The Michael Knowles Show


Ep. 1644 - NEW DETAILS： Truck Attacks Just Got Weirder


Summary

Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide last year, and it s probably not what you think it is. And on a lighter note, a comedian roasted the Democrats on CNN while Anderson Cooper looked on in horror.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 More information is out about the two terror attacks on New Year's Day.
00:00:03.680 The leading cause of death worldwide last year has just come out.
00:00:06.840 It's probably not what you think it is.
00:00:07.840 And on a lighter note, finally, a comedian roasted the Democrats on CNN while Anderson Cooper looked on in horror.
00:00:15.840 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show.
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00:01:22.100 Okay, sorry about the show yesterday.
00:01:25.360 I need to make an apology on behalf of our computers because I did a really, really great show yesterday, okay?
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00:01:40.600 And then the video was lost.
00:01:44.480 So you can listen to yesterday's show on audio.
00:01:48.060 I was thinking, I don't know, what could we do?
00:01:49.460 We could get a robot to do it on AI to get a video.
00:01:51.920 But today, all the cameras, all the computers are working.
00:01:56.200 Yesterday's show was very heavy because the new year is kicking off with two terror attacks.
00:02:01.200 And it's coming at you really hard, 2025.
00:02:04.420 Well, today's show is going to be heavy too because we have the worldwide leading cause of death last year.
00:02:10.280 The numbers are in and the leading cause of death last year was abortion.
00:02:18.040 Many of you might not have expected.
00:02:19.480 Some of you probably did expect that, but many of you probably would not expect that because in our culture, we're taught not to think of abortion as death.
00:02:25.120 In our culture, we're taught to think of abortion as health care, as a wonderful expression of rights, as an instantiation of freedom.
00:02:33.000 So why would you think of it as death?
00:02:34.300 But that is the leading cause of death.
00:02:36.440 According to Worldometer, 45 million babies were killed through abortion just last year.
00:02:44.960 By the way, that might be a conservative number.
00:02:46.920 Other estimates put it significantly higher.
00:02:48.940 But we'll just use the conservative number.
00:02:50.580 45 million babies were killed through abortion last year.
00:02:56.120 To put that number in perspective, the number of people who died from cancer worldwide last year, 8.2 million.
00:03:04.140 The number of people who died from smoking cigarettes, 5 million.
00:03:09.340 How about HIV and AIDS?
00:03:11.220 We constantly hear about the global scourge of HIV, AIDS, killing so many people.
00:03:16.200 1.7 million.
00:03:17.320 1.35 million people died from car crashes.
00:03:22.500 1.1 million from suicide.
00:03:24.180 The number from abortion, 45 million.
00:03:27.120 Abortions accounted for 42% of all deaths in the world last year.
00:03:33.560 I'll put that number in historical context.
00:03:35.920 World War II is the deadliest conflict ever in human history.
00:03:41.080 Some 70 million or so people died in World War II.
00:03:44.400 That's over a six-year period.
00:03:45.600 That means that 11.7 million people died per year from World War II.
00:03:52.600 That means that abortion is killing just under four times as many people as the deadliest conflict in human history did per year.
00:04:01.600 The second deadliest conflict in human history is World War I.
00:04:05.300 15 million people died in World War I.
00:04:07.780 World War I lasted for a little over four years.
00:04:10.100 That means that abortion kills three times as many people in one year as the second deadliest conflict in human history did.
00:04:29.100 How about the Black Death?
00:04:31.640 Black Death, considered one of the most violent, gory, deadly events in all of human history.
00:04:39.860 An estimated 25 to 50 million people died during the Black Death.
00:04:43.700 Black Death lasted about seven years in the 14th century.
00:04:46.360 Abortion kills that number of people, or more, or significantly more, in one year.
00:04:54.660 Not seven years, one year.
00:04:58.040 Why do I bring all this up?
00:04:59.400 Not just to be a Debbie Downer, but to point out that we are living in a really dark age.
00:05:05.820 So people are saying, wow, man, 2025 is really kicking off in a dark way with all these attacks and global instability.
00:05:12.460 And who knows, probably more attacks will come at this rate before the inauguration.
00:05:18.660 Yeah, 2025 is dark.
00:05:20.020 This whole era is pretty dark, though.
00:05:21.500 Meanwhile, you have the liberals, the classical liberals and the progressive liberals.
00:05:26.000 They say, no, this is the greatest era ever.
00:05:28.040 Violence has fallen to a record low.
00:05:30.200 People are so prosperous.
00:05:31.860 This is all sunshine and roses.
00:05:33.340 We're at the end of history.
00:05:34.820 Globalism, liberalism, it's the apotheosis.
00:05:37.160 It's so wonderful.
00:05:38.460 On the contrary, we are currently living in just liberal modernity in the most violent and barbaric time ever in human history.
00:05:48.840 It's important to keep that in perspective.
00:05:50.960 We have to stop abortion because it's so evil.
00:05:54.360 Because as Mother Teresa said at the UN, if a, this was actually in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
00:06:00.760 If a mother can kill her own children, there's nothing that people cannot do to one another.
00:06:04.740 It's the gravest evil in the world.
00:06:06.940 So you have to stop it before the injustice.
00:06:09.920 But also because abortion means, legal abortion, not just in America, but worldwide, means we are living in the worst time.
00:06:19.520 I think by any serious analysis, you would have to say, we are living in the least civilized, most barbaric, certainly most violent time in history.
00:06:31.900 Unfortunately, it's not even close.
00:06:33.380 So on that cheerful note, we turn to what's been going on over the past few days.
00:06:38.460 There was this terror attack in New Orleans about 3.15 in the morning, New Year's Eve, going into New Year's Day.
00:06:43.840 Initially, the FBI said it's not a terror event.
00:06:47.340 They sent that ridiculous woman out with the sparkly nose ring to say, first thing she said, this is not a terror event.
00:06:52.640 Then the DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas came out.
00:06:55.160 He said, no, this is being investigated as a terror attack.
00:06:58.060 It's obviously a terror attack.
00:06:59.320 The guy with the Arab name who drove the car into people and shot people was carrying an ISIS flag.
00:07:05.700 Well, what do we know about this guy?
00:07:06.820 Court records show that this guy had a rough financial situation.
00:07:12.280 He was separating from his wife.
00:07:14.640 He was way behind on house payments.
00:07:16.620 He had a bunch of credit card debt.
00:07:18.820 He was in bad straits.
00:07:21.520 Then you add the ideological element on, which is that he had the ISIS flag.
00:07:26.300 When the FBI corrected itself and said, okay, this is terrorism, they said, we don't believe he was acting alone.
00:07:32.440 Now, the update from the FBI is, no, no, no, we do think he was acting alone.
00:07:35.960 So yet again, yet again, there is no credibility to the FBI here.
00:07:43.260 Now, if the FBI comes out and says this was terrorism, now I think it wasn't terrorism.
00:07:48.620 The FBI comes out and says he was acting alone, I think he wasn't acting alone.
00:07:51.420 It's basically opposite day because the FBI has so destroyed its credibility, not just over the past two or three years, but over the past 10 years, that people have absolutely no faith in the FBI.
00:08:02.420 And people are looking at these two attacks that occurred hours apart, and they're beginning to question the narrative.
00:08:10.420 They're questioning what they're being told.
00:08:12.460 And it's not the fault of the people who are questioning it.
00:08:14.780 You're going to hear a lot about tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists and how you shouldn't jump to crazy conclusions.
00:08:22.380 The conspiracy, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but a conspiracy theory is the rational conclusion to come to when the authorities in charge are demonstrating their willingness to engage in a conspiracy.
00:08:38.840 We know that the FBI themselves have engaged in conspiracies going back at least to the Russia hoax.
00:08:44.440 So you have to ask questions.
00:08:47.220 Did this guy have a connection to ISIS?
00:08:49.140 I don't know, maybe.
00:08:50.340 Was he acting alone?
00:08:51.760 I don't know.
00:08:52.500 Do I believe what the FBI said the first time or the second time?
00:08:54.760 Then you tie it in with the cyber truck.
00:08:56.060 The cyber truck story has gotten so much weirder.
00:08:58.720 So hours after the New Orleans attack, there is a guy who blows up a cyber truck in front of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.
00:09:07.860 The guy not only had military experience like the attacker in New Orleans.
00:09:13.020 Now we're being told this, the guy in the truck that exploded was an active duty Green Beret.
00:09:23.900 And it gets weirder from there.
00:09:25.000 We'll get to that in one moment.
00:09:25.880 First, though, speaking of the deep state and espionage and conspiracies, I just recently sat down on Michael Land with Jack Barsky, a former Soviet spy who was a sleeper cell from the KGB in the United States for years.
00:09:39.740 And then he left the KGB and was still undetected in America for years afterward.
00:09:46.080 We sat down.
00:09:46.740 We talked about spying, how he left it all behind, and even his conversion to Christ.
00:09:51.420 Check out this teaser.
00:09:53.220 All they knew was that A, I was a hardcore communist, and that I was pretty smart.
00:09:58.600 Being recruited by the mighty KGB, that's like, I must be.
00:10:02.320 You're like James Bond.
00:10:03.520 You know, I had loved this woman, and I could shake her off like this.
00:10:06.360 Do you have to be kind of a sociopath to be a spy?
00:10:09.740 That's a good question.
00:10:10.940 I've never been asked that question.
00:10:13.160 What is the mission that you were sent into America to do?
00:10:16.240 Open up a business, and the KGB knew how to launder money and come to the United States with $20 million.
00:10:24.520 With this kind of money, I would have made it into the upper echelons of society right next to the Pentagon.
00:10:31.460 Right.
00:10:31.680 I would have been a very dangerous spy.
00:10:33.840 I thought I had become untouchable, with one exception, though.
00:10:37.100 Eventually, a betrayal by a KGB agent.
00:10:41.240 I became very depressed.
00:10:44.340 One day, I went to the altar at that church, and I think it was my subconscious again forcing me to get up, go up there, and the pastor asked me, can I do something for you?
00:10:54.380 And I said, I want to give my life to Jesus.
00:10:58.000 It makes me almost cry.
00:11:00.340 Sorry.
00:11:00.740 Go watch the full episode now of Michael and Jack Barsky and get it on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel.
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00:11:20.640 The cyber truck terror attack was allegedly perpetrated by an active-duty U.S. Army Green Beret.
00:11:30.320 That's according to law enforcement.
00:11:32.480 He was a master sergeant.
00:11:35.240 So this is a senior enlisted rank.
00:11:38.600 This is E-8, which makes the story way weirder.
00:11:41.860 However, according to the Army, U.S. Army Special Operations Command can confirm that this guy was assigned to the command and on approved leave at the time of his death.
00:11:51.260 So he's in Germany.
00:11:52.280 He gets leave.
00:11:52.980 Around Christmas time, he goes and then allegedly blows up the cyber truck at the Trump Hotel.
00:11:58.320 According to the Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McNayhill, this guy, the Green Beret, was found inside the vehicle with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
00:12:10.480 Hold on.
00:12:11.860 Put a pause right here.
00:12:13.900 You're telling me that this active-duty Green Beret comes back to America, drives a cyber truck up to the Trump Hotel, shoots himself in the head, and then blows up the cyber truck.
00:12:25.500 Now, I guess it's possible he could have just timed the truck to detonate.
00:12:29.680 So he shoots himself in the head.
00:12:30.840 He clicks it.
00:12:31.820 You know, it's going to go off in some matter of time.
00:12:33.860 Shoots himself in the head, and then it explodes.
00:12:36.020 Except we have some video of this.
00:12:38.380 If the guy blew his brains out in the truck, there were people, he was at a valet stand.
00:12:43.000 There were valets around him.
00:12:44.840 No one noticed that?
00:12:46.240 No one heard the gunshot?
00:12:48.380 It's possible.
00:12:49.740 The cyber truck is a real tough vehicle.
00:12:51.780 Well, that seems a little weird to me.
00:12:54.820 Did this guy just have it out for Trump?
00:12:57.780 I don't know.
00:12:58.280 I know some Green Berets.
00:12:59.440 I know a number of people in special forces.
00:13:01.860 They're not usually liberal Democrats.
00:13:03.880 They're not usually Kamala voters.
00:13:05.320 And, according to reports, this guy was a Trump supporter.
00:13:11.580 Apparently, he was a pretty serious Trump supporter.
00:13:13.600 So he's, hold on, he's going to take the Elon Musk car, that's the car of Trump's most prominent supporter,
00:13:20.740 and then he's going to kill himself by blowing up a truck in front of Trump Hotel,
00:13:24.820 in front of the hotel owned by the guy that he supposedly supports for president?
00:13:28.780 Hold on, it gets weirder.
00:13:29.600 Here, law enforcement says this guy did not have any help carrying out the attack.
00:13:37.280 Surveillance cameras track him all alone on his trip from Colorado Springs to Las Vegas.
00:13:42.680 Then you've got an independent journalist, Nick Sorter, who's reporting
00:13:45.160 that this guy was trying to recruit mercenaries to go fight in Ukraine.
00:13:51.740 Now, this is making my mind think of Ryan Routh,
00:13:54.320 the guy who tried to murder Trump on the golf course in the second assassination attempt on President Trump.
00:13:59.600 That guy was also actively trying to recruit mercenaries for Ukraine.
00:14:05.860 Now, I have a letter, somewhere in my home office, I have a letter from Congress that was sent to me
00:14:09.920 to warn me that I was on something like a Ukrainian hit list for raising any questions about Ukraine funding.
00:14:16.000 I'm not even actively anti-Ukraine.
00:14:17.860 I ended up on that list.
00:14:18.940 That's very strange.
00:14:19.640 You've got the two guys who, two of three guys who perpetrate major anti-Trump attacks who are not in the federal government.
00:14:28.620 Actually, they were in the federal government because they worked for the army, but put that aside.
00:14:32.520 You've got the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, you have the assassination attempt on Trump's golf course,
00:14:37.160 and you have this explosion at the Trump Hotel.
00:14:39.880 Now, two of those three guys were actively trying to recruit people to go fight in Ukraine.
00:14:46.780 That's pretty weird.
00:14:48.500 There's, according to Sorter, there's a photo of this guy wearing a glory to Ukraine shirt.
00:14:54.880 There's no firm confirmation of this stuff.
00:14:56.580 It's just kind of floating around social media, and it's hard to pin down this guy's social media right now.
00:15:00.580 Now, you add on top of this that senior non-commissioned officers, like a master sergeant, like E8, pay grade,
00:15:11.100 these are supposed to be pretty seriously vetted individuals.
00:15:14.160 Now, you add on top of this, again, I don't want to suggest anything.
00:15:17.260 I don't want to speculate, but that is what I'm going to do.
00:15:20.940 He uses a car, one of the few vehicles in the world, that can be remotely controlled.
00:15:26.580 I have friends who have Teslas.
00:15:28.860 They can summon the Tesla to come drive to them.
00:15:30.980 You don't have to be actively driving it.
00:15:32.820 And then we're told that the guy actually was dead before the explosion went off.
00:15:37.180 And then, this part's really weird.
00:15:39.220 They can identify him in part because he was carrying his military ID.
00:15:43.220 All right, that's normal.
00:15:45.020 And his passport.
00:15:47.380 Now, maybe, look, I guess he'd flown in from Germany some days prior, but he's, hold on.
00:15:52.000 Why is this guy carrying a passport if he's going to carry out an attack that's domestic?
00:15:58.080 He was already in America.
00:15:59.000 What does he need his passport for?
00:16:01.120 And then on top of that, you're telling me that the passport survived the fire bomb?
00:16:06.280 He had all these explosives in the truck and the passport survives such that officers can identify him?
00:16:13.200 I'm not saying it's impossible.
00:16:15.100 I'm saying it's real weird.
00:16:16.860 Third, I'm really not offering an alternative theory as to what's going on here.
00:16:23.300 The only point I want to make is that it is perfectly rational to consider alternative theories than what we are being told by agencies of the government that have repeatedly lied to us,
00:16:37.060 specifically about Donald Trump in recent years, especially when a mere turn of a head by about 20 degrees over the summer.
00:16:48.760 An implausible last-minute jerk of the head is the only reason that Donald Trump's brains were not splattered on a stage in Pennsylvania back in the summer.
00:16:55.740 And then another assassination attempt, absolutely implausible security failures, and now this attack.
00:17:05.480 This attack for which the more that we learn, the less it makes sense.
00:17:11.520 Pretty strange.
00:17:12.840 So let's zoom up.
00:17:14.900 Let's go all the way up to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, the guy who's supposed to be keeping us safe.
00:17:19.140 What has that guy been working on to keep us safe from terror attacks during his term in office?
00:17:26.660 The guy who's supposed to keep us safe from all the terrorism tells us exactly what he thinks is the greatest terror threat back in 2022.
00:17:32.520 This was him speaking at the National Action Network.
00:17:35.420 National Action Network is a left-wing group.
00:17:37.440 It's really just Al Sharpton's extortion racket.
00:17:40.660 It's just a group, a slush fund that allows Al Sharpton to shake down people by threatening to call them racist.
00:17:45.940 Here's what Mayorka said there.
00:17:47.160 And what we in the Department of Homeland Security have assessed is that the greatest terrorism-related threat
00:17:54.580 that we face in the homeland is the threat of domestic violent extremism.
00:18:02.280 Individuals drawn to violence because of ideologies of hate or false narratives propagated on social media
00:18:12.360 and other online platforms.
00:18:14.900 And the most prominent threat is the threat of white supremacists.
00:18:21.940 That's it.
00:18:22.320 That's the most prominent threat.
00:18:24.620 Never mind that a guy named Abu al-Jabbar al-Jabbar al-Jabari or whatever is not his real name.
00:18:29.620 I try not to use their real names.
00:18:31.460 A guy with a pretty Arabic-sounding name carrying an ISIS flag is the one who mows down people on New Year's Eve in New Orleans.
00:18:38.680 Never mind that, well, the story about Vegas doesn't make any sense.
00:18:44.640 Kind of like that other attack in Vegas.
00:18:45.900 Remember the Las Vegas shooter?
00:18:48.020 That mass shooter in Las Vegas that we never really learned basically anything about?
00:18:52.900 That was some years ago now, just wiped from the news.
00:18:54.800 But I don't think he was a white supremacist.
00:18:58.500 I don't think the guy who nearly murdered Trump over the summer was a white supremacist.
00:19:03.060 I don't think Ryan Routh, unsuccessful, attempted assassin, was a white supremacist.
00:19:09.260 Doesn't seem like the biggest threat to me.
00:19:13.200 Totally, totally ridiculous explanation.
00:19:15.980 But of course, this guy, Alejandro Amirakis, is the guy who's in charge of the border.
00:19:21.100 At least officially in charge of the border.
00:19:22.800 Kamala Harris was made The Borders Are by Joe Biden in 2021.
00:19:25.400 But he's officially in charge of the border.
00:19:27.380 He's the guy who's let all these people in.
00:19:29.800 Including, by conservative estimates, what?
00:19:32.000 A thousand Islamic terrorists?
00:19:34.980 Totally ridiculous.
00:19:36.780 But then this made me think of something really strange.
00:19:39.740 We've just entered into 2025.
00:19:41.840 And how are we entering into 2025?
00:19:43.620 With all the debates that have been going on, debates over terrorism, debates over immigration,
00:19:48.320 debates over H-1B visas, debate.
00:19:51.260 It seems to me now, the conclusions we've drawn in the last two weeks are,
00:19:55.640 the biggest threat is from Muslim terrorists.
00:20:00.520 Legal immigration is good.
00:20:01.940 We want more legal immigration.
00:20:02.940 Forget about restricting immigration.
00:20:04.000 We want more legal immigration.
00:20:05.220 But it's got to be legal.
00:20:05.960 It can't be illegal immigration.
00:20:08.440 We just had regime change in a Bathurst state in the Middle East, in Syria.
00:20:12.800 And it made me think, is 2025 just 2005?
00:20:16.640 Are we just in a time machine?
00:20:18.420 We're like three free trade agreements away from just being all the way back in Bush-era politics.
00:20:24.520 We talk about the political horseshoe a lot.
00:20:26.480 Things circle back.
00:20:27.640 History repeats itself.
00:20:28.940 We might be just right back in the mid-2000s.
00:20:33.240 I hope that I can make a lot of money shorting Bear Stearns.
00:20:35.880 I'm not sure that that's the case.
00:20:36.900 Now, before we get to a little levity, because there was a beautiful display on CNN,
00:20:43.140 a comedian on New Year's Eve just destroyed CNN and the Democrats, and it has political significance.
00:20:49.120 We'll get to that in one moment.
00:20:49.900 First, I want to tell you about Yes or No.
00:20:51.860 Do not miss the latest episode of Yes or No, featuring comedian John Crist.
00:20:56.680 Here's this teaser.
00:20:57.180 Oh, men should never take a paternity leave.
00:21:00.740 Not because there's anything wrong with taking care of the family,
00:21:03.460 but because you don't want people to think you're a lesbian.
00:21:05.820 Okay.
00:21:06.380 I didn't read the end of that.
00:21:08.280 Hold on.
00:21:09.640 Hold on.
00:21:10.240 Watch the full episode now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel,
00:21:27.160 or subscribe to see the uncensored, ad-free, totally cool, uncut version over at Daily Wire+.
00:21:33.760 There was finally good TV on CNN.
00:21:36.880 This was great.
00:21:37.520 It's been many, many years, but CNN is doing coverage around the new year,
00:21:42.640 and a comedian, Whitney Cummings, goes on.
00:21:44.780 She's on screen with Anderson Cooper.
00:21:47.880 Here's what she had to say.
00:21:49.700 2024 election fried our brains.
00:21:51.920 The Democrats couldn't hold a primary because they were too busy holding a body upright.
00:21:57.260 Are we still rolling?
00:21:58.380 Am I off?
00:21:58.760 Go for it.
00:22:00.380 It was amazing that the pro-choice party didn't give their voters one when it came to the presidential candidate.
00:22:05.420 Kamal was forced on us so hard you'd think she was patented by Pfizer or Moderna, whichever one's...
00:22:11.540 Oh, God.
00:22:12.600 Andy just gave me a very scary look.
00:22:14.160 No!
00:22:14.400 I love going around the country because you see that Americans really are more reasonable
00:22:18.680 than they would be portrayed.
00:22:20.020 Well, that's absolutely 100% true.
00:22:21.020 They're pretty great, and I'm playing bigger and bigger venues now.
00:22:23.660 I thought being a mom would mean that less people would want to come see me.
00:22:26.580 I'm now playing 3,000 seat theaters, which is about the viewership of CNN these days.
00:22:31.560 Not this show, though.
00:22:32.760 Nice, nice, nice.
00:22:33.420 All eyes are on this show.
00:22:34.900 Wow, you're all firing.
00:22:35.820 Andy and I had a tour.
00:22:38.660 We did 3,000 feet.
00:22:40.020 I didn't remember.
00:22:40.040 Love it.
00:22:41.960 Totally love it.
00:22:43.440 Whitney Cummings, I've seen her a little bit over the years, and she's kind of funny.
00:22:48.440 I don't think she's some right-wing conservative, though.
00:22:51.960 And yet, that's the bit she does on CNN.
00:22:54.780 Why?
00:22:55.900 Because I think just everyone is a conservative now.
00:23:00.120 I had this conversation with my wife.
00:23:01.560 She said this to me six or eight months ago.
00:23:04.280 She goes, Mac, are liberals real?
00:23:07.080 I said, what do you mean are liberals real?
00:23:08.260 She goes, I just don't, like, I know that everyone's a liberal, and the liberals control
00:23:13.000 everything, but, like, everyone I talk to anywhere, like, even people you wouldn't expect,
00:23:17.360 they all hate Kamala, and they hate Biden, and they don't, they're just, are there any
00:23:22.260 actual liberals?
00:23:23.340 And I think the comedian that they bring on CNN, they have their pick of the litter.
00:23:28.540 They bring one on, and her whole set is mocking the Democrats, mocking the party, mocking Biden,
00:23:35.380 mocking the DNC leadership that foisted Kamala on them, mocking CNN to their face.
00:23:41.240 That's a cultural shift.
00:23:43.600 Because I don't, she's probably liberal.
00:23:45.680 I don't know, I assume most comedians are liberal, in a sense.
00:23:49.120 But the common sense right now is not liberal.
00:23:51.500 It's not just that Whitney Cummings went on CNN and said she was going to stick it to
00:23:57.380 them and have a really provocative performance.
00:23:59.100 Sure, that happened.
00:24:00.880 But just think about the alternative.
00:24:03.380 What other jokes was she going to do?
00:24:06.420 Is she going to do Trump jokes?
00:24:08.960 That would be so stale.
00:24:10.380 That would be such a groaner.
00:24:12.120 The point she makes about CNN having low ratings now, that's real.
00:24:15.020 People don't watch CNN anymore.
00:24:16.700 So she's got to play to her audience.
00:24:19.120 The audience now is much more conservative.
00:24:23.700 The libs have lost the audience.
00:24:25.300 They've literally lost the audience on their TV networks, and they have lost the audience
00:24:28.680 at the ballot box, and they've just lost the common sense.
00:24:32.280 That's it.
00:24:33.900 Liberals might not be real.
00:24:35.780 At some point, I think they were real, but I don't think that they're really real anymore.
00:24:39.740 Okay, back to really sad, scary, terrible stuff.
00:24:41.720 Tom Homan, who is the new borders are, is the deportations are under President Trump.
00:24:49.400 He just drew attention to some numbers that I think even most right-wingers, even most
00:24:56.740 Biden critics are not really aware of.
00:24:59.000 We know Biden's let millions of foreign nationals into our country, unvetted, terrible.
00:25:03.900 The cartels have control of the border.
00:25:05.340 Do you understand just how many children have not only been let into the country illegally,
00:25:14.520 but have been lost by the Biden administration?
00:25:18.520 We talk more about those many, many children that are missing, the unaccompanied children
00:25:22.640 that came across the border.
00:25:24.740 What kinds of plans do you have to retrieve these kids or to find them?
00:25:28.080 Well, look, I've been honest right from day one that this is going to be one of the most
00:25:32.880 difficult things we've ever done.
00:25:34.180 Based on my three and a half decades doing this job, a lot of these children are going
00:25:38.440 to be in forced sexual slavery, many of them are going to be in forced labor, and not all
00:25:46.580 of them, but many of them are living a life of hell every day, and we've got to rescue
00:25:50.340 these children.
00:25:51.180 We'll do the immigration consequences afterwards versus our health and safety and rescuing them.
00:25:55.900 I guarantee you, we're going to find some of these children in horrendous, horrendous conditions.
00:26:01.700 This has to be the GOP's message.
00:26:06.380 The GOP has to follow through on this as a matter of justice.
00:26:09.740 I always preface my political advice with the actual hard issue.
00:26:14.300 As a matter of justice, the Trump administration, Tom Holman, need to follow through on this and
00:26:18.760 find the hundreds of thousands of kids that Joe Biden has allowed to go missing.
00:26:22.480 Many of whom, if not most of whom, are in sexual slavery or other forms of indentured servitude.
00:26:30.740 Also, as a political matter, this has to be the message.
00:26:34.160 Because you know that the minute any deportations start, the Democrats are going to drag out the
00:26:41.180 sweetest-looking old abuela crying, being pulled away from her grandchildren and from her stove,
00:26:48.560 being thrown back to El Salvador or wherever, and they're going to say that the GOP is heartless
00:26:53.620 and we need to welcome these people in.
00:26:56.320 The reality of illegal immigration is not sweet little abuelas making paella.
00:27:00.840 The reality of illegal immigration is hundreds of thousands of kids go missing, many of whom
00:27:04.840 are in sexual slavery.
00:27:05.880 The reality of illegal immigration is Lake and Riley gets murdered and many other people
00:27:09.860 like her get murdered by illegals who shouldn't be here.
00:27:12.220 The reality of illegal immigration is that the worst people on earth, these cartels at
00:27:16.680 the border, some of whom are literally Satanists, face-tattooed animals who literally worship
00:27:22.080 Satan, are sending people into our country.
00:27:25.920 That's the reality of illegal immigration.
00:27:27.780 You have to drive that home because the populace is fickle sometimes.
00:27:33.640 People's appetites change.
00:27:34.840 They move with prevailing political winds.
00:27:36.820 The winds are in our favor right now.
00:27:39.100 But do not doubt that the Democrat propaganda machine is still a powerful tool.
00:27:44.880 They've lost a lot of their audience, but there is still a powerful tool.
00:27:47.860 Okay, there is a story I really, really want to get to.
00:27:51.740 This is crazy.
00:27:54.480 Bill Gates, the Bill Gates Foundation, has funded research that is going to turn mosquitoes, in
00:28:01.840 fact, has turned mosquitoes into flying syringes to vaccinate people, not only against their
00:28:08.080 will, but without their knowledge.
00:28:11.600 That's real.
00:28:12.360 I know it's a, I know it sounds like I should be talking in this kind of voice right now
00:28:15.380 and about gay frogs and things.
00:28:16.680 It sounds dope.
00:28:17.160 He was right about the gay frogs, by the way.
00:28:19.040 But this is real.
00:28:22.380 Bill Gates, the Bill Gates Foundation, backed Leiden University Medical Center, has turned
00:28:26.960 mosquitoes into flying syringes to vaccinate people without their knowledge.
00:28:33.340 But we don't have time to get to that story.
00:28:34.700 We'll have to get to it on Monday, I guess.
00:28:35.780 Because we've got to get to the mailbag.
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00:29:11.200 My favorite comment yesterday is from, what a great name is, Jesus Rex Mundi, who says,
00:29:17.640 my favorite yes or no collab, this flew by, had a blast listening.
00:29:20.960 I guess that's about the John Crist yes or no, so go check that out on YouTube or Daily
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00:29:27.340 Finally, finally, after what has it been, two weeks, we get to my favorite time of the week.
00:29:33.780 When I get to hear from you in the mailbag, the mailbag is brought to you by Pure Talk
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00:29:43.060 Take it away.
00:29:45.100 Hello, Michael.
00:29:46.060 I am seeking some fairly odd friendship and marriage advice.
00:29:49.760 My best friend of nearly 15 years and the best man in my wedding a couple years ago has
00:29:55.380 decided to make a move on my wife through some cryptic texts.
00:29:59.020 I took it as level-headed as I could at the time, but since then, my wife has taken it a
00:30:03.980 bit harder than I have.
00:30:05.820 I told her I have no issue cutting out someone who has encroached on our marriage, but she
00:30:10.860 would prefer to talk things out and get him help if he needs, and possibly leaving the
00:30:15.340 door open to friendship down the road.
00:30:18.040 But I am a bit torn between just cutting him out of my life and my wife being a bit emotional
00:30:24.360 in the short term or letting the proverbial wolf back in the chicken coop.
00:30:30.220 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
00:30:32.400 Thank you.
00:30:32.780 Yeah, no.
00:30:37.100 I'm sorry.
00:30:37.900 I don't mean to laugh at your situation, though luckily it seems nothing has transpired.
00:30:42.920 No, that guy's done.
00:30:44.540 He's done.
00:30:45.340 He's over.
00:30:47.520 You delete his phone number.
00:30:50.360 You, I'm not saying you should threaten him or anything.
00:30:53.120 You shouldn't do that.
00:30:53.820 You should have, you know, patience and grace and charity and everything.
00:30:57.280 But he needs to know that if he ever steps foot on your property, it will not go well
00:31:05.160 for him.
00:31:07.460 What?
00:31:08.700 Are you kidding me?
00:31:10.800 I would say, look, I actually, I want to be as encouraging of charity and grace here as
00:31:18.120 I possibly can.
00:31:20.040 Maybe you tell him when you're threatening to remove various appendages of his, maybe you
00:31:25.700 tell him, hey, look, buddy, you have a big problem, and if you ever want some help, at
00:31:30.080 some point I'm willing to offer you some help.
00:31:34.080 But if you ever even look at my wife again, if you ever even, if I see in your eyes that
00:31:39.260 you're even thinking about my wife again, not going to go well.
00:31:45.400 And then you tell your wife, she deletes his number, she blocks his number.
00:31:50.780 And she better not speak to that guy.
00:31:55.080 She better not think about that guy again either.
00:31:57.760 This would be a moment where the most charitable reading of this is your wife just has a big
00:32:03.660 heart and she wants to help people and whatever.
00:32:05.660 You need to step in as the head of your household, as a husband, and help her from falling into
00:32:12.680 that error of too much empathy.
00:32:16.060 Okay?
00:32:16.220 And no, I don't think so.
00:32:21.020 Absolutely.
00:32:21.540 You have so much patience and grace that you're even speaking in that measured tone.
00:32:28.220 That guy, I'm thinking of the untouchable scene, you know, I want his family dead.
00:32:32.240 I want his house burned to the ground.
00:32:33.680 I want to go to the, yeah, it's, that would be more my reaction, I think.
00:32:36.840 So you've had a gracious reaction.
00:32:40.280 Don't be suicidally empathetic.
00:32:43.420 That's not good for your family.
00:32:44.520 It's not good for, it's not good for him.
00:32:46.380 It's not good for anyone involved.
00:32:49.340 Next question.
00:32:51.100 Mr. Knowles, thanks for taking the time.
00:32:53.680 You mentioned on Monday that animals only have instinct and appetite while humans also
00:32:57.660 have intellect and will.
00:32:59.200 In that case, what would you call it when a dog or comparably quote intelligent animal
00:33:03.960 looks both ways for their master, does something they will be punished for, and then tries
00:33:08.000 to hide it?
00:33:08.940 This seems a little too involved to be simply mimicry to me.
00:33:12.020 Couldn't this be a form of willfulness?
00:33:13.300 I'd love to hear you go into greater detail on this difference between humans and animals
00:33:17.300 and the souls of each.
00:33:18.800 Thanks.
00:33:19.680 30 seconds.
00:33:21.940 No.
00:33:22.860 It's not much more willfulness.
00:33:25.500 I think your point is good that a dog demonstrates a greater degree of will and a greater degree
00:33:34.060 of intellect than, say, a rock does or than a tree does or than a goldfish does.
00:33:40.260 However, it would be wrong to say that even dogs, even man's best friend, possesses intellect
00:33:47.100 or will.
00:33:48.000 And the way that you can know that you believe that is that you would never put a dog on trial
00:33:56.220 for stealing an extra treat or something like that.
00:33:59.440 The dog has an appetite and the dog has instinct.
00:34:05.500 And maybe the dog's instinct is to, you know, check, check out for threats, make sure maybe
00:34:11.180 you're not looking, you know, you're going to check to make sure the owner's in the other
00:34:14.360 room.
00:34:15.160 And then he goes, follows his appetite to get the treat.
00:34:17.400 But the dog, and this is, I think, the crucial distinction, the dog is not capable of subordinating
00:34:23.680 his appetites to his, well, higher degree of instinct or what you would be tempted to
00:34:31.720 call intelligence.
00:34:32.640 He can't do that.
00:34:34.060 The dog is just, he's going to go get that treat.
00:34:36.520 He's not, he can't control that.
00:34:38.560 That's, he's kind of on autopilot.
00:34:41.140 Humans can't.
00:34:42.000 That's why we put humans on trial and we hold them accountable for, for violating notions
00:34:46.300 of abstract justice about which humans alone among the incarnate preachers can reason.
00:34:52.460 Next question.
00:34:55.060 Hey, Michael.
00:34:56.140 My name is Ryan and I work in a cigar lounge in Ohio.
00:34:59.420 Over the last few weeks, I have had an increasing number of customers come in and ask if we have
00:35:05.500 Mayflower cigars.
00:35:07.280 I had a conversation with one gentleman about the, the new Mayflower compacts and he was really
00:35:13.920 interested in them, but unfortunately we didn't carry them and he was actually able to order
00:35:18.160 them online and he even brought one in and gave me one and we, we shared them.
00:35:22.640 We had a great conversation and it's, there's really some buzz going on around Mayflower cigars
00:35:28.640 and people are excited and bringing them in and we obviously don't carry them yet.
00:35:33.020 So I just wanted to know what I have to do to get some Mayflower cigars for the fine people
00:35:38.080 of Columbus, Ohio.
00:35:39.280 Thanks, Michael.
00:35:40.880 Great question.
00:35:41.840 That might be my favorite question we've had in weeks.
00:35:44.900 I, and I've gotten similar questions actually before.
00:35:48.280 We are taking on retail shops now.
00:35:50.500 We don't have a huge team built out and we have more people who are reaching out to us
00:35:54.280 than we have a team to actually service for retail.
00:35:58.900 But the way that you can apply to become a retailer is to go to mayflowercigars.com slash
00:36:03.740 stores.
00:36:04.500 Go on the website.
00:36:05.420 There's a link to become a retailer.
00:36:06.840 Just submit an inquiry through that.
00:36:09.160 We, we want to be, we are committed to being in brick and mortars.
00:36:12.240 This is a major priority for me from the beginning of starting the company because I think part
00:36:18.180 of the reason I started the company is cigars are about a certain kind of culture.
00:36:22.120 You know, guys go to a lounge.
00:36:23.240 It's a great equalizer.
00:36:24.460 It's, it's just a wonderful culture and we live in time and space and we're incarnate
00:36:28.720 beings.
00:36:29.040 And so you, you got to do stuff with people in real life.
00:36:31.600 Um, so if you apply to become a retailer, we're going to try, especially in the spring
00:36:37.580 to get as many of those retail shops serviced with Mayflowers as we can.
00:36:41.160 There's a little bit of a production issue because we have more demand than we are able
00:36:43.580 to produce cigars.
00:36:44.200 But in any case, go there, mayflowercigars.com slash stores.
00:36:47.460 You can apply there and hopefully we'll get cigars to Ohio very quickly.
00:36:52.900 All right.
00:36:53.440 Last voicemail bag.
00:36:56.200 Hey, Michael, uh, I have a question related to heaven.
00:37:00.480 Um, I know I'm talking to a podcaster and not a priest, but I'm curious your thoughts
00:37:07.040 and beliefs about what heaven actually means and how it works.
00:37:12.920 And one of the specific areas I want you to talk about is interrelational, um, states within
00:37:26.520 heaven.
00:37:27.860 And by that, I mean, obviously we live in a society of humans where we run into people all
00:37:37.820 the time.
00:37:38.380 We have neighbors, we have friends, we have family, et cetera.
00:37:41.680 How does that all translate in a long-term or forever-term, uh, heaven-like scenario?
00:37:51.240 I'm really curious of your thoughts on this topic.
00:37:54.140 Thank you so much.
00:37:55.560 Great question.
00:37:58.620 Will we have wives in heaven?
00:38:00.520 Or will we have friends in heaven?
00:38:01.860 Or will we go to the cigar lounge in heaven?
00:38:03.300 We might go to a Mayflower cigar lounge in heaven.
00:38:05.240 Uh, but we won't have relationships in the way that we presently have relationships because
00:38:09.380 we will have direct access to God, the most important relationship.
00:38:14.840 Heaven might be defined as unity with God.
00:38:18.800 The scriptures tell us a little bit about heaven.
00:38:21.360 Uh, so my, these are not my original views.
00:38:23.740 This, this is the consistent teaching of the church, uh, rooted in scripture.
00:38:29.140 Heaven is unity with God.
00:38:30.900 In heaven, we behold the beatific vision.
00:38:32.440 So to make it simple, you die, you have a particular judgment.
00:38:37.580 The particular judgment is going to determine where are you going forever.
00:38:40.780 Are you going to heaven or are you going to hell?
00:38:42.320 And are you going to heaven?
00:38:43.060 Do you need a little purification first?
00:38:44.620 Are you going straight to heaven?
00:38:45.400 Probably need a little purification would be my guess.
00:38:47.180 I probably will.
00:38:48.320 Uh, but you're, you're there.
00:38:50.940 Your soul and body are split at the moment of death.
00:38:54.080 Your body decays unless you're incorruptible, which is a separate case.
00:38:58.760 And your, your soul is in heaven.
00:39:00.500 Heaven is when you can behold the beatific vision.
00:39:03.760 You can see God face to face.
00:39:05.060 You are one with God.
00:39:07.180 Uh, then there will be the general judgment after the particular judgment.
00:39:09.920 You know, the end of days, uh, our Lord comes to judge the living and the dead.
00:39:14.340 His kingdom will have no hand.
00:39:15.520 We have glorified bodies.
00:39:17.480 Uh, but we're not going to be coupled in heaven.
00:39:21.000 If you've been married and, you know, you're, God forbid, your wife dies and then you get married again.
00:39:25.300 You don't need to worry about, you know, are we going to be polygamous in heaven or something.
00:39:28.500 That's, we, we will, uh, look, I has not seen, uh, nor can we imagine what heaven will be like exactly.
00:39:34.700 But we can have, have some inkling of it.
00:39:37.860 So, uh, we will have unity with God, which means we will, we will also comprehend in God the entire order of the cosmos.
00:39:47.160 And this is everlasting joy.
00:39:50.760 Uh, and, and we will have bodies too in the resurrection of the body.
00:39:53.520 This is in the creed.
00:39:54.400 We believe not just in a soul flitting throughout our space or in eternity, but, but the resurrection of the body.
00:39:59.580 So scripture tells us about four marks of what, what things are like in the life of the world to come.
00:40:06.900 Uh, again, this is just 2000 years of church teaching.
00:40:10.400 The first is subtlety, the total subordination of the body to the soul.
00:40:16.060 Our bodies and our souls are sometimes a little bit at odds here on earth.
00:40:19.720 You know, we do things we don't want to do.
00:40:21.380 We don't do things we do want to do.
00:40:22.940 We fall prey to concupiscence, but there will be a total subordination of body to soul.
00:40:28.060 Uh, there will be agility, the, the ability to move at the speed of thought.
00:40:31.920 This you see in Christ resurrected.
00:40:33.840 You see all of these things.
00:40:34.820 This is where we get the intuition of what the glorified body is like.
00:40:37.760 The ability to, to be at the end of the earth, at the end of the universe, just instantaneously.
00:40:43.160 Uh, there is impassibility.
00:40:45.080 This is the inability to die or to suffer.
00:40:48.540 There will be no suffering.
00:40:49.900 The lion will lie down with the lamb.
00:40:51.280 There will be no suffering.
00:40:51.900 There will be no death.
00:40:53.260 And then glory.
00:40:54.700 Scripture tells us that we, we will shine like the sun in the glorified body.
00:40:59.360 So those are the things we can look forward to.
00:41:01.640 And sometimes we think, well, I don't know if I can't be with my dog in heaven.
00:41:05.400 Is it really heaven or something like that?
00:41:06.840 You know, C.S. Lewis took this up in the great divorce.
00:41:08.680 He said, well, can I, can there really be joy in heaven knowing that there are people suffering in hell?
00:41:13.740 Now, C.S. Lewis's answer is it's hard to imagine now in our fallen state, but, or rather in our fallen world.
00:41:19.880 But it might be the case that actually there's great joy in heaven.
00:41:23.880 Joy at the justice of the damned receiving their just desserts in hell.
00:41:27.940 It's very difficult to comprehend this on earth.
00:41:30.860 But there will be no suffering.
00:41:34.140 There will be no tears except the tears of joy at the central fact of heaven, which is oneness with God beholding the beatific vision.
00:41:41.780 I want to get to one written mailbag because we're not going to have a member block today because I'm stuck in my home office and we'll be back in the studio next week.
00:41:50.780 Unless this oddly shaped snowstorm decides to move in and forces me to be locked up in my home again.
00:41:56.940 I won't describe the shape of the snowstorm.
00:41:58.600 You can see it on AccuWeather.
00:42:00.020 Question from Ashley.
00:42:01.780 Michael, my sister's friend from church got married this year.
00:42:03.640 She has very different views on what a woman's role in marriage is.
00:42:06.460 For example, she doesn't believe in birth control.
00:42:09.640 Based.
00:42:10.000 She believes that women should carry the baby to full term whether she wants to or not.
00:42:16.520 She shouldn't.
00:42:17.120 She believes that women should have kids, that sex should be oriented toward kids and you shouldn't kill your kids.
00:42:22.620 Okay, I'm on board.
00:42:23.800 She seems great.
00:42:25.060 Does she have a sister that I can introduce my friends to?
00:42:27.860 She also thinks the husband should be in charge of deciding how many children the woman should have and that intimacy should only be used to procreate.
00:42:36.180 Okay, well, it's not so much that the husband, I mean, the husband is the head of the household.
00:42:40.000 So he decides in a grand sense of things.
00:42:41.860 But it's more that the husband and the wife are both accepting marriage for what it is, which is that marriage entails a perfect sharing, a perfect intimacy between husband and wife, which is necessarily open to life.
00:42:54.980 So it's not merely the Norm Macdonald take that sex is a filthy, shameful thing that's obviously only meant for procreation.
00:43:00.240 It's not quite that.
00:43:01.280 But it's that sex is for procreation.
00:43:05.000 And so you shouldn't foreclose that opportunity.
00:43:08.080 But it doesn't mean, you know, times of the month where it's not likely you can't have a role in the hay with your spouse.
00:43:14.280 My sister sees this as a red flag because it limits the woman's freedom in her marriage.
00:43:17.880 Again, it limits her freedom in the false sense of freedom that liberal modernity gives us, the Luciferian sense of freedom that tells us that freedom is the ability to do whatever we wish and to worship ourselves.
00:43:30.460 But in the classical sense of freedom, certainly in the Christian sense of freedom, freedom is the right to do what we ought to do.
00:43:36.600 It's not the freedom of the heroin addict to kill himself on the street.
00:43:39.420 It's the freedom to flourish.
00:43:41.420 And so in that sense, it wouldn't limit the woman's freedom at all.
00:43:45.360 Now, Ashley goes on.
00:43:47.440 I, on the other hand, chose not to interfere because at the end of the day, it's her marriage.
00:43:50.360 She can do whatever she wants with her husband.
00:43:51.600 What do you think?
00:43:52.500 Love the work and all the work that you and everyone at The Daily Wire do.
00:43:55.180 May God be with you and your family.
00:43:56.100 Thank you so much.
00:43:56.840 Well, I guess I've given you my take.
00:43:59.100 She seems great.
00:44:02.180 May every man be so lucky to find a woman as that.
00:44:05.060 I think she's doing a good job and a lot of people have a lot to learn from her.
00:44:07.680 Okay.
00:44:09.600 That's our show.
00:44:10.480 We don't have a member block, but I will see you Monday.
00:44:13.320 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:44:14.100 This is The Michael Knowles Show.