The Michael Knowles Show - September 01, 2026


Ep. 2050 - Trump Secures Huge Win In The Supreme Court


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00:01:38.880 I will be back in the studio in a couple of days, at most, who knows, maybe sooner,
00:01:44.640 but I had to come to you because of the major news from the Supreme Court
00:01:49.320 that President Trump gets his ballroom.
00:01:53.600 And though this case is actually about a lot more than just President Trump
00:01:57.100 and certainly about a lot more than a ballroom.
00:01:59.300 If you haven't followed it, I've given some updates on it, 0.95
00:02:01.640 but it's such a stupid story that it actually bothers me to talk about it. 0.98
00:02:07.160 President Trump is trying to build a ballroom at the White House. 1.00
00:02:11.480 I've been to the White House a handful of times.
00:02:15.240 It's great. It's a lovely...
00:02:17.100 but it's an older building and they host a lot of functions. I've never been invited to a state
00:02:21.400 dinner or anything like that, but from what I hear, it's kind of small and they have a difficulty
00:02:26.300 doing that and they have to erect all sorts of tents on the lawn and then it rains and it's just
00:02:31.540 not the sort of thing that the global hegemon should do. It seems to me reasonable to think
00:02:36.340 that the global hegemon, the greatest country on earth, should be able to have a place for dinner,
00:02:43.640 Right. Seems pretty easy. But no, if Trump says the sky is blue, Democrats have to say it's orange.
00:02:50.280 If Trump says that the moon is made of rock, they have to say that it's made of green cheese.
00:02:54.280 So he goes to build this nice ballroom and the Democrats make a big fuss about it.
00:03:00.380 This works its way up to the Supreme Court.
00:03:02.360 Now you say, how does he even make it to the Supreme Court?
00:03:05.080 Well, the people who claim to have standing are the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
00:03:10.300 And that's the key to this case, because after months and months of all this fighting about it, in a 5-4 split decision, you've got the conservatives in the majority, you have the liberals plus John Roberts, again, in the minority, you have Trump winning this case.
00:03:26.040 And the argument that the majority made was not even ruling so much on the substance of the case, but rather staying this lower court ruling that was stopping the construction because the president of the United States thought the White House should have a ballroom.
00:03:40.300 The reason, the argument of the majority was that the National Trust for Historic Preservation
00:03:46.940 does not have standing to go in and stop the President from redecorating the White House.
00:03:53.380 The argument from the National Trust for Historic Preservation was basically that when I'm walking
00:03:57.980 along Pennsylvania Avenue, I can sometimes squint and see the east wing of the White
00:04:02.180 House and so I have a right to tell you what sort of renovations you can make.
00:04:08.760 like the most super-duper Karen HOA kind of busybody that you've ever seen in your life. 1.00
00:04:15.660 And the court ruled, no, you don't have the right to do that. And the court, the lower courts, 0.83
00:04:20.980 don't have the right to impose this undue burden that would make the renovation much more costly
00:04:26.360 and that would, you know, call into question its ultimate success. You don't have the right to do
00:04:31.260 that. And so I think the real key here, forget about the ballroom for a second, though there
00:04:35.200 is more to say about that. The real key here is who should have more power in a democratic republic
00:04:43.100 such as ours? Should the duly elected president who basically won the popular vote have a little
00:04:49.920 power, not over everything, not to be a totalitarian dictator, not to be an authoritarian
00:04:55.240 ruler, but to like at least renovate the White House a little bit, just like a little bit so
00:05:01.100 that people can have dinner there when the prime minister of Uzbekistan comes over for dinner? Can
00:05:05.680 the president at least do that? There's those people on the one hand, and then the people who
00:05:10.040 say no. One federal judge out of 700 ought to be able effectively to overturn a presidential
00:05:15.800 election. No, one organization, the National Trust for Restoric Preservation, ought to overrule the
00:05:21.280 president of the United States when it comes to a ballroom. By the way, this point in the ballroom
00:05:26.900 is really key here, because it's not just a ballroom. And this is the historical context
00:05:32.160 that I think a lot of people were missing. The ballroom is also kind of a military facility.
00:05:39.640 So the history of the ballroom, I don't want to belabor the point too much, but the history of
00:05:42.780 the ballroom is that in 1942, the East Wing of the White House was built to cover a bomb shelter
00:05:49.700 that was under FDR. Truman, who succeeded FDR, renovated the bomb shelter, and he made the
00:05:56.400 Presidential Emergency Operations Center. So the PEOC had different military additions added over
00:06:04.020 the decades. This is famously where the Vice President Dick Cheney went on 9-11 when George
00:06:08.820 W. Bush was away from Washington, D.C. It's an important facility for the U.S. military and for
00:06:14.740 the President of the United States. And from the very beginning, the whole point of the East Wing
00:06:20.960 of the White House was to cover this thing. So that's a little of the history. There is nothing
00:06:26.500 that Trump is doing here that's outside the scope of historical precedent. But I guess the reason
00:06:31.440 that it matters to me politically is your reaction to this story is going to depend on where you
00:06:37.100 think the threat to your liberty and the threat to your traditional way of life lies. A lot of
00:06:41.680 people, especially the libertarian type, say that the real threat to your liberty lies in a president
00:06:45.680 who's too powerful. I don't think that's true. I think threats to my liberty and way of life come
00:06:50.300 from the deep state, from the unelected bureaucracy, from the extra-governmental institutions,
00:06:56.820 the big tech platforms that control our public square, that can censor us and destroy companies
00:07:01.540 at will. I think there's a big threat there. From our educational institutions, from Congress,
00:07:05.920 which at this point structurally can't really do anything. From the Supreme Court, which very
00:07:09.900 often arrogates to itself a lot of powers that it probably shouldn't have. Doesn't really have
00:07:14.660 a ton of checks and balances. It's just kind of the wing of the government of last resort.
00:07:19.120 So I don't think the threats to our liberty and way of life are coming chiefly from the president.
00:07:23.760 I think the president is pretty low on the list of threats to our liberty.
00:07:27.240 And so I think by beefing up the powers of the president, at least over pretty basic stuff,
00:07:33.920 like can you renovate a room of the White House or a wing of the White House,
00:07:37.960 I think that actually would be a good way to check those other powers.
00:07:41.820 This will show you, though, your reaction to the story will show you the specific flavor of your politics
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00:09:00.500 The struggling of Abdul Salihid is working. The struggling of Hassan Piker is working. We talked
00:09:06.100 about it briefly on the show yesterday. It's all working. Abdul El-Sayed, he said, oh, you know,
00:09:11.380 come on. I don't, why do you keep asking me about Hassan Piker, who hates America and calls for the
00:09:15.200 murder of Republican senators and, you know, has a celebration of 9-11 performance. He's just a
00:09:20.120 podcaster who I've invited to campaign with me. Oh, stop asking me about him. I don't want to
00:09:26.060 answer questions about him. Bernie Sanders, the same thing. The man who would have gotten the
00:09:30.720 nomination had the DNC not rigged it for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders. Do we have the clip?
00:09:36.700 Show the clip. Republicans clearly have a strategy to turn him into a boogeyman, right? And I'm
00:09:43.760 Wondering, are Democrats taking the bait here over what we're saying?
00:09:48.260 Well, I mean, apparently it works when you and others will talk about Mr. Piker.
00:09:53.220 He is a podcaster.
00:09:55.600 OK, on top of that, you get Hassan Piker reportedly.
00:09:59.860 I don't know. I don't really follow him, but he's reportedly deleted Twitter from his phone.
00:10:04.720 I deleted Twitter off my phone. Finally, I'm going back to I'm going back to the basics.
00:10:09.980 It's working. And and now Bernie and these other Democrats are saying there is an operation, a political campaign underway to try to make it seem like Hassan Piker is anything more than a Twitch streamer, a podcaster.
00:10:23.680 He doesn't have any real influence. Come on. That's a Republican opposite. Was it Republicans who invited him to campaign with you? Was it the Republicans?
00:10:33.220 Republicans, I thought actually it was all of the top Democrats, specifically of the 0.94
00:10:37.400 Abdul El-Sayed, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdani wing of the party, they're the ones who invite
00:10:43.020 Hassan Piker out.
00:10:44.840 They're the ones who go on Hassan Piker's show.
00:10:46.920 They're the ones who dab him up and give him big hugs and high fives and smile.
00:10:51.020 They're the ones who did it.
00:10:52.220 You're the ones who gave us an opening.
00:10:53.860 And you're the reason that Hassan Piker's having a very bad day.
00:10:56.140 And you're the reason yourselves are having a very bad day.
00:10:58.180 And I love it.
00:10:58.980 And the Republicans are having a good day because, at least for now, some random non-profit and one federal judge can't stop the President of the United States from beefing up a military center at the White House and giving foreign dignitaries a place to have dinner.
00:11:12.680 Okay, there is much, much more to get to. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:11:28.980 breaking maha news this is a big one it affects not just politics but it affects my household 0.99
00:11:42.980 and my budget and it will make you angry but it also makes me kind of happy because it proves me
00:11:50.020 right you know the seed oil thing sweet little lisa she totally seed oil pilled me said don't 1.00
00:11:55.980 We can't eat seed oils. 1.00
00:11:57.160 All the millennial and Zoomer girls talk about it. 1.00
00:12:00.420 Bobby Kennedy ran the Maha wing of the Trump campaign 1.00
00:12:04.500 and brought in a lot of new voters.
00:12:05.900 And that was great.
00:12:06.360 A lot of it was about seed oils.
00:12:07.840 So everyone starts switching to these other oils.
00:12:10.040 And one of the biggest ways they've done it
00:12:11.840 is with avocado oil.
00:12:13.180 There are all these new products.
00:12:14.300 You use avocado oil instead of potato chips
00:12:16.100 made with avocado oil.
00:12:17.440 I think you can get them at Costco.
00:12:19.120 All these kinds of things.
00:12:20.380 And they're more expensive.
00:12:22.060 The sweet little Lisa says,
00:12:22.880 Mike, I want to get the stuff with the avocado oil,
00:12:24.980 not the seed oils.
00:12:25.560 I said, okay, okay, girl, I trust you.
00:12:27.800 You make the home.
00:12:30.160 We'll do it.
00:12:30.880 I'll pay more for the potato chips.
00:12:32.880 Well, it turns out it was all a big fraud.
00:12:36.520 There's a big report just came out in Men's Fitness, the avocado oil scam.
00:12:40.800 What's actually in the bottle?
00:12:42.040 This is based on a study that just came out of University of California, Davis,
00:12:46.200 found that 89% of processed foods labeled as containing avocado oil actually have different oil.
00:12:54.520 So here, I'll just read the first little part of this.
00:12:57.240 If you have spent the last few years
00:12:58.760 buying avocado oil mayo, check.
00:13:00.820 Avocado oil chips, check.
00:13:02.860 Avocado oil salad dressing.
00:13:04.340 Elisa makes her own salad dressing,
00:13:05.640 but maybe occasionally she has.
00:13:07.220 Because you were trying to avoid seed oils,
00:13:08.940 there's bad news and worse news.
00:13:10.100 The bad news from a recent University
00:13:11.640 California Davis analysis
00:13:12.740 is that most of those products
00:13:14.420 were not actually made with the oil on the label.
00:13:17.140 The worst news,
00:13:18.660 and the part that turns this from a health story
00:13:20.320 into a consumer fraud story,
00:13:21.880 is what they were cut with.
00:13:23.300 In most cases, the cheap seed oils you were paying a premium to escape, you were not poisoned, you were overcharged, and arguably conned.
00:13:31.320 This is crazy. 48 out of 54 products, roughly 89%, had profiles inconsistent with pure avocado oil.
00:13:41.380 Of course. Of course. Okay.
00:13:44.260 And so, what do we think?
00:13:47.640 Now that this was proven to be a hoax, do the reasonable conservative people, do we say,
00:13:52.220 well, you know, we got to go back to rapeseed oil or whatever.
00:13:54.780 Bad marketing, by the way.
00:13:55.980 It's literally called rapeseed oil, not smart.
00:13:58.640 Or this other kind of oil or that other kind of oil.
00:14:01.520 Or do we, what are we supposed to eat?
00:14:06.800 I think the most conservative view
00:14:09.080 is to not get caught up in these fads, right?
00:14:13.100 There are all these fads that pop up.
00:14:14.800 Remember there was Atkins
00:14:15.940 and then it was super high protein.
00:14:17.960 Now proteins and everything,
00:14:19.020 I have to have protein in my water.
00:14:20.140 and then it was keto.
00:14:22.200 Remember keto for a while?
00:14:23.560 And then there's like the cabbage soup diet
00:14:25.400 and all these different fads.
00:14:27.240 And now the big one is you cut out the seed oils
00:14:29.000 and you put avocado oil on everything,
00:14:30.540 but you're not even getting real avocado oil.
00:14:32.140 And I think the conservative approach to this
00:14:33.840 is to avoid fads.
00:14:36.420 Conservatives are supposed to not be faddish.
00:14:39.120 We're supposed to not be faddish either though. 0.97
00:14:41.040 It's more conservative to be fat than to go with a fad. 0.97
00:14:43.640 Anyway, I digress. 0.95
00:14:45.720 You don't want to be taken in by these innovations
00:14:48.160 that say they're going to cure all of the health problems immediately
00:14:50.820 by just swapping out one weird oil.
00:14:53.020 If you just eat a gallon of sauerkraut every day, then you'll live forever.
00:14:57.340 I had a different relationship to Maha than a lot of people who supported Trump in 2024 did
00:15:03.340 in that I liked Maha because it brought us new votes.
00:15:09.380 But that's why.
00:15:10.560 You know, all these people change their personalities overnight.
00:15:12.620 They say, oh, no, I'm on Maha now, and I work out all the time,
00:15:15.040 and I guzzle avocado oil, and I blah, whatever.
00:15:17.180 And that wasn't me.
00:15:18.000 I don't work out that much.
00:15:19.720 You know, I try to eat reasonably well, but I like to eat food that is tasty and good.
00:15:25.060 And so I didn't really get into that.
00:15:26.860 I like their votes.
00:15:27.840 I want them to vote with us, but I never really bought into all of their extreme claims.
00:15:32.500 Now, what's interesting about the oil thing is the same argument you'd make against going along with the new fads against seed oils,
00:15:40.080 you could make against going along with seed oils because seed oils are relatively new.
00:15:44.780 The way that we use them in just everything is relatively new in the last, what, five, six decades?
00:15:49.740 Maybe even a little shorter period of time.
00:15:52.180 So how are we supposed to eat?
00:15:54.680 It would seem to me the healthiest, most conservative, most prudent way to eat is just like eating kind of normal things in a balanced way.
00:16:05.960 You know?
00:16:07.220 You remember, like, when we were a kid, they said just eat carbs all the time and sugar, but don't eat any fat.
00:16:12.520 And then a few years ago, they said, no, we got it wrong.
00:16:16.200 Actually, you're supposed to eat fat all the time.
00:16:18.360 Just gargle butter in the morning when you're brushing your teeth,
00:16:21.580 but never touch a carbohydrate.
00:16:23.800 And like, obviously, both of those things are wrong.
00:16:27.640 Not to sound too hippie-ish, I just kind of like eat,
00:16:30.100 I just eat what my body tells me to eat, man.
00:16:32.240 But even down to, they say, well, you can't just have milk anymore.
00:16:34.860 You got to inject your milk with a ton of protein.
00:16:36.840 You don't, actually, and that can cause kidney problems.
00:16:39.040 So don't, you know what you could do?
00:16:40.520 You know what I would strongly recommend? My takeaway from this, other than that I've been defrauded of lots of money on potato chips, my main takeaway is we should just be normal, right? We should just be normal.
00:16:55.380 and you don't have to just eat like gallons of sauerkraut every day
00:17:01.420 along with one stick of butter and a seltzer.
00:17:04.400 Like you can just be normal
00:17:06.500 and also not be taken in by promises that seem too good to be true
00:17:10.960 and not be defrauded by con men.
00:17:15.560 Whether we're talking about the kind of media con men
00:17:19.020 who have one weird trick to help you live forever, political con men
00:17:21.460 or just actual con men in these corporations
00:17:23.920 that we're charging you a lot of money
00:17:26.140 for cheap potato chips.
00:17:27.900 Okay, we have to move on.
00:17:29.600 There's a lot more to say first, though.
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00:17:54.600 All of a sudden, your eyes go up to heaven
00:17:57.000 and you feel better because it's beautiful
00:17:59.100 and it's pointing you toward what is good and true.
00:18:01.680 At some point, you have to ask,
00:18:03.200 how did the same civilization
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00:18:48.140 slash group. I think this is the biggest decision a parent has to make in their child's growth and
00:18:54.400 development, period. What are the problems that people can face? Obstructive sleep apnea is
00:18:59.100 deadly. You can have a heart attack, a stroke. I have had patients die. If your child has
00:19:04.780 orthodontics done wrong, as a child, it will plague them for the rest of their life. When we talk
00:19:09.420 about Maha, make America healthy again, we talk about vaccines and food and drugs, but we ignore
00:19:18.060 one issue that has bedeviled me for my entire life. And it's very difficult in my job where I
00:19:23.940 speak for a living and where I smoke cigars for a living, which is my chompers, my teeth,
00:19:29.660 which is why I'm so pleased to be joined by Dr. Callie Hale of Toothpillow. Thank you for having
00:19:35.460 me. Thank you for coming. You're the chief dental officer. I sure am. And the founder of Toothpillow.
00:19:41.560 And we're filming, I should know, we're filming this interview at a very special time because do
00:19:46.340 know when I usually go to the dentist? When? 2.30. I have not heard that one before.
00:19:53.200 Actually, when I saw this schedule pop up on my calendar, I said, this is providential.
00:19:58.080 Literally living it. So I'm curious about it because a lot of people think of
00:20:02.800 dentistry, well, as sort of witchcraft where they just lie to you about how many cavities you have
00:20:07.360 and rip you off. Unfortunately. 0.68
00:20:08.780 Topic for another time. But even like braces and orthodontisture and all that,
00:20:12.080 they think of it as cosmetic.
00:20:15.780 Correct.
00:20:16.240 And there are all these symptoms,
00:20:18.380 like real actual health symptoms that go along
00:20:20.320 if you don't fix your teeth and your jaws and all of that.
00:20:22.580 Absolutely.
00:20:22.900 And I have suffered from almost all of them.
00:20:24.700 I hate to hear that.
00:20:25.860 The grinding, the spacing.
00:20:27.920 I'm such a good orthodontics patient.
00:20:30.040 I wear my retainer every night since eighth grade.
00:20:34.500 You're a perfect patient.
00:20:35.620 Thank you.
00:20:36.680 But they still, the teeth kind of move.
00:20:38.040 But it can cause problems for your sleep.
00:20:40.120 It can cause bone problems.
00:20:41.740 It can cause all sorts of issues.
00:20:42.720 Yes.
00:20:43.000 So what is the pitch in our Maha movement for a tooth pillow?
00:20:47.100 That we have to make sure that our children are breathing and sleeping properly at a very young age.
00:20:51.980 And a lot of people don't correlate that with your jaws or your teeth.
00:20:54.920 And some of the symptoms you talked about, tooth grinding, even bedwetting outside of an appropriate age.
00:20:58.860 I've been generally, you know, maybe a late night at the bar that gets me, but usually I've avoided that one.
00:21:04.520 But yeah, the breathing, the snoring, all that.
00:21:06.780 Yeah, it's everything.
00:21:07.380 And it starts with how is your child's jaw development happening when they're really young?
00:21:11.520 Meaning, how are they eating food?
00:21:12.820 Do they breastfeed long enough?
00:21:14.060 There's all sorts of muscle development that has to happen in order to induce bone growth. 0.98
00:21:18.420 Muscle drives bone growth.
00:21:19.900 This is TMI.
00:21:20.720 I didn't breastfeed.
00:21:21.460 I was bottle fed.
00:21:22.420 I'm going, this is like a psychologist meeting, actually.
00:21:25.500 I'm here to help you.
00:21:26.140 Thank you.
00:21:26.700 Yes.
00:21:27.080 Connect all the dots.
00:21:28.200 My producer, Ben Davies, is a volunteer ambassador for your product.
00:21:32.360 Oh, I know.
00:21:32.980 Before you ever came on a partnership with the show, he told me, he said, oh, I've got
00:21:36.500 my kids on Toothpillow.
00:21:37.680 Like, it's so great.
00:21:38.460 It's a more sort of natural and serious way to deal with these problems.
00:21:42.980 So why hasn't anyone done this before?
00:21:46.080 That is the million-dollar question.
00:21:48.000 And you would think that this technology is new, but it's not.
00:21:50.580 I mean, these appliances in general that we use at ToothPillow have been around for 70-plus years.
00:21:55.420 But you get a little politics involved, you get a little change in the education.
00:21:58.320 And if that is pulled out of orthodontic residency program, you have generations of dentists that come out never hearing about it.
00:22:04.800 And when I went through a very extensive postdoc education
00:22:07.140 in obstructive sleep apnea, I went for adults.
00:22:09.060 I went to help all these adults that I was seeing
00:22:10.520 that had all these issues, snoring, tooth grinding.
00:22:13.240 They were breaking their crowns.
00:22:14.460 We were crowning teeth
00:22:15.720 because they were cracking their teeth.
00:22:16.960 And we're just molar mechanics.
00:22:18.660 We're just fixing the problem. 0.90
00:22:20.280 We're not getting to the root cause of what's going on.
00:22:23.060 And as I went through the education for all the adult stuff
00:22:25.200 and I was like, golly, it's hard when you're older
00:22:27.200 to fix it and deal with it.
00:22:28.820 We can do it.
00:22:29.580 But it's so much easier if you can prevent it
00:22:31.880 from ever happening in the first place.
00:22:33.640 And once I realized that was even possible, learning it from doctors that were older than me and had been doing it decades longer than me, yet I never heard about it one time in my dental school education.
00:22:43.440 I was floored.
00:22:44.200 So why is that?
00:22:45.140 Because I was only 10% joking when I said a lot of dentists seem like sort of charlatans to me.
00:22:50.100 Thank you.
00:22:50.320 You go in, you find 150 cavities.
00:22:52.540 Some guy, I go in, he says, you have all these cavities.
00:22:55.540 I want to fix your teeth.
00:22:56.660 I want to shave one down to do this, that, or the other.
00:22:59.520 And then I go to another dentist.
00:23:01.960 They say, you don't have any cavities.
00:23:03.640 And the, you know, the hygienist says, no, you don't listen to that, you're fine, you don't have to do it.
00:23:07.460 So why is it?
00:23:08.540 Why is it that my heart surgeon I can generally sort of rely on, but...
00:23:13.320 Senior choice.
00:23:14.180 Yeah, right.
00:23:14.900 Yeah, I guess that might be why.
00:23:16.320 But why is it that the kind of technology that you're talking about has been left out of orthodontist education?
00:23:24.180 You know what?
00:23:25.000 I mean, we'd have to go back 40 years and figure out who made that decision to pull it from the education.
00:23:28.840 Because now it's back like a freight train.
00:23:30.840 And 10 years ago, as I was practicing this, man, the rumors, the daggers in my back,
00:23:34.900 the people that were like, what is she doing selling this little mouth guard to patients?
00:23:38.720 Like you would, I mean, I'm sure you can imagine what it was like.
00:23:41.460 And now fast forward, they're taking my education program.
00:23:44.140 They're learning from me, which is great.
00:23:45.460 I'm like, hey, however you get here, you need to get here.
00:23:48.140 But it was, it's really sad the generations of adults that had orthodontics done wrong
00:23:52.240 the first time, myself included, which is part of my passion of fixing it while they're
00:23:55.960 young and growing.
00:23:56.740 It makes so much sense.
00:23:57.640 I talked to somebody yesterday.
00:23:58.500 They said, it makes sense when you think about it.
00:23:59.740 I go, exactly.
00:24:00.600 You're growing.
00:24:01.720 Your bones are developing.
00:24:03.140 Your skull is growing.
00:24:04.400 Your tongue is working.
00:24:05.540 Your muscles.
00:24:06.040 All of that.
00:24:06.580 While you're still literally growing, you can make an impact in kids' jaws and breathing that will last them a lifetime.
00:24:12.820 Now, I had braces as a teenager.
00:24:14.320 They put it on at 12, 13.
00:24:15.760 A boy's head and neck and a girl's head and neck development by 12 and 13 are almost 94% complete.
00:24:20.800 So we wait until the foundation is pretty much solid, and we squeeze teeth into an alignment that looks good.
00:24:27.100 Mom and dad paid for braces.
00:24:28.380 They want straight teeth. 0.52
00:24:28.940 They got straight teeth.
00:24:29.480 not ever realizing that it was going to change the way that child breathed for the rest of their
00:24:34.000 life. They still pull teeth for braces. This is still happening. Really? Oh, absolutely. Your
00:24:39.260 mouth is too small. We need to take teeth out. You know why they didn't start at three or five 1.00
00:24:42.220 or seven. They didn't see you till you were 14 or 13 or 12. And they say, we don't have any way
00:24:47.220 to do it without taking teeth out. That takes up, that takes away so much tongue space. And it's 0.90
00:24:53.160 literally a precursor for sleep disorder, breathing and potentially obstructive sleep
00:24:56.420 that man as an adult. Well, and also what mattered a lot more to me when I was end of middle school,
00:25:01.160 early high school, is that when you get the braces on, it's much harder to impress girls,
00:25:06.140 you know? And then even in the long run, in this, in that very chair, I interviewed one of the great
00:25:11.220 philosophers of our generation, Mr. Clavicular, very famous, who talks about looks maxing and
00:25:17.400 bone smashing and mogging and all the rest of it. And anyway, it's very important to be able to
00:25:21.280 to impress girls. But at a deeper level, let's fear monger a little bit here. What are the
00:25:27.940 problems that people can face other than a mouth that doesn't look good or, you know,
00:25:31.800 you snore a little bit? Yeah. Obstructive sleep apnea is deadly. You can have a heart attack,
00:25:36.100 a stroke. I have had patients die of a stroke sleep apnea. My dental assistant's father passed
00:25:41.160 away at 55 years old, took a nap, woke up, had a heart attack and died. And he had sleep apnea.
00:25:46.340 And we knew this. He wasn't wearing a CPAP. He wasn't being properly monitored. He didn't like
00:25:50.440 a CPAP? Who likes their CPAP? Only a small majority of people. And so when that, when you
00:25:56.280 think about, it's like, I hate to fear monger and I hate to go full blown with that, but I'm telling 0.99
00:25:59.880 you, if your child has orthodontics done wrong as a child, it will plague them for the rest of
00:26:05.040 their life. This is a stupid question. I didn't go to medical school. Why is it that if your teeth 1.00
00:26:09.960 are messed up, you stop breathing when you sleep and die? I actually don't understand the connection.
00:26:15.160 I would love to explain it to you. So your mouth, your breathing complex is from here around,
00:26:19.940 right they call it the nasomaxillary complex all of your air has to come in either through your
00:26:23.160 nose or your mouth it should come in through your nose yeah when you mouth breathe as a developing
00:26:27.640 child you have allergies you're allergic to something whatever food sensitivities
00:26:31.260 underdeveloped urge a tongue tie that went missed whatever it is if you were a mouth
00:26:35.240 and so did i had it fixed when i was 37 yeah yeah if you haven't had it fixed yet that's a
00:26:39.840 whole nother i need to go get my tongue snipped oh 100 oh this is this is like why i don't go to
00:26:44.040 the dentist i can tell you pictures i know right here we go yeah but when you mouth breathe your
00:26:48.840 muscle, your tongue, this massive muscle in your mouth that is responsible for palate expansion
00:26:53.440 sits low. If it's sitting at the bottom of your mouth like this, you will grow in a vertical
00:26:58.820 pattern. Your lower jaw, the mandible, will grow in the direction it's stimulated, which is why the
00:27:04.760 tooth blowers, because we stimulate the lower jaw to grow forward, and that looks maxing. We help
00:27:10.240 the jaw to be held forward, especially when these poor kids have a lower jaw that's way back. You
00:27:13.920 can tell a profile anywhere you look. Everything we're talking about today, I'm so sorry. You'll
00:27:18.120 never be able to unhear it or unsee it in all of your friends. But when that tongue is low,
00:27:22.100 the jaws do not expand and develop. And the roof of your mouth is the floor of your nose.
00:27:26.480 If you want to affect your breathing, you need to widen your palate.
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00:28:55.880 Distributors, LLC. All right, now that I'm prepared to be healthy and to looks max, to have a nice,
00:29:02.760 beautiful smile. Now I'm excited for my favorite time of any show when I get to hear from you in
00:29:07.220 the mailbag. Michael, I'm a 22-year-old stoner fan of yours. Thank you. You talk down on people
00:29:14.160 who smoke weed or you, as you call it, Peruvian parsley or the devil's lettuce. I also call it
00:29:19.240 the California cumin, jazz cigarettes. You know what I'm talking about? The ganj, the old Haitian
00:29:24.920 oregano. Talking about pot. But Alexander writes, many of us live flourishing lives. I attend mass
00:29:32.140 regularly on a six-figure revenue landscaping business. I have a beautiful family. What is
00:29:36.480 the problem with me using some leaves to chill out on the weekends? Thanks for all you do, bro.
00:29:41.340 Okay. Well, there are worse things you can do, I guess, than smoking pot. However, it is bad.
00:29:48.560 And the fact that you say that you're Catholic here gives me at least a way in to help you see 0.52
00:29:53.480 my perspective, which is you say you attend mass regularly. If you're attending mass and you're
00:29:59.700 receiving the Eucharist, and you are regularly smoking pot without repenting of it and confessing
00:30:07.120 your sins and receiving absolution, you are committing a mortal sin. Because you're Catholic, 0.54
00:30:13.820 so you do not have a religious tradition that says that things are kind of ambiguous, man,
00:30:20.220 and it's up to your private judgment. You have a religious tradition that is dogmatic and based
00:30:24.220 on authority, where we can know the answers to these questions, and we don't leave them merely
00:30:28.940 up to our private judgment. And the Catholic church says that it is grave. It's a sin and it
00:30:34.760 is grave to smoke pot recreationally. Now, if you have a medical marijuana prescription, that's a
00:30:40.680 different situation that can be debated. But if you're just doing it recreationally, that is a sin
00:30:45.720 and you should not receive communion according to the Catholic church. So that's the first thing.
00:30:49.740 Now you might say, well, I disagree with the church on that. Okay, maybe you do. But if you're
00:30:54.960 practicing Catholic, that's actually not your right to do, but let's just zoom out a little
00:30:59.560 bit and say, well, why does the church say it's bad? Why do non-Catholics, why do plenty of 1.00
00:31:04.700 non-Catholics object to marijuana? Well, because marijuana affects your mind. It affects your brain,
00:31:12.400 it affects your body, but it affects your mind in ways that are different from how tobacco or
00:31:18.560 alcohol would affect your mind. It's not necessarily a mortal sin to smoke tobacco.
00:31:21.900 it's not necessarily a mortal sin to drink alcohol. The first public miracle that Jesus
00:31:27.300 performs is turning water into wine for people who've been drinking for days. Drunkenness is a
00:31:33.600 sin, but just drinking wine, that's, I mean, it's, for goodness sakes, it's part of the blessed
00:31:38.340 sacrament is consecrating wine. So what are the differences? Well, with alcohol, you can have a
00:31:44.580 drink and, you know, you feel a little more sociable. That's a good effect, actually. It's
00:31:50.040 a social lubricant. We're social creatures. It's good to be in community. You can do that without
00:31:54.460 being drunk, without losing your reason, without clouding your judgment. The same is not really
00:31:59.900 true of marijuana. You can't really smoke pot or eat a gummy or a brownie or something to the point
00:32:06.160 where it's just, you know, like a little, I don't know, it kind of relaxes you in a way, but doesn't
00:32:11.820 actually cloud your judgment. I mean, there are products that derive from marijuana that can do
00:32:16.560 that. CBD, I guess, in principle could do that. But that's not what you're talking about. You're
00:32:21.380 talking about THC. You're talking about pot. So it's different in kind. Also, the effects of it
00:32:27.600 are totally different. If you have a drink, if you have a glass of wine, it makes you a little
00:32:30.960 more sociable. It makes you a little more gregarious. It's conducive to community flourishing.
00:32:34.960 If you smoke pot, in my experience, having sampled the old devil's lettuce once or twice,
00:32:40.800 it doesn't do that. It makes you more introspective. It makes you less sociable.
00:32:43.920 It makes you hungrier.
00:32:45.920 It makes you much less funny.
00:32:48.140 It makes you think things are funnier, but you yourself become less funny.
00:32:50.960 So it has totally contrary, even social effects.
00:32:54.820 You mentioned here that you have a great life.
00:32:57.560 You go to mass, which is good, though again, if you're committing,
00:33:01.380 a mortal sin involves grave matter and a conscious choice.
00:33:06.100 So if you're doing something that is grave with full consent and with full knowledge,
00:33:12.980 that is a mortal sin. And so you have to be, now you're aware of that. I've kind of spoiled it if
00:33:17.960 you didn't know that. But anyway, it's good to go to mass, of course. And you have a successful
00:33:21.700 landscaping business. That's awesome. You're a successful business owner. You have a beautiful
00:33:24.960 family. That's even more awesome. That's great. Yeah, there's all this good stuff in your life.
00:33:29.300 But I am very skeptical that marijuana is helping your life. For a lot of people,
00:33:33.880 booze doesn't help their lives either. But a glass of wine at dinner, that's one thing.
00:33:38.360 A scotch over a cigar with some friends is one thing. A bottle of scotch is something different.
00:33:42.980 And so I'd be skeptical.
00:33:44.460 I guess I would just ask yourself, why?
00:33:47.400 Why are you smoking the old ganj?
00:33:49.820 What's it doing for you?
00:33:51.580 Why are you so defensive of it?
00:33:53.360 I guess I would ask too.
00:33:55.380 Because if you have this kind of rote defense to say,
00:34:00.840 no, no, no, but I have to defend my marijuana smoking,
00:34:04.800 that might even speak to an addiction
00:34:06.480 or at least a kind of disordered view of it.
00:34:08.200 Okay, enough on pot.
00:34:11.080 Next question from Jason Mamiot.
00:34:13.660 Michael, online people have been calling for the deportation of SNECO
00:34:16.500 and the arrest of Hassan Piker.
00:34:19.000 Sentences I never thought I'd read.
00:34:20.540 Many people on the right who are critical of Trump, including Nick Fuentes, 0.84
00:34:23.760 have said all President Trump needs to do to get their support back is deport SNECO.
00:34:29.300 Does Trump have a legal leg to stand on to do either of these things,
00:34:33.060 or is it just hopeless optimism more than that?
00:34:35.460 If it is legal, do you see Trump doing it?
00:34:37.180 Well, it's funny.
00:34:37.920 I mean, you're mentioning here Nick Fuentes and saying, well, he has to win his support back.
00:34:42.980 I don't know that that really matters all that much politically in terms of Trump's actual
00:34:47.520 elections and the elections of Republicans. Electorally, I don't think that's mattered
00:34:50.680 that much. I don't even say that to throw shade. I just mean Trump has bigger fish to fry in
00:34:55.760 maintaining an electoral coalition than that. There's the other question, which is, there are
00:35:00.840 all these people. It's not just Nick Fuentes. Many, many other people coming from many other
00:35:05.300 perspectives who say, you know, I've supported Trump, but he did this one thing that I don't
00:35:09.160 like and I'm out. And I don't know, to me, that is not how politics works. That's not effective.
00:35:15.580 That's not how coalitional politics are supposed to work. And it's a little ungrateful. It's not,
00:35:21.340 you're not really being a team player there. So right off the bat, and that hasn't really
00:35:25.460 worked with Trump. Trump goes very hard on people who flip on him because of one issue or two.
00:35:31.500 I disagree with Trump on a number of issues.
00:35:34.000 I say he has a 99.3% accuracy rate,
00:35:37.940 but nobody's perfect.
00:35:39.060 Nobody gets 100% of the time.
00:35:40.680 And so in the first term,
00:35:41.860 I didn't like the First Step Act.
00:35:43.580 That was a major piece of legislation 1.00
00:35:44.860 and it was a bill that would let
00:35:46.940 some people out of prison.
00:35:47.920 And I thought it was a bad law.
00:35:49.680 Does that mean I'm going to turn on Trump?
00:35:51.360 Does that mean I'm going to support
00:35:52.220 some other guy in the 2020 or 2024 election?
00:35:55.080 No, Trump's great.
00:35:56.020 He's the best president of my lifetime.
00:35:58.880 And so I'm not going to do that.
00:35:59.920 And he was, and therefore, by the way, he was never really at risk of losing my support over
00:36:03.820 it. So then let's get to the substance of your question. Can we deport Sneeko? I don't really
00:36:08.240 know almost anything about Sneeko. I'm skeptical that that's his Christian name. But the question
00:36:13.120 is, is he an American citizen or not? Is he a natural born citizen? Was he naturalized or is
00:36:19.000 he not a citizen? If he's a foreigner and he's not a citizen, then you could deport him. You'd 0.98
00:36:25.740 come up with some reason, but yeah, in principle, you could deport him easily enough. With Hassan 1.00
00:36:29.760 Piker, I know him a little better. And I know that you couldn't deport him because he's an anchor
00:36:34.620 baby. Even though he grew up in Turkey and he hates America and he calls for the murder of
00:36:38.020 senators and all the rest, you can't deport him. That's one of the flaws of our birthright 0.99
00:36:41.960 citizenship program that the Supreme Court unfortunately just upheld. So you can't do,
00:36:45.260 maybe you can deport Siniko. I don't know anything about Siniko. I don't care to know that much about
00:36:48.340 Siniko. But if you can deport him, that'd be great. With Hassan, you can't. Though I think
00:36:53.700 you could possibly prosecute him, and I would strongly encourage that. I know my libertarian
00:37:00.020 friends who just want to endlessly debate things forever. They say, no, we have to invite him to
00:37:03.520 the free marketplace of ideas, but I don't think so. I think he called for the murder of senators.
00:37:07.620 I think he celebrates 9-11. I think his ideology is putrid, and we can know that with certainty 0.81
00:37:12.480 or near certainty, and we should just arrest him for the crimes he's committed, and we should
00:37:16.320 imprison him, and that would be good. So, you know, I would encourage the administration to
00:37:21.280 explore that, the DOJ to explore that if they can. And then for, yeah, the bad people who don't have
00:37:25.960 citizenship, try to get them out if you can. Okay. This is from Kelly Clade. Michael, my boys and I 0.99
00:37:32.940 went to see Spider-Man last night and they're obsessed. There is something about seeing boys,
00:37:36.480 even men, including my husband, staring at a movie screen, watching their favorite superhero
00:37:41.040 that is heartwarming. My question to you is, who's your favorite superhero? Batman. Since I was a boy,
00:37:47.920 I don't pay that much attention to the superhero movies anymore, but I don't like the movies.
00:37:53.760 I try not to go to them, but I'm not opposed to the superhero stories generally because the
00:37:58.580 superhero stories are just modern mythology, and they're not always the best. They're not
00:38:03.360 always the highest forms of the myths. They're not, but they do a lot of the things that the
00:38:07.740 ancient Greek myths and the ancient Greek hero tales did. They do a lot of the things that the
00:38:13.040 medieval stories about knights and crusaders did. The Roman de la Rose or those kinds of books did.
00:38:21.480 So that's just the modern-day version of that. And instead of Hercules and Achilles, we have
00:38:26.340 Iron Man or whatever. But since I was a boy, I've always loved Batman.
00:38:31.880 And I'll psychoanalyze my childhood self. I do wonder if it's because he's not actually a
00:38:38.240 superhero. His only superpower is money. He has a kind of super amount of money. It seems to be
00:38:46.600 endless. He never really seems to be running his company, but he just goes around at night and
00:38:50.520 solves crime. But he doesn't have any magical powers or anything like that. He just is really
00:38:54.200 rich and has technology. So I guess in a way, he's like Iron Man that way. I'm not as familiar
00:38:58.780 with Iron Man. But I like that. Also, because Spider-Man is about New York. It's about a real
00:39:03.720 City. It's about a guy who experienced injustice very up close and personal. First hand, he sees
00:39:13.980 his parents murdered, and then he devotes the rest of his life to enacting justice, albeit as a
00:39:20.060 vigilante, which brings in all sorts of interesting ethical debates. But the story, at least, is that
00:39:25.200 he enacts justice in a world that often mistakes it. So I like that. I do like that.
00:39:33.720 Thank you.