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00:00:00.200 Khaled Mashal, the former leader of Hamas, has declared today a global day of jihad,

00:00:05.820 specifically throughout the West, after the terror attack last week on the state of Israel.

00:00:10.400 This is unfortunate, as later today I'm scheduled to travel to my old stomping grounds of New York

00:00:16.080 City, which happens to be, by the numbers, both the most Muslim and the most Jewish city in the

00:00:22.560 United States. It is also, of course, the site of the worst terror attack in American history,

00:00:27.420 also perpetrated by radical Muslims. Lots of people throughout the West are changing their

00:00:33.260 plans today, closing offices, closing schools, staying home. And I'm all for prudence, but I am

00:00:41.280 very much against worldly fear, which is why I'm not changing any of my plans today.

00:00:47.320 A good explanation of why not was once given by a sort of personal hero of mine, Richard Overton,

00:00:53.460 who died five years ago at the age of 112. Mr. Overton was, at that time, and for some years

00:00:59.540 prior, the oldest surviving World War II veteran. He credited his longevity in part to smoking 12

00:01:06.360 cigars a day and putting whiskey in his morning coffee. You can see why he was a personal hero.

00:01:12.060 Here is some advice that Mr. Overton had on war and life at the age of 109.

00:01:16.740 You can see a soldier with a gun, you don't see him turn around and go back this way.

00:01:24.580 He may go sideways, but he ain't gonna turn around and go back. Uh-uh.

00:01:30.340 Don't care how hot them bullies it is, he ain't gonna go back. So yeah, when you go in there,

00:01:35.780 you just say, well, God has got me now. See? He's gonna take care of you. If it's your time to go,

00:01:43.500 that bully's gonna get you. If it ain't your time to go, that bully's gonna go over your head.

00:01:50.280 It ain't gonna hit you.

00:01:54.760 Because man will kill you, but God's the one who keeps me alive.

00:02:00.740 There are two kinds of fear relevant to the global day of jihad. Worldly fear and fear of the Lord.

00:02:08.060 Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's a gift of the Holy Spirit,

00:02:11.760 a reverent fear akin to awe that perfects our hope of remaining in God's grace.

00:02:18.120 Worldly fear is the opposite. It's selfish, cowardly, and opposed to freedom.

00:02:25.200 Fear ye not them that kill the body and are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him that

00:02:31.100 can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them

00:02:37.880 shall fall on the ground without your father, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

00:02:43.000 Fear not, therefore. Better are you than many sparrows.

00:02:47.320 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:49.040 Welcome back to the show. Breaking shocking news. Jada Smith and Will Smith have apparently been

00:03:16.520 separated for six or seven years now. Shocking, breaking. It actually is somewhat shocking

00:03:22.040 because they said they wouldn't get divorced. We will get into that because it actually has

00:03:24.980 political ramifications. First, though, the war is spreading. The Israel Air Force struck Damascus

00:03:31.520 International Airport yesterday in Syria. They did this a day ahead of the Iran foreign minister's

00:03:37.920 visit to Syria. So they didn't take out the Iranian foreign minister, but they certainly sent a warning

00:03:43.920 message. And now the war is not only in the state of Israel. It's not only in Gaza. It's not only in

00:03:50.100 southern Lebanon. It's now also expanded to Syria. What is the U.S. interest here? The U.S. interest

00:03:57.000 is to contain the war. Other nations have other interests. Some nations might have the interest of

00:04:05.440 regime change in Iran. Some nations might have the interest of expanding the war beyond where it is

00:04:11.640 already. Some nations might have all sorts of interests. This is the holy land we're talking

00:04:16.280 about. This is a very prized piece of real estate. And every even semi-major power on earth has some

00:04:23.740 interest here. The U.S. interest is contain the war, obviously, to retrieve our hostages as well. I

00:04:29.900 consider that almost a separate question. But as a matter of war policy, you're going to hear a lot of

00:04:36.420 voices clamoring for more war, regime change, bombing the Mullahs, somehow attacking, trying to

00:04:44.440 weaken Russia through this war and not merely through the war in Ukraine. China is kind of

00:04:48.720 sitting on the sidelines here. They didn't quite come out and condemn the Hamas attack, or they sort

00:04:52.880 of tried to do it. But there are going to be a lot of people calling for more and more war, including

00:04:59.200 U.S. senators. That is not the American interest. The American interest here, it's not to stay at home

00:05:03.700 and put our heads in the sand. The American interest is to contain the war as much as possible.

00:05:10.920 Speaking of foreign policy voices, some people are now asking how we got into the position where we

00:05:16.620 could have a global day of jihad and have Americans, have the Brits, have the French, have all people

00:05:23.200 throughout the West afraid of such a day. The obvious answer as to how we got there was mass

00:05:30.520 migration and no less a foreign policy architect than Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of

00:05:36.580 State for Richard Nixon. The man is 100 years old. The man has been an influential foreign policy

00:05:42.100 architect for well over half a century. What now for something like 60, 70 years. Henry Kissinger said

00:05:48.620 the key, the big mistake here, mass migration.

00:05:52.760 It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultural and religious and

00:06:06.320 concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.

00:06:16.880 Very politically incorrect. You're not allowed to say that. Henry Kissinger, look, I know some

00:06:24.320 people hate Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger has made some mistakes in his career. I think the

00:06:29.060 clearest example of a mistake Henry Kissinger made was that he was one of the biggest proponents of

00:06:33.420 soccer in the United States. He's credited with driving the increased popularity of soccer. So I'm not

00:06:39.300 saying the guy always got things right, but he does have a lot of wise things to say. And he's totally

00:06:43.800 right about this. This is something that all serious statesmen and political philosophers have

00:06:49.880 known for all of human history. And yet today, even conservative Republicans are not allowed to say

00:06:54.360 it. When conservative Republicans attack migration, they, or criticize it in any way, they have to say,

00:07:00.760 well, look, I support more and more legal immigration. I think we should have endless legal

00:07:05.600 immigration, but I'm opposed to illegal immigration. Yes, illegal immigration is worse than legal

00:07:13.800 immigration, but mass migration is the problem. Over the last 60, 70 years, we have seen the largest

00:07:19.900 movement of people ever in recorded history of people moving into the United States. That's a

00:07:25.860 problem. When you mix groups of people that don't have very much in common, it creates conflict. This is

00:07:30.940 an observation that Dante hears in the Divine Comedy from his illustrious ancestor in paradise, in the

00:07:38.420 canticle that is taking place in heaven. Dante's illustrious ancestor, Caccia Guida, says, yeah, the

00:07:44.420 problems really began in Florence when they started mixing people around who didn't have a whole lot in

00:07:48.580 common. You got a lot of conflict. He is clearly right here. This is something that the West needs to deal

00:07:55.560 with. The West right now has no limiting principle on migration. The West has convinced itself that

00:08:01.160 its culture is totally open to everybody, that there are no requirements for becoming a part of

00:08:07.900 this culture, that there is no legitimate reason to keep people out of your civilization, that there's

00:08:13.660 no legitimate distinction between citizen and foreigner, that there's no legitimate distinction

00:08:18.000 between nations and other nations. The West has convinced themselves of that. Obviously, the left,

00:08:22.300 but a lot of people on the right as well, self-styled conservatives. And so here you have Kissinger

00:08:27.860 coming in and saying, even if he made some unwise decisions in his youth, the guy's 100 years old.

00:08:34.220 I think he's probably learned a thing or two. He says, mass migration was a grave mistake. Unfortunately,

00:08:39.960 we're learning that a little bit late at this point, but it's a lesson that at the very least we should

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00:09:49.280 It's the American way. Speaking of our democracy, a whirlwind of news has occurred in the House of

00:09:57.520 Representatives, and we haven't even really gotten to it because foreign events have been a little bit

00:10:03.200 more interesting and a little bit more pressing. But you know that a handful of Republicans and a

00:10:09.900 threw out the former Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Then there was a race for

00:10:14.400 speaker, and there were two guys who threw their hats in the ring. That was Steve Scalise, who has

00:10:18.260 been on the leadership track for a long time among Republicans, and Jim Jordan, who is terrific. He's

00:10:23.240 a favorite of many conservatives. According to measures of candidates' conservatism and

00:10:29.460 anti-establishmentism, Steve Scalise was certainly more the liberal Republican candidate,

00:10:35.160 certainly more the establishment candidate. And Jim Jordan is ranked much more conservative and

00:10:41.560 much more anti-establishment. And unfortunately, when the Republicans met behind closed doors,

00:10:46.780 because this is not a popular election, this is an election for members of Congress,

00:10:51.220 Steve Scalise won. And it was somewhat close. It was 113 to 99, but still Scalise clearly won.

00:10:58.020 And this was viewed as an insult to Donald Trump, because Trump backed Jim Jordan.

00:11:06.920 So this was played out in the media as, once again, Donald Trump loses. Once again,

00:11:13.380 the Republican Party not heeding what Donald Trump has to say. However, to me, that shows that nothing

00:11:20.980 has changed really since 2016. It has always been the case, since 2015, 2016, up through the present,

00:11:29.160 that most professional Republicans, Republican politicians, political commentators, GOP consultants,

00:11:38.180 most of them have opposed Trump and the kind of candidates that Trump endorses.

00:11:44.400 What's been strange about that is that most Republican voters support Trump. So there is a divergence

00:11:52.540 between the professional Republican class, the professional conservative class, and the actual

00:11:58.720 conservative voters who decide the elections at the ballot box, when elections are decided at the ballot box.

00:12:05.800 That's what happened in 2016. All of the, disproportionately, the Republican journalists,

00:12:10.800 journalists, talkers, commentators, pundits, strategists, blah, blah, blah, electeds. They

00:12:16.380 were against Trump. Didn't matter. Trump kept dominating in the primary. Then in 2020, a lot

00:12:21.040 of people who had opposed Trump sort of softened because they had no other choice, and they would

00:12:24.880 have been totally shut out of Republican politics, like Bill Kristol or David French or those kind of

00:12:30.640 people, had they remained opposed to Trump. So they kind of softened on Trump a little bit. But then 2024

00:12:36.200 rolls around, and many of the same people, if not all the same people, come out and

00:12:40.660 oppose Trump again. This is no surprise at all. Now, you might say, well, I think it was a dumb idea

00:12:46.280 to nominate Trump in 2016, or it's a dumb idea to nominate him in 2024. I'm not making any comment

00:12:52.280 on the wisdom of doing that or not. I'm just pointing out that there is today, as there was in

00:12:57.280 2016, as there basically always has been, a major disagreement between the professional conservatives

00:13:04.120 and the ordinary conservative voters. That is happening again, and it's playing

00:13:09.940 out yet again in the primary. Forget about the House race for a second. It's playing out

00:13:14.860 again in the primary because disproportionately the GOP consultants, the donors, the talking

00:13:21.700 class, the pundits, they favor other candidates than Donald Trump. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley,

00:13:29.240 maybe Tim Scott, and disproportionately the voters, at least according to every single

00:13:34.400 poll, favor Donald Trump over those other candidates. That's just a disagreement among

00:13:40.660 the GOP. And the people are going to say that the pundits are idiots, and the pundits are going

00:13:45.420 to say that the people are idiots, but that is simply a fact. And when it comes to electoral

00:13:50.360 politics and democracy, it's probably wiser, probably wiser to be on the side of the people.

00:13:56.680 Now, getting back to the House race, Steve Scalise, even though he got the Republican

00:14:01.760 nomination, he just dropped out of the race because he didn't have the votes. There were

00:14:07.380 conservatives in the GOP caucus in the House that said, we're not going to vote for Steve Scalise,

00:14:12.360 and we've got such a razor-thin majority in the Congress, and Scalise is not going to get the votes

00:14:17.840 of the Democrats, so sorry, Scalise, you're out. Which means that Jim Jordan still could be the

00:14:25.100 Speaker, which I'm really upset about. Not because I don't think Jim Jordan would be a great Speaker.

00:14:29.640 I think he'd probably be the best Speaker we've had in a long time. But because I really like Jim

00:14:34.100 Jordan, and I think he's a good guy, and I wouldn't wish that job upon him because that job is the worst

00:14:39.760 job in Washington, D.C. Being the Republican Speaker of the House is, I would rather be cleaning out the

00:14:45.460 Port-a-Johns on the National Mall, probably, than being the Republican Speaker of the House. It's

00:14:48.920 totally thankless. It's very difficult to succeed. It's like herding cats. But on the bright side,

00:14:54.420 we could get a pretty good Speaker because it could be Jim Jordan. Now, speaking of what's going on in

00:15:01.000 Washington, D.C., this is one of my other reasons to keep Jim Jordan out of the Speakership. He would

00:15:06.840 be great. He would be so phenomenal. He's a terrific guy. But he does great work on the Judiciary

00:15:11.820 Committee, and he's done a great job investigating Democrats. And look at the stuff that we're getting

00:15:15.640 right now. Joe Biden has just been discovered to have exchanged 29,000 emails with family and

00:15:26.100 business associates of the Biden family from his vice president email account. So Joe Biden had a

00:15:35.120 number of pseudonymous email accounts. He came up with all these pseudonyms to conduct a particularly

00:15:40.540 shady business while he was VP. But among the, this is according to America First Legal, which does a

00:15:47.880 great job on unveiling this kind of stuff. He used his VP email account to exchange more than 29,000

00:15:53.980 emails with his son, Hunter, with his brother, Jim Biden, with their business groups, which directly

00:16:00.280 contradicts claims that Biden made during the 2020 campaign. And what's really strange about it is

00:16:05.860 it means that Joe Biden must have a lot of thoughts about the weather. It's because Joe Biden initially

00:16:14.000 he said, I don't know anything about my son's business. I don't even, I don't know what he's

00:16:17.040 doing. Then he said, okay, maybe I know a little bit. Maybe I heard, I had a few conversations, but I

00:16:20.940 wasn't involved. Okay. Maybe I was a little bit involved. Maybe I wrote some handwritten notes to his

00:16:25.380 business partners. Maybe I invited them to, to lunches with the leader of China. Maybe, but I, you know,

00:16:31.780 look, it's not like I was in these meetings. I would say, okay, I was in this meeting. I was on

00:16:35.460 more than 20 phone calls with Hunter's business associates, but this is what the excuse became.

00:16:39.560 I only, I was only talking about the weather. We were just exchanging pleasantries.

00:16:45.780 29,000 emails about the, that's more emails about the weather than Al Roker has ever sent.

00:16:51.420 That is, no one has that many thoughts about the weather. I'm starting to think Joe Biden

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00:17:30.160 your name. Speaking of troubled families,

00:17:33.840 we've heard for years that Will Smith and Jada Smith have a little bit of a difficult marriage.

00:17:41.920 This came to a climax when during the Oscars, Chris Rock made an anodyne joke about Jada Smith

00:17:48.180 and Will Smith got up there and smacked him across the face. It was very, very strange. But for years,

00:17:52.380 Will and Jada Smith have been open about cheating on each other. And, you know, Jada Smith had some

00:17:59.800 very young boyfriend and it just seems rough. But they said, we're not going to get divorced ever.

00:18:06.420 Bad, bad marriage for life, which was a play on bad boys for life. And well, now Jada Smith has

00:18:11.340 revealed to the Today Show that she and Will have been separated for seven years.

00:18:15.100 Why did the relationship fracture?

00:18:19.980 Oh, why a fracture? That that's a lot of things. Yeah. And I think by the time we got to 2016,

00:18:26.580 we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of still stuck in our fantasy of what

00:18:33.040 we thought the other person should be. Jada says she considered a legal divorce, but could never go

00:18:39.080 through with it. I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will

00:18:45.300 work through whatever. And I just haven't been able to break that promise.

00:18:53.920 Good. That's good. I know everyone's going to attack Jada Smith because she seems just absolutely

00:18:58.880 awful in most ways. But I tell you, that is a really redeeming statement that she just made.

00:19:03.860 She said, even though we have this terrible relationship, and even though it's Hollywood,

00:19:10.020 so everyone gets divorced, and even though we've been living separate lives, and even though we've

00:19:13.160 been cheating on each other, and even though we've been doing this and that and the other thing,

00:19:16.360 I can't bring myself to get a divorce because I made a vow, and it just seems wrong. And even

00:19:23.700 me, living in Hollywood, being a big lib, doing all this crazy stuff, even me, I know it's wrong,

00:19:29.380 and I don't want to do it. Good. Good. Follow that voice. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a self-help

00:19:35.760 book coming out. He just came out and explained that he doesn't want to talk about the explosion

00:19:43.060 of his marriage anymore because that is the biggest failure he's ever had. He said,

00:19:46.680 I blew up my family. No failure has ever felt worse than that. Darius Rucker from Hootie and the

00:19:53.220 Blowfish, he just split with his wife after 20 years of marriage. He said, you feel like a failure.

00:19:57.640 You try to express those feelings, and it's hard to say, and it's hard to put that on paper.

00:20:01.920 You try to do it as real as you can. I'm not a big talk-to-you guy, but I can sit down and write

00:20:06.040 a song about it. That stuff hurts. You feel like a failure, but we're still a family. A piece of paper

00:20:10.700 is not going to change that. We're still a family, and that's all because Beth is awesome. She knows

00:20:14.620 what's best for the kids. She's a great human being. Okay. You see really big people here,

00:20:22.560 really big, successful, lauded, praised people saying, divorce is the biggest failure I've ever

00:20:28.760 had. In some cases, saying divorce is such a scary failure. I can't bring myself to do it,

00:20:34.680 even though we're separated. Some people saying, I did get divorced, and I'm rich, and I'm famous,

00:20:37.980 and I'm powerful, and I'm this, and I'm that. I was the governor of California, and it's the

00:20:41.000 biggest failure ever. Even huge stars are claiming that the biggest failure they could possibly have

00:20:47.920 is divorce. Jada Smith saying, even with our awful marriage, I can't bring myself to do it.

00:20:54.180 And then Hootie and the Blowfish over here, Darius Rucker, makes an even more insightful point. He says,

00:21:00.540 we're still a family. He says, even though we've been divorced, we're still a family. We got this

00:21:06.100 piece of paper that says we're divorced, but we're still involved in each other's lives. We can't pull

00:21:10.900 away from one another, which is an observation that some of us have been making for years.

00:21:16.280 Divorce is, practically speaking, almost always impossible, especially when there's kids.

00:21:22.260 So the church says, the Christian view is that divorce is not possible. What God has joined,

00:21:28.060 let no man separate. Certain Christian denominations accept divorce, but the vast majority do not. And

00:21:34.900 for the vast majority of the history of the church, divorce has not been recognized or accepted in any

00:21:40.640 way. And obviously the Catholic church still holds to that. Even if you don't believe in God or

00:21:48.060 Christianity or religion or anything like that, the point expressed perfectly by the church that

00:21:54.420 divorce is not a possibility, what God has joined, no man can separate, is expressed by Darius Rucker in

00:22:00.200 this really practical way where he says, you know, just practically speaking, we still got the kids,

00:22:04.080 we still see each other, we still talk, we still have to interact with one another. So you actually

00:22:08.940 just can't do it. It's not possible. And I hate to give Hollywood some credit here, but they deserve

00:22:15.180 a little bit of credit, which is the people who seem most likely to divorce, these Hollywood stars,

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00:24:35.220 My favorite comment is from Devin Rossi, 5966, who says, if climate control is the greatest threat

00:24:43.580 we face, then the thermostat in our homes is a greater weapon than we could have ever guessed.

00:24:50.780 You make such a good point. The greatest threat that we face is the sun monster ticking up the

00:24:58.180 temperature, like one one hundredth of a degree every thousand years. And so what that means is

00:25:06.280 you need to arm yourself. Not with a gun, not with a nuclear weapon. No, with that little thermostat

00:25:13.800 and the one you just go, okay, problem solved. We're good. We're good now. Very, do you, do you work

00:25:21.020 for Skunk Works or something? Are you working for some very clandestine weapons development

00:25:30.180 realm of the U.S. government? Because that, that was a brilliant observation. Speaking of Hollywood,

00:25:36.480 Gwyneth Paltrow just revealed where she stores her Oscar, and I love it.

00:25:43.960 And what a beautiful Academy Award.

00:25:47.060 My doorstop. It works perfectly.

00:25:49.320 I love it. And it's a sort of a tee-hee-hee, ha-ha, look, we're filming this little take on

00:25:54.660 Gwyneth Paltrow's home. And oh my goodness, outside, she's, she's got her Oscar as a doorstop.

00:26:00.440 Oh yeah, it's a great doorstop. I love this. This is a really healthy attitude when it comes to

00:26:05.680 something like fame. There was a famous journalist, magazine editor, and Catholic priest who, in his home,

00:26:16.560 he kept all of his pictures with statesmen and prominent people in the bathroom.

00:26:21.500 And a friend of mine once asked this man, why are they all in the bathroom? He said, because that's

00:26:26.340 exactly where the glories of this world belong, is in the bathroom. This is a healthy attitude

00:26:34.840 attitude when it comes to something like fame. Especially Hollywood, which is so rotten,

00:26:43.180 where nothing really is as it seems, where so much of Hollywood is a facade. And just beneath the

00:26:51.040 glitz and the glamour, you have decay, and you have, you know, the decline, you have the collapse of

00:26:58.100 families, and you have people selling their bodies to get parts. And you, it's just pretend. I mean,

00:27:02.440 the whole place is just pretend. And so, when you're faced with something that is pretend,

00:27:08.680 ephemeral, really fleeting, then that's a good way to treat those glories. That would not be a

00:27:14.600 healthy attitude, however, when it comes to something that really matters, like family,

00:27:19.700 like honor, like dignity, like piety, like sanctity. Then you would not want to treat that

00:27:27.720 as just something to be left out in the rain to stop up your gate outside or anything. Then you

00:27:32.840 would want to cherish that. You would want to treat it very well. And one of the big problems

00:27:37.300 in the modern world is we totally flip it. So, in the modern world, we treasure fame and notoriety

00:27:45.540 and clicks on social media. We treasure that as our most dearly held possession. We would never leave

00:27:51.720 that out in the rain stopping up a door. No, we spend our efforts. We spend our time. We spend our

00:27:57.440 love on that. And we let things like, you know, family, honor, dignity, modesty, we forget about

00:28:07.120 that stuff. You don't need to be a Hollywood star to recognize this. How many people sacrifice their

00:28:12.400 family on the altar of career or on the altar of professional ambition or on the altar of fun,

00:28:19.000 on the altar of hedonism, on the altar of selfishness? We do that all the time.

00:28:23.940 This is real. People are going to look at Gwyneth Paltrow and say, she's totally crazy.

00:28:27.380 She's being disrespectful to the academy and to Hollywood by this top professional achievement.

00:28:31.920 She's just throwing, no, that's where it belongs is out in the garden. It belongs out there stopping

00:28:36.060 up a door. We need to cherish the things that are worth cherishing. We need to keep in proper

00:28:43.520 perspective the things that might seem glittery and pretty in this world, but will not last.

00:28:49.680 Speaking of health, only 2% of Americans have received the new COVID booster. Have you gotten

00:28:57.820 your latest Fauci ouchie? Have you gotten your latest experimental jab? Only 7 million Americans

00:29:03.500 have received the updated versions of the COVID jab. That's compared to 56 and a half million people

00:29:10.640 who received last year's version. My reaction to this news is, it's crazy that that number is so high.

00:29:21.820 Absolutely crazy that that number is. How is it that 7 million Americans, after being lied to,

00:29:32.380 with lies that have been disproven time and time again in really practical ways, like they tell you,

00:29:39.400 if you get the COVID vax, you will not get the virus. And then you get the COVID vax and you get

00:29:45.340 the virus. They say, well, no, no. Okay. If you get the COVID vax, sorry. If you get the COVID vax,

00:29:52.720 then you will not spread the virus. And then what happens? You get the COVID vax,

00:29:56.800 you get COVID and then you spread the virus. Well, all right, hold on here. If you get the COVID vax,

00:30:05.400 you will not suffer any side effects. It is totally 100% safe. And then what happens? People get

00:30:11.700 nerve damage. People get blood clots. People die to blood clots. People get myocarditis. People get

00:30:17.340 pericarditis. Young people who faced very little risk from the coronavirus were getting these jabs and

00:30:23.940 facing consequences because of it. Very negative health outcomes. Okay. Well, the jab is not

00:30:31.420 effective. And ultimately, they had to promise that the jab was, the way you knew it was effective

00:30:37.280 is, trust us, it would have been worse if you didn't have it. The jab didn't accomplish any of

00:30:42.080 the things that we promised you it would accomplish. But trust us now, it's going to accomplish a totally

00:30:47.180 unfalsifiable thing because it's going to be a hypothetical. It's going to be, well, had you not

00:30:54.480 gone, it would have been a lot worse. So we have no evidence that the jab was effective at doing

00:30:59.200 anything at all. And we know for a fact that the jab wasn't nearly as safe as they told us it would

00:31:03.980 be. And then the next thing they said was, yeah, so you got to get another one. And what was amazing

00:31:11.720 was a ton of people got another one. And then you know what they said after that, when that wasn't

00:31:15.840 effective either, or particularly safe? Is it, yeah, actually, you got to get another one, actually.

00:31:20.580 You got to get a couple, you got to get like two or three more. And then they did it. 56 and a half

00:31:26.200 million people got last year's version. And you know, it's like, fool me once, shame on you, fool

00:31:31.480 me twice. Hey, the point is, you're not going to fool me again, to quote George W. Bush. Fool me three

00:31:36.000 times, fool me four times, fool me five times. And yet again, this year, even after all this stuff was

00:31:40.440 just totally debunked, the social distancing rules, that was proven to be just completely arbitrary.

00:31:46.280 The COVID gazillion people death count, that was debunked too. That number was extraordinarily

00:31:53.120 artificially inflated. And still, seven million people have gotten the updated version of the

00:31:59.320 COVID jab. This is why democracies can't have nice things. That's bad. Seven million, who knows?

00:32:09.460 Let's see how many more people get it. Before we go, Andrew Tate is in the news yet again. Andrew

00:32:18.700 Tate, you know, is something of a favorite among a certain segment of young right-wingers.

00:32:23.600 Uh, he's also an OnlyFans pimp, who's, who's a criminal in Romania because, uh, because of his

00:32:31.980 pimping. His pimping ain't easy and it also ain't legal in a lot of places. Uh, and Andrew Tate is

00:32:38.180 also a convert to Islam. So I guess that's better than being an atheist, but I don't know. His version

00:32:45.500 of Islam doesn't seem even like the best version of Islam. And, uh, Andrew Tate's reaction to the

00:32:51.900 Hamas terror attack on the state of Israel, uh, and now the ensuing war is, there is but one

00:32:58.320 certainty in this mess, there is no God but Allah and Muhammad PBUH, what is, oh, peace, peace be upon

00:33:04.460 him, is the messenger of Allah. That was his take right after the terror attack. That was his take

00:33:09.300 on October 7th. And he's, in some quarters, probably not as much anymore, but in some quarters, a

00:33:16.760 conservative icon. This reminds me of a good rule of thumb. You are known by the friends you keep. You

00:33:25.560 are actually known by the friends you keep. And the kind of circles that Andrew Tate is moving in,

00:33:33.900 actually, I do have a couple of people, friends of mine who are friends with Andrew Tate,

00:33:37.640 but broadly, that would be the exception to the rule, I think. And because they were friends for

00:33:41.020 a long time. Uh, but of the people that Andrew Tate is cavorting with now, you know, the pimps and

00:33:47.260 the prostitutes and the radical Muslims and the, that doesn't, generally speaking, you know, you'll,

00:33:54.380 you'll look at that and you say, that's not, he's probably not in agreement with me on a lot of

00:34:00.020 things. And then you look broadly at the pro-Hamas argument and the pro-Hamas argument is being joined

00:34:04.740 by BLM. BLM is totally crazy. It's being joined by the radical leftists, being joined by Harvard

00:34:09.280 students, but I repeat myself. It's been, you look around and you say, huh, I don't want to be totally

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00:34:55.700 Hey, Dirty Mike, Mr. Reality here. I had a question for you on the potential of World War

00:35:00.400 III breaking out. A lot of people say that because we have nuclear weapons, Russia has nuclear weapons,

00:35:06.680 China has nuclear weapons, all these major powers have nuclear weapons, that there would never be

00:35:11.120 another world war. My thoughts are no one's going to actually use their nuclear weapon unless they're

00:35:16.840 about to be utterly destroyed. Because for example, say the United States invades part of China.

00:35:23.280 Is China really going to launch nuclear weapons and destroy all of China in our retaliation

00:35:28.040 immediately? Or are they going to fight at the border and only use the weapons if there's no other

00:35:32.220 choice? So my thoughts are the nuclear weapons are a defense against total annihilation of a country,

00:35:37.760 but not against a world war itself. What are your thoughts on that? Thanks.

00:35:44.440 Yes. The nukes, we're seeing this happen right now, the nukes are not deterring

00:35:50.060 regional or multi-regional or at what point do we call it global conflict.

00:35:56.740 But I'm not agreeing with your point that the nuclear weapons would not be used except in some

00:36:02.300 kind of existential situation. We haven't seen it yet. We haven't seen tactical nukes exactly,

00:36:07.300 but people have this idea that nuclear weapons, the moment you set one off, basically the whole

00:36:10.700 world explodes. And that's not really true. That's not really how nuclear weapons work.

00:36:16.040 Nuclear weapons are very scary and it's not a good thing to use. But we've set off a lot of nuclear

00:36:21.400 weapons, especially when we were testing the nuclear weapons. Forget about use in war,

00:36:24.980 obviously at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But we've set off a lot of nuclear weapons that didn't end the

00:36:30.220 world. The fallout and the blast zones and everything are significantly smaller than a lot of people think

00:36:36.560 for most nuclear weapons. So I'm not quite so placid that they won't be used in some war in some

00:36:42.840 tactical way. Maybe not one of these, you know, nuclear weapons that blows out a city. But some

00:36:49.080 kind of nuclear weapon, I'm not convinced that that could not be used. Just because they haven't

00:36:52.220 been used in 70 years. 70 years is a pretty short time. Next question.

00:36:56.240 Hello, Michael. Lacrimaphix Maximus. If you don't mind, I would like to ask your opinions about one of

00:37:04.620 the contentious topics of the Catholic Church's history, that being the fabled female Pope, Pope

00:37:12.080 Joan. Do you believe her story to be that one of truth, fiction, or a little of calme and a little

00:37:20.040 of combi? Love to hear your response this Friday and wish the best for you and your family, especially

00:37:25.800 given your recent comments about Biden. Thank you very much. Good question. For those who don't

00:37:31.460 know, Pope Joan is this legendary fable, you know, as you say, female Pope from, I think, the ninth

00:37:40.120 century. And then this was, you see, is it in Siena Cathedral or in one of the cathedrals, there's

00:37:49.920 actually a bust of Pope Joan, you know, this legendary female Pope, though that was removed

00:37:57.000 pretty quickly after it was put up. And in 1600 or 1601, the then Pope said, it's fake news. It is

00:38:04.800 fake news. I don't see any evidence that Pope Joan existed or that Pope Joan was actually a woman.

00:38:10.780 Probably the fable comes from a polemical attack on one of the Pope Johns from the eighth or ninth

00:38:19.700 century, maybe 10th century, I guess. But no, it's a kind of a fun story. I like these fun stories. I

00:38:26.020 like legends. The thing about legends is, while legends are not true, they often have some semblance

00:38:30.940 of truth. Even legends about the saints that probably did not literally happen tell you something about the

00:38:36.940 character of the saints. And so, as a polemical attack on one of the actual male Popes, it seems

00:38:44.680 to make much more sense than a woman just secretly becoming Pope. Next question.

00:38:50.080 Hi, Michael. I'm going through what's called the quiet martyrdom of the virtuous woman,

00:38:55.160 and I'd like to have your advice on it. Basically, what this is, is that when a virtuous,

00:39:02.020 good Christian woman is younger, guys don't want to be with her because she's virtuous,

00:39:09.880 she won't do things on dates. You know, she waits for marriage. And now that we're older in our 30s,

00:39:18.040 good virtuous men don't want us because we're in our 30s, even though we've already been through

00:39:24.360 the trial in our 20s. So, you have advice for us, these women looking for

00:39:30.860 her vocation as a wife and a mother in her 30s, and it seems like nobody wants us. Thanks, Michael.

00:39:40.200 Great question. You are truly one of the chief victims of the sexual revolution.

00:39:48.180 Probably your group in particular is the chief victim because the sexual revolution says forget

00:39:57.960 about all the old rules, forget about honor and chastity and modesty and sexual ethics,

00:40:02.980 sleep around. If it feels good, do it. And some women don't want to do that,

00:40:06.500 but men come to expect it. And then men, maybe they sow their wild oats, and then they decide to

00:40:12.960 settle down and get married, but they don't want to. Then they find some, you know,

00:40:18.960 hot young thing or something, 22-year-old. I'm not saying you're not a hot young thing too,

00:40:21.820 but, you know, as you point out, you're, though perhaps hot, somewhat older than the

00:40:27.160 22-year-old girls. And so, you find yourself in this pickle where, you know, you've done the right

00:40:32.900 thing in your 20s, and now you say, well, now nobody wants me. I think that latter part,

00:40:38.520 though, is just not true. I have many friends in their 30s who are in the same spot as you.

00:40:44.800 And even friends who were not, you know, totally chaste in their 20s, but they're still in the same

00:40:52.420 spot as you. I mean, because the problem is just so much broader. The delaying of marriage for

00:40:57.100 everyone is screwing things up for women in particular. My advice, though, is there are a lot

00:41:03.220 of men who are in the same position. I get this question from men probably just as often as I get it

00:41:07.260 from women. We're saying, hey, I'm in my 30s, and I just haven't met a girl who likes me, and I don't

00:41:11.560 know how to go on dates, and I don't know how to do anything. So, my advice to you would be, go where

00:41:17.040 the men are. You know, go, my advice would be, go to a traditional Latin mass because everyone's

00:41:22.880 pretty young and is on the same page as what you're talking about, and they're interested in getting

00:41:28.100 married and having like a thousand kids. So, I don't know if you're Catholic or not. I don't know what

00:41:32.240 your circumstances are in that way, but you've got to go where the men are. And I would be a little

00:41:36.100 forward because you're saying, oh, these men don't want me, and I'm unlovable, and I'm undesirable.

00:41:40.400 But you're giving the men too much credit. You're thinking that these men are all Lotharios and Don

00:41:45.160 Giovannis, but they're usually not. The men are just as awkward and incapable of interacting with

00:41:52.980 the opposite sex as you, I think, maybe mistakenly think yourself to be. That the sexual revolution just

00:41:59.520 blew up sexual relations. It's, you know, not just one sex or the other. So, I would recommend

00:42:04.980 going where the men are in real life, in real person, joining clubs, going to the right kind

00:42:09.560 of a church, you know, this, that, and the other thing. And I'd approach the men and say, hey, you

00:42:13.160 want to go get a cup of coffee? I know it's weird. I know it's weird, but sometimes, you know, when the

00:42:18.100 culture has gotten so completely crazy and chaotic, you've got to be a little unconventional to get back

00:42:22.320 to normal. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name's Mallory. I'm a 20-year-old college senior, and I'm also

00:42:29.340 a cradle Catholic. Last week, you had a few segments on your shows talking about SSRIs and other mental

00:42:35.720 health drugs. I just wanted some advice. I have been on SSRIs for about a year, and I've struggled

00:42:45.600 with major depressive disorder my whole life since I was probably about six or seven. And I can't imagine

00:42:53.340 going back to my life before I started these drugs because they have helped me. But I wanted to know

00:43:00.540 your advice from a faith standpoint on things that I could do to improve my mental health through God.

00:43:07.380 Thank you so much. I love your show. Thank you so much. Really, really great question. And

00:43:12.260 I'm not saying that these drugs can never be helpful, at least for a short period of time.

00:43:18.480 I'm not saying they can be helpful, but I'm not saying they can never be helpful.

00:43:23.760 I am quite convinced that one in eight Americans should not be on these drugs. And when you take

00:43:30.360 men out of the picture, when you just look at women, the numbers are even crazier. I'm convinced

00:43:34.500 of that. I don't think that we should be pumping powerful psych drugs into a huge proportion of our

00:43:39.100 population, including very young people. But maybe on the rare occasion, maybe it does something to

00:43:44.980 help you along the way. You raise this question at the end. You say, do you have any advice regarding

00:43:50.740 faith that could help my mental health question? So I guess I would need to know where you're starting

00:43:54.480 from. Because obviously, you have not perfectly identified the source of your depressive problems.

00:44:05.260 You're saying that these drugs work, so I'm glad you're feeling better than you did before.

00:44:09.020 And you've had this from a very young age. I would just wonder if maybe some cognitive behavioral

00:44:14.600 therapy might be helpful here, if maybe some spiritual counseling with a priest might be

00:44:19.940 helpful here. Because is it the case that your parents got divorced at age six, and then you got

00:44:26.040 depressed at age seven and never got over it? Many such cases. Well, in that case, I would work

00:44:32.440 through that issue. Is it that a loved one died when you were six or seven, and that spurred your

00:44:37.740 depressive episode, which has persisted for a long time? Is it that your family had a crisis of faith

00:44:43.420 at six or seven? And that has led over time to depressive episodes? I just don't know. So I try

00:44:50.600 to identify that problem. And to give you a really blunt answer on faith, it is in fact the case that

00:44:58.000 one ultimately cannot be happy without a healthy attitude and direction toward God. It is not possible.

00:45:06.440 We've known this since the good old ancient Greeks up through modernity. And as the modernity has

00:45:11.060 turned away from God, people have gotten miserable. So I would, to quote Andrew Klavan,

00:45:18.560 I would live as though God exists for 60 days. Just pray and go to church and act as though God

00:45:24.320 exists and see what that does to you. And then I would try to identify, if it is possible, I'm not

00:45:30.760 saying it is, maybe it's just a quirk of your brain, but if it is possible, try to identify what

00:45:34.120 might be underlying your depressive condition. Because more often than not, I think there is a

00:45:41.480 reason that one can point to that is not just totally random. Last mailbag question you get to

00:45:48.840 before we get to the mail block. We have a really important mailbag, or a really important member

00:45:51.920 block segment today. But mailbag question, mother-in-law drama. Michael, I had a question

00:45:56.700 regarding a situation with my mother-in-law. This woman is not the kindest person, is very two-faced.

00:46:01.260 One day she'll smile at you, the other she's sending my kids handwritten letters about how

00:46:04.420 much of a piece of work I am, while also sending angry text messages to me. Regardless of all this,

00:46:08.720 my wife still likes to have her visit, and this year I decided I would leave during the time she's

00:46:12.300 visiting. When my wife picked me up from the airport, she started to cry and go on about how

00:46:16.680 she needs me home when she visits because it's too much without me there. She states that as her

00:46:20.340 husband, I should support her while her mother is there. My question to you is, part of me says I

00:46:24.640 should be there, but after close to 20 years of this, I'm at my boiling point, and if I see her,

00:46:28.400 I will say all the things I've held back. What would be the best way to go about this? I feel

00:46:32.020 like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. You let this go on too long. So there's no way to

00:46:37.400 fix the past, but for instance, if your mother-in-law sends letters to your kids dissing you, that is

00:46:43.700 when you calmly call your mother-in-law and say, hey, you're out, you're out. We're not going to see

00:46:48.380 you for a little while, and you're going to need to fix your behavior, and you're going to apologize

00:46:51.680 to the children for doing this and scandalizing them. And if you don't do that, we're never seeing you

00:46:56.300 again, and because I'm the head of my household, and this is my family, and you're not going to

00:47:00.080 threaten it. Even you, to whom I owe some modicum of respect, that's why I'm calling you respectfully,

00:47:05.100 but you can't do this. This is my family, and I'm the head of my household. You know, that would

00:47:09.940 have been a good thing to do 20 years ago. I guess now it's a little bit late for that, probably. I

00:47:13.340 don't know how old your kids are. Maybe you had kids later on in your marriage. So it's in the

00:47:21.160 little things that the rot begins, to quote the butler on the crown. So it, you know,

00:47:26.040 these things fester and fester, and you say, now I'm at my boiling point. I think you're right,

00:47:30.000 though. You shouldn't flee when your mother-in-law comes to town, okay? It's your house. You're the

00:47:35.080 head of the family, so you actually do have a responsibility to be there. You know, you have

00:47:38.720 a responsibility to your wife and to your family to do that, and to keep yourself in composure,

00:47:44.000 and to be patient, but to be firm, too. You know, I just wouldn't accept these kinds of things.

00:47:49.700 I mean, I know it's very hard. I love my mother-in-law. I have a lovely mother-in-law.

00:47:53.740 I know people who have had very bad mother-in-laws. I know mother-in-laws who have destroyed

00:47:57.180 marriages. Luckily, you're not at that point yet, but I generally agree with your wife,

00:48:02.520 and I think that you've got to be firmer, but do not lose your cool. A man does not

00:48:10.220 fall out of control. You know, part of being a man is being in control, but I would be firm and clear,

00:48:17.360 and recognize that you're in charge of your family. Your mother-in-law is not the head of

00:48:25.000 your family. The rest of the show continues now. We have a reporter who's on the ground

00:48:29.240 in the Holy Land, a correspondent for I-24 News, who has been giving wall-to-wall coverage. She's

00:48:36.760 been as in it and on the front lines as anyone can be of this major war breaking out that could

00:48:42.140 be the beginning of World War III. So the rest of the show continues now. Do not miss it. Become a

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