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

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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, 1.00

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.

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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. 0.97

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, 0.95

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. 1.00

00:07:38.660 Look at these losers. 1.00

00:07:40.600 Look at these losers. 0.99

00:07:42.040 They think it's a bad thing to have law and order 0.99

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, 1.00

00:07:50.740 look at those losers. 0.99

00:07:52.260 Anyway, 1.00

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. 1.00

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! 0.89

00:08:31.400 And look at that.

00:08:32.260 Ha! 0.89

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! 0.89

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 0.67

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 0.93

00:09:53.940 because it was ridiculous, 0.86

00:09:55.280 that ballooned 0.60

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 0.99

00:10:23.320 his head blown off 1.00

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 0.89

00:10:35.620 was always ridiculous. 0.75

00:10:37.580 It should not be 0.89

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 0.94

00:11:22.520 to him that he's a fraud. 1.00

00:11:24.460 He's a fraudster. 1.00

00:11:25.860 He's a schemer. 1.00

00:11:26.880 He's a deceiver.

00:11:28.380 And they successfully 0.98

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 0.94

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 0.98

00:12:22.220 the ridiculous traps 0.96

00:12:24.120 that they've laid for him, 0.98

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 0.96

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 1.00

00:13:13.000 millennial minimalist garbage. 1.00

00:13:15.140 And 0.99

00:13:15.520 that is costing Cracker Barrel

00:13:17.780 hundreds of millions

00:13:19.720 of dollars already.

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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, 0.99

00:14:58.260 like a gay, 1.00

00:14:59.540 bougie, 0.99

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 1.00

00:15:34.120 and you're just plain dumb. 1.00

00:15:36.400 Leave four 1.00

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 1.00

00:16:48.060 about how they're dumb. 1.00

00:16:49.040 We can't 1.00

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 1.00

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. 0.98

00:20:31.220 They need to fire that lady. 1.00

00:20:32.440 And I suggested

00:20:33.440 deport her to

00:20:34.320 Bukele. 0.99

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. 1.00

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,

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00:21:17.300 educate yourself,

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00:21:33.020 over the idea

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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 0.86

00:23:35.400 that I can doom scroll on. 0.85

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 1.00

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 0.88

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 1.00

00:25:21.000 atheists and losers 0.99

00:25:22.340 mostly in the Enlightenment. 0.87

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. 0.97

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 0.79

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 1.00

00:27:53.600 whore. 1.00

00:27:55.640 I don't know. 0.99

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 0.97

00:28:16.580 to use it for porn. 0.96

00:28:17.580 The good news is 0.79

00:28:18.520 we're just going 0.97

00:28:19.080 to use it for porn. 0.93

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 0.97

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 0.74

00:28:57.980 to use it for porn 0.77

00:28:59.020 and not just porn.

00:29:00.520 We're going to use it 0.87

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 0.98

00:29:15.660 dumb memes 1.00

00:29:16.200 and brain rot. 1.00

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 0.71

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 0.63

00:30:05.020 just porn

00:30:05.660 and fraud 0.89

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 0.99

00:30:56.640 tend to be crazy. 0.97

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 0.93

00:31:13.300 tend to be crazy. 0.97

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, 0.95

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

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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. 0.99

00:33:12.580 He really is an embarrassment 1.00

00:33:13.900 to the Jewish people. 1.00

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. 0.99

00:33:30.180 He's also a sex toy salesman. 0.97

00:33:31.820 And he was really angry 0.82

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 0.63

00:33:55.480 with the Nazis,

00:33:56.340 and he was Hitler's pope 0.96

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, 1.00

00:34:07.040 and I'm going to annihilate you 1.00

00:34:08.260 in this debate 0.99

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.

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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, 0.94

00:35:44.940 intent on destroying democracy, 0.98

00:35:46.760 one brown illegal 0.75

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 1.00

00:36:32.800 extremely stupid 1.00

00:36:33.980 or extremely evil 1.00

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 1.00

00:37:30.180 ignorant. 1.00

00:37:31.780 And 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.89

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 1.00

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 0.94

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,

00:41:52.900 much more mailbag.

00:41:53.560 But

00:41:53.740 we've got to get to

00:41:54.960 Fake Headline Friday.

00:41:56.140 And if you're a member

00:41:56.840 of the Hoi Palloi out there,

00:41:58.700 you're not going to make it.

00:41:59.600 You've got to go become

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00:42:18.560 And I'll see you then.

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.

The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2025

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