The Michael Knowles Show - July 14, 2023


Ep. 1287 - The Cocaine In The White House Gets Epsteined


Episode Stats

Length

45 minutes

Words per Minute

180.54428

Word Count

8,160

Sentence Count

597

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

The Biden White House has no idea who brought coke into the White House, and the FBI won t say who it is looking at. Is it Joe Biden or his family? Or is it someone else? And if it's not Joe Biden, who is it?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Secret Service has concluded its investigation into a bag of booger sugar found in the Biden
00:00:05.820 White House and concluded that they cannot identify any suspect. According to the Secret
00:00:12.660 Service, despite combing through security systems and indexing several hundred individuals who
00:00:19.940 entered the West Wing, the West Wing, which is perhaps the single most surveilled and secure
00:00:24.760 place on planet Earth, the investigators were unable to find any fingerprints. That, of course,
00:00:32.760 was the investigators' first mistake. If you want to identify the owner of some Cartagena nose candy,
00:00:39.100 you don't check for fingerprints, you check for nostril prints. But regardless, Hunter's nose
00:00:44.900 is currently scrounging like a pig for truffles to find the next foreign shakedown to score another
00:00:50.160 10% for the big guy. So he, just like his entire family and his family's staff,
00:00:56.260 they're all unavailable to face any consequences. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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00:01:19.220 goodranchers.com. Use code Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, today. The Biden campaign and Biden White House have
00:01:27.540 a big political liability right now. That political liability is Biden's refusal to acknowledge one of
00:01:33.040 his grandchildren. That's finally bubbling over. We'll get to that in a second. First, though,
00:01:37.540 the Bidens are just totally protected. They're totally protected. I've been to the West Wing on
00:01:45.740 just one occasion, but went into the West Wing. I can tell you firsthand, people know where you are
00:01:51.560 at all times. There are cameras everywhere. There are people watching everywhere. You are searched like
00:01:58.020 crazy. It's smaller than a lot of people think it is. It's not some big wide open space. It was built
00:02:03.740 for smaller people in a smaller time. If they wanted to figure out whose coke this was, they would have
00:02:10.440 done so. But the Secret Service is going to look the other way because the big guy doesn't want,
00:02:17.780 let's say it's not a member of his family, even though very likely it is, doesn't want people
00:02:22.300 within his inner circle prosecuted for bringing coke into the White House. So they're just going to move
00:02:26.620 along, move along, nothing to see here. There was a little glimmer of hope over the past couple days,
00:02:32.280 Republicans grilling Christopher Wray, director of the FBI on Capitol Hill, trying to see if amid all
00:02:39.900 of these Biden scandals, the document scandal, the bribery scandal, the potential payoffs 10% for the
00:02:45.560 big guy, is Biden getting investigated at all? And the FBI starts to maybe give us a little hope and
00:02:52.960 then pulls it right back. Did Joe Biden take payments from Burisma or any other foreign companies
00:02:59.940 as vice president, president or private citizen Biden? As you may know, there is an ongoing
00:03:06.380 investigation being led by the U.S. attorney in Delaware, Mr. Weiss, appointed by President Trump
00:03:13.500 in the last administration that our Baltimore field office is working with. And I would refer you to
00:03:18.800 to him as to what, if anything, can be. So the president is under, he is under investigation.
00:03:25.100 I'm not going to confirm or speak to who is or isn't under investigation for what. I'm simply
00:03:31.260 going to tell you- So he's not under investigation?
00:03:32.540 I didn't say that either. By longstanding department policy and practice, I'm not going to be
00:03:38.820 confirming or denying who is or isn't under investigation.
00:03:43.480 So he hangs out a little bit more at the top than one might expect. He's saying there is an
00:03:49.280 investigation in Delaware going on. He's saying this in response to a question about an
00:03:54.460 investigation for Joe Biden. And then he immediately walks it back. But let's say that
00:03:58.440 there is. Let's say the U.S. attorney in Delaware is investigating Joe Biden for taking bribes from
00:04:03.260 Burisma, from China, from wherever. Does anybody seriously think they're going to hit him with this?
00:04:09.040 Does anybody seriously think that? There was an investigation into the Koch in the White House,
00:04:13.080 which would be extraordinarily easy to identify. And frankly, all of us have a good gut instinct of
00:04:19.160 whose it was to begin with. They couldn't do that. They say, oh no, yeah, the investigation was
00:04:23.420 inconclusive. Does anybody seriously believe that the investigation is going to be anything
00:04:27.620 but inconclusive in the case of Joe Biden's bribery? No, of course not. They're going to
00:04:32.780 drag this thing out. They're going to slow walk it. And then nothing's going to happen as a result.
00:04:36.500 Now, speaking of slow walking investigations, there was a bit of strange news coming out of
00:04:41.480 the DOJ in the last two days, which is that Ray Epps is going to be charged. Ray Epps is this
00:04:49.600 strange figure from January 6th. Ray Epps, sorry.
00:04:54.960 January 6th, the worst day in the history of America, the worst coup d'etat ever.
00:05:01.040 So, Ray Epps is this odd figure from January 6th because he is the most prominent guy that we have
00:05:08.280 on camera, we have on audio multiple times, urging people to break into the Capitol on January 6th.
00:05:15.300 He was so officious in his calls for the mob to get unruly and to aggress on Capitol Hill that a
00:05:24.280 group of people around him, when he was calling for this, said he was a Fed. Said, wait a second,
00:05:28.580 you're just trying to egg us on. You're a Fed, Fed, Fed. And they were chanting it all around him,
00:05:32.260 but he kept it up and he kept chanting for people to go into the Capitol. He was on the FBI's website.
00:05:37.880 He still appears in an FBI tweet, most wanted people from January 6th, but he wasn't charged
00:05:46.200 with a crime. He wasn't arrested. He's like the only guy from January 6th that was not arrested or
00:05:52.780 charged with a crime. So a lot of people have suggested that he's a Fed. The suggestion that
00:05:58.640 he was a Fed was then bolstered by the liberal media defending this guy. Don't forget the liberal
00:06:03.100 media had called January 6th the worst day ever. And it was almost the end of the Republic and it was a
00:06:07.340 coup d'etat. And yet they're defending the most prominent instigator of January 6th.
00:06:12.260 That didn't make a lot of sense. Glowing profiles in the New York Times, a constant defense of him.
00:06:16.860 Now Ray Epps saying he's going to sue Fox News for defamation, probably in the hopes that Fox will
00:06:22.980 just settle out of court. And now the DOJ comes out and says Ray Epps is going to be charged. So
00:06:28.540 the timing of this is convenient at the same time that Ray Epps is bringing a lawsuit against Fox News to
00:06:36.420 try to have a shakedown and get some money and maybe further tarnish Tucker Carlson's reputation
00:06:41.340 in the liberal media. The DOJ is saying, okay, well, we are finally going to arrest him.
00:06:48.100 But that doesn't answer anything. Why did it take two and a half years? Why did the DOJ round up every
00:06:56.980 Midwestern granny who had the audacity to take a photograph in the Capitol Rotunda on January 6th?
00:07:03.040 They rounded them all up within about a week. They threw a lot of them into prison. They threw
00:07:07.380 a lot of them into solitary confinement. Yet this guy, the most prominent instigator of the whole
00:07:13.180 thing, whose location we've all known because he's had these glowing magazine and newspaper profiles,
00:07:19.320 the DOJ waits two and a half years. What is this about? I think they're hoping that this puts to rest
00:07:24.320 the conspiracy theory that Ray Epps has some relationship with the federal government.
00:07:29.540 To me, this just adds fuel to the fire. This seems even more bizarre than had they not charged
00:07:37.180 him in the first place. Doesn't explain a damn thing. Seems a little bit like smoke and mirrors.
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00:09:07.640 So you remember when the libs tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh? This is a story that happened a couple
00:09:12.560 of months ago. I had a campus speaking event. A lot of radical students tried to shut it down.
00:09:18.380 The administration at Pittsburgh tried to shut it down. Legislators tried to shut it down.
00:09:23.640 They couldn't do that because it's a public school, so there's something called the First
00:09:26.940 Amendment. The event went off, but then the anarchists showed up, and they set the street
00:09:31.420 on fire, and they burned me in effigy, and as I was walking onto the stage, they threw an explosive
00:09:35.220 at the building. Cops made us walk back in, but we did the event anyway, and we wouldn't let them
00:09:40.220 intimidate us. Okay. Well, the great update here was that the FBI arrested the two anarchists who
00:09:48.320 got this explosive and threw it at the building, and they indicted them as well. There's a further
00:09:53.540 update, which is that the Torch Antifa network has taken responsibility for this attack that missed.
00:10:02.640 I'm still here. Ha ha ha. So Antifa, which the libs tell us does not exist, has issued this
00:10:10.040 statement. This is specifically the Torch Antifa network, thanks to Andy Ngo, who has just done
00:10:14.460 the best reporting on Antifa out there. They've said, breaking update, the Torch Antifa network,
00:10:20.100 a collective of violent cells that include Rose City Antifa, has claimed bombing suspects Brian Pepe
00:10:25.080 DePippa and Crystal DePippa as their members. These aren't spring chickens, by the way. This is a 36-year-old
00:10:30.620 man and a 40-year-old woman, a married couple that decided that what they were going to do
00:10:35.180 on a Tuesday night or whenever the event was, was to show up in Pittsburgh and try to blow up a
00:10:41.400 speaking event where two people were debating a matter of public policy and anthropology for that
00:10:47.880 matter. Antifa goes on, they're soliciting donations, or I'm sorry, this is from Andy Ngo.
00:10:53.440 They're soliciting donations for the extremists using PayPal, though it appears PayPal has paused the
00:10:58.520 campaign, which is good. They're now soliciting tax-deductible donations using a far-left
00:11:03.420 non-profit. Daryl Lamont Jenkins was revealed through court documents to be one of the leaders
00:11:08.060 of Torch Antifa. According to federal investigators, DePippa traveled across the country in recent months,
00:11:13.680 repeatedly set off explosive sensors at airports for RDX, but of course the TSA let him get on the
00:11:18.860 airplanes anyway. So the libs are going to tell you Antifa is not real. Well, if Antifa's not real,
00:11:25.840 that would be news to Torch Antifa, which, like ISIS, is claiming responsibility for this terror
00:11:30.780 attack. If Antifa's not real, then who are the two people who just got arrested wonderfully by the
00:11:36.000 FBI and charged by the DOJ? There are many other anarchists and Antifa members who identify themselves
00:11:41.500 as Antifa members who have been totally let off the hook for violence in recent years, but at least
00:11:45.440 these two have been prosecuted. And presumably, one of the main reasons they were prosecuted is their
00:11:51.380 explosive that they threw at the building went into a crowd of about a dozen cops and injured
00:11:56.520 cops on the scene, which escalates the issue even more. All of which is to say, Antifa is a real
00:12:03.300 thing. It's a real organization. They should be rounded up and thrown in prison. They should be
00:12:08.020 investigated like the mafia is investigated, like the Ku Klux Klan is investigated. I'm sick of hearing
00:12:12.560 about the Ku Klux Klan from the libs. The libs pretend that the Ku Klux Klan exists. I don't think
00:12:18.720 there are five members of the Ku Klux Klan in America. If there are, I think every single one
00:12:23.020 of them is an undercover agent spying on the other ones. They don't even know that the other ones
00:12:27.200 are feds. There are very, very few of these people. And yet, the way the media treats them,
00:12:32.980 they're the greatest terror threat. I mean, this is the way the DOJ even talks about the great terror
00:12:36.800 threat in America's white supremacy. Show me the Klan hood. I don't see it anywhere. Then they point to
00:12:40.820 these other groups. They'll say, look at the Patriot Front. I love it. They call it a front. It's a little
00:12:46.420 on the nose for the Hollywood scriptwriters. The Patriot Front is a far right, white supremacist
00:12:52.860 organization marching and having all sorts of displays covering up their faces.
00:12:59.600 What are these guys actually doing? The so-called Patriot Front front is going up and has really
00:13:06.360 flamboyant displays at the Lincoln Memorial or something. And then they go home. They go back
00:13:12.120 to their homes in Langley or wherever they live. When they do show up with actual right-wingers,
00:13:17.320 the right-wingers usually push them away, like the Proud Boys or any of these other right-wing
00:13:21.420 groups. Where's the threat? Meanwhile, Antifa, for years now, has been attacking, maiming,
00:13:30.520 killing people across the country, showing up to every prominent right-wing event. And then during the
00:13:36.100 BLM riots of 2020 decides to torch the country for eight months, sea to shining sea. And the feds
00:13:43.280 don't do anything about it. Until now. Until now. This is really good stuff. I don't want to be too
00:13:47.280 harsh on the FBI, especially the FBI for arresting them and the DOJ for charging. But we've got to go
00:13:52.700 further, folks. This is an organization. We have history in this country of going after not just
00:13:58.300 individuals, but organizations. You can do it for the mob. If you can do it for the Klan, you certainly
00:14:03.960 can and should do it for Antifa. Now, speaking of political violence, Emmanuel Macron, the leader
00:14:10.860 of France, has just received an unpleasant package in the mail. He received a severed finger from a
00:14:18.440 living human being. This was sent to the official residence of President Emmanuel Macron, according to
00:14:25.020 a report from the London Evening Standard. Showed up at the Élysée Palace in Paris. No note was included
00:14:32.140 in the package. The investigators then took the finger and put it in the fridge, like the regular
00:14:38.960 fridge where they keep their coffee and sandwiches and things, because they wanted to preserve it so
00:14:43.440 that they could investigate it further. So far, no analysis has come out. Would seem a little bit
00:14:50.840 threatening. Or if it's not threatening, at least a lot of people are concluding this is the evidence
00:14:56.940 that whichever person mailed this to Macron is just totally crazy. To which I say, how dare you?
00:15:04.760 How closed-minded and bigoted of you to suggest that this is evidence of someone who's gone a
00:15:12.100 little bit crazy who needs psychiatric help? You know what I call this? I call this fist-affirming
00:15:16.820 care. That's what happened here. And it's so wonderful that this fist-affirming care is being
00:15:22.540 put on display at the highest levels of national politics in France. Frankly, in the name of
00:15:27.420 progress, in the name of liberalism, I think we need to exalt that sort of thing here. That was a
00:15:34.460 man who identified as fingerless. Yes, he had a finger assigned at birth, but he identified as
00:15:39.580 fingerless. And I'm just so happy that he could get the care that he needs. I'm sure he's doing
00:15:45.040 wonderfully now. Thank goodness that when we're talking about other anatomical parts,
00:15:51.320 America is much more progressive than these regressives who would suggest there's something
00:15:57.160 disordered about that. Can you imagine? I don't think I violated any rules from big tech
00:16:02.920 in my commentary on the finger. Speaking of dubious medical treatments, this is a bad one.
00:16:10.040 This is a bad one. The FDA has approved the first ever over-the-counter birth control pill.
00:16:17.200 The pill is called Opil. It will be available without a prescription. It's a daily oral contraceptive
00:16:23.120 sold over-the-counter. This is bad. This should not be permitted. I won't even say we should ban it.
00:16:32.580 We should just keep the current system in place, which is that you can't get birth control over-the-counter.
00:16:36.980 And there are a lot of reasons as to why. The liberals are thrilled about this. They want
00:16:42.040 sterility. They want sterility and promiscuous sex and everyone to be miserable. And as we've
00:16:49.820 followed the liberals' sexual ethic, everyone has become more and more miserable over the last 60
00:16:53.920 years. Okay, obviously that's what they want. The libertarians are probably fine with the over-the-counter
00:16:59.280 birth control thing. There were many conservatives 10 years ago who would have said, oh, I'm all for that.
00:17:03.320 Let's reduce regulations. Let's let people choose to do whatever they want.
00:17:06.480 The conservatives, of course, are going to say, no, this is a bad idea. And there are a number of
00:17:09.740 reasons. The really hardcore, philosophically consistent conservatives will name the really
00:17:17.820 deep reasons as to why this should not be permitted. First question would be, what good does it do?
00:17:24.220 What good can possibly come out of over-the-counter birth control pills? Well, then people don't need to
00:17:31.100 go get a prescription in order to have mostly demeaning, promiscuous sex. Well, then people
00:17:37.160 can have fewer children. We have a dying population. The birth rate in America is below replacement and
00:17:42.320 has been for a very long time. Is that a good thing to have fewer children? I don't think so. Is it good
00:17:46.340 for individuals to have fewer children? I don't think so. Is it good for society? No, it's not. What
00:17:50.100 other good comes from it? Well, people will have more bodily autonomy. Yeah, it's true. I guess you have
00:17:55.880 the bodily autonomy to hack your arm off, too. Is that good, though? Does that lead to human
00:17:59.600 flourishing? No, I don't think so. Okay. But then, even if you're not a really hardcore conservative,
00:18:05.240 even if you're a little bit moderate and you're in the middle, what else is going to come from this?
00:18:09.060 Well, minors are going to access this stuff. Your kids, your daughter is going to access this stuff,
00:18:15.440 or she will have the ability to. If you say, listen, honey, listen, 13-year-old daughter,
00:18:20.120 I don't think it would be good for you to have promiscuous sex. I think that would be
00:18:23.520 bad physically for you. You might contract some sexually transmitted disease. You might become
00:18:30.060 pregnant and not know what to do about that. You might be used and abused, but it could also cause
00:18:36.960 a lot of psychological problems if, starting at the age of 12 or 13, you're just used for the
00:18:43.120 sexual gratification of men without any consequence whatsoever because they'll have you take these
00:18:47.860 pills. Furthermore, maybe there are some questions. I know you're not allowed to raise this
00:18:53.080 possibility, but a lot of women have it, especially in recent weeks and months. Maybe it's not good to
00:18:59.560 pump yourself full of a bunch of chemicals starting at a very young age without talking to a doctor,
00:19:04.520 without talking to your family, without really paying a lot of consideration to this.
00:19:10.880 Maybe that's not a good idea to do that sort of thing. That would be the more centrist kind of
00:19:16.800 view of it. What good comes from this? Do we have a surplus of babies in this country?
00:19:23.280 Do we have too much sexual restraint in this country? No, I don't think so. And so the only
00:19:29.640 way to oppose this is for the conservatives to stand up. And the only way for the conservatives to
00:19:34.020 stand up is to get rid of all this stupid nonsense about maximizing individual autonomy.
00:19:39.540 me. That is not freedom. Freedom is not just doing whatever you want whenever you want to do it.
00:19:46.880 Legalizing all the drugs, legalizing all the weird sex stuff, legalizing mutilating your body,
00:19:51.880 that's not freedom. That is slavery to your basest appetites. Conservatives used to know that.
00:19:57.440 We kind of went a little crazy for a few decades there. I think we're coming back out of it now,
00:20:00.720 though. We need less weird sex stuff and we need more babies and restraint. That would be very good.
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00:22:11.760 the Screen Actors Guild, please prepare yourself. Sit down. Pull over if you're driving. This is going to
00:22:17.700 be tough. The Screen Actors Guild is going on strike. Okay, moving on. The SAG, when SAG is the
00:22:28.460 Screen Actors Guild, it merged about 10 years ago with after the American Federation of Television Radio
00:22:33.280 Artists voted unanimously to go on strike. They will be joining another strike in Hollywood, which is the
00:22:40.280 Writers Guild of America strike. And that means effectively that unionized Hollywood is shut down.
00:22:46.340 And SAG is kind of a crappy union. Back in my wayward youth, I would occasionally work with the Screen
00:22:53.820 Actors Guild as a professional actor. And it's not a great union because at any given time, like 99% of
00:23:01.860 its membership is unemployed because actors have hard times getting jobs generally. And so all of these
00:23:08.260 radical leftists who are largely unemployed just voted to go on strike. But the SAG union doesn't do a lot
00:23:15.660 for actors generally. The Writers Guild actually is a pretty good union for its members. SAG doesn't do
00:23:20.860 all that much. And so in recent years, a lot of professional actors, a lot of huge name actors
00:23:25.060 have gone FICOR, financial core, which is to say they don't really go along with the union.
00:23:31.940 They'll pay their dues because they have to as a result of a court case, but they don't really care.
00:23:36.420 The influence of the Screen Actors Guild has waned dramatically just as the influence of unions,
00:23:41.240 especially in Hollywood has waned dramatically, just as the influence of Hollywood has waned
00:23:46.660 dramatically. And that's really the point here. The writers are going on strike. The actors are
00:23:51.580 going on strike. Does anybody care? When was the last time you went out to see a movie? I bet,
00:23:58.720 just judging by box office numbers, the last time you went out to see a movie was to go see The Sound
00:24:03.680 of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel, which is a movie that was made largely outside of Hollywood.
00:24:10.100 Jim Caviezel's a terrific actor. He's a big Hollywood star. The movie was funded basically
00:24:16.420 by just a bunch of kooky conservatives. And then it was made by a bunch of highly skilled professionals
00:24:21.440 who were disenchanted with the way that the Hollywood studio system works.
00:24:28.180 Other than that, what shows are you watching? I'm not watching any shows right now. You know what
00:24:31.780 show I'm watching right now? Occasionally, I'll put on an episode of Father Brown from the BBC.
00:24:36.520 I don't even know what's coming out of Hollywood. The only movies that I would be even tempted to
00:24:40.900 see in Hollywood is Mission Impossible. I guess just Mission Impossible. I don't even know. I'd like
00:24:49.200 to go see the last movie star on earth, Tom Cruise. Maybe I would go see him in a movie. Other than
00:24:55.000 that, I don't even know what they're producing. I'm a culture vulture. I worked in Hollywood for a
00:25:00.660 considerable amount of time. I've worked in New York. I like the arts. I read poetry. I read plays.
00:25:07.340 I should be the number one audience, the number one fan for these things. And yet I'm tuning out
00:25:15.560 and you're tuning out. And this is reflected in the completely collapsing viewership of the Academy
00:25:21.180 Awards, the collapsing viewership, not just of movies and theaters, but even of the big Hollywood
00:25:26.780 films on streaming. It's over, guys. So, okay, you're going to protest. Okay, you don't have any
00:25:33.640 leverage anymore. Fine. The writers and the actors are going to strike. Fine by me, man. That's fine.
00:25:40.000 We're going to go watch Sound of Freedom. Speaking of power brokers, turning to the 2024 race,
00:25:48.020 there's a report out with bad news for the DeSantis campaign, which has struggled since its launch,
00:25:53.520 suggesting that top donors are considering a flip to Tim Scott. Tim Scott, you know,
00:26:01.060 nice, fairly moderate centrist Republican senator from South Carolina.
00:26:07.560 I don't know that I'd buy this report if the report is real. Come on, man. That's not going to work.
00:26:15.660 It means that the donors who don't want Trump are souring on DeSantis' chances,
00:26:20.380 so they're looking for an alternative. I really like Tim Scott personally. It's not going to happen.
00:26:27.960 Just looking at the numbers, looking at the political realities, it's not going to happen.
00:26:32.300 Could Tim Scott in some world become the number two guy to Donald Trump if DeSantis' campaign really
00:26:39.800 totally collapses and all of the anti-Trump forces rally around Tim Scott? Maybe.
00:26:46.700 I think, though, at this point, donors who are trying to take a candidate from 3%
00:26:55.280 to the nomination, they're just setting their money on fire.
00:27:01.860 DeSantis himself, who's got almost 20%, the odds that he would be able to take the nomination right now
00:27:07.660 are quite low. And I know that people are very upset with me for this. Guys,
00:27:12.860 I'm like the last conservative pundit in America who's not actively working for a presidential
00:27:18.320 campaign, and I'm just calling it like I sees it. And people are pulling their hair out. They're
00:27:21.920 saying, but no, but in 2016, but in 2012, but in 2008. I'm saying, guys, that doesn't matter. We
00:27:26.960 haven't had an analog for this kind of a primary since 1892 because that was the last time that you
00:27:32.520 had a one-termer running for a rematch. So yes, Donald Trump is not the incumbent, but practically
00:27:40.140 speaking, in many ways, he is like the incumbent. That's why these other guys are not going to catch
00:27:44.780 fire. And the other problem here, I love Tim Scott. He's a really nice guy. But Tim Scott has a very
00:27:51.200 conciliatory tone. He's really nice, as I've just said. And if you think that this moment in 2024
00:27:57.620 is the moment for like a really nice conciliatory guy to meet in the middle and work across the aisle
00:28:02.900 and aw shucks, we're all on the same team. You don't know what time it is. You got to go get
00:28:07.500 your watch fixed. That's not where we are right now. The two candidates who have a real shot at
00:28:12.560 the nomination right now are Trump and DeSantis. And the left field candidate, who's done a lot
00:28:18.300 better than a lot of people predicted, is Vivek Ramaswamy. What do all three of them have in
00:28:22.560 common? They've all bucked GOP orthodoxy and the nice, nice work across the aisle, just cut taxes,
00:28:28.660 ignore the culture. They are all extreme culture warriors in their own ways. And they're the only
00:28:35.420 guys with any momentum whatsoever or any real shot at the moment. Donors, you got to know what time
00:28:42.840 it is. Money cannot buy you the nomination. Money alone cannot buy you the nomination. Just ask
00:28:48.800 President Jeb Bush. Now, before we go, you know what? I'm just going to have to leave this. This is,
00:28:54.580 I tease. This is what I do now. I tease in the show. Joe Biden has a big political liability that
00:29:01.380 I've called out for a while because I think it's actually my least favorite thing about the guy.
00:29:05.240 But he's mostly gotten away with it until now. And it's the fact that he doesn't acknowledge his
00:29:09.180 seventh grandchild, the love child from Hunter Biden. And even the White House is beginning to
00:29:15.360 have to acknowledge this. And the campaign team is being told to try to avoid this question as best
00:29:20.540 they can. But we don't have time because we got to get to the mailbag right now. So sorry,
00:29:24.120 tee hee hee, that's a little bit of a tease. When you want to look good, where are you going to go?
00:29:31.560 When you want to look a lot better than any of these politicians, where are you going to go?
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00:30:47.060 who says, for future reference, Knowles has made it clear he's not endorsing any of the GOP candidates
00:30:51.500 for the primary yet. Thank you very much. Thank you. The one guy who gets it. Everyone's trying to
00:30:57.700 shoot the messenger over here. The people who are completely only gung-ho on Trump, they're attacking
00:31:05.140 me for being too harsh on President Trump. The people who are totally bought in on DeSantis,
00:31:10.400 they're attacking me for being too harsh on DeSantis. I'm being harsh because it's a primary,
00:31:15.880 and I'm not working for any of these candidates, and I'm just calling them like I see some folks,
00:31:20.240 and these are tough guys, and they got thick skin, and if they can't handle a little criticism from
00:31:24.780 yours truly, how the hell are they going to take on Joe Biden, huh? Now it's time for my favorite
00:31:30.000 moment of the week when I get to talk to you in the mailbag. The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.
00:31:35.420 Go to PureTalk.com slash Knowles to get 55, 0% off your first month. Take it away.
00:31:41.380 Hey, Michael. I have a friend who recently lost his mother. I've been praying for my friend and his
00:31:47.900 family as well as the mother's soul. I have also been praying for her body as it has been made known
00:31:55.020 to me that the family will be cremating her body and having a reception. I don't believe the family
00:32:01.580 will be bearing the ashes afterward, but this is what the mother wanted. My question is,
00:32:08.340 how should I go about attending this event? Because I want to be there for my friend,
00:32:14.340 but I don't know if I should be worried about any sins as cremation makes a mockery of the
00:32:20.660 resurrection. Thanks. I share your view of cremation. I have had loved ones, family members who have been
00:32:29.100 cremated. Not my preferred choice. I do think as a symbol, it does make a mockery of the resurrection of
00:32:37.260 the body. And I think that's why as our culture moves away from its traditional religion of
00:32:42.240 Christianity, cremation is becoming more and more popular. That said, I don't think it's a sin to be
00:32:48.400 cremated. Even the Catholic Church now allows for cremation post-Vatican II, unfortunate. So I don't
00:32:55.700 think it's a sin to be cremated. And I don't think it's sinful for you to go, you know, support your
00:33:02.640 friend at his mother's funeral or whatever kind of post-funeral service they have if she were
00:33:07.460 cremated. I don't see any sin or stumbling block there at all. Just as I don't think it would be
00:33:14.380 sinful to go attend a weaker liturgy of almost any sort if the point is to go pay your respects to the
00:33:22.640 dead, pray for the repose of her soul, and help your body. I think you're okay. I think you might be
00:33:28.040 you might be missing the forest for the trees there if you're if you're a little too worried
00:33:34.120 about that. I share your reservations, but no, it's okay. Go support your buddy and pray for your
00:33:38.540 your friend's mother. Okay, next question. Hi, Michael. This is the Shuckmeister. You'll be happy
00:33:44.260 to know that for the time being, I've kept Mr. McGillicuddy from forcing my future trad wife to
00:33:49.200 work at the widget factory. Unfortunately, though, the only reason that so is because she doesn't exist in
00:33:54.640 my life right now. In all seriousness, I wanted to tie this into a topic you brought up recently
00:33:59.180 about how IVF commoditizes people, specifically that a baby from IVF is a good end from a bad
00:34:05.280 means. Can we not extend that rationale to dating apps? I'm a young Catholic gentleman in my mid-20s,
00:34:11.380 and I have a hesitation about using them because I feel like they commoditize people. The end is good
00:34:16.780 in that people are getting in relationships, but the means to get there is swiping left or right on a
00:34:21.880 person who has hopes, dreams, talents, and identity all behind that screen just loosely crammed into a
00:34:27.320 few sentences and pictures. On the apps, you and everyone else are the product. Is that feeling
00:34:32.880 justified or am I just a bit too old-fashioned? Love to hear your response. Thanks. The feeling is
00:34:38.900 justified and you might be a bit too old-fashioned. Both of those things are true. Yes, there's something
00:34:45.560 a little distasteful about putting an advertisement for yourself up where your prospective spouse is
00:34:52.780 just judging you based on not only your looks but on pixels on a screen and a couple written words.
00:34:58.140 But that said, what happens when you go to a bar? When you go to a bar and you dress nicely and a
00:35:03.900 woman puts on makeup and the man throws on a jacket and he's trying to look cool or whatever and he's
00:35:09.040 ordering the drink, you are also putting yourself on display to be physically attractive to the
00:35:16.480 opposite sex to then perhaps go on a date and then perhaps dig a little bit deeper. So to some degree,
00:35:24.260 it's the same thing happening in the dating apps, albeit in perhaps a more concentrated and therefore
00:35:29.880 distasteful form in the dating apps. Would it be better for you to meet your future spouse in a more
00:35:37.620 lively and organic way? Perhaps, you know, high school sweetheart or a friend of a friend or you
00:35:43.480 get set up on a blind date or something like that. Yeah, sure. Maybe that would be better.
00:35:48.040 But the way people date now is on the apps. I think the issue of the dating apps is in part
00:35:55.460 a trend of capitalism, not of communism, not of just far leftism, but of capitalism too,
00:36:02.080 to turn people themselves into commodities to be consumed. Yeah, that's a problem.
00:36:06.160 But another problem of it is the abstraction of the identity from the body, which is a trend that
00:36:12.980 you see all throughout our culture and you see it especially in dating apps. That when you are
00:36:17.000 first encountering somebody through a dating app, you're not really encountering them,
00:36:20.860 you're encountering a disembodied simulacrum of that person. Not the real person in flesh and blood,
00:36:27.260 but just pixels on a screen. And that's a problem. As we move more and more into virtual reality,
00:36:31.940 we're losing real reality. As we live more and more in some metaverse constructed by Mark Zuckerberg,
00:36:39.240 we're spending less and less time in the fullness of the beautiful world that God has created for
00:36:44.260 us to live in. So that's something to worry about. This is why when people go on a date on dating apps
00:36:50.540 and they say, wait a second, you looked skinnier on your pictures or something like that. This is just
00:36:55.380 a baser expression of the same problem, which is you're not really looking at the person.
00:37:01.360 You're just looking at some zeros and ones on a screen that come together to form
00:37:06.420 a hint or a representation of that person. So yeah, it's fair to have all these reservations,
00:37:14.160 but also maybe just go out and date the girl and move past that ugliness in our culture,
00:37:22.260 whether it's the way people dress or comport themselves or where they meet or how they meet,
00:37:27.600 even sometimes through the medium of the dating app, and then get to the real stuff as quick as
00:37:31.800 you can. Okay, next question. Hey, Michael Knowles. My question to you today is about Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:37:38.520 So I've watched every clip, interview, speech of his that I can find, and honestly, I'm blown away.
00:37:44.040 Everything that I've seen has pointed me to believe that he is the right candidate and that
00:37:47.800 he deserves my vote. Now, with that being said and running the risk of sounding closed-minded,
00:37:53.540 the only drawback I see is that he is Hindu. So I believe we're one nation under God,
00:37:58.340 and I believe that to be the Christian God. So how do we reconcile this? Can I vote for someone
00:38:03.040 who doesn't believe in the God or in the religion that America's founding principles are based upon?
00:38:08.520 If a candidate came up and said that they were atheist, I would not vote for them solely based on
00:38:14.080 that. So as a conservative Christian, can I vote for someone in good conscience that is a different
00:38:19.380 religion than mine and doesn't believe in Christian morals? I appreciate it. I look forward to hearing
00:38:23.760 back from you. It's a real concern. You're going to hear a lot of squishes say, that's not a concern
00:38:29.580 at all. Don't worry about that thing. A man's private religion doesn't matter. No, of course it
00:38:33.660 matters. Religion is a very powerful thing, and it forms the way we think about just about everything.
00:38:38.440 So it's a real concern. I would ask Vivek how he thinks about religion, because one of the
00:38:46.540 curious aspects of Hinduism is you could get 10 Hindus into a room, ask them to explain religion
00:38:52.180 to you. You could get 10 different answers, 10 very different answers. So I would ask Vivek to talk
00:38:57.780 about religion to you. That's a legit question. And then furthermore, let's say he says, look,
00:39:02.060 I am a Hindu. I'm not even a Hindu that leans toward monotheism, though many of my Hindu friends
00:39:10.380 do, and maybe Vivek does too. I don't know, there's some other kind of Hindu or whatever.
00:39:15.180 Then you get to your question, which is, can I vote for someone to have public trust who doesn't
00:39:22.120 share my religion? Now, I would point to someone like Benjamin Disraeli. Benjamin Disraeli, a Jew,
00:39:27.400 one of the greatest prime ministers and one of the most important conservative figures in the UK
00:39:32.940 in recent memory. And by recent memory, I mean the last 300 years or so. So can that happen? Yeah,
00:39:42.760 I certainly think it can. Hinduism is a step even further than Judaism. But we live in a world where
00:39:52.880 things are not going to be perfect. So you say, well, I want the perfect Christian leader who's got
00:39:56.780 this particular view of Christianity and who's going to do this thing in public life, and he's
00:40:01.140 going to be this smart, and he's going to be this talented, and he's going to have this, this, this,
00:40:03.880 and the other thing. And you're not going to get all of that. So if you put, say, Vivek up against
00:40:10.500 some nominal Christian whose understanding of the faith is so warped that as a matter of public life
00:40:18.260 and the discharging of his public duties, he would end up being worse than an atheist, say,
00:40:22.980 then I think you just have to make a prudential practical judgment there. And I would say if
00:40:28.000 you're attracted to Vivek as a candidate, and you've got this one holdup where you haven't seen
00:40:34.660 any practical consequence of that yet, then I would say you'd be crazy to just throw the guy out
00:40:41.440 immediately. I would press it a little further, you know, keep a proper caution about those views
00:40:49.260 and try to prod them a little bit. But as a, as a practical matter, you judge the tree
00:40:56.440 by the fruit. Okay, next question. Hello there, Mr. Knowles. This is the conservative monk. I'm so
00:41:04.280 happy to finally get to talk to you. I'm coming at you with not a question, but a comment. I want to
00:41:10.660 implore you to please recant your dismissal of the existence of our interstellar overlords.
00:41:18.220 They are among us. They have been here a very long time. I have it on good authority to tell you
00:41:24.460 that if you recant your former statements and beg forgiveness at the feet of our interstellar
00:41:32.100 ambassador to our intergalactic masters, Ambassador Walsh, then you might forego working the salt mines
00:41:41.800 of Caglar 9 for the remainder of your life. Please do so, as many of us are very fond of you.
00:41:50.400 It's also noteworthy that I do not know Ambassador Walsh, nor did he put me up to this.
00:41:55.280 What? Hold on. What? I did, I did, I said the things. What? I gotta go.
00:42:03.440 Thank you for that missive. I appreciate that. With my friend Mr. Walsh on vacation for the past
00:42:10.680 week or two, I had not been barred by such inanity in a while. So I'll take your suggestion
00:42:18.980 under consideration. Let's get to a written mailbag before we get to the member block. It is fake
00:42:22.800 headline Friday too, by the way. So I'll need your help to make it through the fake headlines.
00:42:29.560 But before then, greetings, Mr. Nostradamus writes Zach. A few episodes ago, you spoke about the
00:42:34.780 possibility of a cigar talk in your show. What's your go-to brand? I myself am a fan of Monte Cristo.
00:42:40.360 Their Epic is my favorite, but my usual is their Platinum. My first cigar was the Kahlua from Drew
00:42:44.160 Estates. That has been discontinued. What was your first cigar? Thanks. Love the show, especially the
00:42:48.940 member's block, or as I call it, the Sanctum of Nostradamus. I could go on and on. I don't have
00:42:54.160 nearly enough time to go into this. I think cigars are very important. I was at a wonderful cigar
00:42:58.660 dinner last night. I really enjoy them. I have very particular tastes in cigars, developed over many
00:43:06.760 years of enjoying cigars. My first cigar was a machine-made Cuban cigar called a Guantanamera,
00:43:12.860 which is a really low-quality cigar. It's short, chopped-up filler, but it has that good Cuban
00:43:18.300 tobacco flavor. I was 15. What did I know? I really liked it. I hated cigarettes. I don't
00:43:23.000 like the devil's lettuce, but I really liked cigars. Shortly after that, I discovered Oliva
00:43:29.360 cigars, which at the time were not nearly as well-known as they are now. I just adore Oliva
00:43:34.620 cigars. They're Series O Perfecto. I still love, I think, dollar for dollar. You really can't beat
00:43:41.660 them. I love it. I then got into Tatuaje cigars and Don Pepin and my father. I got into that.
00:43:49.300 Padron, I love. I mean, you know, the list goes on and on of the brands, but I've been thinking
00:43:54.320 about this a lot lately because I do have particular tastes in cigars that I've cultivated. Occasionally,
00:44:02.720 you can get custom-blended cigars and those kinds of things. So anyway, I'll be exploring all of these
00:44:08.560 options. A lot of people write into me. They say, Michael, what should I smoke? I want to get
00:44:13.020 into this. Does one smoke by oneself? Yes. Maybe with a book. Wonderful relaxation opportunity.
00:44:18.680 Does one smoke socially? Yes, one absolutely does. You know, another great aspect of cigars for the
00:44:23.600 fellas is if you want to have a guy's night and maybe you love women, but you don't want always
00:44:28.760 women hanging around all the time, cigars are a great way because 99% of the time they can be woman
00:44:33.660 repellent. And sometimes women even like it when the men smoke cigars. One, because it, you know,
00:44:38.180 is very manly and virile and thumatic and increases your testosterone and all these things. But two,
00:44:44.640 they recognize that men need their own spaces sometimes and they need a little relaxation,
00:44:48.400 working very hard. So anyway, all of that to say, I'm giving more thoughts on how to incorporate
00:44:53.340 cigars more into the Michael Knowles show, Kheim de la Kheim universe. Now in that universe,
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