The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1896 - He Actually Did It： Trump Set To Get Greenland

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00:00:22.260 in Davos as he announces a framework for taking Greenland. Establishes a new international body

00:00:29.280 that could replace the UN and does his very best Asian accent after meeting Mr. Toyota.

00:00:36.380 Outside of Davos, the UK's National Health Service says that cousin marriage

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00:00:59.280 Welcome back to the show. President Trump stole the show at Davos. We'll get to the highlights.

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00:02:47.380 So heading into Davos, this is the World Economic Forum. It's all the liberal globalists from all

00:02:51.940 around the world, especially run by Europeans. It's in Switzerland. And the big topic is that

00:02:58.460 awful, terrible Trump wants to take Greenland and Europe says no. And the French say they're 0.99

00:03:03.760 going to send an army to defend Greenland. Obviously, I've got the flag of the French army

00:03:08.200 right here. And Denmark says, we're going to double the security. We're going to add another dog

00:03:13.420 sled. And this is supposed to be the big fight. Trump, you are not getting Greenland.

00:03:20.420 This is a threat to NATO. You're threatening a NATO country, Denmark, which for some reason

00:03:26.300 controls Greenland. And then the NATO general secretary had this to say about Trump's proposal.

00:03:35.900 So statements for me will not add anything here. And when it comes to the Arctic, I think

00:03:40.480 President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic.

00:03:45.260 We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly

00:03:49.900 active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are a member

00:03:55.360 of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the US. And

00:04:01.320 there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that's Russia. And I would argue

00:04:05.720 there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So

00:04:11.320 President Trump and other leaders are right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic

00:04:15.460 against Russian and Chinese influence. And that's exactly what NATO ambassadors decided to do in

00:04:21.320 September. We are working on that, making sure that collectively will we defend the Arctic region.

00:04:26.600 So much for a threat to NATO. That was the story. That was a story being published

00:04:32.040 in the liberal media. Trump's insistence that the US control Greenland is a threat to NATO. It will

00:04:40.020 destroy NATO because it's a direct threat from one NATO country, actually the leader of NATO, America,

00:04:45.420 on another one, Denmark. Then you have the NATO Secretary General, or General Secretary rather,

00:04:50.420 saying, yeah, actually, yeah, we need to defend Greenland from Russia. You got all these NATO

00:04:58.980 countries. There's just one who's not in NATO, but also Trump's even right about China aggressing 0.96

00:05:02.520 the Arctic. So what? What does that mean? Are we splitting off from Europe or are we continuing to

00:05:10.660 lead the West? Well, it depends not only who you ask, but when you ask the person. The Finnish 0.79

00:05:17.300 president, in the span of just 11 minutes, managed to completely flip-flop on the question of whether

00:05:26.260 or not Europe can defend itself without America. First is a direct answer to the question of this

00:05:32.080 panel, can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally, yes. Without the Americans? 0.82

00:05:37.640 Without the Americans. I mean- How? 1.00

00:05:39.860 Well, look- But you're relying on them for these key elements.

00:05:42.960 Um, you've said earlier that, um, Europe can defend itself without the Americans. If it comes 1.00

00:05:49.820 down- Not exact, Mike. That's not a quote.

00:05:55.220 More or less. More or less. Let's, uh- We'll go back to the transcripts. Yeah. More or less.

00:06:01.640 More or less. I love journalists.

00:06:02.980 If- Stoop. Stoop. Stoop against you.

00:06:07.780 But if it- Not- What do you mean, not exactly? That's exactly what you said. That is exactly what

00:06:14.620 you said 11 minutes earlier. And the way he's trying to weasel out of it, you even see this in

00:06:20.780 the community notes on social media. They'll say, well, no, no, he said Europe can defend itself,

00:06:24.540 but he wasn't totally explicit on whether Europe can defend itself without America. Go back to the clip.

00:06:29.120 What did he say? Give me just the first one. First is a direct answer to the question of

00:06:33.700 this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally, yes.

00:06:38.120 Without the Americans. Without the Americans. I mean- How? 0.99

00:06:41.660 Well, look- But you're relying on them. Put a pause right there.

00:06:45.940 As a direct answer to your question, can Europe defend itself? Yes. Without the Americans. 0.92

00:06:51.380 Without the Americans. I mean, he goes on and she's trying to prod because this is so ridiculous. 1.00

00:06:55.940 So he says that directly. Even without that second part, though, without the Americans.

00:07:01.300 The question, can Europe defend itself, implies that it would do so without the Americans.

00:07:07.560 That's the meaning of the word itself. On its own. Alone. Without other help.

00:07:14.440 And then he's pressed on and he says, well, no, I never really. Hold on. Wait, what?

00:07:18.580 What are we told on? I do not speak English. What do you say, sir?

00:07:21.580 Because of course, Europe cannot defend itself without the United States.

00:07:29.260 Since World War II, the agreement, this is not some secret conspiracy here. This is the open

00:07:35.740 agreement is that America will protect Europe. Europe essentially demilitarizes and we protect

00:07:42.680 Europe. First during the Cold War and now just generally. By the way, we had to protect Europe

00:07:48.160 before the end of the Second World War II. That's how the World War ended. We went in and protected

00:07:53.020 Europe. By the way, that's how the First World War ended, too. So it's ridiculous. Of course,

00:07:58.660 Europe cannot defend itself without America. Europe is, for all intents and purposes, 0.63

00:08:03.180 a series of colonies of the United States. Europe's older. Europe gave birth to the United States.

00:08:08.960 England, the UK gave birth to the United States. But now we're the big dog. That's just how it works.

00:08:13.380 And Trump doesn't want anyone to forget it. Not just the Europeans, but even the snow Mexicans who 1.00

00:08:18.880 live in America's evil top hat of Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They

00:08:25.140 should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful.

00:08:31.540 But they should be grateful to us. Canada, Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that,

00:08:37.860 Mark, the next time you make your statements? I love it so much. Trump here does sound a little

00:08:43.500 bit tired. You've got to remember, the guy essentially pulled an all-nighter. He flies over

00:08:47.340 to Davos. He's in this other country whirlwind tour, just constantly running. Certainly seems more

00:08:54.700 sprightly than all the other guys at Davos. But what I love about, you hear a little touch of lethargy

00:08:59.460 in the voice. And it makes him sound like Don Corleone. You should be grateful. We never ask

00:09:06.700 anything to you. You come here on the day that my daughter is to be married, and you don't even have

00:09:11.260 the courtesy to call me godfather. You better remember that I've been very good to you.

00:09:18.540 I cannot grant your request, snow Mexicans. You tell me not to take Greenland. That I cannot do. 1.00

00:09:27.060 I love this because, not just because I'm of a certain, you know, a descendant of the Mezzogiorno

00:09:33.820 in America, but because this is the reality. We're the big dogs. It's not the World Economic

00:09:41.720 Forum and the United Nations and the liberal international system. Involves a lot of fictions,

00:09:51.300 a lot of pretenses, a lot of what they might call noble lies. One of them being that every country

00:09:56.960 in the world is basically just the same. You know, we're all basically equal. But that's not

00:10:03.460 true. That's not how politics really works. And that's never been true. We've never really

00:10:08.980 operated that way. It's just a kind of a lie. And so Trump wants to remind people of the truth.

00:10:15.480 And in a way, people are going to, people, myself included, are going to, you know, describe this as

00:10:20.360 him talking kind of like a mafioso, like a little Don Corleone. But really, he's speaking like an

00:10:27.200 emperor. He's speaking like the leader. I'll put it even more precisely. He's speaking like the leader

00:10:32.640 of a great power, which we are. And it's good that he's speaking that way because that is reality.

00:10:40.240 And this is a crucial point that a lot of utopians on the left and the right don't want to admit.

00:10:47.540 Politics works better when we acknowledge reality, even if there are realities that we don't want to

00:10:55.100 admit, whether we're on the left or the right. Even when there are realities that offend our ideology,

00:11:02.460 such as the disparity in power between different nations, such as great nations pursuing their

00:11:07.460 interests. The left especially doesn't like that. Or whether it's the reality that you can't have

00:11:14.700 too much inequality in a democratic nation such as ours. The reality, I'll go even further, that the

00:11:21.340 palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. That's a political reality that offends, especially

00:11:26.640 libertarians and ideological free marketeers on the right. But you got to deal with reality.

00:11:31.700 Otherwise, you can have problems. You have revolutions, you have revolts, you're going to,

00:11:34.940 you're not going to flourish. So what's that all lead us to? Back to the Greenland point.

00:11:41.220 Trump goes in, they say, you're never getting Greenland. You're never getting what you want.

00:11:44.120 This is outrageous. It's going to dissolve NATO. It's going to destroy the world.

00:11:47.060 What does Trump announce less than 24 hours after being in Davos? We have a framework to get Greenland.

00:11:52.680 The USA gets everything we wanted, including especially real national security and international

00:12:01.640 security. Well, the deal is going to be put out pretty soon. We'll see. It's right now a little

00:12:09.240 bit in progress, but pretty far along. It gets us everything we needed to get.

00:12:13.520 Will the U.S. still get Greenland? Will the U.S. still get Greenland, sir?

00:12:16.580 What did Mark Root say that convinced you? What did Mark Root say?

00:12:21.800 Well, he's a great leader. I think he's fantastic. The Secretary General was representing the other

00:12:27.660 side, which is really us too, because, you know, we're a very important member of NATO.

00:12:32.200 I've done a lot for NATO. And it's really nice. I mean, it's a deal that everybody's very happy

00:12:37.140 with.

00:12:37.340 Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you said you wanted?

00:12:46.360 It's a long-term deal. It's the ultimate long-term deal. I think it puts everybody in a really

00:12:53.980 good position. How long will the deal be, Mr. President?

00:12:58.940 Infinite.

00:13:00.520 Okay, wow, there's a lot here. There's a lot here. This is what I love about Trump's rhetoric,

00:13:06.240 is you get all the bombast, all the stuff that gets the views, all the stuff that gets the clicks.

00:13:10.040 But then, keep listening. There is a lot of sophistication going on here.

00:13:14.380 I say, are you going to get NATO? Or are you going to get Greenland? He says, yeah. Yeah,

00:13:18.620 we are. We're getting everything we need. In other words, do we really want Greenland to become the

00:13:24.220 51st state? No. Are we really going to have, I've joked about this for days, are we going to have F-35s

00:13:30.200 flying over, piloted by Don Rumsfeld, you know, dropping bombs on nuke? No, obviously not.

00:13:34.560 But we need to secure Greenland. We need to secure the Arctic from our geopolitical adversaries,

00:13:42.120 especially as the prospect of regional or global war increases. And we're the only power that can

00:13:46.620 do it. Denmark just can't do it. So we need that control. Who is our, ostensibly our adversary here?

00:13:54.320 I guess it's NATO. It's the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, as you heard him reference.

00:13:59.520 He says he's sort of on the other side, but he's sort of on our side because we run NATO.

00:14:02.320 Guys, come on, let's dispel with this fiction that NATO is just some entity outside of where it's the,

00:14:09.280 it's the expansion of the American empire is what it is. NATO was founded in order to

00:14:15.680 organize the American empire against Russia, which organized its empire according to the Warsaw Pact.

00:14:22.240 And we're going to work it out. Are you going to acquire NATO? Are you going to acquire Greenland?

00:14:30.080 Sorry. And he says, it's good. We're going to get what we need. We're going to have the,

00:14:35.040 it's not like we need to have it in name. We don't need the 51st state, but we need the control.

00:14:42.560 And so it's going to be a long-term deal. What does this mean? We've already occupied and controlled

00:14:46.740 Greenland. The last time Denmark couldn't defend it because Denmark got overrun by Hitler. And then 0.68

00:14:52.040 we had to go beat Hitler to save Europe the first time, the second time, actually. So we are where

00:14:59.100 we are, guys. This is the political reality, but it's going to be a long-term deal. Maybe that allows

00:15:05.200 Denmark or Europe to save face. How long? And then he gets it in there at the end. Infinite.

00:15:11.720 And what is he, he says, guys, don't worry about the details. It's that great description of Trump,

00:15:18.620 which is don't take him literally, but take him seriously. He goes, look, what do we really want

00:15:23.960 here? We're going to control Greenland. We're just gonna, we're gonna. However, we need to

00:15:30.560 gussy that up and describe it to make everyone feel good about it, whatever. Just letting you know,

00:15:36.660 we're going to control Greenland. And now NATO comes out and says, yeah, yeah, basically that's

00:15:41.560 right. Basically, that's right. So moving from Greenland, Trump then also goes further

00:15:47.840 and rewrites potentially the world order by creating an organization that could replace

00:15:53.100 the United Nations. The United Nations, the most prominent liberal globalist organization in the

00:15:58.460 world. He announces an organization that certainly could replace it at Davos, which is the annual

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00:17:25.240 Okay. One last point on Greenland. He posted this to Truth Social. And it's another important

00:17:30.720 little subtle thing that makes clear Trump's broader political strategy. He says, look,

00:17:37.520 had a great productive meeting with the Secretary General of NATO. With respect to Greenland,

00:17:41.400 we have this great framework set up. Further information will be made available as discussions

00:17:47.180 progress. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff,

00:17:51.880 and various others as needed and will be responsible for the negotiations. They'll report to me. Thank

00:17:55.400 you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The key four words here, Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:18:04.460 That's the key. Because as Trump is making these huge moves in the world, taking out Maduro and

00:18:09.980 Venezuela, everyone has all the memes about Marco Rubio getting all these extra jobs.

00:18:14.800 Some of the enemies of the Trump administration have come out and tried to sow discord. This

00:18:21.240 administration is working extraordinarily well all together, but they're trying to sow discord.

00:18:25.800 They're saying, well, Marco is kind of the face of taking out Maduro because he's the Secretary of

00:18:29.920 State. He was working on this. And even just because of presidential protocols, J.D. Vance wasn't in the

00:18:35.300 room literally when it took place. Ooh, maybe Marco Rubio will be the nominee in 28,

00:18:42.900 even though Rubio has already endorsed J.D. Vance. Maybe Trump is cutting out the Vice President,

00:18:48.220 even though Trump has expressed his confidence in him consistently. What this is all about

00:18:53.360 from the left is trying to sow division within the Trump administration. And then sometimes when

00:18:58.580 you're hearing these rumblings from the right, it's just the usual malcontents who are trying to 0.79

00:19:03.640 jockey for power who don't like that MAGA beat them even 10 years ago. So what does Trump do?

00:19:09.900 Just a few words in there. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to take Greenland. This is the

00:19:13.440 next huge foreign policy move from the United States, in many ways, much more significant than

00:19:18.300 Venezuela. And who am I going to put in charge of the negotiations? And he goes in, he doesn't cut

00:19:23.160 out Rubio. Why would he cut out Rubio? Rubio is amazing. But he just sets it up again. The Vice

00:19:28.580 President, I'm putting him in charge of the negotiations, followed by Marco Rubio. In keeping

00:19:36.620 with President Trump, what he said months ago on Air Force One, he says, oh, I hope JD and Marco run

00:19:40.320 as a ticket. I don't want them to be in opposition. I want them to work together. I hope Marco stays

00:19:44.720 Secretary of State forever. JD, Marco, and Steve Witkoff, and, and, and. It's a subtle little bit,

00:19:53.440 but it corrects the messaging, makes it very difficult for Trump's enemies on the left to

00:19:58.000 so that division and the, and even some of the malcontents on the right. Okay. So turn from

00:20:03.760 Greenland to Gaza. And really zoom out from Gaza, look at the entire world order. Trump announces at

00:20:10.460 Davos a new organization called the Board of Peace.

00:20:15.740 As part of this historic record of major peace initiatives, today we're announcing more details

00:20:22.220 regarding the Board of Peace, so important. This board has the chance to be one of the most

00:20:27.740 consequential bodies ever created. And it's my enormous honor to serve as its chairman. I was

00:20:33.820 very honored when they asked me to do it. We had an idea to do it. Okay, the Board of Peace,

00:20:39.820 he's announcing it, he's going to be the chairman. What is the Board of Peace? This sounds like something

00:20:43.140 out of a cartoon or a comic book. The Board of Peace, it's so vague. What's it really about?

00:20:47.880 Trump explains in the hallway. That's about being concerned, Mr. President,

00:20:52.960 about Russia trying to come and take over Greenland. If you're worried that Putin would

00:20:56.680 do something like that, why invite him to join your Board of Peace?

00:21:00.140 Because we want everybody. We want all nations. We want all nations where people have control, 0.79

00:21:05.560 people have power. That way we're never going to have a problem. This is the greatest board ever

00:21:09.860 assembled. And everybody wants to be on it. But yeah, I have some controversial people on it,

00:21:15.420 but these are people that get the job done. These are people that have tremendous influence.

00:21:20.500 But all babies on the board, there wouldn't be very much. So he was invited. He's accepted. 0.86

00:21:27.580 Many people have accepted. I think, I don't know of anybody that hasn't accepted.

00:21:31.680 But it's going to be great. I think the Board of Peace will be the most prestigious board ever.

00:21:35.380 And it's going to get a lot of work done that the United Nations should have done.

00:21:39.460 And we'll work with the United Nations. But the Board of Peace is going to be special.

00:21:42.880 We're going to have peace. It started off with Gaza, the Middle East. We've got peace in the

00:21:46.980 Middle East. Tremendous peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible. And that happened 1.00

00:21:51.340 by taking out the Iran nuclear threat. Without that, it could have never happened. 0.92

00:21:56.780 Ton of information here from the top. Why would Trump invite Russia,

00:22:00.440 which has been our geopolitical adversary, has ICBMs pointed at us? Why would he invite them to be on

00:22:05.620 the Board of Peace? Because the Board of Peace is supposed to be a global body.

00:22:13.340 If we only invited our friends, it would just be NATO. What would be the point of that? We already

00:22:19.060 have one of those. What is the Board of Peace? If we're inviting people like Russia to join it, 0.98

00:22:25.120 the Board of Peace is an international body that even includes people who have long been enemies

00:22:30.320 to try to establish peaceful relations. That sounds a lot like the UN, doesn't it?

00:22:37.580 Pretty clear to me, the Board of Peace is a replacement UN. The problem with the UN is not that we have

00:22:43.660 an international body that is trying to interpret and enforce international law and establish

00:22:48.280 conditions of global peace. That's all the good stuff about the UN. The problem is it doesn't do it.

00:22:52.720 The problem is that the UN was founded as a fever dream, as the successor to the League of Nations

00:22:58.620 by the feckless leftist Woodrow Wilson, and it's just a liberal nonsense. So we don't like them.

00:23:07.120 The UN tries to undermine American power and influence. Forget about them. We're going to

00:23:12.080 find the good UN. That's my read on it. I don't have any insider info from the administration. That's

00:23:17.120 my read on it. That's what the Board of Peace is. So of course we want to invite Russia. 0.59

00:23:21.460 Now, Russia has said they might join. It costs a billion bucks to join, but they have one big

00:23:28.080 holdup. They say that they can pay their initiation fee using money that was frozen by the United

00:23:33.900 States, by the Biden administration. So they're saying, yeah, we'll pay up, but only with the

00:23:37.480 money you already took from us. But then they say, but you need to support Palestinian statehood,

00:23:42.360 which is something that the UN has called for. And that might be a little bit of a holdup

00:23:47.800 because the United States does not support Palestinian statehood, because the immediate

00:23:54.040 realpolitik, very tangible cause of the Board of Peace is the Israel-Gaza conflict. And why?

00:24:04.060 Because the Israel-Gaza conflict is in many ways, not in all ways, but in many ways, just a proxy for

00:24:09.980 the great power conflict between the United States and Russia, as well as other powers.

00:24:15.540 Because in that conflict between the US and Russia, the state of Israel is seen as an outgrowth,

00:24:23.560 even a colony of the American empire, which it kind of is. And the cause of Palestinian statehood

00:24:28.840 is seen as a proxy or an outgrowth of the cause of Russian power, which it largely is.

00:24:35.640 This is one of the reasons why, as we talk about, not the theological or the philosophical historical,

00:24:44.760 but the realpolitik issues that come into play in the Middle East. This is one of the reasons that

00:24:52.680 Israel becomes such a flashpoint. One of the reasons that the people like Greta Thunberg wears a keffia, 1.00

00:24:59.360 one of the reasons that the people who protest Western imperialism and white supremacy and,

00:25:05.380 you know, America and all the rest. One of the reasons that they get so into the Palestinian 1.00

00:25:09.840 cause is because it all just involves a common enemy. This is how you get gays for Palestine. 0.99

00:25:18.300 And then we all joke in a sophomoric way, we say, well, we should send those gays for Palestine to 1.00

00:25:23.860 Gaza. They'll get thrown off a roof in three seconds. Yeah, that's not the point. Yeah, 1.00

00:25:28.240 they don't agree on almost anything except their common enemy. So it's no surprise that that's the,

00:25:34.760 that's the sticking point. All the more reason to invite Russia to join. And it looks pretty good. 0.82

00:25:41.860 Trump's done a good job at this. You know, what's funny is a lot of Europe doesn't want to join this.

00:25:45.900 The UK has said no. France has said no. Norway has said no, because they want to protect the UN.

00:25:50.440 Ukraine is a likely no. But a lot of the Middle Eastern countries are on board.

00:25:54.980 Israel is on board, though they couldn't show up because Switzerland says they'd arrest them and send 0.95

00:25:58.240 Bibi Netanyahu to the ICC, the International Criminal Court. But a lot of the Middle Eastern 0.55

00:26:03.680 countries are on board. It's amazing. Trump got Qatar and Israel to the table. And a lot of other

00:26:09.060 Middle Eastern countries, too. And good European leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary.

00:26:15.080 So it's good. It's impressive. It's a smart way forward. I'm very into it. And if this could

00:26:20.080 replace the UN, all the better. One point on it, though, apparently the United States has invited

00:26:24.320 the Pope to be a part of the Board of Peace, I think that's a bad idea for the Pope to accept.

00:26:29.620 Not that the Pope asks for my advice, but I think it's a bad idea. Because the Pope is not just one

00:26:35.220 national leader among others. He's not going to sit at the table, even with good national political

00:26:41.460 leaders. The Pope's authority is chiefly a spiritual authority. The papal states don't exist anymore.

00:26:50.480 The Pope's temporal authority is quite limited. It's limited to a few blocks in Rome.

00:26:56.560 But his spiritual authority is far greater. It sits far above the musings and ideologies of the

00:27:04.640 various political heads. So I just don't think it makes a lot of sense. I mean, I go back to Dante,

00:27:09.340 when Dante writes in Monarchia on the split between the spiritual power and the temporal power. He says,

00:27:16.540 look, it's not that there's no relation between the two. The political power, though, should be

00:27:20.620 illuminated by spiritual authority. The Pope should be able to provide a kind of illumination

00:27:26.680 of these political issues that then the temporal heads of state can work out. In any case, it's good

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00:28:55.360 Newsom shows up. Newsom shows up. He has this to say in Davos. This is before

00:29:00.780 President Trump spoke. This is yesterday morning or even the evening before,

00:29:06.600 depending on how you score the time in Europe. This is Gavin Newsom, an American governor,

00:29:15.200 just absolutely trashing the American president on foreign soil.

00:29:20.500 Newsom, do you have a message for Europeans who are concerned about messages from the White 0.56

00:29:24.940 House around Greenland this week? Yeah, it's time to buck up. It's time to get serious

00:29:30.820 and stop being complicit. I've seen this in the United States, the supine Congress playing both

00:29:36.760 sides, you know, saying one thing on a text or a tweet, another publicly. People rolling over.

00:29:43.520 I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns

00:29:48.900 and handing out, I mean, this is pathetic. Nobel Prizes, they're being given away. I mean, 0.95

00:29:53.900 it's just pathetic. Diplomacy with Donald Trump? He's a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you. 0.99

00:30:01.060 One or the other. And you're speaking about? No, Europeans could be if they continue to 1.00

00:30:05.960 look down this path and process. They need to stand tall, stand firm, stand united.

00:30:11.520 Okay, before we get to the sex fantasies, notice from the top how unseemly this is. This would have

00:30:17.920 been disqualifying for an American politician even 20 years ago. This guy shows up and trashes the

00:30:24.280 leader of the United States on foreign soil. That was a big no-no. Some of the Zoomers in the audience 1.00

00:30:28.720 won't even remember that. That was a huge no-no. That norm has been totally shattered.

00:30:34.280 But it's unseemly, nevertheless. So he goes there, he trashes not only the American president,

00:30:38.780 he tells America's negotiating adversaries to undermine the US policy.

00:30:46.200 When it comes to whether or not the US will acquire Greenland for the defense of the United

00:30:50.460 States, he says, yeah, you better not give it to America. Yeah, screw America. America shouldn't

00:30:55.780 get what it wants. And by the way, it's not even that it's just a Trump priority. The US has been

00:30:59.860 trying to acquire Greenland since the 19th century. This has been a priority of the United States for

00:31:05.940 purposes of national security since the 19th century, over 150 years ago. We've tried to

00:31:11.780 buy it multiple times throughout the 20th century. This is a longstanding American interest.

00:31:17.780 And this anti-American scum shows up on foreign soil and tells the people that we're negotiating 0.99

00:31:24.780 with, hey, don't give America what it wants. Screw America. Disgusting. I mean, really disgusting. 1.00

00:31:30.220 I make fun of Newsom, and sometimes I give him credit for being such a slippery, slick politician. 0.93

00:31:34.780 But this is deeply unpatriotic. This is treasonous behavior on foreign soil.

00:31:40.280 Now, back to making fun of him. He then starts getting into this weird sex stuff. 0.60

00:31:45.120 So first he says, I should have brought knee pads for you people.

00:31:48.720 And there's a way to read that that's somewhat wholesome. And there's a way to read that that is

00:31:52.300 obscene and sexual. And it's unclear. He's such a slippery politician. It's unclear what he's going for at

00:31:58.000 first. Because you need to stand up. You shouldn't be on your knees. Oh, you could be on your knees,

00:32:03.380 you know, bowing before an emperor or something. But then he makes clear that he's implying the

00:32:09.220 obscene sexual connotation. He says, you know, Trump is a T-Rex. You either mate with him or he 0.99

00:32:13.900 devours you. First of all, what? We're mixing a lot of metaphors here. I didn't know that that's

00:32:19.940 how T-Rexes interacted with people. I don't think that's terribly characteristic of T-Rexes. I'm not sure

00:32:27.880 that anyone knows that. But when he says, yeah, you know, he's just trying to copulate with you.

00:32:35.000 Then the implication of getting down on your knees, Europeans, is much clearer. So it's gross. 1.00

00:32:41.420 It's grotesque. He's a pervert. He's treasonous. It's just disgusting. He's a disgusting person. 1.00

00:32:48.400 Then he shows up. He has the audacity to get on stage. So that was just in the hallway. He gets 1.00

00:32:54.380 on stage at the World Economic Forum and doubles down. You know, the new Trump signature series

00:33:00.160 knee pads. Yeah, and they are available online. I told you, the last one sold out.

00:33:06.640 And I just wanna sort of- This is a serious moment. It actually,

00:33:10.660 we laugh. Anyway, these are available and in bulk too. But I wanna read you a couple of things the

00:33:17.280 US government has said about you in the last 20- Now notice what he's doing here.

00:33:20.860 He's not just going out and making fun of Trump personally or from the perspective of partisan

00:33:27.060 domestic American politics. Like, hey, I'm selling big dumb Trump hair wigs. Go to Gavin Newsom.com 0.99

00:33:34.620 and buy this wig making fun of Trump's hair or something like that. He's selling the knee pads

00:33:40.640 because the joke is he's making fun of Europe for giving America what it wants.

00:33:47.840 It's not just a personality thing. He's not just making a point that is particular to Donald

00:33:55.660 Trump or even the Republican Party. He is mocking Europe for potentially giving to America what it

00:34:05.440 has desired as a matter of national security and grand strategy for 150 years. This is treasonous.

00:34:13.140 I don't think it's really gonna play. Some of the jokes about Trump will play. This though,

00:34:17.740 he looks like Jane Fonda sitting at the anti-aircraft guns pretending to shoot at

00:34:23.260 American airplanes. I mean, this is deeply traitorous, treasonous stuff.

00:34:29.420 And look, it'll play with his base, I guess, because his base hates America.

00:34:33.740 And they don't wave the American flag. They prefer every flag on Earth. The gay flag, 1.00

00:34:38.020 the Palestinian flag, the BLM flag. They prefer every flag to the American flag. And they often 1.00

00:34:42.560 light the American flag on fire. But is this gonna play with moderates? I thought he was supposed to

00:34:47.580 be the moderate candidate. He's gonna be the new Bill Clinton. I don't think so. Scott Besson comes

00:34:51.800 out, the greatest treasury secretary since Alexander Hamilton. He shows up and just rips into Newsom.

00:34:59.500 I think it's very, very ironic that, you know, Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman

00:35:09.360 meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:35:18.040 He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros. And the Davos is the perfect place

00:35:26.280 for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to

00:35:32.040 church, he was having thousand dollar a night meals at the French laundry. And I'm sure the

00:35:37.440 California people won't forget that. And I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump

00:35:43.820 administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:35:49.540 You know what I love about Besson? You know what I love about Besson?

00:35:55.280 He's extremely intelligent. He's obviously extremely intelligent, very competent, a very

00:35:59.580 serious financial professional. So his IQ is several standard deviations above the average in

00:36:05.200 Washington, D.C. No doubt about it. But he's also a very witty, tough guy. He's like a tough guy.

00:36:13.880 He's the kind of guy, he's a lot of economists especially are just, you know, ivory tower kind

00:36:19.480 of academic type scholar types who don't, you know, they've never been in a fist fight in their

00:36:23.920 life. Besson, you can imagine him alternately schooling you on economic policy and just punching

00:36:32.900 your head in in a locker or something. He manages both. And he's got this kind of wry wit because he's 0.89

00:36:39.160 intelligent. And he turns it on you because he's brutal. He says, yeah, he's Patrick Bateman meets

00:36:45.560 Sparkle Beach Barbie, Sparkle Beach Ken. But this guy, he's a joker because his economic policies are

00:36:52.300 even worse than Kamala Harris. And then he explains what he's achieving at the World Economic Forum.

00:36:58.280 Notice here, totally different situation from the governor of some state going and attacking the

00:37:03.800 president of the United States on foreign soil and undermining longstanding American grand

00:37:08.360 strategy on foreign soil. All he does, he, he's a little tough, but this is a minor politician in

00:37:14.540 America, smacks him for his looks and moves on. It's appropriate, it's brutal, it's effective. And 0.93

00:37:21.300 Newsom clutches his pearls. The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach

00:37:29.620 Ken, the White House communications director. That was the U.S. Secretary of Treasury.

00:37:36.680 I have a couple more and then, and then you can respond. The White House communications

00:37:40.380 director called you Gavin Newsom. Newsom? And an official White House account,

00:37:46.560 you know, federal government account described you with a, I'd say very online sexual slur that

00:37:51.680 people here probably don't want to hear at 830 in the morning. And you're in some sense responding

00:37:55.500 in kind and so forth. Fight fire with fire. Do you think? Yeah, we gotta fight fire with fire. So

00:38:01.480 here he even, he contradicts himself. Because first of all, this is the guy who rolls up making

00:38:08.240 fellatio jokes about the president of the United States on foreign soil. This is a guy who obviously 0.97

00:38:14.380 is sick in the head when it comes to sex stuff. He's the guy who said he wants to see more trans kids. 1.00

00:38:18.600 I think the very online sexual slur there, I was like, what slur is he saying? Is it,

00:38:24.800 you know, the word for cigarettes in Britain? Is it homo? Is it, what's he saying? I realized, 0.96

00:38:30.060 oh, I think it's groomer. But he is a groomer. Newsom is a groomer. He says, I want to see more

00:38:34.700 trans kids, literally, verbatim. You're a groomer if you want to see more trans kids. 1.00

00:38:40.660 So that's all true. And so he clutches his pearls at first. Can you believe the secretary would call me

00:38:46.340 Patrick Bateman and Sparkle Beach Canada? Bro, you rolled up to Davos making fellatio jokes about 0.97

00:38:52.400 the president. And so then the interviewer says, well, hold on. You've been doing that too 0.98

00:38:59.440 in a more egregious way. And then Newsom gets very serious. Well, fight fire with fire. Well,

00:39:04.000 hold on. Is it appropriate or is it inappropriate? Is it seemly or is it unseemly? This is Newsom's

00:39:10.340 big political problem. He doesn't know who he is. This is always Newsom's problem.

00:39:14.120 One day, Monday morning, Newsom wants to be the moderate. Bill Clinton, new Democrat,

00:39:20.420 friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Tuesday, he's calling Stephen Miller a fascist

00:39:25.080 and calling for more trans kids. He doesn't know what he wants to. He's flipping back and forth 0.61

00:39:28.760 because he's not really anything. He doesn't really believe in anything. He's an empty suit and some

00:39:35.240 pomade. But it's not going to sell. At some point, he's going to have to pick a lane.

00:39:41.980 It's somebody who's going to have to pick a lane if he wants that nomination. Now,

00:39:45.780 speaking of weird sex stuff, the UK has just done something of a flip-flop. The UK National

00:39:50.800 Health Service has just proclaimed that marrying your cousin is actually a good thing.

00:39:55.180 Wonder why they did that. Three years ago, we announced the most ambitious project the Daily

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00:40:24.240 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

00:40:28.560 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:40:39.360 Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:40:46.960 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:40:50.280 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.

00:40:53.520 Princess Garrus, the saviour of our people.

00:41:00.200 I know what the bull god offered you.

00:41:02.740 I was offered the same.

00:41:04.700 And?

00:41:06.220 There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.

00:41:10.320 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:41:13.060 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:41:15.800 No.

00:41:16.920 And we're given another.

00:41:17.700 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00

00:41:23.080 And I have become his follower.

00:41:24.960 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:41:26.500 And I think you can give him one.

00:41:28.540 Trust in Yazoo.

00:41:29.860 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:41:32.800 Faith to Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.

00:41:35.800 Great light?

00:41:36.940 Great darkness?

00:41:38.380 Such things mattered to me then.

00:41:40.780 What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?

00:41:44.580 You. 0.97

00:41:46.120 Nephew.

00:41:46.560 The sword of a high king.

00:41:53.400 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:42:01.120 So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:42:04.360 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:42:07.140 You know what you must do.

00:42:10.620 Great light, forgive me.

00:42:16.560 The time has come to be reborn.

00:42:27.120 My favorite comment from yesterday is from the Don Palumbo.

00:42:29.560 It says, I've been really wondering why the Christmas decorations are still up.

00:42:32.440 Lol.

00:42:33.920 Because it's not February 2nd yet.

00:42:36.620 That's why.

00:42:37.200 Why would I, I don't think, is it February, Professor, are you there?

00:42:42.660 Hello, Mr. Davies, is anyone there?

00:42:45.580 Is anybody in the control room?

00:42:47.340 No, it's just me.

00:42:48.160 It's me in the audience today.

00:42:49.360 I'm here.

00:42:49.880 You're here.

00:42:50.640 Oh, that's good.

00:42:51.300 Professor woke up.

00:42:52.900 Professor Jacob, is it February 2nd?

00:42:55.980 Let me check my calendar.

00:42:56.980 No, it's not.

00:42:59.700 So that's why they're still up.

00:43:01.940 Because some people mistakenly, they think that Christmas occurs during Advent.

00:43:07.340 That's not when Christmas occurs.

00:43:10.220 Advent is the awaiting, the coming of, we anticipate the coming of Christmas.

00:43:15.700 And Christmas happens, and it lasts in church for eight days, the octave of Christmas.

00:43:21.460 It lasts in Christmas carols for 12 days, when my true love gives to me all sorts of fun things.

00:43:26.760 And then it lasts traditionally until candlemas.

00:43:31.400 We want to hurry everything up here.

00:43:33.760 We want to start putting our Christmas decorations up at Halloween these days.

00:43:36.600 No.

00:43:37.700 Not appropriate.

00:43:39.980 And by the way, it may, I just want, I know I've belabored this point many times.

00:43:42.920 It makes sense to put your decorations up later, obviously.

00:43:48.560 First the fast and then the feast, not first the feast and then the hangover.

00:43:52.080 Christmas begins on the 25th, so that's when we put our Christmas decorations up.

00:43:56.220 But even beyond that, we think, at least I do, I think of Christmas decorations with the snow and the fun and the winter.

00:44:03.720 So why would we put it up in November or even October in some cases and take it down, sometimes before the first snow even hits?

00:44:10.980 You leave it up through candlemas.

00:44:13.580 Have I made my point clear?

00:44:17.220 I hope so.

00:44:18.040 Okay.

00:44:19.420 We turn now to weird sex stuff in the UK, which has just announced this.

00:44:26.380 Britain's National Health Service says marriage and procreation between first cousins can be beneficial,

00:44:34.160 and the risks have been, quote, exaggerated.

00:44:37.200 New documents show that the NHS guidance to midwives states 15% of cousin couples have children that are affected by genetic conditions,

00:44:47.400 compared to just 3% of children born to unrelated parents.

00:44:52.080 However, the guidelines then go on to describe the benefits of cousin marriages,

00:44:57.240 saying it can provide financial and social security and generate collective social capital.

00:45:03.240 Sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are some of the genetic issues more common among the children of closely related parents.

00:45:13.840 So the downsides is your kids are much, much, much more susceptible to a whole host of genetic problems.

00:45:21.620 But the upside is, at least you've known each other a long time, and you know the in-laws, because it's your aunt and uncle.

00:45:30.860 So, like, you've got to balance it out, right?

00:45:34.380 No.

00:45:35.020 The downside is your kid is going to have a ton of problems.

00:45:38.920 The upside is we won't offend the Pakistanis who have taken over our country. 1.00

00:45:42.940 But that's really what this is about, because upwards of half of Pakistanis in some migrant communities marry their cousins.

00:45:50.980 That's a cultural tradition that we in the West got rid of.

00:45:54.940 And we got rid of it because the Catholic Church told us to in the 11th century.

00:46:00.820 Cousin marriage has been a norm for all of history everywhere.

00:46:03.540 But we got rid of it for all sorts of reasons, but one of the consequences is our just genetic population has been a lot healthier because of that.

00:46:16.220 So the church in the 11th century says, hey, you've got to stop marrying your cousins.

00:46:20.720 It's not good.

00:46:22.080 And then this is formally declared, more formally declared at the Fourth Lateran Council.

00:46:28.120 And that endured for a very, very long time until, guess who?

00:46:32.240 Guess who?

00:46:32.860 Speaking of the UK and weird sex stuff, guess who first upended the ban on cousin marriage?

00:46:39.280 It was not the Pakistanis. 0.99

00:46:41.240 Don't blame the Muslims for everything.

00:46:42.760 It was not the Paki's. 1.00

00:46:44.960 It was one of the worst men ever to live and one of the main causes of the collapse of Western civilization. 1.00

00:46:54.120 He was a big, fat jerk. 1.00

00:46:56.140 Do you know who it is yet? 1.00

00:46:57.060 You probably do.

00:46:59.060 None other than Henry VIII.

00:47:01.560 Henry VIII is the one.

00:47:02.740 Henry VIII upended the ban on cousin marriage.

00:47:07.660 He did.

00:47:08.780 He did it.

00:47:10.320 Why? 0.99

00:47:10.940 Because he was a weird sex freak. 0.99

00:47:13.460 It wasn't even just that. 0.99

00:47:14.620 He was a weird sex freak in that he decided to destroy Western Christendom because he really, really wanted to have a divorce. 0.95

00:47:21.020 And Christianity universally understood up until that very moment said, you can't get divorced. 0.96

00:47:28.120 Now, some people who are baptized Christians say you can get divorced.

00:47:31.020 But the longstanding tradition of the church and the understanding of our Lord's words in the gospel and the authoritative voice of the successors of the apostles is you can't get divorced.

00:47:42.480 And Henry VIII said, I would rather destroy Christendom than not get divorced.

00:47:48.040 So is it any wonder?

00:47:49.760 Is this like how the moment you start to weaken sexual mores, it's not that you just stop.

00:47:57.300 You're going to say, okay, we're going to redefine marriage and then we're just going to stop right there.

00:48:00.420 The minute you do that, then you get a whole host of other sexual degeneracy, like the throuples and all the rest of it. 0.97

00:48:06.200 So anyway, not great.

00:48:10.120 Not great.

00:48:11.120 And obviously, this recent announcement is pure politics.

00:48:13.740 They're not even trying to make a scientific or medical case for it.

00:48:16.740 They say, oh, it leads to some social benefits.

00:48:19.260 Like you get to hang out with your aunt and uncle more often, I guess.

00:48:22.860 But you can't only blame it on.

00:48:25.680 The problem was caused by Henry VIII.

00:48:29.040 It was then helped along by mass migration, was accelerated by the Pakistanis, and it's going to lead to lots more problems in the UK. 1.00

00:48:40.360 The physical problems afflicting the UK population will no longer just be the teeth.

00:48:45.440 There will be other issues.

00:48:46.340 Okay, before we go, I move from the UK back to America, still to matters of religion, though.

00:48:54.920 Fernando Mendoza, I have to talk about this.

00:48:56.560 People have been coming up to me to talk about Fernando Mendoza for a while now, and I don't, I had no idea what they were talking about.

00:49:05.160 And they're talking about Indiana and this and the SEC and this and a priest and this, and I have no idea.

00:49:12.180 I'm like a deer in the headlights.

00:49:13.580 What do I know?

00:49:14.680 First of all, I'm not the biggest athlete in the world, as I think some of you know.

00:49:19.180 And I do like sports.

00:49:20.620 I think sports are good.

00:49:22.200 I like them abstractly.

00:49:23.420 And I do like them particularly in as much as I like baseball, specifically New York Yankees baseball.

00:49:28.860 Other than that, though, I don't, I don't know.

00:49:31.940 I'm friends with some professional football players, but, and they're great guys, but I don't know anything about, I don't, I just don't know.

00:49:39.240 What do you want?

00:49:39.760 You want me to pretend?

00:49:41.360 You want me to pretend that I'm some giga chat athlete?

00:49:43.680 I'm not.

00:49:44.120 I don't know.

00:49:44.460 I don't follow with that.

00:49:45.120 But anyway, Fernando Mendoza has managed to get even me to care about football.

00:49:51.600 He won some big game, I take it.

00:49:55.040 And he's super duper Catholic and has priests like bless the field and he goes to daily mass.

00:50:00.720 And he had this to say at a presser.

00:50:02.740 I would say my family is a very Catholic family and to have them as roll bottles and to see how they always, you know, circle back to their faith and how much, you know, God and Jesus has done in their lives. 0.97

00:50:14.740 And mine, especially this season is this season is the season I've gotten the closest to the most religious I've ever been.

00:50:21.040 And I think it's also been reflected by the success and really not the success, but also the platform to also praise God and to praise Jesus Christ.

00:50:28.780 And I would say this is a big part of myself and my identity.

00:50:32.580 And, you know, really just got to think the man upstairs.

00:50:36.260 Love this.

00:50:37.200 This is awesome.

00:50:38.240 Now, football players for a long time have been like, y'all, glory to God.

00:50:40.940 You know, they do like a point up in the sky during the end zone dance and everything.

00:50:44.520 But the way this kid's talking about it is way cooler, much more specific.

00:50:48.660 You can see humility and just kind of lightness radiates out of the kid.

00:50:54.140 He apparently goes to daily mass.

00:50:55.260 He leads team Bible studies.

00:50:56.440 It's great.

00:50:57.100 But the reason I find this politically relevant, one, you know, look, I hope this evangelizes people.

00:51:01.660 That's great.

00:51:02.380 But politically, too, people misunderstand something.

00:51:07.760 I think a lot of people look at this kid and they think of religion as an aspect of his life.

00:51:14.620 You know, he's a great football player.

00:51:16.520 And, oh, isn't that interesting and quirky?

00:51:18.660 And eccentric that he's very religious.

00:51:21.260 He's very Catholic.

00:51:22.960 But actually, it's the opposite.

00:51:27.480 We tend to think of religion as something that makes you better at what you're really out there for.

00:51:32.840 You know, oh, maybe his religion really makes him a better football player.

00:51:36.660 Maybe you being really religious makes you a better lawyer or doctor or dishwasher or I don't know, whatever it is. 0.99

00:51:45.440 It's the opposite.

00:51:46.440 And I think this kid is really showing that.

00:51:49.180 It's not that religion is some interesting aspect of his life that helps the football stuff.

00:51:57.060 It's that him being a great athlete is for the religious stuff.

00:52:03.880 He is doing everything that he does in his life, including be really good at football, for religion.

00:52:12.780 We tend to put the cart before the horse, but that's what it's for.

00:52:15.840 And that's what it has to be for.

00:52:18.520 I'm not just Bible thumping here.

00:52:20.540 I'm not just – but you need to get this.

00:52:23.220 As a matter of reason, I don't care if you're a skeptic or you're an atheist or whatever. 0.98

00:52:27.320 You have to understand, you are going to die. 0.98

00:52:32.180 We're all going to die.

00:52:33.900 We don't like to think about that in our modern life.

00:52:36.120 We don't even like to have funerals anymore, and we like to hide the dying and the dead away from us.

00:52:39.240 But nevertheless, you will die.

00:52:42.960 That fact is crucial when you're coming to conclusions about what your life is about.

00:52:47.860 Because if your life is about making a lot of money or getting really famous or being really good at football, if that's ultimately what your life is about, you will fail.

00:52:57.580 Because your money will go away.

00:52:59.320 Unrighteous mammon will just flitter away.

00:53:01.720 You can't take it with you.

00:53:03.100 Your fame will dissipate, and someone will be better at football than you.

00:53:06.500 Or football will disappear, so people will stop playing football in 200 years. 0.78

00:53:10.840 So if that's what your life is for, you're going to be a failure.

00:53:14.440 The reason that we can even think about these things is because we are hylomorphic.

00:53:21.120 We're body and soul.

00:53:22.760 And our body corrupts.

00:53:24.540 But our soul is rational and eternal.

00:53:28.360 So your end has to be beyond physical death.

00:53:34.560 Or it's all fake, and God doesn't exist, and heaven's not real, and hell's not real, and you're just going to take a dirt nap, and then, I don't know, I guess you'll be a hedonist or something.

00:53:43.340 But God does exist.

00:53:44.740 And we can know the existence of God with certainty from the natural world, using human reason.

00:53:50.220 And so that's what you have to think about.

00:53:51.660 It's kind of like, most people spend their whole day trying to avoid thinking about death.

00:53:56.940 And people take pills for that, and they go to useless therapy for that, and they do yoga, or I don't know, whatever it is.

00:54:03.220 We're a very anxious society, and it comes from the fear of death that we don't want to face.

00:54:09.000 You should wake up every single day.

00:54:10.800 I did it today, and I do it most days. 0.98

00:54:12.760 You should wake up every single day thinking about the fact that you will die.

00:54:18.220 That will make your day better.

00:54:19.740 You will have a happier day.

00:54:21.680 I mean it.

00:54:22.460 I mean it.

00:54:22.900 If you wake up and you say, hey, I'm going to die. 0.50

00:54:26.320 I'm going to die at some point, and it's probably going to involve some suffering, and it's going to make people sad, and it's, but I will die. 0.97

00:54:32.620 Maybe today.

00:54:34.820 I hope not, but maybe today.

00:54:37.180 Because it focuses you on everything else.

00:54:40.360 You have to say, okay, I'm going to wake up.

00:54:42.500 And what am I going to do?

00:54:43.500 From everything from how I eat breakfast, to how I do my job, to how I treat my wife and kids, to how I say my prayers before bed maybe, to how I, it all has to be in service of my ultimate aim.

00:54:59.300 If it's not, again, I'm not like being saccharine and Bible thumping here. 0.83

00:55:03.060 I'm being brutally realistic with you.

00:55:06.120 If the things that you do are not in service of your ultimate aim, which is to know God, to serve him in this world, and to be with him forever.

00:55:14.660 If it's not in service of your, which, show me, what's the alternative?

00:55:18.580 If you don't like that, if you don't like that answer, what's the alternative?

00:55:22.000 If what you do is not in service of your ultimate aim, you're just wasting your time.

00:55:27.420 That's what that kid is telling us in a delightful way, in not so many words, at this football press conference.

00:55:33.600 Okay.

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00:55:51.220 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

00:56:03.720 Is that who you think I was alone with?

00:56:09.820 Meriton, I knew your father.

00:56:12.300 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

00:56:17.380 All men know of the great Taliesin.

00:56:20.540 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.

00:56:25.140 Princess Garrus, saviour of our people.

00:56:30.660 I know what the bull god offered you.

00:56:33.180 I was offered the same.

00:56:35.160 And?

00:56:36.660 There is a new power at work in the world.

00:56:38.800 I've seen it.

00:56:40.980 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.

00:56:43.540 We are each given only one life, Singer.

00:56:46.300 No.

00:56:47.480 We're given another.

00:56:50.540 I learnt of Yezu the Christ. 0.54

00:56:53.540 And I have become his follower.

00:56:55.440 He's waiting on a miracle.

00:56:56.960 And I think you can give him one.

00:56:59.000 Trust in Yezu. 0.87

00:57:00.340 He is the only hope for men like us.

00:57:03.280 Faith of Britain never rests in the hands of the great life.

00:57:06.280 Great light?

00:57:07.400 Great darkness?

00:57:08.860 Such things mattered to me then. 0.62

00:57:11.320 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?

00:57:13.440 You, nephew. 0.84

00:57:19.900 The sword of the high king.

00:57:23.900 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?

00:57:31.480 So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.

00:57:34.860 I cannot take up that sword again.

00:57:36.620 You know what you must do.

00:57:41.300 Great light, forgive me.

00:57:50.000 The time has come to be reborn.

00:57:53.080 Thank you.

00:58:06.300 We'll be right back.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 22, 2026

Ep. 1896 - He Actually Did It： Trump Set To Get Greenland

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