The Michael Knowles Show - October 20, 2023


Ep. 1354 - Deepfake Porn & Biden's Solution For Gaza

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Islamophobia on-the-job training deferred gratification deep fake porn deepfake porn laws Iran-Contra
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Joe Biden Good Ranchers Donald Trump Tim Scott Jeremy Reagan Jim Jordan Pure Talk Bent Key Norm Macdonald Doug Burgum George W. Bush Slap My Bass Alexander Pope George Rutler Barack Obama Nancy Pelosi Ron DeSantis Ben Peasley Rob Collins and 11 more
Ep. 1353 - Conservative Jailed For Posting This Meme Israeli UFC Fighter Explains HAMAS ｜ Natan Levy

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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.

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00:00:00.000 A U.S. Navy destroyer shot down three cruise missiles and several drones launched from the
00:00:05.280 Iran-backed jihadis in Yemen. And so, finally, President Biden addressed the nation last night
00:00:12.400 as the nation sleepwalks toward World War III. Here's what he had to say.
00:00:17.740 If Putin attacks a NATO ally, we will defend every inch of NATO which a treaty requires and calls
00:00:24.000 for. We'll have something that we do not seek. Make it clear, we do not seek. We do not seek
00:00:30.280 to have American troops fighting in Russia or fighting against Russia.
00:00:34.140 And what's this one? Not exactly encouraging. But while Biden was demanding more money and
00:00:48.740 weapons for Ukraine and Israel without any particularly strategic vision, he did manage
00:00:54.900 to focus on an under-discussed aspect of the new war in the Middle East. And that, of course,
00:01:02.200 is the Islamophobic backlash.
00:01:05.920 And I know many of you in the Muslim American community, the Arab American community,
00:01:11.020 the Palestinian American community, and so many others are outraged and hearty saying to yourselves,
00:01:17.720 here we go again with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9-11.
00:01:24.360 Here we go again. If Joe Biden's sentiment sounded familiar, that's because it has been uttered before
00:01:31.380 as part of a famous bit by the late great comedian Norm Macdonald.
00:01:35.760 I can't say my friend's name, but he said his biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that
00:01:49.800 would get a hold of a dirty bomb and explode it over a major city within the United States 0.97
00:01:57.460 and kill tens of millions of people because then the blowback against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible. 1.00
00:02:12.380 Mm-hmm. 1.00
00:02:13.780 Yeah, that's true.
00:02:14.720 That's true.
00:02:15.960 All right, let's do some jokes.
00:02:18.380 There it is.
00:02:19.100 I know tonight we're going to World War III and there was wars and we're deploying,
00:02:25.180 and I know that there was a horrible terrorist attack in Israel, killed 1,000 civilians,
00:02:31.100 but the real issue is the potential for Islamophobia.
00:02:39.540 Come on, Jack.
00:02:40.780 When Norm said it, it was a joke.
00:02:42.780 When Joe Biden said it, he was a joke.
00:02:45.440 And I am Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:02:48.720 Welcome back to the show.
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00:03:29.560 Deep fake porn is spreading everywhere.
00:03:34.180 We're not going to show you the porn, but we are going to go into it in just a moment.
00:03:37.560 First, though, before we move off of Joe Biden's completely disastrous policy in World War III,
00:03:43.560 he also managed to dox some of the most lethal and important soldiers that we have fighting for us.
00:03:52.240 The White House met with U.S. Special Forces in Israel.
00:03:56.400 Oh, yeah, by the way, we already have troops on the ground in Israel.
00:03:59.040 I know a lot of people don't know that.
00:04:00.620 A lot of people are saying, we shouldn't get involved.
00:04:03.680 We, listen, we got to stop before the U.S. gets involved here.
00:04:07.280 We're already very involved.
00:04:08.500 We've got a lot of Navy ships over there, aircraft carriers. 0.99
00:04:13.000 We've got a destroyer that ended up firing on three missiles that seemed to be heading for Israel
00:04:17.960 and fired on a bunch of drones that may have been hovering over the U.S. Navy destroyer. 0.83
00:04:22.520 We're in it.
00:04:23.200 And we've got Special Forces on the ground.
00:04:25.060 And to put the cherry on top, Joe Biden is doxing the U.S. Special Forces.
00:04:30.620 So he posted on Instagram, it was on the White House Instagram,
00:04:34.280 Joe Biden shaking hands with a bunch of Delta Force, I guess.
00:04:37.880 It says, in Israel, President Biden met with first responders to thank them for their bravery
00:04:42.280 and work they're doing in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks.
00:04:46.140 The White House deleted this rather quickly because they realized that the pictures showed
00:04:51.300 the faces of these troops and showed some of their tattoos.
00:04:55.780 We've posted a version where the faces and the tattoos are blurred out.
00:04:59.980 White House then said, as soon as this was brought to our attention,
00:05:03.420 we immediately deleted the photo.
00:05:05.060 We regret the error and any issues this may have caused.
00:05:08.180 Issues such as maybe the end of their military careers.
00:05:11.920 Issues such as maybe the targeting of them and their families by Hamas terrorists and all sorts
00:05:17.200 of terrorists around the world and all sorts of other foreign adversaries, even state adversaries,
00:05:20.560 who now have the identities of some of our most important military assets.
00:05:26.880 I don't think Joe Biden did this on purpose.
00:05:29.280 I would be shocked if he did this on purpose.
00:05:31.000 He did it out of incompetence.
00:05:34.560 His administration did this out of incompetence.
00:05:37.340 The social media team, the photographers who took the pictures, the people who posted this,
00:05:42.800 the spokesmen who made excuses for this.
00:05:45.480 It's just so incompetent. 0.53
00:05:47.280 It's so careless. 0.55
00:05:48.400 And this is the way Joe Biden operates.
00:05:50.800 This is the way the liberal establishment broadly operates.
00:05:53.640 And carelessness, when taken to this kind of extreme, is downright criminal.
00:06:01.380 How much can go wrong in three years?
00:06:08.380 21, 22, 23.
00:06:11.360 Less than three years.
00:06:12.440 The economy in chaos, inflation through the roof, first major war in Europe since World
00:06:21.860 War II, war breaking out in the Middle East that is already involving the United States
00:06:26.840 and Lebanon and Syria and Iran and Yemen and World War III.
00:06:35.040 How many things can go wrong in such a short period of time?
00:06:39.480 When Donald Trump was president, things were good.
00:06:43.100 And then COVID happened, and we locked the country down, and they rigged the election.
00:06:47.780 And now we've got this guy who doesn't know what his name is, who can't even speak when
00:06:51.100 he's addressing the nation on the prospect of World War III, and the world is being thrown
00:06:55.200 into chaos.
00:06:56.160 And is it because they're evil?
00:06:57.820 Yeah, in some ways they are evil. 0.95
00:06:59.100 They advocate for very evil things like killing lots of babies and destroying the family and
00:07:03.080 backing some of our enemies sometimes.
00:07:05.120 Sure, but a lot of the time they're just so negligent and careless that the world goes up
00:07:12.100 and smoke, and they say, oh, I don't know.
00:07:13.900 What do I can't even speak?
00:07:15.360 It's not my fault.
00:07:16.780 But it is.
00:07:17.900 This degree of negligence from all of these people at the top is downright criminal.
00:07:24.800 Things were going very well, and they, to quote Barack Obama, never underestimate Joe Biden's
00:07:32.880 ability to F things up.
00:07:35.400 Speaking of incompetence, there's a waitress who's gone viral on TikTok for complaining 1.00
00:07:40.240 that she doesn't make $200,000 a year, despite the fact that she has a bachelor's degree in 0.99
00:07:48.820 business marketing.
00:07:50.540 I have a bone to pick with America. 0.99
00:07:53.720 So I'm headed to my serving job.
00:07:57.580 I hate it.
00:08:00.560 I hate it.
00:08:02.780 Tell me why I make more money serving.
00:08:04.160 I have my literal business marketing degree that put me in acute $80,000 in debt, and I
00:08:15.340 make more serving sushi rolls, because I've been applying to marketing jobs for weeks now,
00:08:23.080 and the pay cut is insane.
00:08:27.020 Insane.
00:08:27.740 But the jobs that are like acute $150,000 to $200,000 a year, I'm not getting those.
00:08:34.940 I'm a 20, almost 25-year-old, my birthday's soon, almost 25-year-old chick going against,
00:08:41.400 you know, corporate-ass America, people with so much experience.
00:08:46.320 All I got is my degree.
00:08:48.260 You know, people say, get your degree, but then they don't talk about how you need experience.
00:08:53.140 The degree was the experience!
00:08:57.740 Honey, relax.
00:09:00.000 The degree was not the experience.
00:09:01.720 I pity her.
00:09:02.760 I don't pity the extreme entitlement.
00:09:07.380 This woman is saying, hey, I'm a 25-year-old chick. 1.00
00:09:10.120 I don't have any experience, really, in anything, and I need to make $200,000 a year, because
00:09:15.920 I got some almost certainly meaningless degree, and I took out some debt, and I made poor financial
00:09:23.540 decisions, and the culture encouraged me to make those poor financial decisions, but I'm
00:09:28.280 25 years old, and I want to make $200,000.
00:09:31.300 Did you make $200,000 at 25 years old?
00:09:34.840 Did you, if you're listening to this show right now, have you made $200,000 ever?
00:09:40.140 Have the vast majority of people ever made $200,000, let alone at 25?
00:09:47.720 What planet is this woman living on where she thinks that is something that, I suppose that's 1.00
00:09:54.400 something to shoot for later on in your career if you're willing to put in some hard work?
00:09:57.860 Like, but where you think you're just entitled to $200,000, that's a lot of money, and you're 25.
00:10:04.660 No 25, unless you're working on Wall Street or in a handful of very, very high-paying jobs,
00:10:09.460 no 25-year-old makes that.
00:10:11.380 And she makes an observation here that she thinks is an indictment of our economic system,
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00:10:19.040 She is, ironically, undermining her point when she says,
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00:11:36.260 She can make more money waiting tables. 1.00
00:11:38.900 That's true.
00:11:40.460 You can make relatively decent money waiting tables.
00:11:44.240 I've waited tables.
00:11:45.420 Probably many of you who are listening to this right now have waited tables.
00:11:49.320 You can.
00:11:51.680 The downside of waiting tables is there's not necessarily a ton of job growth.
00:11:56.100 There can be, if you really want to dig into the restaurant business, and then, I don't
00:11:59.880 know, become a head waiter, become a manager, who knows, open a restaurant.
00:12:04.160 There are paths for growth.
00:12:07.120 But generally speaking, if you are just going to be a waiter, then you can make relatively
00:12:12.220 decent money, depending on the restaurant, depending on the clients.
00:12:15.560 But there's going to be a ceiling there.
00:12:17.380 This woman wants to blow past that ceiling. 1.00
00:12:19.360 She wants to make $200,000 a year. 0.99
00:12:21.060 But if you want to make $200,000 a year, you've got to do a lot of grunt work first before
00:12:25.840 you can get on that path.
00:12:27.780 You don't get some of the benefits of just having a job if you want to have this more
00:12:33.420 risky and ambitious kind of career.
00:12:38.080 In my first jobs in politics, my very first job in politics, I made, I did the math.
00:12:43.180 I received a monthly stipend.
00:12:44.840 I was a teenager.
00:12:45.820 I made 75 cents an hour.
00:12:47.960 That was my first job.
00:12:48.800 It was a campaign job in politics.
00:12:50.140 And then one time while working for the campaign, I got a speeding ticket for 300 bucks.
00:12:54.420 So that reduced my earnings to like 50 cents an hour.
00:13:00.140 I think about my first jobs in the media.
00:13:02.460 I'm sure I wasn't paid anything.
00:13:04.020 And even when I was paid something, it was very hit or miss.
00:13:07.660 If you want to have a career, one of these things that's a little tougher to find and
00:13:15.880 that involves more risk, you're going to have to do a lot of grunt work.
00:13:18.640 Now, the mistake here is this woman went way into debt to get a degree that is meaningless. 1.00
00:13:25.220 No undergraduate business degree, in my estimation, is worth $80,000 because it's not experience.
00:13:33.200 And the employers don't view that as experience.
00:13:35.100 And you're going to learn a lot more with on-the-job training.
00:13:39.200 I'm the last conservative, I think, one of the last conservatives who promotes university education,
00:13:44.560 but only in certain circumstances, at certain universities, and specifically if you're studying something that will not directly get you a job.
00:13:52.600 I think the point of it is to study dusty old books and to read old philosophers and poets and historians.
00:13:59.660 You can do that better at a university than you can other places, on your own, on YouTube, sitting around in a bull session somewhere.
00:14:09.840 Universities are still in some ways better at doing that than other places.
00:14:15.380 No university is better at teaching you business marketing than a company is.
00:14:19.160 A company is always going to be better at that.
00:14:22.040 And this woman's just been duped. 1.00
00:14:24.100 And so she's $80,000 in the hole. 1.00
00:14:27.080 And she's been fed a pack of lies that if she goes to Palookaville University and gives them a bunch of money, 1.00
00:14:33.420 she'll get some piece of paper that's going to give her a bazillion dollars. 0.65
00:14:35.960 And that's just not true.
00:14:38.440 But 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.
00:14:51.560 This is the political issue here.
00:14:53.180 And you see it at the personal level and you see it at the political.
00:14:56.460 We as a country used to be willing to defer gratification.
00:15:00.440 You think of the pilgrims who came over here in 1620?
00:15:02.660 They deferred comfort for their whole lives.
00:15:05.060 They really never had any.
00:15:06.520 And they just worked very hard with that pilgrim Puritan work ethic.
00:15:11.480 And over time, they built up a prosperous country.
00:15:14.020 And now we get to enjoy the fruits of that.
00:15:15.480 And we hope that we can pass that on to our children.
00:15:19.040 I don't think we think that way anymore.
00:15:21.020 We just want the short-term profit.
00:15:22.620 We want the quick money.
00:15:23.600 We don't think about the future.
00:15:24.840 We don't have children.
00:15:25.820 And when we do have children, the inheritance that we leave them is a mountain of debt.
00:15:29.320 Now, speaking of trying to get jobs, Jim Jordan is back in it.
00:15:34.000 I was dismayed yesterday.
00:15:35.280 I was crestfallen because Jim Jordan seemed to signal that he was pulling out of the speaker race
00:15:40.340 and they were going to do some complete nonsense or they were going to empower the temporary
00:15:45.480 default speaker with some extra power.
00:15:48.920 So basically, the Republicans would be giving up their speakership.
00:15:51.960 And then Jim came back and he said, I'm not dropping out.
00:15:55.560 I'll just say this.
00:15:56.480 We made the pitch to members on the resolution as a way to lower the temperature and get back
00:16:05.300 to work.
00:16:06.400 We decided that wasn't where we're going to go.
00:16:08.760 I'm still running for speaker and I plan to go to the floor and get the votes and win
00:16:13.880 this race.
00:16:14.920 But I want to go talk with a few of my colleagues.
00:16:17.080 Particularly, I want to talk with the 20 individuals who voted against me so that we can move forward
00:16:22.820 and begin to work for the American people.
00:16:24.860 My man.
00:16:25.520 That's great.
00:16:25.920 There is not a single chance that conservatives will ever get a better speaker candidate in
00:16:31.800 the near future.
00:16:32.560 Jim Jordan is rock solid compared to the speaker candidates that we've had basically for my
00:16:37.500 entire lifetime.
00:16:38.900 So we got to make it happen.
00:16:40.540 And the great thing about Jordan is he's not just some rock ribbed, bomb throwing conservative
00:16:46.640 who appeals to the far right but doesn't appeal to anyone else.
00:16:50.840 He's a very measured, serious, sensible, reasonable guy.
00:16:55.760 He can work with his colleagues.
00:16:58.100 He's not one of these coup d'etat plotters who voted to oust McCarthy.
00:17:04.560 He's in some ways a party guy.
00:17:07.300 He goes along with, is a team player.
00:17:09.580 But he is also a man of conviction and he is by far the most conservative speaker candidate
00:17:16.120 we've had in my lifetime. 0.99
00:17:18.040 There are these 20 holdouts here, these squishes, these liberals, these jerks. 0.99
00:17:24.420 I suspect that Jim will not refer to them in those terms that I'm referring to them in. 0.97
00:17:31.380 He'll probably work with them.
00:17:32.500 I hope he pries away those votes.
00:17:33.880 The speaker vote is scheduled for this morning.
00:17:35.320 So this could change in real time.
00:17:36.980 But whatever happens on that speaker vote, I hope he sticks it out.
00:17:42.320 He's a good candidate.
00:17:43.600 And there's not a chance Republicans are going to get a better candidate.
00:17:46.360 So the only alternative then, even if you're a squish, moderate, liberal, whatever, is the 0.94
00:17:52.060 alternative is you just have a fake default speaker without any power, which means you've
00:17:56.520 just empowered the Democrats, which means they have effectively control of the whole government.
00:18:00.500 Which is maybe what some of these liberal Republicans want.
00:18:03.100 These liberal Republicans, a lot of them up in New York, that's probably what they want.
00:18:07.980 And candidates who are looking to primary them should keep that in mind.
00:18:13.140 Speaking of the House of Representatives, I just want to touch on this briefly, because
00:18:18.120 you probably haven't seen very much of it in the news.
00:18:20.460 But yesterday at the U.S. Capitol, there was an insurrection.
00:18:30.580 There was an insurrection.
00:18:31.660 It was the worst.
00:18:32.400 It was the worst day ever in the history of the Capitol.
00:18:35.160 Well, except according to the mainstream media and except according to the Democrats and
00:18:39.160 except they're going to block out those pictures.
00:18:41.020 What happened yesterday?
00:18:43.240 There was I'm using this mocking term insurrection because that's the way that we talk about January
00:18:48.860 6th.
00:18:49.360 But what happened yesterday was much worse than January 6th.
00:18:52.160 You had a bunch of pro Hamas leftists who marched all through the Capitol complex, interrupting
00:18:57.220 official congressional proceedings as bad or worse than whatever happened on January 6th, the
00:19:05.100 very worst day.
00:19:06.580 Our sacred democracy has never recovered.
00:19:09.720 And they'll face no consequences whatsoever.
00:19:14.000 You didn't even hear about it.
00:19:15.800 If you heard about it, you heard about it from me or a handful of other conservatives.
00:19:19.680 But there they are, people defending a terrorist organization, Hamas, chanting, yelling, screaming,
00:19:28.080 invading official proceedings, busting in while members are trying to speak and conduct their
00:19:33.020 business.
00:19:33.480 No consequences at all.
00:19:36.800 I don't mention this to suggest that we should arrest all these people.
00:19:39.620 I mean, we could.
00:19:40.280 That'd be fine, I guess, to give them a taste of their own medicine.
00:19:43.560 I mention it to remind you that one, January 6th was not even anywhere close to resembling
00:19:53.040 what the liberals told you it was.
00:19:56.700 But two, to show you the power of the media.
00:20:00.240 Because for people who are not listening to this show, who don't pay very close attention
00:20:03.040 to politics, they've just got this image seared into their mind that there was this
00:20:06.800 attempted armed insurrection that took place on January 6th, 2021.
00:20:13.480 We almost lost our government.
00:20:15.080 This temple of democracy almost came crumbling down.
00:20:17.980 But thankfully, Nancy Pelosi and the good guys won after the insurrectionists murdered dozens
00:20:24.120 of cops and almost killed AOC or whatever.
00:20:27.680 None of that happened.
00:20:30.020 What happened yesterday by the liberals was as bad or worse, and you never heard it because
00:20:36.500 of the power of the media.
00:20:38.000 And especially now as we're hurtling toward World War III, keep that in mind when you're
00:20:41.320 seeing actual war propaganda coming out from, I can't even say both sides, from all sides
00:20:46.340 because there are multiple conflicts here.
00:20:48.860 Don't let your emotions run away with you.
00:20:51.240 If you were fooled by January 6th, don't be fooled again.
00:20:55.080 To quote a great political philosopher, George W. Bush, fool me once, shame on you.
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00:21:53.420 And you know what's even more amazing about this?
00:21:54.960 Elisa hates flavors added to meats because she thinks it's usually going to be some kind 0.99
00:21:59.620 of artificial, terrible thing that's going to turn the frogs gay or whatever. 0.93
00:22:03.980 But the way that they did this with the pumpkin spice bacon, it is so natural.
00:22:09.200 It is so—like all of them.
00:22:10.200 It's just the best in the business.
00:22:11.760 They got the lowest prices.
00:22:13.780 It's—if you're not ordering Good Ranchers right now, I don't know that I can possibly
00:22:18.340 help you.
00:22:19.080 Text code Knowles, K-N-W-L-A-S, for $30 off your box today.
00:22:24.380 The box of America's best meat and seafood, $30 off, goodranchers.com, American meat delivered.
00:22:29.620 My favorite comment yesterday is from Ben Peasley, 6394, who says,
00:22:34.100 I half-expected Michael to mention the launch of Jeremy's bras and undergarments during the
00:22:38.500 Victoria's Secret section of today's show.
00:22:41.060 Jeremy's negligee is one of our more provocative projects, obviously scheduled for 2024.
00:22:49.380 The problem is Jeremy is still overseas in Hungary shooting Pendragon, so we haven't had
00:22:54.400 time to do the photo shoot of him wearing the negligee.
00:22:56.640 But once he gets back, we can do the photo shoot, we can then post those photos with Jeremy's
00:23:05.340 bras and undergarments, and then we can all set our eyes and even our mind's eye on fire
00:23:11.380 so that we can try to forget those images.
00:23:13.280 Speaking of Republicans trying to get votes, Tim Scott does not seem to be doing very well in
00:23:20.140 the presidential race. Remember, there's a presidential race going on. A lot of people
00:23:23.180 sort of forgot that. Tim Scott's super PAC is pulling millions of dollars from TV ads.
00:23:29.500 So New York Times is reporting that trust in the mission PAC signaled it would cut millions in TV
00:23:34.060 ads because after millions of dollars in TV ad buys, Tim Scott's numbers have hardly budged.
00:23:40.180 And Rob Collins, who's co-chairman of the Tim Scott Super PAC, says,
00:23:44.060 we aren't going to waste our money when the electorate isn't focused or ready for a Trump
00:23:47.340 alternative. We've done the research. We've studied the focus groups. We've been following
00:23:51.260 Tim on the trail. This electorate is locked up, and money spent on mass media is not going to
00:23:55.960 change minds until we get a lot closer to voting. Okay, so they're saying, Tim Scott's still in
00:24:01.260 the race. We're still backing Tim Scott. But the TV ads we're running so far, people like Trump
00:24:07.020 too much still. So we got to wait for them to like Trump a little bit less, and then the numbers
00:24:10.340 can start to budge. I don't really think that this issue is about Tim Scott or Donald Trump or any of
00:24:18.340 the candidates. I think the reason that it's smart for the Scott PAC to pull the millions out of TV ads
00:24:24.940 is because TV ads don't work nearly as well as they used to, because it's 2023, not 1993.
00:24:35.240 TV ads do not matter that much. Linear TV, so that's cable and network TV, make up less than half
00:24:43.760 of TV viewership now, which doesn't even make it. What does that mean? It means that when people watch
00:24:48.860 TV, when you sit down on your couch, you are probably, you are most likely watching streaming
00:24:54.880 services. Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, hopefully Daily Wire Plus, hopefully Bent Key. You're not watching
00:25:03.620 cable. I have never personally subscribed to cable ever in my entire life. I've been on cable TV many,
00:25:09.940 many times. That is part of my job. I still have never subscribed. I don't know maybe any millennials
00:25:18.080 who subscribe to TV. Very, very few, if any. Do Zoomers subscribe to cable TV or network TV? No. 0.58
00:25:25.320 Also, the targeting is just way worse on TV. With digital ad targeting, they know every single
00:25:31.260 thing about us. Every thought that pops into our head, our iPhone somehow records, and then you get
00:25:35.240 the ads delivered to you. So this is a generational issue. And you're seeing it reflected, by the way,
00:25:40.240 in the campaigns. Donald Trump, I know he's not exactly a spring chicken, though he seems fairly
00:25:44.900 energetic. Donald Trump is running a campaign that appeals to young voters, much more than, say,
00:25:52.460 the Pence campaign, much more than, say, the Tim Scott campaign, or the Nikki Haley campaign. I like
00:25:58.120 all three of those people, personally. They're very nice people. But it is simply a fact. Their campaigns
00:26:04.400 are more appealing toward boomers and maybe some of the Gen Xers. Who appeals to the millennials and
00:26:11.820 Zoomers? It's Ron DeSantis. It's Donald Trump. It's Vivek Ramaswamy. It's Doug Burgum. No, maybe not
00:26:18.520 Doug Burgum. It's those guys. And those are the guys who are campaigning mostly online and in inventive
00:26:25.900 ways, not on TV. Speaking of watching things on screens, this is a story I've been teasing for a
00:26:30.280 couple days. Deep fake porn might finally destroy civilization. Some say the world will end in fire.
00:26:41.140 Some say in ice. From what I've tasted, I've desired. I hold with those who favor fire. But if
00:26:44.300 it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of fate to know that for destruction, ice is also great
00:26:47.300 and would suffice. And frankly, it's not going to be fire or ice. It's going to be deep fake porn.
00:26:53.500 Because there's a new article just came out from, I think, Wired. Deep fake videos are skyrocketing.
00:27:03.520 The biggest search engines in the world are funneling a ton of clicks to these websites.
00:27:08.200 They're mostly not for just fun little jokes. It's largely for porn since all developments on
00:27:14.560 the internet are driven by porn. And the deep fakes, apparently there are at least a quarter
00:27:20.720 million videos that have been uploaded to the top 35 websites set up either exclusively or partially
00:27:27.160 to have deep fake porn videos in the past seven years, according to the researcher. Over the first
00:27:32.480 nine months of this year, 113,000 videos were uploaded to these websites. So these are just
00:27:37.340 like weird, specifically deep fake porn websites. That's not even taking into account the major porn
00:27:44.400 websites, which constitute the lion's share of the internet. The deep fake porn issue has affected
00:27:52.860 celebrities, and some celebrities have sued over this, and they've taken all sorts of legal action.
00:27:58.140 My fear, my greater fear for this is it's going to, it probably already is, but I suspect it's going
00:28:03.160 to affect just ordinary people who don't have a public profile. And who's going to drive it? It's going
00:28:10.280 to be people who are addicted to porn, who's addicted to porn, young men, and older men, I guess,
00:28:15.800 and increasingly some women. And what they're going to do, you see how mid-journey works right now. You 1.00
00:28:20.640 see how ChatGPT works. You can put in a very complex command, you know, the Pixar movie of Michael
00:28:28.200 Knowles eating a tuna hoagie in Timbuktu, and 60 seconds later, you get this image that looks very
00:28:35.360 accurate. Pretty soon, it's going to, if it isn't already, it's going to be that cute girl in my math 1.00
00:28:41.780 class doing unspeakable things in whatever sort of setting, and it's going to spit that out too.
00:28:47.700 In fact, according to this report, it already is. And then what happens? That is a form of,
00:28:55.360 I don't think I'm overstating it, that's a form of digital rape. You are being violated to such a
00:29:01.760 degree. And yet, right now, it seems like there's no real legal recourse, because it's all just kind
00:29:06.940 of fake. It would be, the rudimentary way of doing this would be if you cut out a picture of
00:29:11.960 someone's head, and you just pasted it on the picture of another person's body. But it's not
00:29:16.700 even really another person's body. It's just a fake body created by a computer. But it looks as
00:29:23.380 though you are putting this person in a position that is extremely shameful and embarrassing and
00:29:29.340 disgraceful. So what do you do about that? On the one hand, just as a political matter,
00:29:35.920 we're never going to be able to trust videos and photos again, which maybe is a good thing. It'll
00:29:40.180 reduce some, to some degree, political scandal and allow us to talk more about issues.
00:29:45.000 It's going to severely hamper our ability to adjudicate important political questions like
00:29:49.720 war. We're not going to know what we can trust. Already in this war, you're seeing that issue.
00:29:53.940 Because you're seeing AI-generated images that look indistinguishable almost from actual videos
00:30:01.040 of the war. And then at the personal level, you're going to see people, you're going to see young
00:30:06.060 people, you're going to see people in high school, you're going to see people in college
00:30:08.740 being violated in this way. So what do you do? We have to get ahead of this issue, just like in the
00:30:15.260 90s, the Republicans and Democrats came together to try to get ahead of the internet porn issue until 0.99
00:30:19.780 some stupid liberal judges shot it down based on an erroneous reading of the Constitution. 0.99
00:30:24.560 We've got to try to get ahead of this. I think you go after the deepfake porn in the same way we go 1.00
00:30:31.120 after prostitution, which is that maybe you try to punish the customers, the users, but ultimately,
00:30:39.700 I think you've got to punish the pimps. And in this case, that means you've got to punish the hosts.
00:30:44.200 You've got to punish the people who are hosting and encouraging this stuff, which means you might
00:30:49.840 have to rewrite parts of one of those laws from the 1990s, the Communications Decency Act,
00:30:54.780 to stop giving so much protection to big internet companies that host this kind of smut. 0.97
00:31:00.640 But just as you would go after a pimp for human trafficking, I think you've got to go after those
00:31:05.240 producers, because obviously you're not going to go after the girl. You could go after the consumer,
00:31:09.140 but in many cases, the consumers of this kind of porn are going to be teenage boys. And so what
00:31:13.920 are you going to do? You're going to lock up a teenage boy for making some weirdo porn? Maybe you 0.99
00:31:18.800 will, but you're going to lock up a lot of teenage boys in America. We've got to take a more proactive
00:31:23.680 stance as a political order and say, if you, an adult with a bank account, with a business,
00:31:31.680 who are preying on young girls and young men with this kind of smut, if you engage in that kind of
00:31:39.280 business, you go to jail for a long, long time. You know, there's never been a better time to
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00:32:40.320 at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. This mailbag is sponsored
00:32:44.560 by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles today. Take it away.
00:32:48.140 Hello, 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? 0.85
00:33:16.840 If 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.
00:33:35.000 And 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.
00:33:49.660 Thank 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?
00:34:02.280 It'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.
00:34:24.560 That'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.
00:34:40.940 People 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.
00:34:55.560 Howdy, 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.
00:35:16.000 But 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.
00:35:34.220 One secret is just practicing. It's true of any habit. Just the more you do it, the easier it becomes to do it.
00:35:40.240 But 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.
00:35:51.600 And 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.
00:36:03.880 We can know the beginning of the story. We know the middle of the story. We know the end of the story.
00:36:06.400 Things unfold in a way that can be marvelous and that are more marvelous than whatever I could think of.
00:36:12.660 There'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. 0.98
00:36:20.560 There'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. 0.91
00:36:31.140 And 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. 0.96
00:36:44.300 I'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.
00:36:52.180 When I was doing the interview with Father Rehill, the exorcist, we kept having audio problems.
00:36:56.660 We 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.
00:37:06.660 I said, cut. All right, we restart. Another seven minutes goes by. Audio problems. Cut. Okay, here we go. Restart.
00:37:13.240 This happens, I think, about four times. I turned to Father Rehill. I said, hey, does this happen to you a lot?
00:37:19.300 He says, Michael, it's the story of my life. I said, oh, got it. Okay. Just keep rolling next time.
00:37:26.660 It's the sort of things that can happen amid spiritual warfare, and so I find a great deal of delight about that.
00:37:34.720 There's something bigger going on in the story than whatever particular activity I'm trying to accomplish.
00:37:40.200 Next question.
00:37:41.720 Dear Michael, according to Catholic doctrine, can non-Catholic Christians go to heaven? 0.78
00:37:47.160 I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer to this online. Thank you so much.
00:37:52.520 Thank you.
00:38:22.520 That there are certain sins which are mortal, and so how do we have our sins forgiven?
00:38:29.660 Our Lord, in the gospel, establishes a way. He breathes on the apostles, and he says, receive the Holy Spirit.
00:38:37.380 Whose sins you forgive are forgiven. Whose sins you retain are retained.
00:38:40.380 And then we see this through the entire history of the church.
00:38:42.320 So 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.
00:38:58.540 But if you want what I consider to be a sure thing, I would avail yourself of the sacraments that Holy Mother Church dispenses.
00:39:09.580 How's that for an answer?
00:39:10.820 Wouldn't say you're without hope.
00:39:13.140 I would never say that sort of thing.
00:39:14.200 And, 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.
00:39:23.860 The good thief has not received formal sacraments, although, you know, he received the true meaning of the sacrament himself right there on the cross.
00:39:34.320 But if it were me, I would recommend veiling yourself of all of the opportunities for God's grace.
00:39:43.760 Next question.
00:39:45.080 Hi, Michael. Arun here.
00:39:46.880 I'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.
00:39:53.920 Over 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,
00:40:01.380 which would minimize casualties, and that Israel would make a proportionate response, and, you know, then we could all go home.
00:40:08.060 But I watched Ben Shapiro on Monday, mostly because you were on vacation, and after watching the videos he had compiled of Hamas' attack,
00:40:16.760 I only then realized that Hamas had essentially perpetrated a holocaust in microcosm. 0.96
00:40:22.320 I mean, these are by far the worst images I've ever seen in my life.
00:40:26.640 And the only reason I know about any of this is because Hamas decided to post their war crimes on social media. 0.74
00:40:33.720 Now, I'm familiar with the model of free speech that you've laid out in Speechless, and I'm sympathetic to it.
00:40:39.120 But the principal reason that I and many others are aware of the depths of Hamas' depravity and their anti-Semitism 0.83
00:40:45.080 is because the Internet has afforded them the right to free speech, if only accidentally.
00:40:50.600 It seems to me that if people with evil beliefs wish to talk about those beliefs,
00:40:54.940 it is a good idea for us to grant them the right to speak freely so that we can know that they believe these things
00:41:00.800 and so that we can act accordingly.
00:41:02.800 So, I'm curious, how do you think that the principle of free speech applies to evil and demonic people,
00:41:08.340 such as the members of Hamas?
00:41:10.220 Thank you, as always, for your wisdom.
00:41:11.600 Arun, typically an excellent question, and your observation is quite right, but it cuts both ways,
00:41:19.980 which is Hamas committed these particularly egregious atrocities, in part, to upload it to social media.
00:41:28.780 It wasn't the Israelis, it wasn't the Westerners who were uploading these videos, at first at least.
00:41:34.040 It was Hamas uploading these videos, because the purpose of terrorism is to target civilians to achieve a political purpose
00:41:41.180 and to scare the hell out of civilians, and in this case, basically to convince the Jews who are living in the Holy Land 0.60
00:41:46.160 that it would be smarter for them to live in New York than to live surrounded by enemies.
00:41:51.560 So, if not for social media, if not for the ability to publicize these crimes,
00:41:57.720 would the crimes even have been so egregious?
00:42:00.660 Maybe, but I think it's indisputable that Hamas was playing to the cameras. 0.83
00:42:07.400 They implicitly admit that themselves when they upload all of those videos.
00:42:12.180 So, to your point, though, without trying to skirt the issue,
00:42:15.480 I think that there can be good uses of making exceptions to rules of propriety and standards on social media
00:42:22.760 to expose the barbarity of a particular crime, to achieve a particular political purpose,
00:42:28.320 to shed some light on a significant historical event.
00:42:31.880 Absolutely.
00:42:33.220 I think, still, on Twitter, there are rules against snuff films.
00:42:37.900 You're not, on social media generally, you're not allowed to upload a regular old snuff film,
00:42:42.060 and yet we are seeing videos of people being killed.
00:42:44.520 So, that is technically a snuff film, but you see that kind of exception already.
00:42:48.180 I would just make those judgment calls as a matter of prudence.
00:42:53.320 I wouldn't make it as a matter of some firm ideological principle
00:42:57.440 that we always need to see all sorts of gruesome videos.
00:43:01.540 I don't see what would be achieved by that, and a lot of bad things could result as a consequence.
00:43:06.520 Okay, we'll get to one written mailbag before we get to the
00:43:08.600 in the memberum segmentum, and we'll get to more mailbag there.
00:43:13.120 From Nashon, hey, sexy Mike, I'm a high schooler, oh no, generally speaking,
00:43:20.340 the high schoolers should not use my proper, only the adults should use my proper title.
00:43:24.440 I'm a high schooler taking a class on government,
00:43:27.120 and was recently learning about the Iran-Contra scandal.
00:43:30.520 Since you're a big proponent of Reagan, I wanted to know your thoughts on it,
00:43:33.220 or if the class is just teaching me wrong, thanks.
00:43:36.100 Iran-Contra was fine, the only problem is that it didn't go far enough.
00:43:39.420 Iran-Contra was when the Reagan administration,
00:43:43.020 it would appear without the knowledge of the president,
00:43:46.240 was trading arms for hostages in Iran, and then using some of the money.
00:43:52.600 There was an embargo with Iran, so they couldn't legally sell the arms,
00:43:56.640 but they were selling arms to Iran anyway to try to get hostages out of Iran,
00:44:00.560 and then they were taking some of the money that was made from the arms sales
00:44:05.000 to fund the Contras who were opposing the communists in Nicaragua.
00:44:08.600 And I don't really see the issue with it.
00:44:12.840 The problem was, the legal issue there was that there was no money appropriated
00:44:17.540 to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
00:44:19.000 It was obviously a good thing to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. 1.00
00:44:21.580 There's no question about that.
00:44:22.460 It was the right-wingers versus the communists.
00:44:25.500 And in virtually any of those circumstances, you want to oppose the communists. 0.99
00:44:30.720 Communists are very, very evil people, and their ideology is very, very evil and diabolical. 0.97
00:44:34.940 So that was good. 0.99
00:44:36.180 We don't want communists taking over Latin America.
00:44:40.040 There were hostages in Iran.
00:44:41.800 You want to get the hostages back.
00:44:43.080 You don't want to do it in a way that's going to encourage terrorists to steal more of your people.
00:44:48.280 So they did it somewhat surreptitiously.
00:44:51.220 And the issue was that they circumvented the legal means.
00:44:54.700 But we continue to do this.
00:44:56.160 I mean, that's how we gave Ukraine $6 billion over the last few months.
00:45:00.620 Remember, Congress didn't want to appropriate more funds to the Ukraine war.
00:45:05.320 So the DOD just pretended that they found $6 billion in a couch cushion.
00:45:08.880 And they said, no, no, actually, the money, it was because the weapons were cheaper than we thought they were.
00:45:12.680 So anyway, here's another $6 billion.
00:45:14.500 That was money that we sent to Ukraine that was not really appropriated.
00:45:18.060 They just did some kind of funny math on the books and sent the weapons over there.
00:45:22.600 It's the same thing as Iran-Contra.
00:45:24.480 But I guess the only difference is there was a clear right and wrong in the case of what was going on in Iran-Contra and Nicaragua.
00:45:33.500 And the Reagan administration was on the right side of things.
00:45:36.160 And in the case of the Biden administration, they have no strategic vision.
00:45:39.920 And often they're funding people who aren't so great.
00:45:42.340 That's my view on it.
00:45:43.680 So maybe you were taught correctly.
00:45:44.740 You might have been taught the facts of it and then just told it was a bad thing.
00:45:48.460 There was nothing wrong about it at all.
00:45:50.040 It's a shame that as many Reagan administration staffers had to suffer consequences as they did.
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