Ep. 1350 - My ResponseĀ To The Global Day of Jihad
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Hamas leader Khaled Mashal declares a global day of jihad, and President Obama refuses to back away from a trip to New York City. Breaking news: Jada Smith and Will Smith have been separated for 7 years, and they say they won t get divorced.
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Khaled Mashal, the former leader of Hamas, has declared today a global day of jihad,
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specifically throughout the West, after the terror attack last week on the state of Israel.
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This is unfortunate, as later today I'm scheduled to travel to my old stomping grounds of New York
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City, which happens to be, by the numbers, both the most Muslim and the most Jewish city in the
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United States. It is also, of course, the site of the worst terror attack in American history,
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also perpetrated by radical Muslims. Lots of people throughout the West are changing their
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plans today, closing offices, closing schools, staying home. And I'm all for prudence, but I am
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very much against worldly fear, which is why I'm not changing any of my plans today.
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A good explanation of why not was once given by a sort of personal hero of mine, Richard Overton,
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who died five years ago at the age of 112. Mr. Overton was, at that time, and for some years
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prior, the oldest surviving World War II veteran. He credited his longevity in part to smoking 12
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cigars a day and putting whiskey in his morning coffee. You can see why he was a personal hero.
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Here is some advice that Mr. Overton had on war and life at the age of 109.
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You can see a soldier with a gun, you don't see him turn around and go back this way.
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He may go sideways, but he ain't gonna turn around and go back. Uh-uh.
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Don't care how hot them bullies it is, he ain't gonna go back. So yeah, when you go in there,
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you just say, well, God has got me now. See? He's gonna take care of you. If it's your time to go,
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that bully's gonna get you. If it ain't your time to go, that bully's gonna go over your head.
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Because man will kill you, but God's the one who keeps me alive.
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There are two kinds of fear relevant to the global day of jihad. Worldly fear and fear of the Lord.
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Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's a gift of the Holy Spirit,
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a reverent fear akin to awe that perfects our hope of remaining in God's grace.
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Worldly fear is the opposite. It's selfish, cowardly, and opposed to freedom.
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Fear ye not them that kill the body and are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him that
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can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them
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shall fall on the ground without your father, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
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Fear not, therefore. Better are you than many sparrows.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Breaking shocking news. Jada Smith and Will Smith have apparently been
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separated for six or seven years now. Shocking, breaking. It actually is somewhat shocking
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because they said they wouldn't get divorced. We will get into that because it actually has
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political ramifications. First, though, the war is spreading. The Israel Air Force struck Damascus
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International Airport yesterday in Syria. They did this a day ahead of the Iran foreign minister's
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visit to Syria. So they didn't take out the Iranian foreign minister, but they certainly sent a warning
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message. And now the war is not only in the state of Israel. It's not only in Gaza. It's not only in
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southern Lebanon. It's now also expanded to Syria. What is the U.S. interest here? The U.S. interest
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is to contain the war. Other nations have other interests. Some nations might have the interest of
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regime change in Iran. Some nations might have the interest of expanding the war beyond where it is
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already. Some nations might have all sorts of interests. This is the holy land we're talking
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about. This is a very prized piece of real estate. And every even semi-major power on earth has some
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interest here. The U.S. interest is contain the war, obviously, to retrieve our hostages as well. I
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consider that almost a separate question. But as a matter of war policy, you're going to hear a lot of
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voices clamoring for more war, regime change, bombing the Mullahs, somehow attacking, trying to
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weaken Russia through this war and not merely through the war in Ukraine. China is kind of
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sitting on the sidelines here. They didn't quite come out and condemn the Hamas attack, or they sort
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of tried to do it. But there are going to be a lot of people calling for more and more war, including
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U.S. senators. That is not the American interest. The American interest here, it's not to stay at home
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and put our heads in the sand. The American interest is to contain the war as much as possible.
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Speaking of foreign policy voices, some people are now asking how we got into the position where we
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could have a global day of jihad and have Americans, have the Brits, have the French, have all people
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throughout the West afraid of such a day. The obvious answer as to how we got there was mass
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migration and no less a foreign policy architect than Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger, Secretary of
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State for Richard Nixon. The man is 100 years old. The man has been an influential foreign policy
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architect for well over half a century. What now for something like 60, 70 years. Henry Kissinger said
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It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different cultural and religious and
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concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.
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Very politically incorrect. You're not allowed to say that. Henry Kissinger, look, I know some
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people hate Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger has made some mistakes in his career. I think the
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clearest example of a mistake Henry Kissinger made was that he was one of the biggest proponents of
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soccer in the United States. He's credited with driving the increased popularity of soccer. So I'm not
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saying the guy always got things right, but he does have a lot of wise things to say. And he's totally
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right about this. This is something that all serious statesmen and political philosophers have
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known for all of human history. And yet today, even conservative Republicans are not allowed to say
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it. When conservative Republicans attack migration, they, or criticize it in any way, they have to say,
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well, look, I support more and more legal immigration. I think we should have endless legal
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immigration, but I'm opposed to illegal immigration. Yes, illegal immigration is worse than legal
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immigration, but mass migration is the problem. Over the last 60, 70 years, we have seen the largest
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movement of people ever in recorded history of people moving into the United States. That's a
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problem. When you mix groups of people that don't have very much in common, it creates conflict. This is
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an observation that Dante hears in the Divine Comedy from his illustrious ancestor in paradise, in the
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canticle that is taking place in heaven. Dante's illustrious ancestor, Caccia Guida, says, yeah, the
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problems really began in Florence when they started mixing people around who didn't have a whole lot in
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common. You got a lot of conflict. He is clearly right here. This is something that the West needs to deal
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with. The West right now has no limiting principle on migration. The West has convinced itself that
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its culture is totally open to everybody, that there are no requirements for becoming a part of
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this culture, that there is no legitimate reason to keep people out of your civilization, that there's
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no legitimate distinction between citizen and foreigner, that there's no legitimate distinction
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between nations and other nations. The West has convinced themselves of that. Obviously, the left,
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but a lot of people on the right as well, self-styled conservatives. And so here you have Kissinger
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coming in and saying, even if he made some unwise decisions in his youth, the guy's 100 years old.
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I think he's probably learned a thing or two. He says, mass migration was a grave mistake. Unfortunately,
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It's the American way. Speaking of our democracy, a whirlwind of news has occurred in the House of
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Representatives, and we haven't even really gotten to it because foreign events have been a little bit
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more interesting and a little bit more pressing. But you know that a handful of Republicans and a
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threw out the former Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Then there was a race for
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speaker, and there were two guys who threw their hats in the ring. That was Steve Scalise, who has
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been on the leadership track for a long time among Republicans, and Jim Jordan, who is terrific. He's
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a favorite of many conservatives. According to measures of candidates' conservatism and
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anti-establishmentism, Steve Scalise was certainly more the liberal Republican candidate,
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certainly more the establishment candidate. And Jim Jordan is ranked much more conservative and
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much more anti-establishment. And unfortunately, when the Republicans met behind closed doors,
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because this is not a popular election, this is an election for members of Congress,
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Steve Scalise won. And it was somewhat close. It was 113 to 99, but still Scalise clearly won.
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And this was viewed as an insult to Donald Trump, because Trump backed Jim Jordan.
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So this was played out in the media as, once again, Donald Trump loses. Once again,
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the Republican Party not heeding what Donald Trump has to say. However, to me, that shows that nothing
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has changed really since 2016. It has always been the case, since 2015, 2016, up through the present,
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that most professional Republicans, Republican politicians, political commentators, GOP consultants,
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most of them have opposed Trump and the kind of candidates that Trump endorses.
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What's been strange about that is that most Republican voters support Trump. So there is a divergence
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between the professional Republican class, the professional conservative class, and the actual
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conservative voters who decide the elections at the ballot box, when elections are decided at the ballot box.
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That's what happened in 2016. All of the, disproportionately, the Republican journalists,
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journalists, talkers, commentators, pundits, strategists, blah, blah, blah, electeds. They
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were against Trump. Didn't matter. Trump kept dominating in the primary. Then in 2020, a lot
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of people who had opposed Trump sort of softened because they had no other choice, and they would
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have been totally shut out of Republican politics, like Bill Kristol or David French or those kind of
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people, had they remained opposed to Trump. So they kind of softened on Trump a little bit. But then 2024
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rolls around, and many of the same people, if not all the same people, come out and
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oppose Trump again. This is no surprise at all. Now, you might say, well, I think it was a dumb idea
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to nominate Trump in 2016, or it's a dumb idea to nominate him in 2024. I'm not making any comment
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on the wisdom of doing that or not. I'm just pointing out that there is today, as there was in
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2016, as there basically always has been, a major disagreement between the professional conservatives
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and the ordinary conservative voters. That is happening again, and it's playing
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out yet again in the primary. Forget about the House race for a second. It's playing out
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again in the primary because disproportionately the GOP consultants, the donors, the talking
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class, the pundits, they favor other candidates than Donald Trump. Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley,
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maybe Tim Scott, and disproportionately the voters, at least according to every single
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poll, favor Donald Trump over those other candidates. That's just a disagreement among
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the GOP. And the people are going to say that the pundits are idiots, and the pundits are going
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to say that the people are idiots, but that is simply a fact. And when it comes to electoral
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politics and democracy, it's probably wiser, probably wiser to be on the side of the people.
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Now, getting back to the House race, Steve Scalise, even though he got the Republican
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nomination, he just dropped out of the race because he didn't have the votes. There were
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conservatives in the GOP caucus in the House that said, we're not going to vote for Steve Scalise,
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and we've got such a razor-thin majority in the Congress, and Scalise is not going to get the votes
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of the Democrats, so sorry, Scalise, you're out. Which means that Jim Jordan still could be the
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Speaker, which I'm really upset about. Not because I don't think Jim Jordan would be a great Speaker.
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I think he'd probably be the best Speaker we've had in a long time. But because I really like Jim
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Jordan, and I think he's a good guy, and I wouldn't wish that job upon him because that job is the worst
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job in Washington, D.C. Being the Republican Speaker of the House is, I would rather be cleaning out the
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Port-a-Johns on the National Mall, probably, than being the Republican Speaker of the House. It's
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totally thankless. It's very difficult to succeed. It's like herding cats. But on the bright side,
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we could get a pretty good Speaker because it could be Jim Jordan. Now, speaking of what's going on in
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Washington, D.C., this is one of my other reasons to keep Jim Jordan out of the Speakership. He would
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be great. He would be so phenomenal. He's a terrific guy. But he does great work on the Judiciary
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Committee, and he's done a great job investigating Democrats. And look at the stuff that we're getting
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right now. Joe Biden has just been discovered to have exchanged 29,000 emails with family and
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business associates of the Biden family from his vice president email account. So Joe Biden had a
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number of pseudonymous email accounts. He came up with all these pseudonyms to conduct a particularly
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shady business while he was VP. But among the, this is according to America First Legal, which does a
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great job on unveiling this kind of stuff. He used his VP email account to exchange more than 29,000
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emails with his son, Hunter, with his brother, Jim Biden, with their business groups, which directly
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contradicts claims that Biden made during the 2020 campaign. And what's really strange about it is
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it means that Joe Biden must have a lot of thoughts about the weather. It's because Joe Biden initially
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he said, I don't know anything about my son's business. I don't even, I don't know what he's
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wasn't involved. Okay. Maybe I was a little bit involved. Maybe I wrote some handwritten notes to his
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business partners. Maybe I invited them to, to lunches with the leader of China. Maybe, but I, you know,
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look, it's not like I was in these meetings. I would say, okay, I was in this meeting. I was on
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more than 20 phone calls with Hunter's business associates, but this is what the excuse became.
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I only, I was only talking about the weather. We were just exchanging pleasantries.
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29,000 emails about the, that's more emails about the weather than Al Roker has ever sent.
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That is, no one has that many thoughts about the weather. I'm starting to think Joe Biden
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we've heard for years that Will Smith and Jada Smith have a little bit of a difficult marriage.
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This came to a climax when during the Oscars, Chris Rock made an anodyne joke about Jada Smith
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and Will Smith got up there and smacked him across the face. It was very, very strange. But for years,
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Will and Jada Smith have been open about cheating on each other. And, you know, Jada Smith had some
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very young boyfriend and it just seems rough. But they said, we're not going to get divorced ever.
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Bad, bad marriage for life, which was a play on bad boys for life. And well, now Jada Smith has
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revealed to the Today Show that she and Will have been separated for seven years.
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Oh, why a fracture? That that's a lot of things. Yeah. And I think by the time we got to 2016,
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we were just exhausted with trying. I think we were both kind of still stuck in our fantasy of what
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we thought the other person should be. Jada says she considered a legal divorce, but could never go
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through with it. I made a promise that there will never be a reason for us to get a divorce. We will
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work through whatever. And I just haven't been able to break that promise.
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Good. That's good. I know everyone's going to attack Jada Smith because she seems just absolutely
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awful in most ways. But I tell you, that is a really redeeming statement that she just made.
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She said, even though we have this terrible relationship, and even though it's Hollywood,
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so everyone gets divorced, and even though we've been living separate lives, and even though we've
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been cheating on each other, and even though we've been doing this and that and the other thing,
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I can't bring myself to get a divorce because I made a vow, and it just seems wrong. And even
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me, living in Hollywood, being a big lib, doing all this crazy stuff, even me, I know it's wrong,
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and I don't want to do it. Good. Good. Follow that voice. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a self-help
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book coming out. He just came out and explained that he doesn't want to talk about the explosion
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of his marriage anymore because that is the biggest failure he's ever had. He said,
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I blew up my family. No failure has ever felt worse than that. Darius Rucker from Hootie and the
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Blowfish, he just split with his wife after 20 years of marriage. He said, you feel like a failure.
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You try to express those feelings, and it's hard to say, and it's hard to put that on paper.
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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
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a song about it. That stuff hurts. You feel like a failure, but we're still a family. A piece of paper
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is not going to change that. We're still a family, and that's all because Beth is awesome. She knows
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what's best for the kids. She's a great human being. Okay. You see really big people here,
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really big, successful, lauded, praised people saying, divorce is the biggest failure I've ever
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had. In some cases, saying divorce is such a scary failure. I can't bring myself to do it,
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even though we're separated. Some people saying, I did get divorced, and I'm rich, and I'm famous,
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and I'm powerful, and I'm this, and I'm that. I was the governor of California, and it's the
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biggest failure ever. Even huge stars are claiming that the biggest failure they could possibly have
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is divorce. Jada Smith saying, even with our awful marriage, I can't bring myself to do it.
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And then Hootie and the Blowfish over here, Darius Rucker, makes an even more insightful point. He says,
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we're still a family. He says, even though we've been divorced, we're still a family. We got this
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piece of paper that says we're divorced, but we're still involved in each other's lives. We can't pull
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away from one another, which is an observation that some of us have been making for years.
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Divorce is, practically speaking, almost always impossible, especially when there's kids.
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So the church says, the Christian view is that divorce is not possible. What God has joined,
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let no man separate. Certain Christian denominations accept divorce, but the vast majority do not. And
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for the vast majority of the history of the church, divorce has not been recognized or accepted in any
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way. And obviously the Catholic church still holds to that. Even if you don't believe in God or
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Christianity or religion or anything like that, the point expressed perfectly by the church that
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divorce is not a possibility, what God has joined, no man can separate, is expressed by Darius Rucker in
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this really practical way where he says, you know, just practically speaking, we still got the kids,
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we still see each other, we still talk, we still have to interact with one another. So you actually
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just can't do it. It's not possible. And I hate to give Hollywood some credit here, but they deserve
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a little bit of credit, which is the people who seem most likely to divorce, these Hollywood stars,
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My favorite comment is from Devin Rossi, 5966, who says, if climate control is the greatest threat
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we face, then the thermostat in our homes is a greater weapon than we could have ever guessed.
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You make such a good point. The greatest threat that we face is the sun monster ticking up the
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temperature, like one one hundredth of a degree every thousand years. And so what that means is
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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
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for Skunk Works or something? Are you working for some very clandestine weapons development
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realm of the U.S. government? Because that, that was a brilliant observation. Speaking of Hollywood,
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Gwyneth Paltrow just revealed where she stores her Oscar, and I love it.
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I love it. And it's a sort of a tee-hee-hee, ha-ha, look, we're filming this little take on
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Gwyneth Paltrow's home. And oh my goodness, outside, she's, she's got her Oscar as a doorstop.
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Oh yeah, it's a great doorstop. I love this. This is a really healthy attitude when it comes to
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something like fame. There was a famous journalist, magazine editor, and Catholic priest who, in his home,
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he kept all of his pictures with statesmen and prominent people in the bathroom.
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And a friend of mine once asked this man, why are they all in the bathroom? He said, because that's
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exactly where the glories of this world belong, is in the bathroom. This is a healthy attitude
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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
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glitz and the glamour, you have decay, and you have, you know, the decline, you have the collapse of
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families, and you have people selling their bodies to get parts. And you, it's just pretend. I mean,
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the whole place is just pretend. And so, when you're faced with something that is pretend,
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ephemeral, really fleeting, then that's a good way to treat those glories. That would not be a
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healthy attitude, however, when it comes to something that really matters, like family,
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like honor, like dignity, like piety, like sanctity. Then you would not want to treat that
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as just something to be left out in the rain to stop up your gate outside or anything. Then you
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would want to cherish that. You would want to treat it very well. And one of the big problems
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in the modern world is we totally flip it. So, in the modern world, we treasure fame and notoriety
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and clicks on social media. We treasure that as our most dearly held possession. We would never leave
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that out in the rain stopping up a door. No, we spend our efforts. We spend our time. We spend our
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love on that. And we let things like, you know, family, honor, dignity, modesty, we forget about
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that stuff. You don't need to be a Hollywood star to recognize this. How many people sacrifice their
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family on the altar of career or on the altar of professional ambition or on the altar of fun,
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on the altar of hedonism, on the altar of selfishness? We do that all the time.
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This is real. People are going to look at Gwyneth Paltrow and say, she's totally crazy.
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She's being disrespectful to the academy and to Hollywood by this top professional achievement.
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She's just throwing, no, that's where it belongs is out in the garden. It belongs out there stopping
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up a door. We need to cherish the things that are worth cherishing. We need to keep in proper
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perspective the things that might seem glittery and pretty in this world, but will not last.
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Speaking of health, only 2% of Americans have received the new COVID booster. Have you gotten
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your latest Fauci ouchie? Have you gotten your latest experimental jab? Only 7 million Americans
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have received the updated versions of the COVID jab. That's compared to 56 and a half million people
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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,
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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
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the virus. They say, well, no, no. Okay. If you get the COVID vax, sorry. If you get the COVID vax,
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then you will not spread the virus. And then what happens? You get the COVID vax,
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you get COVID and then you spread the virus. Well, all right, hold on here. If you get the COVID vax,
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you will not suffer any side effects. It is totally 100% safe. And then what happens? People get
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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
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facing consequences because of it. Very negative health outcomes. Okay. Well, the jab is not
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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
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unfalsifiable thing because it's going to be a hypothetical. It's going to be, well, had you not
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gone, it would have been a lot worse. So we have no evidence that the jab was effective at doing
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anything at all. And we know for a fact that the jab wasn't nearly as safe as they told us it would
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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
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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
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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
00:34:15.900
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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
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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
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regional or multi-regional or at what point do we call it global conflict.
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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
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weapons, especially when we were testing the nuclear weapons. Forget about use in war,
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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
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Joan. Do you believe her story to be that one of truth, fiction, or a little of calme and a little
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of combi? Love to hear your response this Friday and wish the best for you and your family, especially
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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