The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1928 - GROSS： Scientist Teach Human Foreskin To Play A Video Game

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00:00:32.880 Entrepreneurial scientists just taught human brain cells derived from newborn foreskin to play the video game Doom.

00:00:42.820 I'm going to repeat that sentence.

00:00:45.420 Entrepreneurial scientists just taught human brain cells that were derived from newborn foreskin to play the video game Doom.

00:00:59.840 That is not a Mad Lib.

00:01:01.800 That is an actual news story.

00:01:03.400 And while our minds are focused on horrors almost beyond comprehension, Democrat Senate candidate James Tallarico wants you to know how much he loves trans children.

00:01:13.820 Like, he really, really loves trans children.

00:01:17.700 Weird.

00:01:19.040 Also, new details reveal that Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards lied about the night he died.

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00:03:42.140 Do we have the story?

00:03:45.660 You know what?

00:03:46.260 There's a little video of it.

00:03:47.420 I don't even need to read the news story.

00:03:49.240 You can just see how human neurons in a Petri dish plugged into a computer are now playing

00:03:57.280 the famous early video game, Doom.

00:04:03.520 There it is.

00:04:04.900 Man, I remember Doom.

00:04:05.640 I remember playing this when I was a kid.

00:04:10.040 A little joystick on my computer.

00:04:13.200 Pretty cool.

00:04:14.380 Pretty fun game.

00:04:16.040 Oh, and that's what's playing it.

00:04:18.000 It's a tiny little water-filled Petri dish full of human brain cells.

00:04:23.100 Now, the first question that most people would ask when they read a news story about how human

00:04:28.860 brain cells have now been plugged into a computer to learn how to play Doom is, whose brain cells

00:04:35.920 are they?

00:04:37.120 Hey, scientists, where'd you get the brain cells?

00:04:39.340 And the answer is, they're no one's brain cells.

00:04:43.300 They are cells.

00:04:45.200 They're neurons that came from stem cells, stem cells which can develop into other kinds of cells,

00:04:51.900 stem cells that were taken from the foreskin of newborn babies.

00:04:58.880 In a way, you'd say, well, that's a relief.

00:05:04.860 I know it sounds pretty gross, but it could be much, much worse if, for instance, the stem cells

00:05:09.280 had been taken from aborted babies, as a lot of our pharmaceuticals come from.

00:05:14.160 No, no.

00:05:15.400 In this case, it was just the discarded foreskin of circumcised babies from which we got the stem 0.99

00:05:23.220 cells that got the brain cells.

00:05:25.400 The brain cells, which are no one's brain cells, to learn how to play a beloved video game.

00:05:34.280 This is the plot of Frankenstein.

00:05:37.280 This is the actual plot.

00:05:39.320 I don't know if you've ever read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

00:05:42.260 It's a great gothic romantic novel.

00:05:45.060 The plot is that a scientist who wants to transgress the limits of morality, transgress the limits

00:05:53.760 placed on us by our nature, by God, goes out, digs up a bunch of dead bodies, goes to morgues

00:06:01.720 and takes body parts, and then cobbles together a monster from rotting human flesh, and through

00:06:08.960 a scientific form of wizardry, animates this thing and creates a being that is not human

00:06:18.000 made from undead flesh.

00:06:19.020 This is actually somehow more grotesque than that, because Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,

00:06:27.460 while it describes all sorts of putrid, rotting flesh dug up from cemeteries, doesn't go quite 0.97

00:06:33.440 so far as the discarded foreskin of circumcised babies to create brain cells for this ridiculous 0.98

00:06:44.060 purpose, which is to play a video game. 0.96

00:06:47.180 At least Frankenstein, he really is.

00:06:49.120 He is playing God.

00:06:50.560 He is creating this human being.

00:06:53.000 This is a tale of a new Prometheus.

00:06:56.320 Here, they just say, wouldn't it be funny if they think it played Doom?

00:06:59.700 Now, another confusion.

00:07:01.820 This is something I really like about this story.

00:07:03.240 I mean, you can make jokes about it all day, and you can also be horrified by it and think

00:07:08.240 that this is evidence of the approach of the apocalypse, but the thing that I really like

00:07:14.020 about this story, I'm a glass half full kind of guy, is it forces us to reflect on our human

00:07:19.240 nature.

00:07:19.940 We have a lot of errors these days about what a human being is.

00:07:23.840 We don't even know what men and women are now, famously, infamously.

00:07:27.880 We think a man can be a woman because we don't really know how human nature works. 0.91

00:07:31.220 And so, something I like about this story is that the reasonable fear that people have,

00:07:38.360 which is, is this a person?

00:07:41.180 Are we creating souls?

00:07:43.840 What are the ethics of this?

00:07:46.900 And the answer is that these cells, even brain cells, they're not a person.

00:07:53.980 This is not a person that we've created.

00:07:56.960 Much like Dr. Frankenstein didn't really create a human being.

00:08:01.220 These cells are not a person.

00:08:05.580 They're not even really like a person.

00:08:07.200 They don't have a soul.

00:08:08.440 They don't have a soul because the soul is not just some magical word to fill in what we

00:08:12.700 haven't yet uncovered through science.

00:08:15.340 The soul is an objective fact that we can all know, which is that the soul is the substantial

00:08:21.140 form of the body.

00:08:22.240 My body is made up of all sorts of molecules and atoms and elements.

00:08:28.320 I've got a lot of carbon in there.

00:08:30.100 I've got some hydrogen.

00:08:30.760 I've got some oxygen.

00:08:32.180 But the thing that makes me, me, and that differentiates my carbon from, say, the carbon

00:08:38.600 in this cigar box is my soul.

00:08:42.400 The thing that pertains to me is an integral whole.

00:08:46.380 The soul is the substantial form of the body.

00:08:49.780 The reason that the leftist tears tumbler is different from other pieces of steel and who

00:08:55.980 knows, gold and platinum and whatever is in this tumbler.

00:08:58.560 The thing that differentiates that from every other thing that includes those elements is

00:09:04.360 its tumblerness, its tumblarity.

00:09:09.280 You could say its soul, the thing that pertains to it, that gives it its form, that makes it

00:09:15.380 what it is.

00:09:15.960 This is not that.

00:09:17.840 So I'm not really concerned that we've created some poor, wretched human person in the form of

00:09:26.620 developed neonatal foreskin to play this video game that hasn't even been cooled in like 30 years.

00:09:33.220 But it does seem like we should learn a lesson from Frankenstein here.

00:09:40.380 Why are we doing this?

00:09:41.580 The reason that this company, Cortical Labs, creates this thing called DishBrain is to just

00:09:47.340 compute faster.

00:09:48.280 The argument is that when you plug in human cells and you create these neurons, it'll compute

00:09:53.180 faster and it will learn things faster than a computer chip.

00:09:56.740 So in that way, it's very much like Frankenstein.

00:10:01.180 In many ways, it's very much like Frankenstein.

00:10:02.820 But in this way, we are transgressing human limits.

00:10:06.800 We are now treating human flesh as if it is nothing but a commodity.

00:10:12.940 And this too is manifest in our culture.

00:10:16.580 We now go to the baby store to buy babies.

00:10:19.300 We order babies.

00:10:20.300 We custom order babies.

00:10:21.760 We pick the mother or the father out of a catalog.

00:10:24.380 We make a bunch of babies.

00:10:26.440 And then the ones we don't want, we return or we discard.

00:10:28.940 We freeze indefinitely.

00:10:30.660 I'm describing, of course, IVF and surrogacy.

00:10:33.480 We then hire other unethical scientists, much like these people, to go and create the babies

00:10:40.640 in a Petri dish and then to implant them in different mothers that we pay. 1.00

00:10:43.460 This is reminding us, just as the question about human nature reminds us that we once knew

00:10:54.180 more about human nature than we do today.

00:10:57.080 We have actually forgotten something.

00:10:58.860 We think, because of this weirdo technological progress, we think that we are advancing in

00:11:05.300 all areas of life because we're advancing in technology.

00:11:08.500 But we're not, weirdly, we're advancing in technology and we're actually regressing when

00:11:13.340 it comes to ethics.

00:11:14.340 We're regressing when it comes to anthropology.

00:11:16.800 We're regressing when it comes to philosophy and theology.

00:11:21.080 We're taking one step forward, but 150 steps back at the same time.

00:11:26.220 And so we have to, the glass half full version of this is, it forces us to contemplate our human

00:11:32.760 nature, if baby foreskin in a Petri dish can learn how to play Doom, that is a shocking 0.95

00:11:38.980 fact.

00:11:39.600 And it forces me to think about what is a human being.

00:11:43.500 And by thinking about what is a human being, I reconsider all these other aspects of politics.

00:11:49.360 Things like IVF or abortion, things like gender, things like the ethical limits of science.

00:11:57.440 If you don't want to live in a future where baby foreskin is playing Doom, then we need 1.00

00:12:02.660 to rethink what we're doing.

00:12:03.860 Okay, speaking of human experimentation, our favorite Democrat Senate candidate in Texas,

00:12:09.760 James Tallarico, wants you to know that he really, really, really loves trans kids.

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00:13:47.800 James Tallarico.

00:13:50.140 The gift that keeps on giving.

00:13:51.920 I violate my own rule every day.

00:13:53.660 I said it a few days ago.

00:13:54.680 I said, save some clips of this guy until closer to the election.

00:13:58.080 But I can't.

00:13:58.860 I'm just as tempted as all of you are.

00:14:02.100 I can't resist.

00:14:03.700 Here's a clip that's just come back around from a Super Bloom podcast on YouTube.

00:14:08.340 in which James Tallarico is asked what he most loves.

00:14:13.620 And his answer is very, very creepy.

00:14:18.620 Something that you love that's not family or friends.

00:14:23.960 I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children who showed up

00:14:31.000 yesterday at the state capitol to advocate for their humanity.

00:14:34.600 They shouldn't have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.

00:14:37.400 Ladies and gentlemen, your normal, moderate, polished Democrat Senate candidate.

00:14:44.940 We've had enough all this wokeness, you know, that's what we're being told.

00:14:48.960 Enough of this wokeness, enough of these sideshows.

00:14:51.560 Here, finally, we have the normal, moderate James Tallarico,

00:14:56.620 who's going to bring Democrats back to sanity and moderation, help them reconnect with the average

00:15:03.140 voter.

00:15:04.420 Hey, James, other than your family, other than those people most close to, what do you love?

00:15:10.960 Trans kids. 0.66

00:15:11.980 I love them.

00:15:12.840 I love, I love trans kids.

00:15:15.740 And then he tries to explain it.

00:15:17.720 Maybe he realizes how creepy this sounds.

00:15:19.960 So he tries to explain it and he makes it worse.

00:15:22.040 He says, I love trans kids, but I'm only saying that because they're on my mind.

00:15:26.560 Yeah, they're, they're just, they're on my mind.

00:15:28.900 I've had them on my mind a lot.

00:15:31.180 Trans kids. 0.66

00:15:32.440 I love them.

00:15:33.080 Other than, I don't know, my mom and my dad, the thing I love most in this world is children

00:15:40.800 with sexual confusion.

00:15:45.140 Yeah, they're on my mind.

00:15:47.740 So says James Tallarico.

00:15:49.420 This guy, I just, I love him.

00:15:51.640 I love him so much.

00:15:53.580 Not the quote you want out there.

00:15:55.060 Gavin Newsom just got in trouble for this quote.

00:15:57.920 He said, I want to see more trans kids.

00:16:00.340 Not the kind of quote you want if you want to connect with the voters in Peoria.

00:16:06.420 Not the kind of normal stuff you, I want to see more trans kids. 1.00

00:16:09.600 Because even if you, even if you advocate for promoting the transgender ideology, even 0.99

00:16:16.060 if you advocate for affirming people's delusions, if they have this kind of sexual hangup, even 0.98

00:16:23.680 if you think that we should do that when it comes to children, which is sick and perverted 0.99

00:16:29.560 and insane.

00:16:30.820 But even if you think all of that, how could you possibly say, I want to see more of this

00:16:36.220 among kids?

00:16:39.420 Transgender identity is a psychological ailment that corresponds with a 41% suicide rate. 1.00

00:16:48.160 41% of people who have this condition will try to kill themselves.

00:16:52.000 And massively increased rates of depression and anxiety.

00:16:57.680 All sorts of problems.

00:16:58.740 To say nothing of the sterility and the bone problems and the early death that go along

00:17:03.200 with the gender affirming treatment.

00:17:07.140 And you come out and you say, I want to see more of this.

00:17:09.860 Even if you think we should encourage this or tolerate this, or we should affirm these,

00:17:16.240 which is wrong.

00:17:17.840 But even if you think that, to go out and say, I want to see more of it is so sick and

00:17:21.660 revolting that it takes you off the table as the moderate, as the Democrat reset.

00:17:28.060 Newsom fell into that trap.

00:17:29.500 Tallarico falls into that trap too.

00:17:32.440 If you want to encourage sexual confusion among kids, if that's on your mind a lot, something's

00:17:39.400 wrong with you. 0.96

00:17:40.120 Something's deeply, deeply wrong with you.

00:17:42.160 So, before I move on from Tallarico, I know we could just do, from now until November,

00:17:47.300 I could dedicate my show to James Tallarico.

00:17:49.180 One more clip that's going around.

00:17:50.820 It's James Tallarico sitting with James Carville, Ragin' Cajun, describing how non-Christians 0.99

00:17:58.880 are more Christ-like than Christians. 0.97

00:18:02.000 I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, who are more

00:18:10.400 Christ-like than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature. 0.98

00:18:14.680 It is about how you treat other people.

00:18:17.040 Matthew 25, people who haven't read their Bible on a Bible.

00:18:20.240 You're not thinking of Ken Paxton.

00:18:21.740 He's a turn of general.

00:18:23.040 Yeah, well, you know, he follows the 10 commandments rather than the 10 commandments.

00:18:27.640 But, you know, Matthew 25 tells us exactly how we're going to be judged and how we're going

00:18:32.360 to be saved by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, which

00:18:37.700 is more timely now than it's ever been before.

00:18:40.260 There's nothing in Matthew 25 about reading your Bible.

00:18:43.600 There's nothing about going to church.

00:18:45.340 There's nothing about being a good Christian. 1.00

00:18:47.260 It is all about how you treat other people.

00:18:49.800 And so, I've met a lot of people from different faith traditions, people who aren't religious

00:18:53.160 at all, who embody that teaching better than some of the really loud Christians that we

00:19:00.000 have in public office.

00:19:01.140 Okay, I don't even really want to get into all of the many errors that this guy is making.

00:19:06.020 The one right off the top that comes to my system, there's nothing in the Gospel of Matthew

00:19:10.460 that says you need to read your Bible.

00:19:12.080 Of course, the events that are chronicled in the Gospel according to St. Matthew necessarily

00:19:19.100 occur before the Gospel is written down and therefore necessarily occur before the Bible

00:19:24.740 can be compiled into a canon.

00:19:26.900 Obviously, that's such a minor point.

00:19:32.000 This guy's job is to make non-Christians feel good about disparaging Christians. 0.59

00:19:39.760 That's this guy's job.

00:19:40.880 This is why David French endorsed him in the New York Times.

00:19:44.180 David French, who is the pretend conservative, who used to at least hold some conservatives,

00:19:49.100 views, and then came down with a terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome, and then

00:19:54.260 moved over to the left, and now he's a New York Times liberal.

00:19:56.720 But he has the same job as James Tallarico.

00:20:00.340 The job that they share is to make non-Christians feel good about disparaging Christians. 0.92

00:20:07.320 That's what it's all about.

00:20:09.480 Now, plenty of non-Christians, just liberal, secular, atheist types, they disparage Christians 0.64

00:20:18.280 all the time anyway.

00:20:19.220 They don't really need encouragement in that endeavor.

00:20:22.300 However, for some of them, the ones who have a pang of a conscience, it helps them to feel

00:20:29.220 permission to go after Christians. 0.99

00:20:32.600 And so, the way they attack Christians is they attack Christians as hypocrites. 0.99

00:20:37.060 Because the liberals do not have a serious moral standard that they hold themselves to, 0.99

00:20:43.520 they do all sorts of vicious stuff, sexual stuff, money stuff, violent stuff.

00:20:51.500 They do all this vicious stuff, and they transgress everything that has ever even been

00:20:57.900 said to resemble the moral order.

00:20:59.440 They feel a resentment toward Christians who attempt to hold themselves to the moral order.

00:21:07.800 And the way that they can attack Christians and thereby make themselves feel better is by 0.99

00:21:15.200 accusing Christians of being hypocrites. 0.98

00:21:18.040 So, they say, well, look, I might do all this bad stuff. 0.99

00:21:21.100 I might do lots of terrible sex stuff, and I might be greedy, and I might not give to charity, 0.93

00:21:25.920 and I might be a vicious person. 0.80

00:21:28.460 I might think about myself all the time.

00:21:29.780 I might be terrible, but at least I don't pretend otherwise.

00:21:33.860 But you Christians, you have a moral standard, and sometimes you fall short of that, which 1.00

00:21:39.240 is, of course, an integral part of Christianity is the recognition that this is a fallen world,

00:21:45.900 and no man saves himself, and we're in need of a Savior, and we're in need of God's grace.

00:21:49.460 That is built into Christianity.

00:21:51.400 The libs either don't know that or don't care to admit that. 0.60

00:21:53.820 Maybe they're just being obtuse regardless.

00:21:56.260 That's the attack.

00:21:57.820 And so, the fulfillment of that attack is, you know, the non-Christians are more Christian 0.99

00:22:02.780 than the Christians. 0.92

00:22:03.600 Did you know that?

00:22:04.960 And it's an incoherent attack, because on the one hand, these people will argue that

00:22:09.040 Christianity is bad. 1.00

00:22:11.240 Christianity, as we have always understood it, is bad. 0.99

00:22:13.880 James Tallarico is an antichrist figure who insists that Christianity is totally contrary 0.83

00:22:20.320 to everything that everyone has believed Christianity to be for 2,000 years.

00:22:23.400 But the left, broadly, says Christianity is bad, and also, all these non-Christians are 1.00

00:22:30.640 more Christian than the Christians. 0.98

00:22:32.840 Now, you have to pick one of those things, unless you're saying your own side is bad.

00:22:38.080 But they'll make those contradictory arguments constantly.

00:22:42.360 This is the Tallarico moment, as David French is calling it.

00:22:46.320 The Tallarico moment is this indulgent gift, this indulgent exercise of encouraging non-Christians 1.00

00:22:58.380 to disparage Christians.

00:22:59.560 But it's not a serious political moment.

00:23:03.300 Everything we're seeing from Tallarico right now tells us he is Beto O'Rourke 2.0.

00:23:08.700 He's Beto, he's Buttigieg, he's probably not going to the U.S. Senate.

00:23:14.020 Speaking of religion, this is amazing.

00:23:16.760 This was just called to my attention.

00:23:18.800 I told you yesterday about how there was a conservative protest in New York protesting

00:23:24.160 the Islamification of New York.

00:23:26.820 Then a bunch of libs showed up and made a big to-do about it and started screeching at 1.00

00:23:32.140 the conservatives.

00:23:33.880 And as the libs were yelling that everyone belongs in New York and we need mass migration

00:23:40.860 and more Muslims, as one lib in particular is screeching about this into a bullhorn, 0.96

00:23:45.280 a Muslim comes up, screams Allahu Akbar, and throws a bomb, an IED, an improvised explosive 0.99

00:23:54.460 device.

00:23:55.120 So we saw that story yesterday.

00:23:56.460 I talked about it on the show yesterday.

00:23:57.840 Turns out, turns out the ringleader of the libs who was speaking while the Muslim came up, 0.96

00:24:07.360 jumped on top of him, screamed Allahu Akbar and threw a bomb, is none other than Walter Masterson,

00:24:13.140 the star of one of the recent episodes of Bar Fight.

00:24:18.700 I bring this guy on Bar Fight. 0.96

00:24:22.200 No one had ever heard of him.

00:24:23.460 I bring this guy on Bar Fight. 0.96

00:24:25.240 He does one episode.

00:24:26.700 Now he's the most viral guy on the internet.

00:24:28.940 Is that a coincidence?

00:24:30.300 I don't know.

00:24:30.800 We'll get to the video in a second.

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00:25:49.180 We covered the story yesterday.

00:25:51.160 Here's the video.

00:25:52.000 Here is Walter Masterson, lib extraordinaire, screaming at conservative protesters, saying that we need to take all the migrants into New York, and especially the Muslim migrants.

00:26:03.820 Islam is awesome.

00:26:05.000 Everyone's welcome here.

00:26:07.780 We were pulling in ways in New York, and we want everyone here to stay in New York.

00:26:13.440 You don't get to come from outside and then tell everyone else.

00:26:16.800 Move, move, move, move, move, move.

00:26:26.540 What?

00:26:27.460 It's weird.

00:26:28.340 So some people are pointing out, this is a strange video, because you have this guy, Walter Masterson, who's yelling, who's screaming.

00:26:35.720 And then as he's saying, everyone's welcome here in New York.

00:26:38.200 He's talking specifically about Muslims. 0.94

00:26:39.940 A guy comes up and throws a bomb. 0.83

00:26:42.640 And then as he's running away, he starts yelling Muslim things.

00:26:45.280 He actually yells, not just Allahu Akbar, he yells, all praises due to Allah, Lord of all worlds.

00:26:50.340 I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State. 1.00

00:26:52.000 Die in your rage, you kafar. 1.00

00:26:53.220 Apparently. 1.00

00:26:53.740 This is reportedly what he said.

00:26:57.400 This isn't a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet.

00:27:01.940 We take action.

00:27:02.760 Okay.

00:27:04.340 This is reportedly what he says as he's running away.

00:27:07.120 But what's weird is when he gets up there, he jumps on the guy and throws the explosive.

00:27:11.880 Masterson barely reacts.

00:27:13.300 And some people are suggesting that Masterson's not reacting means that he was in on it, or this was a big prank or something.

00:27:19.820 And I'm not sure that that's the case.

00:27:21.320 And I can say that only because I was on stage with Walter, and he's just kind of that guy.

00:27:28.820 He doesn't really react so much when you speak to him.

00:27:32.260 He does kind of – I want to be cordial about this.

00:27:36.020 He kind of seems like he's on another planet when you're talking to him.

00:27:39.820 He's not registering arguments.

00:27:41.360 This is one of the clips from Bar Fight, just to give you a little sense of what I'm talking about.

00:27:44.960 Your claim is that Trump sexually assaulted children.

00:27:49.020 So what's your proof?

00:27:49.840 What's your evidence?

00:27:51.060 Just the Epstein files.

00:27:52.920 What's specifically in the files?

00:27:55.080 I mean, let's get the Epstein files in here.

00:27:58.080 Do you have any evidence for the claim you're making, or no?

00:28:02.820 You know, besides the Epstein files, I mean, you know, God, there's only like 50,000 pages in it.

00:28:09.400 I mean –

00:28:09.740 There's three and a half million pages.

00:28:11.300 You know what –

00:28:11.920 But is there anything in particular you would cite from the Epstein files?

00:28:15.100 God.

00:28:15.640 Or are you just making it up?

00:28:16.480 Yeah, we're just – yeah, they're bringing in the Epstein files right now, unredacted.

00:28:21.840 Is there – do you really – you don't have a single piece of – I thought you might have like a piece of –

00:28:25.440 I prepared defenses against the evidence that I thought you might bring in.

00:28:29.180 You know, come on.

00:28:30.120 So Walter had come into Bar Fight, and his claim that he was going to defend, that we were going to debate, 0.66

00:28:35.840 was he said preposterously that Trump sexually assaulted children. 0.94

00:28:40.800 That's such a crazy claim.

00:28:42.380 Okay, let me come up with all of the counterarguments to any way you could even possibly make that.

00:28:46.720 Okay, how – and we get there, and he makes the claim, and he didn't even have a false argument to make to defend the claim.

00:28:56.360 He didn't have – certainly didn't have a true argument, but he didn't even have a false argument.

00:29:00.420 He didn't – he just said it and then kind of stared vacantly into outer space.

00:29:04.900 So anyway, that's why I think that that clip is legit.

00:29:09.620 I don't really think Walter was in on it.

00:29:11.220 It's just perfect.

00:29:11.980 It just sums up liberalism.

00:29:14.300 I mean, we want open borders.

00:29:17.480 This is wonderful.

00:29:18.540 It's kumbaya.

00:29:19.740 Islam's the religion of peace.

00:29:21.180 We want Allahu Akbar.

00:29:22.420 He throws the IED at people.

00:29:24.360 And the craziest part is neither Walter nor any of those other libs will change their mind. 0.99

00:29:31.480 Even if they say, we love Islam, open our borders, and a Muslim throws a bomb in their faces, 1.00

00:29:37.800 they will not change their minds. 0.98

00:29:39.920 Because one of the hallmarks of all ideology, but especially the left-wing ideologies,

00:29:46.480 is that when forced to choose between the theory and the reality,

00:29:51.840 if theory and reality contradict each other, you have to pick one of them.

00:29:55.120 The ideologue will always pick the theory.

00:29:57.680 Who cares if it works in practice?

00:29:59.280 Does it work in theory?

00:30:00.180 That IED will change no ideologue's mind.

00:30:05.240 Now, speaking of Muslim lands, panicans destroyed again. 1.00

00:30:10.840 For now.

00:30:11.300 For now.

00:30:11.680 Of course, it's a live situation.

00:30:13.300 As I've said from the beginning of the Iran war, very, very high stakes for President Trump.

00:30:16.640 But as of now, all the panicans' predictions have been wrong.

00:30:21.380 Like, all of them.

00:30:23.280 The most recent prediction, based on oil prices spiking a couple days ago,

00:30:27.780 was that the Strait of Hormuz was going to be closed.

00:30:31.520 Oil was going to go up, not just to $115 a barrel, but to $150 a barrel, maybe.

00:30:37.400 And this was going to plunge the world into a global recession.

00:30:40.160 And, you know, it was all over.

00:30:43.560 And what happened?

00:30:45.360 We now find out that the ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz.

00:30:50.880 Trump called in to Brian Kilmeade yesterday, or two days ago, said,

00:30:53.860 no, I guess it was yesterday, said these ships should go through the Strait of Hormuz,

00:30:56.800 show some guts.

00:30:57.640 There's nothing to be afraid of.

00:30:58.960 The Iranians have no navy. 1.00

00:31:00.220 We sunk all of their ships.

00:31:01.400 Now, listening to Trump, I guess, the ships are moving through.

00:31:04.920 Oil is down again, not only below $100 a barrel.

00:31:07.620 It's down below $90, last I checked.

00:31:09.540 It was going between $78, $88.

00:31:11.600 It's moving all over the place.

00:31:13.000 But nevertheless, it's way down from where it was.

00:31:16.260 And then on top of that, President Trump called CBS and said the war is going to be over soon.

00:31:21.920 He said, quote, I think the war is very complete, pretty much.

00:31:25.100 They have no navy, no communications.

00:31:27.660 They've got no air force.

00:31:29.740 What's weird about this is this contradicts what Pete Hegseth and the Department of War rapid response put out,

00:31:37.520 which is this image, it says, no mercy, missile going up in the air.

00:31:42.100 And it says in capital letters at the top, we have only just begun to fight.

00:31:49.140 So hold on.

00:31:49.760 You got the president saying the war's almost over.

00:31:52.740 You got the Department of War saying we've only just begun to fight.

00:31:55.080 Are they not on a text thread together or they're not coordinating their messaging?

00:31:59.780 I actually don't think there's a ton of contradiction here.

00:32:03.020 Or rather, there is a contradiction, but I don't think that this is anomalous.

00:32:07.400 I don't think that this is evidence that the strategy is incoherent.

00:32:10.680 Obviously, they're speaking to two different audiences and they're trying to convey different messages.

00:32:16.340 They're trying to tell the world and the markets and other countries that the war is going to wrap up quickly.

00:32:24.300 You know, the people who are deep skeptics of this are saying we're about to enter World War III.

00:32:28.820 This is going to be at the very least another Iraq and Afghanistan. 1.00

00:32:31.600 We're going to be in this country for 10 or 20 years.

00:32:33.840 And Trump said from the beginning, the war is going to last about five weeks.

00:32:37.860 Now he's saying, I think it's actually going to be shorter even than that.

00:32:41.920 Trump may be managing expectations from the beginning, giving a larger timeline so that when he comes in below the timeline, it's impressive.

00:32:51.660 That's what he's telling the markets and the rest of the world.

00:32:54.140 And then the Department of War is saying we've only just begun.

00:32:57.300 Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that the war is going to go on for two more months or six more months or another year or two.

00:33:03.460 What that's saying is we've only begun to fight.

00:33:05.900 And maybe we'll stop at the beginning.

00:33:08.920 Maybe we will, you know, do a few weeks and then we're out.

00:33:13.960 But we have the capacity to keep fighting much more.

00:33:17.180 You have not seen the fullness of our strength.

00:33:19.000 These are not contradictory statements, or they at least don't have to be.

00:33:23.120 You've got to assure the markets that this is not going to go on forever.

00:33:27.700 And you need to warn the Iranians that this could go on forever. 1.00

00:33:31.520 Those are the two statements.

00:33:32.860 In any case, in any case, this is why I'm not getting too riled up about the war.

00:33:39.380 I've been very consistent from the beginning.

00:33:41.800 And I'm not Lindsey Graham here, okay?

00:33:43.920 I'm not the one who was, you know, beating the drums for war.

00:33:46.840 I'm not Mark Levin, okay?

00:33:48.120 I said from the beginning, had I been on the National Security Council, I would have made arguments against the strike on Iran.

00:33:55.960 From the beginning.

00:33:56.900 I have discouraged attacking Iran for a long time.

00:34:02.240 However, some of that is just based on the information that was public.

00:34:06.920 The government obviously has a little more information on the particular threats and the effectiveness and efficiency with which the war can be fought.

00:34:13.560 So, when the war kicked off, a war that I would have argued against, and have argued against actually. 0.68

00:34:20.560 When the war kicked off, all the people who were warning against war with Iran lost their freaking minds. 0.97

00:34:27.100 And they started shrieking like chickens with their heads cut off. 0.98

00:34:30.280 Can chickens with their heads cut off shriek? 0.99

00:34:31.820 Maybe.

00:34:32.220 Shriek through their necks. 0.95

00:34:33.280 I don't know.

00:34:33.820 It is a crazy reaction.

00:34:35.760 And I did not have that reaction.

00:34:39.600 You know why?

00:34:41.880 Not just because I blindly follow Trump.

00:34:43.980 Not just because, you know, I'm a partisan for the administration or the GOP.

00:34:48.340 The reason I didn't get too riled up, and I'm not getting too riled up, is I have learned from experience.

00:34:54.620 The media, and even some voters, they do this with Trump all the time.

00:34:58.520 The walls are closing in.

00:34:59.640 This is it.

00:35:00.140 The world is going to collapse.

00:35:01.960 It's Mueller time.

00:35:03.100 Oh, no, Russia owns Trump.

00:35:06.360 Oh, no, we're going to go to war in Syria. 0.62

00:35:08.080 Oh, no, we're going to go to war in Afghanistan. 0.74

00:35:10.740 Oh, no, Venezuela is going to descend into civil war.

00:35:13.440 Oh, no, Kim Jong-un is going to shoot a missile at us.

00:35:16.340 Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:35:17.620 And every time, it's worked out for Trump.

00:35:23.300 Every time.

00:35:25.440 And so, being at least a semi-rational person, looking at what has happened,

00:35:30.700 every single time someone freaks out about President Trump's policies,

00:35:35.520 specifically policies overseas, every single time, people lose their minds, and then it works out.

00:35:42.680 And so, I think this is maybe not going to work out.

00:35:46.000 You know, Trump's not omnipotent.

00:35:47.680 He could get it wrong at some point.

00:35:49.640 But just learning from experience, I'm not going to get my blood pressure.

00:35:54.540 I'm not going to spike my cortisol because of all these people screeching and losing their minds.

00:36:00.840 Whether we're talking about the warmongering types who are making pretty specious arguments,

00:36:06.120 I think, for the war in Iran, the ones who are trying to pretend that this is a clear moral crusade

00:36:12.920 about which reasonable minds cannot disagree, or the people who are saying this is the end of the world

00:36:17.220 and America's over and they're all going to turn on Trump.

00:36:19.200 I just think, guys, chill out.

00:36:21.700 And what happens?

00:36:22.420 Oil spikes to 115 a barrel.

00:36:24.640 All these people spike their cortisol.

00:36:27.740 You know, I mean, they're not going to be frame-mogging anybody if they keep their cortisol this high.

00:36:31.320 It's going to be very, they're gesture-maxing is what they're doing.

00:36:35.500 Sorry, I'm sorry.

00:36:36.420 I'm using the language of another guy that we made go viral.

00:36:39.060 Sorry, I don't know.

00:36:39.680 There's something about, we make these kind of odd cultural figures go very, very viral.

00:36:43.700 I don't even intend to.

00:36:44.640 But, what, did they all freak out about this?

00:36:47.520 And then what happens?

00:36:50.160 31 hours later, oil is back to normal.

00:36:53.660 Slightly elevated prices, but not that bad, all things considering.

00:36:58.860 A day and a half later, the Strait of Hormuz has ships moving through it again.

00:37:04.360 At a certain point, guys, you have to say, the rational thing to do is give Trump a little wiggle room.

00:37:12.020 At least within the time frame that he is talking about.

00:37:14.960 He said this will be a five-week campaign.

00:37:16.260 And on day three, these anxious, I'm trying to be charitable in how I describe them.

00:37:26.260 They're like ninnies.

00:37:27.300 I don't know.

00:37:27.660 They're just, they're like teenage girls or something. 0.99

00:37:31.480 They just, they freak out.

00:37:33.000 I just think, guys, just chill.

00:37:35.800 It's okay.

00:37:36.260 Even when they talk about the war, they're speaking in this very abstract, hysterical ideology.

00:37:41.080 On the pro-war side, they're speaking as though this is the great moral crusade.

00:37:46.200 And we just, you know, Iran is the greatest, most imminent threat to the United States. 1.00

00:37:49.960 You say, that's not really true.

00:37:50.860 But likewise, the idea that America is not involved overseas with a global empire.

00:37:57.140 We've been involved internationally since the first Barbary War.

00:38:00.480 We've been involved in the Middle East since the first Barbary War, okay?

00:38:04.240 Since the earliest days of our nation.

00:38:06.160 Like, it's not, it's not that shocking.

00:38:08.360 It's not a betrayal of America to go into the Middle East.

00:38:10.620 Like, just chill out.

00:38:11.920 Good grief.

00:38:13.540 Am I the only one with normal cortisol levels left on the American right?

00:38:17.980 I don't know, Trump.

00:38:19.360 Trump's the other one.

00:38:20.580 Okay.

00:38:21.560 Now, much more to get to.

00:38:23.460 Speaking of President Trump, a story that I've wanted to get to,

00:38:25.420 because everyone was the import of this story.

00:38:27.820 But a story I've wanted to get to now for a few days at least.

00:38:30.780 President Trump floated putting Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court.

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00:39:03.420 Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything.

00:39:06.460 Like packing a spare stick.

00:39:08.180 I like to be prepared.

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00:39:24.620 My favorite comment yesterday is from Kuchufu Empire 4029, who says,

00:39:32.380 David French's next article, the principled argument for seizing the means of production.

00:39:38.660 He wrote ceasing, but I think he means seizing the means of production.

00:39:41.780 Yes.

00:39:42.580 The conservative case for eating the rich.

00:39:46.040 Yeah.

00:39:46.320 Okay.

00:39:46.740 All right.

00:39:47.160 Well, all right, David.

00:39:49.440 That's a career.

00:39:50.860 That's a career, I guess.

00:39:53.600 You go to church with Pastor Tallarico telling you to read the Gnostic heretical Gospel of Thomas 0.99

00:40:00.060 because women need penises to go to heaven. 1.00

00:40:02.300 And you make sure you vote straight Democrat all the time. 0.99

00:40:05.640 That's the way to be a true conservative Christian.

00:40:07.500 Okay.

00:40:07.720 Got it.

00:40:08.340 Got it.

00:40:09.280 Speaking of conservative Christians, Senator Ted Cruz just got a very interesting presidential endorsement,

00:40:17.920 specifically from the president, floating Senator Cruz for the Supreme Court.

00:40:24.060 We have a senator who's really an amazing guy.

00:40:30.580 I'm thinking about putting him in the Supreme Court.

00:40:37.980 Now, now, I'm thinking, because it's very hard, you know, getting these nominations through is very tough.

00:40:43.060 But he's the only guy I know he'll get 100 percent of the Democrat vote, 100 percent of the Republican vote.

00:40:50.780 They want to get him out of there. 0.99

00:40:52.540 He is such a pain in the ass, but he's so good and so talented. 1.00

00:40:56.080 Ted Cruz. 1.00

00:40:58.640 Great line.

00:40:59.800 Love it.

00:41:01.020 So there are three ways to read this line.

00:41:04.660 And so far, I'm really only seeing people read it two ways.

00:41:09.200 President Trump already floated Senator Cruz for the Supreme Court in the first term.

00:41:14.520 And apparently, Ted turned it down.

00:41:18.460 It's a little unclear exactly, but that's the story.

00:41:21.460 But he floated him already.

00:41:24.040 And Senator Cruz said he didn't want it.

00:41:26.580 Now, he brings it back and he says, look, I'm thinking about putting him on the court.

00:41:30.180 Not I'm thinking about asking him to be on the court.

00:41:32.340 Not that I'm thinking about nominating him.

00:41:33.980 I'm thinking about putting him on the court.

00:41:35.060 I'm going to do it.

00:41:36.300 You know why?

00:41:37.700 Because, and then he tells this joke.

00:41:39.540 You know, Ted, he's so ornery.

00:41:41.660 He's so stubborn.

00:41:43.000 He's so sticks to his principles.

00:41:44.840 That not only do the Democrats want him out, the Republicans want him out.

00:41:47.940 But he's so good.

00:41:49.520 He's so good.

00:41:50.200 That's why they want him out.

00:41:51.020 They hate having to deal with him.

00:41:52.640 It's a funny line.

00:41:54.100 It's a joke.

00:41:54.760 And Trump loves a good joke.

00:41:55.700 So the first level is, he's just telling a joke.

00:41:58.880 He just wanted to get a laugh out of the crowd in Texas.

00:42:00.800 Okay.

00:42:01.940 Second way to read this.

00:42:04.180 Cruz would be great on the Supreme Court.

00:42:05.720 He'd be great.

00:42:06.800 And I know, look, I know that the Supreme Court is supposed to be run by Catholics and Jews. 0.97

00:42:11.780 And occasionally Episcopalian sneaks in there. 0.88

00:42:13.740 But I know, I know the court is owned by the Catholics and the Jews. 1.00

00:42:16.780 That's how it's supposed to be.

00:42:18.300 Senator Cruz, a Southern Baptist for now.

00:42:20.560 For now, I'm working on it.

00:42:22.020 But he would be great.

00:42:24.060 He would be great.

00:42:24.680 He's a brilliant constitutional lawyer.

00:42:27.680 He knows the Constitution and the case law backwards and forwards.

00:42:30.900 He's already successfully won a case at the Supreme Court, actually.

00:42:35.340 Was it Cruz versus FEC?

00:42:37.080 He's argued before the Supreme Court.

00:42:38.620 He clerked for the Supreme Court.

00:42:40.240 He'd be great on the court.

00:42:42.560 But there's the third level.

00:42:44.460 And what I think a lot of this is about is what no one's talking about.

00:42:48.400 It's about 2028 is what it's about.

00:42:52.460 Because, do you remember, we talked about it on the show when it came out.

00:42:54.800 There was that leak from Axios, or to Axios, that said that Senator Cruz is considering running for president in 2028.

00:43:05.360 Now, I think there are a lot of people who are considering running for president in 2028.

00:43:09.840 I think all those guys that were on stage in 2016 at the beginning of the Trump era, I think every single one of those guys still wants to be president.

00:43:17.240 Some of them don't really have a chance anymore.

00:43:19.140 But some of them do have a chance.

00:43:20.600 And so, we're all thinking, because the Trump era is very unified, we're all thinking, look, J.D. Vance is obviously the heir apparent.

00:43:30.320 He's the successor.

00:43:31.400 Marco Rubio has effectively already endorsed him for president.

00:43:34.140 And President Trump has endorsed Vance and Rubio as a ticket.

00:43:39.240 So, come on, there's not going to be a primary.

00:43:43.660 However, there could be a primary.

00:43:45.740 There's always kind of a primary, right?

00:43:47.740 There's all, it's not like all the people who ran in 2016 just stopped wanting to be president.

00:43:52.840 One of whom was Marco Rubio, let's not forget.

00:43:54.680 Another one was Ted Cruz.

00:43:55.620 Another one was Rand Paul.

00:43:56.660 Another, all, the list goes on and on.

00:43:59.340 So, there is still the possibility that you could get a pretty serious primary.

00:44:04.520 The way I see that playing out is if Rubio flip-flops on the endorsement of Vance, if Rubio were to withdraw his endorsement of Vance, which would look very bad for him, I don't think it would be a good idea.

00:44:16.340 But if he did it, and you actually had a two-person race from within the Trump administration, then blows the primary wide open.

00:44:26.100 And I wonder if this little joke, there's always an element of truth in these jokes, if this joke from President Trump was to signal that Senator Cruz could be a real presidential candidate.

00:44:37.120 He was a pretty tough presidential candidate the first time.

00:44:39.220 He came in second to Trump, practically speaking.

00:44:42.980 So, I wonder if it's a signal to say, I'm still behind a unified Trump administration ticket.

00:44:51.020 I recognize that Senator Cruz is a threat in a presidential primary.

00:44:55.460 I want to move him to the Supreme Court, which is a pretty good job.

00:44:59.720 And therefore, I want the party to be unified around the ticket that I've already endorsed, which is Vance Rubio.

00:45:08.260 It's not quite an explicit endorsement, but it's pretty close.

00:45:10.740 That was my read.

00:45:12.680 That's my esoteric in-between-the-lines read.

00:45:16.660 And you see this broader trend within the GOP and the conservative movement.

00:45:23.420 It's very odd, which is that among the babbling class, among the podcaster class, and the live streamer class, and the commentators,

00:45:32.820 the conservative movement is as divided now as it ever has been, certainly within the last 50, 60 years.

00:45:39.740 And it's all these people, this podcaster fighting with this podcaster because of the thing that this other podcaster said about the fifth podcaster.

00:45:46.540 And it's all this bickering and all this fighting.

00:45:49.400 And some of it is substantive and a lot of it's petty.

00:45:51.880 But then look at the actual political order.

00:45:57.340 Not the kind of meta-political order, the politics of politics, the podcaster class.

00:46:02.300 Look at the actual elected officials with the policies, waging the wars, implementing the regulations.

00:46:11.140 And those guys, while the podcasters are as divided as ever, those guys are as unified as ever, such that they're even looking ahead to 2028.

00:46:21.040 And there seems to be unity within the Trump administration, within the elected class, even on who the next presidential nominee will be.

00:46:28.580 Strange dynamic.

00:46:29.560 It's a paradoxical dynamic.

00:46:31.200 We'll try to delve more into that.

00:46:32.420 In fact, I think I'm going to be giving a speech on that down in Florida later on.

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