Biden has a new Middle Eastern problem, and it's not a good one. It's the Islamophobic backlash against Muslims in the wake of the latest terror attack in the Middle East. Plus, Joe Biden is doxing the U.S. Special Forces.
00:13:04.020And even when I was paid something, it was very hit or miss.
00:13:07.660If you want to have a career, one of these things that's a little tougher to find and
00:13:15.880that involves more risk, you're going to have to do a lot of grunt work.
00:13:18.640Now, the mistake here is this woman went way into debt to get a degree that is meaningless.
00:13:25.220No undergraduate business degree, in my estimation, is worth $80,000 because it's not experience.
00:13:33.200And the employers don't view that as experience.
00:13:35.100And you're going to learn a lot more with on-the-job training.
00:13:39.200I'm the last conservative, I think, one of the last conservatives who promotes university education,
00:13:44.560but only in certain circumstances, at certain universities, and specifically if you're studying something that will not directly get you a job.
00:13:52.600I think the point of it is to study dusty old books and to read old philosophers and poets and historians.
00:13:59.660You can do that better at a university than you can other places, on your own, on YouTube, sitting around in a bull session somewhere.
00:14:09.840Universities are still in some ways better at doing that than other places.
00:14:15.380No university is better at teaching you business marketing than a company is.
00:14:19.160A company is always going to be better at that.
00:14:38.440But if she is ambitious, if she's really ambitious, then she will give up the waitering job and she will accept the lower pay in the short term for bigger payoffs in the long term.
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00:22:29.620My favorite comment yesterday is from Ben Peasley, 6394, who says,
00:22:34.100I half-expected Michael to mention the launch of Jeremy's bras and undergarments during the
00:22:38.500Victoria's Secret section of today's show.
00:22:41.060Jeremy's negligee is one of our more provocative projects, obviously scheduled for 2024.
00:22:49.380The problem is Jeremy is still overseas in Hungary shooting Pendragon, so we haven't had
00:22:54.400time to do the photo shoot of him wearing the negligee.
00:22:56.640But once he gets back, we can do the photo shoot, we can then post those photos with Jeremy's
00:23:05.340bras and undergarments, and then we can all set our eyes and even our mind's eye on fire
00:23:11.380so that we can try to forget those images.
00:23:13.280Speaking of Republicans trying to get votes, Tim Scott does not seem to be doing very well in
00:23:20.140the presidential race. Remember, there's a presidential race going on. A lot of people
00:23:23.180sort of forgot that. Tim Scott's super PAC is pulling millions of dollars from TV ads.
00:23:29.500So New York Times is reporting that trust in the mission PAC signaled it would cut millions in TV
00:23:34.060ads because after millions of dollars in TV ad buys, Tim Scott's numbers have hardly budged.
00:23:40.180And Rob Collins, who's co-chairman of the Tim Scott Super PAC, says,
00:23:44.060we aren't going to waste our money when the electorate isn't focused or ready for a Trump
00:23:47.340alternative. We've done the research. We've studied the focus groups. We've been following
00:23:51.260Tim on the trail. This electorate is locked up, and money spent on mass media is not going to
00:23:55.960change minds until we get a lot closer to voting. Okay, so they're saying, Tim Scott's still in
00:24:01.260the race. We're still backing Tim Scott. But the TV ads we're running so far, people like Trump
00:24:07.020too much still. So we got to wait for them to like Trump a little bit less, and then the numbers
00:24:10.340can start to budge. I don't really think that this issue is about Tim Scott or Donald Trump or any of
00:24:18.340the candidates. I think the reason that it's smart for the Scott PAC to pull the millions out of TV ads
00:24:24.940is because TV ads don't work nearly as well as they used to, because it's 2023, not 1993.
00:24:35.240TV ads do not matter that much. Linear TV, so that's cable and network TV, make up less than half
00:24:43.760of TV viewership now, which doesn't even make it. What does that mean? It means that when people watch
00:24:48.860TV, when you sit down on your couch, you are probably, you are most likely watching streaming
00:24:54.880services. Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, hopefully Daily Wire Plus, hopefully Bent Key. You're not watching
00:25:03.620cable. I have never personally subscribed to cable ever in my entire life. I've been on cable TV many,
00:25:09.940many times. That is part of my job. I still have never subscribed. I don't know maybe any millennials
00:25:18.080who subscribe to TV. Very, very few, if any. Do Zoomers subscribe to cable TV or network TV? No.
00:25:25.320Also, the targeting is just way worse on TV. With digital ad targeting, they know every single
00:25:31.260thing about us. Every thought that pops into our head, our iPhone somehow records, and then you get
00:25:35.240the ads delivered to you. So this is a generational issue. And you're seeing it reflected, by the way,
00:25:40.240in the campaigns. Donald Trump, I know he's not exactly a spring chicken, though he seems fairly
00:25:44.900energetic. Donald Trump is running a campaign that appeals to young voters, much more than, say,
00:25:52.460the Pence campaign, much more than, say, the Tim Scott campaign, or the Nikki Haley campaign. I like
00:25:58.120all three of those people, personally. They're very nice people. But it is simply a fact. Their campaigns
00:26:04.400are more appealing toward boomers and maybe some of the Gen Xers. Who appeals to the millennials and
00:26:11.820Zoomers? It's Ron DeSantis. It's Donald Trump. It's Vivek Ramaswamy. It's Doug Burgum. No, maybe not
00:26:18.520Doug Burgum. It's those guys. And those are the guys who are campaigning mostly online and in inventive
00:26:25.900ways, not on TV. Speaking of watching things on screens, this is a story I've been teasing for a
00:26:30.280couple days. Deep fake porn might finally destroy civilization. Some say the world will end in fire.
00:26:41.140Some say in ice. From what I've tasted, I've desired. I hold with those who favor fire. But if
00:26:44.300it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of fate to know that for destruction, ice is also great
00:26:47.300and would suffice. And frankly, it's not going to be fire or ice. It's going to be deep fake porn.
00:26:53.500Because there's a new article just came out from, I think, Wired. Deep fake videos are skyrocketing.
00:27:03.520The biggest search engines in the world are funneling a ton of clicks to these websites.
00:27:08.200They're mostly not for just fun little jokes. It's largely for porn since all developments on
00:27:14.560the internet are driven by porn. And the deep fakes, apparently there are at least a quarter
00:27:20.720million videos that have been uploaded to the top 35 websites set up either exclusively or partially
00:27:27.160to have deep fake porn videos in the past seven years, according to the researcher. Over the first
00:27:32.480nine months of this year, 113,000 videos were uploaded to these websites. So these are just
00:27:37.340like weird, specifically deep fake porn websites. That's not even taking into account the major porn
00:27:44.400websites, which constitute the lion's share of the internet. The deep fake porn issue has affected
00:27:52.860celebrities, and some celebrities have sued over this, and they've taken all sorts of legal action.
00:27:58.140My fear, my greater fear for this is it's going to, it probably already is, but I suspect it's going
00:28:03.160to affect just ordinary people who don't have a public profile. And who's going to drive it? It's going
00:28:10.280to be people who are addicted to porn, who's addicted to porn, young men, and older men, I guess,
00:28:15.800and increasingly some women. And what they're going to do, you see how mid-journey works right now. You
00:28:20.640see how ChatGPT works. You can put in a very complex command, you know, the Pixar movie of Michael
00:28:28.200Knowles eating a tuna hoagie in Timbuktu, and 60 seconds later, you get this image that looks very
00:28:35.360accurate. Pretty soon, it's going to, if it isn't already, it's going to be that cute girl in my math
00:28:41.780class doing unspeakable things in whatever sort of setting, and it's going to spit that out too.
00:28:47.700In fact, according to this report, it already is. And then what happens? That is a form of,
00:28:55.360I don't think I'm overstating it, that's a form of digital rape. You are being violated to such a
00:29:01.760degree. And yet, right now, it seems like there's no real legal recourse, because it's all just kind
00:29:06.940of fake. It would be, the rudimentary way of doing this would be if you cut out a picture of
00:29:11.960someone's head, and you just pasted it on the picture of another person's body. But it's not
00:29:16.700even really another person's body. It's just a fake body created by a computer. But it looks as
00:29:23.380though you are putting this person in a position that is extremely shameful and embarrassing and
00:29:29.340disgraceful. So what do you do about that? On the one hand, just as a political matter,
00:29:35.920we're never going to be able to trust videos and photos again, which maybe is a good thing. It'll
00:29:40.180reduce some, to some degree, political scandal and allow us to talk more about issues.
00:29:45.000It's going to severely hamper our ability to adjudicate important political questions like
00:29:49.720war. We're not going to know what we can trust. Already in this war, you're seeing that issue.
00:29:53.940Because you're seeing AI-generated images that look indistinguishable almost from actual videos
00:30:01.040of the war. And then at the personal level, you're going to see people, you're going to see young
00:30:06.060people, you're going to see people in high school, you're going to see people in college
00:30:08.740being violated in this way. So what do you do? We have to get ahead of this issue, just like in the
00:30:15.26090s, the Republicans and Democrats came together to try to get ahead of the internet porn issue until
00:30:19.780some stupid liberal judges shot it down based on an erroneous reading of the Constitution.
00:30:24.560We've got to try to get ahead of this. I think you go after the deepfake porn in the same way we go
00:30:31.120after prostitution, which is that maybe you try to punish the customers, the users, but ultimately,
00:30:39.700I think you've got to punish the pimps. And in this case, that means you've got to punish the hosts.
00:30:44.200You've got to punish the people who are hosting and encouraging this stuff, which means you might
00:30:49.840have to rewrite parts of one of those laws from the 1990s, the Communications Decency Act,
00:30:54.780to stop giving so much protection to big internet companies that host this kind of smut.
00:31:00.640But just as you would go after a pimp for human trafficking, I think you've got to go after those
00:31:05.240producers, because obviously you're not going to go after the girl. You could go after the consumer,
00:31:09.140but in many cases, the consumers of this kind of porn are going to be teenage boys. And so what
00:31:13.920are you going to do? You're going to lock up a teenage boy for making some weirdo porn? Maybe you
00:31:18.800will, but you're going to lock up a lot of teenage boys in America. We've got to take a more proactive
00:31:23.680stance as a political order and say, if you, an adult with a bank account, with a business,
00:31:31.680who are preying on young girls and young men with this kind of smut, if you engage in that kind of
00:31:39.280business, you go to jail for a long, long time. You know, there's never been a better time to
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00:32:40.320at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored
00:32:44.560by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles today. Take it away.
00:32:48.140Hello, Mark. This is sweet little Brian from the village named after Mud Turtle. I was curious. Since you have fully embraced and vibed and are living the PSL lifestyle and allowing your inner white girl to burst out of you, I have become concerned. Did all of those herbs and spices get to your brain and turn you into a hippie, causing you to pick up the sitar and play the Star Spangled Banner for your outro?
00:33:16.840If that is the case, I believe that, for the good of society, and especially for the good of you and the other poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, pumpkin spice must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous hysteria of a flavoring at every level.
00:33:35.000And since you're man enough to embrace your inner 16-year-old white girl, I will take your lead and summons up mine to tell you, like, I know you're like on the daily wire, but like you're a daily friend to me.
00:33:49.660Thank you very much. I really appreciate all of the magnificent diction in that question. But to the question itself, have the pumpkin spices gone to my head and turned me into a big hippie?
00:34:02.280It's a fear. It's a fear. But you'll notice I was playing the Star Spangled Banner. And when I play sitar, in part because I'm not a good sitar player, but in part because I don't want to accidentally perform some Hindu liturgies or something, which is obviously intimately tied in with Indian classical music, I tend to play Western music on the sitar.
00:34:24.560That's what I do. And so like Christians going in and taking certain pagan rituals and traditions and just baptizing them and claiming them for ourselves, which is something that has happened much less frequently in history than is often claimed.
00:34:40.940People say, oh, Christmas is pagan or Easter is pagan. And none of that is really true. But certain little tiny things do come from pagan traditions. So too, that's what I'm doing with the sitar. We are making sitar great again. Next question.
00:34:55.560Howdy, howdy again, Mr. Knowles. It is Slap My Bass coming at you with another question. So I really would like to know what is your secret to staying calm and staying happy? With all of the stress and anger that comes with debating politics and the liberals, obviously they have a lot of anger, so they're not as level-headed as we are.
00:35:16.000But sometimes we can get caught up in the moment. We can get angry. We can become irrational. But I want to know what is your secret to staying level-headed, staying calm, and being collective in the face of all of the stress and stupidity. Thanks again, as always.
00:35:34.220One secret is just practicing. It's true of any habit. Just the more you do it, the easier it becomes to do it.
00:35:40.240But the other secret is I am a big fan of providence. I really like providence. I believe in providence. I believe that God has an order for the world.
00:35:51.600And there is a story here that is unfolding with my cooperation and with the cooperation of my free will. I'm not saying I'm merely a passive actor here, but that God ultimately is in control of this story.
00:36:03.880We can know the beginning of the story. We know the middle of the story. We know the end of the story.
00:36:06.400Things unfold in a way that can be marvelous and that are more marvelous than whatever I could think of.
00:36:12.660There's a good line from Alexander Pope, which is that all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance, direction which thou canst not see.
00:36:20.560There's a line my friend Father George Rutler has used, which is, he says, a wicked generation seeks signs and wonders, and I'm not the first to say it, but a stupid generation ignores signs and wonders.
00:36:31.140And so if I'm having a rough day, things keep happening to me that are outside of my control, and they inconvenience me or irritate me, I will sometimes get a little bit of a kick out of it.
00:36:44.300I'll say, well, this is happening for some reason. It's not mine to know exactly what that reason is necessarily, and so I will be grateful for whatever God has given me.
00:36:52.180When I was doing the interview with Father Rehill, the exorcist, we kept having audio problems.
00:36:56.660We didn't think we were going to have any audio problems. We should have gotten a 25-minute run without some clanging noise outside, and yet, seven minutes in, audio problems.
00:37:06.660I said, cut. All right, we restart. Another seven minutes goes by. Audio problems. Cut. Okay, here we go. Restart.
00:37:13.240This happens, I think, about four times. I turned to Father Rehill. I said, hey, does this happen to you a lot?
00:37:19.300He says, Michael, it's the story of my life. I said, oh, got it. Okay. Just keep rolling next time.
00:37:26.660It's the sort of things that can happen amid spiritual warfare, and so I find a great deal of delight about that.
00:37:34.720There's something bigger going on in the story than whatever particular activity I'm trying to accomplish.
00:38:22.520That there are certain sins which are mortal, and so how do we have our sins forgiven?
00:38:29.660Our Lord, in the gospel, establishes a way. He breathes on the apostles, and he says, receive the Holy Spirit.
00:38:37.380Whose sins you forgive are forgiven. Whose sins you retain are retained.
00:38:40.380And then we see this through the entire history of the church.
00:38:42.320So I have many loved ones who are outside of Holy Mother Church to varying degrees, and in certain cases, I hope intensely and pray for God's extraordinary mercy.
00:38:58.540But if you want what I consider to be a sure thing, I would avail yourself of the sacraments that Holy Mother Church dispenses.
00:39:14.200And, you know, Christ being crucified on the cross, he turns to the good thief, and he says, today you'll be with me in paradise.
00:39:23.860The good thief has not received formal sacraments, although, you know, he received the true meaning of the sacrament himself right there on the cross.
00:39:34.320But if it were me, I would recommend veiling yourself of all of the opportunities for God's grace.
00:39:46.880I'd like to get your thoughts on free speech in light of last weekend's attack on Israel by Hamas, because I learned about it in an odd way.
00:39:53.920Over the weekend, I saw some rumblings of this attack on Twitter, but I figured that this was just another rocket attack that would likely be blocked by the Iron Dome,
00:40:01.380which would minimize casualties, and that Israel would make a proportionate response, and, you know, then we could all go home.
00:40:08.060But I watched Ben Shapiro on Monday, mostly because you were on vacation, and after watching the videos he had compiled of Hamas' attack,
00:40:16.760I only then realized that Hamas had essentially perpetrated a holocaust in microcosm.
00:40:22.320I mean, these are by far the worst images I've ever seen in my life.
00:40:26.640And the only reason I know about any of this is because Hamas decided to post their war crimes on social media.
00:40:33.720Now, I'm familiar with the model of free speech that you've laid out in Speechless, and I'm sympathetic to it.
00:40:39.120But the principal reason that I and many others are aware of the depths of Hamas' depravity and their anti-Semitism
00:40:45.080is because the Internet has afforded them the right to free speech, if only accidentally.
00:40:50.600It seems to me that if people with evil beliefs wish to talk about those beliefs,
00:40:54.940it is a good idea for us to grant them the right to speak freely so that we can know that they believe these things