The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2067 - ＂You Can See Everything＂： My Take On The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

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00:03:08.300 A new documentary brings audiences an intimate look at Theranos founder and incarcerated sociopath Elizabeth Holmes.

00:03:15.380 It has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:03:18.400 The trailer got over 3 million views in just 14 hours.

00:03:21.200 People cannot get enough.

00:03:22.980 And the fascination is about a lot more than Elizabeth Holmes.

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00:03:39.220 another person. Just when you think you know a guy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:03.260 Welcome back to the show.

00:04:04.540 You want to talk movies. 1.00

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00:04:32.920 We turn to another movie.

00:04:34.520 You can't ignore it.

00:04:35.780 This is the first Hollywood movie that's come out in, gosh, I don't know, 20 years that everyone is talking about.

00:04:43.300 Everyone is eagerly anticipating.

00:04:45.480 It's this documentary about Elizabeth Holmes.

00:04:47.720 Elizabeth Holmes, who is this sociopathic founder of Theranos, a fraud healthcare company starting in 2003.

00:04:55.120 She defrauded all of these really smart, rich people.

00:04:57.900 She defrauded Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Jim Mattis, all these guys who were serving on

00:05:03.520 the board. She cost gazillions of dollars. She was feted as this amazing rising young star, 0.84

00:05:11.660 this millennial woman, founder, CEO, and it was all totally fake. So right before she goes to

00:05:18.440 prison, she has a kid, just two kids actually. And in the 11 or so days before she has to go

00:05:24.780 to prison for 11 years, she decides instead of spending a lot of time with her family,

00:05:30.240 she's going to invite a documentary filmmaker, Nathan Felder, to just spend the whole time

00:05:36.480 with her. And this is the portrait that people can't get enough of.

00:05:42.720 You've never been suspicious that she's ever lied to you. No, ever.

00:05:49.220 I still have this weird feeling that there's some things that I'm not seeing.

00:05:54.780 It's because I don't have anything to hide.

00:06:03.380 I know what you're feeling.

00:06:05.240 No, you don't.

00:06:14.040 I may think about this movie for the rest of my life.

00:06:16.460 I took you a long time to be okay with.

00:06:20.960 with letting someone see me cry.

00:06:40.360 Says, oh yeah, it took a long time

00:06:41.680 to get comfortable with someone seeing me cry. 0.94

00:06:43.240 This is a woman who never blinks. 0.71

00:06:44.680 She just stares at you 0.98

00:06:45.620 with this uncanny awkwardness.

00:06:47.260 And then just as she said that,

00:06:48.720 she blinks three times

00:06:49.840 and squeezes out a tear right on cue, it's deeply unsettling.

00:06:53.020 So the movie's called You Can See Everything, and nice artistic choice,

00:06:56.940 that phrase doesn't totally fit on the screen.

00:06:59.960 Why are people so fascinated with it?

00:07:01.620 In part, it's because everyone's fascinated by sociopaths,

00:07:06.480 because sociopaths just operate differently than we do.

00:07:09.280 And in an egalitarian age where we all believe in a tabula rasa,

00:07:13.140 that all people are born exactly the same,

00:07:15.360 and any differences in outcomes are merely attributable to society,

00:07:18.920 This is why the libs are always taking the side of criminals over perpetrators is because for them, everyone's born exactly the same because they ultimately deny original sin.

00:07:29.380 So if something goes wrong, it has to be something that was done to the criminal.

00:07:34.500 It can't be something that they were just born with.

00:07:36.540 It can't just be a bad inclination.

00:07:38.180 It can't be bad choices that they've made along the way.

00:07:40.420 It always has to be something that was done to them.

00:07:44.500 That really does come down to what is essentially the biggest anthropological error of liberalism,

00:07:50.440 which is the denial of original sin.

00:07:52.980 But in any case, yeah, weirdos are always going to fascinate us because this woman, 1.00

00:07:58.840 like other sociopaths, just operates in the world differently than we do, and we find that interesting.

00:08:03.840 But that's not the main reason, I think, why this movie is becoming a phenomenon.

00:08:08.040 The reason is actually more about society than it is about the individual of Elizabeth Holmes.

00:08:13.700 I think the reason that people are so fascinated by this, why it's kind of grabbed the throat of

00:08:18.420 the zeitgeist, is because Elizabeth Holmes is the perfect millennial. She's the perfect millennial.

00:08:26.800 She's a founder. She's a founder of a tech company. Tech is the industry of our times. 0.99

00:08:33.180 She's a woman. And for the millennials, unlike the prior generations, the millennials were

00:08:37.920 bred from their earliest days to be told that women need to be girl bosses. They need to go 1.00

00:08:43.880 out. They need to work outside the home, not just get married and have kids. They need to create 1.00

00:08:48.080 companies, not babies. The best version of that is to become a founder, an entrepreneur,

00:08:53.720 especially in the industry of our time. Tech, especially to charm the industrial capital of

00:08:59.780 our time, which is Silicon Valley. And she did all of that, and it was a fraud. 0.50

00:09:05.940 and so you get the the perfect embodiment of the fraud at the level of the person of elizabeth

00:09:13.320 holmes but the whole thing was a fraud the whole thing that that teachers and parents and pop

00:09:20.560 culture had been telling young women that was a fraud too the idea that women have to go be girl

00:09:25.200 bosses that women need to work outside the home that they should put off having kids that all 0.99

00:09:29.120 that matters is work and a specific kind of work the technological kind of work all of that was a

00:09:34.820 fraud. And we're coming to grips with that as a society now, as women reach the end of their 1.00

00:09:40.540 childbearing years, and they're having deep regret over that. That's why you're seeing an explosion 0.98

00:09:44.060 of IVF technology, a recognition of the failure of all of the decisions we made in the last 20,

00:09:50.240 30 years, many of which involve technology. And then to fix that problem, what are they doing?

00:09:55.200 They're doing the only thing they know, which is they're turning to technology. But that's not

00:09:58.220 going to fix it. It's going to make the problem worse. You're seeing the unhappiness of women

00:10:04.600 both in absolute terms and relative to men, women getting less and less happy as we were told they

00:10:10.260 were supposed to get happier and happier and happier. You're seeing a recognition that the

00:10:14.680 world idea that we've had for the last 30 years is insufficient, is ultimately unsatisfying,

00:10:19.680 that we were sold a bill of goods, that we were defrauded. And she is the actual embodiment

00:10:25.340 of that. That's what's so fascinating about Elizabeth Holmes. There are all sorts of

00:10:31.060 fraudsters. Why do we care more about Elizabeth Holmes than we care about Bernie Madoff?

00:10:34.600 Because Bernie Madoff is the kind of scammer that could exist in any age.

00:10:39.340 We live in a highly financialized age.

00:10:41.520 So much of the economy now is financial services.

00:10:45.560 So I guess that makes him semi-interested. 0.83

00:10:47.700 But he's just a con man.

00:10:49.560 Everywhere for all of time, we've had con men. 0.61

00:10:52.640 Elizabeth Holmes is a con man or a con woman specifically built for our present culture,

00:10:59.500 for our society.

00:11:00.920 And as we're coming to grips with all the problems in that culture and society,

00:11:03.600 as we're starting to come apart, as you're seeing major political realignment and revolutions going

00:11:11.020 on on the left and on the right, as just everybody realizes, man, something's really

00:11:14.900 going wrong here. This woman totally embodies it. I can't wait to see it. The other thing about this 0.94

00:11:21.640 movie that I think is grabbing people's attention is that it's the first interesting piece of art

00:11:29.300 to come out of Hollywood, gosh, in at least, I don't know, 10 years. I would say, you know,

00:11:35.760 Barbie was kind of interesting. Lady Bird was kind of interesting. I'm a Greta Gerwig defender.

00:11:40.340 We'll get to Greta Gerwig in a second. But in terms of like real gripping art that blurs lines

00:11:46.980 between genres, between documentary and drama, that actually plays onto the central theme because

00:11:52.900 you don't know if you're being duped. You don't know if you're being defrauded. A lot of people

00:11:56.080 saw that trailer, they thought it was a drama. They thought they just got a dead ringer to play

00:11:59.740 Elizabeth Holmes. It wasn't. It's a documentary. But because this woman's whole life is performance,

00:12:04.220 a documentary about her is necessarily going to be a kind of a drama. It's necessarily going to

00:12:08.220 be a kind of a work of fiction. That's the other thing that's really interesting about this is

00:12:12.620 it's a recognition, oh, we can still make art. We don't have to just resign ourselves to a bunch of

00:12:20.360 woke schlock on the one hand and kitsch Marvel movie nonsense on the other, that there actually

00:12:25.080 is such a thing as art. We actually were making interesting movies even as recently as 15 years

00:12:30.380 ago. We can do that again. That's the other thing that'll grab people. The cream does rise to the

00:12:35.980 top. I can't wait to see it. I mentioned that I would bring up the Greta Gerwig thing. Just

00:12:42.460 briefly, everyone's going crazy over this because Greta Gerwig is doing the Narnia movie based on

00:12:49.600 the C.S. Lewis books. And she has cast, for the voice of Aslan, who is the Jesus character,

00:12:56.120 she's cast Meryl Streep. She's cast a woman to play the character that represents Jesus.

00:13:01.380 And people are really freaking out about it. And I'm a big Greta Gerwig stan. I think that

00:13:08.300 Greta Gerwig is clearly a deeply conservative filmmaker. And so this new Narnia casting

00:13:15.420 challenges my thesis about Greta Gerwig. I'm not even saying she's a consciously

00:13:20.160 conservative filmmaker. I'm saying she just practically is. You look at Lady Bird. Lady

00:13:24.520 Bird was about the kind of girls that exist today, kind of rebellious, have problems with 1.00

00:13:29.300 their mom, have daddy issues, all sorts of things. But what was the conclusion of Lady Bird?

00:13:33.500 Spoiler alert, the conclusion of Lady Bird was that the main character decided to stop being a 0.99

00:13:37.360 slut, to call her mom, and to go to Catholic church. That was the final scene. Spoiler alert. 0.99

00:13:43.140 What about Barbie?

00:13:44.480 I had a big disagreement with Ben Shapiro about this.

00:13:47.680 He said Barbie was woke and feminist, but it wasn't actually.

00:13:51.540 That was the crazy thing.

00:13:53.220 Barbie presented a feminist vision of the world and concluded it was bad.

00:13:59.040 Remember, the opening scene of Barbie was the dawn of man, and it was all nice and fun.

00:14:04.380 And then what happened? 1.00

00:14:05.780 Feminism as Barbie came into the world and led all these girls who were playing with their cute little dolls like mothers 1.00

00:14:10.700 to start dashing the little girl's brains on rocks. 1.00

00:14:14.840 Feminism from the very earliest moments of the scene 1.00

00:14:16.740 was presented as this destructive force. 0.97

00:14:19.200 And then the whole world of Barbie was this feminist fantasy,

00:14:21.800 this kind of mid-century girl fantasy.

00:14:24.700 And so every character in there was unfulfilled,

00:14:30.060 unsatisfying, unrealistic.

00:14:32.900 Even Ken was like a feminist version of what a man is,

00:14:36.780 and it was toxic. 0.50

00:14:37.980 But then what was the conclusion of Barbie?

00:14:39.300 The conclusion of Barbie was that Barbie goes, has a conversation with God, and then decides instead of going out and getting a job in the real world, she goes to an OBGYN because she wants to have a baby because she realizes that's more important. 0.96

00:14:52.320 That's a profoundly anti-feminist movie.

00:14:55.280 And so, okay, I'm not going to – my whole take on the Greta Gerwig controversy is I'm not going to have a take yet because I recognize the casting of Meryl Streep.

00:15:05.940 This is bad.

00:15:06.620 I don't like this.

00:15:07.560 I feel uncomfortable with this.

00:15:08.800 but it's kind of like the people who call out Trump they say oh they got Trump now they got

00:15:13.700 him now he's really in trouble now the walls are closing in and then every time Trump gets out of

00:15:17.260 it and he usually wins that's how I feel about Greta Gerwig the whole the the pattern she has 0.97

00:15:22.860 set up is that her movies on the surface look super lib and feminist but just slightly below 1.00

00:15:29.120 the surface and then all the way down they're deeply conservative so I don't want to get duped

00:15:33.820 and then I watch a movie and I say actually it was deeply conservative so I don't this is scary

00:15:37.200 This is bad. I don't like the idea of it. I'm prepared to say that the conservative Greta run

00:15:42.880 is over, but I'm not prepared to say it just yet. Okay, is that fine? Is that enough of a hot take

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00:17:30.620 the campaign. So here we have sitting Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez speaking to her 0.82

00:17:36.380 constituents, promising to abolish DHS. We're going to abolish the Department of Homeland Security 0.81

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00:17:49.340 where we completely strip ICE

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00:17:58.360 they are using to track you,

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00:18:01.540 Instead, we're going to create

00:18:02.220 a department of community safety

00:18:05.080 where immigration will no longer

00:18:07.820 be handled by a department

00:18:08.960 that likes to call immigrants terrorists

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00:18:13.200 So our people will no longer

00:18:15.720 have to live in fear because of an unjust system. So today we're coming together to introduce this

00:18:21.300 terrible law, blah, blah, blah. It's called the Reimagining Safety Act. You get the point.

00:18:25.600 So I'm reminded of a controversy that occurred last week, which is you had some random Republican

00:18:33.420 who made some impolitic comments about Indian immigrants in Texas. Not illegal aliens,

00:18:39.080 we're going to get deported by ICE, but legal immigrants in Texas, students who were there

00:18:42.560 on visas. And he was looking at this image of a lot of Indians at Texas. Was it Texas A&M or was

00:18:49.960 it UT? It was one of those where he said, you know, this is terrible. This is a horrible view

00:18:55.140 of America. We can't, you know, there's too much immigration. Okay, whatever. People attacked him. 1.00

00:18:59.480 Even Republicans went after him. They said, this is bad look. It's bad optics. It's racist. How

00:19:03.440 dare you? Okay. Okay. Yeah, I agree. It's kind of, it's bad optics. It's not exactly the way we

00:19:08.300 should speak. If I, you know, I would use different language. We need to watch our language, mister.

00:19:13.200 Okay, fine. Sure. You got that guy. That's like the worst Republican running for office right

00:19:18.640 now. He's running for railroad commissioner in Texas. That's like the worst one. And yeah,

00:19:22.540 he uses some words that maybe he shouldn't, he should have said it different. It's not his,

00:19:26.080 it's not the point that he was making. It's just the way he said it. Okay. Okay, fine. Fine.

00:19:31.240 Or who else you got? You got Darlene Graham, Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister running 1.00

00:19:34.940 for Senate in South Carolina, and she doesn't know anything about foreign policy. Trump endorsed

00:19:39.500 her. She's a reliable Republican vote, but she doesn't really know that much. She hasn't been

00:19:43.520 a career politician. So her and the guy who made the mean tweet in Texas, they're like the worst

00:19:49.740 Republicans running for office right now. And you have Republican office holders who are coming out

00:19:54.220 saying, I'm not going to vote for these kinds of people. You have George Will, lifelong conservative

00:19:57.940 pundit, saying, I'm going to vote for the Democrat, or I would vote for the Democrat if I live in

00:20:02.460 South Carolina, blah, blah, blah. Okay. Sure. Whatever your issues with those with the weaker

00:20:07.460 GOP candidates. They're running against this. They're running against politicians in the

00:20:16.000 Democrat Party who will not even speak English. They are so repelled by the American tradition

00:20:22.200 and way of life, by the historic American nation, they won't even speak the national language.

00:20:26.960 they're running against politicians who say we need to destroy not even just ice or customs

00:20:34.760 and border patrol we're going to destroy the whole department of homeland security

00:20:38.380 because they're not letting all the illegals come in and they're deporting some of the illegals who

00:20:44.200 are already here so we're going to destroy the whole department so that our people will no longer

00:20:49.320 live in fear in the most charitable reading you can imagine what does our people mean in that

00:20:55.240 sentence. Is Delia, what's her name? Delia Ramirez, sitting U.S. congressman, is she

00:21:02.340 referring to the American people as our people? No. How do you read it that way? You can't.

00:21:10.320 The people who are living in fear of DHS and ICE and Border Patrol are foreigners.

00:21:16.700 They're foreign nationals. Those are the people who can be deported. 1.00

00:21:20.720 American citizens aren't going to be deported. 1.00

00:21:23.340 It's foreigners.

00:21:24.840 So you have a party that is now running openly, explicitly, 0.99

00:21:30.600 as the representatives of hostile foreign powers

00:21:34.700 who are openly promising to subvert your interests,

00:21:38.780 your common good, your way of life.

00:21:40.700 They won't even speak your language when they do it. 1.00

00:21:43.140 They're going to speak the foreign languages.

00:21:45.620 And I'm hearing Republicans say,

00:21:47.480 I don't want to vote for that guy in Texas, or I don't want to vote for Darlene Graham. 1.00

00:21:52.440 She's not smart.

00:21:54.900 I don't want to vote for the Republicans because I don't like the Iran war.

00:21:58.620 You don't like the Iran war?

00:21:59.440 I don't really like the Iran war either. 0.81

00:22:01.840 I wish there were not just two and a half million illegals removed. 0.86

00:22:06.720 I wish they removed three and a half million. 0.96

00:22:08.180 Yeah, I wish they removed 20 million.

00:22:09.600 Yeah, I wish.

00:22:10.160 Yeah, wouldn't that be great?

00:22:10.940 Wouldn't that be lovely?

00:22:11.840 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

00:22:14.200 But you know what, folks?

00:22:15.360 Trump has done a very good job.

00:22:17.340 He's done a very good job.

00:22:18.240 He's made some decisions I don't agree with.

00:22:20.100 That's going to happen.

00:22:20.940 Yeah, sure.

00:22:21.500 He's done a very good job.

00:22:22.980 And even if he hadn't done a very good job, these are the people we're running against.

00:22:26.600 Do you see who we're running against? 1.00

00:22:28.680 They're people who are speaking a foreign language, telling you that they're going to 1.00

00:22:33.140 destroy the department that exists to protect your sovereignty because those people are 1.00

00:22:38.980 going to represent a foreign people. 1.00

00:22:42.440 And I'm hearing, I'm just a little, I don't know if I'm going to show up to the polls.

00:22:45.360 I just, I don't get it, man.

00:22:48.020 I just don't get it.

00:22:49.540 Yeah, there are some things to criticize Trump over.

00:22:52.740 Sure, okay.

00:22:53.980 Had I been on the NSC, I would have probably argued against this most recent Iran intervention, 0.98

00:22:58.060 though the previous one worked out pretty well. 1.00

00:22:59.640 This one maybe could have worked out well.

00:23:01.180 It just didn't.

00:23:01.900 You can't predict the future.

00:23:03.340 And yeah, diesel's at six bucks a gallon, and that's unfortunate.

00:23:06.280 I agree.

00:23:06.640 Yeah, I agree.

00:23:08.240 There's probably not going to be a resolution to that anytime soon.

00:23:12.260 But folks, are you kidding me?

00:23:15.360 Trump remains the greatest president of my lifetime for whatever criticism you want to

00:23:20.040 make of him. He remains the greatest president of my lifetime. And even if he weren't, we are

00:23:25.880 looking at the most radically left wing and most openly anti-American Democratic Party that has

00:23:31.920 ever run in the history of the United States. Down to in the early days of the Democrat Party,

00:23:38.860 when it was secessionist, this Democrat Party is more openly hostile to the American nation.

00:23:45.360 I just don't want to hear it.

00:23:47.800 If you're going to look at that and say, well, you know what?

00:23:49.640 I think, actually, because I don't like that mean tweet from that guy in Texas.

00:23:53.380 I think we need to vote for Democrats, or I think we need to stay home.

00:23:56.260 I just, okay, then fine.

00:23:58.720 You know, good luck.

00:23:59.420 You know what?

00:24:00.100 I'm sure you're a nice person.

00:24:01.520 Maybe. 0.99

00:24:02.060 I'm sure it's fine, but you're politically useless. 0.97

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00:24:08.240 Now, on the point of the Iran war, President Trump addressed it at the United Nations yesterday,

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00:26:21.240 President Trump was at the United Nations and he addressed the Iran war,

00:26:27.300 which we'd all hoped would wrap up in a month or two.

00:26:30.320 It's going on a little bit longer than that.

00:26:31.980 We are hoping for an end to the crisis.

00:26:34.300 And here's what he foresees.

00:26:38.240 but i have a big decision to make will a deal be made with iran that lets them rebuild and create

00:26:47.600 a far greater country than it ever was before maybe one of the greatest in the middle east 0.80

00:26:54.160 or even the world or do i annihilate the islamic republic and do it quickly never giving them a 0.99

00:27:02.400 chance to kill and destroy people and countries again. Do I drive them into hell with no chance 1.00

00:27:10.480 of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal

00:27:17.560 right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how

00:27:25.280 I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I did that

00:27:31.900 already and won in a landslide we won in a giant landslide and i'll be here for two and a half

00:27:38.540 years the republican party is running and i'll be helping them but i am not running i gave

00:27:45.780 absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to iran okay so

00:27:54.100 we're getting a lot of what we would expect from president trump here which is and he's he's being

00:28:00.580 totally, brutally honest. He's saying, yeah, we're not getting a deal on the Iran war before the

00:28:05.440 midterms. Of course not. I called this a month ago, two months ago. The Iranians know when the

00:28:10.440 elections are too, just as well as we do. So the pain is going to get a lot worse.

00:28:13.780 And there's no quick resolution to this. The Mullahs are a durable regime. They're an awful 0.99

00:28:18.960 regime. They've gone after Americans. They've killed Americans from their earliest days. Don't 0.70

00:28:23.880 forget, we're not even just talking about the global war on terror. We're talking about the

00:28:27.540 Iran hostage crisis right when the Islamic regime took over. We're talking about the Beirut barracks 0.65

00:28:31.860 bombings in the 1980s. The Iranian regime has gone after us for a very, very long time. They've

00:28:36.640 chanted death to America for a very, very long time. They're very durable. They've lasted twice

00:28:42.320 as long as the CIA supported Rezim after the ousting of Mosaddegh in 1953. So that would

00:28:46.720 have been my argument against it. Some people are making arguments against the Iran war that

00:28:50.300 we have no right to do it, and the Iranians don't actually want a nuclear weapon, and they actually

00:28:55.200 don't mean us any harm, and it's only about Israel, and maybe a little bit about Saudi Arabia,

00:29:00.400 but it's not about the U.S. No, no, no. I don't really buy that. Don't buy that at all.

00:29:04.540 My argument against the Iran war would just be, practically speaking, they're a durable regime,

00:29:08.140 and if you're not going to go all the way in for regime change, it's going to create some problems 0.65

00:29:11.180 for you, and I think that's where we are. So there's not going to be any quick resolution,

00:29:14.660 because the United States, okay, they've done a good job of managing the fallout from Iran. 0.59

00:29:21.460 Iran hasn't really been able to do that much to us. 0.57

00:29:24.760 They've manipulated global energy markets pretty massively. 0.88

00:29:28.000 Even there, though, the United States was able to get some oil through.

00:29:31.020 They've mostly been able to keep oil below $100 a barrel,

00:29:34.320 really below $75 a barrel for a lot of the wars.

00:29:36.940 Okay, we're in this kind of stalemate.

00:29:38.980 We're in this moment of just waiting to see who's going to cry uncle. 0.57

00:29:44.160 But the United States can't back away and surrender the Strait of Hormuz to Iran. 0.87

00:29:48.060 That'd be a geopolitical blunder, a massive geopolitical blunder.

00:29:51.680 So Trump says, okay, we'll deal with this after the election.

00:29:54.820 That's when we'll get a deal. 0.64

00:29:55.780 And either what we will do is we'll make a deal, which is in Iran's interest. 0.89

00:30:00.160 That's what I want. 1.00

00:30:00.780 Or I'll annihilate them. 1.00

00:30:02.920 And you say, okay, well, Trump blusters sometimes. 1.00

00:30:05.100 This is more empty talk from Trump.

00:30:06.760 But he backs it up a little bit here, which is, he says, they're going to see how I do

00:30:10.340 in the elections.

00:30:11.300 And they're going to hope that the Republicans get clobbered in the House and maybe get clobbered

00:30:15.220 in the Senate.

00:30:15.620 and then I'm in a lot of big political trouble

00:30:17.300 and then they don't have to deal with me

00:30:20.000 and they can hold out

00:30:20.820 and wait for a Democrat president

00:30:21.820 who's going to give them everything they want.

00:30:23.840 But then Trump says,

00:30:24.760 what they're failing to appreciate

00:30:26.420 is that I am not running.

00:30:29.540 And so this is bad news

00:30:31.300 for some of the GOP candidates, perhaps.

00:30:33.540 This is bad news for the other people

00:30:34.900 in what would otherwise be down ballot races.

00:30:38.000 But it strengthens Trump's negotiating position

00:30:40.420 because what he's basically saying is,

00:30:42.280 I'm the honey badger.

00:30:43.540 I don't care. 0.99

00:30:44.540 Hey, Iran, you want to burn down the Republican Party? 1.00

00:30:46.660 Fine by me.

00:30:47.560 I don't really.

00:30:48.100 Look, I'll help the Republicans.

00:30:49.360 I'll campaign with them.

00:30:50.100 I don't really care.

00:30:51.660 Hey, hey, you guys remember I took over the Republican Party, right?

00:30:54.580 I'm not some lifelong, loyal, you know, bow tie, tweed wearing Republican.

00:30:58.960 I don't care.

00:30:59.620 I'm Trump.

00:31:00.240 I'm the movement.

00:31:01.060 I'm the party.

00:31:01.740 I do what I want.

00:31:03.340 So, okay, you want to take out my majority in the House?

00:31:05.980 You want to take out my majority in the Senate?

00:31:07.880 Guess what?

00:31:08.400 I'm still here.

00:31:09.420 And now I'm a man with nothing to lose.

00:31:11.220 Now I'm more dangerous, actually, than I was before the midterm elections.

00:31:14.820 I got nothing to lose, man.

00:31:16.260 Oh, you think this is going to hurt Republicans' chances in 2028?

00:31:19.300 I don't care.

00:31:20.200 I'm not running in 2028.

00:31:22.680 Oh, you think that I've just got some great loyalty to the party?

00:31:25.400 I don't have any loyalty to the Republican Party.

00:31:28.240 So that's fine.

00:31:29.500 You want to wait to see what happens after the election?

00:31:31.760 Guess what?

00:31:32.260 You have more to fear after the election.

00:31:34.220 Because after the election, maybe I'll just throw 100,000 troops into Iran.

00:31:39.320 What are you going to do?

00:31:40.540 I'm the president.

00:31:41.660 I have unilateral power to do that

00:31:43.580 under the War Powers Resolution.

00:31:45.020 And I'll do it quickly.

00:31:46.140 I'm time limited, three to six months, whatever.

00:31:49.300 I'll do it in three to six.

00:31:50.200 Guess what? 0.84

00:31:50.660 If I send 100,000 ground troops to Iran, 1.00

00:31:53.000 that'll get it done a lot faster

00:31:54.440 than what we're doing here

00:31:55.260 with just bombings and aircraft carriers in the strait.

00:31:58.920 You want to do that?

00:31:59.820 You want to play games?

00:32:00.460 That's what he's saying.

00:32:01.160 He's just, he's kind of talking like a New Yorker.

00:32:02.920 He's talking like a New Yorker.

00:32:03.720 He said, you want to play games?

00:32:05.040 You want to deal with me when I'm weaker?

00:32:07.360 Guess what?

00:32:07.740 When I'm weaker, I'm more dangerous.

00:32:09.260 That's what he's saying.

00:32:10.000 Whether it works or not, we'll see.

00:32:12.020 I do love that he turns up the rhetoric here. 0.65

00:32:15.220 And he's looking right at that Iranian representative.

00:32:17.480 The cameras just go right over to the Iranian representative. 1.00

00:32:19.800 Look, either I'll make a deal or I'll annihilate you and send you all back to hell. 1.00

00:32:24.600 So what do you want? 1.00

00:32:26.620 And you can say, oh, he doesn't mean it.

00:32:28.840 He's bluffing.

00:32:29.980 He's going to chicken out at the last minute.

00:32:31.680 Maybe, maybe.

00:32:33.580 But again, this was what Russia had to face in the first Trump administration.

00:32:38.180 when Trump said, hey, you know what?

00:32:40.160 If you mess with me, if you invade Ukraine, 0.97

00:32:42.200 I'm going to bomb Moscow. 1.00

00:32:44.020 I'm going to bomb the Kremlin. 1.00

00:32:45.800 And Russia hears that. 0.55

00:32:47.100 They say, no, he's not.

00:32:48.620 No, he's not.

00:32:49.500 He's most likely not going to.

00:32:52.600 But is there a 5% chance?

00:32:56.440 Is there a 10%?

00:32:57.980 Is there even 5%, even a 4% chance Trump's going to do that?

00:33:00.800 Because if so, I can't take that risk.

00:33:02.620 That's the question.

00:33:03.380 That's what he's establishing.

00:33:04.180 probably the best move that trump can make right now is to talk like this it doesn't help the

00:33:10.120 republicans running in the other races but but as far as trump's negotiating position with iran

00:33:16.120 he basically has to say i don't care about them and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't

00:33:22.200 really matter okay speaking of the end times speaking of the coming of world war three

00:33:26.800 james talarico a man who right now is the odds-on favorite to become the next senator from texas i'm

00:33:33.960 not predicting it's going to happen yet, but I'm getting a lot more worried than I was two months

00:33:38.440 ago. James, there's always in Texas, there's always this claim, oh, they're going to turn

00:33:43.540 Texas blue. It's going to be Beto O'Rourke. You remember that guy? Beto O'Rourke. It's going to

00:33:48.760 be Colin Allred. And then it never is. Tallarico is the new Beto. But the conditions are more

00:33:56.120 favorable to the Democrats right now. So who is Tallarico? We're told he's a straight, maybe

00:34:02.960 white Christian man. Daily Wire, I got to give a big hat tip here to Daily Wire's Jacob Wheeler,

00:34:10.600 has gone into James Tallarico's church, interviewed one of James Tallarico's pastors. 0.86

00:34:16.460 It's this pastoress, this lady named Babs Miller, who is reportedly an open lesbian.

00:34:23.380 And we want to know if James Tallarico is going to be the next senator from Texas,

00:34:30.080 If he's even just the Democrat nominee, we want to know about him.

00:34:33.120 We want to know about what he thinks, especially he makes Christianity such an important part of his identity.

00:34:37.620 Well, what kind of spiritual formation does he have?

00:34:39.820 Here is the pastoress, one of the pastoresses of this church.

00:34:45.580 A lot of quotes, a lot of air quotes in this entire description describing what the church believes.

00:34:51.860 Do we really believe that like a virgin gave birth to a baby? 0.62

00:34:56.400 Yeah, okay. 0.88

00:34:57.320 I just don't want to offend my own common sense.

00:35:00.760 Yeah.

00:35:01.080 No, don't.

00:35:02.280 Yeah.

00:35:03.180 Absolutely don't.

00:35:04.900 Part of what we encourage here is for people to think for themselves.

00:35:08.760 Yeah.

00:35:09.220 And take what makes sense.

00:35:11.580 It's kind of like what they say in 12-step programs.

00:35:14.760 Take what you want and leave the rest.

00:35:17.820 And I know that that would greatly offend your relatives.

00:35:24.180 Yeah.

00:35:24.580 who want to hang on to these archaic rules.

00:35:29.580 Mary and the virgin birth comes out of the pagan belief

00:35:33.960 that the gods came down and impregnated people,

00:35:37.840 that people were still hanging on to during that time.

00:35:42.540 We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed,

00:35:45.620 any more than we have of knowing that the original Buddha ever existed.

00:35:49.920 And whether or not Jesus existed doesn't really matter to me.

00:35:56.600 The fact remains that that message that was delivered by someone named Jesus, supposedly,

00:36:04.660 and it could have all been made up for all I know.

00:36:06.920 And the God in the Old Testament is not a loving God.

00:36:10.420 It's a vengeful, killing people kind of God.

00:36:16.220 yeah uh this is this is a lot of mythology jesus was political yeah jesus was put on that cross

00:36:24.580 not to save us jesus was put on that cross because roma aided him and they thought he was a threat

00:36:32.340 to their domination of that area yeah and so they killed him yeah so he was kind of save our sins 0.53

00:36:39.660 So he died more as a kind of a social justice warrior in some sense.

00:36:44.440 Yes.

00:36:45.440 So that makes a whole lot more sense to me than to say that some god would kill his son for us.

00:36:53.560 That doesn't make sense.

00:36:54.460 It never made sense.

00:36:55.260 How does that make up for all the things I could do?

00:36:58.060 No, it doesn't. 1.00

00:36:59.340 Yeah, it's a foolishness to the Greeks. 1.00

00:37:03.240 It's a stumbling block to the lady lesbian pastoresses of Texas. 1.00

00:37:09.660 What is surprising about the pastoress' heresy? 0.99

00:37:14.320 It's not just that she spouts heresy.

00:37:16.720 I would expect James Tallarico's pastor to spout heresy.

00:37:20.140 What is impressive about this pastoress is that she seems to be spouting all of the heresies at once.

00:37:26.940 She goes through all of them.

00:37:29.440 She denies the virgin birth. 0.98

00:37:32.080 That is the ancient heresy of ebionitism and maybe kind of adoptionism.

00:37:38.360 adoptionism, you know, which is another ancient heresy, but it crops up in modernity.

00:37:42.200 This idea that Jesus isn't, he's not born God. He just sort of becomes, he's like adopted as

00:37:46.760 God in some sense. It includes docetism, the idea that Jesus did not really have a physical body,

00:37:56.120 and therefore it's a kind of denial of the death of our sin. That one's a little weird. It's like

00:38:00.680 a little bit of docetism, a little bit of Arianism, the denial of the divinity of Christ.

00:38:04.840 that the fact that she says, no, no, he didn't die for her sins. He was a political figure. He died

00:38:08.540 running a political campaign that the Romans hated. This is Christ who of course says, my kingdom is

00:38:12.320 not of this world. Who, when the Pharisees are trying to tempt him, when test him, they say,

00:38:19.560 well, should we pay our taxes? He says, give to Caesar everything that Caesar's and give to God

00:38:23.300 what is God's. As explicitly not a political activist as one can possibly be. Then she throws

00:38:31.200 in Marcionism, the idea that the God of the Old Testament is evil and the God of the New Testament

00:38:36.760 is good. Marcionism, which is an ancient heresy, you see it crop up in modernity too, especially 0.60

00:38:42.000 among anti-Semites. It's astounding. The idea that Jesus didn't exist, we have greater evidence for 0.95

00:38:48.720 the existence of Christ than we have for the existence of Socrates, for the existence of

00:38:53.800 Hannibal, for the existence of Alexander the Great. She says, no, we don't know if he existed.

00:38:59.300 it doesn't matter. It's all, no, no, no. Take what you want, leave the rest. So this is very

00:39:05.720 offensive. However, I think what the Republicans are going to try to do here is the same thing

00:39:10.140 that we did to Obama when some impolitic clips of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, came out. He was

00:39:16.120 saying all sorts of terrible things about America. It was more political what Jeremiah Wright was

00:39:19.340 saying. And the Republicans bullied Obama into disavowing Jeremiah Wright because they knew that

00:39:26.460 if people found out Barack Obama's true religious and even political views, that would scare off a

00:39:31.920 lot of people. That's not going to work here. And the reason it's not going to work here is

00:39:36.480 because Barack Obama at least pretended to disagree with his pastor. When his pastor was

00:39:42.040 saying awful things about America, Obama could pretend to disagree. Even though Obama was

00:39:46.080 campaigning on fundamentally transforming America, he was much more careful in his rhetoric.

00:39:51.760 With James Tallarico, though, Tallarico doesn't even pretend to disagree with this lady.

00:39:56.020 None of Tallarico's followers think that he disagrees with this lady.

00:40:00.200 In fact, if Tallarico came out and disavowed this rank heresy, this vile anti-Christian rhetoric,

00:40:07.780 that he would lose supporters, James Tallarico.

00:40:10.520 He wouldn't gain.

00:40:10.980 He'd lose his base.

00:40:13.080 That's what we're up against.

00:40:15.720 So you look at the very practical, tangible policy level.

00:40:20.560 You see the Democrats running on formally abolishing American sovereignty.

00:40:25.840 And you say, you know what?

00:40:26.760 I don't care how bad the Republicans are.

00:40:28.040 I'm going to vote for them.

00:40:29.780 And then you see at the even deeper level, because all politics ultimately comes down to religion, all human conflict, Cardinal Manning tells us, comes down to religion. 0.88

00:40:37.780 You see that these people are being formed by like all the heresies.

00:40:41.880 All of them.

00:40:42.460 Was it Pius IX or Pius X who said that modernism is a special kind of heresy because it's actually

00:40:49.740 the culmination of all of the heresies? That's what you're getting here. Okay. Speaking of

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00:42:39.700 My favorite contract yesterday is from JWP,

00:42:41.860 who says I'm 100% convinced that Michael's contract

00:42:44.020 requires him to refer to Aristotle

00:42:45.320 at least nine times per week.

00:42:46.820 It's true.

00:42:47.680 And you know, people make fun of me for that.

00:42:49.420 They say, oh, Michael,

00:42:50.220 you're always going back to Aristotle

00:42:51.740 and Thomas Aquinas

00:42:53.320 and maybe a little bit of Plato

00:42:54.780 and maybe a little bit of Cicero

00:42:56.400 and maybe a lot of Dante.

00:42:58.300 And you're always going back to the same

00:43:00.600 half dozen dozen people.

00:43:01.860 I say, you're right.

00:43:03.560 And do you know whose example I'm following in that case?

00:43:06.440 you guessed it, Thomas Aquinas, because we have this prejudice in modernity where we think that

00:43:14.920 in order to be really smart and really sophisticated and really fancy, you need to

00:43:19.800 quote like a billion people. You need to just take in all of the information that knowledge

00:43:24.980 is best understood as a quantitative sort of good. And the greater the variety of knowledge

00:43:31.500 that goes into your head, the smarter and more sophisticated you will be. I don't think so. Maybe

00:43:35.560 I'm just a little thick. Maybe I'm a little bit slow. I'm a little more old school about this.

00:43:40.300 When Thomas Aquinas is writing, he brings in a lot of different thinkers. He'll bring in

00:43:44.000 Plotinus or Avicenna or whoever. But you know who he's mostly bringing in other than scripture

00:43:51.260 is Aristotle. In fact, he calls Aristotle the philosopher. What do I need other philosophers

00:43:57.220 for? I got Aristotle. He gets the job done. The apostle is Paul. You get a lot with Paul.

00:44:03.500 You know, you don't need to, I think actually learning and education and knowledge is a little

00:44:08.880 more about quality than it is about quantity. Did Aristotle say that? I don't know. He might,

00:44:13.600 maybe, I don't know. I got to go back and read it. Speaking of education, Stanford University

00:44:18.540 has just been caught in the weirdest scandal that I've seen out of the schools in a while.

00:44:23.760 And there are a lot of scandals out of the schools. They had this picture, the Stanford

00:44:27.520 Review just published this, the conservative Stanford paper. The Stanford publishes a picture

00:44:32.940 from their dining hall. And the picture features three students, but it doesn't feature the actual

00:44:40.360 students. It features a race-swapped, gender-swapped melange of students. So here's the original

00:44:50.080 picture. The original picture, as the student who got race and sex-swapped observes, is got

00:44:55.220 this nice-looking little Asian gal, then a kind of red-haired white guy, and then a vaguely

00:45:01.840 Hispanic-looking guy. You look, you know, I would say distinctly Hispanic-looking guy wearing a Gap

00:45:05.660 sweater. But that's not the picture that Stanford published. Here's the picture Stanford published.

00:45:12.020 We have, just for my own edification, go back to the first one.

00:45:17.740 Okay, now go to the second one. This is amazing. You almost don't catch this at first.

00:45:21.840 So the first thing you notice is in the picture that Stanford actually published,

00:45:25.740 the Mexican guy who, he's come out, he's talking about this, his name's Billy Ramirez.

00:45:30.440 the Mexican guy became a black chick and his gap sweatshirt was the hoodie was just transformed to

00:45:37.700 a Stanford hoodie. And she's holding a plate of what appears to be lo mein. But that guy is not 0.56

00:45:43.740 the only one who got changed. The Mexican dude transed into a black chick is not the only one 0.99

00:45:48.180 to be changed. The Asian girl and the white guy were both transformed as well. The AI just made 0.92

00:45:54.120 them look a little thinner. I think they looked perfectly nice before the AI, but Stanford

00:46:00.520 apparently did not. Stanford thought they were fat or something. So Stanford goes in with the AI

00:46:05.760 and says, you know what? Not only is our student body not diverse enough, not even the student

00:46:11.040 body, you would really say the dining cohorts, the people who choose to be friends and have

00:46:15.600 lunch together. Not only is it not diverse enough in the racial and sexual ways we want,

00:46:21.040 but they're not looks maxing they're not i don't know was clavicular behind this publication from

00:46:27.500 stanford so they they kind of pull up the the young asian girl's jaw bones a little bit kind

00:46:33.460 of thin out her cheeks same thing with the white guy it's hard to tell if they looks maxed the 0.50

00:46:38.500 mexican guy because they just completely changed him this is hilarious and you know what it comes 0.85

00:46:46.320 to? It comes to that old George Bernard Shaw line the Democrats love saying. Some people see things 1.00

00:46:52.640 that are and say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not? That's the essential

00:46:58.400 difference with the libs. And it gets down to a real problem at the heart of the university.

00:47:03.520 I'm writing a book about this now, actually. That's why I have more bags under my eyes than

00:47:06.740 usual. I'm in the throes of writing this book based on a commencement speech that I gave last

00:47:12.040 year, which is, what is the one piece of advice that all the universities give you when you

00:47:16.260 graduate? What is the theme of basically every college commencement address? Go out and change

00:47:22.540 the world. You need to go out and go change the world, which is, in my opinion, the stupidest 1.00

00:47:29.380 advice you can possibly give to a student. But it's very much in keeping with the history of 0.99

00:47:37.340 the American left and with higher education, but I repeat myself. It's the George Bernard

00:47:42.760 Shaw line. Some people see things that are and say, why? Others dream things that never were

00:47:46.160 and say, why not? Same thing as John F. Kennedy used that to the Irish parliament. But it goes

00:47:51.300 back to Marx, Karl Marx in the Theses on Feuerbach. His conclusion in the Theses on Feuerbach is that

00:47:56.320 the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, but the point is to change it.

00:48:02.240 But I don't think that's how you learn. Stanford looks at this and they say, hey,

00:48:06.040 the black kids are sitting by themselves and they're not at least in this friend group there's 0.99

00:48:10.480 not not enough black we got to need to put a black kid in there and we need a chick and we 1.00

00:48:14.240 need a guy and we need and you know what they don't look good enough it's not attractive enough 1.00

00:48:18.000 so what instead of asking why are things the way that they are if even if you want to improve

00:48:22.560 something you have to know why things are the way that they are well in that case rather than

00:48:29.080 think about that they they decide no no we're just going to change it all absolutely ironic

00:48:34.620 because the whole point of the university is to understand the world, is to come to know the truth.

00:48:38.500 Okay, before we go, there's so much more I want to talk about today. There's so much more. But

00:48:42.900 before we go, I do want to talk about Hitler. There's apparently a new story out that Hitler

00:48:51.160 might have killed someone. Did you? Well, no, I guess I should say Hitler might have killed

00:48:55.080 another person. Hitler is now suspected, according to some historians, in the death

00:49:01.140 of his niece, Geli Raubal. Geli Raubal, who, I don't know if you're familiar with this story.

00:49:06.220 If you've ever read about Hitler, this is one of the weirder episodes. He had this niece, Geli,

00:49:11.520 and he lived with her and he was very possessive of her. And when she started dating one of his

00:49:15.540 staffers, he forced her to break up with him. And I think Eva Braun later on said she felt she was

00:49:20.840 living in this niece's shadow. It's unclear if Hitler had like a super weird, super duper weird

00:49:26.940 relationship with his niece, but he at least had a pretty weird relationship with his niece.

00:49:30.060 and anyway she wanted to go off and get married and hitler said no and they had a big fight about

00:49:34.520 this hitler goes to nuremberg and she kills herself and then he has to come back and he

00:49:38.280 falls into a depression well there's a new story out there that says no actually that was all an

00:49:44.020 alibi there's some document that shows that hitler was actually in town perhaps at the apartment the

00:49:49.260 day that the niece killed herself maybe he killed her and you know it's like you just right when you

00:49:55.060 think you know a guy he goes and does something that totally transforms your opinion of okay

00:50:00.100 i actually don't buy this story i don't think it's true i think other historians of hitler

00:50:05.460 also don't really buy this it's probably more like a clerical error on the death certificate or

00:50:09.660 on then the idea that hitler actually murdered her the i mean i you know i guess it wouldn't

00:50:14.740 surprise me if he did but in this case i don't i don't really believe it and i guess my political

00:50:18.900 takeaway here is if we're going to draw any political lesson from this case of hitler's

00:50:23.060 fascination with his niece. We don't need to embellish. We don't need to embellish. We don't

00:50:28.720 need to overstate our case. Sometimes we overstate our case. We all do that in politics. And

00:50:33.580 I'll tie it all the way back to the midterm elections. Every election, every single election

00:50:38.180 here, this is the most important election in our lifetime. From every little race for dog catcher

00:50:42.940 in Palookaville, this is the most important election in our lifetime. And it's not. I don't

00:50:47.440 think this midterm is the most important election in our lifetime. It certainly involves the most

00:50:53.460 radical candidates we've ever had. It's a very consequential election. It could set the stage

00:50:59.780 for the most important election in our lifetime, but we don't have to embellish. I think we can be

00:51:03.860 very blunt. If the Democrats win here, they are going to do everything they can to destroy the

00:51:09.240 Trump administration, to destroy Republicans' chances of winning in 2028. That, I think,

00:51:13.400 is going to be their real goal, and I think they're going to do it pretty effectively if they win.

00:51:18.200 They are then, if they really take power,

00:51:21.480 they are going to abolish the Department of Homeland Security. 1.00

00:51:24.020 They're going to trans all the kids. 1.00

00:51:25.440 They're going to take away a lot of your property. 1.00

00:51:27.380 They're going to flood the country with millions and millions of foreigners. 1.00

00:51:30.000 They're going to give amnesty to probably tens of millions of foreigners. 1.00

00:51:33.360 They're very likely going to destroy the Supreme Court. 1.00

00:51:36.040 They're going, this is just according to their promises.

00:51:37.920 This is just what they're saying they're going to do.

00:51:39.320 They're going to give statehood to Washington, D.C.,

00:51:41.480 which is going to permanently alter the balance of power in the country 0.54

00:51:44.380 and the Electoral College.

00:51:45.720 They're going to maintain a hold on power for an inestimably long time. 0.89

00:51:50.520 And they're going to use that to advantage foreigners and criminals over the American people and innocent people. 0.63

00:51:57.440 And that's what they're going to do. 0.72

00:51:59.040 That's what they tell us they're going to do.

00:52:01.500 We don't need to embellish the stakes.

00:52:03.180 They're really, really bad.

00:52:03.940 Okay, I know I'm running over.

00:52:05.200 I don't care.

00:52:05.840 You know why?

00:52:07.140 Because today is a very special day.

00:52:09.180 I wanted to go to this ceremony.

00:52:11.000 As you know, I'm on baby watch, and I'm in the throes of a lot of work right now.

00:52:14.680 so I was not able to do it. It's mostly the baby watch, though, that keeps me from traveling.

00:52:18.700 It's the beatification of Fulton Sheen. Fulton Sheen, who was the first televangelist. This is

00:52:25.160 a great little bit of trivia. You can ask people, who was the first televangelist? And a lot of

00:52:29.440 people are going to say, oh, I think it was Billy Graham. I think it was Jerry Falwell. I think it

00:52:32.520 was Oral Roberts. It's actually not true. The first televangelist was a Catholic bishop,

00:52:38.300 Archbishop Fulton Sheen. He had a massive television program. He was the man. Here's

00:52:44.580 just, if you're not familiar with Fulton Sheen, here's just a little clip.

00:52:48.640 False compassion, which is gradually growing in this country,

00:52:54.340 is a pity that is shown not to the mugged, but to the mugger.

00:53:04.180 Not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.

00:53:09.480 not to the woman who was raped

00:53:14.420 but to the rapist

00:53:18.160 this is the false compassion

00:53:19.920 how did it start

00:53:24.560 it started in literature

00:53:29.860 in the novels of William Saroyan

00:53:35.200 John Steinbeck

00:53:37.240 Then the novels of Mandel, James Jones, and others, in which pity is shown to every kind of pervert and degenerate.

00:53:49.300 He's going on, Fulton Sheen, not pulling any punches, haranguing the perverts he's going after.

00:53:56.280 This is in the 1950s.

00:53:58.260 The show ran for a fairly long time.

00:54:00.080 He's going on, there's all these movements, the pro-homosexual movement, the pro-criminal movement, the pro this.

00:54:06.840 he's not pulling any punches whatsoever. He's talking about this issue more broadly of always

00:54:12.340 giving the advantage to the wrongdoers rather than the people who have been wronged.

00:54:19.420 Fulton Sheen, not only a very, very important televangelist, not only a very, very important

00:54:24.060 figure in the church, not only now a beatified person, which is the step right before someone

00:54:30.700 as canonized as a saint by the church, but a prophet for our times. Because that lecture,

00:54:38.320 he's going without any notes, going really, really hard on the social issues at the time

00:54:42.280 from the wisdom of the church. That could have been given in 2026. He wouldn't have had to

00:54:47.960 change a single word. He might have had to dumb it down a little bit, but he wouldn't have had

00:54:50.940 to change a single word on the actual points that he's making. The only reason you couldn't

00:54:56.080 air it maybe in 2026 is because we didn't heed his warning. Okay. So I'm here. I've got my Runewood

00:55:00.520 Rosary, Fulton Sheen Rosary that just came right in time for the beatification. And fittingly,

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 24, 2026

Ep. 2067 - ＂You Can See Everything＂： My Take On The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary

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