The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2063 - Lindsay Clancy's Husband Finally Breaks His Silence In New Interview

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00:04:22.760 heavenandstoneandglass.com slash group. Democrats are finally trying to distance themselves

00:04:30.080 from Hassan Piker, kind of, sort of. I have said for weeks now, maybe months at this point, I said,

00:04:37.900 keep up the Hassan Piker pressure. The Hassan Piker pressure is great. It is forcing the 0.99

00:04:44.440 Democrats into an impossible situation because Hassan Piker is ballot box poison. On the one

00:04:50.340 hand, he repels anyone who's even remotely normal, but he also perfectly represents the heart of the

00:04:58.960 left-wing coalition and the Democrat Party. So they can't really disavow him, but they also

00:05:03.980 can't embrace him. He's a perfect wedge. I said, keep up the pressure on Hassan Piker.

00:05:09.660 Everyone has been doing that. I'm certainly not the only person, I think, who's concluded that

00:05:14.420 that's a great tactic. And the Democrats are finally, after months of squirming,

00:05:18.780 they're finally responding. They are doing their very best to wriggle out of their Piker problem. 1.00

00:05:26.440 Said that America is the top dog in terrorism. Yes. Do you think America then is worse than 1.00

00:05:32.480 al-qaeda pound for pound as far as the number of deaths yes we have caused tremendous terror all

00:05:39.380 around the world hassan piker told axios that america is pound for pound worse than al-qaeda

00:05:45.720 i mean he's wrong he's been on the camp he's wrong senator hassan piker just told axios that

00:05:50.860 he thinks the united states is pound for pound worse than al-qaeda do democrats especially

00:05:56.180 Abdul El-Sayed need to do more to distance themselves from him?

00:05:59.400 I don't know this guy, but obviously that's a sentence that makes no sense.

00:06:04.560 How? How? Turkish men speak with forked tongue. I'm interpreting Elizabeth Warren into her native

00:06:12.560 language, of course. But you can see she laughs. She dismisses. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. You know

00:06:19.820 underneath that facade, there is a real anxiety there. And it's this anxiety of the whole Democrat

00:06:24.140 party, which is, shoot, I cannot be seen to agree with this person. But I can't totally

00:06:31.840 diss this person because this person represents a huge part of the Democrat base. He's the most

00:06:36.880 popular left-wing streamer. He is the closest thing that the Democrats have to a thought leader

00:06:40.560 right now. So what does Elizabeth Warren do? She just kind of minimizes him. Oh, I don't know that 0.99

00:06:46.580 person. You don't know that person? Really? You don't know about Hassan Piker? Because he's all

00:06:52.400 anybody's been asking you about for weeks now. Oh, but that sentence, that statement,

00:06:57.260 it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. What was the statement? The statement

00:07:01.800 was, America's worse than Al-Qaeda. America deserves 9-11. It's all the kind of violent 0.71

00:07:07.980 anti-American rhetoric that you've been hearing from Piker in really explicit, evocative terms.

00:07:13.120 But you've heard the same kind of anti-American rhetoric from every mainstream Democrat,

00:07:17.160 right down to Barack Obama saying, I want to fundamentally transform this country.

00:07:20.340 When you say I want to fundamentally transform the country, your implication is the country is terrible.

00:07:25.220 This is an awful country.

00:07:26.440 That's why you got to change it. 0.98

00:07:28.280 All these leftists who say America was founded in oppression, in slavery, in patriarchy, in white supremacy.

00:07:36.000 There's structural racism.

00:07:37.700 There's systemic oppression even to this day.

00:07:39.660 They're all saying exactly the same thing as Hassan Piker.

00:07:42.620 Hassan Piker, to his credit, just has the honesty to go all the way and say, yeah, America deserves 9-11. 0.64

00:07:48.740 We're worse than Al-Qaeda. 1.00

00:07:49.620 I wipe myself with the American flag, and we should kill the Republicans. 1.00

00:07:54.220 That is implied by all the mainstream Democrat politicians. 0.99

00:07:57.680 When you actually get down to principle, there's no disagreement between them.

00:08:01.380 It's just a difference in degree.

00:08:02.820 It's a difference in the provocation of the rhetoric. 0.99

00:08:05.180 Representative Debbie Dingell, what a name, from Michigan. 1.00

00:08:08.520 Michigan, a real hotspot here because there's this highly contested Senate race with Abdul

00:08:14.560 El-Sayed versus Mike Rogers, one where Abdul El-Sayed begged Hassan Piker to campaign with

00:08:20.600 him before that became politically inconvenient. Debbie Dingle in Michigan saying, whoa, whoa,

00:08:25.220 whoa. Can we please knock it off with the Piker questions? 0.99

00:08:30.060 OK, I want to say this at this point. I'm so sick of talking about Hassan Piker,

00:08:34.400 and I want Hassan Piker to go away. I don't know why he had to do that interview.

00:08:39.140 Everything he said in that interview is deep. Look, the bombing of the school in Iran was

00:08:43.460 horrific we shouldn't be in the war in iran we continue to vote for it this election is about

00:08:48.900 the adult lc had not have son piker i want i what he has said i think israel has got a right to

00:08:55.060 insist quite frankly the things he has said about women are horrific i don't understand i keep

00:09:00.720 telling people someone explained to me why he has so many followers but he is not if he wants to see

00:09:06.380 abdullah lcad elected stop going on television abdul has got to make it clear that he does not

00:09:12.820 agree with the things that he has said. Has he made that clear? I don't think so. Have you made

00:09:17.540 that clear either? I don't think so. So she gets this question. And what does she say? She goes,

00:09:22.060 I'm so sick of talking about Hassan Piker. Stop asking me about Hassan Piker. Stop it.

00:09:31.040 So she's saying, this is very inconvenient for me. She's very defensive on this. Why is she so

00:09:34.900 defensive? If someone came up to me and said, Michael, David Duke said such and such and such,

00:09:39.680 how do you respond to say i don't care what david duke says david duke doesn't represent me what do

00:09:44.140 i care what he says i'm not going to get defensive i'm not going to get my blood up i'm not going to

00:09:48.680 spike my cortisol as mr clavecular would observe i say oh yeah well i don't know whatever he said

00:09:53.520 i don't care go talk to him the reason she's getting defensive is because she knows that

00:09:57.700 hassan piker is the de facto leader of the democrat party that hassan piker is the thought

00:10:02.020 leader of the american left and she admits it by the way in the same breath she says the things

00:10:06.880 the things that Hassan Piker said are so horribly, I mean, I guess he has a point on the bombing in

00:10:11.680 Iran. She can't even get the sentence out. She says, oh, this Hassan Piker, I want nothing to

00:10:17.480 do with him. I don't agree with him about it. I mean, actually, I do kind of agree with him.

00:10:20.780 You know, he actually makes a pretty good point. But hold on. Sorry. I didn't mean to say that.

00:10:24.500 No, no, no, no, no. We need to. He needs to stop talking because why? Because this election is

00:10:30.580 about Abdul El-Sayed, not Hassan Piker. Oh, yeah. Well, five minutes ago, Abdul El-Sayed

00:10:34.560 begged Hassan Piker to come campaign with him. Hassan Piker has appeared with Abdul El-Sayed

00:10:39.540 multiple times. So if you say it's about Abdul Sayed, okay, great. I have a question about Abdul

00:10:45.020 Sayed. Why is he begging Hassan Piker to campaign with him? It's not just Abdul Sayed. It's Zoran

00:10:50.060 Mamdani. It's AOC. It's Rashida Tlaib. It's Ilhan Omar. It's Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna, who's a very 0.67

00:10:56.220 mainstream Democrat. The list goes on and on and on. We're talking about dozens of prominent

00:11:01.200 Democrat politicians. So you can't just say it's some fringe guy on the left. And then she realizes,

00:11:06.580 shoot, I meant to attack his rhetoric, Hassan Piker's, and then I accidentally found myself

00:11:12.500 agreeing with his rhetoric in the same breath, on the same point. Hassan Piker says, America's 0.50

00:11:17.580 worse than Al-Qaeda because America bombed a school in Iran. Now, America didn't target the

00:11:23.380 school in Iran. America didn't target civilians. Terrorism is when you target civilians to achieve

00:11:27.340 a political end, which is what al-Qaeda explicitly does. What America did in Iran and what every

00:11:32.240 country does in every war is sometimes they accidentally kill civilians when they're

00:11:36.820 targeting militants. It's very sad, but it's totally different from terrorism.

00:11:40.360 Not according to Debbie Dingell, not according to the Democrats. She goes, no, no, no. That

00:11:44.060 specific point that Hassan Piker made, it's so offensive. I mean, he's kind of right, but

00:11:48.040 I mean, it's about Abdul Syed who loves Hassan Piker. I mean, and she realizes she has to 0.61

00:11:54.340 criticize some of his actual rhetoric. So what does she do? Does she say, it's awful that he

00:11:58.460 says he wipes himself with the American flag. Does she say, it's awful that he says we should

00:12:03.160 murder Republican senators. It's awful that he personally fantasized about murdering Charlie 0.97

00:12:07.840 Kirk before one of his fellow travelers actually did it. No, she doesn't say any of that. You know

00:12:11.940 what she says? She goes, he's not feminist enough. Seriously? Seriously? That's your criticism?

00:12:19.220 that's that's oh the things he's said about women no hold on yeah okay he said bad things

00:12:24.740 about women he tortured his dog he's done a lot of bad things i'm more interested in what he's

00:12:29.380 said about america and you seem to agree with what he's said about america in this very interview

00:12:36.240 lady oh yeah i mean yeah i mean i think yeah israel has a right to exist

00:12:42.200 in other words her criticism of his rhetoric is he's a little bit too genocide-y

00:12:48.520 a little a little touch heavy on the genocide rhetoric and he's not sufficiently feminist but

00:12:55.720 really i just wish he would go away because he's inconvenient the democrats opposition to piker

00:13:00.600 right now is purely tactical what how does she conclude this whole diatribe she says if he wants

00:13:07.920 to see abdul al-sayed elected to the senate he needs to shut his trap not ultimately by the end

00:13:14.040 of this interview, she's not really saying I disagree with Hassan Piker. She's not persuasively

00:13:18.800 saying that. She's not really saying that he's wrong. She's not really saying that Abdul al-Sayed

00:13:23.860 disagrees with him. She's trying to say that, but it's not persuasive because we know that

00:13:28.320 Abdul al-Sayed does agree with Hassan Piker. He's said it many times. What she says is he needs to

00:13:33.800 shut his trap because otherwise voters are going to figure out what we really think and then Abdul

00:13:38.240 is going to lose. It's purely a tactical frustration, which means the Republicans

00:13:43.220 must, must keep up the struggling. Okay, speaking of speaking out, the holdout juror in the Lindsay

00:13:50.200 Clancy case is finally speaking out after weeks of reporting on his identity, after he was doxed,

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00:15:19.580 Michael P. Desronville, 48 years old. He is the lone juror who told those crazy ladies that they

00:15:26.160 couldn't let Lindsey Clancy off the hook. We've heard all sorts of things about him. They find

00:15:30.280 out he's a man. The women went nuts over that. Then they found out he's a black man that really 0.98

00:15:34.900 irritated the libs, that anchor on CBS. She was shocked. She was horrified. She was puking and 0.99

00:15:40.280 screaming when she found out. She says, wait, hold on. You're telling me the holdout juror was a

00:15:44.200 black man? Hold on. Wow. Wait, I have to sit with that for a second. Then we find out he's

00:15:51.180 apparently a devout Catholic. He's a Haitian immigrant. It's kind of funny that it also

00:15:54.720 confounds the left and the right's reaction to this thing. Anyway, Michael Desronville

00:15:59.120 is responding to specific accusations. One of them was, and you saw this in some of the

00:16:04.740 reporting coming from the female jurors, that he's just a dumb idiot. He's just a stupid black 1.00

00:16:08.800 man who didn't understand the instructions from the judge. That was the accusation that was made 1.00

00:16:13.320 against him. The judge said that he had to believe that she was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,

00:16:19.280 and he expressed to us that he had reasonable doubts about her guilt, but he voted guilty 1.00

00:16:24.140 anyway, this dumb guy, this dumb man, black man with his religion, ignoring the law and 1.00

00:16:32.340 the instructions. Well, he just responded to that. He said, they're just making that up. 1.00

00:16:36.520 He said in an interview with News Nation, I did not have any doubts. As I tried to explain

00:16:43.600 different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based

00:16:49.360 on the evidence present. I love his explanation. He goes, yeah, it's so weird. I was in this room

00:16:54.120 filled with 10 crazy women, 10 like particularly insane women. And as I tried to speak, they kept 1.00

00:17:01.160 cutting me off. Isn't that so strange? It's shocking, right? Based on all the physical

00:17:06.460 evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was proof enough that she,

00:17:12.080 Lindsay Clancy, knew exactly what she was doing and planned. In other words, he followed the

00:17:17.900 judge's instructions to a T. His female jurors, by the way, did not. His female jurors, when they

00:17:23.060 were haranguing him when they were trying to struggle session Michael Desronville, they were 0.95

00:17:27.140 violating the judge's instructions. They were violating jury procedure. They were bringing in

00:17:32.900 supposed evidence from nurses, for instance, who were on the jury that was not presented in the

00:17:37.600 court. You're not allowed to consider that when you're deliberating as a juror. So they were the

00:17:41.000 ones who were breaking the judge's instructions. They were the ones who were violating the

00:17:44.300 procedures, not this guy, this lone guy who stood up against these lunatics in favor of justice.

00:17:51.060 really really good stuff in a world of lindsey clancy's we want we all endeavor to be that

00:17:58.700 catholic haitian black guy we should all that is something to aim for really good stuff i'm i'm

00:18:05.760 almost ready to call for him to receive the presidential medal of freedom really good stuff 0.85

00:18:09.800 and i'm glad he can clear the record as their people are really really attacking his character

00:18:13.080 now speaking of the clancy case shocking stuff patrick clancy the husband of lindsey clancy

00:18:19.500 is speaking out now. This is a guy who has endured basically the worst thing you can possibly imagine.

00:18:25.780 Maybe the single worst thing you can possibly even fathom. He is sitting down on 60 Minutes

00:18:31.280 with Ross Douthat. The interview is not out yet. I guess it'll come out this Sunday.

00:18:35.520 Ross, who was the conservative at the New York Times and a very thoughtful conservative columnist,

00:18:40.360 Ross left the New York Times to take this gig at 60 Minutes. And so this is the revamping,

00:18:45.660 the big launch and the big launch is with Patrick Clancy. They've released little 10 second snippets

00:18:50.540 of the interview. Here's the one that's going most viral. I talked to them. What do you say?

00:18:57.820 Help me all the time. Who is them here? Them is his children. Ross is asking, you know,

00:19:09.920 tell me about how you think about your kids now after they were brutally murdered by

00:19:14.920 their mother and he says I talk to them all the time now this is a coping mechanism that a lot

00:19:22.700 of people do when a loved one dies is they they were talking to these people and then

00:19:28.140 when they're gone whether you talk about your mother or your grandmother or especially your

00:19:32.240 little kids they're gone suddenly unexpectedly and it's very natural to keep trying to talk to

00:19:37.140 them. He says, I talk to them all the time. What do you say? This is the part that is most

00:19:44.700 illuminating. He says, I ask them to help me. So there are two reactions to this online. One of

00:19:51.760 them is this poor guy. The good reaction online is this poor guy. This guy has clearly been through

00:19:57.940 about the worst trauma you can imagine. He clearly is showing signs of PTSD and he's coping any way

00:20:04.340 he can. You know the other reaction online? The other reaction online is, oh, he's not reacting

00:20:09.820 the way I want him to react. He's a sociopath. Maybe he did it. This is an argument that some 0.99

00:20:15.700 of Lindsey Clancy's insane supporters have been promoting, even though Lindsey Clancy herself

00:20:19.780 does not promote that, even though Lindsey Clancy's lawyer does not promote that. Lindsey Clancy and

00:20:23.880 Lindsey Clancy's lawyer both admit she murdered those children, but some of her insane supporters

00:20:27.880 among the SSRI set of the lunatic ladies on the internet, they're saying, no, no, no, Lindsey,

00:20:32.800 No, no, you don't know. You don't understand what happened. It was actually the husband. 0.91

00:20:36.020 So you are seeing a deluge of vicious attacks on Patrick Clancy. He's not grieving in the right

00:20:43.240 way. He's not grieving the way that I would expect him to grieve. He's not grieving in a way that I

00:20:48.400 approve of. It's the same sort of thing you see on the internet with Erica Kirk after the murder

00:20:52.580 of her husband that you see with a lot of people that reveal something personal, that give a lot

00:20:59.920 of vulnerability, and that is always exploited on the internet. One tactical point that I would make

00:21:05.780 is in as much as it is possible, with big public events, sometimes it's not possible,

00:21:10.320 but in as much as it is not possible, I'm very much of the old school. We live in a very

00:21:15.480 confessional age. We live in an age where everything that was once private is now being

00:21:20.700 made public. Mothers are filming, giving breakfast to their kids all the time. They're turning their

00:21:25.700 private home life into some kind of reality TV show on Instagram. People, men are crying in

00:21:31.580 public. People just reveal a lot about themselves. They make personal confessions to everybody. They

00:21:39.540 do it in public. I think that's a bad idea. I'm of the old school. I am of the Tony Soprano ilk.

00:21:45.800 Whatever happened to guys like Gary Cooper? I think that you need to keep a lot of these

00:21:50.540 things to yourself. In a case like Lindsey Clancy or Erica Kirk or any of these big public murder

00:21:59.880 cases, you're public figures, so you're kind of limited with what you can do. But for the people

00:22:05.600 who are private, the reactions to these cases, to a grieving widow or to a grieving father in this

00:22:15.160 case, the reactions of people online reveal, one, that the imagination of man's heart is evil from

00:22:21.260 his very youth, as I'm not the first to observe it. But two, there's a great deal of power in

00:22:28.180 playing things a little closer to the best. I think that's tactically just a better idea in

00:22:34.640 as much as you can, because people will tear apart anyone online, including a guy like Patrick

00:22:39.660 Clancy, who is just one of the most victimized people you've ever seen in your life. But before

00:22:46.040 we move on from him, I do want to get to the theological point. Because those are the two

00:22:49.260 reactions. Oh, this poor guy, he's coping. He's imagining himself talking to his kids.

00:22:53.200 That's kind of, he's asking them for help. That's kind of weird. Or he's a vicious sociopath and

00:22:58.800 I'm team Lindsay and we need to free the woman who killed her children. There is a third observation 0.52

00:23:05.100 here though, which is that what Patrick Clancy is saying specifically is perfectly in keeping

00:23:13.600 with the Christian tradition. This is a profound theological insight. As far as I can tell from

00:23:19.820 the reporting, Patrick Clancy's kids were baptized. This is the one consolation in the whole case.

00:23:27.960 They were baptized and they were below the age of reason. So according to traditional Christian 1.00

00:23:33.680 teaching, those kids are in heaven. We can know with certainty that they are in heaven because

00:23:39.660 the stain of original sin was washed away in the waters of baptism and they were not yet old enough

00:23:45.540 to incur personal sin because a three-year-old can't incur personal sin because a three-year-old

00:23:50.900 does not have sufficiently developed faculties of reason and discipline. So the traditional

00:23:57.060 Christian teaching, I know people's mileage may vary here with their own theological views,

00:24:03.680 But the traditional teaching, the teaching that is still held by the Catholic Church and by the Eastern Orthodox Church and by the more traditional forms of Protestantism, is that we're born with original sin.

00:24:16.340 Baptism washes that away.

00:24:18.140 We can't know with certainty where adults go when they die, whether they are damned or whether they receive eternal glory.

00:24:24.940 That's up to God.

00:24:25.660 Only God judges.

00:24:28.620 We can know, I guess, in certain limited cases of the canonized saints.

00:24:31.680 and there's a period of purgation, which comes from Paul's letter to the Corinthians and the

00:24:38.760 fires of purgatory and whatever. We don't need to get into some deep theological conversation

00:24:43.200 about all of those different disagreements. At the very basic level, however, Christians have

00:24:49.080 agreed basically unanimously for all of history that little kids who die after baptism before the 0.87

00:24:56.200 age of reason, they go straight up to heaven. And the other thing that Christians have agreed about 0.95

00:25:00.360 but for basically all of history, 0.55

00:25:01.920 and it's basically all of the Christians,

00:25:03.600 is that we can pray to the saints and ask for their help.

00:25:07.320 That in the book of the apocalypse,

00:25:08.840 in the book of Revelation,

00:25:09.800 the saints are holding buckets,

00:25:11.200 and the buckets are filled with the prayers of the saints.

00:25:13.540 But who are the saints praying for?

00:25:15.080 They're not praying for the people in heaven.

00:25:16.760 They're already in eternal glory.

00:25:18.160 They're not praying for the damned in hell. 0.95

00:25:20.100 The damned in hell have no hope of getting out. 0.98

00:25:23.220 They're praying for us. 0.99

00:25:25.420 And so when Patrick Clancy comes out and he says,

00:25:27.680 I talk to my kids all the time,

00:25:30.360 and I ask for their help. The Christian views this not just as a coping mechanism.

00:25:37.880 The Christian views this as a profound and accurate theological insight. That is exactly

00:25:44.140 what he should do. He shouldn't even pray to help them. If he's a Christian, he believes that

00:25:50.080 they're in heaven. They're not even in purgatory. They're in heaven. As saints in heaven, we can

00:25:56.460 call on the communion of saints to pray for us. What he's doing, it's a profound statement of

00:26:02.440 faith, really beautiful stuff. Your heart just breaks for the guy. So we should all pray for

00:26:07.440 Patrick Clancy. And I at least, believing in the more traditional Christian view of these things, 0.58

00:26:14.380 I certainly believe that we can pray to the kids as well and ask for their prayers for him and for

00:26:19.840 all of us. Okay. Now, speaking of kids, the New Yorker has some real rage made out. They've made

00:26:26.620 some big new discovery. Turns out that pregnancy tests are misleading because there is no binary

00:26:34.340 between the state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. They're saying there's Schrodinger's

00:26:40.220 baby, according to the New Yorker. We'll get into this novel science. First, though, speaking of

00:26:45.460 the saints, I want to tell you about Hallow. There's a lot more to say. First, though, go to

00:26:48.520 hallow.com slash Knowles. Most people have a system for practically everything in their lives.

00:26:52.940 The alarm goes off at a certain time. Coffee happens at a certain time. Workouts get scheduled.

00:26:57.320 Meetings go on the calendar. We even get reminders from our phones telling us when to stand up.

00:27:01.760 Then prayer somehow is relegated to I'll find the time. It happens to me sometimes. I try to

00:27:06.900 say my daily prayers, basically the same ones every single day. And then I'm diligent about it

00:27:13.220 mostly because I know that my life goes off the rails when I don't say my daily prayers.

00:27:17.240 And still, even I, sometimes it's 10 o'clock at night on a Saturday.

00:27:20.880 I say, oh, I haven't said my prayers yet today.

00:27:22.600 It's very frustrating.

00:27:23.800 Don't let that be you.

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00:27:59.220 I wake up today.

00:28:01.640 Sometimes I joke with my wife, you know, five seconds before I go on there.

00:28:04.720 I say, hey, so what should I do my show on?

00:28:06.760 Hey, what should I, you know, even though I should have written my show already,

00:28:09.420 but I said, what should I do my show on?

00:28:10.340 And today, sweet little Lisa, she preempts me.

00:28:13.200 I wake up.

00:28:13.680 She goes, I got something for you.

00:28:15.000 Read this New Yorker post. New Yorker. Pregnancy tests draw a misleading, somewhat arbitrary binary

00:28:22.540 between the state of being pregnant and not being pregnant. You can be kind of pregnant,

00:28:28.520 a little bit pregnant, or almost pregnant, or maybe pregnant, and still test positive for

00:28:33.640 pregnancy. Pregnancy tests, particularly at-home urine tests, capture a moment in time at which

00:28:40.260 an embryo has implanted and is interfacing with the uterus in some way. We define how we understand

00:28:46.000 the beginning of pregnancy based on this snapshot, but such a freeze frame contains

00:28:49.940 limited information. Apoorva Tadapali writes, read more about the difficult task of determining

00:28:56.780 when pregnancy actually begins. Click the link, and then you click the link,

00:29:00.940 and it immediately asks you to subscribe before you can read anything.

00:29:04.800 Just before you, I know that your blood is getting up. I know that your cortisol is spiking.

00:29:10.260 to, once again, reference our friend Clavicular. I know you're thinking all of that.

00:29:16.960 That's bait. You know that's bait, right? We're talking at the top of the show about tactics.

00:29:22.020 That is a tactic. What they wrote is total nonsense. You can be kind of pregnant. Of 0.52

00:29:30.520 course you cannot. Pregnancy begins when the sperm meets the egg and a new biological creature 0.96

00:29:40.240 is formed that is distinct from the sperm and the egg and distinct from the mother and the father

00:29:46.440 that is genetically and embryologically fully human, but is not synonymous with the humanity

00:29:54.820 of the mother or the father. That's when it begins. There is no liminal space. There is no

00:30:01.320 middle ground. In fact, if you looked at it under a very, very small microscope, you would see a

00:30:07.560 flash of light when life begins. It's that distinct. It's that binary. There is no Schrodinger's

00:30:14.420 baby. You cannot be kind of pregnant. She says, you can be a little bit pregnant. You can't be 1.00

00:30:18.880 a little bit pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not. You can be almost pregnant. 0.99

00:30:22.540 That is also not true. Even if you took a snapshot one millisecond before the sperm meets the egg,

00:30:29.240 you are not almost pregnant because the sperm might fail. Couples who deal with infertility

00:30:33.980 know this all the time. There's no almost pregnant. You're pregnant or you're not. 0.95

00:30:37.560 You could be maybe pregnant.

00:30:38.760 I guess that's true, but that's not a reflection on the nature of the pregnancy.

00:30:42.560 That's a reflection on the nature of your intellect.

00:30:45.780 You don't know whether or not you are pregnant. 0.98

00:30:48.500 But you are or you are not.

00:30:50.540 And you can still test positive for pregnancy.

00:30:52.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:53.580 Read about the difficult task of determining when pregnancy actually begins. 0.93

00:30:56.540 That's just rage bait.

00:30:58.980 No one at the New Yorker is making a serious statement about pregnancy

00:31:02.460 or about abortion or about the pro-life movement.

00:31:06.260 No one here is making a good faith argument.

00:31:08.360 None of that.

00:31:09.040 This is simply a business tactic to get you angry and talking about it.

00:31:13.680 It worked.

00:31:14.200 I'm talking about it.

00:31:15.120 And to get you to give them $5.99 a month or whatever it costs to subscribe to The New Yorker.

00:31:19.580 That's all that is.

00:31:21.180 And I mention it, one, to clear the air because people are talking about it because the tactic worked.

00:31:27.100 But two, because you have only so many days on earth.

00:31:31.840 You have things that you were called to do.

00:31:33.800 You have responsibilities that you have to look after and you have people that you have to care

00:31:38.200 for. And one day you will die. And you cannot allow yourself. I urge you not to allow yourself

00:31:43.120 to be distracted by taking the bait every single time. That's pure bait. We don't have to engage

00:31:49.360 with it. You can, in fact, ignore the New Yorker. I know that I did not ignore the New Yorker,

00:31:53.260 but I was doing it for a greater purpose, to show you. We're talking all about tactics today.

00:31:57.360 That's one of them. Okay. Speaking of rage, rage baiting and rage itself. Have you heard,

00:32:04.840 I wasn't even going to cover it because I don't really care about it, but it's a big,

00:32:08.080 big news story. Ed Sheeran, a very talented singer, songwriter, and a guy who married

00:32:13.200 his high school sweetheart, or at least a girl he was friends with in high school.

00:32:15.760 That's a really sweet story, especially given the absolute decadence and debauchery of Hollywood

00:32:20.800 one of the music industry. Ed Sheeran invites this guy Macklemore onto his tour. I could not

00:32:27.260 pick Macklemore out of a lineup. I could not tell you a single Macklemore song. I've heard the name

00:32:31.120 before. He's some popular guy, I guess. Ed Sheeran invites Macklemore onto his tour. Ed Sheeran

00:32:37.140 builds up this whole tour. He says, hey, if you want to come on this tour, you can come on this

00:32:39.800 tour. And what does Macklemore do? He immediately makes the tour all about his own political views.

00:32:46.960 Ed Sheeran assiduously attempts to avoid talking about politics.

00:32:50.660 He's just an entertainer.

00:32:52.460 Like Michael Jordan, he says, Republicans buy sneakers too.

00:32:55.380 I don't want to get involved in controversial political issues.

00:32:58.160 Macklemore comes out, he goes, free Palestine, you know, down with Israel, free Palestine.

00:33:02.900 And it's now become so political that some of the tour venues and managers,

00:33:08.480 they called on Ed Sheeran to kick Macklemore off the tour.

00:33:11.460 Ed Sheeran did kick Macklemore off the tour.

00:33:13.000 Now TMZ is asking AOC about it, and AOC feels passionately about the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore controversy.

00:33:20.860 Hey, if Ed Sheeran comes on the radio while you're driving along, are you changing the channels?

00:33:26.580 I am.

00:33:27.240 You are?

00:33:27.800 Yeah, I am.

00:33:28.680 Why is that?

00:33:29.580 I think that what we've seen, especially, it's not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup,

00:33:41.280 but when you see what Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech in that one

00:33:49.920 specific way, it's become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists,

00:33:57.760 but this is about how just a handful of stadium owners and the elite can prevent an entire massive

00:34:07.680 um issue in this case the genocide in gaza but it doesn't stop there it could be speaking out

00:34:14.400 about ai it could be speaking out about any issue that you can now just get a handful of stadium

00:34:20.720 owners to ensure that an entire person's career can be jeopardized if they speak out about any

00:34:27.600 issue the supporting acts have dropped out but ed sheeran i think will still continue with the tour

00:34:32.720 um do you what do you think his responsibility is in all of this um you know i i i don't know

00:34:40.000 um but you know i think that because you never see these contracts and sometimes i have no idea

00:34:47.860 what the financial entanglements of that of all that is but i do think that um you know i think

00:34:54.340 that the right thing to do is to speak out about it and i think okay all right so you get her point

00:34:58.800 You've got to speak out. I don't know all the story, but you've got to speak out.

00:35:03.220 This was really about the stadium owners and a small group of people shutting down

00:35:07.960 political speech. Can I just say, she's kind of right. Hold on. She's not right,

00:35:15.520 but she makes at least one good point. There was no popular uproar over Macklemore being on the

00:35:23.580 tour. There was no popular blowback against Ed Sheeran from the audience, from the fans,

00:35:28.760 because Macklemore is super pro-Palestine and anti-Israel or whatever. I think he is that.

00:35:34.180 I don't know. I haven't even looked into his views that closely, but that's what I gather

00:35:37.240 from the reporting. There was no popular uproar. It was a very, very small group of powerful people

00:35:42.900 in the music industry who shut down Macklemore. That's true. She's right about that. She's right.

00:35:47.960 And she says, this is a grave, terrible threat.

00:35:52.500 One way I know that there was no popular uproar

00:35:54.620 is that since February of this year,

00:35:56.200 for the first time ever in my lifetime,

00:35:58.680 the pro-Palestine movement is more popular

00:36:00.740 with the American public than the pro-Israel movement.

00:36:04.420 This is weird.

00:36:05.100 And it was, I think, Gallup polling.

00:36:06.440 In the Middle East situation,

00:36:07.320 are your sympathies more with the Israelis

00:36:08.420 or more with the Palestinians?

00:36:09.680 For the first time ever, at least in recent memory,

00:36:13.720 this poll goes all the way back to 2002,

00:36:15.720 too. Just in February of this year, America flips more pro-Palestine than pro-Israel,

00:36:23.120 41 to 36. The rest of the people don't have an opinion or don't care. So she's right. It's not

00:36:28.820 about a popular upward. However, first of all, 41 to 36, that's pretty tight. Okay, so that means

00:36:34.720 there are a lot of people who are quite pro-Israel, who are quite anti-Palestine. Even if more people

00:36:40.020 are pro-Palestine, that's a controversial issue for a music venue. That's true. And even if it's

00:36:45.000 true that a small number of people shut down this political speech. I don't seem to recall AOC

00:36:48.900 having a trouble with that before. You remember going back, I don't know, at least 10 years now,

00:36:54.460 really going back like 50 or 60 years. You remember when a very small group of people

00:36:57.980 controlled the establishment media, TV news media, Hollywood, the new media, Facebook,

00:37:05.560 YouTube, all that, and they shut down conservative speech all the time? I remember that because I was

00:37:09.660 part of that because I was one of the people who was censored. Do you remember? You don't even have

00:37:14.180 to go back that far. You remember during COVID when a very small group of people who controlled

00:37:18.340 YouTube and Facebook and at one point Twitter, when they censored conservatives for saying,

00:37:24.800 hey, maybe this vaccine doesn't work that well. Hey, maybe putting a hanky on our face won't

00:37:29.780 stop people from getting the flu. Hey, maybe we shouldn't shut down the entire world over a

00:37:34.400 sniffle. Remember that and people lost their lives? Remember when people raised questions

00:37:38.380 about all of the changes to the electoral system around the 2020 election and they got all of their

00:37:42.720 social media accounts nuked, not because of a popular uprising, but because of the powerful

00:37:46.280 control of a small group of people. I don't remember AOC speaking up then. She's just

00:37:50.540 irritated because she hates Israel and she loves Palestine or whatever. So now that this is her

00:37:55.280 hobby horse political issue, now it's a big deal. And furthermore, beyond all of this,

00:37:59.380 you say you're setting down political speech. Good. I want political speech shut down at my

00:38:05.360 concerts. Ed Sheeran, whose concert it is, wanted political speech shut down. Not because he's

00:38:11.960 super left-wing or super right-wing, but because he realizes that is not what concerts are for.

00:38:17.240 Concerts are for entertainment. Johnny Carson was a huge lib. He was like a huge lib.

00:38:23.380 But Johnny Carson realized that if he was pontificating about his politics every night,

00:38:29.240 people would tune him out. So he kept his mouth shut on politics, and he's the most popular

00:38:32.420 television late-night host that's ever existed. Elvis Presley, he had political views. He was

00:38:39.360 asked about them all the time. He said, I prefer to keep them to myself. I'm an entertainer.

00:38:42.660 Dolly Parton said the same thing. Even the Beatles, who were obviously kind of lib,

00:38:46.200 but even the Beatles on politics basically kept their mouths shut because they said that's not

00:38:49.880 what this is for. Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player ever, he said Republicans wear

00:38:54.600 sneakers too. Macklemore is entirely in the wrong here. AOC is entirely hypocritical here.

00:39:02.140 Ed Sheeran is the victim, and this is what he gets for trying to help out a friend.

00:39:06.040 totally outrageous aoc kind of has a point but she never applies that point to her own side to 0.84

00:39:13.400 her own side's violations and she totally misunderstands the purpose of entertainment

00:39:17.620 okay i have so much more to get to i have so much more to get to abdul al-sayed admitting that the

00:39:23.200 affordability thing is a complete joke cnn great news on cnn about how nearly half of michiganers 0.81

00:39:31.140 say they won't elect a muslim president maybe because they saw run hide fight infidels on 0.84

00:39:34.680 dailywire.com. My favorite comment yesterday, there were three. There were three. I had to do 1.00

00:39:40.520 three because they were all too good. Regarding that man, the white guy in New York who looked

00:39:46.640 like Shaggy, who tried to do an ISIS attack, this is from Overtost, says, zoink, Scoob, 0.78

00:39:52.160 like glory to Allah and like blessed be the prophet Muhammad. From the Drummer's Workshop,

00:39:58.740 Norm's Music, he was promised 72 Scooby snacks in heaven. And from X,

00:40:04.160 s hallier solid at 1194 this one doesn't relate to the scooby-doo thing this is more to the point

00:40:11.540 on uh the difference between the left and the right he sums it up very well he says conservatives we

00:40:15.800 might hate each other but we absolutely love our country that's so true you put it very you put it

00:40:19.960 better than i could that's true the left they all agree with each other the only times they get

00:40:25.300 frustrated with each other is when some of them are being too honest like a son piker right now

00:40:28.800 But they all basically agree, and they, to varying degrees, hate the country.

00:40:34.000 They either think it's a terrible country with an original sin and with a lot of oppression that we need to fix and fundamentally transform,

00:40:39.600 or they think America deserves 9-11 and we're worse terrorists than Al-Qaeda.

00:40:43.320 But that's the left.

00:40:44.560 Whereas on the right, all the people on the right hate each other, and the paleos hate the neos, and the libertarians hate the trads,

00:40:50.160 and on and on and on and on, and all the individual pundits and politicians hate each other's guts.

00:40:54.460 And it's just really, they're very divided.

00:40:57.340 but they're united in one thing they all love the country and those are those are the differences

00:41:02.520 it's just it's the heat map of affection the left is just not patriotic and like actively

00:41:08.720 contemptuous of the country and the right for all their disagreements they love the country okay

00:41:14.000 it's time for my favorite time of the week the voice and video mailbag brought to you by pure

00:41:23.740 Talk. We love our friends at puretalk.com slash Knowles today. It occurred to us yesterday,

00:41:30.360 someone sent in a video. They said, hey, Michael, I know I'm supposed to do a voice mailbag,

00:41:35.040 but I'm going to send in a video mailbag question. I said, why don't we do video mailbag?

00:41:41.400 So from now on, if you want to send a video mailbag question and get your face on the show,

00:41:45.160 you may do that. That's open. I said to the team, I said, why didn't you think of this?

00:41:50.520 I didn't say, why didn't I think of this? I said, why didn't you think of this?

00:41:53.740 take it away. So I have been listening to your show for six years now, and I pretty much don't

00:41:59.340 miss an episode. And I am a Catholic. When I first started listening to your show, I considered

00:42:04.000 myself to be a libertarian. And you actually helped me realize that those things don't go

00:42:08.240 hand in hand. So thank you for that. But I have a very important question for you. I saw Ben Shapiro

00:42:14.560 at the RNC just last week, and I brought this up to him. And I'm hoping to bring it up to you

00:42:20.220 to persuade both of you. I remember years ago there was a bet between the Daily Wire hosts

00:42:27.740 where you all started a fantasy football league and the loser of said league was supposed to wear

00:42:35.140 a what is a woman t-shirt on the sidelines of a WNBA game. Now again I don't miss an episode and 0.92

00:42:42.320 I feel like that bet quietly went away because I never heard anything about it ever again.

00:42:49.080 so my request for you is to revive the bet especially because of the media coverage that

00:42:58.680 the wnba is currently getting i feel like it is a great time to collect on that and get one of you

00:43:06.440 guys on the sidelines so let me know you are so right i love everything about your question the

00:43:13.560 whole one that you've watched the show for six years i'm very honored two that you were libertarian

00:43:19.000 And now you've gone a little more traddy, a little more conservative.

00:43:22.280 Love that. 1.00

00:43:23.100 The Catholic faith.

00:43:24.760 Love that.

00:43:26.120 But you're right.

00:43:28.260 Mr. Matt Walsh owes us a seat at the WNBA.

00:43:32.960 Because I think, if memory serves, he lost that bet.

00:43:37.140 Mr. Matt Walsh.

00:43:37.940 I call him Matt Welch.

00:43:39.560 If he is not going to have to go endure a WNBA game.

00:43:42.780 So I agree.

00:43:44.000 He needs to go do it.

00:43:44.880 I want to start a campaign.

00:43:45.820 You get Walsh to go to that game.

00:43:48.160 Wonderfully stated.

00:43:49.100 Okay, next question.

00:43:51.540 Morning, Michael.

00:43:52.280 I was hoping you could expound a little bit more on something you say all the time.

00:43:56.260 Namely, the telos of sex is the generation and education of children and the mutual support of the spouses.

00:44:02.840 Generation of children, totally get it.

00:44:05.020 Mutual support of the spouses makes perfect sense.

00:44:07.880 Could you explain a little bit more about how sex educates the children?

00:44:11.240 Thanks.

00:44:12.420 Yeah, no, I'm not.

00:44:13.680 I'm not suggesting we like bump uglies in front of kids to like teach them a lesson or something

00:44:19.840 I'm using education in its older sense in its fuller sense which is today we narrowly think

00:44:27.380 of education as learning reading writing and arithmetic in a classroom but education at the

00:44:32.940 fullest sense really means to raise a child so there's a moral education there's an aesthetic

00:44:38.980 education. There's an education into manners and patriotism and civics as along with the liberal

00:44:46.880 arts and engineering and how to fix a sink. All of that is education, but it means to raise,

00:44:54.340 to rear, to raise up a kid. So marriage is for that too, because you can produce a kid outside

00:45:00.520 of marriage. And it's pretty much just as easy to produce a kid with a lady you met at a bar last

00:45:07.120 night as it is to produce a kid with your wife. But it's much harder to educate the kid with the 0.56

00:45:12.240 lady you met at the bar last night than it is to educate the kid with your wife. So the telos of

00:45:17.960 marriage, the purpose of marriage, the thing that defines marriage in its nature is that it is a 0.84

00:45:22.220 lifelong union between a man and a woman ordered toward the procreation and raising, rearing,

00:45:30.540 education of children. And another good of marriage is the mutual support of the spouses.

00:45:35.780 But that's not really the chief end of marriage.

00:45:38.560 The thing that separates marriage from all sorts of other unions is that it is ordered toward the procreation and education of children.

00:45:46.200 Okay, next question.

00:45:48.500 Hey, are you just like making up this child of yours that's coming, this little daughter allegedly? 0.92

00:45:54.160 Because I feel like your wife's been pregnant for a while. 0.88

00:45:58.660 Yeah.

00:46:00.040 And I'm just wondering like when are we going to have a little girl, Knowles?

00:46:04.300 you don't have to tell me exactly when but if you took a day or two off no one would be upset

00:46:09.560 we would be fine we'd still subscribe and all that so just wanted to let you know that and

00:46:16.140 i hope it all goes well that's very kind thank you i appreciate the the encouragement and the

00:46:22.780 reassuring that you won't all just disappear if i take a day or two off i probably won't take a

00:46:26.920 day or two off anyway the baby is real you're right sweet little lisa's been pregnant for a 0.89

00:46:31.760 long time. She's about 58 months pregnant now, I think. The baby's coming very, very shortly. 0.60

00:46:36.360 Someone has asked, Michael, what is Daily Wire's paternity leave policy? I said, after I caught

00:46:44.020 my breath from the wheezing laughter, I said, it's usually about 15 minutes. You're allowed to go to

00:46:51.940 the hospital, at least to see the kid right when he or she comes out. But then we'll be back in

00:46:58.240 the studio. So I'm going to try, I'm going to try not to miss a show. You know, I love doing the

00:47:04.240 show. I love being with you. So I don't, some people, they don't, some people, they don't want

00:47:09.060 to go to work, you know, and, but I have a fake job. Like I don't have a real job. I work all the

00:47:13.360 time, but I don't have a real job. So I love doing the show. I don't want to leave you in a lurch,

00:47:18.440 especially right before the midterm. So I'll take some time. Maybe I'll just come in and do the show

00:47:22.500 and then I'll go home and probably do some other work, but probably not actually help out that

00:47:27.160 much with the kid anyway but uh but i'll spend time with my wife and my children and all that

00:47:30.520 but it is happening soon so your prayers are greatly appreciated want to do more mailback

00:47:35.760 questions keep going good morning michael this is arun so regarding this beau french guy obviously

00:47:42.700 as an indian i do not wish him success in his campaign but i do want all of the other texas

00:47:49.280 republicans to win and i am worried that he's going to take down the entire republican ticket

00:47:54.520 in Texas with him. As you know, racist Republican candidates have done very poorly in primaries.

00:48:00.620 I'm thinking specifically about James Fishback and Casey Putsch. Now this guy, Bo, only won his

00:48:06.360 primary by one percent of the vote, and I suspect it's because a lot of his comments went under the

00:48:11.480 radar. Most recently, he's gotten in trouble for telling Indians that we're not real Americans.

00:48:17.700 Before that, he said that Chinese aren't real Americans, and before that, he said that Native 0.70

00:48:21.980 Americans should be deported. Now, the electorate of Texas is only 46 percent white, and probably 0.86

00:48:27.800 those guys don't like his comments either. Do you think that it's time to give him the

00:48:33.380 Graham Plattner treatment before he hands the Senate over to the Democrats? Thank you, as

00:48:37.860 always, for your wisdom. Yeah, good, good question. We can't give him the Graham Plattner

00:48:42.480 treatment because the Dems played Plattner right. And I called it, by the way. I totally,

00:48:46.860 you know, I hate to say I told you so. I called this on the Sean Hannity show when there were

00:48:50.680 some questions about Graham Plattner. I said, the Dems are preparing to usher him off the stage.

00:48:56.120 They're going to do it in just the right amount of time that they're not going to suffer electorally

00:48:59.480 for it. And it looked like it was too late, but I said, it's not too late. And they're beginning,

00:49:03.380 they're setting the stage in the New York Times. And then with this hit, and then with that hit,

00:49:07.660 it's the same thing that they did to Eric Swalwell in California. They knew he couldn't win. So they

00:49:11.660 were going to just nail him for other things that they previously ignored. That's exactly what

00:49:15.820 happened to Plattner. The problem is we can't do that with Beau French because it's too late. You

00:49:20.060 can't replace him with another candidate. He's running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.

00:49:23.280 So he made these comments that offended a lot of people where he was going after these Indian

00:49:26.640 students at Texas A&M. And he was raising an interesting point about demographic change

00:49:31.940 and mass migration. But the way in which he did it offended a lot of people. And so to your point,

00:49:36.580 Arun, he's going to struggle electorally, I think. I don't think he's going to pull down

00:49:43.080 the Republican ticket because I think there are bigger waves in this election. I think there are

00:49:48.120 many bigger factors at the national level, economically, with regard to the Iran war.

00:49:54.620 I don't think he's going to play a huge role. If Tallarico wins, for instance, I don't think

00:49:58.940 it's going to be Beau French's fault. But we can't platner him because it's too late. The

00:50:05.120 Democrats played the platner thing really, really well. And we were just not as careful. We were

00:50:11.000 just not as precise with our candidates. And I think you can wriggle out of it a little bit and

00:50:14.540 say, no, no, no, I'm not, you know, if Beau French adjusts his rhetoric to say, I'm not talking about

00:50:19.020 all Indians or all Chinese or this or that. I'm just trying to call attention to the anxiety of

00:50:23.060 mass migration and demographic displacement. I think he can kind of wriggle out of it. Whereas

00:50:27.140 for Plattner, you know, he was a Nazi rapist. So allegedly, so you can't, it's not like, oh, 0.97

00:50:33.180 I didn't realize this. Wait, hold on this swastika on my face. That's a Nazi symbol. No, no, I'm an 0.72

00:50:38.360 Indian. Beau French hates me. No, that's not going to work. No. So I think it's, the situation is 0.92

00:50:43.440 less dire than the grand platner one but in any case it's uh not nearly as easily fixed okay i

00:50:49.780 know it's i know we're running late i know it's fake headline friday i want to get to the last

00:50:52.520 voicemail bag hey michael professor jacob here i have a question about gta 6 and when you answer

00:50:58.580 it i want you to put your personal bias aside about gta 6 let's say hypothetically i knew a

00:51:03.760 guy who wanted to play gta 6 he's a gen zier he's been waiting 10 years to play it because he grew

00:51:08.940 up playing GTA 5, but his girlfriend tells him, no, you cannot play GTA 6. On principle, does the

00:51:16.360 man listen to his girlfriend and not do this thing that he's really been wanting to do? Or does he

00:51:22.420 say no and play it anyway? What should the man do in that scenario? His girlfriend will probably be

00:51:28.180 very angry if he plays it anyway. Thanks. Oh, it's a brutal problem that your friend finds himself in,

00:51:36.460 that your Gen Z friend finds himself in. 1.00

00:51:39.620 Because on the merits, 1.00

00:51:41.120 your friend's girlfriend is right.

00:51:45.440 GTA 6 is probably immoral to play.

00:51:48.300 You probably should,

00:51:48.720 because it's not just for the violence,

00:51:50.160 but apparently the new one

00:51:51.040 is like pretty pornographic.

00:51:52.240 So it's probably wrong to play it.

00:51:54.540 And it's generally, as men get older,

00:51:57.340 it's less appropriate for them

00:52:00.500 to spend a lot of time playing video games.

00:52:02.620 You know, it's just not,

00:52:03.300 I'm not knocking it.

00:52:04.120 I'm not yucking your yum.

00:52:04.920 I kind of want to play GTA 6.

00:52:06.460 So I get it, but it's not, it's not the sort of thing, it's the sort of thing that a teenager

00:52:12.860 does. It's not the sort of thing that a 45-year-old man does, for instance. And I don't know how old

00:52:17.660 your friend is. So on the merits, your girlfriend is right. But this whole framing, you know, 1.00

00:52:23.040 that your girlfriend's not going to let you is totally ridiculous. And so there, I'm sympathetic 0.99

00:52:28.200 to you, sorry, to your friend, where you say, well, I have to do it just so that my wife doesn't lead

00:52:33.480 me around by a dog collar. And I say, okay, yeah, I get that. But that's also your fault because

00:52:38.800 you've established, sorry, your friend has established this situation where you're even

00:52:43.320 accepting that framing, where you're even accepting the idea that my girlfriend tells me what to do.

00:52:48.240 I ask permission of my girlfriend, my girlfriend. You wouldn't ask permission of your wife, 0.78

00:52:52.780 much less your girlfriend to do something. The problem here is on the merits, on the substance,

00:52:57.880 your friend's girlfriend is right. So what would I do? I would try to find a prudential via media 0.56

00:53:04.220 here where to establish a proper framing and relationship. I would have to play it to some

00:53:13.020 degree. But I suggest that you play the Grand Theft Auto game for a very brief period of time

00:53:20.180 in the most moral way you can. You know, doing the missions, avoiding the worst of the pornographic

00:53:27.360 or wrathful elements and then putting the game away.

00:53:32.000 So you've reset, you've established the proper framework

00:53:35.280 of your real-world relationship,

00:53:37.640 but you're not just becoming a wrathful, lusty,

00:53:42.200 overgrown teenage boy who will repel your girlfriend,

00:53:45.520 rightly so. 0.99

00:53:47.260 It's Fake Headline Friday.

00:53:48.200 The rest of the show continues. 0.92

00:53:49.260 Sorry, your friend's girlfriend. 0.90

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 18, 2026

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