The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 383 - One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap In Girls’ Track

00:00:00.000 Planned Parenthood made the difficult and personal decision yesterday to terminate their president

00:00:05.760 after just 10 months or a little over three trimesters in the position. It is unclear

00:00:11.480 whether Planned Parenthood used chemicals or forceps to evacuate President Leanna Wu from

00:00:16.840 her office. Bizarrely, Wu took to Twitter to complain about the ouster as though she were 0.85

00:00:21.800 a human being, but it's Planned Parenthood's corporate body and it's Planned Parenthood's

00:00:26.860 choice. Besides, it's not like they killed her or anything. We will examine what the firing means

00:00:32.200 for the modern left. Then breaking news from the floor of the House of Representatives,

00:00:36.800 Democrats who have spent the last three years calling President Trump a racist voted, you'll

00:00:41.820 never guess it, to call President Trump a racist. Wow, they are doing the people's work. Finally,

00:00:47.720 our pal Bill Whittle stops by to talk about his new hit podcast, Apollo 11, What We Saw on the 50th

00:00:54.460 anniversary of the moon landing. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles

00:00:58.880 Show. There was some real craziness on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday and it has

00:01:12.360 a lot to do with those tweets that President Trump sent out a couple days ago and it tells us a lot

00:01:18.140 about the reaction of some conservatives to those tweets, of the whole left to those tweets,

00:01:22.540 and whether the tweets in overall were productive or unproductive for the politics of 2020. We'll get

00:01:30.120 into it. First, I want to get to Planned Parenthood because this is a pretty crazy story and the media

00:01:35.780 aren't really covering it very much. Planned Parenthood just fired their president, Leanna Wu,

00:01:41.040 after less than one year. Guess why? There are two reasons being reported from multiple sources within

00:01:47.480 Planned Parenthood. The reason that they've fired their president is because the president believes,

00:01:56.560 Leanna Wu believed, that abortion was more popular when it was framed as a healthcare issue 0.94

00:02:03.480 rather than a political issue. Seems true enough to me. I'm sure it is more popular when you don't

00:02:10.500 frame it as some crazy leftist political agenda, but you just try to call it healthcare.

00:02:14.360 You know the second reason why they fired her? This is according to two sources speaking to

00:02:18.540 BuzzFeed News. Because she wouldn't say that men can have abortions. The president of Planned 0.97

00:02:26.800 Parenthood refused to say that dudes don't have uteruses, don't have a birth canal. She refused to say 1.00

00:02:36.120 that dudes can have abortions. So they fired her for that. Can't make this stuff up. She said two true 1.00

00:02:45.580 things and they fired her for that. This tells us a lot. Tells us a lot about where the left is,

00:02:52.420 where Democrats are in, in regard to their own ideology, where they are in regard to believing

00:02:58.880 their own press releases, where they are in regard to following their own crazy premises to their highly

00:03:04.620 illogical conclusions. You know, I spoke yesterday about this article in the Wall Street Journal over

00:03:10.840 the weekend about men beating women at women's sports. So Maddie Kearns wrote this piece in the

00:03:17.140 journal about how these high school girl track stars are being beaten out. They're losing scholarships. 1.00

00:03:23.260 They can't win any races because men keep competing in them and men are physically stronger than women. 1.00

00:03:28.400 And so they keep winning. Now, this has significant consequences. At the high school level, obviously,

00:03:35.560 means they could lose out on scholarships. That's real money. That really affects your college career.

00:03:39.560 That really affects your life. Socially, though, it means that men now get to define what womanhood is.

00:03:47.560 And if women object to this, then the women are smeared as some sort of bigot, 1.00

00:03:51.840 as a transphobe. You know, when Maddie wrote that piece in the Wall Street Journal,

00:03:58.340 there was this weirdo, this creepy guy, a male New York Times freelance op-ed writer and a graduate of

00:04:07.380 Harvard Medical School, tells you a lot about Harvard Medical School. His name is Jack Turbin.

00:04:12.060 He smeared her as a bigot. He said the Wall Street Journal shouldn't have published her because she 1.00

00:04:16.220 referred to men as men and women as women. He said the Wall Street Journal shouldn't have published her

00:04:20.760 because she defended women's sports. So I mentioned this on the show yesterday. Now he's smearing me.

00:04:25.860 He's saying that I hate transgender people. Of course, he provides no evidence for this. He couldn't

00:04:33.760 find any evidence for that. But he's smearing me as being hateful toward transgender people because I

00:04:41.500 think that women's sports should exist. And I think that women who defend women's sports shouldn't 1.00

00:04:50.560 be smeared by weirdos who write for the New York Times. I guess that's what qualifies hatred toward

00:04:57.980 transgender people now. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. And I think it's time for 1.00

00:05:02.440 conservatives to start articulating this. Not just conservatives, by the way, moderates,

00:05:09.800 left-wingers even, Democrats, anybody who thinks that men are not women and women are not men,

00:05:14.780 and that women ought to be allowed to exist, and women ought to be allowed to have their own changing 1.00

00:05:18.340 rooms, and they ought to be allowed to have their own sports. If anything, it is gender ideology 1.00

00:05:23.860 activists like Jack Turbin who demonstrate hatred toward gender-confused people. Why is that? It's because 0.97

00:05:31.420 they won't tell them the truth. They think, the whole gender ideology crowd, think that the very,

00:05:38.940 very small percentage of people who suffer from this condition of gender confusion, 0.2%,

00:05:43.500 something like that, they think that they're hopeless. They think there is no chance. These

00:05:48.500 people are so crazy. There's no way that you could ever tell them the truth. They can't handle the truth.

00:05:53.520 You just have to indulge their delusions like you would a small child. How condescending is that?

00:05:58.400 How pompous is that? How self-adulatory is it to say, I know the truth. Look, we all know the truth,

00:06:05.420 but these little feeble-minded people, there's no way we could possibly tell them that they're not 1.00

00:06:11.540 really the opposite sex, the sex that they want to be, or that they might have deluded themselves

00:06:16.740 into thinking that they are. They would rather, people like Jack Turbin, the gender ideology people,

00:06:21.720 they would rather feed these people delusions, even delusions that harm those individuals,

00:06:28.880 even delusions that harm society, even delusions that harm girl track stars, female athletes.

00:06:36.340 They would rather feed them those delusions than give them the truth that sex is real.

00:06:43.220 We're born with a sex. It is what it is. This is such an affront to human dignity to treat some 1.00

00:06:50.380 people as though they're fundamentally incapable of understanding reality. It's so outrageous. And

00:06:57.760 on this topic, I mean, from the women's sports all the way to firing a Planned Parenthood president

00:07:04.640 because she says men can't have abortions. I have to say, as someone with a dog in this fight,

00:07:10.980 as a conservative, I encourage them to keep it up. Oh, please, political activists,

00:07:16.620 please keep it up. Keep on smearing women for trying to get college scholarships for sports. 1.00

00:07:23.460 Keep on smearing women. Keep on trying to convince people that men are women and up is down and left 1.00

00:07:29.420 is right. Keep on firing activists for saying that men can't get abortions. Keep on smearing women for, 1.00

00:07:35.640 for trying to compete in their own sports. People have eyes and you can't tell people

00:07:41.060 forever that they can't believe their own lion eyes. We are watching the left collapse under the

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00:09:23.700 think that this moment, this crazy gender stuff is the moment that is causing the left to collapse 1.00

00:09:30.760 under the weight of its own illogic. How unified was Planned Parenthood not two years ago? Planned

00:09:37.580 Parenthood was totally resurgent. I mean, they were, they're getting all this taxpayer money.

00:09:42.560 They've got all these marches in the streets. They've got all the women wearing the pink hats. 0.98

00:09:47.040 They were on the move and now they're firing their own president because the president said

00:09:52.680 that men can't get abortions. So we're told the pro-life movement is a war on women, but women can 0.84

00:10:04.400 also be men and abortion is a woman's healthcare right, but it's now it's a reproductive healthcare

00:10:11.360 right. Even if it's not about reproduction, even if it affects men, very, very confusing topic.

00:10:19.720 This is how we're going to win. Just keep pushing them through the looking glass. You know,

00:10:24.340 there, there has been this, this, uh, movement on the right. This has been for a few years now.

00:10:30.420 Those who say we've got to abandon the old school of trying to fight them point by point and just yell

00:10:37.760 and scream and get exasperated. Just let the left destroy itself. Just let the left go crazy on its

00:10:46.340 own. It's, I would call it accelerationism. They're saying, forget about fighting on the

00:10:51.800 question of, uh, I don't know, forget fighting on the scientific merits of abortion. Wait until

00:10:58.220 you're fighting on the, on the scientific merits of what sex is. Wait until you've got them trying to 0.97

00:11:03.320 force grown men into the girl's locker room. At that point, nobody is going to support these people.

00:11:08.900 Let them go through the looking glass. It's got to get crazier before it gets saner. And so I think

00:11:15.060 some people now are looking at this and they're, they're saying, oh no, this is the great triumph

00:11:18.540 of leftism because they're putting grown men in the women's room. I think it's just the opposite. 0.96

00:11:24.920 I think there is a huge awakening going on. I mean, actually there was a study out from Pew that

00:11:29.820 shows that the youngest generation, you know, the Gen Z types are beginning to question the LGBTQ

00:11:35.400 transgender ideology of the left. They're actually much more skeptical of it than millennials or even

00:11:42.560 Gen X. That's pretty interesting. How did that change happen? It's because the left has overplayed

00:11:47.620 its hand. And it's because also you, you sort of laugh at it. I mean, it is just ridiculous on its face.

00:11:55.100 Planned Parenthood fires its president because she says that men can't have abortions.

00:12:00.420 50 years ago, Democrats promised to put a man on the moon. Today, their biggest battle that they're

00:12:08.020 fighting is putting a man in the ladies' room. That is ridiculous. This is one small step for man, 1.00

00:12:16.100 one giant leap in girls' high school lacrosse. It's ridiculous. Let's just turn for a moment.

00:12:25.080 We'll get back to the craziness of the left because it's not just falling apart in Planned

00:12:29.060 Parenthood. It's not just falling apart on the pages of the New York Times or in girls' high

00:12:34.120 school track or any of that. It is falling apart in the halls of Congress. Before that though,

00:12:40.820 let's take a break from this present nonsense. Let's get to the great historical feats and let's

00:12:47.140 talk about the moon landing on the 50th anniversary. This month marks that anniversary and there's an

00:12:52.860 exciting new podcast out by esoteric radio theater called Apollo 11. What we saw, it immediately

00:12:58.900 skyrocketed to number three on the iTunes Apple Podcasts app and it's still in the top five even

00:13:05.120 days later. Episode three in the beginning drops today and just coincidentally, it's being hosted by

00:13:11.600 our old pal Bill Whittle, author, pilot, and space enthusiast who takes you on the journey of what it took

00:13:17.620 to get to the moon and what happened when we got there. And also very excitingly, how things almost

00:13:24.900 went horribly, horribly wrong. Head over to Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts and

00:13:30.160 subscribe today to Apollo 11, what we saw when we bring on Bill Whittle.

00:13:35.980 Welcome to Apollo 11 mission control. What's left of it anyway? The space race, 12 years of open

00:13:47.320 warfare between two superpowers. The United States and the Soviet Union. We used our best missiles, 0.60

00:13:53.320 our best pilots. Scientists and engineers. We employed aircraft carriers, radar stations,

00:13:57.760 all the military hardware we had to defeat our ideological nemesis when each team had over 20,000

00:14:05.820 nuclear warheads apiece. The space race was the defining act of the second half of the 20th

00:14:12.280 century. Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement. 50 years ago,

00:14:18.880 men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. You owe it to yourself and to history to experience

00:14:25.180 the space age from the inside and see how it took hundreds of small steps to get to that one giant leap.

00:14:31.940 I'm Bill Whittle and this is what we saw.

00:14:41.400 I will tell you the whole podcast is as impressive as that trailer. How cool does that sound? We're

00:14:49.600 joined by the host, Bill Whittle. Good to see you, pal. How you doing, Bill? How are you?

00:14:52.740 You're a hit. This show goes up for five hours or something and it goes straight to the top three

00:15:01.580 on all of the iTunes charts. When I was 10 years old, I basically designed the moon landing

00:15:06.780 and set up the Apollo program to be in place so that when I became 60, my podcast would reach

00:15:13.200 stratospheric heights. Thank you. Thank you for the kind words. I enjoyed writing it. The production

00:15:19.180 work done here is out of the park. And obviously the reason people are so interested in this is

00:15:24.220 because of the anniversary. Because of the story. And you know, you're setting this up when you were

00:15:27.720 five years old is only one of the conspiracies that I want to get to about the moon landing.

00:15:32.400 But first, I actually just did a column on this yesterday. Because of your podcast, I'd seen a few

00:15:39.340 rumblings about this. There is an episode from the moon landing that NASA basically blacked out.

00:15:47.080 They didn't want people to know about. They told Buzz Aldrin to shut up about it. You've got the,

00:15:53.200 the Eagle lunar module lands finally on the moon itself. And it's not like they just hop out. It's

00:15:59.420 not like they park their Chevy and they're going into the movie theater. There, there is a, there are a

00:16:02.800 number of hours in between the landing and when they go out and walk around the moon. What happens

00:16:10.400 during those hours? Well, they were going to, they were going to make the moon walk about 12 hours

00:16:18.960 after the landing. But for some reason, landing on the moon and having all these failures and all

00:16:23.760 this other stuff down, having the entire planet looking at them and everybody's entire attention

00:16:28.060 focus on them. Turns out the guys weren't that sleepy after all, you know? So they moved it up six

00:16:32.980 hours. But during that six hours, Mike, once they, once they had the, the LEM secure and shut down,

00:16:38.020 by the way, you just mentioned they didn't have to get out of there in a hurry. When Armstrong got

00:16:42.140 onto the surface of the moon, the first thing he did was pick up something called the contingency

00:16:45.300 sample. He pulled out a scoop, picked up some stuff, put it in a patch in case Buzz says,

00:16:50.120 Neil, we got to go. We got to go right now. So we had, we had something with us. But, but during that

00:16:55.420 time, there was still several hours before they start to get into their suits for, for the, the moonwalk,

00:17:01.780 which was six hours after landing. And during that time, Buzz Aldrin did something that he had asked

00:17:06.220 permission to do. And it's not like NASA covered it up. It's not like they denied any existence of

00:17:11.500 it, but it was needless to say, not publicized. Arms, uh, Aldrin had taken with him, gotten

00:17:17.180 permission to take with him these two pouches. When he got to the moon, he removed this little

00:17:21.260 silver flask. He opened one of the pouches and he poured a liquid into the flask. And he said in the

00:17:26.560 one sixth gravity, it was amazing how, how graceful all the little bits of it, you know, curling around

00:17:31.140 the thing where, then he opened the other package and poured the contents of that into his other

00:17:35.140 hand. He radioed mission control and he's talking to the mission controllers now, but this is not

00:17:39.780 going out to the public. It's just for basically for NASA. He said, I think at this point, uh, I would

00:17:45.300 like to ask everybody, uh, to take a moment to, uh, give thanks in whatever they find appropriate,

00:17:51.060 uh, for this amazing achievement. And then since he was an elder at the Presbyterian church back in,

00:17:56.960 uh, Houston, he took a consecrated wafer. He had a sip of wine from the chalice and he had,

00:18:02.880 uh, communion on the moon. The first fluid ever poured on another planet was wine.

00:18:08.720 This is an astounding moment. I mean, especially when you look at it in the context of the cold

00:18:15.740 war in the space race, you have the first foods and liquids poured prepared on the moon

00:18:21.680 are the consecrated body and blood of Christ. It is this, and he, I believe he read from the

00:18:27.640 gospel of John too. I am divine. I'm sure he read an appropriate, uh, short piece of scripture

00:18:34.040 basically to himself. Armstrong didn't participate. I don't know if Armstrong was worried about the

00:18:39.640 fallout or not, but it's pretty clear that he wasn't, that this was Buzz's show. Right. But Buzz,

00:18:44.720 you know, you've just, not just this one time risked your life. You've been risking the only life

00:18:50.160 you've got for 10 or 15 years now. And, and 40 years after the landing. So 10 years ago,

00:18:56.320 when Buzz wrote his memoirs, he actually almost started to, you could tell that 40 years of

00:19:01.300 political correctness was starting to work on him. Look, I, you know, I don't know, maybe I regret it

00:19:06.000 now, but at the time I just felt like, you know, what, how else can you give thanks for this incredible

00:19:10.400 thing that we've pulled off? This was my personal way. Of course. And you know, you've got the God

00:19:15.720 fearing Americans, basically you've got this, the, what remains of Western Christendom versus

00:19:21.540 godless atheism. You know, we, we think of the cold war in economic terms, free markets versus

00:19:26.400 collectivism. That was obviously a huge part of it. The other side of it was the atheism of

00:19:31.200 communism. You know, when Pope John Paul II went to Poland, had an open air mass, you, the people

00:19:35.960 chanted, we want God. This was so much an animating facet and we beat the Soviets. We get on the moon

00:19:42.180 first and you had, Aldrin gives his, his broadcast and he says, everyone give thanks in a private way.

00:19:47.760 And then deferring to NASA, deferring to political correctness, he turns off the radio. He reads the

00:19:53.260 scripture to himself and he takes the communion privately, which is an astounding historical

00:19:58.980 moment. Why was NASA so worried about Buzz Aldrin taking communion on the moon? You know, Mike, I grew

00:20:06.860 up with the space program. I was going to be an astronaut. I, they asked me to do the show because I know the

00:20:10.240 space program very well. And I'd heard about the communion thing. When I, when I did the research

00:20:15.480 after done, having done political commentary for 10 years now, it hit me like a thunderbolt that

00:20:21.620 we landed on the moon, uh, in at 417 Eastern time on the 20th of July, 1969. That was the end of the

00:20:29.720 space race. That was the United States defeating communism. Six hours later, we walk on the moon

00:20:35.000 and in the time between having our cake and eating it too, in that six hour window,

00:20:40.240 political correctness was born and, and the, and the space ages we understood it ended in that six

00:20:46.820 hour window. Because what had happened was, uh, on a previous mission, a year, a little over a year

00:20:51.780 earlier, a year and a half earlier, Apollo eight, which was kind of an ad lib mission. We had a bunch

00:20:56.980 of astronauts and capsules. We didn't have the lunar module. So what are we going to do? Well, help.

00:21:01.520 Let's just go to the moon. We got nothing else to do. Orbit around the moon. Right. So as, as, um,

00:21:06.580 as that crew, Lovell, uh, Borman and Anders are coming around for their final orbit, it's Christmas

00:21:11.180 day back on earth. And they see the earth rising above the moon. No one's ever seen this before.

00:21:16.960 And, and they decided that they were going to send a Christmas message to earth. So they read a

00:21:22.580 little bit from the book of Genesis. And as the earth is rising on Christmas day back home, you hear the

00:21:27.740 crew of Apollo eight with their message. And it's in the beginning, God created the heaven

00:21:31.420 in the earth. And they read a little bit of Genesis and then they ended it. Frank, uh,

00:21:36.180 Borman ended it with a, uh, a line. I just think it was beautiful line, improv lines. He says,

00:21:40.080 so from the crew of Apollo eight, we'd like to wish you good night, good luck, Merry Christmas,

00:21:45.080 and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth. And they start home. Well, Madeline

00:21:51.800 Murray O'Hare, who was a professional atheist, a real atheist rights person. And by the way,

00:21:56.960 I just need to interrupt this and say, it bears mentioning, needless to say that large

00:22:01.100 numbers of NASA engineers were atheists and some of them were Jews and some of them were anything

00:22:05.300 else. But that's not the point here. Madeline Murray O'Hare was so outraged that somebody might 1.00

00:22:10.920 say something like, like that from the moon that she sued NASA on behalf of her atheist organization.

00:22:17.700 And this would, this is Christmas 1968. So this is not very, it was about six, seven months before

00:22:22.900 the Apollo 11.

00:22:24.000 Yeah. I said it was a year and a half earlier. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's about Christmas 68.

00:22:27.400 We landed July 69. So she sues NASA and she loses, but NASA decides that they don't need the bad

00:22:36.820 publicity. And here is the beginning of critical, political correctness in that six hours between

00:22:42.600 defeating communism. We, and, and walking on the moon, we, we, we took a need of communism. We,

00:22:49.320 we bowed to it because what NASA basically said was, Hey, Buzz, I know you've risked your entire life

00:22:54.980 and, and, and have accomplished the most amazing thing ever in the history of the world. And we

00:22:59.700 understand that these are your personal religious convictions. We're not saying you're speaking for

00:23:03.180 the entire program, but we don't want anybody to know about that. Because, because the loud people

00:23:08.520 will give us a lot of grief. Yeah. Because this one woman who, who is the head of the American 0.97

00:23:12.480 atheists, widely called the most hated woman in America. The title she worked hard for. She 1.00

00:23:17.740 worked hard for it. Yeah. She was by all accounts, a completely loathsome person and an avowed communist.

00:23:23.080 And, and the point I'm making is not so much whether it's not to say that, that the American space

00:23:29.240 program was a religious space program. It wasn't what, but what it does, what it does say is as far as I'm

00:23:35.180 aware as an amateur historian, that was the first time I could remember when Americans were told,

00:23:41.180 don't say what you really think, hide your core beliefs, do not do anything that might upset the

00:23:47.780 lunatics because they write a lot of letters and they make our life. And they might sue us and they

00:23:51.660 might, as they did. Now you said that this was the greatest achievement in all of human history,

00:23:56.920 but I've spent a lot of time on the internet, Bill. I've read a lot of blogs. Okay. I've seen a lot

00:24:02.240 of YouTube videos. So I know for a fact that we didn't land on the moon. Yeah. A lot of people

00:24:07.160 know that. That's right. And so I want you, how can you explain to me how we landed on the moon

00:24:13.260 when, for instance, human beings couldn't possibly survive the Van Allen radiation belts? Checkmate.

00:24:21.240 See you next time, Bill. Yeah. Um, there, there has been an enormous lie spread about the moon landing.

00:24:27.420 There have been, uh, there've been lies about the subject since it happened, but NASA is not the

00:24:31.800 one doing the lying. The people doing the lying are the people who are selling this product, this,

00:24:35.840 this product that it's a hoax. And the Van Allen radiation belts are one of just many examples of,

00:24:42.640 of them lying in order to make money. The hoaxists, the conspiracy guys. So they say, here's the earth,

00:24:50.920 here's the Van Allen radiation belts. We can't get to the moon without flying through them because the

00:24:55.180 radiation level is going to be high. What they don't tell you is here's the earth, here's the

00:25:00.560 Van Allen radiation belts. There's the moon, but the moon's orbit is inclined at an angle,

00:25:04.240 which means that during a very brief period, when it crosses the axis, then you have to go through

00:25:10.660 the belts and then you can either fly under them or wait to that one day window when you've, if you're

00:25:16.080 really determined to kill your crew, you can fly right through them then. Or as the moon climbs above

00:25:20.320 the plane of the belts, you fly over them. Now the outer belts are a little wider, so they nick the edge of

00:25:25.100 the outer belts. And when somebody says it's absolutely impossible, my response is, okay,

00:25:30.380 what level of radiation is out there that's impossible? Oh, they'd fry them like it was in

00:25:34.360 a microwave. But microwaves don't emit radiation. Microwaves cook with electromagnetic energy. They

00:25:39.500 don't emit neutrons. So you're saying they, it's like they were put in a machine that doesn't make

00:25:44.720 any radiation. How much radiation did they take? They won't tell you. They'll just say it's impossible.

00:25:50.120 Well, as it turns out, we know what the radiation levels are. We knew in advance. And it turns out,

00:25:54.780 that they took about 1.5 rem. Just to give you an idea, it's just a, it's a name. It's a radiation

00:26:00.920 dose. But to give you an idea, today, the government has rules for how much radiation a worker can take

00:26:09.540 in a given year. If you're working in a nuclear plant or medical imaging or airline crews,

00:26:14.440 because you spend a lot of time. If you fly too much, right. So the limit per year, according to

00:26:19.400 government regulations, the maximum that you can take and still be safe is, is 5 rem. And they took

00:26:25.200 1.5 rem. So they took about a third more than they would have taken if they'd stayed out.

00:26:31.440 Okay. All right. So you've got me on the Van Allen radiation. Okay. Fair enough. Uh, how come

00:26:36.100 Bill, how, how could we have gotten to the moon when we know for a fact, we didn't have the technology

00:26:43.320 to go to the moon. And by the way, we can't even go to the moon today. Checkmate. Checker mate, maybe.

00:26:51.660 The, um, when somebody says we don't have the technology, we didn't have the technology to go

00:26:57.700 to the moon. I would respond. What gives you that idea? What makes you make that assertion?

00:27:04.980 We had built 15 Saturn V rockets and we launched 13 of them. The other two went to museums.

00:27:09.760 So there were 13 rockets that developed 7 million pounds of thrust that took off from Kennedy Space

00:27:16.680 Center, not recorded after the fact, like the Soviets live and in person. I saw two of them go. 0.95

00:27:22.880 There were tens of millions of people at the Cape watching that Saturn V go into the air.

00:27:28.140 So if what you're telling me is we have the technology to build a 365 foot rocket that can lift 6 million

00:27:35.720 pounds off of the pad and we have the technology to do this, but we don't have the technology to use

00:27:43.620 the extra 1% of energy needed to get us to the moon. I don't buy it because, because if you had told

00:27:51.200 me that, that there was no such thing as a Saturn V, in other words, if the hardest part of the equation

00:27:56.200 was missing, you might have a case, but what they will say is they'll say, okay, well, the Saturn V's

00:28:02.400 really launched. But we didn't go to the moon. We just stayed in lunar orbit. Why? But more

00:28:06.980 importantly, well, why was this giant moon landing conspiracy constructed? To beat the Soviets.

00:28:12.020 Ah, there it is. You've just, you've answered it. But here's my question. If it turns out that the

00:28:17.320 Apollo missions actually left because everybody saw them and they went into earth orbit, but they

00:28:23.240 didn't go to the moon. And since the Soviets have radars that can determine where everything is in

00:28:27.640 space, just like we do, you would think that if we were trying to lie to the Soviets in the world

00:28:32.880 by pretending to go to the moon, you think that the Soviets might've had something to say about

00:28:38.080 this. Like, uh, Hey, sorry to interrupt the fun, but we can show radar returns of the thing in orbit,

00:28:42.800 which means Mike, that the Soviets were in on the conspiracy to defeat the Soviets.

00:28:47.880 That's well, this, okay. All right. Maybe you've presented a slight problem for this theory,

00:28:53.040 but I've got one. This puts to rest all of your silly fantasies that we went to the moon.

00:29:01.220 That footage that we all saw of Apollo 11, we can almost certainly tell was filmed in a soundstage

00:29:07.220 just right here in Los Angeles. Okay. Because you know, the flag was waving or something and they,

00:29:13.180 I, and I haven't read too much about it, but anyway, what I know is we filmed it in a soundstage.

00:29:17.820 Prove me wrong. Oh, there's a couple of things I'll say about that. First of all, it's interesting

00:29:21.560 that the flag waving that they claim is evidence of air. They say a gust of wind came through the

00:29:25.560 studio. So something you worry about here in your studio, that a giant gust of wind is going to come

00:29:30.340 through and blow your hair off. That's only when Ben rips my wall out. Fair enough. So the wind

00:29:34.520 starts coming in. Interesting though, that that waving only occurs for just a few moments after

00:29:38.880 they let go of the flagpole. If you've ever had a golf flagpole in your hand, you know, if you let

00:29:42.920 that thing go, it'll vibrate and wobble. And without air resistance to slow the flag down,

00:29:48.060 it maintains that momentum a little bit longer, which is actually evidence that it was on the

00:29:51.540 moon, not that it wasn't. So here's the thing, Mike, anybody can Google this goose, uh, goosebusters,

00:29:58.260 ghost, mythbusters did a great job with this. You know what a, you know what a, a railway, um,

00:30:05.040 oil tanker looks like, right? These big heavy steel things that carry oil. Well, if you Google oil

00:30:10.200 tanker vacuum anywhere on YouTube, a couple of people have done experiments where they take most

00:30:15.220 of the air out of an oil tanker. They set up a vacuum over here. They open a valve and they pull the air

00:30:19.300 that's inside the tanker out. And these massive, huge steel things just go crunch like that. It'll

00:30:25.660 blow your mind, blow your mind under the pressure of the atmosphere. So the most, the biggest vacuum

00:30:32.160 chamber in the world is called the space power facility. You can Google that too. The walls are

00:30:37.880 something like 15 feet thick. It's enclosed inside of that as a steel chamber. The walls are like two

00:30:42.980 feet thick and it is not big enough to get the limb into. And that is the largest area that we can

00:30:48.980 make into a vacuum on the surface of the earth because of the incredible air pressure. So the

00:30:54.460 question is, if you built it on a soundstage and since the, the action of the dust is showing that

00:30:59.560 it's a dust in a vacuum, he drops a feather and a hammer and they fall at the same time.

00:31:03.120 Right.

00:31:03.220 Apollo 15. Then what you're saying is, is that the soundstage had to be in a vacuum and it's harder

00:31:07.620 to build a building the size of a soundstage than it is to go to the moon. The best way to fake the

00:31:13.240 moon landing is to do it on the moon. And I'll just say one more thing. If all of this is true

00:31:19.700 and it is a giant, enormous lie in order to convince the world that we beat the Soviets

00:31:25.300 and all of it is in danger of being exposed. And if it turns out that if, if Neil Armstrong decides to

00:31:31.220 squawk, NASA is just going to shoot him in the head, then why would we go a second time?

00:31:36.220 Well, this is the, why would we keep going?

00:31:38.020 And why would, and why would it be that when we go after two more times, why would we put a golf cart

00:31:43.460 on the, on the moon, which is transmitting live video the entire time? Apollo 17 went 12 miles.

00:31:51.100 That's a big soundstage. Now, if there hadn't been a moon rover, would you have missed it? Hey,

00:31:56.000 that can't be right. There's no moon rover on that mission. No. So why would you go

00:32:00.420 six times every time going further and further and further in this, in the soundstage? It now

00:32:06.320 has to be the size of Montana. You know what I think it is. I think where all these hoaxes come

00:32:10.700 from is because modern people in living in 2019 who are so smart and so fabulous, they can't believe

00:32:18.660 that 50 years ago in the old timey days when everything was in black and white and they didn't

00:32:23.220 even have Snapchat, that those guys could do something that we can't do. And yet we know this

00:32:28.100 politically. Those guys could do a lot of things that we, that we can't do. I've got to, unfortunately,

00:32:32.540 I'm up at a break here. I, I hear that episode three is coming out today. It's out now. It's out

00:32:39.120 today. And then four is on the anniversary on Saturday. Four is at the, so the anniversary is

00:32:42.360 actually on Saturday. It's the 50th anniversary. Where else can people find you? All over the

00:32:46.120 internet. Uh, well, I'm at billwittle.com and that's where most of my stuff is, but it's been just

00:32:50.200 such a pleasure working here with you guys and the, and, and the work that you did to bring this to

00:32:54.300 life here is just, just tremendous. It is my pleasure to give this podcast as much publicity

00:33:00.540 as I can. Cause it is, it is really astounding work. Apollo 11, what we saw hosted by the one

00:33:06.760 and only bill Whittle. Bill, thanks for coming by. Thank you, Mike. All right. We've got to head

00:33:10.520 over to dailywire.com right now. We still have a lot to get to today, but coming up tonight,

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00:33:19.460 our God King, Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and yours truly, we'll be sipping whiskey,

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00:33:34.800 We will be right back with so much more.

00:33:36.980 All right. We've just talked about the greatest achievement of exploration in the history of

00:33:52.120 mankind. Let's talk about the exact opposite of great achievements, stupid, petty political

00:33:59.140 trivialities on the floor of the house of representatives. There was genuinely some

00:34:03.460 craziness yesterday. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house, took to the floor of the house

00:34:08.380 and called president Trump a racist. I know this is so brave. You've never, I can't believe Nancy

00:34:16.020 Pelosi would do that. The reason this mattered, I mean, obviously Democrats have called her or have

00:34:21.160 called Trump racist now for years and years. The reason this mattered is you're not allowed to do

00:34:26.820 that. You're not allowed to engage in personality attacks under parliamentary rules in the house of

00:34:32.660 representatives. So actually, as she was giving these remarks, GOP members, uh, moved to have her

00:34:38.700 comments taken away and she refused to do it. And she was actually rebuked. The speaker of the house

00:34:44.400 rebuked in the house of representatives. Here she is.

00:34:47.860 Every single member of this institution, democratic and Republican should join us in condemning the

00:34:53.780 president's racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values

00:35:00.900 and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people. I urge

00:35:08.940 and yield back the balance of my... I was just going to give the gentle speaker of the house if she 1.00

00:35:15.100 would like to rephrase that comment. I have cleared my remarks to the parliamentarian before

00:35:19.940 I read them.

00:35:23.980 And take it. And I ask the words to be taken down. I'll make a point of order. The gentlewoman's

00:35:27.980 words are unparliamentary and risk ready to be taken down.

00:35:30.980 The chair will remind all members, please, please do not make comments toward personality-based,

00:35:40.980 uh, personality-based comments.

00:35:44.020 That's a pretty amazing exchange, but it's also hilarious because if you can't make personality-based

00:35:49.220 comments, then Democrats would have nothing to say. They would fall silent. So they make this

00:35:56.280 remark, you can't make personality-based comments. And then in the same breath, the house voted to call

00:36:02.760 President Trump a racist. Seriously, that's what they voted on. Doing the people's business. This is

00:36:10.340 what the American people elected them for. They called Trump a racist and then they voted to call

00:36:14.280 Trump a racist. This, uh, resolution passed along party line votes, uh, 240 to 187. There were only

00:36:22.540 four Republicans who voted to call Trump a racist. And then Justin Amash, that sanctimonious ex-Republican,

00:36:29.980 libertarian, whatever you want to call them. The rest of the Republicans voted against this

00:36:35.260 resolution. And specifically this was about President Trump's tweets just a few days ago

00:36:39.500 where he said that these Congresswomen who hate America should go back to where they came from.

00:36:45.000 The issue being that only one of them is an immigrant. Three of them are not immigrants.

00:36:48.320 And this was widely considered racially offensive. I did a lot of my show on this two days ago.

00:36:54.000 So if you're curious to hear what I thought about it, feel free to go over there. I won't,

00:36:58.100 I won't rehash all of it, but I will say the debt, the Republicans who voted against this

00:37:03.060 resolution are getting a lot of flack for it right now, really just from the mainstream media

00:37:07.620 and from squishy GOP members and from the left. They were absolutely right to vote against it.

00:37:13.600 This resolution was just completely stupid and wrong. Even if you believe that President Trump's

00:37:20.460 comments were racially offensive or racist or bigoted or whichever word you want to use,

00:37:25.880 this resolution still was extremely stupid. And the reason for that is it didn't merely call Trump

00:37:33.560 a racist. It said that President Trump's quote, racist comments have legitimized fear and hatred

00:37:39.980 of new Americans and people of color. Whatever Trump's tweets did, they didn't do that. They didn't

00:37:48.720 legitimize fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color. His comments were only very,

00:37:55.780 precisely directed toward these very progressive, loud mouth, uh, uh, progress, uh, freshman

00:38:01.940 Congresswoman. And so it may be a legitimized fear and disapproval of the squad didn't legitimize fear

00:38:10.180 and disapproval of people of color. I mean, president Trump has plenty of people of color working in

00:38:14.860 his administration. He has repeatedly disavowed racism. He's called it evil. He's condemned it

00:38:19.940 repeatedly. As far as antisemitism goes, there's a train station in a town in Israel named after him.

00:38:25.100 The charge that he is some awful racial bigot or some neo-Nazi or some white supremacist is just

00:38:30.940 plain stupid. And if his comments legitimized fear and disapproval of the squad, AOC, Ilhan Omar,

00:38:39.220 Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, they, we should point out they've legitimized fear and disapproval of 1.00

00:38:46.720 the squad themselves. For instance, when Ilhan Omar giggles about Al Qaeda and refuses to condemn

00:38:52.680 Al Qaeda, when members of the squad work to have, uh, lenient punishments for people who have left

00:39:00.860 America to go and become ISIS terrorists, when they compare America to Nazi Germany and concentration

00:39:06.760 camps, they're the ones who have legitimized fear of, uh, against themselves. When Ilhan Omar laughs about

00:39:13.920 9-11 and said, some people did something. That's why they're the ones doing it. It's no,

00:39:19.340 it's not the fault of president Trump's, uh, tweet. So this was the resolution that was passed on the

00:39:26.420 house. Obviously nobody cares. They called Trump racist yesterday. They're going to call Trump racist

00:39:30.980 today. They're going to call Trump racist tomorrow. They did the same thing to George Bush. They did the

00:39:35.260 same thing to George Bush's father. They did the same thing to Ronald Reagan. And guess what? They're

00:39:39.320 going to do the same thing to the next Republican, regardless of how many times he condemns racial

00:39:44.540 bigotry. But in case people missed it, in case people missed this point that Trump is an awful

00:39:50.520 racist, CNN decided to have a white supremacist on Jake Tapper's show, a guy named Richard Spencer,

00:39:57.040 to also call president Trump racist. And unfortunately for CNN, those guys can't win for losing.

00:40:02.360 The segment didn't go quite as they had hoped that it would. Here's CNN interviewing white 0.97

00:40:10.660 nationalist Richard Spencer. White nationalist Richard Spencer, who hailed Trump when he was

00:40:15.460 first elected, is among those who are turning on Trump. Many white nationalists will eat up this red

00:40:23.660 meat that Donald Trump is throwing out there. I am not one of them. I recognize the con game that is

00:40:31.080 going on. They say Trump is all talk and no action on maintaining white dominance in America.

00:40:38.400 He gives us nothing outside of racist tweets. And by racist tweets, I mean tweets that are meaningless

00:40:45.080 and cheap and express the kind of sentiments you might hear from your drunk uncle while he's watching

00:40:51.260 Hannity. There it is. That guy is pretty good on camera. I mean, this is why it's a bad idea,

00:40:58.700 I think, to put him on camera is because he really has no following. He is a very, very fringe figure.

00:41:05.200 And the only reason that anyone knows his name is because the mainstream media talk about him. He's

00:41:09.440 basically a contrivance of the mainstream media. So he's happy to go on TV. He thinks that if he can

00:41:14.660 go on and make a joke about Sean Hannity, then he can attract a few more followers. And he gives them a

00:41:19.940 little bit of what they want. He says that the tweet is racist. But he also says, in case you missed it,

00:41:26.240 that President Trump has not governed as a racist. Obviously, he's not governed as a racist.

00:41:33.280 They don't name towns in Israel after racists. You know, racists don't create economic conditions that

00:41:39.200 lead to record low minority unemployment. They don't hire a lot of racial minorities. They don't talk, 1.00

00:41:44.340 they don't behave the way Trump behaves. Now, all Spencer cares about is race. So he's going to

00:41:51.080 only talk in racial terms. But let's forget race for a second. Let's go beyond that to just the broad

00:41:55.980 question of political rhetoric versus political reality. It is true of virtually every Trump

00:42:01.440 supporter that I talk to. Actually, even many Trump critics. They like what he's doing, but they don't

00:42:08.800 always like the way he talks about what he's doing. They don't like when he talks about Mika's face. 0.85

00:42:13.860 They don't like the mean tweets. They don't like that he talks about psychopath, washed up singer,

00:42:19.320 Bette Midler, but they do like what he's doing. So now the whole left is calling Trump racist.

00:42:24.220 What's more interesting than what they are doing, what is happening, is what is not happening,

00:42:31.400 what they're not doing. They're calling Trump racist. They're calling America Nazi Germany. They're

00:42:36.400 calling ICE detention facilities concentration camps like Auschwitz and Dachau.

00:42:41.480 But they're not voting to impeach Trump. They're saying Trump is Hitler. This is the 1930s. Donald

00:42:48.920 Trump is the Fuhrer. But we're not going to impeach him. They're all talk. Why won't they

00:42:55.120 impeach him? Because they don't believe it. They don't believe what they're saying. They don't

00:42:58.020 think he's this awful racist bigot. They don't think America's like Nazi Germany. And they don't

00:43:02.180 think that ICE is operating concentration camps. At least the elites don't. Nancy Pelosi doesn't think 0.91

00:43:07.400 that. Maybe some of the rank and file do, but all the sideshows in the world don't matter because

00:43:15.620 Nancy Pelosi, why is Nancy Pelosi going out here and saying he's a racist? I don't care if I'm

00:43:21.000 rebuked. He's a racist. He's a racist. Why is CNN pushing this? Because then they don't have to do

00:43:25.060 the actual implication of what they're saying. They don't have to impeach him. But some people are.

00:43:29.760 Al Green, the congressman, not the singer, has now introduced articles to impeach.

00:43:34.340 And this puts Democrats in a real pickle because they don't want to vote for it because they have

00:43:39.320 the numbers and it would pass. So whoever doesn't vote for it is going to incite the fury of the

00:43:44.660 base. The radical Democratic base, the donors, the people who hand out palm cards, they want

00:43:51.500 impeachment. The American people don't want impeachment. The American people feel that since

00:43:58.100 the 2016 election, Hillary basically never conceded. She said it was rigged. She said it was stolen. 0.52

00:44:02.340 The Democrats have said this. It was the Russians. It was the Macedonians. It was James Comey.

00:44:06.320 It was everybody but us. Now there's another presidential election, and they're still trying

00:44:13.140 to take it away from him. All these investigations, all this impeachment, all these non-traverses.

00:44:18.120 But if impeachment comes up, not voting for it expresses the leftist hypocrites. And to top it all

00:44:22.460 off, the feud with the squad is back on. So we were told that President Trump's tweets had stopped all

00:44:27.160 the Democrat infighting between AOC and Nancy Pelosi. Turns out that's not true. Tune into CBS and you find

00:44:32.200 out the feud is back on.

00:44:33.980 Are you speaking to Nancy Pelosi?

00:44:35.980 Our teams are in communication. Our chiefs are meeting.

00:44:39.420 But shouldn't it be a face-to-face?

00:44:41.080 I want to know if you were speaking.

00:44:42.360 She's the new member, not the speaker.

00:44:44.220 No, but I want to know.

00:44:44.980 She has every right to sit down with her in any moment, any time, with any of us.

00:44:48.920 Yeah.

00:44:49.180 She is Speaker of the House. She can ask for a meeting to sit down with us for clarification. 0.95

00:44:55.160 The fact of the knowledge is, and I've done racial justice work in our country for a long

00:44:58.680 time. Acknowledge the fact that we are women of color. So when you do singles out, be aware

00:45:02.940 of that and what you're doing, especially because some of us are getting death threats,

00:45:06.740 because some of us are being singled out in many ways because of our backgrounds, because

00:45:11.940 of our experiences and so forth. But I think the question should be-

00:45:16.460 We're having a conversation face-to-face with Speaker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

00:45:20.300 Why wouldn't you sit down with her?

00:45:21.500 Yeah, no, absolutely. And we've reached out to that end.

00:45:24.220 So the feud is back on, except now, the only difference between today and a few days ago

00:45:29.020 is now the bulk of Democrats are rallying behind those women. They're rallying behind the squad. 1.00

00:45:34.080 They're not, they're not exactly backing Pelosi. I mean, Pelosi was rebuked on the floor of the

00:45:37.920 House of Representatives, for goodness sakes. She's the Speaker of the House. This raises the 1.00

00:45:41.880 question. Were the tweets politically astute? Were they the right thing to send for President Trump?

00:45:49.120 It wasn't a home run. He actually screwed up. He shouldn't have told the people who were born here 1.00

00:45:55.120 to go back to their own countries. He should have phrased it differently and said, go check out those

00:45:58.600 foreign countries. Get out of here. I think he could have gotten all the political run out of it 1.00

00:46:02.880 without putting him in that bind where he said something that was just factually untrue. So it wasn't a

00:46:08.480 home run, but it was a base hit and it really, maybe it was a double. If you look at where the

00:46:12.920 left is now, you now have the left in this political bind. They're introducing articles

00:46:16.960 of impeachment, or at least they're trying to. You've got them in the bind where the feud is

00:46:20.500 still going on. It, the tweets didn't stop the feud, except now there's a lot more support for

00:46:25.760 these women who, whose support was in the single digits just a few days ago. Now the Democrats are 1.00

00:46:30.220 rallying behind them. You've, you've got what, what Trump manages to do through his trollishness

00:46:37.120 basically is get the left to follow their own ideas to their logical conclusions. Planned

00:46:43.560 Parenthood has never been more radical. Gender ideology has never been more radical. These women 0.99

00:46:49.400 elected in Congress, the four horsewomen of the political apocalypse have never been more radical 0.88

00:46:53.700 on the basis going behind them. At the end of this whole tweet episode, which has now gone on for

00:46:58.880 like three days. It's hard to imagine how this works out any better for conservatives. It's a

00:47:05.100 good place to be. It's, you gotta, you gotta take the hits when you can get them. We will examine

00:47:10.600 tomorrow how this all looks for 2020. Get your mailbag questions in. We'll get to them then. In the

00:47:15.940 meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. I'll see you backstage tonight and on the show

00:47:20.960 tomorrow.

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