The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1578 - S＊＊ Parties, Drugs, & Sin： COVID Rules Architect Exposed

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00:01:08.440 New York City's COVID czar Jay Varma has been caught on hidden camera admitting that he violated

00:01:13.580 the very public health mandates that he implemented. And boy, did he violate them. Hat tip to Stephen

00:01:18.920 Crowder for the footage you're about to see. Viewer discretion advised.

00:01:22.600 I actually was the one who convinced the mayor to make it a man do. 0.89

00:01:27.320 Like New York City found out that you're having sex partings during COVID? 0.79

00:01:31.320 Yeah, it would have been a big deal. Yeah, it would have been a real bad. 0.84

00:01:34.360 We went to some underground dance party underneath the bank in Wall Street. And we were all rolling.

00:01:40.760 We're all taking Molly and everybody's high. And I was so happy because I hadn't done that in

00:01:45.640 like a year and a half, like a year or whatever. And I, but I was looking around being like,

00:01:50.440 I wonder if he sees you. Because this was not COVID. Wait, when was it?

00:01:53.960 New York City's job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam everything.

00:01:58.360 I was thinking about because hotels didn't want people gathering there.

00:02:01.800 Because I was like running the entire commercial city. My wife and I like had one with our friends

00:02:07.160 like in August of like that first summer. So we rented a hotel. It was fun. We all like took like,

00:02:13.320 you know, Molly and just like, there was like 10 or nine of us in our room and everybody

00:02:18.680 did a blast because everybody was like so pissed off. Because it had been like,

00:02:23.000 everybody was just like stuck together and stuff like that.

00:02:25.560 Yeah. And sometimes it's not so much about like being introduced,

00:02:28.600 but sometimes it's just something about like bodies being close to each other,

00:02:32.680 like just being like naked with friends.

00:02:34.600 Was that like when everybody was watching?

00:02:36.680 It was like the summer of 2020.

00:02:38.520 You know, you know how sometimes you just like to be naked with all your friends.

00:02:46.200 And maybe you guys are like bumping uglies, but maybe you're just you're maybe you're just all

00:02:51.080 being naked with friends in a hotel room or in a secret rave party fueled by Molly under a Wall Street

00:03:01.160 bank while you're running the COVID response that's locking everyone down and getting people fired from

00:03:05.960 their jobs if they don't comply with the mandates that you're violating to hold orgies. He goes on.

00:03:10.680 So like walk around the streets, you need to have to worry.

00:03:14.520 Did you have like any needs in place?

00:03:16.440 There wasn't any restrictions on gathering.

00:03:18.040 Like you can actually gather people.

00:03:19.320 The hotels didn't want to decide parties, but they weren't going to like.

00:03:23.720 It's so funny.

00:03:24.280 It's like this because I did all this like deviant like sexual stuff.

00:03:29.240 You know, like on TV and all this stuff.

00:03:31.080 Yeah.

00:03:31.400 People like, aren't you afraid?

00:03:32.680 Aren't you embarrassed?

00:03:33.960 And I was like, no, actually, I'm like really like I love being my authentic side.

00:03:40.680 So the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to to be unvaccinated.

00:03:46.920 I don't expect the education to change your behavior.

00:03:49.320 I'm just going to make it really hard for you to do your job.

00:03:51.640 You got your job.

00:03:52.600 You can't go to a restaurant.

00:03:54.600 You can't go to school.

00:03:55.640 It's like I'm just going to get vaccinated.

00:03:57.640 So was it technically like kind of forcing people?

00:04:00.840 Yeah, you force people by making it really uncomfortable. 0.70

00:04:06.200 You're going to hear a lot about how this undercover footage proves Democrat hypocrisy.

00:04:12.600 And it does.

00:04:13.720 The people who canceled Christmas, the people who wouldn't let you visit your dying parents

00:04:17.560 and grandparents, the people who wouldn't let you have a funeral for them.

00:04:21.400 They were violating their own rules while you were practically imprisoned in your home.

00:04:26.280 That's true. 1.00

00:04:27.240 The Democrats are hypocrites. 1.00

00:04:28.840 The bigger story for me, though, is not the hypocrisy. 1.00

00:04:34.920 It's actually a simpler explanation of our present political corruption. 0.99

00:04:40.360 The people who rule us are drug addled sex freaks enthralled to persistent grave mortal sin. 0.98

00:04:48.360 Yes, they believe the wrong things. 1.00

00:04:50.840 Yes, they read the wrong books.

00:04:52.440 Yes, they fail to live up to the standards they set. 0.99

00:04:55.880 And sometimes they intentionally violate those standards and they're hypocrites. 0.99

00:04:58.520 Sure. 0.99

00:04:58.920 But at a more basic level, they're just degenerate.

00:05:03.560 They give free reign to base passions that overwhelm their reason.

00:05:07.480 And so long as they do that, they're going to act like freaks and they're

00:05:10.840 going to impose their freakishness on all of us.

00:05:13.160 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:05:14.200 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:05:15.160 Welcome back to the show.

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00:06:36.700 What freaks, man.

00:06:38.300 What total freaks.

00:06:39.640 This is crazy.

00:06:41.120 Maybe the craziest part of that whole video of the COVID czar in New York City talking about all the orgies he would go to

00:06:48.200 and the drugs he would do while everyone else was locked up.

00:06:50.720 I think the craziest part was he said, yeah, when we went, we were at this underground rave

00:06:54.340 where everyone's rolling on Mali and Ecstasy and it was underneath a Wall Street bank.

00:06:59.580 And I just, it was so great because I hadn't done that for like a year or a year and a half.

00:07:07.720 Excuse me?

00:07:08.380 Wait, hold on.

00:07:10.280 You're telling me the craziest thing about being at that rave was that it had been like 12 to 18 months since you last did it.

00:07:17.100 How often do you go to these things?

00:07:18.360 How often, how often do the people who rule us, who impose mandates that change our lives,

00:07:27.680 sometimes deprive us of our livelihoods, that prevent us from seeing our families,

00:07:30.440 how often do these people go to weird, drug-fueled, freak show orgies?

00:07:34.780 I'm getting the impression it's more frequently than many of us would suspect.

00:07:43.220 You hear the story about P. Diddy.

00:07:45.400 You hear the story about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:07:47.140 You hear, I'm remembering a story going back 15, 20 years now, Dominic Strauss-Kahn,

00:07:51.660 when he was caught in his sex scandal over at the IMF.

00:07:54.720 And even, he would talk about these kind of weird, I don't know, are they all just,

00:07:59.420 I guess nothing changes in the history of the world.

00:08:01.460 You read in the Old Testament about rulers doing a ton of weird sex stuff.

00:08:05.060 And you read in history books about pagan elites and rulers and aristocrats.

00:08:10.380 Not very oristo, because oristo means good, and they're quite the opposite of good.

00:08:14.560 They're just doing weird, deviant stuff.

00:08:17.080 In that guy's own words, he says, yeah, I would be doing weird, deviant stuff.

00:08:22.100 But then I'd also go on TV and tell people how they had to lock down and take the vaccine.

00:08:27.640 And these are the people talking about health.

00:08:28.860 The people who are telling us about public health, supposedly in charge of the public health

00:08:36.640 of society, are ingesting poisonous chemicals and then going to orgies.

00:08:43.280 Tells you everything you need to know about our present government.

00:08:47.400 Now, speaking of sin and grace, on the flip side of things,

00:08:51.100 President Trump is due to visit a Marian shrine with the Polish president, Duda.

00:08:59.560 This would be the national shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa.

00:09:05.500 I always mispronounce this.

00:09:07.460 Our Lady of Częstochowa, which is a very important Marian shrine.

00:09:11.980 He's going to visit with this Polish conservative leader.

00:09:14.900 It's supposed to happen September 22nd on a Sunday.

00:09:18.720 This is a shrine in Bucks County, which is an important county to win.

00:09:22.680 In Pennsylvania, a very important state to win.

00:09:24.960 And I know how the news media are going to report on this.

00:09:30.720 I know how the liberals are going to report on this.

00:09:32.760 I know how the Squish conservatives are going to react to this.

00:09:35.520 They're going to say, how dare this man, how dare this sinner, Donald Trump,

00:09:44.040 show up to the national shrine of Our Lady?

00:09:49.500 How dare he?

00:09:51.620 President Trump has done this sort of thing before.

00:09:53.500 He visited the shrine of John Paul II and was criticized by a cardinal, actually, for doing that.

00:09:59.940 How dare this sinner show up to this important religious site? 1.00

00:10:05.520 To which one might respond, who do you think the shrines are for?

00:10:12.400 Who do you think the shrines are for?

00:10:15.020 What do you think religion's for?

00:10:17.960 Is it for perfect people?

00:10:20.120 Oh, it's for the people who've never committed a sin in their life, right?

00:10:23.960 Find me that man.

00:10:27.800 Our Lord comes not for the righteous, but to bring sinners to repentance.

00:10:31.000 The fact that Trump now consistently talks about God on the campaign trail after the first

00:10:37.120 assassination attempt, the fact that he held up that Bible in front of St. John's Church,

00:10:44.140 the fact that he has visited now, well, one shrine, he's about to visit another important shrine.

00:10:50.520 And that's a good thing.

00:10:53.780 It shows you a kind of humility.

00:10:58.120 Because, you know, Trump gets this rap of being really prideful and boastful, and he puts his name

00:11:03.760 in gold, and he does, but he also kind of jokes about that.

00:11:07.300 One gets the sense that Trump is fairly self-aware, and he recognizes his own shortcomings.

00:11:12.600 The line that I keep coming back to is when he was asked about having a beer, and he said,

00:11:18.620 you know, I think I'm the first president who's never had a beer.

00:11:21.940 Can you imagine if I had a beer, if I were a drinker?

00:11:24.500 I'd be the worst.

00:11:25.160 Probably the only good thing you can say about me is I've never had a beer.

00:11:27.540 That's what he said.

00:11:28.380 That's self-awareness.

00:11:29.500 That's a bit of humility.

00:11:30.920 The way he holds himself, even the way he talks.

00:11:33.880 He's not pretending to be Pericles, okay?

00:11:36.080 He's not even pretending to be Ronald Reagan.

00:11:37.600 Ronald Reagan, that movie star, everything was good-looking, scripted perfectly, extraordinarily

00:11:45.000 eloquent speaker, and very involved in the conservative movement, Ronald Reagan.

00:11:50.480 Trump isn't that guy, and he doesn't pretend to be that guy.

00:11:55.280 He says, look, I know a handful of things.

00:11:57.760 I know how to fix things.

00:11:59.180 I know how to make things a little bit better.

00:12:01.020 I'm kind of a practical guy.

00:12:02.260 I talk like a practical guy.

00:12:03.320 He talks like a New Yorker who builds things.

00:12:05.880 He says, you know, that's me, okay?

00:12:07.860 Take it or leave it.

00:12:08.740 I'm going to try to help fix the country, and I'm going to do my best, and I've got my

00:12:12.300 flaws, and I'm going to show up to some religious sites sometimes, too, because I'm not a perfect

00:12:16.280 guy.

00:12:16.820 That's beautiful.

00:12:19.620 But the libs will criticize him for anything.

00:12:22.580 This one takes the cake of all of the insane criticisms leveled at Trump over the years.

00:12:28.900 This one's top of the list.

00:12:30.440 This is from The Atlantic, a once rather prestigious liberal magazine.

00:12:34.560 Trump is no Gerald Ford.

00:12:37.640 No other president has used an assassination attempt to inflame American politics the way

00:12:43.500 Donald Trump does.

00:12:44.820 This is by Tom Nichols, some lib.

00:12:50.020 They're criticizing him for almost being assassinated and then talking about it.

00:12:58.840 Because Gerald Ford, there was a period of time, a rather short period of time.

00:13:02.480 I think it was something like 18 days, which two people tried to kill Ford, and it didn't

00:13:06.300 work.

00:13:06.620 And then he wore a bulletproof overcoat for the rest of his presidency in public.

00:13:13.480 And Ford didn't talk about it quite so much.

00:13:16.700 And Trump has talked about how he very nearly had the back of his skull blown off.

00:13:20.880 Only a slight 20-degree turn of his head at the last minute, last second, prevented him from

00:13:28.000 bleeding out on a stage in Pennsylvania.

00:13:30.180 And then the second time, they found a muzzle going through his golf course.

00:13:34.440 And he's mentioned that there have been multiple assassination attempts, and he shouldn't talk

00:13:38.500 about that.

00:13:39.540 Trump is no Gerald Ford.

00:13:42.220 Trump, he's no Gerald Ford.

00:13:43.500 The other way he's not Gerald Ford is that the libs didn't call Gerald Ford an existential

00:13:49.980 threat to democracy in the second coming of Hitler. 0.90

00:13:52.080 The libs didn't justify and encourage the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford.

00:13:56.720 The libs are tone policing the near murder of Trump, the twice near murder of Trump.

00:14:07.320 He really shouldn't talk about it like that.

00:14:09.800 You know, he should really use different words to describe how his head was almost blown

00:14:15.340 off after we, the libs, have called him an existential threat to our country for 10

00:14:18.940 years.

00:14:21.420 I'm done with that.

00:14:22.440 I'm done with these kinds of criticisms.

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00:15:29.880 The Libs are still trying to kill Trump, by the way.

00:15:32.280 There's a Rasmussen poll that's come out. 0.88

00:15:34.480 Roughly three in 10 Democrats say America would be better off had Trump been assassinated.

00:15:40.100 This is the way the question was asked.

00:15:41.640 I don't want there to be any ambiguity.

00:15:43.400 While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better 0.78

00:15:47.960 off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend? 0.63

00:15:50.140 69% of respondents said no.

00:15:53.120 14% said they weren't sure. 0.87

00:15:55.400 17% of respondents said it would have been better for Trump to have been slaughtered on 0.96

00:16:00.340 the green.

00:16:01.500 28% of Democrats answered yes.

00:16:04.640 Only 47% of Democrat respondents indicated that America would not benefit from Trump being

00:16:12.020 murdered, and 25% said they weren't sure.

00:16:15.180 So the Democrats are going to try to say that they have no culpability whatsoever for

00:16:21.900 the attempted assassinations of Trump.

00:16:23.540 Don't let them forget these numbers.

00:16:25.100 This is ammo for the water cooler, okay, when the Libs try to gaslight us on this. 0.64

00:16:30.240 Biden launched his presidential campaign on the existential threat that Trump plays

00:16:34.260 to, or poses to democracy, and how he hangs around with Nazis.

00:16:39.280 That was the first campaign ad in 2020.

00:16:42.320 Kamala has kept up that line of attack, including after the first assassination attempt, including

00:16:46.820 after the second assassination attempt, and three in 10 Democrats today wish Trump had been

00:16:52.880 assassinated.

00:16:54.740 So don't tell me they have nothing to do with this.

00:16:57.760 I said it in a speech at YAF that ended up getting some play in the media, but I was totally

00:17:02.320 right, so I'll say it again.

00:17:03.080 But political violence today is an exclusively left-wing problem in America.

00:17:09.380 It is being pushed by the left from the lowest level all the way up to the highest level,

00:17:14.240 from the Antifa anarchists who threw an explosive at the building when I was about to go on stage

00:17:19.320 at the University of Pittsburgh, all the way up to the president of the United States who

00:17:23.920 has justified these assassination attempts, all the way up to Kamala Harris, the vice president

00:17:27.880 who's currently the nominee, who bailed violent rioters out of jail when they burned down

00:17:32.840 Minneapolis during the George Floyd riots.

00:17:34.720 These people promote political violence, and it's not right-wingers, and it's not centrists

00:17:39.520 and independents.

00:17:40.300 It's the left that's doing it in every single case.

00:17:46.480 That's how it goes.

00:17:47.240 Not good, but you're not going to solve political problems if you don't acknowledge political

00:17:51.920 problems.

00:17:52.300 Now, speaking of rabid Democrats, J.D. Vance was asked a question on the campaign trail

00:17:58.720 by a Politico reporter.

00:18:00.680 He was asked, actually, it's a tricky little question, because the Trump campaign is running

00:18:07.900 against illegal immigration, but says that it is for more legal immigration.

00:18:14.200 But the Trump campaign is also running against the 300,000 Haitian migrants who were imported

00:18:21.120 into the country by Biden and Harris, some of whom have been reported to be doing all sorts

00:18:25.740 of weird things with animals that they should not be doing.

00:18:27.760 And J.D. Vance was asked, okay, well, hold on.

00:18:32.040 You say you're running against illegal immigration, you're for legal immigration.

00:18:35.740 Well, those 300,000 Haitians that Biden and Harris imported, they're technically here legally.

00:18:42.100 And forget about just the Haitians. 0.82

00:18:43.620 There are all sorts of people who have been imported into this country and been given temporary

00:18:48.100 legal status or have been given a kind of amnesty.

00:18:51.040 So what are you going to do for those people?

00:18:54.100 Hi, Senator.

00:18:55.020 Mia McCarthy with Politico.

00:18:56.240 A question for you about the Haitian migrants in Springfield.

00:19:01.300 So I know you've talked a lot about how we need to deport illegal aliens, but I wanted 1.00

00:19:05.760 to ask you, the majority of the Haitians in Springfield came under TPS, so they are here 1.00

00:19:11.240 legally.

00:19:12.120 And I know you've expressed a lot of your issues with the TPS program and wanting to

00:19:16.320 change that under a Trump-Vance administration.

00:19:19.260 But I guess my question for you is, if you become the vice president under a Trump administration,

00:19:25.640 what will you guys do about the migrants that are already there since they did arrive legally? 0.98

00:19:30.820 And a follow-up to that, if you plan to deport them, how would you do that legally?

00:19:35.960 Well, look, this is a media and Kamala Harris fact check that I want to clarify and clear

00:19:44.820 up right now.

00:19:45.480 Now, the media loves to say that the Haitian migrants, hundreds of thousands of them, by

00:19:56.380 the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across our country,

00:20:00.380 they are here legally.

00:20:01.580 And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and temporary

00:20:08.400 protective status.

00:20:09.460 She used two programs to wave a wand and to say, we're not going to deport those people 0.79

00:20:14.400 here.

00:20:14.940 Well, if Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally,

00:20:20.300 I'm still going to call them an illegal alien. 1.00

00:20:22.080 And a legal action from Kamala Harris does not make an alien legal.

00:20:26.140 That is not how this works.

00:20:28.120 This is a great, great answer.

00:20:30.060 And J.D. Vance is just extremely intelligent and he's really well read on the subject.

00:20:35.260 And he's doing what a running mate should be doing.

00:20:39.600 The Libs were really upset when Trump picked J.D. Vance and they tried to portray him as a big

00:20:43.500 drag on the ticket and a bad choice and all the rest.

00:20:46.920 I suspect one of the big reasons they were portraying J.D. that way is because he is really

00:20:52.420 effective.

00:20:52.940 The point of being the running mate, your job on the campaign is to be the attack dog,

00:20:58.340 is to have all your facts lined up, is to know exactly how to give that soundbite to

00:21:02.940 the reporters.

00:21:03.560 And he did that there.

00:21:04.820 And he's making an important point about policy.

00:21:07.340 People don't object to the 300,000 Haitians or 20,000 Haitians in Springfield taking over

00:21:13.900 this small town.

00:21:15.540 They don't object to countless Latin American migrants pouring into the country unvetted, 1.00

00:21:21.760 illegally, taking over communities, driving cars into school buses and buildings, putting

00:21:27.040 a drain on government services, filling up public schools.

00:21:29.760 They don't object to it because of the technical labeling of those migrants.

00:21:36.020 They object to it because mass migration has, in practice, constituted an invasion of our

00:21:44.420 country for decades now.

00:21:46.260 And it's created a lot of social disorder, and it's put a ton of strain on our resources,

00:21:49.860 and it's fractured our society because these people have largely not assimilated. 0.54

00:21:56.060 And Democrats have done it cynically to give themselves a permanent electoral majority.

00:22:00.500 That's why people object to it.

00:22:02.320 They don't object to it because one immigrant is totally unvetted and an illegal alien while 1.00

00:22:08.580 one has temporary protective status and a kind of parole while the other one has a green card

00:22:13.520 while the this, while the that.

00:22:14.660 They object to it because you have to press three for English, and that's annoying.

00:22:18.140 They object to it because there is increased crime in certain neighborhoods in our country.

00:22:23.300 They object to it because the ducks are going missing at the public park, okay?

00:22:25.800 To use the vivid example that has been much debated over the past few weeks.

00:22:31.120 That's what they object.

00:22:31.980 They object to the fact of it, not the words that you use to describe it.

00:22:35.480 And J.D. is saying, we're going to fix the problem in practice.

00:22:38.600 We're going to deal with the facts.

00:22:39.680 We're not going to be like the libs and just use mealy-mouthed euphemisms and new sorts of words

00:22:45.580 to pretend that the problem doesn't exist.

00:22:48.160 What the libs want to do is say, okay, we have millions and millions, maybe more than 11 or 12 million

00:22:53.580 illegal aliens in this country, well, we're just going to call them undocumented Americans. 0.97

00:22:59.040 Poof, the problem goes away.

00:23:00.720 We're going to call them dreamers.

00:23:04.020 There it is.

00:23:04.820 There's my magic dust, and now the problem goes away.

00:23:06.600 No, you still have the social problems.

00:23:08.520 You have to deal with the actual political issue, which is mass unassimilated migration

00:23:16.340 into America in a short period of time that screws up the labor market, that screws up the 0.87

00:23:20.480 housing market, that causes crime to increase in certain areas.

00:23:23.580 That brings in all sorts of terrible elements, including the criminal cartels that control

00:23:27.080 the border and the poison of fentanyl that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.

00:23:31.760 That's the problem.

00:23:32.660 J.D. says, we're going to fix the problem.

00:23:34.080 Democrats can use their magic wand with their words.

00:23:36.620 We're going to actually fix the problem.

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00:24:41.200 Wow, my favorite comment again.

00:24:45.080 Folks, when the producers look through the comments, they pull all sorts of comments

00:24:50.940 every day.

00:24:52.180 And I don't really look at the names.

00:24:54.340 But this one just keeps coming.

00:24:55.600 This person keeps coming up.

00:24:58.820 The Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music, who says,

00:25:01.860 My values haven't changed.

00:25:04.400 My accents have.

00:25:05.860 Kamala Harris.

00:25:07.500 Sure, I'll say that again.

00:25:08.200 My values haven't changed.

00:25:10.280 My accents have.

00:25:11.620 Mommy, I love you too.

00:25:13.620 Ay, ay, ay.

00:25:15.100 That's the latest one.

00:25:17.100 Kamala.

00:25:17.600 Kamala Harris.

00:25:20.280 Now, speaking of Latin American countries, actually, Cuba, communist Cuba, has just done

00:25:26.400 something terrible.

00:25:28.360 Cuba has sentenced a man to prison.

00:25:32.820 Two and a half years in prison for sharing memes.

00:25:37.460 Wow.

00:25:38.200 Barreiro Rauco, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that, is a 52-year-old barber, lives in the

00:25:45.280 city of Cienfuegos.

00:25:47.320 And he's a member of a local dissident group, the Cuba Citizens Movement for Reflection and

00:25:52.800 Conciliation.

00:25:53.900 And he was arrested for sharing memes.

00:25:57.240 This is what you get in a communist, totalitarian, enslaved country where people don't really have freedom or political rights.

00:26:08.520 Also, that's what happens in America.

00:26:12.220 Because we do the same thing.

00:26:13.160 We've done the exact same thing.

00:26:14.560 You might recall the name Douglas Mackey.

00:26:17.540 He had this edgy Twitter account called Ricky Vaughn, based on the movie Major League.

00:26:22.520 He was arrested, then convicted, and then imprisoned for sharing memes.

00:26:32.600 This all happened in March of 2023, was when he was found guilty.

00:26:40.360 He faced up to a decade in jail.

00:26:44.680 Happily, he was only sentenced to seven months in jail.

00:26:49.440 So that, okay, that's one difference between us and communist Cuba.

00:26:53.880 In America, you, well, you could be sentenced, actually, to much more jail time than the Cuban 1.00

00:26:58.480 Communist Party sentences its dissidents to.

00:27:00.560 But maybe you'll get a little bit less jail time.

00:27:02.640 So instead of two and a half years, maybe it'll be seven months.

00:27:04.680 Okay, better part of a year for the same supposed crime.

00:27:10.340 Douglas Mackey posted some funny memes.

00:27:12.420 One of the memes was, don't skip the line, vote from home.

00:27:16.700 You know, if you're a Democrat, text your vote or something like that.

00:27:19.920 This is an old joke.

00:27:20.900 I'd work on campaigns when I was a, when I was a youth back in my teenage years and in

00:27:27.220 my 20s.

00:27:28.280 And you'd be standing around talking to voters, passing out palm cards.

00:27:31.820 And sometimes they'd say, hey, when's the election?

00:27:33.980 And the joke was, well, are you a Democrat or a Republican?

00:27:36.800 Ha ha.

00:27:37.500 If you're a Republican, the election's on Tuesday.

00:27:39.660 But if you're a Democrat, the election's not till Wednesday.

00:27:42.100 Ha ha ha.

00:27:42.660 And it's a, it's a, it's a very old political campaign joke.

00:27:45.400 So this guy, Douglas Mackey, posts a meme basically about that joke.

00:27:50.340 It's just a new high-tech version of that joke.

00:27:53.020 He goes to jail for seven months.

00:27:59.480 I'm not saying we're the same as Cuba.

00:28:03.260 For one, it's, it's hard to grow tobacco that's as good in America.

00:28:06.880 Though Connecticut-shaped tobacco is very good.

00:28:08.160 So is Pennsylvania broadly, but I digress.

00:28:09.760 But our government is, is acting increasingly in a way that is similar to, uh, totalitarian,

00:28:18.320 oppressive, actually communist regimes elsewhere in the world.

00:28:21.560 That should, that should alarm us.

00:28:23.580 That should give us a little bit of pause.

00:28:25.600 Now, speaking of internet culture, sort of a sad story from University of Michigan Health.

00:28:31.240 One in five parents says that his or her kids don't have any friends.

00:28:39.500 This is a poll of over a thousand parents with kids between six and 12, uh, years, years old.

00:28:46.180 They say 20% of kids potentially feel lonely or isolated during crucial years of social development.

00:28:51.620 Why is this?

00:28:54.480 One, uh, one in five of parents, of the one in five, one in five of them say it's shyness or social awkwardness.

00:29:01.820 That's the main obstacle for their kid. 1.00

00:29:03.800 An additional 15% said it's because other kids are jerks. 0.99

00:29:08.660 It's unkind behavior from other children. 0.98

00:29:11.120 And then less than 10% say it's a medical condition or disability.

00:29:14.560 So it's not, they're, they're not saying, well, you know, my kid's being made fun of because he's in a wheelchair or something.

00:29:19.480 Or because he, you know, has autism or something like that.

00:29:21.980 It's not that, that's, that's the lowest ranking problem, according to these parents.

00:29:28.100 It's that the kids are shy and socially awkward.

00:29:30.540 And this is the key.

00:29:32.000 And it's a problem, like kids, some kids go through tough times when they're kids.

00:29:36.160 You know, that's just, that's part of growing up.

00:29:38.920 However, some go through tougher times than others in certain social circumstances can, can be better or worse.

00:29:45.060 When I was a kid, homeschooling was unusual.

00:29:50.580 Homeschooling was unusual.

00:29:53.220 Most kids went to public school, or maybe if they were rich kids, they went to a private school.

00:29:56.980 But they didn't really homeschool because there was this fear that the kids who went, were homeschooled would not develop social skills.

00:30:06.900 They wouldn't know how to interact with people.

00:30:08.360 They'd be shy and awkward and weird, and they couldn't, they wouldn't be able to get along with other people.

00:30:13.580 They wouldn't be socialized into the normal culture.

00:30:16.820 Today, it's exactly the opposite.

00:30:18.880 Today, if you are socialized into the normal culture that you see in our, in public school and in the mainstream, you are much more likely to be weird and shy and awkward and anxious and depressed and think that you're the opposite sex or anything in between.

00:30:40.020 Today, today, if you, if you want to be normal, that is to say, well-adjusted and basically grounded in reality, you have to avoid being socialized into the mainstream culture.

00:30:53.880 Anecdotally, we see this to be true.

00:30:55.860 Ever since COVID, especially, homeschooling has really taken off in America.

00:30:59.820 I know so many kids who are homeschooled.

00:31:02.960 I know so many of them just around my local parish.

00:31:06.220 I travel around the country.

00:31:07.460 I go to different churches and communities.

00:31:09.120 I meet a lot of people who homeschool their kids.

00:31:13.960 Ninety eight point seven percent of the time.

00:31:18.140 These kids are among the very most normal, mature, well-adjusted kids I've ever met in my whole life.

00:31:27.320 It's the kids who go to the public schools.

00:31:30.500 It's the kids who go even to the mainstream private schools who have all sorts of problems and all sorts of disorders and all sorts of questions about their identity and all sorts of social problems.

00:31:41.180 That is an amazing flip.

00:31:44.400 That is an amazing, if you want your kid to be well-adjusted and properly socialized, you actually have to keep them out of the mainstream culture because the mainstream culture is, is not conducive to their flourishing.

00:31:56.000 Friendship is really important.

00:31:57.140 This is not just a minor problem.

00:31:58.520 Ah, whatever.

00:31:59.000 My kid will make friends later someday.

00:32:00.500 No.

00:32:02.160 Aristotle writes about this at length, that friendship is, well, basically the highest form of love.

00:32:10.340 Not just any kind of friendship.

00:32:11.840 You know, he has gradations of friendship.

00:32:13.720 There's friendship of utility where you just kind of, there's friendship of pleasure where, you know, you both like playing Pinochle or something.

00:32:18.840 Then there's friendship of utility where you're networking and you help each other out, maybe professionally.

00:32:23.580 And it's still kind of transactional though.

00:32:25.740 And then there's friendship of virtue, friendship of the good.

00:32:28.260 And Aristotle says, a virtuous friend is another self, which sounds kind of narcissistic and self-centered, but it's really not.

00:32:36.860 Because you're standing with another person, both looking at the good, both pursuing the good, both wishing to be better, and both helping to make each other better.

00:32:49.280 It's a true friend holds up a mirror to yourself.

00:32:52.880 It's like growing another brain is what a true friend is like.

00:32:59.380 And that's extraordinarily important because man is a social creature and we don't just live in isolation.

00:33:05.040 It's not going to work.

00:33:05.860 Okay, before we get to the mailbag, I'm going to do something really weird.

00:33:08.200 I just saw a great music video and I have to play it for you.

00:33:11.240 It's by John Kahn.

00:33:12.100 It was released by Baste Records.

00:33:14.620 I will narrate for those who are just listening on podcast or radio.

00:33:17.740 Take it away.

00:33:18.140 This is a video, black and white, Trump walking alone down a hallway.

00:33:37.000 Trump just black and white walking through crowds.

00:33:42.360 Wearing a MAGA hat, smiling in a suit, rain coming down.

00:33:48.140 It's him walking by courthouses, picking up that Marine's hat, putting it on his head.

00:34:07.320 Standing supporting different people at the White House.

00:34:12.360 Walking alone out the door of the West Wing.

00:34:14.660 Smiling with the MAGA hat on and his shirt and jacket.

00:34:35.980 Kissing an older woman on the head, you know, a little woman who's obviously a supporter of his.

00:34:39.980 I love that lyric.

00:34:51.600 I'm a fighter.

00:34:52.800 No one can say I'm a running hider.

00:34:56.100 A few short clips of Trump as a young man looking serious.

00:35:03.940 Hugging the American flag.

00:35:05.080 Yeah, I'm tired.

00:35:06.080 Yeah, I'm a fighter.

00:35:10.980 Fireworks going off.

00:35:13.700 Standing there, fist in the air.

00:35:15.160 No one can keep me down.

00:35:18.260 And then obviously all his supporters.

00:35:20.420 These, you know, deplorable, irredeemable people who were just actually good, normal Americans who want a normal country.

00:35:26.300 That I'm a fighter.

00:35:27.440 And then the video ends with, in the same place it started, him walking alone down a hallway.

00:35:33.320 Totally determined, serious affect.

00:35:35.660 Not angry, not serious.

00:35:38.380 Doing his job.

00:35:40.320 Walks out to take center stage.

00:35:42.720 And of course, when he's nearly killed.

00:35:45.660 I'm on the stage in Pennsylvania.

00:35:47.780 Blood on his face.

00:35:49.460 Fist in the air.

00:35:50.420 Fight, fight, fight.

00:35:51.680 I'm basically immune to political propaganda, to most political propaganda.

00:36:03.400 This one gets you a little bit misty-eyed.

00:36:05.360 It's exactly the right tone.

00:36:07.900 It's exactly the right tone because it rings true. 0.92

00:36:09.960 I mentioned earlier in the show that Trump's not Reagan.

00:36:13.260 There are a lot of similarities.

00:36:14.500 They have the same campaign slogan, but he's not Reagan.

00:36:16.900 This is a really good song.

00:36:18.860 I highly recommend you share this with people.

00:36:21.680 Because it captures the essence of Reagan in the real person of Trump.

00:36:28.240 It captures what they have in common.

00:36:31.720 It's very simple.

00:36:32.760 I'm a fighter.

00:36:33.840 I'm not a run and hider.

00:36:36.600 It's not a complicated song.

00:36:38.460 Trump's not all that complicated a man.

00:36:40.780 The guy's just a fighter.

00:36:42.500 And he doesn't give the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave.

00:36:45.060 And he doesn't have certain attributes that other great leaders have had.

00:36:52.400 You know, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or whoever.

00:36:55.840 He's Trump.

00:36:56.640 He's Donald Trump.

00:36:57.660 And this is a guy who has extraordinary natural virtues that most other people lack.

00:37:05.620 And he just built up his business.

00:37:08.120 And, you know, so there's footage of him all the way back in the 80s or 90s.

00:37:11.920 And he just, this guy, his superpower is, you just can't get him down.

00:37:17.660 You just can't beat him.

00:37:20.060 Any other man, four prosecutions, four criminal prosecutions.

00:37:23.460 Any other man, one criminal prosecution.

00:37:25.000 He'd be out of politics.

00:37:26.280 And you just can't get him down.

00:37:29.040 They spy on him.

00:37:30.220 They malign him.

00:37:31.920 They drag him into court over civil cases.

00:37:34.780 They try to criminally prosecute him.

00:37:36.600 They change all the election rules. 0.71

00:37:38.700 They shoot him twice. 0.98

00:37:40.360 They try to shoot him once. 0.97

00:37:41.980 They try to shoot him a second time.

00:37:43.600 And this guy just gets back up.

00:37:45.680 And it's inspiring.

00:37:48.040 Anything else.

00:37:48.700 You talk about any of Trump's faults.

00:37:50.120 You think Trump doesn't know about his faults?

00:37:51.280 He jokes about his faults.

00:37:52.460 And he shows up to religious shrines.

00:37:54.340 And he speaks in a way that's weirdly humble for a billionaire with his name in gold who was the

00:37:58.380 president of the United States.

00:38:00.060 But he just, that's it.

00:38:02.640 That's what people like about him.

00:38:04.920 You just can't keep him down.

00:38:06.600 And there's something deeply American about that.

00:38:08.240 And there's something deeply inspiring in a time when people have become so cynical and so weak.

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00:38:24.060 The reviews are rolling in from everywhere.

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00:38:54.300 Take it away.

00:38:54.960 Hey, Michael, as a young Christian, I thought Christian and conservative films were poorly

00:38:59.920 written and generally poorly done.

00:39:01.700 So I went out and got a degree in media and performing arts from a fancy art school.

00:39:05.860 I wanted to advance and improve the field in whatever way I could.

00:39:09.540 For a long time, however, I struggled with the idea that acting was lying in a way.

00:39:14.200 It wasn't until I confessed the struggle to a secular professor in college that I got a great

00:39:18.660 answer.

00:39:19.080 She said that acting wasn't about lying, but rather it was and should be when well done

00:39:23.700 all about telling the truth.

00:39:25.520 This hit me as a Christian.

00:39:27.420 Jesus is the ultimate storyteller.

00:39:29.780 He constantly used parables and illustrations.

00:39:33.200 Why do so many Christians and Christian organizations reject and downplay the use of this art form when it could be such an amazing

00:39:41.620 tool to share the ultimate truth of Christ?

00:39:43.880 The Catholic Church uses art in so many unique and beautiful ways.

00:39:47.320 For example, why do both Protestants and Catholics reject this medium pretty much across the board?

00:39:53.660 As you can imagine, I hit a wake-up wall after college and I'm now not directly using my degree.

00:39:58.700 But I'd really appreciate your thoughts.

00:40:00.300 Thanks.

00:40:01.040 Happily.

00:40:01.620 And I have a little extra insight into this because I was an actor.

00:40:05.540 I have been an actor.

00:40:06.720 I've worked as an actor.

00:40:07.460 And so I'm now a Christian and I'm now a practicing Christian.

00:40:13.820 I suppose I was a cradle Catholic and then fell away for 10 years.

00:40:16.840 And reverting to the church has complicated my views on acting because you're absolutely right,

00:40:22.280 or your professor's right, that acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:40:26.760 If you're any good at it, that's what you're doing.

00:40:30.320 There's one TV show where I play a guy who supposedly blew up the Hindenburg.

00:40:35.260 Now, I didn't really blow up the Hindenburg.

00:40:37.460 You know, when I play a football player or whatever, soldier or something, I'm not really

00:40:41.320 those guys, but you're living truthfully within the imaginary circumstances.

00:40:48.080 But that creates problems for the actor in particular, but to a lesser degree for the

00:40:53.640 audience.

00:40:55.080 Fiction creates problems, or it can create problems for the audience.

00:41:00.040 There is a reason why the Church Fathers pretty much universally condemned the theater,

00:41:05.480 in part because the plays that were being presented in the theaters were extraordinarily

00:41:09.480 obscene and, in some cases, blasphemous.

00:41:12.820 There were mockeries of Christian rights. 1.00

00:41:14.180 So that's one historical reason why presumably one could have a wholesome movie or a wholesome

00:41:19.660 play.

00:41:20.680 Now, it would be less damaging.

00:41:22.220 There's another fear, though, when we engage with fiction, which is the fear that Dante writes

00:41:30.180 about in Canto 5 of Inferno, which is that sometimes we can make interpretive errors and

00:41:34.960 we can mistake the fictional lives of the characters for our own lives.

00:41:38.200 That's what the adulterous lover Francesca de Rimini does. 1.00

00:41:41.740 She's reading Lancelot and Guinevere, and she misinterprets the text, and she reads it as

00:41:46.220 her own life.

00:41:46.800 And then she has an adulterous affair with her brother-in-law, and it leads to their death,

00:41:49.460 and then they end up in hell.

00:41:50.500 So that's one fear, is that you can read great works of fiction or watch a great play

00:41:57.420 or a great movie and understand through the imaginary circumstances truth, but you have

00:42:02.820 to make sure that you can keep a distance between yourself and the play.

00:42:06.980 If you become too lost in it, you lose touch with reality, and that can lead you into sin

00:42:10.600 and error.

00:42:11.840 This risk is all the more pronounced for actors because, especially in modern acting, since

00:42:18.500 Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theater, which then comes to America through the group theater

00:42:23.480 and people like Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler and Harold Klerman and Sanford Meisner, that

00:42:27.760 new style of acting, which has been around for something like 100 years now, draws heavily

00:42:32.020 on Freud, and it involves not representing something.

00:42:35.620 It's not akin to being a mime.

00:42:38.320 It relies on cultivating an inner life of the character.

00:42:42.580 So if you want to play a guy who's in love with a woman on screen, you really want to

00:42:49.820 cultivate a kind of love and attraction for that woman, which can compromise you.

00:42:54.140 If you want to play a mass murderer, you have to cultivate the desire to murder people.

00:43:00.060 You want to cultivate that inner life so that it kind of just overflows.

00:43:05.620 And then it's like a sponge that gets overly full, and then the water that comes out, that's

00:43:10.180 the acting.

00:43:10.760 And it's called organic acting.

00:43:13.600 Sometimes it's called method acting, which is a subset of it.

00:43:16.940 But that can be really damaging because you're constantly reshaping your soul in ways that

00:43:23.400 are not always virtuous.

00:43:24.440 So it's not so simple as saying theater is perfectly fine.

00:43:29.960 It's just living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

00:43:31.540 What is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances, that's the problem, is it can be psychologically

00:43:37.060 and spiritually damaging, a little bit for the audience, but especially for the actors.

00:43:41.520 Not saying there's no right way to do it, but the church fathers had a point when they

00:43:46.800 talked about the dangers of the theater.

00:43:51.140 Next question.

00:43:53.320 Hi, Michael.

00:43:54.140 This is Rachel from Michigan.

00:43:55.240 My question is, why do you think the left is not promoting Kamala as the potential first

00:44:00.380 female president of the United States? 1.00

00:44:02.900 The left is ordinarily quick to highlight anyone who might be the first anything.

00:44:07.340 When Hillary ran, they talked nonstop of a woman finally leading our country. 1.00

00:44:11.920 When Obama ran, black people couldn't wait to see someone who looked like them be our

00:44:16.240 first black president.

00:44:17.920 Even when Pete Buttigieg ran for president, they touted him as the first openly gay man to

00:44:22.660 launch a presidential campaign.

00:44:24.620 But we hear crickets about this with Kamala as the current Democratic candidate. 0.84

00:44:28.400 My thoughts on their silence is that women and feminists, we want to be proud of what 1.00

00:44:34.380 our gender accomplishes, standing on our own merits. 0.99

00:44:37.780 Kamala did not win a primary.

00:44:39.660 She hasn't provided a clear platform.

00:44:41.980 She would become a first solely due to circumstance rather than on her own achievements.

00:44:47.040 What are your thoughts on this?

00:44:49.160 I think your intuition is pretty good.

00:44:51.840 Also because, yeah, she's getting the nomination in a way that is cheating. 0.99

00:44:57.740 So they're a little wary of that.

00:45:00.360 Also, they ran Hillary as the first woman president.

00:45:03.180 She got beat.

00:45:03.860 So maybe they're beginning to realize that's not the best idea.

00:45:09.040 They want to run Kamala as everything and nothing.

00:45:12.420 So they're not really defining her in any way.

00:45:17.380 They want her to just be a generic alternative to Trump.

00:45:20.780 And so the less defined she is, the better. 1.00

00:45:22.260 One correction, though, of what you said.

00:45:23.920 You said that Pete Buttigieg was running to be our first gay, openly gay president.

00:45:29.780 But of course, our actual first homosexual president was James Buchanan, the worst president 0.90

00:45:34.000 in American history who very nearly destroyed the country.

00:45:36.180 So that'll be something Pete can grapple with the next time he runs.

00:45:39.800 Next question.

00:45:40.260 Hi, Michael.

00:45:42.120 I have a question regarding communion during Mass.

00:45:45.660 I see fellow parishioners receiving the body in different ways, by hand or by the tongue,

00:45:51.500 either while standing or kneeling.

00:45:53.800 What are your thoughts about these different methods of receiving the Eucharist?

00:45:57.680 And is there a specific method that should be practiced more over others?

00:46:02.340 Many thanks in advance for your insight and have a blessed weekend.

00:46:06.440 Very good question.

00:46:07.200 The church permits all of those different ways.

00:46:10.840 However, I think the traditional way probably has quite a lot to it, which is to receive the Eucharist

00:46:17.280 on the tongue, not in your hand, on the tongue, while kneeling.

00:46:21.220 Because, you know, you're kneeling while you receive our Lord, you know, in the holy sacrifice

00:46:25.620 of the Mass, in the blessed sacrament.

00:46:27.800 So that would seem to occasion kneeling.

00:46:31.500 If you're going to kneel before you enter a pew, if you're going to, you know, kneel before an icon or something,

00:46:35.220 probably you'd want to kneel when receiving the holy sacrament.

00:46:38.520 And then the reason to receive on the tongue is the priest's hands are consecrated,

00:46:42.000 and your hands are not consecrated.

00:46:43.760 So just really practical, it's kind of funny to speak practically about this extraordinary mystery.

00:46:52.420 But, you know, if you receive the Eucharist on the hand, and you really believe that this

00:46:56.960 is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, then if there's a crumb,

00:47:04.020 or if a piece falls onto the floor or something, any little tiny little crumb or remnant of it,

00:47:09.440 then you're disrespecting our Lord.

00:47:12.880 You know, you're, falls on the ground, and then you're stepping on it.

00:47:16.160 It's just, you know, really hideous to think about.

00:47:18.920 So I would recommend receiving on the tongue while kneeling at an altar rail, preferably. 0.99

00:47:24.580 Okay, there's more to get to.

00:47:27.420 There's more voice mailbag.

00:47:29.680 There's more written mailbag.

00:47:30.900 There's Fake Headline Friday.

00:47:31.740 The rest of the show continues now.

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00:47:50.560 Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad. 0.52

00:47:54.580 White. 0.81

00:47:55.320 Growing up, I never thought much about race.

00:47:57.420 Never really seemed to matter that much.

00:47:59.260 At least not to me.

00:48:00.100 Am I racist?

00:48:01.260 I would really appreciate it if you love.

00:48:02.540 I'm trying to learn.

00:48:03.260 I'm on this journey.

00:48:04.520 I'm going to sort this out.

00:48:05.800 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:48:08.820 I don't say I'm racist.

00:48:10.300 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.

00:48:13.760 Here's my certification.

00:48:14.780 What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness. 0.71

00:48:17.620 This is more for you than this for you.

00:48:18.600 Is America inherently racist?

00:48:20.120 The word inherent is challenging there.

00:48:22.140 You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

00:48:25.280 America is racist to its bones.

00:48:27.160 So inherently. 0.98

00:48:28.020 Yeah.

00:48:28.420 This country is a piece of... 0.99

00:48:29.680 White. 0.97

00:48:31.680 Folks. 1.00

00:48:32.180 Trash. 1.00

00:48:32.660 White supremacy. 1.00

00:48:33.440 White woman. 1.00

00:48:34.020 White boy.

00:48:34.560 Is there a black person around here?

00:48:35.820 What's a black person right here? 0.86

00:48:37.160 Does he not exist?

00:48:39.940 Hi, Robin.

00:48:40.520 Hi.

00:48:40.860 What's your name?

00:48:41.800 I'm Matt.

00:48:42.320 I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.

00:48:44.920 Never be too careful.

00:48:45.760 They gonna say you racist.

00:48:46.880 In theaters now.

00:48:48.000 Rated PG-13.

The Michael Knowles Show - September 20, 2024

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