The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1882 - MASSIVE Somali Daycare Fraud Scheme Exposed In Viral Video

00:00:00.000 I was going to wait until Monday. I was going to respect the official Daily Wire policy

00:00:05.600 and let everyone stay home until Monday. But then a looks maxing meth taking mogger 0.96

00:00:12.600 told me that right wingers should vote for Gavin Newsom. I was going to just give us all the

00:00:17.480 weekend off. But then a Politico analyst proposed shooting right wing journalists who exposed

00:00:24.140 Somali fraud in Minnesota. I was going to sit back and relax. But then stranger things made the 80s

00:00:32.200 gayer than they already were, which was considerable. So now we're back. It is the 0.85

00:00:36.740 ninth day of Christmas, and I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:54.140 Welcome back to the show. Somalis are perpetrating even more fraud than you previously thought. 1.00

00:01:05.740 An incredible expose by an independent journalist, Nick Shirley, shows that Somalis are running these 1.00

00:01:11.020 fake daycares all over, not just Minnesota, but apparently in other states as well.

00:01:16.100 So when people go, they show up to the daycare. It's just some sloppily dressed Somali man 1.00

00:01:23.400 who doesn't have any kids, happily doesn't have any kids around him. Anyway, it's all just fake.

00:01:27.780 So we'll get into how deep the fraud goes. First though, Merry Christmas, everybody.

00:01:32.940 This is always one of my favorite days of the year when we put up the Christmas decorations on

00:01:38.000 the Michael Knowles Show set. Actually, it was supposed to be Professor Jacob who put up the

00:01:42.660 Christmas decorations. Professor Jacob, despite his family origins as a member of a certain ancient

00:01:49.900 nomadic tribe, he was going to have the task of putting up the Christmas decorations, and then he

00:01:54.540 didn't. He just didn't at all. And I texted last night and said, hey, we put up the Christmas

00:01:58.620 decorations, right? And he texted back, and he's in another state right now just mogging and mewing

00:02:03.320 with his girlfriend and doesn't. And he said, no. So poor Mr. Davies had to show up here at the

00:02:07.800 crack of dawn with his personal Christmas decorations, but they have to go up because it's Christmas.

00:02:13.200 It's Christmas now. And I thought it was very, very strange that there were a number of broadcasters,

00:02:20.520 podcasters, TV hosts, radio hosts who put up Christmas decorations before Christmas.

00:02:26.320 It doesn't make a lot of sense. They put it up during Advent. Some of them put it up right after

00:02:33.140 Thanksgiving. Some people were selling Christmas decorations after Halloween. That doesn't make

00:02:40.140 sense to me because Advent is a penitential season when we contemplate the four last things,

00:02:44.900 death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Christmas begins on the Feast of the Nativity. And what's

00:02:49.800 even weirder is that some people will take down their Christmas decorations immediately following

00:02:55.480 the Feast of the Nativity as if Christmas were only one day. If Christmas were only one day,

00:03:01.380 let me ask you something. When would the drummers drum? When would you have the five golden rings?

00:03:06.520 Christmas can refer to the day of the Feast of the Nativity. Then it can also refer to the octave,

00:03:15.140 the liturgical season, the octave of Christmas, eight days. Then it can refer to 12 days ending

00:03:23.100 with the Epiphany, like 12th night. But I am a Christmas maxer. I am a season maxing Christmas

00:03:32.460 pilled jingle cell. We'll get to that kind of lingo in a moment. I want as much Christmas as

00:03:38.480 possible. Modern religion is very different from old religion. Old religion says first you have the

00:03:44.120 fast and then the feast. You have Advent and then you have Christmas. Modern religion says first the

00:03:49.260 feast and then the hangover. Uh-uh. We are not Christmas disrespecters on this show. We're not

00:03:55.360 Advent disrespecters. We put everything in their proper place. And so these decorations will be up

00:03:59.680 until February 2nd, at least, at least. Now, speaking of the pills and the cells and the maxing,

00:04:06.700 one of the news stories that happened over our little Christmas break here was that I interviewed

00:04:12.980 this guy clavicular. I ended up, somehow I was the cause of one of these big news stories.

00:04:18.740 There's this guy clavicular. I was very excited to sit down with him. He is a 19 year old. Now I think

00:04:23.360 he turned 20 looks maxer, meaning that since the age of 14, this guy had been shooting up testosterone

00:04:31.380 and taking hormones and steroids. And he's gone to extreme lengths to improve his looks. He's talked

00:04:37.920 about lengthening his, like breaking his legs, even though he's a pretty tall guy already, breaking his

00:04:42.000 legs to get taller and smashing his face and getting jaw surgery and all this. And he's just really

00:04:47.480 focused on maxing out his looks. So I sit down with this young man and the interview goes viral

00:04:54.440 in part because of looks maxing specific exchanges such as this. Are there any downsides to hitting

00:05:03.060 yourself in the head with a hammer? No. He looks at me like I'm the stupidest person on earth. 0.65

00:05:10.460 He's describing taking a hammer, smashing himself in the head. And I said, well, are there any negative 1.00

00:05:15.320 side effects to that? He says, you know, you do it, it breaks some of your bones down and then they

00:05:18.980 grow back bigger and then you look better. I said, are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the

00:05:22.320 head with the hammer? Like I have three heads. He looked, he goes, no, dummy. What are you talking 0.97

00:05:27.780 about? So anyway, fascinating. It was a delight to sit down with him. He is a very, very good

00:05:33.920 communicator. He's very funny. He knows what he's doing. He's self-aware, but he's, he also really

00:05:39.840 does this stuff. So, you know, I really am concerned about this guy because he really,

00:05:45.800 since he was a kid, he got sucked into this vortex on the internet and basically every,

00:05:50.140 everything from his ideology comes from the internet. In many ways, it's similar to the

00:05:56.400 trans ideology on the left, which, which is a body dysmorphic ideology that comes from the internet.

00:06:02.120 This is kind of a right-wing version. So I really am concerned for the kid and I hope things work out

00:06:06.780 for him and I hope he doesn't, you know, continue to go like way too far off the rails and only

00:06:11.860 prioritize looks and all the rest. But I really enjoyed sitting down with him. The other part that

00:06:16.680 went viral though, had nothing to do with looks maxing per se. It was because he, an ostensibly

00:06:23.160 young right-wing Trump supporter, endorsed Gavin Newsom. And he endorsed Gavin Newsom because he says

00:06:30.720 that Gavin Newsom is sexier than Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:06:35.100 It's 2028. I'm voting for Gavin Newsom. You're voting for Gavin Newsom? You can't be that,

00:06:41.780 you can't be that subhuman. So you, hold on, you, you, you got, all right, well, this actually is of

00:06:47.640 a thread with the whole conversation because you're, you look at these two candidates, you have Gavin

00:06:51.680 Newsom, worst governor in the country. We, I think we would all agree, destroyed his state, let its main

00:06:55.760 city burn to the ground because of his incompetence, is a personal, uh, complete derelict liar, 1.00

00:07:00.560 degenerate. Uh, but he is good looking. I'll grant you that he's good looking. Yeah. And it kind of 1.00

00:07:04.520 looks like Patrick Bateman, American Psycho. And then, and then you have this, uh, vice president

00:07:08.760 to President Trump, the transformative right-wing president in our lifetimes, who do you, you support

00:07:13.580 Trump or no? Yeah. Okay. So you got, and you got this vice president handpicked by Trump who is

00:07:18.980 extremely intelligent, uh, very right-wing. Uh, I, I think he's a pretty good looking guy. I don't know.

00:07:25.160 Maybe you, I guess you disagree, but he's all these things, checks all these boxes,

00:07:28.560 would have all these great policies. And regardless, you're going to pick the pro mass

00:07:34.700 migrant, pro trans, pro murder the babies, pro burn the cities to the ground, pro BLM 1.00

00:07:41.100 Democrat, because he's skinnier than the conservative vice president. 1.00

00:07:46.500 100 times over. Yeah. All right. I can't argue with that. It just goes to show like who you are

00:07:52.880 as a person. And I think it does. Okay. So he, he says, not only do I predict

00:07:58.700 Gavin Newsom will win, which I don't think is backed up by anything, but he says, I would vote

00:08:02.520 for him. I, even though I'm on the right, I like, I support Trump. I wish Trump were more right-wing.

00:08:08.360 He even explains in the interview, even though I'm on the right, I think that the only thing that

00:08:13.340 matters in the world, the thing that certainly matters more than anything else in the world is

00:08:17.400 how you look. And because he thinks that, that Gavin Newsom is at least slightly sexier

00:08:24.120 than the conservative vice president, he would vote for him, which is totally of a piece with

00:08:30.920 the ideology. If the, if the ideology of looks maxing really says the only thing that matters

00:08:35.820 in life is not virtue. It's not flourishing. It's not any institutions, family, law and order.

00:08:43.980 It's not, it's nothing. It's merely aesthetics. Then if someone is like a pretty boy,

00:08:52.340 then you have to support that person. I kind of, I get how that is of a piece.

00:08:57.260 So this, this clip went viral. And what's amazing is Gavin Newsom leaned into it,

00:09:01.280 which I think ultimately is, is a huge miscalculation. Newsom and his press team leans

00:09:08.960 into the clavicular interview and they try to make Newsom look really sexy and everything.

00:09:12.900 Uh, I think this is a big mistake though, because one, there's been so much hand wringing in recent

00:09:18.780 weeks over this problem that the right has with its extreme young trollish fringe. Does it have a

00:09:25.200 Groyper problem? Does it have a reactionary problem? Does it have all this stuff, you know,

00:09:29.160 calling the right wingers Nazis and demanding that they disavow. Now you're in a situation where

00:09:33.940 one of, if not the single leading candidate for the Democrat nomination in 2028,

00:09:39.100 now has the support of this group that we were told was causing all these problems for the right.

00:09:44.060 And he's actually courting that group. He's leaning into their memes. So I think this creates

00:09:47.920 the opportunity for right wing journalists to now ask Gavin Newsom, do you disavow? Do you disavow

00:09:52.100 these, that the support coming from these quarters that you supposedly find objectionable? That's the

00:09:56.760 first reason. The second issue though, the reason that I think this meme is a huge miscalculation for

00:10:02.900 Gavin Newsom is a little piece of insight that I once got from Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sitting

00:10:09.580 with George Bush explaining one of the real secret advantages that both of those guys have had in

00:10:14.640 politics. President Bush in different ways from me, but both of us, me because I tend to look like

00:10:22.080 I'm real nice and him because he used to make fun of himself. You always want to be underestimated by

00:10:27.600 your adversaries. He consistently benefited by being underestimated. And so did I for totally

00:10:36.100 different reasons. So I love it. I love that. I think the whole meme is really smart. Huge

00:10:40.960 miscalculation from Newsom who's made miscalculations before because he doesn't know which way he wants

00:10:44.860 to run. Is he going to be the moderate who's friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon? Is he going

00:10:49.220 to be the radical who calls Stephen Miller a fascist and who says he wants to see more trans kids and all

00:10:55.900 the rest of it? He doesn't really know. But what he's leaning into right now is that he's a real

00:10:59.820 pretty boy. I think that this meme really redounds to the benefit of the vice president. This is why

00:11:04.820 J.D. has leaned into the goofy J.D. meme, I think. You know, the one where it makes him look kind of

00:11:10.000 short with this big, crazy round head and the curly hair and all. Even though J.D. is a relatively

00:11:14.980 pretty slim, very tall guy. Why does he lean into the meme? Because it creates a low expectation,

00:11:20.400 which is then surpassed by reality. In this case, Newsom is creating a very high expectation that he can

00:11:25.520 never live up to. And when you look at people who win the presidency, just in recent years,

00:11:31.420 you got Trump was underestimated as a political novice. There was this ridiculous idea that he 0.78

00:11:35.660 didn't know anything about politics. It's preposterous in retrospect, but that really 0.64

00:11:39.240 helped him, I think, in 16. Barack Obama, he was black in a country that was supposedly racist. 0.90

00:11:45.640 That allowed him to be underestimated. George Bush was supposed to be stupid. He wasn't really. He's 1.00

00:11:50.500 a very smart guy, George Bush, even if you disagree with him. But he was supposed to be stupid. 1.00

00:11:53.780 It allowed him to win. Al Gore was better looking than George Bush. He mogged George Bush, 1.00

00:11:59.720 for instance. But George Bush was underestimated. Go back further, though. Bill Clinton was Bubba,

00:12:05.020 real nice guy. Bill Clinton's not a nice guy. That allowed him to be underestimated. Bill Clinton

00:12:09.200 was a B-movie actor. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer from Georgia. Richard Nixon was a loser

00:12:13.820 whose political career was over a decade prior. I don't know. It's hard to point to a winner who's 0.98

00:12:18.920 not underestimated. So if Newsom wants to lean into it, be my guest. I think that's terrific.

00:12:22.960 Now, speaking of the Trump administration, the establishment left, the media, the politicians

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00:13:50.660 So President Trump, his administration posts these Christmas messages. All the different

00:13:56.900 agencies, Merry Christmas, Joy to the World, that kind of thing. The Washington Post immediately

00:14:01.700 whines about it. December 26th, second day of Christmas, says officials in President Trump's

00:14:06.020 administration posted overtly sectarian messages for Christmas, such as a day to celebrate the

00:14:11.740 birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The messages sharply diverged from a tradition of secular holiday

00:14:16.320 messages. Put a pause right here. The most scandalous part of that post from the Washington

00:14:21.640 Post is that these top journalists in America don't even know the meaning of the word sectarian.

00:14:27.680 The word sectarian, though they want to make it about just diversity of religion, sectarian

00:14:34.960 refers specifically to disagreements within the religion. So a sectarian conflict would be a conflict

00:14:42.480 between, say, Presbyterians and Methodists, or Catholics and Episcopalians. It's a disagreement

00:14:50.400 from within a broadly similar religious framework. What's so funny is that the message celebrating the

00:15:01.360 birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is the opposite of a sectarian message. That's something that all the

00:15:05.600 various flavors of Christianity can agree on. So WAPO, just ignorant, frothing, absolutely full of 1.00

00:15:15.020 wrath. What are some of the messages? Here's the Department of Labor, which posts a nice little 1.00

00:15:19.160 picture, Joy to the World. Looks like a Thomas Kinkade poem, Let Earth Receive Her King. It's very

00:15:24.540 nice. And there's a journalist from the Free Press, which is supposed to be more reasonable than the

00:15:29.760 Washington Post and the New York Times. But it's the Free Press, which is this kind of center-left

00:15:34.360 libertarian-ish outlet. This guy, Peter Savodnik, who tweets out, this is grotesque, which coincidentally

00:15:42.060 is also the response that Herod had to the nativity. Let Earth receive her king. This is grotesque.

00:15:48.880 We need to kill all of the children in Judea. Okay. Bizarre, this is grotesque. The message is joy to 1.00

00:15:55.500 the world. Let Earth receive her king. And that's a nice message. Not only is that not grotesque,

00:16:00.500 that is one of the most beautiful things that is ever, that is the most beautiful thing that's

00:16:03.800 ever happened, taken together with the Passion and the Resurrection. But even if you don't believe

00:16:08.500 in the religion, isn't it a nice idea? You know, a savior comes down, born as a little baby in

00:16:13.920 swaddling clothes to save the whole world. Even if you don't believe in it, though you should,

00:16:18.120 isn't that a nice idea? What about that is grotesque? Well, I suspect what he thinks is that

00:16:22.900 our government saying anything about religion is grotesque. But as Nick Solheim pointed out,

00:16:28.300 great, a great note, just to inject some actual history into the narrative about American history.

00:16:35.400 Presidents have been celebrating Christmas for a very, very long time, have been promoting

00:16:40.520 Christianity for a very, very long time. He posts an image of a letter from Franklin Roosevelt

00:16:46.520 to the armed forces. This is January 26, 1941. This is from Roosevelt, who's a huge lib.

00:16:52.180 And he says, as Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who

00:16:57.020 serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and

00:17:00.560 diverse origins have found in the sacred book, words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is

00:17:05.120 a fountain of strength, and now is always an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human

00:17:09.980 soul. Very sincerely yours, Franklin Roosevelt. Is that grotesque? Is that shocking and horrible and

00:17:15.420 grotesque? Is the fact that Christmas is a federal holiday, does that suggest that maybe it's okay for

00:17:21.660 the federal government to acknowledge and celebrate Christmas? Christ mass? It's religious, that's

00:17:29.140 true, but it's our religion, because we're a Christian country, America, which was founded to

00:17:37.020 be a model of Christian charity, founded by people who called themselves pilgrims, who gave thanks to

00:17:41.980 God, who put in God we trust on our currency. On and on and on. It wasn't just the journos who were

00:17:48.980 upset. Eric Swalwell, maybe the future governor of California. It might somehow get worse after Newsom.

00:17:55.940 Eric Swalwell tweets out, may this be the last Christmas we live this nightmare. And it's an image

00:18:03.720 of graffiti on concrete. And it's an ice helicopter with lights over the nativity scene.

00:18:10.940 Oh, wow. Wow, that's, man, Swalwell, that's deep. Keep spitting that slam poetry. You see,

00:18:19.500 it's the nativity scene, the creche, our Lord being born in the manger with ice coming in, as if to say

00:18:26.480 that the Holy Family were illegal immigrants, you know, avoiding law and order. And now this is 0.99

00:18:35.500 especially ironic because the opposite is true. The Holy Family was in Bethlehem in order to comply

00:18:44.200 with a government order to register with the government. It's exact, it's amazing with the

00:18:51.420 lives when they get this impulse, they feel, they verbally ejaculate some nonsense. And then it 0.96

00:18:57.860 turns out to completely subvert the argument they were trying to make. This is just like the ice and

00:19:04.840 the illegal immigrants. And no, it's actually the opposite. They were, the Holy Family was there to 0.99

00:19:09.400 comply with a government order to register with the government. And then what happens after the

00:19:13.800 nativity? The, the wise men warn them, they say, you know, Herod is going to try to kill the baby.

00:19:21.120 And so they flee into Egypt. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was not immigration

00:19:27.860 enforcement. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was infanticide. Immigration enforcement,

00:19:34.560 that's the right-wing policy that Eric Swalwell has problems with. Infanticide is a left-wing policy.

00:19:40.740 Infanticide is one of the most sacred policies to the political left. They consider it a right,

00:19:45.800 the right, the so-called right to abortion. That's what the Holy Family actually fled from. 0.65

00:19:52.500 Just a, an amazing, if Eric Swalwell didn't exist, we would have to invent him.

00:19:58.380 Speaking of Christmas derangement, it wasn't confined to our own country. Politico Europe

00:20:01.960 reports, far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own. It's Christmas.

00:20:08.660 Recast, recasting, I promise you, I swear, this is verbatim. Recasting Christmas as a marker of

00:20:16.580 Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of 1.00

00:20:23.820 defense against a supposedly hostile secular left. Where would the right get that idea?

00:20:31.120 Where would, where would the right get the idea that the secular left,

00:20:34.540 the supposedly hostile secular left, would oppose Christmas and Christianity?

00:20:42.180 Politico Europe accusing far-right parties of recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian

00:20:49.340 civilization. It's in the name. It's like that old clip of Ben. You remember that clip of Ben from

00:20:55.780 10 years ago when he's at some school and says, you know, the Boy Scouts, you know, the Boy Scouts,

00:20:59.520 listen, gang, the Boy Scouts shouldn't have girls in it. And then some chick says, well, 0.99

00:21:03.040 where do you get that idea from? Where does it say that? And he's like, it's in the name Boy Scouts,

00:21:06.480 gang. This is just, this is just that. Where do you, it's the Politico for Europe, you know,

00:21:12.580 where do you get the ideas that Christmas is a Christian holiday? Gang, it's in the name Christmas. 0.99

00:21:19.440 It's in the name Christmas. The far right. If you think Christmas is Christian, you are now a member 1.00

00:21:25.100 of the, welcome to the far right. Welcome. I hope you like it. Now, before we get to anything else,

00:21:32.200 because I have more from, from Politico, not just this nonsense about Christmas not being Christian, 0.96

00:21:38.540 but a little, even darker in a way, a Politico senior analyst suggesting that Somalis shoot 0.95

00:21:47.820 journalists who try to investigate their fraud. We'll get to that first. I want to tell you about 0.93

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00:23:21.400 the big reasons we had to come in today. Let's talk about this major, major news story that breaks

00:23:24.600 over Christmas, which is that the Somalis have not just been milking some of the welfare programs 0.95

00:23:30.780 in Minnesota, food stamps or whatever. They have set up a ton of fraudulent businesses, 0.77

00:23:37.800 notably daycares, that are receiving all of this aid from the state that don't even exist.

00:23:45.120 This is a story broken by Nick Shirley. We'll get to the details of it. But

00:23:48.600 here's the totally normal response from the liberal media. An independent journalist goes in

00:23:54.240 and breaks a story that these people should have been on for years. This has been going on for years

00:23:58.400 and years and years. And Josh Gerstein of Politico comes out and says, at some point,

00:24:06.540 the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand your ground

00:24:13.160 laws. Stand your ground laws, meaning when people try to invade your home, you can shoot them and you

00:24:20.600 won't be prosecuted for that. So he says, this amateur effort to knock on the doors of home daycares,

00:24:26.880 but when they say home daycares, by the way, they're just talking about fraud.

00:24:31.260 There are Somalis who register daycare centers to get state money in their homes,

00:24:35.700 but they don't actually take care of anybody. There is such a thing as home daycare.

00:24:41.500 I actually, when I was a kid, my mother worked and I was at a home daycare. I'd go to a lovely

00:24:46.200 woman's apartment and she watched some kids and probably wasn't the most totally illicit thing, 1.00

00:24:51.960 you know, by the tax code, but we would do that. That can exist.

00:24:57.120 That is not even happening here. What we're looking at is Somalis just lying. They say we're 1.00

00:25:02.720 running a daycare. There is no daycare. You go, you show up at some random Somali guy's apartment 1.00

00:25:06.340 and they don't want to let you in. And so this massive fraud is exposed and the Politico journalist,

00:25:13.060 a senior reporter says, actually, when are those Somalis going to start shooting those

00:25:16.940 right-wing journalists? Why is he doing this? Why? It's very easy to say, you reporters, 0.80

00:25:24.700 you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing. You're not even doing your job. You're

00:25:28.640 not really investigating the facts. Why would you support this? The reason that the left is very

00:25:36.440 nervous and threatened by right-wing independent journalists showing up and exposing this fraud

00:25:40.740 is because this fraud serves the left's goals. The left's goals of mass migration,

00:25:44.800 to reduce social solidarity, to increase anarchy, which gives a pretext for more

00:25:50.820 onerous government regulations that destroy subsidiarity. Importing people specifically

00:25:57.420 are much more likely to side with the left and then giving them money in real hard concrete politics,

00:26:04.040 not abstract ideological politics, but hard concrete stuff. I give you money. You vote for me.

00:26:09.680 I give you more money. This is a reciprocal arrangement between the left and the Somalis, 0.94

00:26:14.700 who in many ways understand the nuts and bolts of ordinary politics much better than the ideologues

00:26:21.460 and the libertarians and the think tankers. That's why. And because there are no real,

00:26:28.080 neutral, objective, independent journalists, there are independent journalists who don't work for major

00:26:32.600 outlets, but there are no journalists who don't have some preconceived notions that they bring to

00:26:36.640 their stories. Because that is totally fake and in many ways an invention of the post-World War II era.

00:26:43.300 What you're really looking at here is a guy, Josh Gerstein, who's a left-wing operative

00:26:46.680 working for Politico, which is a left-wing communications outlet, propaganda outlet,

00:26:51.780 upset that other political operatives have exposed a story that damages the political left.

00:26:57.920 That's what you're seeing. You're just seeing a partisan fight playing out.

00:27:02.080 Say, I thought you opposed stand your ground laws. I thought you opposed Americans owning guns.

00:27:08.520 I thought you, what happened to your principles? Their principle is to win.

00:27:12.240 Their principle is for their guys to get more political power, to do stuff, to help them.

00:27:17.060 That's their principle. And if you remain confused about this and you think they're really concerned

00:27:22.520 with some abstract ideology, some evenly applied rule, you're not gonna make it. I'm sorry,

00:27:30.380 you're not gonna make it. So anyway, what did they all uncover? CBS is reporting potentially

00:27:35.520 $9 billion of fraud by Somalis in Minnesota. Here is Nick Shirley, this independent journalist 0.99

00:27:40.980 on YouTube, just going up and talking to the supposed daycare workers.

00:27:46.320 They seem to be closed. No one's opening the doors.

00:27:50.140 You work here?

00:27:51.400 I was, yeah. What's happening?

00:27:53.080 Where are the kids?

00:27:54.460 Yeah?

00:27:54.820 It says it's licensed for 74 children. Right here, state of Minnesota. Where are the kids?

00:28:00.380 They got paid $1.26 million in fiscal year 2025. It says they have a capacity for 74 children.

00:28:08.160 When?

00:28:08.560 Where are the kids? Right here, state of Minnesota website.

00:28:13.760 You work here and you don't know?

00:28:15.760 I don't know. I was there before. I don't know what's going on there.

00:28:18.340 Were there any kids when you worked here?

00:28:19.920 He's there. Kids there.

00:28:21.000 How many?

00:28:21.720 I don't know.

00:28:22.620 You don't know?

00:28:23.420 Yeah.

00:28:24.040 You worked here. Okay, well then you're not of any help.

00:28:25.860 Can I put my son in a daycare here?

00:28:27.820 No, no, no. I don't know.

00:28:28.960 Can I speak to someone?

00:28:30.240 No, I don't know.

00:28:31.040 No?

00:28:31.640 Yeah, I would like to see if I can put my son Joey here.

00:28:34.580 Who's your son, Joey?

00:28:35.680 My son, Joey.

00:28:36.700 Can I check out daycare center?

00:28:39.020 No! 1.00

00:28:40.080 He's a liar. 0.99

00:28:41.080 I'm the owner. 0.99

00:28:41.800 Do you put your kid here in this daycare?

00:28:43.640 No.

00:28:44.080 No, no, you cannot.

00:28:46.220 No, no.

00:28:46.660 This is not the droids you're looking for.

00:28:48.680 Oh, no.

00:28:49.340 And look at Gucci, Gucci, Gucci, Han Solo.

00:28:52.740 So he got him dead to rights.

00:28:54.480 This is really great stuff.

00:28:58.080 It's obviously a massive fraud.

00:29:03.240 Not only will they not allow the white kid, 1.00

00:29:06.480 not only will they not allow the native-born American kid into the daycare,

00:29:11.000 there aren't even kids in there.

00:29:12.200 They asked the first guy, hey, you worked at the daycare?

00:29:15.120 Yeah, yeah, I worked at the daycare.

00:29:17.060 Ah, yeah.

00:29:17.900 Hoo-hoo. 0.69

00:29:18.520 She got two chishamakajaba.

00:29:22.000 Okay, well, how many kids were there?

00:29:24.420 I don't know.

00:29:25.840 You don't know how many kids were there?

00:29:27.940 Can my kid go there?

00:29:28.860 No.

00:29:30.620 So it's just all, it's all fraud.

00:29:32.180 And by the way, it's not only, this guy Nick Shirley broke the story,

00:29:34.320 but then Cam Higby goes out in Ohio, same thing happening.

00:29:37.380 Hi, is this Tawakal Daycare?

00:29:43.040 Yeah.

00:29:43.860 I was wondering if I could get an application for my son.

00:29:47.980 Would that be possible?

00:29:49.740 This is the door.

00:29:50.680 Will, I didn't even know it.

00:29:54.080 Can I get, no, you can't.

00:29:56.420 I mention this story because, you know, I frequently say it's always the ones you most expect.

00:30:04.820 One aspect of the Somali fraud, daycare, learning center, 1.00

00:30:09.500 welfare scam story that people seem to have forgotten is, 0.92

00:30:13.460 these people are pirates. 0.76

00:30:15.920 They are known for being pirates. 0.97

00:30:18.720 That is not only the main thing Somalis are known for, 0.99

00:30:22.240 the only thing they're known for is being pirates. 0.99

00:30:27.580 Theft, fraud, deceit, crime. 0.97

00:30:31.940 That is maybe the thing that defines Somalis as Somalis. 0.91

00:30:37.520 And now we all have to be shocked and clutch our pearls.

00:30:40.200 And oh my goodness, can you believe we imported the pirate people to America 0.99

00:30:44.100 and they did pirate stuff?

00:30:46.980 What are the odds?

00:30:48.280 If only we had known before we imported the nation of pirates into Minnesota. 0.94

00:30:55.020 If only we had known, we never would have done it.

00:30:57.160 Well, we could have known, but you're not allowed to know.

00:31:00.040 Because the way that we would have known is through something called prejudice.

00:31:04.800 Prejudice, which can be unjust, but it also can be a very good thing 1.00

00:31:08.140 and a necessary aid to human reason.

00:31:09.820 Because we don't have enough time and we don't have enough rational faculty

00:31:13.160 to logically think through every single thing in the world.

00:31:15.920 We got to go on our gut.

00:31:16.900 We got to go based on precedent.

00:31:19.240 And so we're going to do it again and again and again.

00:31:21.300 But the Somalis, I think, are the clearest example of it. 1.00

00:31:25.120 So what are we going to do?

00:31:26.240 Are we going to say, hey, no more Somalis? 0.95

00:31:27.960 Hey, no more. 1.00

00:31:28.760 And we're going to get rid of the ones who keep committing all these crimes.

00:31:30.960 We're just getting rid of them. 0.99

00:31:32.500 Go send them back to Somalia. 1.00

00:31:33.880 They could set up daycares there.

00:31:36.860 Probably not.

00:31:37.500 Probably not because of the ideological shifts that would be required.

00:31:41.880 You'd have to acknowledge that like, yeah,

00:31:43.580 maybe it was never a good idea to import the pirate country in.

00:31:46.260 Okay, speaking of strange things, that's quite strange, isn't it?

00:31:49.540 I have to get to Stranger Things.

00:31:51.740 Stranger Things is finally over. 0.97

00:31:54.340 And it is real gay, man. 0.99

00:31:56.660 It's real gay. 1.00

00:31:57.520 I mean, very literally, the character who starts out as the real inciting character of the whole show. 0.78

00:32:04.820 The guy who gets sucked into the underground, upside down, whatever.

00:32:07.920 I haven't watched it in a few seasons.

00:32:09.360 I started out watching it, and it was kind of interesting.

00:32:11.260 It was a fun riff on 1980s sci-fi.

00:32:14.520 And then it just became too much.

00:32:16.380 And it made even less sense than it previously had.

00:32:19.500 And it just got tiresome.

00:32:20.740 So I stopped watching.

00:32:21.480 I haven't watched this season, by the way.

00:32:22.640 But I have watched these clips.

00:32:23.660 And in it, this kid, who kind of starts out the whole show, comes out as gay.

00:32:30.820 I haven't told any of you this because I don't want you to see me differently.

00:32:46.020 I'm like you in almost every way.

00:32:48.900 We like playing D&D late into the night.

00:32:51.440 And we like that old person smell in Mike's basement.

00:32:54.300 And we like biking to Melvalds for malted milkshakes.

00:32:58.060 Literally all the same things.

00:32:59.580 I just, I just, I, I just, I, I, I, I don't like girls. 1.00

00:33:14.640 Okay, he's gay. 0.85

00:33:16.260 Wow, it's so weird. 0.96

00:33:17.460 A Netflix show where one of the young characters is gay. 0.85

00:33:21.740 Wow.

00:33:23.040 Speaking of prejudice and things you always expect.

00:33:26.080 So, so some have pointed out that this is very unrealistic because in the 80s, if you came out as gay, at least one of your buddies would call you a slur, right?

00:33:36.660 At least one.

00:33:37.260 I mean, they wouldn't all be immediately accepting, right?

00:33:39.860 In the 80s.

00:33:41.360 However, I have a totally different take, which is this, is, makes perfect sense to me.

00:33:46.740 Not only because Netflix needs to make everything gay and Disney needs to make everything gay and all of the liberal executives need to make everything gay. 0.73

00:33:53.120 But because homosexuality is linked to childhood trauma. 0.87

00:33:58.280 Not in all cases, but I'm not saying every gay guy had some childhood trauma, but it is strongly linked to childhood trauma.

00:34:05.100 And so childhood trauma can come in many awful forms.

00:34:08.680 But certainly, I think if you're sucked into the, into hell by some tentacle monster and held a prisoner and you like frequently like vomit up ash, like demon ash and all, that would constitute a childhood trauma. 0.90

00:34:23.520 And so I'm not surprised that he's gay. 1.00

00:34:26.140 Does that actually, that is one of the most coherent plot lines of Stranger Things.

00:34:30.640 There are a lot of plot lines that don't make any sense at all.

00:34:32.740 In fact, there's a great article here.

00:34:34.880 There are a bunch of them.

00:34:35.480 This one's from Pop Rand on how there are just too many plot holes for a decade long farewell.

00:34:40.880 Stranger Things season five finale outrage intensifies over rushed and unresolved fates.

00:34:44.980 The show, it's kind of like Lost.

00:34:46.540 You remember Lost 20 years ago?

00:34:48.800 Lost.

00:34:49.720 It was a good first season and then it just stopped making sense.

00:34:52.560 And there were all these unresolved plot lines.

00:34:54.240 And it was just so, by the final episode, I wanted to throw a hammer at the TV. 1.00

00:34:57.080 It was just so stupid. 0.99

00:34:58.140 And so I gave up on Stranger Things. 0.99

00:34:59.600 Apparently, it's the same problem here.

00:35:00.860 But what they really want you to know is it doesn't matter about any of the plot holes being resolved

00:35:05.040 because Will is gay, as the actor points out in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

00:35:11.000 Echna thought Will's secret was his weakness.

00:35:15.500 But it's his superpower.

00:35:17.140 Wow.

00:35:17.720 One of the best queer characters we've ever had.

00:35:20.000 What a powerful message to send to kids.

00:35:22.140 Like, no, this isn't your weakness.

00:35:23.540 This is your superpower. 0.83

00:35:24.740 This is how you defeat the big, bad, evil monster.

00:35:27.440 The whole show is accepting what you thought was your weakness.

00:35:30.500 Being who you are is where our power comes from.

00:35:33.540 It's really powerful and I'm very moved and touched by that.

00:35:37.240 Yeah.

00:35:37.600 Even though I play the villain.

00:35:38.780 Yeah.

00:35:41.280 It's your superpower, actually.

00:35:43.980 Now, look, man, I'm pretty, I'm from New York.

00:35:47.600 I lived in LA.

00:35:48.400 I went to the gayest university in the world.

00:35:50.100 You know, I really, I don't have any, any irrational animus toward anyone who's a little light in the loafers.

00:35:55.280 Not at all.

00:35:55.880 Not at all.

00:35:56.400 But do we really, now we have to say it's a superpower, it's a positively good thing.

00:36:02.280 I mean, this is what we're accusing.

00:36:03.540 When we call Netflix groomers, this is what we're accusing them of.

00:36:06.740 Netflix, not only tolerating sexual deviancy or recognizing that there is some sexual deviancy, sometimes more, sometimes less throughout history in the world.

00:36:16.760 But going out and saying, this is actively a good thing. 0.98

00:36:19.560 In other words, hey, kids, be gay. 0.97

00:36:22.020 You want to be like Superman? 1.00

00:36:23.480 Be gay. 1.00

00:36:24.220 If you want to be just like a normal person, then don't be gay. 1.00

00:36:27.000 But if you want to be awesome, be gay. 1.00

00:36:29.100 That's what they're saying to them. 0.83

00:36:31.300 You say, well, no, it is obviously a deviation.

00:36:35.180 It moves away from the norm.

00:36:37.460 There are lots of downsides to it.

00:36:39.100 Like, you don't have to have kids.

00:36:40.060 Or if you do have kids, you have to like buy them from a baby store and commit all sorts of hideous sins by intentionally depriving kids of their natural mothers.

00:36:47.540 And, you know, I mean, it's like really bad.

00:36:49.500 But there's, you can say, look, vive la de France.

00:36:53.420 This is a kind of a strange world and eccentricities can be tolerated.

00:36:57.280 And it's like that, you know, yeah, isn't Cole Porter great?

00:36:59.900 There's that version of it.

00:37:01.820 But to say it's actively good, more plot holes even than the Stranger Things finale, which, again, people, they just imbue these series with too much meaning.

00:37:12.880 They do it with Star Wars, too.

00:37:15.040 It's Stranger Things is supposed to be a fun send-up of cheesy 80s sci-fi.

00:37:20.380 That's what it's supposed to be.

00:37:21.260 Nostalgia porn for Gen X. 0.65

00:37:23.540 And in as much as it was that, it was pretty fun.

00:37:26.540 And then it tried to take itself too seriously, and it lost me.

00:37:31.260 I like Star Wars.

00:37:32.560 Star Wars is just like a fun, campy, weird movie based on, you know, comic strips from the 1930s, film strips.

00:37:39.960 And that's great.

00:37:40.760 But when you try to make it into something super-duper serious, it doesn't, sorry, it doesn't work.

00:37:45.500 Anyway, though, this one, that one plot line, I think, it actually holds up.

00:37:49.140 And speaking of homosexuality as a superpower, Zoran Mamdani is appointed a new head of the New York City Fire Department.

00:37:56.920 Someone who's never been a fireman, but who is a lesbian. 0.68

00:37:59.560 So I guess she has superpowers, and she can win. 1.00

00:38:01.900 Another story I want to get to, one of the porn ladies who slept with a thousand guys in a day, Lily Phillips, not to be confused with the other one, Bonnie Blue. 1.00

00:38:14.640 I think her name is Bonnie Blue.

00:38:16.640 Anyway, there's two of them who slept with a thousand guys in a day. 0.99

00:38:19.680 And one of them has apparently been baptized or re-baptized.

00:38:23.800 Or, ah, there's, okay, there's more to this story.

00:38:25.460 We'll have to get to it tomorrow, though.

00:38:26.340 My favorite comment yesterday, is it from yesterday or is it from a week and a half ago?

00:38:30.820 It's from Margaret Mayer 2475, who says, doesn't anyone remember Black Hawk Down?

00:38:36.080 Why would anyone let these people in?

00:38:38.560 No one remembers Black Hawk Down, and we are letting these people in.

00:38:41.780 Because we can't, we cannot be so prejudicial as to suggest that the pirate country might commit piracy.

00:38:50.280 Finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week.

00:38:53.240 That's another reason I couldn't miss the Friday show.

00:38:54.980 I've got to get to the mailbag sponsored by Pure Talk at puretalk.com slash Knowles, Canada, W-L-A-S.

00:38:58.740 Switch to my wireless company today.

00:39:01.040 Take it away.

00:39:02.180 Hi, Michael.

00:39:03.000 I've been listening to your show pretty regularly since 2019, where I found it during my senior year at Berkeley,

00:39:08.880 where apparently I was a classmate of Reed Choi, which I didn't know until your Yes or No episode.

00:39:13.340 My question is on this motif you have of explaining why things we know are bad are bad, which we have forgotten why they're bad.

00:39:21.780 And I have this gut feeling that this thing is bad.

00:39:25.420 And I'm talking about these Mr. Beast style YouTube giveaway videos where someone will give away $10,000 or a Lexus or some inordinate amount of money or things to an unsuspecting person and go through this weird sort of perverse gratitude ritual.

00:39:42.420 And I know it's just morally undignified in my gut, but I have trouble expressing exactly why.

00:39:49.260 You know, I think it is true that it is false charity, but I think it's actually more than that.

00:39:52.940 So I'd love to hear your take.

00:39:54.120 Thanks.

00:39:54.520 Bye.

00:39:54.840 Sure.

00:39:55.360 Much like I don't watch Stranger Things, I also don't watch Mr. Beast.

00:39:58.700 I know he had that transvestite, the sidekick who like abandoned his family to go be a transvestite. 0.75

00:40:05.480 And so that raised my eyebrow, but Mr. Beast got rid of him. 0.78

00:40:08.200 So maybe that's a mark in his favor.

00:40:09.920 Anyway, I know that he does these things.

00:40:12.020 He's going to give away a zillion dollars to whoever.

00:40:15.000 In as much as the Mr. Beast money giveaways are a game show, that's fine.

00:40:20.440 It's just a game show.

00:40:21.460 You know, it's typical entertainment and Mr. Beast is a great entertainer.

00:40:26.220 In as much as this is supposed to be real charity, I share your concern that it's probably lacking a little bit.

00:40:34.280 When you give to alms, you shouldn't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ideally.

00:40:39.460 You know, it's better to give anonymously in almost all cases.

00:40:44.700 I could see some exceptions, but generally it's better to give anonymously.

00:40:48.220 And part of the reason you do this and you don't sound a trumpet before you as you give alms is because charity is supposed to be love of the other person for that person's own sake, ultimately impelled by the love of God.

00:41:01.240 And so if you look at the Mr. Beast stuff, he is obviously benefiting immensely.

00:41:09.000 Not only his pride or vanity, you know, his reputation, but also he's making a ton of money on these videos.

00:41:15.080 He's a very, very smart content creator.

00:41:17.620 So it can do some good in the world, but it would cease to be charity.

00:41:22.340 And I think that's what you're recognizing.

00:41:24.120 There's just something a little off about it.

00:41:25.820 Yeah, it's a different thing.

00:41:27.620 Okay, next question.

00:41:29.280 Hello, Michael.

00:41:30.020 How are you doing today?

00:41:31.140 I was reaching out because my wife and I are having issues.

00:41:34.300 We had a dog for about 15 years.

00:41:37.360 We had to put him down a couple of Julys ago.

00:41:39.720 And she's at the point to where she wants another dog. 1.00

00:41:42.280 I do not want another dog.

00:41:44.920 And I'm afraid that if I get a dog that she wants, that I will start resenting her and the dog.

00:41:51.280 But if I don't get the dog, she will start to resent me.

00:41:54.820 Can you please give me some helpful marriage advice since you always do so good?

00:41:59.120 And I ordered your book, Reasons to Vote Democrat.

00:42:03.520 I understand the joke, but kind of upset that I got a blank book.

00:42:07.260 Thank you so much, Michael, for everything you do.

00:42:09.380 And your advice is very warranted.

00:42:10.960 Thank you for your help.

00:42:12.500 I'm sorry it was over 30 seconds.

00:42:15.140 You're clearly very scholarly and intellectual, not merely because you're reading my book,

00:42:19.700 but because you're asking me the question about the dog.

00:42:23.320 And what this means, the reason you're asking me this question is because you know that I don't really like dogs.

00:42:28.940 I don't, it's not that I like cats.

00:42:31.320 It's not, I'm a people person.

00:42:33.300 I'm not a dog person.

00:42:34.700 I'm not a cat person.

00:42:35.840 I'm not a fish person.

00:42:36.800 I'm a people person.

00:42:38.020 Okay.

00:42:38.420 And so you're saying, hey, my wife doesn't want to get a dog or wants to get a dog. 0.99

00:42:41.840 And I don't want to get a dog.

00:42:42.900 What do you think, Michael?

00:42:43.980 Yeah.

00:42:44.180 What I, yeah, if it were me, I wouldn't get a dog.

00:42:46.640 But the problem is if I were in your shoes, I could tell my wife, no, we're not getting,

00:42:51.960 I don't want a dog.

00:42:52.560 I don't want the thing in my house.

00:42:53.580 I want to take it out and walk it and do all this stuff.

00:42:56.100 I want him ripping up my stuff.

00:42:57.280 I don't want it.

00:42:58.020 But I have a long record of not having a dog.

00:43:03.500 Whereas you had a dog for 15 years.

00:43:05.280 So I really don't get why you don't want to get another dog.

00:43:08.000 What changed?

00:43:08.680 Is it that you only grudgingly had that dog for 15 years?

00:43:11.440 Well, that shows you the real peril of just not being clear with your spouse and not, you

00:43:18.860 know, allowing these problems to fester with that.

00:43:20.560 Now you've got a 15 year precedent of, well, I liked the dog.

00:43:23.400 You liked the dog then.

00:43:24.100 Why don't you like the dog now?

00:43:24.960 Now that's, or is it, you just, you're sick of walking the dog.

00:43:28.400 I totally would get that sick of feeding the dog, sick of the, just sick of the ripping 0.97

00:43:31.820 up the couch.

00:43:32.560 And okay, if that's the case, what you might do is, is speak to your wife, like you would

00:43:37.420 speak to your child and say like, well, we can get the dog, but you have to walk the

00:43:40.880 dog and you have to take care of it.

00:43:42.460 Maybe you could do that.

00:43:44.040 I guess that's one way.

00:43:46.180 Is it?

00:43:46.660 Okay.

00:43:46.880 Do we have time to get, can we get to at least one more?

00:43:49.740 We get to at least one more mailbag question.

00:43:51.860 I know I'm running late, but give me one more.

00:43:53.400 Michael, you said in the past that you would tell European leaders to turn to Christianity

00:43:59.060 in the wake of the immigration crisis that they're having in Europe.

00:44:03.060 But you look at these religious leaders in America and they are putting out that wonderful

00:44:07.580 little video that the Catholic bishops decided to put out, or you're looking at this news

00:44:12.340 report of all these religious leaders coming together to condemn Trump in the wake of his

00:44:16.620 comments about Somali community in Minneapolis, you know, with these Jewish, Muslim and Christianity,

00:44:22.180 Christian leaders coming together to condemn Trump. 0.96

00:44:24.840 It seems that Christian leaders and religious leaders are some of the worst liberals of all 1.00

00:44:29.980 in America. 0.94

00:44:30.680 I don't see how you can tell these European leaders to turn to them for solutions.

00:44:35.020 What is your response to this?

00:44:36.360 Thank you.

00:44:37.320 Maybe I've been misunderstood.

00:44:38.900 In fact, I'm sure I have.

00:44:39.820 And this is in part because of a narrative constructed by the left.

00:44:43.180 To say I want our government to recognize true religion and its traditional religion, namely

00:44:51.480 Christianity, is not to say I want a theocracy.

00:44:55.540 The left conflates the two.

00:44:57.000 The left thinks that if the government in any way acknowledges Christmas, which is a federal

00:45:00.940 holiday, that somehow we're in a theocracy.

00:45:03.820 Theocracy has a definition.

00:45:05.340 The libs just like, they redefine everything.

00:45:07.500 Theocracy has a definition.

00:45:08.940 Theocracy is government by religious clerics.

00:45:11.880 It's like what you have in Iran. 0.99

00:45:13.760 It's what some people advocated for in the Middle Ages, but many people did not.

00:45:19.120 Hierocrats, you know, the religious hierarchy of clerics running the government.

00:45:23.080 But, you know, in the Middle Ages, at the height of Christendom, you would have the Holy

00:45:27.080 Roman Emperor fighting with the Pope.

00:45:29.460 They would be at odds.

00:45:30.360 Sometimes they would come to blows.

00:45:31.920 Okay, they would have armies.

00:45:32.820 It's not that one of them was Christian and the other wasn't.

00:45:37.100 They were both Christian, and they were fighting over how best to apply Christianity to the

00:45:41.900 government.

00:45:42.440 In some cases, they were fighting over literal territories.

00:45:45.500 So I'm not suggesting that we need to turn our governments over to religious clerics.

00:45:50.480 Some of them would be good rulers.

00:45:52.360 Some of them would be very bad rulers.

00:45:53.620 What I'm saying is we just have to acknowledge that whoever is running our government, the

00:45:58.880 civilization must be animated by Christianity, anima, spirit, soul, or it will be animated 1.00

00:46:06.660 by some foreign thing, and it will become a totally different thing.

00:46:09.260 But it has to be animated by something.

00:46:11.020 Part of the reason I say if you want our civilization to survive, it has to be Christian is what's the 1.00

00:46:15.160 alternative?

00:46:17.440 Secular liberalism, atheist materialism, those things haven't worked.

00:46:20.540 They've led to our civilization literally dying, like we don't have babies anymore.

00:46:25.260 What's the alternative?

00:46:26.380 Islam, that will make us into a different civilization. 1.00

00:46:28.900 That's what's happening right now in Europe.

00:46:31.200 What's the alternative?

00:46:33.880 Shintoism, Buddhism, what are we going to do?

00:46:37.340 There's nothing.

00:46:39.200 So it has to be Christianity in order for it to be our civilization, or we'll die out, or we'll 1.00

00:46:45.560 become a different civilization.

00:46:46.560 Okay, on that chipper note, Merry Christmas.

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00:46:55.720 Oh, if this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died, and soon that echo will cease.

00:47:17.440 They say that Merlin is mad.

00:47:31.500 They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis.

00:47:41.880 They say the future and the past are known to him, that the fire and the wind tell him their secrets, that the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.

00:47:56.040 They say he slew hundreds, hundreds, do you hear, that the world burned and trembled at his wrath?

00:48:06.000 The Merlin died long before you and I were born.

00:48:13.680 Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.

00:48:18.840 Fortigan is gone, Rome is gone, the Saxon is here. 0.99

00:48:26.220 The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty, and before the summer is through, he means to take the throne. 0.97

00:48:35.080 And he will have it, if we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope, a king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand, a high king, who will be the wonder of the world.

00:48:52.440 You.

00:48:54.920 To a future of peace.

00:48:59.460 There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.

00:49:02.480 Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together, you stand as Britons, you stand as one.

00:49:15.680 A great darkness is falling upon this land.

00:49:19.760 These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.

00:49:24.160 Not our only hope.

00:49:26.640 They say Merlin slew seventy men with his own hands.

00:49:29.680 I could say he slew five hundred.

00:49:35.280 No man escape rule of such a thing.

00:49:37.920 No mortal man.

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