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00:00:45.320 President Trump did not nuke Iran on Tuesday night. But he did nuke a bunch of podcasters

00:00:51.920 last night as the podcast wars go from a schoolyard scrap into the bombing of Dresden.

00:00:57.500 Then, speaking of wars, the CIA can apparently track you down over a thousand square mile

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00:01:07.500 We'll get into that new technology that leaked.

00:01:09.600 And finally, did the Pentagon threaten to depose the pope?

00:01:13.880 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:14.720 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:27.500 Welcome back to the show. We will also, if we have time, remember the life of Michael J. Fox,

00:01:41.540 who is not dead. He's alive. He's very much alive. But CNN reported that he was dead yesterday,

00:01:47.800 which just perfectly sums up the liberal media, doesn't it? They just can't get anything right.

00:01:54.480 They don't know anything. So we'll get to what the premature death of the very much alive Michael J. Fox tells us about how to understand political media.

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00:03:39.840 nuclear, not on Tehran, not on Karg Island. He went nuclear on right-wing podcasters yesterday.

00:03:49.320 I'm not going to read the whole post because it's extremely long. I think it's about 500 words.

00:03:55.820 But President Trump waded into the podcast wars, sort of, sort of. This is actually different from

00:04:02.960 the podcast wars. I'll just give you his words first. From the president on Truth Social,

00:04:07.460 So I'm going to be as objective as I can here.

00:04:12.120 I know that lots of people listening, they have personal affection.

00:04:15.620 Many people have personal relationships with a lot of these people, followed them for years.

00:04:19.560 Trump was friends with these guys for a very long time.

00:04:22.100 So here we go, fully objective reading Trump's tweet.

00:04:26.760 I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting 0.76

00:04:31.820 me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number

00:04:36.260 one state sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon because they have one thing in common, 0.84

00:04:40.320 low IQs. They're stupid people. They know it. Their families know it. And everyone else knows 1.00

00:04:45.340 it, too. Look at their past. Look at their record. They don't have what it takes, and they never did.

00:04:50.260 They've all been thrown off television, lost their shows, and aren't even invited on TV

00:04:54.120 because nobody cares about them. They're, all caps, nutjobs, troublemakers, and will say anything 0.76

00:04:59.920 necessary for some free and cheap publicity. Now they think they can get some clicks because they

00:05:05.040 have third rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them. The president is obviously, but

00:05:09.960 nobody's talking about them and their views are the opposite of MAGA or I wouldn't have won the

00:05:14.740 presidential election in a landslide. MAGA agrees with me and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating

00:05:20.660 of Trump. Not hard flailing fools like Tucker Carlson who couldn't finish college. He was 0.99

00:05:25.540 broken. Okay. So then it goes on and on. I'll just summarize it because it's so long. He goes

00:05:30.280 after tucker and calls him dumb and says he he needs a psychiatrist he goes after megan and says 0.98

00:05:35.360 that uh she she didn't used to like him you know she had that rosie o'donnell question in the debate 0.94

00:05:40.560 in 2016 goes after candace specifically for accusing the first lady of france brigitte

00:05:46.200 macron of being a man uh trump then goes on to say that he actually thinks the first lady of

00:05:51.060 france is more beautiful than candace so he gets a real personal jab in there uh goes after alex

00:05:56.540 Jones for being bankrupt. He says a bunch of dumb things, lost his fortune for claiming that the

00:06:02.540 Sandy Hook victims were crisis actors. He says these pundits are losers. They always will be. 1.00

00:06:07.600 Now fake news CNN, the failing New York Times, all the other radical left organizations are

00:06:11.240 hailing them. He's saying the liberal media are promoting these people because they're

00:06:15.840 attacking Trump. He says these people are not MAGA. They're losers. They latch onto MAGA.

00:06:20.980 I'm too busy on world and country affairs. And after a few times, they go nasty. Then he goes

00:06:25.820 into Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom he calls Marjorie Trader Brown. He won't even let her 0.98

00:06:32.460 keep her color. And he says, MAG is about winning and strength, America's hottest country in the

00:06:36.840 world. Okay, that's a pretty thorough summary of what President Trump said.

00:06:42.440 Some of the people that President Trump named have already responded. Here is Alex Jones

00:06:47.640 taking on the president's broadside against him. But as bad as he is, as corrupt as he's gotten, 0.89

00:06:54.780 the insider trading, all of it, I'm really glad he's differentiating and saying, you're not with

00:07:00.000 me because I'm not with you. I don't want to be at your cool, corrupt kid, Howard Ludning, 0.74

00:07:05.200 Jeffrey Epstein class table. Thank you so much for delineating that I'm not with you, a sinking,

00:07:11.280 burning ship. The left attacks me and says, oh, you admit he was bad the whole time. He made a

00:07:15.300 mistake. No, we got a lot of good done with him. I'm proud of the fact I went through hell to

00:07:18.840 support Trump, but I have integrity and I will now stand against this new Trump who by the day 0.99

00:07:23.960 becomes more demonic, more twisted, and more sick. Demonic, twisted, sick. I think previously 1.00

00:07:29.720 Alex Jones had been saying for a week or two that President Trump needs to be removed from office

00:07:34.120 through the 25th Amendment. Obviously, Tucker was going very hard against the Iran war in particular,

00:07:39.560 calling Trump's actions evil and demonic and all that. I think Candace has responded and said

00:07:44.580 something to the effect of, you know, Grandpa needs to be put in a home now. I don't think

00:07:48.560 Megyn Kelly has responded yet. I haven't seen anything from Marjorie Taylor Greene. She mostly

00:07:53.700 was a kind of a footnote to this attack. Is there anyone else in there? Those are basically the hits

00:08:00.520 on it. Okay. Does this mean that Trump is entering the podcast wars? That's how a lot of people are

00:08:09.320 characterizing this. Wow, the podcast wars have just gone to the highest level possible. No,

00:08:14.680 No, these are different conflicts. The podcast wars refers to skirmishes between podcasters

00:08:24.340 and crucially skirmishes that were not so much political in nature, but meta political in

00:08:31.220 nature. I've obviously been talking about this. Well, everyone's been talking about this and I've

00:08:35.480 made the case that it is not politically helpful to amplify the podcast wars on the right,

00:08:40.900 specifically because the podcast wars on the right were not really talking about hard political

00:08:46.960 issues, politically relevant issues. I found the podcast wars to be mostly personal battles

00:08:52.980 between various podcasters over conspiracy theories, over things like the first lady of

00:08:59.720 France as, you know, and whether or not she's a man or something, you know, all these kind of

00:09:04.860 very abstract, often very petty, often personal kinds of issues. And I pointed out during the

00:09:10.400 podcast wars. I said, the podcast wars are, they're lucrative for a lot of people. All the

00:09:16.040 podcasters are benefiting from this because one of them makes a crazy claim. And then the other

00:09:21.740 one says, well, that person's evil because that person's making a crazy claim. And then the first

00:09:26.880 person goes after the critic again about other totally extraneous, irrelevant issues. And it was

00:09:32.440 just this tempest in a teapot that crucially didn't really touch on issues like immigration,

00:09:38.980 issues like the economy, issues like the conduct of the government.

00:09:42.460 It was all this kind of, I don't know, pie in the sky kind of stuff.

00:09:47.540 Or petty, detraction, gossip, slander, all this kind of stuff.

00:09:51.740 But it didn't really affect the political order.

00:09:53.760 What Trump is doing here is different.

00:09:55.980 Notice, when the podcast wars were going on for six, seven months,

00:09:59.360 Trump didn't really say anything about it.

00:10:01.420 He didn't publicly weigh in on the First Lady of France stuff.

00:10:05.460 He didn't weigh in on every episode of Tucker.

00:10:08.520 or Candace, or Megan, or Alex Jones, for that matter. He didn't involve, he would make general

00:10:15.240 comments. Part of the podcast wars were all these claims about TPUSA and Erica Kirk, which again,

00:10:22.400 were awful as they might have been. They were sort of extraneous to the actual political order.

00:10:27.980 And Trump would make these general comments, as many of us did, saying, oh, look, Erica Kirk is 0.97

00:10:33.700 great. TPSA is a great organization. They've done great work. But he didn't get in the muck of the

00:10:39.400 podcast wars until the podcasters started going after a real political issue, the real policies

00:10:48.640 that he was enacting. As he says here, specifically the war on Iran, going after him as a politician,

00:10:54.280 going after whether or not people should elect him and his endorsed candidates.

00:10:59.400 that was when he got involved because that's a distinct fight. The analogy I would use

00:11:06.920 is the podcast wars are like the Bosnian crisis of 1908. The Bosnian crisis of 1908,

00:11:13.380 when the Austro-Hungarian empire starts weighing in very heavily into Bosnia-Herzegovina and this

00:11:20.740 exacerbated Serbian nationalism. But it wasn't a global conflict. It was a contained conflict

00:11:26.700 that then, because it exacerbated Serbian nationalism and impelled someone like

00:11:32.600 Givrilo Principz to assassinate the Archduke Fran Ferdinand, all of a sudden it becomes

00:11:37.360 this world war. You would not say that the Bosnian crisis is the same thing as World War I.

00:11:44.300 They're related conflicts, but they're different. The podcast wars were the minor skirmishes,

00:11:49.460 the skirmishes on the outskirts. What Trump is doing here is weighing in on an actual political

00:11:57.320 battle that has things to say about elections, that has things to say about hard policy.

00:12:03.100 He's going into this now because they are going after the things that he is actually doing

00:12:07.600 with the government. So some people are really surprised that Trump would go after all these

00:12:13.720 people, all of whom have supported Trump at some point. They didn't all support Trump the whole

00:12:19.820 time. Some of them got off the Trump train a long time ago. Candace has been pretty tough on Trump

00:12:25.320 for a while now. Tucker was pro-Trump. Then he clearly was quite upset with Trump four or five

00:12:32.940 years ago. Then he was very much on the Trump train again. Megyn Kelly obviously was not particularly

00:12:37.420 supportive of Trump at the beginning. Then she very much got on the Trump train. Alex Jones was

00:12:41.240 very supportive of Trump at the beginning. He's been much more critical more recently.

00:12:44.280 But at some point, they've all supported him. And Trump has now weighed in and people are shocked

00:12:51.280 that he would go after them. I am not shocked that he would go after them because I have read

00:12:56.920 my Machiavelli and I have watched The Wire and because politics doesn't really change all that

00:13:01.840 much. We'll get into what that means. We'll get into why this is happening, what happens now.

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00:14:45.840 As Trump drops this nuclear weapon, this rhetorical nuke on the podcasters last night,

00:14:51.980 My mind instantly went to Niccolò Machiavelli, the inventor of modern political science,

00:14:59.000 the Italian writer, playwright, political scientist, politician, ambassador.

00:15:05.360 Here's what Machiavelli said.

00:15:07.660 Machiavelli said, I'll say it in the Italian first, it's so beautiful.

00:15:11.340 L'offese che si fa l'uomo deve essere in modo che ella non tema la vendetta.

00:15:16.600 the offense that you make against a man, the injury that you make to a man has to be in such

00:15:25.000 a way that you do not fear revenge. I'll translate that into more modern political parlance by way of

00:15:34.040 the wire. And the advice is, if you come at the king, you'd best not miss. This is the issue.

00:15:42.560 a lot of people treat politics as debate club. A lot of people treat politics as just another TV

00:15:51.900 show. That was one of my big issues with the podcast wars is it was also frivolous. A lot of

00:15:59.840 it was nasty. A lot of it was immoral. A lot of it was all these things, but it was politically

00:16:04.680 frivolous. It did not do what politics is supposed to do, which is form coalitions around

00:16:12.240 certain ideas and, more importantly, policies and practices to win elections, to defeat the enemy,

00:16:20.820 to gain power, and to advance the common good. That's what politics is supposed to do.

00:16:27.420 The podcasters were aligned with that in 2024. That's why they called it the podcaster election.

00:16:33.540 In 2024, the incentives of the podcasters and the politicians on the right were perfectly aligned

00:16:40.620 because everyone was out of power. Everyone faced a real threat from the left. Everyone

00:16:45.620 recognized that we had to work together to achieve political power, to improve the state of the

00:16:50.720 country, and to improve our own positions as we were being targeted by the left-wing political

00:16:55.320 powers. Over the last 16 months, those interests diverged. They diverged because the right-wing

00:17:03.800 politicians now had to get into the business of governing because the right-wing politicians now

00:17:08.640 had basically uniform political power, the presidency, the House, the Senate, and the

00:17:12.540 Supreme Court. All obviously with obstruction from the left, but still they had substantial

00:17:16.900 political power. The political media does not do very well when their side is in political power.

00:17:24.620 The political media does a lot better when it is in opposition. That is why the political media,

00:17:32.680 after we won started to decline in ratings. Certainly our side started to decline in ratings.

00:17:39.280 That's just what happens. That happens every election cycle. But because the political media

00:17:43.220 today are mostly independent, the old days of the networks, which had standards and norms,

00:17:48.760 which could platform or de-platform, which could gatekeep, which now no longer can gatekeep,

00:17:52.900 because of the technological change to the political media and the political circumstance

00:17:57.560 of now our side being in power, the political media had every incentive to become more sensational,

00:18:03.960 to become more radical, to become more vituperative, and to place itself in opposition,

00:18:11.580 which it did, placed itself in opposition to Trump on a whole host of issues.

00:18:17.460 That is why I was never all that surprised by the podcast wars. As I said, ad nauseum,

00:18:22.260 Very unpopular truth to state, but nevertheless, it was my view and it happens to be correct. 0.56

00:18:28.580 I was never surprised by that.

00:18:31.100 This was always going to happen.

00:18:34.000 And Trump, in many ways, showed a lot of patience and a lot of discipline because he didn't weigh in to all of those extraneous matters.

00:18:41.640 But then when the podcast wars started to take aim at the direct political order at the administration, at Trump, at various issues, including Iran, which is controversial, which a lot of people don't support, granted, but that's actually secondary to the point.

00:18:58.860 When the political media turned its guns, political media, which had been aligned, the podcasters had been aligned with the political order, when they turned their guns on that very same political coalition, Trump responded.

00:19:11.640 this is different from podcasters fighting with each other. This is someone who is categorically

00:19:18.440 different, Trump, a politician, the president, the most powerful politician in the world,

00:19:23.200 delineating, enforcing the boundaries of his own political coalition. That's what's going on here.

00:19:30.300 Now, what does this mean? Does this mean that MAGA is totally fractured? I don't think so.

00:19:34.740 I actually don't think MAGA is nearly as fractured as people say it is. Does this mean that Trump

00:19:39.620 will never welcome any of these people back. I don't know. I mean, this is pretty hardcore,

00:19:43.320 but he might. Trump famously doesn't really hold personal grudges. This is one of the big

00:19:48.460 misunderstandings about Trump. Trump says, lie in Ted. His dad killed Kennedy. He's the worst

00:19:54.340 person ever. He lies, lies, lies. And then after the primary is over and Senator Cruz starts 1.00

00:20:00.060 working with him again, he says, I don't call him lie in Ted. I call him beautiful Ted.

00:20:03.680 He makes friends with people. Trump famously had a big fight with Megyn Kelly, and then

00:20:07.820 they made up. So maybe the podcasters could come back in. I don't know. Even that question

00:20:14.420 doesn't interest me all that much. What interests me is the dynamics of the politics here.

00:20:21.600 Trump's approach was, I'm staying out of this. This doesn't involve me. This isn't serious.

00:20:27.580 Podcasters want to go get ratings. Okay, whatever you think about it, they can go get ratings.

00:20:31.580 I'm going to keep my eyes on the prize. I'm going to stay focused. As he says here,

00:20:34.380 he says, I'm too busy on the world and country affairs. But if you start to threaten what I'm

00:20:41.280 doing, now we're going to have a problem. Now we're going to have a problem. All of this,

00:20:46.020 of course, exacerbated by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Another, well, the assassination

00:20:51.960 was not predictable, but what happened after the assassination was predictable.

00:20:56.380 Well, the podcast was started precisely when Charlie was assassinated. That too would be

00:21:01.100 predictable because of the incentives of the various influencers to vie for position to try

00:21:06.880 to take hold of a political movement, to try to improve their standing. When the undisputed leader

00:21:13.380 of that activist, influencer, organizer coalition was assassinated. All of this

00:21:20.560 totally unsurprising, shocking to a lot of people, but totally unsurprising.

00:21:28.220 And now that Trump has weighed in and said, hey, this is my movement.

00:21:32.940 A lot of people have helped me, but this is my movement.

00:21:36.340 I built it.

00:21:36.920 I'm the one who got elected with the popular vote.

00:21:40.120 Trump says, get in line or you're out.

00:21:43.940 On the political issue itself of the Iran war, it is worth pointing out, yes,

00:21:49.840 Trump has a lot of support on the Iran war, on the American right.

00:21:53.060 I have warned, though, that support is a little soft.

00:21:56.320 And so the lesson, I think, to take away from the podcasters all turning is a lot of it is just built, baked into the difference between political media and the actual politicians.

00:22:06.620 But it is a real hot issue.

00:22:10.420 It's very hot.

00:22:11.360 I think that 90%, 100% support, I think it's soft support.

00:22:15.180 I think if the war wraps up within the four to six week frame that Trump had talked about, now we're getting pretty close and we're at the end of that period now.

00:22:22.540 And we are, in principle, in a ceasefire, and the Strait of Hormuz is slightly open,

00:22:28.240 is somewhat open, and even Israel, which then immediately started bombing Beirut.

00:22:32.520 Israel seems to be in talks with Lebanon now, and Pakistan seems to be trying to mediate

00:22:36.040 between the United States and Iran, and J.D. Vance, who had the precise position on the war

00:22:40.520 in Iran, according to the reporting, that I did from the beginning, very skeptical,

00:22:44.720 argued against it, remained skeptical of large-scale regime change, and he's now leading the negotiating

00:22:50.700 coalition. Okay, this might be it. And then the most important thing of all of it for actual

00:23:00.560 Americans, for the American people in the American political order, not for our entertainment,

00:23:07.060 not for broadcasters, not for people who like to listen to shows and see the latest crazy tweet or

00:23:13.360 soundbite, but the people who actually want to do good for the American political order.

00:23:17.320 now we have to focus now we have to look ahead to those midterms

00:23:21.860 now we have to say hey guys do you want the democrats to win and get subpoena power and

00:23:27.860 impeach trump and gum up all the good that's been done thus far do you want the democrats

00:23:32.400 to win the senate potentially remove trump do you want the democrats to win the white house 0.97

00:23:35.540 and then what and then go back right back to what they were doing imprisoning pro-life grannies 0.93

00:23:40.200 infiltrating our churches and spying on our churches flooding the country with millions 0.74

00:23:45.700 of illegal aliens per year, giving a blanket amnesty to the illegal aliens. 0.77

00:23:52.400 Do you want that? Selling out American industry. Do you want that? Putting men in the women's 0.55

00:23:58.780 bathroom. Are these the things you want? No. Okay. You don't like everything Trump has done. 1.00

00:24:05.320 You wish he were. I think Trump has a very good record, actually. I know that's an unpopular

00:24:09.020 opinion too these days, at least in the media. But you cannot allow a Gavin Newsom to become

00:24:17.960 president. Do you really want to go back to that? Can you imagine what the country would look like

00:24:23.180 right now if Kamala Harris had won or Joe Biden had remained alive and walking and able to speak

00:24:28.720 and had remained president? Can you imagine that? The potentiality of all the little podcast

00:24:37.800 skirmishes have now collapsed into a real political fight. All the little skirmishes,

00:24:43.040 all the little nonsense, that really was not worth talking about. The political fight

00:24:46.860 is worth talking about. Trump has established that. Now what do we do? Is it over? We're done.

00:24:55.560 We're not going to vote anymore. We no longer support Trump because he only deported a million

00:25:00.880 and a half illegal aliens last year instead of two and a half million. We're not going to

00:25:06.400 support Trump anymore because he fulfilled his promise to attack Iran if he thought they were

00:25:12.400 going to get nuclear weapons. Even if he didn't like that promise, he did say he was going to do

00:25:15.920 that. He doesn't want to get bogged down in long Mideast wars, but he did say, he said for 10 years

00:25:20.120 he's not going to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. He thought that they were going to get 0.98

00:25:23.040 a nuclear weapon. He attacked Iran in the first term. He took out their top general.

00:25:26.220 You can't say he lied to you. You can't say that you didn't see this coming.

00:25:30.820 Now we're just going to, we're done with Trump because of that.

00:25:33.080 inflation way down price of eggs down 65 everyone said that oil was going to go to

00:25:39.340 $200 a barrel oils at $90 a barrel now even with the Strait of Hormuz largely closed 1.00

00:25:43.320 now now we're done bring on Gavin Newsom bring on mass abortion and trannies everywhere 1.00

00:25:49.760 flood the country with foreigners face tattooed criminals no law and order that's what we're 1.00

00:25:54.560 going to do because why because your feelings got hurt I don't think so I don't think so 0.97

00:26:00.720 the incentives between the media and the actual hardcore political order did diverge.

00:26:07.320 I know it. Listen, look, had I done more of the media thing, my ratings would be even higher.

00:26:11.520 And that'd be very nice, but I don't think it's worth it. What profiteth a man to gain

00:26:15.640 another million listeners, but to lose the world? I don't think it's worth it.

00:26:18.720 Now, now that Trump has reestablished incentives from the actual political order. Okay, good.

00:26:25.420 get back on board focus we put our feelings aside for a second politics is a rough business

00:26:31.660 if you can't bear to see your own blood on the ground get out of politics

00:26:35.180 now move on that's my hope anyway speaking of hard-boiled tough fights uh the cia has just

00:26:44.500 revealed how they were able to rescue the uh the weapons operator in iran after he went down on

00:26:50.080 Good Friday was rescued on Easter Sunday. The technology makes all this talk about aliens and

00:26:55.960 UFOs seem quaint. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, I want to tell you about Roe.

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00:28:20.640 Here is CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as the president calls him,

00:28:23.520 central casting, discussing the CIA ghost murmur technology.

00:28:29.740 At the president's direction, we deployed both human assets and exquisite technologies that

00:28:36.120 no other intelligence service in the world possesses to a daunting challenge comparable

00:28:41.400 to hunting for a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert. This was also a race against

00:28:49.340 the clock, as it was critical that we locate the downed aviator as quickly as possible while at

00:28:55.840 the... Okay, he then, or sorry, a Pentagon source told the Post, this technology is like hearing a

00:29:04.560 voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert. In the right

00:29:09.740 conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you. Part of the reason I'm always skeptical

00:29:15.140 of the UFO talk, we have crazy technology and we remain the superpower. We get confused in the

00:29:27.480 liberal international system with nice institutions like the UN, where we pretend that all countries

00:29:32.180 are basically equal. They're not. It's the same confusion that tells us that men and women are

00:29:37.620 physically the same. No, we're all just as good at sports. We can all be cops and soldiers in

00:29:41.360 exactly the same way. We're not just a little bit different. We're a lot different. Men are

00:29:48.420 not just a little physically stronger than women. Women can't beat up men. Full stop. 0.99

00:29:55.620 It's not just that America is a little bit stronger than other nations. We're essentially

00:30:01.220 the only country in the world that can project force forward effectively. Now, politically,

00:30:09.160 diplomatically, even if you can project all the force in the world, you can still get bogged down

00:30:12.620 in quagmires. That's the fear of what's going on in Iran. But we are on top, guys. We're still on 0.97

00:30:17.340 top. And that's clearly Trump's vision of America First. Whatever anyone else, all these various

00:30:22.500 competing visions of what America First is, Trump's the guy who made that movement a national,

00:30:28.160 viable movement that won the popular vote. And his vision of America first is we're going to

00:30:33.120 be the biggest, the best. We're going to focus on our interests, contrary to liberal globalism.

00:30:40.140 But we are also going to pursue our interests wherever we want, contrary to isolationism.

00:30:47.220 That's his vision. And if you can detect a heartbeat in a thousand square mile desert,

00:30:52.900 you could probably do that. Okay. Speaking of these battles and old political truths,

00:30:58.980 There was a story that went viral yesterday.

00:31:01.300 All day yesterday, I was getting these questions from different people.

00:31:04.800 Michael, what do you make of the Pentagon going to war with the Vatican?

00:31:10.520 What do you make of this, Michael?

00:31:12.660 What was this about?

00:31:13.560 I think there was a report in the free press, but it was really pushed by this guy, Christopher Hale,

00:31:17.220 who's a Democrat operative who says that he's Catholic.

00:31:20.260 This is a big problem because the Democrat Party is totally opposed, not just to Catholics

00:31:27.120 teaching broadly, but to non-negotiable political issues. Reasonable minds can vary,

00:31:33.800 according to Pope Benedict XVI, on the death penalty. Reasonable people can have different

00:31:38.280 views on the death penalty. Reasonable people can disagree on immigration. Pope Leo himself

00:31:43.920 has a pretty nuanced moderate view on immigration. No Catholic can disagree on abortion. The

00:31:52.760 Democrat Party supports abortion with no limits whatsoever. No Catholic can disagree on the 0.81

00:31:57.660 nature of marriage. The Democrat Party almost universally supports a false definition of

00:32:02.540 marriage. No Catholic can disagree on these bedrock issues of human dignity, of life,

00:32:11.100 fundamental truths. So you're already skeptical when you say, hold on, a Democrat operative,

00:32:16.420 a left-wing operative who says he's Catholic. Okay. So this guy, Christopher Hale, he posts

00:32:20.760 this new, a stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV's top American

00:32:26.520 diplomat and threatened him after the US-born pontiff gave his January State of the World

00:32:31.280 address. Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by a diplomacy-based on force and zeal for

00:32:37.640 war. Okay, hold on. The Pentagon summoned the Pope's top American diplomat and threatened him?

00:32:42.560 What does that mean? Some of the reporting that came out later said that the Pentagon even brought

00:32:46.660 up the Avignon papacy when the papacy was exiled from Rome to Avignon because there were battles

00:32:52.040 over who would control the Holy See. The universal church, the Trump administration is threatening to

00:32:59.100 depose the Pope? And who was doing it? Oh, this dastardly fellow, this undersecretary that the

00:33:06.500 The left is trying to portray as the face of evil and anti-Catholicism. 0.93

00:33:10.740 Elbridge Colby, who I believe is a Catholic.

00:33:15.020 Hold on, what?

00:33:15.780 And I've followed Elbridge Colby for a long time.

00:33:17.660 He's great.

00:33:18.980 I'm very pro-Elbridge Colby.

00:33:20.960 So did this really happen?

00:33:23.500 No.

00:33:24.680 According to the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Birch, he says,

00:33:28.120 I was pleased to speak yesterday with his eminence, Cardinal Christophe Pierre,

00:33:31.760 the Vatican official in discussion here.

00:33:35.380 As expected, he confirmed that recent media characterizations of his meeting with the

00:33:38.600 undersecretary, Elbridge Colby, are, quote, fabrications that were just invented.

00:33:44.960 Given the intelligence and seriousness of Mr. Colby, I was likewise not surprised when his

00:33:49.480 eminence acknowledged there were no threats of any kind in this meeting. It was a frank and

00:33:53.480 cordial meeting that took place two months ago. Threat of Avignon, none. None. So according to

00:34:00.060 the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, this is just totally made up. But the U.S. Ambassador to the

00:34:03.580 is quoting the Cardinal, who the report is supposedly based on. Now you say, okay, well,

00:34:08.460 hold on. That's just the Trump administration trying to run cover. That's them trying to cover

00:34:11.880 themselves, right? The Department of War posts these pictures, this scary, terrible meeting

00:34:17.500 where the US says we're going to depose the Pope. Let me see. Can I see the picture again?

00:34:20.960 Where is it? Oh, they don't. The Cardinal's smiling, shaking hands with Elbridge Colby.

00:34:28.280 Colby smiling. Doesn't look like such a harsh, terrible meeting. But let's go to the Vatican

00:34:34.320 sources. Diane Montagna, one of the best journalists on Vatican issues in the world.

00:34:41.260 I mean, she's in like the top two. Diane says, as confirmed by his excellency Christophe Pierre,

00:34:47.180 former apostolic annuncio to the United States, his meeting with Mr. Elbridge Andrew Colby formed

00:34:50.440 part of the pontifical representative's regular duties and provided an opportunity for the

00:34:53.940 exchange of views on matters of mutual interest. The account given by certain media outlets

00:34:59.480 regarding this meeting does not correspond to the truth in any way. That is a comment given to Diane

00:35:05.820 from the official Holy See press. So this whole thing was just totally made up. Everybody involved,

00:35:12.920 the United States, the Vatican, the serious journalists, all of them agree this was totally

00:35:18.700 fabricated. But it gets to a real political issue. And this is what I find so interesting

00:35:26.860 about both of these stories, the Trump drop in the nuke on the podcasters and this skirmish,

00:35:33.420 supposed skirmish that didn't even really happen between the US government and the Holy See,

00:35:38.700 is it means that politics doesn't change. One of the real lies about modernity is that politics

00:35:46.320 has fundamentally changed. That's what Marx promised. Marx, in the 11th thesis on Feuerbach,

00:35:51.040 he says, the philosophers heretofore sought to interpret the world, but the point is to change

00:35:54.800 it. And we have a new science of history that is going to totally change politics.

00:35:59.300 That's what the progressives said. We're going to change politics. We're going to change human

00:36:02.080 nature. Even the Enlightenment liberals, who many conservatives like, the Enlightenment liberals

00:36:07.960 said, oh, we fixed all the problems of politics. Now we're not going to have to worry about the

00:36:11.800 cycle of regimes anymore. We've cured tyranny. We've established a political order based on reason

00:36:18.340 instead of passion. We fixed all the eternal questions. Well, guess what?

00:36:22.920 The eternal questions all come back. The fight, the tension between the secular power and the

00:36:30.040 spiritual power is as old as rocks. This particular fight over who has what power in politics

00:36:40.080 goes back at least to the fifth century. There's a famous Catholic maxim back when in the West,

00:36:47.460 there was only the Catholic church. Duosunt, there were two powers, the spiritual and the

00:36:52.120 temporal power. This was established by Pope Galatius I in 494, the year of our Lord,

00:36:58.680 in a letter that he wrote to the Byzantine emperor, establishing that the spiritual power

00:37:04.000 is superior to the temporal power in as much as the spiritual power has man's eternal ends in mind,

00:37:09.240 not merely his temporal lens as the political power does, but that the spiritual power doesn't

00:37:14.540 totally dominate the temporal power, because the temporal power has special competency

00:37:18.340 in temporal matters, just as the spiritual power has special competency in spiritual matters.

00:37:24.480 And exactly to what degree the spiritual and temporal power can cooperate, to what degree

00:37:29.360 they should be distinct, has been debated ever since. Dante wrote a fair bit of the

00:37:34.840 Inferno about this question. And he wrote a separate political tract called Monarchia

00:37:39.280 dealing with this question, in which Dante, who was part of the pro-Pope political party in Florence,

00:37:46.440 actually put himself on the side of the Holy Roman Emperor, the spiritual power,

00:37:50.420 against the Pope Boniface VIII. This is a longstanding question. These political matters

00:37:56.460 don't go away. Anyone who tells you, we've had an awakening. Both the left and the right engage in

00:38:02.320 this. The left has woke. The right has the red pill. This awakening, this idea that we've come

00:38:08.160 out of a dream and now we've solved all the political problems. All those old tensions

00:38:10.940 no longer apply. Classical political philosophy doesn't matter. We're modern people. The actual

00:38:15.920 politicians don't matter. We have influencers. We have podcasters. Bunk. Nonsense. Old, 0.95

00:38:21.520 hardcore politics continues to exist. The fight between the pope and the emperor

00:38:27.660 is playing out. And journalists and the left are trying to exploit that tension.

00:38:35.760 I think there is an op right now, specifically on the religious question. There is an op afoot

00:38:41.240 to separate Catholics from Protestants in America. There's an op afoot to do that. 0.50

00:38:47.960 And you know me, I mean, I love a good theological debate. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy it very much.

00:38:52.080 All my Protestant friends, I drive them totally crazy as they drive me crazy. But folks, 1.00

00:38:57.660 Politically speaking, there cannot be a divide between Catholics and Protestants.

00:39:01.060 I was just on Charlie's show with Andrew Colvett and Blake just the other day talking about this

00:39:06.080 point where we're always beating each other up on religious matters. We said, hey guys,

00:39:10.000 but you know, we're talking about politics. Come on, this is crazy. We all have to be united.

00:39:15.820 There's an op afoot to separate the Catholics from the Protestants in the American political

00:39:21.140 order. And furthermore, there's an op to separate the Christians from the Jews. There aren't that 0.79

00:39:26.280 many Muslims in America yet, so there's not much of an op to separate them. They're kind of 1.00

00:39:31.060 politically irrelevant other than Dearborn, Michigan. But look, I love political debates

00:39:35.420 with my Jewish friends too. That's a lot of fun. Sorry, theological debates with my Jewish friends

00:39:38.920 too. That's a lot of fun. Politically, folks, I guess this brings us right back to the top of the

00:39:44.040 show. We are up against people who want to slaughter millions of babies a year, open our

00:39:49.620 borders, ignore our laws, castrate our children, destroy our economy, take away our private

00:39:56.300 property, and shred our constitution. Let's not let politically small differences, let's not let

00:40:06.480 largely irrelevant extraneous matters totally divert us. Okay, I know I'm running late. I do

00:40:13.600 not care. Ben Sasse, speaking of Christianity, he just impresses more and more each day. Ben Sasse

00:40:23.000 was a senator who then became a university president, a Republican. And Ben Sasse announced

00:40:28.960 some months ago that he had pancreatic cancer and he was definitely going to die. He was trying some

00:40:33.740 treatment. He has three kids, one of whom is 14. And he said, look, I'm going to die and I'm going

00:40:39.180 to keep a good attitude about it because we're all going to die. And I believe in Christ.

00:40:44.580 Ben Sass now, the physical manifestations of his treatment are so clear. He's on a drug that has

00:40:51.460 shrunk his tumors. It's given him maybe a couple or a few more months, but he's now bleeding from

00:40:56.120 everywhere. His skin can't really heal itself at all. And so he has a very bloodied face.

00:41:03.540 He has, I think one can't escape but see it, a face that resembles Christ in the Passion.

00:41:11.160 And here he is discussing all of this, his faith and his death, with Ross Douthat.

00:41:17.900 I was incredibly blessed to be quickly at peace.

00:41:23.420 I kept hearing the Pauline phrase, to live is Christ, to die is gain.

00:41:29.900 And death is terrible.

00:41:31.760 We should never sugarcoat it.

00:41:34.760 It is not how things are meant to be.

00:41:38.760 But it is great that death can be called the final enemy.

00:41:41.760 It's an enemy, but it's a final enemy,

00:41:43.760 and there will then be no more tears.

00:41:46.760 I believe in the resurrection,

00:41:48.760 and I believe in a restoration of this world.

00:41:52.760 And so I did not feel great fear about my death.

00:41:57.760 I didn't want the pain I was going through. 1.00

00:41:59.760 I was going through I didn't want to be a pansy um you know at in the in the final moments you're 1.00

00:42:05.800 doing okay right now I am doing so far oh thank you uh but I did immediately feel 0.99

00:42:13.640 he goes on you should watch the whole interview he gets he gets Ross choked up by the end of it

00:42:20.380 has a public figure died in a more graceful and magnanimous way in our lifetimes some examples

00:42:32.300 come to mind scott adams just died in a way that was that was stoical and he did say he said i've

00:42:37.000 accepted jesus though he said i don't want to talk about it he he had a very stoical death which was

00:42:42.200 very admirable in many ways um of course stoicism differs from christianity in as much as stoicism

00:42:48.440 seeks to detach and to minimize suffering as a way to make it through the waves and

00:42:57.800 vicissitudes of this world. Christianity adds a little something to that, which is 0.56

00:43:02.100 hopefulness, which is to say there's something to come and I'll dance on my way to the Colosseum,

00:43:09.820 which Sass, I think, is demonstrating. Norm Macdonald comes to mind. He died in a real

00:43:14.720 tough guy way, didn't tell anybody, kind of made jokes about it that we only got after he died.

00:43:18.440 John Paul II would probably be the clearest example of dying publicly in immense pain with

00:43:23.240 a lot of grace. But Sass is right up there. I don't think anyone has died in my lifetime with

00:43:29.260 greater grace or magnanimity. And the fact that for Christians, you know, the world is rich in

00:43:34.740 symbols. It's a very semiotic world. The fact that as he is dying, one of the strange kind of 1.00

00:43:42.560 unexpected consequence of the way he's dying is that his face is resembling the face of the

00:43:48.460 crucified Christ, of Christ in his passion, as he is discussing his unity to Christ, his communion

00:43:53.780 with Christ, which is what we hope for because the highest good that we can hope for, the very

00:43:57.360 point of life, the scholastics would tell us, is to enjoy God. The whole point of the world is God

00:44:03.720 and the point of our lives is to enjoy God, to love him and serve him in this world and to be

00:44:07.360 with him forever and eternity. And that you even, you can't help but see a kind of symbolism here

00:44:13.160 that as he is preparing for this and he's telling you his joy amid the sadness of death,

00:44:18.480 which is a real evil, his face is actually becoming like Christ's face.

00:44:23.820 Only the most hardened materialist could look at that sign and say it doesn't mean anything.

00:44:30.560 Speaking of dying, right before I go, I know I'm running late. I don't care. I'll get to more of

00:44:33.640 mailbag in the member memberum segmentum. CNN has bad news. Michael J. Fox is dead.

00:44:39.520 But I have good news. He's not dead. CNN just doesn't know what it's talking about. And

00:44:43.540 this is just a helpful reminder. While we're all focused, it seems like the whole political

00:44:49.020 conversation is just focused on the right, the right wing media, the right wing political order,

00:44:52.480 this faction of the right, that faction of the right. It's all about that. It's like the left

00:44:55.100 doesn't even matter anymore, which is what they want us to think. This is their campaign strategy.

00:44:59.300 They told us this after Abigail Spanberger's election in Virginia. They said, we're going to

00:45:03.180 run below the radar. We're going to pretend to be moderate, quiet, sit back. And then when she

00:45:08.420 got elected, she immediately implemented the most left-wing political agenda we'd ever seen, 0.99

00:45:11.740 the most radical agenda by far in Virginia. Abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, 1.00

00:45:17.700 voting rights for all sorts of people who shouldn't vote, radical stuff.

00:45:23.260 Just remember, the liberal media are that bad. They are that bad. They don't know anything,

00:45:29.720 and they peddle a lot of lies, including Michael J. Fox's death, including the New York Times,

00:45:33.020 the other day, saying that America shouldn't pull out of NATO because NATO is the North

00:45:36.520 American treaty organization. NATO is the North Atlantic treaty organization. They don't even

00:45:40.080 know what NATO is. They don't know. They don't know. They really don't know. They're really

00:45:44.640 ignorant. And when they're not ignorant, they're perfidious and they're a big threat to all of us. 1.00

00:45:48.900 Okay. Much more to get to, including the Membrum Segmentum and special guest at the end. First, 0.96

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00:48:14.640 my favorite comment yesterday is from politically incorrect 95 who says as they say jesus wasn't a

00:48:21.080 socialist he actually fed people that's a profound statement actually that's a profound statement

00:48:26.340 because socialism communism in particular is self-consciously a replacement for christianity

00:48:34.200 it's a it's a counterfeit christianity but even in marx's own understanding it is a counterfeit

00:48:40.700 Christianity. And so that's actually pretty profound. It's not just a joke about how the

00:48:44.540 socialists and the communists don't know how to work the economy. That's profound. It is a

00:48:49.240 counterfeit Christianity. And that's why so many popes would never, were articulate about how 1.00

00:48:56.940 Christianity and socialism are totally incompatible. Okay, I am going to get to the

00:49:02.120 member of segmentum. And in that member of segmentum, I'm going to get to your mailbag

00:49:06.580 questions. But before we get there, I'm very excited to welcome on our very own Regan Conrad,

00:49:13.020 who has a new show coming out. Regan, good to see you. I do. Hello. Good to see you too.

00:49:18.080 So Regan, you have this show that is, it's not the comment section. No. This is, because I,

00:49:24.940 no knock on the comment section. It's no knock on, I am a 36 year old man. I'm a father of three

00:49:30.180 and a half. I'm not, that show was not for me. That was not tailored. That was not for me.

00:49:36.580 However, this new show you're doing is digging into a really strange, weird political issues

00:49:43.240 that a lot of people have never even heard of.

00:49:45.480 And I think your first episode, well, hold on before we get to it.

00:49:48.260 Do we have a clip of the episode?

00:49:51.180 Every president speaks glowingly about public education

00:49:54.700 and not one of them has sent their kids to a public school.

00:49:59.240 Somehow in America, 70% of eighth grade students are not proficient in reading and math.

00:50:04.060 only 27% of middle and high school students

00:50:07.060 are proficient in writing.

00:50:09.060 The USA doesn't even rank in the top 10

00:50:11.060 of global education rankings.

00:50:13.060 And while the success of public education in America

00:50:15.060 is plummeting, the systems in place are doubling down

00:50:18.060 or making things way worse.

00:50:21.060 There's a web of dark money flowing into education

00:50:24.060 that we don't know where it's coming from.

00:50:26.060 They're openly praising the Satanic Temple. 1.00

00:50:28.060 I love the model right now

00:50:30.060 of what the Satanic Temple is doing.

00:50:32.060 They're scoffing at parental rights.

00:50:34.300 You've got to get to them first before the parent is.

00:50:38.800 Heck, they're cutting recess.

00:50:40.820 The national average of recess time has dropped from an hour and 20 minutes per day in 1950 to today it's 25 minutes.

00:50:48.140 This isn't a left versus right issue.

00:50:49.940 Just don't understand. Basic neuroscience.

00:50:52.840 As someone who went to public school and is now a parent myself, I wanted to dive into what has gone wrong.

00:50:58.360 More importantly, how to fix it.

00:51:02.060 okay reagan that looks very important and politically relevant your first episode

00:51:07.740 is also politically relevant as much weirder and it's with those weird sex pills at the gas stations

00:51:12.460 what's that about i you know i've because i've gone i go to gas stations and i'll buy whatever

00:51:17.040 like a lighter right iced tea or something and then i i for since i was a kid i've seen these

00:51:21.980 weird sex pills and i never really what is that i i mean i personally i mean i did the deep time

00:51:28.440 I don't know the connection to sex pills necessarily, but I do know that they are

00:51:31.760 essentially like 70H kratom pills. They probably have a connection to that as well. But yeah,

00:51:37.420 it's just crazy. That's like at gas stations. And so we dove into what is this? People are

00:51:41.960 getting addicted and it was becoming this whole problem, but no one even knew that they were

00:51:45.900 drugs. So it became like students were getting addicted. Adults were getting addicted. People

00:51:50.840 who were formerly sober and were sold this as this is a good alternative. It's safe. It's healthy.

00:51:56.740 they were getting addicted and going back to rehab and being like, I didn't even know this was a

00:52:00.520 drug. It was at my local gas station. So we dove into Kratom and all of that to figure out what is

00:52:05.520 this stuff and why was it going viral on social media, which was crazy. So that was our first

00:52:09.660 episode that was already out on the channel. But yeah, wild. The other thing they do there,

00:52:13.920 so they have all these weird pills. They say, oh, this is great. It's a stimulant. It's,

00:52:18.580 you know, it's, I don't even want to say some of the names of these pills, like the brand names, 0.97

00:52:22.580 because they're gross and obscene and kind of weird sex stuff.

00:52:25.920 But even, you know, the other thing they do at the gas stations, 0.98

00:52:28.180 they sell the crack pipes.

00:52:29.980 They sell actual crack pipes.

00:52:31.880 And it looks like little individual flowers, like paper flowers in them.

00:52:35.800 But they're actually just crack pipes.

00:52:37.100 People buy them just for the tube to smoke crack.

00:52:38.680 That doesn't surprise me at all.

00:52:40.040 What I'm learning is sold at gas stations.

00:52:42.020 That's, so, okay, the new show then is just delving into things

00:52:46.000 that while the rest of the media are babbling about nonsense,

00:52:49.240 you're dealing with substantive political issues.

00:52:51.500 Right.

00:52:51.620 While CNN is lying and doesn't even get their facts straight about anything, we're actually

00:52:55.320 trying to focus in on real issues and get our facts straight.

00:52:58.140 And so it's a combination of mini docs, deep dives, and long-form conversations with people

00:53:02.740 like the one on education.

00:53:03.920 That's what the trailer you guys just saw.

00:53:05.820 But yeah, we just want to dive into topics that people aren't really reporting, and I

00:53:09.680 want to amplify those stories.

00:53:10.780 So that's what we're trying to do with this show.

00:53:12.560 How often does it come out?

00:53:13.980 It's going to come out every Wednesday and Saturday.

00:53:15.860 The big episodes will be on Saturday, and then Wednesdays are going to be little conversations

00:53:19.220 just with me or extended cuts of interviews and things that I just want the audience to see that

00:53:23.260 they wouldn't have seen in the big episode. Are they only getting it on Daily Wire Plus or can

00:53:26.600 they also see it on YouTube? They can get it everywhere. Everywhere that streaming platforms,

00:53:30.460 YouTube's going to be, it's all over YouTube, but it's on all of them as well.

00:53:34.460 MySpace, Zanga, GeoCities, wherever. I'm dating myself. I was going to say,

00:53:39.240 I'm too young for that one. I know. This is why the hip, cool, young

00:53:43.280 kids show. That's why I couldn't. This is more my speed. I'm very excited.

00:53:47.560 Right. You'll like this one. Yeah. Reagan, good to see you. Thank you. And everybody go check it.

00:53:51.360 What is the name of the show, by the way? It doesn't have any. It's just my channel. So it's

00:53:54.560 just the Reagan Conrad channel. And it's just it's because it's home to so many different things.

00:53:58.280 We're like, we're not going to we're not going to niche it off. It's going to be home to anything.

00:54:01.340 I'm such a boomer. I think that shows need titles. I know they don't. I know they don't

00:54:05.840 anymore. I know I'm wrong about that. I'm not. I just got to be hipper and cooler. Maybe I'll go

00:54:09.800 to the gas station by one of those crack pipes. Try to get my brain firing. Yeah, be careful.

00:54:13.880 Very good to see you. OK, we have fake headline Friday coming up. We have

00:54:17.380 the mailbag. I know. Look, I'm running late. There's a lot to talk about, okay? Supposedly

00:54:22.020 the Pentagon threatening to depose the Pope. These are big stories, okay? The rest of the

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 10, 2026

Ep. 1950 - Trump Drops A NUKE On These Podcasters

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