The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Major League Baseball ratings are up 42 percent. Many people are giving credit for the increase

00:00:05.900 to recent rule changes that have reduced the length of the game. The pitch clock,

00:00:11.380 tighter bought criteria, bigger bases. But scientists at Dartmouth have identified another

00:00:16.800 potential culprit for the viewership spike. You guessed it, global warming. According to

00:00:23.480 the Dartmouth scientists, global warming has led to an increase in home runs hit across the league.

00:00:30.900 The scientists have determined somehow that more than 500 home runs over the past decade

00:00:36.880 have been due to global warming. Not due to all of the steroids they're injecting that make their

00:00:41.540 heads three times their normal size. No, no, no. It is the sun monster that is causing the home runs.

00:00:46.680 Now, I am actually not making fun of the study. It is a clever study. It's absurd, but it's clever.

00:00:53.100 The sort of silly exercise that academics sometimes undertake to demonstrate their

00:00:59.180 methodological prowess and skill by proving ridiculous points. But in this case, while the

00:01:07.180 study might not prove very much about baseball, it proves a lot about global warming. Namely,

00:01:12.940 that global warming is a catch-all science of the gaps explanation exploited by the liberals

00:01:19.600 to explain any and every anomaly. And more importantly, to explain the urgency of giving

00:01:26.400 the liberal elite more money and power. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:38.420 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of athletic prowess, there is a clip going viral of a transgender

00:01:44.740 fella who is dancing ballet. He was accepted to the Royal Academy of Dance. We will get to it. It's a

00:01:51.640 very important story. It actually is, because not only does it show some of the absurdity of

00:01:55.940 transgenderism, it shows the essence of liberalism. So we will get to it. First, though, back to power.

00:02:03.380 I want to get to power because there's a lot of chatter in Washington, D.C. right now about whether or

00:02:08.760 not some of the older members of the Senate are going to move along. Senator Dianne Feinstein,

00:02:14.280 one of the Democrats who is of a certain age, she has not been in Washington in a while. She's been

00:02:21.000 recuperating from an illness. There's a question about whether she'll ever get back to the Senate

00:02:25.360 because she is rather aged. And then Mitch McConnell as well. Mitch McConnell suffered some kind of an

00:02:30.060 incident that has kept him out of Washington. There's been some talk about Republicans preparing

00:02:34.520 for Mitch McConnell's replacement, and the McConnell office wants to tamp that down. They say,

00:02:39.760 quote, I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday. We've got important business to

00:02:44.740 tackle and big fights to win for Kentuckians and the American people. So this, after he tripped and

00:02:51.840 fell during a dinner, he says, I'm not going anywhere, folks. And I have to tell you, that's fine by me.

00:02:58.040 I am not a Mitch McConnell hater. I know he's not the most conservative guy in the world.

00:03:03.140 I know he's had all sorts of fights with conservatives in the Senate.

00:03:08.400 But you've got to respect the man for his ability to wield power. And sometimes we wish that he would

00:03:16.640 wield power for more of the causes that we care about. But this guy understands the levers of power

00:03:22.320 in the Senate like nobody else. And I think conservatives all have to be very grateful to

00:03:25.900 McConnell because he held up Scalia's seat in the Supreme Court and gave us a conservative judge

00:03:31.900 after Trump was elected and got Roe v. Wade overturned. So I'm not a big McConnell hater.

00:03:38.380 I respect the ability that he has to wield that kind of power. And he shows a fact of especially

00:03:46.020 the Washington, D.C. politicians, which is they will cling to power until they're dying breath.

00:03:50.840 Joe Biden is not going anywhere. Joe Biden is not even a boomer. Joe Biden is from the generation

00:04:00.740 before the boomers, which is incredible to think that we went from Bill Clinton, first boomer president,

00:04:06.760 to George W. Bush, first boomer president, to Barack Obama. Is he boomer or is he Gen X?

00:04:13.880 I think he's a boomer. See, he's younger than the two other guys. And then we went to Trump,

00:04:20.480 boomer president. And then we went to Biden, who is older than all of the previous ones.

00:04:27.340 This generation of politicians does not want to give up power. The only thing that is going to

00:04:31.980 take them away from power is old father time and the grim reaper coming and pulling them out of office,

00:04:36.580 which means that we are on the cusp of a sea change. But it's not happening gradually.

00:04:40.520 It's not just the older generation preparing the way and opening the doors for the younger people.

00:04:46.420 This is going to happen rather suddenly. So one of the younger guys who is trying to grab hold of

00:04:51.020 some of that power is, of course, Ron DeSantis. And in service of the presidential campaign that he

00:04:57.900 hasn't declared yet, Governor DeSantis has just signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law

00:05:02.880 late Thursday night, prohibits abortions in the state once an unborn child has a detectable heartbeat.

00:05:08.920 The squishes are furious about this. The libs are mocking DeSantis. They're saying he's,

00:05:13.840 he's adopting unpopular positions that'll harm him in the general election if he becomes the nominee.

00:05:20.040 One, good on Governor DeSantis for signing this bill. Good. We just, we need to take every victory

00:05:26.700 we possibly can for the cause of life. The right to life is not just one right among many. It is the

00:05:32.040 fundamental right from which all the other rights derive. And we kill some 800,000 babies a year in this

00:05:38.180 country. It is worse than any genocide that we've ever seen. Other than China, I guess,

00:05:43.420 kills more people, kills more babies through abortion. It would make the Aztecs blush. It

00:05:48.400 would make those ancient Middle Eastern tribes who sacrificed their children to Moloch. It would make

00:05:52.500 them blush the number of babies that we're killing. So in itself, this is the right thing for DeSantis to

00:05:58.020 do. But I think it's also a good political move, not just for the primary, but for the general

00:06:03.380 election. This is where the squishes totally lose me because they read a bunch of stupid public

00:06:07.840 opinion polls and they realize that opinion is split on abortion and they fear that anyone having

00:06:12.920 any courage of their convictions is going to harm them in the general election. I don't think that's

00:06:17.380 true. People are persuadable by logic. People are persuadable by conviction. It's actually the

00:06:23.320 squishes who aren't very persuasive because they don't make any compelling argument for anything.

00:06:27.220 But on this issue, don't forget the two issues where conservatives have won over the last 50

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00:08:14.220 Now, speaking of things that pertain to sex, how's that for a transition? There's this guy Chris

00:08:21.440 on MrBeast's YouTube channel. MrBeast, biggest YouTube channel, and this guy Chris is married

00:08:27.160 with a kid, and Chris has just decided that he's a woman now, which I imagine was not a pleasant

00:08:33.280 thing for his wife to hear, a very cruel thing to do to his son. Puts MrBeast in a terrible position

00:08:38.100 because MrBeast tries to remain apolitical, but now his sidekick is taking on the most controversial

00:08:44.900 issue in all of politics right now, and what is MrBeast going to do? As of now, MrBeast is defending

00:08:52.100 his friend and employee, and he's attacking the transphobes. That is probably not a good winning

00:08:59.480 path in the long run because there are a lot of transphobes. If by transphobes, we mean people who

00:09:06.400 just rationally understand that men and women are different and men can't become women.

00:09:10.420 If you start attacking the transphobes, I don't think that's going to be great for your

00:09:14.620 hundred plus million view videos. But back to Chris. I mentioned on the show, I don't really care

00:09:22.420 about this guy Chris's opinions on transgenderism or sex or the composite of body and soul or anything

00:09:29.540 like that. I don't even really care that much about MrBeast's opinions on YouTube. But I ask the

00:09:35.940 question, how does a guy wake up at the age of 26 with a wife and a child and decide that he's a

00:09:43.080 woman? And I suggested that the aspect of this whole transgender phenomenon that people are not

00:09:50.400 really talking about is porn, that porn is driving a lot of this. And I even had that thought because

00:09:57.820 I was speaking to a reporter who had done a little bit of a deep dive onto all that kind of weird

00:10:02.640 porn. I'm not saying this reporter was sort of prowling late at night on the secret

00:10:07.460 browser tab or anything like that. But she had gone down this rabbit hole of a specific type of porn

00:10:15.000 that men who have rapid onset gender confusion attribute their confusion to. They started watching

00:10:21.560 this porn, which is kind of a hypnosis. And then what do you know? I can't get it out of my head and

00:10:26.420 it's melted my brain. And now I think that I'm a woman. So Ali Stuckey, our great friend,

00:10:32.120 Ali Stuckey, dug up an old tweet from this guy, Chris, on the MrBeast show. And she said,

00:10:37.620 in a tweet that he just deleted, Chris from MrBeast, who recently announced he's transitioning

00:10:41.940 to a woman, says he likes Loli, which is L-O-L-I, which is a form of anime porn in which the female

00:10:49.340 characters are depicted as children or even babies. Man. Many, many such cases among trans men.

00:10:59.600 I don't know what this guy, Chris, meant by that comment where he made this whole comment about how

00:11:05.800 much he lusted after this genre of pornography. I'm not saying it means that he's a pedo. I'm not

00:11:12.540 saying it wasn't even just a joke on Twitter. But what is undeniable from this is that this guy,

00:11:18.820 Chris, knows a lot about porn. If you're familiar enough with porn to make a joke about this obscure

00:11:25.980 sub-sub-genre of pornography, then you know a lot about porn, which would seem to back up my thesis,

00:11:32.520 which I said on the show is just a hunch. I'm not, I don't know this guy, Chris. I haven't read any

00:11:38.500 scientific study with a lab coat. But I strongly suspect that if you start to have really bizarre

00:11:43.740 sexual ideas and desires, it might have something to do with the ubiquity of bizarre, extremely high-tech

00:11:51.580 pornography that is warping people's minds and that they write, people write into this show even.

00:11:57.580 Sometimes they'll say, I got hooked on porn at age 10 and it's been a struggle for my whole life.

00:12:02.440 Maybe that's something that politicians should do something about. Speaking of the justice system,

00:12:09.260 speaking of transgender identifying people, there is a dude who thinks that he's a chick who attacked

00:12:17.700 a Catholic church. He was finally arrested for this. This guy destroyed religious property.

00:12:27.040 This is a crime that holds a maximum prison sentence of one year, up to a $100,000 fine,

00:12:33.480 up to five years probation, supervised release following prison. So this is, this is pretty

00:12:39.940 serious. And the Biden DOJ just recommended no jail time. Of course it did. The Biden DOJ,

00:12:49.740 Biden FBI, which sends agents in to spy on Catholics who go to mass on Sunday. The Biden DOJ and FBI,

00:12:58.660 which then tried to deny that they were spying on churches and viewed Catholics as potential

00:13:04.800 domestic terrorists. We then found out this was a real program. It wasn't just a one-off memo that

00:13:09.160 nobody knew about. This was a program by the FBI. There were agents assigned to cultivate sources,

00:13:15.960 to try to flip priests, to violate the inviolable seal of the confessional potentially,

00:13:20.280 and to rat to the federal government on their flock. And then a member of the protected religion,

00:13:30.140 the protected cult of transgenderism, goes and attacks the persecuted religion, Christianity,

00:13:35.720 and specifically Catholicism. And he gets off scot-free. This is how it works.

00:13:41.260 This is how the, I don't need to tell you that. You're well aware of that.

00:13:44.480 But the liberal regime, the elites in power with the bow ties, don't wear bow ties, with the long

00:13:52.720 neckties and the very fancy jackets, and they've got the really fancy offices in Washington, D.C.,

00:13:57.420 they're not going to go out and commit street crime. But street crime is important for them to

00:14:02.720 maintain their political dominance. And so what they do is they just encourage all sorts of miscreants

00:14:08.320 to commit the street crime for them. And then they let them off the hook. And then they bail them out

00:14:15.240 of jail. And then when BLM is marauding all over the country for eight months, Kamala Harris raises

00:14:20.560 money to bail the criminal BLM activists out of prison. Joe Biden staffers raise money to bail BLM

00:14:28.500 out of prison. So what does that do? That creates an incentive for more of the street crime, which

00:14:34.020 intimidates conservatives and Christians and normal people who are now going to think twice

00:14:39.880 before speaking out because they don't want their church destroyed. They don't want their pro-life

00:14:44.720 pregnancy center destroyed. They don't want their homes destroyed. They don't want to be attacked in

00:14:47.820 public by people who will have impunity to do it. Speaking of corruption in the administration,

00:14:56.000 the Pentagon inspector general has found that corruption in Ukraine funding and arming

00:15:03.140 is very, very high risk. The Defense Department recognizes Ukraine's history of corruption and

00:15:12.120 considers the possibility of aid being deflected before it reaches its intended target to be a high

00:15:17.300 risk. Another official at the Pentagon is concerned about weapon systems that we're sending over there

00:15:23.080 and the theft of those weapon systems. They say this is according to an official being reported by

00:15:28.900 Defense One. DOD procedures, the most advanced systems in the world. There are many entities to include

00:15:34.700 foreign nations as well as criminal groups that want to get their hands on weapons technology, etc.,

00:15:39.760 which raises the question that I've been asking since day one on all of this Ukraine stuff. Namely,

00:15:46.860 what are we funding? What's the goal here? Because from my position, it feels like our sclerotic leaders

00:15:56.340 are sleepwalking us into World War III. What's the end goal here? We could have prevented the war

00:16:04.060 easily. Joe Biden, Donald Trump did prevent the war. Donald Trump is the president on whose watch,

00:16:10.140 uniquely among recent presidents, Vladimir Putin did not further invade any foreign nations.

00:16:16.220 But Biden comes into power. He could have prevented the invasion, probably. He could have done that by

00:16:22.200 maintaining sanctions on Russia, even according to the Ukraine president, Vladimir Zelensky.

00:16:27.980 Biden lifting those sanctions impelled Russia to invade. Then what happened? Then Biden said,

00:16:35.720 if it's just a minor incursion, we won't do anything about it. That's fine. Further encourages Russia

00:16:40.340 to invade. Then the United States funds the war, says we're going to fund the war into perpetuity.

00:16:46.260 So now the war continues to escalate. You've got now explicit threats of nuclear war. Russia is

00:16:54.440 saying it's not even a Cold War anymore. Russia is saying we are directly in a hot conflict with

00:16:58.040 the United States. And then you look over there at China, and you see China beginning to aggress on

00:17:03.300 Taiwan in the South China Sea. It just feels like we're slow walking into World War III. So what are

00:17:09.060 we doing here? We're funding Ukraine to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, over $100 billion.

00:17:13.720 What do we want? Do we want Ukraine and NATO? I don't. Is that the plan? Do we want Ukraine in

00:17:20.420 the European Union? That doesn't seem like a great idea either, but let's figure out what

00:17:26.000 the plan is. Do we want to invade Russia? Do we want war with Russia? What's happening here? Do we

00:17:32.520 want a buffer state in Ukraine, which I think would have been smarter? What are we funding? It seems like

00:17:38.200 we're just funding more and more corruption with no end in sight. Speaking of arms, the head coach of

00:17:49.420 the San Antonio Spurs has a lot to say about your arms. This was a comment he made on Sunday. I'm glad

00:17:56.960 we can finally get to it here at the end. It's been a very, very busy week, but I'm glad we can get to

00:18:01.280 it because it's an important comment that this guy very ignorantly made. Greg Popovich suggested that

00:18:07.980 Second Amendment freedoms are a myth.

00:18:11.400 On the way, it goes to my mind that I hope they're going to be okay. And most of you in this room,

00:18:21.260 when we were in school, we worried if Nancy would dance with us on Friday after the football game or

00:18:28.580 something. That was our anxiety. But they're going to cloak all this stuff, you know, the myth of the

00:18:36.880 Second Amendment, the freedom. You know, it's just, it's a myth. It's a joke. It's just a game they

00:18:41.980 play. I mean, that's freedom. Is it freedom for kids to go to school and try to socialize and try

00:18:49.480 to learn and be scared to death that they might die that day? But Ted Cruz will fix him because he's

00:18:56.140 going to double the number of cops in the schools. That's what he wants to do. Well, that'll create a

00:19:00.880 great environment. Is that freedom? Or is it freedom to have a congressman who can make a postcard

00:19:06.560 with all his family holding rifles, including AR-15 or whatever? Is that cool?

00:19:12.160 So this coach is just obviously a complete NPC. This guy hasn't given two seconds thought to the

00:19:18.740 Second Amendment, to firearms, to the natural right to self-protection. He is just reciting all the silly

00:19:25.160 platitudes that you hear from the libs. And it's not his fault. He probably doesn't think about politics

00:19:29.020 very much. So if he's got CNN on in the background, that's just what goes into his head. And that's what

00:19:33.060 comes out of his mouth. And there's a very little conscious thought going on in between those two

00:19:37.460 things. But he makes one good point here, which is, he says, Second Amendment freedoms, that's a myth.

00:19:44.780 It is a myth. That's true. It happens to be a true myth. It happens to be a myth that tells a story

00:19:51.080 that speaks to a real truth, which is your right to self-protection. But we tell it in the form of

00:19:58.380 stories. And it's embedded within our history. And we see it in our legal documents. And

00:20:03.480 unfortunately, what the liberals have done in our modern era is they have demystified the world.

00:20:11.720 We're so damn disenchanted. We just look around the world. It's like Hamlet. He looks out, he says,

00:20:17.840 I've lost all my mirth. What a piece of work as a man. Look at this sterile promontory,

00:20:25.780 this brave ore-hanging firmament fretted with a golden fire. It just, it seems to me no other

00:20:31.000 thing than a sterile promontory, than the man is this quintessence of dust. What Shakespeare was

00:20:38.300 seeing occur in our culture is what has totally come to fruition now, which is we just live in

00:20:42.960 this disenchanted world. We need more myth in the world. We need more narrative. We need to

00:20:48.580 recognize that we're not just bags of chemicals, but we are characters in a story. And just because

00:20:54.180 something is a myth, doesn't mean it isn't true. Now, speaking of good stories, you got to check

00:21:01.560 out Nefarious. You know I'm a tough critic. It's pretty obvious when I don't like something. Well,

00:21:06.340 there's a new movie opening today, April 14th, called Nefarious, that looks and sounds like another

00:21:11.500 completely forgettable horror film. Let me tell you why this is different. It's not a horror film.

00:21:15.860 It's a realistic psychological thriller that becomes a supernatural thriller. It's about a serial

00:21:20.720 killer about to be executed who claims he's a demon. The psychiatrist is called in to see if

00:21:25.500 the man's gone crazy or is faking insanity just to get off. The psychiatrist is your standard Ivy League

00:21:32.040 guy, doesn't believe in demons, God, any such nonsense, but he doesn't quite realize what he's

00:21:37.900 up against. The film is surprising and thought-provoking, something you definitely need to see. Head on over

00:21:43.740 to see Nefarious opens nationwide starting today, April 14th. Go to whoisnefarious.com and buy your

00:21:53.180 tickets today. That is whoisnefarious.com for tickets. My favorite comment of the day is from

00:22:00.720 the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music. Man, that guy just has so many favorite comments of the day,

00:22:05.180 who says, Bud Light's stock dropped lower than Leah Thomas's voice. Come on, folks.

00:22:13.640 My favorite comment, my favorite aspect of that comment is the come on, folks,

00:22:18.200 because it just turns it into a Rodney Dangerfield routine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My Bud Light's

00:22:23.900 stock dropped lower than Leah Thomas's voice. Come on, come on, folks. Hey, my wife, my doctor,

00:22:28.180 Dr. Vinnie Boombats. Okay, speaking of performances, this is an old clip,

00:22:33.640 but it's making the rounds now. The clip goes back to 2017, 2016, something like that. It's making

00:22:41.060 the rounds now because of the transgender madness that has been going around to the culture. It is

00:22:46.560 of a man, an older man. He's not a 16-year-old ballet dancer. He's an older guy who always wanted

00:22:56.140 to be a ballerina, but he can't be a ballerina. He could be a male ballet dancer, but he can't be a

00:23:01.300 ballerina because he's a guy. And he decides, well, he's going to pursue his dream anyway.

00:23:06.720 And he's accepted to the Royal Academy of Dance, this very prestigious school in the United Kingdom.

00:23:12.480 So someone cut two videos together. One of this man who identifies as transgender dancing ballet,

00:23:18.880 and one of an actual young ballerina. Let's just take a look.

00:23:30.360 So they're dancing the same ballet.

00:23:35.040 And if you're only listening to this right now as a podcaster on the radio, I cannot do it justice.

00:23:49.320 The man who was accepted to the Royal Academy of Dance is not dancing any better than I would

00:23:59.960 right now if I were imitating how he is dancing. And the young woman is a ballerina, and ballet is

00:24:07.860 really beautiful. I like ballet a lot. And the difference between good ballet and bad ballet

00:24:14.660 is instantly apparent. Ballet is a very difficult type of performance, and it requires a very specific

00:24:24.760 body type and very specific training and very specific grace that women have more than men do.

00:24:34.240 Now, obviously, there are men who dance ballet, and they dance the male roles in ballet.

00:24:38.200 And that, too, requires a very specific type of training and a very specific type of body.

00:24:43.600 And then you've got this guy who obviously should not have been accepted to this school. I'm not just

00:24:49.960 trying to make fun of him here. He's not even a male ballet dancer. I guess that's

00:24:54.740 the craziest part to me about the whole video. That's the craziest part about him being accepted.

00:24:59.020 He's not even a male ballet dancer. He's just a deluded guy who no one has had the compassion to tell

00:25:07.280 him is living out a fantasy. And so then people make fun of him. And that's very sad. Had someone in

00:25:19.540 this guy's life gone up to him and said, hey, you're not a woman. You're not a woman. You're

00:25:25.400 not a ballet dancer. You're not a dancer of any kind. There is such a defect in your perception

00:25:31.780 that not only are you seeing the wrong sex when you look in the mirror, you're not even seeing

00:25:37.620 that when you try to plie or you do whatever any of the other ballet dance moves are, it looks

00:25:43.820 like a caricature of someone making fun of someone who's telling a joke about someone who is doing

00:25:49.800 ballet. That's, that's the, what's so striking about it is that this is not just a problem for

00:25:56.980 transgenderism. This is not just a problem for the radical left agenda. This is, this is a problem

00:26:02.320 with all of liberalism, which is that all of liberalism, because it embraces a radical individualism,

00:26:09.680 it erodes standards. Liberalism begins with the idea that we are fundamentally individuals.

00:26:18.540 Traditional political thought begins with the idea that we are fundamentally the political animal.

00:26:22.360 We're social creatures. We're coupling beings. We live in society. And much of our identity comes from

00:26:26.600 a role in society. And we have obligations to society and to nature and to nature's God, right?

00:26:35.460 Liberalism says, no, you're an individual. You can do whatever you want. You can be whatever you want.

00:26:39.940 But then, then that erodes standards. If we're told everybody can go to college and everybody should

00:26:45.560 go to college and everybody has the same natural capacity to do everything that everybody else does,

00:26:51.360 what's the consequence of that? We've all seen it at colleges. We've all seen it at schools

00:26:55.700 at the lower level from college. Standards erode. It's not that it brings everybody up. It just,

00:27:02.620 it just brings the people who are excelling down. This is the story by Kurt Vonnegut of Harrison

00:27:09.340 Bergeron, that as individualism and egalitarianism and liberalism pervade society, you're going to see

00:27:16.620 a leveling of society, a leveling down where people who are excellent are not allowed to excel.

00:27:21.360 The ballet that this guy is elected to, elected to, that this guy is accepted into is going to be

00:27:28.060 much worse. And because ballet is not an individualist endeavor, the talented dancers who

00:27:36.400 are supposed to dance alongside him, they are going to be worse. The whole production is going to be

00:27:40.940 worse because of it. And that lesson applies way beyond transgenderism. That lesson applies to all of

00:27:47.260 the delusions that liberalism foists upon us. And the lesson applies to all of society. Do we want to

00:27:52.680 be a society in which people cannot excel, in which we just level down and to protect the delusions and

00:27:59.100 the narcissism of all the people? We pretend that reality is other than it is? Or are we going to be

00:28:06.060 a society that is grounded in reality that says, hey, Hank, maybe ballet is not for you. Maybe you ought to

00:28:12.960 try welding or plumbing or something like that. But you could be very good at that. But whatever else

00:28:18.580 you are, you're not good at being a woman and you're not good at dancing ballet. Speaking of

00:28:24.060 protecting society, some good news out of my own state of Tennessee. The Tennessee House

00:28:28.600 yesterday approved new measures aimed at heightening school safety at both, I'm sorry,

00:28:34.700 this actually was last week, new measures at heightening school safety at both public and private

00:28:40.460 schools. This was a way to, after the terrible shooting in Nashville, to arm the schools, make

00:28:47.760 sure that if someone tries to shoot up the school, there will be plenty of good guys with guns to stop

00:28:52.080 that shooting before it can really even begin. And what do you know, the three people who led the

00:29:01.000 riot at the Capitol, those three lawmakers who had a vote taken to remove them from office, one of them

00:29:07.420 survived by one vote, but the other two were removed from office, those three did not vote for this bill.

00:29:15.520 Why? Because it's never been about protecting kids. The Democrats who go on and on and on about how

00:29:26.340 Republicans are allowing kids to die because we don't want to repeal the Second Amendment,

00:29:31.040 they have not proposed any laws that would have stopped any of these major school shootings in recent

00:29:38.720 years. They've never done that, obviously. They have encouraged children to engage in behaviors that are

00:29:47.080 extraordinarily risky, that encourage risk of death, just even the idea of encouraging

00:29:50.780 transgenderism, which now has exploded among young people. One in five Zoomers identify as LGBT.

00:29:56.560 Even specifically on the T, though, rates of transgender identity have exploded by 50%, 100%, or even more in

00:30:03.240 recent years among specifically young people. And transgenderism is associated with higher rates of anxiety and

00:30:08.840 depression and suicide. So if you wanted to protect young people, you'd probably want to keep a lid on that

00:30:13.760 delusion of transgenderism. The libs are doing exactly the opposite. They're trying to trans people as young as

00:30:19.140 five, as young as elementary school, and frankly, even younger. It was never about this. The libs are always trying to

00:30:27.100 pass their assault weapons ban, even though the quote-unquote assault weapons are used in a tiny fraction of murders each

00:30:32.300 year. It's always about the libs pushing the same old narrative. And even when an incident like a school shooting has no

00:30:44.620 connection to the law they're trying to pass, they'll go after it. It gets back to what we were talking about at the

00:30:50.500 top of the show. Major League Baseball now has more home runs because of, well, what? I don't know, global warming.

00:30:57.620 The libs are relentless. They never give up. And this should be a lesson for conservatives who think that the only way

00:31:03.800 that we can ever win in the culture is to concede and find some conciliatory middle ground because, listen, certain issues

00:31:10.640 we've just lost, okay? We lost the debate. We don't want to turn off independent moderate voters. And so

00:31:15.660 let's just squish on everything and give it up and just move on and try to, I don't know, maintain some

00:31:20.540 tax cuts or something. That's never going to work. And the people who do wield the power in society, the

00:31:25.200 liberals, they never do that. They never give up. Anything that happens, they're pushing the same

00:31:29.860 policies that they've been pushing for a hundred years. And they're so relentless about it that very often

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00:34:52.420 it away with the voicemail bag. Hey, Michael. The last few years, conservatives have rightfully

00:34:58.640 been pushing back against self-proclaimed experts like Dr. Fauci because it affects the way we live

00:35:03.980 our lives. But we have also overcorrected, in my opinion, when we say things like science is fake.

00:35:09.760 And now there's a general feeling that I get to have an equally valid opinion as someone who knows

00:35:16.400 way more than me just because I can think. I don't agree with this. If there was a debate between you

00:35:22.720 and some random teenager that doesn't really follow politics, I don't think anyone should be expected to

00:35:30.500 pay a cent to go see that debate for obvious reasons. And when the Daily Wire hosts talk about

00:35:36.700 movies, for example, no offense, but the only person's opinion who I care about is Andrew Klavan.

00:35:44.080 So what is your response to that? Do you feel the same way about expertise than I do?

00:35:48.700 And what do you really mean when you say things like science is fake? I appreciate your response. Thanks.

00:35:54.960 When I say science is fake, I'm not saying that the experts are idiots.

00:36:00.020 The experts often are idiots, or the experts often are ignorant, or the experts often are corrupt.

00:36:08.180 That's true. That's what we saw during COVID. But that's not what I mean when I say science is fake.

00:36:11.980 When I say science is fake, I mean that the premise of science and a society that grounds itself on

00:36:18.460 science and purely empirical study, the premise is that reality fundamentally is physical and empirical

00:36:26.660 and observable under a microscope. And that isn't true. The reality fundamentally is metaphysical.

00:36:35.700 At the very least, we have to acknowledge that physical and metaphysical reality exist. And the

00:36:41.140 scientists following the empirical scientific method don't have very much to say about metaphysical

00:36:47.120 reality. And metaphysical reality comprises all the things that we hold most dear, our loves,

00:36:54.840 our joys, our dreams, our souls, our virtue, vice, all the things that really matter and that we

00:37:04.400 struggle with and we're pursuing. And in the case of vice, we're trying to refrain from. That's

00:37:10.400 metaphysical. And so the scientists can't be the top dog experts in society. But I do turn to other

00:37:16.140 experts. When I want to know about a great many questions, I turn to a long dead expert who is

00:37:22.520 living in heaven because he's a saint. That would be Thomas Aquinas. So I'm happy to take that

00:37:27.740 expertise. I take the expertise of priests. I take the expertise of butchers when I want to go buy meat.

00:37:35.800 I take the expertise of my tailor when I want to get my pants hemmed. I take all sorts of expertise.

00:37:42.440 And I have no problem with that. And I have no problem with hierarchy. And I have no problem with

00:37:47.400 the natural emergence of an elite, which have happened in every single society. What I have

00:37:51.480 a problem with is when people overstep their bounds, when they make basic epistemological errors,

00:37:55.880 and when they pretend that they are the vicar of truth. When Dr. Fauci says, I am the representative

00:38:02.880 of science. And science is the finest, greatest authority on all the earth. Bow down to me,

00:38:11.100 you peasants. I am your emperor. I have a big problem with that because it demonstrates that

00:38:19.600 even if Dr. Fauci did know something about epidemiology, which I'm fairly skeptical of,

00:38:23.900 actually, he doesn't understand even the basic aspects of more fundamental questions. Epistemology,

00:38:35.420 ontology, anthropology, certainly theology, which we don't even recognize in society anymore. One of

00:38:41.320 the most important speeches of the 21st century was a speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the University

00:38:45.820 of Regensburg. And he joked there, Regensburg has a Catholic faculty and a Protestant faculty in the

00:38:53.620 theology department. And he said, it's wonderful to be here at Regensburg where the university has

00:39:00.000 two faculties for something that many people today don't think even exists. So that's my problem

00:39:05.820 with the experts. We just need experts who understand even the very basis of expertise.

00:39:10.200 Next question. Hey, Michael, my name's Nick. Love your show. Was watching earlier this week and the

00:39:16.480 discussion related to the FBI going undercover in the Catholic Church. And you had mentioned something

00:39:22.680 about how the confessions are inviolable. I believe I'm using the correct word there.

00:39:28.240 And I just wanted to know what your thoughts are on how that relates to actual serious crimes that

00:39:35.840 maybe someone who's confessing committed. I think I know the obvious answer here, but I just wanted to

00:39:42.620 make sure I'm clear on it and get your thoughts. So, you know, in this instance that someone comes forth with

00:39:48.100 a very serious crime, you know, I certainly think that the priest has a moral responsibility to, you know,

00:39:56.640 communicate that to the local authorities. And, you know, likewise, if the local authorities believe

00:40:02.040 that person has committed a crime and, you know, something was said in confession that the priest

00:40:08.400 thinks is relevant to that, you know, I think they also have a duty to report that there as well. So

00:40:14.140 just want to know what your thoughts are on that and, you know, how that how that you think that

00:40:18.840 that would work out. Thank you. Love your show again and all that you do.

00:40:23.960 Thanks so much. I'm glad you asked the question because your intuition of my response is not

00:40:29.580 correct. The seal of the confessional is inviolable. Period. End of story.

00:40:38.840 The priest cannot go out and report any sins that you confess in the confessional. It is inviolable.

00:40:45.960 It has to be inviolable. Because when you are in that confessional, you are talking to God and the

00:40:52.020 priest is acting as priests or want to do in persona Christi, dispensing the grace of God and

00:40:58.760 the forgiveness of God. But you are confessing all the bad things that you do, all of them. If you

00:41:04.660 don't confess all the bad things that you do and you walk out of the confessional intentionally,

00:41:08.660 you will commit a further sin. Not only will you not be forgiven your sins, you will commit a further

00:41:12.780 sin of sacrilege. So you go in there and you confess all the nastiest, most terrible things

00:41:19.460 that you do. If that seal is not perfectly inviolable, people cannot go, people will not

00:41:26.460 go to confession and you will not cleanse your souls. The confessional for, understood by Catholics

00:41:31.740 and by Christians broadly for most of our history, is the laundromat. You know, it's how you clean your

00:41:37.880 soul and you have to do it regularly. It's an important sacrament that Christ institutes when

00:41:42.400 he says, here is the power to forgive sins whose sins you forgive are forgiven, whose sins you retain

00:41:46.820 are retained. Inviolable. Now, does that mean that if a guy goes in and he says, hey, I just

00:41:52.080 murdered a bunch of children and I'm, ha ha ha, I'm going to get away with it, that the priest has

00:41:58.540 nothing that he can do? No, the priest has the power to forgive and retain. So if the priest suspects

00:42:03.000 that the penitent is not actually penitential, you can say, well, I can't forgive you your sins.

00:42:10.120 I can't absolve you of your sins because you're not actually a penitent. The priest could strongly

00:42:17.520 encourage the penitent to turn himself over to the authorities, to explain to the penitent that an

00:42:25.260 outward sign of his having changed his ways and his remorse at what he's done would be to go to the

00:42:32.500 authorities and turn him in and give information about the crime. So the priest has options there,

00:42:36.180 but no, when you are in that confessional, you are speaking to God about very, very serious things

00:42:43.920 and what you are engaging in is the cleansing of your soul and the request from God for forgiveness.

00:42:52.480 No one breaks that. Nobody. Next question.

00:42:58.160 Hi, Michael. RJ here. I was wondering what you thought about mail-order brides, that being the practice

00:43:03.580 of marrying a woman from another country after only meeting her in person once or twice. It's certainly

00:43:08.200 something with a long history, monarchs, arranged marriages, and such, but I wonder what your opinion

00:43:12.960 on these marriages were. Are they a viable option for older or even younger men looking to marry?

00:43:17.620 What would you recommend to someone looking at this option? Thanks. Always love the show.

00:43:25.200 Really interesting question. I'm not opposed to it in principle. It's probably not the ideal way to meet

00:43:32.680 your wife. I doubt that young people dream about someday I'm going to open up a catalog and find my wife

00:43:39.680 or something like that, but I don't see anything wrong with it in principle. I understand why

00:43:44.200 some modern people would have a problem with it in principle because we now have these modern notions

00:43:50.440 that marriage is purely about romantic love and marriage is purely about happenstance and your own

00:44:00.000 personal individual choice and there's no formality to it. But as you point out, that hasn't been true

00:44:04.260 for most of history. Marriage is the fundamental political institution and it's sacramental and it

00:44:10.420 is when you leave your father and your mother and you come together with this new person, you create a

00:44:17.260 new family with that person. So if there's some formality or something unusual about it, that's

00:44:22.080 fine. The marriage is still a marriage and I suspect it could probably work out pretty well.

00:44:27.280 I would definitely make sure that you're on the same page about what the marriage is and make sure she

00:44:30.760 doesn't just leave you once she gets her green card. But otherwise, yeah, marriage is a good thing

00:44:35.240 and you don't need to be living in a Hugh Grant movie or something like that for the marriage to

00:44:41.560 be good. You don't need to just, you know, happen upon them in a coffee shop one day and then that's

00:44:45.380 the only way to have a good marriage. No, marriage is a good in itself and so as long as you're both

00:44:49.880 engaging in a real marriage, you know, you know what you're signing up for. Wonderful. Okay, last voicemail

00:44:54.600 question. Hey, Michael. So I am very pro-life, which also means that I am not pro IVF. The idea of

00:45:06.260 putting a child in a freezer is not a very good thing in my opinion. Over Easter weekend, I found out

00:45:17.120 that my sister plans to go through with IVF this coming year and I'm just really torn because her

00:45:27.060 doctor plans to implant one at a time and discard the rest after, I think she said, four or five years

00:45:36.840 and I'm so torn because I absolutely love my sister. I will love any niece or nephew that comes out of this

00:45:44.340 but I just, I don't know how to approach this. I don't know if my sister knows how I feel about it

00:45:52.060 and I don't want to bring it up to her and upset her. I'm just kind of in a weird, awkward situation.

00:45:58.760 So I would love any advice. Thank you. Love your show.

00:46:05.020 Thanks so much. Your sister very likely doesn't know. A lot of people don't know. They haven't

00:46:11.420 thought about it. This is a new technology. A lot of people don't spend their days mulling on

00:46:15.780 bioethics. And so your sister might be sincere and think that she's committing an innocent act,

00:46:24.960 but it isn't innocent. Not in the way that the materials are collected, not in the way that the

00:46:30.720 embryos are formed, and certainly not in the way they're discarded, also known as killed. So

00:46:35.760 if she has not gone through with it yet, I think you have an obligation to tell her

00:46:41.420 lovingly, not to castigate her, but just to say, hey, sis, do you know what this really is?

00:46:47.840 Do you know when they use this language of discarded? We're going to reduce the number.

00:46:52.040 We're going to create, I mean, these are words for kill, conceive, child. It's not an embryo. It's a

00:47:02.760 child. You know, it's offspring. So I think you've got an obligation to tell her that before she does

00:47:08.340 it. If it's already happened, that complicates it a little bit more. And you might broach the

00:47:15.080 subject in an even softer way, but to ask, well, what's going to happen to these embryos that have

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