The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1935 - BREAKING： The Government Launches ＂Aliens.gov＂

00:00:00.000 The federal government has reportedly just registered the domain name aliens.gov.

00:00:06.500 Now, I am holding out hope that the website will simply feature the faces of the various Venezuelans

00:00:13.420 that we've shipped to Bukele's Salvadoran torture resort. 0.60

00:00:17.520 But it would appear that the federal government is on the brink of releasing information

00:00:21.900 about UFOs and little green men.

00:00:24.880 I have spoken with some high-level people in the government about this.

00:00:28.760 I know some of the things that they are likely to disclose.

00:00:32.480 These disclosures could upend everything that people think.

00:00:36.800 The way we view the cosmos, the way we view ourselves.

00:00:40.680 We will get into how to think about that even before these disclosures come out.

00:00:44.040 But most important and worst of all, if the government proclaims that aliens are real,

00:00:50.920 Matt Walsh is going to be insufferable.

00:00:54.080 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:01:24.540 This is now we got aliens.

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00:02:53.980 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has registered aliens.gov and alien.gov.

00:03:02.520 So one of them could be for the illegals south of the border.

00:03:05.940 The other one could be for the men from Mars.

00:03:08.940 And you could do alien versus predator.

00:03:12.180 And both of those could be the MS-13 gang members or both of them could be the little green men.

00:03:17.800 I think this is about little green men. 0.96

00:03:20.420 It'd be a very funny troll if the Trump administration did this, leaked it, got everyone talking about it, and then just put a picture of some big, fat, face-tatted Latin American criminal. 0.98

00:03:30.680 That'd be hilarious. 0.76

00:03:32.060 But President Trump announced, what was it, a month ago that he was going to start disclosing information about UFOs.

00:03:37.300 I've spoken to people in the government who have been following this issue very closely, and they tell me they're seeing really crazy stuff.

00:03:45.180 I've been speaking to people in the government who were skeptical of aliens going in, or skeptical of the UFOs, I should say, because aliens are a different issue.

00:03:54.260 But they were skeptical of the UFOs going in, and now they say something is really happening.

00:03:59.880 The stories involve aircraft moving in ways that we just don't understand, in ways that we could not possibly recreate, strange visual phenomena.

00:04:08.140 But they're not just hallucinations because they're physical evidence of these kinds of craft.

00:04:13.960 The stories are pretty similar over time.

00:04:17.140 I was hoping with all these stories of UFOs that it was just us, that it was just our government or our defense industry building stuff.

00:04:27.540 And we were pretending not to know about it to fake out our enemies or maybe some people really weren't in the know and it was highly classified and it was us.

00:04:34.920 I am now convinced, given what the government has said privately and publicly, I'm now convinced we actually don't really know what these things are.

00:04:47.260 So my next guess was that it was China.

00:04:51.360 First guess was that it was us.

00:04:52.720 I don't think that's true anymore.

00:04:53.940 Second guess that it was China.

00:04:56.300 It might be China.

00:04:57.500 I think there's some evidence that it could just be China.

00:05:00.180 That's pretty bad because my third guess is that it's demons.

00:05:02.940 At no point on my guessing do I think that there are actually little green men from the planet Zebulon 5 who have weird little green gray flesh that come and visit Earth and stick things into people's orifices.

00:05:15.320 I don't think that's real.

00:05:16.760 I know some people disagree.

00:05:18.320 When I mentioned this story to Mr. Davies, I said, have you heard about this, you know, the UFOs?

00:05:22.260 He said, oh, man, that's so scary.

00:05:23.980 I wonder if they're going to visit.

00:05:25.480 You know, I wonder if they're going to, like, probe me or something.

00:05:27.640 I said, wait, what?

00:05:28.240 What did you say?

00:05:29.560 And he said, I don't know.

00:05:30.320 I'm just a wonder if they're going to visit.

00:05:31.540 I said, no, after that, what did you, and he said, no, I just, man, I just really hope they don't probe me, you know, I hope they don't know that I, you know, live in this part of town and I sleep with my window open from 9 p.m. to 3, I don't know, he was like going on and on about it, and I know a lot of people are really interested in it being aliens, but it's not aliens, aliens are not real, look at me, look at me, this is going to be the most controversial thing, this, I should rename this show Unpopular Takes with Michael Knowles,

00:05:59.680 Unpopular takes that are going to get everybody to hate you, but which are indisputably correct with Michael Knowles.

00:06:07.200 That's going to be the new name of my show.

00:06:08.900 Because look at me, Matt, and the rest of you.

00:06:12.700 Aliens are not real.

00:06:14.760 It's either Skunk Works, China, or Demons. 0.76

00:06:18.780 Those are your three options.

00:06:21.580 But it's not aliens.

00:06:22.960 You know why it's not aliens?

00:06:26.040 It's not aliens.

00:06:27.540 We can say it's not aliens.

00:06:29.140 Because, we can say this with confidence, because we have no evidence that there is life anywhere else in the universe.

00:06:36.680 Up, up, up, up, up, up, hold up.

00:06:38.460 I know, I know what some of you are saying.

00:06:40.660 I know what the contingent from Reddit.com is saying right now.

00:06:44.140 You're going to say, the universe is really big.

00:06:47.180 So statistically, there must be alien life forms out there.

00:06:50.800 That is a non sequitur.

00:06:52.640 In order to ascertain the probability of something,

00:06:56.240 we have to know something about how that thing comes to be in the first place.

00:07:00.560 When it comes to the existence of life,

00:07:03.140 we do not have any idea how life could arise through natural processes.

00:07:10.940 I do know how life can arise.

00:07:12.940 I know that God can form man out of the clay and breathe into his nostrils.

00:07:17.020 I know that, but that is a supernatural process.

00:07:19.340 from a natural process, like amino acids just banging together in a primordial soup

00:07:27.000 with a certain concoction of carbon and methane and, I don't know, nitrogen in the atmosphere.

00:07:33.160 That whole thing, we have no idea how you could possibly go from inorganic to organic matter.

00:07:40.200 There have been many hypotheses over the years.

00:07:42.220 They have all flopped, every single one of them.

00:07:44.660 So the universe being really, really big means nothing.

00:07:49.340 So, then people will say, well, look, we're just this one creature on this rock, in this galaxy, in the solar system, in this galaxy, in the middle of nowhere.

00:08:00.620 What, you think we're so special?

00:08:02.800 What makes you think we're so special?

00:08:05.880 Yes, I do think we're special.

00:08:07.880 I do.

00:08:08.940 And you have no evidence to the contrary.

00:08:11.120 I think that we are so special that God is a man.

00:08:18.660 That's what Christians believe. 0.86

00:08:21.120 I think man is so special.

00:08:23.780 I think of Psalm 8.

00:08:25.400 What is man?

00:08:26.900 I'm paraphrasing.

00:08:28.440 Oh, actually, you know what?

00:08:30.180 Because I was forced to use my iPad today,

00:08:32.800 I can actually look it up.

00:08:34.400 Psalm 8, RSVCE.

00:08:36.660 This is what I think about the alien.

00:08:37.940 I'm just going to do the whole show on aliens today.

00:08:39.360 I'm so fired up about it.

00:08:41.760 When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,

00:08:44.280 the moon and the stars which thou hast established,

00:08:46.160 what is man that thou art mindful of him

00:08:48.260 and the son of man that thou dost care for him

00:08:50.680 yet thou hast made him little less than God

00:08:53.300 and dost crown him with glory and honor

00:08:55.180 and so on

00:08:57.220 yeah

00:08:57.920 they say well why

00:09:00.200 why would God have made all these planets

00:09:02.320 and all these galaxies

00:09:03.260 if the only place that was going to have life on it

00:09:05.560 was going to be earth

00:09:06.540 to that I would answer

00:09:08.740 where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth

00:09:11.040 well surely you know

00:09:13.200 where were you

00:09:14.400 the reason that i'm i think the alien the reason i think aliens are not real as a as a physical

00:09:21.700 being is there's absolutely no evidence for them whatsoever that's the main reason but uh then

00:09:27.920 furthermore the reason why i think that if the aliens are not the u.s government and if the

00:09:33.820 aliens are not china the reason that i'm fairly convinced they're demons is because of of what 0.71

00:09:41.780 it makes us think. If aliens are real, what we are going to think is that man is not all that

00:09:48.920 special. What we are going to think is that our religion is false. Our religious systems are

00:09:54.340 false. What we are going to think is that, I don't know, maybe we need some kind of one world

00:09:58.140 government to unite against them. What we are going to think is all sorts of stuff that if I

00:10:05.500 were the devil, I would want people to think. I know that people are going to tune out right now

00:10:09.240 And they're going to say, Michael, you sound crazy. 0.56

00:10:10.980 I sound crazy?

00:10:11.580 The government just registered aliens.gov, okay?

00:10:13.860 We're past the realm of crazy.

00:10:15.600 And what I'm saying is not crazy.

00:10:18.000 I'm reminded of that great saying from systems,

00:10:21.720 which is that the purpose of a system is what it does.

00:10:25.500 The purpose of a system is what it does.

00:10:28.080 What does the alien thing do?

00:10:32.140 It gets us to deny our religion.

00:10:34.520 It gets us to follow new, woo-woo, bizarre, supernatural trends.

00:10:41.340 It gets us to be submissive.

00:10:43.800 It gets us to have servile fear.

00:10:47.560 And sometimes it probes us in ways that probably constitute a mortal sin.

00:10:52.880 So, yeah, I guess you'd have to consent to it.

00:10:55.400 In any case, okay, if they're going to release stuff on aliens

00:11:01.980 and it's not about the Venezuelans or the Hondurans,

00:11:04.520 All I'm saying, this is a little Lenten advice from Amir Lehman, be on guard.

00:11:10.760 This is not just neutral.

00:11:12.440 I mean this.

00:11:13.540 I know we have fun with the alien thing.

00:11:15.220 I mean, this is not just neutral.

00:11:16.540 It's not just fun.

00:11:18.300 It's not real, also.

00:11:21.460 This is not good.

00:11:23.920 If you're seeing aliens and they're beaming you up to their spaceship and they're sticking stuff in you, that's not good.

00:11:30.220 For physical reasons and for metaphysical reasons, too.

00:11:32.920 Speaking of aliens, Jamie Raskin, Democrat member of Congress, was just pontificating in the House of Representatives on illegal immigration.

00:11:43.160 You remember that issue?

00:11:43.940 I know before we were talking about Iran, before we were talking about all sorts of tangential issues that aren't going to help Republicans win any elections, aren't going to help conservatives move the ball down the field.

00:11:55.120 We're back to talking about immigration.

00:11:56.580 And Jamie Raskin, a big Democrat, is running on the claim that Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, one of the fathers of the American Revolution, that he was an undocumented immigrant.

00:12:13.620 Invoking Tom Paine, who was an undocumented immigrant who came to this land in 1774, two years before the revolution, and wrote Common Sense.

00:12:26.280 The member said, I think his opening sentence was, he said, Thomas Paine was an illegal immigrant.

00:12:30.520 My understanding was Mr. Paine was born in the U.K., came to America, then a British colony in 1774.

00:12:36.540 So I was just struggling to figure out how he was an illegal immigrant.

00:12:38.660 I didn't say he was an illegal immigrant.

00:12:40.720 I said he was an undocumented immigrant, just like Thomas Jefferson's family was.

00:12:45.920 Most of our ancestors did not arrive here with documents.

00:12:50.720 Okay, well.

00:12:51.560 What?

00:12:53.680 Okay, hold on.

00:12:54.540 So you see, he's so clever, Jamie Raskin, he's so clever.

00:12:57.620 He says, oh, I never said he was an illegal immigrant.

00:13:00.540 Oh, no, because he obviously wasn't.

00:13:01.940 He was a British subject who went to a British territory.

00:13:03.920 That's not, you're not an illegal immigrant.

00:13:06.480 Oh, I never said that.

00:13:08.200 I just used the euphemism that we made up to replace the more appropriate term, illegal immigrant,

00:13:16.160 which actually itself is a euphemism to replace the more clinical term, which is illegal alien.

00:13:19.640 I just use that to refer to the observation that the man had nary a notebook when he arrived.

00:13:27.640 What? What are you talking about? He's an undocumented immigrant. 0.98

00:13:30.660 He didn't bring any vellum with him on which to write his diaries.

00:13:34.820 Oh, you mean he like literally didn't have paper?

00:13:37.960 He's a British subject. He went to a British territory.

00:13:41.440 The phrase undocumented immigrant is stupid, 0.99

00:13:46.400 But in as much as it has any meaning at all, it refers to the fact that these people have a different legal status than citizens or residents. 0.99

00:13:58.600 But now you're taking illegal alien has a pretty clear meaning.

00:14:03.900 A foreign person who is here against the law. 1.00

00:14:08.360 Then it becomes illegal immigrant. 0.92

00:14:10.080 Now, they're not really immigrants. 0.97

00:14:11.040 To be an immigrant, we got to take you in.

00:14:13.160 They could be an immigrant, I guess.

00:14:14.940 they're leaving their country, but they're not really immigrants. Okay, fine. And then it became 0.93

00:14:19.960 undocumented alien and undocumented immigrant, whatever. And now it literally, it just, you're

00:14:28.320 referring to the, this is so dumb, so ridiculous. If this is how Democrats are going to run an 0.99

00:14:33.200 immigration, we're going to win the entire House of Representatives. Also though, there's one

00:14:37.360 additional point we should make here, which I haven't seen anyone make on this ridiculous

00:14:41.520 exchange that went viral. Namely, we should have deported Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine is not good.

00:14:48.460 He wrote a very popular pamphlet, Common Sense, and so people in American history sometimes exalt

00:14:55.260 him. He's very bad. He's a huge lib. He was one of the most liberal figures around the American

00:15:00.740 Revolution. The American Revolution would have proceeded just fine without Thomas Paine,

00:15:05.400 maybe even in a better way. We had very good conservative leaders in the American Revolution.

00:15:10.460 We never needed Thomas Paine. He was a crazy lib. He believed crazy things. So even if Thomas Paine is your, yes, deport the MS-13 guy, send him to Bukele's torture camp, and maybe do the same to Thomas Paine. I'm sufficiently conservative that I wouldn't object to that. 0.97

00:15:25.720 Okay. Speaking of clashes on Capitol Hill, big fight within the GOP between Mark Wayne Mullen, who is the senator who's now up for DHS secretary, and Rand Paul, ostensibly a Republican senator, though much more libertarian, frequently opposes Trump. These two went at it. They had personal beef. This is like the podcast wars brought – this is the senator wars.

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00:17:16.960 Mark Wayne Mullen should be flying through the confirmation process to be the new DHS secretary until he hit the roadblock, not from the Democrats, the roadblock of Republican Senator Rand Paul.

00:17:29.800 If I have something to say, I'll say it directly to your face.

00:17:32.400 I work around this room to try to fix problems.

00:17:35.500 I've worked with many people in this room.

00:17:37.620 Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.

00:17:40.440 I did address those remarks.

00:17:42.320 I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.

00:17:46.420 And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't.

00:17:50.480 I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise.

00:17:52.780 I don't like that.

00:17:53.740 But if I do have something to say, everybody in this room knows I'll come straight to you.

00:17:59.160 I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back.

00:18:03.180 So for you to say, I'm a liar, sir, that's not accurate.

00:18:07.940 And I got proof to say that because you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me.

00:18:14.840 Okay, so we didn't even get, I mean, we could be here with the soap opera all day, 0.99

00:18:18.820 but we didn't even get Senator Paul's side of it, which is he said, you're a liar. 0.96

00:18:22.660 And they're really going at it. 0.69

00:18:24.100 These guys do not like each other.

00:18:26.900 And part of it is because I guess Mark Wayne Mullen at some point made a joke about Rand Paul being very seriously assaulted by his neighbor.

00:18:37.380 Do you remember that?

00:18:37.840 His neighbor came over to Rand Paul's house and broke his rib or something.

00:18:40.960 I guess Mark Wayne Mullen made a joke or some reference to that.

00:18:45.600 And Rand Paul didn't like that very much.

00:18:48.400 And it's a really bad idea to irritate senators when you rely on them to be confirmed.

00:18:54.280 In any case, regardless of party loyalty, Rand Paul has come out afterward.

00:18:58.660 He said he will not vote for Trump's pick for DHS.

00:19:03.300 I think there are anger issues.

00:19:08.640 I think there's a lack of contrition, both about the violence that perpetrated on me,

00:19:13.940 really the violent episode he was involved in and set a committee where he's told the media, frankly, that he doesn't regret it.

00:19:20.480 He's also told the media there, as he said it again today, that there's a historical precedent for violence, that caning and dueling happened all the time.

00:19:28.540 And I pointed out, well, it was illegal 170, 200 years ago.

00:19:32.340 They would actually flee and they would do it in areas they could find where the law didn't reach.

00:19:36.660 Sometimes they would actually go to Canada.

00:19:38.520 Sometimes they'd go from one state to the other.

00:19:40.920 But the mass of civilized response, even in the 1850s or 1830s, was against dueling.

00:19:47.940 That's why dueling was made illegal.

00:19:49.620 The fact that he can't bring himself to say that, you know, really we shouldn't settle political questions with violence,

00:19:56.300 I think that would be a terrible example for ICE and for our Border Patrol agents.

00:20:01.460 We're in the midst, I think, of a crisis where there needs to be more direction from the top.

00:20:07.080 And a guy who brawls, a guy who can't even say he's sorry about, you know, wishing violence on me

00:20:12.780 and really applauding the attack that happened on me, can't come to say that.

00:20:17.860 But I don't know how he could, from my point of view, be a leader of ICE or a board of people.

00:20:22.180 Senator, do you know what you said?

00:20:24.980 There you have it.

00:20:29.100 He said, no, not because of ICE policy, not because of a disagreement over deportations, because of personal beef.

00:20:38.140 I get it.

00:20:38.700 It's legit.

00:20:39.080 If I were Rand Paul, I'd be pretty irritated, too.

00:20:42.400 Now, maybe Mark Wayne Mullins didn't mean all that much by it.

00:20:45.480 And maybe, I don't know.

00:20:47.040 I don't want to wade into this personal feud.

00:20:49.800 However, I will tell you, as a Republican and a conservative,

00:20:53.060 I wish that that kind of thing were settled behind closed doors.

00:20:56.940 I don't need to see that on TV.

00:21:00.120 I'm not saying Republicans shouldn't fight.

00:21:04.020 And I'm not even saying they shouldn't fight each other sometimes.

00:21:06.100 They should.

00:21:06.480 We're Republicans.

00:21:07.420 One of our strengths, we conservatives, one of our strengths,

00:21:11.180 sometimes our strength, is that we all disagree.

00:21:13.740 You get 100 conservatives into a room,

00:21:15.100 they will find the one thing they all disagree on. The libs march in line more frequently than

00:21:20.740 the conservatives do. So fight over substantive matters, fight over war and peace, fight over

00:21:28.700 immigration, fight over whatever. Fine. Duke it out. I love interesting ideas, avant-garde policies. 0.53

00:21:37.600 I duke it all out. When it comes to this kind of personal stuff though, whether we're talking about

00:21:41.980 the media, whether we're talking about the elected politicians, I would prefer if people

00:21:46.000 who are ostensibly on the same side would work it out behind the scenes. Is this going to sink

00:21:51.460 Trump's DHS secretary? I hope not. Now, probably he'll get through because of Fetterman. Probably

00:21:57.320 John Fetterman will cross the aisle and vote for this guy, I think. So I think Mark Wayne Mullen

00:22:03.520 gets through. But you don't like to see division where it's gratuitous, where it's needless. You

00:22:11.220 You want to save the division.

00:22:13.300 You want to save the fighting for the places where it really, really matters.

00:22:16.360 The voters seem to get that.

00:22:19.660 Really shocking headline came out of CNN's pollster, who's going to be one of the biggest celebrities in politics after this, because he keeps showing all these really shocking poll numbers.

00:22:29.320 We showed yesterday where the Trump base sits on the Iran war.

00:22:34.700 If you listen to the podcast, you'd think they're all against the Iran war.

00:22:37.420 But you look at the numbers, almost all of them are four.

00:22:39.360 It's 89 percent, I think.

00:22:41.220 Well, now just look at the MAGA base on approval of what President Trump is doing.

00:22:47.720 The numbers get even crazier.

00:22:50.560 Yeah, you know, sometimes you look at the polling data and there are numbers that just

00:22:54.300 jump off the screen at you.

00:22:56.020 And this is one of those, because just take a look here.

00:22:59.080 MAGA GOP view of Trump approve 100 percent, 100 percent.

00:23:04.880 if you are a member of maga and the gop you approve of donald john trump zero percent say

00:23:12.720 that they disapprove you don't have to be a mathematical genius to know you can't go higher

00:23:17.120 than 100 he is the 1972 miami dolphins now there are some republicans who disapprove of donald john

00:23:24.560 trump but they are not members of the make america great again movement the bottom line is this if

00:23:31.040 If you are a member of MAGA, you approve of Donald Trump.

00:23:34.180 It's interesting, though, because there have been a couple prominent people

00:23:36.600 who have sort of come out online, and they're very mad about this war with Iran

00:23:41.940 because he promised no new wars.

00:23:43.640 Is there any sign that people might be leaving MAGA relative to 2024?

00:23:48.460 Yeah, okay.

00:23:49.160 So, you know, I've said it before, and, you know, 0.97

00:23:52.360 the theme of this segment is Tucker Carlson be darned. 0.92

00:23:55.280 And when we look at the numbers, I mean, I've heard some people say, 0.95

00:23:58.500 oh, you know what, when you look at those MAGA numbers,

00:24:00.440 It doesn't account for those who might have left MAGA.

00:24:02.360 But take a look here.

00:24:03.320 Americans who identify as MAGA in November of 2024, it was 28 percent of Americans.

00:24:08.000 Now it's basically the same.

00:24:09.380 If anything, it's slightly higher.

00:24:12.500 OK, look, I'm glad the number is good.

00:24:14.540 That number matters more.

00:24:16.140 Twenty eight percent of Americans identified as MAGA during the election in 2024.

00:24:21.120 Now that number is 30 percent, which is good. 0.99

00:24:24.140 It means that Trump has been pretty successful in office.

00:24:26.840 The heat of the campaign has worn off.

00:24:28.560 The people, even the ones who didn't totally like Trump, have come around to accept him okay. 0.97

00:24:33.460 But that first number is ridiculous. 1.00

00:24:36.200 The first number really shows you there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. 0.99

00:24:40.240 The first number claims that 100% of MAGA supports Donald Trump. 0.98

00:24:47.740 Yes, that is a truism.

00:24:51.440 That's like saying, what percentage of people who support Donald Trump support Donald Trump?

00:24:56.200 Oh my goodness, it's 100%. Yeah, right. Because your premise was the conclusion. Of course that is the case. Did you know that 100% of people who live in the White House named Donald John Trump support Donald Trump? Did you know that? Shocking number. I would be shocked if that numbers were any different. Of course that is the case.

00:25:21.380 The issue is that MAGA is not just MAGA. It's just using these words in really slippery ways.

00:25:28.240 And this kind of stuff is going to have Republicans whistling past the graveyard in the midterms or in 2028.

00:25:34.800 When we say MAGA, what does that mean?

00:25:38.060 To me, MAGA is the people who elected Trump.

00:25:41.420 Well, you know who elected Trump? More than 50% of the country.

00:25:44.480 Or actually, that's technically not true, but the popular vote.

00:25:48.760 The more than voted for Kamala, roughly half the country, that was MAGA as far as I'm concerned.

00:25:56.120 But MAGA can also mean the really hardcore people, the most hardcore people who voted for Trump three times, who have hashtag MAGA in their Twitter bios, who wear the hats every day.

00:26:05.560 Okay, let's say that that number is 30% of the country.

00:26:09.320 If you keep your support at 100% with 30% of the country, but your support crashes with the other 70% of the country, you're never going to win another election again.

00:26:19.480 That's the problem.

00:26:20.700 I'm not saying that that's what's happening, but there is a far greater fear that that is happening.

00:26:25.540 So that segment, the guy just led on right there, that segment was really about Tucker and other people who previously were allies of Trump who are now at odds with Trump.

00:26:33.500 That's really what it's about.

00:26:34.180 And they're trying to ascertain how big a deal is this.

00:26:37.300 Well, it's not a big deal with the MAGA base because this is Trump's movement.

00:26:42.340 I had a funny debate.

00:26:43.260 I was on Piers Morgan's show with Dave Smith. And the premise was that the real America firsters felt betrayed by President Trump. You know, Trump wasn't really America first. And the point I made, I got along great with Dave. I thought we were having an amiable exchange.

00:26:59.580 But the point I made was, look, Dave, you're a popular podcaster, but you don't get to define America first. You don't get to define MAGA. There's one guy who gets to define it, and it's the guy who built that coalition to the point that he won the presidency on it. That is his coalition by definition.

00:27:19.520 You can say, well, I used to be in his coalition and now I'm not in his coalition. I used to like him, but now I hate him. You can say whatever you want. But the one thing you can't say is that MAGA is defined by some random podcaster or some random influencer or whatever. America First really belongs to some live streamer. It doesn't. It's Trump. Plenty of those people are impressive.

00:27:38.980 None of them got themselves elected president at least two times, at least two times.

00:27:43.480 OK, so, yeah, of course, MAGA supports Trump, of course.

00:27:48.340 But the MAGA coalition, the thing that actually gets you results, that gets you into office, that includes independence.

00:27:54.760 That includes the rest of the GOP.

00:27:57.440 That includes disaffected liberals.

00:28:00.220 OK, and I don't want Republicans whistling past the graveyard here.

00:28:04.000 We're going to be happy, clappy, dancing for joy that 100 percent of MAGA supports Trump.

00:28:07.900 and we're going to get blown out in the midterms, and we're going to get destroyed in 2028

00:28:11.800 if we don't pay attention to those other aspects of the electorate that are part of big MAGA.

00:28:17.520 Do we need two terms now?

00:28:19.200 Little MAGA and big MAGA.

00:28:20.900 MAGA the lesser, MAGA the greater.

00:28:22.540 Whatever it is, that's the issue.

00:28:25.780 And the very fact that these polls are not really focusing on that group,

00:28:29.920 I think tells you they're trying to set the Republicans up.

00:28:33.040 They're trying to set Trump up.

00:28:34.500 Set him up not with bad news, set him up with apparently good news.

00:28:37.900 So what's going on in Iran? We got an update from President Trump. We'll get to that in a moment.

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00:29:52.820 What's going on in Iran?

00:29:55.220 President Trump just gave a tactical update this very week.

00:29:59.880 frankly as somebody said very they could leave today and it would take 10 years to rebuild the

00:30:07.600 damage that's been done but i think we have to make it a little bit more permanent because no

00:30:12.060 other president has to go through this and we shouldn't have any other president having to go

00:30:16.900 through this kind of a thing and if they didn't want to do it if for some reason they didn't want

00:30:22.860 to do it would have the same problem we don't ever want to have that problem again not with

00:30:28.180 You can't have lunatics controlling nuclear weaponry.

00:30:32.940 So I just want to thank you everybody.

00:30:38.180 So he says, look, right now my goal is to weaken Iran. 0.91

00:30:46.340 It's a broad goal.

00:30:48.060 It's not to completely destroy their nuclear facilities necessarily, because we already did that six months ago, and then they just started building them up again.

00:30:56.220 It's not to convince them never to build another missile.

00:31:00.080 It's not necessarily regime change.

00:31:04.420 It's just to weaken them.

00:31:06.800 And maybe if you weaken them enough, maybe you can change out the regime. 0.99

00:31:10.060 I mean, we just keep killing all the top guys.

00:31:13.300 So there is a world in which that happens.

00:31:14.920 But if you kill too many people without good contingency plans,

00:31:18.920 the whole country could plunge into civil war.

00:31:20.460 You might end up with a tyrant who was even worse than the guy before him.

00:31:22.780 so right now he says we've already said it ran back 10 years when am i going to be done i don't

00:31:30.700 know maybe i got maybe i've got to make the damage a little more permanent first

00:31:35.120 so he basically just says look i'm just breaking things i tried to play nice i tried to play nice 0.73

00:31:41.880 for the whole first term i tried to play nice and then you wouldn't play nice i killed your top

00:31:46.900 general and i tried to play nice i tried to play nice you were messing around with me you wouldn't 0.84

00:31:52.160 play nice, so I dropped the bunker busters, flew the B2s over. I tried to play nice. You just 1.00

00:31:58.880 wouldn't give in, and you were making fun of us, to Steve Witkoff and my negotiators. 0.99

00:32:02.980 So I had to go in, and I had to kill your leader, and I had to kill all the leaders around him, 0.99

00:32:06.740 and I had to kill the next leader, and then I had to wound the homosexual son, 1.00

00:32:11.780 and I don't know, I'm not done yet. That's what he's saying. I'm a skeptic of intervention in 1.00

00:32:18.760 Iran. I would have made the argument against it, as I've told you ad nauseum. I think that things 1.00

00:32:24.580 really could spiral out of control. I think that oil really could go up to $200 a barrel if this

00:32:30.040 gets out of hand. I trust Trump. Those five weeks that he asked us to trust him, I trust him. He's

00:32:34.340 got great credibility on foreign policy. But I am eminently aware of all the things that could go

00:32:41.560 wrong. I know Trump is too. So he was asked if he's afraid of all the ways that this could fail.

00:32:48.760 because the iranian regime has told sky news if you put boots on the ground in iran it will be

00:32:55.240 another vietnam are you afraid of that no i'm not afraid of i'm really not afraid of anything

00:33:00.440 it sounds like he's bragging it sounds like he's being boastful i think he's

00:33:08.360 right about that i don't think that guy is afraid of anything we should have holy fear he might have

00:33:15.020 a little bit of that, especially after he was almost killed during the campaign. But

00:33:19.680 servile fear we really shouldn't have. You should not be afraid of anything in a servile

00:33:24.980 way. The way he's messaging right now, though, is he is not, he's going to go the full five

00:33:32.460 weeks. Unless Iran really says uncle, he's going to keep going. And the Israelis are 1.00

00:33:39.240 going nuts over there. I mean, they just killed one of the real hardliners, the Kantian leader, 0.67

00:33:46.500 two days ago. He was the guy who was effectively running Iran while the Ayatollah's son was having

00:33:54.480 his legs or whatever other body parts mended up, arguably in a coma. So they're just going to keep

00:34:02.180 going. Trump says, I'm not afraid of anything because his mind was made up here.

00:34:09.240 But when the people say that Israel pressured us to go to war in Iran, that's obviously true. 1.00

00:34:14.300 And I know people are going to say you're not allowed to say that.

00:34:16.160 It's obviously true.

00:34:17.260 We've heard that from the Secretary of State.

00:34:19.200 Duh, of course, Israel's been trying to get us to go to war in Iran forever.

00:34:24.080 When they tell you, they probably won't even tell you, that Saudi Arabia was in favor of a strike on Iran,

00:34:30.480 you say, yeah, that makes sense.

00:34:31.420 Saudi Arabia really hates Iran, and they called the Ayatollah Hitler.

00:34:34.620 They really don't like Iran. 0.87

00:34:35.780 That's true.

00:34:36.500 But Trump has wanted to do this for a very long time.

00:34:40.660 And Trump feels very confident in his ability to do this.

00:34:43.820 And Trump has been talking about this since the 1980s.

00:34:48.180 And so I'm not going to worry.

00:34:49.620 I'm not freaking out yet.

00:34:50.620 Okay, speaking of death, Val Kilmer is about to star in a movie.

00:34:55.940 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:34:57.100 Let me look up.

00:34:57.700 I kind of like having an iPad on the show.

00:35:00.480 I usually don't do it because I hate having screens, but it's very convenient.

00:35:03.720 I see why my colleagues do it.

00:35:04.720 Yeah, Val Kilmer died on April Fool's Day last year. Less than one year ago, Val Kilmer died. He's going to star in a movie. Not because he had completed filming of the movie. I don't think he'd even started filming of the movie. He died of throat cancer, so he wasn't even really able to speak at the end. Val Kilmer is going to be in this movie because they're going to try to bring him back to life with AI.

00:35:23.700 eye. So this just came out from Variety, the trade magazine in Hollywood, and it's this movie that

00:35:30.280 Val Kilmer apparently really wanted to do. The AI Val Kilmer has his daughter's blessing,

00:35:35.680 apparently. He said, oh, my dad really wanted to do this, and he wasn't able to do it, so this is

00:35:40.180 really great. I'm sure this is what he would have wanted. They already did this in that Star Wars

00:35:44.900 movie, what was it, five, seven years ago now, where they brought Princess Leia to the screen

00:35:49.760 again, where they brought Peter Cushing to the screen again. That guy had been dead forever.

00:35:53.700 So they'd already, they've been trying this out for a while. Now they're going to, they're going to take a dead guy and make an AI avatar of him and have him star in a movie. Not just a little cameo. To which I have to say, this is really like a get back to basics episode of the show. We're talking about UFOs and we're talking about all sorts of really weird stuff.

00:36:14.740 now we're talking about necromancy. This is necromancy. Taking dead actors and making AI

00:36:25.400 versions of them and putting words in their mouths and movements in their apparent bodies

00:36:29.880 and having them star in movies is indistinguishable from necromancy.

00:36:36.600 And I know the objection. You say, no, it's not. It's just technology, Michael.

00:36:40.820 You know, necromancy is where you literally bring someone back from the dead.

00:36:46.140 But this is just creating an image that looks and sounds like them.

00:36:49.580 No, no, no.

00:36:51.240 Necromancy is not really literally bringing someone back from the dead.

00:36:54.880 When you go to some psychic and you pay the psychic money and you say,

00:37:00.080 conjure me a ghost of my dad or whatever,

00:37:05.780 well, you're probably just going to get scammed out of money

00:37:07.720 and you're probably going to attract a bunch of demons to you in the meantime.

00:37:10.600 But if it even seems like it's going to work,

00:37:12.980 you know what's going to happen?

00:37:13.900 You're going to hear a voice.

00:37:15.660 You say, oh, Johnny, I'm your dad.

00:37:19.100 Give this lady more money. 1.00

00:37:21.120 It's probably what you're going to end up hearing in the psychic's place.

00:37:24.040 But you're going to hear a voice.

00:37:25.440 You're going to see something move in the room.

00:37:27.800 You're going to see a little shade of an image of a whisper of a cloud.

00:37:31.820 But you're not going to see a flesh and blood person.

00:37:34.000 That's not what necromancy is.

00:37:35.280 you're going to see

00:37:37.700 exactly what they're doing to Val Kilmer

00:37:39.800 exactly what they did to Peter Cushing

00:37:41.600 and Princess Leia

00:37:42.480 and

00:37:44.660 the Bible tells us not to do that

00:37:47.820 we should not

00:37:49.700 do that

00:37:50.460 it's bad, even if it's just a shade

00:37:53.740 necromancy is always just a shade

00:37:55.460 actually in Dante, in the very first

00:37:57.680 canto of Dante's Inferno

00:37:59.280 Dante meets Virgil, his

00:38:01.420 favorite poet, and he says

00:38:03.580 Tell me who you are, whether true man or shade. 0.85

00:38:09.740 And the Virgil character says, I am not a man.

00:38:14.860 I once was a man.

00:38:18.040 Non omo omo jafui.

00:38:20.020 I am not a man.

00:38:20.980 I once was a man.

00:38:23.240 And there's this character the whole time, but he's a shade.

00:38:25.420 He's a ghost.

00:38:26.520 He's just a kind of a spirit moving around.

00:38:28.540 Because to be a man involves body and soul.

00:38:33.580 A body without a soul is a corpse.

00:38:37.480 A soul without a body is a ghost, a shade, a spirit.

00:38:41.260 But a man is both.

00:38:43.400 A man has both of those things.

00:38:45.480 This is really bad.

00:38:46.220 Why is necromancy bad?

00:38:49.260 Why is it bad to go to the psychic and conjure your dad?

00:38:51.740 Why is it bad to go see this Val Kilmer movie?

00:38:54.320 Necromancy is bad because it assumes something, 0.79

00:39:00.020 presumes something unto yourself that really properly belongs to God.

00:39:03.580 It tries to take control over things that are properly outside of our control.

00:39:08.180 It tries to deny death.

00:39:10.600 It tries to deny time and history.

00:39:14.020 It tries to conjure and control destiny.

00:39:21.800 You don't have the right to do that.

00:39:25.740 It's false.

00:39:27.900 People are going to look at that and they're going to think that's Val Kilmer.

00:39:30.180 If the AI is good enough, and maybe it will be,

00:39:31.580 they're going to think that's Val Kilmer, but it's not Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer lived and then he died.

00:39:38.480 And when you see Val Kilmer in movies for the next 200 years, that is going to change the way

00:39:44.600 you view death. It's going to lead you to deny your own mortality. So much of liberal modernity

00:39:48.840 is about denying our mortality, is about trying to gather to ourselves powers that are properly

00:39:55.340 due to God. It's about teaching us to turn away from God and to trust merely in ourself. It's

00:39:59.880 It's about maximizing individual autonomy above all else.

00:40:03.800 That's the project of liberal modernity.

00:40:07.000 And it is a project that is much closer to pagan antiquity than it is to Christendom,

00:40:12.360 the society, the civilization that we've known as Christendom.

00:40:16.580 Not good stuff.

00:40:17.500 Go see living actors.

00:40:18.420 There are plenty of living actors.

00:40:20.200 Go to them.

00:40:21.320 Don't talk to your dead father. 1.00

00:40:22.800 Pray for your dead father. 0.57

00:40:23.720 That's one thing.

00:40:25.000 But don't try to talk to him like he's still alive.

00:40:28.260 There are people who are still alive.

00:40:29.260 That's who you have to talk to.

00:40:31.420 You know, be among the living.

00:40:35.160 Okay.

00:40:36.260 Speaking of artificial appearances,

00:40:37.940 very important guidance on plastic surgery

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00:41:14.740 My favorite comment yesterday is from

00:41:15.900 Banana Man Cool Guy, 7670.

00:41:18.440 I didn't pick this.

00:41:19.660 I left it to the producers to pick this.

00:41:22.100 I want to see, did they pick a good comment or a bad one?

00:41:24.800 The comment says,

00:41:25.540 to the Just Stop Oil crowd,

00:41:27.460 you got Cuba. Take the W. Yeah, okay, that's fine. Yeah, you got Cuba for now. But you know,

00:41:33.980 the thing is, the thing about it is that we're going to get Cuba and then we'll give them oil 0.98

00:41:38.220 again and we'll take their tobacco and I'll blend it into new blends of Mayflower cigars.

00:41:43.760 Speaking of artificial appearances, the Vatican has just issued warnings about plastic surgery

00:41:48.600 and the libs are using this to attack what they call Mar-a-Lago face. It's this very cheap thing.

00:41:55.440 It's so ridiculous. 0.99

00:41:56.740 First of all, it's ridiculous, the idea that conservatives get more plastic surgery than libs. 1.00

00:42:00.560 Libs get a lot of plastic surgery, okay? 1.00

00:42:02.960 And I'm not even just talking about the crazy trannies, you know. 1.00

00:42:05.920 The libs telling us that it's a sacred somber thing that we have to go in and chop off people's genitals 0.99

00:42:10.540 and rip off the flesh from their arms and make new simulacra of phalluses and whatever. 0.99

00:42:14.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:42:15.420 That's very serious and somber and that's great.

00:42:17.480 But we're going to make fun of some lady, some wealthy Palm Beach lady for getting a facelift. 1.00

00:42:22.480 It's preposterous on its face.

00:42:24.360 But the plastic surgery is a problem that has affected both sides of the aisle.

00:42:31.020 And I'm not going to read the whole document, but it's very important.

00:42:34.960 Vatican writes this.

00:42:35.980 Thinking about Christian anthropology in light of certain future scenarios for humanity.

00:42:42.540 Advances in cosmetic surgery offer tools that significantly change the relationship with one's corporeality, with our bodies, with our having bodies.

00:42:50.960 A widespread cult of the body follows, tending toward a frantic search for a perfect figure, always fit, young, and beautiful.

00:42:58.180 A curious situation arises. The ideal body is exalted, while the real body is not truly loved, since it is a source of limits, fatigue, and aging.

00:43:08.380 Cosmetic procedures create a relationship where the person, quote, is no longer his or her body, but owns a body, from which arises the search for a borrowed identity.

00:43:16.480 This is really brilliant stuff, and I encourage you to read it from the Vatican.

00:43:19.220 Even if you're not Catholic or even if you are Catholic but you don't like the Pope or I don't know, whatever your hobby horse is, you should read this.

00:43:26.020 This is very important because that last bit there is the key.

00:43:29.620 There's this relationship now where a person in his own mind is no longer his or her own body but owns a body from which arises the search for a borrowed identity.

00:43:40.080 This is it.

00:43:40.900 There's this very new agey idea that we're not really our bodies.

00:43:44.040 Our bodies have nothing to do.

00:43:45.000 We have bodies.

00:43:45.760 It's like a husk for our true selves, but we're not really our bodies.

00:43:50.360 And you would think that this would lead to a kind of ascetic mentality that would cause us to disregard our bodies, but that's not true.

00:43:58.000 Actually, especially in modernity, liberal modernity, which emphasizes self-ownership, which emphasizes autonomy, we come to obsess over the body even more.

00:44:10.520 When we cease to view the body as what we are, we begin to view the body as something we own.

00:44:18.580 View the body the same way Professor Jacob views his Camaro.

00:44:22.040 Something that he's always going to work on.

00:44:23.940 Something he's going to replace the parts on.

00:44:26.080 Something he's going to try to, he's going to take a hammer to.

00:44:29.040 You know, he takes a hammer to the Camaro and Clavicular takes a hammer to his face.

00:44:33.080 You see it a little bit.

00:44:33.920 I think you would probably say my former guest, Mr. Clavicular, is on the right.

00:44:38.980 Even though he endorsed Gavin Newsom.

00:44:40.600 He endorsed Gavin Newsom because he thinks Gavin Newsom is good-looking.

00:44:43.280 And he said that to be good-looking is the most important thing in the world.

00:44:47.160 So, that notwithstanding, he seems, I guess he's more on the right if he were political. 0.88

00:44:51.640 But whatever, you get him and you get the transgenders. 1.00

00:44:55.040 But it's this obsession with the body when one ceases to view oneself as the body.

00:45:00.900 When one views the body as a kind of commodity.

00:45:03.860 You know, just something, just an accessory, just something that we have.

00:45:08.280 It's a big problem. It's the culmination of liberalism. It was always there. I mean, that kind of idea has been around for 300 years. It's been cooking and percolating, but now it's come to this absurd extreme.

00:45:20.880 And when something is visibly absurd, hitting yourself in the head with a hammer or chopping off your genitals or whatever, or even just getting the ugly plastic surgery. I've never seen plastic surgery look good. Can I tell you that? 0.98

00:45:32.280 I'm not saying corrective stuff like a soldier gets blown up in a war and he gets some corrective surgery to try to make it look like he was before.

00:45:40.800 I'm not saying things that correct a defect or an injury or an impairment.

00:45:44.380 I'm talking about people who are otherwise perfectly normal, perfectly as they should be, who want to augment something.

00:45:51.380 I've never seen it work out.

00:45:52.320 Do you remember for a while the millennial girls, even some Zoomer girls, were getting the horrible lip thing? 0.65

00:45:58.340 They're still kind of doing it.

00:45:59.460 the horror we're girls who have perfectly beautiful lips perfectly nice looking lips

00:46:03.000 they get the thing where they it looks like that and it all it's never looked good it always looks

00:46:08.800 bad or they get the crazy facelifts or they get and i don't i don't mean to shame anybody i know

00:46:15.620 there are plenty of people who've gotten procedures out there i'm not probably you shouldn't do any

00:46:21.200 more of it but i'm not i'm not knocking anybody we all we all make mistakes we all do but what

00:46:26.020 they'll tell you. No, Michael, you only don't like the bad plastic surgery. When it's really

00:46:32.260 good, you don't even notice it. We notice it. We're polite, but we notice it, and it doesn't

00:46:40.900 look good. I'm not saying everyone's a 10 out of 10 supermodel. I'm just saying you look better the

00:46:46.940 way you are than when you try to augment yourself and you turn yourself into some high school art

00:46:51.920 project. That's not a good way to think of yourself. A canvas on which we can do whatever

00:46:57.500 we want because we have total freedom of expression. Art for art's sake. Art is not for

00:47:01.800 art's sake. That's a modern nonsense. You do things for some purpose, for some good that we can

00:47:09.060 know with our reason. That's what you should be doing.

00:47:13.600 So, if you want to stop obsessing about your body, there's so much body dysmorphia, then what you need to do is recognize that we are a body.

00:47:28.060 We are our bodies and we are souls.

00:47:30.120 And you have to tend to both of those things at once.

00:47:31.740 Okay.

00:47:32.480 Speaking of flesh, one last bit before we go.

00:47:34.700 James Tallarico.

00:47:35.540 We haven't done a good Tallarico clip in a few days.

00:47:38.680 James Tallarico, Democrat Senate candidate in Texas, has just, another clip has come up from 2022 in which he is campaigning in Texas on vegetarianism.

00:47:54.760 We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare.

00:47:59.380 I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.

00:48:06.840 it is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect

00:48:12.860 animals in all aspects of society. And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially

00:48:19.300 become a non-meat campaign. So we are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses.

00:48:29.720 Some of you may know Big Nonas. They were little Nonas and then they opened up Brick and Mortar, 0.96

00:48:34.220 another big notice, but we just got our pizza from there today. And so the point is that I think

00:48:39.640 all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort.

00:48:48.600 Mascon campaigning on not eating meat in Texas. He's cooked. He's a great candidate. This is what

00:48:57.460 they all said. They said this about Buttigieg. They said this about Beto. You remember, oh,

00:49:01.680 he's a real, he's going to give us a run for our money. I look at this guy, I think he's a total

00:49:06.120 joker. Why would I? And now he's got the mask on, campaigning on tofu in Texas, give me a break.

00:49:14.020 But why is it not working? Why is it not working for him? Pete Buttigieg, there was this reboot,

00:49:19.700 it was like the 10th reboot of Pete Buttigieg. They did the same thing to Beto. It was in some

00:49:24.620 magazine a week or two ago. Here's Pete sitting at a diner, just a man's man. He wore a beard and

00:49:29.780 and he's wearing flannel, and isn't he just a regular guy?

00:49:32.580 Previously, he was the really wide-eyed, white Obama, 0.86

00:49:37.800 gay, progressive, checked every box four years ago. 0.92

00:49:42.800 He's just trying to... 0.98

00:49:44.280 This is the problem with these guys.

00:49:46.660 They're trying to be whatever seems fashionable at the moment.

00:49:52.280 And so they flop.

00:49:54.420 Occasionally, they get lucky, and they get in.

00:49:56.780 AOC was like that.

00:49:58.100 She got in at this moment when there was crazy wokeness, crazy environmentalism.

00:50:02.500 She snuck in, and now she's in.

00:50:04.460 But for the guys who flop, it's very hard to reset when they tie their whole personality to a particular moment that falls out of fashion. 0.96

00:50:12.220 Now that wokeness is out of fashion, being gay is bad for Buttigieg. 1.00

00:50:15.700 Previously, being gay was good for Buttigieg because the whole country was super-duper gay, and his party was as gay as all get-out. 0.98

00:50:22.700 So it gave him a benefit, actually, to be a little light in the loafers. 0.95

00:50:27.180 Now, not so much, actually. The support, even just national support for gay marriage, quote unquote, has declined precipitously. And this thing with Tallarico, he's saying you can't eat meat because of the environment. Climate change is over. Bill Gates declared climate change over the other day. Greta Thunberg is now protesting that people are not burning oil. That's the new Greta Thunberg protest.

00:50:48.920 so that's over

00:50:51.000 and you got all these clips

00:50:52.540 it's very hard to reinvent yourself

00:50:53.920 this is one reason why

00:50:56.720 there are temptations

00:50:58.320 in politics and political media

00:51:00.080 to just go along with whatever the popular thing is

00:51:02.820 whether the popular thing

00:51:04.620 I don't know is free speech

00:51:05.860 Maha, COVID

00:51:08.180 nationalism

00:51:09.440 whatever mob fury is of the day

00:51:12.700 there's a temptation to go along with it

00:51:14.260 I try to resist it

00:51:15.460 one, that doesn't really appeal to me as much

00:51:17.920 and two, you're going to burn out.

00:51:19.900 Well, on the left, it's all the more so

00:51:21.160 because their fads are totally preposterous.

00:51:24.500 So this guy, he burned out.

00:51:27.200 They went all in on outdated priorities.

00:51:31.600 Then look at someone like Trump.

00:51:34.020 Trump has looked the same,

00:51:36.600 talked the same, and dressed the same

00:51:38.540 for 50 years, maybe longer.

00:51:44.240 President Trump, you love him or hate him,

00:51:45.700 He sounds the same to every crowd he talks to.

00:51:47.980 He sounds the same today as he sounded in the last presidential election,

00:51:50.920 as he sounded in the presidential election before that.

00:51:54.140 President Trump is talking about Iran today, in the year of our Lord, 2026,

00:51:59.220 in precisely the same way he was talking about Iran in 1987.

00:52:05.580 And people make fun of him, and they say he doesn't get it,

00:52:08.560 and he doesn't fit the bill, and he's not made for this Republican Party,

00:52:11.380 and he's not as serious as this, and he's not as serious.

00:52:12.780 But that guy, as far as politicians go, he's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

00:52:18.340 As far as mere mortals go.

00:52:21.900 Pretty impressive, and I think it gives him a lot more runway.

00:52:24.560 Okay, very excited.

00:52:26.620 Taking things from the mortal plane to the immortal plane.

00:52:30.260 I'm very, very excited to talk about a new book that's out on Nero and St. Paul

00:52:35.600 with my friend Kathy Lee Gifford, as well as her co-author, Dr. Brian Litvin.

00:52:40.680 The rest of the show continues now.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 19, 2026

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