The Michael Knowles Show - May 02, 2025


Ep. 1727 - This Was NOT the Return Kamala Hoped For


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Health and Human Services Secretary Bobby Kennedy announced a major change to federal vaccine policy yesterday, but it's a change that has been in the works for decades. And it's one that could have a big impact on the future of childhood vaccines.

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00:00:37.740 A month ago, I sat down with Health and Human Services Secretary Bobby Kennedy at the White House
00:00:41.540 and asked him if anything would change about vaccine policy under his leadership.
00:00:47.580 His answer made international headlines.
00:00:50.760 Everything, he said, was going to change.
00:00:53.600 And yesterday, Kennedy made good on that promise with a major shakeup to federal vaccine policy.
00:01:01.580 And what's going to shock people the most, I think,
00:01:04.420 is that Kennedy's new policy has not already been policy for decades.
00:01:08.760 We'll get into what it is.
00:01:09.580 I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:03:13.100 What's the big change in vaccine policy?
00:03:16.380 What's the big change that the government has been resisting for decades that it took a radical,
00:03:23.180 fringe, anti-vaxxer like Bobby Kennedy to introduce?
00:03:27.780 The potential change is that all new vaccines must undergo safety testing with placebos. 0.99
00:03:37.560 That's it.
00:03:38.460 And the big surprise, for anyone who cares to read beyond the headline here,
00:03:41.760 the big surprise is going to be that we have not already been safety testing the vaccines with
00:03:47.460 placebos from the beginning.
00:03:50.080 How do you not use a placebo to check the safety of a vaccine,
00:03:53.840 or to test the efficacy of a vaccine for that matter?
00:03:56.320 We use placebos in so many other kinds of trials.
00:04:01.680 Why not in this case?
00:04:02.720 Well, what the government says is,
00:04:04.640 it would be unethical to safety test the vaccines with placebos,
00:04:09.140 because that would mean that in these trials,
00:04:11.980 we would not give the vaccine to some people.
00:04:14.240 And we know for certain the vaccines are so good that it would just be terrible to not
00:04:17.760 give everyone the vaccine.
00:04:19.520 Hold on.
00:04:19.800 Wait, now you've just undermined the safety trial entirely.
00:04:24.140 That's the most circular logic I think I've ever heard.
00:04:28.820 We know the vaccines are so safe that when we're testing their safety,
00:04:34.340 we're not actually going to use placebos and controls,
00:04:38.100 because we already know they're so safe in the first place.
00:04:41.400 So why would we ever need to test their safety?
00:04:43.400 And how do we know that they're safe?
00:04:44.520 Because we said so, not because we undertook rigorous safety analysis.
00:04:47.920 And anyway, shut up and stop asking questions. 0.98
00:04:50.100 You stupid sheep, stop asking questions.
00:04:52.420 Take you a shot.
00:04:53.520 Take you a shot.
00:04:55.300 Ah, sorry.
00:04:57.300 Dr. Fauci just sprung out of my throat there, I guess.
00:04:59.600 That was really shocking.
00:05:01.440 Interesting how the top health officials all have novel voices,
00:05:05.440 eccentric, notable voices.
00:05:07.480 Kennedy before him, Fauci.
00:05:09.400 In any case, this is common sense.
00:05:10.720 And the public health officials who squandered all of their credibility during COVID
00:05:16.720 by lying to us repeatedly, they got the chickens coming home to roost right now.
00:05:21.880 Because for a while, it seemed like they were stuck.
00:05:26.040 They couldn't ever admit that there might be some problem with vaccines,
00:05:28.860 that maybe some people do get vaccine injured,
00:05:31.720 that actually the government pays people who are vaccine injured.
00:05:34.560 They couldn't.
00:05:35.080 They kind of just try to sweep all this under the rug.
00:05:37.000 They couldn't admit that their safety experiments, their safety trials rather,
00:05:44.120 did not use placebos because it would raise all of these questions.
00:05:47.000 So now that Kennedy is introducing totally common sense, reasonable, modest reforms,
00:05:53.240 I think it's going to actually exacerbate the backlash against vaccines
00:05:56.840 because people are going to say, wait, why haven't you been doing this from the beginning?
00:06:01.220 It's starting to look like the government is hiding something.
00:06:04.460 So we'll see.
00:06:04.920 Kennedy, he didn't run pro-vax.
00:06:07.360 He didn't run anti-vax.
00:06:08.520 He ran pro-science, pro-safety trials, pro-common sense.
00:06:14.560 I guess that's the theme of the whole Trump administration.
00:06:16.680 Meanwhile, Kennedy's former opponent in the Democratic presidential primary
00:06:21.460 or potential opponent in the Democrat presidential primary
00:06:23.800 and Trump's actual opponent in the presidential election, Kamala Harris,
00:06:28.480 has re-entered the public stage.
00:06:30.680 She took a little sabbatical after she got destroyed in the election.
00:06:33.540 She is now delivering her first major remarks since the election
00:06:38.680 and since leaving the office of the vice president.
00:06:41.340 What pearls of wisdom does Kamala Harris have for us? 1.00
00:06:44.280 In fact, please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment.
00:06:49.080 Okay.
00:06:50.760 It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asking a show of hands.
00:06:53.300 Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago?
00:06:56.000 The one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?
00:06:59.860 Google it if you've not seen it.
00:07:06.660 So that scene has been on my mind.
00:07:09.980 Everybody's asking me, what you've been thinking about these days?
00:07:12.040 Well...
00:07:12.740 There is nothing to fear, but fear itself, says Franklin Roosevelt.
00:07:22.060 We shall go on.
00:07:25.120 We shall fight on the beaches and in the streets, says Winston Churchill.
00:07:31.740 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, says Ronald Reagan.
00:07:36.400 And you all see that YouTube video about the elephant?
00:07:41.800 Says the former future president, Kamala Harris, who has not improved one iota since she left office.
00:07:53.820 She is trying to position herself as either the next president after Trump,
00:07:59.340 or at least as governor of California or something.
00:08:03.020 But she has learned nothing.
00:08:05.500 She has not improved.
00:08:07.120 I'm not sure that she can improve.
00:08:08.580 She might have peaked in her rhetorical skills. 0.97
00:08:14.100 Did you...
00:08:14.780 I didn't see the YouTube video, did you?
00:08:16.200 I did not.
00:08:18.420 Turning now to slightly more coherent women is a woman who has gone viral 1.00
00:08:24.060 because she left America and moved to Africa. 0.96
00:08:27.480 She doesn't like how America is racist and sexist and bigoted and terrible and awful.
00:08:33.520 So she made good on the threat that so many leftists make that she's going to leave. 0.84
00:08:37.680 In this case, she's going back to Africa. 0.86
00:08:41.040 She's not from Africa.
00:08:42.460 She didn't grow up in Africa, but she's an African-American.
00:08:45.360 She's going to Africa. 0.73
00:08:46.380 Things must be so much better, right?
00:08:49.580 She had instant regret.
00:08:50.980 But, y'all, I'd rather go back to America and deal with the racism in America
00:08:58.900 before I sit here in Africa and deal with the bullshit robbery,
00:09:05.000 the bullshit fraud, the bullshit scams, the bullshit too expensive, 0.89
00:09:11.920 the bullshit not having no snacks, the bullshit not having no food, 0.87
00:09:15.560 the bullshit electricity, the bullshit hot water, the bullshit, 0.58
00:09:20.620 what's this shit called that be coming down?
00:09:24.840 The bullshit lizards that's in this room?
00:09:26.320 The bullshit animals and scorpions outside the house.
00:09:29.240 It's big spiders.
00:09:30.560 It's big lizards.
00:09:32.420 Colorful lizards you ain't never seen before.
00:09:34.500 People all in the fucking room with you, sleeping with you, 0.99
00:09:38.220 all the bullshit people trying to scam you when you go outside, 0.89
00:09:41.820 thinking you rich, so they trying to get more money off of you.
00:09:44.960 I'm really trying to wrap my head around this shit.
00:09:47.880 I'm really trying to wrap my head around how are Americans coming to Africa
00:09:52.580 and being happy.
00:09:54.140 Please comment down below because for me, I'm ready to go.
00:09:58.040 And I always used to say, if it's up to me, it will be,
00:10:01.340 and I'm going to go out to Africa and make shit happen. 0.88
00:10:03.860 No, I don't want to.
00:10:05.440 I want to take my businesses back to America.
00:10:07.680 I want to open up a shop back in America,
00:10:09.420 open up my dentist office and all the stuff that I was going to do out here in America.
00:10:13.620 Steady electricity.
00:10:15.240 And the only time our electricity get hurt off is when we don't pay the bill.
00:10:20.080 I think you get the picture.
00:10:21.960 She goes on and on with a litany of problems in Africa.
00:10:24.460 America, the spiders, the lack of snacks, the lack of food generally, just everything.
00:10:30.020 It wasn't what she thought it would be.
00:10:32.000 That's kind of funny, totally predictable, of course, but it's funny.
00:10:35.560 You don't want to feel schadenfreude.
00:10:37.180 One hopes for her sake she can make it back to America and have a good life. 0.95
00:10:41.460 It's a reminder for all of us, though.
00:10:44.460 You are what you are.
00:10:47.420 You are what you are.
00:10:48.740 I remember when I was a teenager, on my father's side,
00:10:51.720 we descend from the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company,
00:10:54.940 and from Ireland, and on my mother's side, Sicily and Calabria.
00:10:58.360 And I look Italian.
00:10:59.980 I speak Italian.
00:11:01.060 I was raised in a very Italian-American culture.
00:11:05.100 Did grocery shopping as a boy in the Little Italy part of the Bronx.
00:11:08.800 So the first time I was 15 years old, I'm going to Italy with my grandmother.
00:11:13.820 And I said, this is going to be it.
00:11:14.960 I'm going to find home.
00:11:16.200 I am going to feel like I walked back into the comfy home of my ancestors.
00:11:21.380 I'm going to feel like a part of this.
00:11:23.480 I'm going to recognize myself here in this country.
00:11:25.780 And you know what it felt like?
00:11:27.120 It felt like I was visiting a foreign country.
00:11:29.740 There were certain little things I recognized, but I'm not really Italian, you understand.
00:11:36.040 Just like that woman's not really African. 1.00
00:11:38.640 I'm an American.
00:11:40.920 I feel actually a little bit more at home than I do in Italy when I go to England.
00:11:46.140 A little bit more, because America comes from England.
00:11:49.140 Even there, though, it's a little bit different.
00:11:50.620 And these days, if I'm not wearing a keffiyeh and saying enchilada to everyone, then I really
00:11:56.640 can't get along in England these days.
00:11:58.900 But you are what you are.
00:12:02.900 And we have this highly ideological version of our identity today.
00:12:07.480 If you're a black person, you have more in common with a black African than with a white 1.00
00:12:12.460 American, if you're an LGBT person, you have more in common with an LGBT Tibetan, if there
00:12:24.500 are any, than you do with a Republican, conservative, traditionalist American or whatever.
00:12:30.000 And it's just not true.
00:12:30.960 You're an American.
00:12:32.740 You are what you are.
00:12:33.760 You can improve in some ways.
00:12:35.400 You can grow in virtue and holiness.
00:12:37.380 You can tamp down vice and sin.
00:12:39.660 And, you know, it's not that you're static, that you can't change, but you're an American.
00:12:45.220 People who do not have a liberal view of politics understand this.
00:12:50.160 This is the classical view of politics, that your identity is inseparable from your community.
00:12:56.120 This is the classical view of politics that says that the fundamental unit is not the individual,
00:12:59.760 but the family.
00:13:00.880 That's the core community that you're born into.
00:13:03.500 From the moment of your conception, you are part of that community.
00:13:07.700 The liberal view of politics is that we're individuals.
00:13:10.020 We're limitless.
00:13:10.760 We can be whatever we want.
00:13:12.000 Our identities can be abstract.
00:13:13.840 They have no geographical grounding or traditional or cultural grounding.
00:13:17.720 And it's just not true.
00:13:18.680 You can be black as night, truly ethnically Congolese, as if you walked out of the heart 1.00
00:13:26.060 of darkness.
00:13:26.820 But if you're raised in America and then you show up in Congo, you are going to feel like
00:13:31.640 a fish out of water.
00:13:35.240 Identity is about more than the abstractions in your head.
00:13:38.840 And identity is about more even than the color of your skin.
00:13:41.460 It goes a little bit deeper than that.
00:13:43.100 And ironically, this is a lesson that Americans have forgotten.
00:13:46.800 America, which talks about identity ad nauseum, doesn't seem to know the first thing about
00:13:53.180 it.
00:13:53.680 So then they do stupid things like move to Africa and they instantly regret it because 0.99
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00:15:33.680 Speaking of people complaining, another clip has gone viral of Starbucks employees reacting
00:15:39.580 to a new dress code policy.
00:15:42.680 Starbucks announced a dress code policy a couple of weeks ago.
00:15:47.400 Employees will now be required to wear a solid black shirt and khaki black or blue jean bottoms.
00:15:58.140 So you can wear basically any trousers you want, but you got to wear a black shirt.
00:16:03.120 And it can be almost any kind of black shirt you want.
00:16:05.500 It could be short sleeve.
00:16:06.700 It could be long sleeve.
00:16:07.800 It can have a collar on it.
00:16:09.040 It cannot have a collar on it.
00:16:10.480 Don't forget, when you're working at Starbucks, you wear a green apron.
00:16:13.180 So most of your shirt is covered up anyway.
00:16:15.360 All they're really saying is you have to wear some kind of pants and the shirt that's already
00:16:21.960 mostly concealed by your apron needs to be black.
00:16:24.180 So it's a little more uniform.
00:16:25.180 And in part, they say that they're updating the dress code so that they can deliver a
00:16:29.540 more consistent coffee house experience, bring simpler guidance to partners, and allow those
00:16:34.280 green aprons to pop a little bit more. 0.99
00:16:36.400 Okay.
00:16:37.640 That was too much for a handful of frivolous and decadent Starbucks employees. 0.76
00:16:43.860 One thing that Starbucks loves to do is allow partners to be themselves or whatever that PR 0.94
00:16:51.860 that they want to push.
00:16:53.600 I don't understand how that's in good faith of letting us express ourselves.
00:16:58.340 This is not a legal action.
00:17:01.100 This is not a legal action.
00:17:03.780 Starbucks can't have a dress code.
00:17:05.760 It's not legal.
00:17:06.500 It's not legal for a coffee house to have a uniform.
00:17:09.780 Is it now?
00:17:10.780 I don't know if this guy graduated from Harvard Law.
00:17:13.400 Maybe he did.
00:17:14.020 Maybe that explains it.
00:17:16.380 First of all, one of my most contrarian right-wing opinions, I think Starbucks is one of the
00:17:22.580 greatest corporations in the country.
00:17:24.140 I love Starbucks.
00:17:25.480 Starbucks, as my friend Alan Estrin pointed out, Starbucks created public bathrooms in
00:17:31.620 every city on earth.
00:17:33.980 Before Starbucks existed and you wanted to use a bathroom in a city, you'd have to pretend
00:17:38.420 to be going to a restaurant.
00:17:40.080 It was very awkward.
00:17:40.920 You kind of slipped through to the back.
00:17:42.080 Starbucks just made it so easy.
00:17:43.400 Starbucks, the coffee, it tastes good.
00:17:45.240 I know some people don't like it.
00:17:46.040 It's good.
00:17:46.320 It's strong.
00:17:47.240 It's good.
00:17:48.280 It's easy.
00:17:49.500 Most Starbucks employees are great.
00:17:51.860 I am one of the few very pro-Starbucks conservatives.
00:17:55.060 That's not true.
00:17:56.140 Many conservatives are pro-Starbucks.
00:17:57.500 I'm one of the few who will admit it.
00:17:58.860 And it's good.
00:17:59.420 This policy is good.
00:18:00.520 You want uniformity.
00:18:02.040 These malcontent employees are proving the point for the policy because I don't want 1.00
00:18:06.980 to look at a bunch of weird stuff when I go into Starbucks.
00:18:11.120 The purpose of the business, the purpose of business is to serve the customer.
00:18:16.540 It's not about the employees.
00:18:17.860 The audacity of these people to say, we Starbucks partners.
00:18:21.040 You're not a partner.
00:18:21.680 You're an employee.
00:18:22.540 And you should be grateful to your employers for giving you a relatively great job.
00:18:26.280 Starbucks famously is a really good job.
00:18:28.780 As far as working retail and fast food, it's actually apparently a really nice job.
00:18:35.280 But it's not about you.
00:18:36.580 The business is not about making the employee feel really nice.
00:18:39.200 The business is about serving the customer.
00:18:41.520 And so basic stuff, dress kind of normally, that seems totally reasonable to me.
00:18:48.220 But there's a deeper point, actually, which the libs don't understand.
00:18:53.020 What they're complaining about here is that they say, my individuality will not shine through
00:18:57.980 if I'm not allowed to wear bizarre, distracting clothing and, you know, I don't know, stripped
00:19:03.400 down naked in the store or whatever they want to do.
00:19:05.840 Having to wear a black t-shirt and pants, that's too much.
00:19:09.440 You're suppressing my individuality.
00:19:11.140 Au contraire, mon frere, or my sister, or my, I don't actually, I can't, it's hard to tell
00:19:18.060 the gender.
00:19:20.960 Uniforms allow your individuality to flourish.
00:19:23.940 Just as limitations on a poem, rhyme and meter, for instance, allow the poet to better express
00:19:33.640 his creativity.
00:19:35.500 Just as limits give form, shape to things, so too.
00:19:39.220 A uniform paradoxically allows you to become more fully yourself.
00:19:44.060 Because the t-shirt you wear is pretty superficial.
00:19:47.280 The pants or shorts you wear or don't wear, it's kind of superficial.
00:19:51.200 That's not what you're about.
00:19:52.220 That doesn't even go skin deep.
00:19:54.480 It's above your skin. 0.77
00:19:57.120 You're a rational creature.
00:19:58.540 If you want to express your individuality fully, that's going to come from your rational
00:20:02.480 nature.
00:20:03.220 It's not going to come from your stupid t-shirt.
00:20:05.840 This is true in churches.
00:20:08.040 This is why people are returning to the high liturgies, I think.
00:20:11.860 Because the high liturgies on the one hand seem like smells and bells and distractions.
00:20:14.980 Not really.
00:20:15.420 What it does is by removing the personality of the preacher or the music director or whoever,
00:20:26.880 it allows the real star of the liturgy, God, Christ, the gospel, the holy sacrifice of the
00:20:34.400 mass, to be the star of the show.
00:20:36.660 Okay, so I don't go to church to hear some guy give his personality.
00:20:43.380 I don't go to church so that I can have some choir director or some really miserable and
00:20:52.220 longing, aching musician express her individuality. 0.50
00:20:56.040 I go there for the mass.
00:20:59.120 The star of the show can come out with some uniformity.
00:21:02.960 And for these Starbucks employees, the way that they can star in their show is serve the
00:21:07.100 customers well and with their personality in the confines of a uniform, in the confines
00:21:15.100 of the business, in the confines of serving the customer.
00:21:17.140 The irony is, the people who just dress normally and behave normally are much more interesting
00:21:24.320 people, 100 out of 100 times, than the people who insist on making a big show of their clothing
00:21:30.940 or whatever.
00:21:31.400 The people who, in an effort to be non-conformist, are the most bland and tediously conformist of
00:21:38.100 anyone.
00:21:40.780 God, I can't, I'm very excited.
00:21:42.780 This is, I'm, it's great.
00:21:43.940 And if a handful of malcontent Starbucks employees want to quit, that's fine.
00:21:46.440 I'll enjoy all the other great Starbucks employees that I see.
00:21:49.020 Now, speaking of people of dubious gender, Robert De Niro's son has just come out as
00:21:55.260 trans.
00:21:55.980 And this would appear to be a trend in Hollywood.
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00:22:26.540 My favorite comment yesterday comes from Leif Erikson, a man who claims to have discovered
00:22:32.660 the Americas before Christopher Columbus, but, and I like Iceland, but we'll get into the
00:22:37.440 historical Leif Erikson maybe some other time.
00:22:39.580 The commenter, Leif, says, I am not sure if Michelle Obama is a man or a woman, but I would
00:22:45.080 say that it's fair to assume that she was referring to the interviewee when she said as a black man.
00:22:49.240 She says, it makes me feel so good as a black man.
00:22:53.000 It warms my heart as a black man that you're raising your kid trans.
00:22:56.560 And that's true.
00:22:57.400 I don't think she was confessing to gulions in that expression, but what she was, what is
00:23:04.260 really clear from that interview is that Michelle Obama, a graduate of Princeton, does not know
00:23:09.200 how the English language works.
00:23:10.460 That's a greater indictment.
00:23:12.540 Now, on that very point, Robert De Niro's son has just come out as trans.
00:23:18.540 He posted a pic of himself with long hair that he's dyed pink, wearing a dress, still looking
00:23:24.040 like a fella, but doing his best to make himself look like a lady. 0.61
00:23:27.920 And Robert De Niro was asked about this.
00:23:30.720 People Magazine asked him, and he sent a statement.
00:23:33.340 The statement said, I've loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Aaron
00:23:40.340 spelled differently, not A-A-R-O-N, but A-I-R-Y-N, as my daughter.
00:23:45.840 I don't know what the big deal is, he says.
00:23:48.780 I love all my children.
00:23:51.560 Really?
00:23:52.760 You don't know what the big deal is, Bobby?
00:23:56.220 You don't know?
00:23:58.280 You can say I'm pro-trans.
00:24:00.220 You can certainly say I love my kids, and you can even pretend maybe he is pro-trans.
00:24:04.500 You don't know what the big deal is, that your son, who's gone from baby to adult as
00:24:12.200 your son, as a dude, is now pretending to be a woman, and going into women's bathrooms, 0.82
00:24:17.060 presumably, and putting on dresses, and pretending that a man can become a boy.
00:24:22.760 You don't think that's a little odd?
00:24:25.920 It hasn't raised an eyebrow for even you?
00:24:28.460 He sort of famously furrows his eyebrows, De Niro.
00:24:30.680 But come on, no one believes that, and it's part of an epidemic.
00:24:35.420 I looked up, just quickly, I googled, what Hollywood celebs, how many Hollywood celebs
00:24:40.740 have trans kids?
00:24:42.960 I'm only, I'm going by mostly one article, and only the names that I recognize, and I
00:24:49.360 barely pay attention to Hollywood, so I might have left most of the names off the list.
00:24:53.600 Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Nixon,
00:24:57.840 Jennifer Lopez, Tori Spelling, Marlon Waynes, Naomi Watts, Leib Schreiber, Rosie O'Donnell,
00:25:02.580 Sigourney Weaver, Sting, Shearer, Charlize Theron, Charlize Theron, whose kid apparently got
00:25:06.560 transed at age three.
00:25:07.900 All of them have trans, or pans, or non-binary, or, they have trans kids. 0.70
00:25:17.360 Really?
00:25:19.680 Is that worth, we were talking at the top of the show about how to conduct scientific studies,
00:25:25.300 you know, you have a question, maybe a hypothesis, you explore that.
00:25:29.040 Isn't, this is kind of weird?
00:25:31.880 Is there something in the water in Hollywood?
00:25:34.660 Is there, is there some, is it because they're on a fault line or something?
00:25:39.700 Is, they really, if trans is a, a, a real aspect of biology, or of human nature, we got to
00:25:48.980 evacuate Hollywood, because it seems like this extremely dangerous condition, where 41% of
00:25:54.960 people who have the condition kill themselves, it seems to be concentrated in Hollywood, specifically
00:26:00.680 in the Hollywood Hills, and Beverly Hills, and among the really rich and famous people.
00:26:04.700 We got to get them out of there.
00:26:06.920 Or, maybe more likely, it's obviously a social contagion that's not grounded in anything
00:26:11.760 particularly solid and real.
00:26:13.580 And it, it amounts to child abuse when you encourage this.
00:26:18.600 I feel for De Niro, actually.
00:26:20.140 I know he's super annoying in his politics and his public statements, but I feel for the
00:26:24.000 guy, because even if his political views and his behaviors have led up to and encouraged
00:26:32.180 his son's transing himself, you feel bad.
00:26:35.180 That's a bad thing to happen to your kid, and you don't want that to happen.
00:26:38.980 But when he says, I love my son, I support my son, who's now my daughter, and I love and
00:26:45.260 support my son, you got to ask yourself, is this the best way to support your son?
00:26:51.860 If I told you, Mr. De Niro, let's hope that Robert De Niro is listening to this show, if
00:26:56.680 I told you that all of the medical literature, the really reliable studies with the big data
00:27:02.540 sets that look at this, show that transing your kid actually does not improve anxiety
00:27:08.320 or depression or suicidality.
00:27:10.180 That actually, it makes at least one of those things worse, anxiety.
00:27:13.780 That actually, post-transition, suicide rates aren't any better than they were before.
00:27:18.400 Then, are you really supporting your kid by lying to him?
00:27:26.520 I don't think so.
00:27:28.020 Are you really supporting your kid by indulging your kid's increasingly destructive behavior?
00:27:34.560 No.
00:27:34.880 If your kid said, hey, dad, I identify as a fentanyl addict, and, you know, I was just
00:27:40.500 born this way, or even I wasn't born this way, but I've come to develop and understand
00:27:44.940 that my true self is a fentanyl addict, and if you tell me I can't do fentanyl, it's going
00:27:49.040 to really hurt me.
00:27:50.080 I'm going to be really sad about that.
00:27:52.580 Would you say, okay, well, here's some fentanyl.
00:27:55.540 I don't want you know best.
00:27:57.460 You know, who am I to say?
00:28:00.400 That would not be helping your kid.
00:28:01.740 So, I don't, I really don't even mean to dunk on De Niro.
00:28:06.360 I feel horrible for all of these parents, and I really feel horrible for the kids who
00:28:10.900 they are wittingly or unwittingly abusing, and whose lives they are wittingly or unwittingly
00:28:15.540 ruining.
00:28:16.540 But stop it.
00:28:18.180 If you have good intentions, then they're in the wrong place, and the road to hell is
00:28:21.940 paved with good intentions.
00:28:23.720 And if you're just trying to get clout and fit in with social trends and recognize that,
00:28:27.960 you know, a trans kid is the new Gucci handbag, it's just de rigueur, you know. 1.00
00:28:31.740 It's all the rage.
00:28:33.140 Then stop it.
00:28:34.300 That's selfish and wrong and stupid and evil.
00:28:37.140 So, cut it out.
00:28:38.220 Now, speaking of support for things, we talked yesterday on the show about how Trump has a
00:28:43.020 mineral deal in Ukraine.
00:28:45.100 Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, just announced this, that there's a new deal.
00:28:50.300 Trump tried to bring an end to that war.
00:28:53.380 Russia and Ukraine didn't want to play ball, and Russia actually started sending missiles
00:28:56.600 into Kiev, really accelerating as Trump was trying to bring peace, so much so that Trump
00:29:00.140 tweeted, I said, Vladimir, stop it, stop it.
00:29:02.240 What are you doing?
00:29:02.680 5,000 soldiers are dying a week.
00:29:04.900 But they didn't want to play ball.
00:29:06.160 They wanted to push Trump around.
00:29:07.300 So, okay, Trump just struck a mineral deal in Ukraine.
00:29:10.800 And Russia is furious about this.
00:29:12.600 Medvedev, who is a top Russian official, was nominally the president for a while.
00:29:18.080 He and Putin switched places.
00:29:19.100 But Putin's always been the power for the past 20 years.
00:29:22.760 Medvedev, though, a right-hand man to Putin.
00:29:24.900 Putin's furious about this, according to reporting from Reuters.
00:29:29.540 He says this deal, it's actually really bad for Ukraine, too, because he's forcing Trump,
00:29:33.560 he's forcing Ukraine to pay for USAID.
00:29:36.520 And Trump has broken the Kiev regime to the point where they'll have to pay for USAID with
00:29:43.700 mineral resources.
00:29:44.760 Now they'll have to pay for military supplies for the national wealth of their disappearing
00:29:48.640 country.
00:29:49.800 We're not mad about this at all.
00:29:52.000 Now, they're pretty upset, I think.
00:29:55.300 And Ukraine should be upset, too. 0.82
00:29:56.720 And as much as Ukraine has not accepted Trump's brokered peace deal, the Ukraine might be a
00:30:01.480 little upset, too, because they do need to pay up a little bit.
00:30:03.320 We're not just going to cut them a blank check and allow them to drag us into a regional and
00:30:06.580 potentially global war.
00:30:08.480 But Putin, I think, is a real loser here, because this is ensuring continued, advantageous,
00:30:15.360 incentivized American support for Ukraine.
00:30:17.640 And this is what Putin gets for jerking Trump around.
00:30:19.780 Had Putin said, I'll take the peace deal, Trump, I'll do what you want to do, I'll take
00:30:25.480 some concessions, and then we can drag Zelensky along and we'll have a peace deal, then Trump
00:30:29.460 wouldn't need this mineral deal.
00:30:30.800 But Putin thought he was going to push Trump around and there weren't going to be consequences.
00:30:34.140 And more to it, I think Putin made the mistake of thinking that Trump is ideologically motivated,
00:30:42.420 or at least is susceptible to the ideological motivations of his base.
00:30:46.240 The Trump base, and I'm a member of the Trump base, is a little bit split on Ukraine.
00:30:50.980 Some want to keep supporting Ukraine.
00:30:52.940 Some hate Ukraine or don't care about Ukraine at all.
00:30:56.220 Some are even sympathetic to the Russian claims.
00:30:58.060 So it's a mixed bag here.
00:30:59.580 And I think Putin thought by pushing on the more pro-Russian or at least anti-Ukraine part
00:31:03.940 of Trump's base, they could get Trump to go along.
00:31:06.340 But Trump doesn't really play that way.
00:31:10.440 Trump is not particularly ideological.
00:31:13.600 Trump makes deals.
00:31:15.500 And Trump pushes people around when people try to push Trump around.
00:31:19.320 And Putin, he thought he was being real slick and real cool.
00:31:22.380 And he thought that he could get away with sending those missiles into Kiev and blowing
00:31:25.240 up the peace process.
00:31:26.280 So you know what Trump's going to do?
00:31:27.240 Trump's going to get a nice mineral deal out of Ukraine.
00:31:29.700 He's going to get some nice money for the United States.
00:31:32.800 If Russia doesn't want to play ball, if Russia believes, as Tolstoy wrote in War and Peace,
00:31:37.680 that Europe will never be a sincere ally of Russia, that you really can't have a getting
00:31:42.840 along between the West and Russia.
00:31:44.580 Okay, that's fine.
00:31:45.940 Well, now we got an incentive to continue to defend Ukraine.
00:31:48.880 And Putin just wasted a couple missiles shooting them at Kiev because now no more Mr. Nice
00:31:54.840 Guy.
00:31:55.040 There are partisans on both sides of this war making ideological claims for Ukraine.
00:32:00.480 The greatest democracy ever.
00:32:01.740 We have to stand with the great democracy of corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs. 0.97
00:32:05.400 Give me a break.
00:32:06.840 And there are some people saying, well, actually, you know, Russia really has a point because 0.90
00:32:09.680 Ukraine is sometimes part of its historic land.
00:32:12.180 And actually, Putin is kind of based and right wing.
00:32:15.240 And Ukraine is kind of liberal.
00:32:16.940 And yeah, whatever.
00:32:17.600 Trump doesn't care about that either.
00:32:19.320 Trump cares about hard interests.
00:32:21.600 Trump cares about the American.
00:32:22.800 He's not pro-Ukraine.
00:32:23.640 He's not pro-Russia.
00:32:24.220 He's pro-America.
00:32:24.960 And he's pro-American in hard interests.
00:32:28.360 Show me the money, honey.
00:32:29.620 Give me the minerals.
00:32:31.040 And if you're going to play ball with Trump, great.
00:32:32.940 I mean, he can work out a deal with anyone.
00:32:34.200 He can work out a deal with Kim Jong-un.
00:32:35.420 But if you're not going to play ball, all right, keep getting your young men slaughtered, 1.00
00:32:41.880 Vladimir Putin, fine by me.
00:32:43.920 They're not going to work.
00:32:45.020 This is a very different ballgame than we saw in the previous administrations, Democrat
00:32:50.580 and Republican.
00:32:52.040 Now, on national security, one story I really do have to get to, Trump has just ousted his
00:32:56.900 national security advisor, Mike Waltz.
00:32:59.500 He's ousted him in a smart and delicate way.
00:33:03.440 Sometimes Trump gets attacked for being mean, firing people by tweet, that sort of thing.
00:33:06.940 In this way, he was very delicate with Mike Waltz.
00:33:08.720 Mike Waltz, according to reports, was the one responsible for adding Jeffrey Goldberg,
00:33:13.300 the editor of The Atlantic, to a group chat with Pete Hegseth and with J.D. Vance talking
00:33:19.200 about Houthi missile strikes.
00:33:20.440 I mean, a huge error, huge error of judgment.
00:33:24.640 Ultimately, not all that consequential.
00:33:26.140 The strikes went off just fine, but not a good look.
00:33:29.840 And the media tried to get Hegseth because all they want to do is get rid of Hegseth.
00:33:32.860 But Hegseth really had very little to do with it.
00:33:34.880 So at the time, we said, OK, we'll see if anyone's going to get fired.
00:33:37.320 If anyone was going to be fired, it was going to be Mike Waltz.
00:33:39.360 But Trump didn't do it right immediately.
00:33:41.000 He didn't give the frothing dogs of the media and the left what they wanted.
00:33:46.360 He waited a little bit.
00:33:47.980 Now he's swapping them out.
00:33:49.200 Reportedly, Waltz lost the confidence of top administration officials.
00:33:53.140 And Trump is going to put him up for UN ambassador.
00:33:56.120 Because he pulled at least Stefanik out from the UN ambassador nomination.
00:33:59.320 Because he needs at least Stefanik in Congress.
00:34:01.180 So he's just kind of moving people around.
00:34:02.820 Nothing too harsh here.
00:34:04.700 What does this mean for U.S. policy, grand strategy, geopolitics?
00:34:09.480 Waltz was considered to be on the more hawkish,
00:34:12.120 even some would call him a neocon side of foreign policy.
00:34:15.380 The admin has lots of rivals.
00:34:17.240 It's got free traders.
00:34:18.060 It's got protectionists.
00:34:19.080 It's got war hawks.
00:34:20.200 It's got isolationists and doves.
00:34:22.300 This would be a win for the dovish side of the administration. 0.82
00:34:25.240 For now.
00:34:25.820 It depends on who they put in to replace him.
00:34:28.440 That remains to be seen.
00:34:30.080 Now, finally, finally, we get to the mailbag.
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00:34:42.660 Take it away.
00:34:43.960 Hi, Michael.
00:34:44.900 I was looking for your insight in a recent family situation.
00:34:48.540 My dad likes to collect things which takes up space in his and my mom's house.
00:34:52.520 She has complained for years about this.
00:34:54.780 But my dad has been resistant to selling.
00:34:57.340 Over a year ago, my mother asked my older brother to sell some of my dad's collections behind his back.
00:35:03.260 And she would split the money with him and told him not to tell my dad.
00:35:07.580 A couple months later, my older brother told me and my younger brother about this arrangement.
00:35:12.560 We told him we thought it was shady.
00:35:14.320 He pushed back saying mom told him not to tell but eventually agreed to come clean.
00:35:19.060 About a year later, the collection came up when I was with my mom and dad and I realized my brother never told him.
00:35:25.880 So I filled him in.
00:35:27.100 This has caused somewhat of a divide in our family over who was right and who was in the wrong.
00:35:32.420 Is what I did by bringing the situation to light the right thing to do?
00:35:36.480 Or should I have listened to my mom and not told my dad and avoided the whole conflict?
00:35:41.120 You should not have listened to your mother in this case.
00:35:45.820 You might have acted a little differently, but your heart was in the right place.
00:35:49.880 Your mother's behavior was egregious here. 0.87
00:35:53.160 I mean, there's not a hint of irony.
00:35:55.080 That's really awful.
00:35:56.540 You should not have a parent saying to the kids, hey, don't tell your mother or don't tell your father about this.
00:36:04.520 I'm going to, hey, I'm going to bring you, kid, into a little secret pact with me to encourage you to disrespect your other parent.
00:36:11.020 In this case, the father is supposed to be the head of the household.
00:36:13.320 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to sell a possession that your father loves against his will without his knowledge.
00:36:21.280 Really, really disgusting behavior that legitimately can threaten a marriage.
00:36:27.560 So really, really bad stuff.
00:36:29.700 Sorry, not to talk smack about your mom, but you brought it up.
00:36:32.280 And that's really bad.
00:36:33.840 What I would have done, though, because you have to honor your mother and your father, is I probably would have gone to your mother first.
00:36:39.760 I wouldn't have gone to your brother.
00:36:42.700 I would have gone to your mother and said, hey, I heard you're doing this.
00:36:46.080 This is bad.
00:36:47.280 Don't do this.
00:36:48.460 You're putting us in a horrible position.
00:36:50.580 It's wrong of you to do this.
00:36:52.080 You say this respectfully.
00:36:53.580 And I don't want to have to go rat and tell dad, but I have to honor him, too.
00:36:59.180 And if he keeps selling his stuff that he loves behind his back, I got to do it.
00:37:04.700 Do the right thing, mom, and honor your husband and respect your husband and don't behave this way respectfully.
00:37:11.660 That's what I would do.
00:37:12.780 Because this stuff, I mean, I'm not exaggerating.
00:37:15.800 Who cares what the little trinket is or whatever that she's selling? 0.96
00:37:17.780 It's the principle that she's forming an alliance with her kids against the father, the head of the household, totally inverting and perverting the family structure. 1.00
00:37:29.560 Marriages have broken up for less.
00:37:31.160 Okay?
00:37:31.580 Don't.
00:37:32.280 That's what I would talk to the mother about this.
00:37:33.960 Okay, next one.
00:37:34.460 Dear Michael, I'm a stay-at-home mom of three kids, four, two, and six months, up in America's evil top hat.
00:37:40.520 A few weeks ago, my four-year-old pulled a book off the shelf at the local library and was looking at the pictures.
00:37:45.380 I didn't see the title and was looking for books to take home and did a double take when I saw her looking at a drag queen and took the book away. 0.99
00:37:51.660 Turns out the book is called The Bare Naked Book by Kathy Stinson.
00:37:55.580 I flipped a few pages and there was a page on breasts with images of various women, including some with mastectomy scars, and another page on male genitals.
00:38:03.380 By God's providence, my child was not exposed to nudity.
00:38:06.320 I was so angry and shocked, we immediately left.
00:38:08.940 How do I respond to my library?
00:38:10.660 I'd like to write something but don't know what to say.
00:38:13.120 While I think this book shouldn't be anywhere near kids at all, should I suggest it goes to a different section?
00:38:18.340 My child should be able to look at any book in the kids section without supervision.
00:38:22.260 I'd love your advice on what I should do.
00:38:24.120 Thank you.
00:38:24.840 What I would first be tempted to do and might do if I were not, if my will got away from my reason for a second, is I would destroy it or throw it in the garbage because that has no business.
00:38:36.280 I might burn it, actually.
00:38:37.940 I might burn it in front of everyone in the town square.
00:38:40.020 But that's not the reasonable thing to do.
00:38:41.680 That's not the right thing to do.
00:38:43.100 It's not your property.
00:38:44.340 You don't have a right to do that.
00:38:45.880 But so what I would probably do, being of Italian distraction, always trying to find a little workaround here, I would probably just hide the book in the library underneath a shelf or something or, you know, underneath a desk. 1.00
00:38:56.860 And so no one should be exposed to that obscenity and that degeneracy.
00:39:01.040 But I wouldn't steal it or destroy it.
00:39:03.600 That would be my little Sicilian via media, okay?
00:39:07.280 Now, what you might do if you want to make it, if you want to write a letter, for instance, I would make it a public thing.
00:39:13.600 I mean, that is disgusting stuff.
00:39:15.600 So that's where I might turn to TikTok and say, you know, look, this is the library, the public library is a public institution.
00:39:23.400 It's a political institution.
00:39:24.700 Citizens fund it.
00:39:25.440 Citizens have a right to set some boundaries around it.
00:39:28.300 And if you're putting weird porn in the kids' section, you shouldn't have porn in the adult section in a library.
00:39:34.140 But certainly in the kids' section, you got to get that out of there.
00:39:37.340 And so I would make a stink and I would get people fired and I would get state senators involved.
00:39:41.700 And I would make it political because it's the public library.
00:39:44.280 It's a political issue.
00:39:45.820 And you have a right as a citizen to do that.
00:39:49.520 Now, my guest who's coming on right now knows a little bit about books.
00:39:54.280 He's written about 750 of them.
00:39:56.220 He also predates libraries.
00:39:59.900 I think he remembers the construction of the library at Alexandria.
00:40:03.740 That would, of course, be Daily Wire's millennial correspondent, Andrew Klavan.
00:40:09.960 Drew.
00:40:10.840 Hey.
00:40:11.500 Thanks for coming on the show.
00:40:13.160 Hey, it's good to see you.
00:40:14.220 That's the only way I can get to see you.
00:40:15.920 I know.
00:40:16.420 I keep waiting.
00:40:17.120 You know, I have cigars piling up in my humidor because ever since you stopped your weekly
00:40:24.320 sojourns to Nashville, I have very few people to steal cigars from me.
00:40:28.480 So now I have a surplus.
00:40:29.960 I don't, but you've been working.
00:40:32.380 You have a new book.
00:40:32.840 And I actually like your cigars.
00:40:33.900 I do.
00:40:34.280 I have a book.
00:40:34.900 I have an excellent, excellent book.
00:40:36.380 Yes.
00:40:36.820 I'm also really grateful that you wrote this book because this is the first time receiving
00:40:40.680 the copy because it's a nonfiction book.
00:40:43.920 So I, as a Philistine, can read it.
00:40:46.100 Can finish it.
00:40:46.740 I know.
00:40:47.200 That's right.
00:40:47.860 The Kingdom of Cain, Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.
00:40:52.380 For those who don't know, Drew managed to turn a book about John Keats and Christ into
00:40:59.480 a bestseller, which I, like a top bestseller.
00:41:03.600 I didn't, I didn't know any, most people today don't even know who John Keats is.
00:41:06.960 Some might not know who Christ is.
00:41:08.540 But this is, this is in the same vein, is it not?
00:41:13.420 Yeah, but this is dealing with more popular entertainment.
00:41:15.560 This has things about, it's really about murders.
00:41:18.340 It's about famous murders in history that a lot of people have forgotten about.
00:41:21.940 So that they might learn something there, but they inspired movie after movie, after
00:41:26.000 movie, TV shows, novels.
00:41:27.480 So, you know, Ed Gein, who inspired Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
00:41:33.520 which in turn inspired the entire slasher genre.
00:41:37.040 The Leopold and Loeb.
00:41:38.840 I can't believe, this is 1920s, Leopold and Loeb.
00:41:41.400 So I was at the trial and this is, these are two guys who decided, had read Nietzsche and
00:41:47.560 decided they were supermen.
00:41:49.120 They were young men, lovers.
00:41:51.080 They decided they were supermen.
00:41:52.280 So they were going to commit the perfect murder and essentially reenacted crime and punishment
00:41:56.600 by Fyodor Dostoevsky and actually went and killed some little kid.
00:42:01.220 And like the supermen they were, they were picked up by the Chicago cops in about a week
00:42:05.680 and carted off to prison.
00:42:08.320 And this is inspired movie after movie after movie.
00:42:10.660 You can probably see, if you go through the course of maybe three years of movies and crime
00:42:15.120 TV shows, you will see a story about two people who come together and decide to commit the
00:42:19.280 perfect crime, either for the thrill of it or because they think that they're better than
00:42:22.700 everybody else.
00:42:23.900 And basically what I'm showing people, I don't know about you, but I can't watch modern Christian 1.00
00:42:29.800 storytelling, movies and things like that.
00:42:32.300 I mean, it's just so-
00:42:33.120 You mean because of how bad they are?
00:42:34.480 Because of how bad they are.
00:42:35.720 How just absolutely insufferable and sappy and yeah.
00:42:39.240 This is the religion that inspired the greatest art literally ever, right?
00:42:44.840 So you've got Bach, you've got Michelangelo, you've got Shakespeare.
00:42:48.400 I believe Shakespeare was a Catholic myself and I think it's just imbued in his work.
00:42:54.760 And now, you know, you get, you know, God is not dead, number five.
00:43:01.120 This time he's really not dead and all this stuff.
00:43:02.860 So I just would like to show people that even the darkest literature, the darkest stories
00:43:09.100 that is not suitable for family entertainment can lead the way to actually understanding
00:43:15.200 how God may be able to make something beautiful out of the evil of the world, that artists
00:43:20.820 are sort of imitators of God, they're creators, they want to continue the creation.
00:43:24.920 And so I just wanted to show you how these things fit into the imagination and how artists
00:43:31.440 then took these horrible murders and turned them into these illuminating, absolutely Christ-led
00:43:37.820 books.
00:43:38.480 You know, even the guy, even the artists who didn't want them to be Christ-led, they were
00:43:42.180 so honest in what they were depicting that it actually shows you something about where
00:43:46.580 our conscience as a collective, where our collective conscience was in relation to God.
00:43:50.540 So, you know, I mean, you know that one of the first things that turned me in the direction
00:43:54.440 of faith was reading Crime and Punishment when I was 19.
00:43:57.900 So this is a story about an axe murderer, and it convinced me that there was no such thing
00:44:02.300 as relative morality, that morality was an absolutely objective thing.
00:44:06.880 And I thought, like, if I went into a Christian bookstore and said, could you have that book
00:44:10.460 about the axe murderer who's, like, redeemed by a prostitute?
00:44:14.700 You know, they're like, I'm sorry, sir, would you leave the room?
00:44:18.180 Yeah, it's down the street.
00:44:18.960 And so I just wanted to study the way that art transforms the darkness of life into something
00:44:25.280 illuminating and even uplifting when it's done by great artists.
00:44:29.180 Do you think that that book, were you listening to the mailbag that I had just now?
00:44:33.240 I was, yes.
00:44:33.880 Do you think that the book in the library with all the genitals and the kids section, do 1.00
00:44:38.780 you think that that rises to the level of great art?
00:44:41.420 Well, I actually found a similar book in the Library of Alexandria, which solves the problem
00:44:46.280 of how it burned down.
00:44:47.140 Were they able to be quite so graphic on the vellum and the stone tablets?
00:44:53.280 They chiseled.
00:44:54.160 They were good chiselers, those guys.
00:44:55.840 That's how they knew exactly what they were doing.
00:44:57.940 I think that this is so shameful.
00:44:59.940 I actually, I hate to say it, but I actually agreed with you that you should make a serious
00:45:04.180 fuss about it.
00:45:05.080 Yeah.
00:45:05.240 I mean, the idea that, you know, it's so interesting that they keep doing this to kids.
00:45:10.420 And then when you come out and read what they're putting in schools out loud, they tell you
00:45:14.900 to stop reading it out loud because it's just too filthy, you know?
00:45:17.700 So these are genuine perverts.
00:45:19.560 And, you know.
00:45:20.200 I love they always say, you know, well, you're just trying to ban books and you're a Philistine. 1.00
00:45:26.640 In practice, there are even good, normal people who say, yeah, we shouldn't ban books, whatever.
00:45:30.940 But then you have to tell them like, hey, sure, right, whatever.
00:45:35.120 Read the book.
00:45:36.380 Take a look at the photographic, obscene porn in the four-year-old section of the library
00:45:45.340 or in the kindergarten part of the school library.
00:45:48.400 And then you still agree we should have that?
00:45:51.360 Because now you're not a defender of free speech.
00:45:54.360 Now you are a child-abusing pervert.
00:45:57.240 Are you kidding me?
00:45:58.480 Well, you know what?
00:45:59.760 I think porn can be banned.
00:46:01.980 I think I would shut down every porn site on the internet, except I don't know what they
00:46:05.920 do for money at this point.
00:46:07.140 But like, I think that, you know.
00:46:08.720 I know.
00:46:09.340 Isn't it all free?
00:46:10.620 Maybe not.
00:46:11.140 They have only fans now where you, I don't know.
00:46:13.100 That seems like they're really the biggest scam of all.
00:46:15.900 If there's one thing that the internet provides, it's pictures of naked ladies, and now people 1.00
00:46:20.180 are even paying for it.
00:46:21.020 So I don't know.
00:46:21.360 They make money somehow.
00:46:22.140 They make a lot of money.
00:46:23.820 It's interesting to me that the same people who wanted to investigate Catholics who went
00:46:27.880 to Latin mass don't think that banning porn is violating the First Amendment.
00:46:33.180 It's the same people, you know.
00:46:35.000 Drew, I have more mailbag that I want you to weigh in on.
00:46:38.740 In fact, I want to hear your thoughts.
00:46:39.980 There was a question at the top of the voicemail bag about this mother who made a deal with her 0.94
00:46:44.500 kids to undermine her father's, the father's authority.
00:46:47.700 I heard that too, yeah.
00:46:48.340 I want to get your thoughts on that because you all, not only do you predate libraries,
00:46:52.160 I think you were born before marriage existed.
00:46:54.840 Yes, before mothers existed. 0.97
00:46:56.060 I was prepared.
00:46:56.900 I was like.
00:46:57.840 We're going to get to all of that right now.
00:47:00.140 And we're going to get to Fake Headline Friday that Drew's going to help me out on.
00:47:02.800 But.
00:47:03.020 Oh, cool.
00:47:03.540 You've got to go.
00:47:04.720 You hoi polloi. 0.99
00:47:06.340 You need to go to dailywire.com using code Knowles and you'll get two months free or something
00:47:11.780 like that.
00:47:12.220 I don't know.
00:47:12.480 You've got to lie.
00:47:13.500 Even if you had to pay for an extra two months, you should go subscribe.
00:47:16.620 We have the Membrum Segmentum coming up right now.