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00:00:27.420 Social media CEOs head to Capitol Hill and promise censorship to their political overlords.

00:00:32.760 We will analyze the sniveling testimony.

00:00:35.220 Then, Alex Jones, shirtless vitamin salesman, actually makes a good point.

00:00:39.860 Scientists extol the health benefits of friending God, and Pope Francis tells his critics to shut up.

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00:01:05.300 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:14.440 I sat through all of that testimony just for you.

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00:03:01.880 CEOs and having them blather on and on about we have to censor people.

00:03:05.660 This was really frustrating.

00:03:07.200 I actually have some pity for Jack Dorsey here.

00:03:11.780 I think Jack Dorsey, he's not a crazed leftist.

00:03:14.800 He's not really an activist.

00:03:16.180 He seems to have the entire world angry with him right now.

00:03:19.180 At first, it looked like Jack Dorsey of Twitter was going to resist calls for censorship.

00:03:23.780 He was saying, no, we're not going to censor Alex Jones.

00:03:25.740 No, we're not going to censor this guy.

00:03:27.080 No, we're not going to censor that guy.

00:03:28.420 And then he caved.

00:03:29.220 He totally caved without any explanation.

00:03:31.600 And there's shadow banning going on at that company.

00:03:33.980 We know there's shadow banning.

00:03:35.060 There are actually reports that before this testimony, suddenly, magically, all of those

00:03:40.180 shadow bans were lifted because there are services where you can check it.

00:03:43.480 So they're aware of this.

00:03:44.980 This bias runs deep.

00:03:46.320 Jack Dorsey admitted that his company has a left wing bias when he was talking to Brian

00:03:49.500 Stelter a couple of weeks ago on CNN.

00:03:52.060 I know that nobody watches CNN, but I watch it for you so that I can explain these insightful

00:03:56.940 moments like when Jack Dorsey admits his own bias.

00:03:59.480 But I want to take you through his testimony line by line because he sounds almost as though

00:04:06.060 he's serious and unbiased and willing to take action.

00:04:10.900 And when you actually parse the wording, you realize it's exactly the opposite.

00:04:15.280 So here's Jack Dorsey.

00:04:16.240 In any public space, you'll find inspired ideas and you'll find lies and deception.

00:04:24.260 People who want to help others and unify and people who want to hurt others and themselves

00:04:29.740 and divide.

00:04:31.840 What separates a physical and digital public space is greater accessibility and velocity.

00:04:37.940 We're extremely proud of helping to increase the accessibility and velocity of a simple,

00:04:45.960 free, and open exchange.

00:04:48.820 We believe people will learn faster by being exposed to a wide range of opinions and ideas,

00:04:54.580 and it helps make our nation and the world feel a little bit smaller.

00:05:00.300 Now listen to those words, because this all sounds great, doesn't it?

00:05:03.660 Simple, free, open exchange of ideas.

00:05:07.120 That's what all of these tech companies are saying they are.

00:05:10.380 We are an open platform.

00:05:12.380 We're not publishers.

00:05:13.540 We're not activists.

00:05:14.740 We're not a campaign organization.

00:05:16.860 This is a very important distinction because if the tech companies are publishers, then they're

00:05:21.560 going to be liable for all of the copyright violations that are uploaded to them.

00:05:24.860 They're going to be liable for some of their campaign work.

00:05:26.900 If they're seen to be punishing certain candidates, helping out other candidates, that could be an

00:05:30.480 in-kind donation.

00:05:31.520 That could lead to campaign finance questions.

00:05:33.600 So he's very, very clear.

00:05:34.860 He says this is about an open, simple exchange of ideas.

00:05:39.200 Just like we have the public square, we also have the digital public square, and that is

00:05:43.560 what Twitter is.

00:05:44.940 And by the way, for anyone who's ever visited public squares, crazy people go to public squares 0.96

00:05:48.620 and shout a bunch of nonsense. 0.88

00:05:50.180 That's fine. 0.95

00:05:50.880 That's what happens.

00:05:51.800 That's called the free and open exchange of ideas.

00:05:53.240 So that's how he sets us up.

00:05:55.040 All sounds great, Jack.

00:05:57.160 Tell us more.

00:05:59.400 We are proud of how that free and open exchange has been weaponized and used to distract and

00:06:05.120 divide people and our nation.

00:06:08.860 We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've

00:06:14.360 acknowledged.

00:06:14.780 What?

00:06:19.200 Excuse me?

00:06:20.180 You'll notice that word weaponized.

00:06:21.900 This is the line that the left uses a lot now when they say, they say, I really like

00:06:26.440 free speech, but, and then they negate everything that came before the but, they use the word

00:06:30.580 weaponized.

00:06:32.000 But if free speech is a good thing, then weaponizing free speech is also a good thing, right?

00:06:36.020 If it's, it doesn't, weaponizing, how do you weaponize a good thing?

00:06:39.920 To weaponize it, right, is to, is to use it against your adversaries and against your

00:06:44.560 opponents.

00:06:45.340 But that's the purpose of free speech.

00:06:47.180 That's not perverting the nature of free speech.

00:06:49.140 That's not distorting it.

00:06:50.340 That's actually using free speech for its intended purpose.

00:06:53.280 The whole reason that we have a public square is so that we can exchange ideas that we disagree

00:06:59.140 with.

00:06:59.700 He says we want the open, simple exchange of ideas.

00:07:02.620 Well, if you're exchanging ideas, presumably that exchange is not going to be of ideas

00:07:07.940 that are exactly the same.

00:07:09.200 Then you're not exchanging anything.

00:07:10.360 There's no trade going on at all.

00:07:11.680 You're just a chorus.

00:07:12.940 But when you have an exchange, then you are using language.

00:07:16.480 You're using words to convey ideas that oppose other people's ideas.

00:07:21.260 Now, you can call that weaponizing them, but that's the exact purpose of free speech.

00:07:26.560 All of politics, politics comes down at its most essential core to meaningful speech.

00:07:32.620 To people who use speech to convince their other countrymen or their citizens or whatever

00:07:38.320 of one policy or another policy.

00:07:41.720 To influence them in one way or the other.

00:07:43.840 To persuade them, to convince them that one course of action is better than another course

00:07:48.680 of action.

00:07:50.040 To call it weaponizing is just to say, I really support free speech, but I hate when free

00:07:55.380 speech is used as free speech.

00:07:56.940 That's what he's saying.

00:07:57.700 Go on, Jack.

00:07:58.280 Abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots and human coordination, misinformation

00:08:07.740 campaigns, and divisive filter bubbles.

00:08:11.200 That's not a healthy public square.

00:08:14.680 Worse, a relatively small number of bad faith actors were able to game Twitter to have an

00:08:20.160 outsized impact.

00:08:20.960 Okay, so let's just use the word propaganda to begin.

00:08:25.560 He says, propaganda is infiltrating the public square.

00:08:29.300 Propaganda is the essence of the public square.

00:08:32.160 Propaganda is making an argument for just one side of a dispute.

00:08:38.560 So if you say, well, Fox News is propaganda.

00:08:42.900 Fox News is not their news programming, but their commentary programming.

00:08:46.100 That's propaganda for a conservative point of view.

00:08:49.660 Sure, some of it might be, but MSNBC is propaganda for a left-wing point of view. 0.67

00:08:54.420 I don't say that Rachel Maddow can't have her free speech.

00:08:58.260 I mean, what would happen to my show if I said Rachel Maddow isn't entitled to her free 0.99

00:09:02.000 speech?

00:09:02.520 But likewise, I don't say Sean Hannity isn't entitled to his.

00:09:05.120 What is propaganda?

00:09:06.500 Propaganda is a one-sided argument.

00:09:09.580 It's a one-sided point of view of a political issue.

00:09:11.800 So that exists there.

00:09:12.660 I also love that he says that people and robots and robots under human control are infiltrating

00:09:19.660 the public square.

00:09:21.460 What are those robots that aren't under human control?

00:09:24.160 What are those guys doing there? 0.74

00:09:25.740 I actually do think that we should maybe attack them.

00:09:28.760 We need to weaponize weapons against the robots who have broken free and are attacking us.

00:09:34.340 But as for the robots that are being controlled by humans, and by that we just mean humans who

00:09:38.660 are using technology to convince people of their own political goals, which is what we're

00:09:43.860 all doing when we use computers or cell phones or this show or anything, that isn't some nefarious

00:09:51.140 turn of events or innovation.

00:09:52.720 That is what these platforms were built for.

00:09:55.400 So again, he's just constantly using, he says, I love free speech, but I hate what free speech

00:09:59.340 is used for and I hate when it is used and how it is used and through what media it is used.

00:10:03.920 Go on, Jack.

00:10:05.120 We're now removing over 200% more accounts for violating our policies.

00:10:09.780 We're identifying and challenging 8 to 10 million suspicious accounts every week.

00:10:14.860 And we're thwarting over a half million accounts from logging in to Twitter every single day.

00:10:21.280 We've learned from 2016 and more recently from other nations' elections how to protect

00:10:27.000 the integrity of elections.

00:10:29.820 Better tools, stronger policy, and new partnerships are already in place.

00:10:37.000 What integrity of elections?

00:10:38.420 What integrity of elections is being threatened here?

00:10:41.220 Is Twitter being used to go in and change voting machines?

00:10:44.920 Is Twitter being used to go in and disrupt buses and stop people from getting to the polls?

00:10:50.860 Is that?

00:10:51.180 No, of course not.

00:10:52.560 What Twitter is the public square.

00:10:54.100 It's not the voting machine.

00:10:54.900 It's not the election.

00:10:55.900 It's not the ballot counter.

00:10:57.320 It's not the car that takes you to the polls.

00:10:59.660 It's a public square.

00:11:01.760 So when we're talking about interfering in elections, what you're really talking about,

00:11:04.600 as you've been talking the whole time, is political speech.

00:11:07.940 You're saying, now people are using Twitter for political speech.

00:11:11.400 That's the whole purpose of it.

00:11:12.800 I thought free speech was the whole point, the open exchange of ideas in a public forum.

00:11:16.040 So yes, they are doing that.

00:11:17.620 Listen to how he says he's fixing this.

00:11:19.140 He's saying that his answer, his way to fix the problems with Twitter, which are censorship

00:11:24.180 and shadow banning and treating conservatives unfairly and artificially boosting left-wing

00:11:28.560 views, the way he's combating that is banning 200% more people, is questioning 8 to 10 million

00:11:36.720 accounts, is regularly preventing half a million accounts from logging on.

00:11:40.980 He's saying our way, because Twitter is supposed to be an open public square for the free exchange

00:11:47.960 of ideas, and something has gone wrong in that.

00:11:50.800 So the way we're going to make it open and free and keep exchanging ideas is booting off

00:11:54.740 millions and millions of people and harassing them and making it harder to use the service.

00:12:00.020 That's his set of solutions.

00:12:02.100 That's what he thinks is going to help.

00:12:04.120 Is there any more, Jack?

00:12:05.000 Do you have anything more to say?

00:12:05.940 Oh, that's all.

00:12:10.400 We'll have to, we'll have to, it goes on and on and on.

00:12:13.120 I guess we can cut it there because it's, it's more of the same.

00:12:17.260 It's all more of the same.

00:12:18.680 He's totally wrong here.

00:12:19.980 When I was watching this testimony, it was so clear that the, the, the problem with Twitter

00:12:25.960 is not that conservatives have points of view.

00:12:29.760 It's not that foreign people are on Twitter.

00:12:33.900 It's an international platform.

00:12:34.960 It's not only Americans.

00:12:36.180 You can't say that we're colluding with other people, other nations, whatever people are

00:12:39.640 open, able to have an open exchange of ideas.

00:12:41.880 It's not that there's too much of that.

00:12:43.620 The, the main problem with Twitter is censorship.

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00:14:08.640 The, the solution here is all those, the 200 million you're kicking off of Twitter, the,

00:14:14.680 the 10 million or the 200% more that you're kicking off, the, the 8 to 10 million,

00:14:19.940 that you're regularly questioning, the half a million that you're preventing from logging

00:14:23.040 on.

00:14:23.920 That's the problem.

00:14:25.780 The solution that he proposes is the problem.

00:14:28.980 Transparency is another problem, but that is the problem.

00:14:31.580 I, I was, there, I was recently rereading, uh, an essay or a speech, I suppose, by John

00:14:36.500 Milton.

00:14:36.900 He's the guy who wrote Paradise Lost, and it's called the Areopagitica, and it's, it is one

00:14:41.280 of the greatest defenses of free speech ever.

00:14:43.420 He gave it, uh, he gave it before Parliament, and it is this resounding defense of free speech.

00:14:49.640 I'm, I'm seriously considering posting all 19,000 or 20,000 words of the Areopagitica to

00:14:57.120 Twitter, tweet by tweet, because there is a total misunderstanding and lack of appreciation

00:15:01.520 of the free exchange of ideas and free speech, and what makes this testimony so Orwellian is

00:15:06.240 the whole introduction is how this, we want Twitter to be a free, open platform, a free,

00:15:10.700 open platform, BS, pal, clearly not, because all the rest of your testimony negated that.

00:15:17.360 The reason they're so insistent on this is because they don't want to get regulated like

00:15:21.140 publishers, they don't want to get regulated like political actors, they don't want to

00:15:23.940 get regulated out of business, but you've got to live up to what your, to what your platform

00:15:29.460 is supposed to be, what it was founded to be, because coincidentally, while all of this

00:15:32.900 was happening, we witnessed the biggest one-day drop in tech stocks in months.

00:15:38.840 It dragged the NASDAQ down, it hit Twitter especially hard, Twitter was down 5.2%, Google's

00:15:45.520 down 1.7% at the highest, I think they've rebounded a little by now.

00:15:49.140 And by the way, I'm not saying that this is caused by the testimony, we're not even sure

00:15:53.740 if the testimony has, is priced into this yet, but certainly it is the case that all

00:15:58.340 of the scandals that have plagued big tech in recent months, all of which, by the way,

00:16:03.680 are related to how freely information is exchanged, the privacy issues, the censorship issues,

00:16:10.200 the shadow of any, all of that creates uncertainty in tech stocks because the tech stocks are not

00:16:16.240 doing what they're supposed to do. Either Twitter is going to be an open platform and

00:16:20.320 it's going to be Twitter or there won't be Twitter. It's not going to be something else.

00:16:24.760 The left always goes in and perverts these institutions. Either Twitter will do what it

00:16:29.580 does or there won't be a Twitter. It will just disappear. And we know this, by the way. Look

00:16:34.540 at the decline in users. So a new study came out from Pew Research. 42% of Facebook users have taken

00:16:42.780 a break from the platform in the past year. 42%. That is a shocking amount. I mean, I use it all

00:16:49.400 the time. Obviously, we broadcast on these platforms. These platforms have given conservatives

00:16:53.740 such an opportunity. That's why the left is so angry. That's why the left is pressuring them

00:16:58.040 to censor all of us because it's given us such an opportunity to get our views out unvarnished

00:17:02.740 to the American people. You know, for decades and decades and decades, the mainstream media

00:17:06.660 had this awful monopoly. They controlled the point of view. A conservative could never get

00:17:10.700 his point of view out to the people. It would only be seen through a perverted and distorted

00:17:15.060 narrative lens of the mainstream media. We crashed that because of social media. Now they're

00:17:19.940 trying to take it back. That's why they're so furious. This is why Trump has got to keep

00:17:23.980 tweeting. I know there's the conservative, sort of conservative, aristocratic, oh no,

00:17:30.000 pish posh, he shouldn't tweet. Take the phone away. No, the phone's the whole thing. I'm here

00:17:33.360 for the phone. Keep tweeting. Tweeting is the way that we're able to get our message out

00:17:36.780 unvarnished. In the case of President Trump, it's very unvarnished. It's very, it's not really

00:17:42.360 polished up at all. But that's fine. You're getting that point of view across. In the last

00:17:47.240 year, 54% of Facebook users have adjusted their privacy settings. Over a quarter of

00:17:53.780 Facebook users in the past year, a quarter, 26% have deleted the app from their phone.

00:18:00.600 And Facebook's a mobile platform now. People use it on mobile much more than they use it

00:18:04.180 on desktop. 26% have deleted the app from their phone. That is a shocking number. And

00:18:11.080 it gets even more shocking because it's specifically among young people who've done it. That number,

00:18:16.100 when you look at just 18 to 29-year-old Facebook users, 44% have deleted the app from their

00:18:21.120 phone. That is a terrifying number for Facebook. Because I think the number is only 12% have

00:18:26.360 deleted it from their phone for 65 and over. But of that young group, it's so high. Why

00:18:31.740 is it? Because there's no transparency. Because these big tech companies have abused privacy

00:18:35.980 settings. They've used data dishonestly. And because they are censoring half of their audience.

00:18:42.840 They're saying, no, you can't. No, this isn't fair. When people don't play

00:18:46.060 by the rules, we get very sick of it. We tune out. It's all about trust. It's all about,

00:18:51.540 do we trust these companies? Now, I don't want to harp on this too much because we could talk

00:18:55.920 about social media all day. I'm sure there's going to be fallout from this. Before we move

00:18:58.960 on, I do have to get to the best part of all of the hearings. Mr. Jones, take it away.

00:19:04.200 It's happening here. It's happening here, but you say I don't exist.

00:19:09.000 Is that a heckler or a pricey? I don't know. Look at this guy. He's saying that I don't

00:19:12.380 exist. You're not from here. I just don't know who you are, man. I don't read your website.

00:19:15.920 Sure. And they demonize me in these very hearings. And then he plays dumb. Infowars.com,

00:19:21.180 you know what it is. Oh, well. Does Google, does Facebook, does Google, does Google,

00:19:23.620 does Google, does Google, does Google, do they need to be regulated? Do they need to be regulated?

00:19:27.060 Mark a room to go to the snake. A little frat boy here. All right, man. Yeah.

00:19:31.000 Who are you? Yeah, sure. I swear to God, I don't know who you are, man. You better hope

00:19:33.800 you do deplatforming. Tens of millions of views. Infowars. Better than Rice Limbaugh. He knows

00:19:38.240 who Infowars is. Play this joke over here. That's why, hey, the deplatforming didn't work.

00:19:41.920 But here's the question. Here's the question. Don't touch me again, man. I'm asking you not

00:19:45.780 to touch me. Well, sure, I'll just pat you nicely. I know, but I don't want to be, I don't

00:19:48.280 know who you are. You want me to get arrested? It's not just going to take my first amendment.

00:19:51.120 It's not just enough to take my first amendment. Oh, oh, he'll beat me up. Did you? I didn't say that.

00:19:55.020 I didn't know who I am, but he's so mad. You're not going to silence me. You're not

00:19:58.060 going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. There are people 1.00

00:20:02.500 in this country. Rubio just threatened to physically take care of me.

00:20:06.300 So there's so much here. If you couldn't hear that, that would be Mr. Marco Rubio and Alex

00:20:12.140 Jones comes into this little press gaggle and just starts getting right in Rubio's face. 0.96

00:20:17.100 There's a big debate happening right now over how Rubio handled this. I got to say, I think

00:20:21.760 he could have handled it better. I don't think this was the best way. If Alex Jones gets up in

00:20:25.220 your face, starts screaming at you, you're at a hearing about big tech censorship of people.

00:20:32.440 Alex Jones is one of the big faces of tech censoring people on the right. I use the term

00:20:39.060 the right broadly because Alex Jones probably wouldn't be considered a conservative or call

00:20:43.620 himself a conservative. He's a little more out there than that, but certainly he does fall broadly

00:20:48.560 within the right. There is no way that Marco Rubio doesn't know who he is. Of course Marco

00:20:53.280 Rubio knows who he is. Everybody knows who he is. He's on TV all the time because Alex Jones,

00:20:57.340 as you saw in that clip, is very good at making a spectacle. So of course he does. I just felt

00:21:02.860 like this is the kind of classic politician response. Oh, I haven't seen that. Whenever

00:21:07.560 there's a damaging video or somebody does a hit piece or does a damaging advertisement or

00:21:13.200 something, they would say, oh, I haven't seen it. I've heard about it, but I haven't seen

00:21:15.540 it. And they deny it and they deny it, but that's not credible here. And then Marco Rubio

00:21:19.760 says, I swear to God, I don't know who you are, which is, I think for a lot of listeners,

00:21:23.820 a little jarring because we all know that Marco Rubio knows who Alex Jones is. So when you say,

00:21:29.140 I swear to God, you just think, what are you doing here? What is the game that you're playing?

00:21:34.860 And also Alex Jones isn't going to take that for an answer. And I'll show you how this ends up to

00:21:39.660 to give you a recap on Alex Jones's media strategy. Here is the rest of that altercation.

00:21:45.620 The Democrats are raping InfoWars. What's the difference between, you know, misinformation

00:21:49.740 from abroad and differences of opinion within the United States? Yeah, and that's happening here.

00:21:53.760 It's a very fine line and that's something we need to be careful about. We don't overreach

00:21:56.760 in that direction. But then he doesn't know about InfoWars being made. He doesn't know

00:21:59.780 about the top of his story in the country. Not just how they apply that within the United States,

00:22:04.140 InfoWars.com is better than ever. But they don't have reasons of authoritarian regimes

00:22:06.800 abroad to crack down on free speech because there's a balance between what is free speech

00:22:14.820 and what people disagree on. Poor Rubio. I've got to go to the committee. You guys can talk

00:22:20.860 to this clown. Oh, yeah. Look, he's a little frat boy. So cool. Back to your bathhouse. 0.99

00:22:27.940 Back to your bathhouse. He says, I mean, it's just so what this I pity Marco Rubio here because

00:22:36.780 you know, what was he going to do in this situation? But I think that what he did was

00:22:43.160 just leave at the end, right? He said, OK, I'm leaving my little press gaggle and you guys

00:22:47.440 can talk to Alex Jones. I'm getting out of here because it was so awkward. It was not

00:22:50.920 making good video. It didn't look good. He should have done that the second he saw Alex

00:22:55.000 Jones from down the hallway. So like, nope, Nadia, see ya. You can't win an altercation 0.99

00:23:00.320 with Alex Jones. That's not going to happen. Alex Jones creates spectacle. There is no way

00:23:05.900 to win that. There's no way to look cool doing that. Denying that you know who he is,

00:23:09.780 trying to laugh at him, trying to get in his face, trying to threaten him, whatever.

00:23:12.760 It doesn't work. The guy is immune to it. They're turning the frogs gay, you know? I mean, 1.00

00:23:17.500 that's really... So I think he should have just walked away sooner. If you get down into a fight

00:23:22.520 with Alex Jones, you can't leave it looking good. You can't leave... This is true of a lot of people

00:23:27.960 in politics, but you can't leave it looking good. When it's a lose, lose, lose, get out of there.

00:23:32.240 He should have done it sooner, but I do have some sympathy for Marco Rubio. Alex Jones,

00:23:37.280 regardless of whether they're turning the frogs gay or any, you know, conspiracy theories of Alex

00:23:41.840 Jones's, you've got to give the guy credit because he's so compelling on camera. He's so entertaining.

00:23:46.880 We've got more because... And by the way, Alex Jones makes a very good point in the midst of all this

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00:25:09.380 Branch.com, promo code Michael. So in the midst of all of this, in the bathhouse comments and

00:25:15.580 bullying, whatever, you know, Alex Jones is doing, he actually made a good point. He made a good

00:25:20.340 point at a separate moment when he was addressing the press. Here, here is Alex Jones actually making

00:25:26.380 a compelling statement, much more compelling than what Jack Dorsey was saying. I'm gonna

00:25:30.760 tell you why I'm here. Say sorry to the Sandy Hook parents, Alex. I am here because there is a

00:25:36.420 concerted effort by the Democratic Party and multinational corporations and big tech to silence

00:25:41.560 conservative and nationalist and populist voices ahead of this critical midterm election. And the big tech

00:25:47.940 companies and the head of Apple admit that they met with Senator Warner, who's running this whole

00:25:52.940 thing, to begin shutting down conservatives or the Democrats threatened to federalize big tech 0.65

00:25:58.740 if they did not basically roll over to them. That's a great point. He is making a great point

00:26:03.980 right there, which is that there is a concerted effort by not just the left in America, but the sort

00:26:10.620 of transnational, you know, world federalist, European Union, UN, Kumbaya chorus crowd, which

00:26:19.420 includes multinational corporations, to stamp down voices, to tamp down threads of nationalism, of

00:26:26.400 patriotism, of conservatism, trying to tamp those down because it doesn't go along with the political

00:26:32.900 order that they think is inevitable. That is 100% correct. We're going to be speaking to the political

00:26:37.900 philosopher Yoram Hazoni about this a little later. I think we'll air that interview next week. But

00:26:43.220 that is a very good point. And he's right about Mark Warner, too. They, Mark Warner submitted his

00:26:48.740 proposals for what he was going to do to big tech if big tech didn't go around and start censoring

00:26:55.300 voices that they, that Mark Warner doesn't like. And part of that was, we're going to regulate you

00:26:59.720 into the ground. We're going to federalize you. We're going to this, that, and the other thing.

00:27:02.740 This is actually a really good point. And it makes me go back and forth on Jones, which is

00:27:06.680 if he, if he can make a good point like this in between talking about the gay frogs, like 0.92

00:27:12.720 maybe he, maybe he should just do that. Maybe he should do that instead of just screaming in 0.76

00:27:17.740 Marco Rubio's face and creating a spectacle. I don't know. I, I, I certainly prefer the spectacle

00:27:22.720 because it's a lot more funny and interesting to watch, but this is a really important point.

00:27:27.500 And it does get to the core of our debate over nationalism today and what the role of companies

00:27:32.000 are in a country. But we'll get to that a little bit later. So all of big tech is really floundering

00:27:38.980 right now. Just look at the stock market. And if you can't look at the stock market, look at the

00:27:42.300 user numbers, look at Facebook losing daily users for the first time ever, just, just this year.

00:27:48.540 Same thing with Twitter. Same thing happened for monthly users with Twitter. One of the solutions for

00:27:54.160 this is it was a study that just came out of the university of Michigan, which is that we need to

00:27:59.160 friend God. That was the headline. You need to friend God, like you're friending him on Facebook,

00:28:04.580 but friend God in real life. And I, it's a kind of cheap headline, you know, it's a, it's a little

00:28:10.980 kitschy or something, but I really do like the point because what the study found is that religious 0.91

00:28:16.560 people have a stronger sense of belonging and purpose in life. Of course, this is true. If you live

00:28:22.300 in the modern materialist nihilist worldview that everything is just a big cosmic accident, it's a tale told 1.00

00:28:29.040 by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The only even plausible purpose of life is to 1.00

00:28:35.260 pleasure yourself until you die. If that's your point of view, you're not going to have a sense of purpose

00:28:39.860 because that worldview precludes the possibility of a sense of purpose. If you believe in God, particularly

00:28:46.500 the Judeo-Christian version of God, then you're going to feel a real sense of purpose. If you have theistic religion, 0.94

00:28:53.220 you're going to feel purpose because there is a purpose. There's a teleology. This is true even if

00:28:57.200 you, if you were living around in old uncle Aristotle's day, that there was the purpose to

00:29:02.500 life, a purpose to do the good, to pursue virtues, which is totally missing in that materialist point

00:29:07.060 of view. So that, that makes a lot of sense. The study also found that friendless people, people who

00:29:11.220 don't have a lot of friends or don't have a big social circle, are more likely to lack direction and

00:29:15.840 struggle with meaning. Uh, fair enough. Uh, I mean, this is true at all. Everybody goes through this

00:29:21.660 at a certain point of life. They feel a little lonely, not all the time, but some of you go

00:29:25.020 through a period and you say, I'm a little lonely right now. I don't whatever, maybe later you got

00:29:28.260 a big social circle. Uh, and when you're lonely, when you're isolated, when you don't have a lot of

00:29:32.760 human contact, then you can kind of get lost in your own head and get lost in what your sense of

00:29:36.820 purpose is in the world. Uh, so what the lead author of this study, Todd Chan says, is that for the

00:29:41.320 socially disconnected, God may serve as a substitute relationship that compensates

00:29:45.280 for some of the purpose the human relationships would normally provide. This is where it goes

00:29:50.000 totally wrong. Because, because it is true for people who, uh, who lack, uh, substantive social

00:29:57.620 relationships in, you know, with human beings, God can help them. God can also help people who do have

00:30:03.560 a lot of friends in the real world, in the physical world. God can help people who've got some friends

00:30:08.740 and not others and who have good work friends and this and that and the other thing. Uh, it, it isn't a

00:30:13.460 substitute relationship. Your relationship with God is the foundational relationship.

00:30:17.540 So it isn't, it, I think what the authors of the study are saying is if you don't have any friends,

00:30:22.180 make an imaginary friend, a big guy in the sky with a beard. But that isn't what God is at all.

00:30:26.340 God is the foundation of those relationships. God is the basis of all meaningful speech. God is the

00:30:30.660 basis of our consciousness. And if you've got a good relationship with God, you're going to have a

00:30:35.400 better relationship with your friends. If you have a good relationship with God, you're going to have a

00:30:38.900 better relationship with your spouse or your boyfriend or girlfriend. Uh, that is, that is the

00:30:42.840 root. People get this totally backwards in the world because they think that the tangible is what

00:30:47.220 is ultimate. The physical is what is ultimately true. But that, that isn't the case. This is a very

00:30:52.240 modern idea and it's very mistaken. The tangible is a metaphor for the foundational things, which are

00:30:58.260 metaphysical. Our, uh, our relationships with our friends are in many ways substitutes for our

00:31:03.540 relationship with God, or there are at least augmentations of that, or there are ancillary to that.

00:31:07.940 So I wish they got that right, but it's very, very true. I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and

00:31:11.860 YouTube and we have a lot more to talk about. Speaking of God, we have to talk about Pope

00:31:15.220 Francis's new response to his critics. Not, not terribly polite. Uh, and, uh, it's two words

00:31:22.220 and they're not happy birthday. They're, they're shut up. That's what the words are. What were you 0.98

00:31:25.340 thinking? Uh, we also have to talk, we have a great, this day in America and this day, or this is

00:31:29.840 America and this day in history. Uh, but you watched Jack Dorsey today. You watched, you watched the

00:31:36.860 Kavanaugh hearings yesterday and today, you know what you need. I don't need to tell you. If you

00:31:40.980 go to dailywire.com, you'll get me, the Andrew Klavan show, the Ben Shapiro show. You get to

00:31:44.180 ask questions in the mailbag that's coming up tomorrow. Get them in. You'll get to ask questions

00:31:47.380 in the conversation. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. I'm not one for mixing spirits,

00:31:53.740 you know, beer before liquor, you'll never be sicker. Liquor before beer, you're all in the clear.

00:31:58.340 But do you put salty leftist tears from Kavanaugh's hearing before the salty leftist tears from Jack

00:32:05.340 Dorsey's hearing? Or do you have the salty leftist big tech tears before you have, it's very complicated

00:32:11.400 and you could get sick. Make sure you get this important tumbler, throw some ice cubes in,

00:32:15.920 splash it around, strain it in a martini glass, nice and chilled, throw an olive in there for good

00:32:19.860 measure. You're going to have a delicious cocktail. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a lot more.

00:32:24.460 That does sound delish, doesn't it? I'm getting the shakes already just thinking about my delicious

00:32:38.540 Kavanaugh hearing martini later. Yum, yum, yum. So speaking of God, Pope Francis is finally answering

00:32:44.900 some of his critics. He previously said in response to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's testimony that

00:32:52.560 he was complicit in covering up some clerical abuse of seminarians. He said, I will not say one word on

00:32:59.420 it. Well, now Pope Francis is saying more than one word on it. He said, quote, with people who lack

00:33:04.740 goodwill, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction,

00:33:11.360 even within the family, there is nothing to do, in brackets, but silence and prayer.

00:33:18.560 May the Lord give us the grace to discern when we should speak and when we should stay silent.

00:33:25.620 Oh my gosh. This is the, he was much better when he was saying, I'm not going to answer my critics.

00:33:31.780 He was, this was, that was a much more satisfying answer than saying, shut up. I mean, because that's

00:33:36.600 what this amounts to. He's saying, shut up. That is his answer. This is utterly unacceptable. This is a 0.99

00:33:42.600 totally unacceptable answer from the pontiff. And this is really amazing because from the beginning

00:33:48.720 you've had people who are not Catholic, who are not Christian in the mainstream media talking about

00:33:52.500 how wonderful the Francis pontificate is. Oh, he's so much better than that old Benedict. Benedict,

00:33:56.980 I don't, he, he was German and we don't like Germans or whatever they were saying. And now we see a 1.00

00:34:03.720 serious, incredible charge of corruption at the highest levels of the Vatican, all the way up to the

00:34:08.980 papacy. We didn't see these charges under Pope Benedict. We, now we're seeing this at the highest

00:34:14.200 levels. And what is Pope Francis saying? Is it this humble, I'm sorry, this is, okay, I'm going to

00:34:19.780 answer. I'm going to, no, it's shut up. That's the answer we're getting. This is totally unacceptable 0.82

00:34:24.000 and people need to be held to account. And I'm telling you, the bishops are not going to get away

00:34:30.640 with this. They're not going to get away with saying, oh, that's okay. It'll blow over. It'll blow over.

00:34:35.020 It won't blow over. The Catholic laity in particular, because we're the ones who donate

00:34:39.960 to the Bishop's Appeal and to all of the service, Catholic relief services, Catholic charities,

00:34:44.460 everything connected with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which actually in this case

00:34:48.060 has acted well enough to say there needs to be an investigation and this needs to be taken

00:34:52.600 seriously. We should not give a penny, not a penny to any of those things. We can give to our churches,

00:34:57.620 don't give to any of those bishops appeals or any of those bishop charities until answers are given, 0.69

00:35:03.780 until heads roll, corrupt prelates get out of here. I mean, Christ talks very clearly about what

00:35:10.200 should happen to those prelates who cause the least of his flock to sin. And it's that they should have

00:35:15.520 a, it would be better for them if they had a millstone tied around their neck and were cast

00:35:18.720 into the bottom of the sea. We should demand accountability. And this answer is just not

00:35:23.300 acceptable. Moving on, as I'll try to, I try to be measured when I'm talking about these ecclesial

00:35:28.940 things, but it's just unbelievable. This is a good way to feel better after watching big tech

00:35:38.120 implode, after watching our government implode, after watching the Catholic church not taking 0.99

00:35:41.940 responsibility for anything. This is very lovely. Jeffrey Jones. Jeffrey Jones was a regular character

00:35:50.940 in the latter seasons of the Cosby show. And he was always a good actor there. And so last week,

00:35:57.360 some wacko girl took photos of him at a Trader Joe's. He was working at a Trader Joe's and he,

00:36:05.820 she spread it. It was in the Daily Mail. It was going all over the place. So they're shaming this

00:36:10.900 guy for working an honest job. This is a totally honest job. Working at a store is a great thing.

00:36:16.180 He's contributing to his family. I know a lot of actors who don't work jobs.

00:36:19.080 Here is Jeffrey Owens explaining his reaction to it. I think this sums up the best of the American

00:36:26.560 attitude.

00:36:27.540 I got to a point where, you know, I've been teaching, acting, directing for, for 30 plus years,

00:36:34.840 but, you know, got to a point where, you know, it, it just, it just didn't add up enough, you know,

00:36:40.660 and you got to do what you got to do. I, I wanted a job that I could have some flexibility,

00:36:44.680 try to stay in the business. I didn't advertise that I was, you know, you know, at Trader Joe's

00:36:52.940 only, but not that I was ashamed of it, but because I didn't want the entertainment community

00:36:56.760 to kind of decide, well, he's doing that. He's not in, you know, he's not pursuing acting anymore.

00:37:01.700 You know what?

00:37:03.160 This makes perfect sense. This might not make sense to everybody, but having worked as an actor

00:37:07.280 before, you know, it, this does make sense to me. For those of you who can't see this, by the way,

00:37:12.140 Jeffrey Owens is wearing his Trader Joe's name tag and his Yale hat. He's a Yale-y,

00:37:17.960 Yale-y by alma mater, and he's wearing both of them at the same time. I love this. There is nothing

00:37:24.080 pretentious about this guy. He's working, as actors have to do, he's working a job in between

00:37:28.760 acting jobs because people who are even professional and working actors are almost never actually

00:37:35.860 working. A lot of the time, they're just sitting around waiting or going on auditions or whatever,

00:37:39.420 which doesn't pay a whole lot. Even when you book a gig for the vast majority of actors,

00:37:43.400 it does not pay a whole lot, which is why some of us have to stoop to take jobs at the Daily Wire

00:37:48.320 and write blank books. And I'm sorry, I was getting lost in my, my own head. And so he did this and

00:37:53.760 there's no shame in that. I know, I know actors, I kid you not, who go on the dole, who, who take

00:37:58.840 unemployment insurance or they take welfare checks. I have heard professional actors, professional

00:38:04.140 actors who have graduated from Yale refer to the welfare system as the public arts subsidy.

00:38:10.500 No shame, no shame whatsoever about taking their hand out from taxpayers because they want to do

00:38:15.680 their art, which doesn't have much demand in the marketplace. That's not what Jeffrey Owens did.

00:38:20.240 Jeffrey Owens, this is America, baby. He said, I'm going to go out, I'm going to pursue my dream.

00:38:24.840 I'm going to pursue this artistic form that I'm good at, that I've worked at a very,

00:38:28.540 very high level in, that I still work at, though at a, you know, less publicly than I did on this

00:38:34.520 big TV show. I'm going to keep pursuing all of that, that crazy American can do ambitious artistic

00:38:40.120 dream. And I'm going to work hard and I'm going to put money on the table because I have to support

00:38:44.700 my family and I have to be a responsible person. This is the best of America. He explains it even

00:38:49.960 more succinctly. I do want to say this, you know, that this business of my being this Cosby guy who got

00:38:57.100 shamed for working at Trader Joe's, that's going to pass. You know, that's going to, you know, in

00:39:03.020 some measure of time, that's going to pass away. But I hope what doesn't pass is this idea that

00:39:09.220 people are now thinking, this rethinking about what it means to work, you know, the honor of the

00:39:16.260 working person and the dignity of work. And I hope that this period that we're in now where we have a

00:39:21.420 heightened sensitivity about that and a reevaluation of what it means to work and that a reevaluation of

00:39:28.460 the idea that some jobs are better than others, because that's actually not true. There is no job

00:39:33.800 that's better than another job. It might pay better. It might have better benefits. It might look better

00:39:38.740 on a resume and on paper, but actually it's not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable. And

00:39:46.760 if, if we have a, uh, you know, a kind of a rethinking about that because of what's happened

00:39:51.280 to me, um, uh, that would be great, but no one should feel sorry for me.

00:39:56.940 One hundred percent correct. That is so correct. That is so clear. He's, he's making his alma mater

00:40:03.340 proud, baby. I mean, that is so right. What a, what a terrifically accurate American idea and sense of

00:40:10.260 work. Adam in the garden was told to work before the fall. Work is not a punishment in the garden of Eden.

00:40:16.220 Adam was told to work. It is in our nature, in the best parts of our nature to work. Work is a good

00:40:21.740 thing. I see this a lot with actors. I've experienced this. Actors get lazy. They just

00:40:25.940 kind of loaf around. They wait for the phone to ring and whatever. And it's very depressing when

00:40:30.280 people are out of work, they get depressed. In part, it's because the money isn't coming in. In part,

00:40:34.940 it's because we are made to work. This is why people who retire and then don't do anything in

00:40:39.140 retirement decline very quickly. You have to do something in your retirement. You have to do something

00:40:43.900 with your time. And there is a dignity to work. There is no work that is bad. The, any job is

00:40:51.080 better than no job. There is no minimum wage. The minimum wage is not $15 an hour or $14 an hour.

00:40:56.380 It's $0 an hour. That's the true minimum wage. That's, that's the minimum wage that you got to get

00:41:01.100 out of. You've got to get some job. And there is, I mean, there is work that pays very well. And there

00:41:07.060 is, you know, as, as Jeffrey Owens was saying, there's work that pays, uh, far less well, but

00:41:12.500 the, the actual moral quality of that work is exactly the same. In some cases, the work that

00:41:18.260 pays less well can be more morally gratifying, perhaps, uh, depending on exactly what you're

00:41:23.500 doing, but work being productive, contributing to society, not being a lout or a lazy guy or a criminal

00:41:31.000 or do, you know, people who are actually contributing. That is a, an unqualified good.

00:41:36.500 And he's, uh, Jeffrey Owens is embodying that. He's articulating it very well. And, uh, it's a

00:41:41.540 great thing. He's a real, these days when actors and Yalies are bringing such shame to their institutions 1.00

00:41:47.220 and lines of work in the country, it is so good that one guy who is both of those things is, is making

00:41:52.940 it, uh, is really making his institutions proud. Very good stuff from Jeffrey Owens. Before we go,

00:41:58.240 I know we're running late, tough. We're always running late. I want to talk about this day in

00:42:03.780 history. This day in history in 1774 sheds a lot of light on our present situation as we are watching

00:42:10.840 the Kavanaugh crazy chaotic hearing. The Democrats are turning into a circus as we're watching the big

00:42:17.160 tech testimony, uh, as we're watching all of this grandstanding on this day in history in 1774,

00:42:23.120 the first continental Congress convened, uh, it convened at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia,

00:42:28.240 there were 56 delegates there. Uh, Georgia didn't show up, but, uh, 56 delegates among those were

00:42:35.700 George Washington, John Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, great men, serious men. They created the

00:42:42.800 Continental Association. They didn't quite declare independence. It wasn't time for independence

00:42:47.080 yet. It was in response to the coercive acts, the intolerable acts from Britain. And, uh, this was a

00:42:53.220 response, but it was measured. It wasn't radical. It wasn't, uh, in, you know, some crazy immediately

00:42:58.340 revolutionary response. They, they also set a date for the second continental Congress in case the first

00:43:04.180 one didn't work and Britain didn't repeal the intolerable acts. These were serious men who were

00:43:10.180 going to this first continental Congress in a, in a way that really threatened their livelihoods,

00:43:16.300 threatened, uh, ultimately would threaten their lives at the second continental Congress,

00:43:19.740 which, uh, was to say, we are going to break, we are slowly or quickly going to break away

00:43:26.460 from domination by Great Britain. And they, they did this for their country. They did this for their

00:43:32.360 countrymen, for their families, for their states, for the colonies at that time, soon to be states,

00:43:37.620 uh, for human freedom, for, uh, higher ideals, for, for sovereignty. And, uh, they did what they had to

00:43:45.840 do and it was a real sacrifice. Uh, the early Congress after the constitution was ratified,

00:43:51.340 the early Congress was paid $6 a day, Congress and the Senate. They had to move it out of New York

00:43:56.280 because you can't live in New York on $6 a day, as many of them pointed out then. Uh, what, what has

00:44:02.460 changed from then until now? The early Congress convened for less than nine months out of the year,

00:44:08.040 the first Congress, less than nine months out of the year. They went on long recesses. They didn't

00:44:12.400 want to be in the summer heat. Um, now Congress is in session virtually all of the time. It's never

00:44:18.280 off. They're flying back and forth constantly, raising a ton of money in their districts.

00:44:22.780 It is a totally professionalized job. The early Congress was part-time work and you're supposed

00:44:27.320 to go and tend to your business interests at home. Now Congress is a full-time job. What has changed?

00:44:33.680 How did we get from the first Continental Congress of Washington, Jay, Adams, Henry, to the schmucks 1.00

00:44:41.100 that are running around the Capitol right now, creating havoc, breaking rules, trying to stop a, 0.96

00:44:46.260 a perfectly admirable Supreme Court justice nominee? How did we get there? Uh, Ben Sasse sums this up

00:44:53.940 very well during, uh, the Kavanaugh judiciary hearing. Here's Senator Sasse. Because for the last century

00:45:01.640 and increasing by the decade right now, more and more legislative authority is delegated to the

00:45:07.680 executive branch every year. Both parties do it. The legislature is impotent. The legislature is

00:45:14.560 weak. And most people here want their jobs more than they really want to do legislative work. And

00:45:19.400 so they punt most of the work to the next branch. Third consequence is that this transfer of power

00:45:25.060 means the people yearn for a place where politics can actually be done. And when we don't do a lot of

00:45:29.940 big actual political debating here, we transfer it to the Supreme Court. And that's why the Supreme Court 0.99

00:45:35.340 is increasingly a substitute political battleground in America. It is not healthy, but it is what

00:45:40.860 happens. And it's something that our founders wouldn't be able to make any sense of. And fourth

00:45:45.360 and finally, we badly need to restore the proper duties and the balance of power from our constitutional

00:45:51.640 system. Absolutely right. A totally correct diagnosis of what's happened in the country.

00:45:57.620 The Congress has given away all of its power to the executive branch, to the executive agencies,

00:46:02.660 to the alphabet soup, CDC, FDA, ABC, LGBTQ. I don't know. I'm losing my initialisms.

00:46:10.400 They've delegated all of that power away so that you have the lawmaking being done out of the

00:46:14.020 executive branch. And the reason they do that is, and by the way, in the cases that it's not made by

00:46:18.820 the executive, the people who demand answers to their political questions put all of the pressure

00:46:23.200 on the judiciary, which is why you get absurdly politicized hearings like the Kavanaugh nomination.

00:46:27.780 The reason that Congress did that is because Congress has to answer to the people. The president

00:46:34.840 has to answer to the electors every four years. The judiciary, the federal judiciary doesn't answer.

00:46:42.080 They get appointed and they have life terms. And the Congress has to answer. The Senate every six

00:46:47.860 years, the House every two years. So the House is very, very close to the people. And they fear that

00:46:53.220 they won't be reelected. If they make laws, if they take a stand, if they take any courageous act,

00:46:58.080 they'll be thrown out of office because the people won't understand that you have to do hard things.

00:47:02.420 And so they get rid of that. It is easy just to blame Congress as an institution. I'm happy to do

00:47:08.280 it a lot of the time. The Congress is us. The Congress is us. We did this. The American people did this.

00:47:14.860 The Congress reflects the American people. It is the branch of the government that is most closely

00:47:21.080 related to the people that is supposed to reflect the political appetites of the people. If there's

00:47:25.720 the logos, the pathos, and the ethos, the logos, the logical part of the government is supposed to

00:47:30.400 be the judiciary. The ethos, the spirited part of the government is the executive. And the pathos,

00:47:36.200 the appetite, the feeling of the government is supposed to be the Congress, the legislature.

00:47:41.560 And our feeling has become weak and immature and the American people are given way to base

00:47:47.060 passions and irresponsibility and recklessness. Don't, it's so easy. We do this all the time

00:47:51.900 in politics. We complain about this on Twitter. This is one of the big aspects of social media

00:47:56.980 censorship is they're saying it's too mean. People are being too mean to each other, blaming everyone

00:48:00.660 else for their problems. It was the Russians. It was the Macedonians. It was the this, it was that. 0.88

00:48:04.020 No, it was you. Look at the man in the mirror. It is you. Before you pluck that little speck out of

00:48:10.300 your brother's eye, pull that big giant tweet out of your own eye, that big iPhone out of your own

00:48:15.120 eye. It is your fault. You are doing it. The way to improve the country, the way to improve the

00:48:20.880 politics, and to improve the public square, and to improve our government is to improve yourself,

00:48:25.740 to be more virtuous, to be better educated, to be more curious, to be more civil, to be more humble,

00:48:31.500 to have therefore more wisdom. That's what you can do. You can, it's not about yelling

00:48:37.100 in people's faces. It's not about blaming this guy or that guy or that guy. You can do that too.

00:48:43.540 You can do, I mean, these people, the Congress does reflect us, so we should hold them accountable.

00:48:47.960 We're, but we need to make sure that we are capable of self-government. And the more and more

00:48:54.160 that we fall into this cycle of irresponsibility and blaming and, and bad education and, and

00:49:03.180 misinformation, the less able we are going to be to control that government. So take a look at the

00:49:07.740 man in the mirror, huh? I, I, I don't know that I've ever ended a show quoting Michael Jackson,

00:49:12.540 but I didn't think that was how the show was going to end today. But take a look at the man in the

00:49:15.640 mirror. Come back tomorrow so that we can do the mailbag. Get your mailbag questions in. In the

00:49:20.100 meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 05, 2018

Ep. 212 - Anti-Social Media

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