The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1369 - Old Lawyer Shoots Two Climate Activists Blocking The Road

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00:00:37.700 A 77-year-old man had enough of climate activists in Panama blocking the road.

00:00:42.680 So he did what probably many people want to do in these situations and shot two of them dead.

00:00:48.380 For his actions, Kenneth Darlington was not only arrested, but has gone viral.

00:00:53.640 To the implicit and explicit cheers of many conservatives who are rightly frustrated by climate activists' shenanigans.

00:01:02.280 Such as shutting down roadways, preventing parents from taking their children to the hospital even, and attacking priceless art.

00:01:10.200 But of course, Darlington's vigilantism is not actually justified.

00:01:15.380 You don't just get to shoot people for inconveniencing you, no matter how annoying they are.

00:01:19.880 And yet, Darlington's actions are entirely to be expected.

00:01:25.860 Authorities in Panama and around the world regularly refuse to enforce the law when leftists break it.

00:01:32.200 And when the legitimate authority refuses to do its job, things like this always happen.

00:01:38.460 Always.

00:01:39.420 Necessarily.

00:01:40.700 Because of a fact that I have observed for some years now, which is that there will be order.

00:01:47.260 Order can be enforced by the police.

00:01:51.140 Order can be enforced by the civil authority.

00:01:53.840 Or order can be enforced by an old man civilian with a gun who's had enough. 0.98

00:02:00.300 But society will not tolerate chaos for long.

00:02:03.420 So the question is, what kind of order will we have?

00:02:06.540 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:07.240 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:08.080 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:36.520 Promo code Knowles today.

00:02:39.660 Marsha Blackburn is going to subpoena the Epstein client list. 1.00

00:02:45.960 We'll get to that in just a moment.

00:02:47.220 Also, the father of Indy Gregory, this poor British baby that the British government is trying to kill, might be able to come on the show.

00:02:57.120 The only reason he would not be able to come on the show is if he has to be in court for a last-minute plea to stop the British government from killing his child.

00:03:06.300 So stay tuned for that.

00:03:07.140 First, though, before we move on, speaking of killing, this guy, Kenneth Darlington, he's gone viral.

00:03:13.540 That picture of him holding the gun out, the casing just flying right by his head, he's just had enough.

00:03:22.500 It's gone totally viral.

00:03:24.180 It's considered one of the hardest pictures ever taken, probably.

00:03:27.800 And yet, while people feel that they're really rooting for this guy, obviously it's vigilantism.

00:03:32.780 This is not really justified.

00:03:35.440 Nobody was trying to rush their child to the hospital or anything like that.

00:03:38.440 The climate activists are extremely annoying and breaking the law, but it doesn't necessarily give you the right to shoot them.

00:03:43.980 The second observation I had about this whole fiasco is nobody really knows anything about this situation.

00:03:53.400 A lot of people see this picture.

00:03:54.440 They assume it happened in America or in Europe.

00:03:56.760 It didn't.

00:03:57.100 It happened in Panama.

00:03:57.780 They assume it's exactly the same group that's protesting the Van Gogh paintings, just stop oil and throwing soup on priceless artwork.

00:04:05.940 But it's not.

00:04:07.620 This has not just been going on for a day or two days in Panama.

00:04:10.640 It's been going on for weeks.

00:04:12.240 And the protest is over a new Panamanian policy for copper mining.

00:04:18.340 So the environmental activists are protesting the large mining contract that will allow a Canada-based firm, First Quantum Minerals, to operate the largest pit copper mine ever in the region for at least 20 years.

00:04:33.220 And so all of a sudden now, the protests seem less like some weirdo, purple-haired, hippie chick trying to shut down traffic and more a legitimate act of civil disobedience and a political protest against corruption, even more than against environmental policy.

00:04:52.400 The roadblocks, by the way, have not just inconvenienced drivers.

00:04:55.060 They've caused up to $80 million in daily losses to businesses.

00:04:58.920 They've shut schools down for more than a week.

00:05:01.400 So whether you deep down support this guy who shot the activists or whether you think, oh, this is really bad, maybe I'm even on the activist side.

00:05:13.040 To me, the most important observation here is how quickly we see a picture on the Internet and we just jump to a conclusion without knowing anything.

00:05:23.740 In this case, anything about the interaction between these two groups, but also anything about Panama, anything about this government policy.

00:05:29.680 We don't know any of it at all.

00:05:30.760 It reminds me of a great Tucker Carlson text that came up during that Dominion lawsuit against Fox News, which is Tucker said, I'm so tuned into the Internet that I see some video of a right-winger beating up a left-winger or vice versa.

00:05:46.400 And I just feel, I salivate, you know, I just feel so excited by it.

00:05:52.280 And he said, and that's a bad feeling to have.

00:05:54.740 I shouldn't do that.

00:05:56.620 It's almost like a type of pornography.

00:05:58.880 It's not sexual, but it doesn't rile up your lust, but it riles up your anger, it riles up your wrath, it riles up your pride, it riles up whatever.

00:06:06.840 We don't know anything about it.

00:06:10.580 An image is worth a thousand words.

00:06:12.220 And then we fill in those thousand words with whatever preconceived notion we already had floating around our heads.

00:06:16.260 It has nothing to do with the situation in Panama.

00:06:18.760 Speaking of law and order, seven Nashville police officers have just been placed on leave over the shooter manifesto leaks.

00:06:27.240 You know, there was this shooting, the trans-identifying gal who slaughtered those poor little kids at the Christian school, at Covenant School in Nashville. 1.00

00:06:35.660 Then we didn't hear the manifesto for weeks and weeks, months and months, even though in all of these shootings, whenever it's a white guy, if the white guy especially is a little right wing, the manifesto leaks immediately.

00:06:47.800 Here we didn't get anything.

00:06:48.980 And then Crowder, Stephen Crowder and his team were able to get a leak of the manifesto.

00:06:54.160 We saw, wait, I don't even see a ton of pro-trans stuff in here.

00:06:57.760 It's largely anti-white rhetoric, very left-wing rhetoric, but specifically anti-white, even though the shooter was white.

00:07:07.360 And we only saw three pages of the leak.

00:07:09.140 There's obviously more to the manifesto.

00:07:11.120 So what does the Nashville Police Department do?

00:07:14.020 Do they go and they say, okay, we're going to release the rest of the manifesto?

00:07:17.060 Do they go and shed any light on this horrific shooting in Nashville?

00:07:22.580 No, they place seven cops on leave, which tells me this whole manifesto is likely much, much worse.

00:07:31.180 The moment that the manifesto leaked, you saw left-wing journalists say these were taken out of context and this is a selective leak.

00:07:40.080 Even the authorities, this is a selective leak to paint a political picture.

00:07:44.020 Oh, you don't like a selective leak?

00:07:45.160 Then release the whole thing.

00:07:47.620 Well, no, we don't.

00:07:49.260 Oh, why?

00:07:49.680 If it's a selective leak that paints a dishonest, deceptive picture of the shooter, then release the whole thing and then we'll have the full picture.

00:07:59.440 Well, no, we don't want to do that.

00:08:00.660 Why?

00:08:01.340 Because the full manifesto almost certainly is even worse for the political left.

00:08:09.620 That's why they want to cover this up.

00:08:11.440 Now, speaking of demoniacs, there's a really troubling video that just came out.

00:08:15.580 It's troubling because it sheds light on evil things that go on in our world that we want to deny.

00:08:23.220 But I kind of like the video in that it sheds light on evil things that go on in our world that a lot of people want to deny.

00:08:31.080 This is of a witch describing how she performs satanic rituals through her abortions. 0.94

00:08:38.580 How to practice abortion as a magical ritual, part one. 0.69

00:08:43.220 My qualifications for teaching this, I am a witch who has had abortions and has used them as rituals. 0.97

00:08:50.600 I've been through this twice.

00:08:51.500 And it's birthing magic and death magic simultaneously.

00:08:56.180 If you are a womb body who has made the decision to have an abortion, keep in mind that there is death and there is life. 0.71

00:09:04.200 There has been a conception, there is life that has been conceived.

00:09:07.900 For me, I look at the abortions I've had as workings.

00:09:11.560 So just like you would go through a spell and do things in a very specific order, you would lay things out in a very specific order.

00:09:19.960 Because how we do our rituals and our workings and our spell castings, the order that we do them in is the order they play out in, in the physical.

00:09:28.140 When the magic like really kicks in and our spirits that we have called on say it's time for that working to work.

00:09:34.960 So if we look at an abortion and conception ritualistically, there's a life that has been conceived.

00:09:42.100 So this witch is willing to admit something that most mainstream liberals will not admit.

00:09:48.640 Most pro-abortion regular old liberals will not admit, namely, that abortion obviously ends a life.

00:09:55.640 It wouldn't be abortion otherwise.

00:09:56.840 And she says further that the abortion is not merely a physical action, because we're not merely physical beings, it's a spiritual action.

00:10:06.820 And this witch who does witch stuff, who worships and communes with demons, at least in her own mind, she thinks she's doing that. 0.97

00:10:15.900 She says, obviously, the power of life and death is used in a ritual.

00:10:22.800 And people are going to listen to this and they're going to say, man, these young people, they're really into some weird stuff.

00:10:29.460 This new age, weird, hippy-dippy, this is crazy.

00:10:34.720 But it's not new.

00:10:36.220 This isn't new at all.

00:10:37.920 This has been going on for all of human history.

00:10:41.460 The thing that is new is denying that this exists.

00:10:45.260 For all of human history, everywhere on earth, women like that have called themselves witches and killed their babies and believed that they were communing with demons and believed that blood sacrifices had a spiritual consequence to them, particularly vis-a-vis the worshiping and communing with demons. 0.97

00:11:07.580 And now we, in modern, secular, liberal society, we say, oh, that's all totally crazy.

00:11:14.120 And yet, the people who are the most liberal in our liberal society, the people who are the most modern, liberated, feminist, all the isms that we exalt in our modern liberal society, they agree with the old view.

00:11:30.780 They agree that there are such things as witches, there are such things as demons, that the physical world has a connection to the metaphysical world, there is such a thing as sacrifice, including blood sacrifice, including human sacrifice.

00:11:41.900 For goodness sakes, this rapper, Young Thug, who I guess is on trial for murder, his accomplice, when his accomplice was arrested, his accomplice was arrested performing a satanic ritual with a goat, sacrificing a goat.

00:11:54.900 And there's now a big legal fight over whether or not that evidence can be admitted to the court, because the defense is arguing that that would prejudice the jury.

00:12:03.480 Yeah, I think satanic rituals might prejudice the jury.

00:12:06.340 This woman, though, is shedding light on something that we all seem to have forgotten.

00:12:11.060 And so my question, I remember one time I was interviewing a Fox News host on radio when he was promoting a book, and the book was about witch trials.

00:12:19.200 You know, he said, there's a political witch hunt going on today.

00:12:21.960 And his pitch for the book was, well, the first thing about witch hunts that we need to remember is there's no such thing as witches.

00:12:30.000 And I said, oh, no, of course there are witches.

00:12:33.080 At least I said that in my head.

00:12:34.300 I let him get his book pitch out.

00:12:35.600 But that's what I said to myself.

00:12:36.640 I said, no, of course there are witches more likely.

00:12:39.600 Witches more likely.

00:12:40.480 That everyone for all of human history until about, I don't know, 50 or 100 years ago, specifically in the West, that everyone for all of human history, people who believed in witches and devils and demons, and more importantly, who believed in God and angels and grace, everyone for all of human history everywhere on Earth, other than us recently,

00:13:06.800 they were totally wrong, and we just happened to be right, or vice versa.

00:13:12.960 Who do you think is more deluded?

00:13:16.180 This witchy lady talking about how she sacrificed her children to the devil? 1.00

00:13:20.580 Or the purple-haired feminist atheist marching in the street saying, my body, my choice, a pregnancy is not alive. 0.98

00:13:32.140 I'm not, this is just a healthcare procedure.

00:13:35.720 And a human is just a clump of cells.

00:13:38.960 Who do you think is more likely to be correct?

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00:14:48.240 If you want to hear more on witchcraft, which very much does still exist,

00:14:51.400 you can check out my very long-form interview with the former witch,

00:14:54.840 which is now available on YouTube under Michael and the former witch.

00:14:59.080 Now, speaking of mistreating children, big news out of The Simpsons.

00:15:05.220 Did you know that The Simpsons is still on the air?

00:15:07.760 The Simpsons, a cartoon that started in 1989, I believe, has been on for 34 seasons.

00:15:14.560 And there have been many cultural memes that have come out of The Simpsons,

00:15:20.460 one of which is Homer Simpson strangling his son Bart, but apparently no longer.

00:15:26.720 Whoa, that's quite a grip.

00:15:29.780 See, Marge?

00:15:30.900 Strangling the boy has paid off.

00:15:32.660 Just kidding.

00:15:33.280 I don't do that anymore.

00:15:34.780 Times have changed.

00:15:37.080 So it's a little joke about this meme from The Simpsons,

00:15:40.600 but it's actually The Simpsons telling you something real about the show

00:15:44.600 and about how the political correctness has affected the show.

00:15:48.040 Homer doesn't strangle Bart anymore.

00:15:49.900 Used to be whenever Bart would do something bad,

00:15:52.840 Homer would go strangle him.

00:15:53.640 Bart's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, but now they don't do that.

00:15:57.780 We no longer joke about strangling our kids in society.

00:16:01.900 Now, back 30 years ago, when The Simpsons had, or 20 years ago, or 15 years ago,

00:16:07.680 when Homer would strangle Bart,

00:16:09.420 it's not that it was culturally accepted to strangle your children.

00:16:13.100 It was a joke.

00:16:14.360 It was a joke about how sometimes your kids get on your nerves

00:16:16.800 and you just want to wring their little necks, you know,

00:16:18.700 but you don't actually want to do it.

00:16:20.000 You love your kids.

00:16:21.620 We're not allowed to even joke about that anymore.

00:16:25.180 However, now we are allowed to castrate our children. 1.00

00:16:30.980 Now we are allowed to kill our children through abortion. 0.75

00:16:33.560 30 years ago, in polite company, one would not really defend abortion.

00:16:40.320 30 years ago, when The Simpsons was starting out making jokes about strangling their kids,

00:16:43.860 even if you supported abortion, you would probably say,

00:16:48.540 look, abortion is obviously an evil thing. 0.99

00:16:51.080 Nobody wants abortions. 1.00

00:16:53.480 We all want fewer abortions, but because of the difficulty and complexity of this issue,

00:17:00.920 abortion ought to be safe, legal, and rare. 0.89

00:17:04.500 That was the Democrat position.

00:17:06.420 It should be rare because of how awful it is, but, you know, we should tolerate it.

00:17:09.760 That was the whole debate.

00:17:11.360 Now, however, we're at a stage where people will say,

00:17:14.100 we need to shout our abortions. 1.00

00:17:15.380 Oh, abortions are so wonderful. 0.88

00:17:16.860 We need to enshrine in the Ohio State Constitution a right to kill babies up until the moment of birth. 0.97

00:17:21.820 Oh, a baby's not even a baby. 0.76

00:17:23.380 No, it's just a clump of cells.

00:17:24.540 It's a product of pregnancy. 0.68

00:17:25.600 It's not.

00:17:25.960 No, it's good.

00:17:26.540 It's an affirmative good.

00:17:28.420 Shout your abortion. 1.00

00:17:29.200 I think there might be a relationship here.

00:17:34.280 As society gets more finicky, as society gets a little more precious about the things we're allowed to joke about,

00:17:43.000 we seem to become more barrack in the things that we're allowed to do.

00:17:46.860 Maybe that's why we can't joke about it anymore.

00:17:51.120 It's too real.

00:17:52.740 The fact that we, with the affirmation of our society all the way up to and including the President of the United States,

00:18:00.940 now celebrate castrating our children, mutilating our children, reducing our children's life expectancy, 0.72

00:18:07.600 killing our children even. 0.99

00:18:08.680 Now that we actually do that, maybe it's that the jokes are too real.

00:18:14.200 Maybe we don't cut out the jokes because we've become a kinder, gentler society.

00:18:18.980 Maybe we cut out the jokes for precisely the opposite reason.

00:18:22.440 Now, speaking of minors, my senator here in the state of Tennessee, the great Marsha Blackburn,

00:18:28.300 has just announced something that I think a lot of, not just conservatives, normal people have been waiting for for years.

00:18:37.680 And that is, she's going to try to get the Epstein client list.

00:18:42.840 Since we're in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more that I've filed.

00:18:50.880 A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein's estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane.

00:18:57.920 Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and sexual abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein,

00:19:06.220 I think it is very important that we identify everybody that was on that plane

00:19:12.880 and how many trips they took on that plane and the destinations to which they arrived.

00:19:21.040 Of course, that's great.

00:19:23.000 Love that Marsh is doing this.

00:19:24.600 One of the great senators in Washington, D.C.

00:19:28.580 Why has this taken so long?

00:19:31.900 Can you believe this?

00:19:32.980 I remember the Jeffrey Epstein story from 2015.

00:19:39.300 2014, maybe.

00:19:40.480 I've been hearing about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:43.200 He was still a free man at that point.

00:19:44.940 Then finally they arrest him.

00:19:47.000 Then what happened?

00:19:47.420 Oh, then whoopsie daisy. 1.00

00:19:48.520 The jail camera went out and a mustachioed Hillary Clinton showed up and rang his little neck. 1.00

00:19:53.920 Speaking of ringing one's little neck.

00:19:55.760 Then we just never heard anything.

00:19:59.040 The Department of Justice has spent the last couple of years trying to spy on Catholic churches,

00:20:07.780 arresting pro-life parents of six and seven for peacefully demonstrating outside of abortion clinics

00:20:16.420 and exposing the horrors of abortion, have called parents akin to domestic terrorists

00:20:22.940 for wanting to have some say over their kids' curriculum,

00:20:26.420 not have their kids be taught weird grooming or porno stuff in elementary school classrooms.

00:20:31.440 DOJ has been really focused on that.

00:20:33.220 Where is the Epstein client list?

00:20:34.620 How is it that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's intelligence-connected business partner,

00:20:40.600 went on trial, was obviously arrested, and yet we still, do we have one name confirmed?

00:20:48.920 We know some of the people who were on the plane, but do we confirm, do we have it?

00:20:53.860 No.

00:20:54.820 Frankly, I want the Epstein client list moved to the top of the list.

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00:22:16.700 My favorite comment yesterday is from TheChickenLord9617, who says,

00:22:21.140 Can't wait for Michael's favorite comment to be one of the many saying,

00:22:24.320 Knowles is wrong, Vivek crushed it completely.

00:22:26.840 Well, hold on.

00:22:28.640 I think I pointed that out.

00:22:30.540 I think I said immediately, Vivek gave the most brilliant performance of the debate.

00:22:36.200 He had a little bit of a low point when he took a hit on Nikki Haley for her daughter using TikTok.

00:22:43.040 Because Nikki was then able to turn that around and say, Stop attacking my daughter. 1.00

00:22:47.780 And then she made some comment about her high heels being ammunition or something like that. 1.00

00:22:51.280 But, and then the Vivek supporters could come back and say, Well, hold on.

00:22:54.900 Nikki Haley's daughter is not, she's not 10 years old.

00:22:57.140 She's 25 years old.

00:22:57.980 She's an adult.

00:22:58.680 She's, but still, that was a little, but the reason that anyone is even talking about Vivek is because,

00:23:04.500 and the reason he has occasionally a misstep, but he has a lot of home runs too,

00:23:08.660 is because he's the only one taking any risks in the whole race.

00:23:12.880 Vivek is the only person taking any risks at all.

00:23:16.900 But I think that's also the reason that I would probably score DeSantis as having won.

00:23:23.100 I don't think it's, I also said, I don't think anything is going to move the polls really at all,

00:23:27.160 not in any significant way.

00:23:28.460 But I think DeSantis gave the kind of performance that Joe Biden gave during the debates in 2020,

00:23:35.340 which is not the most brilliant, not the most exciting, but just totally serviceable,

00:23:42.600 very competent, mainstream answers, succinct to the point.

00:23:47.600 So the only difference there is in 2020, the Democrat debates mattered.

00:23:51.640 They were consequential for who got the nomination.

00:23:53.760 In this case, the Republican frontrunner, who's leading by, what, 44 points,

00:23:59.740 between 44 and 56 points, taking into account everyone on that stage, he wasn't there.

00:24:06.640 So, you know, the undercard is competing, it would seem, for something else.

00:24:11.820 We now have to get to my guest.

00:24:12.840 I'm very pleased to hear that the father of Indy Gregory, this poor child who is facing death

00:24:21.500 because the British government is attempting to kill the child,

00:24:26.740 even contrary to what the government of Italy and what the Vatican are offering,

00:24:31.460 which is citizenship and treatment at the hospital Bambino Gesù.

00:24:35.020 We have him on the line, he's not in court right now.

00:24:37.380 This should be an international scandal, but because we've heard this story now every six months,

00:24:42.020 at least every year, specifically out of the United Kingdom, we've become callous to it.

00:24:46.860 And the story is that a baby faces medical problems, and the parents of the baby want to treat the baby,

00:24:53.700 and want to help the baby, and want to keep the baby alive.

00:24:56.040 And the psychopaths running the UK government and health system,

00:25:01.260 and more broadly who run the health systems in the West, 0.98

00:25:04.320 want to kill the child because they now view death as treatment.

00:25:10.040 Mr. Gregory, thank you for coming on the show. 0.98

00:25:12.900 Thank you. Thank you for being here.

00:25:14.240 So sorry about everything you're going through. It's horrific.

00:25:18.000 The health problems of your child are obviously horrific in themselves.

00:25:24.100 I pray to God I never have to go through anything like that.

00:25:28.060 It's the greatest fear any parent has.

00:25:33.580 And then on top of that,

00:25:35.560 your government will not permit you to treat your child or keep your child alive,

00:25:43.700 and on top of that,

00:25:45.680 the UK government will not allow,

00:25:48.600 the government of Italy, which gave your child citizenship,

00:25:52.660 will not allow the Pope,

00:25:54.520 will not allow the Vicar of Christ on Earth

00:25:57.740 to help treat your child. 1.00

00:26:00.920 They simply want to kill your baby. 1.00

00:26:05.740 Yeah. 1.00

00:26:05.780 Tell us what's happening.

00:26:10.660 We're just absolutely disgusted.

00:26:12.600 I'm embarrassed to be British at the minute.

00:26:15.500 You've got another country offering to pay for the treatment,

00:26:18.220 and they're blocking her from going to Italy.

00:26:20.760 They're blocking her for coming home to get extubation. 0.97

00:26:24.820 They're just being,

00:26:26.080 it's just so cruel and humane.

00:26:28.160 We just don't understand.

00:26:29.000 Where does the case stand now?

00:26:31.960 I know,

00:26:32.320 I really appreciate your making time.

00:26:34.220 I know you've got a lot of other things on your mind.

00:26:35.800 I know that there was a chance you were going to be in court this morning,

00:26:39.140 or this afternoon by your time.

00:26:41.140 So where does it all stand?

00:26:43.600 There's a court hearing going off now.

00:26:45.160 It's online virtual.

00:26:46.700 I've just had to pop out to get my daughter from school,

00:26:49.160 and then go back to the hospital,

00:26:50.860 and then join again.

00:26:52.640 But yeah,

00:26:53.180 the appeal is,

00:26:54.780 this appeal is to do with where Indy,

00:26:56.460 they're trying to block Indy from coming home. 1.00

00:26:59.400 They're trying to say,

00:27:00.180 she can only go to a hospice or the hospital

00:27:02.540 to have a treatment withdrawn.

00:27:04.800 So they've blocked us from going to Italy,

00:27:06.680 and now they're trying to block us from taking her home.

00:27:09.260 It's just cruel.

00:27:11.640 Is there any hope at this point

00:27:14.620 that you will be able to bring your baby

00:27:17.760 to Italy for treatment at the Bambino Gesù Hospital,

00:27:21.960 or is that completely off the table?

00:27:24.240 I know the Italians are doing 1.00

00:27:25.380 as much as they can in the background,

00:27:27.240 and we're just hoping that something

00:27:29.160 will come of it at any point.

00:27:32.040 It's for the UK government

00:27:33.220 and the Italian government

00:27:34.240 to come to some sort of agreement.

00:27:35.540 That's what we're hoping for.

00:27:38.020 Now, short of that,

00:27:40.100 you'd like to take your daughter home,

00:27:42.220 of course.

00:27:43.320 You don't want to ship your daughter off

00:27:45.120 to a hospice to just be neglected,

00:27:48.240 officially neglected,

00:27:49.300 by the UK medical system.

00:27:51.400 So what is their argument?

00:27:52.720 Why won't they allow you to take your own daughter home 1.00

00:27:55.500 if things are going to go south,

00:27:58.640 as I suppose they will for all of us eventually,

00:28:00.420 but if this is really her time?

00:28:03.060 Why won't they let her have her final moments 0.93

00:28:06.600 in her home with her family who love her,

00:28:08.820 rather than in some clinical UK institution?

00:28:12.320 It was in the original court order

00:28:16.340 that we could choose for her to come home.

00:28:19.100 I think when they found out about Italy,

00:28:21.520 I think they got scared

00:28:22.640 and are trying to block us from taking her home

00:28:25.100 because they're probably scared

00:28:25.880 that we're going to jump on a plane or something

00:28:28.980 and go over there.

00:28:30.040 That's what it feels like.

00:28:31.420 Of course.

00:28:32.180 I actually, I should have realized that

00:28:33.800 because I couldn't figure out.

00:28:34.940 I said, it just seems so needlessly cruel

00:28:37.680 to say you can't even take your own daughter home

00:28:39.960 if she is going to die, you're not, you can't.

00:28:41.920 But right, because they don't want you to flee,

00:28:45.740 to flee to go get medical treatment

00:28:47.700 from Italy and the Pope, from the Vatican,

00:28:51.400 though now your daughter is officially an Italian citizen.

00:28:55.060 Do I have that right?

00:28:55.960 Yeah.

00:28:56.500 Yeah, that's right.

00:28:57.140 Yeah, exactly.

00:28:59.780 As a parent in the UK, you've got,

00:29:02.080 when you go to the courts, you've got no rights.

00:29:04.700 You've set up to fail.

00:29:06.860 Everybody's against you.

00:29:07.780 My daughter's not brain dead.

00:29:09.920 She's moving.

00:29:10.720 She's breathing.

00:29:11.520 She's alert.

00:29:13.820 There's children in America with the same disease.

00:29:16.020 She was nine.

00:29:17.580 I've been talking to the parents of them.

00:29:20.180 It's just, it's all down to money.

00:29:22.480 It's all down to cost and resources in the UK.

00:29:26.000 So that's what this is.

00:29:27.420 It's not that, you know, your daughter would just die

00:29:33.200 immediately or anything like that.

00:29:35.180 It's not what they're saying, which is that, oh, she's in this horrific kind of pain

00:29:39.060 and it's whatever euthanasia, quote unquote, arguments that they make.

00:29:42.740 It's rather that this is, it's a socialist healthcare system.

00:29:46.820 They've got a finite amount of money and they just,

00:29:49.240 they just don't want to spend the money to keep your daughter alive.

00:29:51.960 They don't think she's worth the cost because she's potentially got a shorter life, 0.97

00:29:55.600 but nobody knows when they're going to pass away.

00:29:58.120 So they're not God.

00:29:59.560 They shouldn't play this.

00:30:00.400 They shouldn't play God.

00:30:01.160 So this, I first covered the story on the show yesterday.

00:30:05.920 And the thing that makes me, it's not, the thing that makes me angriest is what they're

00:30:11.940 doing to your daughter.

00:30:12.600 The thing that makes me second angriest is that I see what they're thinking.

00:30:17.120 I see what the judge is thinking.

00:30:18.380 I see what the UK government is thinking.

00:30:19.920 I see their logic.

00:30:21.360 The problem is their premises are wrong.

00:30:23.240 And the premises are wrong for exactly the reason you just said, because they're saying,

00:30:26.440 well, look, she's going to die eventually. 1.00

00:30:28.400 Yeah, you're going to die eventually too. 0.99

00:30:29.940 I'm going to die eventually too. 0.98

00:30:31.360 You don't know when you're going to die. 0.99

00:30:33.020 You, maybe you'll die in 50 years. 0.99

00:30:34.480 Maybe you'll go get hit by a bus tomorrow. 1.00

00:30:36.200 Does that mean that we're going to stop feeding you today? 0.92

00:30:38.040 Does that mean that we're going to stop giving you basic medical care?

00:30:41.280 It's just so, it's just a culture of death that is so shocking that when it happened the

00:30:46.840 first couple of times, it was an international scandal.

00:30:49.940 Now, the biggest scandal is that it's not an international scandal, that not nearly enough

00:30:54.080 people, are talking about this egregious injustice that your government, a supposedly civilized

00:30:59.080 government, is doing to you and your family and your daughter.

00:31:03.260 I know.

00:31:03.680 It's disgraceful.

00:31:05.040 It's like everyone in the UK is just not aware of what's happening around them.

00:31:09.300 And you've got another country, Italy, who are doing everything they can.

00:31:13.560 And India wasn't even Italian. 0.94

00:31:15.340 She's got an Italian citizenship now.

00:31:17.320 But that country is doing everything they can to help.

00:31:20.140 So why can't my country help?

00:31:22.020 Why can't they come to some sort of agreements?

00:31:24.980 Why can't my country help?

00:31:26.400 Why can't my country help my own daughter?

00:31:28.360 Can you imagine?

00:31:29.640 That phrase is such an indictment of what has happened to the medical system and the whole

00:31:38.760 political order in these countries.

00:31:41.060 I know that you're extremely busy, Mr. Gregory, so I'm going to let you go.

00:31:45.600 And I know that sometimes we say, if there's a real important international cause, we say,

00:31:51.620 well, how can we help?

00:31:52.340 Where can we donate?

00:31:53.020 I know that what we're talking about here is a matter of hours or days, the kind of urgency.

00:31:58.340 So, of course, I encourage everyone to pray for you and your family and for your daughter

00:32:03.480 that there is a happy conclusion, even as unlikely as that seems right now.

00:32:10.700 Now, a British priest friend of mine pointed out once that prayer is not the last resort.

00:32:15.980 Prayer is the first resort.

00:32:17.000 And so we will all absolutely be praying for you.

00:32:20.540 If there's any other way that we can help, please do let us know.

00:32:26.840 All right.

00:32:27.160 Thank you.

00:32:27.800 Cheers.

00:32:28.040 Thank you, Mr. Gregory.

00:32:29.220 There's a report out now that the leaders of Hamas are living in Qatar.

00:32:34.400 We all know that.

00:32:35.300 They're not living in Gaza.

00:32:36.600 They're not living in the West Bank.

00:32:37.580 They're living in Qatar, which is a very wealthy Arabian country.

00:32:41.720 And their combined worth seems to be $11 billion, which is a lot of money, even in Qatar.

00:32:47.960 Qatar is an expensive country, but $11 billion goes pretty far away there as well.

00:32:52.320 Which reminds me that there are really bad incentives in this war in the Middle East.

00:32:59.380 The leaders of Hamas have no incentive to compromise and protect innocent people in Gaza.

00:33:07.740 I am not one of those on the right, and there are many of them, but I'm not one of those calling

00:33:11.960 for just completely glassing Gaza or completely running roughshod over the Palestinian territories.

00:33:19.260 I don't think that would be good.

00:33:20.600 I don't think that's justified, according to just war theory.

00:33:24.880 But likewise, I don't really see how you give the people of Gaza a nation state.

00:33:30.620 How do you do that?

00:33:32.420 They're run by Hamas, and Hamas doesn't want a nation state.

00:33:36.560 That's going to end the grift.

00:33:39.240 Hamas is making the leaders of Hamas, just the handful of leaders of Hamas, three of them,

00:33:43.880 are worth $11 billion, and they're living in luxury in Qatar.

00:33:46.760 They don't want to go back to Gaza.

00:33:48.140 They don't want to go anywhere near there.

00:33:51.560 And the moment that the fight is over, they lose their money.

00:33:54.160 You even see this a little bit, I'll bring it to the home front, with pro-life activism.

00:34:00.920 When the Roe v. Wade license to abortion was overruled in Dobbs, I jumped for joy. 0.97

00:34:06.780 I didn't think it would happen in my lifetime.

00:34:07.980 I was so excited.

00:34:09.460 A lot of pro-lifers were very, very excited.

00:34:11.580 But I think there were a lot of Republican politicians who were not excited.

00:34:15.300 I bet there were even Republican politicians who called themselves pro-life, who were upset at the Dobbs decision.

00:34:24.080 Because back when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, the Republican politicians could say,

00:34:30.220 we're totally pro-life, but there's nothing we can do.

00:34:32.260 But we're, listen, we got to work to get Roe v. Wade overruled.

00:34:35.320 So you got to give us a lot of money.

00:34:37.480 That's right.

00:34:37.940 Just donate now another $10 million, and we'll probably overrule Roe v. Wade.

00:34:43.240 And then it never happened for 49 years.

00:34:46.000 It never had.

00:34:46.260 They got to raise a lot of money.

00:34:47.640 They got to seem like they had a real moral high ground.

00:34:50.340 They didn't have to do any actual work.

00:34:52.660 And then the Dobbs decision comes down.

00:34:54.900 All of a sudden, they're not getting all that money anymore.

00:34:59.700 All of a sudden, the pro-life gravy train gets cut off for some of those Republican politicians.

00:35:03.780 And then, worse for them, now they actually have to take a stand.

00:35:07.000 Now they actually have to vote on pro-life legislation in some cases.

00:35:10.180 Now they actually have to articulate a defense of life.

00:35:13.420 Now they, ooh, yikes, that could really, that might even hurt their donations further with some of the moderates.

00:35:18.760 And really, they're just squishes and liberals.

00:35:21.660 Ooh, yikes.

00:35:23.780 Real perverse incentives.

00:35:25.080 I think, by the way, that that dynamic of perverse incentives might help explain why the conservatives have fumbled on a lot of these recent referenda on the abortion issue.

00:35:34.740 And they've just let the left run with the issue.

00:35:39.880 Because I don't think it's just that public opinion suddenly changed and everyone supports abortion.

00:35:44.260 You can't help but notice these pro-abortion referenda were written in a really calculated way that was persuasive even to some people in the middle and used language that conservatives love, like small government and freedom and personal choice and all the rest of it.

00:35:59.260 And the pro-life conservative Republican politicians were basically nowhere to be found.

00:36:06.820 They've got to get their sea legs again.

00:36:08.260 They haven't had to actually fight on this issue.

00:36:11.020 The activists on the ground have, and a handful of elected Republicans have.

00:36:15.040 But the ones who just kind of check the box, oh, yeah, I'm pro-life.

00:36:18.220 Yeah, give me your checks, pro-lifers.

00:36:19.540 Yeah, I'm sure I'm pro-life.

00:36:20.780 They haven't had to actually fight on the issue in almost 50 years.

00:36:25.920 Speaking of luxury, little update on Mayflower.

00:36:29.380 You know, I did not expect to be making Mayflower a consistent part of the stories of my show.

00:36:36.920 I expected to read ads for it and sell cigars.

00:36:39.040 But the cigar company has just completely exceeded even my rosiest expectations, which were already very high.

00:36:45.460 It's all thanks to you who have ordered Mayflower cigars.

00:36:48.480 I'll give you the update.

00:36:50.000 We launched the cigars with what we had calculated to be four months of supply.

00:36:56.200 And we didn't just pick that number out of nowhere.

00:36:57.860 We were working with some of the biggest guys in the cigar industry.

00:37:00.000 And we said, how much do we need for four months of supply?

00:37:02.660 And they said, this amount.

00:37:03.660 I said, even if we're being aggressive?

00:37:04.740 They said, yep, even if you're being aggressive.

00:37:05.920 We sold it out in 24 hours, which the CEO of our manufacturing partner said was astonishing.

00:37:15.760 You know, our distribution partner said he'd never seen anything like it.

00:37:19.380 So then we still had some product that was in Nicaragua.

00:37:24.020 We said, we got to get that product.

00:37:24.900 If it's properly aged, we got to get that product up here to America as quickly as possible so that people who want to get these cigars for Christmas at least will be able to get them.

00:37:34.220 So we brought that up.

00:37:35.620 It went back live on the site instantly.

00:37:38.080 Instantly that was sold out.

00:37:39.180 We said, okay, what can we do here?

00:37:40.420 Because don't forget, this is a premium luxury product.

00:37:42.540 So you can't rush it.

00:37:45.460 You know, this is made by hand.

00:37:47.080 Something like 300 hands touch a cigar from planting to delivery.

00:37:50.820 This is a seriously handmade product that requires significant aging so that the tobacco is just perfect.

00:37:59.000 The flavor profile is just perfect.

00:38:00.660 That's especially true of the dusk cigar, but it's true of the dawn cigar as well.

00:38:04.820 So we said, we can't rush that whatsoever.

00:38:07.060 Do we have anything?

00:38:08.580 The, my friends in the cigar industry at, who are producing Mayflower, they told me that they were going to make me just for, just for my own consumption, a special kind of size of cigar that I happen to love.

00:38:22.360 And they'd made me many, many of these cigars.

00:38:25.480 And then I get a call yesterday.

00:38:26.900 They say, hey, you're not getting those cigars.

00:38:28.480 We have to sell them.

00:38:29.800 We have to sell them because there's so much back order.

00:38:32.200 And I, of course, agreed.

00:38:33.020 I said, yes, I'd rather, I would rather the chrime de la chrime of the Michael Nolscher audience be able to get these cigars and have them at Christmas or whenever.

00:38:40.660 You know, maybe send a few to me, but I totally understand it.

00:38:43.180 But even that has sold out.

00:38:44.980 So the upshot of all of this is, thank you for making this maybe the biggest cigar launch ever.

00:38:52.100 And if you would like the cigar, I'm really hoping that we can get you some for Christmas.

00:38:58.220 We might be backlogged even beyond Christmas.

00:39:00.360 Now, if you want your cigars, you've got to go to mayflowercigars.com.

00:39:06.200 If there's anything on the site to pre-order it, just get it.

00:39:08.840 Even if it's not exactly the box you want, just, I would say, just get it right now.

00:39:12.380 Or, at the very least, even if you can't pre-order right now, sign up.

00:39:17.020 Give us your email.

00:39:17.740 You will get a notification the moment you can because these things have been going so fast.

00:39:21.580 When you get that notification, just get it because they'll probably be gone within hours.

00:39:26.400 We expect to ship in early December.

00:39:29.080 So it should still be in plenty of time for Christmas.

00:39:33.380 Mayflowercigars.com today to get what has become apparently the must-have gift of the Christmas season.

00:39:38.760 You must be 21 years old or older to purchase.

00:39:41.680 Some exclusions apply.

00:39:45.220 And now, I'm very excited to say, finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:39:52.820 The mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

00:39:53.860 Go to puretalk.com slash Knowleskin, N-W-L-E-S, today. 0.69

00:39:57.260 Hey, Smokey Mike.

00:39:58.100 Here's a little story for you.

00:39:59.780 Three of the world's greatest spies all get caught at the exact same time.

00:40:03.820 One French, the other English, and the last Italian.

00:40:06.580 The Frenchman has his hands tied and is taken away to be tortured.

00:40:09.740 He lasts two hours before he cracks and is taken back to the cell.

00:40:13.740 Next, the Englishman has his hands tied and is taken away to be tortured.

00:40:17.660 He lasted for four hours before giving his secrets.

00:40:21.620 Lastly, the Italian has his hands tied and is taken away to be tortured. 0.64

00:40:25.200 He lasts for 11 hours until the torturer gives up.

00:40:27.800 When he gets back to the cell, the Frenchman and the Englishman ask him,

00:40:31.460 How did you last so long?

00:40:32.900 He said, I wanted to give up after 10 minutes, but I couldn't get my hands unstuck.

00:40:36.780 You know, I could see that coming a mile away.

00:40:44.700 I could see it coming a mile away, but I like it.

00:40:47.980 And I might have to use that joke in the future.

00:40:49.900 Next one.

00:40:50.200 Hey, Dirty Mike.

00:40:52.280 Bryson was taken here, and I regret to inform you that my name is still taken.

00:40:56.160 I need you to put on your Nostradamus cap for my question.

00:40:59.180 Let's say the betting odds are correct and Trump is the nominee.

00:41:02.320 Given that Ron DeSantis cannot run for governor again,

00:41:05.220 what do you think his political future looks like?

00:41:07.480 I can't imagine he plans to go gently into that good night after his term is over.

00:41:11.660 Given that Florida is already quite red in D.C.,

00:41:14.060 I can't see him running for House or Senate.

00:41:16.240 Does he fall in line behind Trump after dropping out and hope for a cabinet position should Trump win?

00:41:21.680 I do think Trump's diehard supporters will soften on him,

00:41:24.580 similarly to Cruz after the 2016 election.

00:41:27.440 Do you think there's an avenue for him to capture the Republican Party in the future?

00:41:31.280 What's the pathway for that?

00:41:32.880 Anyway, thanks for answering my question.

00:41:34.800 Love the show.

00:41:36.300 Yes, I think there is a future for Ron DeSantis.

00:41:38.960 I don't think that people hate Ron DeSantis.

00:41:44.380 I think there are a lot of people like me who really like Donald Trump and really like Ron DeSantis.

00:41:52.800 I know that that's not represented in the media all that well.

00:41:56.100 I might be the only person with a show who's saying that, but I think that's a lot of people.

00:42:01.640 And they'll say either, oh, I really like Trump, but I'm rooting for DeSantis now.

00:42:06.100 Or they'll say, look, I like Trump, Trump's the man, he's running, he can get these things done.

00:42:12.160 And Ron is good too, but he needs a little time to cook and he'll have his turn also.

00:42:17.060 And I think, you know, if the relationship between Trump and Cruz could be rehabilitated,

00:42:25.380 I think the relationship between Trump and DeSantis could too.

00:42:29.260 I don't think it's personal with DeSantis.

00:42:31.820 You know, it's like that line from The Godfather when Michael Corleone says he wants to go shoot the cop that beat him up.

00:42:41.240 And Tom Hagen and Sonny, the brother, they're laughing at him.

00:42:45.420 They say, oh, you're getting all riled up.

00:42:47.160 He says, it's not, it's not personal.

00:42:49.720 It's not personal, Sonny.

00:42:50.880 It's only business.

00:42:51.960 It's only business, Sonny.

00:42:53.380 I think that's the same thing here with Trump and DeSantis.

00:42:55.960 I think it's business and then it could move on.

00:42:59.420 I could see DeSantis maybe running for U.S. Senate, maybe.

00:43:03.200 I could see him going into private industry for a little while and then coming back and running again later,

00:43:08.580 though that would be a little bit tougher.

00:43:11.100 But, look, he's a bulldog and he's very good and his views represent more the future of the Republican Party

00:43:17.380 than do the views of the squishes and the libs.

00:43:20.860 So I think he's got a pretty bright future, even though he's taken on Trump.

00:43:24.920 Next one.

00:43:25.960 Dear Michael, according to Catholic doctrine, can non-Catholic Christians go to heaven? 0.78

00:43:31.940 I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer to this online.

00:43:36.460 Thank you so much.

00:43:38.380 There is about a 10-hour answer to this that still would probably be unsatisfactory.

00:43:43.740 The operative term here, the operative phrase in Catholicism is extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

00:43:51.800 Outside of the church, there is no salvation, which has been interpreted for some time now to mean not exactly that if you are not a professing, practicing Catholic,

00:44:06.280 that you have absolutely no hope of salvation, but rather that salvation comes through the church and from the church, but that we can hope.

00:44:16.540 And I certainly do pray.

00:44:17.460 I have relatives and friends and loved ones who are not explicitly Catholic.

00:44:22.780 And I pray for them, and I pray for God's extraordinary mercy.

00:44:27.480 There was a view sometimes called Phineism or the Boston heresy that took a much narrower reading of extra ecclesiam nulla salus that some would argue was condemned as a heresy by the Vatican, though that's also a complicated issue.

00:44:46.480 So, what is the upshot that I would suggest?

00:44:49.640 I would suggest that we pray in earnest for our friends and loved ones, for God's extraordinary mercy, and for their salvation.

00:44:57.840 But I would recommend, if it's your own life that you're talking about here, you know, I would recommend you avail yourself of the sacraments and the graces afforded from our Lord through his church.

00:45:11.580 That's what I would do.

00:45:12.220 Okay, next one.

00:45:12.760 Hey, Michael, I currently attend the Latin Mass, but what with the restrictions that have come down recently, our bishop has decided to move the Mass to a different parish.

00:45:23.060 Should we switch to the new parish, even though that would mean giving up on the very strong community that we have at our current parish?

00:45:32.440 Or should we stay at our current parish where our pastor has offered to do the Novus Ordo at Orientum in Latin with incense, chant, and all the rest of it?

00:45:44.640 Especially in light of the fact that at the new parish, our bishop has said we are not allowed to have any Latin Mass gatherings or events.

00:45:54.180 I appreciate your thoughts on this.

00:45:55.360 Thank you.

00:45:56.320 Hmm, that's a tricky one.

00:45:57.580 You know, I love the traditional Latin Mass.

00:45:59.200 For those who are not mackerel-snapping papists out there, the traditional Latin Mass is not merely different from the new Mass that came about in the 1960s and 70s called the Mass of Paul VI.

00:46:09.860 It's not merely different in that one is Latin, one is English.

00:46:14.060 Actually, what's even more confusing is the new Mass, the Mass of Pope Paul VI, is normatively done in Latin, too.

00:46:20.620 But what the difference is is that a lot of prayers are removed.

00:46:24.460 Very often, the priest is facing away from the altar and facing toward the people, and there's some hippie stuff that kind of snuck in.

00:46:31.160 So it just doesn't seem as reverent, and it's not as full, and it's not the Mass of the Ages that endured basically without change for 1,400 years at least.

00:46:39.360 It has some roots going back much further even than that.

00:46:42.480 So if it were me, I'd probably go to the traditional Latin Mass parish.

00:46:47.060 I've attended many reverent Novus Ordo Masses.

00:46:50.220 I'm not saying that that's not valid or anything like that.

00:46:53.020 I still attend them sometimes.

00:46:55.980 Great priests who do that.

00:46:57.620 Sometimes it's nice to work within the system to try to change it and bring it back to sanity and reverence and tradition.

00:47:06.380 You know, I would defer to your own prudence there.

00:47:08.420 But if it were me, I guess I'd probably go to the TLM pair.

00:47:14.060 I just think the traditional Latin Mass is just so beautiful, you know, so incomparably beautiful and reverent and proper.

00:47:22.980 Okay, written mailback question from Joseph.

00:47:25.880 Hey, Michael, I'm in love with a girl who I want to marry, and I'm thinking about popping the question.

00:47:29.640 However, there's a mental block in my mind saying that my actual soulmate is out there somewhere in this world.

00:47:34.360 And this thought has nothing to do with the girl I'm with now.

00:47:37.920 She's great.

00:47:39.260 Just comes from my own weird form of paranoia.

00:47:41.420 Any advice getting over this?

00:47:42.680 If I'm thinking this way, does it mean my girl isn't the one?

00:47:45.740 Thanks.

00:47:46.120 No, look, everyone has doubts in romance.

00:47:50.120 You know, when you're dating, even if you're with the love of your life, you know, before you've made a commitment,

00:47:55.960 and especially as you're approaching the moment where you say, am I going to be with this person for my entire life,

00:48:02.300 of course, it's perfectly natural, especially in our modern dating culture where people very often meet later.

00:48:09.080 They meet on an app or something where you don't really know the person for so long.

00:48:13.080 It's very common for people to say, well, is this really the one?

00:48:15.700 I don't know.

00:48:16.040 What if I had swiped left on that person?

00:48:17.740 I swiped right on someone else.

00:48:18.700 Would that other person be my soulmate?

00:48:21.060 So that's perfectly normal.

00:48:23.180 I would not worry about that.

00:48:25.560 If you are thinking about an actual other girl, if you were thinking about an actual person and saying,

00:48:32.400 should I marry this girl or that girl, then I would interrogate that question and come to an answer on it.

00:48:37.380 If you are thinking about an imaginary girl, then I would focus just on your prospective fiancé and say,

00:48:43.600 is there something here that I think is not going to work?

00:48:46.700 Am I imagining some other girl because there is something within this person that I suspect is just not conducive to a good life?

00:48:55.560 Am I only marrying this person because I just turned such and such age and I just feel it's time to get married?

00:49:01.500 And if so, how difficult would that be?

00:49:07.660 If the issue is, I don't like the way that this person washes the dishes, then you can probably move on.

00:49:19.220 If it's, I don't like this habit of virtue or vice and this person is a Zoroastrian and I'm a Presbyterian, 0.99

00:49:27.280 well, that might be a bigger problem.

00:49:29.560 So I would interrogate that.

00:49:31.120 But I wouldn't let your wondering as a man, is there someone else out there?

00:49:38.200 I wouldn't let that be the reason you don't get married.

00:49:40.100 I mean, that's totally natural.

00:49:42.220 The question is, what's driving that?

00:49:44.800 From Dan.

00:49:45.420 Hi, Michael.

00:49:45.860 I'm a casual cigar consumer.

00:49:47.180 I went searching for your cigars as soon as I heard the news.

00:49:49.040 My question is, how do you recommend your cigars be consumed?

00:49:52.920 Cut or punch?

00:49:54.540 V-cut or straight?

00:49:56.120 Matches or lighters?

00:49:57.200 Details, Michael, please.

00:49:59.020 As a true connoisseur of cigars, I seek your advice.

00:50:02.320 I have a pack of five Dawn Robustos arriving soon.

00:50:04.880 Oh, good.

00:50:05.340 Congratulations.

00:50:05.780 I'm glad you were able to get some.

00:50:07.040 I want to enjoy them to the fullest.

00:50:08.460 Keep doing the Lord's work.

00:50:09.360 Thanks.

00:50:09.720 What I would do, especially for the Dawn Robustos, let me see if I have, do I have a cutter on me?

00:50:13.940 Of course I do.

00:50:15.320 Of course I do.

00:50:16.140 I would use a V-cut.

00:50:17.820 I, or not a, I'm sorry.

00:50:19.720 Don't, don't listen to that.

00:50:20.580 I, it's kind of looks like a V, but this is a guillotine cut. 0.98

00:50:23.660 There you go.

00:50:23.980 Just a little. 0.93

00:50:25.720 I would use a double blade guillotine cut if I, if I were to use any lighter at all.

00:50:30.960 I don't really like V-cuts all that much.

00:50:33.340 Sometimes on a torpedo, you can use a V-cut.

00:50:36.080 It's not my favorite.

00:50:37.060 Even on a torpedo cigar, I usually use a straight cut.

00:50:39.640 I don't really use punches all that much.

00:50:41.200 Sometimes if it's a little Corona cigar, I will.

00:50:43.340 But if, if you have too small a little punch on too big a ring gauge, then it's, it's going to, it's going to mess up the taste.

00:50:51.460 It might be a little too strong.

00:50:52.260 So, um, the real cigar guys either bite it off or use their fingers.

00:50:57.440 Sometimes I use my finger if I don't have a cut.

00:50:59.280 I don't usually use my teeth, but a straight cut and make sure that the cut is smaller than the ring gauge of the cigar.

00:51:05.840 Not too small, but no, you know, not, people mostly cut off too much.

00:51:09.580 From Colby.

00:51:10.280 Dear Mr. Knowles, one of the biggest value changes I've come to recognize in life is how society values sex.

00:51:16.120 Now, back then, sex, back then in the good old days, sex was kept sacred.

00:51:19.860 And even if there was prostitution, it wasn't as common today as it is with OnlyFans and pornography access.

00:51:25.940 So in your opinion, what do you believe is the cause of young men falling prey to pornography like myself and women turning to online prostitution as a source of income, even if they're married or mothers?

00:51:34.860 Was it just the rise of feminism or the sexual revolution or something even deeper than that?

00:51:38.920 I feel like there's a deeper cause to this sad reality we live in, and I wanted to get your views on the subject at hand.

00:51:46.160 Hope your analysis leaves me speechless.

00:51:49.060 Well, the cause is, or many causes, thank you, going back many centuries.

00:51:56.500 The cause is theological liberalism to begin with.

00:52:01.840 Theological liberalism which loosens up the faith which has animated our civilization.

00:52:08.920 Why is it bad to sleep around?

00:52:13.460 Why is it bad to not have sexual morals?

00:52:14.920 Why is it bad to look at porn?

00:52:16.420 It's bad because God says so.

00:52:19.220 Because the very moral order is ordered against it.

00:52:23.240 That used to inform the state.

00:52:24.940 Even in private faith, theological liberalism has created schisms and dissensions and sects and all sorts of problems that have led to a radical skepticism that says, well, we can't really know religious truth.

00:52:37.720 There's no real authority that could tell us religious truth.

00:52:40.080 So that's the first problem.

00:52:41.120 Then the theological liberalism becomes a political liberalism that suggests all sorts of crazy things such as a firm line of separation between church and state, whatever that even means.

00:52:52.820 Or which suggests that we can't legislate morality, which is a completely meaningless statement.

00:52:57.920 And it runs against everything we've ever known about political philosophy.

00:53:03.040 And it creates a skepticism and a secularism that leads to the rise of all sorts of crazy ideologies like feminism and all the rest of it, LGBTism, and ultimately a kind of selfishness that says that the state is not about the common good and being ordered toward a good, which is conducive to all of our flourishing.

00:53:21.620 But rather that the purpose of the state is just to protect my supposed right to do whatever I want, even if it's disordered and degenerate.

00:53:30.360 So that's a short answer.

00:53:31.820 There's much more to be said on the subject.

00:53:33.200 But the rest of the show continues.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 10, 2023

Ep. 1369 - Old Lawyer Shoots Two Climate Activists Blocking The Road

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