The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1869 - BREAKING： January 6 Pipe Bomber Revealed

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00:00:53.720 Now, 1,793 days after January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any other country,

00:01:04.420 the man who allegedly planted pipe bombs to blow up the Democrat and Republican National Committee headquarters

00:01:10.340 has finally been arrested.

00:01:12.680 Almost five years after every right-wing Midwest granny who ever took a selfie in or around the Capitol

00:01:20.760 was thrown into solitary confinement for the sin of supporting President Trump,

00:01:25.180 the only person who actually threatened serious political violence on January 6th was finally arrested.

00:01:31.760 And the crazy part is, President Trump's FBI tracked him down without a single piece of new evidence

00:01:39.360 that was not already known to law enforcement for years.

00:01:44.600 Weird!

00:01:45.480 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:46.220 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:47.020 Welcome back to the show.

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00:02:10.580 I don't have any, well, I mean, I'm not going to say I don't have anything against Qatar.

00:02:16.060 I spent a little time at a layover once in Qatar.

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00:04:02.680 What do we know about the alleged pipe bomber?

00:04:07.020 He was arrested.

00:04:08.240 Attorney General Pambandi gave a press conference about it,

00:04:10.880 joined by FBI Director Cash Patel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.

00:04:14.460 They got him.

00:04:17.520 His name is Brian Cole.

00:04:19.940 What do we know about Brian Cole?

00:04:22.360 He doesn't seem like a right winger.

00:04:25.020 We don't know.

00:04:26.200 The FBI was pretty tight-lipped about it.

00:04:28.140 But yeah, he doesn't seem like a right winger.

00:04:30.600 There is reporting out now from New York Post that Brian Cole is an anarchist,

00:04:37.360 though this is just sources say, sources say we don't have real confirmation on it.

00:04:41.200 That would make sense, as planting pipe bombs is the sort of thing that anarchists do,

00:04:46.960 very much in the wheelhouse of an anarchist.

00:04:49.300 The fact that they targeted the DNC and the RNC, it's kind of anarchist M.O.,

00:04:55.000 not the sort of thing a Tweety, Berkey, and conservative generally does.

00:04:58.040 What else do we know?

00:04:59.720 According to the suspect's grandmother, being reported by the New York Post,

00:05:04.620 this suspect is a young man, born, I think, in 1995,

00:05:08.900 works at the family Bail Bonds Company.

00:05:13.420 Bail bonds for criminals, not generally a right-wing business,

00:05:17.780 a little bit more of a left-wing business.

00:05:19.400 Brian Cole Bail Bonds, which has been raided by the FBI,

00:05:23.420 also being reported, though again, it's a little bit foggy right now,

00:05:27.540 that they specialize in immigration bail bonds.

00:05:30.820 So, okay, that put another notch in the left-wing corner.

00:05:35.040 However, according to the grandmother, he would never make eye contact,

00:05:38.800 almost like he just didn't see you.

00:05:40.860 It's always the quiet ones.

00:05:42.740 He's almost autistic-like because he doesn't understand a lot of stuff.

00:05:46.740 I hope he is not talking.

00:05:48.700 Again, this, well, I guess, a little touch of the tism cuts both ways.

00:05:52.340 It can be left-wing or it can be right-wing.

00:05:54.660 Often leads to a lot of very online behavior.

00:05:57.260 We know a lot of people have been radicalized,

00:05:58.600 especially to anarchism and to other left-wing ideologies online.

00:06:02.340 But the grandmother maintains he's very naive.

00:06:05.000 He would not hurt a fly.

00:06:05.840 He's just not that kind of person.

00:06:07.600 This very, very much in keeping with grandmothers

00:06:10.840 when they are interviewed after their grandchildren are arrested for crimes.

00:06:16.300 They always interview the grandma,

00:06:18.000 and the grandma always says, he was a very sweet boy.

00:06:20.420 They interview the neighbors, very quiet boy.

00:06:23.340 Oh, wouldn't hurt a fly.

00:06:24.500 And you find out he's a total psycho.

00:06:27.000 So all of that is not that interesting.

00:06:30.120 I always assumed it was a left-winger.

00:06:31.680 We don't know that for certain now.

00:06:33.520 Yeah, I'm just going off of my prejudice and every fact we know.

00:06:37.020 It could be the case that despite every single fact we know thus far,

00:06:41.580 what he did, what he targeted,

00:06:45.380 his family, what he worked for, his family business, all the rest,

00:06:50.360 the fact that he wasn't prosecuted under Biden or discovered or arrested.

00:06:54.560 It could be the case that all the evidence points in one direction,

00:06:58.360 and yet through some quirk of chance, he's a right-wing MAGA guy.

00:07:02.720 But it doesn't look like it, and the FBI is being relatively tight-lipped.

00:07:05.680 The most interesting thing that the FBI said was how they made the arrest.

00:07:11.260 Here's FBI Director Cash Patel.

00:07:12.760 We did not discover any new information.

00:07:17.980 What we did, an investigation spearheaded by the Deputy Director

00:07:21.760 and the ADEC of our Washington Field Office,

00:07:24.720 brought in a new team of investigators and experts,

00:07:27.560 re-examined every piece of evidence,

00:07:29.960 sifted through all the data,

00:07:32.000 something that the prior administration refused and failed to do.

00:07:35.520 As a result of that, we generated numerous investigative leads,

00:07:39.600 executed multiple legal process with their U.S. attorney partners,

00:07:42.960 and came to this conclusion today.

00:07:46.220 No new information.

00:07:48.080 What was new here?

00:07:49.920 Something was new, but it wasn't the information.

00:07:52.600 All of these facts, and we have a lot of facts.

00:07:55.340 This guy allegedly bought the materials for the pipe bomb with credit cards.

00:08:00.440 There were electronic records of this at places like Home Depot.

00:08:03.420 So they had a tail on this guy.

00:08:07.600 It was all there, but the facts weren't new.

00:08:10.860 The facts have been known by law enforcement for years.

00:08:14.020 The investigators were new.

00:08:16.440 The leadership at the FBI and the DOJ was new.

00:08:19.300 The president was new.

00:08:22.400 So two options here.

00:08:27.340 Best case scenario, this was malign neglect.

00:08:31.300 Best case scenario, Biden's FBI and DOJ just didn't really look into it that much,

00:08:38.020 didn't care about it, didn't track it down.

00:08:40.860 Maybe you could say it was just total incompetence,

00:08:43.280 but they weren't incompetent when they were arresting all the Midwest grannies.

00:08:47.100 They sent the U.S. Marshals out all over for months and months and months.

00:08:50.300 They tracked down every single person from eccentric yahoos to well-meaning conservative supporters

00:08:59.300 who took selfies in the Capitol, and they rounded them up.

00:09:02.560 They arrested them.

00:09:03.160 In many cases, they put them in solitary confinement.

00:09:04.940 So I can't say it was just incompetence.

00:09:09.160 That's implausible to me.

00:09:11.160 It was either malign neglect, not benign neglect.

00:09:14.580 It was malign neglect.

00:09:16.200 They looked at it, and they said, you know, pipe bomb, that doesn't.

00:09:21.980 I know that all the people that were at the Capitol on camera with the MAGA hats,

00:09:25.880 I know that they're Trump supporters.

00:09:27.540 So we're going to go in and round up every Trump supporter we can.

00:09:30.100 I don't know who planted that pipe bomb, and every sign that I see suggests

00:09:35.900 he's probably not a right-winger.

00:09:37.480 You know what?

00:09:37.760 We're just not going to go there.

00:09:39.320 We're just not going to pursue the leads that we're getting.

00:09:42.320 That's one scenario.

00:09:44.000 The other scenario is it was an active cover-up.

00:09:48.140 That the Biden, FBI, and DOJ saw, yikes, okay, we got some info on this guy.

00:09:55.080 Doesn't fit the narrative.

00:09:56.140 We need January 6th to be the worst event in the history of the world.

00:10:00.380 We need it to be a right-wing insurrection, and this doesn't fit that narrative.

00:10:03.740 So, you know, we're going to do, we're going to exclude it.

00:10:06.580 Sometimes overzealous prosecutors will intentionally exclude exculpatory information

00:10:12.100 in criminal cases.

00:10:15.100 Well, maybe it's something like that.

00:10:17.620 Those are the only two options.

00:10:20.520 And look, I hope for the Democrats' sake, it's malign neglect.

00:10:23.820 It makes them look a little bit better.

00:10:25.840 But everything, we don't know that much.

00:10:28.280 We will learn more.

00:10:29.480 It's very important.

00:10:31.180 It's very important that the Trump administration pursues this.

00:10:35.940 Because if it is the case that this person had anarchistic tendencies,

00:10:42.220 had been radicalized into a left-wing ideology,

00:10:45.560 was simply just a kind of a left-winger,

00:10:48.120 if that is the case,

00:10:51.260 then it shows you something that we've been seeing increasingly,

00:10:55.340 which is that the left is the terror problem.

00:10:57.080 Even the Atlantic, a liberal magazine, had to admit it.

00:10:59.560 Left-wing terror is on the rise.

00:11:01.260 Left-wing terrorism is the chief form of domestic terrorism in the United States,

00:11:05.380 without question.

00:11:07.700 It shows you another data point on this trend

00:11:11.180 that the media and the Democrat politicians

00:11:13.280 have tried to suppress and actually invert for years.

00:11:15.980 And it shows you the corruption of the DOJ and the FBI under Joe Biden.

00:11:21.160 Very important.

00:11:22.820 Took him five years, huh?

00:11:25.800 That in itself is a data point.

00:11:28.040 Took him five years to round this guy up?

00:11:30.900 Around the Capitol?

00:11:32.120 Hmm.

00:11:33.680 Hmm.

00:11:34.680 I don't want to get ahead of my skis.

00:11:36.480 That's all we have now.

00:11:37.480 I'm sure a lot more is going to follow.

00:11:38.600 Now, speaking of apparently left-wing violence,

00:11:41.460 there's a clip going around from Jubilee

00:11:43.280 that, unfortunately,

00:11:46.880 I don't think people paid a lot of attention to it.

00:11:48.580 There's this guy, Tim Miller,

00:11:50.000 who, man, if not for Trump,

00:11:51.980 this guy was the Republican Party.

00:11:55.340 This guy worked.

00:11:56.380 He was a spokesman for the RNC.

00:11:58.840 He was Jeb Bush's spokesman in 2016.

00:12:02.160 He was the press secretary for the,

00:12:03.960 I don't want, sorry, not Jeb.

00:12:05.160 It's Jeb for the Jeb campaign.

00:12:08.540 And now he is a radical, liberal,

00:12:11.300 left-wing writer, commentator,

00:12:13.060 goes on MSNBC, very pro-LGBT.

00:12:16.780 So he goes on the Jubilee show, Surrounded.

00:12:21.280 And he argues with a very, very articulate woman.

00:12:24.360 And he argues over this term fascist,

00:12:27.320 specifically over the assassination of Charlie Kirk

00:12:30.860 and how it's not that the left calls

00:12:34.220 Republicans fascists because it's accurate.

00:12:38.640 And it's not that the left targets

00:12:41.660 and tries to kill Republicans

00:12:43.000 because they're fascists.

00:12:44.520 It's that they call them fascists

00:12:45.680 in order to justify killing them.

00:12:47.140 They've been doing that with Trump.

00:12:48.040 They've been doing that with a lot of people.

00:12:49.660 They obviously did it with Charlie.

00:12:52.080 Listen to Tim Miller's hideous, callous response.

00:12:56.840 This guy used to be a press secretary

00:12:58.540 for a Republican presidential candidate recently.

00:13:01.060 I'd like to address the fascism claim that you made,

00:13:05.680 specifically the fascism,

00:13:06.900 because we've seen even, for example,

00:13:08.880 Charlie Kirk last month was shot and killed.

00:13:11.500 And so what happens when we use inflammatory flames like fascists,

00:13:14.920 it paints people a certain way.

00:13:16.400 I hear you, Noel, but here's the thing.

00:13:17.540 If they don't want to be called a fascist...

00:13:18.340 That's like me saying,

00:13:19.620 if you want lax border policies,

00:13:21.040 then you're an anarchist.

00:13:22.220 It's a false equivalency.

00:13:23.820 It doesn't add up.

00:13:24.120 But the right calls the left communists

00:13:26.820 and enemy within all the time.

00:13:28.420 Because you do this,

00:13:29.080 then that justifies it.

00:13:30.240 That's not okay.

00:13:31.040 If they don't want to be called fascists,

00:13:32.200 they shouldn't act like fascists.

00:13:33.240 I just think that if this was not this country,

00:13:35.160 and you saw unmarked cars,

00:13:36.340 with mass people hassling,

00:13:39.160 look at the story.

00:13:40.960 If they don't want to be called fascists,

00:13:42.620 they shouldn't act like fascists.

00:13:43.980 It's no wonder that Tim Miller goes on MSNBC.

00:13:47.560 It sounds just like the guy who was on MSNBC,

00:13:50.240 Matthew Dowd,

00:13:50.920 Democrat strategist,

00:13:51.840 while Charlie was dying.

00:13:53.640 Who said,

00:13:54.300 well, you know,

00:13:55.300 if you don't want to get killed,

00:13:56.380 you probably shouldn't use this hate speech.

00:13:59.040 His exact words were something close to,

00:14:02.620 you know,

00:14:03.040 hate breeds hate,

00:14:04.060 doesn't it?

00:14:05.580 As if to say Charlie had it coming.

00:14:07.500 Tim Miller's saying exactly the same thing.

00:14:09.600 Yeah,

00:14:09.720 if they don't want to get called fascists,

00:14:11.320 they shouldn't act like fascists.

00:14:13.120 Now,

00:14:13.260 of course they don't.

00:14:14.880 Republicans actually could probably learn a lesson or two

00:14:16.900 from slightly more stalwart,

00:14:19.440 rock-ribbed people,

00:14:20.420 okay?

00:14:21.140 The Republicans are quite liberal

00:14:23.020 in their political philosophy,

00:14:24.300 in their premises,

00:14:24.960 and often in their behavior.

00:14:27.020 Nothing even close to,

00:14:28.160 I mean,

00:14:29.040 the most right-wing mainstream Republican today

00:14:32.160 is to the left of Democrats

00:14:35.280 during the Bill Clinton era

00:14:36.240 on most issues.

00:14:38.160 And yet,

00:14:39.480 he says,

00:14:39.940 look,

00:14:40.100 the first starting point is,

00:14:44.620 if you're a fascist,

00:14:45.700 we can kill you.

00:14:46.580 If you're Hitler,

00:14:47.720 if you're a Nazi,

00:14:48.380 if you're a fascist,

00:14:49.140 we can kill you,

00:14:49.980 because you're posing

00:14:50.500 this existential threat to the country,

00:14:52.460 and so we can kill you.

00:14:54.520 And no,

00:14:55.260 we're not going to stop calling you fascists.

00:14:57.380 Even though,

00:14:58.100 the guy who murdered Charlie,

00:14:59.760 I called him a fascist,

00:15:00.660 said,

00:15:00.780 hey,

00:15:00.920 fascist catch.

00:15:02.260 We're not going to stop calling you fascist.

00:15:03.940 If you want us to stop calling you fascist,

00:15:05.680 stop,

00:15:06.080 stop being a Republican.

00:15:09.060 Stop being a conservative,

00:15:10.300 and maybe we'll stop killing you.

00:15:11.500 Total confidence.

00:15:15.100 Doesn't change his mind at all.

00:15:16.420 This is not some extreme left,

00:15:17.740 I mean,

00:15:17.880 he is an extreme left winger,

00:15:18.940 but this is a guy,

00:15:19.980 this was a Republican recently.

00:15:22.720 This is a moderate.

00:15:23.980 This is a guy who still writes for outlets

00:15:25.500 that pretend to be

00:15:26.420 at least slightly conservative.

00:15:30.340 It brought me to this conclusion

00:15:32.520 that most of liberalism,

00:15:35.460 in theory and in practice,

00:15:38.440 is upheld by widespread

00:15:40.480 and fanatical belief

00:15:42.080 in things that just aren't true.

00:15:46.180 No,

00:15:46.700 you are fascists.

00:15:48.600 No,

00:15:48.840 you're not.

00:15:49.140 Here's all the evidence

00:15:49.720 as to how they're not fat.

00:15:50.640 Here's the,

00:15:51.020 nope,

00:15:51.580 sorry.

00:15:52.660 Listen,

00:15:53.160 just one last clip from,

00:15:54.000 it's unbelievable.

00:15:55.200 It's worth watching the whole episode.

00:15:57.340 Another very articulate young woman

00:15:59.180 explains why it's helpful to her

00:16:01.740 to be able to exercise

00:16:03.160 her Second Amendment rights

00:16:04.140 because men can threaten her.

00:16:07.020 If they were to think

00:16:08.460 that firearms can be owned

00:16:10.140 by anybody,

00:16:11.120 that reduces the amount

00:16:12.640 of them coming into my home

00:16:13.960 in the first place.

00:16:14.800 And second of all,

00:16:15.540 if I were to have a gun,

00:16:16.780 that is the ultimate equalizer.

00:16:18.120 I cannot fight a 200-pound man off.

00:16:20.120 And for me,

00:16:21.040 it kind of

00:16:22.460 raises the security.

00:16:23.920 You might be able to.

00:16:24.860 Hey, look,

00:16:25.640 here's the thing.

00:16:26.760 You might be able to.

00:16:27.920 Just like cute little girl.

00:16:29.280 This cute little girl

00:16:30.220 says,

00:16:31.320 hey,

00:16:31.800 I obviously cannot fight off

00:16:34.280 a 200-pound man.

00:16:36.360 You might be able to.

00:16:37.420 You don't need a gun.

00:16:38.680 You might be.

00:16:39.520 No,

00:16:40.520 no,

00:16:40.840 you can't.

00:16:41.320 Under no circumstances

00:16:42.300 can any woman

00:16:43.700 fight off

00:16:44.480 any 200-pound man.

00:16:46.160 It's not even like,

00:16:47.180 well,

00:16:47.420 most women can't fight off.

00:16:49.080 Most.

00:16:49.540 No,

00:16:50.240 not one.

00:16:50.940 Not one single woman

00:16:52.000 on the face of the earth

00:16:53.120 who has ever lived

00:16:54.160 can fight off

00:16:55.240 with her bare hands

00:16:56.220 any 200-pound man.

00:16:57.820 I don't care

00:16:58.060 if he's the fattest,

00:16:59.920 least healthy

00:17:00.800 slob.

00:17:02.800 I don't care.

00:17:03.280 I don't even care

00:17:03.760 how old he is.

00:17:04.540 It just can't happen.

00:17:07.180 Tim Miller,

00:17:07.840 I think,

00:17:08.280 has a lot of confusion

00:17:09.060 about the difference

00:17:10.240 between men and women.

00:17:12.060 But it's true.

00:17:13.160 It's not just him.

00:17:13.820 It's all of liberalism.

00:17:15.640 It is in many ways.

00:17:17.500 Ronald Reagan said,

00:17:18.880 well,

00:17:19.620 the problem with

00:17:20.340 our liberal friends

00:17:21.220 is not just

00:17:22.280 that they're ignorant.

00:17:24.120 It's that they know

00:17:24.920 so many things

00:17:25.700 that aren't so.

00:17:27.240 And that's right.

00:17:28.480 So much of it

00:17:29.080 is based on just

00:17:29.900 absolute,

00:17:32.740 complete confidence

00:17:33.800 in things

00:17:34.580 that simply

00:17:35.500 are not true.

00:17:38.760 And

00:17:39.200 if you

00:17:40.060 contradict them

00:17:40.960 in any way,

00:17:42.000 especially

00:17:43.020 these days,

00:17:44.360 what they will tell you

00:17:45.120 is,

00:17:45.360 well,

00:17:45.900 maybe we'll just kill you.

00:17:48.360 Yeah,

00:17:48.660 well,

00:17:49.260 I mean,

00:17:49.640 if you don't want us

00:17:50.280 to call you fascists

00:17:51.220 and then use that designation

00:17:52.400 as a justification

00:17:53.120 to murder you,

00:17:55.140 nearly murder the president,

00:17:56.700 murder the most prolific

00:17:57.800 and prominent

00:17:58.540 defender of civil debate

00:17:59.540 in all of America

00:18:00.120 on a college campus

00:18:00.800 for trying to talk it out,

00:18:02.660 commit violence

00:18:03.300 at all sorts of other

00:18:04.520 conservative speaking events,

00:18:07.060 and also,

00:18:07.580 by the way,

00:18:07.840 try to blow up

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00:18:10.320 then,

00:18:10.680 you know,

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00:20:10.640 Why is everybody

00:20:11.440 going to Qatar?

00:20:12.400 You know Rob Smith?

00:20:13.600 Rob Smith is a

00:20:15.060 military veteran.

00:20:17.960 He's been on the

00:20:18.680 right-wing speaking circuit

00:20:19.800 for a long time.

00:20:20.740 I don't think he does

00:20:21.340 quite as much today

00:20:22.500 as he used to,

00:20:23.280 but seven,

00:20:24.860 eight years ago

00:20:25.420 he was everywhere

00:20:26.200 on the right-wing

00:20:26.780 speaking circuit.

00:20:28.440 He's publicly gay,

00:20:30.660 so that is now

00:20:33.200 kind of,

00:20:33.620 especially now,

00:20:34.320 more discordant

00:20:35.220 on the right.

00:20:36.020 But seven,

00:20:36.940 eight years ago

00:20:37.580 that was really hip

00:20:38.400 and cool.

00:20:38.900 That was really chic

00:20:39.640 to say like,

00:20:40.300 I'm gay

00:20:42.260 and I'm a conservative.

00:20:45.060 You know,

00:20:45.580 what's the matter

00:20:46.360 with that?

00:20:46.800 You know,

00:20:46.940 it's kind of cool

00:20:47.460 and I don't know,

00:20:48.080 maybe it helped

00:20:48.420 people win elections.

00:20:49.040 It,

00:20:49.640 obviously there's

00:20:50.180 a contradiction there.

00:20:52.300 There is some,

00:20:53.020 some tension,

00:20:54.120 but anyway,

00:20:54.920 so Rob Smith

00:20:55.520 posts this thing.

00:20:56.240 He says,

00:20:56.640 my first trip to Qatar

00:20:57.920 has been eye-opening.

00:20:58.820 This is a very different

00:20:59.480 Middle East than I experienced

00:21:00.400 as a U.S. Army soldier

00:21:01.380 deployed during

00:21:02.200 Operation Iraqi Freedom

00:21:03.140 long before I was

00:21:04.560 a political commentator,

00:21:05.780 media personality,

00:21:06.460 and podcaster.

00:21:07.080 I was a United States

00:21:07.580 soldier tasked

00:21:08.140 with defending my da-da-da.

00:21:09.420 Did you know

00:21:09.920 there's this air base

00:21:10.700 in Qatar?

00:21:11.120 It goes on forever.

00:21:11.740 It's like a whole book

00:21:12.360 and it doesn't read

00:21:14.500 like an organic tweet.

00:21:17.420 Maybe it is,

00:21:18.140 maybe it's just

00:21:19.740 how Rob writes now,

00:21:20.720 but it reads

00:21:21.460 like a carefully

00:21:23.700 scripted essay

00:21:24.640 that is intended

00:21:25.840 to convey

00:21:26.520 something.

00:21:28.200 It's trying to sell

00:21:28.960 something,

00:21:29.380 basically.

00:21:30.120 And the,

00:21:30.800 do we have the picture?

00:21:31.560 Where's the picture?

00:21:32.900 Yeah,

00:21:33.320 so the picture,

00:21:33.960 and there's this picture

00:21:34.680 of Rob

00:21:35.740 looking good,

00:21:36.360 looking chic,

00:21:36.960 you know,

00:21:37.220 looking slick

00:21:38.140 on some kind

00:21:40.700 of brutalist

00:21:41.440 building

00:21:42.060 overlooking

00:21:43.200 what looks like

00:21:44.960 it could be,

00:21:45.420 I don't know,

00:21:46.000 Irvine,

00:21:46.480 California or something,

00:21:47.200 but I guess it's

00:21:48.100 Qatar.

00:21:50.620 It says,

00:21:51.080 this has been

00:21:51.760 eye-opening,

00:21:52.380 it's great,

00:21:52.900 it's wonderful.

00:21:53.600 And then,

00:21:54.020 so I see this,

00:21:54.580 I was like,

00:21:54.760 that's kind of weird,

00:21:55.460 but whatever,

00:21:55.960 I don't know.

00:21:56.540 I've spent time in Qatar.

00:21:57.960 I had a long layover

00:21:58.680 there once.

00:21:59.100 I was visiting a buddy

00:21:59.860 in Dubai,

00:22:00.840 and we'd been traveling

00:22:01.840 all over the Middle East

00:22:03.020 and India,

00:22:03.900 and then I had this

00:22:04.400 layover in Qatar,

00:22:05.200 and I thought,

00:22:05.660 well,

00:22:05.780 I could either go out

00:22:06.380 in Qatar,

00:22:06.900 but I think there's

00:22:07.340 a bunch of Hamas people

00:22:08.240 here,

00:22:08.480 so I don't really

00:22:08.840 want to go,

00:22:09.220 I was in the middle

00:22:09.480 of the night,

00:22:10.040 so I just hung out

00:22:10.660 in a cigar lounge

00:22:11.460 in the airport,

00:22:12.020 and it was good,

00:22:12.320 I had a great time,

00:22:12.880 it was nice.

00:22:13.540 But then I see

00:22:14.440 our friend Emily

00:22:15.140 Saves America,

00:22:16.360 and she takes this

00:22:18.220 picture in Qatar too,

00:22:19.940 and she's overlooking,

00:22:22.040 it looks like

00:22:22.520 the same exact scene,

00:22:24.060 it says,

00:22:24.300 so beautiful,

00:22:24.880 can't wait to come back.

00:22:26.080 And I love Emily,

00:22:29.460 so I should have her

00:22:30.920 on to talk about it,

00:22:31.840 but I see it,

00:22:32.340 and I think,

00:22:32.720 look,

00:22:32.880 I'm glad you had

00:22:33.500 a nice time in Qatar,

00:22:34.640 but that's not

00:22:36.180 beautiful.

00:22:37.620 That's like,

00:22:38.420 that looks like,

00:22:39.720 I don't know,

00:22:40.880 like just brutalist

00:22:42.360 1960s government

00:22:44.140 buildings,

00:22:44.860 or like,

00:22:45.460 I don't know,

00:22:47.580 like public college

00:22:48.940 campuses or something,

00:22:50.280 or bureaucracy

00:22:52.420 halls,

00:22:53.100 or I don't know,

00:22:53.400 it's not beautiful,

00:22:54.520 you can talk about

00:22:54.940 beautiful,

00:22:55.240 it might be a nice

00:22:55.680 country,

00:22:56.020 the people might be

00:22:56.540 nice,

00:22:56.820 maybe,

00:22:57.220 the ones who

00:22:57.700 aren't in Hamas,

00:22:58.400 but it's not,

00:22:59.400 what is this about?

00:23:00.760 Why are people going

00:23:01.420 on these trips to Qatar?

00:23:02.140 And then,

00:23:03.700 you remember,

00:23:04.340 okay,

00:23:04.780 well,

00:23:05.120 if you're a media

00:23:06.040 influencer,

00:23:06.600 especially if you're

00:23:06.940 in politics,

00:23:08.000 at some point,

00:23:08.700 you've gotten offered

00:23:09.360 a paid trip to Israel.

00:23:11.920 Israel's famous for this,

00:23:12.940 there's no secret here,

00:23:14.180 I don't think people

00:23:14.800 were totally aware

00:23:15.360 that Qatar does this,

00:23:16.520 but everyone knows

00:23:17.460 that there are all

00:23:18.100 these Israeli trips

00:23:18.940 for lawmakers and media

00:23:20.120 and influencers,

00:23:20.860 and by the way,

00:23:21.220 it's not just,

00:23:21.800 it's kind of funny

00:23:22.320 because those two

00:23:22.820 are opposed to each other,

00:23:23.660 and I think Emily

00:23:24.260 is pro-Israel,

00:23:26.120 I assume Rob is too,

00:23:27.080 I don't know,

00:23:27.240 I'm not sure,

00:23:27.860 but so it's kind of funny,

00:23:28.560 you got these two

00:23:29.160 rival countries,

00:23:30.280 Qatar and Israel,

00:23:31.440 and they're both

00:23:31.940 trying to vie

00:23:32.740 to get these media

00:23:33.940 personalities to come,

00:23:34.840 and it's not just them,

00:23:35.420 there are countries

00:23:35.800 all over the world

00:23:36.800 that do this,

00:23:37.720 and everyone's

00:23:38.160 scratching their heads

00:23:38.580 and saying,

00:23:38.840 why are they all

00:23:39.320 going to these

00:23:39.800 random countries?

00:23:41.200 I don't know the details,

00:23:42.360 I don't know if they were paid,

00:23:43.460 how much they were paid,

00:23:44.340 I assume the trip

00:23:45.000 was paid for at least,

00:23:46.200 I don't know,

00:23:47.080 I've never done

00:23:47.640 one of these trips,

00:23:48.240 I've been invited

00:23:48.700 on plenty of them,

00:23:49.500 I've never done one,

00:23:50.980 not to be on my high horse,

00:23:52.480 a lot of it is just,

00:23:53.380 I don't really have time,

00:23:54.400 and I'd rather go out

00:23:55.020 to other places,

00:23:55.940 and I don't want to do it,

00:23:57.380 but why are they doing it?

00:24:00.020 And there's a very

00:24:00.580 simple answer,

00:24:01.380 everyone thinks

00:24:01.800 it's all nefarious,

00:24:03.080 and there's a very

00:24:03.700 simple answer,

00:24:05.560 it's different

00:24:07.100 imperial territories

00:24:08.780 vying for political

00:24:11.180 influence within

00:24:12.760 the empire,

00:24:14.440 the empire being

00:24:15.580 the United States,

00:24:16.540 Washington being

00:24:17.220 the imperial capital,

00:24:19.340 political commentators,

00:24:21.080 influencers,

00:24:22.640 pundits,

00:24:23.420 do carry some

00:24:25.700 degree,

00:24:26.380 some modicum of influence,

00:24:27.720 and so it's no surprise

00:24:28.840 that these various

00:24:30.760 countries,

00:24:31.680 regardless of what

00:24:32.160 they believe,

00:24:32.720 would like to

00:24:33.420 persuade them

00:24:34.380 that they are

00:24:34.820 good countries,

00:24:35.560 and that the United States

00:24:36.580 should support them more,

00:24:38.060 give them more money,

00:24:38.740 give them more privileges,

00:24:39.660 I don't know,

00:24:39.960 whatever it is,

00:24:41.160 that none of that

00:24:42.040 should be surprising.

00:24:44.060 I know a lot of people,

00:24:45.100 they insist,

00:24:45.700 they say,

00:24:46.000 oh,

00:24:46.940 Qatar is the most

00:24:47.820 nefarious country on earth,

00:24:50.120 Israel is the most

00:24:51.180 nefarious country on earth,

00:24:52.840 or whatever,

00:24:53.800 Liechtenstein,

00:24:54.480 Liechtenstein doesn't

00:24:55.140 have a big lobby,

00:24:55.640 but they all say,

00:24:56.700 oh,

00:24:56.880 it's all,

00:24:57.480 this is all surreptitious,

00:24:58.780 I don't know,

00:24:59.500 I don't really find it

00:25:00.480 to be that way,

00:25:01.840 it's all just,

00:25:03.920 it's just the tedium

00:25:05.280 of the business of empire

00:25:06.640 is really what it is,

00:25:08.440 I don't,

00:25:08.980 I don't find it

00:25:10.460 all that scandalous,

00:25:11.280 I think the way,

00:25:12.720 the way to find

00:25:13.740 this scandalous

00:25:14.500 is if you believe

00:25:17.580 what you learned on,

00:25:19.460 you know,

00:25:19.720 I am a bill up on

00:25:20.480 Capitol Hill,

00:25:21.140 Schoolhouse Rock,

00:25:21.820 if you think

00:25:22.880 that our country

00:25:23.520 is a yeoman

00:25:24.340 republic of farmers,

00:25:26.260 a nation separated

00:25:27.360 from other nations

00:25:28.200 by an empire,

00:25:28.980 by oceans,

00:25:31.080 and that's that,

00:25:31.920 then yeah,

00:25:32.340 it's pretty weird

00:25:33.020 that Qatar and Israel

00:25:34.520 and all these other

00:25:35.160 countries are paying

00:25:35.960 people to go visit them

00:25:37.100 and trying to make

00:25:37.560 them like their country,

00:25:38.260 but if you recognize

00:25:39.940 we're just an empire,

00:25:41.160 that's just how it works

00:25:41.940 and we gotta accept that

00:25:46.420 and if you don't like

00:25:48.300 the current state of things,

00:25:49.660 then the only way

00:25:50.840 to reform it

00:25:51.400 is from the premise

00:25:53.180 of what is real,

00:25:54.720 which is that we're

00:25:55.200 an empire,

00:25:55.940 that's what you have to do,

00:25:57.960 it's kind of funny,

00:25:59.320 I don't know,

00:25:59.760 maybe I gotta go

00:26:00.320 to Qatar now,

00:26:00.940 Qatar,

00:26:01.220 where's my invite?

00:26:02.760 Why didn't I get

00:26:03.400 that invite?

00:26:03.920 I would at least,

00:26:04.440 I don't know if I would

00:26:05.000 actually go outside in Qatar,

00:26:06.320 but I would go back

00:26:07.160 to the airport cigar lounge,

00:26:08.640 it was very,

00:26:09.320 very nice,

00:26:10.320 I think I bought my way

00:26:11.260 in for like 50 bucks

00:26:12.180 or something,

00:26:12.840 maybe 80,

00:26:13.520 I don't know,

00:26:13.860 maybe there's inflation,

00:26:14.840 anyway,

00:26:15.240 speaking of occupations,

00:26:17.620 there's a really ridiculous

00:26:18.960 headline in the Atlantic,

00:26:21.800 does heritage support

00:26:23.160 discrimination against women?

00:26:24.480 The organization's

00:26:25.160 recent hiring

00:26:25.780 reveals a willingness

00:26:26.540 to countenance views

00:26:28.300 decidedly outside

00:26:30.280 of the American mainstream.

00:26:32.920 There's a piece

00:26:33.360 by Henry Olson,

00:26:34.700 who I like a lot

00:26:35.420 of Henry Olson's

00:26:36.160 commentary on elections,

00:26:37.280 things like that.

00:26:38.560 This angle,

00:26:39.320 I think,

00:26:39.560 is kind of odd.

00:26:42.000 He's going after

00:26:42.880 Scott Yenor,

00:26:44.060 a family policy scholar

00:26:45.420 who's at the Heritage Foundation,

00:26:47.820 says,

00:26:48.060 poses serious questions

00:26:49.060 about the institution's

00:26:49.940 beliefs concerning

00:26:50.540 the equality of women

00:26:51.220 in the workplace

00:26:51.680 and perhaps even

00:26:52.360 as citizens.

00:26:54.080 Yenor's views

00:26:54.640 are,

00:26:54.900 to say,

00:26:55.100 the least controversial.

00:26:56.340 In a 2021 speech

00:26:57.880 at the National

00:26:58.360 Conservatism Conference,

00:26:59.680 he labeled professional women

00:27:00.760 medicated,

00:27:01.400 meddlesome,

00:27:01.780 and quarrelsome.

00:27:02.340 Easy to take issue,

00:27:06.620 hard to exactly

00:27:07.340 find the error.

00:27:08.660 Anyway,

00:27:09.000 he goes on.

00:27:10.360 He has echoed

00:27:10.860 the online rights

00:27:11.480 use of the term

00:27:12.060 awfuls for affluent

00:27:13.200 white liberal females,

00:27:14.260 female liberals,

00:27:14.980 awfuls,

00:27:15.900 in his writing

00:27:16.580 and had to step down

00:27:17.320 from an appointment

00:27:17.900 at the University

00:27:18.740 of West Florida's

00:27:19.340 Board of Trustees

00:27:20.000 when it became clear

00:27:21.760 that the state senate

00:27:22.740 wouldn't confirm him

00:27:23.600 or whatever.

00:27:24.140 And he's criticized

00:27:25.500 people on the right

00:27:26.460 and he's just,

00:27:26.900 he's not a feminist.

00:27:28.640 He doesn't seem

00:27:30.740 to think that

00:27:32.020 getting the women

00:27:32.700 into the workplace

00:27:33.380 is like the top priority.

00:27:36.000 And I,

00:27:36.480 I have to ask,

00:27:38.180 why should he?

00:27:41.360 You know,

00:27:41.960 he is a conservative,

00:27:43.260 right?

00:27:44.320 You know,

00:27:44.800 he,

00:27:45.400 I don't,

00:27:46.720 I know there are

00:27:47.540 plenty of Republicans

00:27:48.380 who's,

00:27:49.660 who,

00:27:50.020 they get really excited

00:27:51.000 when they say

00:27:51.440 the female unemployment rate

00:27:53.760 is lower now.

00:27:54.960 It's gone down.

00:27:55.880 We have the lowest

00:27:56.480 female unemployment ever.

00:27:57.760 Why,

00:27:58.380 why is that a good thing?

00:28:01.480 First of all,

00:28:02.080 the female employment rate

00:28:04.300 does not reflect

00:28:05.160 the actual employment

00:28:05.940 of females

00:28:06.460 because females,

00:28:08.460 historically speaking,

00:28:09.280 and even today,

00:28:10.540 do a lot of things

00:28:11.860 that are not calculated

00:28:13.720 by GDP

00:28:14.520 and do not fit

00:28:15.840 into the labor

00:28:16.480 participation rate

00:28:17.540 or the unemployment rate.

00:28:19.920 Women do things

00:28:21.040 like raise children,

00:28:23.020 the hand that rocks

00:28:23.580 the cradle is the hand

00:28:24.220 that rules the world.

00:28:25.100 Women do things

00:28:25.740 like cook

00:28:26.580 and clean

00:28:27.500 and educate

00:28:28.540 within the context

00:28:29.840 of the,

00:28:30.140 manage a home.

00:28:31.900 Women do all sorts

00:28:32.940 of things.

00:28:33.840 They also work

00:28:35.080 in the widget factory.

00:28:35.960 They also,

00:28:37.240 I don't know,

00:28:37.900 they're like electricians,

00:28:38.680 I guess.

00:28:38.940 I don't know.

00:28:39.200 They also do stuff

00:28:39.960 in the public,

00:28:41.680 you know,

00:28:42.220 economy.

00:28:43.680 But,

00:28:44.560 why do I want,

00:28:47.300 why do I want women

00:28:48.960 in greater numbers

00:28:50.780 to go work

00:28:51.360 in the widget factory?

00:28:52.080 Why is that a good,

00:28:53.120 why is that now

00:28:54.960 the barometer

00:28:55.640 of conservatism?

00:28:56.800 Are you kidding me?

00:28:57.720 This was a very,

00:28:58.860 very,

00:28:59.200 very liberal view

00:29:00.340 for virtually

00:29:01.980 all of history

00:29:02.640 until,

00:29:04.280 what,

00:29:05.220 the 90s?

00:29:06.980 And now we're being told

00:29:08.660 that the most prominent

00:29:11.080 conservative think tank,

00:29:12.180 the Heritage Foundation,

00:29:13.780 has gone beyond the pale

00:29:15.280 because they've hired

00:29:17.160 a family policy scholar

00:29:18.680 who thinks that maybe

00:29:19.960 women should be allowed

00:29:20.800 to raise their families

00:29:21.580 and that maybe women

00:29:23.140 should not universally

00:29:24.620 aspire to go work

00:29:25.820 for some other man.

00:29:27.080 The crazy situation

00:29:28.440 where for many women,

00:29:30.080 I know many,

00:29:30.760 many young women

00:29:31.220 who have young kids,

00:29:32.680 for many of these women,

00:29:33.520 they want to stay home

00:29:34.380 and raise their kids.

00:29:35.000 They feel that they cannot.

00:29:36.660 And maybe they could.

00:29:37.520 Maybe they could make do

00:29:38.280 with less.

00:29:38.740 Maybe they don't need

00:29:39.180 a giant house.

00:29:39.800 Maybe they don't need

00:29:40.440 another nice car.

00:29:41.520 Maybe they don't need,

00:29:42.440 but it's hard.

00:29:43.040 It's hard out there

00:29:43.720 in this economy.

00:29:44.240 And in societies,

00:29:45.880 we do keep up

00:29:47.440 with the Joneses.

00:29:48.200 We're mimetic creatures.

00:29:49.140 That's just how it works.

00:29:50.340 And when everyone else

00:29:52.220 is living at a certain standard,

00:29:53.740 then there are a lot

00:29:55.060 of pressures

00:29:55.560 to live at that standard too.

00:29:57.300 So I actually sympathize with it.

00:29:58.820 Even if one could live

00:29:59.860 more simply on one income

00:30:01.880 moving further out,

00:30:02.660 I sympathize at the very least.

00:30:04.520 But I know a lot of women

00:30:05.380 who say,

00:30:05.620 I wish I could stay home,

00:30:06.480 but I just need the money.

00:30:07.880 I need the job.

00:30:08.660 So then what happens?

00:30:10.080 What happens is

00:30:10.960 either women

00:30:11.440 do their jobs less.

00:30:13.400 That happens plenty of the time.

00:30:14.900 Or what they will do

00:30:16.320 is they'll put the kids

00:30:17.240 in daycare 24 hours a day.

00:30:18.860 Not literally 24 hours,

00:30:19.820 but they'll put them

00:30:20.120 in full-time daycare.

00:30:21.460 And then the husband

00:30:22.480 is in this weird position

00:30:23.760 where he is going to work

00:30:26.040 to make money.

00:30:27.960 The wife is going to work

00:30:29.080 to make money.

00:30:29.920 And then he takes that money.

00:30:31.580 The wife goes to work,

00:30:32.400 can't raise the kid.

00:30:33.240 Takes that money

00:30:33.840 to pay some other woman

00:30:34.980 who has to go to work

00:30:36.220 to make money

00:30:36.980 and pays that other woman

00:30:38.100 to raise the kid.

00:30:39.120 That doesn't make

00:30:41.260 a lot of sense.

00:30:43.080 And now,

00:30:43.960 if you criticize that,

00:30:45.080 what,

00:30:45.280 you're beyond the pale

00:30:46.120 of conservatism?

00:30:50.060 That's how we lose, man.

00:30:51.460 That's how we lose.

00:30:52.500 That's really sad.

00:30:54.260 It's really sad.

00:30:55.100 I don't,

00:30:56.540 it's okay.

00:30:56.900 I, for one,

00:30:58.300 hello,

00:30:58.820 I'm the guy

00:30:59.460 in the Norman Rockwell painting.

00:31:00.740 You know,

00:31:00.900 I stand up.

00:31:01.520 I, for one,

00:31:02.600 think women should be allowed

00:31:03.600 to raise their children.

00:31:05.180 And maybe we should

00:31:06.140 encourage that.

00:31:06.860 And maybe working

00:31:08.740 in the widget factory

00:31:09.540 isn't the be-all

00:31:10.620 and end-all of life

00:31:11.560 that makes us all so happy.

00:31:13.880 Maybe,

00:31:14.960 it's great.

00:31:16.160 Maybe I'm beyond the pale.

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00:33:51.560 Good morning, Michael.

00:33:54.560 I loved Harry Potter growing up.

00:33:57.060 I still do.

00:33:58.340 And I never understood

00:33:59.340 why some Christians

00:34:00.500 wouldn't let their children read it.

00:34:02.600 But now that I'm a mother

00:34:03.980 and I understand that people

00:34:05.480 actually practice witchcraft,

00:34:07.540 not as it is in Harry Potter,

00:34:08.980 but still,

00:34:10.100 I can see how parents

00:34:11.580 could be concerned

00:34:12.500 that their children

00:34:13.240 might be caught up in the fantasy

00:34:14.940 and attempt to pursue magic

00:34:16.600 however they can.

00:34:17.620 So at what age

00:34:19.500 is it appropriate

00:34:20.160 to teach children

00:34:21.200 that witchcraft

00:34:21.980 actually exists

00:34:23.260 in a way

00:34:23.880 in the real world

00:34:25.260 and not just in stories?

00:34:27.160 And would it be prudent

00:34:28.240 to avoid stories

00:34:29.360 like Harry Potter

00:34:30.220 that glamorize magic?

00:34:31.640 I was always

00:34:35.180 relatively open

00:34:37.020 on Harry Potter.

00:34:38.420 I think it's weird,

00:34:40.200 especially for millennials.

00:34:41.500 There's so many

00:34:42.200 for whom it's like

00:34:42.960 the only book

00:34:43.540 they've ever read.

00:34:44.640 It's the only book

00:34:45.280 they've ever read.

00:34:45.780 Their entire view

00:34:47.140 of morality

00:34:47.860 in the cosmos

00:34:48.580 comes from Harry Potter.

00:34:51.420 If they're ever going

00:34:52.020 to make a literary reference

00:34:53.020 and say,

00:34:53.300 oh, you know,

00:34:54.200 that's so Slytherin

00:34:56.300 or whatever.

00:34:57.300 I read them

00:34:58.320 when I was a kid.

00:34:58.860 I read the ones

00:35:00.260 that were published

00:35:00.860 when I was a kid

00:35:02.340 when I was a kid.

00:35:03.300 And then I got older.

00:35:04.840 I aged faster

00:35:05.860 than she wrote.

00:35:06.860 And then the ones

00:35:07.740 that were published

00:35:08.260 after I was a kid,

00:35:09.060 I didn't read.

00:35:09.580 But I enjoyed it

00:35:10.280 when I was a kid.

00:35:11.940 And I was open-minded

00:35:13.060 on it,

00:35:13.500 though my friend

00:35:14.140 father Dan Rehill,

00:35:15.480 The Exorcist,

00:35:16.400 you can watch

00:35:17.380 our long interview.

00:35:18.600 It has like

00:35:18.840 8 million views

00:35:19.480 or something

00:35:19.920 on the Michael Knowles

00:35:21.200 YouTube channel

00:35:21.720 and on Daily Wire.

00:35:22.780 He kind of Harry Potter

00:35:24.020 pilled me

00:35:24.500 and convinced me

00:35:26.040 that there is at least

00:35:26.720 some spiritual danger

00:35:27.600 to it.

00:35:27.960 because it introduces

00:35:30.280 kids to ideas

00:35:31.140 like magic

00:35:32.020 in a particular way,

00:35:33.940 not like a medieval

00:35:35.260 fantasy story,

00:35:37.160 not like J.R.R. Tolkien

00:35:40.380 where people know

00:35:41.720 that hobbits don't exist

00:35:43.320 and Middle Earth

00:35:43.980 doesn't really exist

00:35:44.840 and it's all fantasy.

00:35:46.040 But Harry Potter

00:35:46.580 takes place in London

00:35:47.480 or outside of London,

00:35:49.060 but it takes place

00:35:49.760 in the modern day.

00:35:50.840 So that's a little

00:35:51.400 spiritually confusing.

00:35:52.760 It suggests

00:35:53.660 that there's good magic

00:35:55.520 and bad magic

00:35:56.360 that if it's not

00:35:57.400 handled properly,

00:35:58.180 that can be confusing.

00:35:59.520 And as the literary critic,

00:36:01.520 the late literary critic,

00:36:02.340 Harold Bloom pointed out,

00:36:03.380 the writing is not great.

00:36:05.920 He was particularly

00:36:07.200 snobbish about it,

00:36:08.240 but he said that

00:36:09.240 it would be better

00:36:09.940 for children

00:36:10.400 to watch television

00:36:11.300 than to read Harry Potter

00:36:12.860 because it puts

00:36:13.640 stale metaphors

00:36:14.480 in their heads.

00:36:14.860 So for those reasons

00:36:17.620 and more,

00:36:18.180 I would say

00:36:18.500 maybe read Tolkien.

00:36:21.360 If you want to give

00:36:22.960 your kids some fantasy,

00:36:23.920 maybe read Tolkien.

00:36:25.680 When do you tell them

00:36:26.980 about the occult?

00:36:28.120 You know,

00:36:28.480 as they get a little older,

00:36:29.520 tell them about God first.

00:36:31.420 Focus more on telling them

00:36:32.500 about God

00:36:33.200 and part of that

00:36:34.000 will be talking about hell

00:36:35.020 and that part of that

00:36:35.660 will be talking about the devil

00:36:36.500 and the fallen angels

00:36:37.420 and part of that

00:36:38.500 will be talking about

00:36:39.060 the personality of evil

00:36:40.100 and spiritual temptation.

00:36:41.340 Part of going to confession

00:36:42.140 will involve that

00:36:43.420 if you believe

00:36:43.940 in sacramental confession.

00:36:46.380 Even if you believe

00:36:47.200 in a kind of direct confession,

00:36:48.480 you're at least,

00:36:48.940 you know,

00:36:49.140 you're teaching about sin

00:36:50.180 and temptation.

00:36:51.360 So that's how I would do it.

00:36:53.060 And I've become,

00:36:53.640 you know,

00:36:53.780 I've become more close-minded

00:36:54.740 on Harry Potter

00:36:55.400 as I've aged.

00:36:56.460 Okay, next question.

00:36:58.160 Hi, Michael.

00:36:58.940 I love the show

00:37:00.620 and love what you're doing.

00:37:02.460 I have a question.

00:37:03.940 I am expecting

00:37:05.120 my second child

00:37:06.440 and it's made me think

00:37:08.800 a lot about maternity leave.

00:37:11.500 I feel like maternity leave

00:37:12.740 in the U.S.

00:37:14.200 is pretty limited

00:37:15.560 and it's one of the few points

00:37:17.740 where I really

00:37:18.520 kind of agree

00:37:19.740 with the left

00:37:20.980 and I'm wondering

00:37:22.440 what your opinions are

00:37:23.920 and how you think

00:37:25.100 maternity leave

00:37:26.180 could be improved on

00:37:27.360 in the United States.

00:37:29.320 Let me know your thoughts.

00:37:30.760 Yeah, I support

00:37:31.260 a vastly expanded

00:37:32.200 maternity leave.

00:37:33.720 I support 18 years

00:37:34.720 of maternity leave

00:37:35.640 for each child.

00:37:37.900 And however,

00:37:38.720 this would be difficult

00:37:39.400 for the companies

00:37:40.040 to shoulder the burden of

00:37:41.420 and it would be difficult

00:37:42.620 for the state

00:37:43.060 to shoulder the burden of

00:37:43.940 and probably imprudent.

00:37:45.080 And so I wish

00:37:48.100 that our economy

00:37:49.480 had not been

00:37:50.660 socially engineered

00:37:52.060 in such a way

00:37:52.820 that women felt

00:37:53.940 obligated to go to work

00:37:55.380 as many,

00:37:56.760 if not most women do.

00:37:58.600 It's a real pity.

00:38:00.240 And there are ways

00:38:02.740 for women

00:38:03.800 not to have to work.

00:38:06.200 In many, many cases,

00:38:08.520 it can be done.

00:38:10.880 It will involve

00:38:11.940 not going on vacations

00:38:13.160 or as many vacations,

00:38:14.500 but maybe not any vacations.

00:38:15.780 It will involve

00:38:16.320 maybe not having two cars.

00:38:17.700 It will involve

00:38:18.620 not ordering dinner out.

00:38:20.740 It will involve

00:38:21.400 not going out to eat often.

00:38:23.380 It will involve

00:38:24.240 a lot of sacrifice.

00:38:26.580 Maybe you don't want

00:38:27.020 to make that sacrifice

00:38:27.720 and I get it.

00:38:28.500 I sympathize with it

00:38:29.340 as our society has developed.

00:38:31.480 I sympathize with it.

00:38:32.880 I think for a lot of women

00:38:33.600 it is possible

00:38:34.300 and for some women

00:38:35.500 it's not possible.

00:38:36.740 Certainly for single mothers

00:38:37.640 it's not possible

00:38:38.380 for women

00:38:41.020 given their circumstances.

00:38:42.540 If you have a lot of debt,

00:38:43.540 if your husband

00:38:44.160 has trouble finding employment,

00:38:46.620 it's tough.

00:38:48.200 It's tough.

00:38:49.260 There are cases

00:38:50.080 where the wife

00:38:51.300 is the bread earner

00:38:52.100 and the husband

00:38:53.000 is more the nurturer.

00:38:54.140 And it happened.

00:38:54.760 It really does happen.

00:38:55.640 It's more the exception

00:38:56.960 than the rule,

00:38:57.540 but it certainly happens.

00:38:58.700 I have friends like that,

00:38:59.860 family members.

00:39:00.640 So,

00:39:01.260 what do we do about it?

00:39:03.940 Ultimately that burden

00:39:07.600 can't fall on the companies

00:39:09.300 and it shouldn't

00:39:10.960 fall on the state

00:39:12.220 because that's going to

00:39:12.820 introduce all sorts

00:39:13.720 of state meddling

00:39:14.280 into the family

00:39:14.920 and there's too much

00:39:15.620 state meddling

00:39:16.020 in the family already.

00:39:17.760 So,

00:39:18.320 I think what's going

00:39:18.980 to have to happen

00:39:19.660 is you need

00:39:21.100 some state support

00:39:22.100 for families

00:39:22.880 in the form of tax credits.

00:39:24.780 The new Trump

00:39:25.280 baby bonuses

00:39:26.120 are a good idea.

00:39:26.860 Maybe some from

00:39:27.320 private philanthropy

00:39:28.120 like the Dell family.

00:39:29.080 That was beautiful,

00:39:30.160 contributing over $6 billion

00:39:31.060 to help promote

00:39:32.600 a childbirth.

00:39:34.540 But,

00:39:35.340 what will ultimately

00:39:36.960 have to happen

00:39:37.880 is

00:39:38.480 women will have to be

00:39:40.700 so fed up working

00:39:41.620 that they're

00:39:42.180 going to have to demand

00:39:44.180 changes to the

00:39:45.400 political economy.

00:39:46.480 That's ultimately

00:39:47.020 what's going to have to happen.

00:39:48.400 Because let's say,

00:39:49.000 okay,

00:39:49.280 let's say you get

00:39:50.160 two weeks maternity,

00:39:51.520 you get more than that.

00:39:52.300 Let's say you get

00:39:52.700 two months maternity leave.

00:39:54.220 So,

00:39:54.400 I wish we were like France

00:39:55.580 and we had six months.

00:39:57.240 Or I wish my company

00:39:58.420 were like Google

00:39:58.960 and we had five months.

00:40:00.000 I don't know how many.

00:40:00.480 But,

00:40:00.760 you know,

00:40:00.920 I wish we had,

00:40:02.340 okay,

00:40:02.600 in six months,

00:40:03.320 then you're going to be

00:40:03.840 happy to leave your kid?

00:40:05.360 I don't think so.

00:40:08.000 Maybe,

00:40:08.300 for some women,

00:40:08.940 sure.

00:40:09.380 But,

00:40:09.700 what if you got nine months?

00:40:11.940 In nine months,

00:40:12.560 then you want to leave your kid?

00:40:13.440 Not really.

00:40:15.040 No,

00:40:15.340 it's all these,

00:40:16.020 all of these solutions

00:40:17.360 are just half measures.

00:40:19.340 I think for a lot of people,

00:40:20.240 and especially this is true

00:40:21.120 the more kids you have.

00:40:22.900 At a certain point,

00:40:23.520 I think people might say,

00:40:24.600 it's,

00:40:24.800 I don't know.

00:40:26.100 And childcare is so expensive

00:40:27.640 on top of that.

00:40:29.400 Say,

00:40:29.640 okay,

00:40:29.740 well,

00:40:29.900 when you take out

00:40:30.560 the childcare

00:40:31.080 and you add on to this

00:40:32.240 and you know,

00:40:32.660 I'm still bringing home

00:40:33.560 an extra 10 grand a year,

00:40:34.860 20 grand a year,

00:40:35.880 maybe more.

00:40:37.360 That's good money.

00:40:38.200 I'm not knocking 10 grand a year

00:40:39.480 or 20 grand a year.

00:40:40.700 At a certain point,

00:40:41.320 I think people are going to find,

00:40:42.160 it's not,

00:40:42.780 it's not really worth it.

00:40:43.700 Next question.

00:40:44.200 Hi,

00:40:45.940 Michael.

00:40:46.200 I recently reposted something

00:40:47.920 on social media

00:40:48.740 about the pervasiveness

00:40:49.820 of gluttony

00:40:50.720 and slothfulness

00:40:51.480 in the church

00:40:52.140 that turned into

00:40:53.160 a metaphorical nuclear bomb.

00:40:55.640 Gluttony being

00:40:56.240 the excessive consumption

00:40:57.260 of food or drink,

00:40:58.160 a vice satisfying

00:40:59.020 physical appetites,

00:41:00.140 and sloth being

00:41:01.080 a spiritual

00:41:01.620 or physical laziness

00:41:03.360 or lack of effort,

00:41:04.540 a vice of self-indulgence,

00:41:05.880 focusing on worshiping comfort.

00:41:08.240 It seems to me

00:41:09.000 church leaders

00:41:09.700 are fine,

00:41:10.760 boldly teaching

00:41:11.520 about the ensnarement

00:41:13.240 of lust,

00:41:14.060 porn,

00:41:14.460 addiction,

00:41:15.020 greed,

00:41:15.360 etc.,

00:41:15.840 but wholly neglect

00:41:17.000 addressing the sins

00:41:18.140 of gluttony and sloth.

00:41:19.780 I'm not talking about

00:41:20.540 a weight thing,

00:41:21.340 though it can be

00:41:21.780 an indication,

00:41:22.960 but it's a heart thing,

00:41:23.960 a bondage thing.

00:41:24.840 How can the church

00:41:25.500 be strong

00:41:26.160 when its people

00:41:26.860 have no physical discipline,

00:41:28.420 no self-control,

00:41:29.320 no ability to say no

00:41:30.640 to the cravings

00:41:31.500 of their flesh?

00:41:32.320 The physical body

00:41:33.460 matters to God.

00:41:34.920 We are commanded

00:41:35.680 to treat our bodies

00:41:36.680 as a temple

00:41:37.340 of the Holy Spirit.

00:41:38.760 Here's my question.

00:41:40.400 Why aren't the sins

00:41:41.340 of gluttony and sloth

00:41:42.340 called out loudly

00:41:43.280 and clearly

00:41:43.800 and frequently

00:41:44.540 from the American church?

00:41:46.080 And how do we get

00:41:47.120 the American church leadership

00:41:48.300 to start caring

00:41:49.660 about its pervasiveness,

00:41:51.720 this literal deadly sin

00:41:53.540 that rules

00:41:54.060 so many of its people?

00:41:56.520 Are any sins

00:41:57.460 called out in church anymore?

00:41:59.880 Are they?

00:42:00.640 I don't know.

00:42:01.260 They are in my church.

00:42:02.880 I go to a great church.

00:42:04.460 You know,

00:42:04.640 it's much more traditional

00:42:05.840 and extremely orthodox.

00:42:07.340 But in a lot of churches,

00:42:10.180 and by the way,

00:42:10.800 I'm not even really

00:42:11.520 distinguishing Catholic,

00:42:12.720 Protestant.

00:42:14.880 Is sin really talked

00:42:16.060 about all that much?

00:42:17.220 I'll tell you

00:42:17.820 from my experience

00:42:18.480 as a Catholic,

00:42:20.140 we have confession.

00:42:21.020 We believe

00:42:21.520 that if you commit

00:42:23.480 there are venial sins

00:42:24.360 and mortal sins,

00:42:24.980 which comes from

00:42:25.840 the epistles of John,

00:42:28.760 all unrighteousness

00:42:30.040 is sin,

00:42:30.540 but there is some sin

00:42:31.260 which is not mortal,

00:42:32.340 which means there are

00:42:32.760 these two categories.

00:42:33.820 Venial sin compromises,

00:42:36.300 weakens your relationship

00:42:37.360 with grace,

00:42:38.140 and mortal sin severs it.

00:42:39.620 And so,

00:42:40.140 you have to repent

00:42:41.020 and receive absolution.

00:42:43.420 And we have

00:42:44.300 sacramental confession.

00:42:45.280 It comes from the,

00:42:46.840 you see it in scripture

00:42:47.640 when Christ says

00:42:48.420 to his apostles,

00:42:49.280 give the power

00:42:49.620 to forgive and retain sins.

00:42:51.280 Whose sins you forgive

00:42:51.900 are forgiven,

00:42:52.320 whose sins you retain

00:42:52.880 are retained.

00:42:53.640 Anyway,

00:42:54.300 we go,

00:42:55.020 and the priest says,

00:42:55.800 I absolve you

00:42:56.280 of your sins.

00:42:56.820 You are not to receive

00:42:58.080 Holy Eucharist

00:42:58.900 if you're in a state

00:42:59.720 of mortal sin

00:43:00.360 and you haven't

00:43:01.480 been to confession.

00:43:03.220 And yet,

00:43:03.560 the Catholic churches,

00:43:04.460 they hear confessions

00:43:05.240 for 30 minutes

00:43:06.140 once a week,

00:43:06.740 maybe.

00:43:08.040 How are you going

00:43:08.340 to get your whole

00:43:08.820 congregation in?

00:43:10.220 It's not possible.

00:43:11.960 They don't,

00:43:12.440 so they don't take

00:43:13.160 sin seriously,

00:43:13.680 any kind of sin.

00:43:15.400 And the Protestant churches,

00:43:17.180 in my experience,

00:43:19.000 I have a lot

00:43:19.480 of Protestant friends,

00:43:20.420 yeah,

00:43:20.720 they don't really focus

00:43:21.480 so much on sin.

00:43:23.500 Or they don't take it

00:43:25.080 seriously in other ways.

00:43:25.840 So it's a major,

00:43:26.680 major problem.

00:43:27.200 And I agree,

00:43:27.680 sometimes maybe

00:43:28.360 they talk about sexual sin.

00:43:29.340 Sexual sin is tied

00:43:30.280 to gluttony though.

00:43:30.960 I mean,

00:43:31.180 a traditional,

00:43:32.680 very basic bit

00:43:34.220 of spiritual combat advice

00:43:35.960 is if you're struggling

00:43:36.940 with lust,

00:43:38.120 you should fast.

00:43:40.360 Fasting is prescribed

00:43:41.320 for that

00:43:41.860 and it will mitigate

00:43:43.020 the lust.

00:43:44.200 So these things

00:43:44.700 are tied.

00:43:45.140 I totally agree with you.

00:43:47.200 Gluttony is a big one.

00:43:49.360 And sloth too,

00:43:50.900 yeah,

00:43:51.060 you have an obligation

00:43:51.880 to be diligent.

00:43:53.540 You know,

00:43:53.780 every minute,

00:43:54.600 there was some Eastern Orthodox

00:43:55.300 guy I was just reading

00:43:56.100 said,

00:43:56.680 you know,

00:43:56.780 every minute

00:43:57.220 that you're doing something

00:43:58.440 that's not oriented

00:43:59.320 toward God.

00:43:59.880 It's a waste of time.

00:44:00.700 Do we have one more?

00:44:01.300 I know we're late.

00:44:01.820 I don't care.

00:44:02.200 Do we have one more?

00:44:04.900 Hi, Michael.

00:44:05.860 My name's Taylor

00:44:06.760 and I obviously

00:44:07.880 love your show so much.

00:44:09.760 So my amazing husband

00:44:11.560 and I are both 28

00:44:13.080 and next month

00:44:14.180 we'll have been married

00:44:14.800 for four years

00:44:15.620 and we actually

00:44:16.480 also grew up together

00:44:17.240 so it always reminds me

00:44:18.440 of you and sweet little Elisa.

00:44:20.500 But he's an active duty

00:44:21.720 pilot for the Navy

00:44:22.600 which I am so proud

00:44:23.800 of him for

00:44:24.320 but sadly,

00:44:26.040 this comes with deployments.

00:44:27.220 And we've really

00:44:28.720 been thinking about kids

00:44:30.040 and just the timing

00:44:32.260 of it all with that

00:44:33.320 and I have this constant

00:44:34.540 internal battle

00:44:35.340 where part of me

00:44:36.000 wants to just start trying

00:44:37.020 and if it happens

00:44:37.760 and he ends up

00:44:38.600 missing the birth

00:44:39.580 or really special moments

00:44:41.160 in the pregnancy

00:44:41.800 or a baby's life

00:44:42.980 just deal with it emotionally.

00:44:44.660 But it just really breaks

00:44:46.180 my heart thinking about

00:44:47.120 not sharing those moments

00:44:48.200 with him.

00:44:48.920 I think they're just

00:44:50.060 so critical in marriage

00:44:51.420 and having kids

00:44:52.780 and the blessing of that.

00:44:55.140 And anyway,

00:44:55.780 he thinks we should wait

00:44:56.620 a few more years

00:44:57.400 so he wouldn't have

00:44:58.340 the chance of being

00:44:59.360 deployed at all

00:45:00.080 because he wants,

00:45:01.200 of course,

00:45:01.720 to so badly be there

00:45:02.760 with me and our baby,

00:45:04.100 God willing.

00:45:05.220 But I'm just feeling

00:45:06.240 so sad about that too

00:45:07.760 because I really want a baby

00:45:10.200 and just feeling that,

00:45:12.580 you know,

00:45:13.360 instinct right now.

00:45:14.380 So anyway,

00:45:15.720 I'm just wondering

00:45:16.140 your thoughts on this

00:45:17.080 and he also comes home

00:45:18.920 this week

00:45:19.680 from an eight

00:45:20.500 and a half month deployment

00:45:21.660 and I'm so excited.

00:45:23.660 I've missed him so much.

00:45:24.800 Thank you, Michael.

00:45:25.960 Wonderful.

00:45:26.600 Great to hear from you.

00:45:27.460 Please thank your husband

00:45:28.240 for his service.

00:45:29.020 That's great.

00:45:29.840 Another tie-in,

00:45:30.820 the Knowles family

00:45:31.480 has a lot of Navy in it.

00:45:33.120 He got a lot of Navy

00:45:33.960 in that family.

00:45:35.100 Cousins and uncles

00:45:35.960 and my grandpa

00:45:36.700 was a Navy captain.

00:45:37.720 He was a career

00:45:38.360 Navy officer

00:45:40.020 and he and my grandmother

00:45:41.860 had six kids

00:45:42.600 and it's tough.

00:45:44.100 So you say,

00:45:44.940 well,

00:45:45.020 your heart would be broken

00:45:45.760 if he missed the,

00:45:47.200 if your husband missed the birth.

00:45:48.680 You know what would break

00:45:49.420 your heart more?

00:45:50.020 If you don't have a kid,

00:45:50.880 have a kid.

00:45:51.380 You guys need to have kids

00:45:52.280 right now.

00:45:52.800 You have to have kids right now.

00:45:54.140 He's coming home

00:45:54.660 from deployment.

00:45:55.440 He's great.

00:45:56.320 Light the candles,

00:45:57.520 get the music on.

00:45:59.040 Maybe I'll do a little

00:45:59.980 ukulele rendition for you,

00:46:01.680 set the mood

00:46:02.280 and have a kid.

00:46:03.260 You should do that.

00:46:04.160 It's tough.

00:46:05.060 I, you know,

00:46:05.420 I've heard plenty of stories

00:46:06.440 from my family

00:46:07.360 about my grandpa

00:46:08.560 being deployed

00:46:09.240 in eight months,

00:46:10.160 nine month deployments.

00:46:11.200 And, you know,

00:46:11.660 yeah,

00:46:11.820 you miss a lot.

00:46:12.580 It's tough.

00:46:13.340 I mean,

00:46:13.520 obviously his line of work

00:46:15.180 involves an immense

00:46:16.560 amount of sacrifice.

00:46:18.100 Even without the deployments

00:46:19.440 though,

00:46:19.620 even just getting orders,

00:46:20.820 you know,

00:46:21.080 moving around.

00:46:22.380 That's tough.

00:46:23.020 That's going to take

00:46:23.520 a toll on the kids.

00:46:24.240 It's going to take

00:46:24.720 a toll on you.

00:46:25.580 Yeah.

00:46:25.700 A lot of the burden

00:46:26.680 of that is going

00:46:27.120 to fall to you.

00:46:27.920 That's it.

00:46:28.540 That's what you guys

00:46:29.240 signed up for.

00:46:29.980 And we're very grateful

00:46:30.980 for it as Americans.

00:46:31.980 It's wonderful.

00:46:32.920 It's a great,

00:46:33.540 a very noble profession,

00:46:34.840 but that's part of it.

00:46:36.840 So, no,

00:46:37.800 you can't put off

00:46:38.400 having kids.

00:46:39.680 Until what?

00:46:40.860 Okay, then maybe

00:46:41.700 you won't have deployments

00:46:42.780 and I guess

00:46:43.820 in most circumstance,

00:46:44.740 maybe,

00:46:45.140 but maybe you will

00:46:45.760 and then who knows

00:46:46.540 and if he remains

00:46:47.440 in that line of work

00:46:48.260 and then,

00:46:48.740 come on.

00:46:49.680 Come on.

00:46:50.860 Have a kid.

00:46:51.800 Because you can't have

00:46:52.700 your second kid

00:46:53.200 until you have your first kid.

00:46:54.180 Let's go.

00:46:55.300 You can't have your third

00:46:56.160 until, come on.

00:46:57.160 Come on, man.

00:46:58.120 Come on, man.

00:46:59.000 Okay.

00:46:59.960 It's Fake Headline Friday.

00:47:00.740 I know I'm late.

00:47:01.420 I'll move fast.

00:47:02.260 I'll move fast

00:47:03.120 in the member room segmentum.

00:47:04.280 If you're not there,

00:47:04.880 use code NOLS,

00:47:05.540 K-N-O-W-L-E-S,

00:47:06.920 dailywire.com.

00:47:08.280 Get two months

00:47:09.100 free on all annual plans.

00:47:23.940 All of this is an illusion,

00:47:26.180 an echo of a voice

00:47:27.300 that has died.

00:47:30.700 And soon that echo will cease.

00:47:32.260 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:47:50.340 They say he was a king in Dovid,

00:47:53.900 the son of a princess

00:47:55.200 of lost Atlantis.

00:47:56.640 They say the future and the past

00:48:00.180 are known to him.

00:48:02.460 That the fire and the wind

00:48:03.800 tell him their secrets.

00:48:05.780 That the magic of the hillfolk

00:48:07.720 and druids come forth

00:48:09.300 at his easy command.

00:48:12.100 They say he slew hundreds.

00:48:15.940 Hundreds, do you hear?

00:48:17.680 That the world burned

00:48:19.020 and trembled at his wrath.

00:48:20.740 The Merlin died long before

00:48:26.680 you and I were born.

00:48:29.900 Merlin Emrys

00:48:31.060 has returned

00:48:32.540 to the land of the living.

00:48:35.800 Portigan is gone.

00:48:37.700 Rome is gone.

00:48:39.540 The Saxon is here.

00:48:42.280 Saxon Hengist

00:48:43.280 has assembled

00:48:43.780 the greatest war host

00:48:44.760 ever seen in the

00:48:45.660 Island of the Mighty.

00:48:46.440 And before the summer is through

00:48:48.120 he means to take the throne.

00:48:51.400 And he will have it.

00:48:52.900 If we are too busy

00:48:54.260 squabbling amongst ourselves

00:48:55.560 to take up arms against him

00:48:57.100 here is your hope.

00:48:59.400 A king will arise

00:49:00.620 to hold all Britain in his hand.

00:49:03.260 A high king.

00:49:04.460 He will be the wonder of the world.

00:49:05.740 You.

00:49:09.640 To a future of peace.

00:49:14.120 There will be no peace

00:49:15.320 in these lands

00:49:16.020 till we are all dust.

00:49:17.860 Men

00:49:18.200 of the Island of the Mighty

00:49:19.580 you stand together.

00:49:23.040 You stand as Britons.

00:49:26.240 You stand as one.

00:49:27.700 Get down!

00:49:30.120 A great darkness

00:49:31.200 is falling upon this land.

00:49:32.560 These brothers

00:49:35.180 are our only hope

00:49:35.860 to stand against it.

00:49:38.660 Not our only hope.

00:49:41.520 They say Merthen

00:49:42.320 slew 70 men

00:49:43.540 with his own hands.

00:49:45.720 And Gathay

00:49:46.220 he slew 500.

00:49:49.780 No man is capable

00:49:50.980 of such a thing.

00:49:52.780 No mortal man.

00:50:02.560 He was making no more

00:50:04.780 than one of them

00:50:05.980 Hail,

00:50:07.340 to be the same weight

00:50:09.240 as he died.

00:50:10.080 Kim Sniper

00:50:11.360 is here

00:50:11.560 to run

00:50:12.520 with Scooby

00:50:13.440 using a promise

00:50:14.740 to天

00:50:16.180 as the tadi

00:50:18.100 that's really

00:50:19.520 sometime

00:50:20.380 so

00:50:21.340 that's

00:50:22.460 why

00:50:23.300 begin

00:50:24.640 he

00:50:26.140 is

00:50:27.400 joka

The Michael Knowles Show - December 05, 2025

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