The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2025


Ep. 1799 - President Trump Might Unleash The Military On The Cartels


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

172.32468

Word Count

7,335

Sentence Count

633

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

An independent journalist is reporting that the Trump administration is planning a military attack on Mexican drug cartels. Such an attack could have tremendous benefits in stopping illegal immigration, fentanyl poisoning, and human trafficking, but also, if the attacks devastate enough of Mexico, they could also prove once and for all that the best taco bowls in the world are found at Trump Tower.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 An independent journalist is reporting that the Trump administration
00:00:34.940 is planning a military attack on Mexican drug cartels.
00:00:39.100 Such an attack could have tremendous benefits in stopping illegal immigration,
00:00:44.280 fentanyl poisoning, and human trafficking.
00:00:46.540 But also, if the attacks devastate enough of Mexico,
00:00:50.180 they could also prove once and for all that the best taco bowls in the world
00:00:55.340 are in fact found at Trump Tower.
00:00:58.300 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:01:00.000 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:19.980 Elon Musk is tweeting out AI anime pornography.
00:01:25.460 I didn't... I don't think I ever expected to say that.
00:01:28.360 But anyway, he is, and we'll talk about it for some reason.
00:01:31.760 First, though, what we're going to talk about is some marvelous news.
00:01:35.300 Wait for it. Drum roll, please.
00:01:40.680 The Mayflower Dream, the long-awaited Mayflower Dream,
00:01:44.580 Double Maduro, is back in stock.
00:01:46.520 Don't ask me how.
00:01:48.120 The Mayflower Dream has sold out twice,
00:01:49.960 but it is back in very, very limited quantities,
00:01:52.460 very limited supply boxes and fresh packs now available while supply lasts.
00:01:58.120 This is the Double Maduro blend with the Pennsylvania Broadleaf wrapper
00:02:01.380 and the Mexican San Andres Maduro wrapper.
00:02:04.360 It's sweet. It's subtle. It's medium to full-bodied.
00:02:06.700 It features notes of chicory, cardamom, and oak with a little hint of caramel.
00:02:11.560 There are very limited quantities.
00:02:13.340 Did I say that once or twice?
00:02:15.320 They're very limited.
00:02:16.240 We will not be able to get these back in stock for a little while when they sell out again.
00:02:21.760 They might have already sold out by the time I finish reading this brief advertisement.
00:02:27.160 I love that Trump might attack Mexico.
00:02:29.220 So, what does it mean?
00:02:31.260 This is all coming from reporting by Ken Klippenstein.
00:02:35.240 Ken Klippenstein is an independent journalist, but he's pretty on the money.
00:02:39.200 And he says, I'll read his words.
00:02:41.700 This is being reported by him.
00:02:43.060 The Trump administration has directed the military to prepare for lethal strikes against cartel targets inside Mexico.
00:02:49.480 Three military sources tell us.
00:02:51.700 The top-secret planning order issued in late spring directs Northern Command to manage the attack plans,
00:02:57.340 which are to be ready by mid-September.
00:03:00.580 We're going into Mexico, baby.
00:03:02.860 Trump, reportedly.
00:03:04.800 Trump, he was saber-rattling up there in Canada, America's evil top hat.
00:03:10.060 He was saber-rattling over in Greenland.
00:03:13.880 And then what happens?
00:03:15.880 Gives you the old reverse UNO card, and he's going into Mexico.
00:03:20.180 Maybe.
00:03:20.920 Apparently.
00:03:21.680 Reportedly.
00:03:22.300 People up in arms.
00:03:23.320 We can't just send the U.S. military into Mexico, a sovereign state,
00:03:27.620 to take care of the foreign terrorist organizations, criminal cartels that control our entire southern border,
00:03:32.660 that poison 75,000 Americans a year with fentanyl,
00:03:35.160 that traffic human beings that have face tattoos and worship Satan.
00:03:37.840 No, no, that would be wrong for some reason.
00:03:42.400 That would be an improper use of the military, really.
00:03:46.700 What is the U.S. military for if not for this?
00:03:51.840 The cartels control the border.
00:03:55.220 The cartels are foreign terrorist organizations.
00:03:58.340 The cartels kill tens of thousands of Americans a year
00:04:01.040 and are responsible for the deaths of perhaps well over 100,000 Americans a year.
00:04:07.880 We send the military into plenty of sovereign states on the other side of the world
00:04:12.580 to take out terrorist organizations,
00:04:14.960 terrorists which pose a much less significant direct homeland threat to the United States.
00:04:20.500 Why wouldn't we do it in Mexico?
00:04:22.520 This, to me, is just totally common sense.
00:04:25.620 This is close to home.
00:04:27.060 There are immediate interests here.
00:04:28.360 There are Americans who are dying.
00:04:29.860 There are Americans whose lives are being upended in all sorts of other ways because of the cartels.
00:04:35.240 Why wouldn't we?
00:04:36.240 I actually kind of called this from the beginning.
00:04:38.620 When Trump first designated the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,
00:04:43.780 I said, well, you realize what this is for.
00:04:46.320 This is not just so that we can win a rhetorical battle.
00:04:49.020 You know, it's not just about using some new word to describe the same thing that we've been talking about for decades.
00:04:54.240 This is to give a justification and an authorization for very serious military force.
00:05:00.800 It does not mean that we're going to be carpet bombing Mexico City or anything like that,
00:05:03.980 but it means if they're foreign terrorist organizations, we can go send in Delta Force.
00:05:08.560 You know, we can go send in the SEALs or something and take these guys out, which is very good.
00:05:12.320 If I were a face-tattooed gangster, if I had fentanyl stuffed into various places to smuggle across the border,
00:05:20.140 I would not be feeling very confident right now.
00:05:25.700 Now, apparently the attack could occur in mid-September.
00:05:29.540 We'll see.
00:05:29.980 Or it might just be false reporting or it might be scuttled
00:05:32.960 or it might just be a threat that was leaked that should scare the cartels.
00:05:36.520 We'll see.
00:05:36.940 Trump's done a great job at closing the border.
00:05:39.480 We now don't have illegals coming across the border.
00:05:42.460 We still have 11 to 16 million of them in this country already.
00:05:45.900 That's a conservative estimate.
00:05:47.340 But I think it's great.
00:05:48.920 I totally support it.
00:05:50.520 When you want to figure out the justice or injustice of something,
00:05:53.640 the propriety or impropriety,
00:05:55.280 I find it's very helpful to get back to nature,
00:05:58.300 to get back to good old Aristotle and the ancient Greeks.
00:06:02.080 They kind of figured it out, which is to figure out what to do,
00:06:06.360 you got to figure out what a thing is for.
00:06:09.280 The military is for protecting America.
00:06:12.460 Our vital interests before our less immediate interests,
00:06:15.480 the American homeland before other places.
00:06:18.500 This is it.
00:06:19.820 This is top tier, grade A.
00:06:22.040 This is what the military is for.
00:06:24.700 Seems like a good use.
00:06:25.820 Now, speaking of the military, there's a great clip going around
00:06:28.200 of the vice president and the secretary of defense.
00:06:31.240 They're walking through Union Station,
00:06:33.040 and they're being heckled by a group of protesters.
00:06:36.480 This is how they responded.
00:06:37.640 This is the guy who thinks people don't deserve law and order
00:06:47.760 in their own community.
00:06:50.520 Oh, just perfect.
00:07:02.180 You know what that response is?
00:07:04.100 That's not like the usual two responses.
00:07:06.840 The usual two responses are,
00:07:09.540 one,
00:07:11.140 to cower.
00:07:12.020 Just, oh, no, we need to,
00:07:13.180 oh, we can't,
00:07:13.960 we shouldn't acknowledge them.
00:07:15.000 Let's just try to hurry,
00:07:16.000 hurry away,
00:07:16.720 head down.
00:07:17.360 You know,
00:07:17.480 that's the kind of squish Republican response.
00:07:19.180 The other response is to get really angry.
00:07:21.160 Get up on your high horse on your soapbox.
00:07:23.060 You get really angry,
00:07:24.000 red in the face,
00:07:24.560 and you yell at them.
00:07:26.000 That's not what J.D. Vance and Pete Hickseth did there.
00:07:30.080 They,
00:07:30.360 they laughed.
00:07:31.960 They made a joke.
00:07:33.540 Then they pointed,
00:07:35.120 and they laughed at them again.
00:07:38.120 That's right.
00:07:38.660 Look at these losers.
00:07:40.600 Look at these losers.
00:07:42.040 They think it's a bad thing to have law and order
00:07:44.040 in their own communities.
00:07:45.700 Look at them.
00:07:46.320 And that's what J.D. says.
00:07:48.820 And then Hickseth looks,
00:07:49.880 picks his finger up,
00:07:50.560 he goes,
00:07:50.740 look at those losers.
00:07:52.260 Anyway,
00:07:52.940 that is the popular vote laugh.
00:07:58.060 That's what that is.
00:07:59.840 That's not the electoral college laugh.
00:08:01.680 If you just win the electoral college,
00:08:03.040 you don't have the popular vote,
00:08:03.920 then you're maybe a little more circumspect.
00:08:05.740 That's the popular vote laugh.
00:08:08.400 That's the,
00:08:09.320 wow,
00:08:09.800 man,
00:08:10.600 we got your political party
00:08:12.200 to come out in favor of carjackings,
00:08:15.100 in favor of robberies,
00:08:16.640 in favor of murders,
00:08:18.100 in favor of face tattooed gangsters,
00:08:20.520 and against Sidney Sweeney.
00:08:22.260 Against pretty girls in blue jeans ads.
00:08:26.340 That's the,
00:08:27.420 man,
00:08:27.720 we have just won the common sense.
00:08:30.540 Ha!
00:08:31.400 And look at that.
00:08:32.260 Ha!
00:08:32.780 Anyway,
00:08:33.480 moving on,
00:08:34.120 we're going to keep wielding power
00:08:35.400 because we have the whole government.
00:08:37.440 And we're going to,
00:08:38.040 we're going to take over your city
00:08:39.400 because it belongs to us anyway.
00:08:41.140 Ha!
00:08:42.020 Anyway,
00:08:42.680 hey,
00:08:42.840 get his bullhorn.
00:08:43.720 That's my bullhorn now.
00:08:45.080 And then look at me,
00:08:45.680 look at me,
00:08:46.160 look at me.
00:08:48.060 I am the government now.
00:08:49.280 I am the government.
00:08:51.960 Beautiful,
00:08:52.560 beautiful response.
00:08:53.560 A model for other Republicans.
00:08:55.400 Now,
00:08:55.740 speaking of things to laugh over,
00:08:58.180 good news for Trump.
00:09:01.040 Everyone is saying
00:09:02.480 there's some really good news for Trump.
00:09:04.620 And to some degree it is,
00:09:05.640 but not all the way.
00:09:06.720 An appeals court
00:09:07.440 has just thrown out
00:09:09.740 President Trump's
00:09:10.740 civil fraud penalty
00:09:12.480 from last year.
00:09:13.340 Do you remember this?
00:09:14.120 This was up in New York.
00:09:16.380 Letitia James
00:09:17.220 is going after Trump,
00:09:18.360 that Attorney General
00:09:19.280 saying that Trump
00:09:20.760 misstated his property values
00:09:23.800 on some forms
00:09:25.160 and therefore
00:09:27.160 he committed business fraud
00:09:29.180 and therefore
00:09:29.920 he shouldn't be able
00:09:30.540 to practice business
00:09:31.620 in New York
00:09:32.460 and he had to pay.
00:09:33.840 This is what they hit him with.
00:09:35.900 $350 million in penalties.
00:09:38.900 The irony,
00:09:39.600 of course,
00:09:39.900 is that Letitia James,
00:09:41.420 it appears,
00:09:42.160 lied on forms
00:09:42.980 about her businesses
00:09:43.880 and her investments.
00:09:44.940 She might be prosecuted
00:09:45.780 for that too.
00:09:47.220 $350 million
00:09:48.160 because they say
00:09:49.940 that Trump misstated
00:09:50.880 the value
00:09:51.280 of some of his properties.
00:09:52.400 Then,
00:09:52.940 when Trump didn't pay it
00:09:53.940 because it was ridiculous,
00:09:55.280 that ballooned
00:09:56.340 with interest
00:09:56.900 to $527 million,
00:09:58.840 half a billion dollars
00:09:59.740 they tried to get Trump on.
00:10:02.500 For what?
00:10:04.660 Because he maybe
00:10:05.560 put the wrong number
00:10:06.580 on a government form,
00:10:07.700 maybe?
00:10:08.900 No.
00:10:09.920 No.
00:10:10.200 The reason
00:10:14.420 that they went after him
00:10:15.420 is the same reason
00:10:16.880 they went after him
00:10:17.820 in those four criminal trials
00:10:19.120 is the same reason
00:10:20.040 they raided his house
00:10:21.020 is the same reason
00:10:21.960 they set the stage
00:10:22.760 for him to have
00:10:23.320 his head blown off
00:10:24.020 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:10:25.460 They went after him
00:10:26.900 with all the different excuses
00:10:29.260 to try to stop him
00:10:30.580 from becoming president again.
00:10:32.980 It was never serious.
00:10:35.040 The penalty
00:10:35.620 was always ridiculous.
00:10:37.580 It should not be
00:10:38.760 such a shock
00:10:39.420 that it got overturned.
00:10:40.400 Now,
00:10:40.540 they're going to appeal it again.
00:10:41.420 It's really not
00:10:41.960 the last word on this.
00:10:43.440 But that's why
00:10:44.400 I'm hesitant to say
00:10:45.420 this is a big win for Trump.
00:10:47.060 Trump is declaring victory.
00:10:48.360 He should feel vindicated.
00:10:49.700 He should have a victory lap.
00:10:51.360 But I'm not satisfied
00:10:52.640 with this
00:10:53.240 because it was never
00:10:55.480 really about Trump paying.
00:10:58.180 That was always secondary.
00:10:59.580 I'm sure they would like
00:11:00.280 to bankrupt Trump,
00:11:01.340 but it was never about that.
00:11:03.200 They already kind of
00:11:03.900 got what they wanted.
00:11:05.140 What this was really about
00:11:06.420 was hitting Trump
00:11:07.980 six ways from Sunday,
00:11:10.460 but here is one of the ways.
00:11:11.980 Hitting Trump
00:11:12.560 during an election year
00:11:13.600 and intimidating him.
00:11:16.260 They wanted to politically
00:11:17.520 intimidate him
00:11:18.460 and they wanted
00:11:19.700 to politically smear him.
00:11:20.840 They wanted to be able
00:11:21.660 to attach this label
00:11:22.520 to him that he's a fraud.
00:11:24.460 He's a fraudster.
00:11:25.860 He's a schemer.
00:11:26.880 He's a deceiver.
00:11:28.380 And they successfully
00:11:29.520 hit him with that.
00:11:31.680 They wanted to intimidate him
00:11:33.180 and threaten to take away
00:11:34.140 all his money.
00:11:34.860 They did successfully
00:11:36.200 hit him with that.
00:11:38.640 Obviously,
00:11:39.160 they didn't succeed
00:11:39.780 ultimately at intimidating him.
00:11:41.720 And the smears didn't stick,
00:11:43.000 which is why Trump got elected,
00:11:44.140 including with the popular vote.
00:11:46.340 But I guess the reason
00:11:47.400 I'm not willing
00:11:47.980 to totally celebrate this
00:11:49.140 is they got 80%
00:11:51.100 of what they wanted.
00:11:52.280 80% of what they wanted
00:11:53.540 was just to dirty him up
00:11:54.920 during the election.
00:11:56.060 So now we say,
00:11:57.120 ha ha, see,
00:11:58.140 the president doesn't have to pay you
00:12:00.060 half a billion dollars
00:12:01.200 for nothing.
00:12:03.620 And they say,
00:12:04.300 yeah, okay, whatever.
00:12:05.680 Yeah, we tried it.
00:12:06.560 We tried our thing.
00:12:07.300 It had nothing to do with that.
00:12:08.380 We're going to try it again next time.
00:12:09.460 So the real victory
00:12:11.240 that I want to see
00:12:12.060 is the people
00:12:14.060 who waged the lawfare
00:12:15.520 on Trump
00:12:16.020 face consequences.
00:12:18.240 That's the victory to me.
00:12:20.040 Because if Trump
00:12:21.000 just gets out of
00:12:22.220 the ridiculous traps
00:12:24.120 that they've laid for him,
00:12:25.480 that's fine.
00:12:26.440 But they're going to lay it again.
00:12:27.600 And they're going to do it
00:12:28.280 to J.D. Vance
00:12:29.240 if he is the nominee
00:12:30.160 in 2028.
00:12:31.240 And they're going to keep doing it
00:12:32.160 to Republicans
00:12:32.660 at every level of government.
00:12:33.760 So yes,
00:12:34.860 it's a good partial victory.
00:12:36.440 Two cheers for this victory.
00:12:38.660 We need the consequences.
00:12:40.220 Vance made this point
00:12:41.160 the other day.
00:12:41.720 He said,
00:12:42.240 increasingly it seems
00:12:43.160 the left only responds to power.
00:12:44.560 So you have to hold them
00:12:45.680 accountable
00:12:46.360 for their abuses of power.
00:12:48.300 Now,
00:12:48.640 speaking of abuses
00:12:50.540 and massive swings of wealth,
00:12:54.880 the Cracker Barrel saga
00:12:56.420 continues.
00:12:58.280 There was a major rebrand
00:12:59.540 some lady
00:13:00.180 who took over Cracker Barrel
00:13:01.520 as destroying
00:13:02.120 one of the beloved brands
00:13:03.200 in America
00:13:03.740 and taking all the charm
00:13:05.120 and tradition
00:13:05.840 and wholesome
00:13:07.960 country store charm
00:13:10.140 out of it
00:13:10.580 and turning it into
00:13:12.100 some just modern
00:13:13.000 millennial minimalist garbage.
00:13:15.140 And
00:13:15.520 that is costing Cracker Barrel
00:13:17.780 hundreds of millions
00:13:19.720 of dollars already.
00:13:20.820 We'll get to that.
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00:14:30.960 Cracker Barrel,
00:14:32.380 old country store,
00:14:33.920 is no longer
00:14:34.480 the old country store.
00:14:35.420 They've lost the cracker,
00:14:36.320 they've lost the barrel
00:14:37.040 in their logo.
00:14:38.160 Now,
00:14:38.500 it just looks like,
00:14:39.400 I don't even know.
00:14:40.440 It reminds me of some,
00:14:42.260 like Long John Silver's.
00:14:43.860 I don't know.
00:14:44.200 It reminds me of some
00:14:45.000 kind of generic logo.
00:14:48.740 And then the decor
00:14:49.860 on the inside is awful.
00:14:51.280 They took all the charm,
00:14:52.160 all the banjos off the walls,
00:14:53.480 the handsaws,
00:14:54.120 and now it just looks like some,
00:14:56.820 well,
00:14:57.120 as I said yesterday,
00:14:58.260 like a gay,
00:14:59.540 bougie,
00:15:00.000 millennial apartment
00:15:00.820 just outside of New York City.
00:15:02.540 It's just totally,
00:15:03.640 totally charmless.
00:15:05.920 They even went so far
00:15:07.480 as to ruin the peg game.
00:15:09.920 Give me the peg game.
00:15:10.760 You see this?
00:15:11.340 You know the peg game
00:15:12.120 they have at Cracker Barrel?
00:15:12.620 I don't know.
00:15:13.460 It's like a hobby horse of mine
00:15:14.620 because I love Cracker Barrel.
00:15:16.260 It's my son's favorite restaurant.
00:15:17.500 So the old one,
00:15:17.920 they have this little game
00:15:18.480 where it's a little,
00:15:19.180 you know,
00:15:19.500 golf tees
00:15:20.100 and you try to eliminate
00:15:21.540 all the tees
00:15:22.300 by jumping them.
00:15:23.040 It's kind of fun.
00:15:24.460 Jump all but one games.
00:15:26.220 And here's what it says on it.
00:15:28.040 Jump each tee
00:15:28.660 and remove it.
00:15:29.180 Leave only one,
00:15:30.040 you're genius.
00:15:31.060 Leave two
00:15:31.660 and you're pretty smart.
00:15:33.520 Leave three
00:15:34.120 and you're just plain dumb.
00:15:36.400 Leave four
00:15:37.140 or more
00:15:37.800 and you're just plain
00:15:39.500 egg nor amuse.
00:15:42.220 Cracker Barrel Country Store.
00:15:44.100 I have one of those games
00:15:45.020 sitting in my office.
00:15:45.800 My boys love to play it.
00:15:47.280 They've had this game forever.
00:15:48.320 It's a lot of fun.
00:15:48.880 I remember playing it as a kid.
00:15:50.060 They've even rebranded the game.
00:15:53.260 Now,
00:15:53.780 it's got that ugly,
00:15:55.080 plain,
00:15:55.920 lame Helvetica font
00:15:57.060 and it says,
00:15:58.220 leave only one.
00:15:59.380 You're a genius.
00:16:01.020 Leave two,
00:16:02.100 rock in the chair
00:16:03.240 but not the game.
00:16:04.840 Leave rock in the chair
00:16:05.820 but maybe not quite the game.
00:16:08.940 Leave three or more.
00:16:11.040 No reason to be embarrassed.
00:16:12.520 Just try again.
00:16:17.180 One reason to be embarrassed
00:16:18.420 is they misspelled embarrassed.
00:16:20.460 They only put one R
00:16:21.600 but that's the least of it.
00:16:24.540 Hey,
00:16:25.080 hi,
00:16:26.100 I'm a lady
00:16:26.580 who took over Cracker Barrel
00:16:27.780 and we're going to make it all
00:16:29.460 look like a hospital cafeteria.
00:16:31.540 Yeah,
00:16:32.020 we are
00:16:32.560 and we're going to get rid
00:16:33.500 of the cracker in the barrel
00:16:34.480 and we're going to
00:16:36.540 we're going to make everything
00:16:37.780 really sterile
00:16:38.920 and minimalist.
00:16:40.820 Yeah,
00:16:41.080 and we're going to take
00:16:41.640 that mean game
00:16:42.620 that mean game
00:16:44.060 it's said that kids
00:16:45.440 who didn't do well on it
00:16:46.960 it kind of made a joke
00:16:48.060 about how they're dumb.
00:16:49.040 We can't
00:16:49.360 we can't have that.
00:16:50.920 You're rocking the chair
00:16:51.900 not the game
00:16:52.580 and if you really blow it
00:16:55.160 you know,
00:16:55.580 it's just
00:16:55.920 don't feel embarrassed.
00:16:57.240 Try again.
00:16:57.660 it sounds like an HR lady
00:17:01.660 it just seems so clinical
00:17:04.140 so contrived
00:17:06.040 so
00:17:07.100 I feel so alienated
00:17:09.820 from Cracker Barrel
00:17:10.740 and I'm not the only one.
00:17:13.720 Within
00:17:14.280 24 hours
00:17:15.960 of this logo change
00:17:18.020 of the redesign
00:17:19.600 shares of Cracker Barrel
00:17:22.220 fell as much as
00:17:23.400 $8.74.
00:17:24.660 That means
00:17:26.720 that Cracker Barrel
00:17:27.500 lost 15%
00:17:29.000 of its value
00:17:29.760 in 24 hours.
00:17:31.320 Cracker Barrel
00:17:31.940 lost
00:17:32.420 $200 million
00:17:34.760 in market cap.
00:17:36.940 It rebounded
00:17:38.040 a little bit
00:17:38.720 but
00:17:39.220 not a ton.
00:17:41.040 CBS News
00:17:41.620 reached out
00:17:42.040 to Cracker Barrel
00:17:42.600 and asked about
00:17:44.380 losing the cracker
00:17:45.260 and the barrel
00:17:45.620 you know,
00:17:45.920 the old man
00:17:46.440 and the barrel design
00:17:47.420 and I guess
00:17:48.340 the old guy's name
00:17:48.920 is Uncle Herschel
00:17:49.700 and the Cracker Barrel
00:17:50.960 said
00:17:51.140 Uncle Herschel
00:17:52.180 will remain front
00:17:53.060 and center
00:17:53.500 in our restaurants
00:17:54.280 and on our menu.
00:17:55.320 Our values
00:17:56.420 haven't changed
00:17:57.720 and the heart
00:17:58.800 and soul
00:17:59.120 of Cracker Barrel
00:17:59.800 haven't changed
00:18:01.140 but they obviously
00:18:03.960 have.
00:18:06.000 They obviously have.
00:18:07.220 Look,
00:18:07.400 they realize
00:18:07.820 this is a catastrophe.
00:18:08.940 If I were the board
00:18:09.400 of directors
00:18:09.800 that lady
00:18:10.300 would have been
00:18:10.660 fired yesterday,
00:18:11.860 would have been
00:18:12.200 fired by lunchtime.
00:18:13.340 That is a disaster.
00:18:14.420 I would reverse course.
00:18:15.500 This is new Coke.
00:18:16.760 Sometimes brands
00:18:17.620 think they can
00:18:18.440 just push through
00:18:19.100 and they're going
00:18:19.420 to force it
00:18:20.000 down the throats
00:18:20.500 of customers
00:18:21.060 and they'll like it
00:18:21.680 eventually.
00:18:22.000 This is not
00:18:22.960 one of those times.
00:18:23.980 Sometimes a rebrand
00:18:25.440 is a complete disaster
00:18:26.760 and you need to
00:18:27.980 immediately reverse course
00:18:29.100 like new Coke
00:18:29.920 when Coca-Cola
00:18:30.840 changed its recipe
00:18:31.780 and everyone hated it
00:18:32.960 and they just had to say,
00:18:33.960 yep, whoops,
00:18:34.700 we're taking a mulligan
00:18:35.660 on that.
00:18:36.660 Mea culpa,
00:18:37.180 we're going back.
00:18:37.980 Cracker Barrel's
00:18:38.480 got to go back.
00:18:40.340 Why do I care so much?
00:18:42.320 Because
00:18:42.760 it's a symptom.
00:18:45.420 It's an example
00:18:46.340 of what's happened
00:18:47.040 to our whole culture.
00:18:48.180 The rise of minimalism.
00:18:49.620 That's been building
00:18:51.820 for about 100 years now.
00:18:53.100 The rise of Bauhaus
00:18:54.180 and minimalism
00:18:55.180 and this silly notion
00:18:56.480 that form follows function
00:18:57.660 which is not true.
00:18:58.420 Function often follows form.
00:18:59.920 This notion
00:19:00.300 that we just need
00:19:00.760 to reduce ornamentation
00:19:02.100 and beauty
00:19:02.580 and live like we're
00:19:04.500 in a computer screen
00:19:05.840 or something.
00:19:06.960 Like we're in a sci-fi dystopia
00:19:08.660 where we all look
00:19:09.660 exactly the same
00:19:10.400 and talk exactly the same
00:19:11.660 and nothing has beauty
00:19:12.540 or detail
00:19:13.100 or ornamentation.
00:19:13.960 The heart and soul
00:19:17.180 of Cracker Barrel
00:19:17.880 is that it's real old-timey.
00:19:20.000 If you try to update it
00:19:21.360 to make it really modern,
00:19:22.620 you necessarily lose
00:19:24.220 the heart and soul
00:19:24.840 of Cracker Barrel.
00:19:26.880 Why do I care so much
00:19:28.100 about Cracker Barrel?
00:19:28.920 Is it because I love
00:19:29.500 the dumplings so much?
00:19:30.320 No, they're fine.
00:19:31.100 Is it because I go there
00:19:31.900 constantly?
00:19:32.460 No, I go like twice a year
00:19:33.480 when I'm on a road trip.
00:19:35.600 It's because
00:19:36.480 there was no need
00:19:37.780 for this
00:19:38.300 and it was such Americana.
00:19:42.520 I mean, it was
00:19:42.940 contrived in its own way
00:19:44.920 to just represent
00:19:46.020 old Americana
00:19:47.040 and ideologues,
00:19:48.760 wittingly or unwittingly,
00:19:50.040 consciously or unconsciously,
00:19:51.700 have to get rid of that.
00:19:53.640 They're allergic to
00:19:54.940 detail and fun
00:19:57.400 and difference
00:19:58.060 and diversity, ironically,
00:19:59.380 and the past
00:20:01.020 and our heritage
00:20:02.200 and tradition
00:20:03.240 and just keeping things
00:20:04.660 the same.
00:20:07.100 Certain brands
00:20:08.020 need to be updated
00:20:08.680 every six months.
00:20:09.460 It's just part
00:20:10.040 of their company.
00:20:11.980 Apple.
00:20:12.620 Apple needs to be updated.
00:20:13.680 It's got to be modern.
00:20:14.380 It's got to be sleek.
00:20:15.360 It's got to be like
00:20:16.760 from outer space
00:20:17.840 or something.
00:20:19.760 Cracker Barrel's brand
00:20:21.080 is not to change.
00:20:23.980 That's in the brand.
00:20:26.340 And they just don't get that.
00:20:28.500 Drives me absolutely crazy.
00:20:30.140 So, they've lost their soul.
00:20:31.220 They need to fire that lady.
00:20:32.440 And I suggested
00:20:33.440 deport her to
00:20:34.320 Bukele.
00:20:35.960 I think that's
00:20:36.740 the only solution
00:20:37.420 there need to be consequences.
00:20:39.780 I was talking about it
00:20:40.500 earlier in the show.
00:20:42.360 That's a bad change.
00:20:43.520 And it's so
00:20:44.040 missing the moment.
00:20:46.760 Americans voted against
00:20:48.080 that just
00:20:48.720 absolutely
00:20:49.640 soulless,
00:20:51.020 clinical,
00:20:52.880 Helvetica,
00:20:53.860 millennial,
00:20:54.860 20-teen slop
00:20:55.860 progressivism.
00:20:57.080 They voted against that.
00:20:57.980 They're sick of that.
00:20:58.620 They don't want that anymore.
00:21:00.040 You missed the moment.
00:21:01.680 Go back.
00:21:02.180 Come back.
00:21:03.080 Now, speaking of things
00:21:03.760 changing for the worse,
00:21:05.640 there is a new study out
00:21:07.300 that should really
00:21:08.960 worry Americans
00:21:09.800 because no one
00:21:10.800 reads anymore
00:21:11.740 and it is threatening
00:21:13.840 the future of our country.
00:21:15.220 We'll get to that
00:21:15.600 in a moment.
00:21:15.980 First, though,
00:21:16.480 when you want to
00:21:17.300 educate yourself,
00:21:18.220 I'd suggest you go
00:21:18.920 check out PragerU.
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00:21:25.480 but PBS just lost
00:21:26.580 government funding,
00:21:27.660 which means
00:21:28.040 say goodbye
00:21:28.600 to taxpayer-funded
00:21:30.220 woke programming.
00:21:32.040 MSNBC panicked
00:21:33.020 over the idea
00:21:33.560 that without Elmo
00:21:34.260 and other left-wing
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00:21:36.180 America's families
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00:21:41.140 MSNBC's now gone too,
00:21:42.180 actually.
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00:22:35.840 Things change
00:22:36.600 for the worse here.
00:22:38.420 There is a study
00:22:39.860 that's just come out
00:22:40.720 from researchers
00:22:41.420 at the University of Florida
00:22:42.500 and University College London.
00:22:44.340 They found that
00:22:45.180 between 2003
00:22:46.040 and 2023,
00:22:48.000 daily reading
00:22:48.960 for reasons
00:22:50.220 other than work
00:22:50.900 and study
00:22:51.360 has fallen
00:22:52.760 by about
00:22:54.680 3%
00:22:55.480 each year.
00:22:57.180 Meaning
00:22:57.620 that
00:22:58.360 over time,
00:22:59.460 over this 20-year period,
00:23:00.940 the number of Americans
00:23:02.100 who read for pleasure
00:23:03.200 has fallen
00:23:04.480 by 40%.
00:23:06.020 And I'll even ask,
00:23:09.300 you're very tuned in,
00:23:10.280 you're plugged in,
00:23:10.900 people who are watching
00:23:11.640 this show.
00:23:12.740 Do you read for pleasure?
00:23:15.220 Do you get home
00:23:16.140 and read a book,
00:23:17.000 crack open a book
00:23:17.600 before bed?
00:23:18.460 Maybe not.
00:23:19.000 I'm not on my high horse.
00:23:20.360 Many nights,
00:23:21.900 I do not read.
00:23:23.700 I have to read
00:23:24.960 for my job.
00:23:26.520 Many, many nights,
00:23:27.500 I don't read.
00:23:29.340 Because what?
00:23:30.840 Because I'm distracted.
00:23:32.800 Because I have this
00:23:33.800 glittering portal
00:23:34.460 to hell in my pocket
00:23:35.400 that I can doom scroll on.
00:23:36.800 Because, because, because.
00:23:38.420 Let's get into
00:23:38.960 the details of the study.
00:23:40.260 While all groups
00:23:41.300 saw a decline in reading,
00:23:43.020 there were bigger drops
00:23:44.120 among certain groups,
00:23:45.460 notably black Americans.
00:23:47.680 And also people
00:23:48.760 with lower incomes
00:23:49.620 or education levels
00:23:50.520 and those in rural areas.
00:23:53.540 More women than men
00:23:54.560 continue to read for fun.
00:23:55.760 Okay.
00:23:56.120 So why does it matter
00:23:56.860 that certain groups
00:23:57.500 are falling more than others?
00:23:58.800 Because if you can't read,
00:24:01.880 if you don't read,
00:24:02.780 if you don't,
00:24:03.280 if you're not impelled
00:24:04.000 to seek wisdom
00:24:05.360 and keep your mind active,
00:24:08.480 that's going to have
00:24:09.820 terrible effects
00:24:10.740 for your soul
00:24:11.540 and it's going to
00:24:12.520 make you depressed
00:24:13.380 and it's going to mean
00:24:14.560 you don't know
00:24:14.960 what to do
00:24:15.240 with your leisure time.
00:24:16.340 It's also going to mean
00:24:17.260 that you're not going
00:24:17.980 to succeed as much
00:24:19.020 in your job,
00:24:20.500 in your career,
00:24:21.500 in your life.
00:24:22.020 You're going to make
00:24:22.300 less money,
00:24:22.840 you're going to
00:24:23.860 make more mistakes
00:24:24.960 because you're not,
00:24:25.540 Jim Mattis,
00:24:26.580 the general,
00:24:27.400 former Secretary of Defense,
00:24:28.240 he used to say
00:24:28.940 that he read like crazy
00:24:30.820 because he wanted
00:24:31.380 other people
00:24:31.820 to make his mistakes
00:24:32.560 for him.
00:24:33.260 He wanted to learn
00:24:33.840 from the mistakes
00:24:34.400 of others
00:24:34.720 so he didn't have
00:24:35.100 to do it firsthand.
00:24:35.940 You're going to have
00:24:36.240 a worse life
00:24:36.840 if you don't read.
00:24:39.660 And so for groups
00:24:40.420 that apparently
00:24:41.360 already have challenges,
00:24:43.460 it shows it's only
00:24:44.480 going to get worse.
00:24:46.540 The real reason
00:24:47.620 that this study hits me
00:24:48.980 is people
00:24:49.960 in modernity
00:24:50.620 were so pompous.
00:24:51.920 We think we're
00:24:52.420 so much smarter
00:24:53.240 than everyone
00:24:53.680 that came before us.
00:24:54.620 We're so much better
00:24:55.380 and wiser.
00:24:56.380 That's why we're going
00:24:56.920 to tear their statues
00:24:57.660 down,
00:24:58.080 take down their portraits.
00:24:59.320 We're going to get rid
00:24:59.940 of the cracker
00:25:00.420 in the barrel.
00:25:00.900 We're going to make
00:25:01.240 everything sleek
00:25:01.900 and modern.
00:25:02.440 We're so smart.
00:25:03.260 We know so much
00:25:03.820 better than our
00:25:04.360 forebears.
00:25:04.820 We are living
00:25:08.160 in a new dark ages
00:25:09.660 increasingly.
00:25:11.140 People talk about
00:25:11.700 the dark ages
00:25:12.420 which is really
00:25:13.020 just a term of injury
00:25:14.340 that comes out
00:25:15.760 of the Enlightenment
00:25:16.420 to mock the era
00:25:17.740 that we would call
00:25:18.700 Christendom
00:25:19.320 because they were
00:25:21.000 atheists and losers
00:25:22.340 mostly in the Enlightenment.
00:25:23.980 And so even that
00:25:25.220 is a term of derision
00:25:26.100 that isn't totally
00:25:27.320 tied to reality.
00:25:28.600 But if there is
00:25:29.700 such a thing
00:25:30.120 as the dark ages,
00:25:31.100 we increasingly
00:25:32.100 are living in it.
00:25:32.880 we don't read anymore.
00:25:36.660 We don't read.
00:25:37.560 Now, there wasn't
00:25:38.200 high literacy
00:25:38.840 in the Middle Ages.
00:25:41.020 There's increasing literacy.
00:25:42.180 There wasn't high books.
00:25:43.280 The printing press
00:25:44.000 had not been invented yet.
00:25:45.080 Books were extremely
00:25:45.780 expensive to produce.
00:25:46.520 They weren't super widespread.
00:25:47.640 But then people still had
00:25:49.180 a great store of knowledge
00:25:50.280 even in their minds.
00:25:51.700 They would go to church.
00:25:52.760 They would hear the Bible.
00:25:54.080 They would,
00:25:54.980 they were exposed
00:25:56.680 to some of the greatest art
00:25:57.720 which was in the community
00:25:58.920 and not just locked up
00:25:59.700 in museums
00:26:00.240 in European capitals
00:26:01.640 that people don't have
00:26:02.340 a ton of time
00:26:02.840 to go visit
00:26:03.320 or money to go visit.
00:26:05.980 They
00:26:06.380 had a greater
00:26:08.380 wealth of knowledge.
00:26:09.160 They had a greater
00:26:09.920 relationship to reality
00:26:11.660 than we do today.
00:26:13.580 Now, we have cheap books.
00:26:15.180 Now, we all have phones
00:26:16.540 in our pocket
00:26:17.020 that we can read
00:26:17.560 and now we have
00:26:17.960 no excuse not to read.
00:26:19.920 Now, our ignorance
00:26:20.860 is truly self-imposed.
00:26:24.120 We like to mock
00:26:25.420 the dark ages.
00:26:26.220 We're so much smarter.
00:26:27.000 We're living
00:26:27.200 in this age of enlightenment.
00:26:28.160 We are in it, man.
00:26:30.680 We are in it.
00:26:31.300 We could learn a lot
00:26:32.040 from the dark ages.
00:26:33.380 What are we replacing
00:26:34.180 reading with?
00:26:35.200 We got an answer
00:26:35.920 from Elon Musk.
00:26:36.900 I had to blur this.
00:26:38.460 This is anime
00:26:39.400 that was generated
00:26:41.500 by Grok,
00:26:42.640 the Twitter AI tool,
00:26:44.900 and it's porn,
00:26:46.240 basically.
00:26:46.920 It's kind of like
00:26:47.460 a video, right?
00:26:49.480 Yeah, okay.
00:26:50.200 I had to pixelate
00:26:51.140 this strangely
00:26:53.980 young-looking
00:26:55.000 AI girl
00:26:56.980 who's wearing
00:26:57.820 underwear,
00:26:58.580 more or less,
00:26:59.660 that Elon posted.
00:27:02.080 I shouldn't let it,
00:27:02.860 but he posted it.
00:27:03.960 He was like,
00:27:04.360 oh, yeah,
00:27:04.740 this is great, huh?
00:27:05.440 Then he posted another one
00:27:06.300 that wasn't a cartoon.
00:27:07.280 It wasn't anime.
00:27:07.980 It was just,
00:27:09.060 it looks like a real chick.
00:27:10.180 Obviously,
00:27:10.540 it's created by AI.
00:27:12.740 She's wearing this
00:27:13.360 very sheer,
00:27:14.540 she's on the beach,
00:27:15.240 so you'd say
00:27:15.700 it's a bikini
00:27:16.300 or something,
00:27:16.820 but very sheer,
00:27:17.480 very sexy,
00:27:18.660 very, you know,
00:27:19.620 appealing to the
00:27:20.640 prurian interest.
00:27:21.720 She's wearing headphones.
00:27:22.560 It's impressive technology.
00:27:24.360 You can kind of,
00:27:24.920 actually,
00:27:25.180 the fingers are pretty good.
00:27:27.000 The toes are a little off.
00:27:28.280 That kind of,
00:27:28.500 you know,
00:27:28.640 fingers and toes
00:27:29.140 kind of give it away on AI,
00:27:30.240 but it's still,
00:27:30.700 it's very,
00:27:31.600 very impressive technology
00:27:32.780 that is mostly
00:27:35.620 going to be used
00:27:36.160 to generate porn.
00:27:38.720 This is why
00:27:39.420 I actually,
00:27:40.240 I have this esoteric reading
00:27:42.060 of Elon's
00:27:42.700 repeated tweets
00:27:43.820 about this.
00:27:45.260 As he says,
00:27:46.020 long press on
00:27:46.760 any image on X
00:27:47.660 to turn it into a video
00:27:49.100 in about 17 seconds.
00:27:50.320 He posts this like,
00:27:52.400 you know,
00:27:53.100 AI
00:27:53.600 whore.
00:27:55.640 I don't know.
00:27:56.300 It's like anime,
00:27:57.540 you know,
00:27:58.220 lady of ill repute
00:27:59.300 or something.
00:27:59.840 He says,
00:28:00.180 long press on,
00:28:00.800 you can turn it
00:28:01.260 into a video.
00:28:02.620 Elon is appealing
00:28:03.640 to the prurian interest here
00:28:04.600 and it just tells you
00:28:05.700 something about
00:28:07.260 how we react
00:28:08.780 to new technologies.
00:28:10.740 And there's,
00:28:11.440 there's bad news
00:28:12.500 with that
00:28:12.940 and there's good news
00:28:13.640 with that.
00:28:14.700 The bad news is
00:28:16.100 we're just going
00:28:16.580 to use it for porn.
00:28:17.580 The good news is
00:28:18.520 we're just going
00:28:19.080 to use it for porn.
00:28:21.340 Meaning,
00:28:23.020 when,
00:28:23.540 when the,
00:28:24.140 the real futurists,
00:28:25.280 the real sort of
00:28:26.940 accelerationist,
00:28:28.260 futurist,
00:28:29.140 ideologue types,
00:28:30.280 when they
00:28:30.920 think of the future,
00:28:33.220 they think
00:28:33.940 we're going to break free
00:28:34.740 of all constraints,
00:28:35.800 all the limits
00:28:36.760 that are imposed on us,
00:28:38.140 not just by our family
00:28:39.260 and by society,
00:28:40.160 but by biology,
00:28:41.140 by reality,
00:28:41.740 we're going to make
00:28:42.260 ourselves into gods.
00:28:44.040 This is Yuval Harari,
00:28:45.200 Homo Deus.
00:28:46.740 We're going to end
00:28:47.740 Homo sapiens.
00:28:48.560 We're going to become
00:28:49.280 masters of the universe
00:28:50.320 with just a little bit
00:28:52.120 more technology
00:28:52.900 and the reality is
00:28:54.900 when we get
00:28:55.780 all this new technology,
00:28:57.100 we're mostly going
00:28:57.980 to use it for porn
00:28:59.020 and not just porn.
00:29:00.520 We're going to use it
00:29:01.260 for fraud.
00:29:02.360 We're going to use it
00:29:03.000 to make deep fakes
00:29:03.860 and attack our enemies
00:29:05.360 and plant evidence
00:29:06.820 and whatever.
00:29:07.700 And if we're not
00:29:09.100 going to use it
00:29:09.480 for those
00:29:09.940 dastardly purposes,
00:29:12.060 we're going to use it
00:29:13.040 for wasting time.
00:29:15.060 It's going to be
00:29:15.660 dumb memes
00:29:16.200 and brain rot.
00:29:18.560 But that's what
00:29:18.900 we're going to do.
00:29:19.300 And so,
00:29:19.740 that's bad,
00:29:20.440 obviously,
00:29:20.700 and you need to
00:29:21.160 figure out ways
00:29:21.920 to stop yourself
00:29:24.080 from falling into
00:29:24.640 all those temptations.
00:29:25.800 But it is kind of good
00:29:27.380 in the sense that
00:29:28.100 it means there are limits
00:29:30.300 to what human beings
00:29:32.000 are going to make
00:29:32.640 of ourselves,
00:29:33.160 which is for our own good
00:29:33.980 because it's a fallen world
00:29:34.760 and we have original sin
00:29:35.740 and we have concupiscence.
00:29:37.860 And if we were made
00:29:39.540 into gods,
00:29:40.140 we would very quickly
00:29:41.340 become devils.
00:29:44.040 We would become
00:29:44.760 more powerful
00:29:45.260 than the devil,
00:29:45.940 actually,
00:29:46.160 because the devil's not God.
00:29:48.060 It is actually good
00:29:49.400 that we have these limits on us.
00:29:50.380 Think about the 2000s.
00:29:51.720 Think about the 90s.
00:29:53.140 The internet comes up
00:29:54.000 that's going to connect
00:29:54.560 the whole world.
00:29:55.480 We're going to break down
00:29:57.000 political barriers.
00:29:58.200 We're all going to sing
00:29:58.940 Kumbaya.
00:29:59.660 We're going to lift humanity
00:30:01.940 up from its present
00:30:02.900 division and darkness.
00:30:04.100 And no,
00:30:04.440 it's actually mostly
00:30:05.020 just porn
00:30:05.660 and fraud
00:30:07.480 and wasting time
00:30:09.080 because
00:30:10.600 human nature remains
00:30:13.900 as it is.
00:30:14.940 Okay,
00:30:15.120 speaking of crazy things,
00:30:16.180 this is one study.
00:30:16.880 I have to get to this.
00:30:17.600 I meant to get to it yesterday.
00:30:19.640 There's a big study
00:30:20.560 out of Brazil
00:30:21.080 that measured
00:30:24.580 mental health outcomes
00:30:26.940 of adults
00:30:28.040 who say that they
00:30:29.400 remember past lives.
00:30:30.940 I'm going to repeat that
00:30:31.780 because I didn't quite
00:30:32.940 get it at first either.
00:30:34.380 There are adults.
00:30:36.240 People make all sorts
00:30:37.120 of crazy claims.
00:30:38.120 Some people claim
00:30:39.140 that they are
00:30:40.600 reincarnations,
00:30:42.100 that they had
00:30:43.360 past lives.
00:30:44.540 And furthermore,
00:30:45.980 some of those people
00:30:46.680 claim that they can
00:30:47.320 actually remember things
00:30:48.900 that they did
00:30:50.120 in their past lives.
00:30:52.280 And this study
00:30:53.560 concluded
00:30:54.720 that those people
00:30:56.640 tend to be crazy.
00:31:00.420 And I think,
00:31:01.220 why?
00:31:02.960 How much of modern science
00:31:04.560 could we just do away with
00:31:06.080 by recognizing
00:31:07.600 common sense?
00:31:09.440 Because really,
00:31:10.440 the conclusion
00:31:11.000 from this study is
00:31:12.020 crazy people
00:31:13.300 tend to be crazy.
00:31:15.960 People who say
00:31:17.060 crazy things
00:31:18.140 are more likely
00:31:19.980 to be crazy.
00:31:21.320 Why do we have this study?
00:31:22.640 We have this study
00:31:23.600 because you're not allowed
00:31:24.280 to call people crazy anymore.
00:31:25.880 We have this study
00:31:26.860 because you're not allowed
00:31:27.660 to say anything
00:31:28.380 definitively anymore.
00:31:29.680 We have this study
00:31:30.440 because we have a crisis
00:31:31.480 of epistemology
00:31:32.460 where we don't even agree
00:31:34.320 on how you can know things
00:31:35.660 or whether you can know things
00:31:37.220 at all.
00:31:39.100 That's why.
00:31:40.280 And that's why
00:31:40.720 we need some guy
00:31:41.240 in a lab coat
00:31:41.700 to come out and say,
00:31:42.180 it turns out
00:31:42.600 when people say
00:31:43.080 crazy things all the time,
00:31:44.300 they're often crazy.
00:31:45.600 And when I say crazy,
00:31:46.380 I mean,
00:31:46.840 they are more likely
00:31:47.640 to have depression
00:31:48.440 and anxiety
00:31:49.380 and all sorts
00:31:50.340 of other mental health symptoms.
00:31:51.620 Yeah.
00:31:51.880 Wow, you don't say.
00:31:52.940 Here's a little tease
00:31:53.580 on craziness.
00:31:55.840 There are men,
00:31:56.920 many men,
00:31:58.260 who are going to doctors
00:31:59.160 to break their legs
00:32:00.500 to have metal inserted
00:32:02.180 into the spaces
00:32:03.480 between their bones
00:32:04.380 to try to make themselves
00:32:05.380 a few inches taller.
00:32:07.720 Leg lengthening surgery.
00:32:09.000 We don't have time
00:32:10.180 to get to that right now.
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00:32:50.800 My favorite comment
00:32:52.040 of the week,
00:32:53.020 that is from Pinky Mandel,
00:32:54.440 1530.
00:32:55.620 Michael is a Jewish guy.
00:32:57.020 I'd love if you could put
00:32:58.280 Shmuley Boteik in his place,
00:33:00.040 but please don't call him rabbi.
00:33:02.300 It's like calling someone
00:33:03.180 with an online minister
00:33:04.220 certificate a priest.
00:33:05.880 Yeah,
00:33:06.280 I said that yesterday.
00:33:07.460 I've actually had a number
00:33:08.160 of Jews reach out to me
00:33:09.120 and say,
00:33:09.320 Michael,
00:33:10.640 please don't call Shmuley
00:33:11.940 a rabbi.
00:33:12.580 He really is an embarrassment
00:33:13.900 to the Jewish people.
00:33:15.160 Please don't.
00:33:15.940 I said,
00:33:16.140 I don't know.
00:33:16.580 This is an internecine fight
00:33:18.700 that I don't want
00:33:19.400 to be involved in.
00:33:20.780 But for those who didn't
00:33:22.260 catch the show yesterday
00:33:23.180 or catch Twitter,
00:33:25.360 Shmuley Boteik
00:33:26.260 is this prominent,
00:33:28.960 he calls himself a rabbi.
00:33:30.180 He's also a sex toy salesman.
00:33:31.820 And he was really angry
00:33:33.160 about my series,
00:33:34.480 The Pope and the Fuhrer,
00:33:35.240 The Secret Vatican Files
00:33:36.180 of World War II,
00:33:36.980 which is available exclusively
00:33:38.620 at Daily Wire Plus.
00:33:39.440 It's doing very well.
00:33:40.100 Thank you to everyone
00:33:40.520 who's watched and subscribed
00:33:41.360 for that.
00:33:42.120 Help me to rub the new
00:33:43.620 subscriptions in Matt
00:33:44.420 and Ben's face.
00:33:45.540 We got the big dog
00:33:46.340 over here at DW now,
00:33:47.580 and the big dog happens
00:33:48.220 to be the venerable
00:33:48.800 Pius XII,
00:33:49.500 who would have thought?
00:33:52.080 Shmuley says that
00:33:53.060 Pius XII was a collaborator
00:33:55.480 with the Nazis,
00:33:56.340 and he was Hitler's pope
00:33:57.160 and a bunch of nonsense.
00:33:58.320 So he messaged me
00:34:00.200 11 times publicly
00:34:01.960 on Twitter,
00:34:02.460 said,
00:34:03.060 I want to debate you,
00:34:04.620 and I'll bet you $10,000
00:34:05.760 I can beat you in a debate,
00:34:07.040 and I'm going to annihilate you
00:34:08.260 in this debate
00:34:08.900 because Pius XII
00:34:10.120 was Hitler's pope,
00:34:10.920 and I don't know,
00:34:11.500 all these tweets.
00:34:12.720 So I responded,
00:34:13.260 I said,
00:34:13.440 okay,
00:34:13.800 hi,
00:34:14.040 Shmuley,
00:34:14.620 I would be delighted
00:34:15.520 to debate you
00:34:16.300 on this subject.
00:34:17.500 I'm now following you.
00:34:18.940 I wasn't previously,
00:34:19.800 but he was following me,
00:34:20.440 so I said,
00:34:20.780 now we're following each other.
00:34:21.960 You can message me,
00:34:23.840 and then you can
00:34:25.900 send me an email address,
00:34:27.360 and we'll get our teams
00:34:27.940 to work out the details
00:34:28.800 for a proper debate.
00:34:31.400 Crickets.
00:34:32.860 He keeps posting about it.
00:34:35.160 He keeps talking about it.
00:34:37.200 He's threatening
00:34:37.840 to hold boycotts
00:34:38.900 or something
00:34:39.340 or protests,
00:34:40.660 but I don't know.
00:34:42.320 He hasn't responded.
00:34:44.160 So I don't know
00:34:45.440 if the debate's
00:34:46.580 going to happen, guys,
00:34:47.460 but I've accepted.
00:34:50.500 We've got to work out
00:34:51.340 the terms,
00:34:51.980 but I don't know.
00:34:52.500 It's in Shmuley's court.
00:34:55.340 Finally, finally,
00:34:56.140 we arrive at my favorite time
00:34:57.280 of the week
00:34:57.540 when I get to hear
00:34:57.920 from you in the mailbag.
00:34:59.460 Our mailbag is sponsored
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00:35:06.280 Hi, Michael,
00:35:06.920 and good morning.
00:35:07.780 This is Katie.
00:35:09.060 I have a question for you.
00:35:10.700 Do any of these politicians
00:35:12.200 on the left,
00:35:13.520 like Newsom,
00:35:14.740 Pritzker,
00:35:15.720 members of Congress,
00:35:16.740 too,
00:35:17.660 Crockett,
00:35:18.400 AOC,
00:35:19.000 those types,
00:35:19.980 actually believe
00:35:21.100 the things they say
00:35:21.880 about President Trump
00:35:22.920 and conservatives,
00:35:24.100 or do you think
00:35:25.520 it is all just them
00:35:26.800 lying to the faces
00:35:27.660 of the common people?
00:35:28.840 In other words,
00:35:29.900 only propaganda.
00:35:31.580 I'm trying to understand
00:35:32.980 at what point
00:35:34.060 or with whom
00:35:34.820 does it shift
00:35:35.820 from lying
00:35:36.560 to being had.
00:35:39.100 Because it's clear
00:35:40.020 that all of the leftists
00:35:41.120 in my life
00:35:41.740 genuinely believe
00:35:42.720 that President Trump
00:35:43.500 is a dictator,
00:35:44.940 intent on destroying democracy,
00:35:46.760 one brown illegal
00:35:47.860 sent off to a concentration
00:35:49.260 camp at a time.
00:35:51.680 I look forward
00:35:52.560 to hearing your answer
00:35:53.440 and have a lovely day.
00:35:55.220 Thanks.
00:35:56.060 I think they basically
00:35:57.140 believe it
00:35:57.900 because I don't think
00:36:00.400 they understand
00:36:01.760 what conservatives think.
00:36:03.940 I don't think
00:36:04.820 they have any sense
00:36:06.020 of our reasoning.
00:36:08.360 I don't think
00:36:09.420 they have much interest
00:36:10.440 in it.
00:36:11.480 I think for them,
00:36:13.100 they believe
00:36:13.860 that liberalism,
00:36:16.340 liberalism in the year
00:36:17.660 of our Lord,
00:36:18.060 2025,
00:36:18.660 is the only
00:36:20.460 acceptable
00:36:21.700 political ideology.
00:36:24.220 And liberals
00:36:24.560 have always
00:36:24.980 kind of believed this.
00:36:26.780 And so,
00:36:27.700 if you are outside
00:36:28.400 of that in any way,
00:36:30.200 you're an enemy.
00:36:31.420 And you have to
00:36:32.360 either be
00:36:32.800 extremely stupid
00:36:33.980 or extremely evil
00:36:35.340 or maybe both.
00:36:37.140 And so,
00:36:37.720 I think they believe it,
00:36:38.820 basically.
00:36:39.300 I don't think
00:36:39.620 they have much curiosity.
00:36:41.620 They are not
00:36:42.760 particularly well educated.
00:36:45.040 They probably
00:36:47.040 aren't the sharpest
00:36:48.440 stools in the shed.
00:36:50.060 And so,
00:36:50.560 I think they believe it.
00:36:52.780 Basically,
00:36:53.300 who's ever told
00:36:53.840 them otherwise?
00:36:55.400 They're not exposed to it.
00:36:56.200 If you're a conservative,
00:36:57.880 you are constantly
00:36:58.940 exposed to what
00:36:59.860 the liberals believe.
00:37:00.740 So,
00:37:00.980 you understand
00:37:01.500 their views perfectly.
00:37:03.380 You understand,
00:37:04.360 you disagree with it,
00:37:05.420 obviously,
00:37:05.680 but you know
00:37:06.060 what they're thinking.
00:37:06.680 You can't help it
00:37:07.360 because you're just
00:37:08.280 pummeled with it
00:37:08.980 everywhere
00:37:09.460 and from every institution.
00:37:10.640 But the libs
00:37:12.760 don't,
00:37:13.340 they don't know
00:37:14.080 and they often
00:37:14.860 refuse to associate
00:37:16.300 with anyone
00:37:16.880 who is conservative
00:37:17.560 or Republican.
00:37:19.200 Study after study
00:37:20.000 shows,
00:37:20.620 they're much less likely
00:37:21.320 to have friends
00:37:21.860 on the other side
00:37:22.340 of the aisle
00:37:22.640 than we are.
00:37:24.000 So,
00:37:24.840 they don't know.
00:37:25.940 You know,
00:37:26.200 they're just blissfully,
00:37:27.840 not blissfully,
00:37:28.640 sort of miserably
00:37:30.180 ignorant.
00:37:31.780 And
00:37:32.220 I don't think
00:37:34.100 they want to change
00:37:34.720 that at all.
00:37:35.820 They just keep
00:37:36.400 whining and crying
00:37:37.220 and screaming
00:37:37.900 and calumniating.
00:37:39.460 Okay,
00:37:40.020 next one.
00:37:41.300 Hi,
00:37:41.620 Michael,
00:37:42.000 big fan.
00:37:42.560 I just watched
00:37:43.060 part one
00:37:43.460 of The Pope and the Fuhrer.
00:37:44.480 It was incredible.
00:37:45.400 It really gave me
00:37:46.040 a new perspective
00:37:46.760 not only on
00:37:47.520 the titular characters
00:37:48.420 but also on
00:37:49.280 World War II
00:37:49.780 as a whole
00:37:50.380 and I can't wait
00:37:51.000 to see the rest
00:37:51.600 of the series.
00:37:52.420 I had two quick
00:37:53.160 questions for you.
00:37:54.100 One,
00:37:54.460 what is your
00:37:54.880 personal position
00:37:55.740 on Pope Pius XI's
00:37:57.380 death
00:37:57.660 and the mystery
00:37:58.340 surrounding it?
00:37:59.500 And two,
00:38:00.060 if you did another
00:38:00.940 documentary style
00:38:02.120 series on church history,
00:38:03.940 is there a specific
00:38:04.620 time period
00:38:05.440 or person
00:38:06.200 that you would love
00:38:07.240 to discuss next?
00:38:08.520 You always seem
00:38:09.020 to get a kick
00:38:09.600 out of discussing
00:38:10.380 church history.
00:38:11.920 So I'd love to know
00:38:12.860 what you'd like
00:38:13.340 to dive into
00:38:13.960 in the future.
00:38:15.080 Anyway,
00:38:15.580 I love the show.
00:38:16.520 Keep at it.
00:38:17.440 Thank you for your time
00:38:18.420 and God bless.
00:38:19.640 Well,
00:38:19.940 thank you so much.
00:38:20.700 Thanks for watching
00:38:21.260 The Pope and the Fuhrer.
00:38:22.140 All of you can go watch it
00:38:23.400 too at Daily Wire Plus.
00:38:24.540 So the reference there
00:38:25.960 is to something,
00:38:26.520 I think it's in episode one,
00:38:28.220 about Pius XI.
00:38:30.940 Pius XI died.
00:38:32.180 So he was the Pope
00:38:32.680 right before Pius XII,
00:38:33.740 who's the star of the show.
00:38:35.480 Pius XI died
00:38:36.280 under kind of strange
00:38:36.920 circumstances
00:38:37.500 in as much as
00:38:38.700 his doctor
00:38:40.340 was an associate
00:38:41.160 of Mussolini.
00:38:43.040 And Pius XI issues
00:38:44.360 Mitt Brunetta Zorga,
00:38:45.660 which is a papal encyclical
00:38:47.360 unusually in German,
00:38:49.280 in the vernacular,
00:38:50.120 not in Latin,
00:38:51.240 kind of smuggled
00:38:51.820 into Germany
00:38:52.540 to slow down
00:38:55.200 the rise of Adolf Hitler.
00:38:57.020 And so people have said,
00:38:58.080 well,
00:38:58.140 was he poisoned
00:38:58.760 by the doctor?
00:39:00.140 I don't think so.
00:39:01.840 If he was,
00:39:02.700 it didn't work,
00:39:03.580 you know,
00:39:03.740 because then you got
00:39:04.260 Pius XII,
00:39:05.180 who even just in the name
00:39:06.520 you can see
00:39:06.960 continued the policies
00:39:08.340 of Pius XI.
00:39:10.980 He was the Vatican
00:39:11.980 Secretary of State,
00:39:12.900 a close collaborator.
00:39:13.900 He ended up,
00:39:14.280 he actually wrote
00:39:15.100 a lot of Mitt Brunetta Zorga.
00:39:16.720 So,
00:39:17.540 no,
00:39:18.340 I don't buy it.
00:39:19.320 There are all sorts
00:39:19.880 of theories.
00:39:20.600 This guy was poisoned.
00:39:22.180 Pope John Paul I,
00:39:23.360 actually,
00:39:23.600 he was Pope
00:39:23.940 for like five seconds.
00:39:25.320 And people think
00:39:25.840 he was murdered.
00:39:26.600 I don't,
00:39:26.840 like could be,
00:39:27.480 but I don't really see it.
00:39:29.260 Next one.
00:39:29.620 Good morning,
00:39:31.040 Mr. Knowles.
00:39:31.720 I've been listening
00:39:32.260 to your show
00:39:32.760 for about two years now,
00:39:34.120 and I had the privilege
00:39:35.020 of entering the Catholic Church
00:39:36.240 in May of this year.
00:39:37.860 On yesterday's show,
00:39:39.120 you expressed your disdain
00:39:40.240 for dual citizenship
00:39:41.080 while claiming that a man
00:39:42.440 cannot truly be loyal
00:39:43.620 to two things
00:39:44.380 of the same kind.
00:39:45.680 I tend to agree,
00:39:46.820 but I struggle to reconcile
00:39:47.820 that view with the churches,
00:39:49.340 schools,
00:39:49.900 and even Catholic accounts
00:39:50.860 on Twitter
00:39:51.260 that proudly fly the flag
00:39:52.960 of the Vatican City.
00:39:54.500 While loyalty
00:39:55.260 to the true religion
00:39:56.160 is not of the same kind
00:39:57.520 as national loyalty,
00:39:59.000 Catholics owe
00:39:59.520 allegiance to the Vicar of Christ,
00:40:01.000 who is also the head
00:40:01.920 of a foreign nation state.
00:40:03.480 As an active duty officer
00:40:04.740 in the U.S. Space Force,
00:40:05.940 I feel a little awkward
00:40:06.920 about this arrangement
00:40:07.660 and would love
00:40:08.320 to hear your thoughts.
00:40:10.100 Sure.
00:40:10.740 When Catholics
00:40:11.720 sometimes post the flag
00:40:12.880 of the Vatican,
00:40:13.860 I don't think this is a signal
00:40:14.960 that they are citizens
00:40:15.800 of the Vatican
00:40:16.460 because virtually
00:40:18.120 in no circumstances
00:40:19.520 are they citizens
00:40:20.520 of the Vatican.
00:40:22.120 You know,
00:40:22.640 it's just a way
00:40:23.320 to represent the church
00:40:24.420 as an ecclesiastical body,
00:40:26.360 not as a national entity.
00:40:27.920 So those are two things
00:40:30.380 of different kinds,
00:40:31.740 a nation state
00:40:32.580 and the church.
00:40:34.680 Now,
00:40:35.160 the church
00:40:36.100 and the state
00:40:36.900 have had
00:40:37.580 a sometimes tense,
00:40:40.080 sometimes complementary
00:40:41.220 relationship
00:40:41.940 for 2,000 years now.
00:40:43.400 This is a perennial question.
00:40:46.320 It's resolved
00:40:47.320 pretty well,
00:40:48.000 I think,
00:40:48.360 by Dante
00:40:49.040 who
00:40:50.020 points to
00:40:52.520 an independent role
00:40:54.120 for the political body,
00:40:56.920 for the empire
00:40:57.540 in his case
00:40:58.520 because he says
00:40:59.500 the empire predates
00:41:00.420 the church.
00:41:01.980 Christ is born
00:41:03.000 into an empire.
00:41:04.940 So,
00:41:05.540 some popes
00:41:06.180 have argued
00:41:06.660 that the political leaders
00:41:08.660 derive their power
00:41:09.800 from the pope,
00:41:10.780 from the church.
00:41:12.060 But Dante argues,
00:41:13.680 no.
00:41:14.800 The secular powers,
00:41:16.960 the emperor
00:41:17.360 derives his power
00:41:18.160 directly from God
00:41:19.120 just as
00:41:20.760 the ecclesial power,
00:41:23.020 the pope,
00:41:23.720 derives his power
00:41:24.440 directly from God.
00:41:26.140 And these two
00:41:26.720 work together.
00:41:27.920 And
00:41:28.340 the secular
00:41:29.540 power
00:41:30.580 can
00:41:31.620 and really
00:41:31.980 should be
00:41:32.620 illuminated
00:41:33.220 by the spiritual power.
00:41:34.360 So in that way,
00:41:34.900 there's a little bit
00:41:35.560 of a superiority,
00:41:37.020 but
00:41:37.380 they're different things.
00:41:38.560 They do different things.
00:41:40.280 I don't think
00:41:41.100 that
00:41:41.420 America
00:41:42.500 and the Vatican
00:41:43.180 are going to war
00:41:43.740 anytime soon.
00:41:44.700 Vatican doesn't
00:41:45.240 really have an army.
00:41:46.400 You know,
00:41:46.520 the papal suaves
00:41:47.200 are not being reconstituted.
00:41:48.560 So I don't see
00:41:49.760 an issue with it.
00:41:51.260 There's much more to say,
00:41:52.380 much more to do,
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00:42:19.760 Great.
00:42:20.800 Thank you.
00:42:23.520 Good.
00:42:24.400 I'll see you then.
00:42:33.240 I'll see you then.