Ep. 1297 - New Alien Testimony Changes Everything
Summary
Democrat Congressman Greg Kaysar stopped eating for eight hours to protest for more breaks in the workday in Texas. Is this an act of political heroism? Or is this evidence of alien abductions and cover-ups by the government?
Transcript
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Throughout history, political activists have endured all manner of suffering in order to
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advance their causes. Gandhi marched 240 miles to protest the British salt monopoly. Nelson Mandela
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spent 27 years in prison, opposing the South African regime. And yesterday, Democrat Congressman
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Greg Kaysar stopped eating for eight hours to protest for more breaks in the workday in Texas.
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When Congressman Kaysar first demanded more time off for employees, I didn't know if he was serious.
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But when the congressman forewent his mid-afternoon snack to bring attention to the issue,
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I knew he meant business. Now, of course, there was a time when Americans weren't such fatties
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that they could go a few hours without stuffing their faces and not hold a press conference about
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it. There was even a time when people fasted regularly as a matter of religious or even
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just physical discipline. But those days are gone. And in the decadent year of our Lord, 2023,
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a brief interruption of gluttony constitutes an act of political heroism.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show. Congressman Kaysar's brief interruption of
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stuffing himself actually was not the craziest thing on Capitol Hill yesterday. There's a lot
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going on. You know, I'm still in Hungary and we'll get to a fabulous statement that Prime Minister
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Viktor Orban just made here. I'll be speaking later on today at the MCC Fest in Egerström in Hungary.
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But going back to Capitol Hill for a second, the craziest thing that took place at Capitol Hill
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yesterday was the UFO hearing. And I went in and I wanted to keep an open mind. And you know,
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we've had some debates about aliens at the Daily Wire. I cannot overstate just how stupid these
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hearings are. I predicted they would be stupid. I tried to keep an open mind. It's so dumb and so
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obviously fake. But let's hear them out. First clip from Congressman Tim Burchett asking,
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and this is a very serious question, has anyone been injured or harmed retrieving or even covering
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up the supposed alien spacecraft? Do you have any personal knowledge of people who have been harmed
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or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal these extraterrestrial technology? Yes.
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Personally. Have you heard anyone been murdered that you would think that you know of or have heard
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of, I guess? I have to be careful asking that question. I directed people with that knowledge
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to the appropriate authorities. Maybe in a, if we could get it, get in a confidential area,
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SCIF, we could talk about that. But unfortunately, we were denied access to the SCIF. And that's very
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unfortunate in this, in this scenario. A SCIF is a secure setting where you can talk about sensitive
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information. The implication here is that either aliens have murdered Americans, American servicemen
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and other government workers, or that the government has murdered Americans for knowing too much about
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aliens. The implication here is every sci-fi horror alien movie come to life. That's the implication.
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I use that word carefully. It's an implication because we don't have any names. We don't have
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any dates. We don't have any evidence. We just have this guy's testimony. I am not questioning the
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guy's integrity. I'm not saying he's lying. I just can't help but notice, we talked about this on the
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show yesterday, every single time we've, we've got the smoking gun, we've got proof of an alien and UFOs
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flying saucers. We don't get it. We don't get the details. We just get insinuations and implications.
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And trust me, I know you got to trust me. If only we could get into the SCIF. If only I could tell you
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what happened. If only I could give you names. If only I could give you details. So this is amazing
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bread and circuses TV that the American public is gobbling up. I'm talking about it right now on
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the show. So I guess it worked. But is there any actual substance to what they're saying?
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And Napoleon Luna, Republican congressman asks if the man testifying has ever feared for his life,
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following up on this question of have people been murdered in these coverups? Have people been
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injured? Here's his answer. In the last couple of years, have you had incidences that have caused you
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to be in fear for your life for addressing these issues? Yes, personally. I just want everyone to
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note that he's coming forward in fear of his life to put in perspective, if they were really not scared
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about this information coming out, why would someone be intimidated like that? Okay, maybe he is in fear
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of his life. Look, maybe it's real. All right, let's just say maybe ET is real. And we've got all these
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aliens and spacecraft and secret bunkers in Area 51. Okay. But again, where's the evidence? This
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exchange, which is captivating and it's gone viral and people are talking about it. He, this man fears
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for his life. What kind of evidence is that? The evidence being presented here is a guy's feelings.
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I don't mean to mock his feelings, but when we're talking about congressional testimony,
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when we're talking about the little green men, I would rather hear some facts and details and
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evidence because these kinds of insinuations can be made about anything. Well, yes, I did feel,
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I felt very threatened. This is what the libs say on college campuses. They say, I felt unsafe when you
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called me by a pronoun that I don't like. And therefore I felt like it was really dangerous and
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threatening. Feel, feel, feel. You can never disprove a feeling. So I'm really not mocking the guy.
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I don't mean to be harsh on him, but give me something. If we're going to hold this big circus
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hearing, give me anything real. Nancy Mace got the closest, I think, to an answer. Another
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liberal Republican Congress lady, Nancy Mace asks, all right, you're afraid for your life. You're saying
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people have been threatened and harmed and injured and all about this. Well, do we have the goods? Do we
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have spacecraft? Do we have alien bodies? And this answer, to me, is the most telling of the entire
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testimony, though in a way that's different from how most people are interpreting it.
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If you believe we have crashed craft, stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who
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piloted this craft? As I've stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some
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of these recoveries. Yeah. Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
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Non-human, and that was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the program I talked to
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that are currently still on the program. And was this documentary evidence, this video, photos,
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eyewitness? Like, how would that be determined? The specific documentation I would have to talk to
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a skiff about. If only we got that skiff, that would have been nice. The word that perked my ears
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up here, biologics. What the hell is biologics? That's a weird word. That's a weird clinical jargony
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word that nobody really knows the meaning of. Did he mean bodies? Well, he would have just said bodies.
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Did he mean tissue, organs, splattered alien guts? No. Biologics, which is a term that when it is used,
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and it's used very rarely, is often used with regard to medicine. It's not, what does that mean?
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It was non-human biologics. Okay. What could that, that could be anything. You could recover a craft
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that had some other organism in it, had a single cell organism in it. They said, well, it's biologics.
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We got it. Had some other kind of tissue. I don't know. Some guy had a cat hair on him.
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What is it, when are we going to get specific? Now, what the man testifying here says is, well,
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I would just need to be in a skiff to get specific about that. Okay. Can the Congress not do it?
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Can the Congress not demand the opportunity to meet with this guy off the record in a skiff?
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Maybe not. Maybe it is a super duper deep secret cover-up, and we've been storing
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alien bodies in refrigerators for a long time. But what seems more likely to you?
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That E.T. is real and in a bunker somewhere underground, or that the government is distracting
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you, or that gullible people are following fantasies, or that, what? That at the moment
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that we've got really pressing national matters, the U.S. Congress and the bureaucracy are putting
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on a bread and circuses show that is succeeding because we're all talking about it. What do you
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think seems more likely? If it were the case that it were the former, if it were the case
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that we really have all these alien bodies, why have we never, ever, ever gotten even one
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hard detail, verifiable piece of evidence about any of it in all the decades that people have
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been talking about it, including the last few years where it's really come up? What seems more
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likely to you? I think I've got my answer. Mr. Walsh has his answer. Which side are you on? Pick a
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Speaking of bizarre claims coming from our government, Joe Biden made a claim just yesterday about
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one of his great successes that I don't really remember happening.
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I said I'd cure cancer. It looked at me like, why cancer? Because no one thinks we can.
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That's why. And we can. We end the cancer as we know it.
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Do you remember Joe Biden curing cancer? I remember at the end of the Obama administration,
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Barack Obama said, Joe, we're going to take a moonshot and put you in charge of curing cancer.
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To which every single person in America said, oh, well, so much for that. So much for getting
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a cure for cancer. We got Joe in charge. That's a guarantee it's never going to get done.
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And Joe Biden reiterated his desire to cure cancer again and hasn't done it. Obviously,
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cancer still exists. Cancer is still very dangerous. And Biden's done essentially nothing
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on it. And now he's declaring victory. This is Joe Biden's George Bush standing on the aircraft
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carrier with the mission accomplished sign, except he's not going to get any flack for it.
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No one's really going to call him out. Some of us in the conservative media, well, it won't matter.
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It won't matter that Joe Biden is brazenly lying and pretending to have achieved an implausible
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achievement, which we all know he did not achieve. And some people are shocked. Some people, I am not
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shocked. Do you know why? Because these guys say that men are women with a straight face. These guys
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tell you to your face that a man is really a woman. And they've gotten a lot of us to go along with it.
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This is the point. I know it's an overused literary reference. This is the point of the final chapters of
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1984. The point is not that the evil regime is going to lie. It's not that the evil regime is
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going to deceive you. It's not even that the evil regime is going to torture you until you utter the
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lie, knowing that it's a lie. It's that the evil regime is going to confuse you so much. It's going
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to mess with your head and your perception of reality so much that you're not even going to be able to
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discern the difference between truth and lies. You'll believe the lie. And then when they change
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their story, you're going to believe the contradictory changed story. And you are going
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to be so disoriented that you're not even going to notice it. And that's what's happening here.
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Joe Biden says, yeah, I cured cancer, making tiny little ripples in the media. It's going to be on my
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show, maybe a handful of other conservative shows. They're going to move on. It's not going to matter.
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And some people, some people are going to believe it. They're going to be libs 10, 20 years from now.
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Remember when Joe Biden cured cancer? Oh yeah. Yeah, I remember that. Speaking of transgenderism,
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which I'm certain I can't talk about on YouTube, Dylan Mulvaney is going on a college speaking tour.
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Speaking of just pushing lies everywhere, including at places that are supposed to be uniquely concerned
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with the truth. Dylan Mulvaney is going on a college speaking tour. He's going to be speaking on a
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including female empowerment. And here's the worst part. He's going to be charging 40 grand in
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honoraria. My least favorite part of the Dylan Mulvaney college tour is that this man is getting
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much higher honoraria than I am. It's outrageous. I need to call my speaker's bureau. The whole thing
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drives me crazy. But that especially grates at me. And of course he does. I can't help but notice
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the parallel. I hope I'm not being too navel gazing here, too self-centered when I think
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about the parallel because I think it's an important political one. Dylan Mulvaney, his job
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is just my job, except he's a lib. I guess there are a few other differences. Some of the high heels
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and the dresses are probably a little different too. But his job is that, what is my job? My job is to go
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on to social media and other more traditional broadcast platforms like radio and things like
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that and state my opinion about things and give my perspective and bring in a little bit of history
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and philosophy and persuade you of my vision of politics, culture, and reality. That's my job.
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And I do that through the multimedia and I do it through a college speaking tour and I do it through
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books. I guarantee you Dylan Mulvaney is going to get a book deal at some point, probably sooner rather
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than later. So we have basically the same job. We do basically the same things with a few very
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important distinctions. And the difference is Dylan Mulvaney is going to be paid a lot more money
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to do a lot less work and he's going to be censored a lot less often than I am. And it's not just me,
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it's every other conservative. Every other conservative, broadcaster, commentator, author, public
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speaker, influencer, politician, whatever word you want. We're not going to be totally censored,
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but we are going to be censored, for instance, on that big tech video platform that doesn't let us
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talk about the most pressing ideological issue in our culture right now. Dylan Mulvaney gets to talk
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about that issue and he won't be censored anywhere. He'll be promoted by the big tech platforms
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and he'll be funded. It's not that there's no funding on the right. There is some funding on the
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right. He'll get a lot more funding and we'll get certain sponsorships. He'll get the big brand
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sponsorships. Famously, infamously, he destroyed the most popular beer in America because of his
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sponsorship relationship. It's just one tiny glimpse, and I happen to see it because I know this area
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pretty well. It's one tiny glimpse of how the libs just wield so much more power and influence
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for doing the same type of thing, but with the regime approved opinions. It's not that you can't
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talk about transgenderism on YouTube. It's that I can't talk about transgenderism on YouTube. It's not
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that one cannot talk about it. One can, unless one has a conservative view of the issue and happens to
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be prominent. If I had a smaller YouTube channel, if I didn't have a million and a half subscribers,
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I could talk about it just fine. No one would. But the moment that a conservative starts to gain
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ground on that issue, that's when they, the moment that you release a big documentary called
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What is a Woman? That's when the big tech comes after you. The moment that you have a speech on
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transgenderism that persuades people and goes viral around the world, that's when they come after you.
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It's when you're an effective conservative. So what do the youngsters think about all of this?
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What are the youths that Dylan Mulvaney is going to be speaking to? What do they think about it?
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Well, there's some good news on that front, actually. I'll start with the bad news. I'll
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give you the good news. The bad news is about my generation, the millennials, the poor millennials.
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44% of millennials think that misgendering, referring to someone by the correct pronouns,
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when you call a man he and you call a woman she, if they think that they're the opposite sex.
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44% of millennials think that should be a criminal offense, that you could go to jail for calling a
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man he. 35% of millennials disagree. They don't think it should be a criminal offense.
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And 26% either don't know or don't really have an opinion on the subject. So the vast majority,
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65%, either think it should be criminal or don't really care if it's criminal.
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The good news is, Zoomers are way more conservative, way more in line with reality,
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and way more based. So among Gen Z, 33%, a third, think that misgendering, quote unquote,
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should be a criminal offense. That's still a huge number, but it's way lower, 25% lower than the
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millennials. And 48% disagree. So much higher percentage actively think, no, we shouldn't
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criminalize people for calling dudes he and him. The remainder say, neither or don't know.
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Other polls that have come out show that the Zoomers also are way less down on the trans agenda,
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way less down with the trans agenda. I guess they're more down on the trans agenda. They're
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anti-trans at a much higher rate than the millennials are. This is good stuff. Makes me think
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that the kids are all right. Why is that happening? I think it's because the millennials came of political
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age in the age of Obama, in the age of idealism and fantasy. And they came out of the last gasps of a
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semi-normal society into hope and change and happy Obama and madness. The Zoomers came of political age
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when that balloon of optimism popped. They came of political age at a time when the last vestiges of
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normality were gone. They came at a time of rising populism. They came at a time when conservatives
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stopped losing politely. And you had McCain and Romney saying, well, you know, Barack Obama,
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he's a really good man. I just, we happen to disagree and it's my job to lose to him. That was
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over by the time Trump came around and he said, Mexican immigrants are rapists and murderers.
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Barack Obama probably wasn't born in this country. Hillary Clinton should go to prison. Like, I'm not
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saying everything he said was nice or even true or anything like that. I'm just saying all those
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niceties went away. And Trump was not only a cause of this reaction, but he was an expression of it
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as well. And the bright side of that, the bright side of that crassness and bluntness is that this
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younger generation that came of age at that time, they're not going to go along with the BS.
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The millennials are all about the BS. The Zoomers, not going to go along with it. They're sick of it.
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They were not raised in an age when that was going to be really hopeful and exciting. Uh-uh.
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this. There is a taxpayer-funded queer middle school opening in Phoenix. It doesn't just happen
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to be kind of light in the loafers. The school is explicitly, intentionally queer. What does that
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mean? Well, it's called the Queer Blended Learning Center. It's launching in downtown Phoenix in August,
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funded by Arizona's education vouchers. It's a project of one in 10, which is some LGBT,
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LGBT, LMNOP activist group. And they say the mission is, quote, to serve LGBTQ youth and young
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adults ages 11 to 24. Eleven. They say the point is to, quote, enhance their lives by providing
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empowering social and service programs that promote self-expression, self-acceptance, leadership
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development, and healthy life choices. And this is the one that got me. We just had this population
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of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders that could really benefit from a safe space to be able to
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really have exceptional education while also having education that pertains to their own
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identity, says Clayton Davenport, one in 10's director of development and marketing.
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Can you even fathom how creepy this guy is, Clayton Davenport? We just, we realized that we were not
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talking to enough 11-year-olds about deviant sex. And so we just wanted to make sure, we needed to
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provide a safe space where we, we educators, we, Clayton Davenports of the world, could speak
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to 11-year-olds about deviant sex all day long and do so at taxpayer expense. That's really,
00:25:13.100
really important. Now, the taxpayer expense part, it's a little bit of a two-edged sort because the
00:25:18.700
way they're doing it is because of the Arizona voucher system. The Arizona voucher system is something
00:25:22.780
that's been promoted by conservatives. It's promoted by conservatives so that we can get
00:25:26.860
charter schools that are better than the government-run unionized schools so that we can get
00:25:31.540
taxpayer funding for religious schools so that parents have a choice. They can send their kid
00:25:35.460
to a Catholic school if they want to get a decent education. Now that voucher, it's being used against
00:25:40.760
the conservatives to fund this grooming party for 11-year-olds. What do we say? Well, here's,
00:25:45.600
here's the reaction. The squishes are going to say, look, what's good for the goose is good for the
00:25:52.200
gander. All right. Do you really want the government coming in and saying what kind of
00:25:57.020
schools can and cannot be funded by taxpayers? You want the government doing that? You want the
00:26:02.420
government doing the job of the government? No, that'd be crazy. It's going to be used against us,
00:26:06.640
hypothetically. So we got to fund the groomer schools because if we don't fund the groomer schools,
00:26:12.700
then they might not want to fund the Catholic schools and the conservative schools and the
00:26:16.760
classical education schools. And, you know, who's to say which one's better?
00:26:24.780
Who's to say? Who's to say? I think if you set up a school, especially a taxpayer expense,
00:26:33.640
but if you set up a school with the intent to talk to 11-year-olds about deviant sexual behaviors,
00:26:41.580
you should go to prison. You should not be receiving the government cheese. That should be
00:26:50.480
illegal. But come on, we're supposed to have a neutral public square. We've never had a neutral
00:26:55.400
public square. Well, we need viewpoint neutrality from the government. We've never had that. That's
00:26:59.740
not real. That's not real. Well, who's to say that a classical education is better than a groomer
00:27:06.760
education? Me. That's who says it. Me. I'm saying that. And you're saying that. And every reasonable
00:27:11.360
person is saying that. And Clayton Davenport's not saying that, but Clayton Davenport's a groomer
00:27:15.480
and his opinion doesn't matter. Okay. This isn't anti-American authoritarian. Oh, if I hear that
00:27:22.160
word, one word, the authoritarian, right. Give me a break, man. Yeah. Don't groom kids. If that's
00:27:27.320
authoritarian, then call me Francisco freaking Franco. Okay. Because we used to be able to say that
00:27:33.360
in this country until like five minutes ago. And now we've got to pretend otherwise. You know,
00:27:39.320
another authoritarian leader happens to be the best leader in Europe, Victor Orban. I'm in Hungary
00:27:44.740
right now. So I'm paying a little closer attention to Hungarian politics. Orban just came out. He had
00:27:48.900
a great line. He said, we're not a liberal democracy. We're an illiberal democracy. Actually,
00:27:54.480
we're a Christian democracy. And he just a couple of days ago said, by having rejected Christianity,
00:27:59.840
we have in actual fact become hedonistic pagans. That is true. He's describing Europe. I think this
00:28:10.020
could apply to the West broadly. It's not that by rejecting Christianity, we've just become
00:28:15.560
enlightened and secular. And we don't do those religious rituals anymore. We just do different
00:28:19.720
ones. And we just got out of a month where we were doing religious rituals all the time
00:28:23.520
with the special body paint, the rainbows and the flags and the big parades, the processions.
00:28:30.940
We used to have processions to the Blessed Mother. We used to have processions that involved great
00:28:35.860
saints, that involved our Lord. Now we have processions that involve deviant men wearing
00:28:40.320
leather, smacking each other in front of children on floats. They're processions. And what kind of a
00:28:45.800
procession is that? It's not just liberalism. It's not just secularism. It's not just having a little
00:28:51.180
fun. It's hedonistic paganism. Prime Minister Orban just hit the nail on the head. We'll be talking
00:28:57.580
about a lot of these things tomorrow when I'm at the MCC Fest speaking in Egerstrom. I think I'm
00:29:02.880
mispronouncing that, but I'm very excited to do that. And that will conclude my trip. And then we'll
00:29:06.780
come back and be back in the studio next week. Gotta restore some standards, folks.
00:29:14.220
There's a story. I don't know. Since two-thirds of the show is not on YouTube anyway, might as well
00:29:20.800
get into it today. A little tease at the very least. Malaysia's government just stepped into hot
00:29:25.660
water. This is Malaysia. It's not evil Western Orban. It's Malaysia, which I think the libs still
00:29:30.620
consider good because it's non-Western. So Malaysia halted a concert by a band called the 1975. What is
00:29:37.760
that? I don't know. It says here it's a British pop rock band. And the Malaysian government halted this
00:29:42.920
concert because two dudes on stage, two members of the band started kissing each other. And Malaysia
00:29:47.500
came in and said, nah, you're not going to do that here. Oh no. How terrible. How awful. The liberals
00:29:54.220
up in arms. A reminder that the liberals, for all their talk about multiculturalism, have absolutely
00:30:01.580
no respect for anyone else's culture. The Biden administration during Pride Month, I heard this
00:30:05.980
from a liberal journalist in Hungary. She was in favor of this. I was quite opposed to it. The Biden
00:30:11.100
administration sent a big gay pride flag, even though Hungary is anti-public LGBT stuff, sent a big
00:30:19.780
pride flag, had a big pride celebration in the embassy. Forget about Hungary. They did it at the
00:30:23.900
Vatican. It's so disrespectful. We say, oh, we need multiculturalism. We need to bring everybody in.
00:30:31.220
Our culture is so evil. We want to learn from all the cultures of the world. And then in the very next
00:30:37.060
breath, these liberals impose their radical, hedonistic, pagan ideology onto others. You know,
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Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you
00:31:57.800
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Hi, Michael. I'm a fellow Catholic and new to your show and heard you mention how you and your wife
00:32:14.540
came back together after some time apart. I was wondering how realistic that would be in my
00:32:18.960
situation. I met the most amazing man and we were in a great relationship until he made a big life
00:32:24.440
change which made him very stressed and overwhelmed. He told me he couldn't be in a relationship but
00:32:29.460
that he wanted to see me again in the future. It's been almost a year, we don't talk, but we're on
00:32:34.760
good terms and I still hold on to the hope that we can get back together. I'm 37, he's 47, we had a
00:32:40.440
solid connection and we're honest with each other. I keep hoping that he will come back but I don't know
00:32:45.160
what else I can do at this point. Any advice? Thank you. Yes, I'm sorry to hear about your
00:32:50.940
situation. I would dump that zero and get yourself a hero. That's what I would do. He sounds like a
00:32:58.500
schmuck. I know you like him still and I don't know why he instigated this breakup and he needed
00:33:04.500
time to find himself or whatever nonsense but he sounds like a big putz and you should dump him.
00:33:09.580
Sorry to say, I know, I'm sure you like him and maybe you guys spent a lot of time together
00:33:13.980
but there are ways to get back together with someone that you've broken up with. Obviously,
00:33:21.780
I'm living proof of that but the thing that got me about what you said is you don't talk
00:33:27.800
and I don't think there's really a way to get back together or it's much less likely that you will get
00:33:33.660
back together if you're not still talking. So you're on good terms, it was a perfectly fine breakup
00:33:38.100
but you're not still talking, you're not in each other's lives and you're holding out this hope for
00:33:43.600
this guy and what is he saying? He had a big life change. I don't know what the life change is.
00:33:47.740
It really could be anything. It could be maybe, what did he get a new job? Did he, did a family
00:33:52.220
member die? Did he have to move somewhere? Whatever it is, if a man, especially a man of his age,
00:33:59.140
cannot handle whatever that change is, there are going to be a lot of changes in life, life comes at
00:34:04.740
you fast and also maintain a loving relationship that one hopes moves towards marriage, then he's just
00:34:11.680
not the right guy. He might be the sweetest guy in the world, he just doesn't have his act together.
00:34:15.380
Okay, you should have a guy who does have his act together. So I'm sorry to give harsh advice here
00:34:21.280
because maybe there's a 1% chance that you guys could get back together. I wouldn't hang my hopes
00:34:26.440
on that. Dump him. You can do better, my dear. Next question.
00:34:31.820
Hey Michael, this is Marty, one of your senior citizen fans. Thank you for great shows and the way
00:34:39.820
you present things and entertain us. My question to you is, why do we let the left control the language?
00:34:49.220
Why do we let them control it in the way that they include the LGB whenever they talk about the
00:34:58.020
trans issue? Aren't they really manipulating us into having to accept all rather than being able to
00:35:08.040
point out the fact that this trans agenda and non-binary stuff is a lie and we do not go along
00:35:17.700
with it? Your points on that would be welcomed. And how can we help the Republicans run for office
00:35:27.860
if we do separate it like this? Thanks and God bless. Thank you so much. That's a really great
00:35:34.200
question. So why do we allow them to do it? We allow them to do it because they control the
00:35:42.360
institutions. Wrote a little book called Speechless. We don't have a bell here in Hungary. It would be
00:35:48.280
too expensive to check that. But wrote a book called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:35:51.680
about how the Libs control the language because language makes up the stuff of our consciousness
00:35:56.160
so they can win debates before the debates are even had, like on the redefinition of marriage. When
00:36:00.520
the left changed the topic from what is marriage to who has the right to get married? Will we have
00:36:07.960
marriage equality? They basically won the debate before there ever was a debate because if the
00:36:13.160
debate becomes a question of who has a right, then we all are supposed to have rights. The question was
00:36:16.580
always what is marriage? Does sexual difference have something to do with marriage, which it obviously
00:36:20.660
does? They were able to do that because they control the media, they control the education system,
00:36:24.980
they control the bureaucracy, they control all of the institutions that push that language on us.
00:36:30.140
And it just seeps in. You will find yourself using their language a lot. The other reason here,
00:36:34.840
though, for the LGB getting lumped in with the T, I know there's a big movement of people who say,
00:36:39.880
hey, especially among gay and lesbian identifying people who say, hey, we don't want anything to do
00:36:44.880
with that. Get that out of here. We don't want the T. The T is crazy. We're actually, the T undermines
00:36:50.140
the LGB part because the LGB part says we're born this way and what is a G? Is a guy who
00:36:56.720
is Andrew Tate, I guess, calls himself top G. What is gay, though? It means you're a man
00:37:01.520
who is attracted to other men. Well, if men can be women and women can be men and there's no such
00:37:05.120
real category as men, well, then gay no longer makes any sense. I get all of that. The reason
00:37:09.620
they're naturally lumped together, though, is because all of it requires a rejection of
00:37:18.080
a traditional sexual ethic, a religious sexual ethic. And once you reject that, once you change
00:37:24.980
the sexual ethic from what it has always been, what is your body for? What is the purpose of our
00:37:29.920
sexuality? Are there bad things that we can do with our sexual organs? Once you lose that and you
00:37:35.880
reframe the moral question to, if it feels good, do it, then you've accepted the premise. When you
00:37:42.380
accept the idea that men and women are basically interchangeable, such that the union of two men
00:37:46.640
is basically the same as the union of a man and a woman, well, then you've accepted the premise that
00:37:51.240
will lead to transgenderism, which is that men and women are so similar that one can become the other
00:37:56.880
one. So that's why. How do we encourage Republicans? Well, we can tell them to be on guard about
00:38:00.640
language. We can try to gain power in the institutions to wield it in a way that
00:38:04.320
imposes our language, which is more in line with reality, onto the culture. But I don't think
00:38:11.220
we're going to do it by splitting hairs over the LGB and the T. Like it or not, they're lumped
00:38:16.280
together. Next question. Hey, Michael. I came for Ben and stayed for you and backstage episodes.
00:38:22.960
Oh, right. I'm a practicing Catholic who, like many other Catholics, struggles to reconcile
00:38:27.820
Catholic teachings with this fallen world. I find that when you know someone personally,
00:38:32.640
then your beliefs, while so strong, show real world consequence to someone you are friends with.
00:38:38.700
My example would be Dave Rubin, who I'm also a big fan of. While I agree with and understand why gay
00:38:44.140
marriage is wrong, how do you actively advocate against gay marriage when Dave Rubin is in a gay
00:38:49.700
marriage himself with children? If you are his friend and became a senator, for example, how can you
00:38:55.940
maintain a great relationship with him if he's aware that if you theoretically would have the
00:39:00.560
congressional vote that you would choose to vote to dissolve his marriage? How could he want a
00:39:05.460
friendship with you if you have that goal? Thanks for the show. I listen daily and it creates great
00:39:10.020
conversation and debate in my family and especially with my kids. Have a great day. Thank you very much.
00:39:15.900
That's a really good question. And I'll broaden it out a little bit. I've gotten all sorts of questions
00:39:20.100
about specific friends of mine. And I'll try to broaden it out because I think, you know, my friend,
00:39:24.140
as you point out, my friends are my friends. And so if I'm going to have a conversation
00:39:27.080
that involves some personal issue of theirs, I'll probably have it privately. But it's a great
00:39:32.920
observation because I'm from New York. I went to Yale and I lived in Los Angeles and worked in show
00:39:40.180
business. A disproportionate number of my friends are of the homosexual persuasion. Okay. I went both
00:39:48.560
places on the coast, a little light in the loafers, and Yale is the gayest university ever in all of
00:39:53.180
history. So yeah, I've got a lot of friends who are inclined that way. And how do I remain friends
00:39:58.720
with them? Well, I think it's because I'm not wishy-washy about what I think. I think if I had
00:40:07.620
an opinion and I said, well, marriage just intrinsically involves sexual difference and
00:40:11.340
that's just what marriage is. But then I went up to a gay identifying, any kind of identifying friend
00:40:18.080
of mine and said, well, actually though, but then I don't, I didn't exactly mean that. And then it
00:40:24.120
would seem that I am not holding a view that's grounded in reason, that I'm holding a view that's
00:40:28.500
grounded in nothing more but bigotry and prejudice. And then they might have a real cause to be upset
00:40:33.520
with me, but I'm not afraid to say it because it's just my view. And my friends respect my views
00:40:38.720
just as I respect that they have in good faith come to their own views. And so, you know, the notion
00:40:45.160
that if I were in public office and this issue were politically viable, that I would vote to
00:40:53.580
define marriage as what marriage really is. I don't think that would upset anybody. I've got friends
00:40:58.700
who are in so-called same-sex marriages and I like their partners and some of them are dear,
00:41:05.560
dear friends of mine. And I'm not saying I'm going to throw these people in the gulag, you know,
00:41:09.300
not suggesting anything that I think would be harmful to them. Of course not.
00:41:14.120
The law itself is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community
00:41:20.320
and promulgated. So any law that I would support, I would support on the basis that I believe
00:41:27.320
sincerely and I think with good reason that it is for the common good, not just for the greater good
00:41:32.060
and it's going to hurt some people, not in a utilitarian sense, but in the classical sense of
00:41:35.780
the common good, whereby it is the good of all of us and of the polity and of our individual good
00:41:42.640
as well. That there's no real distinction exactly there. So that's what I would say. I mean,
00:41:48.340
I'm sure I've got friends who disagree with me for all sorts of things and I disagree with them.
00:41:52.360
But if you love somebody, if you're pals with somebody, then you know that you're not coming
00:41:57.140
from a place of cruelty or not willing the good of the other person. If you're friends with somebody,
00:42:04.060
then you have love for that person. And love, as we've said many times on the show,
00:42:08.180
certainly a key Catholic understanding of love, is that it's willing the good of the other person
00:42:17.160
Good morning, Michael. First off, I've been listening to your show for quite some time
00:42:21.580
and I really appreciate that you not only address the major issues facing our society,
00:42:26.940
but also address the spiritual warfare behind all of it. To my question, I'm curious about your take
00:42:32.920
on different Christian denominations. My family and I attend a church that would fall into the
00:42:39.340
non-denominational category. We believe in the Bible and that repentance and a relationship with
00:42:45.720
Jesus is the only way to salvation and eternal life. I know that you belong to the Catholic Church
00:42:51.200
and that you often refer to Catholic traditions on your show. Do you believe that Catholicism
00:42:57.640
is the only way to salvation or is it more of a difference of style and tradition? If so,
00:43:04.900
do you believe that all sects of Christianity lead to salvation or are there ones that get it
00:43:09.860
completely wrong? Again, thank you for your continued work to bringing truth to the world.
00:43:16.060
Really good question. I'm Catholic and so I believe that the Catholic Church possesses the
00:43:22.260
fullness of truth. I think it's the real church that Christ instituted and one of the evidences of
00:43:27.220
this, I take it on faith, but one of the evidences of this, according to the great writer Hilaire
00:43:31.460
Belloc, is that if the church were not divinely instituted, no other institution conducted with
00:43:39.220
such knavish imbecillity would have lasted a fortnight. So the problems and the scandals and the
00:43:43.640
corruption in a way are a kind of an evidence because nothing but divine grace could possibly have
00:43:48.760
allowed an institution so mismanaged to continue. You say you're non-denominational and I have many
00:43:56.680
friends who call themselves that. So many so that I would have to suggest that the N and the D are
00:44:04.320
capitalized, you know, the non-denominational denomination because it is a denomination
00:44:07.860
because people refer to it by that name. I've got family who were Baptists, you know, I've got a lot
00:44:14.320
of Protestants down the family tree. So are all people who say that they're Christian saved? Are
00:44:23.140
they Christian? Well, the Bible seems clear enough on this, which is Christ says, someday there will
00:44:31.960
be people who call me Lord, Lord, to whom I will say I do not know you. So I'm not saying that,
00:44:40.460
you know, you and your fellow ecclesial community, you know, you're all going to rot in hell. I'm not
00:44:45.020
saying anything like that. And I'm not saying that you don't have a sincere faith in Christ. And I'm
00:44:48.580
not saying that, you know, Christ has not bestowed his grace upon you or anything like that. But at
00:44:54.540
the very least, we would have to say that if you came out and you said, God forbid, you know, I believe
00:45:00.380
in Jesus. Well, what does that mean to you? Well, it means, you know, that I believe in
00:45:04.880
transgenderism and I believe in abortion. I think abortion is a really important thing. It's a
00:45:08.460
sacrament. And I believe in chopping off people's body parts. And I believe in axe murdering people
00:45:14.740
twice a month. That's my understanding of Christianity. What would you say? That's
00:45:17.660
crazy. That's not Christianity. What on earth are you talking about? That's so, but, but no,
00:45:21.320
I'm calling myself a Christian. Well, no. And there are certain Christian, so-called Christian
00:45:26.760
denominations, which deny important aspects of the faith. Would you call them Christian? Well,
00:45:31.780
no, it'd be hard to do that. The question that I would ask myself if I were shopping around
00:45:38.680
for different denominations and sects and things like that is, okay, I love Christ. I love the
00:45:43.640
Lord. I love God. I want to do his will. Is there a way that he wants me to worship him? Is there a way
00:45:50.960
that he wants me to have a relationship with him? Is there specificity? Is there detail to it? Does he
00:45:55.660
give clues of this in the Bible of ways that he wants us to pray, what things that he wants us to
00:46:01.840
believe, creeds that he wants us to hold? Does he give us clues in the early Christian tradition,
00:46:09.540
in the early church, in the later church? Is there some continuity there? The first part,
00:46:15.120
very important part, is do you love the Lord? Do you accept Christ as the Lord your God? Will you be
00:46:19.640
baptized? And then, even as you're baptized, okay, is there something else? Is it not so much how I want
00:46:26.580
to worship God, but how God wants me to worship him for my own good? You see that certainly in
00:46:32.560
the Old Testament? Very, very rigid descriptions by God of how he wants his chosen people to worship
00:46:37.380
him. And I think that remains true today. And so, this process of discernment of what the truth of
00:46:43.080
the matter is, it's not being nitpicky and finicky and exclusive or anything like that. It's just asking,
00:46:47.860
okay, I'm with you, Lord. I love you. What do you want from me? Okay, I've got so many more things to
00:46:53.760
get to, but Mr. Davies won't let me do it. I've got really good mailbag questions. We're going to
00:46:58.460
have to save them for next week. Or maybe, you know what, maybe I'll do them in the member room
00:47:01.960
segmentum on Monday, because I've missed you all. I've missed you so much. I'll be back from Hungary
00:47:06.740
very shortly. See some of you in Hungary at my speech later on today. In the meantime,
00:47:12.580
I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you Monday.