The Michael Knowles Show - January 30, 2026


Ep. 1902 - BREAKING： Ex-CNN Host Don Lemon Arrested After Minnesota Church Protest


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Don Lemon arrested by the feds for his role in the Minnesota church protest? Is it too early to have a cigar? Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Michael Knowles ( ) Michael's Tweets: Breaking News: Don Lemon Arrested by Feds for His Role in The Minnesota Church Protester Demonstration Don't miss it!

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00:01:00.000 Welcome back to the show.
00:01:18.000 There is breaking news.
00:01:21.000 This is so much.
00:01:22.000 Maybe I'll just do my whole show on this story.
00:01:24.000 It's so beautifully delightful.
00:01:26.000 Don Lemon of CNN fame, of CNN infamy, former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who recently went viral for conspiring with a mob to invade a church during a worship service, has just been arrested by the federal government.
00:01:45.000 We will get to that wonderful story momentarily.
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00:02:44.000 Don Lemon.
00:02:46.000 Daily Wire reporting.
00:02:48.000 Don Lemon arrested by feds for role in the Minnesota church protest.
00:02:53.000 Is it too early to have a cigar?
00:02:55.000 Is it too early?
00:02:56.000 This is something I've been calling for for a little while now.
00:02:59.000 Maybe during one of our clips, maybe I'll spark up a cigar.
00:03:02.000 This is very good news.
00:03:03.000 And I wasn't sure, you know, look, I'm obviously a supporter of the administration, big Trump supporter.
00:03:08.000 I say they get it right 99.7% of the time.
00:03:12.000 There have been a few things where I've said, ah, I don't agree with that or that's not quite right.
00:03:15.000 I did not think they were going to do it.
00:03:18.000 I feared that the administration thought, look, we have a, we have these ringleaders dead to rights on the Minnesota invading a church, screaming in the faces of kids, violating the face act.
00:03:32.000 We got those guys dead to rights.
00:03:34.000 Don Lemon is going to claim some kind of journalist exemption, first amendment protection and pretend that he was merely a reporter covering the event rather than one of the conspirers of the event.
00:03:48.000 And so I thought the feds had said, you know what, never mind.
00:03:52.000 We're not going to go there.
00:03:53.000 Ladies and gentlemen, they got him.
00:03:56.000 According to Lemon's attorney, Abby Lowell, he was arrested and said, quote, the first amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.
00:04:09.000 There is no more important time for people like Don Lemon to be doing this work, to be doing this work.
00:04:14.000 What is this work?
00:04:16.000 This, this work is to violate federal law by disrupting church services, screaming in the faces of little kids.
00:04:26.000 What is this work?
00:04:27.000 So you knew that was going to be the defense first amendment.
00:04:30.000 First amendment.
00:04:31.000 However, this is a bogus defense.
00:04:34.000 You cannot commit a crime and then get off the hook because you claim to have been a journalist while committing the crime.
00:04:43.000 That's what he's trying to do.
00:04:44.000 He's saying, yes, I conspired with this mob.
00:04:47.000 Yes, I busted into a church and interrupted the church service in violation of federal law, namely the FACE Act, which really only exists to protect abortion clinics.
00:04:56.000 But to get it passed, the liberals had to concede that it would also protect churches.
00:05:00.000 I'm going to, I'm going to do all those things, but I'm going to hold a camera while I do it.
00:05:04.000 So I'm a journalist.
00:05:05.000 So you can't arrest me.
00:05:06.000 It'd be like saying, you know, you, you load up your gun, you go over to your enemy's house, you, you pull out the weapon, point it to his head.
00:05:16.000 You say, I'm going to get you.
00:05:17.000 You dirty, rotten bum. 1.00
00:05:18.000 I'm finally going to kill you.
00:05:19.000 But hold on one second.
00:05:21.000 Boop.
00:05:22.000 Hi, this is Michael reporting for the Michael YouTube channel.
00:05:26.000 I'm going to shoot you now.
00:05:28.000 Okay.
00:05:29.000 Well, you can't arrest me for murder because I was a journalist while I murdered that guy.
00:05:35.000 You don't get to, you don't get to, uh, burgle a house, but as long as you film it or, you know, like write an article about it afterward, it's okay.
00:05:43.000 Cause you're a journalist.
00:05:44.000 No, you, you can be a journalist, I guess, if you really want to be, but, uh, you don't, that doesn't give you license to commit a bunch of crimes.
00:05:52.000 Don Lemon committed a crime by all available evidence, allegedly reportedly allegedly by all the evidence we have from his own words.
00:06:01.000 Remember he was with that group of people.
00:06:04.000 He showed up to the church.
00:06:05.000 He said, Oh, I have a secret.
00:06:06.000 People don't know what we're going to be doing in here, but I, Oh, I know.
00:06:09.000 I, yeah, you know, cause you conspired with them beforehand.
00:06:12.000 He brought them coffee and donuts.
00:06:14.000 He was part of this, not merely a passive reporter and active participant.
00:06:20.000 And I felt it was very important for the Trump administration to arrest him.
00:06:24.000 Very important.
00:06:25.000 Very important because this is all just little tests that what the Democrats in the government and in the media are doing right now.
00:06:35.000 And in the street, some of these activist types, what they're doing is they're behaving like a little toddler who's testing daddy's limits.
00:06:42.000 How far can we get away with this?
00:06:44.000 I do.
00:06:45.000 I dealt with my son just the other night, say like, buddy, don't stand up on that couch.
00:06:50.000 And what does he do?
00:06:52.000 Buddy don't stand.
00:06:54.000 He starts just don't you do it.
00:06:56.000 I see you.
00:06:57.000 How high can I get?
00:06:58.000 That's what that's what the journalists so-called are doing.
00:07:01.000 Let's see what I can get away with.
00:07:02.000 Can I violate federal law?
00:07:04.000 Can I make a can I humiliate the federal government that way?
00:07:07.000 Can I the activists in the streets?
00:07:09.000 Can I punch a cop?
00:07:10.000 Can I kick in his taillight?
00:07:12.000 Can I can I can I what how far can I push it before they shoot?
00:07:16.000 Can I drive my car into him?
00:07:17.000 How far can I push it before the guy shoots me?
00:07:19.000 And so you have to lay down the law.
00:07:23.000 You have to just like daddy talking to a toddler.
00:07:26.000 You have to establish the standards.
00:07:28.000 One for the purpose of justice, but to to prevent these things from spiraling even further out of control.
00:07:35.000 What Don Lemon did victimized the members of that church.
00:07:39.000 What Don Lemon personally did victimized parents and little kids in that church.
00:07:45.000 This mob that Lemon allegedly conspired with blocked off the kids in Sunday school from their parents.
00:07:52.000 This mob shrieked in the faces of the little kids who are crying.
00:07:55.000 Your parents are Nazis and they're going to burn in hell.
00:07:58.000 And they didn't just use naughty words.
00:08:01.000 They violated federal law done as a matter of justice for the community and for the victims in the church.
00:08:10.000 Don Lemon needs to be put on trial and it would be great if he could face some jail time.
00:08:15.000 We'll see the extent of this.
00:08:17.000 Let's not forget pro-life grannies have been thrown in the clink for months and years for violations of the FACE Act because they were praying outside of abortion clinics. 1.00
00:08:30.000 Demonstrating peaceably at abortion clinics.
00:08:33.000 What Don Lemon did is a thousand times worse.
00:08:36.000 And if the pro-life granny is going to rot for years in the prison, I want Don Lemon to rot twice as long. 1.00
00:08:41.000 OK, wonderful news.
00:08:43.000 I'm looking forward to whenever I get to my next clip so I can spark up this cigar.
00:08:46.000 OK, well, here's the next clip.
00:08:48.000 It's not just the the lunatic former journalists like Don Lemon, who's got a he's got a history of bad behavior.
00:08:57.000 Let's not forget that widely publicized event at Murph's bar in Sag Harbor where he's accused of sexually assaulting someone.
00:09:03.000 You know, he he's got a lot of problems.
00:09:06.000 It's par for the course with journalists.
00:09:09.000 You see this in government to Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democrat leader of the House.
00:09:13.000 He's over after Nancy Pelosi left.
00:09:15.000 Hakeem Jeffries is now just casually calling for the murder of the secretary of Homeland Security.
00:09:20.000 It's disgraceful.
00:09:21.000 She's got to go.
00:09:23.000 We are dead serious.
00:09:26.000 She needs to be put on ice permanently. 1.00
00:09:30.000 She's got to go.
00:09:33.000 And by the way, she's not the only one.
00:09:37.000 She's got to be put on ice permanently. 1.00
00:09:41.000 You get the pun.
00:09:42.000 This is Hakeem Jeffries is doing a poetry slam at the House.
00:09:46.000 She's got to be put on ice. 1.00
00:09:49.000 Huh?
00:09:50.000 We're no more.
00:09:51.000 Mr. Nice.
00:09:52.000 Yeah.
00:09:53.000 So he's it's a pun.
00:09:55.000 You know, do you get it on the law enforcement agency?
00:09:58.000 But that phrase has a meaning.
00:10:00.000 That phrase has two meanings to be put on ice.
00:10:03.000 I mean, one of two things.
00:10:05.000 It can mean to be tabled for the time being.
00:10:08.000 You might have heard this in a corporate meeting.
00:10:10.000 Hey, guys, so you know what we're going to do?
00:10:11.000 We're going to put this subject on ice for a second.
00:10:14.000 Just going to let it, you know.
00:10:16.000 Keep it here.
00:10:17.000 Keep it fresh.
00:10:18.000 But we're going to we're going to move ahead on some other plan.
00:10:20.000 That's like the business version of put on ice.
00:10:23.000 And the other meaning is to murder someone.
00:10:26.000 You can just look it up.
00:10:28.000 Look it up in a dictionary or Google or whatever.
00:10:31.000 It just means to murder someone.
00:10:32.000 Those are the only meanings of that phrase.
00:10:35.000 So he's assuming he doesn't mean that she's going to be tabled for the time being until the company gets around to addressing her again.
00:10:46.000 He's saying that she needs to be murdered.
00:10:50.000 And then he makes it clear, too, because he adds that advert.
00:10:53.000 What do you say permanently after it needs to be put on ice permanently?
00:10:57.000 That means she needs to be killed.
00:10:59.000 And he says she's not the only one.
00:11:03.000 Now, if this were just a one off statement, you might say, OK, this guy's a hothead.
00:11:10.000 He's a lunatic.
00:11:11.000 Maybe he didn't really mean it.
00:11:12.000 Maybe he doesn't know what that phrase means.
00:11:13.000 Maybe he's functionally illiterate.
00:11:15.000 I don't know, whatever.
00:11:16.000 Maybe all of those things are plausible in the context of the Democrat Party today, though, which I read the statistics yesterday.
00:11:24.000 Largely, in some cases, half the party or more supports political violence, wishes Trump had been assassinated, wishes the assassin hadn't missed, thinks that political violence could be justified against conservatives, maybe excused or justified or celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:11:41.000 In that world, you've got to take this very, very seriously.
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00:13:59.000 Philadelphia District Attorney on the need to hunt down rank and file cops for decades.
00:14:11.000 This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. 0.78
00:14:15.000 That's what they are.
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00:14:21.000 If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. 0.71
00:14:31.000 We will find you.
00:14:32.000 We will achieve justice.
00:14:34.000 So he justifies it by saying this is what the Israelis did to the Nazis, which makes perfect sense because the libs have been calling all of us anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton Nazis for many, many years.
00:14:49.000 But notice here, he's not just saying we're going to to imprison the president, Donald Trump, that it's itself was a complete upending of the political order of precedent, a total destabilization of our political order.
00:15:04.000 But they did that.
00:15:05.000 They already did that. 0.67
00:15:06.000 They already tried to put him in prison multiple times.
00:15:08.000 They justified killing him multiple times.
00:15:12.000 They tried to kick him off the ballot because they knew he was going to get reelected.
00:15:16.000 That didn't happily.
00:15:17.000 Those things didn't work.
00:15:18.000 Now they're taking it a step further.
00:15:20.000 They're not even calling for the arrest of presidents and former presidents.
00:15:24.000 They're calling for the arrest of rank and file cops simply for enforcing the laws that Congress passed many decades ago.
00:15:36.000 Because they're Nazis, apparently.
00:15:38.000 So this guy's a Soros DA, no surprise.
00:15:41.000 Got a lot, a lot of money from George Soros.
00:15:43.000 He's one of those radicals.
00:15:44.000 But there are a lot of these people.
00:15:45.000 And I think they mean it.
00:15:47.000 It's not just the wacko DAs.
00:15:48.000 The new governor of New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, had this to say.
00:15:51.000 I've already met with AG.
00:15:54.000 We are putting out information on helping New Jerseyans know their rights.
00:15:59.000 We are not going to allow any ICE raids to be staged from state properties.
00:16:04.000 And we are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people.
00:16:12.000 Like if you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out.
00:16:15.000 We want to know.
00:16:16.000 We want to know.
00:16:18.000 Because they have not been forthcoming.
00:16:22.000 Get your phone out.
00:16:24.000 Film the ICE agents.
00:16:26.000 Maybe dox the ICE agents.
00:16:28.000 We're keeping a database so that best case scenario, we can go and prosecute cops for enforcing the law.
00:16:35.000 And more likely so that our political followers, our violent political followers can go kill them.
00:16:42.000 This is radicalism in the governor's mansion, in the DA's office.
00:16:47.000 Worth pointing out, got to give a hat tip here to Daily Wire's own Luke Rosiak.
00:16:51.000 One of the people who was arrested with Don Lemon is a top aide for the Soros prosecutor in Minneapolis.
00:16:59.000 And he was apparently arrested because of the Daily Wire reporting, because of Luke's reporting on him.
00:17:06.000 So this is really great stuff.
00:17:08.000 I meant to light my cigar.
00:17:10.000 Okay, I keep getting distracted.
00:17:12.000 There's too much going on right now.
00:17:13.000 I'll light my cigar during the next clip to celebrate the arrest of Don Lemon.
00:17:17.000 Really good stuff from the Trump administration.
00:17:19.000 You know, there's a lot of good stuff from the Trump administration.
00:17:21.000 This is really good stuff.
00:17:22.000 They had to follow through.
00:17:24.000 They, this was a game of chicken.
00:17:26.000 We've been playing a big old game of chicken for a long time.
00:17:28.000 And there were a lot of people who's all the doomers, all the panic hands, all the nothing's going to happen.
00:17:35.000 Oh, this is weak.
00:17:38.000 All these jokers, some of whom didn't even vote for Trump in 2024.
00:17:41.000 All these doomer losers said, he's not going to do it. 0.97
00:17:45.000 And then finally, the Trump admin arrests people for the church attack.
00:17:49.000 So yeah, well, they're not going to arrest Don Lemon.
00:17:51.000 And I'll tell you, I didn't know if they were going to arrest Don Lemon.
00:17:53.000 I hope they would.
00:17:54.000 I didn't hit the administration.
00:17:56.000 And then what happens?
00:17:57.000 They make good.
00:17:58.000 Doomers destroyed again. 1.00
00:18:00.000 Panic hands destroyed yet again.
00:18:02.000 How are they still breathing those panic hands?
00:18:05.000 They've been so obliterated.
00:18:07.000 Plan trusters totally vindicated.
00:18:10.000 Ah, oh, this is good.
00:18:12.000 This is a good day.
00:18:13.000 Okay.
00:18:14.000 Now, just to give us a hint of what happens if we ever lose elections.
00:18:19.000 Here's Pramila Jayapal, one of my favorite members on the other side in the House, describing what the Democrats will do if they get the gavel.
00:18:28.000 We really need to, as soon as we get the gavels back, we have to dismantle DHS and ICE and CBP.
00:18:41.000 And we have to reconstruct them to what they really should be doing.
00:18:46.000 Remember, don't let people tell you that these are agencies that have always existed and they need to exist.
00:18:51.000 They didn't exist before 9-11.
00:18:54.000 They didn't exist before 9-11.
00:18:56.000 We have to abolish ICE.
00:18:58.000 This is a mainstream member of the House.
00:19:00.000 We have to abolish ICE.
00:19:02.000 And ICE didn't always exist.
00:19:04.000 They didn't exist before 9-11.
00:19:05.000 Okay.
00:19:06.000 That's true.
00:19:07.000 ICE was founded, I think, in 2003.
00:19:09.000 But, you know, there was an agency that dealt with immigration enforcement before ICE.
00:19:16.000 Do you know what it was called?
00:19:17.000 It was called INS.
00:19:19.000 Some of the listeners will be too young to remember INS.
00:19:21.000 Do you know what INS was?
00:19:22.000 It was just ICE.
00:19:24.000 It was just ICE, but spelled differently.
00:19:26.000 You know how, like, we have the CIA.
00:19:29.000 The CIA stands for the Central Intelligence Agency.
00:19:32.000 Now, the CIA didn't always exist.
00:19:34.000 Before the end of the Second World War, there was no CIA.
00:19:37.000 There was something called the OSS, the Office of Special Services.
00:19:44.000 That was just the CIA.
00:19:47.000 Like, things get renamed.
00:19:48.000 They're reconstituted.
00:19:50.000 But the tasks that they accomplish remain basically the same.
00:19:56.000 So when she says, we're going to abolish ICE.
00:19:58.000 When the Democrats say, we've got to abolish ICE.
00:20:00.000 ICE isn't even that old.
00:20:01.000 We've got to abolish ICE.
00:20:02.000 You say, okay.
00:20:03.000 Are you just going to bring back INS then?
00:20:05.000 And keep Border Patrol to enforce the law to arrest these guys and deport them?
00:20:09.000 Is that what you want?
00:20:10.000 Why do we need to abolish ICE?
00:20:13.000 Ask that question.
00:20:15.000 Why is it that we need to abolish ICE?
00:20:17.000 What is it about ICE that you want to abolish that would not equally exist under INS or some other version of immigration enforcement?
00:20:29.000 It is not some quirk of ICE.
00:20:32.000 It is not that they just don't like the uniforms.
00:20:34.000 It is not that they don't like this or that.
00:20:35.000 The thing they don't like about ICE, the reason they want to abolish ICE, is because they want to abolish immigration enforcement.
00:20:40.000 But we have always had immigration law enforcement in this country.
00:20:43.000 What the Democrats want to do is not restore some older form of immigration enforcement.
00:20:47.000 They want to abolish it altogether.
00:20:49.000 They've been pretty open about that.
00:20:50.000 They opened up our border under Biden.
00:20:52.000 Actions speak louder than words.
00:20:53.000 They brought in 3 million illegals a year.
00:20:56.000 They're now protesting in the streets, getting their lemmings killed, encouraging them to obstruct law enforcement, to protect face tattooed rapists from Venezuela, and fraudster Somalis. 1.00
00:21:09.000 They want to abolish ICE because they want to abolish immigration enforcement, which is as radical a proposal as we've ever had.
00:21:17.000 Just ask them that.
00:21:18.000 Okay, we're going to bring back INS.
00:21:19.000 That sounds great.
00:21:20.000 Now, speaking of the police, there's something really, really beautiful about sometimes giving the libs what they want.
00:21:27.000 On the case of abolishing ICE, we should not.
00:21:29.000 That would be too catastrophic.
00:21:30.000 But sometimes, the libs wish for things that they should not wish for.
00:21:34.000 They need to be careful of what they wish for.
00:21:36.000 One of the things libs wished for for a very long time was body cameras.
00:21:40.000 Now, prominent liberals are coming out against body cameras.
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00:23:03.000 So there's a liberal author, Alec Karakatsanis.
00:23:08.000 I think I pronounced that correctly.
00:23:10.000 He is anti-police, wants to abolish all these law enforcement agencies.
00:23:15.000 He's appeared on Democracy Now! to explain why body cams on cops are terrible.
00:23:24.000 They said in the wake of Michael Brown, we'll market it to low information, people in the public, to well-meaning liberal people.
00:23:31.000 We'll market it as accountability and transparency.
00:23:34.000 And so they totally shifted and then they were able to get hundreds of millions of dollars toward their goal of outfitting every single cop in the United States with a mobile surveillance camera that the police control.
00:23:45.000 They control when it's on, when it's off, what it captures, when something is captured, it's released to the public.
00:23:51.000 So if the police capture, let's say, an undocumented immigrant committing some crime, that's out on Fox News and the New York Post within hours.
00:23:59.000 But if they capture the police doing something horrific, the public may never see that video.
00:24:04.000 So body cameras are a mirage.
00:24:06.000 And as I write in the Copaganda book, and it's really critical to understand exactly how it happens,
00:24:11.000 not only do they not reduce police violence, but they have been an essential propaganda tool in convincing so many well-meaning people across our society
00:24:21.000 that the authorities care about police violence, that they want accountability, that they're doing something, right?
00:24:26.000 And it distracts people from the core important kinds of changes that we need, which is to reduce the size and power of these bureaucracies.
00:24:34.000 Oh, yeah, hold on.
00:24:36.000 He opens up, he goes, they push for these body cameras.
00:24:40.000 You know, what those body cameras do is they're a propaganda tool.
00:24:43.000 And this is what, who is they though?
00:24:46.000 To quote Kanye West, who is they though?
00:24:48.000 What do you mean they were pushing for body cameras?
00:24:51.000 The people who pushed for body cameras were the Democrats.
00:24:55.000 It was only the Democrats.
00:24:57.000 He said, we need body.
00:24:58.000 Now, some Republicans were okay with it, but in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, which was completely justified,
00:25:06.000 when the gentle giant Michael Brown, he was this young man who robbed a store and then harassed a cop, grabbed a cop's gun,
00:25:17.000 actually discharged it in the car, according to grand juries and eyewitnesses, then walked away and then charged at the cop.
00:25:23.000 Only then did the cop shoot him.
00:25:25.000 And then the Democrats made out of whole cloth a story about how Michael Brown was a sweet little boy who put his hands up and said,
00:25:32.000 hands up, don't shoot.
00:25:33.000 And the cop just executed him like the grand cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
00:25:38.000 Just a complete fictional narrative.
00:25:41.000 So the Dems said, we need body cameras on cops.
00:25:46.000 And some Republicans said, no, we don't.
00:25:49.000 This is a waste of time.
00:25:50.000 But then the cleverer Republicans said, okay.
00:25:53.000 Okay, great.
00:25:55.000 Because it was a test, a test of reality.
00:26:00.000 The smart Democrats did not call for body cameras.
00:26:05.000 The really clever ones did not want body cameras.
00:26:09.000 Because body cameras were always going to show you the reality of criminals and law enforcement.
00:26:16.000 And the reality of criminals and law enforcement doesn't look good for the criminals and it does look good for law enforcement.
00:26:21.000 But they called for, here it is.
00:26:23.000 I mean, just in case you don't believe me, if you don't remember CNN, this is a clip from CNN, Barack Obama, right out of the horse's mouth.
00:26:32.000 I'm going to be proposing some new community policing initiatives that will significantly expand funding and training for local law enforcement, including up to 50,000 additional body-worn cameras for law enforcement agencies.
00:26:47.000 Need all those body cameras, okay.
00:26:50.000 So the sincere liberals really believed that more transparency would help their argument.
00:26:57.000 Because it would show people the reality of the situation and they believed the reality of the situation was going to buttress their side of the argument, not the conservative side.
00:27:08.000 Mind you, this is the party that thinks boys can be girls.
00:27:12.000 Mind you, this is the party that thinks babies aren't really babies.
00:27:15.000 They thought that reality was going to back them up.
00:27:20.000 And then what happened?
00:27:21.000 They came out, they put the body camera, and it turns out the criminals are just awful.
00:27:27.000 And 999,999 times out of a million, the criminals who get beat up or shot while they're being arrested are getting exactly what they deserve.
00:27:44.000 And the cops usually are showing restraint, even in those cases.
00:27:49.000 That's how it really works.
00:27:51.000 The libs thought transparency would help them, it actually hurt them.
00:27:55.000 This is the same with every single issue.
00:27:58.000 The libs want to make a big show out of LGBT.
00:28:00.000 I just mentioned it.
00:28:01.000 They want to make a big show out of LGBT. 0.99
00:28:03.000 We need more inclusion.
00:28:04.000 We need more transparency.
00:28:06.000 We need more visibility for transgenderism and LGBT.
00:28:10.000 And then you know what happens?
00:28:11.000 Look, good on them that they really, in some cases, believe what they're saying.
00:28:15.000 So they say, we need more visibility.
00:28:17.000 And then we see the visibility of what transgenderism means.
00:28:20.000 And it means lopping the breasts off little girls. 1.00
00:28:22.000 It means castrating little boys.
00:28:24.000 It means hacking away at the skin and flesh and meat of a person's foreskin to construct a mutant grotesque phallus to create the simulacrum of an appendage of the opposite sex. 0.99
00:28:38.000 The reality of it is anxiety, depression, suicidality, sterility, and early death.
00:28:45.000 That's the reality of LGBTism. 0.99
00:28:49.000 The reality of LGBTism is social discord and child abuse. 1.00
00:28:54.000 That's the reality of it.
00:28:55.000 So you want more visibility?
00:28:57.000 Be my guest.
00:28:58.000 We have had, there is no question.
00:29:01.000 From, let's go back to Will and Grace.
00:29:03.000 1998 was it, 1999?
00:29:05.000 Will and Grace all the way up through Gavin Newsom saying, I want to see more trans kids, like a freak. 1.00
00:29:12.000 We've had a lot of visibility.
00:29:14.000 What's happened?
00:29:15.000 In that time, you had an increase in support for LGBT until just a few years ago.
00:29:21.000 And then when that visibility really broke through, you've had a massive decrease on every front.
00:29:27.000 Certainly transing the kids, transgender generally, same sex marriage, the list goes on and on.
00:29:33.000 The visibility didn't help them.
00:29:35.000 Same thing on abortion.
00:29:36.000 You want visibility on abortion?
00:29:38.000 Look at the little baby.
00:29:39.000 Look at what the baby really looks like in the womb.
00:29:40.000 This is why the pro-abortion advocates don't want the reality of abortion ever to be seen.
00:29:45.000 They don't want to use the real words like baby or even fetus.
00:29:48.000 They want to say clump of cells or whatever.
00:29:49.000 Because the visibility, the transparency hurts them.
00:29:52.000 Because reality is not on their side.
00:29:54.000 Immigration, the reality of immigration is that the people who are coming to this country, generally, not ideal.
00:30:02.000 The way they talk about it, they're all dreaming, wonderful future engineers and doctors who want to salute the flag and shoot off fireworks on the 4th of July.
00:30:13.000 The reality is face-tattooed rapists, human traffickers, and drug dealers.
00:30:19.000 That's the reality.
00:30:21.000 So you bring in the visibility, the transparency, what happens?
00:30:23.000 Trump wins the popular vote running on mass deportations, which is why.
00:30:27.000 You want the proof of this?
00:30:29.000 Here's the proof.
00:30:30.000 Axios is reporting.
00:30:32.000 Do I have a scoop?
00:30:33.000 House Democrats told by leadership not to go to Minnesota.
00:30:37.000 This is it.
00:30:38.000 You want to know who's really winning the optics war in Minnesota?
00:30:42.000 You had some panic hands on the right, some of whom are friends of mine.
00:30:45.000 They said, oh, we're losing the optics war.
00:30:47.000 This is really bad.
00:30:48.000 We can just scale back in Minnesota.
00:30:51.000 Look at the polling.
00:30:53.000 Look, the polling shows that people, even though they overwhelmingly support mass deportations, it seems like they kind of want people out of Minnesota too.
00:31:02.000 What do we do?
00:31:04.000 This is the biggest tell.
00:31:06.000 Democrat leadership says, yo, Dems, do not own Minnesota.
00:31:10.000 Do not own this.
00:31:11.000 This is a loser for us.
00:31:15.000 Why?
00:31:16.000 Why isn't it working?
00:31:17.000 Why isn't this working like George Floyd worked?
00:31:19.000 Because, two reasons.
00:31:21.000 One, because the victims here, the people who have been shot, justifiably, are white. 0.57
00:31:27.000 Had they been black, it might be a different story, but they're white, so it doesn't work. 1.00
00:31:30.000 At a deeper level, though, do you know why the House Democrat leadership wisely is telling their constituents, their members, not to go to Minnesota, not to own this issue?
00:31:40.000 Because most people support mass deportations, that's why.
00:31:45.000 Because we've seen the visibility of what immigration means.
00:31:49.000 We don't like it.
00:31:50.000 The American people don't like it.
00:31:52.000 And the Libs tried to make this a demographics issue, or maybe we'll boost our support with Hispanics over the immigration issue. 0.97
00:32:00.000 You know what's happened since Trump raided Minnesota?
00:32:03.000 His support among Hispanics has gone up.
00:32:06.000 Huge loser issue for the Dems.
00:32:11.000 Okay.
00:32:12.000 Before we get into mailbag, speaking of migration, there's a great story out from the AP.
00:32:18.000 Mass migration to Northern Europe has not changed Winter Olympics teams.
00:32:24.000 This is really, there's been mass migration, Sweden, Norway, Denmark.
00:32:28.000 And yet, there's a scandal, because you're not seeing enough Somalis and Eritreans on the snowboarding team.
00:32:37.000 Immigration from Africa and the Middle East is changing the demographics of Europe's top winter sports countries.
00:32:43.000 But that hasn't really translated to their largely white rosters heading to the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
00:32:49.000 For instance, Team Sweden is almost entirely made up of ethnically Swedish athletes, which is hardly a reflection of the country's diversity, as Sweden has welcomed historic numbers of asylum seekers in recent decades.
00:33:00.000 Experts point to social, financial, and geographical barriers, and believe there needs to be a big cultural shift for anything to change.
00:33:07.000 Experts also believe that more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility, specifically for immigrants and underserved communities.
00:33:15.000 So, quick question, why? Why does that happen? The problem that the AP has is that the Swedish Olympics team is full of Swedes. 1.00
00:33:28.000 Now, one might be tempted to extrapolate and say, yeah, shouldn't Sweden be full of Swedes? 0.69
00:33:34.000 Hold on, why are we just narrowing our question to the Olympics team? Why are there all these non-Swedes in Sweden? 1.00
00:33:41.000 However, let's just focus on the team, and then the type of Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and then the sports.
00:33:48.000 In my understanding of geography and history, Afghanis are not great skiers, I think. 0.93
00:34:00.000 I don't think Somalis are the best snowboarders in the world. 1.00
00:34:04.000 So, they don't do those things. And maybe they could, but they don't.
00:34:09.000 My bigger question is, why do they have to? Why do they have to?
00:34:16.000 Why is diversity this ultimate good?
00:34:20.000 Amy Klobuchar just came out. 0.74
00:34:22.000 She said that her favorite photo of her daughter, do we have this clip of Amy Klobuchar, her favorite photo?
00:34:27.000 It doesn't matter, I'll just tell you what she said.
00:34:29.000 She said, my favorite photo of my daughter is one where she's surrounded by Somalis.
00:34:33.000 I said, why? Like, I don't, I don't, we've been beaten up on Somalis a lot recently, and with good reason. 1.00
00:34:39.000 But I'm not saying, they're children of God, right?
00:34:42.000 You know, like, I don't, I don't have anything in particular against the Somalis, other than all the fraud and the piracy and the terrorism. 1.00
00:34:48.000 But why would that be your favorite photo of your daughter?
00:34:52.000 Like, not her first communion?
00:34:54.000 I don't, that would be not, not her high school graduation.
00:34:58.000 Not her, you know, Graham, not the picture at Grammy and Gramps' 60th wedding anniversary.
00:35:06.000 No, it's just surrounded by a bunch of random Somalis.
00:35:09.000 Why is that?
00:35:10.000 Why is diversity the ultimate good?
00:35:13.000 Why does the AP have to make this whole little documentary report saying, you know, many experts are saying that Sweden needs to get a bunch more Africans on their ski team.
00:35:23.000 Like, why?
00:35:25.000 Why does that have to be done?
00:35:28.000 Why do Africans have to be made to ski? 1.00
00:35:31.000 The Jamaican bobsled team is a funny thing.
00:35:34.000 That's kind of a one-off though.
00:35:36.000 They made a movie about it because it's weird and funny.
00:35:38.000 It's not, that's not normal.
00:35:39.000 It doesn't have to be normal.
00:35:41.000 Why is diversity the highest good?
00:35:43.000 I'm not convinced that diversity is a good. 1.00
00:35:46.000 I'm, I guess in the diversity of life generally can be good.
00:35:53.000 I just wouldn't make an idol out of it.
00:35:56.000 And I think that strength comes from unity, not exactly diversity.
00:36:00.000 You know, when people say that diversity is the spice of life, you say, that's good.
00:36:03.000 You only want a little spice though.
00:36:05.000 You want, when you make a stew, when you make a sandwich or something, you put a little spice on it.
00:36:11.000 Not a lot of spice.
00:36:12.000 Why is the, why is this the ultimate good?
00:36:15.000 I don't know.
00:36:16.000 I don't, it's, I guess the reason is that the libs always pervert or even invert reality. 0.96
00:36:27.000 And so we've seen the reality of diversity, what that means in Europe and Northern Europe.
00:36:31.000 You know what it means?
00:36:32.000 It means the rise of far right political parties in Europe.
00:36:36.000 Because this political realization is not just happening in America.
00:36:41.000 It's happening throughout Europe too.
00:36:42.000 The libs say, look at the reality of diversity.
00:36:46.000 And then the people say, oh, yikes, this is what diversity means?
00:36:49.000 No, thanks.
00:36:50.000 Before we go, I promised we'd get to it.
00:36:53.000 Michelle Obama describing how hard it is for black women because they never talk about their pain.
00:37:03.000 We don't articulate as black women our pain because it's almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that.
00:37:11.000 And does anyone care?
00:37:12.000 Yeah, there's that part.
00:37:14.000 Will they care?
00:37:15.000 If we knew, I think we would care.
00:37:18.000 If we knew.
00:37:19.000 Mm-hmm.
00:37:20.000 If we knew.
00:37:21.000 Yeah, if we knew.
00:37:22.000 If we only knew.
00:37:24.000 Did you know that black women sometimes are unhappy? 1.00
00:37:27.000 Did you know that?
00:37:28.000 Let's zoom in specifically on Michelle Obama.
00:37:32.000 Did you know that Michelle Obama is displeased?
00:37:37.000 I did know that.
00:37:38.000 Do you know how I knew Michelle Obama is displeased that she feels pain?
00:37:42.000 Because she has never, ever spoken a single word in public that was not a complaint.
00:37:49.000 In my experience, and I've been paying attention to Michelle Obama much longer than I wish I had for, what, 17, 18 years now.
00:37:57.000 Has she ever spoken in public without complaining?
00:38:02.000 No, not to my knowledge.
00:38:06.000 And then her poor, is that her brother moderating the interview?
00:38:08.000 Yes, no, I think, I think if we knew.
00:38:11.000 If only, yes, if only we knew.
00:38:13.000 If only the Michelle Obamas of the world would finally complain a little bit. 1.00
00:38:17.000 Then we would know of the pain that they're feeling.
00:38:20.000 There's another story I really want to get to.
00:38:24.000 I know I don't have time, but I'll just tease it for Monday.
00:38:27.000 There's a Florida company, or sorry, Florida couple suing an IVF company.
00:38:32.000 There's a couple white as the freshly driven snow with a little baby that is either black or Indian.
00:38:39.000 I think Indian, and it almost looks AI, but it's being reported in newspapers that they got the wrong baby from IVF.
00:38:50.000 Gave birth to this baby, it's the wrong baby.
00:38:54.000 Oops, I really want to get to that story, but we don't have time.
00:38:57.000 You know why?
00:38:58.000 Because we got to get to the mailbag.
00:38:59.000 Hey, what are you watching this weekend?
00:39:01.000 I have the answer for you.
00:39:02.000 There is a lot streaming on Daily Wire.
00:39:04.000 Not just, look, obviously we do the daily shows during the week.
00:39:06.000 It's a ton of fun.
00:39:07.000 But there is some great new stuff that is hitting the platform that you have to watch this weekend.
00:39:11.000 That would be Matt Walsh's new documentary series.
00:39:14.000 It's actually a docu-series, which is real history with Matt Walsh.
00:39:17.000 He covers slavery. 0.60
00:39:18.000 The libs are going to hate it.
00:39:19.000 It's going to give you the real facts, and you can go use it as ammo at the water cooler.
00:39:23.000 Terrific story.
00:39:24.000 You know, Matt, he's got that kind of laconic dry.
00:39:27.000 It's excellent.
00:39:28.000 The Pendragon cycle is getting rave reviews everywhere, including from people who hate the Daily Wire.
00:39:32.000 I hate the Daily Wire, including from people who hate conservatives and Trump and everything.
00:39:35.000 It's just so unbelievably good.
00:39:38.000 I cannot articulate how excellent it is.
00:39:40.000 You have to see it to believe it for yourself.
00:39:42.000 And then most important of all, Bar Fight.
00:39:44.000 We've got Bar Fight coming out, baby. 1.00
00:39:45.000 Go check out, what is Bar Fight?
00:39:47.000 You know what Bar Fight is. 1.00
00:39:48.000 It's where I go to John Rich's bar down in Nashville.
00:39:50.000 I debate two libs.
00:39:51.000 We have an audience that is lubricated, shall we say.
00:39:54.000 It's great.
00:39:55.000 It's very lively.
00:39:56.000 You only get it on Daily Wire Plus.
00:39:57.000 If you're not a member yet, you have to go right now, right now.
00:40:00.000 Go to DailyWirePlus.com and join.
00:40:03.000 My favorite comment yesterday is from BugginOut79.
00:40:05.000 It says, Springsteen's new hit single, Not Born in the USA, out this summer.
00:40:12.000 Cleared it.
00:40:13.000 That's it.
00:40:14.000 It makes it very easy.
00:40:15.000 That's one of the handful of very good Bruce Springsteen songs.
00:40:19.000 Real big hits.
00:40:20.000 And all you have to do is you just change it.
00:40:23.000 I'm not born in the USA.
00:40:26.000 I'm not born.
00:40:28.000 Okay.
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00:40:37.000 Hello, Michael.
00:40:38.000 I'm Thomas from South Carolina.
00:40:39.000 I'm going to talk really fast because it's a really long story.
00:40:41.000 And I need to just have you hear this.
00:40:44.000 Me and my girlfriend broke up.
00:40:45.000 And it was a mistake.
00:40:46.000 And we need to get back together.
00:40:47.000 And it's really complicated.
00:40:48.000 And it's really messy.
00:40:49.000 But we both love each other still.
00:40:50.000 And she just needs time and peace to heal from everything.
00:40:53.000 And I think she just needs to take a step back. 1.00
00:40:55.000 She started talking to another guy after we broke up.
00:40:57.000 But after I came back into the picture, she's now confused.
00:40:59.000 And she doesn't know what she wants.
00:41:01.000 Please pray that God would close the door with her and that other guy. 0.99
00:41:05.000 And that God would restore her and my relationship.
00:41:07.000 And that ultimately God would heal her and heal me.
00:41:11.000 And be glorified through all of it.
00:41:13.000 Thank you, Michael.
00:41:14.000 Please pray.
00:41:15.000 And everybody else listening, I would appreciate that.
00:41:16.000 I certainly can.
00:41:18.000 I certainly can pray.
00:41:19.000 Obviously, I don't know the circumstances of your situation.
00:41:22.000 I'm just reminded of that great old song.
00:41:24.000 A lot of wisdom in it.
00:41:26.000 They say that breaking up is hard to do.
00:41:30.000 Oh, so hard to do.
00:41:32.000 It is very hard.
00:41:34.000 Don't say that this is the end.
00:41:35.000 Instead of breaking up, we should be making up again, right?
00:41:39.000 You guys, okay, you had a little rocky relationship.
00:41:43.000 You broke up.
00:41:45.000 You feel bad about something that you did.
00:41:47.000 Maybe she's working it out.
00:41:49.000 So she's talking to some other guy.
00:41:50.000 Because you broke up.
00:41:51.000 Okay.
00:41:52.000 And then you come back in the picture.
00:41:54.000 And now she maybe likes you again.
00:41:57.000 And you say, I shouldn't have done this.
00:41:58.000 I shouldn't have done that.
00:41:59.000 Okay.
00:42:00.000 In this case, it's a tale as old as time.
00:42:02.000 And you say, I want to pray about it.
00:42:03.000 You should.
00:42:04.000 Prayer is the first resort, not the last resort.
00:42:07.000 And everything in the entire cosmos is dependent on God and God's active involvement.
00:42:13.000 That's absolutely true.
00:42:15.000 And you are to cooperate with God's grace.
00:42:17.000 All of which is prelude to say, you know, you say, I hope that God breaks these two people up.
00:42:27.000 Yes.
00:42:28.000 You can participate in that though.
00:42:30.000 And so a little bit of my Rizzler advice here is, look, if you're coming back in the picture and something's materially changed and you realize you made a mistake or whatever, you can be instrumental in that.
00:42:43.000 But you've got to walk a very, very difficult balance.
00:42:46.000 You've got to seem like a giga chad who is interested, intentional, tough guy, you know, all that.
00:42:56.000 You got to seem like a man, confident.
00:42:58.000 I want you.
00:42:59.000 I need you.
00:43:00.000 I love you.
00:43:01.000 A lot of singing today.
00:43:02.000 You got to have that.
00:43:04.000 But you don't want to seem like a crazy ex-boyfriend.
00:43:07.000 So you need to be far enough away, you need to have enough distance that she is enticed to return to you.
00:43:14.000 Very difficult thing to walk.
00:43:18.000 In the Ars Amaturia by Ovid, the art of love, Ovid is talking, he talks about, you know, how to get over breakups, how to, you know, you get rid of all the portraits you have of the girl and you, you know, you don't.
00:43:36.000 You behave in a way that, you know, creates that kind of distance.
00:43:42.000 So you have to do both of those things.
00:43:44.000 I know that those seem like they're at odds.
00:43:45.000 They're not necessarily.
00:43:46.000 It's that kind of, I love you.
00:43:49.000 I want you.
00:43:50.000 I'll never be the same without you.
00:43:51.000 I need to date you.
00:43:52.000 But if you don't look my way, so be it.
00:43:53.000 Maybe I'll go talk to another girl too. 0.99
00:43:55.000 It's that kind of, you got to, you got to walk that tension.
00:43:59.000 Most important thing, do the right thing, be moral, upright, pray, rely on God's grace, all those things.
00:44:05.000 Most important thing.
00:44:07.000 And then also, you know, be a, be the, be the kind of guy that the girl is going to be attracted to.
00:44:14.000 You understand?
00:44:15.000 It's like good advice for actors who want to go on auditions.
00:44:19.000 Don't think about, good advice for anybody who goes to get a job.
00:44:22.000 Don't think about, hey, here's what I want out of this experience.
00:44:25.000 Just think, hey, how can I help you?
00:44:27.000 Hey, what do I, what can I do to be the kind of person that you are going to want to hire?
00:44:32.000 That's how I would think about it.
00:44:33.000 Okay, next question.
00:44:34.000 Good morning, Michael.
00:44:35.000 This is Arun.
00:44:36.000 So I was just at a local Republican Party event in my neighborhood the other day, and a woman expressed to me her concern that the unpopularity of the ice raids in Minneapolis could cost us in terms of statewide races, including our ability to potentially take the governorship back from the DFL.
00:44:56.000 I am curious if you think that this is true, and if so, how should we politically act on this here in Minnesota?
00:45:02.000 Thank you, as always, for your wisdom.
00:45:04.000 Good question.
00:45:05.000 As always, Arun, a great deal of sophistication to your question.
00:45:08.000 Because had you asked me, is this going to hurt Republicans in the midterms?
00:45:12.000 Generally, I would say no.
00:45:13.000 And my evidence is that the House Democrats are saying, don't own Minnesota.
00:45:17.000 This is actually, maybe some of you think it's good for us, it's bad for us.
00:45:20.000 Get out of there.
00:45:21.000 Don't own this.
00:45:23.000 But you said statewide races.
00:45:26.000 That's different.
00:45:27.000 And I'm simply not expert enough at the political dynamics going on in Minnesota.
00:45:31.000 But I could see it being the case that for a Minnesota Republican to win, you got to play things a little differently than a national Republican.
00:45:39.000 So it might.
00:45:40.000 It might hurt Republicans and statewide races in Minnesota.
00:45:43.000 Now, you know, again, Minnesota is the only state that voted against Reagan in 84.
00:45:48.000 So Minnesota's had a lib problem for a long time.
00:45:50.000 You can't blame that one on the Somalis.
00:45:52.000 That one goes way back.
00:45:53.000 It goes back to the Mondale days.
00:45:55.000 So it might.
00:45:56.000 It might.
00:45:57.000 And Republicans might not make pickups in Minnesota.
00:46:01.000 They might.
00:46:02.000 Who knows?
00:46:03.000 Enough normie Minnesotans who are outside of the Twin Cities area might be so scandalized by what's going on by the leftist violence that they come out in bigger numbers.
00:46:11.000 But otherwise, yeah, we probably the more realistic thing to hope for is Republicans don't do as well in Minnesota.
00:46:20.000 OK, but they they do better.
00:46:22.000 They outperform expectations elsewhere around the country because of this.
00:46:25.000 All right.
00:46:26.000 Should we try to get I never get to written mailbag?
00:46:29.000 I'm going to try to get to that today.
00:46:30.000 At least one or two.
00:46:31.000 I got to bring in more written mailbag.
00:46:32.000 This is from Don E.
00:46:34.000 Michael, I'm a Gen Z man trying to navigate this modern dating world.
00:46:38.000 One fear I have stems from the comment section of a TikTok I saw in the video.
00:46:41.000 In the video, a girl said on her wedding day, if that one guy who didn't treat her right shows up and is ready to commit, she will leave and go with him.
00:46:49.000 There were thousands of girls in the comments saying it was relatable.
00:46:53.000 I am scared any girl I meet will have outstanding feelings for another man, more so than their feelings for me.
00:46:58.000 Should I only date a girl with no dating sexual history? 0.99
00:47:01.000 Thank you for everything you do, Don.
00:47:02.000 Maybe.
00:47:03.000 That would probably make things easier for you.
00:47:05.000 You know, a little hard to do these days, just given modern dating dynamics and social and sexual mores.
00:47:12.000 But yeah, I mean, that'd be good, I guess, but it's a little tricky.
00:47:15.000 Really here, I think even beyond the sluttiness of it all, which is, that's what you're asking about specifically, but it's really more, I think, about time.
00:47:26.000 I think it's really more about time, when the girl, I haven't seen the TikTok though, I've heard tell of this, this thing going viral of, you know, it's my wedding day.
00:47:34.000 But if that one guy, the one who got away from all those years ago, if he showed back up and said he changed his ways, I'd go with him in a minute.
00:47:41.000 Ah, you know, there's nothing like your first, I guess.
00:47:46.000 And it shows another aspect of modern dating culture, which is we delay everything.
00:47:52.000 So you get married a lot later, people have a lot more partners, not just sexual partners, but even just romantic partners generally.
00:47:57.000 Things are more casual.
00:47:59.000 And so you lose something of great value.
00:48:02.000 You know me, I'm a very blessed man.
00:48:04.000 I married my high school sweetheart, sweet little Elisa.
00:48:07.000 I've known sweet little Elisa since we were at least 11, maybe 10.
00:48:13.000 We don't remember.
00:48:14.000 It was that long ago.
00:48:16.000 And there's something real nice about that.
00:48:19.000 You know, and modernity tells us that these long standing bonds, in some cases, unchosen bonds, or, you know, bonds that come about from your happenstance, the time, the tradition, that, you know, just that kind of growing together, that that's not really valuable.
00:48:38.000 Really, you need to grow entirely on your own and become an independent individual.
00:48:43.000 And then when you're 38, you can meet someone who's also an individual, and then that'll be better than marrying your high school sweetheart.
00:48:51.000 And maybe there are some advantages to that, but I don't see a lot.
00:48:56.000 Because as you grow, it's like your bones.
00:48:59.000 When your bones are young, they're kind of nimble, and they grow, and they move, and they change.
00:49:03.000 And when they're old, they harden, they ossify.
00:49:06.000 And so, and it's hard to bend, as you have to bend when you're in a relationship, when you're married.
00:49:13.000 But you have to, yeah, you do have to bend when you're married, and that's kind of like, you know, procreation, and we don't need to get into that.
00:49:19.000 Like, you have to bend emotionally and personally.
00:49:22.000 And it's harder to do that when you're a more hardened, ossified person. 1.00
00:49:27.000 So, I think the idea of this nostalgia, this longing for all, if only my high school or college boyfriend showed up on my wedding day, I'd go run to him or something.
00:49:38.000 And it's this longing for something that is lost and irretrievably lost in modern culture, which is, I wish my spouse and I had real shared experience.
00:49:48.000 You know, I wish we really, we came up together.
00:49:51.000 I wish, you know, and that seems kind of gone.
00:49:54.000 So, I wouldn't worry so much about the nitty gritty particulars if your girlfriend dated a guy or something before.
00:50:04.000 That's not so much it, I think it's more the time, the experience, the growing together, I think.
00:50:10.000 But I don't know, you got to make sure though, you don't want a gal who's going to leave you at the altar. 1.00
00:50:14.000 That's, some of these, some women are really are fickle. 1.00
00:50:18.000 So, you don't want that.
00:50:19.000 Okay, it's Fake Headline Friday.
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00:50:27.000 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
00:50:44.000 Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:50:50.000 Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:51:01.000 All men know of the great Taliesin.
00:51:05.000 You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
00:51:09.000 Princess Garrus, saviour of our people.
00:51:16.000 I know what the bull god offered you.
00:51:18.000 I was offered the same.
00:51:20.000 And?
00:51:21.000 There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
00:51:26.000 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
00:51:28.000 We are each given only one life, Singer.
00:51:31.000 No.
00:51:32.000 We're given another.
00:51:34.000 I learnt of Yezu the Christ. 0.54
00:51:38.000 And I have become his follower.
00:51:40.000 He's waiting on a miracle.
00:51:42.000 And I think you can give him one.
00:51:43.000 Trust in Yezu. 0.87
00:51:45.000 He is the only hope for men like us.
00:51:48.000 Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
00:51:51.000 Great light, great darkness.
00:51:53.000 Such things mattered to me then.
00:51:56.000 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?
00:52:00.000 You, nephew.
00:52:04.000 The sword of a high king.
00:52:09.000 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:52:16.000 So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
00:52:19.000 I cannot take up that sword again.
00:52:23.000 You know what you must do.
00:52:26.000 Great light, forgive me.
00:52:34.000 The time has come.
00:52:37.000 To be reborn.