The Michael Knowles Show - February 23, 2026


Ep. 1917 - USA DESTROYS Its Evil Tophat In Olympic Hockey Match


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The U.S. Olympic hockey team kills the hopes of America s evil top hat, and cartels are trying to kill everyone in Mexico right now. Plus, Tucker and Mike Huckabee square off in an interview on pro-Israel.

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00:00:58.620 U.S. hockey team, the Olympic hockey team,
00:01:00.880 kills the gold medal hopes of America's evil top hat.
00:01:05.100 And cartels are trying to kill everyone in Mexico right now.
00:01:07.960 I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:01:09.360 A lot of killing going on in the Western Hemisphere, but we will also turn our attention overseas
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00:01:48.560 over this issue that really seems to have split, at the very least, the chattering class on the American right.
00:01:54.540 And I think the interview is a great service in that it shows us where the conversation is going wrong.
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00:03:28.420 However, so much to get to, so much killing, so many threats.
00:03:35.740 However, I want to start with an uncharacteristically happy story.
00:03:40.860 There's just no negative side to this story at all.
00:03:43.560 It was great.
00:03:44.760 And it came out of the Olympics, which I don't even like.
00:03:47.080 And I certainly would never choose to watch.
00:03:48.540 But there was a clip that even I had to watch, which is when, for the first time in how many
00:03:53.020 decades since the Miracle on Ice team in the 80s, the US Olympic hockey team took the gold
00:03:59.740 and they did it specifically by destroying America's evil top hat, Canada.
00:04:06.160 Here is Jack Hughes, who had been hit with a stick earlier in the game, gets one and a half
00:04:12.580 of his front teeth knocked out of his face, bleeding from his face, keeps playing the game.
00:04:16.420 And here he is, scoring the winning goal.
00:04:20.280 Here's McDavid, moving in on Jack Hughes, tries to slow him down, put points up behind
00:04:25.180 the net, and it's Wierenski.
00:04:28.240 Now Jack Hughes puts him around the park, United States with numbers.
00:04:34.060 Black across it comes, Jack Hughes wins it, the golden goal for the United States. 0.98
00:04:43.280 For the first time.
00:04:44.520 Take that Canada, take that Justin Trudeau, you think you can just take Katy Perry like
00:04:49.240 that without any consequences?
00:04:50.560 No, sir.
00:04:51.540 We're coming back for the first time in 50 years, 40 years, how many years?
00:04:55.760 Anyway, we're going to take the gold.
00:04:58.260 Even after you try to smack out our boy's teeth.
00:05:01.380 Now, this is a young team, obviously, it's always a young team.
00:05:05.940 And this Zoomer guy who scores the winning goal, he comes out afterward, and you'd expect from 0.82
00:05:15.480 a Zoomer, especially on this Olympics team, where all they ever do is whine and complain, 1.00
00:05:19.300 you'd expect some whiny, crying, lamenting, woe is me.
00:05:24.780 Is that what Jack Hughes said?
00:05:26.240 No, sir.
00:05:26.980 Here's what he had to say afterward.
00:05:28.080 I'm lucky I'm from the best country in the world, and we got great dentists there, too.
00:05:33.760 So I'm lucky I'm American, and they're going to fix me right up. 0.95
00:05:37.280 Standing there listening to the anthem, what's going through your head?
00:05:40.540 Just so proud.
00:05:41.460 I'm so proud to be American.
00:05:43.260 I'm so proud of this group.
00:05:44.480 I'm so happy that we could win.
00:05:46.800 You know, we have so many people here supporting us.
00:05:49.500 We have so many people back home supporting us.
00:05:51.700 And, you know, we're just, we're so thrilled with how this whole tournament played out.
00:05:56.980 And, you know, just an unbelievable moment for USA Hockey.
00:06:00.680 I'm from the greatest country in the world, and we have great dentists there, too.
00:06:05.400 And he posts on social media afterward, I love my country.
00:06:08.040 And it was great.
00:06:09.000 Great pictures.
00:06:10.320 This kid gets his teeth knocked out, grinning, takes the gold.
00:06:14.340 Pro America.
00:06:15.300 It's so refreshing.
00:06:16.800 And there's, here's the little, I don't know, storm cloud in this otherwise sunny sky.
00:06:25.680 It's sad that this is surprising to us.
00:06:29.880 Not winning the gold, but this reaction.
00:06:31.960 It's sad that it is surprising to us when our Olympic athletes like the country.
00:06:38.600 That's kind of sad.
00:06:40.580 It's sad that our standards have fallen so low that an Olympic athlete winning the gold,
00:06:46.800 and saying nice things about our country is surprising to us.
00:06:51.020 That's kind of sad for our country.
00:06:52.780 However, the whole story is great.
00:06:56.500 And this kid is so American.
00:06:59.180 The conversation that we've all been having, especially as we look ahead at the 250th anniversary,
00:07:04.720 is what is an American?
00:07:07.420 What does it mean to be an American?
00:07:09.360 Can some Somali fraudster pirate who landed in America five minutes ago, can that person 1.00
00:07:14.140 be an American?
00:07:14.940 Is that person actually more American than the guy whose family has been here for 12 generations?
00:07:19.440 This is the conversation about identity.
00:07:23.420 And I would respectfully submit this guy's interview, just this guy, as a great piece
00:07:32.420 of evidence about what an American is.
00:07:34.660 This kind of a good attitude is distinctly American.
00:07:38.380 Smiling is not uniquely American, but it is distinctly American.
00:07:42.500 You travel around the rest of the world, people don't really smile.
00:07:45.040 I remember the first time I went to India.
00:07:46.500 I really like India, and I really like Indians, but one of the first things that struck me
00:07:49.880 is that nobody really smiles in India.
00:07:52.200 There are a lot of problems in India, so I kind of get it. 1.00
00:07:54.420 They don't really smile that much.
00:07:55.640 Around the world, you travel around Europe, people don't smile as much.
00:07:58.520 It's actually one of the caricatures of Americans that we look kind of goofy because we're smiling
00:08:03.600 all the time.
00:08:04.680 And this guy goes out there, obviously he just won the gold medal, he has reason to be happy.
00:08:08.460 But they knock his teeth out, and what's he doing?
00:08:13.100 He's just smiling with missing teeth.
00:08:14.920 It's kind of a good attitude, just yeah, it's awesome.
00:08:18.300 We went, don't worry about it, whatever, I'm missing my teeth, whatever.
00:08:20.440 We got good dentists.
00:08:22.620 That is not a German characteristic.
00:08:26.660 The Germans, very serious, you know, they're very serious people who write philosophy that
00:08:31.140 no one can understand, even in the original German.
00:08:33.620 You know, the Russians, they're not a happy people. 1.00
00:08:36.080 The Russians are depressed about everything. 1.00
00:08:39.980 The French, are they a happy people?
00:08:41.260 No, they're kind of, they're a little bit laissez-faire.
00:08:44.560 You know, boo, qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire?
00:08:46.620 Boo, you know, they just smoke their cigarettes.
00:08:49.460 They wear their hijabs now, I guess. 1.00
00:08:51.260 I don't know, their French identity is in flux too.
00:08:52.860 The Italians, they don't care about anything. 1.00
00:08:54.520 They don't want to, you know, they just kind of shrug it off too.
00:08:56.640 Very Mediterranean attitude.
00:08:57.660 But the Americans, we got a good attitude, very determined, a little proud, happy, generous.
00:09:08.100 That's it.
00:09:08.860 That's part of what resonated here too.
00:09:11.000 Not just the low bar of an Olympic athlete saying nice things about his country and being
00:09:15.900 patriotic.
00:09:16.840 But the fact that he's just so exuberant.
00:09:20.840 He's just big.
00:09:21.660 He's smiley.
00:09:22.800 His problems, he just writes them off.
00:09:24.200 Whatever, I got dentists. 0.99
00:09:25.140 Who cares?
00:09:25.480 I won, I won, and I beat you, Canada.
00:09:28.860 Take that.
00:09:29.740 It's great.
00:09:31.080 Distinctly American. 0.88
00:09:32.400 Now, one of the biggest criticisms that the libs have of America is healthcare.
00:09:37.080 You hear this kid, Jack Hughes, come out.
00:09:39.380 He says, we got great healthcare.
00:09:40.180 We got great dentists.
00:09:41.020 But that's one of the biggest criticisms.
00:09:42.660 I just did a bar fight the other night.
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00:09:47.940 One of the big conversation topics was the libs saying that America has horrible healthcare.
00:09:53.240 And you hear this all the time.
00:09:54.180 Probably the libs are going to campaign on this in the midterms.
00:09:56.800 Say, America has bad healthcare.
00:09:59.460 And every civilized country in the world has universal, socialized medicine.
00:10:04.220 We're so far behind.
00:10:05.400 We're so retrograde.
00:10:06.860 We need to have socialist medicine.
00:10:08.680 Now, of course, we do have socialist medicine for illegal aliens. 1.00
00:10:10.900 We do have socialist medicine for the very poor or for elderly people.
00:10:14.000 So we do have.
00:10:14.780 But the only way that it works is that we have a substantially capitalist healthcare system
00:10:19.000 that actually funds the whole thing.
00:10:20.360 So we do give a lot of freebies away.
00:10:23.300 We have a robust social safety net.
00:10:25.280 But the way it works is we have a strongly capitalist healthcare system that actually allows the whole thing to function.
00:10:30.920 In any case, let's take a little look at some of the socialist healthcare systems around the world.
00:10:37.300 There's a story, terrible story out of the UK.
00:10:39.080 A woman, 97, was found dead on the floor of her home after being told she would have to wait 10 days for an ambulance for a suspected hip break, according to the coroner.
00:10:49.180 What the coroner's hearing.
00:10:50.420 This is Babette Burge found on the floor of her home in Newport, Isle of Wight, on October 19th of last year.
00:10:57.820 Now the story's just coming out.
00:10:59.120 Five days earlier, a paramedic had attended Miss Burge's home and assessed her condition and found that her leg was shortened and rotated, so she had a fractured hip.
00:11:06.900 And she was told she would have to wait 10 days for an ambulance.
00:11:10.520 Not 10 days for surgery.
00:11:12.280 That would be bad enough.
00:11:13.680 10 days just for an ambulance to give a woman who was nearly 100 years old a ride to the hospital.
00:11:19.260 And then she was found to have died.
00:11:21.900 Or she was actually barely alive.
00:11:23.560 She was just slightly breathing when they found her, and then she died.
00:11:26.640 But that's it.
00:11:28.840 Everybody gets medical care in the UK.
00:11:34.560 The problem is you just can't get an ambulance there.
00:11:37.220 You can get medical.
00:11:37.860 If you can get to the hospital, you get medical care.
00:11:41.200 But you have to get to the hospital first, and we're not going to send an ambulance.
00:11:44.360 Meanwhile, out of Canada, a Canadian writer who's apparently a big lib, Kelly, she's got Kelly Broadway Baby T.O. 0.95
00:11:51.880 45,000 ex-follower says, I'm about as far left as you can get.
00:11:55.360 But we do have problems with MAID, medical assistance in dying, in Canada.
00:11:59.940 How do I know?
00:12:00.840 It was offered to me in lieu of care.
00:12:03.180 I'm disabled.
00:12:03.940 I was alone.
00:12:04.640 My condition's expensive.
00:12:06.160 Yes, I was allowed to say no, but no alternative care was offered.
00:12:08.900 That's coercion. 0.72
00:12:10.380 So you're seeing this a lot, not just in Canada, though Canada's particularly egregious about it, but throughout Europe, especially in the Netherlands.
00:12:16.660 People who are elderly, people who are not elderly, people who are young but maybe disabled, even just young people who have seasonal depression.
00:12:26.000 Doctors working for the government are telling them to kill themselves because it's expensive to treat them.
00:12:32.220 And there are wait lists because the socialist health care systems don't work that well.
00:12:36.960 So instead, the doctors are saying, hey, how about you kill yourself?
00:12:40.420 The American leftists, on the one hand, they want to say, we're the only country in the civilized world without socialist health care.
00:12:47.180 Meanwhile, you look at the supposedly civilized world and they look to anyone who's got, you know, like a fractured thumb and they say, well, well, there, mate.
00:12:54.020 You know, have you considered killing yourself then in it?
00:12:56.080 You look up to Canada, the supposedly civilized Canada.
00:13:00.700 It's like, well, probably about time you kill yourself, eh?
00:13:04.080 Yeah, no, I know.
00:13:05.160 I know you just got a little bruise.
00:13:07.020 I know you were just asking me for some aspirin, but aspirin sure is expensive, innit?
00:13:10.760 No, innit is what they say in Britain.
00:13:12.660 Anyway, but the point is they just tell you to kill yourself, which is not medical care.
00:13:16.860 It's the opposite of medical care.
00:13:19.160 Beware.
00:13:20.180 Beware the supposedly greener grass on the other side of the fence,
00:13:23.960 especially when that fence is our northern border separating us from the snow Mexicans. 1.00
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00:15:10.700 I posted an emergency video about this on Friday because Friday my show comes out
00:15:15.980 and I had to take a flight down to Florida.
00:15:18.360 And while I'm in the air, shortly after my show airs,
00:15:24.100 the news breaks that the Supreme Court has shot down Trump's tariffs,
00:15:28.060 tariffs which are the centerpiece of the whole economic agenda.
00:15:32.100 So I said, cool, cool, cool, that's great.
00:15:33.660 I filmed a little video which we put on YouTube at the airport.
00:15:37.060 However, the broad scopes of this case, it was Learning Resources Incorporated versus Trump.
00:15:43.680 Now, it's not the quality learning center run by the Somali fraudsters in Minneapolis. 1.00
00:15:47.720 That would be very funny if it were the Somali pirates in Minneapolis who brought the laws, 1.00
00:15:52.740 but it wasn't.
00:15:53.960 It was Learning Resources Incorporated versus Trump.
00:15:57.260 They were the company to bring it, but it was really just about the blanket tariffs.
00:16:00.700 Does Trump have the right to issue these tariffs?
00:16:03.280 It was a 6-3 ruling.
00:16:04.520 It was the three squishy conservatives with the three liberals against the three solid conservatives.
00:16:16.660 That was basically the breakdown.
00:16:18.220 So you had Roberts, who is super squishy and tries to maintain the institutional integrity of the court
00:16:24.380 by making extreme political calculations to not irritate the libs too much,
00:16:28.660 ironically undermining the legitimacy of the court, but I digress.
00:16:31.200 You have Roberts, along with Gorsuch, who is a conservative nominated by President Trump,
00:16:37.360 and then he enshrined transgenderism into civil rights law.
00:16:40.200 So a little squishy there.
00:16:41.860 And then Amy Barrett, who likewise, I think she clerked for Scalia, but she can go a little soft sometimes. 1.00
00:16:47.500 Them, along with Elena Kagan, who's the smart liberal judge on the court, 1.00
00:16:52.920 and then Sotomayor and Katanchi Jackson, who I don't want to get into the sin of detraction or anything.
00:16:59.120 So I'll just say, they're not Elena Kagan.
00:17:00.940 And Katanchi Jackson, famously, infamously during her confirmation hearings, 0.76
00:17:04.580 couldn't define what a woman is when Marsha Blackburn asked her. 1.00
00:17:07.740 So that's who sided against Trump and torpedoed the tariffs.
00:17:12.240 Then you had excellent dissents, notably written by Clarence Thomas,
00:17:17.100 but then also in the dissent, Alito and Brett Kavanaugh.
00:17:21.880 Kavanaugh, another Trump appointee who still likes beer,
00:17:24.540 but he sided with the more conservative judges here.
00:17:28.100 And what you're going to hear from a lot of kind of establishment conservatives,
00:17:34.080 what you're going to hear is that this is actually a really good thing.
00:17:36.460 It's really, it might have actually helped Trump that they torpedoed his tariffs
00:17:38.860 because, you know, the tariffs were really, really bad.
00:17:40.840 And tariffs are always bad because in seventh grade social studies class,
00:17:43.860 I was told the tariffs are bad.
00:17:45.660 And I was also told that in the 1980s that a true conservative can never support a tariff,
00:17:51.640 even though Ronald Reagan supported tariffs,
00:17:53.100 and even though the Republican Party was founded on tariffs,
00:17:55.300 and even though Abraham Lincoln said, give me a tariff and I'll give you the greatest country in the world.
00:17:58.780 And actually, forget about all of that.
00:18:00.420 Tariffs bad, free trade good.
00:18:02.500 90s is all of history.
00:18:04.300 There was nothing before 1990.
00:18:06.160 There was nothing after 1999.
00:18:07.720 That's just, that is the end of history.
00:18:09.360 That's what you're going to hear from a lot of conservative types.
00:18:11.640 And they're going to ground their claims on originalism.
00:18:13.800 So it's worth pointing out that originalism and textualism more broadly,
00:18:20.120 which is what is championed by the established kind of conservative powers.
00:18:28.800 It's jarring to ground your support of this ruling on originalism
00:18:33.300 when the most famous originalists in the country dissented.
00:18:38.900 Clarence Thomas is the most famous originalist, the most prominent,
00:18:44.760 the most authoritative originalist in the United States.
00:18:48.820 He wrote the dissent.
00:18:51.400 So whatever you want to say about the tariff, maybe you hate tariffs,
00:18:54.300 maybe you don't like Trump that much, whatever.
00:18:56.160 But don't tell me that this ruling was actually the vindication of originalism.
00:19:01.020 And actually, if you just read the Constitution, blah, blah, blah.
00:19:03.220 If you are going to stake your claim on originalism,
00:19:08.100 it's very difficult to contradict Clarence Thomas and Alito, for that matter.
00:19:11.400 Maybe Kavanaugh, for that matter, too.
00:19:13.500 I said on Twitter, I'm a simple man.
00:19:15.920 I didn't go to law school.
00:19:17.040 I don't pretend that I went to law school.
00:19:18.600 I can understand some legal reasoning.
00:19:20.460 I have a little bit of education on the principles of the law and the judiciary.
00:19:25.380 But I'm not a lawyer.
00:19:26.980 However, I'm a simple man.
00:19:28.980 When Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito agree on something,
00:19:32.020 I assume they're right.
00:19:34.220 Certainly on matters of the law, maybe even just matters generally.
00:19:37.380 I assume they're right.
00:19:38.740 And they agreed on this.
00:19:39.560 So what did it come down to?
00:19:40.660 Just very quickly, this was about whether or not Trump could use a 1977 law
00:19:45.600 called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, to institute these tariffs.
00:19:52.720 The majority said, no, he can't do it.
00:19:56.080 He doesn't have legal predicate.
00:19:57.500 And this violates the major questions doctrine.
00:19:59.680 The major questions doctrine is actually a relatively novel legal concept.
00:20:04.040 It first appears really in the 1980s, but it's not really used and codified and promoted
00:20:11.160 until around 2000.
00:20:13.360 I don't think it even really appears in scholarship really until the 2000s up to 2013.
00:20:17.120 So it's relatively modern.
00:20:19.300 But it says that on questions that would have a major impact on politics or economics,
00:20:26.160 you need caution.
00:20:28.920 We need to rein in the administrative agencies.
00:20:31.480 We need to have explicit delegated authority from the legislature to the administrative agencies.
00:20:39.960 Implicit authority and even some precedent doesn't hold up.
00:20:44.000 So the conservatives in the majority said this violates the major questions doctrine.
00:20:48.720 And so we're done with the tariffs.
00:20:50.760 The libs agree with the ruling.
00:20:53.180 They say, yeah, we like shooting down the tariffs, but we don't agree with citing the major questions
00:20:57.700 doctrine because the libs never want to rein in the administrative agencies.
00:21:01.240 Practically, they love using the administrative agencies.
00:21:03.340 So they say, well, we're not going to go along with the reasoning, but we do agree that we want
00:21:06.320 to shoot down the tariffs.
00:21:07.480 Meanwhile, the conservatives made a very good point.
00:21:10.960 Clarence Thomas cited delegations of tariff authority all the way back to the 1790s.
00:21:18.220 Okay, so he says, you want to have a history of how these laws have been implemented.
00:21:21.300 Let me take you back to the very beginning of the country.
00:21:23.840 I think there's a citation literally to 1790.
00:21:27.800 Then he points out that this kind of authority was used in the case to uphold Nixon's tariffs,
00:21:34.580 Ford's tariffs, cites other decisions.
00:21:39.260 And then Kavanaugh comes in and says, look, the IEEPA's ability to regulate importation includes
00:21:50.200 tariffs under ordinary meaning, text, history, and precedent.
00:21:54.320 Citing Nixon, Ford, also the Algonquin decision.
00:21:56.820 In any case, unfortunate that they torpedoed Trump's agenda, but there's already a backup plan.
00:22:02.240 And by Saturday evening, Trump had not only slapped another 10% tariff on the world,
00:22:07.120 he upped it to 15% using other legal mechanisms.
00:22:12.440 So in any case, he's doubling down.
00:22:14.240 What this means for the economy remains to be seen.
00:22:16.400 But to me, the most interesting part of the whole case is to see the breakdown of the judges.
00:22:24.180 The squishier conservatives side with the liberals.
00:22:26.540 The hardcore conservatives uphold Trump's tariffs.
00:22:29.220 And the supposed originalists in public life, the pundits and the prognosticators and the politicians.
00:22:35.680 The most originalist Scalia-worshipping politicians there are end up siding with the squishier conservatives and not the hardcore originalists.
00:22:45.940 Okay, enough of that.
00:22:48.560 More tangible attempts to stop Trump involve the attempted assassination of President Trump at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend where the assailant had his face blown off by police.
00:22:58.060 We'll get to that momentarily.
00:22:59.060 And then we will get to Tucker and Huckabee duking it out on Israel.
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00:24:13.940 These—I don't even know if I should cover these stories anymore.
00:24:16.100 The libs try to murder Trump so frequently.
00:24:17.860 Is it even a news story?
00:24:19.080 Is this exactly man bites dog?
00:24:20.680 This is how I felt about—this is another little story here.
00:24:23.880 You know, Mexico is on fire because officially the Mexican army took out the head of the biggest cartel in Mexico.
00:24:33.140 What's his name?
00:24:33.740 El Mencho?
00:24:34.880 Sounds Yiddish, doesn't it?
00:24:36.400 I don't—is that—I know he's Mexican.
00:24:38.060 I know he's not Jewish. 0.98
00:24:39.020 But El Mencho, it sounds like he's like Yiddish for like a good guy, like a really good drug cartel.
00:24:44.280 Oh, he's a Mencho.
00:24:45.480 That guy, that guy's a total Mencho, okay?
00:24:47.540 Don't give me any of that schmageggy. 1.00
00:24:49.640 He's a Mencho. 0.80
00:24:50.920 But no, he's a very bad guy.
00:24:53.460 And he gets taken out, reportedly, by the Mexican army.
00:24:57.500 I assume we had to be involved.
00:24:58.980 I mean, President Trump said we were going to start conducting raids, military operations in Mexico.
00:25:03.220 How many months ago was that?
00:25:04.100 And then all of a sudden, Mexico just miraculously starts taking out top cartel leaders.
00:25:11.080 Okay, great, whatever.
00:25:12.600 However, as Ronald Reagan said, there's no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit.
00:25:17.440 In any case, it's led to chaos in Mexico.
00:25:20.100 Do we have that picture of—I think a Costco is on fire.
00:25:23.140 We don't have the Costco picture?
00:25:25.120 That's completely unacceptable.
00:25:29.360 This is—because this is the cause's belly, as far as I'm concerned.
00:25:34.120 We take out the—or, sorry, Mexico takes out the cartel kingpin.
00:25:38.480 Then the cartels launched this vicious attack, started burning stuff, attacking the airport, threatening a lot of tourists in this region of Mexico.
00:25:45.800 But then there was reportedly an attack on a Costco.
00:25:48.920 And this, as far as I'm concerned, time to break out the nukes.
00:25:52.140 Okay, you don't—you can threaten a lot of American interests.
00:25:55.520 You go after Costco.
00:25:56.600 Mexico, this means war. 0.89
00:26:00.400 But in any case, I was—I didn't have all that much to say about the Mexico standoff, the cartels today.
00:26:07.380 And the producers were very angry with me.
00:26:08.780 They said, why aren't you talking about Mexico?
00:26:10.800 And I said, what's the story?
00:26:13.500 Cartels blow stuff up in Mexico?
00:26:15.120 Like, that's not exactly man bites dog.
00:26:16.640 And I'm sorry to say, the same thing is true here.
00:26:19.360 And an attempt on President Trump, we've all just become immune to it.
00:26:23.040 We've all just gotten so used to it.
00:26:24.400 The guy actually had part of his ear blown off on a stage in Buntler, Pennsylvania.
00:26:28.080 The only reason he didn't have the back of his skull blown out is because, implausibly, at the very last second, he turned his head.
00:26:35.320 What was it?
00:26:36.280 30 degrees.
00:26:37.480 And the bullet whizzed by him.
00:26:40.000 Still hit him a little bit, but not fatally.
00:26:42.080 And then everyone just moved on, and we never learned really anything about the assailant.
00:26:46.620 And then another guy tried to kill Trump at one of his golf courses.
00:26:50.160 And now another guy's trying to kill Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
00:26:53.160 And the left just generally has been justifying murdering Trump for years.
00:26:58.200 Joe Biden started his presidential campaign by saying that Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, which is a justification for his assassination.
00:27:05.380 And it gets very sad that we're so used to this now.
00:27:07.900 The Libs celebrated after a leftist murdered Charlie Kirk.
00:27:11.100 So we're just kind of used to this.
00:27:12.820 But in any case, it's worth reminding even ourselves that they do keep trying to kill Trump, and the meme remains true.
00:27:20.180 They're not after Trump.
00:27:21.180 They're after us, and Trump just happens to be in the way.
00:27:23.540 Here are the police giving an update on the Mar-a-Lago shooting.
00:27:26.280 At 1.30 this morning, the security detail detected that an individual had made his way into the inner perimeter of Mar-a-Lago.
00:27:38.280 A deputy and two Secret Service agents on the detail went to that area to investigate.
00:27:46.440 They confronted a white male that was carried a gas can and a shotgun.
00:27:50.980 He was ordered to drop those two pieces of equipment that he had with him, at which time he put down the gas can, raised the shotgun to a shooting position.
00:28:06.160 At that point in time, the deputy and the two Secret Service agents fired their weapons and neutralized the threat.
00:28:12.960 He is deceased at the scene.
00:28:14.380 That's all we know about him for now.
00:28:17.500 We probably will never learn anymore.
00:28:19.260 It's kind of curious how we never seem to learn anything about the people who try to murder Trump, even as they continue to try to murder Trump.
00:28:25.240 The only update I'm waiting for on this story is when the libs are going to start rallying for him.
00:28:30.520 You know, justice for this assailant.
00:28:33.040 Why didn't the cops shoot him in the leg?
00:28:35.420 You know, why did they fight back?
00:28:37.040 He was murdered.
00:28:37.660 He was executed.
00:28:39.680 And in this case, you know, the assailant wasn't even driving his SUV into any cops.
00:28:43.820 So, I'm sure they're going to be furious about it.
00:28:46.760 Expect protests in a neighborhood near you.
00:28:49.400 Very high-stakes stuff.
00:28:50.400 Speaking of high-stakes, a really illuminating interview between Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, former presidential candidate, former television host, former governor Mike Huckabee, and Tucker Carlson.
00:29:04.820 Mike Huckabee, famously very, very pro-Israel and now the ambassador to Israel.
00:29:09.680 Tucker, how should we say this diplomatically?
00:29:12.620 Not the most pro-Israel guy in the country, I think we would have to say.
00:29:17.280 Tucker, in this interview, insists that he actually likes Israel or he supports Israel.
00:29:23.600 It doesn't totally seem that way from some of Tucker's commentary of late.
00:29:29.000 So, in any case, they were kind of sniping at each other over Twitter.
00:29:32.560 And Mike Huckabee says, well, hey, why don't we just talk about this in person, Tucker?
00:29:37.800 Now, these guys used to work together at Fox News.
00:29:39.560 How about you come over here to Israel, where I work, and we can just talk about this in person?
00:29:45.420 And Tucker says, okay, great.
00:29:46.720 I'll go talk about this in person.
00:29:48.100 So, they fly to Israel.
00:29:49.080 There were all sorts of questions about where they were going to do it.
00:29:50.900 Were they going to have security?
00:29:51.760 Tucker came out and said that the embassy was not going to give him security, even as Israeli politicians are ratcheting up the pressure on Tucker.
00:29:59.400 And so, anyway, they ended up just doing it in the airport.
00:30:02.340 I don't have time to get into the whole interview.
00:30:03.860 It's pretty interesting.
00:30:04.940 But I thought that, generally, Mike Huckabee gave a pretty good defense of Israel.
00:30:12.260 There was one crucial moment where I thought that defense really started to weaken.
00:30:15.100 But, generally speaking, I thought Mike Huckabee gave a pretty good defense.
00:30:19.580 Here's the best part of that defense.
00:30:23.040 They were attacked again in 1973 in the Yom Kippur War.
00:30:26.520 They won the war.
00:30:27.760 The point is, does Israel have a right to exist? 0.98
00:30:31.240 They also had wars in 1982 in Lebanon.
00:30:33.540 They've had the Tefadas, two of those.
00:30:35.580 They've had the war in 2014.
00:30:36.680 Lebanon again in 2006.
00:30:38.040 I was there.
00:30:39.420 No, I'm very familiar with the modern history of the state.
00:30:41.800 Okay.
00:30:42.240 Pretty familiar, I think.
00:30:43.340 But a Zionist simply means somebody who believes that Israel has a right to exist.
00:30:48.500 Now, the question is, do you believe Israel has a right to exist? 0.96
00:30:50.680 I guess.
00:30:51.400 I mean, I want Israel to exist.
00:30:53.180 Well, no, but I want to know what that means.
00:30:54.600 So, like, do other countries have a right to exist?
00:30:57.240 Well, they do exist.
00:30:58.560 Do they have a right to exist?
00:30:59.800 You keep saying Israel has a right to exist. 0.99
00:31:01.980 And I want to know what other countries have a right to.
00:31:03.560 They have a legal right because every international body in the last 100 years
00:31:08.240 has said the Jewish people have a right to their indigenous homeland.
00:31:12.620 So, that's a legal right.
00:31:14.020 Do they have a biblical right? 0.66
00:31:15.620 I would say that yes, but you may say they don't.
00:31:18.080 I don't know.
00:31:18.740 I'm actually sincerely interested in finding out what you mean by a biblical right.
00:31:22.480 Okay.
00:31:22.860 So, the biblical right, I think, is where the debate starts to turn against Ambassador Huckabee
00:31:28.840 and more in Tucker's favor.
00:31:30.240 But there, I thought Huckabee did a great job.
00:31:32.720 He handled the interview very well.
00:31:34.020 And he said, look, Israel has a right to exist because they fought a bunch of wars to defend
00:31:40.320 their territory.
00:31:40.980 And every international body for the last 100 years has recognized their right to exist.
00:31:46.200 And so, they have this right.
00:31:49.020 And they're a nation that has been granted a state.
00:31:51.380 And according to the standards that we set for every other country, they have a right to exist.
00:31:56.420 All pretty solid.
00:31:58.520 Then he turns it on the, he says, I personally believe they have a biblical right to exist.
00:32:05.000 You might disagree with that.
00:32:06.660 And I don't think that's essential for US foreign policy.
00:32:09.260 But I personally, because Mike Huckabee is a former pastor, he says, I personally believe
00:32:16.040 they have a biblical right to exist.
00:32:17.300 And I thought this was a tactical error because I think it gave Tucker a real opening where
00:32:23.100 if Huckabee was landing some punches in defense of Israel's right to exist, I thought this was 0.96
00:32:30.380 where Huckabee gave Tucker the opportunity to really land a blow on what he means by the
00:32:35.800 biblical right for Israel to exist.
00:32:40.620 I'm not going to let you off on this because you have said it three times that God gave
00:32:44.940 this land to this people.
00:32:47.620 And so, it is entirely fair for me with respect to ask, what land are you talking about?
00:32:51.680 Because I just read Genesis 15, as I have many times.
00:32:54.940 And that land, I think it says, from the Nile to the Euphrates, which is, once again,
00:33:01.380 basically the entire Middle East, so God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn't, 0.50
00:33:07.180 you're saying he did.
00:33:09.540 What does that mean?
00:33:10.780 Does Israel have the right to that land? 0.95
00:33:13.780 Because you're appealing to Genesis.
00:33:15.720 You're saying that's the original deed.
00:33:20.200 It would be fine if they took it all.
00:33:23.580 It was a tough one.
00:33:24.740 Now, look, I think Huckabee is speaking a little tongue-in-cheek here, though he might
00:33:30.700 also believe it, too.
00:33:32.380 It's clearly a little bit of a punchline, but I think it probably does express more or
00:33:37.060 less his opinion, because it would have to be the opinion of people who believe that
00:33:40.960 the state of Israel has a biblical right to exist.
00:33:43.900 So he says, well, look, I'd be fine if they took it all.
00:33:47.180 And this caused a little bit of a diplomatic flare-up when all of the Arab states said,
00:33:52.000 yo, hold up, you do not get to take our countries because of your particular view of theology.
00:33:58.220 Like, what?
00:33:58.700 We ain't doing that.
00:33:59.860 And the embassy kind of walked it back.
00:34:01.860 In any case, the conversation was illuminating in many ways, but it was frustrating in many
00:34:08.340 ways, too, because it did seem like these guys were talking past each other a little bit.
00:34:12.220 And all of it comes down to this central claim, which is Zionism is simply the belief 0.77
00:34:20.440 that Israel has a right to exist.
00:34:24.160 That's kind of the claim made to people who are raising questions about Christian Zionism,
00:34:30.380 which is a kind of novel 19th century theological innovation that comes from a subset of Protestantism
00:34:37.380 that a lot of Christians, Protestant and Catholic and Eastern Orthodox and the rest, reject.
00:34:41.620 So they say, no, no, no, it's not that.
00:34:42.960 It's just a different thing.
00:34:43.620 It's just a more basic political thing.
00:34:45.000 If you think that Israel has a right to exist, then you are a Zionist. 0.70
00:34:48.380 But I don't think that claim is exactly true.
00:34:52.620 And the claim hinges on the meaning of the word right.
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00:35:29.620 My favorite comment yesterday is from Ian Hamilton, V6R, who says, and this is kind of apropos 0.97
00:35:35.640 of discussions around the Middle East.
00:35:37.760 Ian Hamilton said, Elmo has been forcefully converted.
00:35:41.620 Oh, yes, because Elmo is celebrating Ramadan. 0.94
00:35:43.640 Elmo has been forcefully converted.
00:35:46.020 Elmo is sad inside.
00:35:48.300 This is the song, La La Huakbar, Elmo's song.
00:35:51.160 I added that part at the end.
00:35:52.160 But yeah, that was pretty weird.
00:35:54.060 It was weird with Elmo going, making the hajj.
00:35:58.300 Now, speaking of jihads and fights, we had a great bar fight that came out on Saturday.
00:36:03.880 This is with the Jolly Good Ginger and Walter Masterson.
00:36:06.620 Here's a clip.
00:36:07.020 I forgot to bring my Epstein files with me.
00:36:10.080 I'm sorry.
00:36:10.580 We talked about your favorite pedophile.
00:36:11.700 You f***ing pedophile apologists.
00:36:13.940 I am glad that after Joe Biden...
00:36:16.480 Why do I give a f*** up Joe Biden?
00:36:18.040 What about Biden?
00:36:19.100 You guys want to lose every election going forward?
00:36:23.240 Boom! 0.99
00:36:23.760 Boom! 0.99
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00:36:35.220 Okay, back to Zionism. 0.90
00:36:38.340 Back to the Huckabee-Tucker showdown.
00:36:41.900 The whole question hinges on the meaning of the word right.
00:36:46.840 Some people say, look, I think God gave this land to the Jews.
00:36:50.160 Then the traditional Christian perspective is that the church is the fulfillment.
00:36:55.000 The New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament.
00:36:57.200 And the church is the new Israel, the spiritual Israel.
00:36:59.820 And so these kind of specific ethnic claims that come out of the Old Testament,
00:37:06.080 which we view as a figure, a type of the New Testament,
00:37:09.520 they don't really hold true because we believe that there is neither Jew nor Gentile,
00:37:14.420 nor slave nor bond, nor male nor female, but all are one in Christ Jesus.
00:37:19.180 So that's the Christian view.
00:37:20.560 There is a kind of innovation that comes about in the 19th century,
00:37:23.440 which is focused on returning the Jews specifically to the Holy Land.
00:37:29.940 And we don't really need to get into that because it's a little bit of a distraction.
00:37:33.120 And to the point on defending Israel or opposing Israel.
00:37:36.760 A lot of people will say, well, no, no, no.
00:37:37.840 Don't focus on this novel theological innovation.
00:37:40.020 Just observe that Zionism means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. 0.94
00:37:44.840 If you believe that Israel has a right to exist, that means you're a Zionist. 0.93
00:37:48.700 And I don't think that's persuasive.
00:37:51.840 Because you'd have to ask, well, on what grounds are we talking about a right?
00:37:56.700 I believe that the state of Israel has a right to exist.
00:38:00.720 But as I've pointed out many times over the years, I think that that right to exist is predicated on international law.
00:38:08.420 I think that right to exist is because the British Empire, which was the legitimate authority in mandatory Palestine, gave to the Jews some land for a homeland starting in 1917.
00:38:23.820 And then this was ratified by international bodies, such as the United Nations.
00:38:29.060 And then Israel fought a war of conquest for its independence and has defended the territory.
00:38:35.240 So when you look at the law of conquest all the way to other aspects and more modern aspects of international law, and you look at the sovereign authority in the region and how authority and sovereignty was transferred and evolved, those are the reasons that I would say Israel has a right to exist.
00:38:52.960 That is not what Zionism even self-consciously argued when it came about.
00:39:00.500 Zionism is a 19th century political movement.
00:39:04.240 And it was basically secular in nature when it started at the end of the 19th century.
00:39:10.980 But before the Jews were substantially in mandatory Palestine, or even in the Ottoman Empire, before the Jews were in that land in substantial numbers, before they had political authority in that land,
00:39:22.960 modern political authority, on what basis would you say Israel had a right to exist?
00:39:30.220 There were only really two ways to argue it from the rights perspective.
00:39:34.820 One would be that God gave us the land a long time ago and we're going to take it back.
00:39:39.480 That's the kind of the biblical argument.
00:39:42.200 And then the other one is indigeneity. 0.95
00:39:44.300 Well, this was our homeland.
00:39:45.880 This was our homeland 2,000 years ago.
00:39:48.380 And so we're going to take it back because we still think that we have a legal right to it.
00:39:52.960 Which neither of those arguments really works from the perspective, certainly, of modern-day American conservative politics.
00:40:01.960 Because if we really buy the indigeneity argument, we would have to give Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux. 0.99
00:40:08.900 The Lakota Sioux occupied Mount Rushmore two centuries ago.
00:40:13.320 The Jews occupied the Holy Land two millennia ago before the founding of the modern nation state of Israel.
00:40:19.740 So from an indigeneity perspective, if we grant that premise, there's a much stronger case to give Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux. 0.71
00:40:26.960 I don't think we're going to do that.
00:40:27.760 And then you have to get to the biblical argument, which, once again, is not going to be persuasive to a lot of people, including the majority of Christians.
00:40:39.280 So then where do we end up?
00:40:41.460 Well, if you look at the 19th century, you could say, well, maybe it would be good for the Jews to have a homeland in the Holy Land.
00:40:48.800 That's a much more solid argument.
00:40:50.860 It would be good for that to happen.
00:40:53.520 You know, the Jews, they've been pogromed a lot.
00:40:55.920 They've faced a lot of persecution.
00:40:57.360 So it would be good to give them a place to go.
00:40:59.900 And where are they going to go probably in their historic homeland?
00:41:02.120 You could make that argument.
00:41:02.860 That's not a rights argument.
00:41:03.680 That's a good argument.
00:41:05.200 And it's a much better argument, it turns out, than the rights argument.
00:41:08.360 You could make that kind of an argument.
00:41:10.500 Now, that gets you in trouble with the modern left, which says, well, that means that Israel is essentially a colonial settler project.
00:41:15.900 To which I would say, yeah, basically, so is America.
00:41:18.360 You know, it's not too bad.
00:41:19.540 I'm willing to accept that.
00:41:21.660 That's one argument that you could make.
00:41:23.260 But from the period of, I don't know, 1880 to 1917, you cannot establish the right of Israel to exist in the Holy Land without recourse to religion or indigeneity, which is going to be rejected by a lot of people.
00:41:42.460 So it seems to me, I've gotten in trouble from the people who hate Israel.
00:41:46.860 I've gotten in trouble from the people who love Israel because I've stated my view, which to me, when I get attacked from both sides, that's how I know I'm most likely correct. 1.00
00:41:53.260 To me, it seems to behoove the pro-Israel side to ground their arguments in more modest ways, to borrow a phrase from the philosopher Leo Strauss, to establish the justification, the legitimacy for the state of Israel on the low but solid ground of international law and the interest of great powers.
00:42:15.040 I think there's a very robust argument to be made that it's in America's interest for the state of Israel to exist where it does.
00:42:22.200 Not entirely.
00:42:22.920 It's not that our interests are identical, but there is a reason that our foreign adversaries view the state of Israel as an extension of the American empire.
00:42:30.300 And there is a reason that our foreign adversaries seek to undermine the state of Israel.
00:42:33.840 You can make some arguments from the national interest of the United States, and you can certainly make arguments from international law.
00:42:40.880 But when you start going down this rabbit hole, and Tucker even kind of hints at that.
00:42:44.060 He says, I think it'd be good for Israel to exist.
00:42:46.000 But when you start going down these more ambitious rabbit holes, the Bible demands that we give the whole Middle East to Israel. 0.74
00:42:53.040 I don't know.
00:42:53.920 Most people are not going to agree with that, including most Christians. 0.68
00:42:57.600 Probably not going to believe that.
00:42:59.200 When you go down this argument, well, you know, the Jews are a people that don't have a state, so they need to have a state. 0.92
00:43:04.420 Well, what about the Tibetans?
00:43:06.780 What about the Tibetans?
00:43:07.840 What about the Gypsies? 0.99
00:43:09.240 What about the Kurds?
00:43:10.300 What about the Uyghurs? 1.00
00:43:11.700 There are a lot of peoples that don't have states.
00:43:14.740 Do we, are we just going to establish states for all of them?
00:43:16.900 And probably not.
00:43:17.780 When you go down, well, they were indigenous to this area.
00:43:21.520 Okay, well, then I guess we have to get rid of the United States.
00:43:24.060 Give it back to the Apache and the Comanche and the Lakota Sioux. 1.00
00:43:27.040 You're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble.
00:43:30.180 I would, I think it's much smarter to ground it on this low, solid foundation, which is much more easily defended.
00:43:37.900 But, you know, I'm sure that will be taken to irritate both the pro and anti-Israel side, as is usually the case with rational opinions on the subject.
00:43:45.140 Okay, turning from the Middle East to Mamdanistan, this is a delightful story. 0.94
00:43:49.260 And as the snow is falling in the Northeast, here in Nashville even, Zoran Mamdani, fresh off of killing now up to 20 New Yorkers because of his stupid policies during the last snowstorm.
00:44:02.200 Zoran Mamdani is taking this one a little more seriously, and he's hiring shovelers.
00:44:06.900 He says, hey, New Yorkers, first of all, we're going to clear the homeless camps.
00:44:09.720 You've got to get off the street, and we're going to try to shovel all this snow more quickly this time.
00:44:13.380 And we're actually going to hire shovelers.
00:44:15.060 So if you want to make some money, sign up to work for the city as a snow shoveler.
00:44:19.860 We're utilizing 33 DSNY vans and two DSNY buses to transport shovelers where they're needed faster. 0.99
00:44:27.400 And for those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler.
00:44:33.940 Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork, which is accessible online at nyc.gov slash snow.
00:44:42.900 And you can get started right away.
00:44:44.880 This is great.
00:44:45.760 I think that's a good idea.
00:44:46.620 Finally put some of these kids, you know, who are causing all that crime in New York.
00:44:50.640 These shiftless, you know, urban youth who aren't really good. 1.00
00:44:53.760 Put them to work.
00:44:55.040 Serve their community.
00:44:56.140 Maybe they can make a little extra money.
00:44:57.400 That's really great.
00:44:58.120 How do you sign up, Zoran?
00:44:59.340 Well, to register for an appointment, workers must have two small photos, one and a half inch square, two original forms of ID plus copies, and a social security card.
00:45:15.380 So three, hold on.
00:45:18.800 If you want to shovel snow in New York City, you need three forms of identification.
00:45:26.720 But if you want to vote, you don't need any.
00:45:30.340 Does that, that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
00:45:33.380 Now, the libs are responding to this obvious hypocrisy.
00:45:37.280 And they're saying, well, no, you don't understand.
00:45:39.540 It's different.
00:45:40.460 You know, this is to get a job.
00:45:41.780 And, you know, there are all these requirements and all these laws that say that you need to prove your identity and that you're eligible to work if you want to work.
00:45:49.000 So that's why.
00:45:49.940 That's different from voting.
00:45:50.900 And I'd say, right, yeah.
00:45:52.420 Yeah, that's why we're passing laws to make sure that you're eligible to vote before you vote.
00:45:59.400 Because wouldn't we say that voting is a more serious responsibility than shoveling snow in New York?
00:46:07.560 I thought it was the liberals who told me that there is nothing more sacred than our precious democracy.
00:46:12.980 That President Trump poses an existential threat because of his threat to democracy.
00:46:18.200 Or everyone has to vote.
00:46:19.440 It's your sacred right and duty and obligation.
00:46:21.420 First of all, I don't think everyone has to vote.
00:46:23.200 If you want to vote and you're entitled to vote, fine.
00:46:25.560 You have the right to vote.
00:46:26.500 Okay, that's good.
00:46:27.320 I hope you're informed.
00:46:28.840 But I don't think it's good to vote in itself.
00:46:31.340 Voting is instrumental.
00:46:32.520 It's a way to get us good government, at least in theory.
00:46:35.020 So I don't.
00:46:35.660 But you, Libs, you're the ones who say we have to vote.
00:46:38.900 It's so sacred.
00:46:40.060 It's such a grave responsibility.
00:46:42.920 And yet you're telling me it's less important than shoveling snow in New York?
00:46:47.360 Does that make a lot of sense to you?
00:46:48.980 Well, it's for employment.
00:46:49.740 Are you saying that your sacred civic duty is less important than some random job?
00:46:55.600 Not even like a full job, like a gig?
00:46:58.320 Hmm.
00:46:59.040 I don't know.
00:46:59.500 I love it.
00:47:00.340 Watching Mom Donnie twist himself into knots because his stupid agenda keeps running into reality is delightful.
00:47:07.260 And we're only, what, a year into this thing?
00:47:10.140 So much more to get to, especially on the immigration front.
00:47:13.780 But we have to wait until tomorrow because today's Music Monday.
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00:47:40.660 What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
00:47:57.840 Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:48:08.680 Merlin, I knew your father.
00:48:11.120 I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:48:16.280 All men know of the great Taliesin.
00:48:19.600 You are my father.
00:48:20.800 That the gods should war for my soul.
00:48:22.820 Princess Garrus, saviour of our people.
00:48:29.480 I know what the bull god offered you.
00:48:32.020 I was offered the same.
00:48:34.000 And?
00:48:35.480 There is a new power at work in the world.
00:48:37.600 I've seen it.
00:48:39.860 A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
00:48:42.360 We are each given only one life, Singer.
00:48:45.120 No.
00:48:46.200 And we're given another.
00:48:50.060 I learnt of Yazoo the Christ. 1.00
00:48:52.380 And I have become his follower.
00:48:54.260 He's waiting on a miracle.
00:48:55.800 And I think you can give him one.
00:48:57.820 Trust in Yazoo.
00:48:59.160 He is the only hope for men like us.
00:49:02.100 Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
00:49:05.100 Great light?
00:49:06.260 Great darkness?
00:49:07.700 Such things mattered to me then.
00:49:10.020 What matters to you now, mistress of lies?
00:49:13.820 You.
00:49:15.440 Nephew.
00:49:18.440 The sword of a high king.
00:49:22.700 How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:49:30.420 Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
00:49:33.680 I cannot take up that sword again.
00:49:36.440 You know what you must do.
00:49:39.920 Great light, forgive me.
00:49:45.440 The time has come to be reborn.
00:49:52.440 The time has come to be reborn.
00:49:55.940 You.
00:49:56.540 Have a good night.
00:49:57.060 Bye.
00:49:57.620 You.
00:49:59.700 Love you.