

00:13:21.860 Amendment that, ironically, though not so ironically, if you really understand feminism,

00:13:27.060 but seems ironically, would destroy rights for women in America. And the ERA, the LIVES have

00:13:32.840 been trying to ratify this thing for decades now. People don't actually want it, which is why it

00:13:37.400 keeps stalling out. But Senator Lee asked Jennifer Braceres, who's at the Independent Women's Law Center,

00:13:43.400 what the ERA really would look like in practice.

00:13:47.140 What might this do for sex-segregated prisons, prisons for women? What might this do for

00:13:53.420 government-sponsored, government-funded and operated shelters for abused women, for example?

00:14:00.600 Or public restrooms, locker rooms, athletic facilities, athletic competitions? What might

00:14:06.040 strict scrutiny do to every one of those?

00:14:08.520 So in the racial context, courts have been very clear that prisons cannot separate inmates on the

00:14:14.800 basis of race, even where doing so would prevent certain gang violence in the prison. And that's

00:14:23.820 the right standard. They should not be able to separate inmates on the basis of race. If you applied

00:14:30.200 that same standard to men and women, that would mean that prisons could never, they would have to have

00:14:36.340 co-ed prisons. You could never separate inmates on the basis of sex. And male and female prisoners

00:14:44.260 would have to be housed together.

00:14:47.040 That's right, ladies. We're going to bring you progress. We're going to liberate you women by

00:14:52.800 forcing you to bunk up with big, gigantic Bubba over there when you're in prison. What could go wrong?

00:14:59.320 Isn't that great? Isn't that progress? Reminds me of a line from Lucille Ball. Lucille Ball was asked

00:15:04.960 during an interview, I think maybe with Dick Cavett many decades ago, what she thought about women's

00:15:09.980 lib. And she said, I think I'm liberated enough. I think I could use a little less liberation. I don't

00:15:15.200 think women's lib has made women very, very happy. And you can see this in study after study. Take

00:15:21.960 studies of happiness with a grain of salt, but all of them seem to show that women have become much less

00:15:27.580 happy since women's lib came about, both relative to men and in absolute terms.

00:15:33.980 The ERA would do all sorts of other things, would effectively abolish women's bathrooms,

00:15:37.700 though the transgender activists are trying to do that already, would effectively ban women's sports,

00:15:42.760 would end women's schools, and all the special rights and spaces that women have specifically for

00:15:49.320 themselves right now. How did this thing come about? Well, the ERA actually was not first proposed in

00:15:56.760 the 70s. It became to prominence in the 70s. The ERA, though, was first proposed in 1923. This was

00:16:02.660 the first version of it, written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. And it was introduced into Congress.

00:16:08.360 Didn't get very far. Then there's another move to revive it in the 1970s. Congress set a ratification

00:16:14.100 deadline of March 22nd, 1979. By 1977, the ERA had received 35 of the necessary 38 states to ratify it.

00:16:26.100 So the feminists realized it wasn't going to work to get this thing through Congress. People didn't

00:16:29.460 want it. But if they tried to surreptitiously go through all of the different states and get it

00:16:33.680 ratified, they might, over time, push this thing through. So they were so close in 1977. 35 out of

00:16:39.540 38 states. And then along came, not some man, some patriarchal, misogynistic man to put those women

00:16:47.300 in their place. No, along came a little lady by the name of Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative woman,

00:16:53.180 one of the most important conservative leaders in America, certainly of the 20th century. Really,

00:16:58.260 I would say ever. She was a religious mother of six, I believe. And she rallied women around America.

00:17:07.260 Not the women that the feminists like. Not the crazy hair, burning their bras,

00:17:13.360 woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle kind of feminist ladies. But normal, regular women who love

00:17:19.840 their husbands, who love their sons, who love their home life, who love their special privileges

00:17:25.780 and places and rights and spaces in society rallied those women around America and said, no, we don't

00:17:31.820 want this progress that would destroy our role in society. At that point, five state legislatures,

00:17:39.320 Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Tennessee, South Dakota, voted to revoke their ERA ratifications.

00:17:45.180 So they'd already ratified it. They said, nope, we don't want this thing anymore.

00:17:48.220 The first four rescinded their ratification before the original 1979 deadline. South Dakota did so

00:17:54.180 by voting to sunset the ratification as of the original deadline. So the original deadline hits,

00:17:58.900 okay, no more ERA because they couldn't get it through. In 1978, the libs kept it up. Congress

00:18:03.580 passed by simple majorities in each house and Jimmy Carter signed as president a joint resolution to

00:18:10.000 extend the deadline, which is legally a little bit dubious, but they said, okay, we couldn't get the

00:18:14.120 damn thing through. Well, all right, let's push it a few more years. 1982. And then guess what

00:18:18.900 happened in those three years? No additional state legislatures ratified the ERA because nobody wants

00:18:24.700 it because it's insane. Then in 2020, just three years ago, Virginia's General Assembly passed a

00:18:31.840 ratification resolution for the ERA, which then claimed to bring that number up to 38. But of course,

00:18:38.260 there are so many reasons that obviously didn't work. They've blown through deadline after deadline.

00:18:43.800 In order to claim that they had 38 states, they would have to ignore the fact that five state

00:18:47.500 legislatures withdrew their ratification. It's just nonsense. But this is what the libs do. They

00:18:52.560 just doggedly pursue their agenda, even if the people hate it, even if it's not particularly legal

00:18:56.960 or constitutional. They're like a dog with a bone. They don't let go. That's why they generally win

00:19:01.900 the culture war stuff. The reason I mention this now is to be on the alert because they're going

00:19:07.100 to keep pushing for this and we need to shoot it down. It would be terrible for women. It'd be

00:19:10.000 terrible for society. But also to point out that there's a line that some conservatives have used

00:19:17.560 in recent years that is not true. They'll say, look, we hate second wave feminism. That's the

00:19:24.280 bra burners of the 70s. That second wave feminism was bad. The third wave feminism, which was,

00:19:30.080 I don't know, it was like the 90s, 2000s, that was also bad. And now I think we're in the fourth

00:19:34.760 wave. I don't know, or the 50th wave, whatever wave we're in, that's also bad. But this is what

00:19:39.140 they would say. They'll say the first wave feminists, they were really good. Those first

00:19:43.540 wave feminists back in the 20s, they were the good ones. And it's not true. They're all the same

00:19:48.460 people. They're all the same. Feminism is just bad, okay? It's bad because it posits, and this is the

00:19:56.020 same issue that we see with transgenderism. It posits a false anthropology. It suggests that there

00:20:03.300 is no meaningful difference between men and women. The traditional way of viewing men and women is

00:20:08.800 that men and women are different. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Men and women go

00:20:12.480 together. You're never going to have a war between the sexes because everybody's sleeping with the

00:20:16.280 enemy. Ah, men and women will never understand each other, but that's what adds spice to life. And we love

00:20:20.860 that. And that's why men and women are coupled with one another. Human beings are a coupling

00:20:24.840 species, and we come together. And by golly, we can procreate. Isn't that so amazing? It's only

00:20:31.920 through the union of a man and a woman that we can actually partake of God's creation. Because what we

00:20:36.800 can do without one another is we can, you know, I can produce this show, though I need a whole army

00:20:43.660 of people to actually make the show happen. But we can all do that. We can make a work of art. We can

00:20:48.440 write a poem. We can bake a pie. But in order to partake of actual creation, not just putting stuff

00:20:53.840 together and building it, but actually creating new life, you need men and women together. That's the

00:20:59.400 old way of viewing things. The modern view, the feminist view, is that men and women don't need

00:21:03.480 each other. They're basically the same anyway. It gets a little confusing because the feminists

00:21:08.400 would argue that men and women certainly have the same brains, and their physical differences are

00:21:14.460 just superficial. They only run skin deep. Whereas the transgenderists now claim that men and women

00:21:19.620 have totally different brains, which is how men who think they're women, they actually allegedly have

00:21:23.540 the brain of a woman or something like that, which irritates many of the feminists because the

00:21:27.380 feminists say, what the hell are you to tell me that my brain isn't the same as a man's brain? And so

00:21:31.180 they'll try to duke it out. But it all derives from the same false anthropology. Yes, the second way

00:21:38.560 feminists were bad. They're all bad, though, because it's all wrong. It's either true or false.

00:21:43.720 It happens to be false, and we should oppose this stuff. This is going to be the topic of my speech

00:21:47.620 in Buffalo. I'm giving a speech with Young America's Foundation up at the University of Buffalo

00:21:52.460 on Thursday. Very, very excited for that. The topic that I have been requested to speak on

00:21:57.660 is feminism. And since I am the love guru here at the Daily Wire, Dr. Romance, I have many thoughts

00:22:05.740 on this topic and thoughts on the topic of sex and gender in politics more broadly, because

00:22:11.180 conservatives are always just fighting on the terms of the left. So now we're fighting over

00:22:15.700 whether or not we should trans the eight-year-olds, if not the nine-year-olds. So we're fighting over

00:22:20.260 whether we should abolish women's sports. We've got to go a little bit deeper. We've got to take on

00:22:27.060 the feminists. Speaking of New York, Mayor Eric Adams, he's not a very good mayor.

00:22:35.740 He's a big lib. New York City is not doing very well under his leadership. But he's also not the

00:22:40.360 worst mayor we've ever had, especially coming after Bill de Blasio. You know I'm a New Yorker by

00:22:46.360 upbringing, and so I care still a lot. It's very sad to see poor old Gotham descend into crime and

00:22:53.260 mayhem. And Eric Adams said something the other day where I felt I had to give him credit where

00:22:57.100 credit's due. He said that when God and prayer and the Bible left schools, that's when the guns came

00:23:04.440 into schools. So he's trying to make a little knock at guns in the Second Amendment. But okay,

00:23:09.820 I'm willing to overlook that because he's defending God in schools. That's a very conservative position,

00:23:16.260 very out of step with the rest of his party. So Mayor Adams went on CNN, and the CNN lady

00:23:21.900 grilled him over this. She was furious. She said, how dare? Are you suggesting that there is no firm

00:23:27.820 separation of church and state? Here's Mayor Adams' answer.

00:23:31.480 You also said you implement policies with a, quote, godlike approach and said, quote,

00:23:36.440 when we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools. You know that those comments alarmed

00:23:43.040 some people, even some religious leaders who were in the room. A rabbi who was there called it

00:23:49.760 dangerous. Well, listen, let's be clear on something. The last words I said after I was sworn in

00:23:56.340 is, so help me God. On our dollar bill, we have, in God we trust. Every president touched a religious

00:24:02.940 book when they were sworn in, except for three. Faith is who I am. And anyone who takes those words

00:24:12.340 are stating that I'm going to try to compel people to follow my religion. No, I'm a child of God. I

00:24:19.980 believe that wholly. I'm going to follow the law. I'm not going to compel people who believe

00:24:25.200 in whatever faith. It could be if you're in a synagogue, a Baptist church, a Buddhist temple.

00:24:30.480 I'm in all of them. And that's what was in my service.

00:24:33.860 Just to be clear, do you fundamentally believe in the separation of church and state from a

00:24:40.140 governing standpoint? No. What I believe is that you cannot separate your faith.

00:24:45.380 Awesome. Love that. This guy, this liberal Democrat, has more courage on this very important issue

00:24:56.640 than many, if not most, Republicans in public life. Do you not believe in a separation of church

00:25:04.960 and state? Very simply goes, no. No, I don't. Good. That puts him on the same side as the founding

00:25:14.580 fathers, every American statesman until the 60s and 70s, 1960s and 70s, and every great leader and

00:25:23.640 statesman throughout all of history since the dawn of time. Of course not. And his reasoning is quite

00:25:29.800 right. He says, faith is everything to me. It informs everything I do. He says, I'm not going to force

00:25:36.980 people to join my denomination or particular religious view. I'm all for toleration, but

00:25:46.200 you can't separate me from my faith. And if you can't separate me from my faith, then you can't

00:25:52.760 separate my faith from government because I am the person in office right now. Of course, all politics,

00:26:00.280 all human conflict, ultimately, is theological. It has to be. That's always inevitable.

00:26:08.340 I've mentioned the writer Matthew Petruszek's excellent way of thinking about this.

00:26:13.880 Politics is on top of morality, is on top of epistemology, is on top of anthropology, is on top of

00:26:19.520 ontology, is on top of theology. Without getting into every category, ultimately, you've got to get

00:26:26.680 down to the question of what is everything. What is everything that is resting upon? And that is a

00:26:38.520 theological question. You can't pass a law about taxes or parking tickets without getting down to

00:26:45.660 some theological premises. You can't do it. It's not possible. So he's just being honest about that.

00:26:52.760 And the people who say, no, we're going to have a separation of church and state.

00:26:56.880 No, no, I don't let my religious views affect my politics. That's what John F. Kennedy said when

00:27:01.360 he was running for president. And he was afraid that by being Catholic, he would lose. He said,

00:27:05.760 oh, listen, yeah, I'm very Catholic, but I would never let my Catholic faith affect anything I do.

00:27:11.260 Okay. So practically speaking, you're not all that Catholic. Okay, fine. Adams is saying, no,

00:27:16.140 we all do that. And he does it too. I love it. Great on him. I hope Republican leaders

00:27:21.180 follow this mostly failed liberal mayor of New York, at least on this question.

00:27:26.260 Say, okay, yeah, absolutely. And that allows you to be tolerant. When you know what you stand for,

00:27:30.980 and you're being very clear and very open, you can be tolerant of minority religious views. He says,

00:27:35.320 I'm not going to go after the Hindus or whatever and Buddhists and try to convert them to my way of

00:27:41.180 thinking. He's going to tolerate it. But you can only tolerate these sort of minority views if you

00:27:48.020 have a broadly established set of norms and standards that derive from faith and the majority

00:27:55.520 faith in the country. People who are not very tolerant, I've learned, are some of the radical

00:28:01.120 transgender activists. You're going to be shocked to hear that. There's a story that came out. I'm

00:28:07.260 afraid I might have something to do with this called the Trans Day of Vengeance.

00:28:16.000 When I saw that headline, I realized they are now taking my advice from some years ago,

00:28:23.720 I gave a speech on leftism through the lens of the seven deadly sins. I said, why is it that the

00:28:28.160 libs celebrate pride? Pride is the queen of all vices. And Drew Klavan pointed out that now it's also

00:28:33.560 the vice of all queens. I said, why would you, if you want from just a PR standpoint to promote your

00:28:38.420 sexual group, why would you base it on pride, the deadliest of the seven deadly sins? And I said,

00:28:44.620 why pride in particular? If you're going to make it based on a sin, why not gay gluttony week? Or why

00:28:49.840 not gay wrath week? And so now we're getting it. Essentially, the Trans Day of Wrath to stop the

00:28:56.740 alleged transgender genocide that nobody knew was happening. This is the Trans Radical Activist

00:29:03.640 Network. Said on Twitter, the time is now. Enough is enough. We want more visibility. And so they're

00:29:09.820 calling for vengeance. Vengeance is pretty violent language, pretty violent concept. I view that

00:29:18.320 vengeance as belonging to the Lord. I don't think that it's up to me to take vengeance on people. So

00:29:23.960 even if I am inclined to anger and I'm really upset with somebody and I want revenge, I do my level

00:29:33.400 best to put that away, kiss it up, give that to God because revenge is the Lord's. Which brought me

00:29:40.180 back to this whole crazy non-traversy about the libs accusing me of genocide. Because one of the reasons

00:29:47.800 it's so laughable, other than it had no basis in anything I've ever said, is I'm Christian.

00:29:57.540 That's the foundation of my belief, Catholic specifically. I think that I will be answerable

00:30:06.480 for all the things that I have done in my life. And I know that I sin a lot, which is why I ask

00:30:13.100 Christ's forgiveness. I confess my sins. I seek absolution. I hope that my Redeemer,

00:30:19.400 and I have good reason to hope, but that my Redeemer will save me because I can't save myself.

00:30:26.020 Even when I'm writing this show, and half of this show is about poking fun at all these insane ideas

00:30:30.780 that the libs have, I try to make sure that I don't fall into the sin of detraction, where I am

00:30:36.700 intentionally revealing secret sins of other people, or using really cruel and harsh language

00:30:42.980 about people. And even that, I try. In the way that I conduct my life, and we all fail constantly,

00:30:49.300 and I'm certainly chief among them, I am really, really careful because I think that I'm going to

00:30:55.600 be answerable for my words and my actions someday. These people do not think that, which is why these

00:31:05.420 people tend to be a little more, a little less morally constrained in the way they deal with

00:31:13.320 themselves and other people. This is why the political violence in recent years has come,

00:31:18.760 not exclusively, but largely from the left. This is why BLM burned the country down for months.

00:31:26.080 This is why Antifa has attacked so many people, torched places. They're always encouraging violence.

00:31:32.940 This is why you've now got these people, who obviously are not playing with a full deck,

00:31:37.000 just generally, now calling for vengeance, and obviously much more radical kind of language.

00:31:43.360 Who are they answerable to? This is why this question that the CNN lady asked to Eric Adams

00:31:48.220 is so crazy. The libs fear that if politicians believe in God, that's going to cause them to do all

00:31:57.340 manner of terrible things. If you think that the God-fearing politicians are bad,

00:32:07.640 just wait until you see the politicians who don't fear God. This is a way, it's kind of obscured in

00:32:15.040 the history now, but we all make fun of divine right monarchy. It's this sort of absurd idea, and

00:32:19.620 it's that we view divine right monarchs as being absolute tyrants wielding. That isn't true. The idea

00:32:25.200 of divine right monarchy is actually that there is a limit on the power of the monarch, because the

00:32:29.340 monarch is answerable to God, who is a lot more important and powerful than a politician who is

00:32:35.420 answerable only to the people, or answerable only to a small group, say, in an oligarchy. This is the

00:32:40.700 meaning of John Adams' famous statement, the Constitution is built for a moral and religious

00:32:45.160 people. That's the constraint. When you take that constraint away, in the name of the separation of

00:32:52.340 church and state, or the enlightened views of secularism, when you take that away, you're going

00:32:59.000 to lose the grace, you're going to lose the restraints, you're going to lose the kiss it up

00:33:03.700 for vengeance as the Lord's, and you're going to get a lot of wrath and gluttony and pride and lust and

00:33:09.960 all the rest of it. You're going to get a country burning to the ground, as we have seen in recent years.

00:33:14.760 That's our brave new world. Before, maybe I'll just tease this story, because this story is really,

00:33:23.280 really wild on the brave new world. You may have heard the World Economic Forum say that in the future,

00:33:29.040 you will own nothing and be happy. This sounds like something out of a James Bond villain's mouth.

00:33:36.300 But a lot of people wonder, well, how's that going to happen? You're not taking my stuff.

00:33:39.980 You can come, you show up here, you try to take my stuff, threaten my family, you're going to catch a

00:33:44.360 face full of lead is what you're going to do. That's what a lot of people tell themselves with

00:33:47.460 that independent spirit of, I'm going to keep my stuff. But the way that the brave new world,

00:33:55.680 great reset vision will be put into practice and is currently being put into practice is not that

00:34:01.840 jackbooted thugs necessarily are going to come to your door, kick it in and grab you. It's that

00:34:07.960 even the products you buy are going to be less and less yours. Ford Motor Company,

00:34:13.220 Ford Global Technologies, just filed a patent for a new system and method to repossess a vehicle.

00:34:21.160 And the way they're going to do it is they're going to sell you the car, you're going to buy

00:34:23.820 the car, you're going to think you own the car. And then whenever the Ford executive wants,

00:34:27.820 he's going to lock you out of that car. He could repossess that car, you won't have anything

00:34:32.080 to say about it. We'll have to get into that a little bit more tomorrow because I want to take calls

00:34:36.680 right now. And before that, back in 2021, during a five hour hearing before Congress,

00:34:42.480 Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he did not let his own children use Facebook. That should be enough

00:34:48.120 to make you think twice about letting your kids use any social media, especially TikTok.

00:34:52.240 There's a new book out published by DW Books, written by Bethany Mandel and Carol Markowitz

00:34:56.200 that drives that point home. It's called Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and

00:35:01.180 Indoctrinating In Generation. When I read this passage, I wanted to delete every social media

00:35:05.800 app that I have and throw my phone away. I already have that inclination generally,

00:35:10.020 and this passage really underscored it. Listen to this, quote, TikTok was the center of a 2021

00:35:14.400 Wall Street Journal investigation, which uncovered how the app targets users with content revolving

00:35:18.900 around sex, drugs, eating disorders, and more, calling it an addiction machine. Investigators

00:35:24.220 created 31 accounts registered to young teens and turned them loose to browse TikTok's

00:35:29.720 4U feed, the highly personalized, never-ending feed curated by the algorithm. The article

00:35:35.120 explained, quote, an analysis of the videos served to these accounts found that through

00:35:39.620 its powerful algorithms, TikTok can quickly drive minors, among the biggest users of the

00:35:44.700 app, into endless spools of content about sex and drugs. TikTok served one account registered

00:35:50.840 as a 13-year-old, at least 569 videos about drug use, references to cocaine and meth addiction,

00:35:56.960 and promotional videos for online sales of drug products and paraphernalia. Hundreds of similar

00:36:02.240 videos appeared in the feeds of the journal's other minor accounts. Remember, this is not an

00:36:07.160 accident. This is by design. Radicals want your children sick and corrupted. Good news is you can

00:36:13.700 fight back right now. You can figure out how to fight back. Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing

00:36:18.660 Innocents and Indoctrinating a Generation comes out today. Order your copy on Amazon or wherever you get

00:36:23.920 your books now. And now, I will have the supreme privilege of speaking to you on the line, taking

00:36:32.140 your calls. Who do we have? Let me peruse who we have here. Okay, let's turn to my home state.

00:36:42.160 Let's turn to Charles in New York. Charles, you're on the line.

00:36:47.840 Michael, thank you very much for taking my call. I've got a quick question. I've been following

00:36:51.680 the Hershey's controversy. It disgusts me as much as anyone. But I wonder if the solution to fight

00:36:58.040 back against what these corporations are doing is, to be quite honest, is it to buy Jeremy's chocolate

00:37:03.780 or is it to invest that $25, $6 in chocolate bar in a gym membership, in a home garden, in locally

00:37:11.020 grown organic produce? I don't understand what is accomplished by substituting one chocolate bar

00:37:17.620 for another. Take that $25 instead of buying chocolate, give it to your local parish. I'm

00:37:22.000 just curious what your thoughts are on why it's important to buy Jeremy's chocolate instead of

00:37:25.840 taking that money again. And rather than filling our bodies with sugar, doing something maybe a bit

00:37:31.480 more productive with it. Sure. That's a really good question. If you don't like chocolate and you want

00:37:38.000 to get off chocolate, that's totally fine. I mean, especially if, you know, you're trying to lose

00:37:43.080 weight or something like that. Yeah, that's totally fine. But my question for you is, do you like

00:37:47.520 chocolate? I do like chocolate, but I would, again, I just don't know if that's, you know, the right

00:37:56.240 direction to go. No, but my question then is, if you like, I like chocolate. I eat chocolate now and

00:38:01.300 again. I don't need a ton. Okay, I got to keep my svelte figure. I got to fit into wardrobe for the show.

00:38:05.780 But if you are going to eat chocolate, the question is, are you going to buy Hershey's

00:38:10.260 chocolate, Hershey's, which hates you and wants to trans the culture and is doing very bad things

00:38:15.260 with your money? Or would you rather buy Jeremy's chocolate, even if it's, you know, six bucks a

00:38:20.740 bar, whatever amount of money you're going to spend on chocolate, would you rather spend that money

00:38:24.660 there? I'm not saying you have to buy Jeremy's chocolate. I think it's very funny and I really got

00:38:29.080 a kick out of the whole thing. I fully intend to get myself some Jeremy's chocolate. But no,

00:38:33.440 it's not saying that the way to fight the culture war is that we all need to buy a lot

00:38:36.220 of chocolate. The way to fight the culture war is to stop buying products from the companies

00:38:40.760 that hate you and purchase those same products that you would already buy from companies that

00:38:47.240 like you instead and that are not trying to trans the kids and that are actually using

00:38:50.980 that money to try to fight back against the woke corporation. So I don't think it's an

00:38:55.120 either or. If you want to go to the gym, donate money to charity, donate to your church,

00:39:00.260 I think that's all great stuff. And well, forget the gym, but at least donating to charity and to

00:39:04.860 your church is probably a higher priority than getting yourself chocolate. The point of Jeremy's

00:39:09.680 chocolates and razors and all the rest of it is not that you should put all your money into that.

00:39:15.100 The point is that if you are going to buy those products already, consumers ought to have an option

00:39:20.780 and we shouldn't be forced into this monopoly or oligopoly to give all of our money to companies

00:39:26.260 that hate us and that use that money, use our money to screw up our culture. That's the whole point.

00:39:31.800 And if you want to go to the gym, I encourage you to work out enough for the two of us because I

00:39:35.900 certainly don't intend to go to the gym and I will then perhaps eat double the chocolate.

00:39:39.980 Very good question, Charles. Let's turn now to Gideon in Canada, America's top hat. Gideon,

00:39:48.540 how about your appearance on this show, eh? Hi, thanks a lot for taking the call. I just want

00:39:56.360 to echo a point made by John Doyle, actually, somebody I think that you should have on the

00:40:00.400 show. I've met John Doyle a few times. I like him. Oh, he's wonderful. Yes. He said that when

00:40:06.980 transgender people see calls to eliminate transgender ideology from society, they consider it as

00:40:11.940 genocidal, as of course, I'm sure you've had plenty of experience with at this point. But when people

00:40:17.620 begin calling for the elimination of quote unquote whiteness, to call out the obvious is something

00:40:22.600 that even most conservatives won't actually do. So I don't know how else are we supposed to construe

00:40:27.540 that? Oh, of course. Well, there's no question about that, that the establishment in the media

00:40:32.320 and the government and all of it just hates white people and hates men too. So of course, that's the

00:40:38.180 case. You're allowed to say any terrible stuff about men that you want. We have to abolish toxic

00:40:44.200 masculinity. And of course, that's never interpreted as a genocide or we need to abolish

00:40:49.100 whiteness or eradicate whiteness. No, that is either not interpreted as calling for genocide or

00:40:54.400 is celebrated as calling for genocide. But even you have people like Oprah. Oprah famously was caught

00:41:02.260 on camera giving an answer to how we deal with all these conservative people. And she said, we just

00:41:06.780 have to wait for them to die. So that was a pretty direct call toward maybe she didn't want to hasten

00:41:11.120 their death. But she wasn't upset that they would die at some point anyway. Yeah, there's no question

00:41:16.100 about that. They're just slightly different issues, I think. You can, as we talk about a lie, you can

00:41:21.340 talk about how the culture is openly antagonistic toward white people and men and people who have

00:41:29.140 ordinary sexual practices and desires and Christians and all the rest of it. You can talk about that.

00:41:34.780 But I think it's also worth pointing out that on this particular issue with the liberals accusing me

00:41:41.780 of genocide for suggesting that we ought not to indulge the transgender false anthropology,

00:41:50.020 that one is a little bit different in that transgender people is not a real ontological

00:41:58.260 category. It's a euphemism to describe deeply confused men and women who ought to have psychological

00:42:04.680 and spiritual help. And so I think we just need to be very precise in our language and focus on that

00:42:09.680 battle when we're dealing with that battle and focus on the other ones as well. I don't know

00:42:13.240 that they're totally connected. You could make a rhetorical point that wins a point or two by

00:42:20.500 pointing out the left wing's hypocrisy. I just don't think pointing out leftist hypocrisy really

00:42:24.400 matters. To quote Adrian Vermeule, the Harvard law professor, they're not exactly hypocrites on the

00:42:29.480 left. They just have a hierarchy. They just say some people are better than other people

00:42:33.960 and some people should get special privileges and others should be punished. So in a way,

00:42:38.300 that's kind of honest. It's not hypocritical. They just have their own caste system and set of

00:42:43.680 values. And you and I probably wouldn't fall very high up in that. So a little bit separate issues,

00:42:49.440 but both very important. Okay, let's try to get to at least one more before we turn to the member

00:42:57.040 block with the creme de la creme in a circle. Brady in San Marcos, Texas. Hello, Brady. How can I help you?

00:43:02.800 Hey, Michael. My wife and I are big fans of the show. Your first book left us without words,

00:43:08.860 and your last book had us speechless. So my question is this. My wife and I converted to

00:43:13.420 Christianity a little over a year and a half ago, and we largely retain our secular friend group from

00:43:17.680 before we were saved. You've talked a lot about having secular friends, gay friends, liberal friends,

00:43:22.700 and so on. I know that as Christians, we have a calling to witness and to evangelize to others,

00:43:27.280 but Proverbs also tells us that as iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another. So at what point

00:43:32.580 do you think having too many secular friends, having too many friends who oppose your values

00:43:37.140 becomes a problem? And what would be some tips for remaining firm in the faith without coming

00:43:40.980 across as judgmental or, you know, turning your secular friends off from Christianity entirely?

00:43:45.820 Thanks. Great question. I would not recommend that you cut your friends off. You know,

00:43:51.040 sometimes people say, now I've converted, and so I'm not talking to these people anymore. If some

00:43:57.760 of your friends are occasions of sin, if they lead you into behaviors that are sinful and that

00:44:04.680 compromise your faith, then probably you should cut them off. But if that's not the case, if you just

00:44:10.220 have differing viewpoints, I wouldn't cut them off, but I would just predict and observe that people

00:44:16.840 grow together or they grow apart. And it doesn't need to be some big, terrible breakup, but I think

00:44:23.840 you might find as you deepen in your faith, you will naturally be spending more time with people

00:44:30.580 who view things a little more similarly to the way that you view things. And you'll spend a little less

00:44:35.700 time with some of those other friends. And that's natural and people change. And with the real enduring

00:44:42.900 friendships, your friends' views might change as well. And if they don't, if you don't grow together,

00:44:49.280 then very likely you will grow apart. And that's just the way friendship works. Okay. It is now time

00:44:54.200 to get to the member block with Le Crème de la Crème. We will be today examining a really important

00:45:01.920 trend on TikTok. That would be the trend of trad wives, traditional wives. I'm pleased to be married to

00:45:09.560 such a wife. And specifically the trend of left wingers disparaging trad wives. They hate them

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